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  • On either side of them, along the overhanging niche, the cliff was pocked with myriad caves.†   (source)
  • The tall niches that had once contained statuary were empty but for the filthy ruins of spiderwebs.†   (source)
  • The one that replaced plaque bacteria with friendly ones that filled the same ecological niche, namely your mouth?†   (source)
  • You can find a niche.†   (source)
  • In the niches where the bowling pins used to stand, several fires burned, which couldn't have been very safe.†   (source)
  • I thought he would somehow find a niche.†   (source)
  • There are niches cut in the rock.†   (source)
  • A brazier had been moved out of one of the alcoves to create a sleeping niche, with a bedroll, a backpack, even some pictures taped to the wall.†   (source)
  • Something like a natural fountain, maybe, a bubbling-up of crystal-clear water cupped in a niche of ancient mossy rocks.†   (source)
  • Artemis hunted the small magnet from its niche in the toolbox and applied both poles to the tiny screws.†   (source)
  • Africa has parasites so particular and diverse as to occupy every niche of the body: intestines small and large, the skin, the bladder, the male and female reproductive tracts, interstitial fluids, even the cornea.†   (source)
  • I have set up a cot near the aft loading portal and made a rather comfortable niche for myself with my personal luggage and three large trunks of expedition gear.†   (source)
  • And if I couldn't find a niche in a school with three thousand people, what were my chances here?†   (source)
  • That's his niche."†   (source)
  • That's her economic niche: beating the traffic.†   (source)
  • A coffee shop chain with a Scottish theme also never found its niche.†   (source)
  • Soon after arriving in the deserted village Capricorn had had gratings fitted over the narrow niches where long-dead priests slept in their stone tombs.†   (source)
  • Every day, when I went home in the evening, I would see a woman sitting in the same niche in the wall in Sienna Street, playing a concertina and singing sad Russian songs.†   (source)
  • I went back to what had become my home, and curled myself into the shelter of the niche underneath the overhanging roof.†   (source)
  • "The more life there is within a system, the more niches there are for life," his father said.†   (source)
  • The reason why so many different animal species have arisen over the ages is precisely because of these many niches in the natural environment.†   (source)
  • I scrambled to a little niche where a statue of the Virgencita was standing, and begging her pardon, I knocked her and her pedestal over.†   (source)
  • It seemed hard to believe that he was a lonely person, searching relentlessly in bottles, under women's skirts, in church work and lofty job titles for his "personal niche," lost before birth and unrecovered since.†   (source)
  • Beneath the stairs was a niche with a propane gas stove, a counter, and a sink.†   (source)
  • He started at the upper corner and methodically ran his fingers over every divot and niche, over the edges of the lockers and inside them, around the bend of the perpendicular walls.†   (source)
  • It was more of a niche, just a depression in the rock that happened to have a flat floor.†   (source)
  • Some might call it distorted reality, but it's exactly the place I need to be: no mom, Marie, ever more distant, in her midlife quest for fame no stepfather, Scott, stern and heavy-handed with unattainable expectations no big sister, Leigh, caught up in a tempest of uncertain sexuality no little brother, Jake, spoiled and shameless in his thievery of my niche.†   (source)
  • The aux slides me along the wall to a niche in the battlements and shoves me through, holding me by my neck above the dunes like a child with a rag doll.†   (source)
  • The aloe branch and loaf of bread that had been hanging over the door since the days of the founding were replaced by a niche with the Sacred Heart of Jesus.†   (source)
  • The Kremlin wall at this point was a beehive of niches for the ashes of the Party faithful.†   (source)
  • Corinthian columns and niched saints.†   (source)
  • He had found his niche.†   (source)
  • Severo del Valle and his oldest sons bore Rosa's white coffin with the silver rivets, and they themselves laid it down in the open niche in the family tomb.†   (source)
  • His niche had broadened to include "anything unusual," and in the past fifteen years, he'd researched and investigated psychics, spirit guides, faith healers, and mediums.†   (source)
  • He was Myron Pankey, a former lawyer who'd found a niche in the relatively new field of jury consultation, an area of expertise now nudging itself into many major trials.†   (source)
  • A niche in the wall behind the young adjunct held an icon of Amaat and a small bowl of bright-orange, rufflepetaled flowers.†   (source)
  • This time she led him to the other side of the gods, to a niche in the wall where the white panel had fallen out.†   (source)
  • Some had chosen to entomb the remains of their loved ones in niches in the walls of communal mausoleums.†   (source)
