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  • Stupefy!" they shouted in unison, and the Stunning Spells shot into the darkness like fiery rockets, bursting in showers of stars on the dragons' scaly hides Harry watched the dragon nearest to them teeter dangerously on its back legs; its jaws stretched wide in a silent howl; its nostrils were suddenly devoid of flame, though still smoking — then, very slowly, it fell.†   (source)
  • At first, all I see is the marsh, wide and brown and everywhere, touching the horizon, devoid of life.†   (source)
  • I make sure my hair is pulled back flawlessly, that my face is clean and calm and devoid of emotion.†   (source)
  • He saw it in prospect—the dull terraced street far from here, a floral wallpapered box with a louring wardrobe and candlewick bedspread, the earnest new friends mostly younger than himself, the formaldehyde vats, the echoing lecture room—every element devoid of her.†   (source)
  • The birth of her children, which should be a woman's crowning glory, became for Ekwefi mere physical agony devoid of promise.†   (source)
  • It quickly deflated, leaving both itself and the rover devoid of air.†   (source)
  • Where the villages and towns were full of people, these seem devoid of life.†   (source)
  • Haymitch watches, his face devoid of emotion, as friends of his step up to take the stage.†   (source)
  • He grinned at the prince, eyes devoid of concern.†   (source)
  • Keeping my face devoid of emotion, I let the silence build.†   (source)
  • The altar was a great slab of stone devoid of adornment.†   (source)
  • The world seemed crowded and empty at the same time, devoid of smells, and extremely bright.†   (source)
  • Hyperion is a poet's world devoid of poetry.†   (source)
  • Just because a piece of videotape never got edited into a broadcast program doesn't mean it's devoid of intel value.†   (source)
  • She was mounting a set of stone steps in the company of a husky policewoman, her face dull, devoid of expression.†   (source)
  • I believe I realized even at the time that my explanation to Mr Farraday - though, of course, not entirely devoid of truth - was woefully inadequate.†   (source)
  • Her eyes are red, her face pale, scrubbed, devoid of makeup.†   (source)
  • There was a firmness in his tone, devoid of anger, that surprised Clary.†   (source)
  • Wells kept his expression carefully devoid of emotion, refusing to give Graham the satisfaction of seeing the shock on his face.†   (source)
  • He saw two more 'thopters swooping from high in the west onto an area of sand suddenly devoid of visible Fremen.†   (source)
  • His reasoning followed lines that would result from answers to this question: Suppose a child is born devoid of all senses; he has no sight, no hearing, no touch, no smell, no taste…nothing.†   (source)
  • He believed he was living in an age utterly devoid of passion and commitment.†   (source)
  • It showed now in a face, a voice, completely devoid of expression.†   (source)
  • His large, heavy body seemed devoid of will or willingness, and his eyes said he was no longer with us.†   (source)
  • We were crossing what used to be a firebreak, now a sandy field devoid of any growth.†   (source)
  • The room was functional and unpretentious, devoid of trophies or awards or laminated articles.†   (source)
  • She floats face-up on an ocean of pure thought devoid of waves or current.†   (source)
  • "You're going to a lot of trouble for Patch," I said, my voice not nearly as devoid of panic as I wanted.†   (source)
  • Cullivan could scarcely credit so detached an attitude; Perry was confused, mistaken, it was not possible for any man to be that devoid of conscience or compassion.†   (source)
  • I was devoid of energy.†   (source)
  • "And here you can see evidence of thickening of the distal small intestine," says Professor Willard McGovern, his voice devoid of inflection.†   (source)
  • In the middle stood the notorious Dr. Mengele (a typical SS officer a cruel face, but not devoid of intelligence, and wearing a monocle); a conductor's baton in his hand, he was standing among the other officers.†   (source)
  • It was completely devoid of gym shorts and Metallica T-shirts.†   (source)
  • How could I admit my part in the current melodrama to a psyche devoid of guilt?†   (source)
  • His voice is louder now, sleek and menacing and devoid of anything resembling decency.†   (source)
  • He'd been strangely quiet the entire time, his lips pressed tight together, but his face otherwise perfectly devoid of emotion.†   (source)
  • It was an uncertain memory, entirely devoid of lessons or nostalgia, the opposite of the memory of the executed man, which had really set the direction of his life and would return to his memory clearer and dearer as he grew older, as if the passage of time were bringing him closer to it.†   (source)
  • It made her want to cry, suddenly, that her children were so devoid of playmates that they would hang around two sullen men just for the excitement of company.†   (source)
