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  • He had taken only a step or two in full flight when an imageless blaze of white blossomed and dissipated before him.†   (source)
  • In the preceding minutes, there must have been such a rush of parties arriving for dinner that the winter air had yet to dissipate from the fabric of their coats.†   (source)
  • The joy he feels when he is sitting across from a loved one quickly dissipates at the end of the visit as he walks back through the gate to his cell.†   (source)
  • All I could do was stand there and wait for it to dissipate.†   (source)
  • My confusion dissipates as I run.†   (source)
  • The feeling of shame that was still animating my flesh with goading particularity and self-consciousness—it would be enough for that to dissipate.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno began to feel the fog of wonder and adrenaline dissipating.†   (source)
  • Her dissipated breath.†   (source)
  • The anxieties about the situation in France that had been absorbing the country had for the moment dissipated in the afternoon's sunshine.†   (source)
  • The air is thick, as if panic has condensed in here and hasn't yet had time to dissipate.†   (source)
  • Less surface area means less heat dissipation.†   (source)
  • Terrified, Rameck's anger dissipated.†   (source)
  • They were both half-dressed and growing colder as their heat began to dissipate.†   (source)
  • I decided to hang out on the swing for a while, half because the heat had finally dissipated into a pleasant, if muggy, eighty-something, and half because I thought Alaska might show up.†   (source)
  • He has felt a sense of rebellion lately, but he knows that once he recounts all the things this man wants to hear, it will dissipate.†   (source)
  • The weight gradually lifts off my chest, the sadness dissipates, and I'm eventually no longer crying.†   (source)
  • But the dream, which had seemed prophetic, refused to dissipate and hung like a poisonous vapor, my heart still pounding from the airy danger of it, its sense of openness and hazard.†   (source)
  • I wanted my account to have a raw, ruthless sort of honesty that seemed in danger of leaching away with the passage of time and the dissipation of anguish.†   (source)
  • All my nervousness dissipates.†   (source)
  • Radiation has a habit of hanging around when certain scientists have assured us it has dissipated.†   (source)
  • Her burgeoning anger dissipates, replaced by concern.†   (source)
  • The stuff is guaranteed to kill every single bug in two hours' time and then dissipate with no residue.†   (source)
  • It reached Eragon before he had time to react, and it passed through him without harm, dissipating against the houses.†   (source)
  • The uncertainty that lived inside me began to dissipate; the ache that the little boy who stared in the mirror felt was gone.†   (source)
  • Another round of dishes arrived, just in time to dissipate the tension.†   (source)
  • The last tattered remnants of the afternoon's cloud cover dissipate through the treetops and color returns to the world.†   (source)
  • With Ned gone and the divorce final, Holmes's interest in Julia began to dissipate.†   (source)
  • Like a faint smell of burning that disappears when the fire is cut off or the window opened for a breeze, the suspicion that the girl's touch was also exactly like the baby's ghost dissipated.†   (source)
  • It was nearly dusk before they finally dissipated.†   (source)
  • The pain in his side dissipated, and this convinced Zeitoun it had been caused not by anything visible on an X-ray, but by heartbreak, by sorrow.†   (source)
  • I saw Ramiro's fleeing figure, his breath rising above him in quickly-dissipating clouds.†   (source)
  • Their fights didn't so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.†   (source)
  • It rose out of the abandoned prison in a dark curl and hung in the air looking like smoke, but this smoke didn 't dissipate: it moved and circled in a solid mass.†   (source)
  • After a little while, what little awkwardness as existed during the initial minutes of our meeting had dissipated completely, and our conversation took a more personal turn.†   (source)
  • The illusion was magnified by the only light present, a dim radiance that encircled him, but dissipated within ten feet in every direction.†   (source)
  • It is heavier than air and does not dissipate.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza's fears dissipated because the wind was favorable all night, and there was a scent of flowers at sea that helped her to sleep soundly without the safety straps.†   (source)
  • Its fabric is a micro-sandwich performing functions of heat dissipation and filter for bodily wastes.†   (source)
  • A person filled with gumption doesn't sit around dissipating and stewing about things.†   (source)
  • Yet it remained too hot in the courtroom despite this; the trapped heat wouldn't dissipate.†   (source)
  • I laugh out loud, my fear dissipating, a dangerous sense of my own power growing.†   (source)
  • The air of collective displacement, the impermanence of life in wartime and the gauche personalities of the more recent arrivals tended to dissipate my own sense of not belonging.†   (source)
