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  • IF HE AND CLAUDE HAD struck a pact that night, it remained a silent one.†   (source)
  • With sisters a pact is everything.†   (source)
  • Currently, both NATO and the Warsaw Pact are intensely active in fundamental research and investing heavily in it.†   (source)
  • Mary was only a kid, but she made a pact with herself at that moment: she would get her education and leave the neighborhood no matter what it took.†   (source)
  • You told her to remember — it was your voice — 'I thought,' said Dumbledore, inclining his head slightly, 'that she might need reminding of the pact she had sealed by taking you.†   (source)
  • Someone had a secret pact with Mr. Benedict to help get the others on the island.†   (source)
  • Since the summer of 1941, when Germany broke its pact with the Soviet Union, conquered Soviet-occupied territory and invaded the Soviet Union, a German victory seemed only a matter of time, but actually time was against the Germans.†   (source)
  • We made a pact that no matter what, we would try and stay together.†   (source)
  • I believe the Illuminati have resurfaced to make good on an ancient pact.†   (source)
  • It was also said that they had a pact with the devil, and that they kidnapped children and, taking them away to their mysterious camps, made them their slaves.†   (source)
  • The Beginning of the Pact.†   (source)
  • By the time she was twelve she had made a pact, with two other Bengali girls she knew, never to marry a Bengali man.†   (source)
  • For twenty years she had respected the pact the two of them had made with Rosaura; now she had had enough of it.†   (source)
  • Boys might play with swords, but it took a lord to make a marriage pact, knowing what it meant.†   (source)
  • It's all internal, within the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • The Big Three … their pact not to have mortal kids … how could we not have known about him sooner?†   (source)
  • I was named after Mary Magdalene, who was nearly killed from love: "So infected with deliria and in violation of the pacts of society, she fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her."†   (source)
  • I made a pact: heal me, and I will help others.†   (source)
  • They say the Varden have formed a pact with the Urgals and are massing an army to attack us.†   (source)
  • How could we know if they were affiliated with a Taliban militia group or sworn by some tribal blood pact to inform the Taliban leaders of anything suspicious-looking they found in the mountains?†   (source)
  • It was as if he was asking me to make a pact with him, to get our stories straight.†   (source)
  • When you read about arainbow, as in Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish" (1947), where she closes with the sudden vision that "everything / was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow," you just know there's some element of this divine pact between human, nature, and God.†   (source)
  • She tried not to panic, but that pot of boiling water, and the otherwise eerie quiet of the house, arranged itself in a crooked way in her mind, and very suddenly she was thinking of robberies, or suicide pacts, or kidnappings.†   (source)
  • The two of them made a pact: whichever one got a chance to run would take it; together if possible, alone if not, and no looking back.†   (source)
  • In late August they made a pact that if one of them should ever get totally rucked up-a wheelchair wound-the other guy would automatically find a way to end it.†   (source)
  • Before we split up we made a pact: "Whoever gets out first, has to go see the other one, all right?"†   (source)
  • The pact Suleiman Wandati had made with him.†   (source)
  • "We should make a pact," Yetta said.†   (source)
  • We made a pact, he and I. Tuesdays and Fridays.†   (source)
  • The lovers make a suicide pact, and are found the next morning, washed up on the beach with their arms around each other.†   (source)
  • Should we hand each other over to the police, or make a non-aggression pact between criminals?†   (source)
  • I also like the way it sounds when you say it: com-pact.†   (source)
  • This covenant—or pact—was that Abraham and all his seed would keep the Lord's commandments.†   (source)
  • But he and Gott fried had formed some sort of…pact, and they tried to initiate Harriet into it too.†   (source)
  • He had always been a heavy, healthy boy, had played like other children, and fought as they did, made friends and enemies and secret pacts and grandiose plans.†   (source)
  • Very late up the literary clock one named Locomotives and Trains, The Mystery of Sleep, Between Midnight and Dawn, The Witches' Sabbath, and Pacts With Demons.†   (source)
  • The whole of his life was gliding on the strings—his lost hopes, his charred pact, his extinguished future.†   (source)
