My thoughts flickered back to the night, headlights slewing across the dark tarmac, the body sprawled like a broken bird. |
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The next morning I wandered from the bedroom to find him sprawled on the living room couch with Clara, our little four-year-old Border collie. |
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After we three are home and warm and mama is sprawled asleep, the kid builds a shoebox nativity and the cats and I make a heap. |
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Immediately, everyone sprawled around in an uproar, plucking edibles and foodstuffs from cabinets and shelves. |
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The city was sprawled out beneath them, a rainbow of earthen hues and bright splashes of colour. |
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He was sprawled over a comfortable looking chair, a reefer stuck in the corner of his mouth and smoldering softly. |
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I was standing in a forklift with Mark looking down over Mimi sprawled with her face in the snow. |
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When the time for sleep came, heads fell on thighs and into laps, feet rested on arms and heads, bodies sprawled everywhere. |
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To the reader comfortably sprawled before a good fire it may seem a little stagey, as if he was speaking for effect. |
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The woman repairs her face in a compact and sees the lazily sprawled man as a reflection. |
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As she told me this, Eddie sat across the room, sprawled at his father's desk, reading a few pages of my stuff. |
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Liz was sprawled on the bed, turned away from Brett as she watched the sun slowly climb over the horizon, signaling the beginning of a new day. |
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Morvern Callar begins with a young woman waking up to find her lover dead, sprawled on the kitchen floor. |
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Somehow Mary's legs got entangled with his, and he sprawled flat on his face, losing his cigar. |
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Mosses, ferns and green and white lichens sprawled all over the wet rock wall that bounded the inner curve of the levada. |
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The emptied wax wrapper of a disposable cardboard bento box lay next to his sprawled mass. |
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They were sprawled on a narrow ledge of planking that rimmed what had once been the Great Hall. |
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Eva's sleeping on the bed on the other side of the cabin, and she's sprawled all over my bed, and on the kitchen counter, there's ooh! |
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Before she could blink, she was sprawled a few feet back, her ears still ringing from the force of the blow. |
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Pramoto, a man with a soft face and a limp cigarette, lay sprawled on a rickshaw seat. |
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A bluegrass band was playing, and families were sprawled all over the lawn outside the restaurant listening, picnicking, or playing horseshoes. |
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The many arches of the cloisters sprawled outward from the tower casting long irregular shadows in the early morning light. |
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City lights sprawled below, growing brighter and dimmer sporadically as the pod passed through low level cloudlets. |
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His friend, Luke, sprawled back on the couch and propped his feet up on the coffee table. |
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He finds Georges sprawled across a chair in the front room, flipping through an indelicate magazine. |
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She lay sprawled out across the flagstones relishing the piercing cold and the blistering heat. |
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He pitched forward and found himself sprawled face down across the low table. |
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Inside, my gaze roved over the leather couches, the silken pillows sprawled carelessly all over the place. |
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Croft was sprawled, half in the armchair, half on the floor, staring at the dying embers of the fire. |
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He quickly sprawled himself out on the ground as the blade rushed by his head. |
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Then she climbed up to the top of my head and lay sprawled there, her chin on my forehead and front paws hanging in front of my eyes. |
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Not that I've never seen Asian bums and drunks and beggars sprawled out on the street. |
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A small green leafed fern sprawled across the opposite corner of the glossy surface. |
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Tuxedo-clad waiters brought champagne and frou-frou hors d' oeuvres to the thousand guests sprawled throughout the grounds. |
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White looked at the town, sprawled at the Academy's feet, and saw that the buildings were constructed of scrap scavenged from the great wreck. |
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I laid back face up on my bed and sprawled out in the small cubicle that was my room. |
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Dozens of unkempt flowering bushes sprawled everywhere, unattended for as long as I could remember. |
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When my wits returned, I was sprawled out full length on the snow with one leg dangling over the side of an open crevasse. |
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We are often cramped in a small lecture theatre with not enough seats and people sprawled on the stairs. |
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He bowed before the black sapphire throne on which his master sprawled, his one leg cocked over the armrest, totally relaxed. |
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She lay sprawled on the ground below, one leg cocked beneath her at a grotesque angle. |
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Her slightly older brother is a bit of thicko, one is an infant sprawled on a chair and another is so small she holds him in her arms. |
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Borley Rectory, a rambling, ramshackle Victorian barn of a house, sprawled on an Essex hillside, had little to offer. |
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The venue has no seats, with the entire audience sprawled on soft wall-to-wall matting, adding to the effect. |
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She sprawled out on the couch and hugged a bright green triangle throw pillow to her chest, sighing loudly. |
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With an evil grin, he sprawled out on the couch, burying his face in a red throw pillow. |
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First, a laser can be aimed from awkward positions, like reclining in bed or sprawled on the floor. |
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He heard the light tapping of keys, and opened his eyes to find that Dan was sprawled on the floor, working on his laptop. |
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He lifted the bedcovers from the floor and spread them back over the sprawled shape on the bed. |
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The drowsy warmth of my room was beginning to take it's toll on me and I was soon sprawled on my bed asleep. |
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The mean tabby cat was lying sprawled on my bed, sleeping as if there was no tomorrow. |
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I was in the next first-class carriage behind them, sprawled in the nearly-empty car on the plush red seats. |
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They were sprawled nonchalantly, legs akimbo, across the precarious rock pathway that led to my jumping-off point. |
