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  • True, there was still one more purge to see to, but this one was to be directed at high Party officials and members of the secret police.†   (source)
  • She needs to purge the disease still in her stomach and bowels.†   (source)
  • How had any of these books escaped the purging fires ten years ago?†   (source)
  • "That's not my word for it, and purging or cleansing or whatever you want to call it wasn't my decision," he protests.†   (source)
  • When he began to speak, his voice was purged of emotion.†   (source)
  • Revenge cannot possibly purge him of hate, but he won't listen to me, won't listen to anyone.†   (source)
  • I felt like I owed it to my grandfather not to dismiss the last thing he said to anyone in the world as delusional nonsense, and Dr. Golan was convinced that understanding them might help purge my awful dreams.†   (source)
  • However, everything has stayed true to the spirit of what the Creators envisioned—what you envisioned in their place after they were …. purged.†   (source)
  • "This was not a purge," he says.†   (source)
  • He was purging Lord Arryn with wasting potions and pepper juice, and I feared he might kill him.†   (source)
  • We help him to sit up and let him grip our hands as he purges his eyes and nose and mouth.†   (source)
  • The night was cool and purged of immediate terror.†   (source)
  • He says all the doc knows is bleeding and blistering and purging and puking and making folks sicker than they was to start.†   (source)
  • We'll purge that in a hurry.†   (source)
  • But before we administer it, I must warn you that purging is not pleasant.†   (source)
  • …one):. a)the gods, b)God (that is, a prophet), c)some bad spirits, demons, or devils, d)the Devil, 3. a witch,4. bewitched (variant of 2); 5. bad, and must be isolated and punished, 6. ill, and must be isolated and treated by (pick one): a)purging and leeches, b)removing the uterus if the person has one, c)electric shock to the brain, d) cold sheets wrapped tight around the body, e)Thorazine or Stelazine, 7. ill, and must spend the next seven years talking about it, 8. a victim of…†   (source)
  • When the Spirit passed through him he groaned, throwing body and soul into this weekly purge.†   (source)
  • It could be… if purged of all memory of our age, of all consciousness of the Core … it could be the person the cybrid was programmed to be…†   (source)
  • But Ginger had been at Evergreen for almost a year, and she still had to divide her food into tiny little piles-a hierarchy I didn't quite understand involving color and consistency-as well as be monitored so that she did not purge after each meal.†   (source)
  • The idea was to purge all the built-up bad feeling of winter from the populace (and to instruct them in right conduct toward thegods) so that no negativity would attach to the growing season and thereby endanger the harvest.†   (source)
  • Who decided to purge Asherah from Judaism?†   (source)
  • Whatever the timing, once the idea entered my head there was no purging it.†   (source)
  • We'll purge this planet of every ….†   (source)
  • And then it was time to purge again.†   (source)
  • He'll just have to collect them all up again, next time he decides on a purge."†   (source)
  • Your newspaper is an insult to all white Americans who have pledged themselves to purge this menace from our midst.†   (source)
  • And poison was not the only thing it purged.†   (source)
  • I felt purged and holy and ready for a new life.†   (source)
  • The executions moved in waves, and once a neighborhood had been purged it could then expect a measure of respite, until someone committed an infraction of some kind, because infractions, although often alleged with a degree of randomness, were invariably punished without mercy.†   (source)
  • You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.†   (source)
  • If you did, now is the time to purge your soul.†   (source)
  • My system had finally purged itself of 'go fast.'†   (source)
  • It was a purge.†   (source)
  • He risked imprisonment by doing so—worse than that, if rumors about the Black Guard and their purges are true.†   (source)
  • During the next two years the Kabila government engaged in a relentless purge of anyone it thought might have been associated with the plots against him—especially Tutsis from eastern Congo, and anyone who had ever had anything to do with Masasu.†   (source)
  • This process included purging any contraband they might have, acquiring new stuff at commissary, and loading them up with snacks and messages to carry to women who were doing time down the hill.†   (source)
