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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)
  • Behind his eyes is redness, the red of tiny hoarded fires, of explosions in the air.†   (source)
  • Soon enough you got an idea of which cards a player needed and which they hoarded.†   (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)
  • "Next time I'll leave a trail of bread crumbs, like Hansel and Gretel," she'd said, their first day on hoard.†   (source)
  • It says there was plenty of food, even during the famines, except that the Barons were hoarding it.†   (source)
  • Maybe he doesn't have full-blown disposophobia, which is hoarding, but he's on the same playing field.†   (source)
  • In Saint-Maio, people are fined for locking their doors, for keeping doves, for hoarding meat.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Depression turned her into a hoarder, too.†   (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)
  • This was around the time the whole book-hoarding, we-have-to-rebuild-civilization kick started.†   (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 I held on to those moments, hoarded them.†   (source)
  • They just followed their racist ideology that all Jews hoarded wealth.†   (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)
  • But mostly, there were many stores and shops that were all closed up, with hoards or metal gratings over the windows and doors.†   (source)
  • We must eradicate these relics of the past....We must not allow the reactionary forces to hoard their treasures....†   (source)
  • Apparently, in the early days, there was some incident of food hoarding.†   (source)
  • A lorry went past, making our car wobble and, for a few seconds, obscuring our view of the hoarding.†   (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)
  • A yellow hoarding said BE INDIAN, BUY INDIAN in red.†   (source)
  • For generations they had skirmished on the wrong side of the law, hoarding enough funds to become legitimate.†   (source)
  • I reached swiftly between the mattress and box spring to grab the knotted old sock that contained my secret cash hoard.†   (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)
  • He didn't care to spend money; like the dragons of legend, he hoarded it.†   (source)
  • And yet Sam is on hoard.†   (source)
  • My rainy-day money was hidden here, eight iron pennies I had hoarded for when my luck turned bad.†   (source)
  • They hoard and hold their sickness with a firm grip.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • " Collins noticed, "He hoarded everything: food, clothes, money.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman snatched the cursed ring out of the hoard.†   (source)
  • They turned a corner, and they were at the old hoarded-up railroad station.†   (source)
  • Even Dinorah added some guava paste she'd been hoarding.†   (source)
  • The forty-piece Iowa State Marching Band already had hoarded one of the cars and now played "My Country 'Tis of Thee."†   (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)
  • In the front of the room chalk-hoards faced us from a large stage.†   (source)
  • She hopes it isn't disgusting and smelly, like the houses of those hoarders on TV.†   (source)
  • Ignore the Emperor's hoard.†   (source)
  • The petals rustled as they unfurled, fanning their inky robes to expose the hoard of nectar in their centers.†   (source)
  • " 'Eat until full, but do not hoard,' " I read.†   (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)
  • And they hoard it away in nooks and crannies.†   (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)
  • Nadine wants to know like I might be hoarding wanted criminals in my closet.†   (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)
  • Hoarders in a war.†   (source)
  • His patiently amassed and hoarded capital—of understanding and gallantry—had vanished in the twinkling of an eye.†   (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)
  • Fronting years of hoarded allowances and birthday gifts sometimes resulted in disappointing returns.†   (source)
  • Either the Colony miscalculated their provisions, or Graham and his friends had been hoarding more than he'd realized.†   (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)
  • I made up for his absence by hoarding knowledge, skills, seeking praise.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • If he hoarded grain, or sold books, or taught children to read, I'd understand.†   (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)
  • I hoarded it preciously, but less than two weeks later it became totally worthless.†   (source)
  • In a year or two, you'll be sitting on a downright hoard.†   (source)
  • His sleeping pelts and woolen smallclothes, his sheepskin boots and fur-lined gloves, his store of mead and hoarded food, the hanks of hair he took from the women he bedded, even the golden arm rings Mance had given him, all lost and left behind.†   (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)
  • Ophelia had been hoarding up portions of the contributions pih received, trying to create an endowment for the organization.†   (source)
  • The quest was successful, and the Dragon that guarded the hoard was destroyed.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They are coming in hoards.†   (source)
  • Each family hoarded its food, unsure of how long we would be away.†   (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)
  • I stopped fighting for movement and exhaled the breath I had been hoarding.†   (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)
