He nodded abruptly, but his eyes were still filled with displeasure and disdain. |
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His nostrils were filled abruptly with the distinct smell of smoke and burning food. |
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After clearing a very steep hill, the plane banks and dips abruptly to a tiny runway that ends brusquely on St. Jean's beach. |
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In patients with polymyalgia rheumatica, symptoms may develop abruptly or insidiously. |
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Faith and Grace who had been telling him something, abruptly broke off, when Father got up and rushed over to me. |
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To put the matter abruptly, the advertising industry is a crude attempt to extend the principle of automation to every aspect of society. |
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Her mother screeched and sat up abruptly, having the chair topple down onto the floor in a loud clank of noises. |
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The distal bronchial lumen often ends abruptly because the smaller bronchi are plugged with mucus. |
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Early on, a church building, previously depicted as the last safe place on earth, is abruptly demolished. |
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For the rest, the hand emerges abruptly from the kiosk without greeting or acknowledgement, and one is then disinclined to be pleasant in return. |
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Ryan abruptly hung up the phone, the old receiver clanking heavily into the set. |
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He has been engaged twice but both women broke it off abruptly before the wedding. |
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Jack was distant, unfriendly at best, and then he even abruptly pulled out a textbook and started to read it, blocking us out completely. |
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She and her husband left in 1982 after Cho abruptly banned her from the nursery. |
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This leads the story abruptly to a truncated finale that sidesteps the more harrowing nature of the film's first half. |
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It is a luxuriant plant with opposite oblong and obvoate leaves which abruptly acuminate apically and are obtuse to basally rounded. |
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He abruptly heads for Kansas, without even warning his oldest friend of his departure. |
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Hip-hop beats are put up against classical music and pop songs, with any given tune cutting out abruptly whenever a scene shifts. |
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On skis, get some speed, rise abruptly to unweight your skis and turn both skis sideways by rotating your legs from your hips. |
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He was given to walking around the courtroom before stopping abruptly to bellow questions at the witness in the stand. |
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The sharp, piercing wail of the alarm shattered her dream and woke her abruptly from her sleep. |
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He nuzzled his nose against the crook of my neck before abruptly letting me go. |
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One song event was abruptly cancelled after the audio system apparently malfunctioned. |
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Six hours after admission, he became abruptly hypotensive and 15 minutes later was obtunded. |
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As my train arrived, the monsoon abruptly stopped, the sun came out, leaving me gently steaming on platform five at Reading. |
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I hang up on my wildly ecstatic literary agent rather abruptly and retrieve my morning paper from the coffee table before me. |
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The relationship, however, abruptly deviates from Ohm's law with further decreases in the membrane potential. |
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Jake shot a look at them and they abruptly stopped, trying to stifle their laughter. |
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Frankie and Wes left the party rather abruptly after that, bidding hasty goodbyes and hurrying out to the car. |
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Examining the port side, the anchor chain can be seen to hang down from the hawsepipe a foot or so and then abruptly end without an anchor. |
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Brett looked back, and abruptly tripped on a stone jutting from the ground. |
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A small window in the door opened abruptly and a face with an annoyed expression appeared. |
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Paleontologists recognize five cataclysmic episodes in Earth's history, times when 50 to 95 percent of existing species abruptly vanished. |
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He ended the conversation abruptly and strode with quick steps back to the helm, which he had secured temporarily on a line. |
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Take those daily headlines of abruptly shifting trends with a huge helping of salt. |
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It seems like only an instant has passed when we are abruptly shaken from sleep by a loud voice commanding everyone to now go to the main gate. |
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Her thoughts stopped abruptly when someone poked her in the back of her shoulder with the stub of a pencil eraser. |
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On the river bank the Rim troops were still hesitating, unsure what to do in the light of their quarry abruptly running back toward them. |
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The Mother's theme begins in the key of D minor, but shifts abruptly, in measure 5, to a tonicization of the key of the subdominant, G minor. |
