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  • Included will be baby blankets, children's pullovers, and an assortment of practical undergarments for both men and women.†   (source)
  • In a large brown shopping bag she carried an assortment of brushes and rags.†   (source)
  • The sofreh also holds an assortment of sweets—sugar-coated almonds, baklava, almond cookies, and rice cookies.†   (source)
  • We were sitting around Richard's kitchen table, with an assortment of his finest scotches in the middle.†   (source)
  • Richard gestured to one of the chairs by the coffee table, on which was an assortment of zakuski.†   (source)
  • It looked three or four stories high and about to fall down at any minute—a crazy assortment of logs and boards and thick twine and windows seemingly thrown together at random, the massive, ivy-strewn stone walls rising up behind it.†   (source)
  • One wall was covered with a tower of sneaker boxes—inside the boxes were a rainbow assortment of Nikes, each pair fresher than the last.†   (source)
  • Along with the assortment of teachers we've had in room H-5, there have been more classroom aides than I can count.†   (source)
  • They walked through the doors of the assorted weddings and spoke of everything he wished to speak about.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, Langdon hesitated even to mention the Knights Templar while lecturing because it invariably led to a barrage of convoluted inquiries into assorted conspiracy theories.†   (source)
  • The Smoke wasn't just a hideout for assorted runaways, she realized now.†   (source)
  • Dessert was an assortment of fruits in vanilla ice cream.†   (source)
  • A wide assortment of children's rights advocates, lawyers, and mental health experts were watching closely when we asked the Court to declare life-without-parole sentences imposed on children unconstitutional.†   (source)
  • There was a gardener's but at the far end of the graveyard, a small green building that smelled like motor oil, and in which the old mower sat and rusted, unused, along with an assortment of ancient garden tools.†   (source)
  • The bricks had been cleaned very well, and through the wide and open windows one could see an assortment of well-groomed plants.†   (source)
  • I had never been so aware of my breath and my heartbeat, not to mention other assorted grumblings and gurglings.†   (source)
  • I found myself involved in an adventure peopled by an unusual assortment of characters and enlivened by a series of strange events, up to and including murder.†   (source)
  • Several scarves of assorted colors were tied about the head, and a man's felt hat perched atop.†   (source)
  • In all, there were maybe a hundred campers, a few dozen satyrs, and a dozen assorted wood nymphs and naiads.†   (source)
  • The "shade trees" were an assortment of aspens and honey locusts, the latter of which sported thick, needlelike thorns four or five inches long, armoring the trunk from the ground up.†   (source)
  • She had two male guards with her, armed to the teeth with an assortment of curved Eyllwe daggers and swords, both of them studying Chaol and Celaena closely—weighing the threat.†   (source)
  • The assortment of soups consisted of cassava leaves, potato leaves, okra, and so forth.†   (source)
  • To celebrate, Mom sold one of her two dresses and an assortment of old pots, and spent all last week taking over shifts from her coworkers.†   (source)
  • The walls of the room were festooned with hanging cartridge belts and an assortment of fatigues and unmatching parts of uniforms.†   (source)
  • Night fell, and an assortment of fighting men and merchants entered and exited the tent.†   (source)
  • An assortment of pots and pans hang from hooks on the wooden studs next to ladles and strainers and big boxes of breakfast cereal, which must come from Costco.†   (source)
  • And since she cleaned many houses each week, we had a great assortment.†   (source)
  • Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses!†   (source)
  • …was following my dad into our suspiciously dark living room as he muttered things like "What a shame we didn't plan anything for your birthday" and "Oh well, there's always next year," when all the lights flooded on to reveal streamers, balloons, and a motley assortment of aunts, uncles, cousins I rarely spoke to—anyone my mother could cajole into attending—and Ricky, whom I was surprised to see lingering near the punch bowl, looking comically out of place in a studded leather jacket.†   (source)
  • They work their way to a common area where there is a television, a Coke machine, a shabby sofa, and an assortment of chairs.†   (source)
