But it is a policy that must be pursued on the quiet so as not to spook the country's growing legion of foreign creditors. |
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Well, it was quiet when Liv was writing or reading, otherwise it was abominably noisy. |
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She seems quiet and reserved, carefully fingering the showy flowers with a wistful air of abstraction, lost in her own thoughts. |
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It is just one of the beautiful villages you chance across on a drive around the coast road where peace and quiet is guaranteed. |
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Social get-togethers and quiet time alone are equally as valuable in the eyes of an ambivert. |
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Minutes passed by, and the President waffled on, punctuated only by a cough or the quiet dropping of screws. |
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Passareil said nothing and the room went quiet except for the sounds of grief wafting up from below. |
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Estelle was led to a quiet room overlooking the expansive green countryside all abloom with spring color and new life. |
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Be bold and take some time to explore some of the sheltered coves and quiet bays that can be found at a spot near you. |
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Surrounded by nice quiet things and an utter absence of familiarity, I went up the wall. |
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They are not exactly wallflowers, but their shy personalities can give others the impression of being rather quiet and withdrawn. |
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We strolled up a steep street, where wild ducks quacked for food outside a shop, and into a quiet garden. |
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Whenever I book a ticket in advance, they always put me in the quiet carriage. |
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As I was looking for a place to stay I wandered off Jomtien Beach Road and noticed what I thought would be a reasonably quiet place to stay. |
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The downtown area, previously quiet on weekends, is now abustle with activity as a result of the rail trail. |
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And he admits he cannot wait to pull on a first team shirt after savouring the quiet life of reserve team football with the Black Cats. |
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There remains some accelerative ability, though, and cruising is quiet when our laughable legal motorway limit represents under 2, 000rpm. |
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Peace and quiet is available further north at Scotland Bay, but that area is not accessible by road. |
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If you're happy, it seems to be a soft, quiet rain that's washing the earth. |
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Throughout the poem, the mother constantly attempts to quell and quiet Jim's desire, reading that desire as potentially self-destructive. |
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George Harrison will be remembered, beyond question, on his own terms, as a quiet man meeting a quiet end. |
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When the band plays, the jazz is cool, the atmosphere is laid-back and the bar service is quiet but efficient. |
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There was a quiet humming from the engines, and it quickly put me to sleep. |
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Microphones can suffer from distortion with very loud signals or from noise with very quiet signals. |
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He kept his disappointments to himself, a quiet murmur of disapproval usually being as far as it went. |
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The only noise in the car was the whisperings of the two in the back seat and the quiet rumble of the engine. |
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Rich foliage, soft lighting and the quiet hum of the other diners' conversations create a welcoming ambience. |
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He pulled the trembling girl into his arms, smoothing her hair and making quiet shushing noises. |
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The first thing that strikes you is the contrast between the quiet and loud noises. |
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He woke up with a start and realized that he had heard a quiet noise outside his door. |
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You can reduce this noise by selecting quiet equipment or by mounting the unit on a noise-absorbing base. |
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She awoke to the sound of shuffling feet and many muffled voices whispering in tones too quiet to be heard clearly. |
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Earphones are put over your ears and quiet clicking noises are played to each ear. |
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The house was relatively quiet except for the noise coming from the kitchen. |
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There is something very peaceful and satisfying about the sound of their quiet munching and the noise of their feet on frosty grass. |
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By the time the outcome is known, we will have entered the traditionally quiet summer period that usually lasts from May to September. |
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One resident, who did not want to be named, said she had lived in the street for 11 years and it was a lovely, quiet place to live. |
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House prices in east-central Scotland rallied at the end of last year despite a traditionally quiet period for sales, new figures reveal. |
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Until yesterday, this was a quiet place, even while the people on either side were clearly distressed by a new and awkward tension. |
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Roman Lancashire was a quiet place, but not the back water that some historians have made of it. |
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Normally, it is a very quiet place to live with little activity, but at race time it gets very busy. |
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Situated on a quiet road off Botanic Avenue, this period property is close to numerous shops, schools and amenities. |
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It's a snug, quiet place with terraced lawns leading down to the Island's best sandy beaches. |
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She also blames the row on the media desperately looking for an argument in the quiet holiday period. |
