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chameleon
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  • Geyer found Holmes to be smooth and glib, a social chameleon.†   (source)
  • He walked through the world like a chameleon.†   (source)
  • It struck Lacy that she didn't really know what color a chameleon was before it started changing.†   (source)
  • A chameleon perched on Jim's nose.†   (source)
  • Of course, Reyna understood why her sister was such a chameleon.†   (source)
  • He found Francisco the Man, like a monolithic chameleon, sitting in the midst of a circle of bystanders.†   (source)
  • And you aren't chameleoning in front of me.†   (source)
  • My sister, chameleonlike, would change her voice or hair overnight to match the mannerisms of whoever was next.†   (source)
  • Years of learning how to be a chameleon, switching skins between cultures.†   (source)
  • So the Chameleon retreats to another disguise.†   (source)
  • A chameleon.†   (source)
  • I remembered the first day I'd come to Forks High School—how desperately I'd wished that I could turn gray, fade into the wet concrete of the sidewalk like an oversized chameleon.†   (source)
  • When Deo wasn't carrying food, he was herding cows with his grandfather, sleeping on beds of banana leaves under the stars, wary of the dangerous snakes -- cobras and mambas, adders, vipers, and asps -- and frightened routinely by the harmless chameleons camouflaged in the leaves, which at first touch felt like snakes.†   (source)
  • But Lalla could never be just a mother; that seemed to be only one muscle in her chameleon nature, which had too many other things to reflect.†   (source)
  • The baby followed his mother in this flash of her coloring like a chameleon following the light.†   (source)
  • The last time my father had talked to her, he had suggested to us that maybe all was not perfect in paradise, that he couldn't understand how she had the lousy luck and poor misfortune to keep winding up with men who changed like chameleons as soon as the marriage vows were spoken.†   (source)
  • A natural predator and chameleon, Lavon was regarded as the finest street surveillance artist the Office ever produced.†   (source)
  • …mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in public-knock-kneed,…†   (source)
  • She strained her eyes; but the figures she had momentarily caught sight of merged chameleon-like into the background of lush-growing reeds.†   (source)
  • …dweller in the silent and most secret places, well-omened, and gentle, all-knowing, swift as thought, wearer of skulls, possessed of power, the twilight, invincible leader, pitiful one, opener of the way before those lost, granter of favors, teacher, valor in the form of woman, chameleon-hearted, practitioner of austerities, magician, pariah, deathless and eternal … Âryatarabhattarikanamashtottarasatakastotra (36-40) From Hellwell to Heaven he went, there to commune with the gods.†   (source)
  • For it was natural to suppose, supposed Eugene, that the solidest of artists were chameleons.†   (source)
  • He seemed to have become a human chameleon.†   (source)
  • We went and found the chameleon all on our own.†   (source)
  • The tall man's cloak was still fading from its gray and black chameleon mode.†   (source)
  • I'm a chameleon, designed to fit a flexible mold.†   (source)
  • Be what they want you to be — be the chameleon!†   (source)
  • 'Don't,' broke in the chameleon, reaching under his jacket, his hand remaining there.†   (source)
  • The chameleon had to merge with his quiet part of the forest, one in which no spoors could be found.†   (source)
  • The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.†   (source)
  • It was too much for the furious, impassioned Chameleon.†   (source)
  • "So be it," said the Chameleon, walking away.†   (source)
  • The chameleon opened the door and stepped outside, the cold night air whipping across his face.†   (source)
  • I had to become a chameleon because Jason Bourne was a chameleon.†   (source)
  • His men used to call him … a chameleon.†   (source)
  • The Chameleon is slipping away, the imagination isn't there the way it used to be.†   (source)
  • Bourne no longer stooped, gone was the chameleon.†   (source)
  • It is said that Cain is a chameleon, appearing in various guises, and most convincing.†   (source)
  • "You could tell me whose idea it was," said the Chameleon.†   (source)
  • The description was close enough, especially for someone trained by a chameleon.†   (source)
  • The Chameleon sprang up from the desk, his neck frozen in pain.†   (source)
  • But the assassin was in Macao, and a chameleon had to enter another jungle.†   (source)
  • The chameleon had changed his colors again, had been accepted again for someone he was not.†   (source)
  • Mourn not for me, Monsieur le Chameleon.†   (source)
  • The chameleon in him would be put to work.†   (source)
  • 'You have satisfied me,' said the chameleon.†   (source)