  • Alongside them were white oaks, beeches, maples, walnuts, sycamores, birches, willows, cedars, pines, and hemlocks, all enmeshed in a lattice of wild grapevine, comprising one of the greatest assortment of forest trees in the Northern Hemisphere.†   (source)
  • At his request, they assemble an assortment of little cakes for him to take back to District 12, where he can examine their work in quiet.†   (source)
  • Cinder ignored her, selecting an assortment of varying tools and arranging them on Iko's magnetic torso.†   (source)
  • I wander all night in my vision, … Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers, Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping.†   (source)
  • Yours, Anne THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1942 Dearest Kitty, So there we were, Father, Mother and I, walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items.†   (source)
  • The easy one was in a high school classroom in the Bronx: pregnant moms, assorted cabdrivers, and a raucous gaggle of Grand Concourse homegirls with short fur jackets and sparkle fingernails.†   (source)
  • He pelts me with sherry glasses, whiskey glasses, assorted ham sandwiches, items from his wife's dressing table, powders, creams, brushes.†   (source)
  • He was in a large room containing nothing but an assortment of dilapidated chairs.†   (source)
  • My personal gear filled four or five cruise boxes, two big Stanley roller boxes, and assorted rucks.†   (source)
  • Our furniture consisted of two beautiful rocking chairs that Ma bought from Macy's because on television she saw her hero President John P. Kennedy use one to rock his kids, a living room couch, and an assortment of chairs, tables, dressers, and beds.†   (source)
  • We also have a dining table and a rough handmade cupboard, containing a jumble-sale assortment of glass and plastic dishes and cups, one too few of everything, so we sisters have to bargain knives for forks while we eat.†   (source)
  • A hangman's noose dangled from the wall, as did assorted weapons and a blanket caked with blood.†   (source)
  • O'Dell's father left us with a pile of assorted supplies, including a canvas tent, sleeping bags, a camp stove, four grocery bags filled with canned food (mostly beef stew), a few crates of bottled sodas, some loaves of white bread, a couple of big cartons of Moon Pies, several boxes of matches, a wheelbarrow, two shovels, two sledgehammers, and a pick.†   (source)
  • He's wearing the same windbreaker as the others, but there's an additional layer of bulletproof vest underneath, and clipped onto that he's got a nice assortment of communications gear and small, clever devices for hurting people.†   (source)
  • The town's leading attractions were the Broadmoor Hotel and the Garden of the Gods, an assortment of large rock formations.†   (source)
  • The article noted that in addition to the new publicity director (the balding, bespectacled fellow), twenty others had joined the staff of Riverview Hospital: two doctors, eight R.N.'s, assorted kitchen staff, orderlies, and a janitor.†   (source)
  • Kim's up to the part of Operation Distraction, when Brooke Vega and a dozen assorted punks descended upon the hospital.†   (source)
  • They had an assortment of bandannas, hats and gloves: battle gear, even on a hot day.†   (source)
  • Over the next few days I tried an assortment of arguments, some nearly breathtaking in their delicate webby texture.†   (source)
  • The construction suddenly looked like a real house, rising up in the midst of tall stacks of lumber, a big mound of red-brown dirt, a pile of concrete blocks, and an assortment of power saws, tools, and machinery.†   (source)
  • It is home to an extraordinary assortment of ghosts and unquiet spirits.†   (source)
  • You can conceal all manner of interesting weaponry beneath it if you are clever, and a smaller assortment if you are not.†   (source)
  • A lovely woman reclined on a low couch surrounded by what must have been her courtiers—a motley assortment of faeries, from tiny sprites to what looked like lovely human girls with long hair …. if you discounted their black, pupil-less eyes.†   (source)
  • Now, Paul saw the contents of the mound exposed: the pale glistening gray of a stillsuit, a battered literjon, a kerchief with a small book in its center, the bladeless handle of a crysknife, an empty sheath, a folded pack, a paracompass, a distrans, a thumper, a pile of fist-sized metallic hooks, an assortment of what looked like small rocks within a fold of cloth, a clump of bundled feathers …. and the baliset exposed beside the folded pack.†   (source)
  • And the blankets often weren't even blankets, but a really odd assortment—old curtains, even bits of carpet.†   (source)
  • The bouquet was a mix of white daisies, yellow mums, assorted lilies, and bright red carnations.†   (source)
