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  • It had been five days since our rendezvous at the dump, two days of rain, the others filled with business, family duties, and now building.†   (source)
  • We can decide on a rendezvous point.†   (source)
  • The reason the Eastmans weren't going to the Caribbean was that Hester had been corresponding with a black boatman who had proposed a rendezvous in the British Virgin Islands; Hester had involved herself with this particular black boatman the previous Christmas, in Tortola—when she'd been only fifteen!†   (source)
  • I scramble for a second for the best argument, but all I can come up with is, "If we can't make it back to the rendezvous point, how're they going to find us?"†   (source)
  • A near-Earth rendezvous with Hermes is more doable?†   (source)
  • The only other time Hanna had ever been here was in seventh grade, when her friends had a secret rendezvous with Noel Kahn and James Freed.†   (source)
  • Ender had positioned himself so that when he launched, he would rendezvous with the frozen soldier he had just used as a missile.†   (source)
  • I'll rendezvous with you back at Camp Half-Blood.†   (source)
  • I headed down to the Pond, down paths yellow and sodden with fallen leaves, where I went by instinct straight to the Rendezvous Point (as my mother and I called our bench) and sat shivering.†   (source)
  • So it was that by early afternoon one hundred and twenty men had made it to their rendezvous, a logger's but in the woods somewhere between Ede and Arnhem.†   (source)
  • Two days before the rendezvous, Maraa Isabel confesses the plan to her aunt Gloria.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, my officer had given the submarine the wrong grid coordinates for the rendezvous.†   (source)
  • Well, Peter and I were having our regular little secret rendezvous, carefully arranged.†   (source)
  • I've just returned from a rendezvous with Leah and Adah that was simply a sensational failure.†   (source)
  • If I'd known where we were each to be lodged, we might have made a rendezvous sooner; as it was, we'd just have to do our best alone.†   (source)
  • With a three-week time-debt, you can rendezvous with the Yggdrasill before it goes quantum from the Parvati system.†   (source)
  • He kept his troops mobile, moving into or camping on the outskirts of friendly Pashtun villages, accepting hospitality and then traveling on to the next rendezvous, recruiting all the way.†   (source)
  • And let's say you're matched up, and that's all good, and you're headed out for a rendezvous.†   (source)
  • Now it was too late for the rendezvous to happen at the Redmen's house, so they dropped where they were.†   (source)
  • The roads were deserted as we set out; we passed only two other cars all the way to the rendezvous spot with the car from Haarlem.†   (source)
  • And so what that Apollo 7 successfully detached from the Saturn rocket to practice the rendezvous they would have to perform perfectly for a moon shot?†   (source)
  • I arranged clandestine rendezvous and slipped away from home, and, of course, someone would inform my father that I'd been spotted on the streets somewhere.†   (source)
  • It was madness to go—it wasn't yet ten o'clock—but I had no say in our rendezvous anymore.†   (source)
  • The rendezvous point was in a converted house next to a market that reminded Nadia of her former home.†   (source)
  • She told herself that she was going to be late for her rendezvous.†   (source)
  • If all goes well, we'll rendezvous in an hour.†   (source)
  • Her guards and companions accompanied her, but she paid them little heed, eager as she was to rendezvous with Eragon and Saphira.†   (source)
  • Johanna steers us toward the rendezvous point, where she saw Uriah and Cara.†   (source)
  • As my unsuspecting husband went off to work at the hospital, Mahtob and I would rendezvous with Amahl's men, who would spirit us off to the airport for the flight to Zahidan.†   (source)
  • The ease and rapidity with which this meeting was set up made me suspect that the government might have planned this rendezvous ahead of time.†   (source)
  • On the one hand, being the town driver would mean the opportunity to rendezvous with Larry in gas station bathrooms in the outside world.†   (source)
  • A fleet replenishment vessel is already en route to rendezvous with us there.†   (source)
  • Better to make a beeline for the one spot that's most obviously a rendezvous point.†   (source)
