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  • An interminable hour passed.†   (source)
  • For a frozen interminable moment he couldn't remember the number, but then he remembered F4, and he pressed that.†   (source)
  • Every time German soldiers banged on our door, we flashed the permits and held our collective breath for the brief but interminable inspections.†   (source)
  • Owen was particularly interested in the miracle of the resurrection; he was interested in miracles in general, and life after death in particular, and he was writing an interminable term paper that related these subjects to that old theme from Isaiah 5:20, which he loved.†   (source)
  • Interminable seconds pass.†   (source)
  • And at the churchyard, in what they called the grandparents' corner, she and Leon and Cecilia would stand in an interminable embrace in the long grass by the new headstone, again watched.†   (source)
  • I hoped, for his sake and mine, that the grueling thirty-six hours we'd braved to get this far—three airplanes, two layovers, shift-napping in grubby train stations, and now this interminable gut-churning ferry ride—would pay off.†   (source)
  • Only then did I walk to calc, sitting down just after Mr. Jiminez had started another interminable lecture.†   (source)
  • An interminable dawn faded the stars out, and at last light, sad and grey, filtered into the shelter.†   (source)
  • At least she's learned not to respond to your interminable sermons.†   (source)
  • Interminable seconds passed during which Dart could hear nothing but his own jagged breathing.†   (source)
  • Even though I agree with her that we should wait just to be safe, the week seems interminable.†   (source)
  • The delays have seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • Some sections were gone altogether, and there were interminable, long detours and many changes of train.†   (source)
  • She was either on eBay or playing one of the interminable online strategy games she was addicted to.†   (source)
  • The moment stretched out and out, interminable.†   (source)
  • The silence seemed to go on interminably, before either Mr Smith or Mr Jones found it in him to mutter: "I suppose we were talking a little out of turn there.†   (source)
  • The whole process seems interminable.†   (source)
  • Their love affairs were slow and difficult and were often disturbed by sinister omens, and life seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • He makes interminable noises getting undressed and into the sleeping bag.†   (source)
  • The train stopped at a place called Mojave in the middle of an interminable, still desert.†   (source)
  • All through the interminable day at school she was bored stiff.†   (source)
  • They were interminable, insulting, and although indirect (Mama never named anybody—just talked about folks and some people), extremely painful in their thrust.†   (source)
  • And he was grateful too for her effect on his father, whose politeness, when he recalled he was in the company of a young woman, would jar him from what otherwise were interminable reveries and would bring his attention back for a while to the here and now.†   (source)
  • All the way down that interminable hall, Noris held tight to my hand.†   (source)
  • I also didn't want to be grounded for an interminable length of time.†   (source)
  • After an interminable time, he heard the dim and faraway voice intone, "Thirty," and despair gripped him as he wondered,How can I possibly withstand another twenty lashes?†   (source)
  • However, even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably, first in the state courts, then through the Federal courts until the ultimate tribunal is reached-the United States Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • As a result we stood in the heat for more than three hours, first waiting for our luggage and then in an interminable queue in front of the customs inspectors.†   (source)
  • The suit caught light and stirred like a bed of black tweed-thorns, interminably itching, covering the man's long body with motion so it seemed he should excruciate, cry out, and tear the clothes free.†   (source)
  • The race seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • But, perversely, it had given them something else to worry about during the seemingly interminable period before Joe backed the car up to the porch steps and silently began to load their four pieces of luggage into the wagon (into one of them Charity had surreptitiously placed all six of her snapshot albums).†   (source)
  • AS INTERMINABLE AS the journey was, it was really just the final leg of a wandering that began nearly five years before in Bujumbura, the bustling capital of Burundi, where Generose grew up and raised her boys.†   (source)
  • The enforced passivity of their defence, the interminable waiting, became insupportable.†   (source)
  • The long, hot days at the foot of the hills did seem to the mountain-bred creature interminable and stifling.†   (source)
  • I was so used to lunch being interminable, but this one had flown by.†   (source)
