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  • Each hour had brought a new horror: the second tower collapsing, news that a plane had crashed into the Pentagon, outside Washington, D.C., and that another plane had been heading for the Capitol or the White House, but had crashed in Pennsylvania… There was the moment when they found out about Mark.†   (source)
  • Booth crossed the Capitol grounds, racing under the shadow of the great dome.†   (source)
  • Its center was an octagon topped by a dome that rose 275 feet from floor to peak, higher than the dome of the U.S. Capitol.†   (source)
  • It was said that the governor was on his way from the capitol in an executive helicopter.†   (source)
  • The U.S. Capitol was a half hour away, and he appreciated the time alone to gather his thoughts.†   (source)
  • Even in the rain he could make out the landmarks, looking surprisingly the way the books had pictured them—the Lee Mansion high on the hill, the bridge, and twice around the circle, so he could get a good look at Abraham Lincoln looking out across the city, the White House and the Monument and at the other end the Capitol.†   (source)
  • Some say three, others five, and in Felior's Fall there are a full thirteen of them: one for each pontifet in Atur, and an extra for the capitol."†   (source)
  • The hijackers who had seized the flight were believed to be heading for Washington, D.C., to crash the plane into the White House or the Capitol, and the passengers who rushed the cockpit almost certainly saved countless lives on the ground.†   (source)
  • At noon, the governor of New Hampshire held a press conference on the steps of the Capitol building in Concord.†   (source)
  • The main space was one huge chamber with a circular rotunda, sort of like a capitol building back in the States.†   (source)
  • On a fall day, when a western wind clears the air, from the upper floors of the office buildings in Reston you can see the creamy spike of the Washington Monument, sitting in the middle of the Mall, and beyond it the Capitol dome.†   (source)
  • The woman drove them past downtown Atlanta, with its gaudy skyscrapers and gleaming gold-domed capitol building, to their new home, a two-bedroom dwelling in Clarkston's Wyncrest apartments.†   (source)
  • Maybe a year or two after you were taken, some Psi kids nearly succeeded in blowing up the Capitol.†   (source)
  • On our senior trip we went to the state capitol, which is at Frankfort.†   (source)
  • Almost four weeks later, Miss Hastings and I returned from a successful trip to the Texas state capitol in Austin.†   (source)
  • He had the virtues of age—he wouldn't be around that long—and of friends on Capitol Hill.†   (source)
  • A big gathering of Yucca Mountain protesters was expected at the capitol the following week, when Department of Energy representatives met with the governor.†   (source)
  • There were hearings on Capitol Hill and some guys lost their stars.†   (source)
  • By the time Mortenson landed in her office on Capitol Hill, Bono had overwhelmingly won reelection and the respect of her peers on both sides of the aisle.†   (source)
  • The moment passed, and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn swept the boys toward a luncheon in their honor at the Capitol.†   (source)
  • They spent their remaining free time in Washington, D.C., exploring museums, attending the theater, and walking among the monuments located at the Capitol Mall.†   (source)
  • The Capitol, she was told.†   (source)
  • A few hours later in the mid-morning, she went to an abortion clinic near Capitol Hill, trying her best to stick with her plan to focus on how she was doing this for him, for their relationship.†   (source)
  • Everybody was on their way to the movies—the Paramount or the Astor or the Strand or the Capitol or one of those crazy places.†   (source)
  • Wade Lanier's favorite lunch spot was Hal & Mal's, an old Jackson haunt a few blocks from the state capitol and a ten-minute walk from his office on State Street.†   (source)
  • The president had stood on the steps of the Capitol and declared their victory to the world.†   (source)
  • In Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. returned from Washington, DC, where he'd been received by Vice President Richard Nixon in the nation's Capitol, even though in his own state capitol he couldn't drink from the same water fountain as a white janitor.†   (source)
  • A Loyalist newspaper in New York had already set the scene in a report published the day before : It is said by some persons who have lately seen the rebel forces that they are the most pitiable collection of ragged, dispirited mortals that ever pretended to the name of an army …. and that if the weather continues fair but a little longer, there is no visible impediment to His Majesty's troops in completing a march to the capitol of Pennsylvania.†   (source)
  • "Could you tell me why you've spent so much time and effort, and a considerable amount of your own capitol, on this project—one detractors say will never fly?"†   (source)
  • The first to plunge into flames, the sound of its detonation delayed only by milliseconds, was the wooden duplicate of the Capitol dome; it blew into the yellowed sky like the thin, hollow replica it was.†   (source)
