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He grunted a sort of `` yes '' answer.
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He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.
Pat grunted.
Wild boar watched their progress with little pig eyes, and grunted derision when they didn't consider such game worthy of a shot from the.
The rancher grunted an acknowledgement but didn't move.
The colonel grunted, then made a remark which might be construed in either of two ways.
`` It does '', Shayne grunted sourly, still able to taste her mouth on his in the Green Jungle parking lot.
Geely grunted and slid partly out, and Shayne's left arm snaked in around his neck to help him, while he set himself solidly on the roadway and swung his right fist to the big, gum-chewing jaw before Geely could straighten up.
I grunted, sipping.
Their music was fast, unpolished in production and with raspy or grunted vocals.
The P. M. grunted that he was very sorry to hear this.
For instance, in Tavolga ’ s experiments, toadfish grunted when electrically shocked and over time they came to grunt at the mere sight of an electrode.
Frogs ( in bottle ) floated beside his easel ; and with all these creatures he kept up a most playful, loving style of conversation ; though, often enough, any human beings about him, or such even as came to see him, were growled or grunted at in no social fashion.
" It could only happen in Hollywood ," I grunted.
The Face merely grunted during his appearance in " The End of the World ", communicated telepathically in " New Earth " and " Gridlock ", and spoke for the first and last time in the latter, and was voiced by Struan Rodger.
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" and they'd say, ' Oh yes, lads sure, do they really want to hear this sort of thing?
In a 2008 study by Gerbasi et al., 46 % of people surveyed who identified as " furry ", ( usually defined as a person with a strong connection with some sort of animal ), answered " yes " to the question " Do you consider yourself to be less than 100 % human?
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The real question was how one passed from anti-Semitism of this sort to murder, and the answer to this question is not to be found in anti-Semitism itself.
The most commonly given answer is that we attribute consciousness to other people because we see that they resemble us in appearance and behavior: we reason that if they look like us and act like us, they must be like us in other ways, including having experiences of the sort that we do.
There is no universal answer for how to sort such strings ; any rules are application dependent.
According to anthropologists John Monaghan and Peter Just, Many of the great world religions appear to have begun as revitalization movements of some sort, as the vision of a charismatic prophet fires the imaginations of people seeking a more comprehensive answer to their problems than they feel is provided by everyday beliefs.
He believes the answer to this and many other questions is that people cannot help but think of objects as containing a sort of " essence " that can be influenced.
* A question mark at the end of clue usually signals that the clue / answer combination involves some sort of pun or wordplay, e. g., " Grateful?
As opposed to " convergence tests ", where a test taker is asked to sort through a list of possibilities and converge on the right answer, a divergence test requires one to use imagination and take one's mind in as many different directions as possible.
40 % of Bulgarian citizens responded that " they believe there is a God ", whereas 40 % answered that " they believe there is some sort of spirit or life force ", 13 % that " they do not believe there is a God, spirit, nor life force ", and 6 % did not answer.
On March 18, 2008, it was announced that Shabak's official website would also offer a blog, where four of its agents would discuss anonymously how they were recruited, and what sort of work they perform ; they would also answer questions sent in by members of the public.
Although Fermi calculations are often not accurate, as there may be many problems with their assumptions, this sort of analysis does tell us what to look for to get a better answer.
A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
When a reporter asked him why he would not elaborate his plans, he was quoted as saying that he was " copping what's known as a woman's answer [...] It's a sort of fickle kind of thing.
All levels contain specific challenge areas, where the player is required to kill a certain number of zombies in limited time, and are ended with a boss battle using some sort of alteration of usual gameplay ( e. g. a long phrase, typing the correct answer to a question etc.
The answer is that the iconic aspect of correspondence can be taken literally only in regard to sensory experiences of the more precisely eidetic sort.
The answer to the clue is generally a pun of some sort.
While there, he was briefly the music director of Weisgall's Hilltop Musical Company, which Weisgall founded as a sort of answer to Benjamin Britten's festival at Aldeburgh-a venue for local composers ( particularly Weisgall himself ) to present new work.
The strips generally feature a joke of some sort about the subject animal in addition to providing an accurate answer to the day's question.
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It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
This sort of petty vigilance annoyed me.
I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.
It did not care what sort of person prowled its woods, plucked at its bark or stripped the berries from its bushes.
`` And I sort o' got a corner on the market ''.
) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.
One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.
He poured the water off the sourdough and off the flour, salvaging the chunky, watery messes for biscuits of a sort.
A woman's voice said, and then he heard a sort of wail from the man's wife.
His open face seemed to promise a sort of innocence, until one looked into his eyes, which had no warmth in them but only alert intelligence.
He went into a whirling dance, a sort of blind chasing of the tail.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
This seems like an attitude favoring a sort of totalitarian bureaucracy which, under a President of the same stamp, would try to coerce an uncooperative Congress or Supreme Court.
In business circles, usually conservative, this sort of atmosphere would hardly be found.
That any sort of duty was owed by his nation to other nations would have astonished a nineteenth-century statesman.
At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.
Two miles northeast, then five miles southwest that sort of thing.
There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.
Such writers as William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren have led the field of somewhat less important writers in a sort of post-bellum renaissance.
But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.
It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.
The riotous onrush of industrialism after the War for Southern Independence and the general secular drift to the Religion of Humanity, however, prepared the way for a reception of the French Revolution's socialistic offspring of one sort of another.
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