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  • But the apples must have set off enough mines, causing debris to activate the others.†   (source)
  • Hayden has lit a candle he found in the debris, making the basement smell like cinnamon over mildew.†   (source)
  • The slope was littered with brittle dead logs and broken branches, the debris of many cold, windy winters.†   (source)
  • Two life rafts, holding the entire five-man B-25 crew, floated amid plane debris.†   (source)
  • August and June scraped off every piece of river debris there was from May's skin and clothes, and Rosaleen, poor Rosaleen, who I realized had lost her new best friend, stood, not making a sound, but with her chin shaking so awful I wanted to reach up and hold it for her.†   (source)
  • Madame Hoo tried to make the injured woman as comfortable as possible on the debris-strewn floor.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I poke around in the debris of the back garden, clearing away dry stalks and fallen leaves, but that's about as far as I go.†   (source)
  • Henry looked at the piles of debris.†   (source)
  • I also took a pillow to protect my head from falling debris.†   (source)
  • Several soldiers began to shoot at the ceiling, and dust and debris fell.†   (source)
  • People were making an effort to pile trash bags together, and hills of them were growing at the intersections, glued together by windblown snow and debris.†   (source)
  • This attic was originally built to house the butlers and ladies' maids of the Metropol's guests; but when the practice of traveling with servants fell out of fashion, the unused rooms had been claimed by the caprices of casual urgency—thenceforth warehousing scraps of lumber, broken furniture, and other assorted debris.†   (source)
  • Garbage piled up in the house, with an entire bedroom devoted to trinkets and debris that had no earthly value.†   (source)
  • She had delighted in hearing his stories of the children and their attempts to play, with no toys, kicking balls made out of snow or debris, seeing who could jump the highest to touch the timber slats on their building, mostly just playing tag.†   (source)
  • I pulled the joystick to the right, weaving through the digital debris one final time.†   (source)
  • And there was a lot of debris?†   (source)
  • The road was littered with debris and it was work to get the cart through.†   (source)
  • He threw the box aside into the sack where they were depositing the debris from the cabinets; Harry saw George wrap his own hand carefully in a cloth moments later and sneak the box into his already Doxy-filled pocket.†   (source)
  • He had to do something, so he began to pick up the fallen coffins, to remove the debris, and to replace the tangle of tumbled bones into the coffins, disappointed to discover that none of the many Frobishers and Frobyshers and Pettyfers gathered around to watch seemed to be quite certain whose bones belonged in which container.†   (source)
  • So, I just opened my locker, put all my old papers and things in my backpack, and walked over the debris of books and papers and notes in the hallway to the parking lot outside.†   (source)
  • Only dust and debris and that looming shape of the building, almost on top of them now They'd lost any hope of organization or staying together.†   (source)
  • They were making their slow way up the hill, clearing weeds and debris from the paths.†   (source)
  • Like pulling out weeds and sweeping up debris.†   (source)
  • Debris fell from the cavern ceiling.†   (source)
  • What hit us was all the stuff that ricocheted off the ceiling—there was a sharp, stinging hail that raided like BB's around the room, and all the chips of cement and tile, and the plaster debris, fell down upon us.†   (source)
  • Something poked up in the middle of the debris but then disappeared.†   (source)
  • A revolting smell of burnt rubber seeped up from the debris.†   (source)
  • It shuttles across debris, illuminates a fallen hunk of wall, lights up a twisted piece of shelving.†   (source)
  • Weaving through the stalled cars that seem to pop through a white curtain, covered in three seasons' worth of debris.†   (source)
  • As he was pushing debris away from under his buttocks, Turner felt his soaked shirt.†   (source)
  • The force of the blast knocked Alyss over in her chair and she was still on the ground, coughing from dust and debris, when she saw innocent courtiers and civilians attacked by a mob of Redd's card soldiers and fierce ex-Wonderlanders.†   (source)
  • I clambered over debris back to Lewis's space suit and put my head back in for more good air.†   (source)
  • Will said with a laugh as the three friends headed tothe barely paved parking lot of the Dayton Street Projects, which was filled with weeds, sparse patches of grass, broken glass, and all kinds of debris.†   (source)
  • It had shattered like a giant egg, its pieces all mixed up in a heap of debris and smashed floorboards.†   (source)
  • But the only thing in the living Loom is debris: price tags from all the gifts they've packed for their relatives, plastic hangers, cardboard from shirts.†   (source)
