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  • Snape stretched out his hands like a blind man and began to move up the stairs; Harry could have sworn his over-large nostrils were dilating, trying to sniff Harry out — trapped.†   (source)
  • Of all earthly pleasures, Laila's favorite was lying next to Aziza, her baby's face so close that she could watch her big pupils dilate and shrink.†   (source)
  • I watched him vainly trying to make ground, his nostrils dilated, his ears back against his head.†   (source)
  • Because your eyes dilated, your breathing rate increased a little bit, and you started to sweat.†   (source)
  • Slowly the pupils of his eyes dilated until they were back to normal, and the blood came back to his white cheeks.†   (source)
  • Six nostrils dilated.†   (source)
  • "But these pupils are dilated," she said.†   (source)
  • Langdon fought the gag reflex and relaxed his chest while his pulmonary capillaries dilated.†   (source)
  • It sucks and booms and splashes and rumbles; it shifts and dilates and falls over itself; the labyrinth of Saint-Malo has opened onto a portal of sound larger than anything she has ever experienced.†   (source)
  • I stand in the room, letting the pupils of my eyes dilate, like a cat's or owl's.†   (source)
  • Her pupils dilated, pulsing in and out like small, ferocious olives.†   (source)
  • She is told that she is still in early labor, three centimeters dilated, beginning to efface.†   (source)
  • The color vanishes from his face and I can actually see his pupils dilate in fear.†   (source)
  • The small boy in the next aisle shrank back as his dilated eyes spotted the weapon.†   (source)
  • They both looked quickly about the house and Montag felt his nostrils dilate and he knew that he was trying to track himself and his nose was suddenly good enough to sense the path he had made in the air of the room and the sweat of his hand hung from the doorknob, invisible but as numerous as the jewels of a small chandelier, he was everywhere, in and on and about everything, he was a luminous cloud, a ghost that made breathing once more impossible.†   (source)
  • He peered inside Henrietta, dilated her cervix, and prepared to treat her tumor.†   (source)
  • Now that I looked at him more closely, I realized that his pupils were dilated and strange.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were dilated.†   (source)
  • The clockface itself was gone, replaced by a circular black hole that swelled and swelled like a dilating iris.†   (source)
  • The horse rolled his eyes wildly, the whites rimming his dilated pupils.†   (source)
  • The door dilated open and the Consul stepped out, moving from the deep shadow of the branch into the blue-green glow of the world which filled the sky.†   (source)
  • He noted the dilated pupils.†   (source)
  • When Clary stopped in front of him, his lids flew open, and she saw that the pupils of his eyes were dilated, all the gold swallowed up in black.†   (source)
  • The injury that gave her the scar also damaged her eye—her pupil is so dilated it overwhelms her iris, and her left eye doesn't move with the right one as she scans the Amity in front of her.†   (source)
  • Now he was openly angry, betraying it in quickness of breathing, in dilation of nostrils, a steady stare.†   (source)
  • That her eyes just now dilated?†   (source)
  • He gave her something to force her to dilate and was gone.†   (source)
  • She hung up the phone and hurried back into the birthing room, where she reached between the patient's legs to check her dilation.†   (source)
  • He dilated his nostrils, trying to smell himself: what was that odor like for her?†   (source)
  • But First I Had to Pee Passing the mirror, I chanced a glance at Bree, crank embers glowing behind dilated black windows.†   (source)
  • After that, I break into an apothecary for willadonna, a physician's staple that, when pressed into an oil, dilates the pupils wide enough for a Martial to pass as a Scholar or Tribesman for an hour or two.†   (source)
  • Monet stared redly at Dr. Musoke, but there was no movement in the eyeballs, and the pupils were dilated.†   (source)
  • There was no mistaking their wide eyes and dilated nostrils.†   (source)
  • How his pupils must have shrunk and then dilated, open and vulnerable.†   (source)
  • As full understanding of what her mother said came home to Johnnie, her eyes dilated in her pale face.†   (source)
  • A.U. thirty-eight is dilating the nostrils.†   (source)
  • Sally Skull had green eyes, which dilated when she took her powders.†   (source)
  • And they were loud, they bawled and lowed like beef on the hoof, men on business trips with dilated veins throbbing at their temples, a group of touring usherettes from the Far West, half expecting to encounter themselves in one of Lenny's bits, and look at the heavyset men in big suits with star sapphires on their pinky fingers, in from the mobster suburbs with lapels so wide they do semaphores when the wind blows.†   (source)