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Suddenly realising the potential for embarrassment, Kerry abruptly changed the subject. |
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The man fidgeted, trying to get loose, but stopped abruptly with a sharp hiss of pain. |
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As the music stopped, then abruptly changed to the familiar wedding march, the entire packed sanctuary rose to its feet as one person. |
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When I mentioned his chinstrap swinging, he grew irritated, abruptly grabbed his strap, and snapped it. |
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He turned around abruptly to see an old man in a long gray hooded cloak walking slowly toward him. |
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Keyan was in the middle of a swallow of vodka on the rocks, which he drank like water, when his glass stopped abruptly in mid-swallow. |
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She was swept along in that chaos and abruptly lost track of where she was. |
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The calls stopped abruptly that weekend, but Frisk is adamant that his decision is final. |
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If it is desirable to stop the sweating abruptly, atropine hypodermically may be resorted to. |
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A collision inevitably resulted, abruptly jolting both men back to reality. |
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Tucking her room key into her clutch purse, she started downstairs, but stopped abruptly at the bottom. |
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Agitated behavior often develops abruptly and at times has potential for immediate peril. |
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The snow abruptly stops and the world has changed into marzipan, the fairy tale complete. |
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She gets married abruptly, then abruptly widowed, then she has an abrupt falling-out with her nephew, and so on. |
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Thereafter, a continuing rise in inflation pressure with volume opened the flooded and collapsed lung abruptly. |
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Turning swords into ploughshares seems abruptly to be an impossible dream for mankind. |
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The finished product, in conclusion, is far from perfect and we are left regretting that David fled so abruptly. |
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A young woman suddenly jumped up and whipped out her silver and blue flip phone from her back right pocket, which had abruptly vibrated. |
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It all ends rather abruptly, but bravo to everyone involved for returning to their A-game for the final stretch. |
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The road gang's contract was abruptly cancelled as Arthur's Pass became the preferred route through to the coast. |
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However, the collective whoopee was abruptly halted when the small print was made known. |
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Do not discontinue beta-blockers abruptly, since rebound tachycardia can occur. |
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His voice gave out on the final syllable, his distressed croak fading abruptly into an almost inaudible squeak. |
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I slowly played a few random notes but stopped abruptly and withdrew my hand. |
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Union organizers say some of their outspoken supporters have been abruptly laid off and fear they will not be rehired when conditions stabilize. |
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These rules were rescinded abruptly five days after they were made public in press reports. |
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The rocky slopes dropped away abruptly into a plain scarred by dry creek-beds. |
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Aiden sat up abruptly, breathing somewhat heavily as he shook the last images of his dream out of his mind, but to no avail. |
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Morgan opened her mouth for a cutting retort, then abruptly closed it again. |
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However, their argument was abruptly ended when a loud clang reverberated around the dungeon. |
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Then, abruptly, the lines in his forehead disappeared and his eyes lit up with delight. |
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The sand was abruptly gone, and he faced the Hulk across a boxing ring, in the gym where a kid with a zip gun once tried to kill Jack McGee. |
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The colonel nodded before abruptly turning from his nephew to ring for the nearest servant. |
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But a parts failure in the opening round caused his car to abruptly downshift from 2nd gear, giving way to Steve to score. |
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From the edges of the valley, the land rises abruptly in steep high buttes. |
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The land rises abruptly to highland ridges with mountain summits as high as 3000 feet. |
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Irritated, she ran forward and stood in front of him, causing him to stop abruptly. |
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If lithium is abruptly discontinued during the manic phase, relapse may occur within several days. |
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The round-table discussion abruptly ended when Daisy's camera began to move. |
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It was on display in Washington, DC's City Museum until the exhibit was abruptly shut down recently. |
