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  • It's what I use in lieu of passport to fly in the U.S. The signatures match," I said, when she didn't answer, "can't you see?"†   (source)
  • "What has been proposed is that in lieu of eliminating the entire Capitol population, we have a final, symbolic Hunger Games, using the children directly related to those who held the most power.†   (source)
  • Some of them have had to sacrifice themselves, others escaped through the skin of their teeth, or offered other lives in lieu… So I believe that even the Sherpas are to blame for the tragedy of 1996 on 'Sagarmatha.†   (source)
  • In lieu of Hoyt's wasted appearance, Kassad was brown, obviously fit, and whip-handle lean, with strands of muscle showing in shoulder, wrist, and throat.†   (source)
  • In my defense, I will say that if I had thought Saboor would accept money from me, I gladly would have given it to him in lieu of this proposal.†   (source)
  • Simon was doing what he usually did in lieu of dancing, which was to bounce up and down on the balls of his feet, looking uncomfortable.†   (source)
  • Its management had left the city, and only the cashiers were left, hastily paying the radio station's employees and performing artists three months' salary in lieu of notice.†   (source)
  • She considered digging out a path to Cal's storage shed solid exercise in lieu of a formal workout.†   (source)
  • Immediately after collection, Maycomb Methodists sang what they called the Doxology in lieu of the minister praying over the collection plate to spare him the rigors involved in inventing yet another prayer, since by that time he had uttered three healthy invocations.†   (source)
  • In lieu of cake and gifts, we would pool our food and present an extra slice of bread or cup of coffee to the birthday honoree.†   (source)
  • The gang did allow some rank-and-file members to sell heroin on its turf but accepted a fixed licensing fee in lieu of a share of profits.†   (source)
  • I went into the bathroom and stared at myself in the metal plate that was bolted over the sinks in lieu of a mirror.†   (source)
  • In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Camp Half-Blood, assuming Gaea hasn't already destroyed it.†   (source)
  • In lieu of politics or sports or the latest headlines, people in this small town thrived on the goings-on of its citizens.†   (source)
  • We drew a line in the dirt with a stick in lieu of a net.†   (source)
  • In lieu of an allowance, Mom and Scott buy diapers and baby formula.†   (source)
  • Judges often assigned him to work crews in lieu of a fine.†   (source)
  • I make a mental note for the next time she gets pissy that, in lieu of mood stabilizers, ice cream will do the trick.†   (source)
  • In lieu of an answer, she just pointed.†   (source)
  • —whoever it was had drawn a picture of Veronica on the test paper in lieu of a name.†   (source)
  • "There are some factual issues here that need to be fleshed out," he began, "but the first of these is, Mr. Greenleaf, whether the state will agree to hang Mr. Bourne in lieu of giving him a lethal injection."†   (source)
  • Their services are no longer required, but each will receive a month's pay by mail in lieu of notice.†   (source)
  • I have happily surmounted them, but I do not find that I am less solicitous to hear constantly from you than in times of more danger... Years subdue the ardor of passion but in lieu thereof friendship and affection deep-rooted subsists which defies the ravages of time, and whilst the vital flame exists.†   (source)
  • "That woman," she said in lieu of a hello, "is a miracle worker."†   (source)
  • Isham did not say so, but the Spanish government had offered to pay the two officers $20,000 in lieu of a salvage claim.†   (source)
  • Every thirtieth man carried in lieu of a rifle and saddlebags a light machine-gun strapped across a special mount on the back of his saddle and held in balance by a geometric arrangement of straps that could be rapidly disengaged.†   (source)
  • Remember hoping that measures we had taken in lieu of quarantine were effective—or half of L-City would be down with colds or worse.†   (source)
  • Watching her, Mrs. Glass, who happened to be a great judge of young girls' figures and young girls' walks, once again, in lieu of a smile, tightened her lips a bit.†   (source)
  • And when they were, the next thing, taking their naps all over the house, it was then I got my chance, and there would be, in lieu of any nap, pictures of the world to see.†   (source)
  • "Have you ever gotten a dick pic?" she asked in lieu of saying hello.†   (source)
  • In lieu of Colin's laugh came a period of unbreachable silence.†   (source)
  • In lieu of small talk, we sit and stare at each other for several skeptical minutes.†   (source)
