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kiosk
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  • They looked warm and cozy, and I guessed that was the Premier Area, listed next to some stratospheric price on the board in the ticket kiosk.†   (source)
  • Even the shops and kiosks were lit.†   (source)
  • Not even the kiosk's layers of paper bulletins move.†   (source)
  • Following Mom's instructions, I went to a telephone kiosk a few blocks from our alley so the neighbors would not overhear me asking about Dad.†   (source)
  • I walked to the Sunny Konvenience Kiosk across from school and smoked.†   (source)
  • The lines were endless, all the way back to the news kiosk.†   (source)
  • Gerry is making a last delivery at Easons kiosk at the railway station at noon on Saturday and that's handy because I can meet him there to get the bicycle and he can meet Rose off the train.†   (source)
  • I moved to a nearby kiosk and watched through my pocket-sized imager as he punched codes on a manual diskey, inserted his card, and stepped through the glowing rectangle.†   (source)
  • Below the chandeliers spread an indoor city of "gilded domes and glittering minarets, mosques, palaces, kiosks, and brilliant pavilions," according to the popular Rand, McNally & Co. Handbook to the World's Columbian Exposition.†   (source)
  • Mae parked and peered through the chain-link fence, seeing no one, only the shuttered rental kiosk, the rows of kayaks and paddleboards.†   (source)
  • Apparently they'd been wandering through the mall for two days, lost, confused and frightened, before taking refuge in the littered kiosk.†   (source)
  • Down the concrete steps at the station, right past the newspaper kiosk into Roseberry Avenue, half a block to the end of the T-junction, to the right the archway leading to a dank pedestrian underpass beneath the track, and to the left Blenheim Road, narrow and tree-lined, flanked with its handsome Victorian terraces.†   (source)
  • He reached back into the pocket of the door and took a bottle of liquor into the guard's kiosk.†   (source)
  • We hid behind a little kiosk filled with souvenir crystals–wind chimes and dream catchers and stuff like that, glittering in the sunlight.†   (source)
  • On one side of Carabayllo, on the lowland beside the road, there were stores, garages, vendors' carts, kiosks roofed with umbrellas, and, on side streets and the lower hillsides, thick clusters of small houses made of brick and concrete.†   (source)
  • She bought a latte to go at a kiosk and ran to catch the night train to Stockholm.†   (source)
  • It parks at a taxi stand beside a flower kiosk.†   (source)
  • He opened the pack of cigarettes he'd bought at the station kiosk and lit one and laid the pack on the tablecloth and blew smoke at the glass and at the country passing in the rain.†   (source)
  • And yet, I'm sure it's him disappearing behind a kiosk.†   (source)
  • Mortenson dialed Marina's number from a kiosk of pay phones and got her answering machine.†   (source)
  • Dori Duz was a lively little tart of copper-green and gold who loved doing it best in toolsheds, phone booths, field houses and bus kiosks.†   (source)
  • We stepped back outside into the beautiful day and made our way to the thread kiosk.†   (source)
  • For example, I walk past the magazine kiosk at the tube station and idly glance over, but I don't feel the slightest desire to buy any of the magazines.†   (source)
  • Nudge said, pointing at a poster on a kiosk.†   (source)
  • He walked casually past the ornate front desk, and once outside on Montalembert ran to the nearest telephone kiosk.†   (source)
  • Despite the cold weather, it was filled with milling pedestrians and kiosks were selling sausages and hot, spiced cider.†   (source)
  • Uncle Press guided the motorcycle toward one of those old-fashioned kiosks that marked the stairs leading down to the subway.†   (source)
  • Sherrie and Janice have called the entire office in, all the volunteers, the part-time canvassers, even the high school kids who station the sidewalk kiosks.†   (source)
  • That's one of those kiosks where you pee.†   (source)
  • "So can I." Gabriel paused at a news kiosk.†   (source)
  • Oscar and Stink sampled nua dem houses in the new city, Doc Peret found a kiosk that sold American magazines, and the lieutenant, whose health seemed to be returning, spent his time with Jolly Chand, sometimes going off for day-long trips to the country, sometimes just sitting in the Phoenix courtyard, where they talked in low voices.†   (source)
  • The effect of those little stalls, booths, kiosks and choked grocery shops—run by people like myself—was indeed of people who had squashed themselves in.†   (source)