  • At night, it dilated ten times more than my pupil, giving me extra light.†   (source)
  • I later studied psychology and I realized that those dilated pupils meant he was shocked by something and was transfixed on some image from his past.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were red and bloated, without luster, and her pupils were dilated, which gave her a frightened, helpless look.†   (source)
  • Lime, lemon, orange, and grapefruit corresponded to four, six, eight, and ten centimeters of dilation of the cervix.†   (source)
  • Although her smile stayed fixed, her pupils began to dilate.†   (source)
  • Romance, on the other hand, dilates upon their piety and heroism, and portrays, in her most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity.†   (source)
  • His pupils dilate when he sees me.†   (source)
  • He watched her pupils dilate when he spread his hands over her breasts, cupped them.†   (source)
  • "Yep," the cab said, dilating the top.†   (source)
  • Her pupils dilated; her eyes drifted right, away from her family, then stopped like an elevator between floors.†   (source)
  • After five years my body became so strong that I could control even the dilations of the pupils inside my irises.†   (source)
  • The Relativity time-dilation effect worked both ways, of course.†   (source)
  • I began to sweat and felt my breath go haywire and something in my chest actually dilate painfully, like a rapidly expanding balloon.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he stopped: sniffed: his nostrils dilated.†   (source)
  • But there was no resisting that childlike openness except by denying that it was real, and Hodge was not one to deny that the real was real: a cow, a chairleg, the dilated pupil of an eye.†   (source)
  • She looked at it and her pupils dilated, "Is-was sword destroy construct guard Egg?"†   (source)
  • The thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up, upsetting her valise in the corner.†   (source)
  • Serenely the curtain dilated, serenely failed.†   (source)
  • As I lay on the beach that sunny morning, I was thinking of my friend and remembering in a retarded, dilated, timeless fashion the incident of my hand brushing his wrist.†   (source)
  • Her eyes began slowly to dilate, and she shivered as though with cold.   (source)
    dilate = became wider (bigger)
  • Wandless, helpless, Pettigrew's pupils dilated in terror.†   (source)
  • His eyes are like black pools, the pupils dilated so that the blue irises have all but vanished.†   (source)
  • Ida leaned forward and examined him with dilated eyes.†   (source)
  • Langdon closed his eyes and waited, forcing his pupils to dilate so he could see better in the dark.†   (source)
  • Ashima was fully dilated and being taken to the delivery room, the person on the other end had said.†   (source)
  • "Her cervix is two centimeters dilated … She's getting ready to have you."†   (source)
  • She could see her reflection in each of his dilated pupils, a tiny image of herself inside his eyes.†   (source)
  • By the time we got to the hospital and checked into a room, Jenny was dilated to seven centimeters.†   (source)
  • One of his pupils was dilated and the other wasn't, but no one knew what that meant.†   (source)
  • Jacobus flicked a penlight in the man's eyes, testing his dilation.†   (source)
  • A nurse inserted a gloved finger and reported that Jenny was dilated one centimeter.†   (source)
  • Over the phone Dr. Sherman asked them to check whether she was dilating.†   (source)
  • While the Agent climbed, Max's pupils slowly dilated.†   (source)
  • Alex's darker eye was more dilated than the lighter one—probably because of the concussion.†   (source)
  • The technical name for Claire's illness was pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy.†   (source)
  • His neck and face were mottled from the strain, and his pupils were dilated, as if it were night.†   (source)
  • Judging from his dilated eyes and his maniacal grin, he didn't need any more caffeine.†   (source)
  • The team didn't know until they got inside …. but the right ventricle is dilated.†   (source)
  • He leaped into the bushes to let them pass, and stared after them with dilated eyes.†   (source)
  • The door dilated and a bipedal lizard even larger than Mr. Haselbauer filled it.†   (source)
  • The pupils dilated, but his voice remained steady.†   (source)
  • The demon's mouth was frothing, his pupils dilated so much they filled his wild eyes to the brim.†   (source)
  • Annabeth's eyes dilated so much, they felt like they were being pulled out of their sockets.†   (source)
  • The other patient was agonal, his pupils fixed and dilated.†   (source)