  • The dock that had held his Red October for two interminable months was now a water-filled concrete box, one of the many specially built to shelter strategic missile submarines from the harsh elements.†   (source)
  • The waiting is interminable.†   (source)
  • He felt blotted out under the relentlessly sunny skies, among prosperous college students strolling happily toward their next espresso, and his promise to Haji Ali felt more like a half-remembered movie he'd dozed through on one of his three interminable flights.†   (source)
  • And I think of rats again and how sometimes, to pass the interminable hours, Teacup and I would plot our campaign against the vermin, stratagems and tactics, waves of attack, each more ridiculous than the last, until she dissolved into hysterical laughter, and I gave her the same speech I gave Zombie on the firing range, the same lesson that now comes home to me, the fear that binds killer to prey and the bullet connecting both as if by a silver cord.†   (source)
  • During one interminable afternoon, when the girls of our floor sat cross-legged on the grass outside the dining hall, listening to a lecture on how to do laundry, I thought I had been dropped off at a camp for morons by my parents.†   (source)
  • We move without question or references in an interminable unknowing without rules, without direction.†   (source)
  • He studied Cindy for what seemed an interminable duration, a deep, assessing stare that kept her on edge.†   (source)
  • After a while which seemed interminable, he looked up.†   (source)
  • His had been a childhood of privations, discomfort, harshness, interminable nighttime rosaries, fear, and guilt.†   (source)
  • Tents and trees were in flames, and Milo's planes kept coming around interminably with their blinking white landing lights on and their bomb bay doors open.†   (source)
  • There's an interminable silence, five seconds maybe, as Trilling looks down at the file again and then lifts his gaze to meet Cedric's eye.†   (source)
  • Deborah and Theresa were happy because Ultima did many of the household chores they normally did, and they had more time to spend in the attic and cut out an interminable train of paper dolls which they dressed, gave names to, and most miraculously, made talk.†   (source)
  • Richard of St. Victor's ancient monastic practice proved useful for an interminable ocean crossing.†   (source)
  • On the interminable ride to the hospital, I looked down at my shirt.†   (source)
  • Shell-shocked and clearly thrown off their game plan, Mission found itself in one interminably long inning after another, watching the opposition score.†   (source)
  • He said so himself on one of those interminable days when we asked him if he had any news about when we would be released.†   (source)
  • The ride down to the lobby was both interminable and insufferable, the latter because of an American As she crossed the marble floor toward the large glass doors of the ornate filigreed entrance, she suddenly, involuntarily stopped as an elderly man in a dark pin-striped suit gasped, his slender body lurching forward in a heavy leather chair below on her right.†   (source)
  • The wait for further word seemed interminable and in such "strange uncertainty," John Adams sensed disaster.†   (source)
  • I stood waiting, bent forward with my feet apart, flat-footed, till they ended their interminable orations.†   (source)
  • He glided to the podium with the effortlessness of a well-oiled machine and stood still for an interminable long moment.†   (source)
  • The waiting seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • James had left me broken and nearly dead from loss of blood—and yet Edward had handled the interminable weeks in the hospital much better than this.†   (source)
  • His lawyer, James, had been trying ardently to get him one, but the waiting list seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • And secondly, O Tisroc, whose reign must and shall be interminable, I think that with the aid of the gods it is very likely that Anvard will fall into the Prince's hands.†   (source)
  • The time seemed to drag interminably.†   (source)
  • The breeze was cold and steady, the sky a spectral white that did little to distract from the gray, interminable expanse of wintry ocean.†   (source)
  • Lights, the business of the streets, the very buildings close together, the interminable variety and depth, serve to draw lonely people in, and no matter what they know, they still feel in their heart of hearts that someone is waiting to embrace them in perfect love and trust.†   (source)
  • It had seemed an interminable journey when the overseer brought her to Miss Susan's in a wagon.†   (source)
  • After another interminable walk, we emerged very suddenly into the open, into earliest morning sunlight and green and blue.†   (source)
  • Not the end of the world, only the last stage of our interminable journey from Jamaica, the start of our sweet honeymoon.†   (source)
