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  • The sheets rose up, trying hard to accommodate the occupant.†   (source)
  • But instead of the graceful glide through the puddle that its occupants were expecting, the bus emitted a tremendous crack and careened drunkenly into our trap.†   (source)
  • Two empty coffee cups sat on the kitchen table, the chairs pulled out to hold invisible occupants.†   (source)
  • I was about to give up when one of the occupants sitting in the corner away from me, a kid with blond hair and a baseball cap, replied, "A few weeks."†   (source)
  • In the first three cabinets, there was an orderly collection of reports on the hotel's operations: revenues; occupancy rates; staffing; maintenance expenditures; inventories; and yes, discrepancies.†   (source)
  • Lale's number is last on the list, since he is the newest occupant of Block 31.†   (source)
  • A few drawings by the occupants completed the cheerful atmosphere.†   (source)
  • The same car had been sitting outside the church, its occupants observing the celebratory congregants as they walked out.†   (source)
  • I held on to it as I reached for the lifebuoy, now vacant of its previous occupant.†   (source)
  • Langdon drove a fair distance to get here, and the vehicle is inside the security gate, with no signs of forced entry, so chances are good that Langdon knows the occupant.†   (source)
  • It was smelly and very noisy because the occupants Of these cages were all squeaking, squawking, jabbering, or hissing.†   (source)
  • Tally had never seen so much space painted in such putrid colors, as if the building were designed to make its occupants vaguely nauseated.†   (source)
  • The mandated list of occupants clings to its front door.†   (source)
  • They have pressure seals, allowing the occupants to drive without space suits during long periods traversing the surface.†   (source)
  • The most recent occupants of the house, the Shriners, had used it as the Alee Temple.†   (source)
  • On either side, the offices were fronted by floor-to-ceiling glass, the occupants visible within.†   (source)
  • Only when he'd resumed normal breathing did he announce his opinion of the room's occupant—as either happy or unhappy with the academy; as possibly troubled by distant events at home, or in the past.†   (source)
  • The shields displayed outside each tent heralded its occupant: the silver eagle of Seagard, Bryce Caron's field of nightingales, a cluster of grapes for the Redwynes, brindled boar, red ox, burning tree, white ram, triple spiral, purple unicorn, dancing maiden, blackadder, twin towers, horned owl, and last the pure white blazons of the Kingsguard, shining like the dawn.†   (source)
  • Parts of it darken seemingly at will, to give the occupants privacy.†   (source)
  • Living and teaching on a plantation, you got to know the occupants of every house, and you knew who was home and who was not.†   (source)
  • There are more cars too, Whirlwinds with their chauffeurs and their cushioned occupants, lesser cars driven by lesser men.†   (source)
  • Being here was a kind of trespass, with the room's future occupant just a few hundred yards away from the house.†   (source)
  • Outside the walls, life continued at an exaggerated pace, but if anyone were to somehow gain access to the manor in spite of the fortified walls and high gate, they would find it deserted, all occupants trapped in the past.†   (source)
  • This used to be shared by Mr. Kugler and Mr. van Daan, but now Mr. Kugler is its only occupant.†   (source)
  • The throne's occupant wasn't quite so impressive.†   (source)
  • This is a small restaurant, a lunchroom really, and we are the only occupants.†   (source)
  • Clavo moved to one side of the Mercury, its occupants covered in darkness.†   (source)
  • Virgil offered as much detail as he could about the truck and its occupants, and the resulting description was flashed out to all relevant agencies.†   (source)
  • Attention all occupants of Candor headquarters.†   (source)
  • The Irish Celibate Traveler Law also dictated that all guest beds be extremely creaky, sounding a rousing alarm every time one of its occupants so much as rolled over.†   (source)
  • I might have done all right but for the SS overseers, the future occupants of this barracks, who thought we were working too slowly.†   (source)
  • Charlie sat in the chair, and the contrast between him and its former occupant was comical.†   (source)