  • We doubled our watch at Pasha and explained the "grab-and-go" to everyone: grabbing the SIGINT encryption devices, loading them in a rucksack, destroying the other SIGINT gear with a thermite grenade, meeting up at a rendezvous point, then moving out to the extraction area.†   (source)
  • Many switchbacks later he stopped at the rendezvous spot and waited for Cole's headlights to cut the dark.†   (source)
  • By February 11 the 5th Division armada had rendezvoused with the 3rd and 4th Divisions at Saipan.†   (source)
  • Arranged to rendezvous with Ellen and Julia at Whiteleys so we can start our La Marche avec Mystery.†   (source)
  • The only activity she kept up were her nocturnal escapes out the window when she had a rendezvous with Pedro Tercero down by the river.†   (source)
  • He was running late for his fi rst day as a sophomore at Bathory High, and was exhausted from his late-night rendezvous with Otis.†   (source)
  • He knew she was discreet and would not divulge their rendezvous.†   (source)
  • Dawson wasn't some stranger that she happened to rendezvous with; he was her first and only true love, the most enduring of all.†   (source)
  • We have to clear this sector and make our rendezvous in five hours.†   (source)
  • He was less than twenty-four hours from his rendezvous with the most powerful battery of hitters ever seen in Williamsport.†   (source)
  • It's a rendezvous for writers, artists and all kinds of celebrities.†   (source)
  • You will set sail at dawn and rendezvous in the Channel with the Maid of Liverpool, just returned from San Francisco.†   (source)
  • Samuel Curwen, the Salem Loyalist, saw dissipation and "vicious indulgence" everywhere he looked, "from the lowest haunts to the most elegant and expensive rendezvous of the noble and polished world."†   (source)
  • Suppose the great man's friend was also flying to our island for a rendezvous with the great man?†   (source)
  • But alas, I am late for my rendezvous with my maid.†   (source)
  • But she had come to value her occasional rendezvous with Blomkvist.†   (source)
  • If he didn't make the rendezvous in time, he had no way to reestablish contact with the woman.†   (source)
  • Can you find the rendezvous point?†   (source)
  • The USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship used to carry Marines into battle, was going to rendezvous with us and we'd stage off of her deck.†   (source)
  • "Rendezvous at the bat cave," I added.†   (source)
  • So giddy, in fact, that it doesn't even bother him that the president will be rendezvousing with Sinatra's former girlfriend, Marilyn Monroe.†   (source)
  • This includes the un-paved roads the illegals have to cross to move farther inland to rendezvous with trucks organized by their coyotes—the people who make a living smuggling Mexicans across the border and helping them escape into the U.S. interior.†   (source)
  • Commander Vilyak, you are to return overseas at once and rendezvous with your squad in Paris.†   (source)
  • It was a surprising touch of wilderness in the most ardently civilized acreage in South Carolina and a perfect place for a secret rendezvous.†   (source)
  • Apparently, these chaps were due to rendezvous with others of their profession in Dorset, but they never showed.†   (source)
  • So after Mick and I rendezvous, we will take a little spin to the Gardella residence, which, hopefully, will be vacant.†   (source)
  • He left at once for the rendezvous with the man from Luskan.†   (source)
  • And should you get any bright ideas about telling Derek about this little rendezvous of ours, consider this a warning.†   (source)
  • , we left by three exits, made rendezvous in main corridor, open formation.†   (source)
  • She stood for a moment—rather as though it were a rendezvous point of some kind—in the middle of the tiled floor.†   (source)
  • At less than a thousand kilometres an hour, falling slowly down from the empty heights of the stratosphere, the ship moved out to the great plains and to its second rendezvous with history.†   (source)
  • In a street close enough to the drab, stone openness of the Civic Center to be infected by its gray, he rendezvoused with another carrier, and they exchanged sacks.†   (source)
  • I had been foolish enough to think that on this afternoon, as the fleeting hours ticked away before our rendezvous, my customary discipline and detachment would allow me to continue my usual routine, which is to say, write letters to friends down South or scribble in my notebook or simply loll on my bed and read.†   (source)