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Eaher abruptly turned to the offensive, stepping in with a lunge at Tahr's shoulder, sword at arm's length. |
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In 1921, Guillain described a reversible form of acute tabetic ataxia that develops abruptly and improves completely on early suitable treatment. |
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The lowland rainforest is abruptly fractured by the Pakaraima Mountains, an area dominated by bold escarpments and lush, forested valleys. |
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The stillness was abruptly shattered by a loud alarm call from a sambar deer. |
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My reverie ends abruptly as I join the wrong exit lane from the autoroute, one reserved for drivers with a prepayment card. |
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It probably finishes abruptly at the very awkward age of the early forties. |
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Some faculty members find the prospect of abruptly ending their academic careers distasteful and choose instead to postpone retirement. |
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I halted abruptly in front of the horridly painted blue house, threw Jackson my.22 and grabbed my magnum, loading the revolver with six shots. |
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Nightmares are vivid and terrifying nocturnal episodes in which the dreamer is abruptly awakened from sleep. |
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Her words were broken off abruptly by a loud crash from a room in the apartment. |
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The conversation ended when he abruptly announced that he heard the mail carrier at the end of his driveway. |
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While the patient's right hip was being manipulated during a physical examination, her pain abruptly disappeared, along with the tender mass. |
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Stopping abruptly, he picked up the scabbard and sheathed the sword, before he lost himself again. |
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Feeling cranky all over again, Matthew stood up abruptly and groped his way to the kitchen. |
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What starts out as a formulaic high school love story of opposites attracting abruptly changes into a maudlin tear-jerker. |
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Mark took one last look at the forlorn figure of Tina sitting at the table he had just abruptly left. |
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He stood abruptly and strode down the corridor towards the back end of the car. |
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Dave continued to tighten his screw till abruptly the engine choked, backfired and died. |
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They carted me off to Emergency, where the doctors and nurses, once they determined I wasn't likely to die abruptly on them, ignored me. |
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He scampered into the shaft and continued for some hundred yards until the path abruptly forked once more. |
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The sound continued for what felt like forever, then abruptly stopped, the silence overwhelming her. |
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My adrenaline kicked in and I abruptly elbowed my way through the crowd, past the insulting conductor, and back on the train. |
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I remember being abruptly lucid, the fog of fatigue and sickness stripped away by the power and paralyzing cold of the water. |
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In the final days of Whitepaws' confinement, when her abdomen ballooned out beneath her, she abruptly abandoned the new premises. |
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The first track opens abruptly with high volume screechy staccato guitars and some guy screaming his guts out. |
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Dr Conrad headed towards the pavement then stopped abruptly in his tracks, staring. |
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The starboard banks of oars dipped hard into the water, and the trading ship swung abruptly to the left and slowly glided to the dock. |
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They show how puny the supposed threat can seem, how feeble strutting columns of third world soldiery can abruptly become. |
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Realizing the implications of what he is doing, he stops abruptly, and a haunted, thousand-yard stare crosses his face. |
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Yesterday, a British base jumper at Staldenfluh in Switzerland abruptly retired from the sport. |
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She abruptly broke off the conversation to ask a man browsing through the thrash metal section if he could find what he was looking for. |
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As they are clambering up the ropes hanging from the gondola, the balloon abruptly takes off again, leaving the men dangling. |
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On our way a pickup truck just ahead of us abruptly reverses into our taxicab with a slam, then does a fast three-point turn over the median. |
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Some way into the forest Kira stopped abruptly, pressed her nose to the earth and began to dig dementedly. |
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Ritual possession may end abruptly when the possessed person becomes limp or falls with exhaustion. |
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She gasped suddenly, thrusting a hand to her head, pushing back her styled hair abruptly and entangling her fingers in it. |
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King Abdullah of Jordan dealt a rebuff to President Bush on Monday, abruptly putting off his visit to Washington scheduled for later this week. |
