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  • If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, that is your success.†   (source)
  • We were not very fond of the skins, for once they were wet they emitted a musty odor which seeped into our clothing and clung to our skins.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a natty Panama and a linen suit that appeared to emit light, it was so fresh and clean.†   (source)
  • This was a bad scream, the kind of scream that is usually emitted by mobs waving clubs and leads to eventual inclusion in history books.†   (source)
  • Wang realized that the disk did not emit light.†   (source)
  • Nor would she emit a giggle or exhibit the slightest smirk.†   (source)
  • The doctor is now standing beside Lale, emitting a pungent smell of disinfectant.†   (source)
  • But the whistle emitted no sound, and nothing happened.†   (source)
  • It emitted a groan.†   (source)
  • Darkness lurked inside even as the rectangle of glass continued to emit its strange green radiance.†   (source)
  • Before I could swing my sword, it opened its mouth, emitting a stench like the world's largest barbecue pit, and shot a column of flame straight at me.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ludsbury emitted a single chuckle from deep in his throat, then his face turned brick red momentarily and he assumed his customary sententiousness.†   (source)
  • Through the tall window I could see, across the courtyard, the chimney looming high above, steadily emitting black smoke.†   (source)
  • It began to vibrate, to emit a low, steady hum that deepened and grew in volume.†   (source)
  • The brass lamp on the round table between us emits an amber glow.†   (source)
  • He said since he could hear his voice and the angels' voices in his head, that by using an outside device like the sound coming out of the air unit or the big overhead lights in warehouses like Costco and Sam's Club emitting a humming buzzing sound, that allowed him to hear the voices coming from those things as well.†   (source)
  • He remembers trying to shout back, unsuccessfully, his mouth emitting nothing but the faintest rasp.†   (source)
  • Its chimney was emitting such a pleasant and familiar aroma that she opened the window to inhale it more deeply.†   (source)
  • The overcast sky and the stone buildings emit the same cold elegance, but ahead of me, the Pantheon shimmers.†   (source)
  • Ralph pursed his lips and squirted air into the shell, which emitted a low, farting noise.†   (source)
  • I curl up with Prim on the mattress, double layering the blankets because the cavern emits a dank chill.†   (source)
  • There's an enormous piece of medical equipment squatting in the corner, emitting a series of periodic beeps, a tissue-paper-covered examination table, a stinging, antiseptic smell.†   (source)
  • They formed a suspicious huddle in the corner of the stall, emitting slow, dry gargles.†   (source)
  • Each camera was emitting a faint beam, like the last evening sunrays.†   (source)
  • The alarm's keypad tries to announce my escape by emitting a loud BEEP each time I press a number.†   (source)
  • They emitted a small blue trail of smoke that came from the crystals used to power them, never fire like this one.†   (source)
  • The Ouster commando emitted a second, shorter scream, and then looked down in disbelief as the Shrike's arm withdrew with the man's heart in its bladed fist.†   (source)
  • I would pet him on top of the head and take the stick from him—he would emit a low, gentle growl when I took the stick.†   (source)
  • He emitted the three-note whistle.†   (source)
  • The sound of a droplet emitted from Annie's earpiece, and she said "Okay" to whomever was on the other end.†   (source)
  • In the very center, a square smokestack emitted a thin gray vapor into the blue sky.†   (source)
  • The first rocket emitted a boil of nasty, stinking, yellowish smoke and then fell over, the glue on its fins melted.†   (source)
  • Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal.†   (source)
  • In any event, the smell emitted by slaughterhouse lagoons would be "sweet," not objectionable.†   (source)
  • The open garbage can overflowed onto the floor and emitted the warm reek of spoiling food, but that wasn't the only thing wrong, or the worst smell.†   (source)
  • Babette was moist and warm, emitting a creaturely hum.†   (source)
  • As he leaned forward, however, he could see that the bulb was illuminated, emitting a dull red glow.†   (source)