  • Suppose you give me Miss Jefferson and in some [fu]ture day take a son in lieu of her.†   (source)
  • Some, like Mick, wear it puffed up, peacocks strutting ostentation in lieu of real substance.†   (source)
  • Then in lieu of explanation, he simply gestured to the Shalyapin's entrance where a waiter suddenly appeared with a silver platter balanced on the palm of his hand.†   (source)
  • Above, in lieu of the hourglass beloved by the Dutch vanitas painters, a stark and slightly sinister clock with Roman numerals.†   (source)
  • The dogs' attention spans were long now and they began to show rare, unnameable talents, which Edgar cultivated for hours in lieu of being in the house.†   (source)
  • After lunch, they'd return to their classrooms, where in theory they'd happily color or draw or read quietly in lieu of playing kick ball or basketball or tag outside.†   (source)
  • On their third anniversary, Gabby prepared a mozzarella-stuffed, Italian-flavored meat loaf; in lieu of a gift, she asked him to eat it with her; by their fourth anniversary, they were sometimes cooking together.†   (source)
  • The bored college girl staffing the office was talking to her boyfriend on the phone when I walked inside, and was more than happy to send me on my way with a brochure, in lieu of actually telling me about the destination herself.†   (source)
  • His movements were smooth and flowing as he bent Anjali's head toward her chest to check for neck stiffness, as he felt for lymph nodes, moved her limbs, and as he tapped her patellar tendon using his cocked finger in lieu of a reflex hammer.†   (source)
  • So, in lieu of money, he gave her his medals as pledges.†   (source)
  • She fixed coffee and sandwiches for the Saturday night supper that the boss gave the girls in lieu of overtime money.†   (source)
  • I simply can't feel religion," I told him in lieu of telling him that I did not think I had the kind of soul he thought I had.†   (source)
  • He saw a ration stand at one side of the field, and he went to it and begged some rice and biscuits, and he took them back, in lieu of doctors, to the people in the park.†   (source)
  • Frank could take them in lieu of cash.†   (source)
  • She saw Punky Perkins, next to her in church, drop two buttons in the plate in lieu of the two pennies his mother had given him.†   (source)
  • The Confederate government took cotton for taxes in lieu of money, but three bales wouldn't even cover the taxes.†   (source)
  • In effect he is already in his shroud or the garments that shall serve him in lieu of one.†   (source)
  • This was in lieu of certain suggestions she had made concerning little things she wanted to buy.†   (source)
  • But as things stand, you will permit me to make another suggestion in lieu of that.†   (source)
  • He lay down here, drew straw over himself in lieu of blankets, and was soon absorbed in thinking.†   (source)
  • They had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a sceptre now.†   (source)
  • , on tables to which were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths.†   (source)
  • "I paid to Isaac," said the Saxon, "eighty zecchins, and he restored me a hundred in lieu thereof."†   (source)
  • Then it becomes resigned, and stoically accepts catastrophe in lieu of triumph.†   (source)
  • It was evidently his intention to play with them,——a lesson, I took it, in lieu of a beating, though a dangerous lesson, for the frail craft stood in momentary danger of being overwhelmed.†   (source)
  • In lieu of money the gamblers wagered with cedar-berries, each of which berries represented a pipeful of tobacco.†   (source)
  • Thinking better of it, however, he gave her chin another tap, in lieu of that warmer familiarity, and stole away to bed.†   (source)
  • But when she read and re-read with the closest attention, the particulars immediately following of Wickham's resigning all pretensions to the living, of his receiving in lieu so considerable a sum as three thousand pounds, again was she forced to hesitate.†   (source)
  • It was broad day —— eight or nine o'clock; the storm raging, in lieu of the batteries; and someone knocking and calling at my door.†   (source)
  • As one of the soldiers, who carried a basket in lieu of a gun, went down on his knee to open it, my convict looked round him for the first time, and saw me.†   (source)
  • These were to the full as interested in the place, however, as if they could have commanded whole barrels of wine; and they glided from seat to seat, and from corner to corner, swallowing talk in lieu of drink, with greedy looks.†   (source)
  • The nobles of the Middle Ages placed military courage foremost amongst virtues, and in lieu of many of them.†   (source)