  • As quickly as the dust came it dissipated, presumably less potent after Felix's trip inside.†   (source)
  • Too much dissipation.†   (source)
  • Little by little, she felt her anxiety dissipate.†   (source)
  • It still smelled like him, and she wondered how long it would take for that to dissipate.†   (source)
  • "We've all been dissipating," said Richard, "but you look like you've been being a good girl and getting your beauty sleep every night."†   (source)
  • Exercise dissipates tension, and tension is the enemy of serenity.†   (source)
  • The whiskey, the moonshine, the gin, the God-knows-what--all of it dissipates instantly.†   (source)
  • The wraith vanishes, the smoke dissipates, and the barracks go still, as if the last fifteen minutes never happened.†   (source)
  • Caroline paused, the wild adrenaline rush of her meeting with David Henry suddenly gone, dissipating into the spring night like mist.†   (source)
  • Instead, it dissipated, grew fainter, until it seemed, if not forgotten, left behind for the time being.†   (source)
  • The air dissipated the smells of urine and perspiration that had accumulated in the bus.†   (source)
  • But that burst tends to dissipate over the course of an entire can, and that is another reason Coke suffered by comparison.†   (source)
  • Alice leaped lightly over the edges of the dissipating mist that lapped at my shield and came to a sinuous stop at Edward's side.†   (source)
  • The force of the explosion had torn a hole twelve feet across, shredded the interior ballast tank baffles, and ruptured a half-dozen air flasks, but already much of its force had been dissipated.†   (source)
  • This harsh view has dissipated in most of the world, but survives in the Middle East, and this emphasis on sexual honor is today a major reason for violence against women.†   (source)
  • The goal: determine how architecture could be used to increase air circulation and help dissipate trapped air pollution.†   (source)
  • The entire building reeked of rot, and I told Zombie that opening the windows would help dissipate the smell and kill off some of the bugs.†   (source)
  • My young father stood, typically, at a remove, as the last great ceremony of his public life slowly dissipated; as the festive crowd and the beribboned generals drifted from beneath the gleaming monument and toward their cars.†   (source)
  • That whole night may have been the definition of a bad idea, but if one good thing came out of it, it's that somehow the tension between the two of us has dissipated.†   (source)
  • Because of changes in metabolism, drugs and alcohol have increasingly less effect on fledglings, and as this effect dissipates, they will find that the effects of drinking blood correspondingly increase.†   (source)
  • But Claudia held me, not with a gentle pleading, a miserable coaxing that would have dissipated that power, making me feel pity for her as I gathered my own forces.†   (source)
  • They were both naked, and raising a rumpus that brought everyone in the apartment into the hall to watch, each couple in a bedroom doorway, all of them naked except the aproned and sweatered old woman, who clucked reprovingly, and the lecherous, dissipated old man, who cackled aloud hilariously through the whole episode with a kind of avid and superior glee.†   (source)
  • Macon sighed, and the darkness began to dissipate.†   (source)
  • Cedric, like the rest of them, feels that spirit quickly dissipating.†   (source)
  • Vlad sighed, the sick feeling dissipating.†   (source)
  • She was in shock, so she felt no pain, but pretty soon the adrenaline pumping through her system would dissipate, and she'd fade, and be gone.†   (source)
  • The roar of the collapse faded slowly, like smoke dissipating into the air.†   (source)
  • And once I faced it head-on, once I understood it, it dissipated.†   (source)
  • She poured the water over the rest of the man's body now, and as quickly as the liquid spread over his skin, the blood dissipated, the redness faded, the cuts filled in with new flesh.†   (source)
  • My fear dissipated a bit as I pictured the soldiers as people I knew.†   (source)
  • Dissipation and what I suspected was malnutrition had taken a toll.†   (source)
  • Samuel Curwen, the Salem Loyalist, saw dissipation and "vicious indulgence" everywhere he looked, "from the lowest haunts to the most elegant and expensive rendezvous of the noble and polished world."†   (source)
  • As I felt myself slump to my knees, Alice's son-in-law, Del, a man I highly respected, embraced me until my anger dissipated.†   (source)
  • The rage didn't dissipate, but with the blood-dark pressure constricting his field of vision, filled with a primitive frenzy that leaped through him like a thousand monkeys skirling through a jungle of trees and vines, Joe was nevertheless able to recognize that he was out of control.†   (source)
  • Richter raised her left hand, and the green and gold cords binding Mum dissipated to fading motes of light.†   (source)
  • They let me play nothing but symbols of depravity, nothing but harlots, dissipation-chasers and home-wreckers, always to be beaten at the end by the little girl next door, personifying the virtue of mediocrity.†   (source)
