It has fantastic creaky floorboards, and a big winding staircase that in the 24 hours we've been here I've already almost fallen down twice. |
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The brakes wheeze and the windows shudder, the seats are cracked and creaky. |
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He sat down in one of the old creaky rocking chairs while I leaned against the door frame. |
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Inside it's all creaky floorboards and wooden panelling, yet he pooh-poohs the idea of a ghost. |
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I made my way painfully along the small hallway and down the creaky stairs towards the front door. |
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Then there were sounds like soft footfalls which started in the area of the tower, then moved across the creaky boards of the attic. |
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I ignored the eyes that followed us as we descended the creaky stairs, but my hands clutched slightly tighter. |
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As soon as she was dressed, Adrianna walked down the creaky stairs and into the living room. |
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It didn't sound like the creaky door, or even footsteps on the dusty floor. |
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He slowly crept up the creaky wooden stairs to the moldy second floor hallway. |
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The world sounded with the creaky, whispery voices of the trees and the low, grating language of the stones, and all was well. |
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Muscles groaned as they were used one more time, and his creaky voice almost didn't make it out. |
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The thing's creaky voice was a cross between nails on a blackboard and a door that seriously needed oiling. |
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I waited an hour in a line that didn't move in the creaky airport in Accra. |
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Declan pushed her into a creaky old elevator, holding her tightly as it started moving upwards. |
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She carefully crept down the hall, making sure to avoid the creaky floorboards, towards Jordan's office. |
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Martin may have been vilified, but with his greying hair and creaky limbs, he is a pussycat in comparison to triggerhappy Barras. |
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I walked up the creaky stairs up to the hallway where the dorms were, letting my bags thump behind me. |
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They, of all people, will have creaky joints and damaged knees as they genuflect to the tax-cutting elite in this country. |
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I stare through the comic turns, the cardboard walls and doors, the creaky plots, the clunking dialogue. |
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A high-frequency whine electrifies the track throughout while several multi-tracked guitars try to cough up a creaky melody. |
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Faith says that while women should find their voice, it shouldn't be the creaky and guttural speech known as vocal fry. |
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Between the intermittent razor-sharp lines, he lumbers his cast with some creaky, faintly anachronistic hipster jive dialogue. |
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Or even as a working class woman in Bradford, reliant on the creaky National Health Service. |
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I think I prefer to see him as one of those ageing mongrels one sees with creaky back legs, white whiskers and erratic bowel movements. |
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It's a slow and laborious process, though, on a creaky old dial-up phone connection. |
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As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards. |
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His childhood was lost, at the age of ten, and on that creaky floor his manhood began. |
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Even under the old, creaky system, Postman Pat managed to deliver the bulk of first class and second class mail on time. |
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I'm a little too old and far too creaky to dance round the maypole but I did do a little jig by the oak tree. |
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Those scripts had occasional moments of truth but were stuck in a rut of creaky sentiment and melodramatics. |
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She threw back her bedcovers and tiptoed over to her desk, making sure she avoided the creaky floorboard under the ragged rug. |
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And if he wins, he allows the free market to energize and renew a huge creaky behemoth. |
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No gushers, no oil spewing down like black rain from creaky wooden derricks. |
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Eventually, the creaky hinges swung open with a younger, brown haired, freckled boy standing just inside, looking at me. |
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The house is old and creaky, stairs to half-floors leading from narrow rooms and confusing passages as if designed by M.C. Escher. |
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And when Bush misled our nation into war, the creaky old son of the coalfields gave his greatest roar. |
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Outside London, no professional police force was in place and the mechanisms of control available to the authorities were old-fashioned and creaky. |
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Aimee walked down the creaky stairs and raised her eyebrows. |
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In the middle of her pacing, she heard creaky sounds coming from outside. |
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I looked to the left, the creaky stairs and the door shut tight. |
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Also in France, Marseille hope to have bolstered their creaky defence by taking Derby County's Tyrone Mears on loan. |
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Manson seemed to breathe soundlessly, to walk with unbelievable silence over creaky floors. |
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Young, feisty Iris leaves her creaky, would-be suitor in the dust as they engage in the sort of witty, erudite repartee that exists only in films. |
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To the left were old creaky looking stairs, going to the second floor. |