  • It was as if all had made an unconscious pact to defy the shortcomings of their new home field by simply refusing to acknowledge them.†   (source)
  • We reach out our hands and seal our pact.†   (source)
  • For the past three years they'd forgotten to leave out milk and cookies for Santa, somehow forgotten their pact that we would go camping every Fourth of July weekend, and even, on occasion, forgot to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XIX A PACT While Himes and Buckheath yet stood thus talking, the warning whistles of the various mills began to blow.†   (source)
  • The pact did not succeed, however, in incorporating Fernanda into the family.†   (source)
  • Different women had different ways of dealing with prison's im- pact on their relationships.†   (source)
  • Form a pact.†   (source)
  • A pact was made, and to the beat of songs like "Kickstart My Heart" by Motley Clue and "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor, the teammates pumped iron in the weight room, ran the bleachers and did wind sprints, and cranked out push-ups, sit-ups, and leg lifts.†   (source)
  • I had made a pact with my mother: If I jumped up and down enough on a couch that she hated, we might convince my father when he returned from Spain that I should take it to school.†   (source)
  • The Dwarves were first to form a pact with the king, then the Goblins.†   (source)
  • They wept and talked until eight o'clock at night, and that afternoon in the Hotel Frances they sealed a pact of friendship that would last for many years.†   (source)
  • Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other, each would nod, as if making a secret pact.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, when we're very drunk, we make pacts that if we're not somewhere more exciting in three months, we'll both leave our jobs.†   (source)
  • I wondered if they had made a suicide pact.†   (source)
  • He and his woman in a pact of final deliverance.†   (source)
  • Later in January 1787, they would sign a pact with Morocco, whereby the United States, like France and Britain, agreed to pay for protection.†   (source)
  • I do not know what words were said or what pacts made, but one day he was amongst us again, having slipped quietly back into a croft on the high farm of the Billings, a nonconformist family.†   (source)
  • We made a pact that we could talk to each other about anything at any time.†   (source)
  • Since the summer of coconuts, Milagro and I have had a pact to ignore Mamá, to stay as far away from her as possible.†   (source)
  • This was easy and right, no division, no confusion, no objection, just Ian and me, the molten rock moving through this new body, melding it into the pact.†   (source)
  • This is the great, formal, nose-counting event, where the victims come in order to show how safe it is to destroy them, and the destroyers form pacts of eternal friendship, which lasts for three months.†   (source)
  • Turning the page, I see the headline "National pact with Ngala."†   (source)
  • I know nothing of such a pact— do you, Annika?†   (source)
  • This is what it said: so it aint you Loma baby its i aint good for nuthin. which you know. its got so jus getin out of bed ever mornin is to much. i pact up my close and all in a box so you woodn have to fool with it. my leavin this werl dont have nuthin to do with you bein mad at me for not fixin the fawsit I bin aimin to do it a long time fore the fawsit went to leekin. plese save my gold pockit watch for Campbell junior i leeve it to him i aired it from my grandedy you know. i love…†   (source)
  • I made that pact with myself and broke it time and time again, for I was a son of the South and I had grown up using the word we when I was referring only to myself.†   (source)
  • We have a historical pact.†   (source)
  • The soldiers in the gondola cars, under the same stars, racing through the same fields, breathing the same scented air, were included in the pact.†   (source)
  • Bryn Shander will certainly not oppose a unified alliance of the four towns on the largest and most prosperous lake, and Easthaven will make six in the pact, a clear majority.†   (source)
  • We both made a pact with spit on our fingers and our palms and everything about never, through the rest of our lives, being guilty of "the sin of ingratitude."†   (source)
  • —The Constitution is a document, not a suicide pact.'†   (source)
  • So on mornings like that one, we ate our sausage biscuits and hash browns in secret, together, and we had a silent pact that my mother would never find out.†   (source)
  • Not since I was in Europe, when the Russo-German Pact of 1939 was signed, had I seen news spread such bitterness and despair.†   (source)