  • The woman had a running argument with men, not just the husband and the sad son, Cosmo, but men everywhere, and even if Rosemary agreed with her only two percent of the time she still felt cleaner somehow, purged like confession, having a cup of coffee with Carmela.†   (source)
  • Most jockeys ingested every manner of laxative to purge their systems of food and water.†   (source)
  • Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks.†   (source)
  • It gets easier," she says, standing several feet away while I purge in the bushes at some unfortunate stranger's house.†   (source)
  • In barracks across the country, purges had begun of all those remaining loyal to the Constitution.†   (source)
  • I purged my baskets, trunks, drawers, and shelves of gifts Snow Flower had made for me over the years.†   (source)
  • And finally, he's purging it, spitting it all back.†   (source)
  • I could see in their eyes that they were very worried, and I tried to tell them that I was not sick, that I simply had to tell my story to purge the fever.†   (source)
  • When the Red Army invaded their country and launched a series of political purges, one of the questions asked of each citizen was Have you signed the Two Thousand Words?†   (source)
  • Before long, I'm feeling completely purged of guilt.†   (source)
  • Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow ….†   (source)
  • Valentine will make a new world of Shadowhunters, a world purged of weakness and corruption.†   (source)
  • Someone, probably Ethel Twitty, the legendary secretary, had cleaned house and purged the old records.†   (source)
  • Maybe this is Elyon s way of purging the Circle of this nonsense.†   (source)
  • …rigid, I remember the evenings spent before the sweeping platform in awe and in pleasure, and in the pleasure of awe; remember the short formal sermons intoned from the pulpit there, rendered in smooth articulate tones, with calm assurance purged of that wild emotion of the crude preachers most of us knew in our home towns and of whom we were deeply ashamed, these logical appeals which reached us more like the thrust of a firm and formal design requiring nothing more than the lucidity…†   (source)
  • His Holiness doesn't need them; he achieves more than Stalin ever did with all his purges.†   (source)
  • Perhaps that will help to purge me of them.†   (source)
  • The ordeal of the patient, however, could be considerable, as Adams knew from all he had seen at the time he was inoculated, and largely because of various purges that were thought essential to recovery.†   (source)
  • Say rather that the physician hastened your Edward's death with his leeches and purges, before you slander this good soul!†   (source)
  • The purge was now almost over, however, and Annie and Farlow had recently become skillful at constructing payoff deals which bought the silence of those departing.†   (source)
  • A procession of suppliants climbed the knoll on bare, bloodied knees to show their devotion or purge their grief or beg forgiveness in the slow tearing of flesh and bone.†   (source)
  • The only differences were that the furniture and the reconfigurable walls at the Times were newer and more stylish than those at the Post, the environment there was no doubt purged of the asbestos and formaldehyde that lent the air here its special astringent quality, and even on a Saturday afternoon the Times would be busier per square foot of floor space than the Post was now.†   (source)
  • "She took me aside and gave me a lot of advice on how to hold on to the throne: raise taxes so that I'd have the money to put down insurrection, increase the size of my army, and purge my council regularly.†   (source)
  • As Max arrived at his command hill, he looked upon faces that had been purged of hostility and skepticism.†   (source)
  • It was as though he were trying to purge himself of his story, again and again.†   (source)
  • When Joseph Stalin, the serial killer who ran the Soviet Union for thirty years, ordered a "Great Purge" of his enemies in 1934, Nikita Khrushchev was an eager participant in this plan.†   (source)
  • And oh God, when she finished it,finished it, she'd have purged her system of him.†   (source)
  • The Institute had not purged his son of his reserve and delicacy.†   (source)
  • As he was falling, snow and ice crystals blew past his face, and for a long moment he was purged entirely of regret, guilt, sorrow, expectation, and ambition.†   (source)
  • You'll purge some of that misplaced guilt and some of the grief you're entitled to.†   (source)
  • Done clumsily or prematurely and the result is civil war, mob violence, purges, terror.†   (source)
