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  • Its high-tech tooling and age-old symbolism exuded an eerie fusion of ancient and modern worlds.†   (source)
  • Sea air exudes from the man's clothes, as if he has been blown here by a gale.†   (source)
  • At the wharf a fish packing plant exuded the odor of salmon bones, and the creosoted pilings of the state ferry terminal lay in among a fleet of mildewed boats.†   (source)
  • Every item of her appearance, her very familiarity with the courtroom, where I felt out of place and off balance, her confident glances at Frank, her fellow lawyer, seemed to me to exude the odor of disdain, and the wish to take from us what we had that she wanted, but clearly didn't need.†   (source)
  • To his astonishment, it immediately exuded so much juice he was amazed the shriveled bean could have held it all.†   (source)
  • Her voice was soft and pleasant and somehow exuded intelligence.†   (source)
  • The intensity that exudes from his whole existence sucks the air out of my lungs and the strength out of my knees.†   (source)
  • However, Haymitch's house, despite the care taken by the grounds-keeper, exudes an air of abandonment and neglect.†   (source)
  • He exuded sexuality in everything he did, everything he was, and she caught herself thinking about him in a way that an engaged woman shouldn't.†   (source)
  • He exuded a dreamy asexuality that made him attractive to both men and women, with his long lashes and hooded eyelids, his thick black hair, and the same delicate features that were still a boy's.†   (source)
  • The stranger, dressed in battered clothes, exuded a calm, assured air.†   (source)
  • As boisterous and animated as Martin Silenus seemed upon first encounter, so the next guest at the table exuded an immediate and equally impressive sense of intelligent reticence.†   (source)
  • The nurses were seasoned professionals who exuded confidence and warmth, attentively hovering over her, checking the baby's heartbeat and coaching Jenny along.†   (source)
  • He's elegant in a black tux but exudes a casual, genial manner, and Mr. Ayers holds his breath and takes a nervous half-step back as Ma approaches, hand extended.†   (source)
  • She could see the merest hint of an aura around the woman, almost as if she were exuding a fine white mist.†   (source)
  • He respected Burnham for his candor, his directness, and the air of leadership he exuded, and no doubt he told the architects as much.†   (source)
  • Flowers glow in glorious hues and exude delirious scents to attract the insects which are instrumental in pollination.†   (source)
  • She exuded Don't mess with me, her face stern and staring straight ahead.†   (source)
  • He's also calm and reassuring, he exudes a patient kindness.†   (source)
  • But Jacob could never quite manage the perfect serenity Sam always exuded.†   (source)
  • They exuded a cold air of disdain as though they had personal AC units installed under their shirt collars.†   (source)
  • She exuded odors of Avon soap, Woolworth's perfume, and Juicy Fruit gum.†   (source)
  • Whenever Trueba was heard arriving, whoever was closest ran to hide the rubber tree out on the terrace, because as soon as the old man entered the room, the plant lowered its leaves and began to exude a whitish fluid, like tears of milk, from its stem.†   (source)
  • She knew that much of her appeal was her Zsa Zsa Gabor shtick, her accent, the flirtatious yet intelligent personality she exuded when she answered questions in TV and radio interviews.†   (source)
  • On an ordinary day he exuded danger.†   (source)
  • He exuded the genial optimism and good humor of his old friend Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • Talk to Rath today—after you've purchased that cap—and you find that she exudes confidence as she earns a solid income that will provide a better future for her sisters and for her young son.†   (source)
  • The young man in the picture exuded virile allure.†   (source)
  • They're just staring at this thin-lipped lab goat who exudes pure, arrhythmic, white power.†   (source)
  • He's soft-spoken and seems like the kind of guy who'd be a good listener, but his tone exudes responsibility and a don't-mess-with-me attitude.†   (source)
  • Only the scab remains, barely seen, the exuded substance.†   (source)
  • Despite his kingly attire, Prusias exuded the air of a tribal chieftain rather than that of refined royalty.†   (source)
  • He exuded big-city slickness, and Phedra knew he was from Chicago before he got through the front door.†   (source)
  • At age forty-three, JFK exudes fearlessness and vigor.†   (source)
  • Brilliant to the point of genius, he exuded vitality and could turn on great charm when needed.†   (source)
  • Even John had to admit reluctantly that the bearing and manner of the Winter King, enemy though he was, exuded a regal nobility that demanded attention, if not respect.†   (source)