  • But, like lobsters in Maine, crabs are getting scarce, the island is losing population, and there is increasing contact with the outside world— all a common recipe for dialect dissipation, as the linguists call it.†   (source)
  • Holding aloft the Phial Frodo looked and before him he saw a greyness which the radiance of the star-glass did not pierce and did not illuminate, as if it were a shadow that being cast by no light, no light could dissipate.†   (source)
  • The water held only a hint of salt, which Singbe thought would dissipate as they moved back from the stream's mouth.†   (source)
  • But as quickly as his anger flared, it dissipated, smoke.†   (source)
  • Their calls first start all together and slow and then pick up speed and volume until they finally dissipate to separate voices and rounds of hand clapping and cheers.†   (source)
  • They had hot-water bottles that they would jettison as soon as the heat dissipated, vacuum bottles of hot tea, and meat sandwiches.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar's anger had dissipated over the long months.†   (source)
  • The swirling gas in front of the shattered french doors was being sucked in by the heat of the flames; it would dissipate sufficiently for him to make headway.†   (source)
  • The memory dissipated.†   (source)
  • They have more surface area to dissipate heat.†   (source)
  • Yet neither one of them could remember exactly what had been said; the words had dissipated, leaving only charged air.†   (source)
  • On Friday night, Florence and Alice had split a bottle of sherry, an unaccustomed dissipation, and stayed up long past midnight, exchanging confidences, opinions, and gossip.†   (source)
  • So much of him already had dissipated.†   (source)
  • A night mist tried to gather: failed - for the air in the gully was too warm - and dissipated into pre-dawn dew.†   (source)
  • But to his questions she gave proper answers; to do otherwise would be waste motion, and dissipated energy, and foreign to a good cat.†   (source)
  • There's a school of thought among the scientists, a section of them, who consider that this atmospheric radioactivity may be dissipating—decreasing in intensity, fairly quickly.†   (source)
  • His face is still good looking, despite marks of dissipation, but it has never been handsome like Tyrone's, although Jamie resembles him rather than his mother.†   (source)
  • When he would walk into the schoolroom the next morning, a look of unconcern and even stupidity on his face would dissipate my dream; but my fears were increased through his unconsciousness of them, for I felt a mystery deeper than danger which hung about him.†   (source)
  • The black haze was no longer dissipating.†   (source)
  • I need power to move or I'll be stranded until the storm passes or dissipates.†   (source)
  • Smoke began to pour out of its mouth, and the blue glow in its eyes quickly dissipated.†   (source)
  • Wisps of mist float here and there above the fields, dissipating like dreams in the rising light.†   (source)
  • They can control the weather, Dee said, and the storm dissipated.†   (source)
  • The noises stopped, and the fog dissipated.†   (source)
  • The word pops out, and instantly the weight on my chest dissipates.†   (source)
  • The pearly wisps curled upward toward the firmament and slowly dissipated.†   (source)
  • It will not leave him alone until it dissipates.†   (source)
  • We both laughed, and most of the tension in the air dissipated.†   (source)
  • I watched them play from a distance until a few minutes later, when her Barrier spell dissipated.†   (source)
  • I ran toward Amos, but the red mist had already dissipated.†   (source)
  • By then the tension, so thick only moments before, was dissipating as quickly as it had arisen.†   (source)
  • In the wake of the adrenaline rush that was slowly dissipating, Miles felt tired.†   (source)
  • Kymopoleia waved her hand and the murky clouds dissipated.†   (source)
  • Raining hard at first, then gradually the rain dissipated.†   (source)
  • A bolt of white heat hit her and she grayed, then dissipated into the air.†   (source)
  • The sword dissipated in a puff of smoke.†   (source)
  • The throngs of people waiting for Shay, and the media covering his story, had not dissipated.†   (source)
  • The yellow dust dissipated on the rocky shore, turning to steam.†   (source)
  • Then the feeling dissipated into bewilderment, sadness, and self-disgust.†   (source)
  • As the smoke dissipated, he blacked out.†   (source)
  • The anxiety he felt at the immigration checkpoint had dissipated, but the threat was still there.†   (source)
  • The mist dissipated swiftly, but I held my shield in place.†   (source)
  • I tried to find my direction but just ended up spinning around and dissipating my energy.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, they dissipated in a curl of black smoke.†   (source)
  • The spirit horse charged into the sunflowers and dissipated into vapor.†   (source)
  • But the magic has dissipated, the warmth frozen over.†   (source)
  • D'Ablo looked back and forth between them, his confusion slowly dissipating.†   (source)