  • Mr. Lawrence Painter, the only man teacher in the college, spent his life conducting the MSCW girls in their sophomore year through English Survey, from "Summer is y-comen in" to "I have a rendezvous with Death."†   (source)
  • It seems just as reasonable to me that the Hangman sent the vehicle off toward an eventual rendezvous point many years ago and that it only recently reached that point, at which time the reentry program took over and brought it down.†   (source)
  • Well before the agreed time, the four of us arrived at the rendezvous point.†   (source)
  • He made signals to all ships to rendezvous with him at Brisbane.†   (source)
  • Late strollers were still out: a policeman, a night watchman, a rocket pilot, several lonely men coming home from some nocturnal rendezvous, four men and women issuing from a bar, laughing.†   (source)
  • We admit, without acknowledging each other, it's our old hunting rendezvous place.†   (source)
  • Rendezvous, it says, terraces; the sibilants run up my spine, a shiver as if in fever.†   (source)
  • He was not accustomed to cryptic phone calls and secret rendezvous with strangers.†   (source)
  • They made their rendezvous without seeing a single German.†   (source)
  • Did she make it back to the rendezvous point?†   (source)
  • "I'm going back to the rendezvous point to wait for the evac.†   (source)
  • He'll simply bypass the rendezvous and go directly to the correct location."†   (source)
  • The transmission ended except for the pulse of rendezvous coordinates.†   (source)
  • Also lightening his step were the promises of an afternoon assignation and a midnight rendezvous.†   (source)
  • If we mess up the supply rendezvous, we die.†   (source)
  • A young girl brought here for a forced rendezvous?†   (source)
  • That's the rendezvous spot we tell runaways to use.†   (source)
  • "We'd shoot for a near-Earth rendezvous.†   (source)
  • He would be picked up near dark, at a rendezvous on the Braintree shore known as Hough's Neck.†   (source)
  • "Send me an Iris-message when you're safely away, and we'll rendezvous," she said.†   (source)
  • Sullivan told us the hotel was her and Evan's prearranged rendezvous point.†   (source)
  • It was as simple as that; he would leave for a nonexistent rendezvous and not return.†   (source)
  • Your contingencies would include both chaos and a rendezvous.†   (source)
  • "That's probably the latest we could rendezvous and still hope to fight the giants and save Nico.†   (source)
  • Two calls later, from two different locations, the rendezvous was set.†   (source)
  • For the rendezvous point… or even the note.†   (source)
  • Nothing to sway a Monterrey player from his rendezvous with destiny this afternoon.†   (source)
  • Weren't you the one serving us during those pleasurable rendezvous I spent with your mistress?"†   (source)
  • Then I could take the staircase down to the helipad—our emergency rendezvous point.†   (source)
  • They met up at the rendezvous spot in the dead of night.†   (source)
  • Kid, how about we meet tomorrow morning at the old rendezvous point?†   (source)
  • "I've made a rendezvous with Berger at Millennium for tomorrow."†   (source)
  • The Invincible would have to make the rendezvous in daylight, and there was not time for that.†   (source)
  • There would be no rendezvous in Paris with Marie St. Jacques.†   (source)
  • RENDEZVOUS SPOT: the George Washington statue in the Public Garden.†   (source)
  • Then they will leave town via the Navy Yard Bridge and rendezvous in the Maryland countryside.†   (source)
  • But no contact would be made until the impostor was convinced the rendezvous was clean.†   (source)
  • We said three o'clock for a rendezvous."†   (source)
  • We rendezvous with a pair of young Knox-class frigates in two hours.†   (source)
  • Alex agreed to make one stop with me before we rendezvoused with the others.†   (source)
  • There is no rendezvous,' answered Echo, reverting to English.†   (source)
  • By naming it as the rendezvous-an unusual rendezvous-Treadstone's telling me he's genuine.†   (source)
  • 33N 75W The Scamp rendezvoused with the Ethan Allen a few minutes after midnight.†   (source)
  • Blerg and Herg rendezvoused at the ball return, snickering and glancing in my direction.†   (source)
  • The young man who has come to the rendezvous watches her until she removes it, watches her hungrily.†   (source)
  • Brumby and I are in radio contact but we have not been able to make rendezvous.†   (source)
  • Well, it beat sitting on the base all weekend thinking about my Monday rendezvous with Total Loss.†   (source)
