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  • The imminent execution had unnerved him, but he was trying valiantly to express his gratitude for our efforts.†   (source)
  • The imminent arrival at their house of an assortment of wizards was making the Dursleys uptight and irritable.†   (source)
  • Like a shower's going to prevent imminent starvation.†   (source)
  • Adler had helped create a revolving fund for the purpose of buying old houses that were in imminent danger of being razed; the houses were then sold as soon as possible to people who promised to restore them properly.†   (source)
  • I wondered what regrets he had once he knew his death was imminent.†   (source)
  • It never would have occurred to me those words were forecasting my imminent and terrifying future.†   (source)
  • I gave up on it, and all the way to Mason City, I couldn't get accustomed to the sense of danger I felt, of imminent disaster.†   (source)
  • She knew about the breaching of the Maginot Line, the bombing of Rotterdam, the surrender of the Dutch army, and some of the girls had been talking the night before about the imminent collapse of Belgium.†   (source)
  • Enoch himself was greatly disappointed when he heard this, for he had hoped that a holy war was imminent,— and there were a few other Christians who thought like him.†   (source)
  • Indeed, facing imminent death, Dodge had not hesitated to use the AD52 when it materialized in his hand.†   (source)
  • Probably the newcomer is armed, but I'm betting she won't risk letting me hear the click that would mean my death was imminent, knowing I would instantly kill her companion.†   (source)
  • Our sources lead me to believe that war is not only likely but imminent.†   (source)
  • Dear Mrs. O'Brien, Inasmuch as you have not succumbed to the imminence of litigation in our previous epistle be advised that we are in consultation with our barrister above in Dublin.†   (source)
  • The three teammates seemed unconcerned by the reports of Ian's reprehensible behavior and rumors redicting their expedition's imminent disintegration.†   (source)
  • Contact imminent.†   (source)
  • They were the concrete, bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.†   (source)
  • Her oddness, her complete nonawareness of what the world thought of her, a nonchalance in the face of what I perceived to be imminent danger from blacks and whites who disliked her for being a white person in a black world.†   (source)
  • A month earlier when thunderstorms seemed imminent, Father had counseled his congregation to repent their sins and the Lord would reward them with rain.†   (source)
  • And once they find us, death is imminent.†   (source)
  • The Consul could recall seeing no other passengers during his rushed hour between rendezvous and fugue, but he had put that down to the imminence of the treeship going quantum, assuming then that the passengers were safe in their fugue couches.†   (source)
  • Everything in it points to the imminence of their parting, three times using the word "brink," which suggests how close to the edge of something these two lovers are.†   (source)
  • All over campus there were signs that hinted at imminent Completion.†   (source)
  • Now that relief is imminent, I really have to go to the John and I hurry across the street.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I think of our first kiss after the Yo-Yo Ma concert, how I didn't know how badly I'd wanted his lips on mine until the kiss was imminent.†   (source)
  • But along with the greater West Town area it was considered a "changing neighborhood," dotted here and therewith rehabs, signs of gentrification and for many of us, imminent displacement.†   (source)
  • He was forcing the next world to seep into my consciousness, stupendous events that seemed matter-of-fact to him, self-evident, reasonable, imminent, true.†   (source)
  • Someone had leaked the discovery of my "man cave" of goods on my sister's property, my imminent arrest.†   (source)
  • But she put aside the evil thought at once, for in the recent frenzy of telegrams regarding her imminent return they had forgotten to agree on a way to continue communicating once she was home.†   (source)
  • For Kabuo Miyamoto was suffering in his cell from the fear of his imminent judgment.†   (source)
  • The militants had their own pirate radio station, featuring a smooth-voiced announcer with a deep and unnervingly sexy voice, who spoke slowly and deliberately, and claimed in a decelerated but almost rap-like cadence that the fall of the city was imminent.†   (source)
