Amy gave her a wan smile, and moved to stand beside her. her eyes were red from crying, and her armour was mangled in more than a few places. |
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Instead, our wars exposed the limits of our capability and cast a wan light on many of our cherished illusions. |
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Sunlight filtered upon their tired, wan faces and I knew I looked the same. |
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She leaned forward, elbows on knees and her head in the wan moonlight as she smiled. |
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The stones on the bottom of the brook were flat and greenish in the wan afternoon light. |
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Ellen suppressed another shudder and gave a wan smile that she hoped he would take to mean the week would be a long one for her. |
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With a wan smile, Delaney removed her license from her wallet and showed it to him. |
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I wasn't, though I probably just murmured something vague in reply, and I may have given a wan smile. |
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She gazes toward, but beyond the viewer with a slightly wan and wistful smile, as though she has a secret somewhere deep inside. |
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But he gives her a wan smile, the best he can manage under the circumstances. |
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She gave him a wan smile when she saw him, and lifted herself to a sitting position carefully. |
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Sighing wearily, Isabella shifted her gaze to her mother with a wan smile on her lips. |
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Allyson paused, listening to the soft melody, a shy smile spreading over her wan features. |
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She smiled a wan sort of smile, and glanced around at what should be the living room. |
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He glanced over his shoulders at his slightly meaner looking co-workers and offered Mary a wan smile. |
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John insisted on kissing them as well, bringing the first wan smiles to their faces after the events of the night. |
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No sooner has the dust settled in the wan place when there's more hoostering and foostering in the other place. |
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Winter is over, finito, and you are still as pale and wan as a custard donut. |
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West's American portraits, by contrast, offer little more than wan effigies of his fellow Pennsylvanians. |
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And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death. |
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She laughed, a short scoff of a bark, and Lana even managed to smile, even if it was a bit wan and forced. |
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After these first wan gags, subsequent riffs on the same themes fail to amuse. |
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In another image, two bored children gaze at the camera, the older one giving the camera a wan smile. |
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My light-hearted offer to provide a dumpster was usually met with a wan smile. |
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Such statements bear the mark of a wan hope that evangelicals and Pentecostals should be other than who they are. |
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Judging from his wan appearance, however, it was clear that the show had taken its toll. |
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Doyle still slept, looking wan and exhausted, but that hint of a smile was still there. |
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Eli reminded me of an older Bob Dylan, his size and wan complexion and his face. |
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Often the answer would be in the form of a wan smile or silence. |
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A wan and gibbous moon appeared briefly before it followed the sun. |
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For the first time New Zealand has got its pink act together and made a range of food-friendly wines with attitude rather than the wan wee guzzlers of the recent past. |
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The woman sitting next to me, a blonde South African wearing jeans and fashionable spectacles looks at me, raises an eyebrow, gives me a wan smile and gets up to leave. |
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She almost manages a wan smile, but misses a bit on the execution. |
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Elsa shook it off with a shrug of the shoulders and a wan smile. |
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Over and over he filmed the scenario of a light-skinned women passing as white, and a dark-skinned man ignoring a women of his own shade to aspire to that wan princess. |
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He complied of course, and stood shading his haggard face in the unwonted sunlight of the great window, looking as wan and unearthly as if he had been summoned from the grave. |
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He gave Jean a wan smile before grabbing a baguette at the table. |
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But these kids make for wan enemies, after the Mephistopheles Berezovsky almost too small to pick on. |
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One need only stand in the aisle marked Produce to understand how the wan light obscuring the bruised fruit makes all of our decisions more difficult. |
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The secretary looked up momentarily and gave her a wan smile. |
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Other bands might get away with this on intensity alone, but Harcourt's straightforward, predictable manner leaves his wan material desperately lacking. |
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Sarah looked up from her conversation with Jake with a wan smile. |
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When deep brown eyes finally opened and she stared up at him, she gave him a wan smile that caused a cringe as the sore skin on her cheek stretched greatly. |
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Lorraine's enjoyably snottery finale knocked Kym's wan wimpering right out of shot. |
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Although yan is still widely used, wan is starting to creep into some sociolects of the area. |
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are the raunchy daughters of Burne-Jones' wan succubae. |
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Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded. |
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How does ut come about, sorr, that whin a man has put the comether on wan woman he's sure bound to put ut on another? |
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Llangefni bushed aside visitors Tredegar Ironsides 38-5 with wing I wan Davies contributing 13 of his sides points with a try and four conversions. |
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As I passed along the edge of the meadow the cow-parsnip was as tall as I, frothing up to the top of the hedge, putting the faded hawthorn to a wan blush. |
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And I don't think the Lufthansa will be hiring me after this wan is over. |
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As I enjoy my vermicelli under the watchful eyes of smiling Buddha, I notice that Wan Ker-sin is swallowing, instead of chewing his food. |
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Occasionally Chef Wan veers off the subject of food altogether and breaks into a rant on, say, family values. |
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The large plate comes with crispy Wan Tun, prawn toast, spring rolls, crispy seaweed, spicy lamb satay, a beef parcel and spicy meat nuggets. |
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The charge arose out of the fact that Miss Wan gave a witness statement to the police in which she provided a false alibi for Iftikhar. |
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An A-level student. surnamed Lee, said he had moved to Tsuen Wan before the isolation order was imposed. |
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Wan was 15 when she mastered that art, and the mind boggles trying to imagine a teenager with no hands and half an arm managing this feat. |
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Moylan spent a week in Thailand, and after returning to England kept in touch with Wan by phone and mail. |
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I think of telling him that I would divorce the wife, send the kids to an orphanage, fire the amah, sell the apartment, and rent a flat in Sheung Wan. |
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On the day of lift-off, Wan, splendidly attired, climbed into his rocket chair and forty seven servants lit the fuses and then hastily ran for cover. |
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Mitchell Wan is one of this rare breed of self-confessed yo-yo fanatics. |
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Smoot and Tan are engineers for Riverbed, a Wan optimizations technology firm. |
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We are looking forward to working with Eastern DataComm and help their clients build a better WAN using the Talari SD-WAN solution. |
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The 8110 supports PPPoA, PPPoE, classical IP, bridging and routing for WAN installations. |
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At the beginning of the scene, Wan combs his wet hair, tending to him like a maid, but by the end, she leans domineeringly over him, mocking him. |
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Using Blue Coat WAN optimization solutions, Perisher can boost customer service and enable more skiers to get on the ski lifts more swiftly. |
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Wan was in front, beway he was the ginral, walkin' wid his chin up, proud as a paycock. |
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He begins with a simple egg fried rice, then joins his father, professional chef Poppa Wan, as he whips up char siu pork. |
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Sung Wan Kim, director of the University of Utah's Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery in Salt Lake City, is working on an alternative pouchlike insulin-reservoir system. |
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