  • Then I paid the addition, left a careful tip, went to the kiosk and bought The Stars & Stripes, walked to American Express, got money and picked up my mail, and on to the railroad station.†   (source)
  • Kiever led the way to the main exit, between the little groups of travelers staring vaguely at kiosk displays of scent, cameras and fruit.†   (source)
  • The kiosks selling postcards and T-shirts.†   (source)
  • There was a Subway franchise, various ticket counters, an information kiosk.†   (source)
  • I could tell he was afraid people at his phone kiosk were listening.†   (source)
  • Tariq buys the children rosewater ice cream from a street-side kiosk.†   (source)
  • I would stop the car when we reached the kiosk and put on my siddity air.†   (source)
  • To get away from the rain, Roy dashed into the wooden kiosk.†   (source)
  • He told Lina about pinning his last-minute message to the kiosk in Selverton Square.†   (source)
  • I spent most of my time studying a rack of cassettes under a kiosk.†   (source)
  • We sat in the back and watched the houses and kiosks go by.†   (source)
  • For ten minutes Roy stood in the kiosk, dripping on the floor, waiting for the downpour to slacken.†   (source)
  • I waited, shivering, for the workers in Uncle Tian's kiosk to fetch him.†   (source)
  • We saw a phone kiosk up ahead, but it had only a chain where the phone book had been.†   (source)
  • For instance, the kiosk like roadside memorial in the university town of Butare.†   (source)
  • He stopped at a kiosk near Zinkensdamm and stared at a newspaper headline.†   (source)
  • When I looked up, she was waving me over to the kiosk, where she was standing with the reporter.†   (source)
  • … Neither was the commotion around a newspaper kiosk at the second corner.†   (source)
  • Most of the showroom floor was a maze of stalls, kiosks, and workshops.†   (source)
  • She watched the woman as she stood in line at the kiosk.†   (source)
  • They made a loose ring around the Paperchase kiosk.†   (source)
  • A man rounds the corner of the kiosk, carrying a bundle of newspapers on his shoulder.†   (source)
  • It was a small kiosk covered with cracked green paint.†   (source)
  • 'Wait,' I said, wagging my finger between his kiosk and ours.†   (source)
  • Just before 9:00 she bought a caffè latte at the Pressbyra kiosk and returned to the building.†   (source)
  • I stepped back from the kiosk, hoisting my bags farther up my wrist.†   (source)
  • There was pointed cough from the vitamin kiosk.†   (source)
  • From a toy kiosk, between a poosteen coat vendor and a fake-flower stand, Zalmai picked out a rubber basketball with yellow and blue swirls.†   (source)
  • So Mirebalais was a place of some significance, different from most of the little towns scattered through the mountains and valleys farther north, in that it had intermittent electricity and radios playing at most hours, a small section of paved road at its center, ramshackle kiosklike stores beside the road, and a few places where you could buy a beer or a glass of the potent white rum called clairin.†   (source)
  • They spent two more days in the kiosk, the weak and faltering sister venturing out to scavenge food scraps from the cartoon-character disposal baskets with swinging doors.†   (source)
  • Other nations, he wrote, had mounted exhibits of dignity and style, while American exhibitors erected a mélange of pavilions and kiosks with no artistic guidance and no uniform plan.†   (source)
  • I can tell, even though she is sitting, on a bench near a sandwich kiosk, looking around timidly like she's lost.†   (source)
  • IT WAS SUNDAY, and the Colonel and I decided against the cafeteria for dinner, instead walking off campus and across Highway 119 to the Sunny Konvenience Kiosk, where we indulged in a well-balanced meal of two oatmeal cream pies apiece.†   (source)
  • I look around and see rows of city speakers on the roofs, a stray cat whose tail twitches over the lid of a trash can, an abandoned kiosk with old anti-Colonies bulletins tacked all over it.†   (source)
  • He folded this in quarters, wrote "Deliver to Loris Harrow" in big letters on the outside, and pinned it to the kiosk.†   (source)
  • In Selverton Square, he saw a kiosk where the poster with his and Lina's names on it had been pinned up.†   (source)
  • He went up the Pott Street side of empty Riverroad Square, where another poster hung crookedly on the kiosk, and he was headed toward North Street when suddenly the lights flickered and went out.†   (source)
  • The next day a notice appeared on all the city's kiosks: TOWN MEETING
    All citizens are requested to assemble
    In Harken Square at 6 P.M. tomorrow
    To receive important information.
