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  • Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else.†   (source)
  • With the End of Days imminent, killing the Grand Master's loved ones sent a very clear message.†   (source)
  • Like a shower's going to prevent imminent starvation.†   (source)
  • The imminent arrival at their house of an assortment of wizards was making the Dursleys uptight and irritable.†   (source)
  • Adler had helped create a revolving fund for the purpose of buying old houses that were in imminent danger of being razed; the houses were then sold as soon as possible to people who promised to restore them properly.†   (source)
  • For Kabuo Miyamoto was suffering in his cell from the fear of his imminent judgment.†   (source)
  • All over campus there were signs that hinted at imminent Completion.†   (source)
  • I gave up on it, and all the way to Mason City, I couldn't get accustomed to the sense of danger I felt, of imminent disaster.†   (source)
  • Probably the newcomer is armed, but I'm betting she won't risk letting me hear the click that would mean my death was imminent, knowing I would instantly kill her companion.†   (source)
  • Enoch himself was greatly disappointed when he heard this, for he had hoped that a holy war was imminent,— and there were a few other Christians who thought like him.†   (source)
  • She knew about the breaching of the Maginot Line, the bombing of Rotterdam, the surrender of the Dutch army, and some of the girls had been talking the night before about the imminent collapse of Belgium.†   (source)
  • Dear Mrs. O'Brien, Inasmuch as you have not succumbed to the imminence of litigation in our previous epistle be advised that we are in consultation with our barrister above in Dublin.†   (source)
  • Our sources lead me to believe that war is not only likely but imminent.†   (source)
  • Contact imminent.†   (source)
  • They were the concrete, bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.†   (source)
  • It never would have occurred to me those words were forecasting my imminent and terrifying future.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I think of our first kiss after the Yo-Yo Ma concert, how I didn't know how badly I'd wanted his lips on mine until the kiss was imminent.†   (source)
  • And once they find us, death is imminent.†   (source)
  • Someone had leaked the discovery of my "man cave" of goods on my sister's property, my imminent arrest.†   (source)
  • Now that relief is imminent, I really have to go to the John and I hurry across the street.†   (source)
  • Indeed, facing imminent death, Dodge had not hesitated to use the AD52 when it materialized in his hand.†   (source)
  • But along with the greater West Town area it was considered a "changing neighborhood," dotted here and therewith rehabs, signs of gentrification and for many of us, imminent displacement.†   (source)
  • The Consul could recall seeing no other passengers during his rushed hour between rendezvous and fugue, but he had put that down to the imminence of the treeship going quantum, assuming then that the passengers were safe in their fugue couches.†   (source)
  • Ever since I'd had my vision of the Virgencita, I knew spirit was imminent, and that the churches were just glass houses, or way stations on our road through this rocky life.†   (source)
  • Her oddness, her complete nonawareness of what the world thought of her, a nonchalance in the face of what I perceived to be imminent danger from blacks and whites who disliked her for being a white person in a black world.†   (source)
  • Everything in it points to the imminence of their parting, three times using the word "brink," which suggests how close to the edge of something these two lovers are.†   (source)
  • A month earlier when thunderstorms seemed imminent, Father had counseled his congregation to repent their sins and the Lord would reward them with rain.†   (source)
  • The militants had their own pirate radio station, featuring a smooth-voiced announcer with a deep and unnervingly sexy voice, who spoke slowly and deliberately, and claimed in a decelerated but almost rap-like cadence that the fall of the city was imminent.†   (source)
  • And I, dull, catatonic, gave him some miserable excuse, thinking only of Claudia, of the agent, of imminent disaster.†   (source)
  • I find that the threat of imminent beheading wakes me up just fine.†   (source)
  • But, as she did every night, Blanca had locked her door and slipped out the window in the direction of the river The last few days before returning to the city, her summer passion took on a dramatic quality, and with a new separation imminent, the two young people seized every possible opportunity to give free rein to their desires.†   (source)
