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  • Political upheaval ensued.†   (source)
  • The ensuing conversation seemed to go smoothly.†   (source)
  • How did he spend the ensuing minutes?†   (source)
  • Utter chaos ensued.†   (source)
  • Every time another nationality arrives in large numbers, turf wars ensue.†   (source)
  • Didn't we, in overstepping the bounds of reasonable parenting and ignoring Cassie's "right to privacy," ask for the troubles that ensued?†   (source)
  • A massive and highly publicized manhunt for the perpetrators ensued.†   (source)
  • The mysterious city of Sheshach was revealed as the city of Babel, and a frenzy of biblical examination ensued.†   (source)
  • Instantly, pandemonium ensued as everyone ran this way and that, shouting at one another.†   (source)
  • From the ensuing conversations I learned that getting drunk in a wheelchair came with its own hazards, including catheter disasters, falling down curbs, and being steered to the wrong home by other drunks.†   (source)
  • Amid the ensuing commotion, Spencer Lawton's voice could be heard calling out to the judge.†   (source)
  • A reasonable amount of cheating ensued; many people were merely whispering the incantation instead of saying it aloud.†   (source)
  • Her mastectomy and ensuing chemotherapy had left her weak and anxious.†   (source)
  • A charged silence ensues.†   (source)
  • He never raised his voice, but instead he let the noise surrounding it gradually sink so that his voice emerged in the ensuing silence without any emphasis on his part—"so that you were standing next to the river bank, watching Phineas climb the tree?" he was saying, and had waited, I knew, until this silence to say.†   (source)
  • And then the lecture would ensue.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wilcox nods, and silence ensues.†   (source)
  • A lull ensued.†   (source)
  • And if several million Irish pounds' worth of property damage happened to ensue, well, that was just a bonus.†   (source)
  • More laughter and cursing … A vehement argument ensued, and I heard Helen declare she was leaving.†   (source)
  • Father had planned a big old prayer meeting as a welcome ceremony, to prove that God had ensued us here and aimed to settle in.†   (source)
  • A wrestling match ensues.†   (source)
  • After another series there ensued a long argument—for them—about the difference between "G" and "Gem."†   (source)
  • A struggle ensued, which must have looked harmless until Cass somehow scraped one hard plastic edge across my temple and it began to bleed.†   (source)
  • The dream was too extravagant ever to be realized, and they were extremely reluctant to undertake its realization against the hampering and tampering, the interferences petty and great, which they felt were certain to ensue.†   (source)
  • (1916), about a momentary lapse of attention and the terrible act of violence that ensues.†   (source)
  • She knew she would soon be tipsy, probably too tipsy to hide it; bad decisions would ensue.†   (source)
  • When we ambushed some older boys--my brother, Jim, among them--who were playing cowboys up in the mountains, a great mock battle ensued until Tony, up in a tree for a better line of sight, stepped on a rotted branch and fell and broke his arm.†   (source)
  • The Buildings and Grounds people are worried about waste-disposal problems and the po. tential fire hazard that may ensue if large piles of billions and trillions begin to mount up.†   (source)
  • In practical terms, what had happened following the thumbectomy and ensuing bout of fever was obvious.†   (source)
  • Minor panic ensued.†   (source)
  • An argument ensued.†   (source)
  • Another silence ensued.†   (source)
  • In the chaos that ensued after Vellya Paapen's visit, nobody could remember when they had actually last seen the children.†   (source)
  • In the slightly awkward silence that ensued, Miss Kenton turned her gaze down into the depths of her cocoa cup as if she had become engrossed by something she had noticed there.†   (source)
  • So when your good and evil clashes with your neighbor's, fights and arguments ensue and even wars break out."†   (source)
  • He'd spotted it sticking out of one of the supply containers the night before and had practically knocked out some kid's tooth in the ensuing tussle.†   (source)
  • The previous one had been hard enough on him, and he had weakened markedly, dramatically, in the ensuing year.†   (source)
  • In the hush that ensued he would announce gravely that the Department of Agriculture—he had a letter—credited their fair island with producing America's Finest Strawberry, or that King George and Queen Elizabeth, on a recent visit to the city of Vancouver, had been served San Piedro's Best for breakfast.†   (source)
