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  • This avalanche of kindness did not make our impending departure any easier.†   (source)
  • I was no longer crying because of my family or because of my impending death.†   (source)
  • If he moved quickly, this impending disaster could be deftly sidestepped.†   (source)
  • As the prisoners talked more and more about the details of the Evans's execution and Wayne Ritter's impending execution, Myers became more and more distraught.†   (source)
  • This last question Reynie answered with a thoughtful frown, noting in the margin that since the two trains were approaching each other on an empty stretch of track, it was likely the engineers would recognize the impending disaster and apply their brakes, thus avoiding the collision altogether.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the impending affair was not going unnoticed in the hotel.†   (source)
  • Nobody seemed worried about an impending civil war.†   (source)
  • And the raptor holding pen was rebuilt with electronic sensors to warn of another impending escape.†   (source)
  • I pledge allegiance to the flag of the great Republic of America, to our Elector Primo, to our glorious states, to unity against the Colonies, to our impending victory!†   (source)
  • Yes, it felt right: a masquerade to celebrate the orphan girl's impending marriage to Prince Leopold of Great Britain.†   (source)
  • "Thank you, Cal," I murmur, still trying to process Maven's kiss and, of course, my own impending doom.†   (source)
  • He stares straight at the lens, the knife in his hand, poised, for the camera's benefit, over the cake, his face shining with impending adolescence.†   (source)
  • Toward noon, as the floods of light fell more nearly to the perpendicular, the stark colors of the morning were smoothed in pearl and opalescence; and the heat—as though the impending sun's height gave it momentum—became a blow that they ducked, running to the shade and lying there, perhaps even sleeping.†   (source)
  • Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger; but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for tidbits, so they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means shortly before the Vogons arrived.†   (source)
  • Just your way of burying your devastation over my impending absence.†   (source)
  • He was sound asleep and appeared to be ready to snap my arm in half I stayed as still as possible and kept repeating his name, getting louder each time so as not to startle him, but also to stop the impending damage to my arm.†   (source)
  • "It's still light," I'd suggest, my voice wavering, as my siblings gathered behind her to watch the impending slaughter.†   (source)
  • From the cheerful topic of my impending demise, we were suddenly declaring ourselves.†   (source)
  • But an impending attack requires quick, expert planning.†   (source)
  • Now it was clear her impending announcement had the focused attention of millions.†   (source)
  • As the school year wound down, the junior class and I walked the halls with a sense of impending ownership.†   (source)
  • I brought some energy to it, of course, but it was the energy that accompanies almost any abstract endeavor; I felt no personal danger; I felt no sense of an impending crisis in my life.†   (source)
  • Already the place swelled with activity; even the carnival hands sensed the impending storm: They gathered their stuffed toys and closed their booths.†   (source)
  • Older people in particular were susceptible to news of impending calamity as it was forecast on TV by grave men standing before digital radar maps or pulsing photographs of the planet.†   (source)
  • In November, after a hair-raising, bumpy bus ride to Shillong, amidst rumors of Chinese occupation and India's impending defeat, Estha and Rahel were born.†   (source)
  • And they, knowing me to be one not prone to exaggerated statements, well understood that something of an extraordinary nature was impending.†   (source)
  • Convinced of the rightness of his impending journey, Mack began to consider ways to get the family away from home for the weekend without rousing any suspicions.†   (source)
  • My father glances once at the sky, aware of the impending thunderstorm.†   (source)
  • —and felt a flush of impending awkwardness.†   (source)
  • He felt some revelation impending.†   (source)
  • As the realization sunk in of my impending failure, this bright boy from Detroit also stared squarely into another horrible truth—if I failed chemistry I couldn't stay in the premed program.†   (source)
  • As Jenny and I got ready, Marley caromed happily off the walls, sensing an impending outing.†   (source)
  • It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.†   (source)
  • The article said that the commission was working on the hypothesis that Wennerström had probably been tipped off at the last minute about the impending disclosures.†   (source)
