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  • It was one of the most valuable magic items in my inventory, looted from the hoard of a red dragon I'd slain on Gygax.†   (source)
  • He stole it, hoarded it, and hid it.†   (source)
  • The Japanese offered a rice ball to the man who killed the most flies, inspiring a cutthroat swatting competition and hoarding of flattened corpses.†   (source)
  • He shuffled them and tacked them up on the bulletin hoard.†   (source)
  • Wordlessly they skated the sidewalk to the end of the block, where Garrett kicked off of his hoard and exclaimed: "You won't believe it—Dana Matherson got busted last night!†   (source)
  • But everything else was motionless, dry as biscuit, on the brink of burning, hoarding final reservoirs of sap, trying to hold out till the rain returned, and Queen Anne's lace lay dusty on the surface of the meadows like foam on a painted sea.†   (source)
  • He ought to have shut down the factories in response to lessened demand; he ought to have banked his money — hoarded it, as others in his position were doing.†   (source)
  • Wherever they spent more than a day, he hoarded two or three of the white-and-orange aerosols, and a batch of Bactines as well.†   (source)
  • "Hoarder" hadn't entered everyday parlance, but Mamaw fit the bill, and her tendencies only worsened as she withdrew from the world.†   (source)
  • The hoard of gems, jewelry, and currency under his mattress increases.†   (source)
  • You think I don't know that you're just hoarding goods to distribute to your own faction while we don't get fresh food for a month, huh?†   (source)
  • The relentless march of time and the hoarding of resources.†   (source)
  • Although the money to hire Chestnut and Boynton was raised by family members through church donations and by financing their meager possessions, local law enforcement interpreted it as evidence of Walter's secret money hoard and double life—confirmation that he wasn't the innocent black man he pretended to be.†   (source)
  • It says there was plenty of food, even during the famines, except that the Barons were hoarding it.†   (source)
  • In Saint-Maio, people are fined for locking their doors, for keeping doves, for hoarding meat.†   (source)
  • Maybe he doesn't have full-blown disposophobia, which is hoarding, but he's on the same playing field.†   (source)
  • We can cure any disease, end hunger, everything, because we won't be dragged down by all our weaknesses, our petty secrets, our hoarding of information and knowledge.†   (source)
  • "Next time I'll leave a trail of bread crumbs, like Hansel and Gretel," she'd said, their first day on hoard.†   (source)
  • But Rose, by slowly and steadily accumulating money, buying properties only with a certain percentage of it and hoarding the rest, managed to move toward a million dollars without ever actually winning a game.†   (source)
  • At that moment, Josie could not remember the pills she was hoarding in her room; she could not remember crying in the shower; she could not remember anything but what it felt like to be adored.†   (source)
  • The rain was pelting down as they tried to put the luggage in the car; Uncle Alfred, in the role of their valet, was soaking wet—and since Simon and Noah had hoarded all the confetti for themselves, they were the only throwers.†   (source)
  • No wonder he fled into the silence of circuitry, in crossbreeding appliances, in hoarding and restoring.†   (source)
  • The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune.†   (source)
  • But mostly, there were many stores and shops that were all closed up, with hoards or metal gratings over the windows and doors.†   (source)
  • Judith had been carefully hoarding a small store of linens since childhood, adding one cherished bit from time to time, and her loom and needle had worked busily.†   (source)
  • We must eradicate these relics of the past....We must not allow the reactionary forces to hoard their treasures....†   (source)
  • But I held on to those moments, hoarded them.†   (source)
  • A yellow hoarding said BE INDIAN, BUY INDIAN in red.†   (source)
  • This was around the time the whole book-hoarding, we-have-to-rebuild-civilization kick started.†   (source)
  • For generations they had skirmished on the wrong side of the law, hoarding enough funds to become legitimate.†   (source)
  • They just followed their racist ideology that all Jews hoarded wealth.†   (source)
  • My position was too precarious; he was already champing at the bit to send me to hoarding school.†   (source)
  • A lot of people want to hoard money.†   (source)
  • Apparently, in the early days, there was some incident of food hoarding.†   (source)
  • And yet Sam is on hoard.†   (source)
  • A lorry went past, making our car wobble and, for a few seconds, obscuring our view of the hoarding.†   (source)
  • He didn't care to spend money; like the dragons of legend, he hoarded it.†   (source)
  • They hoard and hold their sickness with a firm grip.†   (source)