  • It was deserted and in almost total darkness except where irregular clumps of arm-length crystals emitted a milky white light.†   (source)
  • But you can use it to make a different type of emitter for sympathy lamps.†   (source)
  • It emits itself through the brain and into your nervous system.†   (source)
  • It emits a signal that you can't hear, but that will cause glass to shatter.†   (source)
  • I'm pressed against the steering wheel, and as we move together, the horn emits tiny bleats that mimic me, and my hand makes a smearing noise as I press it against the windshield.†   (source)
  • It emitted a single garbled scream and crumpled, its head eaten away to the bone.†   (source)
  • When Lorenzo Daza walked into the entryway, the crows, awake under their sheets, emitted a funereal shriek.†   (source)
  • To her horror, she saw that it was emitting a thin red line of light that pulsed with dangerous energy.†   (source)
  • The Count emitted a short, barking laugh.†   (source)
  • She looked at us down through the porch railings and emitted a low, long belch.†   (source)
  • Their city had yet to experience any major fighting, just some shootings and the odd car bombing, felt in one's chest cavity as a subsonic vibration like those emitted by large loudspeakers at music concerts, and Saeed and Nadia had packed up their books and were leaving class.†   (source)
  • She emits a wistful laugh, still lost in the memory.†   (source)
  • Everything in the room, without exception, is more or less under the influence of the magnetic force emitted by the television set.†   (source)
  • "Emits a certain don't-mess-with-me signal.†   (source)
  • Saphira emitted a soft, rippling growl, which caused Quoth to squeak and hop backward.†   (source)
  • Instead of toilet paper, there was a hose that emitted ice water.†   (source)
  • After I had given up hope, my fax machine suddenly emitted this reply: Mr. Preston: Unless you include the feeling generated by gazing into the eyes of a waving confrontational cobra, "fascination" is not what I feel about Ebola.†   (source)
  • Soon, though, I was too tired to do even that, instead just closing my eyes, only aware of Kristy returning by the sound of the door sliding shut and the loud sigh she emitted as she crawled into her bed.†   (source)
  • They are divorced from their husbands and, because they emit a terrible odor from their wastes, are often forced to live in a hut by themselves on the edge of the village, as Mahabouba was.†   (source)
  • Their team would gather information by intercepting signals between people (communications intelligence) and electronic signals emitted from enemy technology such as radios, radars, surface-to-air missile systems, aircraft, and ships (electronic intelligence).†   (source)
  • Almost instantaneously, the rocket pivoted, shot straight up into the air, and emitted a huge boom above the field.†   (source)
  • There's probably a class for guidance counselors only—How to Emit Inappropriate Joy in the Face of Adolescent Horror.†   (source)
  • Yossarian emitted a long, loud, croaking gasp of protest when he trudged in tiredly after a mission and found them already there.†   (source)
  • His throat emitted several stunned sounds before he shook his head sharply and said, "Vladimir, I would never harm anyone I care about."†   (source)
  • They scrutinize statues and busts, scrape Crisco out of the corners of supposedly bleeding eyes, track scented oil on walls that emit the smell of roses.†   (source)
  • It emitted a microwave signal that could be followed from quite a distance.†   (source)
  • She emits a high-pitched squeal that turns every head within earshot.†   (source)
  • A pile of breakfast dishes lay in the sink; a pot of stew simmered on the stove, emitting steam with the greasy odor of cheap meat; a dusty typewriter stood among the papers on the table.†   (source)
  • The beast hardly reacted at all, just shivered and twitched, emitting a slow, liquid sigh, the exhalation of huge and infected lungs.†   (source)
  • Max glanced at his roommate, who was sleeping beneath a mound of blankets and emitting a wheezy whistle as he breathed.†   (source)
  • " 'The long-tongued orator will emit impassioned gawps,' " I read.†   (source)
  • We rook you up to these wires here and we can record the wave signatures emitted by the brain.†   (source)
  • Ser Ilyn opened his mouth and emitted a choking rattle.†   (source)
  • It can emit bills of credit as long as it can pay for the paper.†   (source)
