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  • Something has to be done to dispel their envy.†   (source)
  • He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose as if trying to dispel a headache.†   (source)
  • CINDER BLINKED RAPIDLY, TRYING TO DISPEL THE FOG FROM her brain.†   (source)
  • One's own shortcomings are nothing but fluff, But everyone else's are heavier stuff: Faultfinding comes easy when this is our plight, But it's hard for your parents, try as they might, To treat you with fairness, and kindness as well; Nitpicking's a habit that's hard to dispel.†   (source)
  • …lives kicked up (for me) a lot of ugly echoes from childhood, moving boxes and kitchen smells and shadowed bedrooms with the life gone out of them all but more than this, pulsing throughout, a sort of ominous mechanical hum audible (apparently) only to me, heavily-breathing apprehensions which the voices of the brokers, ringing cheerfully against the polished surfaces as they walked around switching on the lights and pointing out the stainless-steel appliances, did little to dispel.†   (source)
  • Gudgeon felt a momentary pang of guilt, which he dispelled with his favourite daydream — a vision of himself sinking into a beige-velour Council seat.†   (source)
  • She rubbed her eyes and shook her head as if trying to dispel what I had said.†   (source)
  • Eragon's plan to let his family see Saphira was dispelled by Roran's announcement and Saphira's own cautionary words.†   (source)
  • While I shook my head to dispel the direction my thoughts had taken, I thought of something else.†   (source)
  • The exposition, if built right—if it topped Paris—might dispel that sentiment once and for all.†   (source)
  • " "You can kick both their tails for all I care, but do it somewhere else," Jim said, dispelling any thought I might have had that he cared anything about me.†   (source)
  • The "joint ventures" now being offered by processing companies provide farmers with the potato seed and financing for their crop, an arrangement that should dispel any lingering illusions about their independence.†   (source)
  • He wasn't sure if he did it to dispel Gholam's impression that he led a carefree existence simply because he lived in a big house.†   (source)
  • But the food couldn't cut short the endless hours, any more than full stomachs dispelled their fear of what the next day might bring.†   (source)
  • For he was young too, and perhaps not wholly unaware that the solemn explanations with which he dispelled her bogus biblical doubts were completely at odds with the thrilling promise he held out in his effulgent emerald eyes.†   (source)
  • Scented candles burned in dishes on either side of the table, which did little to dispel the thick stench pervading every inch of the house.†   (source)
  • This had the immediate effect of dispelling the slight tension that had built in the room while Mr Harry Smith had been speaking.†   (source)
  • Finally, in a blatant attempt to dispel my foul mood they invited me to go see Three Pennies for Wishing across the river tomorrow evening.†   (source)
  • A whole pattern of conversation welled up in his mind — the kind of thing he might use to dispel the vapors in his men before a battle.†   (source)
  • Amat of sunlit pine needles by my face slowly tells me where I am and helps dispel a dream.†   (source)
  • Even the students bustling in and out did nothing to dispel the feeling of heaviness.†   (source)
  • I rock back and forth a little, to dispel the image of her collapsing in the street from my mind.†   (source)
  • And if there had been any doubt concerning their relationship, her eyes were enough to dispel it.†   (source)
  • But when I returned, I wrote to her to dispel her fears.†   (source)
  • But there was nothing worse to contend with than Pipkin's disappointment at being left behind; and this was dispelled when Hazel assured him that the only reason was that he had already done his bit.†   (source)
  • The tension dispelled as the two couples took small, pensive bites of their different servings.†   (source)
  • Four minutes later the boat was hastily stabilized and he opened the door to join her…… Garrett exhaled sharply, dispelling the memory like smoke.†   (source)
  • She was trying to dispel the little hurt, the small delayed disappointment of Acey's casual slighting of her work.†   (source)
  • Upon searching the two dwellings, the SEALs discovered a plethora of intelligence that would dispel any lingering  doubt that al Qaeda was present in Iraq and that both bomb-making materials and bombers had come from Iran.†   (source)
  • By shaking us up, using a rigorous approach, she hoped to both encourage us to write poems that meant, and to dispel any belief that feigning despond was what created good poetry.†   (source)
