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  • This letter was as thick as some from Luke's grandmother, but it bore an official seal, and the return address was an embossed DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN HABITATION, ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS DIVISION.†   (source)
  • Costa Rica was becoming deforested, and as jungle species lost their habitats, they moved to other areas, and sometimes changed behavior as well.†   (source)
  • He could look at the list of habitats, that might help.†   (source)
  • And so I watched her, seeing her reaction to the changes in my apartment--from the pristine habitat I maintained after the divorce, when all of a sudden I had too much time to keep my life in order--to this present chaos, a home full of life and love.†   (source)
  • He likes being around soldiers; I suppose it's his natural habitat.†   (source)
  • The penguins tottered and clucked and dived, slipping off the habitat rocks like amiable hams but living under water like tuxedoed muscles.†   (source)
  • I began to find evidence of human habitation only when I got back to the empty room.†   (source)
  • "The way she has it set up, a table on its own with a light on it, and all the stuff arranged so you're not supposed to touch it—it's like those dioramas they place around the yak or whatever, to show its habitat.†   (source)
  • And I must return to my natural habitat.†   (source)
  • The cow protects the grass habitat by eating young trees and shrubs that might compete with grasses.†   (source)
  • You've heard of Habitat for Humanity, right?†   (source)
  • My mom and dad were involved with Habitat for Humanity.†   (source)
  • There were no signs of habitation along the Ninor or in the plains, leaving the three companions undisturbed as the days slipped by.†   (source)
  • When sleep refused to return, I lit the kerosene lamp and sat alone until dawn at our big dining-room table, staring at the words of the Psalms to numb my mind: Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.†   (source)
  • Have you seen any signs of habitation?†   (source)
  • No sight of human habitation since we left Melton's Landing two days ago.†   (source)
  • The Matterhorn and Mont Blanc, those emblems of the Romantic sublime, may not be for human habitation, but limestone country is.†   (source)
  • "There's little chance our shark has encountered one of these, given the difference in their habitats," Georgia said.†   (source)
  • As the sun sets, its red light is supplanted by the light of many neon logos emanating from the franchise ghetto that constitutes this U-Stor-It's natural habitat.†   (source)
  • Far from their natural habitat, the cattle in feedlots become more prone to all sorts of illnesses.†   (source)
  • Like that lion in the jungle, my natural habitat was still on a college campus, in front of students.†   (source)
  • There were no signs of human habitation in that direction.†   (source)
  • Andie knew my habits, knew my habitats.†   (source)
  • Another habitat contained a red-and-black tarantula native to India.†   (source)
  • And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.†   (source)
  • ] As I expected, everyone was gathered on the veranda, which served as our dining area and albino crocodile habitat.†   (source)
  • Whenever she came into the cafeteria, Josie felt like a naturalist observing different species in their natural, nonacademic habitat.†   (source)
  • There were too many things he could tell: The Sex Life of the Great American Happy Housewife in Its Natural Habitat.†   (source)
  • The villages form a ring of human settlement around the volcano, and the ring is steadily closing around the forest on its slopes, a noose that is strangling the wild habitat of the mountain.†   (source)
  • She'd started volunteering weekends on Habitat houses; while building a house in eastern Kentucky she had met a warm, ruddy, fun-loving man, a minister recently widowed.†   (source)
  • Jason was also a vegan and had spent the past summer building houses for Habitat for Humanity.†   (source)
  • It passed few habitations, and of those the dwellers were not yet abroad, since it was scarce day.†   (source)
  • Days twentyfive and twenty-six, I worked with a crew on a Habitat for Humanity house.†   (source)
  • I turned around when I got close to the first signs of habitation.†   (source)
  • We have to do our business outside because the toilet's not ready for human habitation.†   (source)
  • I wanted to join my friends in the leadership group when they volunteered to help build a Habitat for Humanity house, but Mrs. Dorr told me I should wait for a more suitable project.†   (source)
  • The dusty murk along the depths of the gorge and the high-altitude sun brushing the tips of these granite towers felt more like his natural habitat than the pastel stucco bungalows of Berkeley.†   (source)
