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  • It wasn't a pan at all, but a small square of steel embedded in the wall.†   (source)
  • His sightless eyes are like molten silver embedded in deep, twin craters.†   (source)
  • Like Caroline Mathers had been a bomb and when she blew up everyone around her was left with embedded shrapnel.†   (source)
  • The bullet embeds in his backpack.†   (source)
  • Percy nearly broke his teeth on a silver sickle embedded in his slice.†   (source)
  • The ice was bare of snow and embedded with a coarse black grit that crunched beneath the steel points of my crampons.†   (source)
  • So much shrapnel was embedded in his lower leg that it bristled like a pincushion.†   (source)
  • He watched the landscape for glimpses of the green that he knew was embedded in the shrubbery; when it came flickering into his consciousness, he focused upon it, keeping it there, darkening it, holding it in his vision as long as possible until his head hurt and he let it fade away.†   (source)
  • One edge embedded itself in the knothole.†   (source)
  • In a glacier located in the Swiss Alps (or the Rocky Mountains, better, or on Greenland, even better), some explorers have found — embedded in a flow of clear ice — a space vehicle.†   (source)
  • Once they'd crossed the forest road, Edgar had cut off the hook and embedded it in the makeshift cardboard hook-book he kept in his back pocket.†   (source)
  • Thereafter, she became even more deeply embedded in the technical core of Red Coast, and began to take on more important research topics.†   (source)
  • The idea was revolutionary, an embedded biological-electronic interface that could perfectly simulate sensory stimulation.†   (source)
  • The piece of wood with a needle embedded in it moves quickly and painfully.†   (source)
  • That was like embedded in her.†   (source)
  • I sank through the murk, sure that I was about to end up embedded in a hundred feet of mud and lost forever.†   (source)
  • I would have spared myself the trouble—after all, it was for Richard Parker and he would have dispatched it with expert ease—but for the hook that was embedded in its mouth.†   (source)
  • I was rubbing at the point where my neck met my shoulder, trying to release some of the knots that seemed to be firmly embedded there.†   (source)
  • As the disk sank into the soft surface, she pinched the hole closed, firmly embedding the device in the bar.†   (source)
  • Even with the light off, the heads assume strange power in the dark: pure white, not quite visible but not entirely invisible, embedded into Werner's retinas, almost glowing in the blackness.†   (source)
  • Instead it swiped downward with both blade-studded hands where Thomas now knelt before it, his sword embedded in the monster's flesh.†   (source)
  • She found sea glass and a fossilized crab leg embedded in a concretion.†   (source)
  • They stopped at a table where A trio of young men were looking at a screen, embedded into the table, displaying 3-D drawings of a new kind of low-cost housing, to be easily adopted throughout the developing world.†   (source)
  • That would be nice, I thought, just to see him ambling down the sidewalk, just to watch him from a distance, his figure imbedded in its surroundings.†   (source)
  • But beyond the indisputable fact of his nose embedded in Hester's cleavage, Owen and Hester did not resort to either common or gross forms of public affection.†   (source)
  • I step in to help her and see that the blood has soaked through the seat of her nightgown, stained the blue tile with what looks like red glue, embedded in the grout.†   (source)
  • The volume coming from Screecher was incredible, as though a microphone were embedded in his throat.†   (source)
  • She still remembered the feeling of embedding the pickax into his gut, and the stickiness of his blood on her hands and face.†   (source)
  • And based on the ache in my shoulder and the dirt and gravel embedded in my cheek, it wasn't a beautiful, graceful fall.†   (source)
  • The throwing arm had been taken off for repairs and then forgotten; it lay there like a broken toy, half-embedded in the ice.†   (source)
  • I raise my head as high as I can and see the JumboTrons embedded in the surrounding buildings.†   (source)
  • The oil and grime had been washed from his legs to reveal an area below his thigh where pieces of shrapnel were embedded in the flesh.†   (source)
  • He held his left wrist toward her, embedded with his ID chip, but Cinder waved a gloved hand at him.†   (source)
  • The blow to his mouth had split open his upper lip and broken six teeth, three of which were embedded in his lower lip, hideously inverting his beautiful smile.†   (source)
  • Tiny, hair-thin slivers embedded themselves in my cheek.†   (source)
  • He drew from his muskrat-skin pouch a piece of hard stone with bits of quartz embedded in it.†   (source)