  • But she put aside the evil thought at once, for in the recent frenzy of telegrams regarding her imminent return they had forgotten to agree on a way to continue communicating once she was home.†   (source)
  • One who refused to flee, even when battle was imminent.†   (source)
  • Chuito's imminent departure from the warehouse also emboldened Ramon to act.†   (source)
  • The three teammates seemed unconcerned by the reports of Ian's reprehensible behavior and rumors redicting their expedition's imminent disintegration.†   (source)
  • He was forcing the next world to seep into my consciousness, stupendous events that seemed matter-of-fact to him, self-evident, reasonable, imminent, true.†   (source)
  • Seeing an Erudite process something is like watching the inside of a watch, the gears all turning, shifting, adjusting, work] ng together to form a particular function, which in this case is to make sense of his imminent demise.†   (source)
  • By Saturday it had become too menacing to ignore and with several more tons of Sunday's New York Times horribly imminent, she knew that if she didn't act now, she would be swept away and buried.†   (source)
  • Did intelligence confirm an imminent attack?†   (source)
  • She marched into the street, found a liquor store and bought a bottle; and the weight of the bottle in her straw handbag somehow made everything real; as the purchase of a railroad ticket proves the imminence of a journey.†   (source)
  • Gertrude spoke in a composed way about her own imminent death and Victor's, but she broke down completely when she spoke of Thabang.†   (source)
  • It is late Friday afternoon when my dad pulls into our driveway, no call to warn us of his imminent arrival.†   (source)
  • Departure or imminent death will force you to define your true tastes.†   (source)
  • There's no way he can describe to Berman his unfolding vision of dire warfare-the surrender in CS 22, the imminent rout in psychology, the searing issues that seem to envelop him in education-and how, studying maniacally over forty-eight hours, he felt like he was preparing for a titanic assault on his last stronghold.†   (source)
  • At the moment Johnnie, Shade and Mandy, coming up the stairs, got sight of the group, Pap with upraised hammer, the child in the clutches of imminent death.†   (source)
  • The pilot came on over the intercom, announcing, first in French and then in English, our imminent landing.†   (source)
  • I don't know, maybe imminent peril made him feel more alive somehow, for the same reason zombies are carnivores with only one item on the menu.†   (source)
  • He is a man of honor, and on her deathbed she grasped his hand and made him promise—no, vow—that he wouldn't let what was clearly her imminent end disrupt the show's routine and disappoint the thousands of people who were expecting it to be circus day.†   (source)
  • When, on the night of November 3, American sentinels reported the rumbling of enemy carriages in the dark, it was assumed another attack was imminent.†   (source)
  • The women, overjoyed by their sameness, their lack of diversity, were, in fact, celebrating their imminent demise, which would render their sameness absolute.†   (source)
  • For the next two weeks I whirled around the city going to doctors, taking vitamin shots and pills, buying clothes for the baby, and except for the rare moments alone, enjoying the imminent blessed event.†   (source)
  • Alarming, because rising syphilis announces the imminence of AIDS, which would grossly magnify the tb epidemic.†   (source)
  • Psychological harm may be imminent.†   (source)
  • Each time the fall of a city like Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major — de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.†   (source)
  • Even as her hair lured her imminent lover, many other men looked at her.†   (source)
  • I stop thinking about my imminent death.†   (source)
  • The imminent arrival of this little sister (how strange is it that none of us ever imagined the new baby could be anything but a girl?) energized Kurt and Elizabeth to fever pitch.†   (source)
  • David's eyes widened and he shot a glance at Max, but Max only dropped his head, certain of imminent expulsion.†   (source)
  • But he was still unconscious, and doctors still believed death to be imminent.†   (source)
  • Ser Desmond had brought twenty casks up from the cellars, and the smallfolk were celebrating Edmure's imminent return and Robb's conquest of the Crag by hoisting horns of nut-brown ale.†   (source)
