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  • "You know I do," she conceded.†   (source)
  • Three fights and four innings later, I conceded that the experiment wasn't working out.†   (source)
  • In the new rules, no one concedes.†   (source)
  • After initially denying any direct involvement in the Pittman murder, Myers conceded that he may have played some accidental role but quickly put the blame for the murder itself on more interesting local figures.†   (source)
  • "It is very warm for chicken," Mum conceded.†   (source)
  • She pictured herself living there, in Kabul, at the other end of that unimaginable distance, living in a stranger's house where she would have to concede to his moods and his issued demands.†   (source)
  • Taking care of accounts was one territory that Mother conceded to me.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Stevens concedes that the chair has been moved, but she denies that the pouch has been moved.†   (source)
  • The bear waited calmly as if part of the landscape, like a tree or a boulder, not conceding one inch of space.†   (source)
  • "Okay, let's try it on," I conceded with a sigh.†   (source)
  • Angelina kept them at it for nearly an hour before conceding defeat.†   (source)
  • 'Sometimes,' Drew conceded.†   (source)
  • Grandmother had her doubts about the radio, although she conceded that the modern world moved at such a pace that keeping up with it defied the written word; listening, after all, required some effort, and the language one heard on the radio was not much worse than the language one increasingly stumbled over in newspapers and magazines.†   (source)
  • She conceded a smile and hurled a knife into the target.†   (source)
  • After months of incessant pleas from Six and me, Karen finally conceded and allowed me to enroll for my senior year.†   (source)
  • Now, wolf girl, if you can put a name to me as well, then I must concede that you are truly our Hand's daughter.†   (source)
  • We concede.†   (source)
  • Under the influence not I know of the hardest cider but of his own inner joy at life for a moment as it should be, as it was meant to be in his nature, Phineas recaptured that magic gift for existing primarily in space, one foot conceding briefly to gravity its rights before spinning him off again into the air.†   (source)
  • Maven finally concedes and slips out the door.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, okay," Nyssa conceded.†   (source)
  • Everything was conceded in the question, and Lola tried to ruffle his sticky hair.†   (source)
  • Such a thing, after a hurricane, when most of the city had been evacuated, was worthy of investigation, he conceded.†   (source)
  • "Yes," her husband conceded harshly.†   (source)
  • At first Ray's absence from school had been seen as evidence of his guilt, but once the police were presented with a list of forty-five attendees who had seen Ray speak at "Suburbia: The American Experience," they had to concede his innocence.†   (source)
  • He conceded a short laugh and pushed his hair back from his face.†   (source)
  • She was prepared to concede that Americans existed, though she'd never seen one.†   (source)
  • ELIZABETH, "conceding": I think you be somewhat ashamed, for I am there, and she so close.†   (source)
  • 'Point taken,' conceded the commander.†   (source)
  • Conceding the point—the restaurant was packed—he sat down.†   (source)
  • Schwartz concedes that his idea has virtually no chance of being accepted.†   (source)
  • However, I must concede it was a masterful move on Coin's part.†   (source)
  • I suppose I'll be like that one day, too," Kim concedes.†   (source)
  • Amy was conceding Carthage, finally forgiving me for moving back here.†   (source)
  • Eragon reluctantly conceded that Roran made sense.†   (source)
  • Conceding, Arnie added a pie a la mode.†   (source)
  • Even Barbara Woodhouse, lover of animals, successful trainer of thousands of dogs their owners had deemed hopeless, was conceding that some dogs were simply beyond help.†   (source)
  • "Not using the name of fire," he conceded.†   (source)
  • "True," the general concedes.†   (source)
  • At his insistence, she concedes and makes him an American dinner once a week as a treat, Shake 'n Bake chicken or Hamburger Helper prepared with ground lamb.†   (source)
  • Yes, it is exhausting work, Mollie concedes one day when we sit in her backyard, several miles from Skid Row.†   (source)
  • Denz Ay conceded this conventional point with a gesture.†   (source)