  • The head priest lived in a house near the temple, one of the few intact buildings from the days when Ors had been a city—four-storied, with a single-sloped roof and open on all sides, though dividers could be raised whenever an occupant wished privacy, and shutters could be rolled down on the outsides during storms.†   (source)
  • As far as Belknap could tell, he and Holmes were by now the only occupants of the building.†   (source)
  • Captain Campbell turned as the men tossed thick ropes from the dock to the occupants of the next boat.†   (source)
  • The second week in December, every occupant of Barracks 28 was issued an extra blanket.†   (source)
  • Simply one-car crashes on deserted sections of road, one dead occupant, the driver, unable to explain what had happened to him.†   (source)
  • This, as their neighbors had explained, was earthquake friendly: it might fall in a tremor, but it was unlikely to do its occupants too much harm because of its relatively light weight.†   (source)
  • It seemed like every insurgent, maybe every occupant, wanted a piece of the idiot Americans who'd foolishly blundered into Sadr City.†   (source)
  • Now Sophie knew that the occupants of the cabin were Alberto Knox and Hermes.†   (source)
  • "What 'hey' thing?" he replied, cutting off a black SUV whose occupant, a suited man with a cell phone in his hand, made an obscene gesture at them through the tinted windows.†   (source)
  • In Ashbury I am not a homeowner, not even a tenant— I'm a lodger, occupant of the small second bedroom in Cathy's bland and inoffensive duplex, subject to her grace and favour.†   (source)
  • The control room was elevated a few feet from the rest of the floor so that its occupants could see over the whole crew of duty operators and the main tactical display on the far wall.†   (source)
  • All of its occupants fall down in the same direction as it jerks sideways and begins to move, yanked out of its place.†   (source)
  • Horrified, Esteban watched the entire contents of the goblet spill onto his only suit before the amused glances of the occupants of the adjoining tables.†   (source)
  • If I had to, I'd get into one of these primitive residences and get rid of the occupants somehow.†   (source)
  • They searched farmhouses and barns, questioned the occupants, making their way south to Port Conway.†   (source)
  • The occupants were two young women, another who was rather mature but very attractive, and an infant a few months old.†   (source)
  • He gave his raters clipboards and told them they had fifteen minutes to look around and answer a series of very basic questions about the occupant of the room: On a scale of 1 to 5, does the inhabitant of this room seem to be the kind of person who is talkative?†   (source)
  • The room and its occupants already were shut from her thoughts.†   (source)
  • That would come in three more years, when the camp's occupancy maxed out.†   (source)
  • When I was first shown in here an hour or so ago, staff were hurriedly stripping down the garden tables — while their recent occupants, including one gentleman with a napkin still tucked into his shirt, were standing about looking rather lost.†   (source)
  • Two of its occupants were getting up at the same time: Shukhov's top-tier neighbor, Alyosha the Baptist, and Buinovsky, the ex-naval captain down below.†   (source)
  • I took a correspondence course, got a degree to teach the subject in buildings with a legal occupancy of less than one hundred.†   (source)
  • Neither is it a room that suggests the tastes or individuality of its occupant.†   (source)
  • As soon as he was dressed, he went straight to Stone's quarters, but he found no sign that the occupant had returned.†   (source)
  • Once I got too close to a goat pen and the occupants bleated at me.†   (source)
  • By midafternoon the black Chevrolet had reached Emporia, Kansas-a large town, almost a city, and a safe place, so the occupants of the car had decided, to do a bit of shopping.†   (source)
  • Finally, there was but one, lone occupant of the room remaining with Miss Hastings and me.†   (source)
  • The classroom's occupant, chemistry teacher Clarence Taylor, wanders into the room and registers surprise.†   (source)
  • One doesn't any more feel for a hotel room than one expects a hotel room to feel for its occupant.†   (source)
  • The noise of the machine, of course, prevented its occupants from distinguishing any word, but the menace of the open pursuit was apparent.†   (source)
  • Family portraits on the walls, heirlooms and mementos too large to carry easily, smashed furniture and open drawers and the thousand pieces of the occupants' lives deemed worthless by looters were scattered in every room.†   (source)