    Mayor Lemander Cole
    What kind of important information?†   (source)
  • We marched back to the kiosk.†   (source)
  • She wanted to visit the Plaza de Armas, where the old men played dominos and the coffee kiosk sold espresso so strong it made your ears pop.†   (source)
  • Along the docks, the sidewalks were mobbed with tourists shopping at the T-shirt kiosks, overflowing from stores, and lounging across acres of outdoor café tables, like pods of sea lions.†   (source)
  • Liz, Emma, and I pressed against the side of the Paperchase kiosk to avoid getting trampled by a group of tourists yelling in Italian.†   (source)
  • I just sit quietly in the glove-leather seat and watch as the traffic light turns from red to green, and she lets up on the clutch to sling us forward off the line, and we are running, following Route 3A again as the stores and filling stations and kiosks gradually thin out, the horizon coming visible, the golden, burnished woods rushing back, dense and stately in their towering solicitude as we reach the kempt, rolling country of Bedley Run.†   (source)
  • He and the whole of Sweden had seen Salander's passport photograph on billboards outside every newspaper kiosk for weeks.†   (source)
  • On the Friday afternoon, he was on his way to the kiosk to buy some cigarettes when he ran into Harriet.†   (source)
  • It had a polished marble floor, loads of shops and kiosks, and a glassand-girder ceiling high enough so that a helicopter could fly about inside comfortably.†   (source)
  • Seeing her with both feet planted firmly as she stood by the window of the kiosk, Figuerola suddenly had the feeling that she was a policewoman.†   (source)
  • From one telephone kiosk to another.†   (source)
  • When they got to the kiosk, they looked down to see a cement stairway that was covered in garbage and debris.†   (source)
  • At the end of Long Wharf, across from the closed-for-the-season kiosk for whale watching tours, another kiosk had been cobbled together from plywood scraps and cardboard appliance boxes.†   (source)
  • With a final spin of the wheel, Uncle Press brought us right up to the curb next to the small green kiosk that was our destination.†   (source)
  • He did not at first recognize the psychopath whose passport photograph had been plastered outside every Pressbyra kiosk since Easter.†   (source)
  • As he approached the red kiosk he breathed steadily, inhaling deeply, exercising a control over himself that he never thought possible.†   (source)
  • When she went into Slussen tunnelbana Figuerola picked up her pace, but stopped when she saw the woman head for the Pressbyrân kiosk instead of through the turnstiles.†   (source)
  • Starting with drinks at a café on the Kalinin, a kiosk in the Arbat, the Slavyanky for lunch, an afternoon walk along the Luznekaya?†   (source)
  • She was sitting at Bjurman's desk and reading through the papers that she had found in the drawers when she heard a knock on the door and turned to see Officer Bubble balancing two cups of coffee on his notebook, with a blue bag of cinnamon rolls from the local kiosk in his other hand.†   (source)
  • 'You know,' Harriet continued, studying the kiosk, 'as I'm looking at this now, I think maybe we should switch the earrings and bracelets.†   (source)
  • 'Excuse me,' a guy with a beard and sandals standing behind a nearby vitamin kiosk called out to her.†   (source)
  • 'So as you can see,' Harriet said, moving down the kiosk with a wave of her hand, 'I work mostly in silver, using gemstones as accents.†   (source)
  • And yet,' Reggie said, from his kiosk, 'you are not averse to running a two-for-one Valentine's Day special on bracelets and assorted rings.†   (source)
  • And if you hadn't""I'd be enjoying a quiet moment at my kiosk right now, without being analyzed,' she said.†   (source)
  • During the day, she worked at the kiosk; at night, she went straight home, where she stayed up into the early hours making more pieces.†   (source)
  • 'Slightly alarmed, I looked over at Reggie, who was sitting at the Vitamin Me kiosk, a cup with a tea bag poking out of it in one hand.†   (source)
  • These are the ones I was telling you about!' a brown-haired girl wearing all pink, clearly the leader of this particular group, said as they swarmed the kiosk, going straight for the KeyChains.†   (source)
  • Reggie called out from his kiosk.†   (source)