  • There was hot soup, cold meats, a blackberry tart, new loaves, slabs of butter, and half a ripe cheese: good plain food, as good as the Shire could show, and homelike enough to dispel the last of Sam's misgivings (already much relieved by the excellence of the beer).†   (source)
  • 'But isn't that the very belief we want to dispel?†   (source)
  • Somehow the fire seemed to dispel the brooding mystery we had felt since the shower of rocks.†   (source)
  • But after clicking the shutter two or three times, almost frightened by the enchantment and eager to dispel it, she burst into loud laughter.†   (source)
  • I hate to dispel the myth of a great lady's incontestable perceptions, but she's wrong.†   (source)
  • Robert might normally have smiled at this but the aggression in her voice was dispelling the seasonal glow he had come home with.†   (source)
  • By now, she has almost dispelled the effect of her father's visitation yesterday.†   (source)
  • Archie, the architect of the event, watched the proceedings—the stadium filling up, the kids streaming in, the slips of paper being sold, passed back and forth, the lights dispelling some of the cool of the autumn evening.†   (source)
  • "Yes," he said, and shook his head as if to dispel some vision, "only I don't like to say that."†   (source)
  • Cooper's voice dispelled the silence.†   (source)
  • As I stood there alone in the darkness, I could not dispel a feeling that something was going to happen to me that I had not prepared for, that I had to ready myself for surprise, for an attack on my flanks.†   (source)
  • The sun works its magic, dispelling the last remnants of my vision.†   (source)
  • His sincerity, and the warmth of him dispel every little bit of doubt.†   (source)
  • Even when it had drifted up en masse to the Bell Tower as a thousand Austrian soldiers made ready to attack, it had been comforting and it had dispelled his fear, but now it was the sound of despair.†   (source)
  • She managed to dispel their fear of pursuit, so that they would not become hysterical, panic-stricken.†   (source)
  • That is the image that must be dispelled.†   (source)
  • The sun was shining brightly, but the brutal cold and swirling winds dispelled any warmth the bright rays could impart.†   (source)
  • Claudia's interest in Sofia was something I needed to dispel at all costs.†   (source)
  • My fears that he would prove to be an encumbrance and a nuisance were soon dispelled.†   (source)
  • He worked to dispel his doubts about his friend as though to pass another test, like his ordeal in the park.†   (source)
  • He laughed, but it didn't dispel his fear after all.†   (source)
  • Medical science does not seal the earth, whose nether creatures seep out, hair by hair, disguised like the smoke that dispels them.†   (source)
  • If I had any doubts, or rather hopes, they are dispelled.†   (source)
  • If there was any doubt as to how "Southern Justice" operates in the State of Mississippi, it was completely dispelled … when the Pearl River County Grand Jury failed to return any indictments or even consider the massive information compiled by the FBI in the sensational Mack Parker kidnap-lynch murder case….†   (source)
  • It was amazing that so many abuses, follies and evils could be dispelled by those messages from the sky.†   (source)
  • Clinging to the sides of the dreamlike waterways was the litter of our times, the motels, the hot-dog stands, the merchants of the cheap and mediocre and tawdry so loved by summer tourists, but these incrustations were closed and boarded against the winter and, even open, I doubt that they could dispel the enchantment of the Wisconsin Dells.†   (source)
  • Fumigation was not to be considered a religious act but--an important detail--a table custom to dispel the odor of food.†   (source)
  • There was a faint stench from the lavatories, not quite dispelled by eau de cologne, and a smell of fried chicken, a little high and wrapped in dirty wax paper.†   (source)
  • Courage, the universal virtue, is comprehended by us all—but these portraits of courage do not dispel the mysteries of politics.†   (source)
  • Again she imagined she smelled the warm odor, and to dispel the sensation turned her head softly to see the curtains blowing as the fresh night air poured in.†   (source)
  • But the lovely aromas in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel, for a moment, the cankerous thing in his soul.   (source)
  • She tried to think of something to say, something to dispel the seriousness which she felt to be in the atmosphere, but words failed her.   (source)
  • I thought, if I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.   (source)
  • many a stroll, and many a sigh, were necessary to dispel the agitation of the idea.   (source)
  • The press secretary trying to dispel rumors about the incident.