  • No one was on the road, and the hills through which we marched were empty of habitation.†   (source)
  • This body of grief is not fit for human habitation.†   (source)
  • They suggested that he might be some exotic animal their uncle had caught in some remote corner of the world and that perhaps in his natural habitat he was wild.†   (source)
  • We were doing work there for Habitat for Humanity.†   (source)
  • There are some lovely sleek chrome ones in Habitat.†   (source)
  • These detrimental impacts are visible today as polar bears lose their habitat of sea ice, the sex of sea turtle eggs is skewed, whales have less krill to feed on, and coral reefs are bleached, to cite just a few examples.†   (source)
  • But this was, in some ways, her natural habitat.†   (source)
  • My habitation, how disconsolate it looks !†   (source)
  • Thereafter, for a period of eighteen days, he is maintained in a drug-induced coma while a team of scientists designs and oversees the urgent construction of a suitable habitat for their prize—one which will sustain his life but assure that he remains controlled.†   (source)
  • Most seemed to live alone, out of sight of any human habitation but their own.†   (source)
  • This provides our guests with a safe haven and a variety of habitats reminiscent of their homes.†   (source)
  • What a great stadium that is, with its passion and the night games and a live Bengal tiger in a habitat—located far too close to the visitors' locker room, something I would learn more about a few years later.†   (source)
  • At the foot of the stairs she redistributed her weight between the crutches and swooped on through the front room, to the dining room, to the kitchen, swinging and swooping like a giant heron, so graceful sailing about in its own habitat but awkward and comical when it folded its wings and tried to walk.†   (source)
  • The hold of the saucer was crammed with other stolen merchandise, which would be used to furnish Billy's artificial habitat in a zoo on Tralfamadore.†   (source)
  • A sure sign of habitation.†   (source)
  • They stopped at a house that stood on the edge of a cliff, with no other habitation anywhere in sight, with the whole of the oil fields spread on the slopes below.†   (source)
  • Frodo knew just where the present habitation and heart of that will now was: as certainly as a man can tell the direction of the sun with his eyes shut.†   (source)
  • The apartment became a little city with naturally separate habitats, her own private boroughs, and mine.†   (source)
  • I'd come home from a school trip to an aquarium, and I was explaining the differences between baleen and sperm whales according to the size of their heads, the range of their habitats, their feeding patterns.†   (source)
  • "Oh," I say, sinking back into my seat in embarrassment over my excitement at seeing the Château Mirac cook in her own habitat.†   (source)
  • On one particular raid, though, against a clan of Svirfnebli, the deep mining, unassuming gnomes that often had the misfortune of running up against the drow in their common habitat, Masoj went too far in his maliciousness.†   (source)
  • Empty streets gave way to the constant swarm of tourists in midtown, the flash of video billboards offering every pleasure and purchase known to man, then to the trendy insomniacs of the Village who loitered over minuscule cups of flavored coffee and lofty discussions in outdoor cafes, and finally, to the sleepy habitats of the artists.†   (source)
  • He runs to the door and it's fake; the windows have bars, and out front is a sign saying that he is in his natural habitat.†   (source)
  • I also bargained with the companies to ensure that the duck habitat would not be damaged.†   (source)
  • On two sides were high walls of gray flint, and on the third, darkened and shuttered, was a two-story building that showed no sign of habitation.†   (source)
  • "I want to make a habitat eventually," Tyler said, shrugging.†   (source)
  • My personal predelictions lay towards studies of living animals in their own habitat.†   (source)
  • Travis Coates in his natural habitat.†   (source)
  • Part of this sprang from all of Sophie's Auschwitz images, which left an actual stink in my nostrils as of the rotted cerements and dank crumbling bonepiles I once beheld amid the brambles of New York's potter's field—an island-secluded place I had become acquainted with in the recent past, a domain, like Auschwitz, of burning dead flesh, and like it, the habitat of prisoners.†   (source)
  • Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.†   (source)
  • Follow the double line of wheel tracks through sand and rock and you will find a habitation somewhere huddled in a protected place, with a few trees pointing their roots at under-earth water, a patch of starveling corn and squash, and strips of jerky hanging on a string.†   (source)
