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  • Sometimes Owen grabbed hold of his chair the instant Mrs. Walker left the room; he'd cling like a bird to a swing in its cage, but he was easy to dislodge because he was ticklish.†   (source)
  • After three hours of painstaking labour and with the aid of initially — a kitchen stepstool, a corkscrew, and a table knife, and — ultimately — a hammer and a battery-operated screwdriver he found at the back of the utility closet, he manages to disassemble the emergency air vent and dislodge the mechanism inside it.†   (source)
  • While I tried to think of something to say in answer to that, I reached forward and pressed the lock on the screen between us, dislodging it from the window.†   (source)
  • His foot dislodges a pebble and it falls into the abyss, apparently gone forever.†   (source)
  • She swatted and clawed, trying to dislodge him.†   (source)
  • The consequences of a poorly tied knot, a stumble, a dislodged rock, or some other careless deed are as likely to be felt by the perpetrator's colleagues as the perpetrator.†   (source)
  • Now, on the road to Mendlo, Dart shook his head to dislodge yet again the vile image of Tamar working his body against hers.†   (source)
  • The cage heaved violently, almost dislodging Chix from his seat.†   (source)
  • Jack Torrance cried these words out in both surprise and agony as he slapped his right hand against his blue chambray workshirt, dislodging the big, slowmoving wasp that had stung him.†   (source)
  • Particular patterns of thought get attached to particular movements or activities, and before you know it, it's impossible to approach that movement or activity without dislodging an avalanche of prethought thoughts.†   (source)
  • I was still trying to dislodge the stupid feeling of suspicion, and I couldn't concentrate.†   (source)
  • I also knew that one false step, a dislodged rock, however small, would betray our positions.†   (source)
  • With Booth's injured leg, even working together, he and Herold could not dislodge a board so they could escape to the woods.†   (source)
  • Otherwise the dust billowed like sand over Khartoum and sifted deep into her scalp, where even a good brushing failed to dislodge it.†   (source)
  • Let's just be sure to keep it in the back of our mind," she said, getting up to smash an ice tray repeatedly on the rim of the sink, dislodging the cubes in groups of two and three.†   (source)
  • Minor demons are difficult enough to dislodge.†   (source)
  • Dislodging with their tongues the sodden yellow mulch that stuck to the roofs of their mouths.†   (source)
  • She struggled, but her efforts to tear herself free of the hands that held her—Lily's, narrow and bony with black fingernails—were hampered by her fear of dislodging Simon, who clung to her jacket with paws and teeth.†   (source)
  • Indeed, on the occasion one is fortunate enough to meet a great butler, far from experiencing any sceptical urge to demand a 'test', one is at a loss to imagine any situation which could ever dislodge a professionalism borne with such authority.†   (source)
  • To be in the presence of such love expressed seemed to dislodge an inner emotional logjam, and while he didn't understand exactly what he felt—it was good.†   (source)
  • A fall of dislodged sand and faint creature sounds within it.†   (source)
  • There were some of his most precious things: a sliver of jade that had dislodged from a cufflink at the Chicago hotel; a gold pendant shaped like a Y with a piece of coral attached to it that had belonged to the mother he never knew; four large hairpins that Velma had left on the rim of the bathroom sink; a powder blue grosgrain ribbon from the head of a little girl named Precious Jewel; a blackened faucet head from the sink in a jail cell in Cincinnati; two marbles he had found under…†   (source)
  • I saw the Chairman's handkerchief dislodge itself from the fabric and flutter to the ground.†   (source)
  • As he pulled off the soiled sheets he dislodged the panties I had put under the mattress.†   (source)
  • Fezzik could not get his arms around to his back and dislodge the enemy.†   (source)
  • They went for it with picks-the picks slipped, scattering showers of sparks, but not a bit of earth was dislodged.†   (source)
  • Josie shook her head, trying to dislodge the words.†   (source)
  • In his dying convulsions the ax had become dislodged from the wound.†   (source)
  • To rescue the chunk of manuscript under the pipe would require more time, but we were confident that they would not find the manuscript because they would not dislodge the pipe in order to build the wall.†   (source)
  • You start to forget words: they're on the tip of your tongue, but instead of eventually dislodging, they stay there.†   (source)
  • The Ra'zac gave a final yank, then, when it failed to dislodge Roran, cocked its head and said, "You areoursss !†   (source)