  • Now she didn't have to concentrate to dispel the illusion.†   (source)
  • Hearing her name dispelled Holly's gold fever.†   (source)
  • The brisk air of spring did not dispel the stench of engine oil and festering wounds.†   (source)
  • I thought you said they could be dispelled for a lifetime.†   (source)
  • Gray lightbulbs hummed overhead, but they did little to dispel the darkness.†   (source)
  • Kai shook his head, trying to dispel his surprise.†   (source)
  • Buffeting fans on the ceiling did little to dispel the sweltering heat or the smell of death.†   (source)
  • Some foreign substance had invaded her blood that her system did not recognize and could not dispel.†   (source)
  • Her expression was stern—bitter—but the look did nothing to dispel her uncanny beauty.†   (source)
  • The pair of workouts should have been enough to dispel the rumors.†   (source)
  • With a word, he had dispelled the scrim of corrosion.†   (source)
  • He'll suspect you instantly; you must dispel those suspicions just as swiftly.†   (source)
  • Eragon shivered and rubbed his arms, trying to dispel the cold that had crept into his limbs.†   (source)
  • "Sadie," I said, "get ready to dispel the rope on the griffin.†   (source)
  • With a resigned sigh, I wrenched back my eyelids to dispel the illusion.†   (source)
  • The cavern was actually growing lighter, as though the unnatural darkness had been dispelled.†   (source)
  • His hands moved frantically, as if struggling to dispel something he would not name.†   (source)
  • Lucy's call had cast a reflective shadow that even Grace's news had failed fully to dispel.†   (source)
  • "Well, we can't dispel the illusion outright," Blitz murmured.†   (source)
  • "Well," I said, and took a deep breath, shaking my head to dispel the words in my head.†   (source)
  • "To cast, yes," said David, "but not to dispel.†   (source)
  • He shifted in place and strove to dispel the soldier's unfriendly ghost, but to no avail.†   (source)
  • There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.†   (source)
  • Or maybe Utgard-Loki was just allowing me to think I'd dispelled his trick.†   (source)
  • It'll stay until I dispel it," said David, happily sipping his coffee.†   (source)
  • All we want is a chance to dispel misapprehensions.†   (source)
  • His mind had turned against him, and he could not rely upon rational thought to dispel his panic.†   (source)
  • With a sharp snap, Cooper dispelled the illusion.†   (source)
  • A small smile dispels the worry on Ann's face.†   (source)
  • Hearthstone sniffed like he was dispelling something unpleasant from his nose.†   (source)
  • The apprehensions of the peasant women were soon dispelled.†   (source)
  • The weight of centuries was upon him, and a sadness that no logic could dispel.†   (source)
  • I couldn't remember what they were, but I had dispelled them many times, swatting them into oblivion with no more effort than I would a swarm of gnats.†   (source)
  • I waved my hand in front of her face, and when I was convinced she was out cold, I dispelled my avatar.†   (source)
  • It seemed to burn feeling back into him, dispelling the numbness and sense of unreality firing him with something that was like courage.†   (source)
  • Langdon now realized what she was referring to, and he tried to dispel the notion before they wasted any more time.†   (source)
  • White Castle, the nation's first hamburger chain, worked hard in the 1920s to dispel the hamburger's tawdry image.†   (source)
  • And not all the preparations of the Missionaria Protectiva nor Hawat's suspicious inspection of this castellated pile of rocks could dispel the feeling.†   (source)
  • The women found the hotel rather dreary, especially at night, but the presence of its handsome and clearly wealthy owner helped dispel some of its bleakness.†   (source)
  • "I believe both," said Harry, and he saw shock flit across the snakelike face, though it was instantly dispelled; Voldemort began to laugh, and the sound was more frightening than his screams; humor-less and insane, it echoed around the silent Hall.†   (source)
  • Even now, its priests dispelled evil spirits by swinging smoke-filled censers, ringing sacred bells, and sprinkling holy water.†   (source)
  • The media played a central role in helping these "activist fearmongers," but the National Restaurant Association had recently launched a counterattack, working closely with journalists to dispel myths and gain better publicity Nugent called upon the fast food executives to respond even more forcefully to their critics, people who today posed "a real danger to our industry and more broadly to our way of life."†   (source)
  • The idea of a Bouncing Betty anti-personnel mine exploding at head height was enough to dispel any nonchalance in the troops.†   (source)
  • Success today would dispel at last the eastern perception that Chicago was nothing more than a greedy, hog-slaughtering backwater; failure would bring humiliation from which the city would not soon recover, given how heartily its leading men had boasted that Chicago would prevail.†   (source)
  • Daylight, and the banality of family small talk, would dispel whatever impact she had made as a ghostly illuminated apparition.†   (source)
  • These are fleeting moments of private disquiet, only dispelled by abandoning herself to the joy and excitement of those around her.†   (source)
