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Near the docks, I was approached by a hairy creature staggering under a mighty rucksack.
The inevitable result is that waiting times have grown and now stand at a staggering 53 weeks for a routine MRI scan.
A staggering half of all secondary school children and a quarter of those at primary school say they have been bullied in the last year alone.
If he hadn't been blind, staggering drunk, he probably wouldn't have missed.
The average fish over the two days weighed in at a staggering average weight of 2lb 12 oz.
I have recommended it to numerous people who have purchased it and agree that it is a staggering read!
Andreas turned around and kicked out at Justin, sending him staggering backwards to regain his balance.
Good to see a local hangout that's within staggering distance home if you're totally mangled.
The prison guard reeled back, staggering a few steps and struggling to reach for his saber.
He shouted as the man reeled away from Rubiss, staggering to one knee under the force of the blow.
He reeled away with the force of the impact, before staggering slightly and regaining balance.
On the valley floor, freshwater and alkaline soda lakes support a staggering array of birdlife.
After so long in zero G and light gravity, all four of us were staggering like we had had one to many at a party.
Insecurity and violence are closely associated with staggering unemployment, social anomie, and corruption at higher levels of government.
That's a staggering 300 lifesavers rolling up their sleeves every day in order to touch someone else's life.
In other parts of the world, the book is already available, and the lines out front of bookstores are staggering.
Trying to match this staggering linguistic ability is a major challenge for computing.
Stars, however, come in a staggering range of luminosities, spanning ten orders of magnitude ten powers of ten.
We had carried a very heavy bag for a staggering twelve miles with just a short tea break and we were back where we started.
He scored a brilliant third-round technical knockout in a battle which saw both fighters staggering across the ring.
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As it was, it caught him slantwise on the back and sent him staggering across the room.
There has been staggering loss of life and measureless wastage of materials.
The caboclo slid down lightly along the trunk and saw two little bodies who were whining, staggering, dragging themselves along.
The man whirled and started on a staggering run along the rim of the caliche he had been travelling.
There was a concussion, and the black horse came staggering sideways, and the carthorse pushed beside it.
Without any signs of dizziness or staggering, he walked between the boulders which bestrew the path.
The fan palm before Mrs. Le Marchant's window, with its fans all pinched and bent, is staggering before the gale.
The thought, however, of a gold-rimmed vicar diminutive enough to enter font or poor box is somewhat staggering!
The radiance of sunlight might well have been less than the blaze of a rush candle before the staggering brilliancy.
Under that staggering blow men collapsed in dozens, crushed by the weight of uptorn earth or blown to fragments.
How, after a while, when they looked out one morning they found the rata staggering through the stormy northern seas alone.
When he came back he was staggering under the weight of his armload, his face red.
But he made the bank and staggering up to the mesquite tree, he untied Peter.
She tried on the wraps, and the hats which came up finally with Calvin staggering beneath the bulkiness of the box.
Then, in a second, with an agility absolutely staggering, he was on his feet.
At this, he gives Harkness a shove which sends him staggering into the arms of the mulatto.
A day or two afterwards a coach containing the company was really crawling and staggering up the spurs of the menacing mountain range.
The irrelevancy of the question only added to its staggering effect.
No sooner had he disappeared than Hepzibah grew deadly white, and, staggering towards Phoebe, let her head fall on the young girl's shoulder.
About a hundred paces from me Baleka was staggering along with her arms out like one who has drunk too much beer.
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