  • It was only a couple of stories below the Glade proper, but the Glade occupants were manipulated into thinking the trip up was an impossibly long and arduous journey.†   (source)
  • I can't help but notice that Kinko and I are the human occupants closest to the engine.†   (source)
  • The region is well-cultivated, with very attractive plantations, but all their occupants had fled and all the houses had been or were being plundered and destroyed.†   (source)
  • He walked through the hall of the flat into the hall of the building (the hall shared by all the occupants), closing the door in her face.†   (source)
  • The sound would jag around in our air for an indecisive second before the balcony's occupants accepted it and sent their own guffaws to riot with it against the walls of the theater.†   (source)
  • Up ahead Farmer spotted a broken-down car, the occupants outside and pushing.†   (source)
  • The room's four occupants were laughing as they sat on the cozy beds that were sunk into deep alcoves.†   (source)
  • I saw the aftermath of several fender-benders, the drivers and occupants out on the street screaming at one another, sometimes coming to blows.†   (source)
  • And the illustrious occupant of the White House then, who was a great leader — and I say it with some anguish and pain, because, today is exactly 54 years marking his death — Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April the 12th, 1945, so he is very much present to me and to us.†   (source)
  • DeSimon escorted us from house to house, where he would make small talk with the occupants while we did our thing.†   (source)
  • Several of the remaining glass columns crack, causing the monstrous occupants to gyrate in agitation.†   (source)
  • I hurried through the crowded cafeteria, not slowing down until I was within five feet of Wesley's table, where the only other male occupant was Harrison Carlyle.†   (source)
  • After a little while the other two occupants of the hutch, Laurel and Haystack, came hesitantly out and looked about them.†   (source)
  • We tapped our feet through German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese, with our room's occupants scarily shouting agreement and praise every so often.†   (source)
  • The occupants were not merely on the deck, but also clambered up and around the branches and spars as easily as walking on the ground.†   (source)
  • There was no doubt that she did good: in many ways, the well-being of our village rested more on her works, and those of her aunt, than on the works of the rectory's occupant.†   (source)
  • Sturdy and economical, it faced east in the traditional way, so that each morning its occupants, opening the door, were greeted by the rising sun.†   (source)
  • Locks and refrigeration blipped off, and the drawer, with its occupant, slid out with a small burst of icy fog.†   (source)
  • That made two occupants.†   (source)
  • Some places have as many names as they have occupants to name them.†   (source)
  • The live occupants of the coop were squawking their unhappiness to the world as they traveled along.†   (source)
  • I discovered now that my head was encircled by a piece of cold metal like the iron cap worn by the occupant of an electric chair.†   (source)
  • There was no conference table in the room; it was an ordinary double occupancy with the standard twin beds, a couch, two armchairs, and a coffee table.†   (source)
  • The apples and water satiated the Amistad's occupants for a few days.†   (source)
  • I myself saw one man stumble under a load of clothing and disappear; nor did the occupants of the boats pay the slightest attention to him nor to the crowd overhead, except to guard against anybody falling into their vessels.†   (source)
  • Two of the wooden benches now had occupants.†   (source)
  • The official occupancy of ten thousand fans will not be sufficient for the grand encounter of the little titans of the baseball world.†   (source)
  • Without a doubt, we figured the occupants of the compound would now be prepared to defend themselves.†   (source)
  • If it is already filled I will assist the present honorable occupant in his duties, if required, for nothing, as I will shortly begin to receive a small pension.†   (source)
  • The structure still stood, but its upper stories were boarded off as unsafe for occupancy.†   (source)
  • It was a BMW staff car with three dead occupants.†   (source)
  • Four occupants of the ravaged apartment building perished, three of them from the same family—Irving Zahler, 30, his 27-year-old wife, Marilyn, and their 4-year-old son, Monte.†   (source)
