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Composedly smoking, he leaned an elbow on the chimney-piece, at the side of the fire, and looked at the schoolmaster.

After a while, he sighed and leaned back on the fallen tree trunk, arms behind his head, and looked up at the canopy of leaves above.

As I leaned back in the comfortable though not elegant conveyance, I meditated much at my ease.

He took out a cigarette and leaned against the railing, looking down the street at the boy fishing.

'This is a battle we cannot lose, ' Mr. Richetto said, catching his breath as he leaned into a pair of hiking poles.

Later, as Mandy Grunwald watched him on TV, she leaned forward and said in astonishment, "He's riffing. "

Silly silly so I leaned against the windows, put the words to think of most of the day, but finally did not come up with it herself!

Neville leaned against the door frame for a moment and wiped his forehead with the back of his hand.

He leaned back in his chair and looked at me in surprise.

As he spoke, he leaned closer and closer to her, seeming in his eagerness almost to impinge upon her.

After about an hour, I finally wipe the whole floor of each room once more, floor light, and I leaned too tired to get up on the sofa.

She leaned against her raggedy old reading chair and stared at the stack of books and odd art supplies next to her.

He rose from the swing, leaned against the post, and cast his eyes skyward as if he would find the answer there.

As she had seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean had fancied that she was asleep.

She quickly brought them down and handed them in ; --and immediately afterwards leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.

So he came nearer, and couched in the shallow water, and leaned his head upon his hand and listened.

He leaned into her body, as if clinging to the threads of her will to live.

As I lowered my voice further and spoke close to his ear, the blind man leaned his head eagerly toward me .

Andy manoeuvred to get next to me, and about halfway through the show he leaned a little closer and asked if I could get him Rita Hayworth.

A couple came upon a wishing well. The husband leaned over, made a wish and threw in a penny. The wife decided to make a wish, too.

He leaned forward , judging the position of the lamp chimney by the heat on his face , and puffed out his cheeks to blow .

Harry had reached the shed. He leaned against the wooden door and looked up at Hogwarts, with its windows glowing red in the setting sun.

As there was no way to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from bleeding.

A little old man with a nightcap on his head leaned out of the upstairs window.

As I slid into the front seat of my car that afternoon, I leaned back, exhausted from the emotional trauma.

An umbrella with the handle carved into the shape of a goose's head leaned against the wall inside the door.

The man leaned into his wife, and said: 'I found a name of the death list. '

Mrs. Wu Sun-fu leaned back in her chair, her head resting on the top of the back and her eyes brimming with tears .

When the time came for me to leave, I leaned over, kissed this beautiful woman on the forehead, and went to let myself out the door.

The fourth guy leaned against a telephone pole, standing unsteadily, occasionally muttered some words out his mouth and shivered non-stop.

The hurt receded and he felt boneless as he leaned up against the broad chest in front of him.

It was a little up-tempo for slowing dancing, but that didn't seem to concern him. I leaned my head against his chest, contest.

"Swear to me, " he said. Then Joseph swore to him, and Israel worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

I crossed the street, knelt down, put the package I had under my arm down on the asphalt, leaned in and asked the man if he was hurt.

He leaned his head upon the framework of his printing press and gave himself up to thought.

In the dark and barely able to move his hands, he leaned forward and bit down to see if it really was his foot.

She sat down beside him at the table and leaned close as if she had some joke to share.

In the doorway of a darkened hardware store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth.

With a merry wink, he smiled at him, and leaned with his foot against the footlights.

I stopped on the bridge and leaned over the railings, gazing, unseeing, into the water, trying to get a grip on myself.

We held each other's eyes, and I understood, when she leaned in and kissed me lightly, that she'd misread my sullenness.

While trying to change his mentality from that of role player to dependable scorer, Ariza leaned strongly on Bryant for guidance.

He closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair.

As she was driving me home, she pulled into a lay-by to put on her rings. Then she leaned over towards me.

Observing on his left cheek a bloodstain the size of a button, she leaned over to look at it carefully and laid one Finger on it.

Grandma said, "shut up, you! " , and leaned forward promptly to chastise me with one of her casual, back-handed slaps on my mouth.

Poirot closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair. His voice came purringly from between his lips.