  • During six interminable sessions, all recorded, she debriefed Natalie in far greater detail than before—her time in Raqqa and the camp at Palmyra, her initial interrogation at the hands of Abu Ahmed al-Tikriti, the many hours she had spent alone with the former Iraqi intelligence officer who called himself Saladin.†   (source)
  • At any rate, the legions of Dantesque bureaucrats whom I visited in their gloomy, Formalin-smelling dens, where they spent interminable hours compiling dreary data or originating meaningless memos, did nothing to rouse in me much devotion to my new employment.†   (source)
  • It was not until the murderer's long soliloquy that we were able to look around; frozen as we were in profile, our eyes searched you out, first confidently, then hesitantly, then desperately as each patch of turf, each log, every exposed corner in every direction proved uninhabited, and all the while the murderous King addressed the horizon with his dreary interminable guilt….†   (source)
  • Leaves rustled under the azalea bed and a long nose came out, followed by an interminable length of dachshund.†   (source)
  • November 16 Though the trip from New Orleans to Hattiesburg had seemed interminable on the bus, the return to New Orleans in P. D.'s car was quickly done.†   (source)
  • Their interminable poker games were punctuated with violent political arguments, and it soon became obvious to Stormgren that the big Pole had never thought seriously about the causes for which he was fighting.†   (source)
  • The woman with the buxom frame, the hair in a bun, the interminable grin.†   (source)
  • Now the distant belfry chimes commence to toll the hour, also very slowly, almost—it is twelve—interminably; the sense is that of a long time passing.†   (source)
  • After an interminable time, a time filled with blackness and many sleeps, I heard footsteps which paused before the door to my cell, and I heard the sound of a key within the lock.†   (source)
  • It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable.†   (source)
  • As they walked side by side, Peters and he, along the interminable corridors, through the cursory customs and immigration check, and still no familiar face turned to greet him, he realized that his anxiety had in reality been hope; hope that somehow his tacit decision to go on would be revoked by circumstance.†   (source)
  • He was not looking at them but over their heads, his glazed eyes staring at some distant point and his drowsy, slurred voice grinding on and on, tedious and interminable.†   (source)
  • Beyond the car barn was a black scraggly wood, and then there was something of a road that followed along the cliff interminably, or once there had been.†   (source)
  • The walls of green jade, the nightlight in the porcelain mandarin whose head nodded interminably if you touched him, the multi-clock that radiated the time of three planets and six satellites, the bed itself, a crystal pool flowing with carbonated glycerine at ninety-nine point nine Fahrenheit.†   (source)
  • The brief and interminable time of feeling suspended.†   (source)
  • Then come the interminable Middle Ages—Europe's schoolday.†   (source)
  • He would be gone for two weeks, a span of time that, to Adel, seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • The days that followed were hot and interminable.†   (source)
  • After another interminable minute had passed, Kate said, "I'm sick of waiting.†   (source)
  • You minx, abandoning me to Lord Ferros and his interminable stories.†   (source)
  • To him, the interminable waiting before a battle was as stressful as the actual fighting.†   (source)
  • Their only hope was to be grindingly, interminably thorough.†   (source)
  • It was interminable, so long that the bartender was relieved for the night.†   (source)
  • She gave it to him; he dialed, holding on interminably for the switchboard to answer.†   (source)
  • We had to wait what seemed an interminable time in the emergency room.†   (source)
  • The wait for the elevator was interminable!†   (source)
  • That seemingly interminable orgy lasted more than a year.†   (source)
  • She spent interminable hours staring at the pallid landscape that stretched out before her window.†   (source)
  • In this clinic, Rojas had already cared for an interminable procession of unlucky souls.†   (source)
  • Then came an interminable stream of news and updates, much of it almost physically painful in its banality.†   (source)
  • Mornings he alternates between Madame Manec's kitchen, the tobacco shop, and the post office, where he waits in interminable queues to use the telephone.†   (source)
  • The hours seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • The interminable pages about light and stone and water, a narrative split between three different points of view, the hovering stillness of nothing much seeming to happen—none of this could conceal her cowardice.†   (source)