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It gives apprentices exposure to different employers and employers some flexibility during quiet periods of inactivity. |
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When you really want to talk to someone you want to sit together in a quiet place and talk, not to be in the midst of a crowd of other people. |
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This is the second year in a row that the quiet period between Christmas Day and New Year's Day has been shattered by a disaster. |
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According to the sources, the cuts were made to increase demand during one of the market's more quiet periods. |
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Many travellers are denied the opportunity to enjoy a quiet drink, she added. |
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Already, a quiet drink in the pub is forever interrupted by people rattling charity boxes. |
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We spent a quiet time eating and drinking and chatting until, around 4pm, we drove Mum home. |
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It was past midnight and the place was pretty much deserted except for a couple of guys having quiet drinks at the all night bar. |
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Even though this change is now a fact we must not forget the customer who still wishes to have a quiet drink on his own or with his mates. |
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If you'd prefer a quiet drink and a paperback, you might want to consider a more sedate ship. |
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Hillary had obviously had a quiet word with her husband in the kitchen, because when he came back, he was far more subdued. |
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There are several white marble benches to sit on to enjoy the quiet beauty of this secret garden. |
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A year ago, when this column began, a respected magazine editor offered a quiet word of warning. |
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In other words, only quiet demonstrations of picnic proportions would be allowable. |
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There might be a quiet wedding with a few guests, followed by a party somewhere which might take place the same day or several months later. |
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The Police Prosecutor correctly had a quiet word with the JP to correct matters. |
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They may not be grabbing headlines or standing out but they are having quiet words in ears and giving assurance. |
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His third wedding was quiet and private, with only his closest friends invited. |
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I was compelled to go and have a quiet word with the lighting man, who very kindly obliged me and reduced the glare factor. |
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I went to my secret spot, a quiet beach in Madh Island and cried my heart out. |
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They are experts in the quiet word in the ear which has been controlling players for decades and they must not have that power curtailed. |
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He was a modest and quiet person with a profound knowledge in most fields of scientific ornithology. |
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An unassuming and quiet woman from Norway runs a coastal rehabilitation unit that rescues beaches from oil slicks. |
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You are more quiet and reserved in front of strangers, but around some people you open up. |
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Chris, a fairly reserved and quiet fellow, is going to have to learn what it means to be talked to all the time. |
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Some bull terriers are much more reticent than others and would be more suitable for a quiet person and a calm household. |
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They describe him as a quiet man who lived here with his parents and also with his younger brother. |
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He was quite a reserved, quiet chap, more of a listener than a talker, perhaps. |
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He is a quiet man by nature, the last player one would expect to run off his mouth in the locker room. |
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He was quiet and unassuming gentleman who was very highly thought of by all who knew him. |
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His students and friends will always warmly remember him as a man of gentle, unassuming and quiet personality. |
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He was a quiet man with a gentle disposition who was a popular and well respected member of the local community. |
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He was a quiet person who preferred staying in but when we went out we always enjoyed ourselves. |
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A very quiet individual, his gentlemanly manner endeared him to all who made his acquaintance. |
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Exuding a quiet confidence, he is obviously somebody who is sure of his own abilities, yet unpresumptuous about what the future might hold. |
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Wendy has been giving readings since 1980, so she has earned a quiet confidence in what might work. |
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But the Scot's quiet confidence and forbearance spread to the rest of the community. |
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It is a performance of restrained frustration and quiet despair, coupled with the type of calculated ruthlessness befitting a killer. |
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What attracted my attention was the air of quiet confidence and serenity that emanated from her. |
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Still, his success at the polls permitted his quiet confidence he was safe in the knowledge that the importance of being earnest had paid off. |
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Simple chords, restrained riffs and quiet imagery lead to just a perfect pathos running through each and every song. |
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A pleasant, modest demeanour seems to shelter a quiet strength and confidence. |
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The mood of this film, the quiet confidence of its telling, the gorgeous cinematography has to be seen to be understood. |
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In his native heath he exudes a quiet confidence and dignity, not, however, always outside it. |
