She felt the corners of her mouth quirk slightly, tried to say his name, then fell into the darkness that had been waiting for her. |
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You can drink it lightly chilled, and a slight frizzante element is a regional quirk in many of them. |
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Another strange pedestrian quirk is the proliferation of underpasses in the city. |
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It was a curious quirk of fate that put the future of the Tayside club in the hands of a shady Anglo-Italian entrepreneur. |
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It is just a quirk that people would rather take on coloured cats like tortoiseshells. |
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It's a personality quirk, I know, but I enjoy taking something and making it whole and figuring things out. |
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That quirk also gave him repetition compulsions and an obsession about praying. |
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You certainly can't deny Sir Richard a quirk for high-profile publicity stunts, from cross-dressing to circumnavigating the globe in a balloon. |
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It's odd to think of myself as an anomaly, a quirk, an oddity, but that's what I am at the moment. |
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Because of some unknown quirk or mutation in the cosmic dance her genetic code did not enable her cells to make a full life possible. |
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It is perhaps a strange quirk of the Hippocratic oath that doctors can judge what is in our best interests. |
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It was rather overdone, and I just stopped the quirk of my eyebrows that would cue him in to the mistake. |
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His one physical quirk, the sandals which he always wears with socks seem more trademark than style choice. |
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Should we care about them any less, because of a quirk of geography and statecraft? |
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There is an amused glimmer to his eyes and his lips quirk upwards, as if he is laughing at a private joke. |
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His nose was hawkish but it suited him, as did the high cheekbones and cynical quirk of his mouth. |
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One quirk of these systems is that they require speakers to enunciate punctuation and other typographical manoeuvres. |
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Here, a sweet dotted stripe on a covered platform wedge gets paired with a woolly ankle sock, increasing the quirk factor. |
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There is some mental quirk that seems to compel the driver to toy with death out there. |
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By a quirk of fate, the presiding Judge was himself an art aficionado with, literally, a flair for poetic justice. |
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Another group of migrants are only alive thanks to a quirk of fate: their boat was so rotten it sank almost immediately. |
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What's interesting is that the protagonist in Holly Bourne's other book, The Manifesto on How to be Interesting has a lot of depth and quirk. |
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A quirk of US copyright law means that the United States Copyright Office doesn't notify authors of changes in registrations. |
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The quirk that makes people combine drinking and driving is all too well known, though it is difficult to deal with. |
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As I mentioned, 500 to 600 of them now have the right to strike because of a quirk. |
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By a quirk of physics, the fission atom splits most readily if the bombarding neutrons are going quite slowly. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is a strange quirk of human nature that we push some things into the background and bring others to the foreground. |
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He noted a faint musical note coming from the revolving apparatus and built a machine to explore the quirk. |
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Due to an unfortunate quirk of timing, parlia mentarians were on a two week break and therefore unavailable. |
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But, before my uncle could discover this quirk in his dog, it was necessary to solve the mystery of the disappearing figs! |
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Familiarity with search-engines helps, a strange quirk of working in this retro medium. |
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His eye-lids lifted and he managed a quirk of a smile in greeting. |
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Kevin Fallon on the quirk of history that demands two swearing-in ceremonies for this particular president. |
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As a tempting virgin she was able to live long enough to be saved, but this was the quirk of a market controlled by foreigners. |
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Banville seemed to be running on empty with that book, but quirk has energized him. |
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All these come with aerosol Chantilly cream, a French quirk. |
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But, by a quirk of fate, she had agreed to house-sit for a friend in the north of the Caribbean island and, although the roof was blown off, they were unhurt. |
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She raised an eyebrow at me, and there was a funny quirk in her mouth. |
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As of this revision this quirk has been removed. |
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I stress this because Montenegro is always wrongly dismissed as an example of a superfluous tiny land that suddenly found itself independent by a quirk of fate. |
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Whether these differences in provincial numbers in the MBM are a reflection of social policies, provincial economies or a quirk in the methodology is something that only the results of several more years of data can tell us. |
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The split between economic, social, and cultural rights and civil and political rights was a quirk of history due in part to the ideological rift brought about by the Cold War. |
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We are talking about millions of dollars that have to go into war chests, which, incidentally, they can keep when they retire, which is a strange quirk of election law. |
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The possibility of appealing is not a quirk in our legal system. |
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And that luxury may be a quirk of America, or at least white America. |
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An electoral quirk might help too: the winning party automatically gets a 50-seat bonus in the 300-seat chamber, making it easier to form a government. |
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But the measure has another quirk that could place a proportionally higher burden on timeshare owners. |
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When he released her, Marian reached up and smoothed the caretlike quirk in his eyebrow and then put her hand back in his. |
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Another little quirk, if you want to put it in that way, in the registration process was that if you didn't register, you were automatically put into the interdenominational category. |
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Reports on the quirk first surfaced on Unbox Therapy, a gadget-review show on YouTube. |
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It is a quirk of nature that the way light diffracts through a grating means that there is an increase in dispersion with increasing order. |
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What she realized, in short, is she could go with her funk and quirk, be who she was and fly the freak flag high. |
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As a result, every picture has a spark of life, a lovely quirk. |
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So we're now only a few days away from seeing every single brand on the face of the planet employ a freshly graduated innocent to snarl up all social media with a deluge of infuriatingly cute self-referential quirk. |
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This quirk of the sweet pea allows the hybridist to select parents and make his own crosses in his own garden. |
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Fresh, comic, colorful illustrations portray every quirk in the kindest light, unforgettably. |
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The existence of the same courts under one unified head was a quirk of constitutional law, which prevented the compulsory demotion or retirement of Chief Justices. |
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I wonder if there is another in the world that could produce, among perfectly normal people, this strangest quirk in the agenda of liquordom, the closet drinker. |
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By some strange quirk of psychology, I've found that the more fanatic the logophile, the more inclined he is to acknowledge the justness of the denunciation. |
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But for this quirk of fate, he would have died the following morning. |
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Little quirk there in my particular branch of judgedom, he said. |
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