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  • Does this meat have a lot of saturated fat?†   (source)
  • As I patrolled through the forest, my movie-saturated imagination began to run wild.†   (source)
  • But in the presence of this cruelly beautiful man, respect was saturated with fear.†   (source)
  • The blood from her head had saturated the towel and was spreading onto Charlie's pants.†   (source)
  • The problem was that with just under a month to go until the exams and every free moment devoted to revision, his mind seemed so saturated with information when he went to bed he found it very difficult to get to sleep at all; and when he did, his overwrought brain presented him most nights with stupid dreams about the exams.†   (source)
  • Mother was only 38 years old and heart attacks usually happen to older people, and Mother was very active and rode a bicycle and ate food which was healthy and high in fiber and low in saturated fat like chicken and vegetables and muesli.†   (source)
  • I see the front of his shirt is saturated with it.†   (source)
  • I used to like to imagine how it all drifted down, lazily, in the warm, soupy water—leaves, seeds, feathers, scales, flesh, bones, petals, pollen—then mixed with the saturated soil below and became, itself, soil.†   (source)
  • He was saturated.†   (source)
  • We rented pumps and spraying equipment and started saturating the area last month.†   (source)
  • Each hour the dance hall seems to grow progressively warmer, so by the eighth day, the air, walls, and floor are saturated with the hot, teeming odor of boys.†   (source)
  • Many immediate and other less proximal pleasures mingled in the richness of these minutes: the fading, reddish dusk, the warm, still air saturated with the scents of dried grasses and baked earth, his limbs loosened by the day's work in the gardens, his skin smooth from his bath, the feel of his shirt and of this, his only suit.†   (source)
  • Once they're saturated, they're done.†   (source)
  • The thin mattress had been slept on by many previous bodies and was decorated with saturated urine stains from former residents.†   (source)
  • By now, my shirt was saturated with blood.†   (source)
  • In the spring he went to Venice alone for a week, the trip he'd planned for the two of them, saturating himself in its ancient, melancholy beauty.†   (source)
  • It takes some time to get the jumpsuit off, and then we find his undergarments are saturated with blood as well.†   (source)
  • With all the letumosis fatalities the past few years, one would think the market is saturated with unneeded ID chips.†   (source)
  • "Get it out," I say quietly and quickly, leaning my head back into the water, attempting to saturate my hair by running my fingers through it under the stream.†   (source)
  • Everything was still bathed and saturated with her presence— higher, wider, deeper than life, a shift in optics that had produced a rainbow edge, and I remember thinking that this must be how people felt after visions of saints—not that my mother was a saint, only that her appearance had been as distinct and startling as a flame leaping up in a dark room.†   (source)
  • Our acclimatization was now officially complete-and to my pleasant surprise Hall's strategy appeared to be working: After three weeks on the mountain, I found that the air at Base Camp seemed thick and rich and voluptuously saturated with oxygen compared to the brutally thin atmosphere of the camps above.†   (source)
  • When I looked up to see who could possibly be ingesting that many saturated fats, I saw Josh Richter pulling out the chair next to mine.†   (source)
  • They rose to the cloud layer, and icy moisture saturated the air.†   (source)
  • Instead, I found a bright yellow handprint on a dark wall (bright yellow to my especially fitted visor of course, invisible out of the UV spectrum) and then followed the trail of vague blotches where saturated clothing had touched market stalls or stone.†   (source)
  • Edward, Jasper, and Emmett all had their hair entirely saturated with melting snow.†   (source)
  • Danny was saturated in blood, still conscious, still trying to fire his rifle at the enemy.†   (source)
  • The bed was saturated with blood.†   (source)
  • Between this level and the surface was a mixture of sand and clay so saturated with water that engineers called it gumbo.†   (source)
  • My friends in the FBI feel this would cut crime rates down by 70, 80 percent in any city where we have real and meaningful saturation.†   (source)
  • Oh, and I don't mean to brag or anything, but that lab report that Lil and I turned in for the supersaturated solution?†   (source)
