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  • He stole it, hoarded it, and hid it.†   (source)
  • Wordlessly they skated the sidewalk to the end of the block, where Garrett kicked off of his hoard and exclaimed: "You won't believe it—Dana Matherson got busted last night!†   (source)
  • The Japanese offered a rice ball to the man who killed the most flies, inspiring a cutthroat swatting competition and hoarding of flattened corpses.†   (source)
  • He shuffled them and tacked them up on the bulletin hoard.†   (source)
  • But everything else was motionless, dry as biscuit, on the brink of burning, hoarding final reservoirs of sap, trying to hold out till the rain returned, and Queen Anne's lace lay dusty on the surface of the meadows like foam on a painted sea.†   (source)
  • Behind his eyes is redness, the red of tiny hoarded fires, of explosions in the air.†   (source)
  • Soon enough you got an idea of which cards a player needed and which they hoarded.†   (source)
  • I hoarded every tidbit like a dragon guards its treasure.†   (source)
  • "Hoarder" hadn't entered everyday parlance, but Mamaw fit the bill, and her tendencies only worsened as she withdrew from the world.†   (source)
  • The hoard of gems, jewelry, and currency under his mattress increases.†   (source)
  • It was one of the most valuable magic items in my inventory, looted from the hoard of a red dragon I'd slain on Gygax.†   (source)
  • The relentless march of time and the hoarding of resources.†   (source)
  • Although the money to hire Chestnut and Boynton was raised by family members through church donations and by financing their meager possessions, local law enforcement interpreted it as evidence of Walter's secret money hoard and double life—confirmation that he wasn't the innocent black man he pretended to be.†   (source)
  • You think I don't know that you're just hoarding goods to distribute to your own faction while we don't get fresh food for a month, huh?†   (source)
  • It says there was plenty of food, even during the famines, except that the Barons were hoarding it.†   (source)
  • "Next time I'll leave a trail of bread crumbs, like Hansel and Gretel," she'd said, their first day on hoard.†   (source)
  • They just followed their racist ideology that all Jews hoarded wealth.†   (source)
  • But Rose, by slowly and steadily accumulating money, buying properties only with a certain percentage of it and hoarding the rest, managed to move toward a million dollars without ever actually winning a game.†   (source)
  • The rain was pelting down as they tried to put the luggage in the car; Uncle Alfred, in the role of their valet, was soaking wet—and since Simon and Noah had hoarded all the confetti for themselves, they were the only throwers.†   (source)
  • The Depression turned her into a hoarder, too.†   (source)
  • In Saint-Maio, people are fined for locking their doors, for keeping doves, for hoarding meat.†   (source)
  • This was around the time the whole book-hoarding, we-have-to-rebuild-civilization kick started.†   (source)
  • Maybe he doesn't have full-blown disposophobia, which is hoarding, but he's on the same playing field.†   (source)
  • We must not allow the reactionary forces to hoard their treasures….†   (source)
  • The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune.†   (source)
  • She hopes it isn't disgusting and smelly, like the houses of those hoarders on TV.†   (source)
  • But I held on to those moments, hoarded them.†   (source)
  • Judith had been carefully hoarding a small store of linens since childhood, adding one cherished bit from time to time, and her loom and needle had worked busily.†   (source)
  • I know he's been hoarding his best wares."†   (source)
  • My position was too precarious; he was already champing at the bit to send me to hoarding school.†   (source)
  • But mostly, there were many stores and shops that were all closed up, with hoards or metal gratings over the windows and doors.†   (source)
  • Apparently, in the early days, there was some incident of food hoarding.†   (source)
  • Now, trudging and slithering along the road back to the farm, those hoarded moments of intimacy warmed Dart more than any amount of Ruud's cognac.†   (source)
  • For generations they had skirmished on the wrong side of the law, hoarding enough funds to become legitimate.†   (source)
  • A lot of people want to hoard money.†   (source)
  • " 'Eat until full, but do not hoard,' " I read.†   (source)
  • And yet Sam is on hoard.†   (source)
  • I reached swiftly between the mattress and box spring to grab the knotted old sock that contained my secret cash hoard.†   (source)
  • " Collins noticed, "He hoarded everything: food, clothes, money.†   (source)
  • The forty-piece Iowa State Marching Band already had hoarded one of the cars and now played "My Country 'tis of Thee."†   (source)
  • We can cure any disease, end hunger, everything, because we won't be dragged down by all our weaknesses, our petty secrets, our hoarding of information and knowledge.†   (source)