  • The handles of a few knives and other tools protruded from niches in the walls.†   (source)
  • Beneath each balcony were identical curved niches.†   (source)
  • It was a cozy-looking spot, like a niche in a cathedral, a group of benches surrounding the monumental statue of a sculptor named Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, all under the canopy of grand old trees, and shielded from the roadways by smaller trees and bushes.†   (source)
  • A mirror hung in the niche behind the portable bar.†   (source)
  • So standard writing is becoming more like speech, except in a few niches.†   (source)
  • A little earthenware lamp burned in a niche.†   (source)
  • You've found yourself a niche.†   (source)
  • The cement niches on the side of the house held so many bottles that from the side the building resembled a wine cellar.†   (source)
  • Drizzt had struck out alone from Menzoberranzan on a journey to a neighboring city when he fell prey to a cave fisher, a crablike denizen of the dark caverns that customarily found a niche high above the floor of a tunnel and dropped an invisible, sticky line of webbing.†   (source)
  • He came to work for Duck Commander and found his niche as a videographer.†   (source)
  • Tried to tell me she was glad I'd found my niche.†   (source)
  • Zooey pulled open the medicine-cabinet door and put the orange stick back in its niche.†   (source)
  • And the AIs were, specifically, programmed to create niches and openings that "have-nots" could exploit if they were smart and ruthless enough.†   (source)
  • I found a niche amongst some lichen-covered rocks and, having firmly jammed myself into it, ate and drank my lunch.†   (source)
  • A modest niche.†   (source)
  • There was light about us then, from a few feeble flames set within niches in the wall.†   (source)
  • At times the sanctuary extended into the core of the tower so that the niche with the image was located within the base of the temple tower.†   (source)
  • We found the river in a niche in the rocks where few would think to look.†   (source)
  • Gradually I was able to make out the forms of the carven Gods and Goddesses on the sides of the temple, on the colonnades, and in the niches of the walls, and as I gazed they seemed almost to live, their stone breasts gently breathing, their limbs lightly moving.†   (source)
  • This time the vision-some niche of clarity, some future-was Emma MacLain turning around and coming part way to meet him on the stairs.†   (source)
  • An old witch sat in a niche, quivering her wax hands over some orange-andblue tarot cards.†   (source)
  • By the time she was twenty she had a good job, her own friends, a niche in the life of the town.†   (source)
  • ...some companies, such as eBay, are big winners in niches no rational planner could have predicted.   (source)
  • I took a breath and walked to the opening of our niche, our cave, our last sanctuary.†   (source)
  • Fittingly, this niche displayed one small object.†   (source)
  • In one of those niches, he sees a wirehead, mumbling something.†   (source)
  • "Here," said Harry, and they placed him in a niche where a suit of armor had stood earlier.†   (source)
  • A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.†   (source)
  • Maester Luwin set the lamp in a niche by the door and fiddled with its wick.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus was recessed in a niche, obscured from this oblique angle.†   (source)
  • About thirty niches on the wall had the names of the clan ancestors.†   (source)
  • Benches were recessed into niches in the walls.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt like a cornered animal as he scrambled deeper into the semicircular niche.†   (source)
  • The church's entryway was a recessed stone niche inside which stood a large wooden door.†   (source)
  • The dark niches of his eyes remained steady on Paul with their untamed stare.†   (source)
  • The lamps in the niche shone up from beneath, illuminating him like a ghost.†   (source)
  • The chief launched forward, his head cracking into the edge of the stone niche.†   (source)
  • I checked the single closet, short hall, kitchen niche, and came back to step out on the balcony.†   (source)
  • So far a dozen such niches had turned up nothing of interest.†   (source)
  • In the Niche of the Palliums, the camerlegno had followed God's will and anointed his body.†   (source)
  • As they approached the niche, Langdon felt a slow sinking sensation.†   (source)
  • The stone walls of the room were inset with shelves and crowded niches.†   (source)
  • Langdon nodded, not hearing a word as he prepared to examine another niche.†   (source)
  • But as he moved across the Niche, the camerlegno paused.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno felt like he was floating as he descended into the Niche of the Palliums.†   (source)
  • Langdon was now face to face with the rear wall of the niche.†   (source)
  • Rising before him, the niche's sole contents seemed ironically apropos-a single sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Vittoria slowed as the third niche loomed before them.†   (source)
  • As he moved across the niche, he came to a bulkhead grate covering a hole in the floor.†   (source)
