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  • Putting the cocoon in a cool place, a dark place, but with water, so she wasn't dry; no, not just water, but water mixed with the sap of a certain tree, and kept tepid so that certain reactions could take place in the cocoon.†   (source)
  • So on the weekends we went out to East Hampton, where we stayed in the house of friends of hers who were summering in France; and during the week we met downtown after I got off work, drinking tepid wine in sidewalk cafes, deserted Tribeca evenings with fever-hot sidewalks and hot wind from the subway grates blowing sparks from the end of my cigarette.†   (source)
  • They were trapped on the peninsula, starving and terrified, and finally rounded up at bayonet point to be marched north through tepid rice paddies and blazing heat, marched through exhaustion and sickness and beyond it, marched from their feet to their hands and knees, emaciated, hallucinating from thirst and racked with malaria, toward a prison camp which few of them ever reached, and fewer survived.†   (source)
  • And then we fought, my dad and I, while we crunched burnt toast and swigged tepid tea.†   (source)
  • The others had expressed only a tepid willingness to meet once Burnham arrived in New York.†   (source)
  • And that would leave Jane with her tepid tea and her bone china and these girls who could make an hour's conversation out of nothing.†   (source)
  • Simon poured a glass full of the tepid liquid and brought it to Maia.†   (source)
  • The remains of a tepid rain were still sifting down when we stepped out into the street.†   (source)
  • Before dialing, he found it all too easy to imagine that she'd answer with only tepid enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • Perry's cell adjoined Dick's; though invisible to each other, they could easily converse, yet Perry seldom spoke to Dick, and it wasn't because of any declared animosity between them (after the exchange of a few tepid reproaches, their relationship had turned into one of mutual toleration: the acceptance of uncongenial but helpless Siamese twins); it was because Perry, cautious as always, secretive, suspicious, disliked having the guards and other inmates overhear his "private…†   (source)
  • But the heavy bread, the tepid meat, made him begin to feel nauseous; everything wavered before his eyes for a moment; he sipped his beer, trying to hold the sandwich down.†   (source)
  • Faced with trouble at home and pressure from abroad, P. W. Botha offered a tepid, halfway measure.†   (source)
  • Heavy thunderstorms rolled into Atlanta early in the week and hovered overhead, soaking the field into a tepid mush, like a cotton mop dunked in a bucket.†   (source)
  • He was so cheap he turned the hot water heater down to tepid.†   (source)
  • It was tepid, only faintly effervescent, delicious.†   (source)
  • The old squat pile of limestone and brick held his teacherly corpus, a million words spun into tepid air, and there was no reason to think he'd need to pass this way again.†   (source)
  • The small group on the right erupted in wild cheering, while the larger audience on the left applauded tepidly.†   (source)
  • Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.†   (source)
  • As he sipped at the tepid orange soda through a leaky straw, Mortenson watched Abdul reading the items aloud and winced as Ali's practiced fingers tapped the calculator balanced on his knee.†   (source)
  • It had died of its own accord, expired completely without even an ember to be watered down, and there was nothing for the disappointed firemen to do but drink tepid coffee and hang around trying to screw the nurses.†   (source)
  • Lettie looked away, embarrassed, then managed a tepid "Yes, yes I did."†   (source)
  • Negotiating traffic, shivering as her car heater offered a tepid puff of air around her toes, Eve checked in.†   (source)
  • The shock experienced by John Adams on his first arrival in France was tepid compared to that of his wife.†   (source)
  • But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what's going on until it's too late.†   (source)
  • Crying, actually, was too tepid a word.†   (source)
  • It hadn't given him much pleasure to settle for tepid water after a long day on the road.†   (source)
  • He loved the Fort at this hour, these Colombo nights, the windows of his car open and the breeze for the first time almost cool, no longer tepid, hitting his face with all the night smells, the perfume of closed boutiques.†   (source)
  • "I love the party," he answered, tepidly.†   (source)
  • The tepid morning reeked with the odors of a crowded, rushing humanity, the smells strangely not unpleasant.†   (source)
  • Public response to the children was often hot and never tepid.†   (source)
  • To which I added a tepid "Thanks."†   (source)
  • The water was crystal clear and warm as a tepid bath.†   (source)
  • His arguments that I did not follow the chain of command were a bit tepid after that.†   (source)
  • There was her milk, untouched, forgotten, barely tepid.†   (source)
  • Tony lifted the lid and peered in: the dome of the filter was slimy with yellow mud, but the water trickled out of the tap clear, though tasting stale and tepid.†   (source)
  • A young girl, scarcely formed; tepid, bland, and tasteless.†   (source)
  • The tea grows tepid, then cold, in their cups.†   (source)
  • There was a hawking sound, and something tepid and jellylike landed on the back of Turner's hand.†   (source)