  • And when she related the story of their "suicide pact" on that weekend in the frosty Connecticut countryside, I was saddened and astonished.†   (source)
  • I'd just turned fourteen when Hitler and Stalin signed their nonaggression pact which cleared the European stage for World War II to start, but though I delivered the papers that told the story in gigantic headlines, I was baffled when a man bought one from me, glanced at the front page, and said, "So it's war."†   (source)
  • She's never fussy about method and would con the Virgin Mary and make a pact with the Old One all in one breath, did it suit Her purpose.†   (source)
  • He made and kept a nightmare pact, so that some of them do still walk the world.†   (source)
  • Where trails are, men may go; and where men go there is often death, and the buzzards have a pact with death.†   (source)
  • …transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base--by the presence of these large, long range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction--constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas, in flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of 1947, the traditions of this Nation and hemisphere, the joint resolution of the 87th Congress, the Charter of the United Nations, and my own public warnings to the Soviets on September 4 and 13.†   (source)
  • Create your own pacts to succeed and stick together.†   (source)
  • And a castellan has no right to make marriage pacts.†   (source)
  • And there they are, instantly drawn into one of those pacts you'd be hard-pressed to break if you ever expect to go home and face your district.†   (source)
  • Mutual military travel pacts.†   (source)
  • He had had to start thirty-two wars and had had to violate all of his pacts with death and wallow like a hog in the dungheap of glory in order to discover the privileges of simplicity almost forty years late.†   (source)
  • "Men suffer when they break pacts with demons," said Taraka, "but no Rakasha has ever suffered so before."†   (source)
  • Margot and I, we made a pact, back in middle school.†   (source)
  • The Pact began four thousand years of friendship between men and children.†   (source)
  • No. Still, I made a pact with Rue under the same circumstances.†   (source)
  • Everybody but the Warsaw Pact, and they want you dead.†   (source)
  • It was as if they had made a pact not to give up on us.†   (source)
  • Rosaura insisted loudly upon her rights: Pedro and Tita had broken the pact; it wasn't fair.†   (source)
  • It was solemn and sad, as if an unbreakable pact were being sealed.†   (source)
  • I made a pact with Jason: my help to win the fleece, in exchange for his love.†   (source)
  • And that the midwives of that pact were, or would be, her sawdust-coated two-egg twins.†   (source)
  • The most obvious literary angle is the Faustian pact with the devil.†   (source)
  • The signing of the Pact ended the Dawn Age, and began the Age of Heroes.†   (source)
  • You have to call for the Warsaw Pact to lose official status.†   (source)
  • By not mentioning his name, she sensed that a pact had been forged between her Dream and the World.†   (source)
  • Me and my partners from high school made a pact and have been talking about it.†   (source)
  • But Peter and I made that pact: we explicitly said we would never tell anyone.†   (source)
  • But do I really want to make a pact with her, only to possibly have to kill her later?†   (source)
  • So the Warsaw Pact marines are going home.†   (source)
  • If it hadn't been for our pact, I might not have even tried for this," Sampson admitted.†   (source)
  • We three Song girls have an unspoken pact: to make life as easy as possible for Daddy.†   (source)
  • We also had no idea that day that we were forming a pact that would last a lifetime.†   (source)
  • Not all the Warsaw Pact people went with the Polemarch.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes wasn't wrong to suspect that the Warsaw Pact was not abiding by the terms of the League.†   (source)
  • But between the Warsaw Pact nations these things are internal matters.†   (source)
  • The Warsaw Pact was on its way to hegemony before the First Invasion.†   (source)
  • We could find ourselves locked into the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • Lord Wyman and Lord Walder have made a pact, and mean to seal it with a marriage.†   (source)
  • Will you make a pact with me, Shadeslayer?†   (source)
  • And then one day' a bunch of kids left campus and drove off a bridge—a suicide pact, I guess.†   (source)
  • He proposes a pact between Astapor and Meereen, against the Yunkai'i."†   (source)
  • Such men could make a pact with Carlos, if only for the covert power it gave them.†   (source)
  • But still, we made this pact that if we ever did, that's where we'd go."†   (source)
