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...out all the possible consequences. Taking a deep breath he shouldered the backpack that had been hidden in a corner for weeks, let himself out of the shed, crossed the back lawn and tapped on his brother’s open window. Hylas appeared, rubbing at sleepy eyes. ‘Fidel! What’s the matter?’ ‘I’m off.’ ‘Now? But you…’ ‘Shhh! You'll wake Mum. I just wanted to say goodbye ...

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...he floor and leans her back against the wall. It will look too suspicious if she was to dig the garden in the dark so she decides to put Doug in the shed. Carrying out the arms and legs in their plastic sacks is easy and she puts them in the corner of the shed. Picking up Doug's torso and head is difficult as it is heavy and the two bags that she used immediately start to...

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...untings of memory hadn't any more reason to be than the screen door of the shed at his home (exclusively Noppowan's home now through his default in no...

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...t the sight of a starving Masari—the skin turned sallow, the fur dulled and shedding. They shook to see the ruddy splendor of a majestic body turned... ...o decipher the messages. BrokenThread's arms, mostly bare where her fur had shed, now softened into dark discolorations, riddled with bruises that w... ...o angry, sun-crisped skin. By the time WindTamer found her, she had finally shed Destiny from her starved and dehydrated body. Ghost's log told Pir... ...nd her gates were being locked and the last pieces of equipment rolled into sheds. Her mother conversed in silhouette with another woman, whose hand... ...head. She lowered the wick in her own lamp and made her way to the storage shed where her father leaned against the wood, arms folded across his che... ...lcohn Deviations: Covenant TripStone folded her arms and leaned against the shed next to him. "What did WindTamer say?" "I want to hear it from you... ...ed. My guess is another yatanii has taken her in." TripStone slid down the shed's wood boards. Dew stained her pants. Her stomach shook with cold. ... ...k to the house but she struggled to her feet, swaying, one hand against the shed wall to keep her balance. NightShout lifted and handed her a lanter... ...o stuff her pockets. Then she circled the cabin and ducked behind its wood shed, toward a storage bin. She reached for her knife and listened for an...

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... as I could, but there was no Micah. Then I saw him coming out from behind a shed next door. “Micah, get over here quick. I need a rope.” “What... ...ce. The cut pines would offer me no cover, but I could just make out a small shed near the top of the next hill. If I could make it, it’d at least ... ...ealt and Micah’s horse had done himself proud. I hoped he’d survive it. The shed was still a ways up the hill and I could see my pursuer only seco... .... I had to run with all the strength I had left. I was closing the gap to the shed when, just off to my right side, the snow jumped. An instant lat... ...missed by five feet. I knew the next one wouldn’t. I was ten feet from the shed when I heard the next bullet slap the wood wall. This time the so... ...sound came faster. He was closin’ in on me. I stumbled just as I reached the shed and another bullet zipped just over my head. Good thing I fell, I... ... it right there, mister. Who are you and why is that man shootin’ holes in my shed?” I slowly turned and was staring right down the bore of a rifl... ...e Colt from my hand and backed off, slowly moving around the far side of the shed. Just when he’d disappeared around the corner, Ed came around the... ...lse, who obviously didn’t trust either of us. I was the first to enter the shed. It was small and dark but there was a lantern and a cot. When we...

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...ctly think it but she felt it all the same. With tears that she could never shed and by grief, full empathy, and comradery for this unknown individua... ...s wise. She knew that there was no use broaching this subject any more than shedding any feelings over the decapitation of the Turk. She was all alo... ... He realized that as much as he had hoped to hold onto youth, it was already shed and blowing around like fragile leaves within another time and space... ...y she was spending so much time reading in her "cage," that she was probably shedding hair on the living room sofa, why she put her legs together so p... ...cken waters of an abandoned well at her parents' farm, and hung herself in a shed. After the funeral, his aunt was urged to come to them from her hom... ... her bed in the hope of suffocating her sobs and burying her tears that were shed for the loss of the favored son who had not come from her womb and f... ... drifted into the night. Instead of providing him with space and movement to shed his morbid thoughts, the night just impaled him with a vast darkness...

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...ale for no longer than three days. The characters and plotlines were then shed like the skin of a snake, and they moved on. But why? he had asked as... ...he grumpy driver glanced at them and grunted, ‘T wenty rupees.’ Buntee f shed in his pockets but found only biscuit crumbs. ‘The funny thing is,’ h...

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...a of embrace, and in the ensuing echoes of that seasonal union, the roots of the garden plants devoured every raindrop, that is, even as their leaves shed the overburden to accommodate the new arrivals....

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...mazed to see a big race track sprawled out below us. Nearby there were a few sheds, three or four corrals and about a dozen horses in the corrals. ... ...long to heal this time, if it ever does. Montana, help me get him back to the shed. I want to get him right off it.” Yancy hadn’t responded to Doc... ... off the same way he had wandered in. After we got Whisper to lay down in the shed, Doc told me to go get Clint, if he was still around. I ran back... ...As we approached, Doc was nowhere in sight, so I figured he was still in the shed with Whisper. As we entered, we saw him wrappin’ fresh bandages ... ... “I’m already here,” Clint’s big voice boomed as he appeared from behind the shed area. “Doc told you were gonna’ run him this morning and I would... ... one of ‘em saddled up, I noticed Luke had pulled a second saddle out of the shed and was doing the same to another. Doc had disappeared so I had t...

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...together?” he said. “You’ll find the harnesses and collars over there in that shed. Be careful with this one,” he pointed to the horse on the left....

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... get right is glorious.‘ 11 ―It‘s not to the top yet but it has shed the anchor of the teeming rabble through its population foresight, a...

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...an the life of an oyster. The friends and family of the person killed may shed a few tears, as will his creditors, but who will remember him or her ... ...bly take centuries to educate the people to the ideas of democracy and to shed their millennium old beliefs. Both history and psychology tell us tha... ...verrides all other commandments in the Torah, except for three: idolatry, shedding blood and incest. It is a person‘s duty to preserve his life. It ...

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... 53 ―But as Michelle Bachelet has said, women are often judged differently than men. When a male leader sheds ... ...n three days. These men see that dressing in mourning is blasphemy because it indicates that they question the will of Allah. I wonder if they shed a...