  • I slipped into the garden to visit the candle trees, which, devoid of their leaves, resembled rows of skeletal arms bent at the elbow.†   (source)
  • If I had a list of the things Josh Bennett might say to me in this situation, asking me if I want a ride wouldn't have made the top fifty: His voice is devoid of any emotion as usual.†   (source)
  • Her face devoid of any emotion except one, and that one emotion was hatred.†   (source)
  • McBride walked us up to the second floor and through an eerie, empty atrium devoid of pedestrian traffic to a men's room blocked off by crisscrossing yellow crime tape and cops.†   (source)
  • My desire to die was constant, like a pure thought in the mind, devoid of emotion.†   (source)
  • The colonel kept him squirming a long time with a fixed, uninterested look devoid of all emotion.†   (source)
  • It's exciting to work with a kid who is so devoid of irony, so unguarded.†   (source)
  • Coming out at the foot of Petrin Hill, that great green mound rising up in the middle of Prague, she was surprised to find it devoid of people.†   (source)
  • Monterrey was a city devoid of material comforts, so it was good that he had chosen a vocation that rewarded austerity.†   (source)
  • Their love of life that was devoid of both pleasure and knowledge.†   (source)
  • It was precisely 2:35 in the morning; he opened the heavy door and limped out into the dark street, which was devoid of any signs of life.†   (source)
  • Besides, Erika Berger is back in editorial and yet this whole issue is so bland and devoid of substance that it seems like a joke.†   (source)
  • More letters followed in which Lovell addressed her as Portia, presuming to use Adams's pet name for her, and inquiring whether he must limit himself to language devoid of sentiment.†   (source)
  • He now had the picture he'd wanted or as much of it as he was likely to get and it was a picture as dark and devoid of hope as he'd ever known.†   (source)
  • Shaking down, down, down through the Colorado night, her voice full of emotion but devoid of panic, she had surely sought out Chrissie too: It's all right, I'm with you, honey, hold my hand, I love you so much, I'm so very proud of you, we're together, it's all right, we'll always be together.†   (source)
  • From the dirty figure came Jared's voice–flat, perfectly devoid of any inflection.†   (source)
  • The stony maze of islands and canals that was Braavos, devoid of grass and trees and teeming with strangers who spoke to her in words she could not understand, frightened her so badly that she lost the map and soon herself.†   (source)
  • He said this with a mock innocence that was masterly devoid of any sarcasm.†   (source)
  • "There's an oar by the boat hook," Eugenides said, his voice devoid of triumph.†   (source)
  • And now those high school history lessons also seemed strikingly incomplete, all but devoid of explanations for the terms "Hutu" and "Tutsi," and of facts that Deo gradually ferreted out.†   (source)
  • A perfect motorcade route is devoid of the high windows from which a sniper can poke a gun, offers alternative routes in case something goes wrong, features wide streets that keep crowds far back from the vehicle, and has few, if any, tight turns.†   (source)
  • His eyes are calculating, devoid of emotion, which is an odd combination with his pink, freckled face.†   (source)
  • And this-thought Mrs. Taggart, smiling-was the girl she had believed to be devoid of sexual capacity.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, in consideration of your youth and the ill nurture, devoid of all gentleness and courtesy, which you have doubtless had in the land of slaves and tyrants, we are disposed to set you free, unharmed, on these conditions: first, that-†   (source)
  • The boy's ruddy cheeks had sunk into sallow hollows, while his unblinking eyes were devoid of their characteristic spark and humor.†   (source)
  • I counted three—a half dozen men of dubious character, brigands with eyes devoid of all conscience….†   (source)
  • They were puzzled, however, that Christian religion was devoid of lesser gods such as the ones that inhabited the jungle and rivers and earth.†   (source)
  • They are devoid of anything but the quality of having lasted.†   (source)
  • Great fears were entertained for her safety, but she seemed wholly devoid of personal fear.†   (source)
  • Down to Sheridan, still mostly devoid of traffic.†   (source)
  • His voice, like his face, was devoid of emotion.†   (source)
  • Being all of this, he is, naturally, different from you and me—we the lusterless ordinary people, devoid of any value or talent.†   (source)
  • Above, the deepening sky was devoid of any traffic.†   (source)
  • The whole complex, fortressed from the road and sea, was free of content or context, devoid of even a pattern or two of Arabic origin.†   (source)
  • My withdrawal from the scene had been hasty and devoid of dignity.†   (source)