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His eyes, too, seemed to hide a certain understanding, the kind of cool display of quiet confidence and mystery. |
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The air was still and calm, the forest quiet but for the sounds of small animals, making their way from tree to tree. |
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The quiet of the morning and the dark really got to Cassie as she hugged her jacket tighter to her small form. |
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The stillness and quiet of the night made the place seem almost reverent, as if something long ago had happened here. |
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The pace is dictated by the early morning quiet of a misty golf course laid out along Georgia's ocean coast. |
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We were rewarded with the sound of calling Whooping Cranes piercing the quiet of the early morning, then a close fly over. |
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In the guest room Tess has been given, her peace and quiet has been disturbed by a group of women all talking at once. |
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Enjoying the peace and quiet of a nice chair is one of life's few pleasures. |
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There is little thrill of the chase, but some quiet satisfaction after the kill. |
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I think that maybe we're going to have a few months of relative quiet in which people can try to sort things out in the region. |
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The brutal crushing of the protests ushered in a period of uneasy quiet in the country's politics. |
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No consideration, whether of party or convenience, should keep us quiet when we see or suspect a wrong done. |
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He dismissed claims that the discovery was kept quiet until last Thursday's General Election was over. |
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Apparently, the Secret Service was keeping quiet about the events of the previous day. |
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Once we get to dinner time, the peace and quiet is shattered by three ravening teenagers all demanding food and demanding it now. |
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Even the five year old, already quiet as a mouse, seems to relax as the tension passes out of the room. |
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He went back to the other children and was as quiet as a mouse, but he kept stealing a glance towards the fireplace. |
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Maddie, as quiet as a mouse, inched her way out of the room, shutting the door behind her. |
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Then she crept up the stairs, avoiding the spots that squeaked, and then snuck to her room, quiet as a mouse. |
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The moment a child is quiet for a second, a jelly bean is presented to him. |
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We rushed down a granite chute, our kayaks smashing through wave trains, and spilled into a quiet pool. |
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To get around this he would have only a double string quintet play during a very quiet flute or oboe solo. |
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I could feel the eyes of my mother and my brothers on me, a quiet but potent hatred. |
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It's getting jiggy in the online music marketplace again, after a relatively quiet year of repositioning and research. |
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Just getting a teen to stop racing from activity to activity for a few minutes of quiet reading can be difficult. |
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It was a quiet Sunday afternoon, a girl is out on her pony riding down the road when suddenly two young men in a car speed round a blind corner. |
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I was out with my wife and two daughters having a wonderful time at a remote-controlled car raceway on a quiet Saturday night. |
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Rangers quickly seized the initiative, hustling well and exuding a quiet authority that was in contrast to their opponents' jitteriness. |
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His movements contradicted the others' actions, his steps were graceful and quiet like that of a doe. |
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The sun rose just about the hills near the lake, which made the quiet lake reflect its light, adding more radiance. |
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My scooter had packed up on the way to work in the morning, and I had had to leave it in a quiet cul-de-sac and return for it later. |
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The outcome of the match may well be determined by how quiet Ferdinand can keep the effusive Jermain Defoe. |
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We're both quiet again, but I can feel angry tears welling up and starting to spill down my cheeks. |
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My dad put 10p each way on the horse for me that year to keep me quiet I think. |
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The corporate communications and public relations profession is remarkably quiet in all the rah-rah hype of blogging. |
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There was a pause, the quiet air filled only by a song from a young rainbird. |
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I was given what was said to be a quiet horse, but was warned that it might try to jump anything jumpable. |
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He has been reviewed admiringly from the first, but his extremely quiet style has kept him from widespread notice. |
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A man with a great fondness for the outdoor life, he loved to ramble in the countryside and experience the peace and quiet of the land. |
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So far the media has been incredibly quiet on this issue, considering the ramifications. |
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A week behind the wheel proved it to be a good solid crossover SUV with a firm and quiet ride, as good as anything in the segment. |
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I had this idea of him being loud and brash when in fact he's laidback and quiet with this fantastic wit. |
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Meanwhile City Hall looked quiet on Thursday and Sutiyoso's whereabouts was unknown. |