  • The road has been blocked off by a squat froglike Jeep-thing from General Jim's, saturated red and blue light sweeping and pulsing out of it.†   (source)
  • As the American market for fast food grows more saturated, restaurants belonging to the same chain are frequently being put closer to one another.†   (source)
  • The odor of tacos, cotton candy and churros saturated the air, along with tension.†   (source)
  • But in the morning I rose and there it was, filling my living quarters once more, from floor to ceiling, seeping into the walls, saturating the air I breathed, like vapor.†   (source)
  • In its tremendous size, its dark and bulky menace, its escorting aircraft, the cloud resembled a national promotion for death, a multimillion-dollar campaign backed by radio spots, heavy print and bill board, TV saturation.†   (source)
  • Silence filled the car like a saturated sponge.†   (source)
  • There's a different quality to his voice now: haunted, saturated with guilt.†   (source)
  • It was a wonderful place for me, home to a hundred bottles and bundles, saturated with a thousand smells.†   (source)
  • The media has saturated the legal environment.†   (source)
  • They broke into sordid shrieking, flapped their wings in fright, and saturated the Doctor's clothing with a feminine fragrance.†   (source)
  • No; it's linked to saturation of the blood with melange.†   (source)
  • A supersaturated solution is one in which the saturation point, at which no more material will dissolve, has been exceeded.†   (source)
  • She then mixed up the dip, which contained the same chemical, I noted, as the lawn insecticide, and poured it over him until every inch of him was saturated.†   (source)
  • A smoke seemed to be going up from my nerves like the smoke from the grills and the sun-saturated road.†   (source)
  • He runs a bowling alley. she thought as he simply saturated her with pleasure.†   (source)
  • Drip, drip, drip, into the white gravel until, saturated, it could no longer receive and a second tiny pool appeared.†   (source)
  • The so-called "GPs" grew up in this community, their worlds saturated by experiments and observation and learning.†   (source)
  • The little building had been standing for more than a century, and seasonal changes provoked different symptoms of its antiquity: winter cold saturated the stone-and-iron fixtures, and in summer, when temperatures often hurtled over the hundred mark, the old cells were malodorous cauldrons.†   (source)
  • And in spite of a town that would be reeling for years, and media coverage that had already reached the point of saturation, he deserved a fair trial.†   (source)
  • She digs into her pale pink pocket and replaces my saturated tissue with a new one.†   (source)
  • With a little help from Sharp's son (later on, Roger said, you would have believed the kid thought the ad up and wrote it himself), the Cereal Professor concept was approved and saturated Saturday-morning TV, plus such weekly syndicated programs as Star Blazers, U.S. of Archie, Hogan's Heroes, and Gilligan's Island.†   (source)
  • When a hot virus multiplies in a host, it can saturate the body with virus particles, from the brain to the skin.†   (source)
  • But after the arrest in Athens and the news at the Balegamires', Luma decided that the Fugees needed a break and an introduction to America's most sugar-saturated holiday.†   (source)
  • The earth was saturated, water pooling in her footprints.†   (source)
  • That's a useful lesson for Coca-Cola or Nike, who have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on marketing and can afford to saturate all forms of media with their message.†   (source)
  • The colors are all saturated and Technicolor-bright, and the couple looks perfect, sparkling, all white teeth and dazzling smiles and beautiful brown hair.†   (source)
  • The tar-saturated wood burned like a torch, crackling wildly as the fire inched across the structure as if it were stalking another victim.†   (source)
  • We began this morning to saturate the air over their surface force with P-3C Orion patrol aircraft, assisted by British Nimrods operating out of Scotland.†   (source)
  • Young men in such countries grow up in an all-male environment, in a testosterone-saturated world that has the ethos of a high school boys' locker room.†   (source)
  • Twice a day she would unwrap the ointment-saturated surgical gauze from around each finger, pulling away the dead flesh.†   (source)