  • The old man glanced up at me from a lean, seamed face devoid of all expression.†   (source)
  • It was golden now, and devoid of all markings.†   (source)
  • "The Herald Tribune might be more appropriate," he said in his Tennessee drawl so strangely devoid of warmth.†   (source)
  • ANNIE retrieving her plate takes up a forkful of food, stops it halfway to her mouth, gazes at it devoid of appetite, and half-lowers it; but after a look at HELEN she sighs, dips the forkful toward HELEN in a for-your-sake toast, and puts it in her own mouth to chew, not without an effort.†   (source)
  • Beside the last of the billabongs was an area of soft sandstone rock: flat, featureless, devoid of vegetation.†   (source)
  • The face, framed in the window, against the backdrop of night and storm, was a metaphor of lunacy, a blank and uncomprehending face with a smile devoid of feeling.†   (source)
  • He wrote sermons like contracts, full of firstlies, secondlies, and thirdlies, devoid of obscure allusions and rant.†   (source)
  • You consider your-. self a thinker, yet you're devoid of logic.†   (source)
  • The borealis flickered around her features and tightly gowned figure, but it could not disguise the fact that although she had ambition, avarice, and ingenuity, she was utterly devoid of sensitivity and clairvoyance.†   (source)
  • devoid of original thought
  • Love is never quite devoid of sentimentality,   (source)
  • In the same way we can never imagine the action of a man quite devoid of freedom and entirely subject to the law of inevitability.   (source)
  • You thought me then devoid of every proper feeling, I am sure you did.   (source)
  • The law regards him, in every respect, as devoid of rights as a bale of merchandise.   (source)
  • Not all the Erudite are power hungry and devoid of conscience, like their leader, Jeanine Matthews.†   (source)
  • I turn: a shape, that's all, dull glint of cheekbone, devoid of color.†   (source)
  • They looked to the POWs, who kept working, their faces devoid of expression.†   (source)
  • A man devoid of such experience wouldn't think of that.†   (source)
  • He skidded to stop in a garden surrounded by a high brick wall devoid of handholds.†   (source)
  • Yanking out hairs, or shaving them off: it was necessary to be sleek, devoid of bristles.†   (source)
  • She is a creature devoid of moral faculties, and with the propensity to murder strongly developed.†   (source)
  • Minho said nothing, just nodded, his face devoid of expression.†   (source)
  • "So go cry in another room," Jace said, his voice devoid of warmth.†   (source)
  • The Baron held his voice flat, almost devoid of emphasis: "Did I not say these things to you?"†   (source)
  • It's a funny thing to complain about, but most of America is perfectly devoid of smells.†   (source)
  • They are as devoid of external or internal genitalia as a child's flowfoam doll.†   (source)
  • That's not what I meant," Chuck said, his voice completely devoid of cheer.†   (source)
  • Damasen's eyes were like the sockets of the drakon's skull—dark and hollow, devoid of hope.†   (source)
  • And then it happened, slowly, subtly, no heralding trumpets, an entrance devoid of drama.†   (source)
  • But of course it wasn't fine; nothing about his tone—flat and dead, and devoid of hope—was fine.†   (source)
  • His hair stood up like it always did, but for a change he was devoid of glitter.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis seemed devoid of mortals, perhaps because of the financial problems in Greece.†   (source)
  • My own life was fairly devoid of belief.†   (source)
  • Other than that, the room was devoid of ornamentation.†   (source)
  • I would rather live in an age devoid of momentous events.†   (source)
  • But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies.†   (source)
  • The walls were concrete blocks painted army green, devoid of windows.†   (source)
  • The temple was devoid of cloth decorations.†   (source)
  • It was a laborious process, but not devoid of interest.†   (source)
  • It seemed monstrous, yet peculiarly devoid of importance.†   (source)
  • The narrow hallway beyond was devoid of lanterns and soon faded into the soft oblivion of shadow.†   (source)
  • "You probably think you got away with it," announces a male voice devoid of intonation.†   (source)
  • Her voice was strangely devoid of emotion, and she sighed.†   (source)
  • Alvin Finch was so devoid of love that he didn't know how to recognize it.†   (source)
  • People should not settle in a rocky terrain devoid of water or rain.†   (source)
  • Which was almost impossible on a campus devoid of secrets.†   (source)
  • It was a private event, devoid of fanfare, for which Eragon was grateful.†   (source)
  • She was utterly ruthless, devoid of either pity or compassion.†   (source)
  • Think not that I am devoid of sympathy, Eragon.†   (source)
  • The stark white walls were devoid of decoration.†   (source)
