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He muttered, and took off, obviously feeling like a fool.
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His troops gathered in a circle to discuss the challenge and his knights muttered amongst themselves – but the king boldy took seven steps forward.
" He took my blood pressure, looked at the reading and muttered ' that's fine '.
muttered and off
During the trial, Ramírez often muttered " Hail Satan " and showed off the pentagram carved into his palm.
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He muttered that he just had to eat something, and he asked the students on the seats in the front row if they would also like a biscuit.
" Humorously acting anxious and distracted, Ford suffered through the clip ( which featured a scene showing Ford as Han Solo telling Chewbacca and his wife that they are " like family " to him ), and then muttered a gruff, sarcastic " Thank you.
The reaction to the minister's veil is one of disgust and fear, "' I don't like it ,' muttered an old woman, as she hobbled into the meetinghouse.
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`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.
Waddell muttered something about taking a look around and climbed up to the flying bridge.
`` I'll get her yet '', he muttered to himself.
The latter, thanking her for the coffee, had winked and muttered, `` Sure 'nuff, honey ''.
`` Didn't occur to me my child would be kidnaped when I had it listed '', Andrus muttered.
Once, Andrus walked by it, hastily scanned the bold black headline and the five-column lead of the article ( by Duane Bosch, staff correspondent -- age not given ), and muttered: `` We a buncha national celebrities ''.
It is harder, he muttered, to meditate on man ( or woman ) than on God.
Watson had nodded absently and muttered that he would check the lists himself later.
Grosse muttered, his head down, one hand playing with the zipper on his jacket.
`` My God '', he muttered.
He muttered something about how terrible it was, and walked with deliberate slowness to the elevator.
`` Yes, yes '', he muttered impatiently.
He glanced down into his beard and muttered something in Yiddish.
`` Uhhu '', she muttered.
With her hands clasped and legs crossed, Lucina muttered charms, thereby preventing Alcmene from giving birth.
With shy guffaws, muttered asides, dispassionate staring, foot-shuffling silences and complete mind-numbing gaps, punctuated by the odd piece of incisive home-spun philosophy from Brown, who occasionally hinted at a well-read mind.
" The driver muttered, " Me, too.
" The scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow must hide Yhtill forever ," he muttered, but I do not believe Vance heard him.
Also her country of birth, Italy, joined the war against Austria in 1915, and so rumours of the ' Italian ' Zita began to be muttered.
During makeup tests, Snell was about to apply Plummer's wig when the actor muttered that he wanted no wig, with Chang's small amount of hair swept back into a warrior's topknot.
After a while he sighed, and muttered, “ All the same, you shouldn ’ t stay here.
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When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:
The control tower gave him immediate take-off permission, and the clean roar of the engine that took him off the rough strip spoke well of the skill of Donovan.
Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.
Another took off his gun belt and flung his weapons to the floor.
The whole thing, from the moment when they jumped heavily off the trucks, spread out and moved into position just behind the cover of that slight rise of ground and then jumped off, took maybe between twenty and thirty minutes.
Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.
The older men would be there at noon, and maybe rest for a time before they took their guns off to the creek or drove down the road towards town.
The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.
One afternoon during a cold, powdery snowstorm, Fogg took off for Concord from the St. John field.
Crossing the 4,000-foot width of the Mekong at Champassak, on a raft with an outboard motor, we took off our dusty shirts and enjoyed a veritable ocean breeze.
He rose from the chair, took off his coat.
Madden took up this point with Garth, who shrugged it off.
The Birds got five hits and all three of their runs off Kunkel before Hartman took over in the top of the fourth.
Jim Gentile bounced a hard shot off Kunkel's glove and beat it out for a single, and when Lumpe grabbed the ball and threw it over first baseman Throneberry's head Brandt took third and Gentile second on the error.
Kimmell ordered the driver to back up, watched the children safely across and was approaching the car when it suddenly `` took off at high speed '', he said, narrowly missing him.
The World War 2, German bomber rolled down a runway and took off.
When Continental Airlines night-coach Flight 54 took off at 11:30 one night last week, there was no reason to think it would take any longer.
Thirty-one minutes later, when it took off for El Paso, hardly anyone of the crew of six or the 65 other passengers paid any attention to the man and teen-age boy who had come aboard.
Roy smiled -- he did have a nice smile -- took off his hat most politely, told her to hop in, and he'd give her a lift to Quinzaine.
He unlaced his high brown shoes and took off the metal brace on his leg.
Perhaps if I took off the aqua-lung I could swim better, love my woman better.
Phil took off one shoe and stared at it.
The Cuman mercenaries among the Byzantine forces immediately defected to the Turkish side ; and, seeing this, " the Western mercenaries rode off and took no part in the battle.
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