  • The sheriff was impressed by the order of this room, its bronze, quiet, and syrupy light, and by the photographs on the wall of the various Heines and assorted Var-igs who had preceded Carl and Susan Marie in the world: stout, impressive, blunt-faced Germans who never smiled for photographers.†   (source)
  • On the coffee table was a small antique casket containing an assorted collection of lenses for eyeglasses.†   (source)
  • She herself had shelves and bins in her ruthlessly organized workroom that held carefully selected emergency hostess gifts, gift bags, colored tissue paper, and an assortment of bows and ribbons.†   (source)
  • It was among her crocheted pink poodles and little perfume bottles and snapshots of her quinceanera party that we stashed our arsenal of assorted pistols and revolvers, three .†   (source)
  • Colors weren't true either, but rather a vague assortment of shaded pastels that indicated not so much color as faded familiarities.†   (source)
  • The bookshelf contained an assortment of directories and three blank notebooks.†   (source)
  • It seems to be stuffed with sheet music and other assorted things.†   (source)
  • One busted arm, a concussion, and assorted cuts, scrapes, and bruises.†   (source)
  • His breathing, and Roran's, was loud and ragged compared with the odd assortment of sounds that propagated through the tunnel.†   (source)
  • After all, such a rich assortment of ventures had been discussed.†   (source)
  • Assorted lengths of pipe.†   (source)
  • An assortment of physical ills plagued me; I could eat only small portions of plain white rice.†   (source)
  • I'm still concentrating on identifying the assortment of food when someone taps me on the back.†   (source)
  • Like a dark sultan in a palanquin, a half-familiar figure rode a chair borne on the shoulders of assorted sizes and shapes of darkness.†   (source)
  • Warrant Officer Swart baked bread, made home-brewed ginger beer and assorted other delicacies.†   (source)
  • Milo and 'rock wandered up and down the aisles looking at the wonderful assortment of words for sale.†   (source)
  • There are certainly oddities: dwarves and midgets and giants, a bearded lady (Al's already got one, so she's probably out of luck), an enormously fat man (could get lucky if Al wants a matching set), and an assortment of generally sad-looking people and dogs.†   (source)
  • The old store's wood shelves were painted a dour green, but stuffed with a rainbow assortment of canned food and bags of chips, pasta, and even marshmallows.†   (source)
  • Her knowledge of it was therefore more assorted and available, and Stoddard listened to her eagerly.†   (source)
  • Once he disappeared inside, I started checking out some of the handwritten names on the CD cases, none of which I recognized: the handywacks(assorted), jeremiah reeves(early stuff), truth squad (opus) .†   (source)
  • I also learned how to stitch up wounds (I practiced on chicken parts), properly apply tourniquets, tweeze shattered glass out of gashes, wash out eyes that had been burned with bathroom cleansers, pop dislocated bones back into joints, and perform an assortment of other triage skills.†   (source)
  • An old Packard hearse with a varied assortment of dusty cars and trucks behind.†   (source)
  • Ted, I want to thank both you and Margaret for dealing with all of my in-laws, outlaws, and assorted misfit relatives earlier today.†   (source)
  • Card tables had been pushed together to make a long banquet, and around the table were an odd assortment of prisoners, my friends.†   (source)
  • But ahead of him, through the windshield, with its spidery webwork of fissures, he saw the sixteen-thousand-foot-high panorama of the Karakoram's foothills tearing at a blameless blue sky with its fearsome assortment of brown, broken teeth, and felt unaccountably happy.†   (source)
  • Sewing Mistress approached, bearing a needle, an assortment of colored thread, and a round of white linen marked with a design of flowers.†   (source)
  • Inside in the hall there was piled a large assortment of packages and parcels and small articles of furniture.†   (source)
  • The stone floor was covered with an assortment of Persian rugs of varying sizes.†   (source)
  • He had nothing in common with the stray dogs in the street, much less with the thoroughbred racers that assorted families of the aristocracy were raising.†   (source)
  • Among them were assorted deviates, but also university professors, doctors, and even a retired cop in Raleigh.†   (source)
  • There are assorted others in the 1300s, lots of 1200s, and a few 1100s.†   (source)