  • And so a truce was struck and a pact was sealed between the dragons and the elves.†   (source)
  • And that one of our own has made a wicked pact in exchange for power.†   (source)
  • My mom and I had a pact—which sounds creepy, but it really wasn't.†   (source)
  • A pact more ancient and powerful than you can imagine links you.†   (source)
  • You saw Carter Kane and his sister make a pact with Set at the Red Pyramid.†   (source)
  • Especially now we've signed the friendship pact with Ngala."†   (source)
  • "Then, Lorna," Alessandro said, "make a pact with your swan."†   (source)
  • Did we ask to be included in their pact?†   (source)
  • Because the four of us had made a pact together.†   (source)
  • And the humans also joined the pact with the dragons.†   (source)
  • The Book stays here to ensure that you honor our pact.†   (source)
  • Part of the pact was that he wed a Dornish princess.†   (source)
  • The man known to me as Jason Bourne has no pact with Carlos.†   (source)
  • The Mutual Military Travel Pact of 1965.†   (source)
  • "I know you've made a pact with the Winterlands creatures.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, they might have turned against the Urgals the very day Nar Garzhvog and I made our pact.†   (source)
  • She made a pact with the creatures long ago, and she wanted me to think that was in the past.†   (source)
  • Without looking at her, he said, "You have to break your pact with the Urgals."†   (source)
  • The pact worked like this: If I had money, then they had money.†   (source)
  • I have no pact with Carlos-you know I don't.†   (source)
  • "No doubt that was why Prince Doran chose to keep the pact a secret," suggested Daenerys.†   (source)
  • The pact is bound in Old Magic—signed in Bram's own blood and utterly irrefutable.†   (source)
  • Call Clovis back in, Baldor, and we'll seal this pact.†   (source)
  • I will make a pact with you, Saphira, and with you, Eragon.†   (source)
  • It is required; and if it means a pact with Carlos, so be it.†   (source)
  • Beyond that, I am here to see that the pact that Brom forged between you and the humans is honored.†   (source)
  • "It is a secret pact," Dany said, "made in Braavos when I was just a little girl.†   (source)
  • We hold the Blood-oath Celebration once every century to honor our pact with the dragons.†   (source)
  • Daenerys might have had no better choice than Quentyn and his marriage pact.†   (source)
  • "The marriage pact" "—was made by two dead men and contained not a word about the queen or you.†   (source)
  • Instead of Viserys and your sister, you and I must seal this pact if I want Dome.†   (source)
  • Let me remind you, it was Myles Toyne who put his seal to this secret pact, not me.†   (source)
  • Yama and Agni say that he had made a pact with their leader.†   (source)
  • The "Big Three" gods-Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades-had made a pact after World War II not to have any more children with mortals.†   (source)
  • As for me, I could have laughed with glee; for Jeremiah had done a conjuring trick, as surely as if he'd pulled a coin from my ear, or made believe to swallow a fork; and just as he used to do such tricks in full view, with everyone looking on but unable to detect him, he had done the same here, and made a pact with me under their very eyes, and they were none the wiser.†   (source)
  • I can't help but wonder if Mama has forged a similar pact with Thalia, if she has chosen Thalia to rescue her when the time comes.†   (source)
  • Analysis of consequences of Soviet Revisionists and Warsaw Pact making initial contact with extraterrestrial intelligence and monopolizing such contact: [still classified]†   (source)
  • She thought that night she'd made a pact with death itself: she could stay if she allowed death to stay as well.†   (source)
  • That's the real reason Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades swore a pact after World War II not to have any more kids.†   (source)
  • Laura was sitting on the ledge beside me, humming to herself complacently, secure in the conviction that everything was all right really and the angels were on her side, because she'd made some secret, dotty pact with God.†   (source)
  • From that moment, I understood Mrs. Downs and I had an unspoken agreement, a "don't ask, don't tell" pact that worked like a charm for both of us.†   (source)
  • What ancient pact is this?†   (source)
  • That a Rider, even one as evil as Galbatorix, would consider a pact with such monsters is indeed proof of madness.†   (source)
  • The "Big Three" pact had only been broken twice-once when Zeus sired Thalia, once when Poseidon sired me.†   (source)
  • For the first time, she broke their pact and hurled curses at Pedro and Tita, holding up to them all the suffering they had caused her.†   (source)