  • Celeste parked herself in front of the large television embedded in the wall, and the others started a card game.†   (source)
  • I was so shaken that I had to look around to get my bearings — frothy gray facade of the Alwyn, like some lurid dementia of the Baroque—and the floodlights on the cut-work, the Christmas decorations on the door of Petrossian struck some deep-embedded memory gong: December, my mother in a snow hat: here baby, let me run around the corner and buy some croissants for breakfast ... I was so distracted that a man coming fast round the corner whacked straight into me: "Watch it!"†   (source)
  • Ask an Asian child to add three-tensseven and two-tens-two, and then the necessary equation is right there, embedded in the sentence.†   (source)
  • Links, usually, embedded on normal pages, approved government stuff, but I don't know, somehow you can tell they don't feel right, you know?†   (source)
  • The water around my leg started boiling, and my lower leg started glowing where the scar was imbedding itself.†   (source)
  • Do you know how much pain a grain of sand can cause you when it's embedded red hot in your stomach?†   (source)
  • His eyes are small, imbedded in his face.†   (source)
  • He winged the weapon across the room, the blades spinning and slicing through the enemy before embedding themselves in the mortar of the far wall.†   (source)
  • But the car turned around and somebody stepped out with a shotgun and blasted him again; it was at such close range, the wadding from the shell embedded in his stomach.†   (source)
  • The gash on the back of his head was oozing around a few small pebbles still embedded in his scalp.†   (source)
  • Whenever I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood is still embedded in me.†   (source)
  • I approached one embedded in the wall nearest me.†   (source)
  • As it turned out, the wooden spine holding the ornament in my hair was embedded farther than I'd realized; but I managed to slip it out at last, and it bounced against Nobu's chest and fell onto the tatami between his crossed legs.†   (source)
  • It was so deeply and firmly embedded that I could not pull it out.†   (source)
  • "And you would be very grateful for the captain's leniency in allowing you to go," Patria reminded me, embedding my request in her scold.†   (source)
  • His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface.†   (source)
  • He had read "The Overcoat" too many times to count, certain sentences and phrases embedded in his memory.†   (source)
  • Do you see the sexuality embedded in that set of images?†   (source)
  • She held one stick in her hand, while the other, attached to the short chain, shot out with explosive force and cracked against the beak embedded in the roof.†   (source)
  • A gas jet embedded in one wall would be controlled from his closet, as would other gas jets installed in apartments throughout the building.†   (source)
  • When I finally got up with sharp grains imbedded in my knees I found, to my surprise, that I no longer believed in God.†   (source)
  • Down and down and down and down to — — the hallway, crouched in the hallway, and he had made a wrong turn, trying to get back to the stairs he had made a wrong turn and now AND NOW — — he saw he was in the short dead-end corridor that led only to the Presidential Suite and the booming sound was coming closer, the roque mallet whistling savagely through the air, the head of it embedding itself into the wall, cutting the silk paper, letting out small puffs of plaster dust.†   (source)
  • You keep doing it until the understanding is embedded not just in your brain but in your arms and hands and fingers.†   (source)
  • The Stoics considered the legal statutes of the various states merely as incomplete imitations of the "law" embedded in nature itself.†   (source)
  • It moved slowly, almost stickily, as if the other side of it were embedded in something glutinous and syrupy— The door blew outward, knocking her off her feet.†   (source)
  • The words from his famous Red Book were embedded in my brain.†   (source)
  • The trigger's hooked up to EEC trodes embedded in his skulL If Raven dies, the bomb goes off.†   (source)
  • In this house embedded in sand and inhabited by strange Indians who seemed to exist in some other dimension, she vegetated like a flower from another climate, frequently coming across certain small details that made her question her own sanity.†   (source)
  • Here and there, on white tiles embedded in the yellow, were signposts: CAFETERIA, ADMINISTRATION, EAST HOUSE.†   (source)
  • Feyd-Rautha jerked and sagged back, still held partly on his side by the needle imbedded in the floor.†   (source)
  • Agapi was eager to start a new book, which she wanted to call either Past-Perfect Tension or The Embedded Self.†   (source)