  • In Washington, anyone on Capitol Hill or in the Pentagon who had even a shred of information was leaking it.†   (source)
  • The sun now shines on the Capitol Building, but a brutal wind strafes the crowd.†   (source)
  • One of Ohio's leading papers is the Columbus Dispatch, whose offices are located across the street from the state capitol and one of the most eloquent war memorials in the country.†   (source)
  • A Maryland-born officer in Longstreet's corps, a grandson of the architect Benjamin Latrobe (who helped design the United States Capitol and the White House), directed the artillery fire of ten Confederate guns on Marye's Heights at the battle of Fredericksburg.†   (source)
  • They are difficult to learn outside the federal capitol, where representatives of the entire nation bring knowledge of them.†   (source)
  • On Capitol Hill, members of both political parties called for the secretary of homeland security to resign, along with the commissioner of customs and border protection.†   (source)
  • The round in D.C. looks to have landed more or less on the Capitol.†   (source)
  • From what I heard, he wasn't glued to the white capitol building just to be courted by three-piece suits, briefcases and big money.†   (source)
  • Oedipa wasn't sure what exactly was supposed to be on top of the Capitol, but knew it wasn't anything like that.†   (source)
  • I want you to see the White House, the Capitol, the Washington Monument.†   (source)
  • JACKSON'S Carnegie Library was on the same street where our house was, on the other side of the State Capitol.†   (source)
  • The boys over at the state capitol are getting worried about how things are going.†   (source)
  • Not going to my grandmother's side of the road was an impossibility, and my mother acknowledged it, and went frequently herself in calmer moments, for Ida Rebecca's house was the capitol of Morrisonville.†   (source)
  • Before long, each child glistened with cheap baubles, three or four necklaces, plastic Washington Monuments, and Capitols of fake bronze.†   (source)
  • To the old man, all that stirred was special--the geese flying over the capitol building, for instance.†   (source)
  • Every year on Confederate Memorial Day, he was bundled up and lent to the Capitol City Museum where he was displayed from one to four in a musty room full of old photographs, old uniforms, old artillery, and historic documents.†   (source)
  • For of the three statements quoted above, the first was made in the twentieth century, the second in the nineteenth and the third in the eighteenth (when the first Senate, barely underway, was debating where the Capitol should be located).†   (source)
  • She was the target of harsh criticism on Capitol Hill.
  • The Capitol Visitor's Center cost over $600 million.
    capitol = main building (or buildings) of government
  • In the exhibit-room were plans of the new suburbs of Sparta, pictures of the new state capitol, at Galop de Vache, and large ears of corn with the label, "Nature's Gold, from Shelby County, the Garden Spot of God's Own Country."   (source)
    capitol = the main building (or buildings) of government
  • Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him—we bring him back to Rome, and present him to his holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; then we merely ask for a carriage and a pair of horses, and we see the Carnival in the carriage, and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the Capitol, and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of their country.   (source)
  • Ten minutes afterwards the baron entered his apartment, and Peppino stationed himself on the bench outside the door of the hotel, after having whispered something in the ear of one of the descendants of Marius and the Gracchi whom we noticed at the beginning of the chapter, who immediately ran down the road leading to the Capitol at his fullest speed.   (source)
  • "If I'm not mistaken, that sounds like a familiar numbering system here in the Capitol Building."†   (source)
  • All I had to do was get to the Capitol building, explain who I was, who my wife's family was.†   (source)
  • I only ever tasted them once, in the Capitol, and I couldn't get around the sliminess.†   (source)
  • The very dish I told Caesar Flickerman was the most impressive thing the Capitol had to offer.†   (source)
  • Closer to the Capitol, Alexander Gardner set up his camera to photograph the inauguration.†   (source)
  • He laid the cornerstone for the United States Capitol on September 18, 1793.†   (source)
  • The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans.†   (source)
  • They had come to his farm to arrest him and take him to the Old Capitol Prison.†   (source)
  • Then right along the Mall and up to the Capitol building.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon and Katherine Solomon were on their way to the Capitol.†   (source)
  • And I know I have to get him back to the Capitol.†   (source)
  • And to think this is the image at the center of our Capitol.†   (source)
  • They're funny birds and something of a slap in the face to the Capitol.†   (source)
  • The Capitol seal is back with a final bit of music and then the sky goes dark except for the moon.†   (source)
  • There was no sense in going to the Capitol.†   (source)