  • Her floodlight targeted the body of a rusted hover, entrenching the piles of debris behind it in shadows.†   (source)
  • In the short hallway that led to my room, there was a pile of debris that I had to climb over to get to my door.†   (source)
  • He rummaged around in a pile of debris and pulled out a large Plexiglas block with his name on it and a model of Norway molded into it.†   (source)
  • A lump of dirt was growing as gravity drew much of the debris downward again.†   (source)
  • At almost exactly the same moment there was a black flash, with debris sweeping and twisting around me, and a roar of hot wind slammed into me and threw me across the room.†   (source)
  • Fifteen minutes down the glacier from our tents, their camp was clustered atop a hump of glacial debris.†   (source)
  • Butler glanced down at the debris strewn in the troll's wake … Perfect.†   (source)
  • A huge spiraling gout of sparks and flaming debris rushed up into the howling winter night.†   (source)
  • I witnessed the buildings' collapse and the massive cloud of dust and debris that rose in their place.†   (source)
  • Noah touched the top tip of his tattoo on his other arm "—is from where I used my body to protect Tyler and Jacob from debris falling in the fire."†   (source)
  • Pieces of debris that he could not have moved normally now seemed to shift on their own accord.†   (source)
  • THE STREETS WERE COVERED WITH SPLINTERS AND various debris.†   (source)
  • Around her tree, the one her nest is in, there was a lot of debris on the ground.†   (source)
  • If she could find the source, she could help LuLing unclog the pathways in her brain and prevent more destructive debris from accumulating.†   (source)
  • Kassad pulled himself along, floating through debris and the tangled entrails of the ship's wiring.†   (source)
  • We hit the deck, jamming ourselves into our rocky crevasse, heads down to avoid the lethal flying debris, rock fragments and shrapnel.†   (source)
  • In the foreground stood mountains of debris.†   (source)
  • His mother waded through this debris of other years, clearing a path to a box tied with old rope, about four feet square, in the corner.†   (source)
  • I looked over my shoulder at the choppers as they landed, blowing away the loose grass and debris on the ground.†   (source)
  • Burning debris fell with a clatter.†   (source)
  • The roads would be covered with debris, impassable for days.†   (source)
  • Smartwheels use sonar, laser rangefinding, and millimeter-wave radar to identify mufflers and other debris before you even get honed about them.†   (source)
  • The runoff from Colorado Springs eroded the land beside the creek, carrying silt and debris downstream all the way to Kansas.†   (source)
  • Still I sprinted down the gangway which led to a debris-strewn alley, filled with furniture parts and overturned trash cans.†   (source)
  • In the debris of invisible matter, the question seemed to be, What is happening here?†   (source)
  • The ice around the fallen tree, perforated by branches and debris, was weakened already, and as he drove his powerful legs into the trunk, his head and shoulders broke through the ice, crashing up into the winter night.†   (source)
  • "Pack your things and go," Chacko would say, stepping over the debris.†   (source)
  • By gingerly probing around the soggy gash he succeeded in picking out the biggest pieces of debris, until it hurt too much to continue.†   (source)
  • As we made it out of the trees and over the top of the hill the wind gusted again, pelting us with more debris before it died down.†   (source)
  • But the first order of business is for him to compulsively pick up every speck of dirt, debris and tobacco by hand.†   (source)
  • Christina whoops as we bump over another piece of debris, like she's having the time of her life.†   (source)
  • One-story, spacious and cool, it had a portico with Doric columns on the outside terrace, which commanded a view of the still, miasmic water and the debris from sunken ships in the bay.†   (source)
  • Clarke raised her arms to protect her head, but she could still feel the debris scorching her neck.†   (source)
  • Gurney glanced at him, looked back to the patches of smoke and debris out on the desert where carryall and ornithopters had been brought down by Fremen rockets.†   (source)
  • Mostly they lived outside in the weeds or piles of debris.†   (source)
  • A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset.†   (source)
  • On March 13, we packed up all the debris of a lengthy hospital stay in a hodgepodge of shopping bags, duffel bags, and plastic bags and headed for the elevators, me pushing Colton in a wheelchair and Sonja holding a thick bouquet of going-home balloons.†   (source)
  • It was like the debris you get on a sea-shore: the wind must have carried some of it for miles and miles before finally coming up against these trees and these two lines of wire.†   (source)
  • Festering together in the debris of a realtor's whim.†   (source)