  • She shakes her head like she's trying to dislodge the words from her brain.†   (source)
  • Every time a fat raindrop dislodged itself and went streaking down the glass, it was like a tear in the fabric.†   (source)
  • , even when it dislodged while she was on the highway, bonking her on the forehead and almost hurling her into oncoming traffic.†   (source)
  • Later on, when the government troops dislodged them from the place where they had made love, they did it among the cans of lard and sacks of corn in the back of the store.†   (source)
  • The magus grinned as I landed on the rocks beside him and I turned to give him what help I could dislodging the bridge.†   (source)
  • This blocked half of the pipe's channel, and before the surge of pressure could dislodge the clapper too many things happened.†   (source)
  • Cole began, "Our parents were killed when a boulder dislodged by a mine blast from one of Roger's operations crushed the car they were in."†   (source)
  • But as Tarawa had shown (and as future battles were to show again), no amount of aerial bombing or naval bombardment—regardless of how obliterating it might look from a bombardier's sights or from the deck of a destroyer—was going to dislodge these deeply entrenched Japanese from their obsessively fortified Pacific islands.†   (source)
  • He sent me up the stairs as he and my grandmother worked to dislodge the railings.†   (source)
  • A skull dislodged from the pile and clattered to the floor, where it rolled to a stop at my feet and stared up at me.†   (source)
  • Again he dislodged the bolt.†   (source)
  • Clarence asked, stooping to the ground to pick up the postcard that had dislodged from Cesar's pocket.†   (source)
  • "It had often been wished," wrote Justice Peter Oliver, one of the most prominent Loyalists, "that this hill had had proper attention paid to it; and it had been repeatedly mentioned that it was of the last necessity to secure such a position; but the general answers were that there was no danger from it, and that it was to be wished that the rebels would take possession of it, as they could be dislodged."†   (source)
  • And though later he came pretending friendship, the alliance with man would ever be but fragile, for the fear he'd struck into their hearts was too deep to be dislodged.†   (source)
  • He cut through her blouse without dislodging a single button and slit her bra and panties in two.†   (source)
  • Pecking now at Joe's hand as he tried to knock it away, holding fast to sleeve and hair, determined not to be dislodged.†   (source)
  • Wriggling to dislodge her sizable bottom, she spilled onto the tiled floor.†   (source)
  • The terrific acceleration of the saucer as it left Earth twisted Billy's slumbering body, distorted his face, dislodged him m time, sent him back to the war.†   (source)
  • There was an astonished and confused hum among the crowd as Otto tried to dislodge Tradd from his back.†   (source)
  • The white batting is fluffed out, exposed, the whole effect of him vapid and dislodged.†   (source)
  • He found it at the next corner, by a sewer drain: A partially dislodged cobblestone, forced from its recess by a decade of careless drivers jumping the curb.†   (source)
  • The trees were as busy as hives, with hopping or swooping birds and dislodged leaves that spiraled down through the still air.†   (source)
  • The Lord Commander swung down off his saddle, dislodging the raven from his shoulder.†   (source)
  • From the sharp cries and swearing of the other two, Jill got the idea that many of the stones which she was dislodging were hitting Scrubb and Puddleglum pretty hard.†   (source)
  • He rolled aside at the very last moment to dodge the spearlike tip of a falling icicle dislodged by the tremor.†   (source)
  • My only remedy was to stop occasionally, shake my leg vigorously to dislodge the mud, do the same with my other leg, and then continue on.†   (source)
  • Jean smiled back at him and gently dislodged her hand from his.†   (source)
  • I struggled vainly to dislodge his shoe from the crack.†   (source)
  • Although Rocinante was screened the flies got in in their millions and hid in corners and would not be dislodged.†   (source)
  • He leaped forward, immediately dislodging the first man to face him.†   (source)
  • "I'm goddam glad I don't," the big boy panted, and jumped up to dislodge him.†   (source)
  • They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer;   (source)
  • As for Tess Durbeyfield, she did not so easily dislodge the incident from her consideration.   (source)
  • At first he tried to dislodge it with his hand, but as it was now very tightly wedged he drew a stone-pick out of his pocket, and very carefully and with some trouble got it out.   (source)
  • The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space
  • used dynamite to dislodge the bolder
  • The initial effort failed to dislodge the Taliban.
