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  • On the other wall were stenciled doors, like offices: PARK WARDEN … GUEST SERVICES … GENERAL MANAGER…… Halfway down the corridor they came to a glass partition marked with another sign: [picture] Underneath were more signs: CAUTION Teratogenic Substances Pregnant Women Avoid Exposure To This Area DANGER Radioactive Isotopes In Use Carcinogenic Potential Tim grew more excited all the time.†   (source)
  • As hogs are far more inquisitive and destructive than dairy cattle, the plan was to install concrete partitions to about five feet, then wood frame walls above that.†   (source)
  • I WAS born eighteen years after the Partition Riots.†   (source)
  • I was really fascinated as I prowled through the dark, partitioned rooms of the exhibits.†   (source)
  • The partitions between the cafeteria and the gym had been taken down, and the space had been redivided into twelve booths.†   (source)
  • His mother sat not far from him, behind the wooden partition.†   (source)
  • A partition separates the back of the couch with a desk on the other side.†   (source)
  • She is there waiting for him behind a glassed-in partition on the sidewalk, wearing a dark red lipstick, sipping a glass of wine.†   (source)
  • Through the partitioning wall at the right we hear a prosecutor's voice, Judge Hathorne's, asking a question; then a woman's voice, Martha Corey's, replying.†   (source)
  • In the swaying light, Dart could just see that the space on either side of the aisle was divided by wooden partitions into small rooms or pens.†   (source)
  • And to keep the Three Wise Men from watching us, I had made a partition of ropes and cloth.†   (source)
  • The rear compartment was partitioned from the front cabin by a thin metal bulkhead with an opening but no door.†   (source)
  • She turned and led us around a partition to a small ring of booths — all of them empty.†   (source)
  • Michael vanished behind the partition where Leigh Anne couldn't see him.†   (source)
  • Despite a lot of very angry tribal chiefs, Baluchistan is part of Pakistan and has been since the partition with India in 1947.†   (source)
  • The Lincolns had given the Fords enough advance notice for the proprietors to decorate and join together the two theater boxes — seven and eight — that, by removal of a partition, formed the president's box at the theater.†   (source)
  • For sleep she partitioned off a cubicle from her writing room just large enough to hold a bed.†   (source)
  • Kathy's eyes locked on to the sliding wooden partition that separated this teller from the others.†   (source)
  • And a large part of the quadrant, in the back corner, has been screened off by a temporary partition.†   (source)
  • But there w as a partition wall blocking off the stairs and the elevator from the rest of the room.†   (source)
  • His family were once-wealthy zamindars who had migrated to Calcutta from East Bengal after Partition.†   (source)
  • Jace leaned forward and banged his hand against the partition separating them from the cab driver.†   (source)
  • The stockroom took up half the space that was divided by a wooden partition.†   (source)
  • Glass reached the clear partition just as it locked into the floor, slamming her hands against it.†   (source)
  • I can hear John right through the motel partition sawing wood in there — unless it's Sylvia — no, that's too loud.†   (source)
  • People were moving about between desks, or leaning on a partition, chatting and sharing jokes, while others had pulled their swivel chairs close to each other and were enjoying a coffee and sandwich.†   (source)
  • The large "store" area was partitioned into two rooms by beaverboard planks that did not reach to the ceiling.†   (source)
  • I led had a few partitions knocked down to make the place broaden out, he said, and then had them pine-panel the walls and hi up a special pine-paneled bar in the shape of a horseshoe.†   (source)
  • It had been partitioned from a much larger flat and comprised three rooms: two modest bedrooms and a third chamber they used for sitting, dining, entertaining, and watching television.†   (source)
  • The men's and women's entrances were shielded by partitions, and had separate tiled areas for washing.†   (source)
  • On this map, the line dividing the two color-coded parts of humanity—what Farmer called the "great epi divide" (epi being short for epidemiological)—would partition many countries, many cities.†   (source)
  • Berger had designed everything, putting in glass partitions to make separate quarters for three of the employees and an open plan for the others.†   (source)
  • Partitioning off a room likethat wasn't easy.†   (source)
  • The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence.†   (source)
  • And because he hired two women, he has to partition it.†   (source)
  • It was an old two-story house, split almost exactly in half, with thin partitions dividing what had been expansive rooms; even the stairway, once wide and elegant, had been cut in half.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, they passed a screen partition carved entirely of jade.†   (source)
  • We walked to the back of the dining hall and rounded a partition.†   (source)