  • That anything wonderful could rise on that ground seemed beyond possibility, although Ned, like most new visitors to Chicago, was willing to concede that the city was a place unlike any he had encountered.†   (source)
  • And with his stopwatch in his hand corrected to the astronomical clock in the shop, Father conceded that the first stroke of the English clock time after time coincided with the hour.†   (source)
  • Conceding to be in my right mind.†   (source)
  • The position of Governor Faubus and the military officials of the state is that the governor and the state will not concede that the U.S. Court or anyone else can question the authority of the governor to exercise his judgment in administering the affairs of state, and since he does not concede this responsibility, we will not proceed further in this action.†   (source)
  • 'It was best,' he conceded to me gently.†   (source)
  • I'd conceded with good grace, and Edward had cheerfully suggested that we all go together.†   (source)
  • For the first time since she met him, she could sense that he was conceding an interest.†   (source)
  • "Maybe," Davenport conceded.†   (source)
  • I can't do it," I conceded hopelessly.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Theresa conceded.†   (source)
  • "It does have certain historical aspects," Blomkvist conceded.†   (source)
  • Instead, this tug-of-war lasted until one of us conceded.†   (source)
  • "I am," she conceded.†   (source)
  • "Look, I don't see us moving back there," he said, gentler now that she'd conceded.†   (source)
  • I realize that if one looks at the matter objectively, one has to concede my father lacked various attributes one may normally expect in a great butler.†   (source)
  • She paused, conceding the possibility that if Denise is the source of a rumor or theory, it could very well be true.†   (source)
  • To obliterate these thoughts, she slid her hands between her legs and felt herself, worked at herself, refusing to concede to the initial stubborn numbness until at last her loins twitched and swam and she was lost.†   (source)
  • "True," he concedes.†   (source)
  • He had already conceded her point and he stared at her helplessly.†   (source)
  • Concede?†   (source)
  • That area he conceded (and it was atypical for him to concede anything) to her.†   (source)
  • Dick, though impressed by Perry's will power, would not concede that his purpose was suicide; even when Perry was reported to be in a coma, he told Andrews, with whom he had become friendly, that his former confederate was faking.†   (source)
  • It turned out we didn't have to: John Miller conceded defeat in the middle of banana six, then carefully got to his feet and went to the bathroom.†   (source)
  • Neither man conceded anything.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, I guess," he concedes.†   (source)
  • Finally when he took her queen she conceded and smiled her compliments and gestured at the board with a certain impatience.†   (source)
  • Yes'm, I do that," conceded Johnnie dutifully, those changeful eyes of hers full of pensive, denied desire, as they swept the dainty gowns of the women before her.†   (source)
  • Then you're conceding defeat?†   (source)
  • Chronics are in for good, the staff concedes.†   (source)
  • You're right, I conceded.†   (source)
  • But perhaps he had been wrong, he gracefully conceded.†   (source)
  • Let us concede that a Czech public prosecutor in the early fifties who called for the death of an innocent man was deceived by the Russian secret police and the government of his own country.†   (source)
  • Seven percent of the men conceded that they were married, with a significant minority of these men reporting that they were "happily married."†   (source)
  • 'Well, maybe it is true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone.†   (source)
  • It held even though the Baptists started to beat drums and allow electric guitar, even though—Jesus help us—the Church of Christ conceded in the late 1970s that it was probably not a mortal sin if boys went swimming with girls.†   (source)
  • "Good point," Cal conceded.†   (source)
  • "A fair point," conceded Ms.†   (source)
  • "Well, you are right," Moody conceded when he returned.†   (source)
  • "Well, I suppose, in the circumstances—" Ataba conceded.†   (source)
  • In contrast, mine looked about as densely packed as a political headquarters two hours after the candidate has conceded.†   (source)
  • "Okay, okay," Herschel conceded, then they lowered their voices.†   (source)
  • Finally I slammed the book shut and conceded defeat.†   (source)