  • Fudge will soon wish he'd never dislodged me from Hogwarts, I promise you.'†   (source)
  • The firebomb dislodged and flew into the Hephaestus chariot at the driver's feet.†   (source)
  • Careful not to dislodge it, he raised both hands above him.†   (source)
  • Then the others came from the South to dislodge her.†   (source)
  • I le tried to make a fist and dented the can some, but did not dislodge it.†   (source)
  • There weren't many creatures that could dislodge a dwarf with a grip on something.†   (source)
  • If we could grab one of those houses and make a stand, we would be hard to dislodge.†   (source)
  • He began to dig, moving the sand with care not to dislodge another slide.†   (source)
  • The cool air in my mouth and the jarring of my molars dislodged what little remained of my reason.†   (source)
  • Mulch gave his rear end a shake to dislodge any clumps of earth.†   (source)
  • Every now and then I'd dislodge something or snap a branch that would not bear my weight.†   (source)
  • The unquestioning acceptance by my peers had dislodged the familiar insecurity.†   (source)
  • The troll lumbered after him, spitting dislodged teeth from pulped gums.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she was dislodging a curl of rubber band from inside her cheek, or was she really smiling?†   (source)
  • I swallowed, trying to dislodge the sudden lump in my throat.†   (source)
  • It nibbled and licked at a crack between the stones until it dislodged some sort of greenish root.†   (source)
  • Marvin tossed his horns as if trying to dislodge his bells.†   (source)
  • Claire shifted slightly, careful not to dislodge all the tubes and the wires.†   (source)
  • She wrenched at her bonds, hoping to dislodge the grub, but it continued to cling to her.†   (source)
  • The icicle that had been dislodged by Aegis-fang had taken part of the chamber's ceiling with it.†   (source)
  • Apparently he had dislodged it as he grappled with the door in the throes of his heart attack.†   (source)
  • Birds and animals had long ago picked the dead clean where they could dislodge the battle armor.†   (source)
  • Sam told me a boulder dislodged by a mining blast hit their car?†   (source)
  • I shook my head to dislodge that train of thought, feeling panicky.†   (source)
  • She shimmied in her dress like she was trying to dislodge a pebble.†   (source)
  • My eye automatically wanted to dislodge the obstruction.†   (source)
  • She'd managed to dislodge the blindfold a long time ago, maybe more than a day ago.†   (source)
  • Shruikan saw her coming and jerked his body, trying to dislodge Saphira and Thorn.†   (source)
  • She could not dislodge it from her mind after these many hours.†   (source)
  • The Pocket Sneakoscope had become dislodged from Uncle Vernon's old socks and was whirling and gleaming on the floor.†   (source)
  • But then he heard a rustle and saw a little eddy of dislodged snow in the bush to which Hermione had pointed.†   (source)
  • Something fell to the floor and rolled, glittering, under a chair: He had dislodged the Snitch when he pulled out the letter.†   (source)
  • She took off her glasses, dislodged her dentures with her tongue, severing the strands of saliva that attached them to her gums like the sagging strings of a harp, and dropped them into a glass of Listerine.†   (source)
  • The maze was silent, just the distant whispers that might have been them on the other side of the hedge—or might have been the wind dislodging the leaves.†   (source)
  • Black made a startled movement that almost dislodged Crookshanks; Harry gripped his wand convulsively — Do it now! said a voice in his head —but the footsteps were thundering up the stairs and Harry still hadn't done it.†   (source)
  • But my purpose was to dislodge one of my hair ornaments—a cascade of yellow and orange safflowers in silkand let it fall into Nobu's lap.†   (source)
  • I stood there watching for several minutes while more officers got involved in an increasingly elaborate effort to dislodge Joe's wheelchair from the tight cage.†   (source)
  • Finally, the prisoner trusties suggested lifting the cage and tilting it slightly, which everyone agreed to try The two trusties lifted and tilted the heavy cage, while three officers yanked Joe's chair with a violent pull that finally dislodged it.†   (source)
  • But then my foot dislodged one of the roof tiles, which slid down with a clattering noise and shattered in the courtyard below.†   (source)