  • And so, irrespective of the reason, decency on this occasion won out, and bravery, for courage is demanded not to attack when afraid, and the electricity and water came on again, and negotiations ensued, and word spread, and among the cherry trees on Palace Gardens Terrace Saeed and Nadia and their neighbors celebrated, they celebrated lung into the night.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing silence, he heard his own heart thumping like a fist against steel.†   (source)
  • Within minutes an argument ensued in the living area that was as audible to me as if the separating walls were muslin sheets.†   (source)
  • Epidemics of the illness usually occur after social upheavals, in the ensuing overcrowding, poor hygiene, and malnutrition.†   (source)
  • A shambles ensued: people on both sides of the bridge hurried to try to help; the risk of fire was significant and a major alarm was sounded.†   (source)
  • Of course, it would have been much easier to justify if I weren't burdened by the guilt of keeping the break-in and ensuing police visit from her.†   (source)
  • The ensuing silence lasted for only an instant before King Orrin, Jormundur, and everyone else filled the pavilion with their overlapping exclamations.†   (source)
  • When he came home a fight ensued, and my father, after a violent struggle, threw the sailors out & proceeded to beat my mother.†   (source)
  • Mahtob and I pushed the halves of the lumpy couch together and spent the ensuing hours partly in prayer and partly in tossing and turning.†   (source)
  • The children fought with sticks and stones, and mass chaos ensued, with hundreds of children wounded, and two white men stoned to death.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing silence, you could hear a tear drop.†   (source)
  • The long silence that ensued left no mistake about her disappointment.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing silence the mother heard the drone of a distant lawnmower.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing weeks, his anger at the driver eventually gave way to plans of revenge that went unfulfilled, simply because his sorrow rendered him incapable of any action whatsoever.†   (source)
  • I must say I was rather anxious during the ensuing weeks and very relieved when the first day of the next month rolled around.†   (source)
  • The behavior that ensued, which was witnessed by several investigators, was remarkable.†   (source)
  • As soon as Aro gave the order, the blitz would ensue, me the only object.†   (source)
  • The silence that ensued was as long as it was awkward.†   (source)
  • He knew that if he did utter it a terrible amount of ribbing would ensue, and while he didn't mind being ribbed about most things, his feeling for Lorena was too serious to admit frivolity.†   (source)
  • Chaos ensues.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing months, its pell-mell assembly into a combat-ready force drew on all the energies and know-how of American industrialization.†   (source)
  • The purchase of provisions fell almost to nothing throughout the district in the ensuing weeks; but as Bilbo's catering had depleted the stocks of most stores, cellars and warehouses for miles around, that did not matter much.†   (source)
  • It was not the battle ensuing that worried him, but the one still to come.†   (source)
  • Because of the ensuing chaos, they were unable to give her a proper funeral, as she would have wished, and were forced to bury her in a hurry, without speeches or tears.†   (source)
  • He thinks about that exchange-about how Grillo seemed to offer a free man's choice and how he opted for the responsible course-a thousand times over the ensuing month.†   (source)
  • I didn't like the thoughts that crept into my head while my body was at rest: imagined scenes of my father waking to find me gone from our rooms on Cairn holm, Emma's baffling letter in my place; the panic that would ensue.†   (source)
  • The interpreter was recalled and a long quarrel ensued.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing vacuum of silence, I hear the high-pitched humming of the stars and I feel exultant, thankful for my insignificant place in the galaxy.†   (source)
  • He told Macklroy about the mutation and ensuing devastation in one long run-on sentence.†   (source)
  • But even a transplant wasn't a miracle: most recipients could only tolerate a heart for ten or fifteen years before complications ensued, or there was outright rejection.†   (source)
  • Danny found his father's deliberate mistake easily, and I was able to follow the ensuing Talmudic discussion without too much difficulty, though I did not join in.†   (source)
  • A huge standing ovation ensued.†   (source)
  • What ensued was a frank discussion about the lures and perils of drugs, well worth any discomfort.†   (source)
  • IT WAS IN THE COMMONS that the longer, more turbulent conflict ensued.†   (source)
  • But whereas most of these things were abstract or inanimate or simply unaware of her dislike, from these, her only grandchildren, she derived a much more gratifying return and set about making their stay, over the ensuing months, as miserable as possible.†   (source)