  • The evening's activity had to be kept brief because the city now had electricity only a short while each night, and candles had to be hoarded for emergencies.†   (source)
  • He guessed that some of this hoarding was a simple nod to the realities of her situation: she was a woman alone living in the high country, where a person might reasonably expect to spend a certain period , maybe only a day, but sometimes as long as a week or even two , cut off from the rest of the world.†   (source)
  • Hoarders in a war.†   (source)
  • He didn't care to spend money; like the dragons of legend, he hoarded it.†   (source)
  • A yellow hoarding said BE INDIAN, BUY INDIAN in red.†   (source)
  • There was a great deal of traffic in the main thoroughfares of the city — trams, cars and pedestrians; the shops were open, and since the mayor had appealed to the population not to hoard food, assuring us that there was no need to do so, there were not even any queues outside them.†   (source)
  • They hoard and hold their sickness with a firm grip.†   (source)
  • My rainy-day money was hidden here, eight iron pennies I had hoarded for when my luck turned bad.†   (source)
  • Either the Colony miscalculated their provisions, or Graham and his friends had been hoarding more than he'd realized.†   (source)
  • Ignore the Emperor's hoard.†   (source)
  • In the front of the room chalk-hoards faced us from a large stage.†   (source)
  • A lorry went past, making our car wobble and, for a few seconds, obscuring our view of the hoarding.†   (source)
  • I don't even remember them all—hoarding cotton materials, failing to turn in metal and rubber goods needed for the war effort, improper use of ration tickets, all sorts of things like that.†   (source)
  • Even Dinorah added some guava paste she'd been hoarding.†   (source)
  • I hoarded it preciously, but less than two weeks later it became totally worthless.†   (source)
  • Ophelia had been hoarding up portions of the contributions pih received, trying to create an endowment for the organization.†   (source)
  • When the sheriff apprehended him for grave-robbery and gold-hoarding, Mr. Fink demurred on the theory that if his own grandfather wasn't his, whose was he?†   (source)
  • And they hoard it away in nooks and crannies.†   (source)
  • Eragon thought of Tenga alone, in the ruined elf outpost of Edur Ithindra, hunched over his precious hoard of tomes, searching, always searching, for his elusive "answer."†   (source)
  • At that moment, Josie could not remember the pills she was hoarding in her room; she could not remember crying in the shower; she could not remember anything but what it felt like to be adored.†   (source)
  • They turned a corner, and they were at the old hoarded-up railroad station.†   (source)
  • He did not wish me to have any money of my own, for money provided at least a limited freedom (he was still unaware of my private hoard).†   (source)
  • His patiently amassed and hoarded capital—of understanding and gallantry—had vanished in the twinkling of an eye.†   (source)
  • He began to hover about when the warder came to the window in order to make sure that I was not hoarding the tobacco.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman snatched the cursed ring out of the hoard.†   (source)
  • Fronting years of hoarded allowances and birthday gifts sometimes resulted in disappointing returns.†   (source)
  • If he hoarded grain, or sold books, or taught children to read, I'd understand.†   (source)
  • The Hernandez brothers weren't much for the outings; they were hoarders, though occasionally they cut loose, blinding themselves on tequila and beers.†   (source)
  • It's in the form of a miniature airplane, and it literally sails to me, landing with a whisper on my desk just as Mr. Daimler turns back from writing an equation on the hoard.†   (source)
  • Out of the shadows that hoarded the further end of the room came a woman with a little bundle in her arm which had evidently created the necessity for the borrowed cradle.†   (source)
  • The Ku Klux Klan—much like politicians or real-estate agents or stockbrokers—was a group whose power was derived in large part from the fact that it hoarded information.†   (source)
  • No baby pictures, no kid pictures, and no emo-alternative-gothy-screamo-punk synthesis pictures…' four-poster queen-size bed jutted up against the wall opposite the bulletin hoard.†   (source)
  • Nadine wants to know like I might be hoarding wanted criminals in my closet.†   (source)
  • While a small jet carried another notification team from Virginia to Hot Springs to inform Janice and Larry that their son had been killed in action, the MH-47 helicopter with Adam and his teammates on hoard landed at 9:00 a.m. at the airfield servicing DEVGRU's compound in eastern Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • Consequently, Changazi had protein bars with German labels tucked into every crevice of his office, like a squirrel's winter hoard of nuts.†   (source)
