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  • Cities relied on these intricate systems to work perfectly, all the time, and when they didn't, people began to die very quickly.†   (source)
  • Quite to the contrary, it was one of the most intricate and purposeful constructions ever manufactured by man.†   (source)
  • Treasures shone on every side: carved chests, soft rugs and golden hangings, beds, stools, intricate tripods, and ivory statues.†   (source)
  • Inside, intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel.†   (source)
  • Next was the trigger mechanism, intricate work that gave him some trouble.†   (source)
  • She was wearing a dress that reminded me of the West African-inspired kente cloth attire I had seen in the States, but hers was an intricately meshed pattern of black and white, the traditional Xhosa colors.†   (source)
  • I stopped to examine one of the trees closely and saw ants crawling along the intricate ridges in its bark.†   (source)
  • At the centre of the cloth is a single Arabic word, intricately woven, four letters: an alif, two lams and a ha.†   (source)
  • There, intricately embossed on the center of the cross, was a stylized fleur-de-lis with the initials P.S.!†   (source)
  • They had their hair pulled up in intricate braids or curls, away from their faces.†   (source)
  • Heavy curtains draped elegantly from fat mahogany curtain poles, and the floors were carpeted with intricately decorated Persian rugs.†   (source)
  • She loved clothes—loved the feeling of silk, of velvet, of satin, of suede and chiffon—and was fascinated by the grace of seams, the intricate perfection of an embossed surface.†   (source)
  • He wore traditional cotton clothes with intricate designs on the collar made of yellow and brown thread, zigzagged vertically across his chest.†   (source)
  • The tissue that hung from the stumps of his arms was as filmy and delicate as gossamer—as fine and intricate as old lace.†   (source)
  • The first thing I saw were the two cones of a nuclear plant, and smoke spreading from them in complicated but seemingly purposeful patterns, edges lit by the rising sun, like a gray, intricate map of an unexplored island continent, against the pale unscratched blue of the sky.†   (source)
  • All morning Etienne crawls along the attic floor with cables and pliers and tools her fingers do not understand, weaving himself into the center of what she imagines as an intricate electronic net.†   (source)
  • There was a time one would have received a bright and intricate response that would in turn have unfolded silly and weighty questions to which Emily gave her best answers; and while the meandering hypotheses they indulged were hard to recall in detail now, she knew she never spoke so well as she had to her eleven-year-old last-born.†   (source)
  • He could hear in his mind's ear the blood-stirring and intricate rhythms of the ekwe and the udu and the ogene, and he could hear his own flute weaving in and out of them, decorating them with a colourful and plaintive tune.†   (source)
  • The camp was protected by a Stonehenge of massive, intricately balanced mirrors reflecting the sky and forest, an unending vista of foliage and clouds to confuse the not-quite-all-seeing eye of Redd's imagination, as well as any of The Cut who happened to be dealt through the forest.†   (source)
  • His present turned out to be a box of intricate plastic parts; the instructions on the box proclaimed that when they were properly assembled he would have an authentic miniature replica of a World War II submarine.†   (source)
  • Harry was facing a mirror over the fireplace, a great gilded thing in an intricately scrolled frame.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Nielsen teaches me to needlepoint; while she's making intricately detailed pillows for the sofa, I work on the floral cover for a stool.†   (source)
  • Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.†   (source)
  • Intricate loops and spirals had been carved on either side, ancient hieroglyphs the meaning of which had been lost to the ages.†   (source)
  • And from Hyde's classroom, things did seem connected: The trees seemed to clothe the hill, and just as I would never think to notice a particular cotton thread in the magnificently tight orange tank top Alaska wore that day, I couldn't see the trees for the forest—everything so intricately woven together that it made no sense to think of one tree as independent from that hill.†   (source)
  • He is taught to write letters that hang from a bar, and eventually to cobble these intricate shapes into his name.†   (source)
  • Year in, year out, as far back as history is recorded, farmers from across Asia have engaged in the same relentless, intricate pattern of agriculture.†   (source)
  • One knight wore an intricate suit of white enameled scales, brilliant as a field of new-fallen snow, with silver chasings and clasps that glittered in the sun.†   (source)
  • Four thick columns hold up a Gothic facade of imposing statues and rose windows and intricate carvings.†   (source)
  • The walls were lined with birchbark and hung with woven mats and baskets of intricate design.†   (source)
  • Or how those hands, which could set the most intricate of snares, could as easily entrap me.†   (source)
  • He had stopped to study them and he had thought then that it was a beautiful collection of intricately carved points, all laid out on red velvet, and he did not then or later think of what they really were: tools for hunting.†   (source)