  • But you see, we knew if we were married in the Capitol, there wouldn't be a toasting.†   (source)
  • They'd had that Capitol look about them.†   (source)
  • The SBB was a section of the Capitol that few ever visited.†   (source)
  • I can send one of the Capitol people to help you.†   (source)
  • The tolling of a clock began echoing through the Capitol corridors.†   (source)
  • The idea that Thirteen has somehow rebounded and the Capitol is ignoring it?†   (source)
  • So, Katniss, the Capitol must be quite a change from District Twelve.†   (source)
  • The arrival of the Capitol attendant with the warm milk is what breaks us apart.†   (source)
  • He told Solomon about the Capitol Building subbasement.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, the object on the Capitol floor was odd, but its presence hardly warranted screaming.†   (source)
  • Poaching, trading on the black market, mocking the Capitol in the woods.†   (source)
  • It's about the Capitol and the Gamemakers and the audience.†   (source)
  • Apparently, in the Capitol, there were opportunities to vote for your favorites at each stage.†   (source)
  • Peter has a private room in the basement of the Capitol?†   (source)
  • Long ago, when the Games began, the Capitol had built a dozen fine houses in each district.†   (source)
  • District 1 makes luxury items for the Capitol.†   (source)
  • The Capitol's massive footprint measures more than 750 feet in length and 350 feet deep.†   (source)
  • She has no shortage of admirers in the Capitol.†   (source)
  • The sort of thing grooms wear to get married in, here in the Capitol.†   (source)
  • Particularly the decadent dishes served in the Capitol.†   (source)
  • In fifteen years on security detail for the Capitol Building, he had seen some strange things.†   (source)
  • She is just a malnourished, injured girl fleeing the Capitol.†   (source)
  • Well, if I end up going to the Capitol, I want to look nice, don't I?†   (source)
  • Langdon had never met the Architect of the Capitol, but he certainly knew the man's name.†   (source)
  • It's easy to hear, blasted around the Capitol.†   (source)
  • And here in the Capitol they're vomiting for the pleasure of filling their bellies again and again.†   (source)
  • The shining dome of the U.S. Capitol rose like a mountain at the east end of the National Mall.†   (source)
  • In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies.†   (source)
  • I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.†   (source)
  • Now he was standing in the U.S. Capitol, feeling certain of only one thing.†   (source)
  • The Capitol Visitor Center had been a costly and controversial project.†   (source)
  • Is it for the benefit of those in the Capitol?†   (source)
  • We'll need strong anti-infection drugs from the Capitol.†   (source)
  • Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena.†   (source)
  • A holiday for the whole district with free food and entertainers brought in from the Capitol.†   (source)
  • They arrived at the corner of Third Street and East Capitol.†   (source)
  • And by doing so made it clear I was, in fact, mocking the Capitol.†   (source)
  • "U.S. Capitol!" dozens of voices called out in unison.†   (source)
  • As opposed to what I did out of anger at the Capitol.†   (source)
  • While we eat, we watch the latest Capitol news coverage.†   (source)
  • I'm in a tunnel under the U.S. Capitol."†   (source)
  • A Capitol attendant rushes to help, but Haymitch waves her away good-naturedly as he staggers off.†   (source)
  • The Capitol seal is back with a final musical flourish.†   (source)
  • As I drift off, I try to imagine that world, somewhere in the future, with no Games, no Capitol.†   (source)
  • He made almost no impression on me at all during our time in the Capitol.†   (source)
  • SBB13 appeared to be a numbered doorway somewhere in the bowels of the U.S. Capitol Building.†   (source)
  • Didn't I want to kill Peeta with that syringe to save him from the Capitol?†   (source)
  • These guys looked nothing like the Capitol Police.†   (source)
  • Every Capitol television is automatically activated for it.†   (source)
  • Flaunted the moment with the berries in the Capitol's face?†   (source)
  • So many, so clearly acting in defiance of the Capitol.†   (source)
  • And to entertain the people in the Capitol, of course.†   (source)
  • He was standing on a tiny skywalk that encircled the pinnacle of the U.S. Capitol Dome.†   (source)
  • This woman was the embodiment of Capitol shallowness.†   (source)
  • With the Capitol growing farther away every second, I begin to think of home.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, so was a Capitol police officer.†   (source)
  • So now the Capitol will act as if they've been in control the whole time.†   (source)
  • After I won, the Capitol repaired my ear, but I still find myself testing it.†   (source)
  • Some were part of the Capitol's air force.†   (source)
  • I went to the Capitol at once, arriving before you because I was closer.†   (source)
  • The sky brightens when the seal of the Capitol appears as if floating in space.†   (source)
  • And as for the citizens of the Capitol, well, they can't stop talking about you.†   (source)
  • District Twelve and District Two have no fight except the one the Capitol gave us.†   (source)
