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She suffered utter devastation when her child died in the accident.
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I am utterly astonished!
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Which best describes her attitude toward him:
- affection but not genuine love
- respect but not utter deference
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She is utterly insane!
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The company is in danger of utter collapse.
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"I don't know this word," I said. "What does it mean?" There was silence. Not a hush, not a muting of the noise, but utter, almost violent silence.
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Still there were no words, and when Liesel found the courage to face her, the woman wore an expression not of reproach, but utter distance.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Behind it was a space of utter darkness.
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I felt utterly alone.
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Cinna was right about the minimal makeup, we both look more attractive but utterly recognizable.
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All Lev knows is that someday soon the world will suffer a small part of the loss and the emptiness and the utter disillusionment he feels inside.
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To ensure that men felt utterly helpless, he changed the manner in which he demanded to be addressed each day, beating anyone who guessed wrong.
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But to Harry's and Ron's utter amazement, stage one of the operation went just as smoothly as Hermione had said.
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Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.
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- In response, the pup lay utterly still. (source)
- The Olympians would never be truly happy until they destroyed us utterly. (source)
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But laced through it all was the dark feeling of utter hopelessness, like the world had ended for him, had been wiped from his memory and replaced with something awful.
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- Tally closed her eyes, which made no difference in the utter darkness. (source)
- An absolute and utter hopelessness overwhelmed him. (source)
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She seemed utterly alone, the silence and darkness impenetrable forever.
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- So far, things were utterly dull: nobody had thundered, there were no arguments between opposing counsel, there was no drama; a grave disappointment to all present, it seemed. (source)
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There was utter silence.
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- There was utter silence in the room as Rachel and both her daughters turned to stare at Kit. (source)
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He looked over his shoulder as Jack had done at the close ways behind him and glanced swiftly round to confirm that he was utterly alone.
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Have no fear now—we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!
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I've been in an utter state of confusion today.
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- With that threat, he spins me around to face him and he shakes my shoulders, glaring at me with utter disappointment. (source)
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'It's utterly impossible,' said Veruca Salt.
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(With utter gentleness—) Now—whose little old angry man are you?
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- He had the feeling of sitting in utter loneliness. (source)
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He was utterly miserable, and perhaps (her shining eyes accused him), perhaps it was his own fault.
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We are all utterly at a loss.
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I was sure the request would be something utterly fantastic, and for a moment I was sorry I'd ever set foot upon his overpopulated lawn.
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All he knew was that he was safe from his enemy, the sea, and that utter weariness was on him.
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I have studied, over and over again since they came into my hands, all the papers relating to this monster, and the more I have studied, the greater seems the necessity to utterly stamp him out.
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That is the only word to describe it; it was so cruel, and so utterly not to be foreseen.
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He kept vigils, likewise, night after night, sometimes in utter darkness, sometimes with a glimmering lamp, and sometimes, viewing his own face in a looking-glass, by the most powerful light which he could throw upon it.
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I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness.
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I attempted to accompany them and proceeded a short distance from the house, but my head whirled round, my steps were like those of a drunken man, I fell at last in a state of utter exhaustion;
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- My father's words felt scandalous, yet utterly and completely true.† (source)
- Utterly laughable!† (source)
- You are utterly absolved, you old fox.† (source)
- Few of even my closest friends understood how utterly hopeless my life would have been without Mamaw and Papaw.† (source)
- The party tried in particular to impress on youth the need to stand together, to challenge the government, which was utterly failing to denounce Hitler and offer protection to all Slovaks.† (source)
- I was broken, dead-eyed, with my night bag still on my shoulder and the utterly useless folded map in my pocket.† (source)
