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  • At first it's exhilarating: the speed; the sharp, clear air; but then the snow accumulates, builds up on the runners, and you slow, you have to push hard to keep going, and — " He shook his head suddenly, and peered at Jonas.†   (source)
  • I bent over painfully and gathered up the withered flowers that had accumulated there, left by Laura's anonymous admirers, and stuffed them into my plastic shopping bag.†   (source)
  • If Edgar catches this, he'll naturally be less inclined to cough, and the bad stuff will accumulate in his lungs.†   (source)
  • A week's worth of oil had accumulated on my hair and body, and the talcum powder clumped the instant it touched me.†   (source)
  • This way, I can avoid the problem of too much heat accumulating inside the sphere that we would have with a regular source of light.†   (source)
  • It opened only slightly, and I had to shove it to push back whatever garbage had accumulated behind it.†   (source)
  • Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate, and our opinions evolve—if not glacially, then at least gradually.†   (source)
  • Shockingly, her parents obliged: They didn't define their family's Christmas holiday by the dollar value of gifts their daughter accumulated.†   (source)
  • Or it could've been the escalating abuse and the accumulated frustration at the chaotic life he was creating for her and her daughter.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Shannon rolls all of us closer so we can watch the snow accumulate on the grass and trees.†   (source)
  • The people in my church always encouraged me and never asked me for anything back, but I felt a debt accumulating.†   (source)
  • The floor seemed at first glance to be compressed earth, though as Harry stepped on to it he realised that there was stone beneath what seemed to be the accumulated filth of centuries.†   (source)
  • I scramble to my feet and brush myself off, though I haven't accumulated any dirt that I'm aware of.†   (source)
  • Thomas kept coughing and rubbing chunks of accumulated grime from the corners of his eyes.†   (source)
  • I gradually accumulated a larger and larger stack of coins.†   (source)
  • You have no idea how much people accumulate over the years.†   (source)
  • There were little white things falling out of the sky, and they seemed to be accumulating on the ground.†   (source)
  • Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone.†   (source)
  • That's how stories accumulate too.†   (source)
  • This kind of sunshine and ocean, with the accumulating roar of the surf and the salty, adventurous, flirting wind from the sea, always intoxicated Phineas.†   (source)
  • She could see the simple sentences, the accumulating telepathic symbols, unfurling at the nib's end.†   (source)
  • Though I'll have to clean it thoroughly every few hours as dust accumulates.†   (source)
  • Less than two days to accumulate more money than I have stolen in my entire life.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure if it was just that heavy, or if generations of accumulated moisture and dust had somehow fused it to the floor.†   (source)
  • For a few days a series of canvas tote bags accumulate in the hallway, cardboard boxes full of liquor, shopping bags full of food, cases of wine.†   (source)
  • Success is the result of what sociologists like to call "accumulative advantage."†   (source)
  • It had been a fine, driven snow and hadn't accumulated to any depth but it was blasted into everything.†   (source)
  • The path is straight as ever , but now it is strewn with the rocks and gravel that accumulate over a lifetime .†   (source)
  • Did it suck out all the poisons accumulated with the years?†   (source)
  • They kept growing like nothing anyone had seen, doubling their numbers every twenty-four hours, stacking hundreds on top of hundreds, accumulating by the millions.†   (source)
  • By that time, I had begun to be aware of Hobie's financial problems; Grisha had spoken only too truly about the dire consequences if Hobie continued to accumulate inventory without selling it.†   (source)
  • By 10 P.M. he has accumulated only 10 pesos, about $1.†   (source)
  • The air was so cold that frost accumulated on his eyelashes.†   (source)
  • It sat there for months, leaves gathering around its tires again, snow accumulating on its hood, till she finally sold it.†   (source)
  • If she could find the source, she could help LuLing unclog the pathways in her brain and prevent more destructive debris from accumulating.†   (source)
  • For the treeship to make the trip to Hyperion and back, accumulating six years of Web time with no paying passengers would mean a staggering financial loss to the Templars.†   (source)
  • Parcells accumulated lots of anecdotal evidence in support of his view of Taylor's football character.†   (source)
  • Any thriving venture accumulated debts.†   (source)
  • Instead the story resonates with the richness of distant antecedents, with the power of accumulated myth.†   (source)