  • He felt this interminable wave was an abstract view of the universe: one end connected to the endless past, the other to the endless future, and in the middle only the ups and downs of random chance—without life, without pattern, the peaks and valleys at different heights like uneven grains of sand, the whole curve like a one-dimensional desert made of all the grains of sand lined up in a row: lonely, desolate, so long that it was intolerable.†   (source)
  • For what seemed an interminable wait, we stood watching those lights drawing nearer and nearer before Stacey clicked off the flashlight and ordered us into the forest.†   (source)
  • The walk to the rendezvous point was an interminable one, and as they walked Saeed and Nadia did not hold hands, for that was forbidden in public between genders, even for an ostensibly married couple, but from time to time their knuckles would brush at their sides, and this sporadic physical contact was important to them.†   (source)
  • For the first time in the interminable twenty-seven years that he had been waiting, Florentino Ariza could not endure the pangs of grief at the thought that this admirable man would have to die in order for him to be happy.†   (source)
  • I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent most of my childhood years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self.†   (source)
  • The Dark Ages, as they were also called, were seen then as one interminable thousand-year-long night which had settled over Europe between antiquity and the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • At first he thought that the lesson under the almond trees was a casual innovation due, perhaps, to the interminable repairs on the house, but in the days that followed he came to understand that Fermina Daza would be there, within view, every afternoon at the same time during the three months of vacation, and that certainty filled him with new hope.†   (source)
  • Lyell held that the present geology of the earth, with its mountains and valleys, was the result of an interminably long and gradual evolution.†   (source)
  • The same protocol held sway as at the great performances in Europe, and the ladies used the occasion to show off their long dresses and their fur coats in the dog days of the Caribbean summer, but it was also necessary to authorize the admission of servants to carry the chairs and lamps and all the things to eat that were deemed necessary to survive the interminable programs, one of which did not end until it was time for early Mass.†   (source)
  • The streets were crowded, automobiles and pedestrians vying for supremacy at every intersection, the red and green signals erratic and interminable.†   (source)
  • And then he'd left again, with Amatis, off to another one of their interminable meetings at the Accords Hall.†   (source)
  • She fussed interminably with the brides of the newly wed couples for not getting their men's supper ready on time; about how to launder shirts, press them, etc. "Yo' man be here direc'lin.†   (source)
  • Impassive. without even worrying about making a show of his recent bravery, he listened to the interminable charges of the accusation.†   (source)
  • Wasn't it an interminable sermon?†   (source)
  • Moses Hemmenway, who had become a Congregational minister known for his interminable sermons, would remain, in Adams's estimate, one of the first scholars of their generation.†   (source)
  • Through an interminable night of tears and dark apprehension, I tried to sort out the meaning of this new bit of information about Mahtob.†   (source)
  • The good-humored, friendly crinkles about his eyes were white with tension and oily with grime as he kept unrolling an interminable bandage around the bulky cotton compress Yossarian felt strapped burdensomely to the inside of one thigh.†   (source)
  • Exasperated by the interminable nights of music, Colonel Aureliano Buendia threatened to cure his affliction with a few pistol shots.†   (source)
  • The faith Jean Hoerni had invested in him lay heavy on his broad shoulders, and he was determined that there would be no more interminable meetings and banquets; he would drive the construction swiftly to completion.†   (source)
  • Still, the wait had felt interminable, and she had feared that she was to be left strapped down and isolated—though not ignored, surely not that—for the same drawn-out stretch.†   (source)
  • He was a balding, heavy-set man with half-closed eyes, leaning back in a chair, his arms folded in front of him, the weary depression of his interminable night hanging over him.†   (source)
  • After a seemingly interminable wait, Wyrden, one of the male elves, said, "You may thank fate, Shadeslayer; the lance missed the major veins and arteries in her neck.†   (source)
  • Never wholeheartedly devoted to the task of writing his autobiography, he now abandoned the project altogether and launched into a lengthy—some thought interminable—spate of letters to the Boston Patriot, his last passionate exercise in self-justification.†   (source)
  • 'I won't take the valve apart now,' he said, and began taking it apart, working with slow, tireless, interminable precision, his rustic, ungainly face bent very close to the floor, picking painstakingly at the minute mechanism in his fingers with such limitless, plodding concentration that he seemed scarcely to be thinking of it at all.†   (source)