  • This reporter was from the style section of the local paper, and Harriet had been getting ready all week, making new pieces and working both of us overtime to make sure the kiosk looked perfect.†   (source)
  • When I got to Harriet's kiosk, it was clear she had already been there for a while: there were two Jump Java cups already on the register, a third clamped in her hand.†   (source)
  • She shrugged, taking off the necklace, then moved down the kiosk to her friends, who were now gathered around the rings, quickly dismantling the display I'd just spent a good twenty minutes organizing.†   (source)
  • I could still hear the announcer's voice from outside, along with the booming bass of the music they were playing, even as I walked from the entrance down to the kiosk courtyard, where I found Harriet and Reggie standing at Vitamin Me.†   (source)
  • I saw the young girls selling packets of cigarettes at midnight, seemingly imprisoned in their kiosks, like puppets in a puppet theatre.†   (source)
  • I picked a sidewalk cafe by a big kiosk, the only one in Nice that stocked The Stars & Stripes and where the Herald-Trib would be on sale as soon as it was in; ordered a melon, cafe complet for TWO, and an omelette aux herbes fines; and sat back to enjoy life.†   (source)
  • As he watched, the girl came around to the front of the kiosk and pushed an Evening Standard into the rack.†   (source)
  • In spite of the girls in the cigarette kiosks, that way of life no longer existed, in London or Africa.†   (source)
  • Standing at the newspaper kiosk, deep in a copy of the Continental Daily Mail stood a small, froglike figure wearing glasses, an earnest, worried little man.†   (source)
  • You've talked a lot, Salim, about those girls from East Africa in the tobacco kiosks, selling cigarettes at all hours of the night.†   (source)
  • We drive in our car; and leave it by the new kiosk.†   (source)
  • Every evening the kiosks displayed texts of doom, and, in the cafés, acquaintances greeted one half-derisively with: "Ha, my friend, you are better off here than at home, are you not?" until I and several friends in circumstances like my own came seriously to believe that our country was in danger and that our duty lay there.†   (source)
  • Beneath English trees I meditated on that lost maze: I imagined it inviolate and perfect at the secret crest of a mountain; I imagined it erased by rice fields or beneath the water; I imagined it infinite, no longer composed of octagonal kiosks and returning paths, but of rivers and provinces and kingdoms ….†   (source)
  • The benches were shelves of ponderous mahogany; the news-stand a marble kiosk with a brass grill.†   (source)
  • — Ed. "It was towards this kiosk that we were rowing.†   (source)
  • In explanation of the services which he was able to render a monarch haunted by perpetual terrors, I need only say that it was Erik who constructed all the famous trap-doors and secret chambers and mysterious strong-boxes which were found at Yildiz-Kiosk after the last Turkish revolution.†   (source)
  • From where we stood I could see in the middle of the lake a large blank mass; it was the kiosk to which we were going.†   (source)
  • During this time, in the kiosk at my father's feet, were seated twenty Palikares, concealed from view by an angle of the wall and watching with eager eyes the arrival of the boats.†   (source)
  • This kiosk appeared to me to be at a considerable distance, perhaps on account of the darkness of the night, which prevented any object from being more than partially discerned.†   (source)
  • At this moment my mother seized me in her arms, and hurrying noiselessly along numerous turnings and windings known only to ourselves, she arrived at a private staircase of the kiosk, where was a scene of frightful tumult and confusion.†   (source)
  • He stood watch day and night with a lance provided with a lighted slowmatch in his hand, and he had orders to blow up everything—kiosk, guards, women, gold, and Ali Tepelini himself—at the first signal given by my father.†   (source)
  • She prepared the iced water which he was in the habit of constantly drinking,—for since his sojourn at the kiosk he had been parched by the most violent fever,—after which she anointed his white beard with perfumed oil, and lighted his chibouque, which he sometimes smoked for hours together, quietly watching the wreaths of vapor that ascended in spiral clouds and gradually melted away in the surrounding atmosphere.†   (source)
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