  • "Well, uh, it's sort of, like—it's sort of a fish out of water story…"and then as one pale incident succeeds the next, the tycoons emit a slow burn of polite disbelief and boredom, ending with a forced smile and a we'll-get-back-to-you.†   (source)
  • But despite the incredible packaging, Angel didn't emit even a whiff of sexuality.†   (source)
  • She breathed in and out heavily, emitting a stream of smoke, while nodding along with Mrs. Poole's words.†   (source)
  • It was over in less than three seconds, no sound emitted other than a sickening expulsion of air.†   (source)
  • Her mobile phone was emitting a signal of its own.†   (source)
  • So …. if I can get the gray plates for about six hundred Glatun super-dreadnoughts, a power plant the size of a small city and a laser emitter system that can match two hundred VDAs in power …. we can get it to move at the pace of a very anemic snail and gut any fleet stupid enough to come in range," he finished with a grin.†   (source)
  • She raised her hand to her lips, delicately emitted the empty hulls.†   (source)
  • Up came two huge claws and a furiously shaking black head, full of teeth, and emitting loud growls, and the town rectors began to laugh and yell, while Mark grabbed the axe, cut the rope, and the bear headed shoreward.†   (source)
  • The twin breathing orifices on either cheek-if those fluted, basalt curves could be called cheeks-emitted the faintest of whistles as Karellen's hypothetical lungs laboured in the thin air of Earth.†   (source)
  • She was sweating healthily in the hot sun and emitted a musky womanly odor that held me instantaneously captive like a bumblebee.†   (source)
  • KATE meanwhile is bent lovingly over the crib, which emits a bleat; her finger is playful with the baby's face.†   (source)
  • It will emit a loud humming sound and a light will begin to blink behind that meshing beneath the forward ridge.†   (source)
  • I screamed, and the monster emitted a terrifying rumble.†   (source)
  • He suddenly broke into a run, emitted his patented hellish whine, and disappeared into the forest.†   (source)
  • It's as if it should draw in its rays, instead of emitting them.†   (source)
  • He pondered deeply, like diving into a deep water he let himself sink down to the ground of the sensation, down to the place where the causes lie, because to identify the causes, so it seemed to him, is the very essence of thinking, and by this alone sensations turn into realizations and are not lost, but become entities and start to emit like rays of light what is inside of them.†   (source)
  • The bells of Moscow's countless churches clanged in the darkness overhead, and the trolleys rang as they scurried through the streets, but Lara was also deafened by the gaudy window displays and glaring lights, as if they too emitted sounds of their own, like the bells and wheels.†   (source)
  • But she loved to do more luxurious errands for others, and even when there were no such errands, she would examine a rich variety of merchandise she had no intention of buying, always skillful, in these examinations, never to disturb a clerk, and never to leave disturbed anything that she touched, imposing her weak eyes as intently as a jeweler with his glass and emitting little expletives of irony or admiration.†   (source)
  • [They crowd round MRS. BOEUF, pinching her cheeks; she opens her eyes, emits an 'Ah' and closes them again; they continue to pinch her cheeks as BOTARD speaks:] You can be certain of one thing: I shall report this to my union.†   (source)
  • People crowded around me, trying to pat the baby who had caused all this excitement-although he was no beauty, with puckered face and mouth opened wide to emit shriek after shriek.†   (source)
  • Tate emitted a hysterical sob.†   (source)
  • Every little while she emitted a low growl, and at times, when it seemed to her he approached too near, the growl shot up in her throat to a sharp snarl.   (source)
    emitted = sent out
  • He emitted a distressed bark, then dissolved in a swirl of leaves.†   (source)
  • Penny said, emitting a pleasant, professional laugh.†   (source)
  • Nearby, stood a big bearded wizard holding a large cardboard box which was emitting rasping noises.†   (source)
  • Fleur was wearing a very simple white dress and seemed to be emitting a strong, silvery glow.†   (source)
  • Simon has not; he emits an ambiguous h'm, which he hopes will pass for agreement.†   (source)
  • She emits a half laugh and opens her mouth to speak.†   (source)
  • The basin was full of an emerald liq-uid emitting that phosphorescent glow.†   (source)