  • "On Sunday, April 6, with American ground forces massing on the outskirts of Baghdad, fighting their way into position for their final assault on Saddam Hussein's capital, 34 million copies of a magazine with Mortenson's picture on the cover and a headline declaring "He Fights Terror With Books" saturated the nation's newspapers.†   (source)
  • Company president Donald Rodocker had helped establish the Navy's saturation diving program, which allowed divers to descend beyond one thousand feet using equipment similar to that of scuba divers.†   (source)
  • and saturated the washcloth.†   (source)
  • Preliminary saturation bombing of Japanese military plants and cities was part of the plan.†   (source)
  • When Esteban Trueba arrived home, he went straight in to take a bath; he was covered with sweat and dust and saturated with the unmistakable odor of frightened beasts.†   (source)
  • Separate trickles of blood spilled to a puddle on the floor through one saturated trouser leg like countless unstoppable swarms of wriggling red worms.†   (source)
  • And in fact, Soviet films, which flooded the cinemas of all Communist countries in that crudest of times, were saturated with incredible innocence and chastity.†   (source)
  • Behind him, through the jagged frame that remained, she could see a moonlight-saturated stretch of grass and a line of treetops in the distance.†   (source)
  • She could tell he was trying to sound sober, but the sour smell of booze saturated his breath and his sweat.†   (source)
  • Oxygen saturation.†   (source)
  • Once I had the scalding water, I washed my hands and drew away the saturated towel between Mrs. Bradford's legs.†   (source)
  • There was one of Rachel holding Hal as a baby, its colors now grown saturate and dark.†   (source)
  • The upholstery was worn, and pine-fragrant solvents didn't quite mask the sour scent of cigarette smoke that over the years had saturated the vinyl and the carpet.†   (source)
  • The word saturated the air and echoed rich and heavy throughout the chamber.†   (source)
  • It was kept locked at night and was therefore a place where, as he thought of it, his receptors could recover from urine-saturation.†   (source)
  • The fuel soaks his robes and flows down his back until the cushion on which he sits is saturated.†   (source)
  • It was not a matter of texture or wrinkles, it was the same face with the same muscles, but saturated by the withering look of resignation to a pain accepted as hopeless.†   (source)
  • Media saturation may also provide what Dennis Baron called a "passive lingua franca."†   (source)
  • And I will admit that not all of the infected cities represent saturation.†   (source)
  • I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now, though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will arrive, saturated with pain.†   (source)
  • AT SIX in the morning, trying to suppress visions induced by fatigue, and moving slowly to preserve his strength, Alessandro walked past the warm basement kitchens where a thousand things were simmering and baking, cooks were squeezing pastry tubes as if they were wrestling anacondas, and exhausted prisoners were up to their elbows in huge cauldrons scrubbing off caked food in lakes of lukewarm water saturated with soap and muck.†   (source)
  • The market was a little saturated but he'd still make more sitting on his butt in the dealer's room than working it off in the store.†   (source)
  • Under his feet the dark mountain clay was saturated, making it slippery and soft; the ranch roads would be impassable with sticky mud, and it would be days before the cowboys could patrol the fences again.†   (source)
  • The brick-and-stucco walls had been painted many times, and the colors blended in the saturating humidity.†   (source)
  • The coal regions of Pennsylvania and West Virginia were saturated with fallout.†   (source)
  • All we have discovered is that it starts with a single individual— always a child-and then spreads explosively, like the formation of crystals round the first nucleus in a saturated solution.†   (source)
  • "It's over,' she said, "they've saturated me.†   (source)
  • According to the story, Bilbo—whose face and utterances had saturated the media during the war years and those immediately following—had been admitted to the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans to undergo surgery for cancer of the mouth.†   (source)
  • Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement.†   (source)
  • In fact, their coming to the island instilled a hope that many of the children's problems could be solved by a saturation of fresh ideas and faces.†   (source)