  • Ever since I'd had my vision of the Virgencita, I knew spirit was imminent, and that the churches were just glass houses, or way stations on our road through this rocky life.†   (source)
  • For the next two weeks I whirled around the city going to doctors, taking vitamin shots and pills, buying clothes for the baby, and except for the rare moments alone, enjoying the imminent blessed event.†   (source)
  • Alarming, because rising syphilis announces the imminence of AIDS, which would grossly magnify the tb epidemic.†   (source)
  • Satisfied that he did not have to worry about an imminent attack, Eragon resumed his previous pace: a steady, effortless stride that he could maintain for the entire day.†   (source)
  • Seeing an Erudite process something is like watching the inside of a watch, the gears all turning, shifting, adjusting, work] ng together to form a particular function, which in this case is to make sense of his imminent demise.†   (source)
  • But he was still unconscious, and doctors still believed death to be imminent.†   (source)
  • This, anyway, seemed more imminent than the spilling of his seed.†   (source)
  • A few weeks later, we knew an important visit must be imminent because when it rained that day at the quarry we were allowed to take shelter instead of continuing to work.†   (source)
  • He is a man of honor, and on her deathbed she grasped his hand and made him promise--no, vow--that he wouldn't let what was clearly her imminent end disrupt the show's routine and disappoint the thousands of people who were expecting it to be circus day.†   (source)
  • I find that the threat of imminent beheading wakes me up just fine.†   (source)
  • Again, if Fiver was right and the whole warren was in imminent peril, then of course they ought to welcome any rabbit who was ready to join them.†   (source)
  • Chuito's imminent departure from the warehouse also emboldened Ramon to act.†   (source)
  • At the moment Johnnie, Shade and Mandy, coming up the stairs, got sight of the group, Pap with upraised hammer, the child in the clutches of imminent death.†   (source)
  • Psychological harm may be imminent.†   (source)
  • I made small talk about the other woman's imminent return to the outside world, how great it would be for her to be reunited with her teenage son, and whether she would find work with the carpenter's union.†   (source)
  • And if we hadn't crossed the railroad tracks, signaling the highway's imminent approach, she might have broken down and told me everything right then.†   (source)
  • Gertrude spoke in a composed way about her own imminent death and Victor's, but she broke down completely when she spoke of Thabang.†   (source)
  • Did intelligence confirm an imminent attack?†   (source)
  • Oscar was thrilled: this meant his father was going to butcher one of the family pigs, a sure sign of an imminent party.†   (source)
  • Long deprived of sex, long dependent on self-manipulation, she saw her son's imminent death as the annihilation of the last occasion she had been made love to.†   (source)
  • I don't know, maybe imminent peril made him feel more alive somehow, for the same reason zombies are carnivores with only one item on the menu.†   (source)
  • It's not natural to think that death is imminent and to continue to function normally.†   (source)
  • The trial seemed imminent.†   (source)
  • They all feared that a song or some poetry was now imminent; and they were getting bored.†   (source)
  • And I, dull, catatonic, gave him some miserable excuse, thinking only of Claudia, of the agent, of imminent disaster.†   (source)
  • But, as she did every night, Blanca had locked her door and slipped out the window in the direction of the river The last few days before returning to the city, her summer passion took on a dramatic quality, and with a new separation imminent, the two young people seized every possible opportunity to give free rein to their desires.†   (source)
  • Each time the fall of a city like Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major — de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.†   (source)
  • I hadn't done the same— not even when she was in her worst pain, not even when her death was imminent, not even when I was smugly telling myself I still loved her.†   (source)
  • There's no way he can describe to Berman his unfolding vision of dire warfare-the surrender in CS 22, the imminent rout in psychology, the searing issues that seem to envelop him in education-and how, studying maniacally over forty-eight hours, he felt like he was preparing for a titanic assault on his last stronghold.†   (source)