  • So I emptied out my savings account-which consisted mostly of baby-sitting and Christmas money I'd hoarded forever— got out Consumer Reports, and did all the research I could on new models before hitting the dealerships.†   (source)
  • Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.†   (source)
  • The quest was successful, and the Dragon that guarded the hoard was destroyed.†   (source)
  • Alba had no trouble obtaining the key to her mother's pantry, arguing that there was no need to hoard ordinary flour and poor men's beans when you could buy Baltic crab and Swiss chocolate.†   (source)
  • Each family hoarded its food, unsure of how long we would be away.†   (source)
  • "Some Asians bought a store near my house," Neddy tells him as they finger through a huge sock bin at Marshalls, "and they be jacking up the prices and hoarding money and, now, they selling malt liquor.†   (source)
  • I made up for his absence by hoarding knowledge, skills, seeking praise.†   (source)
  • They are coming in hoards.†   (source)
  • The nuts they had carefully hoarded for the winter had nearly all been eaten by now; and of the few that were left they had already given the Ape far more than they could spare.†   (source)
  • She stopped speaking for a moment, hoarding her regrets.†   (source)
  • I stopped fighting for movement and exhaled the breath I had been hoarding.†   (source)
  • The more dollars I began to hoard, the more my pride grew with the fact that I was finally getting a foothold on buying my home on the Russian River.†   (source)
  • "Colder," she said again in Washington, D.C., despite the cherry-blossom promises, despite the white stone monuments hoarding winter light.†   (source)
  • Our soup always had a spoonful or two of her carefully hoarded sherry ladled into it.†   (source)
  • Compared to some parts of his house, which looked like hoarders lived there, his dresser could have passed a Marine Corps Boot Camp inspection.†   (source)
  • Vast, red-golden, huge tail coiled, limbs sprawled over his treasure-hoard, eyes not firey but cold as the memory of family deaths.†   (source)
  • The breeze off the ocean was crisp, and Max rejoiced in the unprecedented sum of money in his pocket—his hoarded allowances for the past two months.†   (source)
  • His sleeping pelts and woolen smallclothes, his sheepskin boots and fur-lined gloves, his store of mead and hoarded food, the hanks of hair he took from the women he bedded, even the golden arm rings Mance had given him, all lost and left behind.†   (source)
  • The Englishmen had hoarded these so cunningly that now, as the war was ending, they had three tons of sugar, one ton of coffee, eleven hundred pounds of chocolate, seven hundred pounds of tobacco, seventeen hundred pounds of tea, two tons of flour, one ton of canned beef, twelve hundred pounds of canned butter, sixteen hundred pounds of canned cheese, eight hundred pounds of powdered milk.†   (source)
  • But if they stop being selfish and share the goods they've hoarded-they'll have a chance to work hard and produce some more.†   (source)
  • It had taken her years to save five dollars, she had hoarded pennies to accumulate such a sum.†   (source)
  • And who whistled when he saw the brass, but Junior had his own private hoard and it was not his fault there was a war on.†   (source)
  • His room looks like one of those rooms on Hoarders.†   (source)
  • "Surely, it's a beautiful cut and worth a dragon's hoard of gold!" deBernezan kept his sword out in front of him, but Regis counted as the seconds passed and the dark-haired man did not blink.†   (source)
  • We were paid with a shiny dime (she saved every one she acquired and had a considerable hoard), which just so happened to be the price of admission to the picture show.†   (source)
  • Egypt was told to clear shipping out of Suez Canal—bluff; was hoarding last five rocks.†   (source)
  • Five years later he was the majority shareholder and the chairman of the hoard.†   (source)
  • The drawers of my desk were filled with more notebooks and junk that I'd hoarded.†   (source)
  • And what little still remained to white people was shriveled like a seed hoarded too long, shrunken past its time, and split open now, to expose a fragile, pale leaf stem, perfectly formed and dead.†   (source)
  • We talked loudly about him through the fly screen, pointed at his hairy arms, and laughed at how he pulled up his dirty pants before swinging his hoard onto his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Those who were not out of gas hoarded what remained in their tanks against graver emergencies to come.†   (source)
  • In a soundless concussion of light, Earth's core gave up its hoarded energies.†   (source)
  • There the treasure might have remained until kingdom come, for unlike those mysterious hoards one sometimes reads about in the news—packets of greenbacks or Spanish doubloons and such uncovered by the shovels of workmen—the gold would have seemed destined to be hidden in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • A few degrees lower and it would have been frosty He thought of frosty mornings at the lodge his father had built, when his mother sang at her work and taught him little songs about the yellow leaves and the hoarding squirrels and the fawns that had lost their spots.†   (source)