  • It isn't a tank — but a single M. I. private could take on a squadron of those things and knock them off unassisted if anybody was silly enough to put tanks against M. I. A suit is not a ship but it can fly, a little on the other hand neither spaceships nor atmosphere craft can fight against a man in a suit except by saturation bombing of the area he is in (like burning down a house to get one flea!†   (source)
  • That fear, that terrible and petrifying fear, which he felt while he was rolling the dice, while he was worried about losing high stakes, that fear he loved and sought to always renew it, always increase it, always get it to a slightly higher level, for in this feeling alone he still felt something like happiness, something like an intoxication, something like an elevated form of life in the midst of his saturated, lukewarm, dull life.†   (source)
  • The earth was saturated.†   (source)
  • For our everyday life is becoming so saturated with the tremendous power of mass communications that any unpopular or unorthodox course arouses a storm of protests such as John Quincy Adams—under attack in 1807—could never have envisioned.†   (source)
  • "This is Asphodel," they repeated, looking modestly upward to the frieze of maidens that was saturated with sunlight and seemed to fill with color, and before which the branch of a leafy tree was trembling.†   (source)
  • I could feel his cool breath saturate the strands as he exhaled; it raised goose bumps on my neck.†   (source)
  • I'll saturate the ground with most of the water I have.†   (source)
  • He was working with an extremely supersaturated solution when something similar had happened.†   (source)
  • The air "is very hot and supersaturated with moisture most of the day now.†   (source)
  • And in Mr. Ferris's class, Lil and I had done our first lab report together on creating a supersaturated solution, which meant that I did all the smelly chemically stuff and Lil took down the notes and wrote it up.†   (source)
  • For a minute I thought the walls had begun to discharge the moisture that must saturate them, but then I saw the noise came from a small fountain in one corner of the room.†   (source)
  • Not the sadness he had felt that morning when he stood before the corpse of his friend, but the invisible cloud that would saturate his soul after his siesta and which he interpreted as divine notification that he was living his final afternoons.†   (source)
  • A supersaturated solution is one in which the saturation point, at which no more material will dissolve, has been exceeded.†   (source)
  • You don't think. an African blackness, you know the saturate blacking of a bandwidth somewhere on the continent, some nomad swath of high desert grace and shape, but in gesture and stance, I saw, the way he tongued some spittle off his lip between riffs, a body demotic that was locally made—he was another scuffling trumpet from an inner city somewhere.†   (source)
  • It would, concluded Eragon, be a number of days before they could saturate both the ruby and the twelve diamonds concealed within the belt of Beloth the Wise.†   (source)
  • Eggbeaters whirl, spoons spin round in bowls of butter and sugar, vanilla sweetens the air, ginger spices it; melting, nose-tingling odors saturate the kitchen, suffuse the house, drift out to the world on puffs of chimney smoke.†   (source)
  • Edward asked, his voice saturated with innocent surprise.†   (source)
  • It fell on ground already saturated, and it filled every dip in every path.†   (source)
  • "Yes," I answered, my voice saturated with relief.†   (source)
  • I know it would eliminate most crime, if there was full saturation.†   (source)
  • Part of it, he felt, was the spice-saturated diet of Arrakis.†   (source)
  • Deeply saturated with blue at its edges.†   (source)
  • "Do you want to go home?" he said quietly, a different pain than mine saturating his voice.†   (source)
  • I gulped in a quick refill, glad that Charlie's scent had not saturated the room yet.†   (source)
  • Press coverage was at saturation levels.†   (source)
  • Dreams as vivid and saturated with color as oil paintings.†   (source)
  • Several of the demons gasped, and a palpable tension saturated the air.†   (source)
  • The air is saturated with the stink of perfumes at war.†   (source)
  • Tension saturated the air, that almost tangible, sickly calm that often preceded a fight.†   (source)
  • In 2008, Sheriff Joe Arpaio started saturation patrols of West Phoenix.†   (source)
  • We calculate that it will take two weeks for global saturation.†   (source)
  • I've seen that saturated, brimming look before.†   (source)