  • The remainder of the school day passed by in a haze of homework assignments, headaches, and an assortment of mind-numbing quizzes—all of which seemed to be pop quizzes which were pretty much like the regular quizzes except that when they were given, they made your eyeballs pop out of your head and explode.†   (source)
  • I pointed to a large vase of assorted flowers.†   (source)
  • The files were the typical assortment of retired cases one would find in any small-town law office.†   (source)
  • The proprietor of the bodega laid out an assortment of peppers on the counter for Cesar to make his selection.†   (source)
  • I was so frustrated with running out in a towel to turn the water off, then mopping up the floor with the rotating assortment of towels that we have hung outside the trailer, that I decided to put on my bathing suit and shampoo under the hose.†   (source)
  • I had neither itch nor etchings, but there was a vase of Chinese lilies in the living room, and another of American Beauty roses on the table near the bed; and I had put in a supply of wine, whiskey and liqueur, extra ice cubes, and assortments of fruit, cheese, nuts, candy and other delicacies from the Vendome.†   (source)
  • He became a bookseller, eventually opening his own London Book Store on Cornhill Street, offering a "large and very elegant assortment" of the latest books and magazines from London.†   (source)
  • I lived in Coconut Grove most of my time there, first in a concrete-block duplex where I lost three car stereos in the initial three months, then in a little house, on a less crime-ridden street, surrounded by giant oaks and palms and assorted crawling vines.†   (source)
  • "I'd like to purchase a ticket on that flight, if I may," he said, watching the boxes of Gerber's Assorted Baby Foods and Pampers Medium Diapers disappear into the hold.†   (source)
  • Mother turned away, then produced a box of assorted medals.†   (source)
  • They hung on the walls among all the awards and photographs of Annie smiling cheek by jowl with assorted glitterati.†   (source)
  • Meantime, Caroline had prepared an assortment of sixteen saucers, cups, and bowls, rationing out the cans of tuna fish to each container.†   (source)
  • The table glittered with silver–shiny scalpels and an assortment of antiquated medical tools that I couldn't put a name to.†   (source)
  • The other cargo pocket had an assortment of extra batteries, an energy gel, and two power bars.†   (source)
  • But the woman stared around the room, thoughtfully fingering the broken pieces of china, while her daughter's assortment of diapered and bottled dolls stared back from their neat row with fixed smiles.†   (source)
  • Held in place by leather straps was an assortment of prosthetics: false hands and hooks.†   (source)
  • A motley assortment of creatures followed in a strange procession behind them.†   (source)
  • I thought they'd have those little bottles of Coke and assorted flavors of popsicles for the kids who were living there, but Mom and Dad said they were going to take a different route on the meals and snacks for the children in Uncle Dick's Home.†   (source)
  • Now, with your little screwdriver—maybe you'd better bring along various and assorted sizes, just in case—you start to loosen.†   (source)
  • The guy pulled a handful of assorted fake and real sugar packets out of the pocket of his green-and-brown-plaid flannel shirt and set them in front of me.†   (source)
  • The First Lady has scoured storage rooms and the National Gallery, turning up assorted treasures such as paintings by Cezanne, Teddy Roosevelt's drinking mugs, and James Monroe's gold French flatware.†   (source)
  • The supplies I carried with me are a random assortment.†   (source)
  • …new system … of ever fancier techniques of not teaching English, for which, if the methods involved new technologies and were couched in the appropriately impenetrable jargon, grants could readily be obtained; and (4) television—the non-language and aboriginal grammar of commercials, commentators, sports announcers, athletes, assorted celebrities, and just about everyone on that word-mongering and word-mangling medium, that sucks in victims far more perniciously than radio ever did.†   (source)
  • His special stash included mint conditionMadmagazines; baseball cards for rookie Yankees Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, and Mariano Rivera; some Star Wars action figures that were still in their original packaging; a report card from the seventh grade that had two Ds…just to remind him how easy it is to screw up; and an assortment of other small items that had special value to him alone.†   (source)
  • Carved into it is an assortment of girls' names.†   (source)
  • I bustle around, doing assorted duties, every so often poking my head through her door.†   (source)