  • Then I could sing and dance and not feel threatened by a sense of impending doom.†   (source)
  • He smiles a giddy smile, and I feel the urge to back away, to put more space between me and his impending grief.†   (source)
  • After the departure of the detectives, the composure that had impressed Nye faltered; a familiar despair impended.†   (source)
  • He worked in his office that evening, filling out a passport application for me, penning a careful note explaining my father's impending death.†   (source)
  • All swayed with impending fall.†   (source)
  • Through our attorneys, we notified the minister of law and order, the commissioner of police, and the regional commissioner, warning them of the impending attacks and urging them to take the proper action.†   (source)
  • Vic had told her about the impending trip at breakfast, and when she had protested being left alone with Tad for what might be ten days or two weeks or God only knew, he made it clear to her exactly what the stakes were.†   (source)
  • Must screw our courage to the sticking point and face up to our impending fate.†   (source)
  • He could see that it was all too much for Ronnie—her dad, his impending departure, her upcoming court date.†   (source)
  • I didn't think they were going to understand my adolescent fascination with the underbelly of society, my involvement in international drug trafficking, or my impending incarceration.†   (source)
  • He had—huge deli sandwiches, carbs and protein to fend off any impending hangovers.†   (source)
  • He had been in the process of adjusting to impending death, and it seemed to him a part of him must already have left for the other place, because he felt sort of absent and dull.†   (source)
  • Buddy Haas's impending arrival had him overwrought.†   (source)
  • Beyond the shocking reality of impending parenthood, she was worried about putting Adam into a tailspin.†   (source)
  • The impending conquest of Suribachi was far from the only action on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • I went back and forth with Claire in a numbed state panicked by the impending nearness of Negli's next stage.†   (source)
  • My eyes half shut, I had the sense then. of impending darkness, of being shut up in darkness.†   (source)
  • Add that to the list under impending doom.†   (source)
  • Cedric concurs, hopeful of this expert testimony about his impending sex appeal.†   (source)
  • He still couldn't shake the feeling of impending doom, but attributed it to the fact that outside of Henry, Joss, and Meredith, he'd never really hung out with anyone for an extended period of time.†   (source)
  • I felt weak and powerless in the knowledge of the impending doom.†   (source)
  • To him such a sentiment was a symptom of impending delirium.†   (source)
  • A sense of impending dread settled in his gut like a lead brick.†   (source)
  • I thought of Shay Bourne being given the news of his own impending death.†   (source)
  • Seth was aware of his impending death.†   (source)
  • Unfazed by the impending forfeit, the boys discussed the dilemma at hand.†   (source)
  • The impending arrival of her first grandchild hadn't yet been announced to the neighbors, so I pretended I didn't know either, and used only the simple respectful address toward a male person.†   (source)
  • "It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow," he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.†   (source)
  • At the bar of the Montana Hotel, the foreign correspondents drink rum punches and discuss which restaurants are still open and which have been closed by the impending hostilities.†   (source)
  • Every time I zipped up my flight suit, I felt like my childhood hero, Superman, out to save the world from impending doom.†   (source)
  • Now, however, he wondered which would have been worse: the gush of smoke and the instant recognition of impending doom that would have come with it—or clean air and the hideously attenuated false hope of a last-minute correction, salvation.†   (source)
  • The impending crops were so orthodox that the inspector had posted only a single field, belonging to Angus Morton, for burning.†   (source)
  • Rowan's provocations have been so brazen that news of my impending visit nearly triggered an uprising in Blys.†   (source)
  • The indicator lights showed no impending disasters.†   (source)
  • Galway comes on his fourth day in Ireland, and it's clear by his easy smile and the playful way he interacts with the locals that the pressures of domestic affairs, foreign problems, and the impending birth of his third child seem a million miles away.†   (source)
  • That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.†   (source)
  • Maybe she'd had a sixth sense about an impending disaster.†   (source)
