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  • Big Emma was vehement.†   (source)
  • My friends had pinned me to the ground and were vehemently arguing.†   (source)
  • I shook my head vehemently.†   (source)
  • Her vehemence frightened them.†   (source)
  • Their faces were covered with every kind of misery I could imagine: pits and pustules, cracks and bumps, and fissures that I was sure erupted with the same vehemence as snails writhing in a bed of salt.†   (source)
  • Once, she'd spent a whole Sunday in a Reykjavik bar, vehemently arguing with an Adrien Brody look-alike about its theme … between swilling delicious apple vodka martinis and playing footsie with him under the table, that is.†   (source)
  • His mother shook her head vehemently, but this only enraged them.†   (source)
  • For the last few moments Goodwife Cruff had been vehemently prodding her husband.†   (source)
  • She started, surprised by his vehemence.†   (source)
  • He said it too vehemently and hurt his side.†   (source)
  • "No!" said Hannah, surprised at the vehemence in her response.†   (source)
  • "Well," I said, surprised at her vehemence, though maybe I shouldn't have been.†   (source)
  • If her mother hadn't been acting so strange, Flora would have said something, would have argued more vehemently.†   (source)
  • She is vehemently opposed to any form of government that is not by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.†   (source)
  • Watson shook his bead vehemently, making his fluffy hair bounce on his skull.†   (source)
  • No farm, no family, andRoran's not dead! he said vehemently.†   (source)
  • More laughter and cursing … A vehement argument ensued, and I heard Helen declare she was leaving.†   (source)
  • Edward vehemently refused his, and I tried to do the same, but the traitor told them I'd hit my head and probably had a concussion.†   (source)
  • When next we see her she has fled the scene, running and falling down the hillside to collapse into the arms of the racist English community she so vehemently criticized before.†   (source)
  • "You always have time for Jim," I blurted out, surprising myself as much as him with my vehemence.†   (source)
  • Carl vehemently denied the charges and felt humiliated by the publicity surrounding the case.†   (source)
  • A gleeful vehemence entered her voice.†   (source)
  • We argued vehemently over the best way to hide them.†   (source)
  • "I can't do this," he said louder and more vehemently.†   (source)
  • Except: His hatred of Erudite was so vehement it must have been personal.†   (source)
  • Alec looked startled, either at the question or at Jace's vehemence in asking it.†   (source)
  • She insisted with so much vehemence on her determination to drive Florentino Ariza out of the house that it reached Fermina Daza's ears.†   (source)
  • "No," Glass said, startled by her own vehemence.†   (source)
  • Jessica found herself surprised at the vehemence in Harah's tone, glanced down at Alia.†   (source)
  • He came to hate them vehemently, and to assail them with every kind of invective he could think of, not because they were irrelevant but for exactly the opposite reason.†   (source)
  • And his strenuous, almost vehement funeral performance.†   (source)
  • The Church protested vehemently and the scientific world was sharply divided.†   (source)
  • In one way it seemed a small thing, starting, after a six months' lapse, where I had so vehemently left off.†   (source)
  • He seems surprised by my vehemence.†   (source)
  • There was vehemence in his voice, and I felt I was its object, as if I had already ridiculed Dr. Pérez.†   (source)
  • "No," she replied with such vehemence that Blomkvist opened his eyes in surprise.†   (source)
  • Marcia shook her head vehemently.†   (source)
  • The taxi, stuffed full of Iranians, weaved through traffic, alternately plunging ahead at full throttle and screeching to a halt as the driver leaned on the horn and called his islamic brothers "saag" a particularly vehement epithet that literally means "dog."†   (source)
  • "You'll hate America," he said, with vehemence.†   (source)
  • Walter vehemently disagreed, suggesting that the Indians, Coloureds, and Africans were inextricably bound together.†   (source)
  • If it weren't for the vehemence with which he slams the door, I might think he didn't hear me.†   (source)
  • Amir, Hearth, and I shook our heads vehemently.†   (source)
  • She shakes her head vehemently.†   (source)
  • The father of the goalie of one of the Fugees' competitors filed a complaint with the league, accusing one of the younger members of the Fugees of threatening to slash his throat during a game, a charge the player vehemently denied.†   (source)