  • This was due to the light emitted by the ships themselves.†   (source)
  • He was so pale that he seemed to emit a pearly glow.†   (source)
  • The Reverend Mother emitted a cackling laugh.†   (source)
  • The massed bodies lay in heavy rest, seeming to emit a single nasal sigh.†   (source)
  • He was smiling, and the top of his staff emitted traces of green gas.†   (source)
  • Parts of the surface are on fire, others emit evil-looking clouds of vapor.†   (source)
  • The MetaCops emit rote, shallow laughter.†   (source)
  • Mae knew he was rounding up a bit, but she emitted a tiny laugh.†   (source)
  • I'd doped the emitter without giving myself arsenic poisoning.†   (source)
  • I pressed a small button set into the barrel and the gun emitted a tone.†   (source)
  • All other lifeforms cowered from the heat, emitting only a vacant hum from the undergrowth.†   (source)
  • As each name entered the fire, it turned briefly red and emitted sparks.†   (source)
  • Those old video systems emit faint ion beams.†   (source)
  • The red plastic cap is emitting grainy red light.†   (source)
  • The game emitted two low electronic chimes and the credit counter jumped from zero to two.†   (source)
  • Our eyes stay locked, and the class emits a taunting groan.†   (source)
  • The panel speaker emitted static crackles, then a voice: "Who calls Delta Ajax niner?†   (source)
  • Covered by a wire mesh that seemed designed to protect it, it emitted a dim glow.†   (source)
  • The huge and tortured wreck emitted a wisp of rusty smoke.†   (source)
  • Bailey was standing before an antique tea set, a silver pot emitting a narrow corkscrew of steam.†   (source)
  • The motion detector emitted a beep as I stepped through the front door.†   (source)
  • As the wind blew past it, the dish emitted a howl that could be heard from far away.†   (source)
  • The sirens emitted the first three blasts as I pulled up in front of the house.†   (source)
  • The deciphering system continued to run uselessly and emitted an unceasing string of failure codes.†   (source)
  • The weapon emitted a second tone, letting me know it had finished scanning my handprints.†   (source)
  • Max had already powered up the engines, and they emitted a low, steady roar that filled the hangar.†   (source)
  • They'd barely reached the first of the trees when she heard Zeus emit a playful bark.†   (source)
  • The crowd turned and looked up at us, emitting a fair number of oohs and ahhs.†   (source)
  • I can feel their eyes like they're emitting heat.†   (source)
  • The bottom was smooth stone, carved all over with runes that emitted a faint glow.†   (source)
  • For the moment it emitted only a low electrical hum.†   (source)
  • He was alone, save for a curious bat that swooped overhead, emitting shrill squeaks.†   (source)
  • One stranded robot emitted a giant air bubble from the depths.†   (source)
  • The gusts of air caused the rigging overhead to emit a low hum.†   (source)
  • "So," he said, after emitting a long, loud sigh, "tell me.†   (source)
  • Somebody at the back of the courtroom emitted a long whistle.†   (source)
  • Yossarian emitted a startled gasp and shook his head.†   (source)
  • Her sleeve and skirt were disintegrating into chalky cobwebs that emitted acrid fumes.†   (source)
  • The blade emitted a single pure note that slowly faded into silence.†   (source)
  • When Raphael emitted a peal of laughter, Gabriel was instantly glad he had come.†   (source)
  • Mr. Thompson emitted a long whistle and shook his head apprehensively.†   (source)
  • The coals sizzled and emitted an acrid smell as they struck the liquid.†   (source)
  • He tapped the screen a few times, and the device emitted a sharp hissing sound.†   (source)
  • Her throat emitted the brute groans of a tortured animal.†   (source)
  • She emitted a bloodcurdling scream: "Run, Keno!†   (source)
  • Or maybe see wasn't the right word—he could sense it there, as if the mechanism was emitting heat, revealing itself to him.†   (source)
  • As I waited for Rob to lead the way, the ice underfoot emitted a series of loud cracking noises, like small trees being snapped in two, and I felt myself wince with each pop and rumble from the glacier's shifting depths.†   (source)
  • She was pointing at a number of round balls of fluff in shades of pink and purple, all rolling around the bottom of a cage and emitting high-pitched squeaks.†   (source)
  • She had picked up her wand from the table, and it had emitted a loud squeak and turned into a giant rubber mouse.†   (source)