  • Even the guards had abandoned the courtyard, though the intricate iron gate remained locked.†   (source)
  • Around the periphery of the conservatory area stood marble-topped tables on intricately beautiful wrought-iron legs.†   (source)
  • The Giant fell over backward, the view shifted as he fell, and when the Giant came to rest on the ground, there were intricate, lacy trees all around.†   (source)
  • An intricate necklace of amber, coral, and gold flowers glittered on her chest, and her hair … "Oh, god," she said.†   (source)
  • She got up and went to the desk, which had lots of intricate drawers and cubbyholes, and returned with a magnifying glass.†   (source)
  • A procession of intricately etched pinwheels and big-nosed cartoon figures floated across the backs of my eyelids in neon hues.†   (source)
  • What emerged was a long, intricate string of meaningless gibberish.†   (source)
  • On their shirts were insignias intricately wrought with silver thread.†   (source)
  • They get it divided into rows of long parts in very intricate patterns so their heads end up looking like balls of dark wool made of a hundred pieces, very fancily stitched together.†   (source)
  • The Aurora's intricate anatomy scrolled before my mind's eye.†   (source)
  • The intricately carved wooden Chest has haunted me my entire life.†   (source)
  • No, these were not merely doors, they were portals, intricately carved portals with elaborate stone casements and lintels.†   (source)
  • It was his ability to run this intricate little passing game, Walsh's greatest creation.†   (source)
  • The romance was advancing too quickly and with a degree of intimacy that violated all the intricate rules of courtship.†   (source)
  • Annie led Mae up the three flights 'of stairs, all of them tiled with intricate mosaics—reproductions, Mae assumed, of something from the Byzantine era.†   (source)
  • He rubbed his cheek on her back and learned that way her sorrow, the roots of it; its wide trunk and intricate branches.†   (source)
  • It was intricate and exacting work, though not nearly so hard as watch repair, and Mr. Moorman was right.†   (source)
  • The perimeter of the camp was marked by intricate patterns of barbed wire barriers.†   (source)
  • There were dozens of them, intricate, enmeshed, one building on the other--one wrong, all wrong.†   (source)
  • The doilies on dinner tables throughout the American Midwest came from Plauen, as well as the intricate lace-work that set the tone of many upper-middle-class Victorian homes.†   (source)
  • It takes a scientific approach to uncover the source of exploitation, to unravel society's delicate and intricate tapestry, stitched with the skin of our mothers, the bones of our ancestors, the blood of all who toil.†   (source)
  • Jane saw that Mr. Corrigan was as skilled as anyone at constructing intricate lies.†   (source)
  • A picture of the Selfish Giant's garden?" murmured Meggie, peering through the intricately twining iron bars.†   (source)
  • And a brownwebbed mesh of hairline cracks, like the road map of some great, intricate city.†   (source)
  • The walls were covered in smooth blond wood, and there were intricately woven white reed mats on the floor.†   (source)
  • Pale arches of stone held up the high ceilings, many of the arches intricately carved with small figures.†   (source)
  • It's so complicated—the Matching—and I am again reminded of the intricate steps of the dances they used to do long ago.†   (source)
  • Everyone was clean, and they all seemed to be participating in some sort of intricate social dance.†   (source)
  • Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of solving Amy.†   (source)
  • Certain that such an intricate relationship was understandable only with the complicity of his sister, he did not grant her the grace of an excuse or the right of appeal, but shipped her on the schooner to San Juan de la Cienaga.†   (source)
  • The trees grew so closely together on this side of the clearing, their leaves blocked most of the light, casting intricate shadows on the ground that scattered when the wind blew.†   (source)
  • She nodded, whipped a ribbon of cloth from beneath her robe, linked the rings onto it with an intricate over and under weaving, hesitated, then stuffed them into the sash beneath her robe.†   (source)
  • Each of them contained a thread of what we should have known from the course, but they were so intricate that I figured a brilliant psychiatrist might have trouble with some of them.†   (source)
  • The coverlet was a dull gold, just lighter than the walls; the frame was black, made of intricately patterned wrought iron.†   (source)
  • The one sentence "I hope you are teaching Quality to your students" was said to him, and within a matter of a few months, growing so fast you could almost see it grow, came an enormous, intricate, highly structured mass of thought, formed as if by magic.†   (source)
  • The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.†   (source)
  • The little lake suddenly became a boundless ocean— not in depth or breadth, but in its glittering detail and the intricate patterns of its waves.†   (source)
  • Stretchers and wheelchairs were beached here and there against the hissing, knocking pipes that ran and branched in an intricate nervous system along the glittering walls.†   (source)
