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  • I thought about my dream on the battlefield in Valhalla and recalled the searing agony on my own face when Loki had communicated with me, using Randolph as a conduit.†   (source)
  • This was to seal any cracks and holes, so that a hot agent could not escape by drifting through hollow electrical conduits.†   (source)
  • He felt as if he were not inventing his tale, but merely acting as a conduit to transport it fully formed into the world.†   (source)
  • So we had hung and wired a new circuit panel, bent and run conduit around the visiting room, and wired new outlets.†   (source)
  • The landline was fiber optic, located in a steel conduit under a paved street.†   (source)
  • Just to touch our hands to those crystals was to be a conduit, with the universe flowing through hard and fast as a river.†   (source)
  • Suribachi's interior had been hollowed out into a fantastical seven-story subterranean world, fortified with concrete revetments and finished off with plastered walls, a sewer system, and conduits for fresh air, electricity, water, and steam.†   (source)
  • I wedged my fingers into the crack and pushed sideways, and the doors slid open like a camera shutter, revealing a tubular conduit of bricks that rose twenty or thirty feet to a circle of sky.†   (source)
  • Still, the idea of segments allows the surgeon to define areas of liver that have a full complement of blood and bile conduits and that are therefore semiautonomous units, subfactories within the factory.†   (source)
  • They had damaged the ship—cut conduits, breached the hull.†   (source)
  • The nurse was more than a conduit for instructions from Argenteuil; the angel of mercy was herself an angel of death, a killer in her own right.†   (source)
  • He fears I put too much faith in the Tower helping me to locate April, and I admit here that he is quite right about that-my faith, that is-but our beliefs differ so greatly that John also trusts that there is little or no hope of any such physical structure providing a conduit, a medium that might reconnect us with our missing April, a fallacy in him I strive to correct!†   (source)
  • This will demonstrate that as a living conduit you can both absorb and channel energy.†   (source)
  • The room looked as if it had been an experimental laboratory-if she was right in judging the purpose of the torn remnants she saw on the walls: a great many electrical outlets, bits of heavy cable, lead conduits, glass tubing, built-in cabinets without shelves or doors.†   (source)
  • She had felt like the conduit of something huge, as if the daylight world were flowing through her into midnight, changing everything.†   (source)
  • This ring was the conduit through which Bobby could send the journals of his incredible adventures back to his friends.†   (source)
  • I'm the conduit, the reservoir, the nozzle of the blessed sap that pounds against the bone-dry valleys of the moon.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was only the seraphic wine or Nathan's calm and uninhibiting presence, but she felt the urge not to halt where she had left off but to continue talking, and as she talked she felt her English moving more or less smoothly and with nearly unhampered authority, as if through remarkably efficient conduits she hardly knew she possessed.†   (source)
  • I think of church as a conduit to God.
    conduit = a way to reach
  • The gae bolga was a conduit—it was a living tether to the war goddess herself.†   (source)
  • Because the physical conduits that permit and transmit those memories have been altered.†   (source)
  • He needed only a conduit out of Zurich and she was it.†   (source)
  • One jet of steam demolished the adjacent reactor-control wiring conduits.†   (source)
  • The conduit paused, studying Bourne's face.†   (source)
  • 'He was a decent man to me,' said the conduit.†   (source)
  • He had no conduit now; he had to be up long before daybreak and find another way out of Zurich.†   (source)
  • His hostage, his conduit was racing up the Lowenstrasse!†   (source)
  • 'Yes, sir,' said the conduit, walking around the trunks of trees, approaching Jason.†   (source)
  • At the moment he is the conduit to my once and former disciple.†   (source)
  • Specifics may come to you … certain repressed conduits … prodded into functioning.†   (source)
  • They are using a relay then?" asked the conduit.†   (source)
  • Specifics may come to you, certain repressed conduits electrically prodded into functioning.†   (source)
  • 'I suggest he needed the first more than you did, sir,' said the conduit.†   (source)
  • You are a reflex, an instinct born of forgotten memories, conduits electrically prodded by stress.†   (source)