  • Paul started at the vehemence in her voice, remembering his conversation that morning with Michelle.†   (source)
  • The sound, coming from the topmost branches, disturbed Hazel because it suggested some huge approach—an approach that was never completed: and he and Pipkin remained still for some time, listening tensely to this loud yet meaningless vehemence high overhead.†   (source)
  • She nodded, letting loose with another vehement a-hem.†   (source)
  • She was tall and lithe and strong; her thick, fair hair, without being actually curly, seemed to be so vehemently alive that it rippled a bit in its length, as a swift-flowing brook does over a stone.†   (source)
  • My new, vehement belief in the gods had made me no more tolerant of the empty mumbling I'd seen in temples all my life.†   (source)
  • Gus vehemently denied that he would be a suitable mate for Mary Cole.†   (source)
  • Some signs suggest that the vehemence of the anti-immigrant movement has driven migrants away.†   (source)
  • The Winter King's servants had begun to light torches, which cast fearful shadows across the deck; as against Aven's vehement protestations, the fauns were herded aboard the Black Dragon, casting back mournful glances as they went.†   (source)
  • Strange how these protesters are so much more vehement about Canadian-born Japanese than they are about German-born Germans.†   (source)
  • But the vehemence was false.†   (source)
  • Blanca pretended to accept his explanation, but her husband's vehemence struck her as suspicious, since he normally paid no attention to her problems.†   (source)
  • 'You're crazy,' Clevinger shouted vehemently, his eyes filling with tears.†   (source)
  • He shook his head vehemently.†   (source)
  • I'd made the mistake of telling him how I'd thought I was turning into my dead grandfather, with all his weird superstitions, like his vehement belief that hats on beds bring bad luck.†   (source)
  • These words were spoken so loudly, and with such vehemence that the singing suddenly stopped.†   (source)
  • Strigan's voice was quiet, but vehement.†   (source)
  • He shook his head vehemently, looking at Clifton.†   (source)
  • The Crisis, a vehement new paper, attacked "all the gaudy trappings of royalty" and the villainy of the King.†   (source)
  • I tell you this knowing that you know I'd vehemently deny ever having said it.†   (source)
  • The town has arrived for what promises to be a lively fight: Ester Ugarte, the postmaster's wife, has accused Loli Regalado of seducing her husband, a charge that Loli vehemently denies.†   (source)
  • His words come out angrily, with a vehemence that shocks some viewers.†   (source)
  • But my secret is safe-because each one of them thinks that she was the only one who failed, while all the others succeeded, so she'll be the more vehement in swearing to our romance and will never admit the truth to anybody.†   (source)
  • (With sudden vehemence) UP YOURS!†   (source)
  • "They will be a small company," said Rabadash, "and I will order ten of my men to disarm and bind him: restraining my vehement desire for his blood so that there shall be no deadly cause of war between you and the High King."†   (source)
  • She could've denied it…vehemently, icily, laughingly, but hearing it said aloud seemed to put her in some kind of trance.†   (source)
  • Not if I can help it,' said Frodo with a sudden strange vehemence.†   (source)
  • Some in agreement, it seemed to Robert; some in vehement opposition.†   (source)
  • He was a man of resolute will, and Jim Rowland knew he had made a critical error by the vehemence with which Gauldin ruled and then gavelled the other members of the court into silence.†   (source)
  • Loor said to her mother vehemently.†   (source)
  • A bespectacled gentleman at the other end of the table argues vehemently with Dr. Hamilton.†   (source)
  • Though not an abolitionist, Adams was a vehement opponent of slavery and became the prime crusader against the "gag rule," a parliamentary order passed in 1836 by the House that forbade discussion of slavery on the House floor.†   (source)
  • When I first told him that we were engaged I thought he would vehemently protest, again go over the scores of reasons why I should marry one of our own (as he had rambled on in my adolescence), but he only nodded and said he respected her and wished me luck.†   (source)
  • Some young squire or hedge knight, like as not …. though by the vehemence with which Lord Hoster had opposed him, he might have been a tradesman's son or baseborn apprentice, even a singer.†   (source)
  • These two clauses have been vehemently denounced.†   (source)
  • The object I had previously glimpsed was still in view, but now it looked like a white feather boa being vehemently waved by persons or person unseen.†   (source)