  • Tradd and I stared at each other with a sense of impending loss.†   (source)
  • Now that my fear of impending doom was gone, reality came flooding back.†   (source)
  • The inspector chats merrily with us about our day, the parties we shall attend shortly, Spence's impending masked ball.†   (source)
  • Coming from an authoritarian monarchy, the minister had a difficult time understanding how the legal maneuvering of a small group of political radicals and an impending hearing by some provincial tribunal could take precedence over the will of the country's chief executive.†   (source)
  • On two occasions in the first ten days he warned Italian outposts of impending air attacks.†   (source)
  • They "played off" (shirked) or played sick when battle impended.†   (source)
  • I'm most afraid of Asleep and impending, weightless doom.†   (source)
  • We need to be rescued from impending anarchy.†   (source)
  • But Regis felt impending disaster hovering all about him.†   (source)
  • But so long as we are discussing marriage, why is it that I hear nothing of my sister's impending nuptials?†   (source)
  • He stared at Hood, but truthfully, except for the sadness in the eyes, which may have been only weariness, for Hood had marched all night, there was no extra sensation, nothing at all but a certain delicious air of impending combat which was with them all.†   (source)
  • The dryness was accompanied by a hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach and a nagging sense of impending doom.†   (source)
  • He would go in to see him twice a week to show him the operation schedule and each time Hisham would approach Dr. Bassiouni exactly as we might a live electrical wire, or a gas valve that has to be fixed, meaning that he would extend his hand with the papers and retreat to avoid any impending explosion.†   (source)
  • He had heard about Gabriel's pending promotion, and Uzi Navot's impending demise.†   (source)
  • They say we're the only species on the planet with the knowledge of our own impending doom.†   (source)
  • The message to Gennaro completed and sealed, Niccolo tucks it in his doublet and takes off for Faggio, still unaware, as is F.rcole, of the coup and his own impending restoration as rightful Duke of Faggio.†   (source)
  • …and as I did so—the viewfinder of my mind reshaping each crevice of her moist and succulent lips, the orthodontically fashioned perfection of the sparkling incisors, even a cunning fleck of foam at the edge of the orifice—it seemed the dizziest pipe dream that this very evening, sometime before the sun should fulfill its oriental circuit and rise again on Sheepshead Bay, that mouth would be—no, I could not let myself think about that slippery-sweet mouth and its impending employments.†   (source)
  • That was why the bush boy accepted the fact of his impending death without question, without struggle.†   (source)
  • I was worried, but with the impending Coronation, it seemed about the only course available to us, and I decided to go along for the whole ride.†   (source)
  • It was not long, until a new flock of monks came along on their pilgrimage, and another one, and the monks as well as most of the other travellers and people walking through the land spoke of nothing else than of Gotama and his impending death.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, good police officers have a sense of impending trouble, and a natural inclination to be not only suspicious, but skeptical.†   (source)
  • He was flustered by a number of things-because of his wife's illness, the impending search, and his profound reverence for medical science and its representatives.†   (source)
  • Toward the end all genuine emotion left him and he had to scrape, tickle and torture himself into sufficient feeling and sufficient evidence of an impending breakdown he would inflict on nobody, but at length he felt he had achieved the proper moment, and rushed headlong from the room, all but upsetting his wife in her rocking chair.†   (source)
  • But Sam Houston was not one to sit morosely brooding until the whispers of impending defeat were replaced by the avalanche that would crush him.†   (source)
  • Kate tried to say something new-to stop us disgracing ourselves and each other, our visit, our impending tragedy, Aunt Ethel, everything.†   (source)
  • For some reason — impending mania, perhaps — this really irritated me.†   (source)
  • Without hesitation he turned due west, into the glow of the impending sunset.†   (source)
  • People pack every seat in the house today, in spite of the windy weather and impending blackouts.†   (source)
  • As I worked, Marley paced nervously around me, his internal barometer sensing an impending storm.†   (source)
  • He paused, seeing Katherine blanch at the thought of Peter's impending fate.†   (source)
  • He had hoped only a handful of Vatican power brokers knew of Opus Dei's impending annulment.†   (source)