  • Throughout his career he had struggled, with little success, to dispel the perception that landscape architecture was simply an ambitious sort of gardening and to have his field recognized instead as a distinct branch of the fine arts, full sister to painting, sculpture, and brick-and-mortar architecture.†   (source)
  • For him the fair had been a brilliant light that for a time dispelled the shadows that had accumulated around his life.†   (source)
  • IN THE DAYS that followed, the reversion to a strict shift sys1 tem dispelled the sense of floating timelessness of those first twenty-four hours.†   (source)
  • This impression was dispelled early on when a probationer in Briony's year, a large, kindly, slow-moving girl with a cow's harmless gaze, met the lacerating force of the ward sister's fury.†   (source)
  • She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, rose to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.†   (source)
  • It felt as if her body were trying to dispel all her cyborg parts—explosions and sparks and smoke tearing at her flesh.†   (source)
  • And then, maybe, I can dispel it.†   (source)
  • While possessed, Connor had stabbed David Menlo and dispelled the enchantment that had hidden Rowan from the Enemy.†   (source)
  • The darkness around him dispelled completely, leaving nothing to protect him except h Ls battered armor.†   (source)
  • He would snap them open and abuse some part of his body, pinching hard the soft sensitive flesh of his inner thigh or digging his nails into his lips, creating instant pain to dispel the exhaustion.†   (source)
  • The wonder of it brought tears to his eyes and a smile of wild exultation that dispelled all his doubts and fears in a surge of pure emotion.†   (source)
  • You dispelled a ghost.†   (source)
  • Carlos understood that he had to dispel that fear, that furtiveness, as rapidly as possible, which was why he had gathered eight distressed chairs from the various deserted office rooms in the rear of the store.†   (source)
  • Yet even the adrenalin and bloodlust that pumped through their veins could not dispel the exhaustion from their hard march.†   (source)
  • The glow was just strong enough to reveal the shape of the octagonal room, but not so bold as to dispel the shadows that clung like gauze to the corners above and below.†   (source)
  • He made the ward-against-evil symbol, the same one he'd used to dispel his mother's ghost, and pushed at the sky.†   (source)
  • At least Bigwig's preparations would keep the others busy and perhaps do something to dispel the silent fear that filled all the warren.†   (source)
  • The sounds of the battle in the street rang closer to his alley sanctuary and dispelled his contemplation.†   (source)
  • He had to admit to himself what images were nagging him with a sense of uneasiness he could neither grasp nor dispel; they were too meaningless to define and too inexplicable to dismiss.†   (source)
  • His chin sunk low against his chest, Eragon massaged his right hand with his left, trying to dispel a deep-seated ache.†   (source)
  • It happened slowly, the sphere's energies unknotting and unraveling like a ball of thread until it dispelled entirely.†   (source)
  • He fired up the forge and began his work at once, laboring through the night until the light of dawn dispelled the charm that was upon him.†   (source)
  • I stagger into the blue forest, breathing hard, and am relieved to see the lights of the castle bleeding out its windows, dispelling the gloom.†   (source)
  • I am surprised to read that Simon Middleton asked after me, and for a moment, my gloom is dispelled, and then I hate myself for allowing my thoughts to be turned so easily by a man; and just as quickly, I forget to hate myself and read the sentence three times over.†   (source)
  • Biggrin had given them back the promise of action, though the giant leader's doubts about its decision were far from dispelled by the lusty enthusiasm of the soldiers.†   (source)
  • It was not by means of words that this knowledge confronted his consciousness: as all his knowledge had consisted of emotions, so now he was held by an emotion and a vision that he had no power to dispel.†   (source)
  • One of his other concerns had been dispelled, for much of the cavern's roof was only a few feet below the daylit surface and the sun found its way in through those parts that were purely ice.†   (source)
  • All of my doubts about parental retribution for the extra day spent away from the island were dispelled when I walked into school Monday morning.†   (source)
  • The darkness had been dispelled, and far away westward sunset was on the Vale of Anduin, and the white peaks of the mountains blushed in the blue air; but a shadow and a gloom brooded upon the Ephel Duath.†   (source)
  • As Barbara, who had rushed into the living room as soon as she heard the Armageddon erupt, shot me disapproving glances, I tried to explain how I was simply attempting to dispel this superstitious belief in ghosts.†   (source)
  • This dispelled his fears.†   (source)
  • Yet that was the immediate impression that came to Jan's mind, and no amount of logic could dispel it.†   (source)
  • "The royal melancholy," said he, "can only be dispelled by Questing Beast.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she thought of Rhett Butler and calm dispelled her fears.†   (source)
  • And when the Archbishop returns Our doubts are dispelled.†   (source)