  • However much President Snow may hate me, this Capitol audience is mine.†   (source)
  • "On the contrary, in the Capitol you'd be considered stupid not to do it," says Messalla.†   (source)
  • The luminous dome of the U.S. Capitol glowed with solemn power against the dark winter sky.†   (source)
  • That I let the Capitol kill the boy and mutilate her without lifting a finger.†   (source)
  • So it's simple, frugal by the Capitol's standards.†   (source)
  • It's one of the high-speed Capitol models that average 250 miles per hour.†   (source)
  • By the time we reach the Capitol, we are desperate.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh had just received an urgent message from the Capitol Building.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, but…I mean, for the Capitol, you're pure," he says, clearly trying to mollify me.†   (source)
  • It's the Capitol's way of reminding people that the Hunger Games never really go away.†   (source)
  • It is Finnick's salacious and gory account of the Capitol that takes the day.†   (source)
  • For the last twenty-five years, Bellamy had served as the supervisor of the U.S. Capitol.†   (source)
  • Deep inside the Capitol Building, Architect Warren Bellamy was walking down a deserted hallway.†   (source)
  • Not Seam, not 13, definitely not Capitol.†   (source)
  • The seal of the Capitol shines above me and the anthem blares out.†   (source)
  • The Capitol viewers will be glued to their sets so they don't miss one wretched word.†   (source)
  • You've survived the Capitol bombing of Thirteen.†   (source)
  • Bellamy knew he could not be more than a block or two from the Capitol Building.†   (source)
  • The point is that two of us are coming home from the Capitol.†   (source)
  • The mountains form a natural barrier between the Capitol and the eastern districts.†   (source)
  • For all Anderson knew, they had a direct feed of U.S. Capitol security cameras.†   (source)
  • It's mostly a lot of blather about what we owe the Capitol.†   (source)
  • The first call I make when I get home is to the Capitol," says Haymitch.†   (source)
  • But if this was the case, why didn't the Capitol fire on the enemy?†   (source)
  • He's my friend, and this is my way to defy the Capitol, to subvert its terrible Games.†   (source)
  • As I gorge myself, I watch the sun rise over the Capitol.†   (source)
  • The Capitol reinforced these and set about making the mountain their new military base.†   (source)
  • The Capitol Visitor Center was not at all what he had expected.†   (source)
  • You won't be going to the Capitol," says Gale coolly.†   (source)
  • Understandably, you then raced to the Capitol.†   (source)
  • President Snow once admitted to me that the Capitol was fragile.†   (source)
  • Scarred, as mine were before the Capitol erased all marks from my skin, but strong and deft.†   (source)
  • I open the parachute and find a small loaf of bread It's not the fine white Capitol stuff.†   (source)
  • The Capitol seal's back up, accompanied by a flat audio tone.†   (source)
  • To make them realize that while we're vulnerable to the Capitol's cruelties, they are as well.†   (source)
  • Then, of course, the rebels fed the Capitol endless lies, and the joke was on it.†   (source)
  • That the Capitol falls, lays down its arms, and gives up its prisoners before they hurt Gale.†   (source)
  • Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a million years.†   (source)
  • But the Capitol won't let him forget it this year.†   (source)
  • They do surgery in the Capitol, to make people appear younger and thinner.†   (source)
  • Especially now that the Capitol knows what she can do," says Coin.†   (source)
  • He'll be incoherent by the time we reach the Capitol.†   (source)
  • It's not that the Capitol couldn't have the same weapon, it's just that I'm sure the rebels did.†   (source)
  • Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?†   (source)
  • Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation.†   (source)
  • Especially when every emotion I have has been taken and exploited by the Capitol or the rebels.†   (source)
  • Effie's the only reason we got anywhere on time in the Capitol, so I try to accommodate her.†   (source)
  • I'm in the same clothes I left the Capitol in.†   (source)
  • After that, it won't be long before the Capitol begins gearing up for the Quarter Quell.†   (source)
  • I realize we must be in the tunnel that runs up through the mountains into the Capitol.†   (source)
  • He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol.†   (source)
  • "Go right in," says the Capitol man, who has followed me down the hallway.†   (source)
  • "Sorry!" she pipes in her silly Capitol accent.†   (source)
  • Aurelius wouldn't let me leave the Capitol until yesterday," Peeta says.†   (source)
  • A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules.†   (source)
  • Then has a funny anecdote about the perils of the Capitol showers.†   (source)
  • Are there Capitol hoverplanes speeding in to blow us out of the sky?†   (source)
  • The betting must be getting really hot in the Capitol.†   (source)
  • I saw all these things and more on the people in the Capitol.†   (source)
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