  • Her feet grew vehement.†   (source)
  • At home the people would blame liquor, the Army, and the war, but the blame on the whites would never match the vehemence the people would keep in their own bellies, reserving the greatest bitterness and blame for themselves, for one of themselves they could not save.†   (source)
  • DYSART [vehemently]: Don't you see?†   (source)
  • Her vehemence startled me.†   (source)
  • His color had deepened with whisky and vehemence, and perhaps at being able to talk to someone with a little likeness of experience.†   (source)
  • But the vehemence of the second sneeze was still tumbling leaves from the humble-bushes, when a new sound made her whirl around.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: (vehemently).†   (source)
  • I won't take it," she said vehemently.†   (source)
  • Our children had not seen us so serious, so vehement, before.†   (source)
  • That was when — EDMUND Too vehemently.†   (source)
  • Sobel vehemently denied it.†   (source)
  • "It's not like that; you've got it all wrong," Jacob defended his friend, suddenly vehement.†   (source)
  • 'It has been in it!' said Malfoy vehemently.†   (source)
  • If anything, a little puzzled by the vehemence of Glen's reaction.†   (source)
  • "This is company business," Dad replied without his usual vehemence.†   (source)
  • Eragon was startled by her sudden vehemence.†   (source)
  • Paul pouted and shook his head vehemently.†   (source)
  • "Now suppose I joined the navy," he said, vehemently replying to some argument in his dreams.†   (source)
  • Jocelyn looked a little bewildered at Clary's vehemence.†   (source)
  • He thought he was hazardous to my health—an opinion I rejected vehemently whenever he voiced it.†   (source)
  • That it was only because of my mother's vehement objection that the idea died.†   (source)
  • "Feelings are not reality!" shot back the old soldier vehemently.†   (source)
  • Vic said, surprised by his own angry vehemence.†   (source)
  • I'm not old!" cried the woman vehemently.†   (source)
  • At first, I was astonished by the vehemence—and candor—with which people criticized the regent.†   (source)
  • "On—go on, honey!" yelled Pros, motioning vehemently to the girl.†   (source)
  • Yet the vehement criticism isn't based on sound judgment.†   (source)
  • Yossarian snarled, arguing all the more vehemently because he suspected he was wrong.†   (source)
  • She examined him with greater intensity, trying to determine the reason for his vehemence.†   (source)
  • Just around the block, swinging his arms with nonchalant vehemence.†   (source)
  • But now she felt it more vehemently than she had ever felt it before.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: (Slapping her hand with vehemence) Don't you touch me!†   (source)
  • I know exactly where I'm going," Lee insisted, a bit too vehemently.†   (source)
  • It was then that "he would give to his language the full impress of his vehement will."†   (source)
  • " "Oh no," says Camel, shaking his head vehemently.†   (source)
  • Strigan leaned forward, unexpectedly vehement.†   (source)
  • She thrust forward her face and sent forth the words with incredible vehemence.†   (source)
  • Captain Vel answered, vehement and bitter.†   (source)
  • But it was also New Englanders who had assailed slavery in the most vehement terms.†   (source)
  • Heads pop out from behind him, shaking vehemently.†   (source)
  • 'Don't you realize what you've done?' he scolded vehemently.†   (source)
  • 'I'm willing to compromise,' he pleaded vehemently.†   (source)
  • Franklin was especially vehement in insisting that they receive no special treatment.†   (source)
  • She broke off abruptly and kissed the small face with vehemence.†   (source)
  • "Not!" she replied, vehemently, in the same language.†   (source)
  • His eloquence and vehemence wrought the little man up to a degree of heat and effervescence….†   (source)
  • "I don't believe in any god," she said, with a slight vehemence.†   (source)
  • Adams vehemently denied that he favored monarchy.†   (source)
  • In the Senate, charges and countercharges were voiced with increasing vehemence.†   (source)
  • After the news, we held disorganized, vehement debates.†   (source)
  • " "I have hated him," Cal said vehemently.†   (source)
  • Undeterred, she took advantage of their silence to maintain an uninterrupted flow of dire warnings, all uttered under her breath in a vehement hiss that caused Seamus to waste five whole minutes checking his cauldron for leaks.†   (source)
  • Some residents fought the plan vehemently, calling in death threats and vowing to tear down the memorial and burn supporters' homes.†   (source)