  • They've accumulated enough credibility that their followers trust their recommendations implicitly, and are deeply thankful for the surety in their shopping.†   (source)
  • She did not see the women approaching, accumulating slowly in groups of twos and threes from the left.†   (source)
  • It was really, achingly, endlessly true, and it was always during roll calls that the accumulated misery threatened to overwhelm me.†   (source)
  • If the stakes ever became high enough-if the evil were evil enough, if the good were good enough-I would simply tap a secret reservoir of courage that had been accumulating inside me over the years.†   (source)
  • In order to get the free cruise to Sicily, Jason has to accumulate 10,000 Coombata Points.†   (source)
  • The room was stuffed to the top with junk I had accumulated, including stolen stereos and car radios which Yuk Yuk had stashed there for safekeeping.†   (source)
  • In the 1890s, Jane's father was only beginning to accumulate his fortune.†   (source)
  • There is more to tell, of course, as marriages accumulate.†   (source)
  • Carbon dioxide was accumulating in his blood, bringing with it the instinctual urge to inhale.†   (source)
  • "These books," announced Elinor with a dismissive gesture as they passed the closely ranked spines, "have accumulated over the years.†   (source)
  • We've accumulated all the other treasures over the years.†   (source)
  • At the top of the stairs was a door on which the painted word "Lobby" was barely legible beneath years of accumulated dirt.†   (source)
  • The coffee table has a couple of drawers underneath it filled with the kind of domestic junk that accumulates over time: rolls of Sellotape, plug adaptors for foreign travel, tape measures, sewing kits, old mobile-phone chargers.†   (source)
  • It was cozy, filled with the accumulated small possessions of several years.†   (source)
  • They had agreed upon a symbolic fee of one peso, which she did not take and he did not hand to her, but which they put in the piggy bank until enough of them had accumulated to buy something charming from overseas in the Arcade of the Scribes.†   (source)
  • And she prepared herself in the Bene Gesserit fashion for the wait, accumulating patience, saving her strength.†   (source)
  • Again, this offered more accumulated evidence of it being Rasmussen's.†   (source)
  • On either side of the road are occasional worn sheds and shacks and roadside stands that have accumulated through the years.†   (source)
  • She stood over a portable table next to our microwave, sorting through the enormous stack of mail that had accumulated during Colton's hospital stay.†   (source)
  • Peck had accumulated a personal mythology that included Indian wars, gold mining, and mercenary executions, and was known to carry a derringer pistol in a hidden shoulder holster.†   (source)
  • Resistance to disease is one of the most important characteristics progressively accumulated and preserved in the variants that survive.†   (source)
  • Within a week I'd accumulated such a stack of them in my room that Auntie gave me a look as if I'd lost my mind.†   (source)
  • We got to Miami so late, and he had so much shopping to do, and so many e-mails had accumulated in his account—about a thousand in all, at least two dozen of which concerned patients and required immediate answers—that we almost missed our night flight to Paris.†   (source)
  • Dr. Finch became a bone man, practiced in Nashville, played the stock market with shrewdness, and by the time he was forty-five he had accumulated enough money to retire and devote all his time to his first and abiding love, Victorian literature, a pursuit that in itself earned him the reputation of being Maycomb County's most learned licensed eccentric.†   (source)
  • Over the years a huge number of binders is accumulated, which generally lack any commercial value and overflow the shelves in the photographic department.†   (source)
  • During that first summer and fall of sandy con-gestion and wind-blown boredom, the bitterness accumulated, the rage festered in hundreds of tarpapered cubicles like ours.†   (source)
  • Takahashi sits in a tubular chair, organizes his sheet music, dismantles his trombone, spills the accumulated saliva on the floor, gives the instrument a quick wipedown, and begins putting it into its case.†   (source)
  • Being immortal, they tend to accumulate personalities.†   (source)
  • "I hope they got here first and reserved a table," Vee said, stretching her neck while eying the crowd accumulating around the doors.†   (source)
  • He may successfully accumulate, but he does not accumulate success, for he is his own enemy and is kept from truly enjoying his achievements.†   (source)
  • 'Details continue to accumulate in the case of the Sterling shootings,' she said.†   (source)
  • The walls were coated with the accumulated grease of decades.†   (source)
  • There was speedily accumulating, then, between Ida and Vivaldo, great areas of the unspoken, vast minefields which neither dared to cross.†   (source)
