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  • Maester Frenken is not so determined to keep me insensate.†  (source)
  • But where has the universe hidden a word under its outer layer of biology, geometry, or insensate rock?†  (source)
  • Pain shot through Eragon's back and he collapsed insensate by her tail.†  (source)
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  • Seriously frostbitten, lying insensate in his tent, at least for the time being he was unable even to speak.†  (source)
  • To an unromantic eye, the Institute had the look of a Spanish prison or a fortress beleaguered not by an invading force but by the more threatening anarchy of the twentieth century buzzing insensately outside the Gates of Legrand.†  (source)
  • The squadron stood insensate, bereft of everything human but Doc Daneeka, who roosted dolorously like a shivering turkey buzzard beside the closed door of the medical tent, his stuffed nose jabbing away in thirsting futility at the hazy sunlight streaming down around him.†  (source)
  • She crawls to an edge inside herself, longs to be insensate, a slab of brick.†  (source)
  • Theirs was the demented cruelty of egocentric children, and somehow this made their insensate beastliness much more heartbreaking.†  (source)
  • The gunslinger laughed deprecatingly, and the insensate walls made the sound into a loon-like wheeze.†  (source)
  • Pearce, delirious and insensate with terror, began screaming out of exhaustion and terror.†  (source)
  • But that is of another time and place, another Reich, and the boy is banished into the farthest shadows, the horror receding and fading with him as the doomed ex-Obersturmbannfuhrer scribbles indefatigably away, justifying his bestial deeds in the name of insensate authority, call of duty, blind obedience.†  (source)
  • Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can't.†  (source)
  • Summer of 1918—Breath of hope that sweeps over the scorched fields, raging fever of impatience, of disappointment, of the most agonising terror of death, insensate question: Why?†  (source)
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