  • The conduit raised his hands in a like gesture of noncombat.†   (source)
  • By the time he returned to his study and the telephone he had chosen his conduit.†   (source)
  • Jason rushed forward, and as the conduit opened the car door he touched the man's shoulder.†   (source)
  • The conduit looked bewildered, perhaps even sad.†   (source)
  • The conduit spun around, crouching, his experienced left foot lashing out viciously.†   (source)
  • Who was the conduit to the new 'Jason Bourne' that knew such things?†   (source)
  • Jason got off the stool and started for the door after the conduit.†   (source)
  • … No, go on — you carry him,' he shouted to the conduit.†   (source)
  • He wanted only the most proven conduits working tonight.†   (source)
  • They can't find their conduits, so they don't know who the blinds are or what's happening.†   (source)
  • Muhammad became the conduit for these messages, and The Qur'an, then, was simply the word of God in written form.†   (source)
  • He began working for a contractor in Baton Rouge, and it was there that he met Ahmaad, a Lebanese American who became one of his closest friends and the conduit through which he met his bride.†   (source)
  • There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing.†   (source)
  • She relished being where she was, visible like this, a conduit like this, a guide to her watchers, but this responsibility, this unnecessary intrigue, it crippled her.†   (source)
  • Here, people whisper, the Germans have renovated two kilometers of subterranean corridors under the medieval walls; they have built new defenses, new conduits, new escape routes, underground complexes of bewildering intricacy.†   (source)
  • Frightful energies began to build within him, as though his body were a conduit for the very storm that raged outside.†   (source)
  • 'You've called in your conduits, the people who hired the blinds, and suddenly they're not there — you can't find them.†   (source)
  • No," answered the Jackal's conduit.†   (source)
  • "You are the conduit," Mother explains.†   (source)
  • Soon I was besieged by women bearing broken radios and broken fans and seeking repair for things in their cubicles—hooks for their clothing, loose conduits, busted shoe racks, all sorts of things.†   (source)
  • The huge conduit to the Jackal, especially if he had reneged on their contract, would not expose the Jackal.†   (source)
  • Randolph Gates, Lord Randolph of Gates, Dandy Randy of the Courts of the Elite, was in reality a scumball, a conduit of death in the Caribbean.†   (source)
  • "I'll kill you right now if you don't," said the Jackal's conduit, removing Jason's hunting knife from his wide leather belt, the blade glistening in the light of the floor lamp.†   (source)
  • His thoughts returned to the enigmatic Santos, the premier conduit in Carlos's army, the most trusted satellite in the Jackal's orbit, a man whose French might have been formed at the Sorbonne, yet Santos was a Latin American.†   (source)
  • The conduit wanted to crawl out of his sewer, and with three million francs in the offing, combined with a multitude of faraway places across the globe to choose from, the conduit's mind told him to listen, to consider.†   (source)
  • His hostage, his conduit out of Zurich!†   (source)
  • No doubt Santos's minions were checking the streets, a final inspection before the high priest of conduits appeared.†   (source)
  • 'Are you an executive with one of the firms over here?' asked the analyst as they walked towards the side street where the conduit's car was parked.†   (source)
  • 'That's interesting,' said McAllister several feet away from the pay phone, glancing briefly at the Chinese conduit who had returned to the table.†   (source)
  • Bourne raised his voice slightly so that the conduit could hear him, his eyes on the border gate's entrance.†   (source)
  • Bourne touched the conduit's shoulder, then pointed to the lighted marquee of a hotel on the right side of the street.†   (source)
  • The only man Jason Bourne ever killed in post-Vietnam Asia was an enraged conduit who tried to kill him.†   (source)
  • Then, perhaps, to make sure we don't link up with the kind of people you suggested last night,' whispered the analyst, his words too low to be heard by the Chinese conduit.†   (source)
  • Twice he tried to broach the subject of relays and the current situation and twice Jason cut him off, admonishing the undersecretary with a stare, as the conduit, in gratitude, looked away.†   (source)
  • 'I liked him,' said the conduit.†   (source)