  • When the fire had died out during the cold night, frost from their warm breathing had accumulated on the walls of caribou skins.†   (source)
  • I accumulated detailed maps and systematically analyzed the terrain of different regions of the country.†   (source)
  • As we were not allowed to bend down, everyone took out his spoon and ate the accumulated snow off his neighbor's back.†   (source)
  • He had accumulated better than thirty of them in his four years on the earth, an extensive collection which ranged from the seventy-nine-cent plastic jobs that his dad sometimes bought him at the Bridgton Pharmacy where he always got Time magazine on Wednesday evenings (you had to play carefully with the seventy-nine-cent trucks because they were MADE IN TAIWAN and had a tendency to fall apart) to the flagship of his line, a great yellow Tonka bulldozer that came up to his knees when…†   (source)
  • Year by year she accumulates her ideal staff: doctors, all ages and types, come and rise up in front of her with ideas of their own about the way a ward should be run, some with backbone enough to stand behind their ideas, and she fixes these doctors with dry-ice eyes day in, day out, until they retreat with unnatural chills.†   (source)
  • Clots are accumulating in his intestinal muscles, cutting off the blood supply to his intestines.†   (source)
  • An incident in July 2000 in Cairo, where the Dikoris were living in a cramped apartment with four different families, underscored the accumulating ill will.†   (source)
  • His big hand wiped the small beads of sweat that had accumulated on his brow.†   (source)
  • To think how languages could accumulate in a family, in a country like that.†   (source)
  • I accumulated a lot of things in my life, but I would trade them all in an instant for the privilege I have of sitting here, right now, and being able to say that Theodore J. Hamilton was my friend.†   (source)
  • The air dissipated the smells of urine and perspiration that had accumulated in the bus.†   (source)
  • Most of the accumulated varnish of the five unhappy years spent on pretrial was gone.†   (source)
  • In a year, minimum, more likely two or three, they may have accumulated enough data to suspect what has happened, but by that time there won't be much physical evidence to point to.†   (source)
  • When I accumulate enough money I plan to get some colored glass things that you dangle from the window glass.†   (source)
  • July, being the youngest of the Johnson family, had never had any money and had not accumulated much in the way of goods.†   (source)
  • Education and family planning also tend to leave families better able to earn a living and more likely to accumulate savings.†   (source)
  • During the weeklong exercise, Harley accumulated story after story.†   (source)
  • Mortenson shaved and changed into the cleanest of the five mud-colored shalwar kamiz he'd by then accumulated.†   (source)
  • But in just one month of fighting on this island, they were awarded twenty-seven Medals of Honor: one third their accumulated total.†   (source)
  • Whatever I had accumulated over the years in street smarts, she threw off in natural wisdom.†   (source)
  • What we accumulated we must use.†   (source)
  • The faithful administrator returned to his small brick house, made a bundle of all his personal belongings, wrapped the small amount of money he had managed to accumulate over the years in a handkerchief, and left.†   (source)
  • He hurried along the fossilized wooden ties with accumulating mutinous anger.†   (source)
  • In physics, he's extended his lead over LaCountiss in accumulated points, though she probably has the greater gift for science.†   (source)
  • Only after a year did the accumulated malice (which until then had been vented, for the sake of training, on animals) find its true goal: people.†   (source)
  • You accumulate a lot of people.†   (source)
  • Last Christmas I was really canny—I let my points build up until I'd accumulated enough to buy my granny's Christmas present.†   (source)
  • Plus, he accumulated other assets that he kept out of the holding company.†   (source)
  • Eighty-seven and look at all he's accumulated in eighty-seven years, strewn in the snow like chicken guts, and we're a law-abiding, slow-to-anger bunch of folks turning the other cheek every day in the week.†   (source)
  • A person who died in bed had a purple back from accumulated blood.†   (source)
  • When a man accumulates a great deal of money, possessions, and status, he then has a great deal to lose.†   (source)
  • His face was the pleasant face of a middle-aged man, but worn with premature lines and deep shadows under the eyes, all of which was the result more of the life he had led than of the accumulated years.†   (source)
  • Considered too frail for school, she had been taught at home by her mother and had access to the library of several hundred books accumulated by her father.†   (source)
  • Then, looking back at the candles, I wiped off the accumulated dust from their bases.†   (source)