  • There's no profit you can offer me-I'm devoid of greed.†   (source)
  • Rather, he was indifferent, devoid of even the slightest shred of empathy.†   (source)
  • As she stepped forward, her face frightened them-because it was devoid of fear.†   (source)
  • So you're not entirely devoid of wit after all!†   (source)
  • The land around them was open and flat, devoid of any cover.†   (source)
  • He was looking at the conductor, his eyes observant, fully conscious, but devoid of any reaction.†   (source)
  • She's coming back tomorrow," he said, with a sound like a chuckle devoid of amusement.†   (source)
  • Between thin lips, Edric said, "At least you are not completely devoid of sense.†   (source)
  • If one were ever to see a man devoid of greed, thought Dagny, there he was.†   (source)
  • Here the rock was smooth, devoid of vegetation, swept clean by wind, scorched bare by sun.†   (source)
  • One might have thought it was a world of water: this hemisphere was almost devoid of land.†   (source)
  • She is as devoid of morals as she is of scruples, and will use any unwitting tool that comes to hand.†   (source)
  • There are Sherpa villages scattered throughout the Himalaya of eastern Nepal, and sizable Sherpa communities can be found in Sikkim and Darjeeling, India, but the heart of Sherpa country is the Khumbu, a handful of valleys draining the southern slopes of Mount Everest-a small, astonishingly rugged region completely devoid of roads, cars, or wheeled vehicles of any kind.†   (source)
  • Devoid of the three-inch decorative nails, her fingers appear almost stubby, and they can't stop trembling.†   (source)
  • In a padded room devoid of color—the only exceptions a small, almost-hidden stainless-steel toilet in the corner and an old wooden desk that Thomas had no use for.†   (source)
  • Devoid of a wand, Harry braced himself to punch, kick, bite or whatever else it took as the hand swooped towards him and knocked a snow-white centaur off his legs.†   (source)
  • His clothes were dark in tone, devoid of logos and visuals and written commentary — a no-name look.†   (source)
  • Governor William Wyatt Bibb, with a view to promoting the domestic tranquillity of the new county, sent out a team of surveyors to locate its exact center and there establish its seat of government: had not Sinkfield made a bold stroke to preserve his holdings, Maycomb would have sat in the middle of Winston Swamp, a place totally devoid of interest.†   (source)
  • "Surely you don't believe this place is entirely devoid of rolls, pixies, wood nymphs, and good fairies?"†   (source)
  • His English is almost devoid of a Chinese accent; clearly his cute, daffy public image is just a front.†   (source)
  • Islands of dark brown dirt, devoid of vegetation, dappled the treeless expanse where the snow had been blown away by the wind.†   (source)
  • Entirely devoid of human life.†   (source)
  • He went back to Internet porn, found it had lost its bloom: it was repetitive, mechanical, devoid of its earlier allure.†   (source)
  • Those broken pieces of the mirror, now devoid of intelligence, continued to deform and soon could not be distinguished from the other geometric solids in space.†   (source)
  • Her voice was exhausted, devoid of conviction, and I saw that there was no further help to be expected from her.†   (source)
  • There was a tone in Jace's voice he'd never heard before, an anxious concern devoid of sarcasm or defense.†   (source)
  • Unlike so many of the guests here, whose rooms seemed largely devoid of anything personal, Noah had made his room into something he could call his own.†   (source)
  • Even the coals smoldered in silence; Roran had collected only long-dead branches devoid of moisture to eliminate any smoke that unfriendly eyes might spot.†   (source)
  • He seemed devoid of fear.†   (source)
  • The most celebrated message ever sent concerned a young sailor in 1784, Chunosuke Matsuyama, who was stranded on a coral reef, devoid of food and water after his boat was shipwrecked.†   (source)
  • She was pregnant within a couple of months, her pregnancy devoid of complications or even much discomfort.†   (source)
  • At the corner, Miles pointed toward a large, two-story home, this one devoid of the crowds she'd come to expect.†   (source)
  • Moments later, on his left was the silhouetted outline of a park, in summer a stroller's haven, now dark, devoid of tourists and Zurichers.†   (source)
  • I'm completely devoid of humor.†   (source)
  • Not only was the living room devoid of electronics, but the second bedroom stood completely empty, and the room where he slept contained only a bed, end table, and lamp.†   (source)
  • Jules's eyes were devoid of light.†   (source)
  • I'd come full circle, and now everything felt like an echo—an empty echo, devoid of the interest it used to have.†   (source)
  • Their home in Niavaran, an elegant section of northern Tehran, was modern and spacious, but nearly devoid of furniture.†   (source)