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Barley sugar is simply sugar which has been slightly caramelized and then abruptly cooled to solidify it to a glassy state. |
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After seeing him close his mouth, I abruptly turned away and resumed staring at the idiotic carvings of professed lovers, etched into my desk. |
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Lasse, a pale and portly businessman, is abruptly fired from his job after 30 years of service and 14 years without a missed day. |
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This cosy arrangement has been abruptly terminated, however, by new government regulations limiting the sort of work that amateurs can carry out. |
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With the start of the Pacific war, however, virtually all deep-sea fishing and whaling came abruptly to an end. |
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A broken skein of clouds, outracing the birds underneath, abruptly halts, spins and dissolves into a moist nimbus. |
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The Celtic language of Cornish, once spoken in southwestern England, expired abruptly in 1777 when its last living speaker died. |
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Elevated mounds, with steep declivitous sides, are found in places, rising abruptly out of the midst of a plain, to considerable heights. |
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He brought his hands down, and she let the bow fall abruptly, surprised at his sudden movement. |
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I wanted to watch their faces fall, watch their vacation end as abruptly as mine did. |
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I trailed a hand along the brick of the wall as I turned a sharp corner and ran right into Sadie, who had halted abruptly. |
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When a passer-by told him that he was offering his service to a government servant, Vairappan abruptly stopped shaving the official's beard. |
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The focus of his attention shifted abruptly to the moonlit scene before him. |
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Angelos mirrored the mirthless look, all signs of warmth abruptly gone from his countenance. |
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By dramatic mischance, two days after agreeing he was abruptly removed from his post in unexplained circumstances. |
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The man abruptly stopped as he felt the sharp point of an arrow in the back of his neck. |
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On the side opposite to the river, the land rose abruptly toward the village. |
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He was abruptly cut off as a brief flare of red light flickered around Lexa. |
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Max looked abruptly away and down, as if a small boy had suddenly tugged at his sleeve. |
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She screeched to a halt so abruptly that he nearly crashed into her, settling for merely sidestepping out of the way instead. |
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These terminate abruptly to the northeast at a fault that offsets the thrust. |
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The sale was abruptly halted, the value of the painting plummeted and the they decided to sue. |
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The booming of that door seemed to have woken me from a pleasant daydream, abruptly bringing cold reality back into sharp focus. |
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There in the thin desert air, as confused reports were confirmed and then abruptly denied, the study of UFOs, or ufology, was born. |
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Hurried, resounding strains of a Rachmaninoff prelude are abruptly cut short. |
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A black skid mark snaked across the double yellow line, and stopped abruptly before the rock face. |
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He stopped abruptly as he placed the fork loaded with bolognaise into his mouth. |
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The bridge's roadway undulates gently at first, then abruptly starts heaving and twisting violently until it finally breaks apart. |
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The steep cliffs tumble abruptly into the sea, scarred by deep gorges which drip with greenery. |
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During the early 1970s, most climate experts came to agree that interglacial periods tended to end more abruptly than had been supposed. |
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The party ended rather abruptly around 5.30 am when the dance-off got out of control. |
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The last sentence, however, abruptly changes the futurity of the goals and positions them as long-established truths. |
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In these, the spicular aspect grades abruptly inward into dense cryptocrystalline silica, which forms the bulk of the specimen. |
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The president, apparently in a fit of pique, in October abruptly postpones a long-planned summit with Britain. |
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Across the street was the police station where a cruiser abruptly pulled up. |
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Even with a woman who clearly loves him, he is rude and brusque, abruptly rejecting any sort of overture that may lead to self-disclosure. |
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The wind abruptly grew fierce and both of them awakened from their stupor to steady themselves. |
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Dixira stopped abruptly, his nose inches from the wooden shafts of the pikes. |
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During two of their three phone conversations she ended the calls abruptly, hanging up without warning. |