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A house suited for quiet family life but within an hour of Dublin whets the appetite of country loving commuters. |
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This whimsical piece of mischief by his brother brought a quiet laugh from David. |
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It is luxurious and quiet with a range of facilities including its own private beach and a seawater pool and whirlpool overlooking the sea. |
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It's a quiet story, affectingly intimate, dealing as it does with family, pride, roots and humility. |
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Considering the length of his name, I was rather hoping he would have a quiet evening at the office. |
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Nurses and doctors in white coats were running in and out of rooms, while still trying to maintain quiet around the waiting room. |
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There is a shaded area at the top of a hill nearby that affords a good view, is quiet and is very pleasant. |
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Most of the ride is on quiet roads and cycle paths over flat terrain, with the occasional gentle hill. |
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By now, Archer could be forgiven for thinking that she had earned her right to a quiet life of flat champagne and cheap shopping trips. |
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With a quiet glow of satisfaction, she smiled at the bride nervously waiting. |
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The younger ones, by contrast, kept to themselves more, talking intensely in quiet voices and casting a chilly eye on strangers. |
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There was a faint twang, followed by a quiet whiz, as a crossbow bolt flew through the air and collided with a thump into the side of the vent. |
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I kept quiet and kept my head down, but now it's fine and people have started accepting me. |
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Her spiky style and confident handling of the source material creates a book which is more of a literary event than a quiet read. |
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Yet the sitter, whoever he might be, regards us with an air of quiet confidence. |
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A quiet Sun in early September seems an ideal moment to assess the holidays as a whole. |
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When we gathered midslope at a cluster of trees, the entire half-mile-wide hillside released with a quiet whoomph. |
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He will be remembered for his ready smile, quiet humour and his true gentlemanly qualities. |
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Nellie, who was aged seventy years, lived a quiet life and was a deeply religious lady. |
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Eison kennels the pups in a fenced-in corner of his backyard, in a quiet neighborhood of single-family homes in St. Albans, Queens. |
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No large buildings could be constructed on top of the tunnel itself, just on either side, so this quiet backstreet feels unnaturally wide. |
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He doesn't go in for the trappings of stardom, preferring a quiet family life. |
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In-store activity had been holding up well but has suddenly gone very quiet over the past couple of weeks, he told me. |
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Leaning her head against the glass, Jaid sat on her window seat and looked out onto the quiet street below. |
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It had a huge wardrobe with mirror doors and a window with a padded window seat that looked out at the quiet tree-lined street below. |
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Even when there is no intention to kick over the traces, the quiet understanding of compatibles offers a hint of forbidden pleasure. |
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Chris and I managed to get seats together, and I asked the air hostess if there was a quiet place that I could use to give myself an injection. |
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He is a quiet little kid who causes more trouble then he is worth but everyone loves him and treats him like a kid brother. |
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The room is very quiet and the only real noise is the fan on the PC and the air pump on the fish tank. |
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Keep quiet about the 4,000 recidivists who run city streets, committing crimes with increasing bravado and little fear of punishment. |
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It is only in the last few days that stories have emerged of his quiet acts of kindness and thoughtfulness. |
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He was a quiet person, not overly ambitious but always eager to reconcile disputes between opposing parties. |
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I don't socialise very much in Galway, I try to keep it quiet because you need to keep your wits about you. |
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Queen Mary and the Dauphin and Genevieve and the Maries came and said quiet prayers before withdrawing without disturbing her. |
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If he lost or played badly, he would become so withdrawn and quiet that his parents worried a great deal about him. |
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My favourite character was Pedro, Napoleon's Hispanic friend, whose quiet manner and woebegone expression were constant throughout the film. |
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Thankfully the blackbird of her depression began to lift yesterday when we passed a quiet and for the most part recuperative Sunday. |
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A quiet lane then leads down to reach Brockabank Farm in the secluded wooded valley of Eshton Beck. |
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Georgie came to a green wooden door, tapped lightly with his nails, quiet as a rat. |
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She too was driven to a quiet country lane where she was raped at knifepoint. |
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They say that my dad is a man of few words, but he taught me by the quiet eloquence of his hard work and by his decency. |
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It happens in the football world but it's one of those things you keep quiet about. |
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Steven was a shy, quiet lad but when he came out of his shell and people got to know him, they thought the world of him. |