  • She was so vehement that Lucrecia took back what she had said: "When all is said and done, they also say the same sort of thing about me."†   (source)
  • When Harry told of Wormtail piercing his arm with the dagger, however, Sirius let out a vehement exclamation and Dumbledore stood up so quickly that Harry started.†   (source)
  • They were all talking away, gesticulating vehemently, but it didn't look as though they were talking about anything that mattered.†   (source)
  • According to the Griffins, she reported, they had been ordered by Vice Chancellor Rhodes to conduct human radiation trials, which Rhodes vehemently denied.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the National Restaurant Association (NRA) has vehemently opposed any rise in the minimum wage at the federal, state, or local level.†   (source)
  • In spite of all the years that had passed, Gregor still refused vehemently to talk about his experiences on the battlefield.†   (source)
  • The industry has repeatedly denied that problems exist, impugned the motives of its critics, fought vehemently against federal oversight, sought to avoid any responsibility for outbreaks of food poisoning, and worked hard to shift the costs of food safety efforts onto the general public.†   (source)
  • She could be so vehement at times and, yet, when everything had been put her way, so gentle and accommodating and radiating certainty that the world was in order.†   (source)
  • The doctor shook his head vehemently.†   (source)
  • "No!" she whispered vehemently.†   (source)
  • I had tried to convince Sunny of all this, for it seemed certainly wrong for a young girl to know only a single adult, especially so if it was a man, but always she was vehemently against the idea, crying and going on whenever I persisted.†   (source)
  • The terrible spasticky thing, the whole groanlike abandon, the resignation of life and breath to this vehement depth of gesture, man and chair going different ways.†   (source)
  • I was keeping track on my fingers: he'd been known to cheat but denied it with great vehemence, so I always had to have proof.†   (source)
  • No, never that,he said vehemently.†   (source)
  • After crossing the ocean in search of it, after having confused passion with the vehement stroking of Rebeca, Pietro Crespi had found love.†   (source)
  • Then he shook his head vehemently.†   (source)
  • Kristen nodded vehemently.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid I grew vehement.†   (source)
  • Both women vehemently opposed what Nasuada described as "a harebrained scheme that will have catastrophic consequences for everyone in Alagaesia if it goes awry!"†   (source)
  • Adams, springing to his feet, responded so vehemently that when he left the chamber Dickinson came rushing after, to confront him outside.†   (source)
  • You were quite vehemently championed.†   (source)
  • "Nieminen refuses to say anything about what happened," the detective went on, "but he vehemently denies being involved in any crime."†   (source)
  • You know I wouldn't ever ask you— "I want to be with you," she said, surprising herself with her own vehemence.†   (source)
  • Sandi turned to the woman whose blurry, alcoholic eyes and ironic smile intimated the things Sandi was just beginning to learn, things that the dancers knew all about, which was why they danced with such vehemence, such passion.†   (source)
  • Her gloomy dignity, the weight of her name, the convincing vehemence of her declaration made the scale of justice hesitate for a moment.†   (source)
  • She had rather, she told me vehemently, spend her life with a grasshopper who had rickets, than spend one more night in bed with me.†   (source)
  • The festivities that night had been more dissension than celebration-a strange mix of exuberance by those who believed that Justin was indeed destined to deliver them from the Horde with this peace of his, and animosity by those who argued vehemently against any such treasonous betrayal of Elyon.†   (source)
  • Dexter had told me that Ted's vehement insistence that they do no covers for a demo, ever, had worked against them in previous towns, with previous chances.†   (source)
  • The one surprise, as the debate continued, was a vehement speech by the Duke of Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, former Prime Minister, who had not previously opposed the administration.†   (source)
  • He studied vehemently, practiced until his health was in jeopardy, and attended the Friday-night sessions with the three Mora sisters, despite his father's express orders to the contrary; for Esteban Trueba persisted in believing that these were not suitable matters for men.†   (source)