  • At times her pupils were dilated and she moved slowly, but she continued working in the hospital.†   (source)
  • Her pupils dilated, her eyelids sagged down over the irises.†   (source)
  • When the door dilated he took a deep whiff.†   (source)
  • His nostrils dilated and he forced his lungs to drink in deep nothingness.†   (source)
  • The attendant snatched the paper, shutters rolled back, and Rod was shoved through a dilated gate.†   (source)
  • Susan asked and pushed her face up close to the mirror to watch the pupils in her eyes dilate.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ambrogio asked Gabriella, moving a saffron handkerchief over his brow above dilated eyes.†   (source)
  • He gave Rod a slap on the back that urged him through the opening, dilated to man size.†   (source)
  • The night was dark, but with her eyes fully dilated from the utter blackness of Pod 5, she could see perfectly—almost as if it were daylight.†   (source)
  • The pupils were huge, dilated.†   (source)
  • The cornered woman; the penitential dress falling straight down, concealing feet that were surely bare; the straw mattress on the floor; the timorous hunch of the shoulders; the arms hugged close to the thin body, the long wisps of auburn hair escaping from what appeared at first glance to be a chaplet of white flowers — and especially the eyes, enormous in the pale face and dilated with fear, or with mute pleading — all was as it should be.†   (source)
  • His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy.†   (source)
  • When the head nurse told me that Charles's pupils had become fixed and dilated, that meant we had to take action.†   (source)
  • "A little break," said Voldemort, the slit-like nostrils dilating with excitement, "a little pause ….†   (source)
  • Het Masteen gestured and the Consul followed the tall, robed figure through a dilation in the pod onto an ascending walkway which curved up and out of sight around the massive bark wall of the treeship's trunk.†   (source)
  • Estha's pupils dilated.†   (source)
  • She looked up at Tharthar — a small, dark woman in a red-figured robe of black, the total blue of her eyes trained fixedly on Jessica, the nostrils of her tiny nose dilated to reveal the plug scars.†   (source)
  • But her eyes are dilated with fear, and when I speak, she doesn't respond except to say with ever-increasing urgency, "Tick, tock.†   (source)
  • Katherine heard a scream of pain behind her as the brilliant floodlights seared into her assailant's hyper dilated pupils with over twenty-five-million candlepower of light.†   (source)
  • The hanging man's pupils were wide, dilated with fear, and they seemed to swell, bigger and bigger until their blackness swallowed Harry whole — And how Harry was hurrying along a dark corridor in stout little Gregorovitch's wake as he held a lantern aloft: Gregorovitch burst into the room at the end of the passage and his lantern illuminated what looked like a workshop; wood shavings and gold gleamed in the swinging pool of light, and there on the window ledge sat perched, like a…†   (source)
  • There was no question: the stegosaur's pupil was dilated, and did not contract when light shone on it.†   (source)
  • One evening, as Edgar was crossing the lawn, in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light, he saw Forte watching from the far side of the garden and he stopped, hoping the dog would finally trot into the yard.†   (source)
  • If So-and-so's blood pressure was high, she should be given hawthorn to stabilize the collagen and dilate the coronary blood vessels.†   (source)
  • Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness …. focusing the consciousness …. aortal dilation …. avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness …. to be conscious by choice …. blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions …. one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone …. animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct …. the animal destroys and does not…†   (source)
  • "What does it mean, dilated?" she asks, and Dr. Ashley holds up two fingers side by side, then draws them apart, explaining the unimaginable thing her body must do in order for the baby to pass.†   (source)
  • Her pupils were fixed and dilated.†   (source)
  • The point billowed, as if feeding on itself, unraveling across the sky in a dilating radius of blinding white.†   (source)
  • The director of CERN, Maximilian Kohler, opened his eyes to the cool rush of cromolyn and leukotriene in his body, dilating his bronchial tubes and pulmonary capillaries.†   (source)
  • She thought he might have swallowed so much air and saliva that his stomach began to dilate on its long axis, making it vulnerable to twisting.†   (source)
  • At ten centimeters the cervix is fully dilated, the point at which, in a normal delivery, the mother begins to push.†   (source)