  • I lied my way out of immediate trouble, claiming that we had stood in an interminable line at one bakery, only to find that they were out of bread.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of December the long-awaited interview, which many had foreseen as an interminable argument, was resolved in less than an hour.†   (source)
  • Mortenson pictured the village of Korphe, where the population survived through the interminable winter months in the basements of their stone and mud homes, huddled with their animals around smoldering yak dung fires, in their one and only set of clothing.†   (source)
  • Seeing everyone in the squadron he didn't like afraid once again throughout the appalling, interminable Great Big Siege of Bologna reminded Captain Black nostalgically of the good old days of his Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade when he had been a man of real consequence, and when even big shots like Milo Minderbinder, Doc Daneeka and Piltchard and Wren had trembled at his approach and groveled at his feet.†   (source)
  • Like the United States, the Dutch Republic was born of war, and for more than a century had survived and prospered between two of the great, interminably warring powers of Europe, France and England.†   (source)
  • My aide left shortly past five o'clock this afternoon and the chauffeur, as you call him, retires no later than ten to watch his interminable television.†   (source)
  • Giving her some small, orphaned kisses in the hollow of her wounded hand, he opened up the most hidden passageways of his heart and drew out an interminable and lacerated intestine, the terrible parasitic animal that had incubated in his martyrdom.†   (source)
  • When we reached the park, we found it to be a pleasant relief from the interminable blocks of row houses.†   (source)
  • ""I'm looking for my socks," Vera said, fishing interminably through the drawers of her dresser as Mortenson pulled a pillow over his head and cringed beneath it.†   (source)
  • On a certain occasion he found the door barred, and he knocked several times, knowing that if he had the boldness to knock the first time he would have had to knock until the last, and after an interminable wait she opened the door for him.†   (source)
  • For an interminable second, Blanca was suspended in her own uncertainty; then she was overcome with horror.†   (source)
  • This was illustrated most forcefully on a Friday afternoon when we were at Ameh Bozorg's house, as usual, to celebrate the sabbath with interminable devotions.†   (source)
  • He worked without pause, taking the faucet apart, spreading all the tiny pieces out carefully, counting and then studying each one interminably as though he had never seen anything remotely similar before, and then reassembling the whole apparatus, over and over and over and over again, with no loss of patience or interest, no sign of fatigue, no indication of ever concluding.†   (source)
  • They discussed the possibility of giving it a proper burial, but it would have required interminable paperwork to have the tomb unsealed in order to include the missing part.†   (source)
  • However, the strange events of this interminable day helped to allay my cold fear that Moody might attempt to extend this visit beyond the date of our return reservation, two weeks hence.†   (source)
  • During that interminable night while Colonel Gerineldo Marquez thought about his dead afternoons in Amaranta's sewing room, Colonel Aureliano Buendia scratched for many hours trying to break the hard shell of his solitude.†   (source)
  • At home, Amaranta was weaving her interminable shroud and Ursula dragged about in her decrepitude through the depths of the shadows where the only thing that was still visible was the ghost of Jose Arcadio Buendia under the chestnut tree.†   (source)
  • He knocked and waited what seemed like an interminable while until the door was opened with a tug on a string that ran from the door-knob to the top of the stairs.†   (source)
  • Then he massaged her with brandy and gunpowder, but it was all useless; Pancha's life ebbed away in an interminable case of diarrhea that destroyed her body and left her with an insatiable thirst.†   (source)
  • On November second, All Souls' Day, his brother opened the store and found all the lamps lighted, all the music boxes opened, and all the docks striking an interminable hour, and in the midst of that mad concert he found Pietro Crespi at the desk in the rear with his wrists cut by a razor and his hands thrust into a basin of benzoin.†   (source)
  • Remedios the Beauty stayed there wandering- through the desert of solitude, bearing no cross on her back, maturing in her dreams without nightmares, her interminable baths, her unscheduled meals, her deep and prolonged silences that had no memory until one afternoon in March, when Fernanda wanted to fold her brabant sheets in the garden and asked the women in the house for help.†   (source)