  • Besides, I was quite simply devoted to Nathan, at least to that beguiling, generous, life-enhancing Nathan who had shed his entourage of demons—and since it was this Nathan who had returned to us, a Nathan rather drawn and pale but seemingly purged of whatever horrors had possessed him on that recent evening, the reborn warmth and brotherly affection I felt was wonderful; my delight could only have been surpassed by the response of Sophie, whose joy was a form of barely controlled…†   (source)
  • A stomach ache was treated with a purge so violent that it was a wonder anyone survived it.†   (source)
  • But in Mesopotamian culture, the smell was purged!†   (source)
  • Much later, others among the gods were exiled into the world, in the days of the Heavenly Purges.†   (source)
  • There have already been purges among them, there will be more.†   (source)
  • I thought that writing the book might purge Everest from my life.†   (source)
  • She grew pale and sweaty but did not require purging or leeches.†   (source)
  • "No, Great Emperor, it's the vomit from Romans after their binge and purge feasts.†   (source)
  • The original Creators, Flare-infected, purged and dead.†   (source)
  • All the heat and fear had purged itself.†   (source)
  • The purging of bad dreams, the gift of happy ones.†   (source)
  • Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean, he prayed, quoting Psalms.†   (source)
  • "I don't bleed or purge away people's strength when they need it most.†   (source)
  • She breathed deeply, purging the stale pod air from her lungs.†   (source)
  • You'll hear folks say that Dr. Rush is a hero for saving folks with his purges and blood letting.†   (source)
  • If the commander really is an Adventist, then the Redemptionists would have been purged long ago.†   (source)
  • He was ready to leave behind the sins of the last twenty-four hours and purge his soul.†   (source)
  • His only chance of purging the loop was a complete reboot.†   (source)
  • The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died.†   (source)
  • But you yourself approved me for this job after the original founders were purged.†   (source)
  • Purging his lungs with long breaths, Roran scanned the valley for the fire.†   (source)
  • To purge himself of the horror through confession.†   (source)
  • Even the detestable Mao Zedong gave permission for our police to purge it.†   (source)
  • Express your feelings, purge your guilt, seek and ye shall find?†   (source)
  • They defeated HIV, purged it from their bodies, and went on to live healthy lives.†   (source)
  • Kaeleigh's disgusting food binge made me want to purge.†   (source)
  • Difficult as it was, he purged his mind of all other thoughts.†   (source)
  • "Yes," he whimpered, "yes, Colemon was purging, so I sent him away.†   (source)
  • I might bleed him, purge him, leech him …. but why?†   (source)
  • -for those who wish to purge the ills of city living.†   (source)
  • He wanted to purge himself of what he had done, of all the lies he had told.†   (source)
  • I still purge when I get too comfortable.†   (source)
  • "Basketball?" she said, unable to purge the disdain from her voice.†   (source)
  • If the child is not improved by nightfall, then you must purge and fast him.†   (source)
  • His stomach churned and threatened to make him purge himself.†   (source)
  • When I Do Those Things When I use or purge or cut, I'm still not myself.†   (source)
  • For this he took a powerful purge called Father George's Elixir of Life.†   (source)
  • His expression was mild, but Harry felt sure Lupin, at least, knew that some Extendable Ears had survived Mrs Weasley's purge.†   (source)
  • The Illuminati went deep underground, where they began mixing with other refugee groups fleeing the Catholic purges-mystics, alchemists, occultists, Muslims, Jews.†   (source)
  • However there was already an underground stream of diehard Communists heading for Spain from our continent, and although they should be prohibited by law from doing so, the country should be thankful that an opportunity had arisen whereby it might purge itself of disruptive elements at no cost to the tax-payer.†   (source)
  • Mother has a pagan's appreciation for the Bible, being devoted to such phrases as "purge me with hyssop," and "strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round," and "thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness."†   (source)
  • Now was her chance to proclaim in public all the private anguish and purge herself of all that she had done wrong.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the most stalwart workers in the urban centers were wearying under the burden of the continuous workweek; artists faced tighter constraints on what they could or could not imagine; churches were shuttered, repurposed, or razed; and when revolutionary hero Sergei Kirov was assassinated, the nation was purged of an array of politically unreliable elements.†   (source)