  • They were nearing the Niche of the Palliums-the sunken area in the center of the basilica.†   (source)
  • He rolled his body over the banister into the niche.†   (source)
  • "You certainly seem to be enjoying those niches!" the docent said, looking delighted.†   (source)
  • The niches, although not enormous, were big enough to hide someone in the shadows.†   (source)
  • They moved methodically, checking behind statues, inside niches, closets, under furniture.†   (source)
  • I glared at Uncle Randolph, who was making himself at home in his zombie niche.†   (source)
  • He sat upon the narrow bed and found his whetstone and oilcloth in their niche, and set to work.†   (source)
  • Samwell Tarly sat hunched over a table in a niche carved into the stone of the wall.†   (source)
  • On either side of them, in niches carved from the stone, skulls looked down on them.†   (source)
  • The kitchen was little more than a niche for cooking in a corner of the hall.†   (source)
  • "You stuffed me in that niche but didn't have the sense to hold on to it yourself."†   (source)
  • He left the candle burning in a wall niche and began the climb.†   (source)
  • She took a small, thin-bladed knife from a niche, and held it out.†   (source)
  • But under Acey's tutelage, he began to find his niche.†   (source)
  • Their bodies were stuffed three-deep in shallow niches, or simply piled in the corners of the room.†   (source)
  • Arya slept in a shallow niche in the cavernous vaults beneath the Wailing Tower, on a bed of straw.†   (source)
  • A lamp burned in a stone niche, casting wan yellow light over the empty hallway.†   (source)
  • Faramir was sitting there in his chair, and the lamp had been rekindled in its niche above his head.†   (source)
  • Randolph backed all the way into a zombie niche, leaving a trail of blood from his wounded hand.†   (source)
  • "What would happen to the nymphs?" said the creature in the center niche.†   (source)
  • Donna and Tad in a rocky niche, barely beyond the reach of some terrible, mythical beast.†   (source)
  • Even as Piper stood in a niche, the water was soon up to her knees.†   (source)
  • Lining the walls, illuminated niches displayed various minerals, stones, and fossils.†   (source)
  • She got up and went to one of the niches.†   (source)
  • Piper ran her hand along the bottom of another niche.†   (source)
  • You guys, check the niches for secret exits.†   (source)
  • The other nymphs wailed and clawed at their niches.†   (source)
  • There is a niche for you, if you choose to claim it.†   (source)
  • Step by step they descended, and from each niche fire spilled forth and flowed outward.†   (source)
  • Inside the niche the space measured only a few square yards.†   (source)
  • The first flame came into view, in its niche beside the trail.†   (source)
  • There were tables, chairs, and bookcases, and in a niche opposite the door stood a tall statue of white marble.†   (source)
  • Then he stood up straight, pulled a slim Washington guidebook from his blazer, and stepped calmly from the niche with an elegant gait.†   (source)
  • She bent down, scooped up her sherry bottles and dumped them unceremoniously in a large blue and white vase standing in a nearby niche.†   (source)
  • He rolled over on to his back and saw Malfoy concealed in a niche beneath an ugly dragon-shaped vase.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore beckoned Harry to the very edge of the rock where a series of jagged niches made footholds leading down to boulders that lay halfsubmerged in water and closer to the cliff.†   (source)
  • But Harry, Ron and Hermione had turned automatically towards the giant hourglasses set in niches along the wall behind them, which recorded the housepoints.†   (source)
  • His head twisted involuntarily as his vertebrae slid into their niches, and strength returned in a rush as magic reproduced the three litres of blood lost through his chest wound.†   (source)
  • "We're standing atop its head," he said, wiping his brow with a handkerchief "There's a niche over here where we can look out."†   (source)
  • The result of this continual selection is that the ones best adapted to a particular environment—or a particular ecological niche—will in the long term perpetuate the race in that environment.†   (source)
  • I crawled over to this wall and hid in a niche in the corner, two metres from the burning building, camouflaging myself with the tendrils of the creeper and the leaves and stalks of some tomato plants growing between the wall and the building.†   (source)
  • The guards smiled at him from their niches as he wound his way down the turret stair, carrying the sword in his good hand.†   (source)
  • It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.†   (source)
  • The Baron shifted his gross body in the suspensors, focused his attention on an ebaline statue of a leaping boy in a niche across the room.†   (source)
  • The niches were there, as Littlefinger had promised, shallow cuts that would be invisible from below, unless you knew just where to look for them.†   (source)
  • Anderson maneuvered past Langdon, reached into the niche, and clamped his large palms on either side of the pyramid.†   (source)