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A couple of sparrows who had been peacefully resting on the grey rocks abruptly flew off. |
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She abruptly crashes to the floor and begins to spasm as though having a seizure. |
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Little has been published about the stratigraphic age of this group, which is abruptly overlain by these limestones. |
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Seaward of the road, the grassy slopes end abruptly in rugged cliffs pounded by waves. |
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Coarse alluvial-fan sediments change abruptly basinward into lacustrine sediments. |
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However, as the paraboloid becomes narrower, it tilts, then abruptly tumbles onto its side. |
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Above the splenium of the corpus callosum, the cingulate sulcus turns abruptly upwards to reach the superior margin of the hemisphere. |
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She began to cough and splutter sickly, the urge to do so appearing quite abruptly. |
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The never-ending flow of mental activity started as consciousness abruptly exploded from the void of nothingness. |
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The first morning I stopped abruptly when I heard a squealing pack of rats in a room adjacent to ours. |
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It is a ridge in the Serra do Divisor, which rises abruptly above a vast, level plain cloaked in tall forest. |
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Her mother stood up abruptly from the chair she was sitting on and glared at her. |
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No longer able to stand the pain, he abruptly released Emily and shoved her at Tommy who placed his hands on her waist to steady her. |
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In every period of worship these things take on the numinosity of faith, each with its inherent worth abruptly revealed. |
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What actually went on during the time on Martha's vineyard, or why it came abruptly to an end, no one ever really knew. |
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Because this food source could abruptly disappear at any time, cutworm moths cannot be counted on to replace pine nuts. |
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But abruptly it intruded around corners when least expected after scenes of rural somnolence had lulled us. |
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The Codling Fault terminates abruptly against the Palaeozoic Welsh Massif. |
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Attending a Mile High event is akin to being abruptly thrown into an ongoing play and having to adjust your behavior accordingly. |
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Last October 28, after a cafeteria room prank, Martin abruptly left the team. |
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But their arrival was experienced by Indians, who found their worlds abruptly overturned, as a calamity. |
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The scene now begins abruptly with the murder of Perdita's sister. |
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It was very unlike him to do something so bluntly and abruptly. |
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Without allowing me to say anything else, he abruptly walked off. |
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When I spoke to her of the matter, she answered me abruptly. |
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The tech quite abruptly informs me that they don't support my hardware. |
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Brenna abruptly looked up, her absorption with the piece broken. |
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Quickly the rider jammed on the brakes again, harder this time, and abruptly stopped in place, his back wheel rearing a few feet off of the ground from the lost momentum. |
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At its widest point, the form is abruptly sliced and then twisted further still, at an acute angle, to face and frame a distant mountain on the horizon. |
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She stopped abruptly, as she whammed into something with a sound thump. |
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Sitting up abruptly she yelped as the agonizing pain tripled in intensity. |
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To change the subject rather abruptly, the philosophy postgraduates at La Trobe University have been anchoring a philosophy radio program this year. |
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In his attempt to leave no stone unturned, he carries on with narrative lanes that arrive, often abruptly, at a dead end, thereby disrupting the film's natural flow. |
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Tristan abruptly backs away, the wind rising and stinging his face. |
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My reverie was interrupted abruptly when I heard the leaves rustling. |
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In the summer of 1998, when the Bank was still getting used to independence, it changed tack abruptly from raising rates in the summer to cutting them in the autumn. |
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Namibians were thrown a curved ball this week when the President abruptly announced a minor cabinet shuffle, which included the sacking of a minister and his deputy. |
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The day before she burned herself with the curling iron, a woman who had promised to take Kisha to a museum in another city abruptly canceled the trip. |
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When news of the talks leaked to the press, however, Papandreou abruptly pulled out, spurring a round of bitter recriminations. |