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The plaintiffs are not portraying any abnormal sensitivity or delicacy in seeking to worship in an atmosphere of quiet and calm reflexion. |
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He brought the same quiet wryness to his conversation, and many of his remarks were all the funnier for his murmured, throwaway delivery. |
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On the other hand, while Mary brought quiet reserve and regality to her role as Princess of Wales, Alexandra's influence was much more ethereal. |
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I find the pews strong and sturdy, where young and old alike feel secure during periods of worship or quiet reflection. |
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There are three flats in all at the address and it seems to be quiet and secluded. |
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The hallway was quiet at this time of night, and Tesha was glad that there was an all-night grocery store not too far away. |
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The faithful animal, which was in general as quiet as a lamb, became like a raging tiger every time he saw the person who had murdered his master. |
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Sweet music to the ears of his manager, who was his usual mixture of confidence and quiet sophistication on Friday as he discussed how to improve on winning the double. |
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The quiet was shattered again as two RAF jets came winging across, not so low as to shake the ground, but loud enough to bring any conversation to a halt for a while. |
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She always had composure, but now she carried a quiet but firm dignity. |
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Harry has proven himself to be absolutely a man of his word, a man of principle, a quiet spoken person with a very strong conviction and a good heart. |
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Inside, the house was quiet and the lights had been put out. |
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Styling is not too flashy, yet exudes class and a quiet confidence. |
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Sometimes, when Josie knew know no one would notice, she'd creep downstairs to the kitchen as quiet as a mouse and tiptoe out the back door when the cook wasn't looking. |
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Listen to it of a quiet evening, sung by a good tenor or a well-tempered choir, and you can realise that from pain it is possible to make the truest beauty. |
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The calm quiet of where I was beckoned me to linger a little longer. |
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It's a quiet place and I like to be in a quiet place after a day's work. |
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A lady of gentle and quiet disposition, Mary Ellen was a firm favourite throughout the local rural community where she commanded great regard and respect. |
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So there I am, out in the quiet of the morning, ripping up weeds, listening to birds singing their hearts out, drinking in the smell of freshly turned earth. |
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But the next assault is just around the corner, and the band's talent for stringing out the quiet moments makes the next shower of blows rain down even harder. |
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She was always as quiet as a mouse, but I knew she was heartbroken. |
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Yet, not all places were quiet and devoid of activity on Tuesday. |
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Adam was quiet for a few minutes, then he suddenly jumped to his feet. |
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The launch of the play club was a family affair with carols galore and of course Santa cutting the ribbon and having a quiet word with the younger guests. |
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With his quiet but affecting meditations on what constitutes the self, Sakuma makes us aware of our relation to others and of our existence and its inevitable end. |
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When you study on your own find a quiet place, like in your room. |
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I have a right to live in peace and quiet like any human being. |
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Once the gardens are finished, they will be open to the public free of charge on condition that visitors respect the peace and quiet of the hall as a place of retreat. |
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That has changed as the island has tried to transform its carnival into an event which will bring visitors to the island during a usually quiet period. |
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Mr. Krupp made a dismissive wave of his hand, as if to quiet his wife. |
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In the recent past, Germany has particularly been quiet in regard to the deterioration of civil society in Russia. |
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If you want a quiet drink, avoid times when the footie is on the telly. |
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Services could include requested pieces of music, readings or poetry, and range from being simple, quiet affairs to New Orleans-style funerals complete with jazz band. |
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In the final, disarmingly quiet scene of The Sun, the emperor is informed that the young sound technician who recorded his speech of renunciation has committed hara-kiri. |
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He lay still, pale and quiet underneath a protective plastic covering. |
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The secret that kept him quiet about his brother was frightening. |
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On the face of it, sacks is describing a different person from the thoughtful, often quiet man I met in California. |
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We'd just gone out for a few quiet drinks and the pub was half-empty. |
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He's pretty quiet at the hall meetings and the rap group sessions. |
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Would it be better to keep quiet about it and keep the revenue rolling in or get the information out there and reduce the size of the law suits later? |
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What about companies who prefer to keep things quiet as a trade secret? |
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He looped around in the grass, flanking the mine mouth, slow, quiet now, crouching a little. |