  • The monster represents, among other things, forbidden insights, a modern pact with the devil, the result of science without ethics.†   (source)
  • Their pact consisted of taking into consideration the fact that it was vital to Rosaura to maintain the appearance that her marriage was going splendidly, and the most important thing for her was that her daughter grow up within that sacred institution, the family—the only way, she felt, to provide a firm moral foundation.†   (source)
  • There they forged the Pact.†   (source)
  • So long as the kingdoms of the First Men held sway, the Pact endured, all through the Age of Heroes and the Long Night and the birth of the Seven Kingdoms, yet finally there came a time, many centuries later, when other peoples crossed the narrow sea.†   (source)
  • We've kinda made a pact with each other to help us make it—a little like a support system for three.†   (source)
  • Sam thought back to the three skinny boys in tennis shoes who had once made a pact to stick together and make something of themselves.†   (source)
  • We made a pact, a promise, to each other to pull when one of us felt down, to push when one of us needed encouragement, and to stand by each other no matter what difficulties we encountered.†   (source)
  • That pact changed our lives.†   (source)
  • It's very complicated, but what it means here is that the I.F. will stay in existence, but without the Warsaw Pact in it.†   (source)
  • We made a pact, didn't we?†   (source)
  • Everyone knows that from the beginning the Warsaw Pact was to be regarded as a single entity where those rules were concerned.†   (source)
  • Partly from the spirit of their pact and partly from their fear of failure, the three used each other as crutches when one felt weak, as tools when another needed information, and as weapons to face the future together as they headed into the unknown.†   (source)
  • STRENGTHENING THE PACT.†   (source)
  • If I write this like you say I should, Peter, I'm pretty much calling for war to break up the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • And suddenly we'll look around and discover that all the old alliances are gone, dead and gone, except one, the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • They're going to start a war, Americans claiming the Warsaw Pact is about to attack, and the Pact saying the same thing about the Hegemon.†   (source)
  • Certain military people who corresponded with her dropped hints about things without meaning to, and she and Peter put them together to build up a fascinating and frightening picture of Warsaw Pact activity.†   (source)
  • It seems Russian intelligence is concerned that some of the active citizens on the nets are already figuring how America ought to use the I.F. to destroy the Warsaw Pact as soon as the buggers are destroyed.†   (source)
  • Warsaw Pact?†   (source)
  • But I wished I could find some way… I might feel better if I weren't holding fast, all alone, to a broken pact.†   (source)
  • And no more pact of the Big Three.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist considered himself virtually computer illiterate, but Salander handled computers as if she had made a pact with the Devil.†   (source)
  • An exchange of hostages will seal the pact, and each side will agree to make common cause with the other should the Iron Throne—†   (source)
  • This is the pact of casual sex.†   (source)
  • Will they respect the Varden's pact with the elves and send us to Ellesmera for training, or command otherwise?†   (source)
  • Among the brotherhood of the Night's Watch, there was an unspoken pact never to probe too deeply into such matters.†   (source)
  • A magical pact needed to be carefully worded, with clear limits and an expiration date, or the whole spell would unravel.†   (source)
  • Similar to the tactics Heafstaag and Beorg had used to seal a pact between the tribes at the last Hengorot, the challenge was to hurl an axe from as great a distance as possible and sink it deeply enough into a keg of mead to open a hole.†   (source)
  • Besides dedicating myself to being the best father I could, I had made a pact that I would do what I had to in order to ensure that no one became anything like my mother.†   (source)
  • Superstition, hope, disbelief—all these made pact with our old friend, fear, and prevented us from doing so.†   (source)
  • I'm not exactly running—Lindsay, Ally, Elody, and I made a pact years ago never to run on school grounds, not even in gym class (let's face it: sweating and huffing aren't exactly attractive)—but it's a close call.†   (source)
  • The six had gathered at Runestone after Lysa Arryn's fall, and there made a pact together, vowing to defend Lord Robert, the Vale, and one another.†   (source)
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