He slunk back a few inches, then remembered Gail, with a slow burn of anger that swept through his soul and demanded vengeance. |
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I slunk into the fitting room wishing I'd devoted the morning to cleaning the bathroom, or learning to crochet. |
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The old Irish priest crossed himself and slunk back away from the computer. |
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She got up slowly, patting her frizzled hair down as she slunk to the middle of the room. |
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More protestations of innocence followed and shortly afterwards, creepiness slunk in. |
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Bill and I duly slunk off to the hotel for a brandy while we waited for the results to be posted on the ACM's website. |
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We peeled her up out of the mud, and she slunk off to the shed and hid under a bucket, and has lived there ever since. |
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They don't know people who've left their departments, or any departments, who have mostly slunk out. |
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The previous scientist took a step backward, then slunk out of the door, ashamed. |
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The stealthy footsteps of a cat crept down the edge of the lane and slunk away behind a stack of barrels. |
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Its muzzle and ears were catlike and it slunk down the street with feline grace and fluidity. |
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As it slunk back off into the forest, another shadow crawled down from a tree, its long arms dragging along the ground behind it as it went. |
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The customer, a middle-aged woman in jeans, blazer, conservative loafers, slunk away apologetically. |
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This emotion was one I had never been able to handle, and I slunk away from the bright lights and the stage, to the backstage area. |
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So he decided to cancel the dish, and slunk off to his dormitory down the road in a bad temper. |
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Decked-out in plenitude of bling and leather, the models tittuped and slunk down the runway. |
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So I slunk back to National where there is less talk of skites and bludgers. |
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Nicola nodded and slunk quietly over to the sleeping bags, trying not to attract the attention of whatever Landon had heard. |
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She hid behind a rock and quietly slunk around the pond, seeking refuge behind rocks and boulders. |
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Obeying his orders, the pack stopped fighting and slunk in the woods, disappearing behind the trees. |
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We learned to tell how big a rodent she had spotted by the posture she adopted, how close to the ground she slunk or how fast she moved. |
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He slunk stealthily to the captain's cabin where the girl sat weeping on the bed, awaiting her terrible fate. |
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According to reports, the edgy animal had slunk away into the darkness of the power outage, spreading panic among the thronging crowds. |
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Closing her door I slunk around, slipping inside the car myself. |
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Dubya, meanwhile, slunk out of Washington with an approval rating of 22 percent, the least popular president in 70 years. |
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Ever since he slunk off the scene, things have gotten all vague and squishy. |
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The unicorn, just a common everyday horse now, slunk off toward a field of tall grasses. |
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We all hugged her after she slunk back to us, still quivering. |
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After all that, most would have slunk away for a few months to recuperate on some island somewhere. |
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I meekly asked again for a pint and slunk away from the bar. |
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He slunk away after the debate without taking one question from the media. |
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He bought her a house in Cork Street, and her husband slunk away. |
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The cat sat still until the basket came to rest against the rocky bank, then she slowly raised her front paw and slunk forward, one slow careful step at a time. |
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I obediently followed her instructions and slunk behind her. |
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I pretended not to hear her, and she slunk down the steps a minute later. |
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Even Labour MPs had slunk from the House of Commons by the time the decision was announced. |
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She quietly opened it up and slunk through, with Daniel on her tail. |
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Tobias softly closed the door and slunk upstairs to a window that overlooked the streets out front only to confirm his assumption that cops were watching his house. |
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Williams could have slunk off into the shadows in shame, which no doubt many people at the time expected her to do. |
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By sharp contrast, the main contenders in the Labour leadership race have slunk away from the Blair memoir and its prescriptions. |
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I still heard her talking as I slunk off into the dark. |
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When the president's enemies, defeated in their efforts to remove him, slunk off the stage, it was clear that even his own party had little enthusiasm left for the man from Arkansas. |
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Instead, Mr Ozawa's motley crew either jumped ship for more promising opposition camps or slunk back to the LDP once they realised they were out in the cold. |
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His team lost all three group matches at the European showdown, conceding five goals and scoring just once, and slunk off home with precisely nothing to show for their efforts. |
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And without so much as a departing retort, some face-saving insult, the duffel-coated rickle of banes slunk off. |
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The seamen, in view of the cold and the wind, had for the most part slunk ashore, and were now roaring and singing in the shoreside taverns. |
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The hazy shadow of a black-tip reef shark slunk frighteningly below as a blizzard of angelfish, seabats, spangled emperors and pink anemone fish dined on coral morsels. |
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Feeling unaccountably odd, Gawain slunk off to the office. |
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It was just me until – phew – three others slunk in. |
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A Red Cross plane, virtually ignored, slunk off down the runway. |
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In her MO debut, her Carmen slunk like a sultry alley cat, first bursting on stage with a cigarette dangling between her lips before toying with Don Jose in the Habanera. |
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