  • Plus, he couldn't exactly focus on there actually being a future anyway, what with his imminent demise on the horizon.†   (source)
  • The women, overjoyed by their sameness, their lack of diversity, were, in fact, celebrating their imminent demise, which would render their sameness absolute.†   (source)
  • Departure or imminent death will force you to define your true tastes.†   (source)
  • But you know, when you've faced imminent death as often as we have, it gets a little old, frankly.†   (source)
  • 24 THE IMMINENT threat posed to his daughter, Monique, seemed to wilt Jacques de Raison.†   (source)
  • The imminent arrival of this little sister (how strange is it that none of us ever imagined the new baby could be anything but a girl?†   (source)
  • I have taken my own life but only because my death by lung cancer is imminent.†   (source)
  • A fight seemed imminent, when the door of the bus swung open and its driver stepped out and opened the luggage compartment.†   (source)
  • When, on the night of November 3, American sentinels reported the rumbling of enemy carriages in the dark, it was assumed another attack was imminent.†   (source)
  • It was that hour of early evening, a long sundown imminent, when Tranquility Isle was bathed in alternating hot tropical colors, pockets of shadows constantly changing with each imperceptible descent of the orange sun.†   (source)
  • John believes a business trip to Europe is imminent, perhaps for as long as six months or so, and has asked that the children and I join him!†   (source)
  • There was only one theory at present—Blomkvist's belief that the murders had to do with Svensson's imminent exposé of the sex trade.†   (source)
  • After an hour of sulking in front of my foster mother, the four of us ate dinner, followed by Dottie Mae and Alice springing up and announcing our imminent marriage to strangers enjoying their dinners, who clapped feverishly while I squirmed in my seat.†   (source)
  • By Saturday it had become too menacing to ignore and with several more tons of Sunday's New York Times horribly imminent, she knew that if she didn't act now, she would be swept away and buried.†   (source)
  • Lourdes eats, eats, eats, like a Hindu goddess with eight arms, eats, eats, eats, as if famine were imminent.†   (source)
  • The orders stated only act if Phillips's life was in imminent danger.†   (source)
  • THE discussion, and Michael's advice, made the threat of discovery seem both more real and more imminent than it had been when I talked to Uncle Axel earlier in the evening.†   (source)
  • The pilot came on over the intercom, announcing, first in French and then in English, our imminent landing.†   (source)
  • David's eyes widened and he shot a glance at Max, but Max only dropped his head, certain of imminent expulsion.†   (source)
  • That is the noise of imminent pain.†   (source)
  • So, while the rest of the world prepares for imminent doom, Nikita Khrushchev spends the early evening of October 26 at the Bolshoi Ballet.†   (source)
  • They conducted their search with the fever and furious attention of beasts aware of the imminence of extinction.†   (source)
  • You find my imminent death so amusing?†   (source)
  • A good spy is but the secret writer of all moments imminent.†   (source)
  • I see no imminent danger.†   (source)
  • Ser Desmond had brought twenty casks up from the cellars, and the smallfolk were celebrating Edmure's imminent return and Robb's conquest of the Crag by hoisting horns of nut-brown ale.†   (source)
  • I stop thinking about my imminent death.†   (source)
  • Americans felt that they were in imminent danger.†   (source)
  • Revjak clenched his fist in anticipation of Wulfgar's imminent victory.†   (source)
  • Clearly, she was expecting an imminent communication from the network.†   (source)
  • Tears, presumably, were imminent, if not already on the way.†   (source)
  • I was in no condition to ward off an attack — and one seemed imminent, although I had not the slightest idea what had roused the Eskimos to such a mad endeavor.†   (source)
  • The imminence of her leaving made him press his feet hard against the ground.†   (source)
  • Even as her hair lured her imminent lover, many other men looked at her.†   (source)
  • The young bush pilot was properly appalled by the imminent prospect of birth.†   (source)
  • In fact, the group was leaving imminently in the maroon Cadillac.†   (source)
  • In writing the story I approached and went inside with my traveling salesman, and had him, pressed by imminent death, figure out what was there: Bowman could not speak.†   (source)
  • One is imminent.†   (source)