  • There were several photographs, which he had pasted into a small journal book, the cardstock and image of much lower quality than the corporal's Dutch assortment.†   (source)
  • My fear is more of that —" and he pointed with his sword to a great tall Earthman with boar's tusks, followed by six others of assorted shapes and sizes who had just dashed out of a side street and stepped into the shadow of the houses where no one could see them.†   (source)
  • And yet the motley assortment of men and trolls roared away down the left tunnel.†   (source)
  • On it is an assortment of some of the food from the rehearsal dinner—what appears to be Cornish game hen, some kind of vegetable gratin, a salad in a vinaigrette, assorted chunks of cheese, and… "That's foie gras," Shari says, pointing at a blob of brown on the edge of the plate.†   (source)
  • Inside was an assortment of rings.†   (source)
  • Then, suddenly flying around a curve at them was a farm tractor, mostly rust and missing pieces and held together with coils of rusty wire and other assorted trash.†   (source)
  • She tended to their sore throats and their chronic coughs and their assorted aches and pains and the illnesses they had carried from the third world to the first.†   (source)
  • She was chinking more audibly than usual, as if a box of assorted household nails had come apart in one of her kimono pockets.†   (source)
  • Under the trailer was an assortment of rusted bicycles, broken beer bottles and dug-out holes where the dogs cooled off on hot days.†   (source)
  • In the morning the kitchen was turned into a clinic, busy with the doctor treating all assorted aches and pains.†   (source)
  • WANTED—Three 2/0 fishhooks in exchange for expensive fly rod, reel, assorted lures.†   (source)
  • Oedipa skipped into the bathroom, which happened also to have a walk-in closet, quickly undressed and began putting on as much as she could of the clothing she'd brought with her: six pairs of panties in assorted colors, girdle, three pairs of nylons, three brassieres, two pairs stretch slacks, four half-slips, one black sheath, two summer dresses, half dozen A-line skirts, three sweaters, two blouses, quilted wrapper, baby blue peignoir and old Orion muumuu.†   (source)
  • I hungered so deeply to put my arms around her, to soothe her, that it became pure discomfort, but a cluster of oddly assorted inhibitions caused me to hold back.†   (source)
  • He had also supplied himself with an assortment of puzzles composed of metal rings and intersecting links and keys chained together, impossible for the rest of us, however patiently shown, to take apart; he had an almost childlike love of the ingenious.†   (source)
  • Several bunks were built against one wall, and on pegs on the other wall were rawhide lariats, bridles, spare cinches, two pairs of sleek-leather chaps, assorted riding gear.†   (source)
  • The suit salesman displayed a dazzling assortment of garments.†   (source)
  • But not a nice flat one where I might have tarried three seconds to launch another peewee A-rocket; this roof was a jungle of pipes and stanchions and assorted ironmongery — a factory maybe, or some sort of chemical works.†   (source)
  • She would stand there and if she could be brought to say anything, it was something like, "Well, I wouldn't of said it was and I wouldn't of said it wasn't," or letting her gaze range over the top kitchen shelf where there was an assortment of dusty bottles, she might remark, "I see you ain't ate many of them figs you put up last summer."†   (source)
  • He was standing at the open door smoking a cigarette, looking at the assortment of articles inside.†   (source)
  • They filed through the Reservation Gate in a unified mood of holiday festivity and assorted gear.†   (source)
  • The remainder of the garden presented a well-selected assortment of esculent vegetables, in a praiseworthy state of advancement.   (source)
  • I suppose that Coin has assembled this strange assortment of people as witnesses to my failure.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the assortment seemed so disparate that he could not even imagine where to begin.†   (source)
  • A weird assortment of musical instruments and Ancient Egyptian weapons decorated the walls.†   (source)
  • Instead, he handed me a stack of information and assorted forms and wished my dad the best.†   (source)
  • Piper gazed at the crazy assortment of cabins in the valley.†   (source)
  • Still swallowed a wide assortment of household objects.†   (source)
  • "And here," the princess said, "is the finest assortment of magical mixtures anywhere."†   (source)
  • Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Susie misses ….†   (source)
  • Then — the baggier we found — tablets of all assortments— remember?†   (source)