  • The official records of the Sons of Jacob meetings were destroyed after the middle-period Great Purge, which discredited and liquidated a number of the original architects of Gilead; but we have access to some information through the diary kept in cipher by Wilfred Limpkin, one of the sociobiologists present.†   (source)
  • They had arrived outside a large, old-fashioned, red-brick department store called Purge 6z Dowse Ltd. The place had a shabby, miserable air; the window displays consisted of a few chipped dummies with their wigs askew, standing at random and modelling fashions at least ten years out of date.†   (source)
  • But Finnick backed away from the water at first touch and lies facedown on the sand, either unwilling or unable to purge himself.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno could still remember lying on the floor in tattered nightclothes, clawing at his own flesh, trying to purge his soul of the pain brought on by a vile truth he had just learned.†   (source)
  • No, the point is your brother is being held at the most important base we—I mean, the Others—have established since the purge began—†   (source)
  • They frowned on it for a few centuries and officially purged it at the Council of Constantinople in 381.†   (source)
  • Harry glanced around at the jostling crowd; not one of them seemed to have a glance to spare for window displays as ugly as those of Purge & Dowse Ltd; nor did any of them seem to have noticed that six people had just melted into thin air in front of them.†   (source)
  • She dosed the boys regularly and gently to purge the putrid bile from their bodies, but it seemed to have little effect.†   (source)
  • To purge their sins.†   (source)
  • Like most early Gilead Commanders who were later purged, he considered his position to be above attack.†   (source)
  • The Stalin-backed Communists, well armed by Russia, are rumoured to be carrying out purges against the rival POUM, the extremist Trotskyists who have made common cause with the Anarchists.†   (source)
  • They were constantly bathing themselves, lying naked under the sun, purging themselves with enemas, and going to extreme lengths to make sure that their food was pure and uncontaminated.†   (source)
  • The purge?†   (source)
  • His fingers would hop from my forehead to my temples, patiently searching behind my ears, at the back of my head, and he'd make a pop sound—like a bottle being uncorked—with each nightmare he purged from my brain.†   (source)
  • He's wrong about the bleeding and purging and the rest, he was wrong when he dosed you, and he's wrong now.†   (source)
  • He knew enough about the Purge, about its being the shift from the original Creators to their replacements.†   (source)
  • Despite Clement's false charges and best efforts to eradicate them, the Knights had powerful allies, and some managed to escape the Vatican purges.†   (source)
  • The surviving records of the time are spotty, as the Gileadean regime was in the habit of wiping its own computers and destroying print-outs after various purges and internal upheavals, 303 but some print-outs remain.†   (source)
  • In a far corner glinted small objects and coins that Harry guessed Kreacher had saved, magpielike, from Sirius's purge of the house, and he had also managed to retrieve the silver-framed family photographs that Sirius had thrown away over the summer.†   (source)
  • He bled and purged babies?†   (source)
  • We know, for instance, that he met his end, probably soon after the events our author describes, in one of the earliest purges: he was accused of liberal tendencies, of being in possession of a substantial and unauthorized collection of heretical pictorial and literary materials, and of harboring a subversive.†   (source)
  • Two words pop into his head: the Purge.†   (source)
  • Purge over.†   (source)
  • And if all that should fail, Maester Ballabar will be seated in the back of the hall, with purges and antidotes for twenty common poisons on his person.†   (source)
  • Whitney was constantly arguing for more freedom, but my mom worried that given it, she'd binge or purge, or exercise, or do something else forbidden.†   (source)
  • Also he survived the purges, which leads me to think he's one man they don't want roaming the streets looking for a job.†   (source)
  • A man must purge himself of had blood.†   (source)
  • After the brutal purge of her wardrobe, the selling of whatever she'd put aside, she still had more than enough.†   (source)
  • He kept wagging his head and rolling his eyes and rubbing his hands together, and he said it was a terrible thing, and I would have to answer to the Almighty, have to purge my soul by telling the officers what I'd told him, and would I?†   (source)