  • The light dissipated soon enough, but Errtu held its ground and did not approach the wizard again.†   (source)
  • Which is just great at dissipating heat.†   (source)
  • The illusions dissipated and Max groaned.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the sense of dread he'd felt hadn't totally dissipated, despite his successful rides.†   (source)
  • Nico swiped his hand through the mist, and Bianca's image dissipated.†   (source)
  • The fumes had dissipated so it wasn't toxic to hang out in the room anymore, but the mood was grim.†   (source)
  • Even as the Stygian crows were dissipating, a hundred ogres came barreling out of the woods.†   (source)
  • He blew into it, a gentle exhale that plucked at its edges until the ball dissipated to nothingness.†   (source)
  • The rainclouds dissipated and melted into the water.†   (source)
  • The urge to laugh had dissipated when he realized that Annie might know everything about the deus ex machina except the name.†   (source)
  • Everything was still a blur, but the adrenaline in his body was finally dissipating …. and he was feeling like himself again.†   (source)
  • The notes floated with the fog, dissipating into the darker reaches of the lowland forests, and seemed somehow to be absorbed and memorized by the marsh because whenever Kya passed those channels again, she heard his music.†   (source)
  • Fresh air dissipated the slaughterhouse smell of blood and brought in the rumble of the wheel and the rustle of grass under the hull.†   (source)
  • From that night on, any cloud there might have been between them was dissipated without bitterness, and Florentino Ariza understood at last that it is possible to be a woman's friend and not go to bed with her.†   (source)
  • Vapor curled down the side of the bottle, spilling over his fingers in silvery waves before dissipating into the night air.†   (source)
  • A globule of indigo fire struck the ground in the midst of the fray, bursting into a fountain of molten drops that dissipated like sun-warmed dew.†   (source)
  • From amongst the floral tributes the female chooses four flowers, and the sexual ardour of the unsuccessful candidates dissipates immediately, with no hard feelings left.†   (source)
  • Annabeth and Grover stood on the beach, in shock, watching the water flood back around Ares's feet, his glowing golden ichor dissipating in the tide.†   (source)
  • Then, gradually, the flames dissipated.†   (source)
  • The good looks of Grace had interested me in her cause; and though there was something about the girl that I could not exactly like, I had been a very lawless, dissipated fellow, and if a woman was young and pretty, I cared very little about her character.†   (source)
  • The wall of mist dissipated, and the fog sluggishly collapsed across the ground like a tower of mud sliding apart.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop commented to Dr. Urbino that in a sense this was a historic luncheon: there, together for the first time at the same table, their wounds healed and their anger dissipated, sat the two opposing sides in the civil wars that had bloodied the country ever since Independence.†   (source)
  • And with that, his image dissipated.†   (source)
  • As they got closer, they sent fiery comets and bolts of lightning toward the pyramid; but each blast dissipated harmlessly against its stone slopes, consumed in the red haze of Set's power.†   (source)
  • His two compatriots were men of honor and integrity, he still believed, but the one grew increasingly cunning and dissipated, the other sour, secretive, and no less cunning.†   (source)
  • And though I didn't do anything that day with Mary Burns to go against her wishes, it would be wrong to recall something other than a renewed lightness suffusing my spirit, a part of me which seemed, I was certain, to have been long ago dissipated, and lost.†   (source)
  • His fiery blade dissipated.†   (source)
  • My acceleration slowed, and when the mist dissipated, I was back in Brooklyn House, floating just outside the infirmary door.†   (source)
  • Thanatos dissipated into black smoke.†   (source)
  • The golden lights of Salamanca were obscured for a moment until the mist washed over them and dissipated into the clear night sky.†   (source)
  • Another gust of wind ruffled his hair, and a cool shadow sweptover him as Saphira circled above, dissipating her excess speed.†   (source)
  • As the smoke rose, it was swept down-canyon by a perpetual breeze, and most of it dissipated before it rose high enough to be seen from any distance.†   (source)
  • When I turn away from Rob it's a struggle to keep from bursting out laughing, and all the nervousness I feel about talking to Kent dissipates.†   (source)
  • Delicious as the day turned out to be for Milkman, it was even more so because it included secrecy and defiance, both of which dissipated within an hour of his father's return.†   (source)
  • As Max squeezed through the crowd, he discovered that the commotion was dissipating to an eerie silence.†   (source)
  • There was a burst of fire from the center of the pentagram, and a thick black wave of smoke rose, dissipating slowly through the room, making everyone but Simon cough and choke.†   (source)