  • Raging at the imagined occupant of some celestial throne was wasted effort, as ineffective as throwing stones to extinguish the light of a star.†   (source)
  • The top was down and the occupants were clearly revealed.†   (source)
  • Just a month earlier the two men had lain in wait together for a certain carriage making its way down the lonely country road to the Soldiers' Home, only to find that its occupant was a Supreme Court justice instead of the president.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of place where the poorest of students lived, where the differences in housekeeping between the halls and the rooms were as dramatic as the occupants could manage.†   (source)
  • And, in fact, unless one chose to make a fairly thoughtful survey of the reading matter extant, there were few, if any, certain indications that the former occupants had both reached voting age within the predominantly juvenile dimensions of the room.†   (source)
  • For instance, a builder would lose his life if his careless work led to the death of a house's occupants.†   (source)
  • This was the room that had seen the fewest occupants: just Mr. and Mrs. Brill, then Junior and Linnie, then Red and Abby.†   (source)
  • The doors and windows in it were wide open as if the occupants needed all the fresh air there was, and we could see right to the back of the house where two or three men were sitting wearing the white tunics of servants, and one of them at length saw us and came forward, saying mechanically as if he had used the same words many times before, "Beggars are not allowed here, only those who need—" Then seeing we neither carried begging bowls nor held out our hands for alms he stopped short.†   (source)
  • More important, the two female occupants, one dark-haired, one blond, subjects one and two, had vanished.†   (source)
  • One of the most harrowing moments in the whole history of the harrowing of the heart in Northern Ireland came when a minibus full of workers being driven home one January evening in 1976 was held up by armed and masked men and the occupants of the van ordered at gunpoint to line up at the side of the road.†   (source)
  • One problem Otto did not have was how to deal with Will McLean because ol' Willie had made a swift and instantaneous decision that Otto would only face three-fourths of the occupants of room 4428.†   (source)
  • There were no chairs; so the occupants of the cabins either squatted in front of the fire or sat on the floor.†   (source)
  • The human race was to be wiped out and the world made clean again for wiser occupants without undue delay.†   (source)
  • The room had not been touched since its former occupant had left.†   (source)
  • Only one occupant, a woman.†   (source)
  • I picked them up and held them before the light with strange excitement, curious to see the image that some prior occupant of this room had photographed.†   (source)
  • Stables were rented out for human occupancy.†   (source)
  • Five of the occupants were on the floor above, the other in the room opposite me, across the hallway.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, when a dugout crossed a patch of glitter, the occupants were all silhouetted against the glitter; they appeared then to be sitting very low, to be shoulders and round heads alone, so that for a while they were like comic figures in a cartoon strip, engaged on some quite ridiculous journey.†   (source)
  • He gave a last valedictory glance at the little room and its frozen occupants.†   (source)
  • Zhivago's compartment was lit by a guttering candle that stood on the small table, its flame wavering in the stream of air from the half-open window, The candle belonged to the only other occupant of the compartment, a fair-haired youth who, judging by the size of his arms and legs, was very tall.†   (source)
  • In a few minutes they saw a car some distance away on top of a hill, coming slowly as if the occupants were watching them.†   (source)
  • Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk.   (source)
    occupant = person
  • He had visited this office under two of its previous occupants.†   (source)
  • Chains encircled the arms of it, as though its occupants were usually tied to it.†   (source)
  • He had known this office under three of its previous occupants.†   (source)
  • Joe finished his sweep of the Pulaski Square house, removing the last traces of his occupancy.†   (source)
  • The sun comes out, and the stage and its occupants light up like a Christmas crèche.†   (source)
  • This had only one occupant, a man sitting fast asleep next to the window.†   (source)