  • This way, they could make sure they weren't being followed and weren't going to stumble over any of the gurneys and debris littering their path.†   (source)
  • they get pinched. and they get anoxic. there goes hearing, and often ability to open both eyes, etc. even hydrocephalus is often due to inflammatory debris blocking the foramina…… it's anatomy, my friend. anatomy and pus. it's always anatomy and pus.†   (source)
  • Each crew spent twenty-four hours on standby, making periodic checks, clearing the debris, doing whatever was necessary to keep the water moving into camp.†   (source)
  • THE WIND GUSTED THROUGH THE OPEN fields rimming the farmhouse, spraying debris against the windows.†   (source)
  • Mr. Clutter now fed Babe the core of his apple, calling good morning to a man raking debris inside the corral-Alfred Stoecklein, the sole resident employee.†   (source)
  • With this he swept the street to remove some of the debris that cats and rats had pulled from the trash.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly she spotted a flock of willow grouse pecking at some tree debris that had fallen not far away.†   (source)
  • Every sound that had ever been uttered or made, from way back to when there were none, to way up when there were too many, came hurtling out of the debris in a way that sounded as though everyone in the world was laughing, whistling, shouting, crying, singing, whispering, humming, screaming, coughing, and sneezing, all at the same time.†   (source)
  • But the crisp beauty conceals fallen trees and washed-out trails, hillsides treacherous with mud and debris.†   (source)
  • He ran his finger around the patient's tongue to clear the mouth of debris, sweeping out mucus and blood.†   (source)
  • There was broken glass and trash on the field that posed a hazard to players; Luma had her teams walk the field, scouring for such debris.†   (source)
  • He kicked the blackened edges into the ditches, where more snow lingered, broken through with weeds, debris.†   (source)
  • Soon there was a small pile of debris in the hollow as the rabbits brought anything from which it could get food.†   (source)
  • One night, mysteriously, it burned down, and the next day Goetz was out on the street sweeping away the debris.†   (source)
  • Johnnie looked curiously at the dirty yards with their debris of lard buckets and tin cans.†   (source)
  • Hemingway's house had survived the storm, except that the giant swimming pool was filled with brackish water and debris, along with a magnificent sea turtle that I immediately named Ernest.†   (source)
  • Bits of burning debris fell from the bridge and set boats below on fire.†   (source)
  • By the end of August we were almost finished with our work preparing the warden's house for its new resident, painting the garage door bright red and cleaning up the postconstruction debris.†   (source)
  • See inbred girl; lie breeds grin; leering debris; greed be nil, sir; be idle re. rings; ringside rebel; residing rebel, etc.]†   (source)
  • Debris had been swept down the river when it was in flood and had lodged against the rocks.†   (source)
  • The captain claimed to have had a fire aboard, but photographs taken by naval reconnaissance aircraft—ours and Japanese—did not show smoke or fire-damaged debris being jettisoned from the submarine.†   (source)
  • The shock wave and debris ripped apart the two other buildings and walls, causing a secondary detonation in one building—probably housing explosives used in making IEDs.†   (source)
  • And the way Trent does it has resulted in entire valleys being filled up with debris.†   (source)
  • He instinctively ducked down as small rocks and debris showered his helmet and shoulders.†   (source)
  • Anywhere on the trail back to Askole, there would be debris left behind by the military.†   (source)
  • They raised their feet high with each step, to get clear of the debris.†   (source)
  • It's like watching a video of an explosion played backward, every piece of debris being sucked back into place, like nothing ever happened.†   (source)
  • Not even any debris in the water.†   (source)
  • With a sickle she is harvesting the forest's debris, gathering the branches into piles.†   (source)
  • "Dusting off some debris," I said, and smiled toward Chris.†   (source)
  • Pedro Garcia had a blanket brought and, between his son and his grandson, they laid the patron on it, lifted him carefully, and raised him onto an improvised table that they had set up in what was formerly the courtyard but was now no more than a small clearing in that nightmare of debris, animal corpses, crying children, moaning dogs, and praying women.†   (source)
  • There was no debris.†   (source)
  • Light flooded through the windows, which seemed impossible considering the windows on the outside of the house were completely covered with vines and debris.†   (source)
  • I had never felt such fear before, because as the whirlwind blew its debris around me the gushing wind seemed to call my name: Antoniooooooooooooooo ….†   (source)