  • It was better to share the companionship of that pretence, to feel that in that room we all lived beautifully and bravely with injustice and imminent death and consoled ourselves with love.†   (source)
  • He remembered that he had felt an imminence akin to the one that came to him when he held the water wand.†   (source)
  • Yet my mind would not dismiss the thought of her, worrying over what Colin Wells might do now that he felt assured of my imminent death; for it would be hours before he could learn that I had, at least for the time, escaped.†   (source)
  • Now that this has happened, she and her daughter are in imminent danger.†   (source)
  • Peter had expected that, but the imminence and the practical negotiation of the matter came with a shock; somehow this was the sort of thing that did not happen.†   (source)
  • "This home, your brothers, are all you have known so far, but when you have your own home and your own children you will not miss these…… " She nodded slightly, making no comment, yet I knew how bruised she must be by the imminent parting.†   (source)
  • You have defended me from imminent death.   (source)
  • Forgive me, but it was a very unusual move then, under the imminent threat of death.†   (source)
  • The date was specific, its arrival imminent.†   (source)
  • He had no idea that Kathy was at the prison and his release was imminent.†   (source)
  • Not on Peeta's punishment or 13's imminent blasting.†   (source)
  • Invasion seemed inevitable and imminent, both to the POWs and to the Japanese.†   (source)
  • I promised him I would testify to those very words: Rescued from imminent prospect of death.†   (source)
  • The school is surrounded, death imminent, almost certain, and Six is grinning.†   (source)
  • You are lit up for your own imminent dismemberment.†   (source)
  • Does a man ever believe in his own imminent death or in the possibility of accident?†   (source)
  • She looked around at the signs of our imminent departure.†   (source)
  • With the danger of capture by the Soviets imminent, Schindler knew he had to flee.†   (source)
  • Katherine Solomon had just called to alert Security of this guest's imminent arrival.†   (source)
  • He thought of Peter's faith that an age of enlightenment was imminent.†   (source)
  • Not even in the face of imminent arrest did you offer any sort of explanation.†   (source)
  • One day they were going in imminently; next day they'd hear that they were holding off.†   (source)
  • Leak the word that a nuclear war might be imminent.†   (source)
  • She was exasperated by the persistence of global crises that seemed to her imminently solvable.†   (source)
  • This was the first time I'd been alone and not in imminent danger since …. the funeral home?†   (source)
  • Still, it's funny what a man thinks about when he believes death to be imminent.†   (source)
  • A strong wind sprang up from the west, heralding the imminent arrival of the storm.†   (source)
  • I think it's safe to say that a DarkMatter assignment is imminent.†   (source)
  • One who refused to flee, even when battle was imminent.†   (source)
  • Mend him as best you can for his imminent journey south.†   (source)
  • There was no point moping around when you faced imminent death.†   (source)
  • They just listened to him sing, wept and thought very graphically of their own imminent deaths.†   (source)
  • With the president's death imminent, Mary Lincoln is once again admitted.†   (source)
  • What did you say to the man whose imminent death you'd just set in motion?†   (source)
  • YOU SHOULDN'T make a comment about imminent death and then say "Good night!†   (source)
  • Now, the water and the lights along the water glowed more softly, suggesting the imminent night.†   (source)
  • Max gathered that one such decision was imminent, as there were four chairs placed before Ms.†   (source)
  • With the imminence of defeat, some women went into the street armed with sticks and kitchen knives.†   (source)
  • The fight would begin soon and we all felt its imminence in the air.†   (source)
  • Despite the imminent sunrise, I felt better once we were flying above the treetops.†   (source)
  • McDaniels's slide from the top spot is as imminent as it is inevitable.†   (source)
  • "I trust that's not imminent," said Jason, trying to return the youth's grin.†   (source)
  • The crisis is real, the catastrophe imminent.†   (source)
  • I assented openly, for the first time feeling somehow equal to him, imminently free.†   (source)
  • It is up to him to appear imminently and explain himself on all the counts.†   (source)
  • The Confederates dig in immediately, knowing that more fighting is imminent.†   (source)