  • The name hung in the air like an impending storm.†   (source)
  • I stared at myself, looking for some sign of impending wrinkles in my ivory skin.†   (source)
  • "You think the Erasers aren't here because they're fleeing before an impending disaster?"†   (source)
  • He seemed suddenly calmer about his impending doom, which I found unsettling.†   (source)
  • Busy place made much busier by the impending invasion, and things were chaotic from the start.†   (source)
  • Sick with a sense of impending doom, he put an arm around Albriech's shoulders.†   (source)
  • Given the impending war with Apophis, it was best not to think about how soon our lives might end.†   (source)
  • Uncle Press seemed oblivious to the impending danger.†   (source)
  • What I meant was that Mr. Bourne's impending execution is already a zoo.†   (source)
  • Let the giants see us, let them feel the terror of impending doom!†   (source)
  • This means they can be kept up in time of peace, if there are threats or impending danger.†   (source)
  • Arturo, meanwhile, was lost in his impending declarations.†   (source)
  • A few days later Nina and I were discussing the impending holidays over a cup of instant coffee.†   (source)
  • But the improved Pattyn couldn't intuit even a sign a whisper of impending implosion.†   (source)
  • It was as if she knew the story and found nothing fantastic or impending in it.†   (source)
  • As he stands, hands on hips, nodding at the Blue Flash, I think about impending, weightless doom.†   (source)
  • She hadn't grown up with that smell …. the smell of impending snow.†   (source)
  • Berger had answered every call that day with a feeling of impending doom.†   (source)
  • Given my secrecy until this point, my fellow prisoners were surprised by my impending departure.†   (source)
  • Even Abel and Lloyd, and the girls, seemed nervous with the impending conclusion of the story.†   (source)
  • Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere thought of impending death acts like an aphrodisiac.†   (source)
  • In every culture, in every era, in every corner of the world, the human dream has focused on the same exact concept—the coming apotheosis of man …. the impending transformation of our human minds into their true potentiality.†   (source)
  • …so from her sister, and perhaps most of all from Nadia herself, such that Nadia and her family both considered her thereafter to be without a family, something all of them, all four, for the rest of their lives, regretted, but which none of them would ever act to repair, partly out of stubbornness, partly out of bafflement at how to go about doing so, and partly because the impending descent of their city into the abyss would come before they realized that they had lost the chance.†   (source)
  • In the days leading up to the execution, it seemed that Herbert was more concerned about his flag than his impending execution.†   (source)
  • He's supposed to wait until the courtier playing the Lord of the Underworld — who is, in fact, none other than the leader of the impending palace coup — has come, taken what he has paid for, and gone away again.†   (source)
  • Of course, this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen, my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table, drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary.†   (source)
  • He immediately leapt to his feet and yelled "grenade" to alert his teammates of impending danger, but they could not evacuate the sniper hide-sight in time to escape harm.†   (source)
  • The crowd was too dense and seemed far more interested in the Vatican's impending doom than in their own safety.†   (source)
  • Nothing but impending doom.†   (source)
  • My sister Helen's decision to drop out of school and run off at age fifteen, though she returned home five years later with a nursing degree and a baby girl, was the first sign of impending doom.†   (source)
  • Caught on a swirl of wind from the impending thunderstorm, it rises up, almost reaching my feet as I stand near the edge of this small canyon that was once a library.†   (source)
  • The occasion for this run: Redd's troops had been active and General Doppelganger suspected an impending attack on an Alyssian outpost situated in the Snark Mountain foothills.†   (source)
  • More important, this job meant that Aunt Sedigeh had the scoop on every impending marriage for miles around.†   (source)
  • He had placed my National Science Fair medal in the trophy case of gleaming football awards along with an award certificate that read: A STUDY OF AMATEUR ROCKETRY TECHNIQUES HOMER H. HICKAM, JR. BIG CREEK HIGH SCHOOL WAR, WEST VIRGINIA GOLD AND SILVER AWARD 1960 The boys and girls of Big Creek went back to their chairs and held their diplomas and looked at one another, filled with present joy and impending loss.†   (source)