  • The level valley which lay at the head of the bay showed no road or track or other sign of habitation.†   (source)
  • The theory was that they didn't dare use too big an explosion because of damage to their troglodyte habitats, even if they cofferdammed around it.†   (source)
  • Even with their lights on, the houses looked abandoned, like habitations depopulated by plague.†   (source)
  • There was no sign of man; not a house or church, not even the ruin of some previous habitation—only the road, the yellow dirt road, a crayon line across the basin of the valley.†   (source)
  • But he was in a new habitat which he did not know.   (source)
  • We live in the same habitat as the animals we eat.†   (source)
  • Every animal has particular habitat needs that must be met.†   (source)
  • They engaged a powerful affinity with their habitat and their food chain.†   (source)
  • Who wouldn't want all the animals in their near-native habitat?†   (source)
  • Joe contacted Habitat for Humanity and asked if they had pictures of your parents.†   (source)
  • Thought we'd go an' see these creatures in their natural habitat.†   (source)
  • He designed the Habitat houses we'd built, even let me help him with it.†   (source)
  • "It looks like it's time to release our seahorse friends into their new habitat.†   (source)
  • Now the Sasquatch will return to his natural habitat! and Good riddance, Bigfoot.†   (source)
  • They had a pretty large habitat, with huge rocks, an enormous swimming pool, toys to play with.†   (source)
  • Come track the amazing elephant in its natural habitat, the Tuli Block… "What are you reading?"†   (source)
  • Billy was displayed there in the zoo in a simulated Earthling habitat.†   (source)
  • Habitat for Humanity was a community-service group that rebuilt houses for the poor.†   (source)
  • The idea for a habitat has been around for some time.†   (source)
  • The team came to the conclusion that there was no way you were going for a big habitat.†   (source)
  • I mean, I don't know how familiar you are with DC, but there are lots of under-served neighborhoods, I'm involved in a service project tutoring at-risk kids in reading and math, and this summer, I'm going to Haiti with Habitat for Humanity —"†   (source)
  • Then you'd narrow it down, Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species, then the habitat and when last seen, and what had snuffed it.†   (source)
  • We later heard that this particular skeleton tarantula was a bit of a rebel: once, she had somehow engineered a jailbreak, invaded the habitat next door, and eaten her neighbor for lunch.†   (source)
  • Muldoon had laid out the boundaries for different animals, defining space and habitat requirements for lions, elephants, zebras, and hippos.†   (source)
  • You know I'm from Lenoir, live on a ranch, love horses, and spend my summers building homes for Habitat for Humanity.†   (source)
  • But I learned at my expense that Father believed there was another animal even more dangerous than us, and one that was extremely common, too, found on every continent, in every habitat: the redoubtable species Animalus anthropomorphicus, the animal as seen through human eyes.†   (source)
  • 'Professor Dumbledore has kindly arranged this classroom for us,' said Firenze, when everyone had settled down, 'in imitation of my natural habitat.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, he felt his original views were correct: that a lizard species had been driven from the forest into a new habitat, and was coming into contact with village people.†   (source)
  • They were perfectly adjusted to their habitat, so they would never have to create houses or tools or weapons, or, for that matter, clothing.†   (source)
  • For most of them, it's their first time working with Habitat, and they're just doing it so they have something different to put on their résumé when they graduate.†   (source)
  • I'd taken it after Mom and Dad handed over the key to the first resident of the Habitat neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Grizzly bears, brown bears, Kodiak bears …. his dad wasn't a stickler for reality when it came to a bear's natural habitat.†   (source)
  • The day before his inaugural Feral Hog Hunt, Colin Singleton prepared the only way Colin Singleton would: by reading. lie scanned through ten volumes of Foxfire books for information about the habits and habitat of the feral hog.†   (source)
  • 'After the group vet appointment'during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room'we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.†   (source)
  • He wondered whether they realized their habitat had shrunk in size, and if they even knew he was there.†   (source)