  • Once, when I was eight years old, I found a stone arrowhead embedded in the stump of an ancient oak tree up on the mountain behind my house.†   (source)
  • Caroline had known her as a different person—a woman young and unsure, embedded in a life and a past she was not particularly proud to remember.†   (source)
  • Cate had told me as much, when she explained the camp controllers had embedded a certain frequency in the White Noise to root out any of the dangerous ones still hiding out in the other cabins.†   (source)
  • The lawn climbs a slope several yards in front of the summerhouse, and in those days, as today, four flagstones embedded into the grass served as steps by which to negotiate this climb.†   (source)
  • Embedded in the dirt before one of the markers was a narrow vase containing three small American flags, the only sign that someone had preceded me to this place in this century.†   (source)
  • The nephew leaped the porch rail and landed panther-soft, imbedded in his shadow, on the grass.†   (source)
  • Restlessness, impermanence, and speed were embedded in the culture that soon emerged there, along with an openness to anything new.†   (source)
  • The button was a dot the size of a toast crumb, embedded in a tiny plug of yellow plastic.†   (source)
  • These attitudes are embedded in culture and will change only with education and local leadership.†   (source)
  • Intravenous fluid and blood bottles dangled from hooks embedded in the cave walls.†   (source)
  • And she rocked her back, back into the womb, to the nadir of her hurt, and they found it—a slight silver splinter, embedded just below the surface of the skin.†   (source)
  • My choices of language (speakerly, aural, colloquial), my reliance for full comprehension on codes embedded in black culture, my effort to effect immediate co-conspiracy and intimacy (without any distancing, explanatory fabric), as well as my attempt to shape a silence while breaking it are attempts to transfigure the complexity and wealth of Black American culture into a language worthy of the culture.†   (source)
  • Billy in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.†   (source)
  • I saw a glassiness, observed before only in new marbles or a bottle top embedded in a block of ice.†   (source)
  • Having seen firsthand that the conventional method of data gathering was in this case absurd, Venkatesh vowed to scrap his questionnaire and embed himself with the gang.†   (source)
  • Hungry Joe was too firmly embedded in calamities of his own to care how Doc Daneeka felt.†   (source)
  • The light was coming in queerly through the frosted glass with the chicken wire embedded in it.†   (source)
  • A dark-skinned, studious-looking boy with glasses bent down and read the stone tablet embedded at the base of the tree.†   (source)
  • The panels are connected together to make a fence, but it's not embedded into the asphalt.†   (source)
  • Then he saw the gravel embedded in the tar and watched a spider running over the surface.†   (source)
  • The needles will absolutely imbed themselves in that white shag, Cal.†   (source)
  • The poor little soul was covered in squirming leeches, their sucking parts embedded in his tender arms and neck, and their round, slimy nethers flicking and twitching as they feasted.†   (source)
  • One was carried off with shrapnel embedded up and down his side.†   (source)
  • He pushed as hard as he could with his mind, invading Jasik's thoughts, embedding his own into the vampire's mind, pushing Jasik to act, act now, stop this horrible moment before it was too late.†   (source)
  • Every large chunk embedded in my muscles sliced like hot coals and every tiny shard knifed its edges into my skin.†   (source)
  • But he just nods and raises his leather greaves, now clean, to the firelight before hanging them from the hooks embedded into the wall.†   (source)
  • It was fashionable to have the chip embedded in a piece of jewelry, if you were lucky enough to have a relic in the family or managed to find something at the Exchange.†   (source)
  • Some deeply embedded folk beliefs about language are difficult to dismiss with facts, because people want to believe them.†   (source)
  • It means there's secret knowledge embedded in the Tales!†   (source)
  • I bent over, holding on to the handrail and shouldered my way back up the stairs, using my flash along each step, back slowly, finding it, an oily footstep embedded with crushed pieces of plaster showing upon its leather side; getting it now and turning to bound down again.†   (source)
  • Two muted gunshots preceded the closing of the doors, the bullets embedding themselves in the thick wood of the ceiling.†   (source)
  • He looked down at the great compass embedded in a wooden frame in front of him.†   (source)
  • In the room marked MORPHOLOGY, Jeremy Stone removed the small plastic capsule in which the green fleck had been imbedded.†   (source)