  • I made small talk about the other woman's imminent return to the outside world, how great it would be for her to be reunited with her teenage son, and whether she would find work with the carpenter's union.†   (source)
  • Mr. Hubbard had promised her more than once that when he died, and he knew his death was imminent, he would leave a little something for her.†   (source)
  • There was only one theory at present—Blomkvist's belief that the murders had to do with Svensson's imminent exposé of the sex trade.†   (source)
  • So, while the rest of the world prepares for imminent doom, Nikita Khrushchev spends the early evening of October 26 at the Bolshoi Ballet.†   (source)
  • They all feared that a song or some poetry was now imminent; and they were getting bored.†   (source)
  • Long deprived of sex, long dependent on self-manipulation, she saw her son's imminent death as the annihilation of the last occasion she had been made love to.†   (source)
  • Again, if Fiver was right and the whole warren was in imminent peril, then of course they ought to welcome any rabbit who was ready to join them.†   (source)
  • But you know, when you've faced imminent death as often as we have, it gets a little old, frankly.†   (source)
  • That is the noise of imminent pain.†   (source)
  • The trial seemed imminent.†   (source)
  • John believes a business trip to Europe is imminent, perhaps for as long as six months or so, and has asked that the children and I join him!†   (source)
  • 24 THE IMMINENT threat posed to his daughter, Monique, seemed to wilt Jacques de Raison.†   (source)
  • It's not natural to think that death is imminent and to continue to function normally.†   (source)
  • Plus, he couldn't exactly focus on there actually being a future anyway, what with his imminent demise on the horizon.†   (source)
  • They started walking toward the corner, the traffic noisy in the street, the drizzle in the air fuller, the mist denser, the promise of heavy rain imminent.†   (source)
  • You find my imminent death so amusing?†   (source)
  • A few weeks later, we knew an important visit must be imminent because when it rained that day at the quarry we were allowed to take shelter instead of continuing to work.†   (source)
  • A fight seemed imminent, when the door of the bus swung open and its driver stepped out and opened the luggage compartment.†   (source)
  • Lourdes eats, eats, eats, like a Hindu goddess with eight arms, eats, eats, eats, as if famine were imminent.†   (source)
  • The orders stated only act if Phillips's life was in imminent danger.†   (source)
  • I see no imminent danger.†   (source)
  • After an hour of sulking in front of my foster mother, the four of us ate dinner, followed by Dottie Mae and Alice springing up and announcing our imminent marriage to strangers enjoying their dinners, who clapped feverishly while I squirmed in my seat.†   (source)
  • I hadn't done the same— not even when she was in her worst pain, not even when her death was imminent, not even when I was smugly telling myself I still loved her.†   (source)
  • Oscar was thrilled: this meant his father was going to butcher one of the family pigs, a sure sign of an imminent party.†   (source)
  • Our misfortune lay in our receiving the information regarding the inquiries when we did, and not two or three days earlier.... THE discussion, and Michael's advice, made the threat of discovery seem both more real and more imminent than it had been when I talked to Uncle Axel earlier in the evening.†   (source)
  • Revjak clenched his fist in anticipation of Wulfgar's imminent victory.†   (source)
  • A good spy is but the secret writer of all moments imminent.†   (source)
  • The imminence of her leaving made him press his feet hard against the ground.†   (source)
  • Tears, presumably, were imminent, if not already on the way.†   (source)
  • Americans felt that they were in imminent danger.†   (source)
  • She nodded slightly, making no comment, yet I knew how bruised she must be by the imminent parting.†   (source)
  • The success of the attacks on Washington, and the prospect of Natalie's imminent death, had the effect of loosening his tongue.†   (source)
  • They conducted their search with the fever and furious attention of beasts aware of the imminence of extinction.†   (source)
  • Peter had expected that, but the imminence and the practical negotiation of the matter came with a shock; somehow this was the sort of thing that did not happen.†   (source)
  • I was in no condition to ward off an attack — and one seemed imminent, although I had not the slightest idea what had roused the Eskimos to such a mad endeavor.†   (source)
  • The young bush pilot was properly appalled by the imminent prospect of birth.†   (source)