  • The Dothraki cooled the water in jars and pots and drank it tepid.†   (source)
  • "Chai," the nearest one said, pouring him a cup of tepid plain green tea.†   (source)
  • We finish up with lunch and drink our tepid tea.†   (source)
  • I wiped the tepid cloth across his body without ceasing.†   (source)
  • The water in the large kettle was scarcely tepid.†   (source)
  • He is carried along beside the lakeshore; he squints into the immense morning light, passing here and there the solitary fishermen as they cast their lures into the tepid and indolent waves.†   (source)
  • Giving up would have been marrying whatever boy her father picked out for her, drinking tepid tea the rest of her life with women she didn't even like.†   (source)
  • Specifically, the verb had been accused of being so tepid and prim that it failed to do justice to the labors of the men in the room.†   (source)
  • Once he had the attention of the room, this back-office clerk or accountant, this All-Russian pusher of pencils, asserted in a voice as tepid and prim as the word facilitate: "Poetic concision demands the avoidance of a pair of words when a single word will suffice."†   (source)
  • It seems to me I should be tucked away in my bed and dreaming of myself on younger legs, running after the boy with joyous, flowing ease, instead of sitting here at the table with shoots of a draft prickling my feet and a tepid cup of green tea cooling in my hands.†   (source)
  • It was only tepid, and soon cold, and seawater in the bargain, but it served to wash the dust of the long ride from his face and hair and hands.†   (source)
  • She could probably have found the cafeteria in her sleep; she'd brought Luke enough tepid cups of coffee from there to fill the Central Park reservoir.†   (source)
  • Hizdahr, of the tepid kisses.†   (source)
  • Then Ta-Kumsaw sat down on the grass, the pot between him and them, and showed them how to eat the mash--dipping in his hand, pulling out a tepid, jelly-thick glop of it and smacking it into his open mouth.†   (source)
  • I moved into a kiss and she did not lean away this time but returned a certain tepid sip, a hint of distances we'd yet to cross.†   (source)
  • It was a daring, impulsive move on which the chaplain decided after quarreling with Corporal Whitcomb again and washing down with tepid canteen water his joyless lunch of Milky Way and Baby Ruth.†   (source)
  • By midday the water would be tepid, but in the chill of dawn it was almost cool and helped her keep her eyes open.†   (source)
  • I put out my hand and she came to me, not looking at me anymore, and I kissed the tepid skin of her, at her belly and below, and I could taste her, her sharp-sweetness and unwashedness and her living body underneath.†   (source)
  • He splashed some tepid water on his face from the basin beside his bed and took his time squatting in the garderobe, the night air cold on his bare skin.†   (source)
  • She stood on the roof of a factory building, a space made available for the evening so that a small theater group might launch a fund drive, and fifty people drank tepid wine out of plastic cups and said, We need theater.†   (source)
  • They dissolved, as the saying goes, in laughter, they practically disappeared into their constituent elements, into atoms and molecules, a couple of girls in a gangster Packard, blown forward in time, and Klara stood on the roof sipping tepid wine and hearing people say, We need theater, and she knew she would tell this story to Miles and she also knew she could never again have a friend like Rochelle or a mother like her mother for that matter and she looked across ledges and parapets…†   (source)
  • Now while I soaped myself beneath the tepid trickle in the pink mildewed upright metal coffin which served as my shower stall, I began to scheme in earnest about Sophie and the immediate future.†   (source)
  • Her feet firmly planted on the tepid rough brick of the floor, her back held against the wall, she crouched and stared, all her senses stretched, rigidly breathing in little gasps.†   (source)
  • After the first shock of cold had passed and he came back to the surface the water seemed tepid.†   (source)
  • She took the cup and rinsed her mouth and spat and then drank the cupful of tepid water.†   (source)
  • At midday and again at dark some tepid cocoa was ladled from a container into our mugs.†   (source)
  • Whisky and tepid water, I think.†   (source)
  • Their interest in the projected Vicarate was tepid, and had to be continually revived by the missionary, Father Ferrand; Irish by birth, French by ancestry— a man of wide wanderings and notable achievement in the New World, an Odysseus of the Church.†   (source)
  • They all three squatted on the gallery and ate, slowly, without talking; then in the store again, they drank from a tin dipper tepid water smelling of the cedar bucket and of living beech trees.†   (source)
  • Winston, still carrying the brief-case containing the book, which had remained between his feet while he worked and under his body while he slept, went home, shaved himself, and almost fell asleep in his bath, although the water was barely more than tepid.†   (source)
  • At four o'clock the sun wasn't too hot, but the water was pleasantly tepid, and small, languid ripples were creeping up the sand.†   (source)
  • He drew the long thin nightgown over his freckled Fitzsimmons body and stepped vigorously into tepid water.†   (source)
  • When the tanks were at last screwed up, a gasoline can filled with tepid water was handed through one of the cabin windows.†   (source)