  • Our room was nothing more than a section of the house that Abuelo had partitioned off with planks of wood.†   (source)
  • Once we were in the bathroom she brusquely handed me a dress that had been hanging from one of the partitions and kinda pushed me into the stall.†   (source)
  • In addition to a granite-block exterior, the interior ceilings were of corrugated iron, resting upon wrought iron I beams, and every partition wall in the structure was of brick.†   (source)
  • From what the CNO tells me it is just possible that there might be if the interior partitions—bulkheads, I think he called them—are intact.†   (source)
  • A partition separated the two groups.†   (source)
  • In another incident, a freak CQC accident, a bullet went through one of the partitions in the kill house and entered between the joints in Rich Horn's bullet-resistant vest, killing him.†   (source)
  • He didn't recognize the name Mike Smith or the face of the man sitting on the other side of the glass partition.†   (source)
  • I was watching the stage as she spoke, which now had two white partitions covering the big leaves I'd seen a few weeks ago.†   (source)
  • Mabel had heard the bell on the door jingle, and she stepped out from behind the partition.†   (source)
  • But since Partition, and the closing of the border, Skardu had been stranded unprofitably at the wild edge of Pakistan.†   (source)
  • The chaplain thanked him with a curt nod and proceeded alone down the aisle between the desks and typewriters to the canvas partition in the rear.†   (source)
  • The oldish building, cut into honeycombed medical offices, has a winding staircase, milky glass partitions, and strange medicinal odors.†   (source)
  • The attic of our home was partitioned into two small rooms.†   (source)
  • It appeared to be partitioned into four bars.†   (source)
  • I nodded, stepped down from the granite ledge, and shoved my way through the crowd to the security partition, where a correctional officer let me through.†   (source)
  • The Palestine issue was being debated now by the United Nations, and the Partition Plan would soon be voted upon.†   (source)
  • When he returned to Vitro, his manager poked his head out of his glassed-partitioned office.†   (source)
  • The head priest received Lieutenant Awn in a partition some five meters square, light peering in over the tops of the dark walls.†   (source)
  • But still whirling on in the blackness, knocking against the rough walls of a narrow passage, banging my head and cursing, I stumbled down and plunged against some kind of partition and sailed headlong, coughing and sneezing, into another dimensionless room, where I continued to roll about the floor in my outrage.†   (source)
  • The chimney in the room above ought, if it could be so contrived, to be an angle chimney as the others are: but I would not have this attempted at the expense of pulling down the partition.†   (source)
  • She kept her costume jewelry in a partitioned drawer.†   (source)
  • Armbruster glanced at the mafioso as the chauffeur, beyond the glass partition, turned on the ignition.†   (source)
  • The Workshop partitioned the project so that only one or two people have detailed knowledge about all the components.†   (source)
  • Only Eddie Willers was still there, at his desk in his glass-partitioned enclosure that looked like a cube of light in a comer of the large room.†   (source)
  • The car felt tiny and overheated, the barred partition between the front and back seats turning it into a cage.†   (source)
  • You could see the whole floor at once, because here there were no walls, not even those carpet-lined partitions many offices will use.†   (source)
  • He'd get away with it, and so will I. Alessandro went into the lieutenant's quarters, which were behind a low partition.†   (source)
  • The house seemed invisibly partitioned between Nora and Abby—Nora busying herself in the kitchen or tending her children, Abby up in her bedroom or reading in the living room.†   (source)
  • Then he plops a Closed sign down in front of him and says, "Come with me, please, Mr. Marshall, miss," while holding up the partition in the counter so we can pass through it.†   (source)
  • A pine partition divides them.†   (source)
  • Oz crowded close to Lou as the cow inthe next stall bumped into the partition and let out a moo.†   (source)
  • I fell against the partition and hurt myself.†   (source)
  • The crux of that problem involves an ongoing partition of the island between British and Irish jurisdictions, and an equally persistent partition of the affections in Northern Ireland between the British and Irish heritages; but surely every dweller in the country must hope that the governments involved in its governance can devise institutions which will allow that partition to become a bit more like the net on a tennis court, a demarcation allowing for agile give-and-take, for…†   (source)
  • Through a partition, I saw Jack Neff bent over a pumpkin-size lump of gray clay.†   (source)
  • Behind a sliding glass partition sat a young woman in a modern nurse's uniform, not a white one, but a light blue pantsuit with white trim.†   (source)
  • They entered a warren of rooms and corridors, lit by 10-watt bulbs, separated by beaverboard partitions The old man followed them stiffly.†   (source)