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If it does, maybe you should have a quiet word with the waiter. |
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They wavered gently in the soft, quiet breeze that swept across him. |
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Erin was quiet for a long minute, winding the blanket round her fingers. |
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Kids were kicked out of athletics, expelled from school, tested, forced into treatment and community service, and even jailed for having a quiet beer on their own time. |
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We all enjoy the peace and quiet and a chance to daydream while weeding, but there comes a time when it's nice to have company and talk about the whys and wherefores. |
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The quags are usually very quiet with only the odd walker or birder to be seen and seem far removed from the busy spots further along the coast at Cley and Salthouse. |
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He takes a risk because he thinks he can get away with it because the facts may well turn out to support his editor's desire and he wants a quiet life and to be obliging. |
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Margot, three years older than Anne, was quiet and bookish but still a part of things. |
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While debate rages over ever-increasing diagnosis rates of ADHD in children, a quiet minority has been slowly building. |
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Well, we all had headsets on, and obviously everyone was extremely quiet and solemn and trying to, with rapt attention, get everything they could out of the tape. |
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Those of us who were fortunate to make his acquaintance during his brief stay in the city know only of his quiet courtesy and readiness to help others. |
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He finally cajoles her into quiet with promises of a new coach and attendants, only to have a fresh quarrel break out over an expensive rebato she has bought for herself. |
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Confined within the window frame, this complex amalgam becomes an image of worldly flux contrasting sharply with the quiet immobility of the recumbent figure. |
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It's a full-bodied, grown-up, proper ladies' fragrance that's a quiet storm of spices and resins, with notes of amber, patchouli, sandalwood, labdanum and benzoin. |
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Will she settle down to a life of quiet obscurity and shooting parties and marry an aristocrat like the establishment hopes? |
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As they slip into the quiet of the home, they both wonder if the place has been bugged. |
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The burial ground was empty except for the occasional horse-drawn caisson being pulled through its quiet lanes. |
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The time was well into the quiet hours before dawn, and I was working with unparalleled ire on an antique water clock belonging to a wealthy racehorse owner named Cuthbert. |
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I get lifted by yearning, as if I were going to melt into him again, then I awaken to reality and seek to quiet my feelings. |
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Another quiet month I'm afraid, which means too much time spent on here. |
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I settled on a quiet life teaching English and history to make a quid. |
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We're quiet and then Matt reaches forward, grasping my hands in his. |
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A soft noise came from inside, a quiet shuffling and a low muttering. |
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Other coats were quiet and subdued from the back and aglow with Spirograph patterns on the front. |
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The urban Indian woman's newfound poise and quiet confidence were on show. |
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There is something quiet and assured about her, and when she talks it seems as if she is carefully weighing each of her words before letting them go. |
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The maids polish the silver, quiet the colicky infants, and iron dresses with 65 pleats on the waist. |
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Rail can be adjusted to tune the call for higher or raspier pitch, or be locked for quiet carry. |
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The currents there carry the fine particles around to the quiet side of the spit and sediment begins to build up. |
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They walked with the quiet leisureliness of a Sunday school parade, and observed with the most punctilious care the rules of the road. |
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High King Brian, who was nearly eighty, did not personally engage in the battle but retired to his tent where he spent the day in quiet prayer. |
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These questions simply will not confine themselves to quiet rooms. |
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Jourdain stood by with a quiet sad smile, holding his passkey in his hand, and giving me time to take it all in. |
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In the quiet water of swamps, lakes and lagoons, fine sediment is deposited, mingled with organic material from dead plants and animals. |
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Chinmoy recommended meditation during the quiet atmosphere of the early morning, before starting daily activities. |
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But Perry, Cabrera and Campbell could hear the Masters bird choir tweeting over the quiet of the gallery following them. |
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Notwithstanding their celebrity in war, the people were generally very quiet and inoffensive. |
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Outside service times, people seeking a quiet place to pray or worship are admitted to St Dunstan's Chapel free of charge. |
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His lordship allowed Thomas to use the old apple house at the bottom of the house's walled garden as a quiet place in which to write. |
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Even a partial success would improve the tactical situation in the Ypres salient, reducing wastage, which was exceptional, even in quiet periods. |
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Secure in his now truncated realm, Dafydd now appears to have pushed ambition to one side and resolved to enjoy the quiet life. |