  • Sir, my advice is to make rendezvous with Brumby's section — then return to the surface.†   (source)
  • A rendezvous, boat to ship in orbit, is precisely calculated.†   (source)
  • Zia Sets a Rendezvous.†   (source)
  • It was a natural landmark where campers often rendezvoused on hunting expeditions, but now there was nobody around.†   (source)
  • I no longer trust that our regular rendezvous spot offers privacy, and I'll need that and more to spill my guts to Gale today.†   (source)
  • Across the street, Director Sato hurried up the long walkway outside the Capitol Building toward her rendezvous point on First Street.†   (source)
  • The strobe can be used at night for rendezvousing with other units or aircraft, ships, boats, whatever.†   (source)
  • The walk to the rendezvous point was an interminable one, and as they walked Saeed and Nadia did not hold hands, for that was forbidden in public between genders, even for an ostensibly married couple, but from time to time their knuckles would brush at their sides, and this sporadic physical contact was important to them.†   (source)
  • The incident that upset me most was the time Mona and her mother arranged a rendezvous with Cassie, after we had expressly forbidden the girls to see each other.†   (source)
  • Peacekeepers appear almost instantly and I have to make my way to a rendezvous point to meet up with my scattered squad.†   (source)
  • Back in Vegas, if we ever got separated —running from the mall cops, pockets full of stolen gift cards—my house was always the rendezvous point.†   (source)
  • I make my rendezvous point.†   (source)
  • Closing his eyes, he tried to recall his memories of rendezvous just before the Templar ship went quantum.†   (source)
  • Tally and David had agreed to rendezvous upriver, a long way past the ruins, where he had found a cave years before.†   (source)
  • Nadia and Saeed had been messaging each other throughout, and initially they thought they would cancel their rendezvous planned for that evening, Saeed's second invitation to her home, but when no curfew was announced, much to people's surprise, the authorities perhaps wishing to signal that they were in such complete control that none was needed, both Nadia and Saeed found themselves unsettled and craving each other's company, and so they decided to go ahead and meet after all.†   (source)
  • This is where the plan begins to break down into a series of wild improbabilities: stowing away on an empty bus, overcoming the driver and any soldiers on board once we're clear of the gate, and then when, where, and how to dump the bus and take off on foot to rendezvous with Ringer?†   (source)
  • Chapter 12 — The Rendezvous Point†   (source)
  • Sato arrived at First Street just as a black Escalade SUV with dark windows roared across the double yellow and skidded to a stop in front of her at their rendezvous point.†   (source)
  • Then later, as she was entering the final hours, the rumor came around that the hospital had been turned into a rendezvous point, a kind of survivor safe house, far enough from town to be reasonably safe in the next wave, whatever that was going to be (though the smart money was on some kind of aerial bombardment), but close enough for the People in Charge to find when they came to rescue us—if there were People in Charge and if they came.†   (source)
  • Most of the benches bore the names of benefactors—in memory of Mrs. Ruth Klein or whatever —but my mother's bench, the Rendezvous Point, alone of all the benches in that part of the park had been given by its anonymous donor a more mysterious and welcoming message: EVERYTHING OF POSSIBILITY.†   (source)
  • I suggest that you gather your luggage and rendezvous at our friend the Consui's ship on sphere eleven in thirty minutes or sooner.†   (source)
  • In my shaky and agitated state, I'd turned almost unconsciously into the park and down the path to the Pond, where Andy and I had sat in our parkas on many winter afternoons in elementary school waiting for my mother to pick us up from the zoo or take us to the movies—rendezvous point, seventeen hundred hours!†   (source)
  • Just before first light, the Consul's ebony spaceship rose on a tail of blue plasma and punched through thickening clouds as it climbed toward space and rendezvous.†   (source)
  • I will not try to describe the beauty of life in a Swarm-their zero-gravity globe cities and comet farms and thrust clusters, their micro-orbital forests and migrating rivers and the ten thousand colors and textures of life at Rendezvous Week.†   (source)