  • Her guide was silent on the ride up and exuded a discreet whiff of sensible scent that matched her sensible shoes and neat, sleek coif.†   (source)
  • He was new to this work and young-looking to my later eyes, but to his fellow seventeen-and eighteen-year-old corpsmen he exuded a certain maturity.†   (source)
  • Noah exuded confidence.†   (source)
  • Manzoor Khan may have been squatting in a six-foot-wide storefront, before a fan, a few bolts of cloth and a clothesmaker's dummy, but he exuded an imperial dignity.†   (source)
  • But unlike Helene, the Commandant exudes a deathly chill, as if her gray eyes and cut-glass features were carved from the underbelly of a glacier.†   (source)
  • Everything about her exuded it: the way she carried herself, with shoulders thrown back; the hard set of her teeth when she made up her mind about something; the way she ended every sentence with a declarative period, never a question mark.†   (source)
  • Talking about his appointments and exuding an odor of new money and idleness, he danced down the steps and strutted toward the pea-green dress.†   (source)
  • It was a smiling, self-congratulating, laughing affair, with Pepe Ruiz exuding great charm and conviction as he told again the tale of the rebellion, and of the courageous rescue by the gallant U.S. Navy.†   (source)
  • It must be the aura I exude.†   (source)
  • She had a taste for absinthe, too, and exuded a faint licorice smell.†   (source)
  • In fifteen minutes his hands were the color of a rose, and in half an hour they had started to bleed, to exude viscous white fluids, and to crack apart.†   (source)
  • She always stood just far enough away not to be too intimate but at the same time to exude graciousness.†   (source)
  • He knew the original Shard at once from the warmth and strength that it exuded, but this second one intrigued him as well, holding an impressive aura of power of its own.†   (source)
  • Being hungry meant that he could smell things he didn't want to smell—salt on skin; the overripe, sweet smell of blood exuding from the pores of strangers.†   (source)
  • Her tone couldn't have held more wonder and censure if Zooey's pores had been exuding crude oil.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure if he was aware of how strong he was, but he exuded a power that I didn't sense even with Lucas.†   (source)
  • For all their play they looked as if they had never eaten a full meal in their lives, with their ribs thrust out and bellies full-blown like drums with wind and emptiness; and they were also extremely dirty with the dust of the roadside and the filth deposited upon it; and the running sores many of them had upon their bodies were clogged with mud where blood or pus had exuded.†   (source)
  • The uniform exuded the nauseating odor of new clothing.†   (source)
  • Some people exude their futures, good or bad.†   (source)
  • The Maple Court regulars, the off-duty cops and elevator operators and building supers and random barflies, had begun to filter in, exuding a faint mist of steam from the summer downpour which had lasted hours.†   (source)
  • Then, amongst the roots, he fossicked for resin; the exuded sap that had overflowed from and run down the yacca-yaccas' stems in the days of their prime.†   (source)
  • It exuded sweat.†   (source)
  • Tall, broad-shouldered, determined, exuding a tremendous aura of charm and power.†   (source)
  • He exuded potential, but potential for what?†   (source)
  • The stones of the castle exuded an earthy smell in the heat.†   (source)
  • Even from the air, Washington, D.C., exuded an almost mystical power.†   (source)
  • Night was falling now, and the house exuded a warm and inviting aura.†   (source)
  • He bore himself with great dignity, exuding an intense, commanding air.†   (source)
  • An aura, a power, an elemental, even animalistic ability to exude sex.†   (source)
  • He exuded a strong smell of peanut butter.†   (source)
  • The tendrils got thicker, exuding a steamy green vapor that smelled of boiled cabbage.†   (source)
  • Or should I tell you about his business, or the quiet wisdom he exuded whenever we were together?†   (source)
  • Even when sitting quietly in his chair, Elias Bram exuded a gargantuan presence.†   (source)
  • She doesn't want to blend, she wants to exude authority, confidence.†   (source)
  • Her companion was a well-dressed portly man who exuded a jowly air of self-importance.†   (source)
  • Like the moon, Astaroth seemed to exude his own gravitational pull.†   (source)
  • The tendrils unfurled, exuding their stinky green fumes as they crept toward Frank's feet.†   (source)
  • Her face was unmistakably Italian-not overly beautiful, but possessing full, earthy features that even at twenty yards seemed to exude a raw sensuality.†   (source)
  • Lydia, who is seated to Simon's left, is dressed in some cloudy, shiny material, a light mauve shot through with white, cut low enough to reveal her charming collarbone; she exudes a moist aroma of lily of the valley.†   (source)