  • As I look at your clothes, I'm certain the Chameleon understands.†   (source)
  • He said to me one night that he was a chameleon …†   (source)
  • Until then the Chameleon had to build several covers.†   (source)
  • And his conviction was real-there was no room for the chameleon now.†   (source)
  • But you are Jason Bourne, the killer Chameleon!†   (source)
  • She received her first training from a chameleon.†   (source)
  • "May we get back to what we're here for?" said the Chameleon angrily.†   (source)
  • I am a chameleon called Cain and I can teach you many things I do not care to teach you but I must.†   (source)
  • The chameleon was heading into the jungle, a jungle as dense as the unremembered Tam Quan.†   (source)
  • The Chameleon walked out of the Bois de Boulogne to the nearest taxi station.†   (source)
  • The Chameleon goes by many shapes and colours.'†   (source)
  • Then I am forced to wonder if you really are the Chameleon.†   (source)
  • David Webb would trust the chameleon within him.†   (source)
  • … The Jackal was no chameleon, but he had changed!†   (source)
  • A chameleon may be many things in daylight; still, he is safer in darkness.†   (source)
  • Alex looked up at the cold eyes of the creation once known as the Chameleon and spoke quietly.†   (source)
  • The Chameleon from Treadstone Seventy-one?†   (source)
  • Did Le Chameleon find her, turn her, do away with her?†   (source)
  • How very easily the words came, thought the Chameleon.†   (source)
  • The Chameleon spun around on the stool, looking at the objects in the storage room.†   (source)
  • How does the Chameleon think he should play it?†   (source)
  • "That's it, isn't it?" said the Frenchman, studying Le Chameleon, his binoculars still at his side.†   (source)
  • A chameleon ran up a leaf, and held there panting.†   (source)
  • Besides being slimy and cold-blooded, Captain Sham resembled the chameleon in that he was chameleonic, a word which means "able to blend in with any situation."†   (source)
  • It changed color like a chameleon.†   (source)
  • A few meters from us, the three technicians were covering the device with chameleon cloth and a coded containment field.†   (source)
  • A chameleon.†   (source)
  • Besides being slimy and cold-blooded, Captain Sham resembled the chameleon in that he was chameleonic, a word which means "able to blend in with any situation."†   (source)
  • Then I walked over, used a techniciqn's cornlog to enter the containment field, threw off the chameleon cloth, and triggered the device.†   (source)
  • The polymerized chameleon armor labored to keep up with the shifting Iackground but only succeeded in turning each man into a brilliant kaleidoscope of reflections.†   (source)
  • It's being a chameleon.†   (source)
  • The low winter light shifted across the stained glass transom, washing Randolph's face in changing colors, chameleon-style.†   (source)
  • For a while, Thomas had been a chameleon-he'd come home from school and hole up in his room, emerging as a soccer player, a thespian, a 'mathlete.'†   (source)
  • She was a chameleon.†   (source)
  • The chameleon was a … provocateur.†   (source)
  • It was 7:35 in the evening, the March night cold, the sky clear, and the chameleon dressed for the occasion.†   (source)
  • I am a chameleon called Cain and I can teach you many things I do not care to teach you, but at the moment I must.†   (source)
  • What's one more — especially an assassin who could be anyone — an attache, a business executive… a Chameleon.'†   (source)
  • She had learned in Paris — taught by a chameleon — how to use the simple things to change herself.†   (source)
  • For the man without a memory there was little to change or invent; the chameleon was not called upon.†   (source)
  • Bourne was a practitioner of change; they called him 'the chameleon', a man who could melt into different surroundings with ease.†   (source)
  • The chameleon was an expert.†   (source)
  • I'm part chameleon, remember?†   (source)
  • 'Get them for me,' said the chameleon impatiently, reaching into his pocket, his gaze casually straying beyond the green fence as the guard rushed back to the gatehouse.†   (source)
  • Especially for one known as the chameleon, a multilingual deep-cover specialist who could change appearances and lifestyles with so little effort that he could literally vanish.†   (source)
  • The chameleon could not wait.†   (source)
  • The chameleon smiled.†   (source)
  • The chameleon.†   (source)
  • All that mattered was that the Chameleon himself was at the Metropole; the traitors in Paris could wait.†   (source)
  • Slowly he moved his large "I have written out a message for you," replied the Chameleon, his eyes steady, focused on the bartender's glasses.†   (source)
  • If you The Chameleon, straining against the knees pinning him to the ground, exhaled as if it were his final breath.†   (source)
  • The Chameleon had dressed for the environment he was about to enter; the clothes were simple, the body and the face less so.†   (source)