  • The basement had been partitioned into two parts roughly down the center.†   (source)
  • He pulled open the door and I followed him through: desks, partitions, filing cabinets, office machines, water cooler, nothing unusual, and, as he had said, quite deserted.†   (source)
  • There were fourteen eggs in the mound, each partitioned off from its neighbours by walls of decaying leaves.†   (source)
  • In this way they came to a partition with a door in it.†   (source)
  • Sometimes there was a ceremonial coming and going at the barracks—the palace built by the great man of our community, which now had women's washing hung out in the partitioned verandahs upstairs and downstairs (a Greek had the laundry contract for the soldiers' uniforms).†   (source)
  • I could hear them talking, through the partition I had my head against.†   (source)
  • He's got partitions up in his studio-it's more like a small flat.†   (source)
  • To the left of the room, a partition divides the stage in two.†   (source)
  • There could be no night and day and love and despair and longing and satisfaction to make partitions in the single ecstasy of this alternation.†   (source)
  • She sleeps in a partitioned stall—being on the staff, so to speak.†   (source)
  • By this time the stalls were partitioned.†   (source)
  • I drummed my knuckles against the partitioning.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the distance, all but lost in the maze of three-dimensional neon that partitioned one tiny second of arc in the incredible datasphere of one small world, I sensed rather than saw those soft, hazel eyes waiting for me.†   (source)
  • They partitioned the interior of the woods into cells of varying size, which made it difficult to see more than fifty feet in any direction.†   (source)
  • Inside, the room was partitioned into a place for the experimenters to stand, and a glass-walled isolation chamber farther in.†   (source)
  • It made him happy to live with a sister again—even if it was a only for a few days, and even if Hazel insisted on partitioning her side of the room with sheets for privacy so it looked like a quarantine zone.†   (source)
  • Bill and Woody contributed a blanket each and partitioned off the first room: one side for Bill and Tomi, one side for Woody and Chizu and their baby girl.†   (source)
  • In the Tours the wardroom also served as messroom for enlisted women, who ate just before we did, and it was partitioned between meals into a recreation room for them and a lounge for their officers.†   (source)
  • This document turns out to be on a partition personally assigned to …. the CIA director himself.†   (source)
  • But then the waitress strode around the partition with my food.†   (source)
  • An opaque partition raised behind them, sealing off the back.†   (source)
  • Behind a dry-wall partition I heard some rattling and scratching.†   (source)
  • Hiro figures out which tables are behind the partition, starts reading off the names.†   (source)
  • The redacted file on the CIA director's partition remained a mystery, and it was nagging at her.†   (source)
  • A chair moved inside the office, and a man came out from behind the plywood partition.†   (source)
  • There is a partition to give me a feeling of privacy.†   (source)
  • It was so hot behind the partition that Yetta could barely breathe.†   (source)
  • The wooden partition behind him was splattered with blood.†   (source)
  • She pressed her hand against the clear partition and held it there.†   (source)
  • Mataji, my mother, couldn't forget the Partition Riots.†   (source)
  • One minute, Bella could see ahead of her, a straight path to the partition by the door.†   (source)
  • "You snooped the director's classified partition?"†   (source)
  • He walks over and slides the ricepaper partition out of the way.†   (source)
  • Have you forgotten what the Muslims did to Sikhs in Partition?†   (source)
  • All those partitions would impede the free flow of unhinged panic.†   (source)
  • Today, maybe that partition was enough to keep the fire away from the stairs.†   (source)
  • Fluorescent lights and partitions with carpet glued to them.†   (source)
  • The booths were deep, the partitions between them high, and the light dim.†   (source)
  • The blinds were down, and the glass partition to the hallway was covered by curtains.†   (source)
  • We go down to the basement, still equipped with office partitions.†   (source)
  • She pulled open the glass partition of the front seat, ordering, "Stop the car!"†   (source)
  • Behind the partition some "helpers" were already washing bowls--for extra oatmeal.†   (source)
  • Ever since the violent partition that pulled India and Pakistan apart, Kashmir had been combustible.†   (source)
  • On nights when the Lincolns are in attendance, the partition is removed.†   (source)
  • As the driver turned and headed toward the seashore, Hazel knocked on the glass partition.†   (source)
  • A clumsy amateur later subdivided the house with plywood partitions and with prefabricated doors.†   (source)
  • I heard them whispering through the partition.†   (source)
  • By now, soldiers have found the partition usually used to divide the state box.†   (source)
  • The women complained, so they put in partitions and a terribly makeshift seat.†   (source)