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At the end of the three-hour journey, the thick forests thin out revealing a much-used pathway which slopes abruptly to the bed of a nearby river. |
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The threatening storm clouds clear abruptly, shafts of sun returning. |
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For a moment, panic seized her as she stiffened, sitting up abruptly. |
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A tilde over the vowel indicates a high broken tone, in which the voice starts slightly above the middle of the normal speaking voice range, drops and then rises abruptly. |
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Gregor muttered something in Tlingit and Dmitri abruptly released him. |
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On inspection, the toes angle abruptly toward the midline, creating a C-shaped lateral foot border with a prominent styloid process of the fifth metatarsal. |
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At seven for two, with victory not even a chimera, the Mexican waves from a near-capacity crowd that had retained a sense of humour were abruptly becalmed. |
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A dot written under a vowel means that the word should be pronounced with a voice that starts low, drops a little bit lower, and is then cut off abruptly. |
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His run of 158 matches for the Blues was abruptly ended at the MCG by way of a vicious shirtfront which left him with concussion and a broken jaw. |
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Julian gaped at him for a moment before abruptly leaving the office, biting his tongue to avoid saying things he wanted to but which would surely cost him his job. |
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Finally the shroud of thick trees abruptly ended, just as a curtain would, and there before them stood a yard of dark green-blue grass shimmering in already full sunlight. |
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The biggest trauma in the Monsignor's life came in 1983 when he was abruptly transferred from his position as President of Clonliffe College to Terenure. |
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About 500 workers imposed a blockade on the factory on October 14 after being abruptly informed that the plant was closed and the workforce sacked. |
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People in Angola get old before their time, be they press-ganged boy soldiers or little girls thrust abruptly into mothering baby sisters or daughters. |
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So watching him get abruptly fired in order to prove a point to nemesis Liz Lemon was heartbreaking. |
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Josh, hearing the unmistakeable sound of someone falling over rather unceremoniously just behind him, stopped abruptly and looked over his shoulder. |
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I had a boringly respectable career as an actor, you know, but at the age of 30 I just stopped very, very abruptly and it was fine, and I haven't acted since. |
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Rounding the notorious San Juan section, where the rough surface was still wet from a nearby waterfall, he saw fresh tyre tracks that veered abruptly off the unprotected edge. |
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The pace soon slows as the road narrows to a rocky rollercoaster single track, changing often and abruptly and leaving most newcomers flailing for gears. |
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Any humour in the retreat was abruptly shattered by the loud smash of a plate glass window by an excitable ram who was wilfully battering his head into it. |
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At the last moment, Levin abruptly bails out, makes everything go right again, and wraps it up with a happy ending. |
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The driver braked abruptly, causing the car to skid a little. |
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Trent saw that she was seriously hurting so he abruptly sobered. |
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The positive, fresh, upwardly thrusting white arrow isn't going very far, having been headed off fairly abruptly by the downturn of the larger, brown, depressive element. |
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He broke away abruptly and held her arms so she couldn't move away. |
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Ryan stormed down the street and Caleb stared after him in shock then he abruptly let go of Emma, broke into a run and sprinted after Ryan as if the devil was on his heels. |
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He stopped abruptly and gestured at a small valise next to the doorway. |
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Then we cut to Ted, mid-midlife crisis, who abruptly decides to cut the jets while piloting Sunkist clients over NorCal. |
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Be careful when he abruptly becomes as obedient as a schoolboy in following the speed limit, by suddenly applying his brake upon sight of a speed camera. |
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The aristocracy's old claim for predominance in the state was abruptly discredited. |
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A four-hour epic film I'd videoed was cut abruptly minutes before the end. |
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Romance ends abruptly and violently when she kills Jeff's partner. |
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A century of almost unbroken British non-involvement in continental Europe, dating from the winding up of the Peninsular War in 1812, was abruptly reversed. |
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Ideas start and end abruptly like driving through city streets, making unexpected turns down alleys before careening back onto the major streets, highways and byways. |
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My feet abruptly started walking faster after I heard Yori's call. |