  • The other occupants of the secret annex met similar fates.†   (source)
  • Not an ornithopter ....or its occupants.†   (source)
  • I could go in and mind-wipe the occupants.†   (source)
  • In Washington, the occupants of Mary Surratt's boardinghouse prepared for bed, too.†   (source)
  • I looked closer at the occupants inside: Peaches, Topo, Enano and Fuzzy.†   (source)
  • It was awkward work, and each jolt of the sleds earned a cry of pain from their occupants.†   (source)
  • Owen would always admit it—when the room's occupant remained a mystery to him.†   (source)
  • The shark was utterly frozen in place, perhaps negating the tank's occupants' ability to sense him.†   (source)
  • But the buildings there were mostly new, giving no hint of their former appearance or occupants.†   (source)
  • Especially with a human occupant fixing problems as they arise.†   (source)
  • He went up to the truck, inspected the occupants, and picked out Koschel as if at random.†   (source)
  • The place looked and felt as if the former occupants planned to return within minutes.†   (source)
  • The occupants might need air, and you can provide it from a rover by hooking up an air line.†   (source)
  • Some climbed to the stage, asking the occupants of the president's box what had happened.†   (source)
  • The occupants of the room stood silent and motionless for a few minutes.†   (source)
  • Jeb told me the occupants were afraid of me, which made me laugh.†   (source)
  • He seemed unaware of the approaching storm, or even the car's other occupants.†   (source)
  • It was a tricky maneuver, but neither of the boat's occupants looked up.†   (source)
  • Curtains of dark blue velvet concealed the wagon's occupants from watching eyes.†   (source)
  • When it passed by, all the occupants looked straight ahead.†   (source)
  • Small as the house was, its occupancy was seldom limited to the immediate family.†   (source)
  • Its doglike occupant was running in its sleep.†   (source)
  • We had no idea if the occupants had heard us.†   (source)
  • When the boat came back and its two occupants stepped out, Francisco slipped behind the wheel.†   (source)
  • We are seeking vocal contact with occupants of the van.†   (source)
  • Were they full, their occupants now would be battle-hardened soldiers rather than fresh recruits.†   (source)
  • The silence in the basement was broken only by the breathing of the occupants.†   (source)
  • Darkness swallowed the feather bed and its two occupants, and filled every corner of the chamber.†   (source)
  • The names scratched into the posts no longer match the occupants, but I can extrapolate who's who.†   (source)
  • The toilet was a mere hole in the floor that most occupants seemed to use in a hit-or-miss fashion.†   (source)
  • After a long silence he heard the creak of a bed as if its occupant had shifted in his sleep.†   (source)
  • According to the intercom panel, the occupant of 4B was someone named Guzman.†   (source)
  • Anyway, we seemed to be the only occupants in the dungeon, though it stretched on, out of sight.†   (source)
  • We are seeking vocal contact with occupants of the van.†   (source)
  • She was the farmhouse's only occupant, but she was never truly alone.†   (source)
  • No emblem hung over its entrance, no brass lettering proclaimed the identity of its occupant.†   (source)
  • Consequently, its male occupants looked obscenely out of place.†   (source)
  • I moved up to the bar, becoming its only occupant.†   (source)
  • "Describe its occupant," he said to the demon.†   (source)
  • That is why the transferred power is weak at first, but grows stronger as you continue occupancy.†   (source)
  • The original occupant of the tomb was suspended above him, having adhered, as decaying bodies often did, to the bottom of the casket.†   (source)
  • The new occupant of her house doesn't know where she went, but he has heard the story of Zeitoun's rescue.†   (source)
  • He bounced up and down a little, smiling in a self-satisfied way, and pointed at the many glittering photograph frames on the dresser, each peopled with tiny moving occupants.†   (source)
  • Each has a wooden picket fence around it, the only such fences in the graveyard: to keep the occupants penned in, no doubt, since the murdered have the reputation of walking.†   (source)
  • The blank picture on the wall was now breathing very slowly and deeply, as though its invisible occupant was asleep.†   (source)