  • Most mortals fail to understand that death's imminence is really a gift.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Brown, the principal, was showing signs that a blowup between us was imminent.†   (source)
  • But his judgment hung in the air like an imminent clap of thunder.†   (source)
  • Then, three years ago, on a night very like tonight, the Prime Minister had been alone in his office when the portrait had once again announced the imminent arrival of Fudge, who had burst out of the fireplace, sopping wet and in a state of considerable panic.†   (source)
  • Dolores Umbridge was standing in the doorway wrapped in a green tweed cloak that greatly enhanced her resemblance to a giant toad, and was smiling in the horrible, sickly, ominous way that Harry had come to associate with imminent misery.†   (source)
  • He sat up straight, and, for a few brief moments, he appeared merely thoughtful, like a captain informed of imminent mutiny taking his time to ponder his next move.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was the imminence of death or simply blind fear, but in that moment, he sensed a sudden aura surrounding the Hassassin.†   (source)
  • We chatted about the difficult and maybe thankless job Karzai had in front of him, about the upcoming Loya jirga, and the king's imminent return to his homeland after twenty-eights years of exile.†   (source)
  • There was a commotion outside and several large Slytherins entered, each gripping Ron, Ginny, Luna and — to Harry's bewilderment — Neville, who was trapped in a stranglehold by Crabbe and looked in imminent danger of suffocation.†   (source)
  • He showed no expression now but I could imagine what it must be like to be facing imminent destruction of one's personality and previous existence.†   (source)
  • Several of the poles were badly bent, and my headlamp revealed that two of the main seams were in imminent danger of being ripped asunder.†   (source)
  • In Double Lives, I will detail: My growing understanding of a troubled, once-distant father My painful, forced transformation from a carefree young man into the head of a family as I deal with the imminent death of a much loved mother The resentment my Manhattanite wife feels at this detour in her previously charmed life.†   (source)
  • Nearly a year ago I'd seen a sign at the foot of Morne Kabrit where the paving gave out, a sign that announced the imminent rehabilitation of National Highway 3.†   (source)
  • She was, however, lucid enough to realize that this was the result not of the anisette but of her imminent return.†   (source)
  • But just when Mae was about to question the imminent feeding, an AG voice came through Mae's earpiece.†   (source)
  • Her head had been thrown back in ecstasy but now she had time to raise it, shock and anger already replacing the oddly similar expression of imminent orgasm.†   (source)
  • Overwhelmed by so many horrors, Fermina Daza had forgotten about the one that seemed more legendary than imminent, until one night when a patrol of unknown affiliation captured two travelers from the caravan and hanged them from a campano tree half a league from the settlement.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the sort of individual who is programmed to ignore personal distress and keep pushing for the top is frequently programmed to disregard signs of grave and imminent danger as well.†   (source)
  • You reject the groups, the people, the listeners out there who want to connect, to empathize and embrace, and disaster is imminent.†   (source)
  • He kept reliving Saturdays meeting in his mind: all those people, coming to him to learn Defence Against the Dark Arts… and the looks on their faces as they had heard some of the things he had done… and Cho praising his performance in the Triwizard Tournament — knowing all those people did not think him a lying weirdo, but someone to be admired, buoyed him up so much that he was still cheerful on Monday morning, despite the imminent prospect of all his least favourite classes.†   (source)
  • Men came to know when an outburst was imminent: Watanabe's right eyelid would sag a moment before he snapped.†   (source)
  • When the invasion is imminent.†   (source)
  • Arthur ran four articles on the imminent evacuation in his March 26 edition: "Island Japanese Accept Army Mandate to Move," "Japanese Ladies Praised for Last-Minute PTA Work," "Evacuation Order Hits Prep Baseball Nine," and a "Plain Talk" column called "Not Enough Time," which roundly condemned the relocation authority for its "pointless and merciless speed in exiling our island's Japanese-Americans."†   (source)