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He quit training in Australia in 1999 to train in Dubai, but his license was abruptly terminated there for allegedly using a stock whip on his horses. |
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Her set ended abruptly when she sang her last lyric and stomped offstage, knocking over her microphone with the neck of her guitar in a final, styptic clang. |
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Stanger's voice, his alarm, chilled her and she pulled away abruptly. |
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The following year Krasner abruptly changed direction, returning to a sensuous painterly style in which human, animal, and plant forms play prominent roles. |
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But the festivities will be cut abruptly short by the anniversary, which Hoboken will mark in a manner far more sombre and sober than the hullabaloo over the river. |
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I smiled, then abruptly frowned and clouted him lightly over the head. |
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Official favour is still needed in a country with a shaky legal system, ill-defined property rights and political protection that can be abruptly removed. |
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Amanda woke in darkness and for an electrified moment lay perfectly still, roused abruptly from a profound sleep by such piercing terror that she was completely disoriented. |
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Her towering friend abruptly became more animated, seeing Maria entering the room and strolling over to her pigeonhole where an abundance of documents were stacked. |
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Until injuries abruptly curtailed his career, Willis Reed was a strong, mobile center who could handle brutes like Chamberlain as well as quicker pivotmen. |
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Production was cancelled abruptly in 1944 when it became apparent that Germany needed fewer hulking anti-tank aircraft and more nimble interceptors. |
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The match was poised for a close finish, when it ended abruptly. |
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His first groan brought Raven out of her contemplations abruptly. |
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I was about to show Alex where I had flipped over my handlebars and broken my pinky when we had to abruptly stop to let three bunnies cross our path. |
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In the village, as he meets his sisters and others among whom he grew up, a flood of memories overwhelms him, and he abruptly changes his mind about selling the property. |
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After an exchange of pleasantries the ambassador told Derry who our man was and which paper he represented, upon which Lord Wallpaper turned abruptly and flounced off. |
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The fight abruptly ended in order to save the beer pot from being broken. |
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Another crump sounded, and I was nearly shaken from my seat as the ship abruptly slid sideways, either a munitions dump had just been hit, or fuel. |
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Winter changes abruptly into summer, borne by warm winds and the arrival of the Climate Stream, a shift of ocean currents that brings warm water to the land. |
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This no-nonsense downtown dame had been working as a lingerie model when she was abruptly called to star in the lead role of a quality film production. |
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Unfortunately, the ending comes far too abruptly and consequently feels kind of preachy and not at all in tune with the feeling of the rest of the play. |
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They would abruptly drop everything and head for the golf club. |
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But if we just gracelessly and abruptly climbed-down from our position right now, that really would have very serious consequences both for us and for the entire world order. |
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The tradition ended abruptly when he pushed his luck too far and alienated the avowedly nationalist group by telling them that they must support the principles of unionism. |
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When fully grown, its gigantic buttressed trunk, which stretches up to 10 meters in diameter, abruptly ends in the branches that bear digitate leaves. |
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The mystery caller abruptly disconnected their conversation. |
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The meeting in Geneva thus ended abruptly in high-visibility failure. |
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But when she had dropped from the wharf's stringpiece to the deck of the tug she stopped abruptly and stared. |
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Defamiliarizing noncomic material was another specialty, as when a guest cimbalom player abruptly turned glow-in-the-dark. |
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Half-mad from lack of sleep and being woken too abruptly, I moosh the food into my mouth, foggily focused on getting it in before 6am. |
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Starting with the Great Famine in 1315 and the Black Death from 1348, the population of Europe fell abruptly. |
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Both cold periods are comparable in duration and intensity with the Older Dyras and began and ended quite abruptly. |
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Sunward of the magnetopause is the bow shock, the area where the solar wind slows abruptly. |
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If you change the temperatures too abruptly, the membranes will fall apart or freeze. |
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Whatever the reason, the fact that identifying tags abruptly end at the point where the names of eugenicists begin is odd, to say the least. |
