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It was dark inside the room but enough light spilled from the restaurant behind her to enable her to make out a round table with a green cloth top.
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Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.
It was dark early, because of the storm.
Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.
Underneath him the sea was a dark and muddied gray.
Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.
Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.
Slender and tanned, her dark brown hair was drawn straight back, simply.
He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.
Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.
A little man with a `` a dark copper color '' skin, he was wearing `` calico trousers and a white cotton short gown ''.
There was a host of dark horses.
It was dark.
Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.
The school was small, dark and ill-equipped.
Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.
was and inside
A lamp burned inside, but Brannon, peering through the window, saw that the office was empty.
Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.
Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.
Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.
There was no reply so he shoved it open with his foot and stepped inside.
Miss Langford, in a fresh white dress and low-heeled white sandals, without socks, was out there with them, trying to get them inside.
Ernie was screaming inside himself: No, damn you, you ain't gonna take my meal ticket away from me!!
`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.
An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.
The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.
That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.
But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.
Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.
Inside, carefully packed in straw, were six eggs, but the eye of a poultry psychologist was required to detect what scientifically valuable specimentalia lay inside ; ;
From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.
it was as if she was showing me one of the reasons why she hated that woman inside her.
Finding it true that he was not inside, the deputies returned to the first house and tore holes through the side and the roof until they could see a body on the bed covered by a blanket.
Or was it another revolt inside Vientiane??
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