  • Two weeks previously a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses had kept Will captive at the back door for almost fifteen minutes, while he struggled to reverse his chair over the dislodged doormat.†   (source)
  • Heavy scuffing and scraping noises, plus the sound of dislodged stones and twigs, told them that several people were clambering down the steep, wooded slope that descended to the narrow bank where they had pitched the tent.†   (source)
  • Every footstep that dislodges anything, a small rock, a pile of shale, seems like it might cause an earthshaking avalanche.†   (source)
  • The women's feet had swollen to fill the discarded men's shoes they wore, and they washed their arms at the well to dislodge dirt and splinters that had accrued to them as part of the day's pickings.†   (source)
  • It was probably clear to them that Mikey and I could not be dislodged as long as the big logs covered us.†   (source)
  • The dislodged gentleman bounced around for a long breath or two before the Baptist minister gave him his chair, then with more dignity than the situation deserved, the minister walked off the stage.†   (source)
  • He spun around, arcing his arm up, dislodging the hand as he side stepped to his left, crouching like an animal.†   (source)
  • Jennifer Anne appeared next to me, smelling of hand soap, and slid her fingers over Chris's, dislodging the bread he was holding.†   (source)
  • Kronos pushed against her, trying to dislodge his blade, but she held him in check, her arms trembling as he forced his sword down toward her neck.†   (source)
  • AT PARIS AND PHILADELPHIA all the while, movements were under way to dislodge John Adams as sole American peacemaker in Europe.†   (source)
  • I stared at the trail of dislodged cushions, the upside-down sofa, the cracked plaster and leather skid marks on the wall.†   (source)
  • He had already pulled on a pair of loose khaki pants, and he stood by the door, rumpling his hair, dislodging a few feathers of his own.†   (source)
  • Imagine standing in a wooded area and throwing stones at the top of a horse chestnut tree to dislodge the sturdiest nuts.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I shall call upon Sukeena to mix her herbs for me and dislodge the future heir from where it lies curled inside me.†   (source)
  • She leaned back and rubbed her head against the pipe, attempting to dislodge the blindfold again, to no avail.†   (source)
  • Attolia turned her head, dislodging a flower, to stare at Phresine, and Phresine carefully replaced the blossom.†   (source)
  • He was frozen in a stooped posture, as if he'd been trying to dislodge his feet as ice overtook the rest of him.†   (source)
  • With each stir of the breeze another flurry would dislodge, littering the grass in wide circumference.†   (source)
  • Years later, recalling the morning of March 5 on Dorchester Heights, John Trumbull would write, "We saw distinctly the preparations which the enemy were making to dislodge us.†   (source)
  • Jason Bourne spun, dislodging his attacker's arm from around his shoulder, clamping it under his own and twisting it further in place, forcing the man down and smashing the attache case up into the Oriental's face.†   (source)
  • As we walked up the steps to his front door, I watched as one of the pieces of tissue dislodged from his face, taking flight over his head and disappearing somewhere behind us.†   (source)
  • Lourdes felt the clot dislodge and liquefy beneath her breasts, float through her belly, and slide down her thighs.†   (source)
  • The observation post was valuable in the conduct of the war below, and because the enemy knew that the attempt to dislodge him had failed, they had to assume that his messages were getting through.†   (source)
  • The giant pounded me on the back like he was trying to dislodge something—perhaps my throat or my heart.†   (source)
  • Despite the many good things Grace had told him (or perhaps because of them) and despite his own best efforts to the contrary, Tom could not fully dislodge a predisposed dislike that was not, he knew, in his nature.†   (source)
  • But he could see that there was no other way—Emma's arms were pinned, Bronwyn was busy protecting both her trunk and Olive from a trio of angry train conductors, and there were more adults on the way—so Hugh began pounding his chest as if trying to dislodge a piece of stuck food.†   (source)