  • It had been given to Saeed's father by his father, and Saeed's father had given it in turn to Saeed, but since Saeed still lived at home, this meant the telescope continued to sit where it always ,at, on its tripod in a corner, underneath an intricate clipper ship that sailed inside a glass bottle on the sea of a triangular shelf.†   (source)
  • The intricate fold indicated that it was a love note.†   (source)
  • She watched big scarecrow fingers perform the intricate business of pushing pearl buttons through holes too small for them, and she marveled at the power in Calpurnia's hands.†   (source)
  • It took Blomkvist an hour to explain all the intricate details in the Harriet Vanger case.†   (source)
  • The looped matrix at the edge of her doily, wonderfully intricate yet at the same time as precise and even, suddenly fell in disarray.†   (source)
  • She stood beside Luke, watching with rapt attention as he slowly but surely brought the jack-o'-lantern to life, the pattern more intricate than the ones she'd always made as a child.†   (source)
  • He was gagged with adhesive tape and bound hand and foot, like the mother-the same intricate process of the cord leading from the hands to the feet, and finally tied to an arm of the couch.†   (source)
  • Lacy stared down at the intricate brickwork between her shoes.†   (source)
  • We bought hand-embroidered pillowcases, handmade picture frames encasing twenty-two-carat-gold emblems, and intricate miniature prints.†   (source)
  • She glittered and gleamed, and she was one of those women who always seem to be dying to get home and take off their cruel and intricate and invisible lacings.†   (source)
  • With this knowledge came pity and mercy, so we spared others for the later, more intricate, more mysterious benefits of love.†   (source)
  • Through its window I can see burnished wood and intricate light fixtures.†   (source)
  • I stare at the scims in my hands, a matched set with intricate black etchings that probably have no equal in the Empire.†   (source)
  • The guests began to arrive, many with tales of how they'd gotten lost on the way; the suburbs were dark and intricate like mazes with their courts and cul-de-sacs.†   (source)
  • I could feel them press against me as they twirled and moved with graceful, intricate steps around and around the shadowy image of a Cherokee campfire.†   (source)
  • Talon, an older Yellow with his hair woven into intricate dreadlocks, appeared first, followed by a wide-eyed Chubs.†   (source)
  • During my training, they snickered as he taught me the intricate ins and outs of the library search system, rolled their eyes in tandem when I asked a question about the card catalog.†   (source)
  • The incentive scheme that rules sumo is intricate and extraordinarily powerful.†   (source)
  • They were ingeniously constructed: double soles from shower shoes were bound together and then completely covered in pink and white cotton yarn crocheted into intricate designs.†   (source)
  • ...he launches into an intricate ballroom dance step.†   (source)
  • I fingered the intricate carvings, the interlocking links of chain.†   (source)
  • The boy in the backseat was in a bundled frenzy by now and Rochelle's look contained a complicated betrayal, it was smoky and deadly and cool and it seemed to be saying to Klara that their friendship, the best and deepest there could ever be, was about to enter a strange and disturbing phase, the intricate thing of men and sex and personal needs.†   (source)
  • I'll spend the rest of my days in an Austrian convent surrounded by women with mustaches, my eyes gone bad from making intricate lace designs for other girls' trousseaus.†   (source)
  • Twaha tied the intricate medallion woven of maroon and vermilion wool to the zipper of Mortenson's jacket.†   (source)
  • Stoically, they followed their assigned roles and maintained the intricate teamwork of the great assaulting organism.†   (source)
  • The Mines of Moria were vast and intricate beyond the imagination of Gimli, Gloin's son, dwarf of the mountain-race though he was.†   (source)
  • I did not need the luxury anymore than I had needed it before, but I found myself enthralled with the new flood of art and craft and design, could stare at the intricate pattern of the carpets for hours, or watch the gleam of the lamplight change the somber colors of a Dutch painting.†   (source)
  • Hungry Joe ate voraciously, gnawed incessantly at the tips of his fingers, stammered, choked, itched, sweated, salivated, and sprang from spot to spot fanatically with an intricate black camera with which he was always trying to take pictures of naked girls.†   (source)
  • The intricate design of the indigo and the cut of the jacket were better than anything the married women in Puwei owned or made.†   (source)
  • The work on the face of it was intricate with detail.†   (source)
  • They had seen the intricate and ghastly handiwork of Dr. Will Rudolph and the other monster who called himself Casanova.†   (source)
  • The mayor steps forward from a too-small cafeteria chair in his dark suit, an intricately embroidered kufi covering his bald spot.†   (source)
  • The silky material was white patterned with intricate silver designs, and it fit me tight in the chest, which made my ittybitty boobies appear somewhat bigger.†   (source)
  • She was a good student, a captain in net ball, a senior prefect, and showing promise in Bharatnatyam, finding in herself a talent for recapitulating a most intricate dance sequence after being shown it just once.†   (source)
  • The hem was woven in intricate crossing patterns with the same colors.†   (source)