The old lady sat quietly in the bar stool, leaned back against the wall, smiling at him.

He had been sitting at a desk by the door in a swivel chair and had leaned back too far to watch her walk down the hall.

She leaned in to share a secret she had revealed to only a few other people before: "I'm lesbian, " she said hesitantly.

After these words the freemason leaned his elbow again on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes, as though weary of prolonged talking.

He set his knife and fork down on his plate, leaned back, and folded his hands in his lap.

As I leaned on the railing, trying to guess at the outline of the sierra, nostalgia's first blow caught me by surprise.

She turned back to face him, all confidence in her next move as she leaned up to his face and kissed him on the cheek grinning inwardly.

"Mmmm, " she nodded. She leaned back and took a long, slow sip, savoring the dark roast. "I understand it's a rather unique coffee. "

He went into the bathroom and I waited beside the door, when he was finished he leaned on me and we went back to the bed.

The father leaned a little closer and asked, "How much did you say? "

Then the King leaned gracefully down from his saddle, and struck Patroclus with his jeweled sword and knighted him on the spot.

It had a crazy board fence around it, which leaned inward in places, and outward the rest of the time, but stood upright nowhere.

In his left hand he carried a little bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a cudgel, cut from some hedge.

Instead of answering, Jesus leaned over and wrote on the ground with his finger, as if he had not heard them.

Once she had paid, she leaned close to me and said, very politely, "I'm so so sorry that I mistook you for a girl at first, young man. "

"The sky is so clear, and the stars are so bright here, " I mused as I leaned against the balcony and looked up at the dark sky.

"With so much flying fish there should be dolphin, " he said, and leaned back on the line to see if it was possible to gain any on his fish.

He knew what was there even before he looked at it, and he leaned forward and reached for the gun.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshipped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

The lawyer closed the door gently behind him, leaned back against it and folded his arms, cocking his head a little to one side.

I leaned against the wall and looked out the window with her. The storm was growing more ferocious.

Joy turned, looked at him, and then quietly leaned over, Su Zhenyu felt chest joy gas if the orchids spit out the faint fragrance, she said.

Kate outright laughed at the look he gave her and leaned up to his ear whispering her reasoning's.

When he saw the shark he leaned over the side and punched at him.

"Just a bright boy, " Max said. He leaned forward and took the ham and eggs. Both men ate with their gloves on. George watched them eat.

He leaned forward, but she quickly pulled her hand free and lifted it to her face, as if to shade it from the afternoon sun.

During the break, I leaned over the squeaky desk, chatting with a sweaty boy in the front row.

She was sort of right. After my divorce, I really leaned on her a lot.

I leaned against the tree trunk as you sat on the fork, opened your red lips, and in a low voice began to sing the Song of Mei Niang.

During the rest of the class, he leaned back in his chair, stretching out his long legs.

So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen.

Her head was leaned against the window curtains , and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne . She was tired .

As Grayson leaned in to hear the soft, indistinct voice of the president, was the president trying to reassure him?

He leaned back, laced his hands behind his head, and directed his gaze out the window.

in a warning voice. A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond, and Miss Baker leaned forward unashamed, trying to hear.

As though embarrassed by his declaration, George went to a window and turning his back to his friend leaned out.

I leaned on the bedrail looking down at her. She asked if I could help put on her socks.

he leaned over, picked up the little dog, tossed it out the window of the train and sat down in the empty seat.

he grasped her hand and leaned down , trying to see her eyes in the faint moonlight.

Once inside, she leaned against the door for a moment, relievedto be in the safety of her home.

Holmes leaned back in his chair, placed his finger-tips together, and closed his eyes, with an air of resignation. Dr.

As he leaned panting against the spot, he felt even the warm spots growing chill beneath his hands.

so she laid herself down on the soft moss, offered up her evening prayer, and leaned her head against the stump of a tree.

As he leaned panting against the spot, he felt even the warm spots growing chill beneath his hands.

so she laid herself down on the soft moss, offered up her evening prayer, and leaned her head against the stump of a tree.

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, in the plenitude of her heart.

Scarlett leaned her head against the wall, like a naughty child in a corner, and rubbed her aching throat.

Small demon came up and push me to sit down, leaned over my ear that, chu sun to see you.