  • It was like walking up a sand dune while contending with a slow shower of boulders dislodged by walkers ahead.†   (source)
  • Whoever was coming had dislodged some stones while descending, and he hoped that they had not realized it.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Annie, when he entered her, that he dislodged in her loins some hot and vivid surge that swept slowly the entire length of her body to lap and furrow around her brain.†   (source)
  • Thrym was still staggering around the room, slamming his back against the cave wall in an attempt to dislodge Alex, but each time he tried, Alex changed into a gorilla, which just made it easier for her to strangle Thrym.†   (source)
  • There were hickories and poplars on this side of the ridge with no obvious trail among them and the girls had frequently to lower their heads to pass beneath the branches so that soon they and the horses were covered with a fine sprinkling of dislodged snow.†   (source)
  • His feet slammed against the rock and dislodged an icicle that fell away without a sound, and he fell back, again hanging by a finger.†   (source)
  • The other kicked at heavy rocks then, even dislodging a boulder and following it downhill, his blade held high.†   (source)
  • The point of his blade found the throat of the second, and the flat of it fell alongside the head of the third, dislodging him also.†   (source)
  • We could not seem to dislodge them; they formed an eerie, soundless retinue in our march across the beach.†   (source)
  • And nothingness whimpered being dislodged from night, and would have hidden again.†   (source)
  • I cannot move without dislodging the weight of centuries.†   (source)
  • I tell you General Johnston cannot be dislodged!†   (source)
  • It is strange that one cannot stop gardeners sweeping nor dislodge a woman.†   (source)
  • But he couldn't dislodge the mask or start the scab to peeling.†   (source)
  • He began to, roll again from shoulder to shoulder hoping to dislodge the mask.†   (source)
  • If he could dislodge the mask then he was not completely helpless.†   (source)
  • He knew this dislodged his mask but he was beyond thinking of masks.†   (source)
  • When thwarted or annoyed in any way, the heavy benevolence of her face was dislodged by a thunder-cloud of petulance, and her wide pouting underlip rolled out like a window-shade.†   (source)
  • They it was who dislodged the goblins from the mountain-slopes, casting them over precipices, or driving them down shrieking and bewildered among their foes.†   (source)
  • It was to be a thing you could ruffle with your breath; and a thing you could not dislodge with a team of horses.†   (source)
  • Cash labors about the trestles, moving back and forth, lifting and placing the planks with long clattering reverberations in the dead air as though he were lifting and dropping them at the bottom of an invisible well, the sounds ceasing without departing, as if any movement might dislodge them from the immediate air in reverberant repetition.†   (source)
  • Along the creek, small willows shuddered and showed the white side of their leaves to the breeze and an occasional fat frog plopped into the water, dislodging patches of green-brown scum that lazied along with the current to catch against water reeds farther down the stream.†   (source)
  • Charles Hamilton, emboldened by her notice, was firmly planted on her right, refusing to be dislodged by the combined efforts of the Tarleton twins.†   (source)
  • The lymers which had reared the boar—the proper word for dislodging—were allowed to pursue him to make them keen on their work.†   (source)
  • He had once got nearly as far as an announcement in the Morning Post, but the girl did not want to live in Pekin and he did not want to live at Tunbridge Wells, mutual reluctances which proved impossible to dislodge.†   (source)
  • Arthur, who had been playing with a loose stone which he had dislodged from one of the machicolations, got tired of thinking and leaned over with the stone in his hand.†   (source)
  • The Yankees couldn't dislodge Old Joe's men and they could hardly flank them now for the batteries on the mountain tops commanded all the roads for miles.†   (source)
  • The retreat from Dalton to Kennesaw Mountain had taken from early May to mid-June and as the hot rainy days of June passed and Sherman failed to dislodge the Confederates from the steep slippery slopes, hope again raised its head.†   (source)
