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The water was chilly and refreshing, and I felt the pressure of my mother and her fears for me like a ballooning, impinging presence.† (source)
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In time, however, he began to resent the impingement on his freedom.† (source)
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All that business about "unzipping," that was typical of the way the whole subject impinged on us when we were thirteen.† (source)
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Just as Ruth was about to enter the world of human beings whose lives impinged on one another by calling out to the nanny, a thin cord, which Ruth had not seen, warned the nanny to wake.† (source)
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As we were getting ready for Georgia, it was clear that my impinged shoulder had become a bit more than a slight problem.† (source)
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"You're impinging on my private space," I said, inching backward.† (source)
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I was going to say that while he had a roommate it was frightened Brownie Perkins, who would never impinge on Brinker's comfort in any way, and that they had two rooms, the front one with a fireplace.† (source)
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A feeling that I was forgetting something impinged on my too-rare happiness.† (source)
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It is almost a matter of psychological survival, if one is surrounded and pressed by millions of people, to prevent them from constantly impinging on you, and the only way to do this is to ignore them as often as possible.† (source)
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After her first burst of disappointment Joan began to take the mishap as she had taken Tess's original trouble, as she would have taken a wet holiday or failure in the potato-crop; as a thing which had come upon them irrespective of desert or folly; a chance external impingement to be borne with; not a lesson.† (source)
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The blast of the hand-grenades impinges powerfully on our arms and legs; crouching like cats we run on, overwhelmed by this wave that bears us along, that fills us with ferocity, turns us into thugs, into murderers, into God only knows what devils; this wave that multiplies our strength with fear and madness and greed of life, seeking and fighting for nothing but our deliverance.† (source)
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These things all came at widely spaced intervals, but then as the pain itself began not to recede but to erode (as that Revere Beach piling must itself have eroded, he thought, because nothing is forever, although the child he had been would have scoffed at such heresy), outside things began to impinge more rapidly until the objective world, with all its freight of memory, experience, and prejudice, had pretty much re-established itself.† (source)
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But then, in the earliest hours of that morning in November, a Sunday morning, certain foreign sounds impinged on the normal nightly Holcomb noises-on the keening hysteria of coyotes, the dry scrape of scuttling tumbleweed, the racing, receding wail of locomotive whistles.† (source)
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It came, not in clouds, but in a steady storm of sand, the particles impinging against our faces like needle points.† (source)
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The third figure did not actually appear so much as allow its presence to impinge upon my consciousness; it was as if it always had been there and King Billy and I had failed to notice it until the flames grew bright enough.† (source)
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It was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame.† (source)
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