  • Carlos had mounted an elaborate trap and the Chameleon had reversed it, Medusa's Delta had turned it around!†   (source)
  • "It is I, madame," said Jason, his French just slightly coarse, ever so minimally Anglicized; the Chameleon was in charge.†   (source)
  • "What about that driver of yours, the one Casset got you?" asked the Chameleon, his eyes cold, inquiring.†   (source)
  • The huge glass-enclosed circular dining room held the few remaining guests and the fewer staff, and that meant the Chameleon had to change colors.†   (source)
  • During that trial you adapted to the necessities of your immediate surroundings-you might say like a chameleon.†   (source)
  • Monsieur le Chameleon goes to work.†   (source)
  • She's been with my wife and sick children for nearly two days without sleep!" pleaded the Chameleon in street French.†   (source)
  • Above all, at this moment, the Chameleon also understood that he could not be affected by what he saw-emotions were out!†   (source)
  • I will soon join my woman, if such is to be, so I can disagree with certain people, men like you, for instance, Monsieur le Chameleon, whom I would have automatically agreed with before.†   (source)
  • "So be it," agreed the Chameleon.†   (source)
  • Alex watched Jason; he saw the undisguised fury in the Chameleon's eyes, the tight, rigid set of his mouth, the slow spreading and contraction of his strong fingers.†   (source)
  • The Jackal's challenger, the man of many appearances, the Chameleon-the killer known as Jason Bourne-was not given to fear, we are told, only a great bravado that came from his strength.†   (source)
  • Jason Bourne turned and breathed heavily against the glass window for several moments-and then through the mists of indecision the Chameleon's strategy became clear.†   (source)
  • Le Chameleon asks such a question?†   (source)
  • Forcibly, their charge in a sweating, erratically breathing trance, the five men walked rapidly to the front of the restaurant; there the uncontrollable hysteria again seized the Chameleon.†   (source)
  • But then, so did the Chameleon.†   (source)
  • So would he, shedding the skin of the mythical chameleon, revealing a much larger beast of prey-say, a Bengal tiger-which could rip a jackal apart in his jaws.†   (source)
  • The Chameleon, too, was back.†   (source)
  • Many were filled with wildly divergent descriptions from people who claimed to have seen the man known as the Chameleon, but among the most reliable was a common reference to the catlike mobility of the "assassin."†   (source)
  • Chameleon?†   (source)
  • His fame was chameleon, but its fruit and triumph lay at home, among the people of Altamont.†   (source)
  • The boy's mind flamed with bright streaming images, sharp as gems, mutable as chameleons.†   (source)
  • …printed in a magazine; and I, a child standing close beside that door because I was afraid to be there but more afraid to leave it, standing motionless beside that door as though trying to make myself blend with the dark wood and become invisible, like a chameleon, listening to the living spirit, presence, of that house, since some of Ellen's life and breath had now gone into it as well as his, breathing away in a long neutral sound of victory and despair, of triumph and terror too.†   (source)
  • …California; the blasted fiend-world of the desert, and the terrific boles of trees, tunnelled for the passage of a coach; water that fell from a mountain-top in a smoking noiseless coil, internal boiling lakes flung skywards by the punctual respiration of the earth, the multitudinous torture in form of granite oceans, gouged depthlessly by canyons, and iridescent with the daily chameleon-shift beyond man, beyond nature, of terrific colors, below the un-human iridescence of the sky.†   (source)
  • You are a chameleon, and now you are at your worst colour.†   (source)
  • The people who worked here followed the ancient custom of nature, whereby the ptarmigan is the color of dead leaves in the fall and of snow in the winter, and the chameleon, who is black when he lies upon a stump and turns green when he moves to a leaf.†   (source)
  • He was interested in whether McGovern of Minnesota would make the first or second All-American, how to do the card-pass, how to do the coin-pass, chameleon ties, how babies were born, and whether Three-fingered Brown was really a better pitcher than Christie Mathewson.†   (source)
  • " James Merrick, "The Chameleon," 11.†   (source)
  • A small orange-colored reptile, of the lizard or chameleon species, chanced to be creeping along the path, just at the feet of Beatrice.†   (source)
  • Chameleon.†   (source)
  • ] Out, thou chameleon harlot! now thine eyes Vie tears with the hyaena.†   (source)
  • Give him leave, madam; he is a kind of chameleon.†   (source)
  • Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.†   (source)
  • Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.†   (source)
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