  • He'll never dislodge Old Joe.†   (source)
  • The iron bars were a relic of the old regime, and no one had ever thought of dislodging them.†   (source)
  • III As for Tess Durbeyfield, she did not so easily dislodge the incident from her consideration.†   (source)
  • I shook my head and paused in the act of dislodging the shavings which had drifted down my neck.†   (source)
  • As he touched her, his gold pince-nez became dislodged and was flattened between them.†   (source)
  • What significance there was to her in the little girl's efforts to dislodge that heavy weapon!†   (source)
  • The stones he dislodged rolled down with strange, hollow crack and roar.†   (source)
  • The Iroquois nation cannot dislodge me from this fortress, so long as we can keep the flames off it.†   (source)
  • The French, who were masters of the chapel for a moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it.†   (source)
  • Like dislodged trucks, the heads of the harpooneers aloft shook on their bull-like necks.†   (source)
  • Baring had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword.†   (source)
  • Cranly dislodged a figseed from his teeth on the point of his rude toothpick and gazed at it intently.†   (source)
  • 15 The Man of the Island FROM the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony, a spout of gravel was dislodged and fell rattling and bounding through the trees.†   (source)
  • Mr. Marvel retorted incoherently and, receding, was hidden by a bend in the road, but the mariner still stood magnificent in the midst of the way, until the approach of a butcher's cart dislodged him.†   (source)
  • Never brushing a branch, never dislodging a stone, Hare descended the slope, his eyes keener, his ears sharper with every step.†   (source)
  • As Rosemary returned the gaze the man dislodged the monocle, which went into hiding amid the facetious whiskers of his chest, and poured himself a glass of something from a bottle in his hand.†   (source)
  • She brushed her nose with her paws, trying to dislodge the fiery darts, thrust it into the snow, and rubbed it against twigs and branches, and all the time leaping about, ahead, sidewise, up and down, in a frenzy of pain and fright.†   (source)
  • Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch.†   (source)
  • Caves indented its surface, and there were no detached ledges or weathered sections that might dislodge a stone.†   (source)
  • So it was he who in turn mounted the ladder, unhooking pictures and curtains, and dislodging ornaments as Edna directed.†   (source)
  • The rat was at last dislodged, and, amid the barking of dogs, masculine shouts, feminine screams, oaths, stampings, and confusion as of Pandemonium, Tess untied her last sheaf; the drum slowed, the whizzing ceased, and she stepped from the machine to the ground.†   (source)
  • The cliff-dwellers, driven by dreaded enemies to this last stand, had cunningly cut the rock until it balanced perfectly, ready to be dislodged by strong hands.†   (source)
  • The little dog retreated under the sofa on my approaching him, and was with great difficulty dislodged by the fire-irons.†   (source)
  • Then at last the English troops rushed from the post from which no enemy had been able to dislodge them, and the Guard turned and fled.†   (source)
  • Seven stood upright; the rest had been dislodged from their places, probably by the zeal of some convert to Christianity, and lay, some prostrate near their former site, and others on the side of the hill.†   (source)
  • "All the points of our position are in the enemy's hands and we cannot dislodge them for lack of troops, the men are running away and it is impossible to stop them," he reported.†   (source)
  • The unhappy state of his own affairs was the one idea which occupied the brain of Nicholas, walk as fast as he would; and when he tried to dislodge it by speculating on the situation and prospects of the people who surrounded him, he caught himself, in a few seconds, contrasting their condition with his own, and gliding almost imperceptibly back into his old train of thought again.†   (source)
  • "Well, Monsieur de Busigny, I will bet you," said Athos, "that my three companions, Messieurs Porthos, Aramis, and d'Artagnan, and myself, will go and breakfast in the bastion St. Gervais, and we will remain there an hour, by the watch, whatever the enemy may do to dislodge us."†   (source)
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