  • I tried to exude confidence.†   (source)
  • Even at sixty-eight Harrison exuded strength and energy, and women generally agreed that he was more handsome now than he had been in his fifties.†   (source)
  • Doctor Papineau found a reason to drop in whenever the adoptive owners arrived, exuding what seemed to Edgar an increasingly proprietary air.†   (source)
  • In the gallery, with her sister on one side and her mother on the other, dressed in black from head to foot and with her eyes shrouded behind a chenille-dot veil, Susan Marie looked mournfully attractive: she exuded a blond, woeful distress that caused the reporters to turn in her direction and ponder the propriety of speaking intimately with her under the guise of professional necessity.†   (source)
  • The left-hand corridor was quiet, but it exuded a faint odor that was unpleasantly familiar ...not sulfur, exactly, but a vaporous mix of minerals from deep in the earth.†   (source)
  • The look was nearly the typical look of a hyena—blank and frank, the curiosity apparent with nothing of the mental set revealed, jaw hanging open, big ears sticking up rigidly, eyes bright and black—were it not for the strain that exuded from every cell of its body, an anxiety that made the animal glow, as if with a fever.†   (source)
  • Dressed in military uniforms and equipped with bandoliers, they exuded youthful vigor and surrounded Ye Zhetai like four green flames.†   (source)
  • Bellamy was lithe and slender, with an erect posture and piercing gaze that exuded the confidence of a man in full control of his surroundings.†   (source)
  • Bob always had more to say—he was a sociable man—but it was true also that the other farmers always glanced at Daddy when Bob made some pronouncement, as if Daddy should have the last word, and Daddy liked to exude skepticism, which he could do with an assortment of heavings and grunts that made Bob seem loquacious and shallow.†   (source)
  • His stance was casual, somehow exuding nonchalance over what the rest obviously considered an ordeal.†   (source)
  • "A few days later," he finally said, and I wasn't sure if he had edited his story for my sake or because he was responding to the tension that even I could feel exuding from Edward, "I was introduced to my new life.†   (source)
  • To him Sara White exuded "an intense something concealed by an air of supreme innocence and maidenly reserve."†   (source)
  • Like a junk heap from the Industrial Revolution, the structure exuded inhuman technological grimness and steel-bound barbarity.†   (source)
  • Wang took from the envelope a thin, irregularly shaped sheet exuding a faint fragrance— not paper, but birch bark.†   (source)
  • The resulting hole evoked a giant grave and exuded the same musty chill, but this was not unwelcome for it provided workers with relief from the intensifying summer heat.†   (source)
  • He exuded warmth and charm.†   (source)
  • As the bodies drifted, their blood boiled in the vacuum and their inner organs were vomited out, until they turned into strange blobs surrounded by crystalline clouds made from the liquid they exuded.†   (source)
  • Usually he exudes so much confidence that he dominates any room he walks into, but sometimes—like that afternoon—I saw another side to him that I didn't really understand.†   (source)
  • I believe each of these comments: my shoulders sag, my spine crumples, I exude the wrong kind of goodness; I see myself shambling crookedly, I make an effort to stand straighter, my body rigid with anxiety.†   (source)
  • There were thorns upon the stem, and the flower exuded the most wonderful scent and seemed to hum with a music all its own.†   (source)
  • The weapon exuded an unwholesome aura; its discolored blade suggested a particularly loathsome history.†   (source)
  • He was a small, well-dressed Chinese, his compact body with its broad shoulders and narrow waist exuding strength.†   (source)
  • She dresses well and exudes self-confidence as she offers a grand tour of her home and work area, ostentatiously showing off the television and the new plumbing.†   (source)
  • Whether because of flu and fever or an abrupt lessening in the warmth of his confidence, Nye exuded an icy sweat.†   (source)
  • The leaves are fully out, the irises are in bloom, there's a heat wave; the gymnasium heats up like an oven and we all sit in there, superheated, writing away, while the gymnasium exudes its smell of bygone athletes.†   (source)
  • "All the old spirit of 1776 is rekindling," exuded Jefferson, who saw in Genet's popularity eloquent testimony by the people against "the cold caution" of their own government.†   (source)
  • He exudes a sort of wide-eyed openness that Cedric already senses some of the women find endearing and the guys, mostly, naive.†   (source)
  • I stared at her for a moment, feasting on the delicateness of her features, adoring every bit of her as I squeezed her hands, treasuring the warmth she exuded.†   (source)