  • Everyone then proceeds to catch up on the latest family gossip, which usually involves rumors of impending marriages.†   (source)
  • His struggle to form words and his determination to express gratitude reinforced his humanity for me, and it made thinking about his impending execution unbearable.†   (source)
  • By age ten, I was coming into my own feelings about myself and my own impending manhood, and going out with Mommy, which had been a privilege and an honor at age five, had become a dreaded event.†   (source)
  • We assumed his dedication had something to do with his impending return to Iran and his desire to find a wife.†   (source)
  • Panic over the impending crime wave expected from these "radically impulsive, brutally remorseless" children led nearly every state to enact legislation that increased the exposure of children to adult prosecution.†   (source)
  • Her body stiffened against his, and he felt a strange emotion within her: a sense of impending momentousness.†   (source)
  • My mind has been so preoccupied with all things Will I haven't had time to process my impending doom.†   (source)
  • If anything, she was more upset by the fact that his impending marriage upset her than by the upcoming marriage itself.†   (source)
  • He'd gone from incredulity to a state of constant horror over this impending sickness that was growing in his body at this very moment.†   (source)
  • Is this overwhelming attraction really mutual, or is my believing that just a sign of impending insanity?†   (source)
  • I can only hope and pray that this sense of impending doom will be overcome by the light and love my future husband and I shall share.†   (source)
  • Despite his best efforts to focus on Mum and her impending verdict, Max was deeply shaken by Rasmussen's talk of clones.†   (source)
  • During this hour she could talk with her or just sit quietly and keep her company, but their conversations should not deal with Salander's problems or impending legal battles.†   (source)
  • You keep on looking because things combine to hold you fast—a sense of the random, the amateurish, the accidental, the impending.†   (source)
  • She couldn't decide which was more terrifying—the impending destruction of New Rome, or the way Octavian was poisoning the legion from the inside.†   (source)
  • I didn't keep track of the days :hat passed—there was no reason, as I tried to live as much in the present as possible, no past fading, no future impending.†   (source)
  • Amidst the machinery and manpower on one transport ship, the USS Missoula, are six particular boys: six boys with the wind in their hair, unsuspecting of their own impending place in mythic history.†   (source)
  • With the warming temperatures of the impending spring, many locals were sleeping in their courtyards, which significantly increased the need for stealth.†   (source)
  • I refused, on account of his impending marriage, which pleased him not-although I suspect his betrothed feels otherwise.†   (source)
  • I felt an impending loss of control.†   (source)
  • There will be no overnight vigil, as with Lincoln, so that friends and loved ones can stand over JFK in his final moments, slowly absorbing the pain of impending loss, and perhaps speaking a few honest words about how much they love John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†   (source)
  • And the illness, the drama of a failing body, the way impending death made her seem saintly, with an icon's fixedness, a stern and staring and enameled beauty.†   (source)
  • Gradually, as the cleaning party progressed from the basement to the second-floor bedrooms where Nancy and her mother had been murdered in their beds, they acquired additional fuel for the impending fire-blood-soiled bedclothes, mattresses, a bedside rug, a Teddy-bear doll.†   (source)
  • His neck and cheeks were scumbled with an impending beard, while his hair was matted into snarled ropes that writhed in a halo around his head.†   (source)
  • Albert's sister came to visit sometimes, Laura, unable to accept the impending death, scared, dependent, betrayed, and Klara could imagine she'd try to climb into the gravehole when the time came.†   (source)
  • He called upon the power of Crenshinibon again, but his concentration wavered under the intense stress of impending doom.†   (source)
  • But seven miles westward, in the village of Holcomb, not a hint was heard of impending sensations, one reason being that for some while the Clutter tragedy had been a banned topic at both of the community's principal gossip-dispensaries-the post office and Hartman's Cafe.†   (source)
  • Frank rolled up one of the pancakes and started munching—not a guy to let impending death stand in the way of a hearty breakfast.†   (source)