  • He remembered that he had felt an imminence akin to the one that came to him when he held the water wand.†   (source)
  • But after a time, she decided that the internal cohesiveness of things might serve to hold the universe together for another hour or so; and such being the case, she thought it advisable to bring the matter of the imminent Yuga to the attention of someone better suited to cope with it.†   (source)
  • In fact, the group was leaving imminently in the maroon Cadillac.†   (source)
  • In writing the story I approached and went inside with my traveling salesman, and had him, pressed by imminent death, figure out what was there: Bowman could not speak.†   (source)
  • It was better to share the companionship of that pretence, to feel that in that room we all lived beautifully and bravely with injustice and imminent death and consoled ourselves with love.†   (source)
  • Now that this has happened, she and her daughter are in imminent danger.†   (source)
  • Yet my mind would not dismiss the thought of her, worrying over what Colin Wells might do now that he felt assured of my imminent death; for it would be hours before he could learn that I had, at least for the time, escaped.†   (source)
  • You have defended me from imminent death.   (source)
  • Mrs. Brown, the principal, was showing signs that a blowup between us was imminent.†   (source)
  • And while I listened to those stirring, ambling notes I might have realized how frightening all this was to her, how overwhelming and awful, but I sensed instead only the imminent disgrace and embarrassment that would hang about the house like banners of our mutual failure.†   (source)
  • She's brought in a crew of professional landscapers as well, to tidy and manicure my admittedly derelict yard work of late, to clip and prune and then rake the lawns and beds of the first fallen leaves of the imminent season.†   (source)
  • So, The Point, bedizened with moss and the memory of slavery, symbolized to me a place, not of evil and of minds anchored to a corrupt past, but a place where change was possible, even imminent.†   (source)
  • Since Mrs. Brown took every action of my class as a sign of imminent conspiracy or revolution, I strongly suspected, and was correct in believing, that the kids had somehow blown it, in Mrs. Brown's eyes, the day before.†   (source)
  • Not on Peeta's punishment or 13's imminent blasting.†   (source)
  • Forgive me, but it was a very unusual move then, under the imminent threat of death.†   (source)
  • He had no idea that Kathy was at the prison and his release was imminent.†   (source)
  • The date was specific, its arrival imminent.†   (source)
  • With the danger of capture by the Soviets imminent, Schindler knew he had to flee.†   (source)
  • The school is surrounded, death imminent, almost certain, and Six is grinning.†   (source)
  • Katherine Solomon had just called to alert Security of this guest's imminent arrival.†   (source)
  • YOU SHOULDN'T make a comment about imminent death and then say "Good night!†   (source)
  • She looked around at the signs of our imminent departure.†   (source)
  • I promised him I would testify to those very words: Rescued from imminent prospect of death.†   (source)
  • With the imminence of defeat, some women went into the street armed with sticks and kitchen knives.†   (source)
  • Not even in the face of imminent arrest did you offer any sort of explanation.†   (source)
  • Invasion seemed inevitable and imminent, both to the POWs and to the Japanese.†   (source)
  • He thought of Peter's faith that an age of enlightenment was imminent.†   (source)
  • Does a man ever believe in his own imminent death or in the possibility of accident?†   (source)
  • A strong wind sprang up from the west, heralding the imminent arrival of the storm.†   (source)
  • She was exasperated by the persistence of global crises that seemed to her imminently solvable.†   (source)
  • Still, it's funny what a man thinks about when he believes death to be imminent.†   (source)
  • This was the first time I'd been alone and not in imminent danger since ...the funeral home?†   (source)
  • One day they were going in imminently; next day they'd hear that they were holding off.†   (source)
  • Leak the word that a nuclear war might be imminent.†   (source)
  • They just listened to him sing, wept and thought very graphically of their own imminent deaths.†   (source)
  • Mend him as best you can for his imminent journey south.†   (source)
  • There was no point moping around when you faced imminent death.†   (source)
  • I think it's safe to say that a DarkMatter assignment is imminent.†   (source)
  • "I trust that's not imminent," said Jason, trying to return the youth's grin.†   (source)