  • Gradually, the outline dissipated.†   (source)
  • And as she did, the globe's rotation began to slow, and for the first time I noticed a noise, like a single high note of a children's choir, dissipating in volume.†   (source)
  • Even that mysterious chill she'd been feeling since the ship launched had dissipated, at least for now.†   (source)
  • Since that day, if I am made to wait long enough for something I dread, my nervousness dissipates into a steely boredom.†   (source)
  • She agreed not to go to bed with Captain Black again or give him any more of Nately's money, but she would not budge an inch on her friendship with the ugly, ill-kempt, dissipated, filthy-minded old man, who witnessed Nately's flowering love affair with insulting derision and would not admit that Congress was the greatest deliberative body in the whole world.†   (source)
  • As the sun warmed Eragon through his armor, his melancholy gradually dissipated like the wreaths of mist that adorned the rivers below.†   (source)
  • As the clamor of the angry storm faded, he also noticed that the strain imposed by his spells was increasing—not so much from the enchantment that prevented their bodily heat from dissipating too quickly, but from the enchantment that collected and compressedthe atmosphere in front of him and Saphira so that they could fill their lungs as they normally did.†   (source)
  • She toyed, sometimes, with her unsucked breasts, but at some point her lethargy dissipated of its own accord and in its place was wilderness, the focused meanness of a flood or an avalanche of snow which only observers, flying in a rescue helicopter, believed to be an indifferent natural phenomenon, but which the victims, in their last gulp of breath, knew was both directed and personal.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is because the invisible psychic self, being only a wave energy of some type, responds to open spaces in much the manner of heat contained in a hot stone placed in a cold room: It radiates outward, dissipating, dispersing itself, and cannot be conserved in a coherent form.†   (source)
  • Mechanical ballerinas, music boxes, acrobatic monkeys, trotting horses, clowns who played the tambourine: the rich and startling mechanical fauna that Pietro Crespi brought dissipated Jose Arcadio Buendia's affliction over the death of Melquiades and carried him back to his old days as an alchemist.†   (source)
  • The fire dissipated.†   (source)
  • He was a tall, thin man whose sense of humor had apparently dissipated along with the hair on his scalp.†   (source)
  • The prickling sensation of being watched had dissipated, as had the icy fear; all he was left with was a feeling of being hot and tired, with a sense of frustration and foolishness mixed in.†   (source)
  • Sunlight mingled in her hair, the grass was soft beneath her stocking feet, and they moved together so easily, dipping and turning, the tension she'd carried with her from the meeting dissipating with each step.†   (source)
  • The storm dissipated.†   (source)
  • The fog dissipated, and they found themselves on a peninsula that jutted out over a pitch-black void.†   (source)
  • There was of course the threat of an enemy offensive looming about like a pall, but even that, too, seemed to be dissipating, the notion grown more enervating, somehow, than frightful.†   (source)
  • But the hammer only slammed into the floor as Ronin's decoy dissipated and promptly reformed as though made of magnetized smoke.†   (source)
  • To Max's surprise, the protective orb surrounding the Blood Petal dissipated, allowing the deadly flower to settle upon Astaroth's bare skin.†   (source)
  • The globe of darkness had dissipated, and Wulfgar gawked at how accurate the drow's approximated bowshots had been.†   (source)
  • Later on she said something quite similar to me by the poolside, but of course it was meant then as a sober appraisal of our all-but-dissipated relationship, which was as critical as Mary Burns could ever be of me.†   (source)
  • The spirit dissipated.†   (source)
  • I take another handful of snow, and then another, and the exhaustion I felt just a minute ago has dissipated.†   (source)
  • They threw themselves onto the snow and began shooting in his direction, but he was hidden by clouds, and when the clouds dissipated, his dark silhouette was almost impossible to find against the black sky, for all it did was cut out the stars.†   (source)
  • Daddy Comes to Pick Me Up And all the courage I gathered overnight dissipates like smoke in winter wind.†   (source)
  • The girls disrobed at once, pausing in different stages to point proudly to their garish underthings and bantering all the while with the gaunt and dissipated old man with the shabby long white hair and slovenly white unbuttoned shirt who sat cackling lasciviously in a musty blue armchair almost in the exact center of the room and bade Nately and his companions welcome with a mirthful and sardonic formality.†   (source)
  • Max blinked as the golden threads that comprised the mythical sea monster 'dissipated into tiny motes of light.†   (source)
  • His anger dissipated into the fog.†   (source)
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