  • It accumulated all week like some malign volcanic mass.†   (source)
  • Barbara said, "It hit with enough force to blast away thousands of years of accumulated soil and still fracture the bedrock beneath."†   (source)
  • The first day or so I was content simply to sleep away some of the accumulated exhaustion of the winter.†   (source)
  • I'd accumulated very little in the way of personal belongings.†   (source)
  • "No kidding," muttered Max, floored by the accumulating homework.†   (source)
  • It was so difficult that Omarius Hines had his knee swell up and the trainers and medical staff had to cut into his leg to drain the fluid that had accumulated.†   (source)
  • The tents were damp and heavy, hard to raise, harder to take down, and prone to sudden collapse if too much snow accumulated on top of them.†   (source)
  • At last she bad accumulated enough to whisper this complete sentence: 'How did I get so old?†   (source)
  • A few of your duties seem to be accumulating right around this place.†   (source)
  • It wasn't nearly as bad as school, but it always took Melissa a minute or so to adjust to the accumulated weight of those minds.†   (source)
  • It had taken me a long time to accumulate the fifty cents.†   (source)
  • I did not know this when I was a cadet; this is the accumulated bitterness of an older man obsessed by memory.†   (source)
  • Just their few lights in the slate-blue darkness would have, in their simplicity and purity, more of what made up light itself than the accumulated phosphorescence of whole ranks of great cities.†   (source)
  • It had taken her years to save five dollars, she had hoarded pennies to accumulate such a sum.†   (source)
  • "It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it's all going to end."†   (source)
  • Some of the most distinguished men from the 1774 Congress brought their accumulated knowledge and experience to this year's Constitutional Convention.†   (source)
  • The herald went on for many minutes, listing every deed, every honor, every title, accumulated by Heafstaag during his long and illustrious career.†   (source)
  • He'd never been so crass as to directly ask her late husband how he managed to accumulate such large amounts of cash, but it didn't take a Rhodes scholar to deduce that Barlowe must have been doing something at least marginally illegal.†   (source)
  • We bought it, then added more land through the years, until we accumulated what we have now.†   (source)
  • I stared back and forth from my sister to my brother, wondering about the knowledge and wisdom they'd accumulated over all that time.†   (source)
  • So slowly, slowly he accumulated data for analysis—painfully slow, for Warden used this method only when he had to.†   (source)
  • The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.†   (source)
  • To do a bio weapon like this requires much more data on the species than our researchers have accumulated.†   (source)
  • Finally the ice let go, with a thunderous explosion; then it promptly jammed, and in short order the river beside which I was living had entered into the cabin, bringing with it the accumulated refuse left by fourteen Huskies during a long winter.†   (source)
  • Already her suitcases bulged with items she'd accumulated; she was surprised how many of these there were.†   (source)
  • The leaves accumulated in deep layers of years, and his feet sank under the new copper leaves that had already fallen this year.†   (source)
  • At nine o'clock Randy awoke, aware of a half-dozen problems accumulated in his subconscious.†   (source)
  • By noon an imposing collection of flyers had accumulated in the park, and the later arrivals would have quite a distance to walk once they had found somewhere to land.†   (source)
  • San Narciso was a name; an incident among our climatic records of dreams and what dreams became among our accumulated daylight, a moment's squall line or tornado's touchdown among the higher, more continental solemnities—storm systems of group suffering and need, prevailing winds of affluence.†   (source)
  • He infected Sophie with his enthusiasm, imparting to her all sorts of useful and useless information about the South, which he accumulated in gobs and bits like lint; loving Nathan, she loved it all, including such worthless lore as the fact that more peaches are grown in Georgia than in any other state and that the highest point in Mississippi is eight hundred feet.†   (source)
  • For George is an old gray cat who has accumulated a hatred of people and things so intense that even hidden upstairs he communicates his prayer that you will go away.†   (source)
  • Meo, who rolled Red every time he came home drunk, accumulated enough not only to give Red a decent burial but eventually to shrive and bury old Meo himself.†   (source)
  • Knowing that he had shore duty today, that there should be no more nitrogen accumulated during this workday?†   (source)
  • I cowered between them while the shouting rose, but they had forgotten me now as the accumulated bitterness spewed out of them.†   (source)
