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  • The glacier's continual and often violent state of flux added an element of uncertainty to every ladder crossing.†   (source)
  • Everything in her life was in flux and she needed strong, steady and stable.†   (source)
  • It'll collect data on your heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, heat flux, caloric intake, sleep duration, sleep quality, digestive efficiency, on and on.†   (source)
  • Our perceptions of everything are organized by the flux of sensations passing over that framework.†   (source)
  • I sat there, feeling the flux and flow of power within me.†   (source)
  • In a cold voice, the Baron said: "You have a flux of the mouth, Piter."†   (source)
  • The horse that one sees is a collection of changing Appearances, a horse that can flux and move around all it wants to and even die on the spot without disturbing horseness, which is the Immortal Principle and can go on forever in the path of the Gods of old.†   (source)
  • Parmenides realized, of course, that nature is in a constant state of flux.†   (source)
  • All things in her are flux and anticipation.†   (source)
  • Amar, my initiation instructor, taught us that our fear landscapes were always in flux, shifting with our moods and changing with the little whispers of our nightmares.†   (source)
  • He turned, hit shingles, fell skidding down the inclined ancient roof, over down to rim, to rainspout where, feet first, he spilled into further emptiness, yelling, clawed at the rain gutter, held, felt it groan, give way, as he swept the sky to see the balloon whistling, wrinkling, flying up like a wounded beast to evacuate its terrified exhalations in the clouds; a gunshot mammoth, not wanting to expire, yet in terrible flux coughing out its stinking winds.†   (source)
  • We were still in flux, as had been clear at the table that night as I watched my mother and sisters come together again.†   (source)
  • The setting was fuzzy and constantly in flux—it morphed from misty forest to cloud-covered city to arctic night—because Edward was keeping the location of our honeymoon a secret to surprise me.†   (source)
  • At most the rods could absorb just less than one percent of the neutron flux, but this was enough either to permit the reaction or to prevent it.†   (source)
  • Even ifGalbatorix or the Forsworn had thought to search with their minds in such an unlikely location, the intervening rock would have made it difficult for them to feel much more than a confused flux of energy, which they would have attributed to eddies within the blood of the earth, which lies close beneath us.†   (source)
  • The status of her soul, of everything that she was, is still in flux.†   (source)
  • Cesar watched the desert undulating into the horizon, and between earth and sky appeared a thick clear liquid that appeared in constant flux without going anywhere.†   (source)
  • In the late summer and fall of 1775, the "bloody flux," epidemic dysentery, had ripped through their ranks.†   (source)
  • Aphra had seen three of her own babies into the ground before their first year, one through fever, one through flux, and one, a lusty boy, who had just stopped breathing in his bed, with nary a mark upon him.†   (source)
  • The individual squadrons were in a constant state of flux as they rotated from deployments overseas to months of training and then months on standby, during which a call to deploy could come at any time.†   (source)
  • The Atlantic was inhaling, and the two rivers that sketched the shape of Charleston began to feel the immense, light-inspirited authority of the lunar flux.†   (source)
  • When I open my eyes, she's in flux.†   (source)
  • But unlike Confederate opinion on slavery, which remained relatively constant until the final months of the war, Union opinion was in a state of flux.†   (source)
  • Solar flux alone is good for around one kilowatt per square meter of surface at Lunar noon; sunpower, though cyclic, is effectively unlimited.†   (source)
  • All impurities burned out and ready for a glorious flux, and for that--more fire.†   (source)
  • My little sisters died from the flux.†   (source)
  • the flux following the death of the emperor
  • Alliances in the region are in a state of flux.