  • And yet for it to make sense, I must concede that a house-a structure of brick, stone, wood and glass-can somehow be possessed of spirit, and this is a leap of faith that perplexes me, for though the eye does see, the heart will not accept.†   (source)
  • How has he conceded on the albinos?†   (source)
  • Still, British scholars have long conceded that American English is the more influential version of our now global language.†   (source)
  • No. Eddis had to concede the point.†   (source)
  • "Naturellement," conceded the woman quickly.†   (source)
  • Baldwin was trying to be optimistic but conceded that they would probably lose.†   (source)
  • They conceded that it was possible that they might not be able to analyze certain life forms.†   (source)
  • Bram announced that certain parts of the state's evidence would be conceded by the accused, and there was a buzz in the court.†   (source)
  • Pepe smiled, satisfied in conceding that Rafael could be Furillo.†   (source)
  • "We used a whip on him every time we sent him to the track, and we used it freely, too," he once conceded.†   (source)
  • Haven't conceded anything!†   (source)
  • Later, Archie had to concede that Brother Leon had dramatized the sale too vividly and therefore put himself and The Vigils and the entire school on the spot.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps not," he conceded, with a touch of feigned distress.†   (source)
  • She smiled, conceding his victory by being openly delighted.†   (source)
  • Fredi didn't want to concede the point.†   (source)
  • 'Does you credit,' he conceded,' but not much more.'†   (source)
  • Drizzt had conceded the point that the greatest obstacle in forming the alliance would be Targos.†   (source)
  • —table in an obvious show of ownership and refusal to concede and walks to the front of the room.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she conceded.†   (source)
  • In conceding all this, the question of expense must be given up.†   (source)
  • Some northern soldiers conceded this truth.†   (source)
  • "We don't," Fareed conceded.†   (source)
  • Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to "concede" to black men or that he wants to help black men "overcome" their blackness.†   (source)
  • It was generally conceded that he had received enlightenment, except by those who believed him to be a fraud, sinner, criminal or practical joker.†   (source)
  • And as I relaxed fully, feeling the beer begin to softly effervesce throughout my limbs, I conceded to myself that what he was saying had merit.†   (source)
  • We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals.†   (source)
  • The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose
  • There are also many modifications of language, which we concede to the poets.   (source)
  • It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.   (source)
  • "Are you conceding?" he says, his mouth falling open with mock surprise.†   (source)
  • I try to contradict her, and she concedes the point.†   (source)
  • "First-rate insults," Halfborn conceded.†   (source)
  • Charlie nodded thoughtfully, conceding that he did have the lesser ordeal.†   (source)
  • "They are honest flowers," she conceded.†   (source)
  • Okay, let's concede that you can reliably tell Coke from Pepsi, even when the DOD hovers around 4.†   (source)
  • "Well, yeah, he went a bit odd toward the end," conceded George.†   (source)
  • "An interesting question," Boreas conceded, as if it had never occurred to him before.†   (source)
  • In a perverse kind of way, he conceded that it didn't feel half bad.†   (source)
  • "She will be my prisoner," Levana finally conceded.†   (source)
  • If this sham was conventional hypocrisy, she had to concede that it had its uses.†   (source)
  • Its young designer still did not concede defeat, however.†   (source)
  • She had to concede that her mother was right about that.†   (source)
  • He struck so quickly that she had to concede to the edge of his blade.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps you're right, Kit," he conceded.†   (source)
  • "According to Dauntless rules," Four says, "one of you could also concede."†   (source)
  • "Man wants his daughter tae have a fine house wit a view, that's all tae the good," Schiem conceded.†   (source)
  • Perhaps," his father concedes, glancing briefly in Gogol's direction.†   (source)
  • If Drew remembered something differently than I did, I would immediately concede the point.†   (source)
  • Again I have to concede that I don't know.†   (source)
  • They're fairly cuddly, yes," conceded Fred.†   (source)