  • The Consul could recall seeing no other passengers during his rushed hour between rendezvous and fugue, but he had put that down to the imminence of the treeship going quantum, assuming then that the passengers were safe in their fugue couches.†   (source)
  • The Consul remembered his first glimpse of the kilometer-long treeship as he closed for rendezvous, the treeship's details blurred by the redundant machine and erg-generated containment fields which surrounded it like a spherical mist, but its leafy bulk clearly ablaze with thousands of lights which shone softly through leaves and thin-walled environment pods, or along countless platforms, bridges, command decks, stairways, and bowers.†   (source)
  • Finding philandering spouses who think rendezvousing on a different planet will keep them safe from discovery.†   (source)
  • The Ousters contacted me through private fatline and I took a three weeks" leave from the Consulate, brought my ship down to an isolated place near the Sea of Grass, rendezvoused with their scoutship near the OOrt Cloud, picked up their agent-a woman named Andil-and a trio of technicians, and dropped down north of the Bridle Range, a few kilometers from the Tombs themselves.†   (source)
  • Consent was given, the rendezvous set.†   (source)
  • The old rendezvous point it is.†   (source)
  • The location of the morning rendezvous was agreed upon, the drinks paid for, and the captain slipped five hundred francs under the table.†   (source)
  • Still no crappy Ford cruising to a stop in front of the house two doors down, the usual spot for premidnight rendezvous.†   (source)
  • Before opening the door, Booth reminds them that their post-assassination rendezvous point is the road to Nanjemoy, on the Maryland side of the Potomac.†   (source)
  • Meet you at the rendezvous point.†   (source)
  • When they were ordered to New York [reads an old account] this company was the first that reached the place of rendezvous.†   (source)
  • Rendezvous there.†   (source)
  • Men who use borrowed flats for rendezvous and never make love to the same woman twice are not so rare.†   (source)
  • Then she had realized that what was really needed was a hotel for rendezvous, a pleasant place where secret couples could make love and where a man would not be embarrassed to bring a girl for the first time.†   (source)
  • Having made his point, Mike was soon shepherding his boys across the sands to their rendezvous with Dave Severance's unit.†   (source)
  • A week later I dutifully reported to one of the Rooms' bathrooms off the main hall to rendezvous with Rose, armed with my own pedicure tools—cuticle clippers, orange sticks, foot file (all of these were sold by the commissary, but no colors of nail polish).†   (source)
  • Decision had been made shortly after we embargoed grain (so we learned from captured transport officers); time was used in mounting attack—much of it in a long elliptical orbit which went far outside Luna's orbit, crossing ahead of Luna, then looping back and making rendezvous above Farside.†   (source)
  • Jets from carrier Essex and the B-26 bombers from Central America arrive at the rendezvous one hour apart.†   (source)
  • Never doubt an appointed rendezvous until its hour has passed," the drow scolded sternly, touched as he was by the barbarian's concern for his well-being.†   (source)
  • She felt neglected and he was always busy, and when I left her I had arranged a rendezvous at my apartment for the following evening.†   (source)
  • I thought it was too close to the scene of the crime, too difficult to defend, and anyway, Evan Walker was dead: It takes two to rendezvous, I reminded Zombie.†   (source)
  • If she does not rendezvous with…†   (source)
  • Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.†   (source)
  • Blanca preferred those furtive hotel rendezvous with her lover to the routine of everyday life, the weariness of marriage and the shared poverty at the end of every month, the bad taste in the mouth on waking up, the tedium of Sundays, and the complaints of old age.†   (source)
  • He would reach each of his people by public telephone and instruct them to be there by 5:30, all taking back streets and alleyways to the rendezvous.†   (source)
  • The first is to find him someplace else to rendezvous with Monroe during his weekend in Palm Springs.†   (source)
  • Booth plans to have another last-minute rendezvous with his coconspirators at eight P.M. He returns to his room and polishes his Deringer, then slips a single ball into the barrel.†   (source)
