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had and long
His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.
The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.
Tom had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.
Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.
The cook, Mateo Garcia, had arrived there long before the herd.
Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.
Before Harmony had a chance to reply, Rod cracked his long whip over his thin oxen's backs.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
That long night with Nicolas and marijuana in Venice had opened her eyes.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.
He had been conning the freights for a long, long time now.
It had been a very long time that had no form and no end.
it had been a long, hot while since he'd seen anything as nice as this within grabbin' distance.
When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.
What obsessions had she picked up during these long nights of talk??

had and black
The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.
The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.
The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.
As for myself, I had on an enormous black `` muff ''.
Trig and a very black colored boy from Detroit had killed or put out of action ten guerrillas by grenades and hand-to-hand fighting.
The colored boy had it, and Trig lunged at him with a knife and said, ' Give that to me, you black bastard.
It had been there 50 years or more and everybody in town, black and white, knew of it.
The Deacon Board, headed by a black man named Carlson, had practically taken over as the pastor grew old, and had its way with the support of the Amen corner.
It was a delayed moon, but now the sky had cleared of scudding black and the stars sugared the silver-gray sky.
They had let this black hole of death in Warsaw's heart exist without a cry of protest.
He had long black hairs on his wrist.
Also included in the entourage: a dog in a black sweater, Frankie and Peter had an urgent mission: to stage a mammoth Inauguration Eve entertainment gala in the capital's National Guard Armory.
Calloused fingers, caressed only by the smoothness of polished rosaries, had swayed excitedly beneath puckered chins where tiny black hairs sprouted, never to be tweezed away.
She had black eyes, long and intriguingly tilted, and the way she walked was melody.
He had a pinkish-white complexion, a small straight nose, a short black beard, and tightly curled paot.
He had the black numerals on his arm, so he had been branded in a concentration camp.
He had almost given up when he realized that the dropping of his biwa into the icy jowls of the black Pacific was the memory for which he had been searching.
It had grown hot early that day, and I hoped that the boy, my brother's son, would soon come across the broad black area of plowed ground, carrying the jar of cool water.
They were seeking black slaves for use in sugarcane plantations of Northeastern Brazil ( Pernambuco, Olinda, Recife ) which they had also seized from Portugal.

had and hair
Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.
His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.
He had considered throwing erasers or flipping paperwads at someone or pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn't take a chance on either of these possibilities: the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school.
Its ribs showed, it was a yellow nondescript color, it suffered from a variety of sores, hair had scabbed off its body in patches.
Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;
Teachers -- men who wore brown suits and had gray hair and pleasant smiles -- came to their table to talk shop and to be introduced to Scotty and Rachel.
He had the same bullet head of curly reddish hair but he didn't have Jim's pokerfaced humor or his brains or his charm.
He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.
but they were going up to the Big House after supper, and she had to put on a clean dress and fix her hair a little.
Grazie had a small, slick head and her hair and skin were the color of golden toast.
He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.
His hair had receded most of the way to the back of his neck.
He had only a fringe of hair and he wore it cropped short.
He was perhaps thirty-two, nicely set up, with light brown hair that had a pronounced wave.
They had large bright eyes, the small upturned noses of all babies everywhere, and hair cropped short except for the long ringlets of paot framing their little white faces.
One boy who rocked back and forth over his worn book had bright red hair and freckles.
David had the same gray eyes, high cheekbones, dark hair and a certain rugged ugliness.
This time B'dikkat smiled pleasantly at the little head which had grown out of Mercer's thigh -- a sleeping child's head, covered with light hair on top and with dainty eyebrows over the resting eyes.
At age 12 he was whiter than ivory, had hair lighter than gold, and could lift 10 bear skins at once.
Snyder theorizes that Agathon might have made a deliberate effort to mimic the sumptuous attire of his famous fellow-poet, although by Agathon's time, such clothing, especially the κεκρύφαλος ( kekryphalos, an elaborate covering for the hair ) had long fallen out of fashion for men.
According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

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