  • Interminable lines of people streamed by to shake my hand, cars blocked all the cemetery gates, and a hodgepodge of delegations—poor people, students, labor unionists, nuns, mongoloid children, bohemians, and spiritualists—came to pay her their respects.†   (source)
  • She blamed her grandfather for what had taken place, but then, seeing him hunched in his armchair calling out to Clara and his son in an interminable murmur, her love for the old man returned and she ran to embrace him, running her hands through his white hair and comforting him.†   (source)
  • While his father was putting the town in order and his mother was increasing their wealth with her marvelous business of candied little roosters and fish, which left the house twice a day strung along sticks of balsa wood, Aureliano spent interminable hours in the abandoned laboratory, learning the art of silverwork by his own experimentation.†   (source)
  • She saw the peasants running out of their houses terrified, imploring heaven, throwing their arms around each other, pulling their children, kicking their dogs, pushing their old people, and trying to salvage their few poor belongings in that din of brick and tile flying from the very bowels of the earth, like an interminable noise of the end of the world.†   (source)
  • …them all the way to nirvana but that generally had the opposite effect, and they would wind up slipping out of other people's sight, stretched out beneath the tall reeds in the garden, desperately making love; the books they had read by candlelight, drowning in passion and smoke; the interminable gatherings during which they discussed the pessimistic postwar philosophers or concentrated on trying to move the three-legged table—two taps for yes, three for no—while Clara laughed at them.†   (source)
  • He understood that the excuses he had always made to avoid seeing her would not avail him now, and that the time had come for him to travel to the capital and face for the last time this woman who was always present in his nightmares, with her rancid smell of medicine, her frail moans, and her interminable prayers, this suffering woman who had peopled his childhood with prohibitions and terrors and weighed his manhood with responsibilities and guilt.†   (source)
  • Adam moved rapidly across interminable East Texas, through Louisiana and the butt ends of Mississippi and Alabama, and into the flank of Florida.†   (source)
  • She sensed again such intensity in his gaze as he sat beside her, not speaking for a nearly interminable space, that despite her trust in him, she began to feel a little uneasy.†   (source)
  • Interminable.†   (source)
  • I had to watch hour after hour, by day and by night, the removal and burning of the bodies, the extraction of the teeth, the cutting of the hair, the whole grisly, interminable business.†   (source)
  • A quirky updraft sent them hurling high over Eighth Avenue; there they remained suspended for what seemed interminable moments, and I sighed with delight.†   (source)
  • That is why, when Sophie failed to return from the rest room after what seemed an interminable time (it could only have been a few minutes), I rose with the intention of invading those intimate precincts in search of her—ah!†   (source)
  • Suddenly, after the nearly interminable silence, with my face still downward in the sand, I felt Sophie's fingers reach up into my trunks and lightly stroke that spectacularly sensitive epidermal zone down deep where thigh and buttock intersect, a scant centimeter from my balls.†   (source)
  • Then at last I saw Nathan slowly sink to his knees on the hard pavement, where, surrounding Sophie's legs with his arms, he remained motionless for what seemed an interminable time, frozen in an attitude of devotion, or fealty, or penance, or supplication—or all of these.†   (source)
  • The "smooching" begins, quite pleasurable at first, and after interminable minutes of this foreplay, there starts the repetitious and inevitable build-up toward what for me has now become a boring, nearly unbearable messiness.†   (source)
  • Hiss's delivery tended to run in quick spurts separated by nearly interminable pauses—pauses in which there was almost audible a thudding tread of thought, the clotted Gothic ratiocination—and during such hiatuses Sophie would stare at the walls, all unadorned save for that work of supremely grandiose Kitsch she had seen before, a multipasteled Adolf Hitler in heroic profile, clad like a Knight of the Grail in armor of Solingen stainless steel.†   (source)
  • For the following hour or so, toiling alongside Lotte over the Floss household laundry (the prisoners in the house were spared the lethally grueling and interminable roll calls of the rest of the camp; luckily, Sophie was compelled only to wash the vast heaps of soiled clothing from upstairsabnormally plenteous because of Frau Hoss's fixation about germs and filth), she fantasized all manner of little skits and playlets in which she and the Commandant had finally been drawn into some…†   (source)