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Adults trill excitedly before mating, and indicate submission through quiet trilling, whining and squealing. |
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Nursery rhymes and nonsense verse used to amuse or quiet children also are frequent subjects of traditional songs. |
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Relatively quiet since early 2010, the volcano continues to be closely monitored by the Montserrat Volcano Observatory. |
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Otherwise this sector of the front was largely quiet over the course of the year. |
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The great majority of Tories refused to support the Jacobites publicly, although there were numerous quiet supporters. |
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In the race neither of the drivers shone and both had rather quiet races to third and sixth with Button having a late surge. |
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Libraries often provide quiet areas for studying, and they also often offer common areas to facilitate group study and collaboration. |
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The switch to quiet incandescent illumination in turn required a switch to more expensive film stock. |
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After a time at the Lenin Barracks in Barcelona he was sent to the relatively quiet Aragon Front under Georges Kopp. |
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Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in her later years added to this impression. |
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Over time, her quiet decorum, loyalty and genuine affection for Charles changed the public's perception of her. |
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Show events such as Western pleasure use much flashier equipment, unlike the English traditions where clothing and tack is quiet and unobtrusive. |
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The updated design is quiet even by modern standards, particularly on carpet as it muffles the sound. |
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Stands of trees teeming with barking animals would be quiet as lichyards when he passed them again. |
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It is a tributary of the Shenandoah, and winds gracefully under cliff and willow in its leisuresome and quiet way toward the sea. |
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Further along the coast, Porlock is a quiet coastal town with an adjacent salt marsh nature reserve and a harbour at nearby Porlock Weir. |
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After a quiet winter, Germany in April 1940 invaded and quickly defeated Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands and France. |
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Red deer have a stronghold on the moor and can be seen on quiet hillsides in remote areas, particularly in the early morning. |
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This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter. |
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However, many Episcopalians were quiet about any Jacobite sympathies and were able to accommodate themselves to the new regime. |
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In going public, all hope of tempting Catherine to retire to a nunnery or otherwise stay quiet were lost. |
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She knew when I was on a business call that she had to be quiet and use her indoor voice. |
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The quiet years of Alfred's life were coming to a close, and war was on the horizon. |
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The same streets that are inviting and quiet at high noon may be intimidating at night. |
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The air over the white sand is as quiet and feelingless to my skin as complete, comfortable clothing. |
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When the quiet period is over, generally the underwriters will initiate research coverage on the firm. |
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Pearl, in utter scorn of her mother's attempt to quiet her, gave an eldritch scream, and then became silent. |
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A mile walk took us into Mountshannon, a sort of Brigadoon, so quiet in the warm sun we thought it deserted. |
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The borogove let out a quiet chirp. Another, larger borogove squirmed in through the hole in the fabric. |
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He was squatting on the ground like a blackfellow, quiet and still and cunning. |
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At quiet hour in the afternoon they were adepts of the olisbos, baubon, and finger. |
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There's no way to build to a peak except to get quiet first, and after each breakdown comes another bass drop. |
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The stories are told in a simple, quiet voice that makes each bare-bones tale Intensely compelling. |
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During the quiet period after the end of the First World War, the Royal Arsenal built steam railway locomotives. |
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Emily Huskisson returned to Eartham and lived a quiet life, dedicated to keeping alive her husband's memory. |
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Until 1813 the region was generally quiet except for privateer actions near the coast. |
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In the USA, clients are given a preliminary prospectus, known as a red herring prospectus, during the initial quiet period. |
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Alexander's sacking of Thebes ensured that Greece remained quiet during his absence. |
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The route uses existing Public Rights of Way and quiet roads which circumnavigate Ullswater. |
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Between Skiddaw and Longside Edge are the quiet valleys of Southerndale and Barkbethdale, separated by the spur of Buzzard Knott. |
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For the next two decades, Vasco da Gama lived out a quiet life, unwelcome in the royal court and sidelined from Indian affairs. |
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From the western side of Whinlatter Pass a pleasant approach can be made up the wooded Aiken Valley, a quiet dale with no vehicular access. |
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To the west of the Central Ridge a lower spur encloses the quiet valley of Watendlath. |
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