  • She had many acquaintance in the place, for her father was universally civil, but not one among them who could be accepted in lieu of Miss Taylor for even half a day.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Grant offered herself as companion for the day to Lady Bertram in lieu of her son, and Dr. Grant was to join them at dinner.†   (source)
  • He possessed no power of thought, no depth of feeling, no troublesome sensibilities: nothing, in short, but a few commonplace instincts, which, aided by the cheerful temper which grew inevitably out of his physical well-being, did duty very respectably, and to general acceptance, in lieu of a heart.†   (source)
  • His whiskers cut off, Noirtier gave another turn to his hair; took, instead of his black cravat, a colored neckerchief which lay at the top of an open portmanteau; put on, in lieu of his blue and high-buttoned frock-coat, a coat of Villefort's of dark brown, and cut away in front; tried on before the glass a narrow-brimmed hat of his son's, which appeared to fit him perfectly, and, leaving his cane in the corner where he had deposited it, he took up a small bamboo switch, cut the air with it once or twice, and walked about with that easy swagger which was one of his principal characteristics.†   (source)
  • The testament was necessarily referred to Augustus, the emperor, who ratified all its provisions with one exception: he withheld from Archelaus the title of king until he proved his capacity and loyalty; in lieu thereof, he created him ethnarch, and as such permitted him to govern nine years, when, for misconduct and inability to stay the turbulent elements that grew and strengthened around him, he was sent into Gaul as an exile.†   (source)
  • Some plants were immediately set in the nursery garden, and my wife was pleased to have this excellent spice wherewith to flavour her boiled rice and other dishes, in lieu of pepper——a very welcome variety to everyone.†   (source)
  • From Miss Pinkerton's the indefatigable Mrs. Bute followed the track of Sharp and his daughter back to the lodgings in Greek Street, which the defunct painter had occupied; and where portraits of the landlady in white satin, and of the husband in brass buttons, done by Sharp in lieu of a quarter's rent, still decorated the parlour walls.†   (source)
  • It was the painted figure of Time as he is commonly represented, save that, in lieu of a scythe, he held what, at a casual glance, I supposed to be the pictured image of a huge pendulum such as we see on antique clocks.†   (source)
  • The really vexatious business was the fact that some months ago the creditor who had lent him the five hundred pounds to repay Mrs. Glegg had become uneasy about his money (set on by Wakem, of course), and Mr. Tulliver, still confident that he should gain his suit, and finding it eminently inconvenient to raise the said sum until that desirable issue had taken place, had rashly acceded to the demand that he should give a bill of sale on his household furniture and some other effects, as security in lieu of the bond.†   (source)
  • Upon it, in lieu of the dogged, black-visaged ruffian they had expected to behold, there lay a mere child: worn with pain and exhaustion, and sunk into a deep sleep.†   (source)
  • A blurred circle of yellow haze had risen up in the sky in lieu of sun, and he had watched the patch it put upon his wall, like a bit of the prison's raggedness.†   (source)
  • Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; also a large seaman's bag, containing the harpooneer's wardrobe, no doubt in lieu of a land trunk.†   (source)
  • It doubled itself up the wrong way over Mrs. Pocket's arm, exhibited a pair of knitted shoes and dimpled ankles to the company in lieu of its soft face, and was carried out in the highest state of mutiny.†   (source)
  • In a word, it was represented (Clennam called to mind, alone in the ticking parlour) that many people select their models, much as the painters, just now mentioned, select theirs; and that, whereas in the Royal Academy some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer will annually be found embodying all the cardinal virtues, on account of his eyelashes, or his chin, or his legs (thereby planting thorns of confusion in the breasts of the more observant students of nature), so, in the great social Exhibition, accessories are often accepted in lieu of the internal character.†   (source)
  • The postilions, with a thousand gossamer gnats circling about them in lieu of the Furies, quietly mended the points to the lashes of their whips; the valet walked by the horses; the courier was audible, trotting on ahead into the dun distance.†   (source)
  • Nobody accepting the challenge, and his pipe being by this time smoked out, he proceeded to amuse himself by sketching a ground-plan of Newgate on the table with the piece of chalk which had served him in lieu of counters; whistling, meantime, with peculiar shrillness.†   (source)