  • It was a comfortable bed, and the lymrill had come to prefer its soft mattress and downy comforter to his arboreal habitat.†   (source)
  • Or I would be destroyed outright—though none of us had been so far, and I was fairly sure I would more likely serve as a habitat, or the core of a small station.†   (source)
  • The list of suggestions provided in the information packet included many craft-based skills, like learning how to quilt or decorate a cake; volunteer work that would benefit the community, like starting a children's choir or helping with the Special Olympics or Habitat for Humanity; and practical skills, like carpentry or website design.†   (source)
  • This is my natural habitat.†   (source)
  • These fictitious people in the zoo had a big board supposedly showing stock market, quotations and commodity prices along one wall of their habitat, and a news ticker, and a telephone that was supposedly connected to a brokerage on Earth.†   (source)
  • It's not like a few million people are going to move off the Earth into a habitat that's nothing more than a target for any attack!"†   (source)
  • "That you're making a humongo habitat?"†   (source)
  • "Why" "It's a habitat.†   (source)
  • There was no sign of intact human habitation.†   (source)
  • "Is this where you live?" asked Kassad but saw immediately that there were no signs of habitation.†   (source)
  • It won't be long before all visible traces of human habitation will be gone.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she would make fun and say it was my "habitation."†   (source)
  • Your own man Yarwyck says it will be half a year before the castle can be made fit for habitation.†   (source)
  • Outside the city–in the wilderness… a state park, away from any habitations.†   (source)
  • Now Lord Tywin had commanded that they be made fit for habitation again.†   (source)
  • There is no important area of habitation for a radius of nearly one hundred and twelve miles.†   (source)
  • There were no human habitations for miles around them.†   (source)
  • That is, they smell like a virus; and they flourish in ruined habitats.†   (source)
  • Your kind would have searched any habitation thoroughly.†   (source)
  • There was no other plane in sight, no structures, no sign of human habitation.†   (source)
  • In the middle lay the natural environment of humans—space stations, ships, constructed habitats.†   (source)
  • The only one that's fitted up decent for human habitation.†   (source)
  • "And there's going to be more room to move around once some more habitats get made.†   (source)
  • All that one could see andjeel and hear-of Icefall, moraine, avalanche, cold-was of a world not intended for human habitation.†   (source)
  • And when we did see it, on the north side of the ship, it was all rocks and trees, and looked dark and forbidding, and not fit for human habitation at all; and there were clouds of birds that screamed like lost souls, and I hoped that we would not be compelled to live in such a place.†   (source)
  • * If there is a more desolate, inhospitable habitation anywhere on the planet, I hope never to see it.†   (source)
  • They had cleared as few trees as possible, and I realized that even if you were to fly low overhead, you would not see their habitation.†   (source)
  • This stack of terrariums was, exactly as advertised, a tower of glassed-in habitats containing the kind of furry, thick-legged spiders that either fascinate you or give you the willies.†   (source)
  • It's three o'clock, and it's a good time for a tour of the park itself, so you can see all the dinosaurs in the habitats we have designed for them.†   (source)
  • This animal was not the man-eater, but so close to human habitation she might pose a threat to the villagers, especially as she was with cub.†   (source)
  • I was using my powered glasses to inspect the terraces-actually a series of ! addered ledges, spires, shelves, and tussocks extending far out onto the overhang-when i realized that I was staring at man-made habitations.†   (source)
  • Yet, within its limited space, Costa Rica had a remarkable diversity of biological habitats: seacoasts on both the Atlantic and the Pacific; four separate mountain ranges, including twelve-thousand-foot peaks and active volcanoes; rain forests, cloud forests, temperate zones, swampy marshes, and arid deserts.†   (source)
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton "Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them."†   (source)
  • Reverence for the beauty and preciousness of the earth, and a sense of responsibility to do what I can to make it a habitation of health and plenty for all men.†   (source)
  • Anything built here, an unrelenting desert, was an act of sheer will imposed on territory unsuited for habitation.†   (source)
