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Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur… — Tom Clancy
He was standing leaning against the door frame; now he stood up straight. "How should I have kissed you? Is there an other way you… — Cassandra Clare
Because,â€ he said quietly as she stood up, â€œuntil you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.â€ Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. â€œWhat is… — Judith McNaught
We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on… — Ann Aguirre
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier,… — Stacy Schiff
I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that. — Jim Butcher
Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the… — Bill Bryson
I'm giving you a free shot at my blood and you're playing hard to get? What kind of vampire are you?" When Wraith just stood… — Larissa Ione
Green-eyed monsters,â€ said Magnus, and grinned. He deposited Chairman Meow on the ground, and the cat moved over to Alec, and rubbed against his leg.… — Cassandra Clare
At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it… — Khaled Hosseini
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the… — John Muir
She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke… — Connie Brockway
She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was… — Virginia Woolf
It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came in,… — Ayn Rand
William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated and non serrated.… — Gena Showalter
In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and CÃrdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night… — J.R.R. Tolkien
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He… — Daphne du Maurier
And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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