Tom came up to the fence and leaned on it, grieving , and hoping she would tarry yet a while longer.

From a hill above a corpse strewn plain a general speaking to his officers, leaned upon his spear.

Rick spread his hands atop the console and leaned toward an on-screen computer-enhanced translation of the engines' subatomic fire.

Up until the present, there was no proof that they were being leaned on, and cooperating!

Grandpa leaned slowly toward Grandma and gave her a lingering kiss on her wrinkled cheek.

Up until the present, there was no proof that they were being leaned on, and cooperating!

a the wife decided to make a wish, too. But she leaned over too much, fell into the well, and drowned.

A firefighter leaned over me. I heard his voice crack as he said, 'Oh my God. '

She leaned back against the fireplace, her handkerchief up to her face, a picture of grief.

She took a taste of her drink and then leaned back comfortably with her cigarette.

I leaned my head the flowers and found that the core is a light yellow flowers, as if Jigen slender bean sprout.

As we approached the dock, a Japanese journalist leaned from the boat toward the surf to snap a few last shots.

The ex-clone captain chuckled quietly to himself as he leaned against the cool railings of the small balcony.

When the young man on board saw this person approach, he left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over the ship's bulwarks.

Checking passenger tickets, I came to the man in the cowboy hat and leaned over to ask for his ticket.

As if his absence quickened something within her, Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.

Both marriages failed, and she leaned on her parents and friends to help raise her two children.

He put a cigarette between his lips, and one of the young women leaned over to light it for him.

Being tired, the pastor rolled a cigarette and had just leaned against the wall of the king's garden to smoke when he heard voices.

The sergeant leaned forward and squinted. "No, sir, " he said, "but I can hear it is singing. "

A couple of minutes later, a nice looking man came out the building, entered her car, leaned over and kissed her and she drove away.

The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it.

He leaned over the side and pulled loose a piece of the meat of the fish where the shark had cut him .

De Gaulle leaned across the table and told Kennedy that his wife knew more French history than most French women.

I leaned against the wall of the building, looked down at the vomit around my feet, and retched something clear and sticky.

Teacher leaned over the body, a small mining the looked at the lives of this small unnamed said with deep feeling.

Mike leaned over close to my ear as if to share a secret or a for-men-only joke.

There he leaned over the splendid bar and swallowed a glass of plain whiskey and purchased a couple of cigars , one of which he lighted.

In tight faded jeans, sandals, and a white T-shirt, her hair blowing in the morning wind as she leaned against a fence post.

Graciously he bestowed it upon the woman who towered over him , then leaned up to give her two kisses while she beamed.

As they thickened, he leaned his head back against the rocking chair.

The leaned say that your lights will one day be no more, said the firefly to the stars.

They found her at dawn, her white hair cauled with ice, her back leaned against a tree as if waiting for the searchers to arrive.

As she lay in bed, he leaned in my arms to listen to my heartbeat. I looked across the belly heart and who understand?

He leaned back in his chair with a furrowed brow. "For family reasons--" he continued.

Some buildings leaned away from ground zero as though struck by a wind of stupendous proportions.

I drew up even with him, braked quickly, leaned across the seat toward him.

I said "Really? " in a disbelieving tone, but leaned forward to kiss her anyway.

Simon wiped his plate with a piece of bread and leaned back in his chair. 'I haven't enjoyed anything as much as that for months.

Jo leaned her chin on her knees in a disconsolate attitude and shook her fist at the reprehensible John.

I recall now how the driver leaned out and looked up the river toward Passy way.

All night long she sang, with her breast against the thorn, and the cold crystal Moon leaned down and listened.

Vashti's teacher leaned over blank paper. "Ah! A polar bear in a snow storm, " she said.

With labored breath, he leaned against the door frame, gazing into the kitchen.

As a weakened Mubarak leaned more on his Army to save him, the generals' first targets were the "businessmen" in the cabinet.

Straight-faced, he leaned toward the door and asked, "Going to the nudist Colony, sir? "

However, when Kim Hyun Joong leaned over, the little girl gave him a kiss on the cheek.

I leaned my head on the back of my beach chair and realized she had hit upon a subject that was crucial for me at this time.