  • Like a rough-hewn cubbyhole, the recessed niche reminded Langdon of a museum alcove designed to hold a statuette.†   (source)
  • They turned then to the necessary animal life — burrowing creatures to open the soil and aerate it: kit fox, kangaroo mouse, desert hare, sand terrapin …. and the predators to keep them in check: desert hawk, dwarf owl, eagle and desert owl; and insects to fill the niches these couldn't reach: scorpion, centipede, trapdoor spider, the biting wasp and the wormfly …. and the desert bat to keep watch on these.†   (source)
  • He began with the clawed feet beneath the sarcophagus, moved upward past Newton, past his books on science, past the two boys with their mathematical scroll, up the face of the pyramid to the giant orb with its constellations, and finally up to the niche's star-filled canopy.†   (source)
  • He touches a panel on the inner wall and it slides up to reveal a small niche containing a metal box.†   (source)
  • Their tombs, packed into every last niche and alcove, range in grandeur from the most regal of mausoleums—that of Queen Elizabeth I, whose canopied sarcophagus inhabits its own private, apsidal chapel—down to the most modest etched floor tiles whose inscriptions have worn away with centuries of foot traffic, leaving it to one's imagination whose relics might lie below the tile in the undercroft.†   (source)
  • A second later Kassad became visible at the corner of the car, pulling himself along a series of icy niches and handholds in the metal.†   (source)
  • The data appeared to be the same: no hidden rooms or passages, just a few niches even the deep radar had missed.†   (source)
  • …hundred meters tall set to catch the first rays of solstice sun or the moon on midwinter night, paneless windows the size of a man's fist looking out on nothing in particular, an endless array of bas-relief, grotesque sculptures in half-hidden niches, and more than a thousand gargoyles staring down from eave and parapet, transept and sepulcher, peering down through wood rafters in the great halls and positioned so as to peer in the blood-tinted windows of the northeast face, their…†   (source)
  • Chartrand enjoyed being out of the heavy goggles, and he stretched his neck as they descended into the sunken niche to scan the area.†   (source)
  • As the chief surveyed the damage, trying to recreate what possibly could have gone on here, he saw a niche riddled with bullet holes.†   (source)
  • The niche smelled intoxicatingly sweet.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno had arrived at the Niche of the Palliums-the sunken chamber lit by ninety-nine oil lamps.†   (source)
  • The guards had completed searching the Niche of the Palliums and were moving across the basilica again when their walkie-talkies went off.†   (source)
  • He had descended past a hollowed niche in the wall before him and suddenly found himself face to face with a collection of skulls.†   (source)
  • Partially hidden in its niche.†   (source)
  • As the bullets erupted behind him, Langdon dove yet again, sliding out of control across the marble floor before crashing in a heap against the railing of a niche on the right-hand wall.†   (source)
  • The men dug in again, and with an almost primal growl of stone on stone, the lid rotated off the top of the tomb and came to rest at an angle-the Pope's carved head now pushed back into the niche and his feet extended out into the hallway.†   (source)
  • Around the perimeter, interspersed with the tombs, a series of semicircular niches were hewn in the wall.†   (source)
  • Chapels were less rooms than they were hollows-semicircular niches holding tombs around a church's perimeter wall.†   (source)
  • As he caught his breath and looked around him, he realized the wall at this level was honeycombed with shelflike openings-burial niches-all filled with skeletons.†   (source)
  • Niches.†   (source)
  • She let the horses graze, then hobbled them for the night and made herself as comfortable as she could in a niche between two rocks.†   (source)
  • "Uh, that semicircular depression in the hill, with the niches …. that's a nymphaeum, built in Roman times."†   (source)
  • Jason moved to the row of niches.†   (source)
  • He was standing in front of some sort of shrine—a niche set into the wall, with the statue of a man wrapped like a mummy.†   (source)
  • They are people whom all of us can reach in only a few steps because, for one reason or another, they manage to occupy many different worlds and subcultures and niches.†   (source)
  • He says that when a species becomes extinct, some other species moves in to fill up the ecological niche, because Nature abhors a vacuum.†   (source)
  • They wound their way through interconnecting tunnels and rough-hewn burial chambers that all looked the same—the walls carved with dusty niches that might once have held bodies.†   (source)
  • It was a quiet, costly place that looked like a secret retreat; she saw a small, lustrous table under her hand, the leather of a circular seat behind her shoulders, and a niche of dark blue mirror that cut them off from the sight of whatever enjoyment or pain others had come here to hide.†   (source)