  • So, over vehement protests from the men, he abolished that committee and created a women's committee and a men's committee, and since then the women had taken over.†   (source)
  • As was custom, Orrin sat at the head of the table, while his various advisers-many of whom, Nasuada knew, vehemently opposed her-occupied the chairs farther down.†   (source)
  • I had attended the ceremony against his vehement opposition, and he was feeling vindicated and authoritarian.†   (source)
  • Stepping around the chair I snatched the broom and joined her, splattering the scattering roaches with both broom and feet, hearing the pop and snap as I brought the pressure down upon them vehemently.†   (source)
  • Several times he had tried asking if anything was wrong and had been given bitter, vehement lectures on his shortcomings.†   (source)
  • Mr. Boyle's attorney has issued an emphatic denial and has assured the press that Mr. Boyle is now vehemently opposed to any such plan.†   (source)
  • Whereas Íorunn seemed to want the throne merely for the power she would gain thereafter, and Gannel did not seem inherently hostile to the Varden-although neither was he friendly toward them-Nado was openly and vehemently opposed to any involvement with Eragon, Nasuada, the Empire, Galbatorix, Queen Islanzadi, or, so far as Eragon could tell, any living being outside of the Beor Mountains.†   (source)
  • Of course I always thanked them, was appropriately pleased and proud, not saying otherwise, but I also wished secretly that for once I'd hear about Sunny speaking insolently, that they had had a terrible row in front of everyone, that once and finally Mary Burns had been most cross and vehement and had scolded her with great wrath.†   (source)
  • She shook her head vehemently.†   (source)
  • Now I'm the one flushing, because this is the most lie's ever spoken to me, and there's a vehemence in his face that's almost too much.†   (source)
  • Masondo could be a volatile fellow, and he was vehement in his assertions that no tigers had ever been found in Africa.†   (source)
  • My vehemence startles Izzi to her feet.†   (source)
  • Senator Trueba would not discuss the subject; like everyone else in his class, he denied the existence of hunger just as vehemently as he denied that of the prisoners and the torture; this meant that Alba could not rely on him, and later, when she could no longer rely on her mother either, she was forced to take more drastic measures.†   (source)
  • The two of them wanted to marry, which Odele's parents vehemently opposed on the grounds that the young sailor lacked a family of his own, a respectable profession, and the means to provide even a modicum of comfort for their daughter.†   (source)
  • the most vehement I ever saw,†   (source)
  • Not because he doubted the veracity of the information from Solembum, nor even because he doubted its importance—on both those points he accepted Eragon's word without question—but, as he argued with increasing vehemence, because it would destroy the Varden if they woke to find not only that Nasuada had been kidnapped but that Eragon and Saphira had vanished to parts unknown.†   (source)
  • Such was the vehemence with which he made the threat that the president of the republic canceled his trip at the last moment and sent the decoration with a personal representative.†   (source)
  • He could even see the truth of her loving and vehement assertion that it was he, his love, which had given her the courage to begin.†   (source)
  • He spoke with vehemence.†   (source)
  • I am staggered at her vehemence.†   (source)
  • In response, George Johnstone, a dashing figure who had once served as governor of West Florida, delivered one of the longest, most vehement declamations of the night, exclaiming, "Every Machiavellian policy is now to be vindicated towards the people of America."†   (source)
  • I shake my head vehemently.†   (source)
  • 'Why?' she demanded belligerently, her mouth curling suddenly into a vehement sneer and her eyes flashing with anger.†   (source)
  • Which is why you so vehemently protested the execution of the people who endangered the citizens in Ors.†   (source)
  • 'Colonel, I'm not going to stand for it any more,' he declared with vehement determination, and watched in dismay as Colonel Korn went trotting by up the steps without even noticing him.†   (source)
  • A full-scale argument ensues, during which Helene's disapproval of prostitutes is vehemently shouted down by Faris while Dex argues that leaving school grounds to visit a brothel isn't strictly forbidden.†   (source)
  • 'Cruel?' asked Colonel Korn with cold good humor, frightened only momentarily by the uninhibited vehemence of Dunbar's hostility.†   (source)
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