  • The fragments were difficult to understand when snatched out of the flux.†   (source)
  • So in the midst of all nature's constant flux and oppo-sites, Heraclitus saw an Entity or one-ness.†   (source)
  • He searched his memory—the fixed past, the flux-lines of the possible futures.†   (source)
  • Everything is in constant flux and movement, nothing is abiding.†   (source)
  • Surely the gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.†   (source)
  • Half of them have the bloody flux, and even the healthy ones are mouths to feed.†   (source)
  • Too many of the men they had sent into the camp had been stricken by the flux themselves.†   (source)
  • We had two sons, but the lions killed one and the other died of the flux.†   (source)
  • A few phials of herbals useful for infant fevers and fluxes.†   (source)
  • Have you ever seen a dragon with the flux?†   (source)
  • That was the work of healthy men, running to escape the flux.†   (source)
  • The crews of the galleys denied it; the deaths were from a bloody flux.†   (source)
  • The bloody flux has been the bane of every army since the Dawn Age.†   (source)
  • Your Grace, I have known the bloody flux to destroy whole armies when left to spread unchecked.†   (source)
  • Stay well away from those who show signs of the flux.†   (source)
  • This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world.†   (source)
  • Those frail bodies of theirs took relentless attention, food and drink, sleep and rest, the cleaning of limbs and fluxes.†   (source)
  • Reconnaissance will be done with traditional bug sweepers, recalibrated for sub-three-ohm flux fields.†   (source)
  • It is 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement,' as Hume expressed it.†   (source)
  • So many thieves and murderers are abroad that no man's house is safe, the bloody flux is spreading in the stews along Pisswater Bend, there's no food to be had for copper nor silver.†   (source)
  • I looked out my window at the ocean again, so steady and vast, seemingly never changing and yet always in flux.†   (source)
  • With no reactor coolant to absorb the heat of the uranium rods, the nuclear reaction actually stopped—there was no water to attenuate the neutron flux.†   (source)
  • They learned that Lord Beric had ten starvelings with him, or else a hundred mounted knights; that he had ridden west, or north, or south; that he had crossed the lake in a boat; that he was strong as an aurochs or weak from the bloody flux.†   (source)
  • "You and the people you came with have been in a regrettable state of flux since your arrival," he says.†   (source)
  • Already we've had reports of sickness in the camps, fever and brownleg and three cases of the bloody flux.†   (source)
  • Some flux, he realized, as he watched two sellswords carry the corpse of a third from one of the tents.†   (source)
  • Has the bloody flux taken even her?†   (source)
  • The bloody flux has taken hold amongst the Tolosi, it is said, and spread across the river to the third Ghiscari legion.†   (source)
  • Though the queen had let the Astapori starve outside her walls to keep the bloody flux from spreading, it was spreading nonetheless.†   (source)
  • Soon after came the sickness, a bloody flux that killed three men of every four, until a mob of dying men went mad and slew the guards on the main gate.†   (source)
  • The bloody flux is everywhere.†   (source)
  • She had sent them healers, Blue Graces and spell-singers and barber-surgeons, but some of those had sickened as well, and none of their arts had slowed the galloping progression of the flux that had come on the pale mare.†   (source)
  • Of the flux, I meant.†   (source)
  • He died of the flux.†   (source)
  • No more colds for you, my hero, and you won't be bothered again by that flux you picked up in the jungle.†   (source)
  • In the Spanish-American War he hadn't got farther than a case of flux in Florida.†   (source)
  • I am conscious of flux, of disorder; of annihilation and despair.†   (source)
  • There was only an insane flux and re-flux of getting and spending.†   (source)
  • He would eat enormous quantities of it, with resultant crises of bleeding flux.†   (source)
  • The tree alone resisted our eternal flux.†   (source)
  • And its manifestation in the cosmos is the structure and flux of the universe itself.†   (source)
  • As for dysentery—the "bloody flux" as the ladies delicately called it—it seemed to have spared no one from private to general.†   (source)
  • 'For that matter,' says they, 'ye must keep from all natural excitement also, or otherwise the bullet will cause a rupture, and the rupture rising to a flux, and the flux to a conflammation, will occasion an absolute abruption in the vital functions at all.†   (source)
  • For the essence of time is flux, dissolution of the momentarily existent; and the essence of life is time.†   (source)
  • His gaze followed the aimless flux of light that whirled and flickered in the room, troubling the outline of door and table.†   (source)
  • When I rode over the bridge from Brooklyn suspended on those heaven-hung struts over the brick valleys, then the fiery flux of harbor water, the speedy gulls, the battleships open like vast radio sets in the yards, beast-horns of Hengist and Horsa, and then the tunnel again, I felt that if I had to continue to ride and ride I would certainly not last but would give out.†   (source)