We saw a prostitute, who leaned in over a car like she was talking to a customer. "Come on, let's make fun of this fool" , we said.

Presley laid down his pen and leaned back in his chair, with the certainty that for one moment he had touched untrod heights.

i leaned forward , straining to see through the barrier of light.

He leaned forward to hear what she said to him.

Apparently, just before Daddy died, he leaned over and rested his head on a chair beside the bed.

She leaned forward and said conspiratorially, "It's like having a bunch of grapes hanging out of my bum. "

Leaned upon his broad chest I heard the beating of his heart.

Jo leaned down to kiss the tranquil face, and with that silent kiss, she dedicated herself soul and body to Beth.

"Be it so, " I said, replacing the tool beneath the cloak and again offering him my arm. He leaned upon it heavily.

Prince Andrey leaned his elbow on the cannon, and taking out a note-book , sketched for himself a plan of the disposition of the troops.

There, as I leaned against a neighboring building, surrounded by strangers making their way to the theater, I began to laugh.

We leaned against the screen, peering into the dark kitchen.

The old man leaned the mast with its wra ed sail agri t the wall and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it.

Molly and I leaned in closer to see the photos clearly: one baby dressed in pink, one in blue.

Long she leaned out in her freak dress, keen to burn her wings at life's candle.

She leaned on my chest. We were so close that I could smell the fragrance of her blouse.

yaxley had leaned forward to look down the long table at voldemort and snape . all faces turned to him.

A seed while the wind, landed quietly in stone, no one pay attention to it. This unique life accompanied by a rock, leaned in the stones.

He noted that all of the effect sizes for the various comparisons leaned in the direction of a higher risk for gay teens.

As the 100-lb. fish swam away from the boat, I held tight onto the line and leaned in the opposite direction from the one he was swimming.

I leaned over to look for it in the courtyard and thought I saw it just there on a step.

Brendan put down his drink and leaned into him, his head over Tom's shoulder, Tom's arms coming around his back.

Tom came up to the fence and leaned on it, grieving, and hoping she would tarry yet awhile longer.

She put the screen up and pushed him close, then leaned over to pill his flannel pajamas down to meet his socks, protecting his bare shins.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again.

I leaned my back against an oak Thinking it was a mighty tree But first it bent and then it broke So did my love prove false to me .

I said not a word, but leaned over and took her hand and squeezed it twice.

Charlie was the closest. He leaned in to hear my answer.

As nods and murmured assent greeted the chairman's summation , Nim Goldman leaned back for the moment relaxed.

On the contrary, he put his fingertips together and leaned his elbows on the arms of his chair, like one who has a relish for conversation.

Dorothy leaned her chin upon her hand and gazed thoughtfully at the Scarecrow.

Today, I was watching Free Willy with my boyfriend. It was at the part where the boy leaned into the water to give Willy a hug.

Lester, his thick hair pushed back from his vigorous face, leaned back moodily on his pillow.

As I leaned against the door, it moved slightly and opened inwards.

Then he leaned over the side and washed the flying fish in the water, noting the speed of the water against his hand.

Then, as he leaned against the line and slapped his left hand hard and fast against his thigh he saw the line slanting slowly upward.

Reporters found that in this music loud, ground shaking along with the environment, not leaned to speak to each other are difficult to hear.

Rudolph leaned forward intently, gloriously battered by the music, his eyes glued on the Negro trumpeter .

The policymakers of Beijing have leaned hard on their system to turbocharge the economy during a global slowdown, and it has worked so far.

Tears started from Mammy's eyes as she leaned down to pick up the buckets.

I opened up her chest, peeling her ribs back like a half-opened Christmas present, and the entire class leaned in to get a good look.

A huge figure walked over to the bed. It leaned over and pulled the covers up around the sleeping child.

Maxwell leaned one elbow on her desk. He still clutched fluttering papers with both hands and the pen was above his ear.

She leaned down to hear the child.

A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

Is a retreat from unhappy cable legislation, a pair of lovers was whispering leaned.

As I got closer I saw a man leaned up against the wall outside the church. It seemed that he was asleep.

Raine leaned forward as the jeep went straight to that structure in the early Colorado morning.

He leaned closer, and his eyes flashed incredulously from the parchment to the spell book and back.