  • At independence the people of our region had gone mad with anger and fear—all the accumulated anger of the colonial period, and every kind of reawakened tribal fear.†   (source)
  • Junk was the word Belle had used to describe the contents, and there were odds and ends of harness, some worn boots, an old McClellan saddle, obviously unused for many years, a wooden bucket half filled with the bits and pieces that accumulate around any working ranch and are rummaged through from time to time in making repairs.†   (source)
  • Evidence I have been accumulating over the last three years, piece by piece.†   (source)
  • Where could you find room for all these hordes of people accumulated over thousands of years?†   (source)
  • He never accumulated a fortune.†   (source)
  • These were the signs sent from God that he had not seen the accumulated radiance of saved souls because he was not able, and that his eyes were more able to see the fireflies of the Lord than His blessed souls.†   (source)
  • The boulders were too hot to touch: the accumulated sunshine of months seemed stored in that granite.†   (source)
  • They must accumulate millions of tiny facts.†   (source)
  • While sifting the accumulated ash through a fly screen, he found human teeth and a fragment of jaw.†   (source)
  • They also depend partly on the a priori images we have accumulated in our memory.†   (source)
  • He accumulates some capital and goes into a business venture with his sons.†   (source)
  • We all collectively own the accumulated knowledge of the world.†   (source)
  • Shit is usually vacuum-dried, then accumulated in sealed bags to be discarded on the surface.†   (source)
  • Briony knew she had recently accumulated a string of errors.†   (source)
  • I don't know when I accumulated so many secrets.†   (source)
  • In the winter, rain accumulated in buckets from roof leaks.†   (source)
  • Strength accumulates like a favor from the gods.†   (source)
  • The alkaloid is simply going to accumulate in the system.†   (source)
  • They accumulated, hour by hour, like sweet and sour dreams, waiting to happen.†   (source)
  • A sum of decisions had accumulated in his awareness.†   (source)
  • Here, behind the name badge and uniform, was her true self, secretly hoarded, quietly accumulating.†   (source)
  • Courtesy is the only way to prevent such hostility from accumulating.†   (source)
  • Only salvaging the accumulated knowledge of some five millennia.†   (source)
  • The word Maven comes from the Yiddish, and it means one who accumulates knowledge.†   (source)
  • His practice boomed, his income multiplied, and he started to accumulate things.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, in a whole year she had accumulated only three personal letters.†   (source)
  • "Of course, the earlier you start saving, the more you'll accumulate.†   (source)
  • In fact, she was well on the way to accumulating more than 1,000 acres in Vermont.†   (source)
  • As the losses accumulated, Max became mutinously silent.†   (source)
  • Supposedly. some obscure guy from North Carolina accumulated a world-class collection of modern art.†   (source)
  • We still had assets, accumulated during the lucrative years of Moody's practice.†   (source)
  • How could I have accumulated any collateral, when nobody had ever given me a chance at anything big?†   (source)
  • Everything that I had accumulated in nearly two decades could fit in these few boxes.†   (source)
  • He lapped at the air, welcoming the thin coat of moisture that accumulated on his dry-sticky-tongue.†   (source)
  • All I really cared about accumulating was money.†   (source)
  • She threw out a lot less than she could have, when they moved; or else she's accumulated more.†   (source)
  • Vast thunderheads accumulated in the east, piling up and growing high.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the drug accumulated in their bodies, didn't wear off but remained there.†   (source)
  • By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.†   (source)
  • Their fatigues were ripped and thick with accumulated sweat.†   (source)
  • Cedric's ardor and ability to focus helped him accumulate a loose-leaf notebook full of A papers.†   (source)
  • Now I had accumulated one hundred and sixty six dollars to offer my new mama to be.†   (source)
  • As Max's victories accumulated, his fame grew by leaps and bounds.†   (source)
  • "Oh," I say blankly, and look down at the stuff I've accumulated.†   (source)
  • Accumulated leave could be taken or paid, see reference bravo.†   (source)
  • But one way and another we do each year accumulate Christmas savings, a Fruitcake Fund.†   (source)
  • His tissues accumulated a lot of nitrogen during his frantic searching, and then this happened.†   (source)
  • Yurii Andreievich was reading Tonia's letters, which had accumulated in one great batch.†   (source)
  • Yet one could do much, thanks to the knowledge patiently accumulated during the past hundred years.†   (source)
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