  • Please don't let this glass have chicken wire embedded in it, I remembered to pray at the last second.†   (source)
  • Embedded in the rock was a wooden door.†   (source)
  • Are some of its teeth imbedded in his mouth?†   (source)
  • He scanned the paragraph in which the link was embedded.†   (source)
  • A carved tower that resembled the ruins of some ancient castle, the mask of a woman's face embedded in translucent rose-colored glass, what appeared to be a bottle that flashed with vivid, changing colors with the heat of her hand.†   (source)
  • Now his nails are embedded with grime and his face and neck are the texture of cured hides.†   (source)
  • Although the label didn't say so, one of the points had been retrieved from inside the rib cage of the "saber-tooth" skeleton embedded in the wall.†   (source)
  • Completely confused because as much as I hate him most of the time, every now and then, a sliver of love for Daddy embeds itself in my heart.†   (source)
  • Some are embedded in the brain tissue.†   (source)
  • Holding the bolt cutters in my hand, I saw a good-size chunk of shrapnel embedded in the handle.†   (source)
  • Alessandro tied Enrico to an iron window grate embedded in the wall, and used it as a ladder to get over the top.†   (source)
  • Ellis Wyatt stood on a ridge, watching the glass dial of a gauge imbedded in the rock.†   (source)
  • To the right of the door was something that looked like a gigantic wok embedded in a brick platform.†   (source)
  • "It's got glass microspheres embedded in an epoxy resin so it keeps it shape under pressure while still providing buoyancy," Cristian said.†   (source)
  • Then there was pain, a demand pulling like a fish-hook embedded in my mind.†   (source)
  • He spun away from Drizzt and dove at the mirror embedded in the tower wall.†   (source)
  • And I found trace embedded in the neck of the boy.†   (source)
  • There seem to be several points of view embedded within the article, though each of them is indignant and righteous in tone.†   (source)
  • The sight of fire against wood paneling, a bonfire seen far off at night through a window, soft and sparky glows always to remind him of that embedded night when he found that he had no choice.†   (source)
  • On many nights, Miss Kay would have to remove embedded thorns from my feet with a long needle and magnifying glass.†   (source)
  • I'm embedded with Company A of the First Battalion Eighty-Seventh Infantry of the Army's Tenth Mountain Division.†   (source)
  • I searched his feet and pulled out a long mesquite thorn that had become embedded between his toes.†   (source)
  • Travis had smiled for only an instant before the stench hit and he noticed the disgusting chunks embedded in Moby's fur.†   (source)
  • Embedded in the ground is a license plate, one that suddenly looks familiar, and circling this is a small garden where someone has planted flowers.†   (source)
  • The corrugated-iron shacks in which some of the men lived were no more: here and there we could see the iron sheets in unexpected places-suspended from tree tops, or blown and embedded on to the walls of houses still left standing.†   (source)
  • She flushed the wound with antibiotic and, using a pair of sterile tweezers, removed the bone fragments and several bits of imbedded fabric from Hamid's shirt.†   (source)
  • Only the oldest of the old-timers had ever seen any of those fabulous broncs in action, but their names were as firmly embedded in the lore of the arena as are the centaurs and the Minotaur in Greek mythology.†   (source)
  • One mighty branch bent down, came swaying before his target, so that his blade was imbedded deeply in its fibers.†   (source)
  • Or the gristle embedded like an impacted tumor in the lamb chops at the Athens Chop House, the chops themselves tasting of old sheep, the mashed potatoes glutinous, rancid, plainly reconstituted with Greek cunning from dehydrated government surplus filched from some warehouse.†   (source)
  • It was tightly closed, but I opened it, to find to my puzzlement and covetousness two polished buffalo nickels, embedded in white cotton.†   (source)
  • She remembered the sound of their hammering, high above her, Will and Ben, balanced on the comb of the barn, stripping off shingles black with age and soft as the deadmen embedded in the bottom of the Tonawanda Creek, replacing them with goldenbrown cedar richly scented and light as wings; and for all her weariness she would open her eyes and look up at where they crouched, enormous and light as bumblebees, or walked the comb with a bundle of shingles on one shoulder, solemn as Noahs at work on another antique, preposterous ark.†   (source)
  • He grasps the top of the thin metal pole embedded in the wood.†   (source)
  • Their eyes, spectacularly ringed in white, as if embedded in mint Life Savers, blinked at her.†   (source)
  • The stone contains many embedded fossils.