  • Clary turned to look at face; he was kicking bits of debris with a savage satisfaction.†   (source)
  • I grasp for the words like a drowning man reaching for floating debris," …. you said you hated me?"†   (source)
  • The ground was clear of debris and rocks, but they couldn't be doing the man's belly any favors.†   (source)
  • Harry Rex laughed and sent debris flying over his desk.†   (source)
  • Scaffolds had been erected, and men of different trades worked diligently, repairing roof rafters, shoring up timbers, chipping away the deteriorated masonry, and cleaning the twisted metal and concrete debris.†   (source)
  • If someone was out there, if it wasn't just debris, it was Anaander Mianaai.†   (source)
  • We're law-abiding, so clear the street of the debris.†   (source)
  • "It's rather far-fetched," Stone said, "to postulate debris from some extragalactic source other than—"†   (source)
  • At first they were hard to see, tangled as they were with debris and as gray as the ashen mud.†   (source)
  • He crossed quickly to it and crouched, yanking it out of the dirt and debris and dragged it toward the paved asphalt.†   (source)
  • The lobby was a chaos of debris.†   (source)
  • It was hard to make out his features, even as he drew clear of the fog, for he was spattered from head to foot with the damp brown debris of rotten fruit.†   (source)
  • When the remains of his wife and children had been conveyed to him, after the investigation of the crash and the meticulous cataloguing of both the organic and the inorganic debris, Joe was given only fragments of their bodies.†   (source)
  • We could pole the skiff down to his house, maneuvering around the debris as we would ice floes.†   (source)
  • A note, scratched on a piece of debris with a broken pencil.†   (source)
  • One wrong move and we all would have been in a pile of debris in the courtyard.†   (source)
  • By midweek, hopes for the block party started to disappear, the weeks of planning washed through the rusted drains with the gutters' debris.†   (source)
  • Another tremor shook the palace, knocking debris from the walls in little avalanches of rubble and broken masonry.†   (source)
  • I step gingerly into the almost total darkness, careful of debris on the floor.†   (source)
  • It's strewn with debris.†   (source)
  • Like the Mississippi, it keeps forging new channels and abandoning old ones, picking up debris, depositing unwanted silt, and frequently bursting its banks.†   (source)
  • When they started separating the debris, a few bodies, or parts of them, became distinguishable.†   (source)
  • But I am a prisoner of memory, and I have needed to clear out the debris of that year for many years.†   (source)
  • When they got to the kiosk, they looked down to see a cement stairway that was covered in garbage and debris.†   (source)
  • Hide and confine your debris.†   (source)
  • We step through the debris of charred cabinets and chair legs used as firewood, and move through the offices skylighted by gaping holes punched through the ceiling and roof by the firefighters.†   (source)
  • When the submarine passed through the debris, I thought the crew looked remorseful-because the wounded were giving up, letting go, and sinking-but when they passed me they laughed.†   (source)
  • He spat out water, sucked in air, grabbed hold of the nearest chunk of debris, and held on.†   (source)
  • Berger empties the other chair of debris and drags it over to the desk.†   (source)
  • He moved up the side of the rubble and began digging around the debris with his bare hands.†   (source)
  • I remember the police chief said something like "for lack of a better word, debris from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, or other situations …. can be everywhere, and you don't know if the debris contains a disease that can take your life."†   (source)
  • We conducted another baptism at our house one night when the river was really high, which brings water up close to our house, along with the snakes, alligators, and other dangerous debris.†   (source)
  • We found him beneath the debris.†   (source)
  • They had databases of all the really enormous amounts of stuff, comets, asteroids, bits, pieces, minor moons, rocks and just general debris, that filled the system.†   (source)
  • Eventually the jam broke and the waters sub= sided; but the cabin had lost its charm, for the debris on the floor was a foot thick and somewhat repellent.†   (source)
  • Even the pile of debris outside Ralph's rooming house window turned picturesque, its jagged rustiness tempered into drifts, swoops, and in one corner, a series of pretty balls, like a snowman laid down for a nap.†   (source)
  • All through the night we worked with the rest of Murphy's citizens dragging debris off the road.†   (source)
  • There was an orange flash and an enormous ball of brown smoke and black bits of debris rushing up to meet him.†   (source)
  • A streak of light from the front flowed past me, illuminating dusty weeds, debris and outbuildings some distance to the rear.†   (source)
