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Dashing out of the security center, he bounded up the treads of the well-worn staircase three at a time.

But when he would spring from his chair to express his thanks to a patron, his tanned, well-worn face would erupt into hundreds of wrinkles.

It's the sort of well-worn, well-meaning phrase that we utter reflexively before hanging up the phone, anxious to do our friendship duty.

With Eliana in her arms, Sue picked up a well-worn book that we had read to our daughter when she was a little girl.

Asked whether things will turn out for the best, he smiles, shrugs and resorts to a well-worn Arabic fatalism: "God willing" .

The whole interior seems to be made up of dark, well-worn wood.

In support of those efforts, Rice might appear on camera, but she won't be traveling the well-worn path as a news or policy analyst.

Apparently, reading from the well-worn Apple playbook, the company has not commented publicly about the battery complaints.

On a steamy Wednesday afternoon in October, a well-worn jeep pulls off the pock-marked dirt road and ambles to a stop in the tall grass.

There was no road, only a well worn truck trail.

These well-worn theories are among seven "medical myths" exposed in a paper published in the British Medical Journal.

That 'Nobody on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office, '' is a well-worn idiom.

Toward the end of the win over the Nets, we saw Mutombo and Jackson perched on the bench, two mounds of ice on their well-worn knees.

Chile went down the well-worn route of currency intervention, sterilized through local bond issues, to try to limit peso strength.

Their encounters fell into a well-worn pattern: tense standoffs, ending in frustration or tragedy.

There's also a well worn cliche that you can identify early leaders as they are the ones with arrows in their back.

Official statements from both countries rarely stray from well-worn diplomatic language and are often hard to interpret.

It is frightening to veer off the well-worn path , better known as our " comfort zone" .

Yet there is nothing unusual about such lofty declarations; indeed, those who make them are treading a well-worn path.

Although a certain impact on Frege, Russell has left the well-worn research path in the theory of proper names.

My favorite detail was the well worn leather recoil pad sewn into Everett's coat jacket, which complements his impressive 10 gauge shotgun.

The power of the darkest ones has been broken, with only remnants remaining, operating on well-worn tracks, powered by habit.

Publicly, Israel has stuck to its well-worn line that no option should be ruled out.

In his selection of furnishings and fabrics, he combines the stylishly well-worn with the whimsical.

Female singers in the former Burma are traditionally more conservative and cautious, seldom veering from well-worn romantic ballads.

T-shirt material is best and well worn cheaper t-shirt material with a looser weave is better yet.

These styles are smart, modern and contemporary, with lightweight leather providing a well-worn, well-cared-for appearance.

The arguments against attempting breakthrough innovation within core businesses are well-worn.

Everyday Practice of Science by Frederick Grinnell argues the well-worn and obvious point that science is a human activity.

Here and there sat well-worn stumps and logs and the remnants of a campfire.

Under normal circumstances, the Fed would open its well-worn anti-inflation playbook and raise interest rates.

To get here, park along the south feeder road, a couple of miles west of Loop 335, and walk the well-worn path.

At the end of the listening session, I asked him a well-worn question: the Beatles or the Stones?

Earnest environmental concerns are also starting to flip well-worn phrases on their heads.

There is a well-worn joke that divers belong to two schools regarding peeing in their wetsuit: Those who do and those who lie about it.

A large percentage stayed, raising their children as we were raised along well-worn paths.

Perhaps this is a restatement of a well-worn idea from Plato, "The unexamined life is not worth living. "

As life coaches, social workers enter during many detours along that well worn path.

"The path to general search engines is well-worn and familiar, " says Susannah Fox of Pew.

As the well-worn saying goes, on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

I dont think so, i tripped over the carpet on floor 5 were the carpet was well worn.

Many old gel coats are of extremely poor quality, and even those which are not often well worn.

The author's other trips explore even less well-worn territory.

Trekking has become a major industry in northern Thailand, and as a result many of the paths are perhaps a little too well-worn.

One well-worn assertion is that cybercrime revenues exceed those from the global trade in illegal drugs.

I will forever more feel a touch guilty while sitting in that well-worn corner of my couch to play a video game.

this cliff has been well worn by ignorance.

There are, however, well-worn paths that lead to the slow accumulation of wealth.

750 retail if well-worn, about $4500 if almost uncirculated.

I lead them along well-worn paths where I know we will find food and water.

Because you look at the problem with the old eyes it is not only strengthened but also moves in its well-worn path.

most of the time , we go for hours and hours , on and off well - worn trails , without running into other people

hit the roller rink instead of following the well-worn route to the local Cineplex on date night;

they have many long weeks of travel ahead of them along well worn trails

except the sole has been well worn,