  • McDaniels's slide from the top spot is as imminent as it is inevitable.†   (source)
  • Clearly, she was expecting an imminent communication from the network.†   (source)
  • The Confederates dig in immediately, knowing that more fighting is imminent.†   (source)
  • Despite the imminent sunrise, I felt better once we were flying above the treetops.†   (source)
  • You are lit up for your own imminent dismemberment.†   (source)
  • Max gathered that one such decision was imminent, as there were four chairs placed before Ms.†   (source)
  • What did you say to the man whose imminent death you'd just set in motion?†   (source)
  • the imminent morning, behind which were hidden so many mornings, so many nights.†   (source)
  • It is up to him to appear imminently and explain himself on all the counts.†   (source)
  • The crisis is real, the catastrophe imminent.†   (source)
  • I have taken my own life but only because my death by lung cancer is imminent.†   (source)
  • Most mortals fail to understand that death's imminence is really a gift.†   (source)
  • This, anyway, seemed more imminent than the spilling of his seed.†   (source)
  • With the president's death imminent, Mary Lincoln is once again admitted.†   (source)
  • I assented openly, for the first time feeling somehow equal to him, imminently free.†   (source)
  • Now, the water and the lights along the water glowed more softly, suggesting the imminent night.†   (source)
  • realized it consciously, as something no longer far off, but imminent, coming closer day by day.†   (source)
  • The fight would begin soon and we all felt its imminence in the air.†   (source)
  • But his judgment hung in the air like an imminent clap of thunder.†   (source)
  • The first time I saw Morrie on "Nightline," 1 wondered what regrets he had once he knew his death was imminent.†   (source)
  • Then, three years ago, on a night very like tonight, the Prime Minister had been alone in his office when the portrait had once again announced the imminent arrival of Fudge, who had burst out of the fireplace, sopping wet and in a state of considerable panic.†   (source)
  • Dolores Umbridge was standing in the doorway wrapped in a green tweed cloak that greatly enhanced her resemblance to a giant toad, and was smiling in the horrible, sickly, ominous way that Harry had come to associate with imminent misery.†   (source)
  • He sat up straight, and, for a few brief moments, he appeared merely thoughtful, like a captain informed of imminent mutiny taking his time to ponder his next move.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was the imminence of death or simply blind fear, but in that moment, he sensed a sudden aura surrounding the Hassassin.†   (source)
  • At lunchtime he was chatting with Arcadio, who was already a huge adolescent, and he found him more and more excited over the imminence of war.†   (source)
  • He showed no expression now but I could imagine what it must be like to be facing imminent destruction of one's personality and previous existence.†   (source)
  • There was a commotion outside and several large Slytherins entered, each gripping Ron, Ginny, Luna and — to Harry's bewilderment — Neville, who was trapped in a stranglehold by Crabbe and looked in imminent danger of suffocation.†   (source)
  • We chatted about the difficult and maybe thankless job Karzai had in front of him, about the upcoming Loya jirga, and the king's imminent return to his homeland after twenty-eights years of exile.†   (source)
  • In Double Lives, I will detail: My growing understanding of a troubled, once-distant father My painful, forced transformation from a carefree young man into the head of a family as I deal with the imminent death of a much loved mother The resentment my Manhattanite wife feels at this detour in her previously charmed life.†   (source)
  • But just when Mae was about to question the imminent feeding, an AG voice came through Mae's earpiece.†   (source)
  • I was saying nonsense to the boy finally-that Lestat wished him well, that he had to take a steamboat up to St. Louis, that he would be back, that war was imminent and he had business there ....the boy hungering after every word, as if he couldn't possibly get enough and was pushing on with it for the thing he wanted.†   (source)
  • She was, however, lucid enough to realize that this was the result not of the anisette but of her imminent return.†   (source)
  • When the banns were announced at High Mass in the Cathedral, Fermina Daza received anonymous letters again, some of them containing death threats, but she took scant notice of them because all the fear of which she was capable was centered on her imminent violation.†   (source)
