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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)
  • Taking care of accounts was one territory that Mother conceded to me.†   (source)
  • "Okay, let's try it on," I conceded with a sigh.†   (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)
  • Angelina kept them at it for nearly an hour before conceding defeat.†   (source)
  • In the new rules, no one concedes.†   (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)
  • "It is very warm for chicken," Mum conceded.†   (source)
  • The bear waited calmly as if part of the landscape, like a tree or a boulder, not conceding one inch of space.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Stevens concedes that the chair has been moved, but she denies that the pouch has been moved.†   (source)
  • She conceded a smile and hurled a knife into the target.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Everything was conceded in the question, and Lola tried to ruffle his sticky hair.†   (source)
  • Maven finally concedes and slips out the door.†   (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)
  • "Yes," her husband conceded harshly.†   (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)
  • Schwartz concedes that his idea has virtually no chance of being accepted.†   (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)
  • He conceded a short laugh and pushed his hair back from his face.†   (source)
  • ELIZABETH, "conceding": I think you be somewhat ashamed, for I am there, and she so close.†   (source)
  • After months of incessant pleas from Six and me, Karen finally conceded and allowed me to enroll for my senior year.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, okay," Nyssa conceded.†   (source)
  • Conceding the point—the restaurant was packed—he sat down.†   (source)
  • "However, I must concede it was a masterful move on Coin's part.†   (source)
  • 'Point taken,' conceded the commander.†   (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)
  • Eragon reluctantly conceded that Roran made sense.†   (source)
  • Conceding to be in my right mind.†   (source)
  • "I am," she conceded.†   (source)
  • For the first time since she met him, she could sense that he was conceding an interest.†   (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)
  • Such a thing, after a hurricane, when most of the city had been evacuated, was worthy of investigation, he conceded.†   (source)
  • I suppose I'll be like that one day, too," Kim concedes.†   (source)
  • Conceding, Arnie added a pie a la mode.†   (source)
  • She paused, conceding the possibility that if Denise is the source of a rumor or theory, it could very well be true.†   (source)
  • She was prepared to concede that Americans existed, though she'd never seen one.†   (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)
  • "Not using the name of fire," he conceded.†   (source)
  • Yes, it is exhausting work, Mollie concedes one day when we sit in her backyard, several miles from Skid Row.†   (source)
  • Amy was conceding Carthage, finally forgiving me for moving back here.†   (source)
  • I'd conceded with good grace, and Edward had cheerfully suggested that we all go together.†   (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)
  • "Good point," Cal conceded.†   (source)
  • "True," the general concedes.†   (source)
  • "It does have certain historical aspects," Blomkvist conceded.†   (source)
  • As midnight gradually approached, Sophia had to concede that her friend had been right.†   (source)
  • "True," he concedes.†   (source)
  • Neither man conceded anything.†   (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)
  • 'Sometimes,' Drew conceded.†   (source)
  • "Well, you are right," Moody conceded when he returned.†   (source)
  • He had already conceded her point and he stared at her helplessly.†   (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)
  • You're right, I conceded.†   (source)
  • Chronics are in for good, the staff concedes.†   (source)
  • "Maybe," Phoebe conceded.†   (source)
  • It's a huge hole," she conceded, reaching for the mayonnaise.†   (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)
  • Finally when he took her queen she conceded and smiled her compliments and gestured at the board with a certain impatience.†   (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)
  • "Maybe," Davenport conceded.†   (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)
  • "Yes," she conceded.†   (source)
  • I can't do it," I conceded hopelessly.†   (source)
  • Fredi didn't want to concede the point.†   (source)
  • "Then you're conceding defeat?"†   (source)
  • Concede?†   (source)
  • —table in an obvious show of ownership and refusal to concede and walks to the front of the room.†   (source)
  • In contrast, mine looked about as densely packed as a political headquarters two hours after the candidate has conceded.†   (source)
  • 'It was best,' he conceded to me gently.†   (source)
  • 'Well, maybe it is true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, I guess," he concedes.†   (source)
  • Finally I slammed the book shut and conceded defeat.†   (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)
  • That area he conceded (and it was atypical for him to concede anything) to her.†   (source)
  • "Okay, okay," Herschel conceded, then they lowered their voices.†   (source)
  • How has he conceded on the albinos?†   (source)
  • Pepe smiled, satisfied in conceding that Rafael could be Furillo.†   (source)
  • Denz Ay conceded this conventional point with a gesture.†   (source)
  • They conceded that it was possible that they might not be able to analyze certain life forms.†   (source)
  • Ataba conceded.†   (source)
  • But perhaps he had been wrong, he gracefully conceded.†   (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)
  • Teagarten's assassination proves it unless you want to concede that Bourne actually blew up that car outside of Brussels.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 'Does you credit,' he conceded,' but not much more.'†   (source)
  • No. Eddis had to concede the point.†   (source)
  • "A fair point," conceded Ms.†   (source)
  • Instead, this tug-of-war lasted until one of us conceded.†   (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)
  • She smiled, conceding his victory by being openly delighted.†   (source)