  • They're in an assortment of colors and blink at different speeds.†   (source)
  • There was an old bristling boar too, and a score of assorted piglets scampering underfoot.†   (source)
  • There were dozens of deep bruises and an assortment of aches and pains.†   (source)
  • On top of the dresser was a small assortment of half-empty wine bottles.†   (source)
  • He reads the telephone messages his suitemates leave for Nikhil on assorted scraps in their rooms.†   (source)
  • Hiro can see the usual assortment, including a few black-and-white people.†   (source)
  • Trees were laden with an assortment of exotic fruit.†   (source)
  • Assorted other dignitaries filled the remaining carriages.†   (source)
  • She's glad; Y.T. is totally embarrassed to beseen with this dull assortment of old farts.†   (source)
  • I can make a wide assortment of gold items at a moment's notice.†   (source)
  • Later, perhaps, I can lend her something from my wide assortment of hair products.†   (source)
  • The nymphs had conjured assorted weapons.†   (source)
  • Their complexions were an assortment of volcanic colors—ash, lava, pumice, obsidian.†   (source)
  • Behind them, all the Roman guards were tangled in a weird assortment of ropes and bones.†   (source)
  • Assorted strands of hair, sticking through the holes in the cap, were coated in purple slime.†   (source)
  • Bills, assorted mailers, an application for a Visa card.†   (source)
  • A crooked stone path led past a crazy assortment of tiny altars and massive domed vaults.†   (source)
  • She picked up a large assortment of basic clothes in the form of pants, jeans, tops, and socks.†   (source)
  • Adrienne added assorted spices to the chicken.†   (source)
  • Around their waists hung an assortment of knives, axes, and spiked clubs.†   (source)
  • We escaped from the lab where we were raised, were given wings and other assorted powers.†   (source)
  • Passport, wallet, a change purse, keys, and assorted notes and messages in the rear pockets.†   (source)
  • They were a motley assortment of all ages from all over the world.†   (source)
  • Clumsy sex (Mick); choreographed sex (Ty); imagined sex (Lawler, assorted others).†   (source)
  • I didn't like their murderous expressions or their fine assortment of handcrafted weapons.†   (source)
  • In the distance, assorted boats had dropped anchor near the beach at Cape Lookout.†   (source)
  • A chaotic assortment of warehouses, apartments, stores, and cafés crowded the riverfront.†   (source)
  • Then I noticed that the table was littered with an assortment of homemade items.†   (source)
  • Sitting at the thanes' table was the usual assortment of famous dead people.†   (source)
  • I caught my breath as my gaze became fixated on her assortment of towering red Christmas candles.†   (source)
  • "After all of the assorted characters we've seen," said Jack, "any human would seem familiar."†   (source)
  • An assortment of mismatched chairs fill out the corners.†   (source)
  • In any event, there were the pills, boxes of them scattered among an assortment of medications.†   (source)
  • An hour later, Max was consumed by assorted cheers, roars, honks, and shouts.†   (source)
  • He grabbed an extra quiver of arrows labeled ASSORTED VARIETIES in his mother's neat printing.†   (source)
  • Our herds contain an assortment of animals.†   (source)
  • She reaches into the back seat and gives him a Frito-Lay assortment pack, uneaten from the trip.†   (source)
  • How about a nice bagful of pronouns—or maybe you'd like our special assortment of names?"†   (source)
  • It says twice a month, I'll be receiving a shipment of assorted meats….†   (source)
  • In her purse, she had $37 in assorted change.†   (source)
  • Soon there was nothing left but piles of dust and assorted hooves and horns.†   (source)
  • They included all the numbers from one to nine, and even an assortment of zeros.†   (source)
  • Their faded labels read: Greeting Cards, Assorted Seasonal.†   (source)
  • They heard the front door close, and a moment later Xenophilius climbed back up the spiral staircase into the room, his thin legs now encase in Wellington boots, bearing a tray of ill-assorted teacups and a steaming teapot.†   (source)
  • He was standing near the front end of the cart, amidst an assorted pile of cigarette boxes, egg cartons, and pop bottles.†   (source)
  • Buckbeak flew him once around the paddock and then headed back to the ground; this was the bit Harry had been dreading; he leaned back as the smooth neck lowered, feeling he was going to slip off over the beak, then felt a heavy thud as the four ill-assorted feet hit the ground.†   (source)
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