  • At times of scepticism and equality more especially, the favor of the people or of the prince, which chance may confer or chance withhold, ought never to stand in lieu of attainments or services.†   (source)
  • Lastly, in lieu of these shifting scenes, came back the rude market-place of the Puritan, settlement, with all the townspeople assembled, and levelling their stern regards at Hester Prynne——yes, at herself——who stood on the scaffold of the pillory, an infant on her arm, and the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom.†   (source)
  • His own father did not long survive mine, and within half a year from these events, Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved against taking orders, he hoped I should not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate pecuniary advantage, in lieu of the preferment, by which he could not be benefited.†   (source)
  • Governments therefore should not be the only active powers: associations ought, in democratic nations, to stand in lieu of those powerful private individuals whom the equality of conditions has swept away.†   (source)
  • {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" in lieu of the —— above.†   (source)
  • This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries.†   (source)
  • do without you; to know that we are indispensable to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this speech; to manifest at each instant one's personal attraction; to feel one's self all th†   (source)
  • This, being notified to the House, was accepted in lieu of their share of a general tax, and a new bill was form'd, with an exempting clause, which passed accordingly.†   (source)
  • He put his hand in a pocket anyhow not with the idea of finding any food there but thinking he might lend him anything up to a bob or so in lieu so that he might endeavour at all events and get sufficient to eat but the result was in the negative for, to his chagrin, he found his cash missing.†   (source)
  • But, poor old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree, That cannot so much as a blossom yield In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry: But come thy ways, we'll go along together; And ere we have thy youthful wages spent We'll light upon some settled low content.†   (source)
  • This King of Naples, being an enemy To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit; Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises Of homage and I know not how much tribute, Should presently extirpate me and mine Out of the dukedom, and confer fair Milan, With all the honours on my brother: whereon, A treacherous army levied, one midnight Fated to the purpose, did Antonio open The gates of Milan; and, i' th' dead of darkness, The ministers for th' purpose hurried thence Me and thy crying…†   (source)
  • In their fear, silence fell upon them, and a postillion, in the guise of a demon, passed in front of them, blowing, in lieu of a bugle, a huge hollow horn that gave out a horrible hoarse note.†   (source)
  • And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano, For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk, In lieu of this, last night did lie with me.†   (source)
  • All that is mine I leave at thy dispose, My goods, my lands, my reputation; Only, in lieu thereof, dispatch me hence.†   (source)
  • Suppose, in lieu of one general system, two, or three, or even four Confederacies were to be formed, would not the same difficulty oppose itself to the operations of either of these Confederacies?†   (source)
  • I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and, in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this:—[Giving a letter.†   (source)
  • Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted Of grievous penalties; in lieu whereof Three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew, We freely cope your courteous pains withal.†   (source)
  • I left home and wife and children to come and serve your worship, trusting to do better and not worse; but as covetousness bursts the bag, it has rent my hopes asunder, for just as I had them highest about getting that wretched unlucky island your worship has so often promised me, I see that instead and in lieu of it you mean to desert me now in a place so far from human reach: for God's sake, master mine, deal not so unjustly by me, and if your worship will not entirely give up attempting this feat, at least put it off till morning, for by what the lore I learned when I was a shepherd tells me it cannot want three hours of dawn now, because the mouth o†   (source)
  • I am not sure, but that it will be found highly expedient and useful, to divide the United States into four or five or half a dozen districts; and to institute a federal court in each district, in lieu of one in every State.†   (source)
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