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Their mother stayed indoors, though it was more miserably hot inside than out, because she feared the wind would suck the life from her unborn child.

Mr. Bones saw it happen with his own eyes, standing by the edge of the road between Washington and Baltimore as Willy hawked up a few miserable clots of red matter into his handkerchief, and right then and there he knew that every ounce of hope was gone.

Dolores drifts up in miserable smoke.

Upon his own epitaph Thomas More described his father as `Homo civilis, suavis, innocens, mitis, misericors, aequus, et integer'; the Latin is clear enough hardly to need translation, but it is interesting to note that More emphasises his qualities of sweetness, affability and compassion.

The description does not fit later accounts of apparent miserliness and strictness; but the disparity need not yet be resolved.

These red dwarfs are true misers when it comes to fusing hydrogen into helium.

My mother was never overly robust, yet in her struggle to rear us and care for us she was the pillar of the family, and she plotted escape from our miserable slum room into a real house.

Yet he had an uncanny gentleness with children, like some cowardly Italian lion, and we forgave him his wound and his brutish misery.

In my memory, Antofagasta, which in Quechua means "town of the great salt lands," is not the modern city of today but a miserable, out-of-date port that smelled like iodine and was dotted with fishing boats, gulls, and pelicans.

Rations were miserable.

Occasionally the American POWs received Red Cross parcels with food, but there was a contingent of Russian prisoners next to Stalag Luft 3 and if the Americans thought they had it bad, all they had to do was look at the Russians to know what true misery was.

Until you put it out of its misery, that was, and stock was valuable in Calla Bryn Sturgis, even stock that wasn't precisely threaded.

Prologue: Jumonville's Glen, May 28, 1754 The rain had fallen all night, a steady, miserable rain; and when at last the light grew to the point that he could see his troops, George Washington realized that seven of them were lost in the forest, God knew where.

He is, in fact, a bit of a misery.

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