  • The Old Magic wanted so desperately to break free, to purge Max of everything human and mortal, weak and loving.†   (source)
  • Like some part of me was trying to push it up and out, purging it from my body entirely in a way I could not seem to do on my own.†   (source)
  • She buried her face in the pillow now, trying to push the horrible images of the morning out of her head, but the ugliness was beyond purging.†   (source)
  • To get to safety in a new country, Paula had been forced to make a terrible choice: to remain near her husband, Joseph, who had been thrown into one of Congo's most notorious prisons in a political purge, and to live under constant threat of violence or death herself; or to leave her husband behind and take her children to a life in an unknown town in another hemisphere.†   (source)
  • He was purged.†   (source)
  • His dead family, his dead friends, his squad mates, the drudgery of winter camp, the fights borne of boredom and fatigue and fear (but mostly fear), the rumors that when spring comes the Teds are launching a major offensive, a last-ditch effort to purge the world of the human noise, of which Razor is very much an active part.†   (source)
  • But the definition would have been too narrow; I was invisible, and hanging would not bring me to visibility, even to their eyes, since they wanted my death not for myself alone but for the chase I'd been on all my life; because of the way I'd run, been run, chased, operated, purged-although to a great extent I could have done nothing else, given their blindness (didn't they tolerate both Rinehart and Bledsoe?†   (source)
  • Numbers of physicians and ordinary citizens performed heroically, doing all they could for the stricken, and no one more so than Rush, though whether his ministrations—his insistence on "mercurial purges" and "heroic bloodletting"—did more good than harm became a subject of fierce controversy.†   (source)
  • They'll try to purge it out of you.†   (source)
  • Once the citadel was closed off, the elves would purge the city and the land thereabouts of the harmful residue that had settled upon it so that the area would again be safe to live in.†   (source)
  • In any case, I hear that Prusias is amused by his enemies' early victories; they're allowing him to test the loyalty of his braymas and purge his own ranks of traitors.†   (source)
  • I have purged his lordship, bled him, treated him with poultices and infusions …. the mists give him some relief and sweetsleep helps with the violence of his coughing, but he is bringing up bits of lung with the blood now, I fear.†   (source)
  • I am purged.†   (source)
  • Turns Out The electrolyte imbalance is real, the result of not only puking from Oxy withdrawal, but also the binge-and-purge cycle that my alter and I seem to have shared.†   (source)
  • It would be dishonest to pretend I have not weighed such a measure—a chance to wipe the slate clean and begin things anew, refashion the species and purge it of its lesser qualities.†   (source)
  • My body purges.†   (source)
  • Zeke had survived many purges of personnel and many tumultuous years in the Bluffton school system by affixing his fate to the more luminous and permanent star of Bennington.†   (source)
  • It was as though I had taken a purge and rid myself of an intolerable pain.†   (source)
  • "We must have a purge," he said, his eyes bulging, his face quivering with passion.†   (source)
  • Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter!†   (source)
  • " 'Purge' is the word you want," the officer said, still not looking up.†   (source)
  • Here it reports the purging of more of thy famous Russians.†   (source)
  • They are purging more than the epsom salts in this epoch.†   (source)
  • This satisfied her desire; it was what deeply she had wanted—she had found purging release in her savage attack upon him, and now she could drain herself cleanly in a wild smother of affection.†   (source)
  • The two of them must evidently have been swallowed up in one of the first great purges of the fifties.†   (source)
  • The mind and the heart purged then, if it is ever to be; the week and its whatever disasters finished and summed and expiated by the stern and formal fury of the morning service; the next week and its whatever disasters not yet born, the heart quiet now for a little while beneath the cool soft blowing of faith and hope.†   (source)
  • You learned the dry-mouthed, fear-purged, purging ecstasy of battle and you fought that summer and that fall for all the poor in the world, against all tyranny, for all the things that you believed and for the new world you had been educated into.†   (source)