  • No doting old concierge but a series of reptilian desk clerks, each with the verdigris hue of creatures deprived of daylight, mounted guard over the lobby where one small lightbulb pulsed dimly overhead; they also operated the single creaking elevator, and they coughed a lot and scratched in hemorrhoidal misery during the interminable ascent to the fourth floor and the cubbyhole where, night after night that spring, I immured myself like a half-mad anchorite.†   (source)
  • These shadows of memory tell, indistinctly, of tall figures that lifted and bore me in silence down—down—still down—till a hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent.†   (source)
  • The speech for the defense seemed to me interminable.†   (source)
  • The boy played an interminable game of graveyard.†   (source)
  • There was a droning interminable wait at a junction-town near the foot-hills.†   (source)
  • She thought of the long walk back to the house and it seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • It was not yet midnight; the hours of darkness stretched ahead interminably.†   (source)
  • They sound like an interminable train crossing an endless trestle.†   (source)
  • Alter an interminable period, the door cracked open and Melly's face white and strained, appeared.†   (source)
  • What seemed an interminable stream of identical eight-year-old male twins was pouring into the room.†   (source)
  • An hour dragged past, slow, interminable.†   (source)
  • They finished their interminable rounds in shouting triumph.†   (source)
  • Upstairs, upon a sleeping porch, a thin-faced Jew coughed through the interminable dark.†   (source)
  • The minutes seemed interminable in the silence that had returned.†   (source)
  • There was nothing to do but to "mark time," and some hundreds of thousands of men and women went on doing this, through weeks that seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • The drive seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • Perhaps by pulling wires and writing interminable reports, he could wangle something out of it in the next New Year Honors.†   (source)
  • Whizz and then, click! the lift-hatches hew open; the bottle-liner had only to reach out a hand, take the flap, insert, smooth-down, and before the lined bottle had had time to travel out of reach along the endless band, whizz, click! another flap of peritoneum had shot up from the depths, ready to be slipped into yet another bottle, the next of that slow interminable procession on the band.†   (source)
  • He clean forgot all the little rubs and digs of the evening, and how it bored him unutterably to sit still while people ate and drank interminably, and his being so irritable with his wife and so touchy and minding when they passed his books over as if they didn't exist at all.†   (source)
  • Then it seemed an interminable while that he watched his tongue seek words, thinking quiet and swift, thought fleeing A man.†   (source)
  • The children who had been playing by the fountain stared at her for a moment, and went away alarmed, but a llama (a lady with a long neck and sweet shallow eyes, burdened down by a fur cape too heavy for her and picking her way delicately down an interminable staircase) came over and offered her a velvet cleft nose to stroke.†   (source)
  • All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.†   (source)
  • It was the grey look on his face that made me stop abruptly, and turn the pages until I found a paragraph on cricket, very practical and dull — Middlesex batting on a dry wicket at the Oval and piling up interminable dreary runs.†   (source)
  • One observes that she is a little clumsy with her umbrella; but minded when the mole was caught in the trap; and finally, would not make the loaf at breakfast (I was thinking of the interminable breakfasts of married life as I shaved) altogether prosaic—it would not surprise one sitting opposite this girl to see a dragon-fly perched on the loaf at breakfast.†   (source)
  • … I made the mistake of wearing a very elaborate gown to the premiere, a gown with a train that had to be gathered up as I rose from my seat and began the interminable retreat from the city of flames, up, up, up the unbearably long theatre aisle, gasping for breath and still clutching up the regal white train of my gown, all the way up the forever … length of the aisle, and behind me some small unknown man grabbing at me, saying, stay, stay!†   (source)
  • He, supposed to be the intelligence of the party, had got the poor animals into this interminable desert of ovens.†   (source)
  • He sidled cautiously out, with a smudge of tears under his red sore eyes and from the hall heard the conversation begin again - 'mystery', 'soul' - going interminably on to no end.†   (source)
  • He was writing the diary for O'Brien — to O'Brien: it was like an interminable letter which no one would ever read, but which was addressed to a particular person and took its color from that fact.†   (source)
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