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The hallways were lined here and there with mirrors, and the creaky wooden floors had an old rug with archaic symbols winding with it, down the halls. |
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The creaky sound of the blocks rubbing together and the icy, stale air that surrounded the seaside still remain a vague childhood memory in my head. |
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I head up the creaky stairs that scream silently in my ears. |
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Here the creaky melodrama is swept away by Tchaikovsky's lyrical music. |
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I enjoyed having this historic house to myself, complete with creaky floorboards, winding stairs, several portraits and all the original door handles. |
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Despite the fact the volume has to be cranked for anything at all to be heard, dialogue comes through fine, but the score sounds creaky and shrill. |
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Mawdsley's production is flabby, and only highlights the play's creaky construction, but the cast are good value and make the most of the often sparky dialogue. |
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For example, if sheep grazing on commonage lost their markings, quick traditional methods were to hand to allocate the animals and so avoid the creaky slowness of the law. |
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It's difficult to say whether the film would have been better had it gone before cameras three or four years ago but, by 2005, it feels creaky and out-of-date. |
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I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. |
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He ensorcells the audience with Maria's stiff skirts and mincing walk, her silly smirks and creaky flirtations, her disingenuous modesty. |
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This includes the sampling of an ex-girlfriend's footsteps, as well as a creaky gate in Wales, as percussion noises. |
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When Mr Mubarak was overthrown, Egypt's economy was fairly healthy, its institutions intact, if creaky, and the country pretty much united. |
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Existing multilateral disarmament machinery has become increasingly creaky. |
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Traditional sellers of baby gear, laden with too many stores and creaky technology, have all the perkiness of sleep-deprived parents. |
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The creaky age of the law is clearly a challenge, and we have long asked Parliament for upgrades. |
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The interior of the cabin is appealing, though the low roofline means that this is more a vehicle for the young and fit, than for the old and creaky. |
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Jacob ascended the creaky stairs on his way to Peter's apartment. |
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The bureaucracy is torpid, state industries creaky and banks take a month to cash a cheque. |
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The film is based on a Disney theme park ride, but feels like a creaky merry-go-round compared with the thrilling rollercoaster that was Pirates Of The Caribbean. |
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Dinner in the creaky, friendly dining room is a feast for eyes, taste buds and mind: the sisters are fascinating. |
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They made their way up to the fourth floor via a creaky flight of steps. |
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His love for fire fighting is promptly extinguished one day when the big-bellied porker runs into a burning warehouse and falls through the creaky floor. |
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The stairs were dark and creaky, but when they reached the bottom, the children found themselves in a clean, well-lit room lined with dozens of large heated aquariums. |
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The play, which runs until January 8, tells the story of an American family who move into a creaky old hall only to discover that they are not alone. |
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Indeed, the management of the programmes is sometimes rather creaky. |
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Later, in the sprawling park known as the Takht-e-Safar gardens — one of Ismail Khan's legacies — children swirled in flying chairs at a creaky multicolored fun fair. |
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W 44 T loosens seized threads, displaces moisture, eliminates squeaky and creaky noises, cleans dirty metal surfaces and protects and preserves tools. |
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The once creaky but always welcoming gate now has a lock and buzzer, and a security camera has been installed under an eave, preventing Mary Ann from snooping around even for nostalgia's sake. |
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But swapping cricket whites for sequins on Strictly Come Dancing seemed to offer a cure for his creaky knee. |
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They live in a creaky house with his fruitcake mother and maladjusted twins. |
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The auction is held three times a year, usually in a creaky old stockyard in Dickson, Tennessee, a few miles off the interstate, behind a sprawling TravelCenters of America truck stop. |
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It didn't matter what it was, a creaky neck, frozen shoulder or bad back. |
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For most of us in Canada, golf is a seasonal sport, and getting back into the swing after a long winter can bring on stiff muscles and creaky joints. |
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We'll pay a hundred dollars an hour to sit in a creaky chair. |
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If that spring in your step is a little creaky, stiff or sore, you may be starting to feel the effects of osteoarthritis, a disease caused by wear and tear of cartilage in the joints. |
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After a minute's silence he spoke again in Tibetan, in a voice creaky with age but curiously vibrant with the unselfconscious habit of authority. |
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A queasy mix of eerie-sounding percussion, ominous slide guitar and creaky banjo adds to the backwoodsy, boogeyman feel. |
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The new governor promises to work to revive the state's creaky economy. |
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