  • In her speech in the Bronx, Jordana exuded maturity and empathy as she exhorted the students to support the Girls Learn chapter, noting that girls the same age as those in the audience are being trafficked or killed for "honor," and she ended with a ringing crescendo: "Girls' rights are human rights!"†   (source)
  • The whole proceeding exuded the air of a ritual performed so many times that everyone knew exactly what was expected and everyone had a part to play.†   (source)
  • The houses we passed began to exude the aromas of Sunday dinner mulled shrimp, fried chicken, fish poaching in wine and cream sauces.†   (source)
  • Heaving and rocking its way through the bungalow barrens of Queens and Nassau, clashing gears, exuding fumes, the decrepit bus seemed likely to imprison us forever.†   (source)
  • They were aquatic mammals — a link with the prehistoric past — web-footed egglayers; teat-less milk producers — the lactic fluid being exuded through the female's skin pores; poison-fanged amphibians, with fangs in the hollow of the male's hind feet.†   (source)
  • I lay down next to Sophie on the bed, which had become unsprung in the middle, not so much allowing me as forcing me to roll toward her, as in the bosom of some shallow hammock, and on top of threadbare bedclothes that exuded a faint musky chlorinated smell either of laundry bleach or semen, perhaps both.†   (source)
  • His face was such a long upper-lipped Irish prototype that it verged on a joke, and he exuded sadness—something intangibly rumpled, exhausted and resigned that caused me to reflect with a twinge of pain on these lonesome office drinking bouts, the twilight sessions with Yeats and Hopkins, the bleak subway commute to Ozone Park.†   (source)
  • He exudes a friendly, generous personality that makes everyone like him on sight.†   (source)
  • A strawberry, unless fresh picked, is bound to exude juice.†   (source)
  • His thin, sick face, his eyes, seemed to exude a kind of glow.†   (source)
  • I'll kill her," he said, and the perspiration exuded delicately on his temples.†   (source)
  • Rhett never presumed on these conversations but stood by, exuding fatherly pride and gratification at the notice taken of his daughter.†   (source)
  • Also he had the walk of a shy young priest, sidling along walls and slipping mouselike into doorways, and he exuded a faint odor of smoke and basement rooms; in short, he had all the attributes of insignificance.†   (source)
  • All he knew was that the failure of the giant Bryant group in New York had resulted in losses of about a hundred million dollars—a record crash, even in a world that exuded records.†   (source)
  • And none ever to know what incredible tale lay behind that year's absence which he never referred to and which the woman who, even a year later and after their son was born, still existed in the aghast and automaton-like state in which she had arrived, did not, possibly could not, recount but which she seemed to exude gradually and by a process of terrific and incredulous excretion like the sweat of fear or anguish: how he had found her, dragged her out of whatever two dimensional backwater (the very name of which, town or village, she either had never known or the shock of her exodus from it had driven the name forever from her mind and memory) her mentalit†   (source)
  • According to the Eddic account, after the "yawning gap"* had given forth in the north a mist-world of cold and in the south a region of fire, and after the heat from the south had played on the rivers of ice that crowded down from the north, a yeasty venom began to be exuded.†   (source)
  • She was a gaunt old woman, wearing black spotted and stained with old food, almost past the pretense of gentility, blinking slowly at me from weak red eyes set in the age-crusted face, sitting there in the near-dark room, exuding her old-fox smell, which mixed with the smell of oriental incense and candle wax.†   (source)
  • And if anyone complains that prunes, even when mitigated by custard, are an uncharitable vegetable (fruit they are not), stringy as a miser's heart and exuding a fluid such as might run in misers' veins who have denied themselves wine and warmth.†   (source)
  • Yellow excretions were exuded by slugs, and now and again an amorphous body with a head at either end swayed slowly from side to side.†   (source)
  • Let us commit any blasphemy of laughter and criticism rather than exude this lily-sweet glue; and cover him with phrases, I cried.†   (source)
  • It was as if irritation exuded from the very soil.†   (source)
  • I should have exuded tears like a wet sponge.†   (source)
  • I had carried it but a little way, when I noticed a thick juice exuding from one end.†   (source)
  • They ran in gaily, and after a long wait in the drawing-room, sat down to the rough-and-ready lunch, every dish of which concealed or exuded cream.†   (source)
  • She exuded excitement.†   (source)