  • My rainy-day money was hidden here, eight iron pennies I had hoarded for when my luck turned bad.†   (source)
  • I don't even remember them all—hoarding cotton materials, failing to turn in metal and rubber goods needed for the war effort, improper use of ration tickets, all sorts of things like that.†   (source)
  • There was a great deal of traffic in the main thoroughfares of the city — trams, cars and pedestrians; the shops were open, and since the mayor had appealed to the population not to hoard food, assuring us that there was no need to do so, there were not even any queues outside them.†   (source)
  • Even Dinorah added some guava paste she'd been hoarding.†   (source)
  • I reached swiftly between the mattress and box spring to grab the knotted old sock that contained my secret cash hoard.†   (source)
  • The forty-piece Iowa State Marching Band already had hoarded one of the cars and now played "My Country 'Tis of Thee."†   (source)
  • I know he's been hoarding his best wares.†   (source)
  • The evening's activity had to be kept brief because the city now had electricity only a short while each night, and candles had to be hoarded for emergencies.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman snatched the cursed ring out of the hoard.†   (source)
  • " Collins noticed, "He hoarded everything: food, clothes, money.†   (source)
  • He guessed that some of this hoarding was a simple nod to the realities of her situation: she was a woman alone living in the high country, where a person might reasonably expect to spend a certain period , maybe only a day, but sometimes as long as a week or even two , cut off from the rest of the world.†   (source)
  • Alba had no trouble obtaining the key to her mother's pantry, arguing that there was no need to hoard ordinary flour and poor men's beans when you could buy Baltic crab and Swiss chocolate.†   (source)
  • The door opened, and a nebulous figure walked into the room, stopped at the hoard, and started working out chemistry problems.†   (source)
  • The petals rustled as they unfurled, fanning their inky robes to expose the hoard of nectar in their centers.†   (source)
  • They turned a corner, and they were at the old hoarded-up railroad station.†   (source)
  • Ignore the Emperor's hoard.†   (source)
  • The Hernandez brothers weren't much for the outings; they were hoarders, though occasionally they cut loose, blinding themselves on tequila and beers.†   (source)
  • " 'Eat until full, but do not hoard,' " I read.†   (source)
  • She hopes it isn't disgusting and smelly, like the houses of those hoarders on TV.†   (source)
  • Nadine wants to know like I might be hoarding wanted criminals in my closet.†   (source)
  • And they hoard it away in nooks and crannies.†   (source)
  • Hoarders in a war.†   (source)
  • It's in the form of a miniature airplane, and it literally sails to me, landing with a whisper on my desk just as Mr. Daimler turns back from writing an equation on the hoard.†   (source)
  • Fronting years of hoarded allowances and birthday gifts sometimes resulted in disappointing returns.†   (source)
  • While a small jet carried another notification team from Virginia to Hot Springs to inform Janice and Larry that their son had been killed in action, the MH-47 helicopter with Adam and his teammates on hoard landed at 9:00 a.m. at the airfield servicing DEVGRU's compound in eastern Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • His patiently amassed and hoarded capital—of understanding and gallantry—had vanished in the twinkling of an eye.†   (source)
  • I made up for his absence by hoarding knowledge, skills, seeking praise.†   (source)
  • So I emptied out my savings account-which consisted mostly of baby-sitting and Christmas money I'd hoarded forever— got out Consumer Reports, and did all the research I could on new models before hitting the dealerships.†   (source)
  • "Some Asians bought a store near my house," Neddy tells him as they finger through a huge sock bin at Marshalls, "and they be jacking up the prices and hoarding money and, now, they selling malt liquor.†   (source)
  • Out of the shadows that hoarded the further end of the room came a woman with a little bundle in her arm which had evidently created the necessity for the borrowed cradle.†   (source)
  • The Englishmen had hoarded these so cunningly that now, as the war was ending, they had three tons of sugar, one ton of coffee, eleven hundred pounds of chocolate, seven hundred pounds of tobacco, seventeen hundred pounds of tea, two tons of flour, one ton of canned beef, twelve hundred pounds of canned butter, sixteen hundred pounds of canned cheese, eight hundred pounds of powdered milk.†   (source)
  • Vast, red-golden, huge tail coiled, limbs sprawled over his treasure-hoard, eyes not firey but cold as the memory of family deaths.†   (source)
  • The nuts they had carefully hoarded for the winter had nearly all been eaten by now; and of the few that were left they had already given the Ape far more than they could spare.†   (source)