  • In the case of Andrea Kolintz (see Appendix II for a fuller history), we are told that, following a spanking for crawling out on the roof, "The medicine cabinet flew open, bottles fell to the floor or seemed to hurl themselves across the bathroom, doors flew open and slammed shut, and, at the climax of the manifestation, a 300-pound stereo cabinet tipped over and records flew all over the living room, dive-bombing the occupants and shattering against the walls."†   (source)
  • Then the police would step into view and hold the occupants at bay until the French police arrived to handle the situation.†   (source)
  • Occupation authorities decree that every house must have a list of its occupants fixed to its door: M Etienne LeBlanc, age 62.†   (source)
  • Some of the occupants were dressed in costumes ...a woman in gauzy harem pants and a rhinestone-sparkled brassiere, a man with a foxhead rising slyly out of his evening dress, a man in a silvery dog outfit who was tickling the nose of a woman in a sarong with the puff on the end of his long tail, to the general amusement of all.†   (source)
  • Occasionally he could have sworn he saw out of the corner of his eye the occupant of the painting yawning, or else scratching his nose; even, once or twice, simply walking out of his frame and leaving nothing but a stretch of muddy-brown canvas behind.†   (source)
  • There we joined the occupants of other barracks—some 35,000 at that time—stretching out of sight in the pale glow of the street lamps, feet growing numb on the cold cinder ground.†   (source)
  • I slid onto the cold seat after its former occupant had eagerly left it for my warm quarters by the stove.†   (source)
  • It had been installed by previous occupants, by others who had once called this place home, before the phenomenon referred to as the gentrification of this neighborhood had run as far as it had now run.†   (source)
  • Upon seeing a formally set table, one knows instinctively that the seat at the head is more desirable than those along the sides—because it inevitably confers upon its occupant an appearance of power, importance, and legitimacy.†   (source)
  • I know that on warm summer evenings, the occupants of this house, Jason and Jess, sometimes climb out of the large sash window to sit on the makeshift terrace on top of the kitchen-extension roof.†   (source)
  • Our shark is a very hungry fellow, and I would be worried about the other occupants of our little world here if I didn't know better.†   (source)
  • Here was a detailed plan of every one of the castle's floors and, moving around it, the tiny, labelled black dots that signified each of the castle's occupants.†   (source)
  • We hoped to be able to trace and locate the descendants of the hypothetical occupants, whom we hoped might lead us to other material: diaries, perhaps, or even family anecdotes passed down through the generations.†   (source)
  • Harry heard them whispering about it as they queued up outside classes, discussing it over lunch and in the back of lessons, while Hermione even reported that every occupant of the cubicles in the girls' toilets had been talking about it when she nipped in there before Ancient Runes.†   (source)
  • The second-floor faculty occupant had gone home for Christmas—like one of the boys himself, young Mr. Peabody, a fledgling Math instructor, and a bachelor not likely to improve upon his single status, was what my mother had called a "Nervous Nelly."†   (source)
  • "The devil you will!" the Kent chief inspector declared, apparently knowing enough about executive airfields to suspect Simon Edwards might well lie about the plane's occupants in an effort to keep Teabing's business at Biggin Hill.†   (source)
  • STILLTENT: small, scalable enclosure of micro-sandwich fabric designed to reclaim as potable water the ambient moisture discharged within it by the breath of its occupants.†   (source)
  • There was another man, in New York this time, who left a bar, drove to the house he'd grown up in, stabbed its occupants to death, took off all his clothes, got back into his car, drove home and went to bed.†   (source)
  • These rooms had cots, and workers in good standing at the cooperative could use them, stay there, seemingly indefinitely, provided one's colleagues thought the need to stay was valid, and one put in enough extra hours to cover the occupancy, and while this practice was likely in violation of some code or other, regulations were not much in force anymore, even here near Sausalito.†   (source)
  • In Langiewicz Street, Ukrainians let the inhabitants of a building burn to death in its flames, and they shot the occupants of another block of flats.†   (source)
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