  • Instead of guarding himself-which would blind him to impending attacks-Eragon retaliated by jabbing the minds of the would-be invaders hard enough that they retreated behind their own barriers.†   (source)
  • Speaking quickly, Eragon told them of his impending departure and impressed upon them the importance of keeping his absence a secret from the rest of the villagers.†   (source)
  • I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom, so I built something to give me those feelings all the time.†   (source)
  • Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling.†   (source)
  • Klodwig, it seemed, had never beaten anyone who had not screamed, and this, along with the impending close of the war and the great changes afoot in the Winter Palace, had filled him with trembling, powdered-wig-style remorse.†   (source)
  • …religious counselor, the tireless Reverend Mr. Dameron, who appeared at the trial as the chief witness for the prosecution, and who, in the overwrought, rococo style of a tent-show revivalist, told the court he had often warned his former Sunday School pupil of God's impending wrath: "I says, there isn't anything in this world that is worth more than your soul, and you have acknowledged to me a number of times in our conversations that your faith is weak, that you have no faith in God.†   (source)
  • Camila would come and do a tape with me sometimes on the weekend, and she was still radiant good company (and could arch into a backbend next to mine), but she was preoccupied with her impending departure to the drug program down the hill.†   (source)
  • Two previous meetings had been adjourned because of their volatile debates, and Regis couldn't let this council disintegrate before he had told them of the impending barbarian attack.†   (source)
  • Even after the council, the halfling had held out some hope that the people would realize the impending doom and band together, but now he came to believe that the dwarves' decision to abandon Ten-Towns and lock themselves into their mines was the only option they had if they wished to survive.†   (source)
  • One of Bruenor's troops had returned from Lonelywood with Regis that same night, and though they were all exhausted from marching and fighting, they were too anxious about the impending information to sleep.†   (source)
  • Mike was a divinity student who had dropped out for a year to reflect upon his impending life of spirituality among the hypocritical flocks that would be assigned to him.†   (source)
  • He wanted to warn him of an impending new rebellion, more dangerous than the one that had been put down, but Liberius, by hurrying him, deprived him of the power of speech.†   (source)
  • Dust I am, to dust am bending, From the final doom impending Help me, Lord, for death is near.†   (source)
  • He talked little about his impending escape.†   (source)
  • He sat beside her in the swing, obediently, with the sense of an impending lecture.†   (source)
  • A sense of impending dissolution, of loss and death, brought them back.†   (source)
  • "I wish we could have brought the plane," said Lenina, looking up resentfully at the blank impending rock-face.†   (source)
  • It was full of pictures, big and small, bridal pictures, the bride and groom standing stiffly apart despite their apparent closeness, their faces frozen in an impending smile; pictures of prize-fighters crouching in sash and tights; pictures of infants, the little girls seated, holding tiny muffs where the pudgy legs joined the small torso; the little boys always lay on their bellies.†   (source)
  • As the summer wore on, and the windmill neared completion, the rumors of an impending treacherous attack grew stronger and stronger.†   (source)
  • On many occasions I learned of some event, a death, a birth, or an impending visit, some happening in the neighborhood, at her church, or at some relative's home, first through Granny's informative prayers at the breakfast or dinner table.†   (source)
  • This brings me, naturally, to the great question of invasion from the air, and of the impending struggle between the British and German Air Forces.†   (source)
  • However, when I settled myself in my armchair and put on my glasses, it was with great astonishment and a sudden sense of impending fate that I read the title on the cover of this companion volume to fortune-telling booklets.†   (source)
  • There had been no talk of politics or impending war all during the morning, because of Mr. Wilkes' request that the ladies should not be bored.†   (source)
  • At the same time Napoleon assured the animals that the stories of an impending attack on Animal Farm were completely untrue, and that the tales about Frederick's cruelty to his own animals had been greatly exaggerated.†   (source)
  • Word reached me that an examination for postal clerk was impending and at once I filed an application and waited.†   (source)
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