  • Edward said, deep satisfaction saturating his tone.†   (source)
  • He saturated a handkerchief with the salve and wrapped the hand.†   (source)
  • The air saturated with diesel fumes burned in my lungs.†   (source)
  • And the image of the muted post horn all but saturating the Bay Area.†   (source)
  • He'd just had a brilliant idea: what if he were to take some of the saturated earth with him on his journey, as a protective device?†   (source)
  • Her flesh is damp, saturated, lustrous.†   (source)
  • I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them.†   (source)
  • As the market for fast food in the United States becomes increasingly saturated, the chains have to compete fiercely with one another for customers.†   (source)
  • Silence saturated the gym area.†   (source)
  • An asthma patient walks in without an appointment and needs respiratory treatments and close monitoring of his peak flows and oxygen saturation.†   (source)
  • …of terra-cotta griffins, Victorian beadwork pictures, even a crystal ball the dark brown walls, their deep dry texture like cocoa powder, soaked me through and through with a sense of Hobie's voice and also of Welty's, a friendly brown that saturated me to the core and spoke in warm old-fashioned tones, so that drifting in a lurid stream of fever I felt wrapped and reassured by their presence whereas Pippa had cast a shifting, colored nimbus of her own, I was thinking in a mixed-up…†   (source)
  • More than one thousand planes saturated the landscape with nearly forty-five hundred tons of Spam and fruit cocktail, soup, chocolate, medicine, clothing, and countless other treasures.†   (source)
  • The mix gave the fries their unique flavor — and more saturated beef fat per ounce than a McDonald's hamburger.†   (source)
  • Test borings showed that the earth within the park consisted of a top layer of black soil about one foot thick, followed by two feet of sand, then eleven feet of sand so saturated with water, Burnham wrote, "it became almost like quicksand and was often given this name."†   (source)
  • Indoors, in the cool bedrooms saturated with incense, women protected themselves from the sun as if it were a shameful infection, and even at early Mass they hid their faces in their mantillas.†   (source)
  • It's intended to last five days before it saturates the filters, which means thirty days for me (just one person breathing, instead of six).†   (source)
  • She'd connected a few dots: the efficiency and utility of the CircleSurveys, the constant Circle goal of total saturation, the universal hope for real and unfiltered—and, most crucially, complete—democracy.†   (source)
  • The schooner slipped in silence through the labyrinth of sailing ships anchored in the cove of the public market whose stench could be smelled several leagues out to sea, and the dawn was saturated by a steady drizzle that soon broke into a full-fledged downpour.†   (source)
  • Full saturation.†   (source)
  • This can occur because the saturation point becomes higher as the temperature of the solution is increased.†   (source)
  • The saturation was not complete—there were still hundreds of more sensitive spaces without access, and the cameras were prohibited from bathrooms and other private rooms, but otherwise the campus, to the eyes of a billion-odd Circle users, was suddenly clear and open, and the Circle devotees, who already felt loyal to the company and enthralled by its mystique, now felt closer, felt part of an open and welcoming world.†   (source)
  • Then he bathed, arranged his beard and waxed his mustache in an atmosphere saturated with genuine cologne from Farina Gegeniber, and dressed in white linen, with a vest and a soft hat and cordovan boots.†   (source)
  • Someone asked what terrible illness would dare to attack a woman with so much power, and the answer he received was saturated with black bile: "A lady so distinguished could suffer only from consumption."†   (source)
  • It was the first time she had gone alone into that office, saturated with showers of creosote and crammed with books bound in the hides of unknown animals, blurred school pictures, honorary degrees, astrolabes, and elaborately worked daggers collected over the years: a secret sanctuary that she always considered the only part of her husband's private life to which she had no access because it was not part of love, so that the few times she had been there she had gone with him, and the…†   (source)
  • His words became songs, lilting chants and melodies that saturated the air until it hummed with magic.†   (source)