  • Given all the signs that a massacre had been imminent, it seems likely that the commanders had been awaiting instruction on whether or not to carry it out, and had wanted to keep the men docile in case the answer was affirmative.†   (source)
  • Completion was imminent, and it would bring peace, and it would bring unity, and all that messiness of humanity until now, all thOse uncertainties that accompanied the world before the Circle, would be only a memory.†   (source)
  • When the banns were announced at High Mass in the Cathedral, Fermina Daza received anonymous letters again, some of them containing death threats, but she took scant notice of them because all the fear of which she was capable was centered on her imminent violation.†   (source)
  • Rob decreed that Tuesday, May 7, would be a rest day, so we got up late and sat around Camp Two, buzzing with nervous anticipation over the imminent summit assault.†   (source)
  • And so, looking forward to the imminent gratitude, she drove east and south and when she arrived, her father greeted her at the door, looking far stronger and, more important, more confident, more like a man—the man he once was.†   (source)
  • …felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unsetf-conscious flow of little things-the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.†   (source)
  • When it was the cousins' turn, the sky had clouded over and rain seemed imminent, but they allowed their faces to be powdered with starch and they leaned against an alabaster column with such ease that they remained motionless for more time than seemed reasonable.†   (source)
  • But that is what she did at a crucial moment in her life, giving no importance whatsoever to the handsomeness of her suitor, or his legendary wealth, or his youthful glory, or any of his numerous virtues; rather, she was stunned by the fear of an opportunity slipping away, and by the imminence of her twenty-first birthday, which was her private time limit for surrendering to fate.†   (source)
  • Mae was standing in the center of the campus, amid a few hundred Girders eating lunch, all of them buzzing about the imminent Demoxie demonstration, and she thought of that painting of the Constitutional Convention, all those men in powdered wigs and waistcoats, standing stiffly, all of them wealthy white men who were only passably interested in representing their fellow humans.†   (source)
  • The villagers had voted to stay and wait for the Desert Dwellers' sound defeat, which they were sure would be imminent, rather than cross the desert without protection.†   (source)
  • I'm shocked that Agent Cooper isn't more concerned over the imminent demise of his pulpy spy novels or whatever godforsaken trash occupies his leisure hours.†   (source)
  • For many Tutsis, and many in the military, an end to Tutsi control of the army seemed imminent, and to them this represented an even more dire threat.†   (source)
  • He distantly registered the sound of sirens, but convinced of his imminent demise, he couldn't summon the energy to care.†   (source)
  • It is late Friday afternoon when my dad pulls into our driveway, no call to warn us of his imminent arrival.†   (source)
  • Wadensjöö left the Section's apartment on Artillerigatan at 6:00 on Thursday evening with a feeling that he was under ominous clouds of turmoil, of imminent ruin.†   (source)
  • I recognize anger in a certain arch of Mom's spine; obstinacy, doubleclenched in her jaw; the tip of chin signaling imminent tears.†   (source)
  • They started walking toward the corner, the traffic noisy in the street, the drizzle in the air fuller, the mist denser, the promise of heavy rain imminent.†   (source)
  • "After all the hairbreadth scrapes and imminent dangers he has run, he is at last safe landed," she reported.†   (source)
  • The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.†   (source)
  • At lunchtime he was chatting with Arcadio, who was already a huge adolescent, and he found him more and more excited over the imminence of war.†   (source)
  • Once people took their seat's, everyone, with the possible exception of Will, was focused on Megan's imminent appearance.†   (source)
  • When I radioed the main clinic to say that I couldn't make it hack because my Jeep wouldn't start, and that a major mudslide was imminent, he was the one who commandeered another Jeep—over the director's frantic protests—to try to reach me.†   (source)
  • He goes out into the aisle and up two steps, separating himself from the imminent discharge of animal, vegetable and mineral matter.†   (source)
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