  • And Brady's on hoard all right!†   (source)
  • She had hoarded just enough money to rent a room.†   (source)
  • She and Winslow began in earnest, using their hoarded ammunition carefully.†   (source)
  • It ended with the words: "Anyone found hoarding food will be shot on the spot."†   (source)
  • Where the enthusiasts got their petrol from remained a closely guarded secret, or a number of secrets, because each seemed to have his own private hoard, as John Osborne hoarded his eight drums of special racing fuel in his mother's back garden.†   (source)
  • At last no option but to draw upon my secret hoard: a small stock of rice, ten ollocks in all, shielded from every temptation to sell or barter, kept even when the need to hold our land had squeezed us dry of everything else.†   (source)
  • If they would bring the time around once more, she would lose nothing that was given, she would hoard the nuts like a squirrel.†   (source)
  • O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,   (source)
  • I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,   (source)
  • ...you are a good deal paler and thinner than when you first left home; and we cannot have you undermining your health to hoard up money either for yourself or others.   (source)
  • ...a small hoard of silver dollars...   (source)
  • If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.   (source)
    hoarded = gathered stores of
  • They did not hide or hoard or obfuscate.†   (source)
  • Here, behind the name badge and uniform, was her true self, secretly hoarded, quietly accumulating.†   (source)
  • He doesn't seem upset that we got rid of his things, so I guess he's not a hoarder.†   (source)
  • My instinct was always to hoard it—Betsie was growing so very weak!†   (source)
  • Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.†   (source)
  • When I read it, I thought of Will's sister, Cara, accusing my mother of hoarding goods.†   (source)
  • They knitted special socks, some four feet long, and hoarded hollow bamboo reeds.†   (source)
  • For closing her eyes while being addressed For hoarding crusts.†   (source)
  • I was keenly aware of the fact that I needed to hoard my resources to save for next term's tuition.†   (source)
  • The hoarding disgusts the soldiers raised in 13.†   (source)
  • Then we passed around our little hoard of sugar cubes and crackers and peanuts.†   (source)
  • I WAS HOARDING MY PAYCHECKS, in case I needed the money for tuition.†   (source)
  • A third of utmost concentration to draw out the stink of death from the drops of blood I hoarded.†   (source)
  • I haven't figured out the what and why of Du's hoarding.†   (source)
  • The cart stops before the gathered hoard of juvenile refugees.†   (source)
  • I've helped transform the apartment of a single, lazy, hoarding hermit into a family's living space.†   (source)
  • Some irrational part of me wanted to clutch it, hoard it for later.†   (source)
  • Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.†   (source)
  • Such truths as the Asshai'i hoard are not like to make you smile."†   (source)
  • In a year or two, you'll be sitting on a downright hoard.†   (source)
  • Macon hoarded his money; Milkman gave his away.†   (source)
  • Eragon drew in his breath, then he breached Aren's precious hoard and shouted, "Jierda!†   (source)
  • Then Drizzt swung his other scimitar, the blade he had taken from the dragon's hoard.†   (source)
  • What use have we for riches when our hides are more glorious than any treasure hoard in existence?†   (source)
  • You never stole guns and hoarded them in your bedroom, did you?†   (source)
  • The only reason they could was that there weren't any puny humans on hoard.†   (source)
  • And then too there's his treasure-hoard.†   (source)
  • She saved practically all of her earnings, living like a miser, hoarding each penny.†   (source)
  • The Martials hoard their secrets the way a miser hoards gold.†   (source)
  • So this hoard keeps getting stolen, but you keep getting it back?†   (source)
  • Nor any sign of this fabled hoard of dragon eggs.†   (source)
  • That's the savings account I'm —hoarding.†   (source)
  • Awed by the size of the knowledge hoard he held, Eragon said, "You wish me to have this?"†   (source)
  • Does the snake think I have Sansa squirreled away somewhere, like a nut I'm hoarding for winter?†   (source)
  • I hoarded the foods that produced pigment.†   (source)
  • I clean up and say nothing, hoarding these things for times of greater need.†   (source)
  • They seek for magic swords, for chests of gold, for crowns stolen from a dragon's hoard."†   (source)
  • So it's not like I'm hoarding it like a miser."†   (source)
  • Her words come out in a torrent, as if she's been hoarding them all for this moment.†   (source)
  • The Careful One has a hoard of gold large enough to cover this rug.†   (source)