  • The inevitable emotional implosion that would ensue when this woman and child proved not to be Michelle and Nina would be like taking a hammer to his own heart.†   (source)
  • A brief but furious struggle ensued before the dog came trotting back, wet and mud-spattered, with the crab between his jaws.†   (source)
  • The Shaper's assistant, cradling the old man's polished harp, sings of Hoc and Hildeburh and Hnaef and Hengest, how Finn's thanes fought with his wife's dear kinsmen and killed King Hnaef, and a terrible thing ensued.†   (source)
  • Max found the ensuing silence unbearable.†   (source)
  • They scored a touchdown, and we tried to put together a drive after taking the ensuing kickoff but ended up having to punt.†   (source)
  • He grabbed it back, and a tussle ensued.†   (source)
  • An ensuing guerrilla war against the United States by Castro's supporters might benefit the Soviet Union by allowing it to establish a military presence in the Western Hemisphere to aid the Cuban dictator.†   (source)
  • A delicious fuss ensues with much political huffing and posturing, all hilarious in the 1960s, when Mexican immigration was slight compared with today's numbers.†   (source)
  • A long sea chase ensued, with Charlestonians, armed with harpoons, taking to the river in tugs and smaller boats to engage the disoriented mammal.†   (source)
  • A fierce battle ensues.†   (source)
  • During the ensuing journey they perpetrated torture upon Ruiz and Montes, including regular beatings and deprivation of food and water.†   (source)
  • The ensuing silence was scary, scarier than his yelling.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing quiet I already sensed that cold pitch of gravity and dissolve, as though something was dying in a corner of the room, invisibly and wordlessly.†   (source)
  • Determined killers avoided taking the wrong life, not from compassion but for practicality; in any ensuing panic the real target might escape.†   (source)
  • Only the fact that there are three glasses sitting on it, including Baz's two empty ones, keeps disaster from ensuing.†   (source)
  • The ensuing bursts of power had hurtled Errtu back to the Abyss, and the demon had presumed the shard destroyed.†   (source)
  • An argument ensued, and I ended up throwing the man and woman across the bar, injuring both of them pretty badly.†   (source)
  • A silence ensued.†   (source)
  • But by some old, standing arrangement with her psyche, she elected to feel guilty for having seen it, caught it, and sentenced herself to listen to Lane's ensuing conversation with a special semblance of absorption.†   (source)
  • It was one of these problems which was directly responsible for the dramatic and unexpected encounter which took place between my grandmother and the catfish during the small hours of the ensuing night.†   (source)
  • Also, one grabby little boy had, in an ensuing ruckus, lost some teeth.†   (source)
  • The struggle that ensued had been brief enough; it was over by May, 1923, some seven months before Yeats sailed to Stockholm, but it was bloody, savage and intimate, and for generations to come it would dictate the terms of politics within the twenty-six independent counties of Ireland, that part of the island known first of all as the Irish Free State and then subsequently as the Republic of Ireland.†   (source)
  • ALAN rises and stands directly behind him, but on the circle, as if recording the ensuing speech.†   (source)
  • What is so heartrending about the letter is your great-grandfather's account of the aftermath of this episode, and the ensuing grief and guilt which so often, I have noticed, attends stories about slavery.†   (source)
  • They occasioned mild scandal when the news spread, but there was no taint or disgrace if a man "did the right thing" and a marriage ensued.†   (source)
  • If they were to be exposed to an advanced technology at this point, the wars which would ensue would result in the destruction of the beginnings they have already made.†   (source)
  • She waited with sympathy and amusement, and with habituated dread of his fury and of the profanity she was sure would ensue, spoken or unspoken.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing struggle at the conclusion of the services, the woman, who was a member of the choir, is believed to have received fatal ice-pick injuries to a vital organ, then to have wrested the weapon from her assailant and paid him back in kind.†   (source)
  • Negotiation ensued, at the end of which Abdullah agreed to trade his shoes for the feather.†   (source)
  • What shall I tell you, Mr. Markos, of the years that ensued?†   (source)
  • The uproar that had ensued sounded alarmingly like what she now heard coming from the barn.†   (source)
  • Then Rob, who was bringing up the rear, caught up to Doug, and a brief conversation ensued.†   (source)