  • Like their wondrous map, the land unfolded before them—mile after mile of rocky coastline and rolling forest bearing no trace of human habitation.†   (source)
  • High above Du Weldenvarden, the only sign of habitation in the forest was an occasional ghostly plume of smoke that rose from the crown of a tree and soon faded into clear air.†   (source)
  • I didn't want her officially listed as a runaway, as I was afraid the designation would remain indefinitely on her personal records, and I knew I could count on Officer Como to keep a watch on the place and its frequent visitors—mostly men in their twenties and thirties, many, according to her, known troublemakers and felons—and be publicly discreet about Sunny's habitation.†   (source)
  • Herds of big-horned bharal, thriving far from human habitation, watched the vehicle's progress with impunity.†   (source)
  • She listened and knew that Nick had left and Matty had gone to bed and then she listened for noises in the street and she thought of the animals in their cages and habitats, lions near Boston Road coughing in the night.†   (source)
  • Evidence of the dragons' habitation was visible everywhere, from deep scratches in the basalt to puddles of melted rock to a number of dull, colorless scales caught in nooks, along with other detritus.†   (source)
  • It appears to me such an enterprise, the ocean so formidable, the quitting of my habitation and my country, leaving my children, my friends, with the idea that perhaps I may never see them again, without my husband to console and comfort me under these apprehensions—indeed, my dear friend, there are hours when I feel unequal to the trial.†   (source)
  • This was a completely different, foreign world, where kids swarmed freely through a zoo, animals were in habitats and weren't undergoing genetic grafting, and we were strolling along, not hooked up to EEG monitors and blood pressure cuffs.†   (source)
  • Sorely puzzled by the fact that the wolves seemed to have chosen to commit their worst slaughter so close to a human habitation, I resolved to question Mike about it if or when I saw him again.†   (source)
  • Its crime-ridden public housing estates—in France they were known as HLMs, or habitation a loyer modere—were some of the most violent in the country.†   (source)
  • Talk was, the king did not mean to send for Queen Selyse and their daughter until the Nightfort was ready for habitation.†   (source)
  • Just now, though, neither of those was fit for human habitation, and Othell Yarwyck and his builders were still off trying to restore the Nightfort.†   (source)
  • "Later, after refueling by inserting a handpump into a rusting barrel of aviation fuel, we flew up the Braldu Valley to the village of Korphe, the last human habitation before the Baltoro Glacier begins its march up to K2 and the world's greatest concentration of twenty-thousand-foot-plus peaks.†   (source)
  • Massachusetts Bay yielded nothing of note; there were no indications of Boston or of any human habitation whatsoever.†   (source)
  • The soldiers were finding nothing but garments and kitchen utensils; there were no letters, no books, not even a newspaper, as if the room were the habitation of an illiterate.†   (source)
  • He'd glimpsed some ruins along the banks, piles of masonry overgrown by vines and moss and flowers, but no other signs of human habitation.†   (source)
  • There was no sign of recent habitation.†   (source)
  • Luckily for me, I had come out of gate-space on the fringes of a backwater, non-Radchaai system, a collection of habitats and mining stations inhabited by heavily modified people— not human, by Radchaai standards, people with six or eight limbs (and no guarantee any of them would be legs), vacuumadapted skin and lungs, brains so meshed and crosshatched with implants and wiring it was an open question whether they were anything but conscious machines with a biological interface.†   (source)
  • As he gazed along the landscape, the shallow cliffs and stands of dark trees, he saw no hint of habitation.†   (source)
  • When she walks around the room she looks remote and nebulous, out on the fringe of habitation, and rather as if she must have been cruelly trained-otherwise she couldn't do actual, immediate things, like answering the telephone or putting on a hat.†   (source)
  • …to be a Stromberg Carlson, which she assumed to be Swedish until Bronek—a simple-seeming but canny fellow Polish prisoner who worked as a handyman in the Commandant's house and was a chief purveyor of gossip and information—told her it was an American machine, captured from some rich man's joint or foreign embassy to the west and transported here to take its place amid the mountainous tonnage of booty assembled with frenzied mania for pelf from all the plundered habitations of Europe.†   (source)
