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stared and at
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
He wiped his lips with a sleeve, then stared at Clayton in a childish kind of wonder.
They stared at him.
Then, helpfully, as she merely stared at him in weary silence, `` Maybe you could write it down for me, huh??
Lips pursed mournfully, he stared down at its crazily sagging left side.
Jess stared at him without answering and let his hands fall to his sides.
He stared at the dipper, turning it over and over in his wide, calloused hands.
Frozen, they stared at it whirling down the valley, gouging and spitting out boulders and chunks of earth like a starving hound dog cracking marrowbones.
Anyway, he doesn't deserve to lie there in the sun and be stared at.
Some of the ruddiness was gone from his face and he stared at Ramey.
He stared stonily at the floor.
Guests stared with horror at Madame Lalaurie and made speedy departures.
Ernie stared at the man.
Idje still stared over our shoulders at the horizon.
Lawrence stared a minute at the lighted ribbon of traffic, hoping that a clue to his dislike of the Vice President would appear.
Wilson stared at her.
He stared at the far morning, expecting a pendulum to swing across the horizon.
He stared at it, amazed, alarmed.
Now, Adam, in the gray light of afternoon, stared across at the hut opposite his tent, and thought of Simms Purdew lying in there in the gloom, snoring on his bunk, with the fumes of whisky choking the air.
Adam stared at the door and remembered that Simms Purdew had been awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Antietam.
Watson stared at them curiously.
My host went over and stared out the window at his peacocks ; ;
I felt lonely and depressed as I stared out the bus window at Chicago's grim, dirty West Side.

stared and shining
I could ... make out many more details ... Those huge lidless eyes which stared in hate at me, the jointed tendrils which seemed to twist from the head in cosmic rhythms, the ten legs, covered with black shining tentacles and folded into the pallid underbody, and the semi-circular ridged wings covered with triangular scales ...

stared and heard
In that instant, as I stared at the gleaming fish sign and heard her words, I suddenly experienced what I later learned is called anamnesis — a Greek word meaning, literally, " loss of forgetfulness.

stared and voice
Several people passed in the hall and stared as he slowly retreated, trying to close the door a little, and she slowly leaned toward him and raised her voice.
He stared a long moment, then with this huge voice: of course it is possible "

stared and through
The creepiest thing about them were those eyes ... they just stared through me.
Yun stated that it was as if he had become invisible to the guards who stared straight through him.
The company stumbled through troubled years as it shed thousands of workers and stared down bankruptcy in 1991.
are currently writing their sophomore release " Stare or be stared at " due to come out through Epitaph Records 2013

stared and do
: Patterson ... stared coldly at Caniff and asked: " Ever do anything on the Orient?

stared and .
`` That'll be a pleasure to see '', the big black murmured as he stared down the barrel of his rifle.
The tall sunburnt rustler-hunter stared in amazement.
White-shirted and conservatively-cravated drivers stared conspicuously toward the eastern horizon and past my supplicating and accusing gaze.
If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.
Certain this menace was only imaginary, he yet stared in fascinated horror, his hand sticky against the stock of his weapon.
He stared out the window.

at and shining
As the child addresses the shepherd in a dream, light -- in the form of the major mode -- begins to appear, and at the moment of the miracle we hear a clear and shining D major.
Going, he saw as often before some queer, hideous yellow face over his head, shining and weird like the old images which had invested him at other times like those that appear sometimes near the eyeballs when they are perhaps pressed by the thumbs.
Classics Professor G. P. Goold at University College, wrote of Housman's scholarly accomplishments: " The legacy of Housman's scholarship is a thing of permanent value ; and that value consists less in obvious results, the establishment of general propositions about Latin and the removal of scribal mistakes, than in the shining example he provides of a wonderful mind at work ....
The Moon has disappeared and the Sun is in danger of burning out at any time, often flickering as if about to go out, before shining again.
That is, if the beam of light is shining on a mirror's surface at a ° angle vertically, then it reflects from the point of incidence at a ° angle from vertically in the opposite direction.
The male had black streaks on the scapulars and wing coverts and patches of pinkish iridescence at the sides of the neck changed in color to a shining metallic bronze, green, and purple at the back of the neck in various lights.
Since at least as far back as 1855, one of its French names has been panda éclatant ( shining panda ).
It is a blue supergiant, at about 18 solar masses, shining with approximately 117, 000 times the luminosity of the Sun.
A similar pattern may be seen by shining a laser pointer at a compact disc.
* By “ jacklighting ” or shining at night.
Along the mineral layers composed of soft or fissile minerals the rocks will split most readily, and the freshly split specimens will appear to be faced or coated with this mineral ; for example, a piece of mica schist looked at facewise might be supposed to consist entirely of shining scales of mica.
The approach on September 29, 2004, was particularly close, at 0. 0104 AU ( within 4 lunar distances ) from Earth, presenting a good opportunity for observation, with Toutatis shining at magnitude 8. 8 when brightest.
These conditions do occur with strong heating at ground level, for example when the sun has been shining on sand or asphalt, commonly generating an inferior image.
One tale says that pygmy hippos carry a shining diamond in their mouths to help travel through thick forests at night ; by day the pygmy hippo has a secret hiding place for the diamond, but if a hunter catches a pygmy hippo at night the diamond can be taken.
Lured by a single light that they see shining in an otherwise darkened city, Bill and Josella discover a group of sighted survivors at a London university building.
A flashe create single simple graphic in a location by shining light through an aperture of the appropriate shape at a fixed location.
Branchlets slender, at first bright green, shining, then dark red, finally dark brown.
* Acorns: Annual, singly or in pairs ; nut oval, rounded or acute at apex, bright chestnut brown, shining, one and a quarter to one and one-half inches in length ; cup, cup-shaped or turbinate, usually inclosing one-half or one-third of the nut, thin, light brown and downy within, reddish brown and rough outside, tuberculate near the base.

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