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To the north, in the direction of Marrakesh, the range descends less abruptly. |
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Tsunami can be generated when the sea floor abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying water. |
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Then abruptly, the road to Utopia is blocked by a tractor belonging to the movie's resident Doubting Thomas. |
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It was inferred consuming hallucinogens may have influenced his decision of abruptly quitting the show. |
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The eyeballs were surrounded by a ring of bones, the sclerotic ossicle, which probably protected their eyes when diving abruptly for prey. |
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The fish look solidly built with heavy 'shoulders', tapering abruptly from the pectoral fins to the tail. |
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However, soon after, the expansion was abruptly stopped in 1071 with the Byzantine defeat in the Battle of Manzikert. |
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The trail ended abruptly at Praia Lopes Mendes, a swathe of sand so virginally white it hurt my eyes. |
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The left terminal ureter tapered abruptly, medial to the bladder diverticulum. |
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The conchos are likely commercially manufactured ones, with abruptly rolled over edges. |
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On 21 June 2014, Clapton abruptly walked off stage during a concert at the Glasgow Hydro. |
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With the outbreak of World War I, the modernization process stopped abruptly. |
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Genital styles long, round at apex, with basal half broad and complanate, with distal half slender and tubulose, narrowing abruptly in middle. |
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Flat-bottomed valleys covered with snowbrush wound endlessly between the peaks, which rose abruptly like icy fingers. |
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The Burbank, Calif-based Technicolor Federal Credit Union abruptly closed June 30 due to an internal investigation into employee misconduct. |
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The sound of Tarzans trademark trumpeting, often abruptly terminated by a fall from a lamp post doubling as tree. |
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But when she abruptly left the organization, there was a widespread sense that she had been booted out for her comments. |
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This halts hair growth and causes a move to resting where the hairs are then abruptly shed. |
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She is overwhelmed by having her unfulfilled love for him so abruptly terminated and drifts into the oblivion of insanity. |
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She pressed his hand and was gone in a mist of vetiver, abruptly as the other evening. |
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Neonatal abstinence syndrome results when in utero exposure to certain substances is abruptly discontinued at delivery. |
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At this point Geoffrey abruptly pauses his narrative by inserting a series of prophecies attributed to Merlin. |
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However, soon after, this expansion was abruptly stopped in 1071 with the Byzantine defeat in the Battle of Manzikert. |
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When Mr. Bush finished his five-minute statement... he abruptly turned on his heel and strode from the room, ignoring all questions. |
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His monologue stopped abruptly with a sharp noise like a thundercrack that rolled in dreary echoes round the dismal mere. |
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He then abruptly departed for reasons that the school declines to clarify. |
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Steep rocky crags guard the whole western side of the fell, rising abruptly from the green valley of St John's in the Vale. |
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The controversy abruptly ended when Travers was silenced by Archbishop in March 1586 and the Privy Council strongly supported the decision. |
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The volcano cones rise abruptly out of the ground with craters that measure up to one kilometer across. |
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The battle abruptly ended the period of triumphant Roman expansion that followed the end of the Civil Wars forty years earlier. |
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The early Paleozoic ended, rather abruptly, with the short, but apparently severe, late Ordovician ice age. |
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Above Langney Sands, the river abruptly narrows to a hundred yards, the sands diminish and the channel occupies the whole of the river. |
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Songs with a fixed set of verses, or ballads, which tell a story, were not so well suited to tasks that could end abruptly at any time or that might require extending. |
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Further speculation is interrupted by a monophonic chorus of eight male voices rising abruptly from the foyer outside, belting out an Armenian-language chorus. |
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Soon after the abruptly ended Band of Gypsys performance and their subsequent dissolution, Jeffery made arrangements to reunite the original Experience lineup. |
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Voyager 1 entered the heliospheric boundary region in 2004, passing beyond what's known as the termination shock where the solar wind abruptly slows. |
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