  • That's even softer than a crew suggestion, because the speaker is conceding that he's not in charge.†   (source)
  • That's a new one," Patel conceded with an appreciative chuckle.†   (source)
  • The Ra'zac might be there," conceded Brom.†   (source)
  • And I always concedes despite my raw emotions, that she's probably right.†   (source)
  • Let us concede that the early thirties in Russia were unkind.†   (source)
  • "I concede that there is some merit to your argument," said the Count.†   (source)
  • Now here was Gottlieb, conceding a potentially catastrophic error.†   (source)
  • Dorian growled as Chaol switched to the offensive, and conceded step after step, his thighs aching.†   (source)
  • "I have not pursued mainstream publishers as hard as I should have," he conceded.†   (source)
  • His mouth fell open and he conceded a step.†   (source)
  • After all the buildup, it was a bit of an anticlimax, conceded the Count.†   (source)
  • "Yes," the chef had conceded with a shake of the head.†   (source)
  • "To old times," she conceded with a laugh.†   (source)
  • That's time well spent, I'm sure," conceded the Count.†   (source)
  • I must have been mistaken," he was conceding with some disappointment, when the door flung open.†   (source)
  • "I suppose that's true," the colonel conceded.†   (source)
  • "Maybe it's a little preposterous," conceded Osip, "but I don't want to watch Casablanca."†   (source)
  • Mark nodded, point conceded, and dropped the shackle on the bed, where it clanked in its chains.†   (source)
  • As midnight gradually approached, Sophia had to concede that her friend had been right.†   (source)
  • Orrin conceded the point with a slight dip of his head.†   (source)
  • Son, this is real — it's not a checker game you can concede if you find yourself too far behind.†   (source)
  • Both men conceded that Salander was an odd person, but both held her in high regard professionally.†   (source)
  • "I guess," she conceded, before shaking her head.†   (source)
  • "Maybe," conceded Max, cheered a bit by her optimism.†   (source)
  • "I suppose I could pull a few strings," she conceded.†   (source)
  • It's a huge hole," she conceded, reaching for the mayonnaise.†   (source)
  • Let's take it one step at a time," I conceded.†   (source)
  • "Also an option," I conceded, while the whitecoat looked horrified.†   (source)
  • "We'll come see this inn," she conceded, trying to hide the doubt in her heart behind bold words.†   (source)
  • He concedes that he was insulting, but he claims it was in self-defence.†   (source)
  • "I see no other choice," he conceded, "but if you do not return ..."†   (source)
  • He will only concede on the albinos, Woref said.†   (source)
  • "We won't have time to dig up the whole story," Blomkvist conceded.†   (source)
  • But I'll talk to Nana about it," Beth conceded.†   (source)
  • I am prepared to concede that Miss Cardinal is mentally unfit.†   (source)
  • Mr. McDaniels conceded, planting a kiss on top of his son's head.†   (source)
  • He concedes that outrage and hazard do not carry equal weight in his risk equation.†   (source)
  • Only when he examined the veil for himself did he concede that I was telling the truth.†   (source)
  • Kasischke was initially reluctant to concede defeat, but Taske and Hutchison were persuasive.†   (source)
  • "Of course," conceded the KGB official, smiling.†   (source)
  • This was when the weaker one would normally concede.†   (source)
  • By evening the police were ready to concede that she might have managed to elude the cordon.†   (source)
  • The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I know that," de Wet replied impatiently, "the defense concedes that.†   (source)
  • I concede it's a theory we need to work out.†   (source)
  • She knows he's anxious for her to finally concede that he's a man, but she's in no rush.†   (source)
  • A more than middling coup, Murray conceded.†   (source)
  • I concede that you're in a position to do anything.†   (source)
  • "Prince Rhaegar played such a harp," he conceded.†   (source)
  • "Okay," Raleigh conceded, "I don't know.†   (source)
  • I fully concede, however, that the Book is a more elegant solution.†   (source)
  • 'No, no hope at all,' Major Danby conceded.†   (source)
  • Nahuseresh, faced with a battle he couldn't win, ungraciously conceded.†   (source)
  • That happens to be the worst, and I'm not ready to concede it.†   (source)
  • "Yes," conceded Fareed, "I've heard it."†   (source)
  • In the end he lost his queen and conceded.†   (source)
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