  • It had never happened before, he emphasized, since the routine of the lamasery became established; never had the High Lama desired a second meeting until the five years' probation had effected a purge of all the exile's likely emotions.†   (source)
  • It was on the top of a wind-swept cliff purged to the bone by the airs of the Atlantic, under which the little fishing village nestled among the dunes.†   (source)
  • Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties.†   (source)
  • It was as if the earth on which our houses stood were being purged of its secreted humors; thrusting up to the surface the abscesses and pus-clots that had been forming in its entrails.†   (source)
  • Through this exercise his spirit is purged of its infantile, inappropriate sentimentalities and resentments, and his mind opened to the inscrutable presence which exists, not primarily as "good" and "bad" with respect to his childlike human convenience, his weal and woe, but as the law and image of the nature of being.†   (source)
  • Even the victim of the Russian purges could carry rebellion locked up in his skull as he walked down the passage waiting for the bullet.†   (source)
  • When the eldest son was gone Wang Lung felt the house was purged of some surcharge of unrest and it was a relief to him.†   (source)
  • For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sancrifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?†   (source)
  • But they could tell from his voice that he was suffering and that he did not want to be interrupted until he had purged his heart in full.†   (source)
  • Therefore if, within the confines of its present culture, the nation ever seeks to purge itself of its color hate, it will find itself at war with itself, convulsed by a spasm of emotional and moral confusion.†   (source)
  • The old, discredited leaders of the Party had been used to gather there before they were finally purged.†   (source)
  • 5' It is interesting to note the continuance to this day of the rite of circumcision in the Hebrew and Mohammedan cults, where the Feminine element has been scrupulously purged from the official, strictly monotheistic mythology.†   (source)
  • Even at that time Winston had not imagined that the people who were wiped out in the purges had actually committed the crimes that they were accused of.†   (source)
  • 29 But there has been also, in numerous religious traditions, a consciously controlled pedagogical utilization of this archetypal image for the purpose of the purging, balancing, and initiation of the mind into the nature of the visible world.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps — what was likeliest of all — the thing had simply happened because purges and vaporizations were a necessary part of the mechanics of government.†   (source)
  • You learned the dry-mouthed, fear-purged, purging ecstasy of battle and you fought that summer and that fall for all the poor in the world, against all tyranny, for all the things that you believed and for the new world you had been educated into.†   (source)
  • Thus the two are the terms of a single mythological theme and experience which includes them both and which they bound: the down-going and the up-coming (kathodos and anodos), which together constitute the totality of the revelation that is life, and which the individual must know and love if he is to be purged (katharsis = purgatorio) of the contagion of sin (disobedience to the divine will) and death (identification with the mortal form).†   (source)
  • The older generation had mostly been wiped out in the great purges of the fifties and sixties, and the few who survived had long ago been terrified into complete intellectual surrender.†   (source)
  • And he is competent, consequently, now to enact himself the role of the initiator, the guide, the sun door, through whom one may pass from the infantile illusions of "good" and "evil" to an experience of the majesty of cosmic law, purged of hope and fear, and at peace in the understanding of the revelation of being.†   (source)
  • But — though this was one of the crimes that the accused in the great purges invariably confessed to — it was difficult to imagine any such thing actually happening.†   (source)
  • The mystagogue (father or father-substitute) is to entrust the symbols of office only to a son who has been effectually purged of all inappropriate infantile cathexes—for whom the just, impersonal exercise of the powers will not be rendered impossible by unconscious (or perhaps even conscious and rationalized) motives of self-aggrandizement, personal preference, or resentment.†   (source)
  • The story really began in the middle sixties, the period of the great purges in which the original leaders of the Revolution were wiped out once and for all.†   (source)
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