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- There was virtually no position I could find for the armadillo that did not make the creature resemble a supplicant—not to mention, a wretched amputee.† (source)
- Sometimes he followed me into the kitchen, with an oddly supplicant demeanor.† (source)
- They had resumed their original positions, Ullman behind the desk and Jack in front of it, interviewer and interviewee, supplicant and reluctant patron.† (source)
- Toorlexa Nebee caught me near his latrine one afternoon, loitering he said, as if that stinking place were a coveted shelter and myself a supplicant to his excrement, and now he believes he has frightened me off for good.† (source)
- Each magician must unbar the path for herself, and the challenge is different for each supplicant.† (source)
- He wanted to use Chacko's visit to impress local supplicants and Party Workers.† (source)
- Polite and worthless promises maybe, but Farmer in the role of supplicant seemed artfully ingenuous.† (source)
- The one part of the process Eragon enjoyed was watching how the supplicants reacted to the two Urgals who loomed behind Nasuada's chair.† (source)
- Indoors, the supplicant must make use of a prayer stone, and there were several available in the house.† (source)
- We had not come to the meeting as supplicants or petitioners, but as fellow South Africans who merited an equal place at the table.† (source)
- Luma parried the challenges and maintained a supplicant monotone that would've amused the boys on the Fugees, who knew what she sounded like when she wanted to make a point.† (source)
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- He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.† (source)
- There was no naos, so of course no pronaos, no altar, no statues of the gods or of their supplicants.† (source)
- She's probably another supplicant," Cyril said, "come to beg you to take away a gift you gave her at birth."† (source)
- His bearing and manner, as well as the number of supplicants crowded around his elevated chair, indicated that he was in all likelihood a creature of high status, if not the Troll King himself.† (source)
- She collapsed; he caught her in the fall and carried her out of the narrow street as an adoring supplicant might a religious social worker.† (source)
- The rector was standing half a flight of stairs above her, so that she had to gaze up at him like a supplicant.† (source)
- He would listen to each case as it was laid before him, pronounce his judgment …. and read a bit whilst his captain-of-guards went to bring in the next supplicant.† (source)
- And even if, say, I interfere--burn up somebody's meadhall, for instance, whether because I just feel like it or because some supplicant asked me to--even then I do not change the future, I merely do what I saw from the beginning.† (source)
- "Yes of course, Lieutenant," he answered, bowing his head in a most supplicant angle.† (source)
- Nothing was forgotten, every service requested was provided, and De Roos or the other doctors who made their rounds— specialists in infection, the heart, and Rontgenology-had long technical conversations with Alessandro, thus keeping him far better informed than most of the other supplicants who were drawn daily to the hospital.† (source)
- Eve gave one particularly devout-looking supplicant a few tokens and was rewarded with a beatific smile and a glossy pebble.† (source)
- But the Gods have other things to do: they cannot attend to the pleas of every supplicant who dares to raise his cares to heaven.† (source)
- Churches generally had a small apartment prepared for the reception of supplicants. (source)
- They may have looked like supplicants but their questions were not conciliatory. (source)
- "How many supplicants do we have today?" he inquired.† (source)
- Hespira's mother came as a supplicant and offered to add her seedlings to the garden.† (source)
- Courtiers filled the gallery while supplicants clustered near the towering oak-and-bronze doors.† (source)
- A curtain provided privacy to supplicants.† (source)
- Seated, holding his hat in his hands like a supplicant, Kleppmann had managed to make Will Jr crawl.† (source)
- And when she reaches Westeros, and meets you for the first time, you will meet as equals, man and woman, not queen and supplicant.† (source)
- The incense burned in braziers unattended by a priest, and there was no sign of supplicants, or of a recent sacrifice.† (source)
- He knew better than to come to Melisandre's chambers like a supplicant, insisting she come to him instead should she have need of words with him.† (source)
- Am I not your supplicant?† (source)
- Fructosa and Tranquilino, his old servants, were with the supplicants in the Cathedral.† (source)
- Tom was on his feet so suddenly that the supplicant was startled into a jump herself.† (source)
- Churches generally had a small apartment prepared for the reception of supplicants.† (source)
- The door opened gently; the beautiful supplicant pretended not to hear the noise, and in a voice broken by tears, she continued: "God of vengeance!† (source)
- I was too proud to ask Mr. Sands to do any thing for my own benefit; but I could bring myself to become a supplicant for my children.† (source)
- My guardian threw his supplicant off with supreme indifference, and left him dancing on the pavement as if it were red hot.† (source)
- "No," replied the supplicant; "it is not the voice of Tachechana that you hear, but this boy, speaking with the tongue of his mother.† (source)
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