  • He crouched down between the sheets, glad of their tepid glow.†   (source)
  • Been watching the polo again?" said Ronny tepidly.†   (source)
  • At this distance from its spring the water was scarcely tepid, and we drank of it with pleasure.†   (source)
  • No! hands him, ye gods! hands him a cup of tepid ginger and water!†   (source)
  • It may be that he deserved to be; but I still think that the tepid support of his fellow-investigators and his desertion by the great body of scientific workers was a shameful thing.†   (source)
  • Where did you get the notion—what made you think you could serve me this tepid bilge with even a glimmer of hope I would drink it?†   (source)
  • …of Francoise shine with added lustre, just as Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth—took in coffee which (according to Mamma) was nothing more than hot water, and then carried up to our rooms hot water which was barely tepid, I would be lying stretched out on my bed, a book in my hand, in my room which trembled with the effort to defend its frail, transparent coolness against the afternoon sun, behind its almost closed shutters through which, however, a reflection…†   (source)
  • Mr. Jackson had helped himself to a slice of the tepid filet which the mournful butler had handed him with a look as sceptical as his own, and had rejected the mushroom sauce after a scarcely perceptible sniff.†   (source)
  • In the tepid wind they felt the plague.†   (source)
  • In the prairie heat she trudged along unchanging ways, talked about nothing to tepid people, and reflected that she might never escape from them.†   (source)
  • It was to be worse than jail, even; the tepid waters of Cordelia Street were to close over him finally and forever.†   (source)
  • For it is really nauseating, when you detest it, to have to eat every day several slices of thin, tepid, pink india rubber, and it is disagreeable to have to drink brandy when you would prefer to be cheered up by warm, sweet Kuemmel.†   (source)
  • It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.†   (source)
  • Yes, it was her body he smelt, a wild and languid smell, the tepid limbs over which his music had flowed desirously and the secret soft linen upon which her flesh distilled odour and a dew.†   (source)
  • He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions.†   (source)
  • He remembered how they had sat by the lagoon in the tepid twilight; he telephoned asking whether he might come in for tea.†   (source)
  • …was no less sensitive than its moral standard—he carried everything before him, and all New York into his drawing-rooms, and for over twenty years now people had said they were "going to the Beauforts' " with the same tone of security as if they had said they were going to Mrs. Manson Mingott's, and with the added satisfaction of knowing they would get hot canvas-back ducks and vintage wines, instead of tepid Veuve Clicquot without a year and warmed-up croquettes from Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • He quite shook hands with me — which was a violent proceeding for him, his usual course being to slide a tepid little fish-slice, an inch or two in advance of his hip, and evince the greatest discomposure when anybody grappled with it.†   (source)
  • Occasionally she came to a spot where independent worlds of ephemerons were passing their time in mad carousal, some in the air, some on the hot ground and vegetation, some in the tepid and stringy water of a nearly dried pool.†   (source)
  • Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.†   (source)
  • He ate omelettes on farmhouse tables, poked his arm into damp beds, received the tepid spurt of blood-lettings in his face, listened to death-rattles, examined basins, turned over a good deal of dirty linen; but every evening he found a blazing fire, his dinner ready, easy-chairs, and a well-dressed woman, charming with an odour of freshness, though no one could say whence the perfume came, or if it were not her skin that made odorous her chemise.†   (source)
  • There was a Lion red, a wooer daring, Within the Lily's tepid bath espoused, And both, tormented then by flame unsparing, By turns in either bridal chamber housed.†   (source)
  • Enjoy a bath now: clean trough of water, cool enamel, the gentle tepid stream.†   (source)
  • A female tepid effluvium leaks out from her.†   (source)
  • His hand looking for the where did I put found in his hip pocket soap lotion have to call tepid paper stuck.†   (source)
  • Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.†   (source)
  • …temple a contused tumescence: with attention, focussing his gaze on a large dull passive and a slender bright active: with solicitation, bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr Malachi Mulligan's scheme of colour containing the gradation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.†   (source)
  • Then bowls of tepid milk and blood we pour, And thrice invoke the soul of Polydore.†   (source)
  • Mean while the tepid caves, and fens, and shores, Their brood as numerous hatch, from the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosed Their callow young; but feathered soon and fledge They summed their pens; and, soaring the air sublime, With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect; there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build: Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent…†   (source)
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