  • Our soup always had a spoonful or two of her carefully hoarded sherry ladled into it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She stopped speaking for a moment, hoarding her regrets.†   (source)
  • Egypt was told to clear shipping out of Suez Canal—bluff; was hoarding last five rocks.†   (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)
  • "Colder," she said again in Washington, D.C., despite the cherry-blossom promises, despite the white stone monuments hoarding winter light.†   (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 Brady's on hoard all right!†   (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)
  • It had taken her years to save five dollars, she had hoarded pennies to accumulate such a sum.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • She and Winslow began in earnest, using their hoarded ammunition carefully.†   (source)
  • It ended with the words: "Anyone found hoarding food will be shot on the spot."†   (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)
  • If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.   (source)
    hoarded = gathered stores of
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Macon hoarded his money; Milkman gave his away.†   (source)
  • Such truths as the Asshai'i hoard are not like to make you smile.†   (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)
  • What use have we for riches when our hides are more glorious than any treasure hoard in existence?†   (source)
  • Awed by the size of the knowledge hoard he held, Eragon said, "You wish me to have this?"†   (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)
  • Does the snake think I have Sansa squirreled away somewhere, like a nut I'm hoarding for winter?†   (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)
  • Why hoard the stuff?†   (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)
  • How long had it taken him to piece her together from the slivers of her he'd gathered and hoarded so carefully?†   (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)
  • The door opened, and a nebulous figure walked into the room, stopped at the hoard, and started working out chemistry problems.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She possessed the nonspecific clumsiness of someone who makes such a constant effort to be inconspicuous that she is creatively awkward—without meaning to, Germaine hoarded attention to herself; her almost electric nervousness disturbed the atmosphere surrounding her.†   (source)
  • Thanks to either my wisdom or inherited hoarder tendencies, I managed to keep nearly every one of the letters I received from my family.†   (source)
  • They must think of me as a fusty old dragon crouched on an ill-gotten hoard — some gaunt dog-in-the-manger, some desiccated, censorious wardress, a prim-lipped keeper of the keys, guarding the dungeon in which starved Laura is chained to the wall.†   (source)
  • 5, ask, "Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it in riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?"†   (source)
  • They said at one point she had hoarded 39 sheets, 42 towels, 93 English muffins—and she was wearing 8 bathrobes.†   (source)
  • Her mistress sent her to us for safekeeping until arrangements could be made to take her to the countryside—because of course, every okiya in Gion hoarded coupons; the better the okiya, the more it usually had.†   (source)
  • To hoard crumbs of information, Josie tried to watch television, which was running twenty-four-hour Sterling High Shooting coverage, but inevitably her mother would come into the room and turn it off.†   (source)
  • Seeing a table stacked with K rations, he began cramming the boxes under his shirt, brushing off an attendant who tried to assure him that he didn't have to hoard them, as no one was going to starve him anymore.†   (source)
  • She scolded my father into letting me stay in school after classes were over and daze myself with Masterji's hoard of English-language books.†   (source)
  • They would find each other, soon enough, in a world where everyone could know each other truly and wholly, without secrets, without shame and without the need for permission to see or to know, without the selfish hoarding of life—any corner of it, any moment of it.†   (source)
  • A geyser of sparks erupts deep within a house—an electrical transformer or hoarded fuel or maybe a delayed-action bomb—and it looks to him as if lightning lashes the town from within.†   (source)
  • It's possible I could hoard my pills and then knock myself off with a lethal dose, except that I'm sure I'm being watched round the clock.†   (source)
  • People had hoarded the lead bullets from the time before sprayguns, despite the ban on the pleebs having any kind of gun at all.†   (source)
  • Like a stalker, I hoarded a snippet of autumn-leaf hair I'd retrieved from the trash after she'd trimmed her bangs in the bathroom—and, even more creepily, an unwashed shirt, still intoxicating with her hay-smelling, vegetarian sweat.†   (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)
  • Cleaver is the only employee who knows about the hoard of Unwinds sequestered in the far reaches of the lot.†   (source)
  • I wonder which is preferable — to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin — everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone — and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?†   (source)
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