  • I hoarded it preciously, but less than two weeks later it became totally worthless.†   (source)
  • Ophelia had been hoarding up portions of the contributions pih received, trying to create an endowment for the organization.†   (source)
  • The Ku Klux Klan—much like politicians or real-estate agents or stockbrokers—was a group whose power was derived in large part from the fact that it hoarded information.†   (source)
  • We talked loudly about him through the fly screen, pointed at his hairy arms, and laughed at how he pulled up his dirty pants before swinging his hoard onto his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.†   (source)
  • The breeze off the ocean was crisp, and Max rejoiced in the unprecedented sum of money in his pocket—his hoarded allowances for the past two months.†   (source)
  • He did not wish me to have any money of my own, for money provided at least a limited freedom (he was still unaware of my private hoard).†   (source)
  • Such truths as the Asshai'i hoard are not like to make you smile.†   (source)
  • The quest was successful, and the Dragon that guarded the hoard was destroyed.†   (source)
  • I stopped fighting for movement and exhaled the breath I had been hoarding.†   (source)
  • When the sheriff apprehended him for grave-robbery and gold-hoarding, Mr. Fink demurred on the theory that if his own grandfather wasn't his, whose was he?†   (source)
  • She stopped speaking for a moment, hoarding her regrets.†   (source)
  • He became a mighty warrior who defended the seven forests against the desert Hoards who marched against them.†   (source)
  • Consequently, Changazi had protein bars with German labels tucked into every crevice of his office, like a squirrel's winter hoard of nuts.†   (source)
  • If he hoarded grain, or sold books, or taught children to read, I'd understand.†   (source)
  • Either the Colony miscalculated their provisions, or Graham and his friends had been hoarding more than he'd realized.†   (source)
  • No baby pictures, no kid pictures, and no emo-alternative-gothy-screamo-punk synthesis pictures...' four-poster queen-size bed jutted up against the wall opposite the bulletin hoard.†   (source)
  • Our soup always had a spoonful or two of her carefully hoarded sherry ladled into it.†   (source)
  • He began to hover about when the warder came to the window in order to make sure that I was not hoarding the tobacco.†   (source)
  • Egypt was told to clear shipping out of Suez Canal—bluff; was hoarding last five rocks.†   (source)
  • "Colder," she said again in Washington, D.C., despite the cherry-blossom promises, despite the white stone monuments hoarding winter light.†   (source)
  • Compared to some parts of his house, which looked like hoarders lived there, his dresser could have passed a Marine Corps Boot Camp inspection.†   (source)
  • The more dollars I began to hoard, the more my pride grew with the fact that I was finally getting a foothold on buying my home on the Russian River.†   (source)
  • But if they stop being selfish and share the goods they've hoarded-they'll have a chance to work hard and produce some more.†   (source)
  • Each family hoarded its food, unsure of how long we would be away.†   (source)
  • Now, trudging and slithering along the road back to the farm, those hoarded moments of intimacy warmed Dart more than any amount of Ruud's cognac.†   (source)
  • "Surely, it's a beautiful cut and worth a dragon's hoard of gold!" deBernezan kept his sword out in front of him, but Regis counted as the seconds passed and the dark-haired man did not blink.†   (source)
  • And what little still remained to white people was shriveled like a seed hoarded too long, shrunken past its time, and split open now, to expose a fragile, pale leaf stem, perfectly formed and dead.†   (source)
  • We were paid with a shiny dime (she saved every one she acquired and had a considerable hoard), which just so happened to be the price of admission to the picture show.†   (source)
  • Five years later he was the majority shareholder and the chairman of the hoard.†   (source)
  • And who whistled when he saw the brass, but Junior had his own private hoard and it was not his fault there was a war on.†   (source)
  • The drawers of my desk were filled with more notebooks and junk that I'd hoarded.†   (source)
  • His room looks like one of those rooms on Hoarders.†   (source)
  • At last no option but to draw upon my secret hoard: a small stock of rice, ten ollocks in all, shielded from every temptation to sell or barter, kept even when the need to hold our land had squeezed us dry of everything else.†   (source)
  • It had taken her years to save five dollars, she had hoarded pennies to accumulate such a sum.†   (source)
  • Where the enthusiasts got their petrol from remained a closely guarded secret, or a number of secrets, because each seemed to have his own private hoard, as John Osborne hoarded his eight drums of special racing fuel in his mother's back garden.†   (source)