  • The figures and objects stood in relief from the surface, giving the panorama a feeling of hyperrealism with its saturated, glowing colors and minute detail.†   (source)
  • The total amount of energy an Eldunari can hold depends upon the size of the heart; the older a dragon, the larger their Eldunari and the more energy it can absorb before becoming saturated.†   (source)
  • He looked for her in her sisters' shop, behind the window shades in her house, in her father's office, but he found her only in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.†   (source)
  • Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole thing oddly personal, a sense of one painter's hand moved by impulse and afterthought as much as by epic design.†   (source)
  • "Emily," he said, and so much love saturated his voice that I felt embarrassed, intrusive, as I watched him cross the room in one stride and take her face in his wide hands.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to tell where the shreds of his saturated coveralls ended and the ragged flesh began.†   (source)
  • When the sweat had saturated every inch of my clothing, we ran toward cool waters in some hidden rock pools.†   (source)
  • …their clients had been unjustly convicted because legal counsel had not been appointed them until after they had confessed and had waived preliminary hearings; and because they were not competently represented at their trial, were convicted with the help of evidence seized without a search warrant (the shotgun and knife taken from the Hickock home), were not granted a change of venue even though the environs of the trial had been "saturated" with publicity prejudicial to the accused.†   (source)
  • THE RAIN EASED late on the second night, and by morning it had been replaced by a stiff wind that blew the water off the tree limbs and began the slow business of drying the saturated grit-stones of our dwellings and the sodden earth of our fields.†   (source)
  • When Rowan's sorcerer touched his cane to the ground, Max shivered as Old Magic saturated the air and caused it to shimmer.†   (source)
  • Evening was falling, and the air was saturated with that quiet, soft light that had inspired painters for centuries.†   (source)
  • Whatever effect computers may have in the future, many Americans now believe that our culture's saturation in television and other media is wiping out the differences in our speech, homogenizing the American language, so that we'll all end up sounding the same.†   (source)
  • As the amtrac's ramp went down he yelled, "Come on, men!" and then fell flat on his face into the water-saturated volcanic ash.†   (source)
  • But from all I read, it seems as if Rwanda was by then already saturated with violence and the threat of violence.†   (source)
  • Then, instead of fleeing, instead of shouting as she had thought she would, she let herself be saturated with a soft feeling of relaxation.†   (source)
  • Before the Other Night It was a while since Daddy went to Kaeleigh, saturated with misguided love and the overwhelming need to own her completely.†   (source)
  • At various places inside the monkey house, they set out patches of paper saturated with spores of a harmless bacterium known as Bacillus subtilis niger.†   (source)
  • In an instant the atmospheric pressure in the old submarine tripled as her every part was saturated with an explosive air-gas mixture.†   (source)
  • She noticed it before anybody else in the flowers wilting in their vases, saturating the air with a sickening odor that lingered while they dried up, lost their leaves, and fell apart, leaving only the musty stalks, which no one bothered to clean up until much later.†   (source)
  • The rose seemed to bloom and spread its petals, expanding quickly to nearly blanket David's side, until the blood saturated the fabric and trickled down in little streams to stain his tie and pants.†   (source)
  • Kids reach a saturation point.†   (source)
  • So saturated were their minds with visions of death that when they were splashed with the blood of a stricken buddy—as so many of them were—they perceived it as a kind of hallucinatory dream.†   (source)
  • Aureliano tried to relive the times when they slept in the same room, tried to revive the complicity of childhood, but Jose Arcadio had forgotten about it, because life at sea had saturated his memory with too many things to remember.†   (source)
  • It was monotonous but satisfying work as he burnished each smooth, curved section to a natural gleam until the oil saturated its surface and it began to emit a phosphorescent glow.†   (source)