  • How can they say that, when I've won a special mention for my essay on Temperance, about drunken men having car accidents and freezing to death in snowstorms because the alcohol dilates their capillaries?†   (source)
  • His eyes seemed to dilate until there was no color left in them: the gunslinger saw this as he struck a meager light.†   (source)
  • The giant's eyes clicked and dilated.†   (source)
  • His opponent's every detail became clear: the dilated pupils, the foaming jaws, and Straavh's clumsy habit of overlunging….†   (source)
  • The god's huge eyes dilated.†   (source)
  • Sitting absolutely still, he studied the woman—the tiny muscles at the corners of her mouth, the furrow of her brow, the dilation of her pupils.†   (source)
  • An explosion of fireflies blossomed on the sky; the ferris wheel, exultant as a titanic fireworks, dilated above them.†   (source)
  • Snow caked the bottom of his trench coat where it dragged around his feet—Blitz being about five feet five—and his eyes were so dilated, the irises were all pupil.†   (source)
  • For instance, under circumstances in which normal body vessels dilate or contract—such as extreme cold, or exercise—the brain vasculature does not change, but maintains a steady, constant blood supply to the brain.†   (source)
  • Close assessment of her violet-blue eyes yields no definitive answers, though her pupils do look dilated.†   (source)
  • But I was such a total tool, when he leaned his face down close to mine, looked into my dilated (by the dark, not by stash, which I still turned up my nose at) eyes, and it came to me what he had in mind, I actually turned my face away, pretending some nighttime noise had drawn my attention.†   (source)
  • He spoke almost gaily, but Dandelion could see his dilated eyes and the slight trembling of his front paws.†   (source)
  • He dilated upon the piety and heroism of 'The Three Musketeers,' portrayed, in the most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity, It was entirely Billy's fault that this fighting organization no longer existed, Weary felt, and Billy was going to pay.†   (source)
  • As the blood poured into his third space, his eyes remained open and dilated, staring, bloody, deep, dark, and bottomless.†   (source)
  • They had bloody noses, and their eyes were half-open, glassy, and brilliant red, with dilated pupils.†   (source)
  • [Dilated-will she notice?†   (source)
  • The pupils were dilated, as though, Matron would think later, the horror of the journey was still fresh.†   (source)
  • "Why don't I just leave all the doors open until you're more comfortable," Chup said, dilating the door.†   (source)
  • Then his pupils dilated up on us.†   (source)
  • The labia were engorged and blue, and when Matron slid her gloved finger in, she found the cervix fully dilated.†   (source)
  • Her pupils dilated.†   (source)
  • He made a larger model and tried to arrange a dilation, or anomaly (he did not call it a "Gate") which would let him get in and out of the field himself.†   (source)
  • He felt a great dilation in his chest.†   (source)
  • His nostrils dilated.†   (source)
  • The innocence of such a question was, I now realize, almost inconceivable, given what was eventually to be revealed to me as the cause for those dilated pupils, the size of dimes; but then, I was learning a lot of new things in those days.†   (source)
  • Bevel's eyes were dark and dilated.†   (source)
  • Powerhouse throws back his vast head into the steaming rain, and a look of hopeful desire seems to blow somehow like a vapor from his own dilated nostrils over his face and bring a mist to his eyes.†   (source)
  • As he struck a match he felt a difference in motion, a kind of dilation; the ferry was now warped into the bias of the current, which carried it, and the ferryman worked no more; he merely kept one hand on his line.†   (source)
  • He waited with arm raised and glanced through the fully-dilated gate past rolling prairie at snow-touched peaks beyond.†   (source)
  • Shut up, Andrew, his father said harshly; for with the last few words that Andrew spoke, a sort of dilation had seized Mary, so that she had almost risen from her place, seeming larger than herself, and then had collapsed into a shattering of tears.†   (source)
  • This gate, being merdy for Terra-surface commuting, was permanently dilated and required no operator, since the two points brought into coincidence were joined by a rigid frame, the solid Earth.†   (source)
  • Her eyes opened wide, and the pupils dilated.†   (source)
  • Pheoby dilated all over with eagerness, "Tea Cake gone?"†   (source)
  • Her breasts heaved, nostrils dilating suddenly.†   (source)
  • Her face went whiter and her brown eyes dilated enormously.†   (source)