  • A few degrees lower and it would have been frosty He thought of frosty mornings at the lodge his father had built, when his mother sang at her work and taught him little songs about the yellow leaves and the hoarding squirrels and the fawns that had lost their spots.†   (source)
  • There the treasure might have remained until kingdom come, for unlike those mysterious hoards one sometimes reads about in the news—packets of greenbacks or Spanish doubloons and such uncovered by the shovels of workmen—the gold would have seemed destined to be hidden in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • And Brady's on hoard all right!†   (source)
  • From beneath me-inside the Earth-shining upward, through the rocks, the ground, everything-growing brighter, brighter, blinding—" In a soundless concussion of light, Earth's core gave up its hoarded energies.†   (source)
  • Those who were not out of gas hoarded what remained in their tanks against graver emergencies to come.†   (source)
  • It ended with the words: "Anyone found hoarding food will be shot on the spot."†   (source)
  • She and Winslow began in earnest, using their hoarded ammunition carefully.†   (source)
  • If they would bring the time around once more, she would lose nothing that was given, she would hoard the nuts like a squirrel.†   (source)
  • ...a small hoard of silver dollars...   (source)
  • ...you are a good deal paler and thinner than when you first left home; and we cannot have you undermining your health to hoard up money either for yourself or others.   (source)
  • I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,   (source)
  • O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,   (source)
  • But the enchanted desire of the hoard had fallen from Bilbo.   (source)
    hoard = collection of valuable things
  • Did you expect me to trot back with the whole hoard of Thror on my back?   (source)
  • There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.   (source)
    hoarded = gathered and stored
  • At noon we will return, and see if you have brought from the hoard the portion that is to be set against the stone.   (source)
    hoard = collection of valuable things
  • It is in my mind to ask what share of their inheritance you would have paid to our kindred, had you found the hoard unguarded and us slain.   (source)
  • From that the talk turned to the great hoard itself and to the things that Thorin and Balin remembered.   (source)
  • All the same Mr. Baggins kept his head more clear of the bewitchment of the hoard than the dwarves did.   (source)
  • So Bilbo guessed from Thorin's description; but indeed there could not be two such gems, even in so marvellous a hoard, even in all the world.   (source)
  • They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago.   (source)
  • Moreover I am by right descent the heir of Girion of Dale, and in your hoard is mingled much of the wealth of his halls and town, which of old Smaug stole.   (source)
  • For ancient king and elvish lord
    There many a gleaming golden hoard
    They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
    To hide in gems on hilt of sword.   (source)
  • Then the dwarves themselves brought forth harps and instruments regained from the hoard, and made music to soften his mood; but their song was not as elvish song, and was much like the song they had sung long before in Bilbo's little hobbit-hole.   (source)
  • There was, of course, no longer any question of dividing the hoard in such shares as had been planned, to Balin and Dwalin, and Dori and Nori and Ori, and Oin and Gloin, and Bifur and Bofur and Bombur—or to Bilbo.   (source)
  • For it I will give one fourteenth share of the hoard in silver and gold, setting aside the gems; but that shall be accounted the promised share of this traitor, and with that reward he shall depart, and you can divide it as you will.   (source)
  • If the elf-king had a weakness it was for treasure, especially for silver and white gems; and though his hoard was rich, he was ever eager for more, since he had not yet as great a treasure as other elf-lords of old.   (source)
  • Bilbo had heard tell and sing of dragon-hoards before, but the splendour, the lust, the glory of such treasure had never yet come home to him.   (source)
    hoards = collections of valuable things
  • What use have we for riches when our hides are more glorious than any treasure hoard in existence?†   (source)
  • They knitted special socks, some four feet long, and hoarded hollow bamboo reeds.†   (source)
  • For closing her eyes while being addressed For hoarding crusts.†   (source)
  • The hoarding disgusts the soldiers raised in 13.†   (source)
  • I was keenly aware of the fact that I needed to hoard my resources to save for next term's tuition.†   (source)
  • The cart stops before the gathered hoard of juvenile refugees.†   (source)
  • You never stole guns and hoarded them in your bedroom, did you?†   (source)
  • When I read it, I thought of Will's sister, Cara, accusing my mother of hoarding goods.†   (source)
  • So this hoard keeps getting stolen, but you keep getting it back?†   (source)