  • She saved most of the money she earned, hoarding the tips she was given.†   (source)
  • It was made by the Dwarves, and came from the hoard of Scatha the Worm.†   (source)
  • He reached into his bag and brought out the bottle, hoarded for this moment.†   (source)
  • She watched in silence, hoarding what energy she had, for growing babies.†   (source)
  • He is fully prepared, and also tense: how he conducts himself today will determine whether Grace will at last crack open, revealing her hoarded treasures, or whether she will instead take fright and hide, and shut herself up like a clam.†   (source)
  • It's an event, a small defiance of rule, so small as to be undetectable, but such moments are the rewards I hold out for myself, like the candy I hoarded, as a child, at the back of a drawer.†   (source)
  • Why hoard the stuff?†   (source)
  • She possessed the nonspecific clumsiness of someone who makes such a constant effort to be inconspicuous that she is creatively awkward—without meaning to, Germaine hoarded attention to herself; her almost electric nervousness disturbed the atmosphere surrounding her.†   (source)
  • They must think of me as a fusty old dragon crouched on an ill-gotten hoard — some gaunt dog-in-the-manger, some desiccated, censorious wardress, a prim-lipped keeper of the keys, guarding the dungeon in which starved Laura is chained to the wall.†   (source)
  • The door opened, and a nebulous figure walked into the room, stopped at the hoard, and started working out chemistry problems.†   (source)
  • And every day we heard the drums and gongs that meant the Red Guards were ransacking the houses of class enemies to find and confiscate their hoarded possessions.†   (source)
  • To accept it would require awakening fully into the terrible necessities of Arrakis where they must guard even fractional traces of moisture, hoarding the few drops in the tent's catchpockets, begrudging a breath wasted on the open air.†   (source)
  • Her mistress sent her to us for safekeeping until arrangements could be made to take her to the countryside—because of course, every okiya in Gion hoarded coupons; the better the okiya, the more it usually had.†   (source)
  • Thanks to either my wisdom or inherited hoarder tendencies, I managed to keep nearly every one of the letters I received from my family.†   (source)
  • Yet Mr. Bracegirdle had been so adamant about hoarding school, about fresh air and autumn color and starry skies and the many joys of country life ("Stuyvesant.†   (source)
  • Wherever they spent more than a day, he hoarded two or three of the white-and-orange aerosols, and a batch of Bactines as well.†   (source)
  • A few days after that, 25,000 unemployed workers converged on the downtown lakefront and heard Samuel Gompers, standing at the back of speaker's wagon No. 5, ask, "Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it in riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?"†   (source)
  • This was one of her mother's hiding places, where she hoarded valuables that might be needed in time of war or, as LuLing said, "disaster you cannot even imagine, they so bad.†   (source)
  • For me, it was a pleasure like a secret hoard of coins—Rose, whom I adored, sitting against me in the hot musty velvet luxury of the car's interior, the click of the gravel on its undercarriage, the sensation of the car swimming in the rutted road, the farms passing every minute, reduced from vastness to insignificance by our speed; the unaccustomed sense of leisure; most important, though, the reassuring note of my father's and mother's voices commenting on what they saw—he on the…†   (source)
  • How long had it taken him to piece her together from the slivers of her he'd gathered and hoarded so carefully?†   (source)
  • Tamar had forbidden the use of the ambulance; there were now only ten litres of petrol concealed at the asylum, and they needed to be hoarded, in case of an emergency, until more could be stolen.†   (source)
  • Seeing a table stacked with K rations, he began cramming the boxes under his shirt, brushing off an attendant who tried to assure him that he didn't have to hoard them, as no one was going to starve him anymore.†   (source)
  • A geyser of sparks erupts deep within a house—an electrical transformer or hoarded fuel or maybe a delayed-action bomb—and it looks to him as if lightning lashes the town from within.†   (source)
  • She scolded my father into letting me stay in school after classes were over and daze myself with Masterji's hoard of English-language books.†   (source)
  • For before I could say the thousand humiliating things in my heart, all the proofs of passion I had hoarded, the crawling devotions I would do, I felt his power come around me.†   (source)
  • He ought to have shut down the factories in response to lessened demand; he ought to have banked his money — hoarded it, as others in his position were doing.†   (source)
  • Cleaver is the only employee who knows about the hoard of Unwinds sequestered in the far reaches of the lot.†   (source)
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