  • The conduit from Macao whose name was Wong — at least that was the name he offered — was impressed by the diplomatic passports but for safety's sake, as well as for the $20,000 American for which he said he felt a moral obligation, decided to prepare the border crossing his way.†   (source)
  • He even uses my conduit.†   (source)
  • Conduit, for God's sake!†   (source)
  • He turned to the conduit.†   (source)
  • He had met men and women —contacts and conduits, he reflected — on the beaches of Shek O and Big Wave, and he had swum in the crowded waters of Repulse Bay, with its huge ersatz statuary and the decaying elegance of the old colonial hotel.†   (source)
  • And at that exact instant—as he said the last words—Sophie saw the fearful headache attack Hoss with prodigious speed, like a stroke of lightning that had found a conduit through the gravel merchant's letter down to that crypt or labyrinth where migraine sets its fiery toxins loose beneath the cranium.†   (source)
  • After what she had told me, peanuts seemed the appropriate commonplace out of which to refashion new conduits of communication.†   (source)
  • The man was toiling assiduously, bending conduits around a beam.†   (source)
  • She accepted the light switches she pressed in the evening, and the light firm wires he had laid out through the walls; the water that ran when she turned a tap, from conduits he had planned; the warmth of an open fire on August evenings, before a fireplace built stone by stone from his drawing.†   (source)
  • The skeleton was up and the concrete was being poured; the great mats of the terraces hung over the silver sheet of water quivering far below; plumbers and electricians had started laying their conduits.†   (source)
  • She thought, standing here in the heart of the building, that if she had nothing of him, nothing but his body, here it was, offered to her, the rest of him, to be seen and touched, open to all; the girders and the conduits and the sweeping reaches of space were his and could not have been anyone else's in the world; his, as his face, as his soul; here was the shape he had made and the thing within him which had caused him to make it, the end and the cause together, the motive power…†   (source)
  • Some unknown conduits from the unknown worlds must empty into thee!†   (source)
  • All the conduit-pipes will have to be relaid.†   (source)
  • Did they show any ability or knowledge when they laid the conduit pipes where they are now?†   (source)
  • And Richard Dalloway and Hugh Whitbread hesitated at the corner of Conduit Street at the very moment that Millicent Bruton, lying on the sofa, let the thread snap; snored.†   (source)
  • The City Council had passed a quiet and innocent little bill allowing a company to construct telephone conduits under the city streets; and upon the strength of this, a great corporation had proceeded to tunnel all Chicago with a system of railway freight-subways.†   (source)
  • The courtyard—entered through a ruined gate—contained an ablution tank of fresh clear water, which was always in motion, being indeed part of a conduit that supplied the city.†   (source)
  • And, flicking his bowler hat by way of farewell, Richard turned at the corner of Conduit Street eager, yes, very eager, to travel that spider's thread of attachment between himself and Clarissa; he would go straight to her, in Westminster.†   (source)
  • …itinerant open-air preacher and lecturer on morally unimpeachable subjects; and from this day he laboured incessantly in that office, speaking not only in simple language on Rainbarrow and in the hamlets round, but in a more cultivated strain elsewhere—from the steps and porticoes of town-halls, from market-crosses, from conduits, on esplanades and on wharves, from the parapets of bridges, in barns and outhouses, and all other such places in the neighbouring Wessex towns and villages.†   (source)
  • He had gilt spurs, and a gold-headed whip, and a fine pin in his handkerchief, and the neatest little kid gloves which Lamb's Conduit Street could furnish.†   (source)
  • He seated Cosette with her back against a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where the conduit touched the pavement.†   (source)
  • And your reasoning leads you to this conclusion, that we must build a sewer to draw off the alleged impurities from Molledal and must relay the water conduits.†   (source)
  • When I had absorbed a chestful of this clean air, I looked for the conduit—the "air carrier," if you prefer—that allowed this beneficial influx to reach us, and I soon found it.†   (source)
  • In our own day, after having excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the Bievre from the Boulevard de l'Hopital, as far as the Seine; after having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in order to provide an outlet for that…†   (source)
