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  • I felt bodiless and flaccid and crepey-skinned, like a deflating balloon.†  (source)
  • Then, exactly as the Hassassin expected, his victim went suddenly flaccid.†  (source)
  • Then it fell flaccid.†  (source)
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  • The finance guys turn rageful and flaccid.†  (source)
  • All that had gone into fiber before had drawn inward, leaving flaccidity outside, solid granite at the core.†  (source)
  • "Congratulations," Mama said flaccidly.†  (source)
  • And the doctor, dutiful, had recited the symptoms he'd memorized from the text: flaccid muscle tone, delayed growth and mental development, possible heart complications, early death.†  (source)
  • Buyers of the Middlemarch newspapers found themselves in an anomalous position: during the agitation on the Catholic Question many had given up the "Pioneer"—which had a motto from Charles James Fox and was in the van of progress—because it had taken Peel's side about the Papists, and had thus blotted its Liberalism with a toleration of Jesuitry and Baal; but they were ill-satisfied with the "Trumpet," which—since its blasts against Rome, and in the general flaccidity of the public mind (nobody knowing who would support whom)—had become feeble in its blowing.†  (source)
  • "Brotherhood—," Peeperkorn said, throwing his massive body back in free and proud intoxication and stretching one arm out over the table to bang it with a flaccidly clenched fist, "in the offing—in the near offing, though discreetly reconsidered for now, fine.†  (source)
  • He thumped one hand on Robert's shoulder and used the other to pump his hand in a way that somehow managed to be simultaneously both violent and flaccid.†  (source)
  • So he retired into the niche of the fireplace where he had used to sit, and there he continued, watching the steam from the double row of bank-notes as they waved backwards and forwards in the draught of the chimney till their flaccidity was changed to dry crispness throughout.†  (source)
  • He found a woman with flaccid breasts, affectionate and cheap, who calmed his stomach for some time.†  (source)
  • Paul staggered as the old man sagged in his arms, felt the death there, the utter flaccidity.†  (source)
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