He leaned forward, put his hands over his face.

After my divorce, I really leaned on her a lot.

I sat close to the fan, and after a few minutes, I leaned against it for support.

Before that, her film parts had leaned toward the decorative category of The Girl (including one in a Batman movie).

When I started to lecture him on the importance of dressing changes, he leaned over to interrupt.

In contrast, straightforward, easy-going and relationship-orientated people leaned toward the "communal" styles of entertainment instead.

He leaned back on the wall for balance, closing his eyes as pain invaded his body.

She went to the wardrobe, chose a pair of shoes, put them on and leaned back in the chair.

China has imposed price controls for a range of foods and has leaned on companies directly not to charge more.

She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth -with a royal will.

When he leaned in to kiss her, she did and didn't want his lips on hers.

He then pulled her fast, into her arms and leaned his head, lips pressed in the lips.

he still leaned forward in his chair , gazing at her like a cornered beast.

He felt like a man who has leaned on a stick and finds himself forced suddenly to walk without assistance.

We had just finished the first course, when he leaned in towards me, so the other diners would not hear.

One day, out of curiosity, she leaned over the crib2 and took a good look at her baby brother.

I said, and leaned over to grab my dressing gown.

He leaned toward her, shaking his head vigorously when she tried to kiss him.

Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand.

Little set the bottle of oil on the counter and leaned in close to the mirror, peering at her skin.

I leaned in, but it was far too tall for me to reach more than halfway down.

Newland leaned back in his chair and smiled at her.

My mother had acquired an electric needle and leaned to remove moles with it for added income.

I leaned that she crossed the Atlantic as casually as the Channel, and adored Venice, which she visited every year.

She even leaned out over the cliff face to see where he was pointing.

I leaned in the corner, stripped of my stethoscope and white coat of authority, as Chip stood examining Ruth.

one day while sipping my latte at a fake - marble table i leaned forward , and the far end of the tabletop lifted.

De Gruse leaned forwards, took another sip of wine, and dabbed his lips with the corner of his napkin.

In these matters it is up to the reader to discern, as the press is being leaned on, the editors told what to allow.

For a quarter I rented a pillow from a porter, leaned back, and tried to nap.

He leaned down and pulled the man's coat up to the man's neck.

He leaned over to me, and said: "I want it to be a little more special. "

She then turn sitting on my side, leaned in my arms, I used the arm to embrace the embrace of her shoulders.

As he leaned on the barrier he heard a bark and turned to look towards the river.

Her hair occasionally brushed my face as she leaned to point out something on the canvas.

Toshio leaned down to look at photos in a plastic album half-buried in the mud before realizing they were of another family.

kincaid sat at a small , plain table . bloggs leaned against the wall.

Hillary Clinton is calling for an investigation, saying somebody surely leaned on the EPA to lie, which Whiteman strongly denied.

I slowly released her hand from mine and brushed away the tears staining her cheeks, and mine. I stood, leaned over, and kissed her.

A sunken temple loomed up out of the greyness as Yandry and Duck leaned upon their poles and paced slowly from prow to stern, pushing.

Ellen leaned back in the stern and seemed to enjoy herself thoroughly .

Our room had a view over a side canal and if you leaned out you could see the Grand Canal.

As soon as I sat down, he leaned back and exhaled.

But he did not see. She leaned over him.

When I leaned over and spoke to her, she mumbled and reached out her hand to me.

Clancy leaned down and fingered one of the coats .

Some boy students who were absorbed in reading leaned against the trees with buds peeping out from within the gray barks.

He leaned back in his seat with a sigh.

As two boys were passing the vicarage, the vicar leaned over the wall and showed them a ball.

Mrs Smith leaned forward. "You mean they actually chewed on your, er. . , um. . , ah. . . . equipment? "

She balanced a mirror on a table and leaned it against one of the bamboo tent frames.

e. g. She leaned to live on her own when she was in college .

Jack snickered nervously and leaned back in his chair.

She stopped and leaned on the wall for a moment to rest.

i leaned despairingly over the rail , watching the trim little schooner swiftly increasing the bleak sweep of ocean between us.

You know I never leaned how to tie a double knot.

Finally, he leaned back against the wall and took a deep breath.