  • Oh, this is where your Mr. Simon was to go, and if he was truly Mr. Simon, he would be taken to another rendezvous.†   (source)
  • The jets are to rendezvous with B-26 bombers piloted by Cuban freedom fighters and keep the Cuban aircraft at bay.†   (source)
  • For this meeting was not a continuation of their erotic rendezvous, each of which had been an opportunity to think up some new little vice; it was a recapitulation of time, a hymn to their common past, a sentimental summary of an unsentimental story that was disappearing in the distance.†   (source)
  • Ordered to rendezvous with a boat in waters that called for him to really keep his eyes on the charts.†   (source)
  • Which was why he wanted to drive there now, not wait until his arrival corresponded more closely to the time of rendezvous.†   (source)
  • He has to insist that his client is alone at the arranged rendezvous so that he can reach him one on one.†   (source)
  • In the same month the last payment was made to him, Booth traveled to Montreal to collect the money and rendezvous with John Surratt and other members of the Confederate Secret Service to plot the Lincoln issue.†   (source)
  • USS Pogy is coming east, and she ought to be able to rendezvous with Dallas an hour or so after we do.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he wears heavy glasses, sometimes none at all; at one rendezvous he may have dark hair, on another white or red or covered by a hat.†   (source)
  • "So, we are to proceed to grid square 54-90 and rendezvous with our attack submarine V. K. Konovalov—that's Captain Tupolev's new command.†   (source)
  • Working through the night and most of the following day, the men of the Central Intelligence Agency formed a detail of eight experienced field personnel, defined and redefined the specific routes that Conklin and Panov were to take both individually and together for the next twenty-four hours-these routes covered by the armed professionals in swift progressive relays-and finally to design an irresistible rendezvous, unique in terms of time and location.†   (source)
  • The huge jet taxied in the downpour to its appointed rendezvous with the crowds of reporters and camera crews.†   (source)
  • The American escorts, which had been detached the previous day, were now sailing to rendezvous with the USS New Jersey.†   (source)
  • A single name and a rendezvous revealed over a monitored radio frequency could bring an underpaid messenger a great deal of money.†   (source)
  • If we had been, we would never have walked into it, so why do you think we were clever enough to agree on a rendezvous?†   (source)
  • Why was a Brit carrier signaling to a Russian submarine, and why were they sending her to a rendezvous off the Carolinas?†   (source)
  • You see, mon capitaine, had we not come in for the rendezvous this miserable scow would have been blown out of the water.†   (source)
  • Say the rendezvous has been set for one-thirty on the road between Chevreuse and Rambouillet, seven miles south of Versailles at the Cimetière de Noblesse.†   (source)
  • Will rendezvous in eight minutes.†   (source)
  • Bourne raced back through the foliage towards the steps, checking once more before rendezvous, reducing his vulnerability.†   (source)
  • I know a rendezvous that's been used before in the hills of Guangdong; there are fields that can easily be reached by helicopter, where Sheng or his lieutenants used to meet with the commando.†   (source)
  • …RED OCTOBER YOUR WHOLE FLEET IS CHASING AFTER YOU YOUR WHOLE FLEET IS CHASING AFTER YOU YOUR PATH IS BLOCKED BY NUMEROUS VESSELS NUMEROUS ATTACK SUBMARINES ARE WAITING TO ATTACK YOU REPEAT NUMEROUS ATTACK SUBMARINES ARE WAITING TO ATTACK YOU PROCEED TO RENDEZVOUS 33N 75W WE HAVE SHIPS THERE WAITING FOR YOU REPEAT PROCEED TO RENDEZVOUS 33N 75W WE HAVE SHIPS THERE WAITING FOR YOU IF YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE PLEASE PING US AGAIN ONE TIME The Red October "Distance to target, Borodin?"†   (source)
  • The details were always in conflict: the hair was dark or light; the eyes brown, blue or speckled; the skin pale, or tanned, or blotched; the clothes well made and subdued if the rendezvous took place in a dimly lit expensive cafe, or rumpled and ill-fitting if the meeting was held on the waterfront or in the lower depths of a given city.†   (source)
  • Where is your rendezvous?†   (source)
  • The only certain method of rendezvous was for Jimmy to have waited for Rod's appearance; Rod had no way to find him now.†   (source)
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