  • Save for the paper debris, nothing was left.†   (source)
  • ANNIE freezes on the pump handle: there is a change in the sundown light, and with it a change in HELEN'S face, some light coming into it we have never seen there, some struggle in the depths behind it; and her lips tremble, trying to remember something the muscles around them once knew, till at last it finds its way out, painfully, a baby sound buried under the debris of years of dumbness.†   (source)
  • I lighted the gas mantle lamp, stuffed the debris in a little closet, and put on water for coffee.†   (source)
  • Then came the explosion, a thunderous, groundshaking eruption right outside, followed by a hail of pebbles and debris.†   (source)
  • He buckled to; pouncing on bits of debris like a hungry chicken pecking at scattered corn.†   (source)
  • Before it's cluttered With the debris of journalistic camp-followers.†   (source)
  • One Thanksgiving she burned herself badly when, running up from the cellar oven with the ceremonial turkey, she tripped on the stairs and tumbled back down, ending at the bottom in the debris of giblets, hot gravy, and battered turkey.†   (source)
  • He's radioactive debris on Klendathu and it's much too late to court-martial him, so why talk about it?†   (source)
  • He's tough," I said, and dropped down on the sofa among the debris.†   (source)
  • …the house walked westward and crossed the street in front of the children, putting on his hat as he reached the farther curb, and they heard the last of the streetcar, but now they heard the hard chipping of two sparrows, worrying a bit of debris in the street, and Mr. Starr said, "Better go now, and they realized that he had never shut off his engine, for as soon as he said this he began to back the car, as silently as he could and with great care; and he twisted it backward around…†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [pointing, for the WAITRESS'S benefit, to the debris] Over there, over there!†   (source)
  • His mind was like the sea itself: troubled, and too deep for the bravest man's descent, throwing up now and again, for the naked eye to wonder at, treasure and debris long forgotten on the bottom? bones and jewels, fantastic shells, jelly that had once been flesh, pearls that had once been eyes.†   (source)
  • You walked into Jerry Church's cellar store, crammed and littered with the debris of time, and you were in a museum of eternity.†   (source)
  • For a heartbeat, the only sound was the trickle of dust and debris.†   (source)
  • Millions of tons of rock and ice and volcanic debris crashed down the mountain.†   (source)
  • The advance winds hit, stirring up debris on the open field.†   (source)
  • If the crushing debris and the flames didn't get them, the smoke did.†   (source)
  • I can't get any closer, 'cause the debris from the decompression is all over the place.†   (source)
  • There was nothing left except scattered debris when our guys finally got up there to investigate.†   (source)
  • As they got closer, they saw a dark smudge in the water, a log or piece of debris.†   (source)
  • A beat-up tread punctured with pebbles and debris.†   (source)
  • Oh, by the way, Clarke, I found some debris from the crash when I was out in the woods.†   (source)
  • The windows were totally blocked by furniture and debris.†   (source)
  • He was suddenly light, the vest pulling him urgently upward in a stream of debris.†   (source)
  • I was wretched looking, damp from rain and dust-covered and squatting in a mound of debris.†   (source)
  • It's the flying glass and debris that kills most people, you know, often at pretty far range.†   (source)
  • Important quantity of debris would support this theory.†   (source)
  • • The big dome turns into a 'fountain of jagged, flaky debris.†   (source)
  • Miss Harty brushed the debris away, and an inscription emerged: JOHN HERNDON MERCER (JOHNNY).†   (source)
  • Debris begins to litter the forest floor.†   (source)
  • A kitchen full of debris waits down a corridor.†   (source)
  • Pieces of furniture flew together out of the debris, and boom!†   (source)
  • The desk is cluttered with papers and books and other debris as if someone abandoned it hurriedly.†   (source)
  • Magrathea," and he strode on through the dirt and debris that littered the tile floors.†   (source)
  • They had no clean water, as the river was brown with wreckage and debris.†   (source)
  • Instead of mountains, there were hills of tangled debris.†   (source)
  • Bicycle riders and mule-drawn carts swerved around kids, stray dogs, and piles of debris.†   (source)
  • Eragon and Murtagh pressed against the wall to avoid the falling debris.†   (source)
  • He stood up, aghast at Miss Riley's forwardness, brushing imaginary debris from his vest.†   (source)
  • They ran, each with an arm over their head to protect themselves from falling debris.†   (source)
  • Dust and debris rained down from the ceiling.†   (source)
  • They sat on the stoop eating potato chips and looking at the remaining debris.†   (source)
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