- I was utterly transfixed.† (source)
- The next day was a precise copy of the one before: the sun and the heat and, worst of all to Salva's mind, a landscape that was utterly unchanged.† (source)
- Then people at the pool made it utterly disgusting.† (source)
- How utterly unlike me.† (source)
- Langdon was braced for the words, and yet they still sounded utterly ridiculous.† (source)
- Darnell's despair, his sadness in recognizing that they could do whatever they wanted to him with impunity, was utterly disheartening.† (source)
- The noise got louder—a scuttling sort of a scuffling noise, and while Nick Farthing had no idea what it was, he was utterly, completely certain that whatever it would turn out to be would be the most scary terrible thing he had ever—would ever—encounter ….† (source)
- She was utterly trapped.† (source)
- He looked utterly fed up.† (source)
- Utterly baffled now, the children held their tongues.† (source)
- As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.† (source)
- D., Georgia State UniversityYou are utterly incorrect… How many irate mathematicians are needed to get you to change your mind?† (source)
- She was frightened just looking at him: He was so utterly changed.† (source)
- Mike Bowman felt like a hero when they finally reached the beach: a two-mile crescent of white sand, utterly deserted.† (source)
- I guess to an outsider it might have seemed strange, but to us it felt utterly right.† (source)
- He said this utterly without embarrassment.† (source)
- Now it was utterly foreign.† (source)
- The chief may have bought the man's first point, but he disregarded his second point, as it was utterly stupid.† (source)
- That was another problem that the Merrill children suffered: they were utterly forgettable.† (source)
- Upstairs, after he has heard Frau Elena go to the toilet and climb into her own bed and the house has become utterly quiet, Werner counts to one hundred.† (source)
- When he took his place at the dining table, calm, affable, utterly certain, a crisis in the kitchen became no more than a humorous sketch; without him, it was a drama that clutched the heart.† (source)
- I never realized how utterly silent Mars is.† (source)
- She knows he's caught between her and Dina, and utterly unequipped to handle either of them.† (source)
- I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me.† (source)
- Whatever love exists between them is an utterly private, uncelebrated thing.† (source)
- It was a story of how the outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through a combination of ability, opportunity, and utterly arbitrary advantage.† (source)
- Theon ignored him utterly, but there was nothing new in that.† (source)
- Completely and utterly failed.† (source)
- She knew why I was there, and had plenty to say on the subject, but seemed utterly exhausted at the idea of talking to me, yet another white person wanting something from the family.† (source)
- Silently the aircar coasted through the cold darkness, a single soft glow of light that was utterly alone in the deep Magrathean night.† (source)
- Now he was the master soldier, and he was completely, utterly alone.† (source)
- She was utterly sincere, and it seemed to have some effect.† (source)
- That said, at a luncheon a few months ago he was regaling the table with an utterly scurrilous story about Fred Astaire which I don't feel can possibly be true.† (source)
- I'm doing my best not to seem utterly terrified, but it's difficult to stay calm when you have to strip down practically to your underwear in front of giants equipped with automatic assault weapons.† (source)
- SCORPIUS: Utterly.† (source)
- His life was going to change utterly.† (source)
- She is utterly helpless.† (source)
- The man who answered the telephone sounded utterly worn out.† (source)
- Grace was utterly right.† (source)
- Dr. Wick seemed utterly innocent about American culture, which made her an odd choice to head an adolescent girls' ward.† (source)
- Eragon closed his eyes for a moment, utterly weary.† (source)
- Ma was utterly confused about all but one thing: Jesus.† (source)
- She pampered my ungrateful children, and resented us utterly.† (source)
- "Bella, you are utterly absurd," he said, his low voice cold.† (source)
- How Corrine and I as children would have laughed at ourselves. twenty years a fool of the WEST, OR MOUTH AND ROOFLEAF DISEASE: A TREATISE ON futility in the tropics, Etc. Etc. We failed so utterly, he said.† (source)
- "We all set, ready to go, or we gonna laugh?" barked DeLeone, wrong-footing them utterly.† (source)
- So utterly appropriate, because this time was going to be worse than the others.† (source)
- Put in the waters unbecoming boats and the effect would be utterly disgusting, destroying the value of what would otherwise be the most valuable original feature of this Exposition.† (source)
- His main goal, though, is to draw us into that moment, to pull our chairs up to that table so that we are utterly convinced of the reality of the meal.† (source)
- Jared positioned each of them at a desk and the room, which had been utterly empty for weeks, was nearly full in a matter of minutes.† (source)
- Hadn't Jesus—and here my reading became intent indeed—hadn't Jesus been defeated as utterly and unarguably as our little group and our small plans had been?† (source)
- My father, utterly thrilled by Jim's gridiron prowess, was elected as president of the Big Creek Football Fathers' Association.† (source)
- In part it was her eyes: utterly flat and indifferent.† (source)
- He has an utterly calm, stolid presence.† (source)
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She wanted to warn him, but fear kept her from uttering a sound.
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I was too shocked to utter a complaint.
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The decision was made before I could utter an opinion.
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He doesn't utter a word.
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I never uttered the words "I'm from Idaho" until I'd left it.
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She did not have time, for Viktor Chemmel was on top of Rudy before she could utter a word.