  • He'd slip it into the edge of the partition under the crossbeam.†   (source)
  • Eventually sturdier partitions appeared, one or two at a time.†   (source)
  • The toilets are just a sheet-metal trough and up till now they didn't have partitions or seats.†   (source)
  • Yes, Shukhov had one--he kept it concealed in the partition.†   (source)
  • Grant, how in the world did you guys get the inner partitions out of those bamboo pipes?†   (source)
  • If a less realistic, more stylized decor is preferred, the door may be placed without a partition.†   (source)
  • Besides herself, there were three female prisoners on Sophie's side of the partition.†   (source)
  • The landlord and his wife were getting up behind the partition.†   (source)
  • "All right," he said, and he moved toward the partition by the reception area and stood beside it.†   (source)
  • We'll put up a partition and have our own door, and it will be like a separate apartment.†   (source)
  • I crossed and peered around the plastic partition behind it.†   (source)
  • This partition was empty, but it clearly was intended to hold another brand …. a brand much larger than the others, and perfectly square.†   (source)
  • On another night, as Louie and Phil wrestled over a beer, they crashed into the flimsy partition separating their room from the next.†   (source)
  • But once we were immersed in the dark water of the springs and moved out beyond the partition's edge, the men and women were together in the water.†   (source)
  • Their offices sat empty behind glass partitions at the prow and stern of the oblong floor—an abandoned suit hanging in its dust cover on a hat rack in one—while the rows of open-plan desks between them remained largely occupied, including Nadia's, at which she was often to be seen on her phone.†   (source)
  • They came to a glass partition marked with a sign: CLOSED AREA AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY BEYOND THIS POINT There was a slot for a security card, but Tim just pushed the door open.†   (source)
  • At Tanforan the partitions between the stalls did not reach all the way up to the ceiling and it was impossible to sleep.†   (source)
  • Then he reached through the open partition and retrieved a small, palm-sized revolver from the glove box.†   (source)
  • The partition keeled over, and Phil and Louie kept staggering forward, toppling two more partitions before they stopped.†   (source)
  • The office was empty, but the lights were on, and I could hear a radio playing behind a plywood partition.†   (source)
  • Between these shafts there were areas of dense shadow cast by the partition walls; the sequence of brilliance and darkness confused his eyes.†   (source)
  • He was in the act of taking the gun from his pocket when something moved out fn nn between two partitions on the right of the aisle: a tilted silhouette.†   (source)
  • Rémy chuckled, shaking off the rain and glancing over his shoulder through the open partition at the crumpled form of Leigh Teabing, who was barely visible in the shadows in the rear.†   (source)
  • "The director's forums are hosted on his private partition, and yet in order to provide access to employees of all clearance levels, they're located outside the director's classified firewall."†   (source)
  • As he sprinted past Saunière's body, he set his sights on the partitions at the far end of the Denon Wing.†   (source)
  • 'M dank," Yetta whispered, but there was no time for him to say, "You're welcome," because they were at the doorway to the partition now, shoving their way behind it.†   (source)
  • God is cruel to partition the country, she said, to uproot our family from a city like Lahore where we had lived for centuries, and fling us to a village of flaky mud huts.†   (source)
  • Only fifteen yards from the rest room, Langdon and Sophie stood in the darkness of the Grand Gallery, their backs pressed to one of the large partitions that hid the bathrooms from the gallery.†   (source)
  • Used to be divided up by partitions, but the EBGOC boys didn't like it, said what would happen if there had to be an evacuation?†   (source)
  • He refused to speak Hindi as well, considering it the language of Gandhi, the man who had approved the partition of Punjab and the slaughter of millions.†   (source)
  • So no more partitions.†   (source)
  • The entire space was open, no separate rooms or partitions—just clusters of sofas, comfy chairs, throw pillows, and freestanding hammocks, most of which were occupied by snoring warriors.†   (source)
  • Eve stalked directly toward a glass partition facing the set and rapped hard enough to have the news director go white with worry.†   (source)
  • She thought about her own father: she grew up knowing that he had narrowly survived the massacres during the partition of India, events just as cruel and bloody as most other ethnic and religious wars, and for body count even bloodier than the Rwandan genocide.†   (source)
  • Nor was I anxious to know what was happening behind the thin partition which divided us from my wife's bedroom.†   (source)