  • Each niche had a cozy couch, tall bookcases, and a wardrobe, all lit from above by lights recessed into the surrounding golden wood.†   (source)
  • They made no test runs at any of these groups, but continued purposefully on their way until they were almost abreast the niche where I was sitting.†   (source)
  • When we were finished, we replaced the stone over the niche so that no one would suspect the grave was empty.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Issaaia entered, walked straight to the icon of Toren in its corner niche, and lit the incense waiting in the red bowl at the icon's feet.†   (source)
  • The deer made beds in shallow niches deep within the thickets where the oaks grew tall and made canopies of limbs and branches.†   (source)
  • The statue in the marbled niche had the thighs and calves of a man, a man's bundled muscles in the forearms, but the figure in fact was biblical Eve, tight-breasted, with an apple in her hands and the sloping shoulders of a fullback.†   (source)
  • "But for a year now we've been discussing the possibility of starting a niche publication list in addition to our regular activities.†   (source)
  • Jon saw candles burning in several wall niches as they made their way along the tunnel, their footsteps echoing ahead of them.†   (source)
  • Rod Steiger is the best-connected actor in history because he has managed to move up and down and back and forth among all the different worlds and subcultures and niches and levels that the acting profession has to offer.†   (source)
  • We cautiously removed the heavy stone that safeguarded Rosa's eternal rest and slid the white coffin from its niche.†   (source)
  • Only his brain moved, wet and heavy against the contours of his skull, favoring curvatures of bone and concave niches.†   (source)
  • Walt had brought torches [flashlights, for you Americans], and in the dim light, on stone slabs and in niches carved along the walls, gold-painted mummies glittered.†   (source)
  • The efrits rip Helene away, and as they do, I spot a niche in the cliff that runs all the way down to the desert floor.†   (source)
  • He pushed the door open instead, and found himself ilia large, dim room with a low ceiling, lit by a pair of scented candles that flickered in niches cut from the thick earthen walls.†   (source)
  • Settling into his niche as a miracle worker for tough and neurotic horses, Pollard earned assignments on nearly three hundred mounts and guided them to more than $20,000 in total purse earnings.†   (source)
  • The woman in the next niche rolled over on her straw and complained of the light, so Arya blew it out.†   (source)
  • A chunk of stone with Egyptian hieroglyphs lay on a pedestal in a corner of the office-the statue of a Hindu goddess with six spider arms stood in a niche-and a huge graph of bewildering mathematical detail, like the sales chart of a mail-order house, hung on the wall.†   (source)
  • Some miles from the den esker I found a niche at the top of a high cliff overlooking the valley, and here I settled myself in comfort, my back against the rough but sun-warmed rock, my knees drawn up under my chin, and my binoculars leveled at the living stream below me.†   (source)
  • Sophie dipped a bowl into the bucket, rummaged a fairly clean bit of rag out of a niche, and brought it across to me.†   (source)
  • His face held the remnant of a smile, and they knew that he was not seeing them any longer, but it was not in their power to know why his smile now seemed to hold pain and an almost wistful longing, or why he was looking across the room, at the niche of the farthest window.†   (source)
  • I hurl my ccim up at the efrit sawing at the ropes and swing forward, plucking Helene from the grip of the efrits and shoving her into the niche, all the while ignoring her yell of surprise and the angry, tearing hands at my back.†   (source)
  • Arvid and Knut retrieved bags of yarn and knitting needles from their niches and began to work on mittens.†   (source)
  • When the shadows were gone, and the cliff rock began to get warm, the frogs came out from their sleeping places in small cracks and niches in the cliff above the pool.†   (source)
  • He felt the old mattress then, where all the years of Rocky's life had made contours and niches that Tayo's bones did not fit: like plump satin-covered upholstery inside a coffin, molding itself around a corpse to hold it forever.†   (source)
  • …added to his bearing, gave him the air of a superlative aristocrat, so the crudeness of the room gave it the appearance of the most patrician retreat; a single royal touch was added to the crudeness: two ancient silver goblets stood in a small niche cut in a wall of bare logs; their ornate design had required the luxury of some craftsman's long and costly labor, more labor than had gone to build the shanty, a design dimmed by the polish of more centuries than had gone to grow the log…†   (source)
  • To absolutely no one's surprise, the twelve mummified warriors stepped out from their niches along the walls.†   (source)
  • Then she scurried off, maybe to clean up spills or dust artifact niches or pay Mr. Alderman five gold for the privilege of being his servant.†   (source)
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