  • He has been listening now, almost attentively, with that ability of his to flux instantaneously between complete attention that does not seem to hear, and that comalike bemusement in which the stare of his apparently inverted eye is as uncomfortable as though he held them with his hand.†   (source)
  • Or it was a flux of things before his eyes (or behind his eyes) and one thing had nothing to do, in the end, with anything else.†   (source)
  • On the brink of departure she was always seized with a flux of words.†   (source)
  • So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.†   (source)
  • Is it worth while attempting the past when there is this continual flux even in the hearts of men?†   (source)
  • The trio of women at the table were representative of the enormous flux of American life.†   (source)
  • Marriage had not saved her from the sense of flux.†   (source)
  • The sense of flux which had haunted her all the year disappeared for a time.†   (source)
  • All she gave me was a flux, and no sort of strength.'†   (source)
  • 'The woman wearied me by constant flux of talk and requiring charms for children.†   (source)
  • My medicines cured one of a flux, and I go into Simla to oversee his recovery.†   (source)
  • How can I, whelmed by a flux of talk, meditate upon the Way?'†   (source)
  • In the flux and reflux of the whirling torture of Jane's mind, that new, daring spirit of hers vanished in the old habitual order of her life.†   (source)
  • She was like a water-plant in the flux of the tides, and today the whole current of her mood was carrying her toward Lawrence Selden.†   (source)
  • This color and the mobility of her mouth gave a continual impression of flux, of intense life, of passionate vitality--balanced only partially by the sad luxury of her eyes.†   (source)
  • I hate this continual flux of London.†   (source)
  • Concerts and plays swept past them, money had been spent and renewed, reputations won and lost, and the city herself, emblematic of their lives, rose and fell in a continual flux, while her shallows washed more widely against the hills of Surrey and over the fields of Hertfordshire.†   (source)
  • But though he had a fine flux of words, and delivered his little voice with great pomposity and pleasure to himself, and never advanced any sentiment or opinion which was not perfectly trite and stale, and supported by a Latin quotation; yet he failed somehow, in spite of a mediocrity which ought to have insured any man a success.†   (source)
  • She became more or less red in the cheek, the blood wavering in uncertain flux and reflux over the sensitive space between ebb and flood.†   (source)
  • A continual flux of a thousand black points which passed each other on the pavements made everything move before the eyes; it was the populace seen thus from aloft and afar.†   (source)
  • Kezia's entrance, with very black looks, to inquire if she shouldn't bring in the tea now, or whether the toast was to get hardened to a brick, was a seasonable check on Bob's flux of words, and hastened his parting bow.†   (source)
  • But, speaking in language somewhat more appropriate, it is to follow the fluxes and refluxes of the mind when agitated by the great and simple affections of our nature.†   (source)
  • It brings on your flux, but only if ye use it early.†   (source)
  • Not to speak of hostels, leperyards, sweating chambers, plaguegraves, their greatest doctors, the O'Shiels, the O'Hickeys, the O'Lees, have sedulously set down the divers methods by which the sick and the relapsed found again health whether the malady had been the trembling withering or loose boyconnell flux.†   (source)
  • You may imagine I was glad of this discovery, yet ate very sparingly, lest I should throw myself into a flux or fever.†   (source)
  • The language of this country being always upon the flux, the struldbrugs of one age do not understand those of another; neither are they able, after two hundred years, to hold any conversation (farther than by a few general words) with their neighbours the mortals; and thus they lie under the disadvantage of living like foreigners in their own country.†   (source)
  • —Learn of the wise, and perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar,—the very uncleanly flux of a cat.†   (source)
  • I told her my condition, and what a different flux and reflux of tears and hopes I had been agitated with; I told her what I had escaped, and upon what terms; and she was present when the minister expressed his fears of my relapsing into wickedness upon my falling into the wretched companies that are generally transported.†   (source)
  • Let out my sides, let out my sides— MOS: Contain Your flux of laughter, sir: you know this hope Is such a bait, it covers any hook.†   (source)
  • …stream; 'Poor deer,' quoth he 'thou mak'st a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much:' then, being there alone, Left and abandoned of his velvet friends; "Tis right'; quoth he; 'thus misery doth part The flux of company:' anon, a careless herd, Full of the pasture, jumps along by him And never stays to greet him; 'Ay,' quoth Jaques, 'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'tis just the fashion; wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken…†   (source)
  • VOLP: For, when a humid flux, or catarrh, by the mutability of air, falls from your head into an arm or shoulder, or any other part; take you a ducat, or your chequin of gold, and apply to the place affected: see what good effect it can work.†   (source)
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