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I picked up the miscellaneous junk that lay sprawled on the bed and dumped it into the black cloth. |
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The moonlight lay sprawled across the jackal's face as he spoke with a growl, a doggish snarl. |
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Sekher lay sprawled upon his back, twitching spasmodically, mouth working silently. |
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The boy was already sprawled inside, his pants twisted up, exposing skinny, muscleless calves. |
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She grew sick of staring at words by the third day, so she picked up Aedrial's mewling cat and sprawled across the bed, losing herself in thought. |
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In the cradle of the Rocky Mountains, sprawled out like a giant picnic over the foothills, Calgary has the beautiful Bow River winding through its core. |
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The woman follows him down and kneels beside his sprawled body. |
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In another black-and-white shot, they are boyishly sprawled on the rose-printed carpet of their suite, reading piles of fan mail. |
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He lay sprawled on the tiles, his arms and legs bent at sharp angles. |
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Li was sprawled on the kitchen floor with her 5-year-old son, Kevin Zhou, both of them grievously wounded. |
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The kafta sandwich is a mixture of ground beef patties, peas and onions, which are luxuriantly sprawled over the bread like drunk nobility on a dirty ballroom floor. |
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Many of those left behind lay sprawled motionless on blankets or slumped limply in their folding chairs. |
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Moments later, the unarmed Brown was sprawled dead in the street, having been shot at least six times. |
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But McKenna was not going to leave Glover sprawled unattended in the street. |
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He sprawled across the landing mat and ended up on his backside. |
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As I listened to the man ramble on and on, I envisioned myself on a beach, the waves rolling toward my bare body sprawled out on the soft, powdery sand. |
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His legs immediately gave way and he rolled backwards with a loud thud, landing sprawled, suffering from chronically injured pride, in an ungainly heap. |
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The thick fillet, sprawled on a banana leaf like a centrefold, was served sprinkled with the odd caper, like little khaki army helmets camouflaged under a limp coriander net. |
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The parking garage sprawled in front of me, quiet as a tomb. |
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He saw the corpse and his eyes bulged horrifically before he crashed to his knees, sprawled out bestially on all fours and vomited all over the corpse. |
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In the morning, we lay sprawled out in her trundle bed, reflecting on how we envisioned our reunion. |
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They followed Weber into the rectory to find Freed sprawled and unresponsive, amid signs of a forced entry and a violent struggle. |
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They sprawled together half on the pavement and half in the gutter. |
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Out on the desert white figures lay sprawled dead and dying. |
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A second corpse already lay sprawled at the policeman's boots. |
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The brothers sprawled in the annihilating heat under the trees. |
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The towns sprawled out of control, while rural mediocrity fed on itself. |
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He laughed as she winced, cackled as Christopher sprawled in the dust. |
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He dropped the container and the canteen and sprawled onto the ground. |
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Another agent was sprawled limply by the auditorium door, and Bill, his lantern jaw outthrust, was grimly holding off the three attackers with his revolver. |
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They were Hogarthian drawings of slum buildings with broken windows stuffed with rubbish and humans sprawled in the gutter, dead drunk among the filth. |
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Indeed, it's hard to believe that the young woman sprawled on the floor in her jeans and pink plimsolls, fiddling with her earrings, is going to let any of it go to her head. |
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The world spun and I found I was lying on the floor with a dazed guard sprawled across my legs, the whole cab tilting over to the left at a crazy angle. |
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Its fluid curvilinear, concave and convex forms let it appear sculptured rather than built, resembling in its shape a wind swept submarine with the sprawled arms of a sphinx. |
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Everyone was sprawled this afternoon on sofas and easy chairs, eating enormous platefuls of spaghetti and vegetables and watching a Jean-Claude Van Damme film. |
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The clouds that had blocked the sun during the day had dissipated, scattered by the winds to reveal the stars sprawled in all their glory across the sky. |
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After supper, the men sprawled in their bunks or along the deacon-seat, and fearsomely they spat and swore, and fearsomely they lied. |
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She appears in the video sprawled on a couch with a Faravahar, the winged disc that is the main symbol of Zoroastrianism, hanging above her. |
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Mansions and workers' two-up-two-downs sprawled all over the town, higgledy-piggledy. |
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A photograph reveals a man sprawled facedown in the street, alone except for a distant cyclist and the presence of the camera. |
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About twenty young men in varying states of dilapidation and dandification sat and sprawled around a table covered in green baize. |
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The other sprawled over two countries and included dinner at Versailles. |
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A leafstorm cascaded upon the cavalry and the earth rent open to the angled winds. The forest canopy sprawled above them full of holes. |
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Why are you so ashamed that her child saw you looking a guy, sprawled on the floor, spilling cakes? |
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There were pillows on the floor, a few chairs, and four or five students sprawled here and there watching a football game. |
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Now he has picked up the spoor of drunken vomit and there is the doll sprawled against a wall, his pants streaked with urine. |
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Bell sprawled full length to turn a Sandaza drive wide of the far post, but Saints had done enough to inflict Killie's first home defeat of the season. |
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The Pacific Northwest was once sprawled with native inhabitants who practiced eco management, to ensure little degradation was caused by their actions to salmon habitats. |
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Our glorious sweet rocket, Hesperis matronalis, which has self-seeded hither and thither in the raised beds, has sprawled over unsuspecting astrantias. |
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