  • All that he said on this subject pained her, though he exuded tolerance from every pore; somehow the Emersons were different.†   (source)
  • The mood of pallid Frau Magnus in particular seemed without a glimmer of hope; she exuded bleakness of spirit the way a cellar exudes damp.†   (source)
  • She went inside and dressing in a light gown and espadrilles went out her window again and along the continuous terrace toward the front door, going fast since she found that other private rooms, exuding sleep, gave upon it.†   (source)
  • The mood of pallid Frau Magnus in particular seemed without a glimmer of hope; she exuded bleakness of spirit the way a cellar exudes damp.†   (source)
  • The carpentry shop, full of sunlight, exuded the sweetness of sawdust, of a lost age of wood; always half a dozen men were there, hammering, planing, buzzing—silent men, who lifted solemn eyes from their work as he passed through.†   (source)
  • The sight of that sap, as it exudes with the heat, is painful to me, Richard, Really, it behooves the owner of woods so extensive as mine, to be cautious what example he sets his people, who are already felling the forests as if no end could be found to their treasures, nor any limits to their extent.†   (source)
  • For this purpose, the inflammable gas which exudes plentifully from the soil is collected by means of pipes, and thence communicated to a quadruple row of lamps along the whole extent of the passage.†   (source)
  • The walls had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded from them.†   (source)
  • She trotted forth to raise a typhoon off the cook-house, and almost on her shadow rolled in the Babu, robed as to the shoulders like a Roman emperor, jowled like Titus, bare-headed, with new patent-leather shoes, in highest condition of fat, exuding joy and salutations.†   (source)
  • Mr Casby, too, was beaming near the hob, with his benevolent knobs shining as if the warm butter of the toast were exuding through the patriarchal skull, and with his face as ruddy as if the colouring matter of the anchovy paste were mantling in the patriarchal visage.†   (source)
  • The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them.†   (source)
  • These three young gentlemen, Mr. Stryver, exuding patronage of the most offensive quality from every pore, had walked before him like three sheep to the quiet corner in Soho, and had offered as pupils to Lucie's husband: delicately saying "Halloa!†   (source)
  • 'It exudes a sticky moisture, its smell is unpleasant, and it destroys and devours whatever eatable comes in its way.†   (source)
  • Fritz saw some gummy resin exuding from cracks in the bark, and it reminded him of the boyish delight afforded by collecting gum from cherry-trees at home, so that he must needs stop to scrape off as much as he could.†   (source)
  • A quantity of the red gum had exuded from the incisions I had made, and as this had coagulated in the sun, I rolled it into little balls and stored it in a bamboo jar I had brought with me for the purpose.†   (source)
  • The beasts, fed and watered adequately for the first time in two days, exuded contentment as willing hands curried the glossy sides and cleansed the dirt from hock and fetlock with twists of straw.†   (source)
  • A wine of shame, lust, blood exudes, strangely murmuring.†   (source)
  • Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising
    freshly exuding,
    Scooting obliquely high and low.†   (source)
  • Others May Praise What They Like
    Others may praise what they like;
    But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing in art
    or aught else,
    Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river, also the
    western prairie-scent,
    And exudes it all again.†   (source)
  • Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the
    love of young and old,
    From it falls distill'd the charm that mocks beauty and attainments,
    Toward it heaves the shuddering longing ache of contact.†   (source)
  • What waves and soils exuding?†   (source)
  • Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses,
    Froth, snowy white, and bubbles,
    (See, from my dead lips the ooze exuding at last,
    See, the prismatic colors glistening and rolling,)
    Tufts of straw, sands, fragments,
    Buoy'd hither from many moods, one contradicting another,
    From the storm, the long calm, the darkness, the swell,
    Musing, pondering, a breath, a briny tear, a dab of liquid or soil,
    Up just as much out of fathomless workings fermented an†   (source)
  • All this time and at all times wait the words of true poems,
    The words of true poems do not merely please,
    The true poets are not followers of beauty but the august masters of beauty;
    The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers
    and fathers,
    The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.†   (source)
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