  • Someone spotted a mess hall, and a charge ensued.†   (source)
  • Days of darkness ensue, the switches dead, the grid empty.†   (source)
  • Each time she placed a broad padded foot where his fingers touched the tread, and silence ensued.†   (source)
  • The conversation that ensued was anguished and halting.†   (source)
  • A brief smile from Big Sims, a reflex smile minus the ensuing brightness of eye.†   (source)
  • The rivers of whiskey caught fire and inferno ensued.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing quiet, Stephanie began to slow the boat and Travis sat up straighter.†   (source)
  • She laughed, and in the ensuing silence, she glanced at him.†   (source)
  • But it was Mr. McDaniels who broke the ensuing silence.†   (source)
  • At that point a certain amount of palavering ensued.†   (source)
  • The ensuing silence was almost unbearable.†   (source)
  • A brief conversation in Arabic ensued, and when he was finished, he smiled apologetically.†   (source)
  • I answered "Gould," and a raging debate ensued.†   (source)
  • Richter muttered, breaking the ensuing silence.†   (source)
  • "Be still, woman!" commanded Jeod, and silence ensued.†   (source)
  • A duel ensued, though in view of the prince's youth and high birth, it was only to first blood.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing months his philosophy and religion were, as Adams said, "brought to trial."†   (source)
  • But soon finding their mistake [wrote an eyewitness] a general scene of confusion ensued.†   (source)
  • A flutter of hellos and apologies ensued.†   (source)
  • There's no telling what kind of chaos will ensue.†   (source)
  • Factions developed and bloody power struggles ensued.†   (source)
  • An awkward silence ensued and Max fidgeted.†   (source)
  • "Then you ought to do so," she said, somewhat harshly, her voice ringing in the ensuing silence.†   (source)
  • Armed forces will be stationed to ensure that the process ensues in as orderly a manner as possible.†   (source)
  • Chuck Lindberg remembered that he and his comrades spent the ensuing hour securing the mountain.†   (source)
  • Cooper blinked at the ensuing, unseen chirp.†   (source)
  • A brief standoff ensued before he was allowed to proceed.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing quiet, I felt guilt and shame wash over me.†   (source)
  • He died in the ensuing crash; but so did the two men.†   (source)
  • If their timing was off by even a few seconds, disaster would ensue.†   (source)
  • A legal battle ensued regarding the disposition of the slaves and the right of salvage.†   (source)
  • Silence ensued, and the two sat while the waves lapped at the beach below.†   (source)
  • THE PROBATIONER BROKE the ensuing silence.†   (source)
  • Ignoring the smee's ensuing acrobatics, David set his pack upon the table and pulled out Ms.†   (source)
  • A brief argument ensued among the four men over who would have the honor of removing her head.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing years, memory had changed the event from mysterious to mystical.†   (source)
  • Another prolonged delay ensued before the locks opened with an inhospitable snap.†   (source)
  • The ensuing arrows flew with considerably less uniformity and precision than previous volleys.†   (source)
  • The ensuing negotiations were swift and exceedingly expensive.†   (source)
  • A long silence ensued while the ambassador circled slowly about the palanquin.†   (source)
  • During the ensuing, the horses leave by all three openings.†   (source)
  • Conveniently, the ensuing chaos had enabled him to slip out without opposition, powering his limousine past a distracted gate guard who was busy yelling into a telephone.†   (source)
  • The ensuing hue and cry persuaded Nepal, in the spring of 1996, to abruptly cancel the four-expedition limit.†   (source)
  • A silence ensued.†   (source)
  • From the ensuing silence, he could tell that she had found her spool, licked her thread, and was carefully directing it through the eye of the needle.†   (source)
  • He spent his days lamenting his inability to foresee the revolution and the ensuing economic collapse.†   (source)
  • The confusion that ensued when I explained to my stepfather that I expected to deliver the baby in three weeks, more or less, was reminiscent of a Molière comedy.†   (source)
  • A worried silence ensued.†   (source)
  • The blind assassin plans to escape in the ensuing confusion, returning later to claim the other half of his generous fee.†   (source)
  • Laila nodded Another silence ensued Upstairs, Zalmai had begun bouncing his ball again against the wall.†   (source)
  • The ensuing march and demonstration — called the Chicano Moratorium Against The War — became the largest anti-war rally ever held in a minority community.†   (source)