  • It was a plain hotel room, devoid of everything but four minds that held the secrets of Treadstone Seventy-One.†   (source)
  • He was the cold presence Hazel had felt earlier—like a vast deposit of obsidian, so heavy that Hazel couldn't possibly move it, powerful and indestructible and completely devoid of emotion.†   (source)
  • It was devoid of personality.†   (source)
  • Kenyon wouldn't dare…"Nor, very likely, would any visitor to the Clutter home, which was pointedly devoid of ashtrays.†   (source)
  • Along with having to fight the resources of Holabird, Hungerford, Isham, and the Van Buren administration, they were facing the prospects of defending a politically charged case that was devoid of any established legal precedents which could work in their favor.†   (source)
  • Her greater concern was still over Nabby, whose husband, Colonel Smith, Abigail had sadly concluded, was "a man wholly devoid of judgment."†   (source)
  • The broomhandle, devoid of its bristles, served as their bat, and certain clumps of weeds were designated as bases.†   (source)
  • His voice was simple, devoid of pride.†   (source)
  • Devoid of talent—in three years and forty-six starts he had won just five races—Preservator was also a comparatively geriatric seven years old, roughly the equivalent of a human runner in his late thirties competing against twenty somethings.†   (source)
  • They left the valley floor and soon were in the mountains, an abstract of ice and rock devoid of greenery and human works.†   (source)
  • She fixed him with a long, careful, searching stare that was not devoid of irony's intelligent sparkle.†   (source)
  • But he was only Lestat, as I've described him to you: devoid of mystery, finally, his limits as familiar to me in those months in eastern Europe as. his charms.†   (source)
  • The rue Sarrasin was no more than two hundred feet long, frozen in time between the stone walls of waterfront buildings, devoid of streetlights, trapping the mists that rolled off the harbor.†   (source)
  • Adams, the plainest of the three, wore a suit of grey broadcloth intentionally devoid of fancy buttons and knee buckles.†   (source)
  • It was pretty cramped and devoid of comforts, but it had the benefit of being near his father's job at the oldest factory in Monterrey, Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma Brewing Company.†   (source)
  • The impact was horrific; Luke's head rocketed in the opposite direction, as if devoid of any muscle at all ….†   (source)
  • All we have to do is separate from the flesh, leave all substance behind, and allow ourselves to become a conceptual point of view devoid of mass.†   (source)
  • An ample chamber, measuring forty by forty feet, it was notably devoid of decoration, "neat but not elegant," with whitewashed walls and flooded with daylight from high windows on both the north and south sides.†   (source)
  • A blond-haired man wearing tortoise-shell glasses, and a striking but stern-faced woman, devoid of makeup, and with her hair pulled back like an intense graduate student at the Sorbonne, were not out of place in Montmartre.†   (source)
  • He had moved to his feet with a body totally at his command, devoid of the habit of human gesture, gesture rooted in necessity, ritual, fluctuation of mind; and his stillness now was unearthly.†   (source)
  • Like a plague of locusts, the Varden left a barren swath of land in their wake, a swath devoid of most everything needed to support life.†   (source)
  • " 'The wood, the wood,' said the blond vampire feebly, and, as he motioned to the other to hand him the fuel by his chair, I saw clearly, unmistakably, the profile of Lestat, that smooth skin now devoid of even the faintest trace of his old scars.†   (source)
  • In every respect, the towering spire seemed to be nothing more than a solid piece of granite, devoid of any secrets.†   (source)
  • I found myself at home there, again forsaking dreams of ethereal simplicity for what another's gentle insistence had given me, because the air was sweet like the air of our courtyard in the Rue Royale, and all was alive with a shocking profusion of gas light that rendered even the ornate lofty ceilings devoid of shadows.†   (source)
  • The pain vanished at once, but it left him devoid of breath, with his heart pounding as heavily as if he had just jumped off a cliff.†   (source)
  • Devoid of emotion, he shrugged.†   (source)
  • Dread crawled through Roran as he saw rank after rank of soldiers march into the streets leading from the citadel, the rows of men brisk and orderly, their faces devoid of even the slightest hint of fear.†   (source)
  • At that instant, Roran's entire identity was based upon his feelings for Katrina; his defenses exceeded any Eragon had previously encountered, for Roran's mind was devoid of anything else Eragon could grasp hold of and use to gain control over his cousin.†   (source)
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