  • He waved his wand without really concentrating; his bullfrog swelled like a green balloon and emitted a highpitched whistle.†   (source)
  • Led by Fawkes, whose wide scarlet wings emitted a soft golden glow in the darkness, they walked all the way back to the mouth of the pipe.†   (source)
  • But instead of the graceful glide through the puddle that its occupants were expecting, the bus emitted a tremendous crack and careened drunkenly into our trap.†   (source)
  • It did not seem possible that this could be the same man, this man handled front and back by two women who just a few months earlier had made him tremble with love and who now soaped him above his waist and below, dried him with towels of Egyptian cotton, and massaged his entire body, while he did not emit a single sigh of passion.†   (source)
  • But on cloudless nights after a daytime rain, Saeed's father would sometimes bring out the telescope, and the family would sip green tea on their balcony, enjoying a breeze, and take turns to look up at objects whose light, often, had been emitted before any of these three viewers had been born—light from other centuries, only now reaching Earth.†   (source)
  • The cuckoo was, in fact, soon to pop out, its grinding windup beginning over my head—a sound that inevitably made my jaw tense—when the camera crews outside emitted a loud, collective, oceanic wushing.†   (source)
  • Spiritualism is the craze of the middle classes, the women especially; they gather in darkened rooms and play at table-tilting the way their grandmothers played at whist, or they emit voluminous automatic writings, dictated to them by Mozart or Shakespeare; in which case being dead, thinks Simon, has a remarkably debilitating effect on one's prose style.†   (source)
  • A conch shell is repeatedly tapped and passed around, but no one in the room is able to get it to emit a sound.†   (source)
  • Moving it was not right, she felt, but since she did not want her lips to emit a single sound, she saved that opinion for later as well as her question about the whereabouts and identity of the woman.†   (source)
  • While the anger that had threatened to consume her during the trial had long since burned out, thinking about Wells sent a new wave of heat pulsing through her body, like a dying star emitting one final flash of light before it faded into nothingness.†   (source)
  • The music, flashing lights, and sound effects emitted by these slots help disguise the fact that a small processor inside them is deciding with mathematical certainty how long you will play before you lose.†   (source)
  • In fact, the only thing that spoiled the moment was a humming in the air—the sort that might be emitted from a faulty fuse or a radio receiver.†   (source)
  • Her sleep was restless; she saw Dr. Juvenal Urbino everywhere, she saw him laughing, singing, emitting sulfurous sparks from between his teeth with his eyes blindfolded, mocking her with a word game that had no fixed rules, driving up to the paupers' cemetery in a different carriage.†   (source)
  • Although no one has made a move toward it, the television flares to life, emitting a high-pitched beeping sound, bringing half our party to its feet.†   (source)
  • 'Dear, dear,' said Professor McGonagall sardonically, as one of the dragons soared around her classroom, emitting loud bangs and exhaling flame.†   (source)
  • It emits a dying wail—coo-crrrrww—that every time brings Bleecker trotting in from some hideaway, eyes wild, all business, his tail a bottle-brush as he tilts his head toward the feathers and mewls.†   (source)
  • Bagman was yelling, and Harry heard the Chinese Fireball emit a horrible, roaring shriek, while the crowd drew its collective breath.†   (source)
  • A number of curious silver instruments stood on spindlelegged tables, whirring and emitting little puffs of smoke.†   (source)
  • Silently they struggled: Wormtail's wand emitted sparks; his silver hand closed around Harry's throat.†   (source)
  • They chose the one nearest a gold-colored cauldron that was emitting one of the most seductive scents Harry had ever inhaled: Somehow it reminded him simultaneously of treacle tart, the woody smell of a broomstick handle, and something flowery he thought he might have smelled at the Burrow.†   (source)
  • Whatever T.J.'s reply, it obviously was not what Kaleb Wallace wanted to hear, for he pulled his leg back and kicked T.J.'s swollen stomach with such force that T.J. emitted a cry of awful pain and fell prone upon the ground.†   (source)