  • Soon enough you got an idea of which cards a player needed and which they hoarded.†   (source)
  • My instinct was always to hoard it—Betsie was growing so very weak!†   (source)
  • I haven't figured out the what and why of Du's hoarding.†   (source)
  • They did not hide or hoard or obfuscate.†   (source)
  • I've helped transform the apartment of a single, lazy, hoarding hermit into a family's living space.†   (source)
  • Then we passed around our little hoard of sugar cubes and crackers and peanuts.†   (source)
  • Here, behind the name badge and uniform, was her true self, secretly hoarded, quietly accumulating.†   (source)
  • Behind his eyes is redness, the red of tiny hoarded fires, of explosions in the air.†   (source)
  • I WAS HOARDING MY PAYCHECKS, in case I needed the money for tuition.†   (source)
  • Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.†   (source)
  • The Careful One has a hoard of gold large enough to cover this rug.†   (source)
  • The Depression turned her into a hoarder, too.†   (source)
  • Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.†   (source)
  • He doesn't seem upset that we got rid of his things, so I guess he's not a hoarder.†   (source)
  • Some irrational part of me wanted to clutch it, hoard it for later.†   (source)
  • In a year or two, you'll be sitting on a downright hoard.†   (source)
  • Macon hoarded his money; Milkman gave his away.†   (source)
  • They seek for magic swords, for chests of gold, for crowns stolen from a dragon's hoard.†   (source)
  • The only reason they could was that there weren't any puny humans on hoard.†   (source)
  • Awed by the size of the knowledge hoard he held, Eragon said, "You wish me to have this?"†   (source)
  • Does the snake think I have Sansa squirreled away somewhere, like a nut I'm hoarding for winter?†   (source)
  • Then Drizzt swung his other scimitar, the blade he had taken from the dragon's hoard.†   (source)
  • I clean up and say nothing, hoarding these things for times of greater need.†   (source)
  • I hoarded the foods that produced pigment.†   (source)
  • The Martials hoard their secrets the way a miser hoards gold.†   (source)
  • And then too there's his treasure-hoard.†   (source)
  • That's the savings account I'm —hoarding.†   (source)
  • Eragon drew in his breath, then he breached Aren's precious hoard and shouted, "Jierda!†   (source)
  • Her words come out in a torrent, as if she's been hoarding them all for this moment.†   (source)
  • Nor any sign of this fabled hoard of dragon eggs.†   (source)
  • So it's not like I'm hoarding it like a miser.†   (source)
  • It was made by the Dwarves, and came from the hoard of Scatha the Worm.†   (source)
  • He reached into his bag and brought out the bottle, hoarded for this moment.†   (source)
  • She watched in silence, hoarding what energy she had, for growing babies.†   (source)
  • She saved most of the money she earned, hoarding the tips she was given.†   (source)
  • She saved practically all of her earnings, living like a miser, hoarding each penny.†   (source)
  • It's an event, a small defiance of rule, so small as to be undetectable, but such moments are the rewards I hold out for myself, like the candy I hoarded, as a child, at the back of a drawer.†   (source)
  • How long had it taken him to piece her together from the slivers of her he'd gathered and hoarded so carefully?†   (source)
  • He is fully prepared, and also tense: how he conducts himself today will determine whether Grace will at last crack open, revealing her hoarded treasures, or whether she will instead take fright and hide, and shut herself up like a clam.†   (source)
  • Why hoard the stuff?†   (source)
  • And every day we heard the drums and gongs that meant the Red Guards were ransacking the houses of class enemies to find and confiscate their hoarded possessions.†   (source)
  • For me, it was a pleasure like a secret hoard of coins—Rose, whom I adored, sitting against me in the hot musty velvet luxury of the car's interior, the click of the gravel on its undercarriage, the sensation of the car swimming in the rutted road, the farms passing every minute, reduced from vastness to insignificance by our speed; the unaccustomed sense of leisure; most important, though, the reassuring note of my father's and mother's voices commenting on what they saw—he on the progress of the yearly work and the condition of the animals in the pastures, she on the look and size of the house and garden, the colors of the buildings.†   (source)
  • To accept it would require awakening fully into the terrible necessities of Arrakis where they must guard even fractional traces of moisture, hoarding the few drops in the tent's catchpockets, begrudging a breath wasted on the open air.†   (source)
  • Yet Mr. Bracegirdle had been so adamant about hoarding school, about fresh air and autumn color and starry skies and the many joys of country life ("Stuyvesant.†   (source)
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