  • Four thick-paned portals were embedded in a curved wall, like windows in a submarine.†   (source)
  • There was a rock embedded in the wall of his shelter.†   (source)
  • Dinner is leg of lamb with rosemary and imbedded little cloves of garlic.†   (source)
  • I stared into a set of dark eyes embedded deep in ebony skin.†   (source)
  • Even the limestone rocks had impressions of seashells embedded in them.†   (source)
  • That old warehouse embedded with coal dust.†   (source)
  • The arrow embedded itself in the packed earth with a dull thunk.†   (source)
  • The blue gem embedded in her stone crown pulsed in the faint sunlight.†   (source)
  • And finally, embedded in one wall was a wide screen that looked like a TV.†   (source)
  • Think of what that would look like, a wall with glass embedded in it.†   (source)
  • He is still embedded in ice, which must have formed inside the pod.†   (source)
  • The first thing she saw was a light embedded deeply in the ceiling.†   (source)
  • She was on her feet now, clutching the ax still embedded in her side.†   (source)
  • They climbed to a door embedded within a wall of saplings.†   (source)
  • Dog urine and excrement embedded in the snowbanks.†   (source)
  • He surrounded himself with his illness thoroughly and embedded himself in it.†   (source)
  • A hail of bullets sailed past his head and embedded themselves in the neighboring trees.†   (source)
  • Leo tried to move his foot, but his heels were now completely embedded in the dirt.†   (source)
  • The spike was still embedded in my leg, dragging me downward.†   (source)
  • That is what I felt, the blade turning while imbedded in my flesh.†   (source)
  • Then he went to the arrow that was embedded in one of the large muscles of her flying arm.†   (source)
  • We were attacked from the inside, by infected personnel who'd been embedded in the military.†   (source)
  • All the kids get a chip embedded in them, for safety, when they're infants.†   (source)
  • The chamber was dimly lit by faint, glowing crystals embedded in the walls.†   (source)
  • He pointed to a stamp-size square of silicon embedded in the skullcap.†   (source)
  • Peering down, they saw the perfect outline of Chase's misshapen form embedded in the mud.†   (source)
  • A decorative tile was embedded in the stone.†   (source)
  • Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul.†   (source)
  • You embed sleeper units where the guns are.†   (source)
  • The arrow embedded itself up to the fletching in the ant's forehead.†   (source)
  • He stopped when he felt a vertical ridge embedded in the bark.†   (source)
  • They arrived quickly at the room's opposite wall, in which was embedded a rectangle of glass.†   (source)
  • "A metal socket is embedded in each hole," explained Orik.†   (source)
  • Horrified, he felt his throat again and found the knife embedded there.†   (source)
  • A thread of blood rolled down her chest from the shaft embedded within.†   (source)
  • Preferably one that doesn't involve embedding my pain in the stones.†   (source)
  • Their house god Vitellius shimmered into existence, standing half embedded in Frank's couch.†   (source)
  • It was like tiny fishhooks embedded in your skin, pulling the truth out of you.†   (source)
  • Tiny sharp rocks were embedded in the skin on my legs.†   (source)
  • His fingers were strong, with many fine examples of the countryside imbedded in each of them.†   (source)
  • Glancing down, he saw several small darts embedded in his thigh.†   (source)
  • The platform with its embedded wok waited for fresh kill.†   (source)
  • The giant stood close by, trying to yank his hammer out of the floor where he'd embedded it.†   (source)
  • Crow's-feet were embedded around her eyes and lines framed the sides of her mouth.†   (source)
  • Lou ducked as the buckshot tore through leaves and imbedded in bark.†   (source)
  • Blood streamed from the embedded fragments in his face.†   (source)
  • The mace had embedded itself in the wood of the rifle and would not come loose.†   (source)
  • Only after it stopped could I realize there were words, English words, embedded in the noise.†   (source)
  • He spun his body over the fence; the handle of his sheathed bayonet embedded itself in his kidney.†   (source)
  • The tip of Zar'roc embedded itself in bone.†   (source)
  • Just between us, I think a page from the Book of Thoth has been embedded within that cane.†   (source)
  • Astaroth howled with pain and clutched at the spear embedded in his belly.†   (source)
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