  • In a bed in the small private section at the end of the ward, always working ceaselessly behind the green plyboard partition, was the solemn middle-aged colonel who was visited every day by a gentle, sweet-faced woman with curly ash-blond hair who was not a nurse and not a Wac and not a Red Cross girl but who nevertheless appeared faithfully at the hospital in Pianosa each afternoon wearing pretty pastel summer dresses that were very smart and white leather pumps with heels half high…†   (source)
  • He nodded his approval, and they divided into two factions, which Clovis proceeded to partition into even smaller groups as he assigned a certain number of villagers to each barge.†   (source)
  • In the front seat, beyond the glass partition, the driver picked up the phone recessed in the seat beside him.†   (source)
  • It became clear as November went by that the United Nations vote on the Partition Plan would take place sometime at the end of the month.†   (source)
  • "I am," said Adam, and on the other side of the glass partition he got off the chair, knelt down, bowed his head, and repeated after the pastor, God, for the first time in my life, I trust you.†   (source)
  • Then, the partitions slowly parted (with the help of Sumner and some other guy in a uniform, who tried hard to stay out of sight), revealing the leaves I'd seen before.†   (source)
  • …scramble, still behind me as I tried to open the door of a building to go down and finding it stuck and running once more, trying to zig-zag in the snow and feeling the crunch of gravel underneath, and behind me still, as I swung over a partition and went brushing past a huge cote and arousing a flight of frantic white birds, suddenly as large as buzzards as they beat furiously against my eyes, dazzling the sun as they fluttered up and away and around in a furious glide and me running…†   (source)
  • Alessandro unpinned one of the lieutenant's gold epaulets from a dress tunic that hung on the partition.†   (source)
  • I WAS ALONE in my hemisection of Mr. K. L. Hamid's cab, my luggage next to me, and a scratched Plexiglas partition between us.†   (source)
  • I never got over its main feature, that it really had no walls, just one built-in partition to set off the bedroom from the larger space.†   (source)
  • The upper floors of the buildings had to be vacated, and partitions of unpainted boards went up to cut off the stairways.†   (source)
  • One morning Alessandro went to the nurses' barracks to wake Ariane, who lay in a bed just behind the partition that divided the sleeping quarters from the dining room and the kitchen.†   (source)
  • Nothing was left of the ground floor; the partitions had been torn down, there were broken pipes hanging from the ceiling and a pile of rubble on the floor.†   (source)
  • There must have been something desperate or pitiable in my voice, for he slung his coat back over the partition.†   (source)
  • Luciana came in, followed by a nurse who went to the soldier, pulled a cloth partition around him, and began to do whatever she was going to do, unseen.†   (source)
  • There are no partitions of any kind whatsoever and the people are treated worse than livestock, which at least had their own pens and special food when they were there.†   (source)
  • Down the center of theroom twelve toilet bowls were arranged in six pairs, back to back, with no partitions.†   (source)
  • Hoagland had furnished the place with a three-bay sound partition, each bay fitted with a dedicated phone line and laptop with fax/modem.†   (source)
  • Word would get around that Block such and such had partitions now, and Mama and my older sisters would walk halfway across the camp to use them.†   (source)
  • Months went by, in fact, before our "home" changed much at all from what it was the day we moved in—bare floors, blanket partitions, one bulb in each compartment dangling from a roof beam, and open ceilings overhead so that mischievous boys likeRay and Kiyo could climb up into the rafters and peek into anyone's life.†   (source)
  • The Throxtons have the Baxter house temporarily and the Pulvermachers have the Kennedy's doll house while we partition the cave into two sets of married quarters and a storeroom.†   (source)
  • Midway along the partition was a bar, in the form of a pass-through to the other room, with a varnished, second-hand fretwork overhang.†   (source)
  • BHQ was a building rather than a tent, since it housed permanent communication and recording equipment, but it was a "minimum field building," a shack; the inner partitions weren't much.†   (source)
  • As they stood in their caves with the echoing partition between, Eugene's head nodded and rolled once or twice, rhythmically… .†   (source)
  • The barnlike interior was brightly lit and unpainted, looking not quite finished, with a partition dividing this room from what lay behind.†   (source)
  • She was suddenly reminded of her guests by a particularly loud outburst of laughter on the other side of the partition.†   (source)
  • It was behind the latticed partition.†   (source)
  • Behind the partition that separated the living quarters from the studio, there stood a big wicker hamper and another, smaller one of Lara's, a suitcase, a box of crockery, and several sacks.†   (source)
  • At the opening of the door, the little towheads would scatter, dash to the other side of the partition, disappear as if by consent.†   (source)
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