  • Still, British scholars have long conceded that American English is the more influential version of our now global language.†   (source)
  • Baldwin was trying to be optimistic but conceded that they would probably lose.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps not," he conceded, with a touch of feigned distress.†   (source)
  • Some northern soldiers conceded this truth.†   (source)
  • In conceding all this, the question of expense must be given up.†   (source)
  • Drizzt had conceded the point that the greatest obstacle in forming the alliance would be Targos.†   (source)
  • Haven't conceded anything!†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Music was placed in this category, and Aristotle speculated in his Politics as to the profit to be derived from it, finally conceding that music might conduce to virtue by making the body fit, promoting a certain ethos, and enabling us to enjoy things in me proper way, whatever that means.†   (source)
  • Still, it forced me to concede that she was capable of more varieties of love than her girlish love for Papa and her motherly love for me.†   (source)
  • We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose
  • I try to contradict her, and she concedes the point.†   (source)
  • "Are you conceding?" he says, his mouth falling open with mock surprise.†   (source)
  • "Well, yeah, he went a bit odd toward the end," conceded George.†   (source)
  • "Again I have to concede that I don't know.†   (source)
  • Kasischke was initially reluctant to concede defeat, but Taske and Hutchison were persuasive.†   (source)
  • Its young designer still did not concede defeat, however.†   (source)
  • "According to Dauntless rules," Four says, "one of you could also concede."†   (source)
  • That's a new one," Patel conceded with an appreciative chuckle.†   (source)
  • He struck so quickly that she had to concede to the edge of his blade.†   (source)
  • "An interesting question," Boreas conceded, as if it had never occurred to him before.†   (source)
  • They're fairly cuddly, yes," conceded Fred.†   (source)
  • A more than middling coup, Murray conceded.†   (source)
  • Let us concede that the early thirties in Russia were unkind.†   (source)
  • That's even softer than a crew suggestion, because the speaker is conceding that he's not in charge.†   (source)
  • In a perverse kind of way, he conceded that it didn't feel half bad.†   (source)
  • Perhaps," his father concedes, glancing briefly in Gogol's direction.†   (source)
  • "Man wants his daughter tae have a fine house wit a view, that's all tae the good," Schiem conceded.†   (source)
  • "She will be my prisoner," Levana finally conceded.†   (source)
  • The Ra'zac might be there," conceded Brom.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps you're right, Kit," he conceded.†   (source)
  • If this sham was conventional hypocrisy, she had to concede that it had its uses.†   (source)
  • She had to concede that her mother was right about that.†   (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)
  • "I concede that there is some merit to your argument," said the Count.†   (source)
  • After all the buildup, it was a bit of an anticlimax, conceded the Count.†   (source)
  • His mouth fell open and he conceded a step.†   (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)
  • He concedes that he was insulting, but he claims it was in self-defence.†   (source)
  • "First-rate insults," Halfborn conceded.†   (source)
  • Both men conceded that Salander was an odd person, but both held her in high regard professionally.†   (source)
  • "I suppose I could pull a few strings," she conceded.†   (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)
  • Charlie nodded thoughtfully, conceding that he did have the lesser ordeal.†   (source)
  • "Also an option," I conceded, while the whitecoat looked horrified.†   (source)
  • "Maybe," conceded Max, cheered a bit by her optimism.†   (source)
  • "We'll come see this inn," she conceded, trying to hide the doubt in her heart behind bold words.†   (source)
  • Mark nodded, point conceded, and dropped the shackle on the bed, where it clanked in its chains.†   (source)
  • "I see no other choice," he conceded, "but if you do not return …."†   (source)
  • "Naturellement," conceded the woman quickly.†   (source)
  • Let's take it one step at a time," I conceded.†   (source)
  • Orrin conceded the point with a slight dip of his head.†   (source)
  • "I guess," she conceded, before shaking her head.†   (source)
  • He will only concede on the albinos, Woref said.†   (source)
  • Well, it's more than pacing," Max finally conceded.†   (source)
  • I fully concede, however, that the Book is a more elegant solution.†   (source)
  • I am prepared to concede that Miss Cardinal is mentally unfit.†   (source)
  • "Okay," Raleigh conceded, "I don't know.†   (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)
  • But I'll talk to Nana about it," Beth conceded.†   (source)
  • Mr. McDaniels conceded, planting a kiss on top of his son's head.†   (source)
  • "Of course," conceded the KGB official, smiling.†   (source)
  • The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.†   (source)
  • "Yes," conceded Fareed, "I've heard it."†   (source)
  • Yutar, you do concede that you failed to prove guerrilla warfare was ever decided upon, do you not?†   (source)
  • Nahuseresh, faced with a battle he couldn't win, ungraciously conceded.†   (source)
  • "We won't have time to dig up the whole story," Blomkvist conceded.†   (source)
  • Alessandro, however, did not concede his points merely because some officials had judged wrongly.†   (source)
  • By evening the police were ready to concede that she might have managed to elude the cordon.†   (source)
  • She knows he's anxious for her to finally concede that he's a man, but she's in no rush.†   (source)
  • "Or Shades," Arya conceded, though Eragon could tell she was irritated.†   (source)
  • I concede that you're in a position to do anything.†   (source)
  • In the end he lost his queen and conceded.†   (source)
  • "Prince Rhaegar played such a harp," he conceded.†   (source)
  • "Look, I don't see us moving back there," he said, gentler now that she'd conceded.†   (source)
  • This was when the weaker one would normally concede.†   (source)
  • I'll even go so far as to concede that life seems longer I -'†   (source)
  • That happens to be the worst, and I'm not ready to concede it.†   (source)
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