  • You are hereby warned that any movement on your part not explicitly endorsed by verbal authorization on my part may pose a direct physical risk to you, as well as consequential psychological and possibly, depending on your personal belief system, spiritual risks ensuing from your personal reaction to said physical risk.†   (source)
  • Harry seized the door and pushed it open, hard; Zabini, still clinging on to the handle, toppled over sideways into Gregory Goyle's lap, and in the ensuing ruckus, Harry darted into the compartment, leapt onto Zabini's temporarily empty seat, and hoisted himself up into the luggage rack.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing silence, the babble of the crowd and the clink of glasses rose to a roar, as if a gust of wind had swept through the room.†   (source)
  • He should not have said it because then I said, "I love you," and he said, "Oh, Ginny," and what I heard in his voice was pure, clear remorse that resonated in the ensuing silence like the note of a bell and told me all I needed to know about every question that lingered from earlier in the summer.†   (source)
  • A long chat ensues.†   (source)
  • A round of haggling ensued, at the end of which Rasheed said to Aziza contentiously, as if it were she who'd haggled him, "Give it back.†   (source)
  • Along the way, we tasted garlic ice cream, date shakes, and cherry slushies, and other foods that we no longer remember, although we do recall the ensuing scrambles to the drugstore for Rolaids.†   (source)
  • As such, what was most likely to ensue was a scrum for the head, animated by accusations, recriminations, fisticuffs, and possibly gunfire.†   (source)
  • The ensuing furor, especially in the wake of the suit over Mrs. Huidobro's wrongful death, has resulted in a call for greater cooperation between federal agencies.†   (source)
  • At the station, a mad rush to haul my luggage out ensued, and I nearly didn't make it, hopping off the train just as the doors whooshed shut behind me.†   (source)
  • Much heel-clicking and saluting ensues.†   (source)
  • Iwalked out and looked back through the window as an intense argument ensued between Barn Barn and Alfredo, with Blanca and Mrs. Baez trying to work out some solution.†   (source)
  • The Temple won't want the story of their escape to become general knowledge — it would lead to loss of face, and riots might ensue.†   (source)
  • The conversation that ensued, on the surviving section of the veranda over cups of green tea, was in Farsi—I have, as you know, Mr. Markos, learned some English in the seven years since, largely thanks to your guidance and generosity.†   (source)
  • According to Owen, during the ensuing confrontation he asked Woodall point-blank if Deysel's name was on the permit.†   (source)
  • "Without question," concluded the Count, "summer is now at the gates and the days that ensue are sure to be long and carefree…."†   (source)
  • The ensuing silence was endless.†   (source)
  • In the scramble that ensued, it took three waiters to separate the various hands from the various lapels, and two busboys to sweep the chicken Marechal from the floor.†   (source)
  • Another obscure exchange ensued.†   (source)
  • Fairly or unfairly, to her derogators Pittman epitomized all that was reprehensible about Dick Bass's Popularization of the Seven Summits and the ensuing debasement of the world's highest mountain.†   (source)
  • Chaos ensued.†   (source)
  • A brief, amused conversation in Ukrainian ensued between him and my new friend which ended with her putting my glasses on my face and departing, but not before bumming a cigarette from Boris and kissing him on the cheek.†   (source)
  • In the moment that ensued, the old Greek returned the Count's gaze with an expression of moderate curiosity—which was to be expected, perhaps, given that they had never met on a matter of business.†   (source)
  • An hour later we arrived atop the Yellow Band, and a bottleneck ensued as each climber cautiously descended the vertical limestone cliff.†   (source)
  • A brief discussion ensued.†   (source)
  • The Count was something of a natural-born host and in the hour that ensued, as he topped a glass here and sparked a conversation there, he had an instinctive awareness of all the temperaments in the room.†   (source)
  • Seeing Adams on the quarterdeck, he quickly explained the situation and, with Adams in agreement on a decision to attack, respectfully suggested that Adams go below, as "hot work" was to ensue.†   (source)
  • It was hard to feel sensual when you didn't feel attractive, and the ensuing three years without a date only served to underscore her feeling of inadequacy.†   (source)
  • A brief silence ensued.†   (source)
  • A brief discussion ensued between Baldor, Delwin, and Brigman, of which Roran heard but a few scattered words.†   (source)
  • The familiar cycle would start again, the whirlpool of nightmares and waking visions and sleeplessness to avoid nightmares and ensuing exhaustion that seemed to leave him still more vulnerable to nightmares.†   (source)
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