  • The force of the monster of phenomenality was dispelled, and he was rendered self-denying.†   (source)
  • The sight of people cheered him again, dispelling his fear for a while.†   (source)
  • This dispels her first embarrassment, and the two begin to talk.†   (source)
  • Now that the deed was done, she realized this with a wave of homesickness hard to dispel.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop shall be at our head, dispelling dismay and doubt.†   (source)
  • But at the end of the block, uncertainty would not be dispelled.†   (source)
  • But Mammy's first words dispelled this illusion.†   (source)
  • But all such doubts were now dispelled.†   (source)
  • It was only a matter of lucidly recognizing what had to be recognized; of dispelling extraneous shadows and doing what needed to be done.†   (source)
  • The air was full of bells from the surrounding spires and the sun, casting long shadows across the open spaces, dispelled the fears of night.†   (source)
  • Gaheris explained, with unusual freedom since he was a taciturn boy: "She told Sir Grummore that this King's lovesick melancholy could be dispelled by interesting him in his old pursuits.†   (source)
  • For days after that I thought I hated Sebastian; then one Sunday afternoon a telegram came from him, which dispelled that shadow, adding a new and darker one of its own.†   (source)
  • The goalof the myth is to dispel the need for such life ignorance by effecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will.†   (source)
  • I had been right, everyone else had been wrong, truth had prevailed; the threat that I had felt hanging over Julia and me ever since that evening at the fountain, had been averted, perhaps dispelled for ever; and there was also—I can now confess it—another unexpressed, inexpressible, indecent little victory that I was furtively celebrating.†   (source)
  • 24 Moreover, the unconsciously grounded delusions from which desires and hostilities arise are in both systems dispelled by psychological analysis (Sanskrit: viveka) and illumination (Sanskrit: viclya).†   (source)
  • She opened the three windows, bringing in the smell of oak leaves and earth, but the fresh air could do little toward dispelling the sickening odors which had accumulated for weeks in this close room.†   (source)
  • …and Redemption, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, the "second birth" of baptism, the initiatory blow on the cheek at confirmation, the symbolical eating of the Flesh and drinking of the Blood) solemnly, and sometimes effectively, we are united to those immortal images of initiatory might, through the sacramental operation of which man, since the beginning of his day on earth, has dispelled the terrors of his phenomenality and won through to the all-transfiguring vision of immortal being.†   (source)
  • Remembering these tragedies, a cold dread ran in the veins of those whose motto was "No surrender"—a dread which the very sight of Melanie's soft but unyielding face dispelled.†   (source)
  • Her apparent nervousness dispelled his own.†   (source)
  • The coming of daylight dispelled his fears but increased his loneliness.†   (source)
  • Ivan Ilych felt that he had diffused this gloom over them and could not dispel it.†   (source)
  • I am sorry, Mrs. Hedda,—but I fear I must dispel an amiable illusion.†   (source)
  • One healthy human impulse would dispel them?†   (source)
  • Cleve dropped the gun and he waved his hand before his eyes as if to dispel a blindness.†   (source)
  • Well, if they are the noble red people, my illusions are dispelled.†   (source)
  • The mention of the dinner dispelled Miss Stepney's last scruples.†   (source)
  • Suddenly they were altogether dispelled.†   (source)
  • Whatever that something was, it dispelled Stewart's impatience.†   (source)
  • Then he would drive away the encroaching gloom, trusting that a little time would dispel it.†   (source)
  • He wanted to think and think of the meaning, but he resolutely dispelled emotion.†   (source)
  • Either the mist was not out again yet, or the wind had dispelled it.†   (source)
  • This affirmation appeared to dispel all doubts with regard to the baldric.†   (source)
  • Soon he had forgotten my presence and was lost in a reverie that I no longer tried to dispel.†   (source)
  • The countess—her prayerful mood dispelled—looked round and frowned.†   (source)
  • Oh! the pains I have been at to dispel those gloomy ideas and give him cheerfuller views!†   (source)
  • Had Morrel even any suspicions, so much kindness would have dispelled them.†   (source)
  • I thought, if I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.†   (source)
  • Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being dispelled?†   (source)
  • Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful.†   (source)
  • They are here—I am here—the shadows of the things that would have been, may be dispelled.†   (source)
  • Bad work like this dispelled all Caleb's mildness.†   (source)
  • This being the case, is all social danger dispelled?†   (source)
  • Or, perhaps, while I was asleep I had returned without the least effort to an earlier stage in my life, now for ever outgrown; and had come under the thrall of one of my childish terrors, such as that old terror of my great-uncle's pulling my curls, which was effectually dispelled on the day—the dawn of a new era to me—on which they were finally cropped from my head.†   (source)
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