  • The only light emitted from various flashing beer signs, giving off an amber glow, like campfires licking whiskered faces.†   (source)
  • The room was in half-darkness; the strange silver instruments standing on tables were silent and still rather than whirring and emitting puffs of smoke as they usually did; the portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses covering the walls were all snoozing in their frames.†   (source)
  • A very slight glow comes from my hands, emitting almost no light, only enough to keep from running into a desk.†   (source)
  • Harry was at the point of telling Ron and Hermione about Filch and the Kwikspell course when the salamander suddenly whizzed into the air, emitting loud sparks and bangs as it whirled wildly round the room.†   (source)
  • This shouting is still getting underway, she is still turning her head to look at the jeeks, when the doggie door emits another burst of light.†   (source)
  • Then his eyes closed, and he went into paroxysms, emitting a brief squeal before grunting his arrival.†   (source)
  • …he had never done in his life on forcing that bead of light right back into Voldemort s wand …. and slowly …. very slowly … it moved along the golden thread … it trembled for a moment…. and then it connected…… At once, Voldemorts wand began to emit echoing screams of pain …. then Voldemort's red eyes widened with shock — a dense, smoky hand flew out of the tip of it and vanished …. the ghost of the hand he had made Wormtail…. more shouts of pain …. and then something much larger began…†   (source)
  • After six years he had tried one hundred seventy-two of them, in addition to complementary treatments that appeared on the labels of the bottles, and all that he achieved was an itching, foul-smelling eczema of the scalp called ringworm borealis by the medicine men of Martinique because it emitted a phosphorescent glow in the dark.†   (source)
  • The Circlets ringing the performance emitted an array of lights, some from their wrist monitors, some from their phones, out and aglow, capturing the proceedings.†   (source)
  • The powerless life raft, sloshing around the North Pacific, emits a vast, spreading plume of steam like that of an Iron Horse chugging full blast over the Continental Divide.†   (source)
  • Investigators said it could be the ventilating system, the paint or varnish, the foam insulation, the electrical insulation, the cafeteria food, the rays emitted by microcomputers, the asbestos fireproofing, the adhesive on shipping containers, the fumes from the chlorinated pool, or perhaps something deeper, fine r-grained, more closely woven into the basic state of things.†   (source)
  • The largest of them is the size of an orange—Lorien's sun—and it hangs in the middle emitting the same amount of light as a lightbulb while looking like a self-contained sphere of lava.†   (source)
  • He twirled the wand between his long fingers like a baton and it emitted a number of pink and gold sparks.†   (source)
  • There was a musical box that emitted a faintly sinister, tinkling tune when wound, and they all found themselves becoming curiously weak and sleepy, until Ginny had the sense to slam the lid shut; a heavy locket that none of them could open; a number of ancient seals; and, in a dusty box, an Order of Merlin, First Class, that had been awarded to Sirius's grandfather for 'services to the Ministry'.†   (source)
  • The radiation zone, the region of the sun's interior that surrounds the core, absorbs these high-energy photons and re-emits them at a slightly lower energy level.†   (source)
  • Dragons comprised entirely of green and gold sparks were soaring up and down the corridors, emitting loud fiery blasts and bangs as they went; shocking-pink Catherine wheels five feet in diameter were whizzing lethally through the air like so many flying saucers; rockets with long tails of brilliant silver stars were ricocheting off the walls; sparklers were writing swear words in midair of their own accord; firecrackers were exploding like mines everywhere Harry looked, and instead of…†   (source)
  • They stepped out of the elevator and into a long hallway, this one appointed in deep cherry and walnut, a series of compact chandeliers emitting a calm amber light.†   (source)
  • Harry just had time to see that the door of the carriage bore a coat of arms (two crossed, golden wands, each emitting three stars) before it opened.†   (source)
  • As I did, the towering computers around me began to emit a cacophony of sound, like a grand orchestra tuning up.†   (source)
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