  • They are soundless apparitions that speak to me, with looks and gestures silently, without any word—and it is the alarm of their silence that forces me to lay hold of my sleeve and my rifle lest I should abandon myself to the liberation and allurement in which my body would dilate and gently pass away into the still forces that lie behind these things.†   (source)
  • Digitalin is a heart medicine but it couldn't be Mrs Clapperton's because digitalin dilates the pupils of the eyes.†   (source)
  • Scarlett wanted to slap her again for this helpful information but Melanie opened wide, dilated eyes and whispered: "Dear—are the Yankees coming?"†   (source)
  • Nobody can promise that it will, and sometimes even if it works you still need a dilation and curettage.†   (source)
  • She was holding a handkerchief to her mouth, and her big, dilated eyes followed each of the doctor's movements.†   (source)
  • A little boy with an empty paper-delivery bag swung lithely by, his freckled nostrils dilating pleasantly with hunger and the fancied smell of supper.†   (source)
  • A nd he writhed without motion in the clutch of a fatal glory, and his brain swelled and dilated till it dwarfed the galaxies in a bubble of refulgence-Recoiled, the last screaming nerve clawing for survival.†   (source)
  • It may have been the dilation of the senses by rage that made me think I smelled blood, raw, but the result in horror is what counted.†   (source)
  • The hero replied to this with a drunken roll of the head, a furious dilation of the nostrils, and another horrible noise in his throat.†   (source)
  • Jesus I" Khir-r-r-f. S-s-s. (E-e-e-e-e. Like the red pupil of the eye of darkness, the ember dilated, spun like a pinwheel, expanding, expanding, till at the very core, a white flaw rent the scarlet tissue and spread, engulfed the margin like a stain-) "Five hundred an' fifty volts.†   (source)
  • Melanie looked and her eyes dilated.†   (source)
  • She observed them all, including the new moons, from a little Hebrew calendar, covering her head, lighting candles, and whispering prayers, with her eyes dilated and determined, going after religious terrors with the fear and nerve of a Jonah driven to enter frightful Nineveh.†   (source)
  • His nostrils are dilated and his breath comes fast—his demons are driving him.†   (source)
  • His muzzle went up, his tail stiffened, and his nostrils dilated as he scented the air.†   (source)
  • She looked at him with dilated dark eyes.†   (source)
  • Also the pupils dilated in his hard brown eyes.†   (source)
  • The dark olive of her skin crimsoned; her eyes dilated and shadowed with a rare change of emotion.†   (source)
  • Her face was white, her eyes dilated with horror.†   (source)
  • There were some men's eyes that dilated in the darkness and shone like stars or like cats' eyes.†   (source)
  • She stood with scarlet face and dilating eyes, trembling in every limb.†   (source)
  • When the outburst of mirth subsided Dorothy turned her big, dilated eyes upon Florence.†   (source)
  • The girl lay with wide-open, dark eyes, and they dilated when he knelt beside her.†   (source)
  • She is dead, maybe," exclaimed Titus, almost shrilly, the pupils of his eyes dilating.†   (source)
  • Bo's wide eyes stared at her lover—darkened—dilated.†   (source)
  • He was surprised to see her eyes dilate, then glow with fire.†   (source)
  • Her great brown eyes dilated in fear, then went questioning at the sight of him.†   (source)
  • Her dark eyes dilated; she remained standing in the same spot.†   (source)
  • Her eyes changed from blank gulfs to dilating, shadowing, quickening windows of thought.†   (source)
  • Her eyes dilated, became exposed and palpitating.†   (source)
  • Miss Longstreth turned white, her eyes dilated.†   (source)
  • She looked up at him, and her eyes dilated with anger.†   (source)
  • He met eyes that dilated, seemed fascinated at his gaze, but were not averted.†   (source)
  • His brows were knitting, his eyes dilating passionately.†   (source)
  • "Ah!" cried Miriam, and she looked at Paul, her dark eyes dilating.†   (source)
  • (ASIDE) Something shot from my dilated nostrils, he has inhaled it in his lungs.†   (source)
  • By degrees they dilate, and gain in huge size what they lose in number.†   (source)
  • She came with a dilated eye towards the door, to push past him.†   (source)
  • Godfrey looked up at Nancy with a flushed face and smarting dilated eyes.†   (source)
  • It swells, expands, dilates—the blood fires, the pulse quickens, the excitement increases—Whew!†   (source)
  • His voice and hand quivered: his large nostrils dilated; his eye blazed: still I dared to speak.†   (source)
  • Milady listened with an attention that dilated her inflamed eyes.†   (source)
  • The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.†   (source)
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