  • When the invasion is imminent.†   (source)
  • He was preserved against imminent old age by a vitality that had something to do with the coldness of his insides.†   (source)
  • Men came to know when an outburst was imminent: Watanabe's right eyelid would sag a moment before he snapped.†   (source)
  • You reject the groups, the people, the listeners out there who want to connect, to empathize and embrace, and disaster is imminent.†   (source)
  • He kept reliving Saturdays meeting in his mind: all those people, coming to him to learn Defence Against the Dark Arts...and the looks on their faces as they had heard some of the things he had done...and Cho praising his performance in the Triwizard Tournament — knowing all those people did not think him a lying weirdo, but someone to be admired, buoyed him up so much that he was still cheerful on Monday morning, despite the imminent prospect of all his least favourite classes.†   (source)
  • Given all the signs that a massacre had been imminent, it seems likely that the commanders had been awaiting instruction on whether or not to carry it out, and had wanted to keep the men docile in case the answer was affirmative.†   (source)
  • And so, looking forward to the imminent gratitude, she drove east and south and when she arrived, her father greeted her at the door, looking far stronger and, more important, more confident, more like a man—the man he once was.†   (source)
  • Her head had been thrown back in ecstasy but now she had time to raise it, shock and anger already replacing the oddly similar expression of imminent orgasm.†   (source)
  • He put the basket in its place and tied it to the leg of a table, convinced that the long-awaited event was imminent.†   (source)
  • Arthur ran four articles on the imminent evacuation in his March 26 edition: "Island Japanese Accept Army Mandate to Move,"†   (source)
  • Overwhelmed by so many horrors, Fermina Daza had forgotten about the one that seemed more legendary than imminent, until one night when a patrol of unknown affiliation captured two travelers from the caravan and hanged them from a campano tree half a league from the settlement.†   (source)
  • That conversation, the biting rancor that he felt against his father, and the imminent possibility of wild love inspired a serene courage in him.†   (source)
  • Completion was imminent, and it would bring peace, and it would bring unity, and all that messiness of humanity until now, all thOse uncertainties that accompanied the world before the Circle, would be only a memory.†   (source)
  • She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unsetf-conscious flow of little things-the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.†   (source)
  • When it was the cousins' turn, the sky had clouded over and rain seemed imminent, but they allowed their faces to be powdered with starch and they leaned against an alabaster column with such ease that they remained motionless for more time than seemed reasonable.†   (source)
  • But that is what she did at a crucial moment in her life, giving no importance whatsoever to the handsomeness of her suitor, or his legendary wealth, or his youthful glory, or any of his numerous virtues; rather, she was stunned by the fear of an opportunity slipping away, and by the imminence of her twenty-first birthday, which was her private time limit for surrendering to fate.†   (source)
  • By an arrangement of Ursula's, her marriage was to be celebrated on the same day, but that Friday Pietro Crespi received a letter with the news of his mother's imminent death.†   (source)
  • Mae was standing in the center of the campus, amid a few hundred Girders eating lunch, all of them buzzing about the imminent Demoxie demonstration, and she thought of that painting of the Constitutional Convention, all those men in powdered wigs and waistcoats, standing stiffly, all of them wealthy white men who were only passably interested in representing their fellow humans.†   (source)
  • When he received Fernanda's last letter, dictated by the foreboding of imminent death, he put the leftovers of his false splendor into a suitcase and crossed the ocean in the hold of a ship where immigrants were crammed together like cattle in a slaughterhouse, eating cold macaroni and wormy cheese.†   (source)
  • While the government itself admitted the progress of the rebellion, the officers in Macondo had confidential reports of the imminence of a negotiated peace.†   (source)
  • With the imminence of the wedding, Pietro Crespi had hinted that Aureliano Jose, in whom he had stirred up a love that was almost filial, would be considered their oldest child.†   (source)
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