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- You take one or two minutes to utter just one sentence. (source)
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Abuelita and Mama uttered no words that anyone could understand.
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[said of the sociopath, Assef] Of course, none of them dared utter it to his face unless they wished to suffer the same fate as the poor kid who had unwittingly inspired that nickname when he had fought Assef over a kite and ended up fishing his right ear from a muddy gutter.
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But even as I utter the words, I feel my insides contracting with anxiety and guilt at the sight of her...
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For the latter, he came up with lies and practiced until he could utter them smoothly.
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He had been woefully unprepared to lead an Arctic expedition, and upon returning to England, he was known as the Man Who Ate His Shoes, yet the sobriquet was uttered more often with awe than with ridicule.
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It had been my experience for nearly a year that uttering the words "female trouble" could get me into places I wanted to go and out of places I didn't.
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But the reason for precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered.
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Haunted by last night's dream, Theo jogged behind his partner halfway to the high school before he uttered a breathless "Stop!"
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He's never uttered a sound?
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"You'll know soon enough," we heard our mother utter softly, under her breath, as she tossed the magazines aside, although later she would deny that this was true.
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How had she uttered something so horrible?
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- The bass drum went boom with every sentence Mrs. Merriweather uttered. (source)
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Ekwefi uttered a scream and sprang to her feet.
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He went on to recite a host of learned titbits that he was amazed he had time to utter considering the usual efficiency and speed of The Cat when piercing some poor soul to the quick.
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"She has been insisting to my father that you are a witch. She says no respectable woman could keep afloat in the water like that."
"How dare she!" Kit flared, indignant as much at his tone as at the dread word he uttered so carelessly. (source)uttered = said
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The savage stopped fifteen yards away and uttered his cry.
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'Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge,' Sir Philip Sidney said.
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Mary utters again unintelligibly.
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Never have they uttered a single word about the burden we must be, never have they complained that we're too much trouble.
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We spend the rest of the night taking turns expressing how we feel without uttering a single word.
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It was apparent that she was uttering a prayer.
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- An apparently disembodied voice spoke to us all by name, uttering certain precise accusations against us. (source)
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After a few seconds Lenina's eyes flinched away; she uttered a nervous little laugh, tried to think of something to say and couldn't.
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...and a clear voice utters words that bring me peace,
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I became aware now of a hollow, wailing sound which issued incessantly from the garage, a sound which as we got out of the coupe and walked toward the door resolved itself into the words "Oh, my God!" uttered over and over in a gasping moan.
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She was pleading with him, in broken phrases, painfully uttered: "Have faith in me!"
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All the talk we ever have heard
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She uttered a cry of joy: "True!"
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- But they were uttered only within his imagination. (source)
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...he died as he lived, uttering, with his dying groans, bitter curses and horrid oaths.
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...and once or twice I heard them, on these occasions, utter the words 'good spirit,' 'wonderful'; but I did not then understand the signification of these terms.
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- They went into the lessons, never uttering a word about the other thing.† (source)
- Did he hear any of the sly observations, pointed asides, or dismissive remarks uttered sotto voce?† (source)
- But none of them had ever uttered such unreflective tripe.† (source)
- Mary looked down at her son and uttered the words she had never said before and never thought she would have to say.† (source)
- The defense lawyer had filed no written pleadings and uttered no more than twelve transcript lines at sentencing.† (source)
- Uncle Vernon looked as outraged as if Harry had just uttered a disgusting swearword.† (source)
- His eyes were shining brighter than they ever had, and he was still smiling like he'd just uttered a joke.† (source)
- She seemed weary, as if she had uttered the same words many times that day already.† (source)
- He leaned against her and uttered a low growl.† (source)
- She could not hold back the tears as she uttered the words that would send me away from her.† (source)