  • So, Mr. Woolsey, of Conduit Street, gave a loose to his imagination and sent the child home fancy trousers, fancy waistcoats, and fancy jackets enough to furnish a school of little dandies.†   (source)
  • Three days before George's sixth birthday a gentleman in a gig, accompanied by a servant, drove up to Mr. Sedley's house and asked to see Master George Osborne: it was Mr. Woolsey, military tailor, of Conduit Street, who came at the Major's order to measure the young gentleman for a suit of clothes.†   (source)
  • At the point of separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the subterranean drains of Paris, had halted.†   (source)
  • So we will tinker at the conduit-pipes a little, and dig up a little bit of the shore, and it shan't cost the town a sixpence.†   (source)
  • All the nastiness up at Molledal, all that stinking filth, is infecting the water in the conduit-pipes leading to the reservoir; and the same cursed, filthy poison oozes out on the shore too— Horster.†   (source)
  • All the conduit-pipes—?†   (source)
  • It was owing to your action that both the Baths and the water conduits were built where they are; and that is what you won't acknowledge—that damnable blunder of yours.†   (source)
  • If I had my senses about me I might have called in Conduit Street in my way home, and told them of it.†   (source)
  • After staying with them half an hour, he asked Elinor to walk with him to Conduit Street, and introduce him to Sir John and Lady Middleton.†   (source)
  • They had already spent a week in this manner in Conduit Street, and Lady Middleton could not be displeased at their giving the same number of days to such near relations.†   (source)
  • It was from Lady Middleton, announcing their arrival in Conduit Street the night before, and requesting the company of her mother and cousins the following evening.†   (source)
  • About this time the two Miss Steeles, lately arrived at their cousin's house in Bartlett's Buildings, Holburn, presented themselves again before their more grand relations in Conduit and Berkeley Streets; and were welcomed by them all with great cordiality.†   (source)
  • So well had they recommended themselves to Lady Middleton, so agreeable had their assiduities made them to her, that though Lucy was certainly not so elegant, and her sister not even genteel, she was as ready as Sir John to ask them to spend a week or two in Conduit Street; and it happened to be particularly convenient to the Miss Steeles, as soon as the Dashwoods' invitation was known, that their visit should begin a few days before the party took place.†   (source)
  • This event, highly important to Mrs. Jennings's happiness, produced a temporary alteration in the disposal of her time, and influenced, in a like degree, the engagements of her young friends; for as she wished to be as much as possible with Charlotte, she went thither every morning as soon as she was dressed, and did not return till late in the evening; and the Miss Dashwoods, at the particular request of the Middletons, spent the whole of every day, in every day in Conduit Street.†   (source)
  • — How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears?†   (source)
  • Our king, being ready to leap out of himself for joy of his found daughter, as if that joy were now become a loss, cries 'O, thy mother, thy mother!' then asks Bohemia forgiveness; then embraces his son-in-law; then again worries he his daughter with clipping her; now he thanks the old shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten conduit of many kings' reigns.†   (source)
  • Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear: All these old witnesses,—I cannot err,— Tell me thou art my son Antipholus.†   (source)
  • The Conduits And Way Of Mony To The Publique Use The Conduits, and Wayes by which it is conveyed to the Publique use, are of two sorts; One, that Conveyeth it to the Publique Coffers; The other, that Issueth the same out againe for publique payments.†   (source)
  • The Use Of Universities As for the Means, and Conduits, by which the people may receive this Instruction, wee are to search, by what means so may Opinions, contrary to the peace of Man-kind, upon weak and false Principles, have neverthelesse been so deeply rooted in them.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXIV OF THE NUTRITION, AND PROCREATION OF A COMMON-WEALTH The Nourishment Of A Common-wealth Consisteth In The Commodities Of Sea And Land; The NUTRITION of a Common-wealth consisteth, in the Plenty, and Distribution of Materials conducing to Life: In Concoction, or Preparation; and (when concocted) in the Conveyance of it, by convenient conduits, to the Publique use.†   (source)
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