  • They were big rats-a size not of any habitation anywhere but of away out here, of unvisited geographical parts-as the world's wild dogs and wild horses are unseen and sizeless.†   (source)
  • For a moment shame washed over her for thinking the thought, shame at entertaining the notion in the same habitation where she shared room with Wanda and Jozef, these two selfless, courageous people whose allegiance to humanity and their fellow Poles and concern for the hunted Jews were a repudiation of all that her father had stood for.†   (source)
  • And my vineyard; a natural habitat for the vine, that.†   (source)
  • 'Beneath my feet, then, the earth must be tunnelled enormously, and these tunnellings were the habitat of the new race.†   (source)
  • You needed to be Flemish like Conseil to accept these circumstances, living in a habitat designed for cetaceans and other denizens of the deep.†   (source)
  • As for a habitat, if I were not permitted still to squat, I might purchase one acre at the same price for which the land I cultivated was sold—namely, eight dollars and eight cents.†   (source)
  • …fifteen inches long, head greenish, fins violet, back bluish gray, belly a silvery brown strewn with bright spots, iris of the eye encircled in gold, unusual animals that the Amazon's current must have swept out to sea because their natural habitat is fresh water; sting rays, the snout pointed, the tail long, slender, and armed with an extensive jagged sting; small one–meter sharks with gray and whitish hides, their teeth arranged in several backward–curving rows, fish commonly known…†   (source)
  • Moreover, I found that the women knew as much about all these things as the men: could name a flower, and knew its qualities; could tell you the habitat of such and such birds and fish, and the like.†   (source)
  • "I tell you," repeated his companion, with a thick tongue, "that I don't live in the Rue des Mauvaises Paroles, ~indignus qui inter mala verba habitat~.†   (source)
  • There were forty tents and shacks, and beside each habitation some kind of automobile.†   (source)
  • Since morning they had not met a traveller or seen a human habitation.†   (source)
  • Even here the children laugh in the narrow lanes that run between these tragic habitations.†   (source)
  • Here were no habitations.†   (source)
  • The fierce lords of the Strong Arm had hunted the wild woodlands—only, of course, there had always been exceptions like the good Sir Ector of Forest Sauvage—till John of Salisbury had been forced to advise his readers: "If one of these great and merciless hunters shall pass by your habitation, bring forth hastily all the refreshment you have in your house, or that you can readily buy, or borrow from your neighbour: that you may not be involved in ruin, or even accused of treason."†   (source)
  • A wolf bleeding at a knife wound eating the swineherd who struck him, and someone else dashing like mad for the goofy towers of the city, the potato-masher castles and the pots, double-boilers, and smokehouses of habitations.†   (source)
  • The rental agencies had told him that there were not enough houses for Negroes to live in, that the city was condemning houses in which Negroes lived as being too old and too dangerous for habitation.†   (source)
  • Now on a certain day, while Mary stood near the fountain to fill her pitcher, the angel of the Lord appeared unto her, saying, 'Blessed art thou, Mary, for in thy womb thou hast prepared a habitation for the Lord.†   (source)
  • There were no signs here of a permanent habitation of the hunter.†   (source)
  • It was a wild spot, lonely, not fit for human habitation except for the outcast.†   (source)
  • VISIT, WE BESEECH THEE, O LORD, THIS HABITATION AND DRIVE AWAY FROM IT ALL THE SNARES OF THE ENEMY.†   (source)
  • It was very faint indeed to be the only way to a place of habitation; yet I saw no other.†   (source)
  • The tower of Westminster Cathedral rose in front of her, the habitation of God.†   (source)
  • Her habitation was swept away, and herself and child left shelterless.†   (source)
  • But he found that the mouldy old habitation somewhat depressed his bride.†   (source)
  • Not so much as the barking of a dog suggested human habitation.†   (source)
  • In the midst of the traffic, there was the habitation of God.†   (source)
  • They were dust on the floor or at the foot of the shelf, and their habitations and utensils endured.†   (source)
  • VISIT, WE BESEECH THEE, O LORD, THIS HABITATION AND DRIVE AWAY FROM IT ALL….†   (source)
  • As there was now no further use for this little habitation, he might better pull it down.†   (source)
  • She had lived with it, she had lived IN it almost—it appeared to have become her habitation.†   (source)
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