- She sat next to me without uttering a word.† (source)
- He can sense my exhaustion without my uttering a word.† (source)
- Of course, I knew what it was that had changed in him; he had found his lost faith—he spoke with absolute belief in every word he uttered; therefore, he never stuttered.† (source)
- I had not uttered a single syllable in my five sessions as a student, and I had no intention of doing so.† (source)
- The word had never been used in front of the children, and never uttered by them.† (source)
- Then he uttered the words every flight director hopes never to say: "GC, Flight.† (source)
- The sound was a metallic squeak, a human-as-machine breaking down, uttering last sounds before the whole engine locks.† (source)
- I flashed to my grandfather's ashen face, his lips just barely moving, uttering those very words.† (source)
- Each time the name is uttered, he quietly winces.† (source)
- Most of them can be uttered in less than one-quarter of a second (for instance, 4 is "si" and 7 "qi").† (source)
- She could see from the way he moved that his right arm was still troubling him, yet he uttered not a word of complaint.† (source)
- The chilling words didn't have half as much impact on me as the familiar voice that uttered them.† (source)
- A glance was exchanged—the heft of which I recognized instantly from our shoplifting days, when we had been able to say Let's go or here he comes without uttering a word —and Boris, seeming flustered, ran his hands through his hair and looked at me intently.† (source)
- She uttered the blood-soaked words again.† (source)
- They focused so intently on eating that they uttered not a word.† (source)
- Her mother utters her name three times: Lourdes.† (source)
- The word was uttered with dead finality.† (source)
- I'd uttered the words I never said to a girl—I loved her.† (source)
- Someone led him back to his room, uttering consolations.† (source)
- He was studying that big Catholic-looking cross around the neck, and probably thinking over all we'd heard about Brother Fowles going off the deep end, plus every curse word ever uttered by the parrot.† (source)
- 9 BONES I'd scarcely uttered the words before Kate was walking across the beach, away from the ship, away from the other passengers, toward the forest.† (source)
- And then I gasped and began to cry, and he embraced me and uttered promises that we would be lovers for ten thousand lifetimes, and I vowed the same, until we heard a loud "Shhhh!"† (source)
- The man takes a single breath, and utters one word: "Run."† (source)
- "By Allah!" gasped Kassad, a cry he had not uttered since childhood.† (source)
- His eyes were gloriously intense as he uttered that last sentence, his voice smoldering.† (source)
- Without uttering a peep, the kid had become the talk of the school.† (source)
- "I need help," I said, uttering a phrase which must have shed an especially glaring light on the obvious.† (source)
- In talking, he has the appearance of candor, becomes pathetic at times when pathos will serve him best, uttering his words with a quaver in his voice, often accompanied by a moistened eye, then turning quickly with a determined and forceful method of speech, as if indignation or resolution had sprung out of tender memories that had touched his heart.† (source)
- She almost said "plankton" and was happy to have caught the slur before uttering it.† (source)
- We kept the location a secret; real names and places could not be uttered over the telephone.† (source)
- I should have uttered something biblical.† (source)
- She uttered two clearly audible words, familiar and elusive at the same time, words that seemed to have a ritual meaning, part of a verbal spell or ecstatic chant.† (source)
- The way this man had uttered Peter's name had stopped Langdon cold.† (source)
- The boy still hadn't uttered a sound.† (source)
- Amos took off his coat and uttered a magic word.† (source)
- She uttered an angry cry.† (source)
- She uttered three words.† (source)
- I don't have anything to say to the nonsense our French friend has been uttering.† (source)
- He had a terrified look on his face, as if the guy had touched him with a white-hot poker, but then he shook his head and looked around, uttering the words "I can hear again."† (source)
- When she too went out of the door she uttered a shriek of horror, but then immediately, as if overcome by the depth of her sympathy, went over to the dead woman, took five hundred zloty from her own handbag and gave the money to Kohn, who was just behind her.† (source)
- I don't know if he's answering voices or simply uttering his every thought.† (source)
- "Amy has never uttered the name Noelle in the entire time we've lived here.† (source)
- On rainy afternoons, his tongue loosened by the pleasure of having his feathers drenched, he uttered phrases from another time, which he could not have learned in the house and which led one to think that he was much older than he appeared.† (source)
- By uttering the words, by being there, she made herself infinitely worth their fighting.† (source)
- Then she uttered a word I was glad the children were not close enough to hear.† (source)
- The girl, it turned out, was an unwitting intermediary between two communities, a human sacrifice who allowed the festivities to go forward with no uttered ill will.† (source)
- Since Plato is putting his own philosophy in Socrates' mouth, we cannot be sure that the words he speaks in the dialogues were ever actually uttered by him.† (source)
- Hiatt presided, tall and thin, uttering the opening remarks at his usual deliberate pace, as if his tongue weighed every word.† (source)
- Both uttered cries of delight.† (source)
- As we entered Los Angeles, I sat huddled in the back seat, silent, fearing any word I uttered might bring it to life.† (source)
- They were the last words he ever uttered.† (source)
- While howls and thumps rang throughout the house, tall Henry leaned in close to Palmer and softly uttered, "Panther's a cat.† (source)
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