  • Farther aft, saturated steam in the "outside" or nonradioactive loop of the heat exchange system emerged through clusters of control valves to strike the blades of the high-pressure turbine.†   (source)
  • These houses used to be semihovels; Josef's old territory, where beer-saturated fat men sat on the front porches, sweating in the August heat, while their children screamed and their dogs lay panting with frayed ropes tethering them to the fence, and paint peeled from their woodwork and the dispirited cat pee marigolds wilted along their cracked walkways.†   (source)
  • The corpse's connective tissue, skin, and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever, and damaged by shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the cadaver are saturated with Ebola-virus particles.†   (source)
  • Saturated undercoats and beautiful flesh browns, skin strokes in every sort of unnameable shade and many grays as well, glaucous and sky smoke, because it's always winter in Chicago and the gang members belong to their terrain, to the pale brick and iced-over windows, and in this sense they could be brothers to the olive-skinned men in the frescoed gloom of some Umbrian church—Acey had the calm and somber eye of a cinquecentist.†   (source)
  • He circled on tiptoe the grotesque debris and came near a doorway containing a crying soldier holding a saturated handkerchief to his mouth, supported as he sagged by two other soldiers waiting in grave impatience for the military ambulance that finally came clanging up with amber fog lights on and passed them by for an altercation on the next block between a civilian Italian with books and a slew of civilian policemen with armlocks and clubs.†   (source)
  • His telltale "Unit 3" bag slapping at his side, my father sprinted through thirty yards of saturating cross fire—mortars and machine guns—to the wounded boy's side.†   (source)
  • The house was opened, still smelling of resin and damp whitewash, and the children and grandchildren of the founders saw the porch with ferns and begonias, the quiet rooms, the garden saturated with the fragrance of the roses, and they gathered together in the parlor, facing the unknown invention that had been covered with a white sheet.†   (source)
  • Aware that when he arrived he had found the door to the bedroom open, Aureliano went across the porch which was saturated with the morning sighs of oregano and looked into the dining room, where the remnants of the birth still lay: the large pot, the bloody sheets, the jars of ashes, and the twisted umbilical cord of the child on an opened diaper on the table next to the shears and the fishline.†   (source)
  • But in truth he seemed no longer to be suffering such pain, although the initial torment had saturated him everywhere—even the damp blond spirals of belly-hair curling upward through a space between his shirt buttons—his neck, the blond hairs of his wrists.†   (source)
  • Kate brought the bottle and pushed a little ball of saturated cotton into the tooth with the point of the nut pick.†   (source)
  • Some of our scientists think it will take a thousand years to restore a saturated C.Z., like Florida or New Jersey, to anything close to normal, even scratching the T.D. cities.†   (source)
  • …the pickup truck, decorated with red and purple streamers and with a boat hooked onto the back, at the start of the Port Royal Halloween parade, every one of my students clambered all over the truck and boat, faces hidden in soggy masks, bags saturated by the light drizzle that had fallen all day, Top Cat leaning in the window saying hi to Barbara, Mrs. Conrack, the strut of majorettes, the roll of drums, the lines of spectators braving the rain, Jessica sitting in my lap, Oscar…†   (source)
  • She carried the ammonia bottle to the bed, saturated a handkerchief, and, standing well away, held the cloth over Faye's nose and mouth.†   (source)
  • Even those people who joy in numbers and are impressed with bigness are beginning to worry, gradually becoming aware that there must be a saturation point and the progress may be a progression toward strangulation.†   (source)
  • Why, to saturate yourself with beauty and romance, of course.†   (source)
  • —It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.†   (source)
  • Amory had seen Monsignor go to the houses of stolid philistines, read popular novels furiously, saturate himself in routine, to escape from that horror.†   (source)
  • "Only I was afraid you would be getting so learned," said Celia, regarding Mr. Casaubon's learning as a kind of damp which might in due time saturate a neighboring body.†   (source)
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