  • He was sitting in a straight-backed red leather chair with intricately carved wooden arms.†   (source)
  • Balta, as he was called by his friends, was the son of Baltazar Charles Martinez, a worker for Companie de Trokeles y Esmaltes, and Maria del Rosario Montes de Oca Cruz, an artisan who made intricately decorated bowls, plates and jugs for the few who could pay for such luxuries in Monterrey.†   (source)
  • When I look down, I am stunned by the intense colors of the Earth, the intricate patterns and textures, and sheer beauty of our home planet.†   (source)
  • The holes cut in the flat top were as uneven and intricate as the grain of the wood.†   (source)
  • "Wait a minute," he called, going over and turning a valve in an intricate network of pipes.†   (source)
  • An intricate tattoo on the underside of the forearm, the design and the colors produced by only one artist in Saigon.†   (source)
  • The horse's white-socked feet made intricate steps without any visible guidance, steered, so it seemed to Annie, by Tom's thoughts alone.†   (source)
  • I notice Abuela Celia's drop pearl earrings, the intricate settings, the fine gold strands looping through her lobes.†   (source)
  • He made jewelry boxes, lamp bases, and other items inlaid with exotic woods in intricate patterns, and he found shops that would carry his creations.†   (source)
  • Running her hand over the intricate stonework about them, she declared, "I do love this building.†   (source)
  • The skyline was intricate and voluptuous and enchanted and absurd.†   (source)
  • It has a modern terminal with intricate roofs and domed metal structures that resemble astronomical observatories.†   (source)
  • Only hard wooden floors and an intricate, diamond-shaped design in the middle of the ceiling.†   (source)
  • It was a net of connections, more intricate, more crucial than all of their wires and circuits: the rational connections made by that human mind which had fashioned any one part of them for the first time.†   (source)
  • No, it was a kaleidoscope with exquisite pale stones, regrouping into intricate designs as she turned it.†   (source)
  • The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.†   (source)
  • The floors were all tiled with intricate marble work.†   (source)
  • In half an hour the others will waken from their sleep and intricate conversations will begin again.†   (source)
  • We worked by contriving intricate and open-ended emotional conspiracies.†   (source)
  • An old man with a white beard was using a narrow hoe to make an intricate set of shallow irrigation canals around the base of several date palms.†   (source)
  • Of understanding that hopelessly intricate network of clash and resolution that has been woven over the last twenty years?†   (source)
  • Huge, intricately carved timbers supported the roof.†   (source)
  • But this parliamentary action comes from a different cause—the need to adjust an artificial, intricate system of revenue and commercial laws to conform to the treaty.†   (source)
  • But even before Lincoln breathed his last, they began the intricate process of unraveling the mystery of his death.†   (source)
  • He turned the figurine over in his hands, feeling the intricate details of the work to ensure that it had not been damaged in the fall under the yeti.†   (source)
  • The intricate blueprints had her hissing.†   (source)
  • Their intricate design announced to those who knew about such things that he was a member of the Aryan brotherhood.†   (source)
  • For a moment it was still and by the dim candlelight I could see the soft brilliant colours, the intricate pattern on the wings.†   (source)
  • Where once, a few years earlier, her eyes alone could break the news (either to people or to bathmats) that two of her sons were dead, one by suicide (her favorite, her most intricately calibrated, her kindest son), and one killed in World War II (her only truly lighthearted son)—where once Bessie Glass's eyes alone could report these facts, with an eloquence and a seeming passion for detail that neither her husband nor any of her adult surviving children could bear to look at, let…†   (source)
  • This was discouraging, for it had begun to dawn on me that all of the intricate study plans and schedules which I had drawn up were not going to be of much use without a great deal of co-operation on the part of the wolves.†   (source)
  • Harley was drawing an intricate pattern in the dirt, moving his forefinger without pausing then.†   (source)
  • Since he never did pick up the intricate steps and turns, he'd lead me into some kind of jitterbug.†   (source)
  • From the country the villagers brought strange purple textiles, dolls with big feet, geese with brown tufts on their heads, chickens with white feathers and black skin, gambling games and puppet shows, intricate ways to fold pastry and ancestors' money, a new boxing stance.†   (source)
  • There were perhaps eighty thousand in all, speaking many dialects, belonging to many tribes, scattered in many small villages over a very long and intricate coast line.†   (source)
  • After pine knots blazed for three hours under a fifty-gallon drum, liquid began to drip from the spout terminating an intricate arrangement of copper tubing, coils, and condensers.†   (source)
  • Karellen was doing almost all the talking, weaving the intricate sentences which he was occasionally prone to use.†   (source)
  • She looked around, spooked at the sunlight pouring in all the windows, as if she had been trapped at the center of some intricate crystal, and said, "My God."†   (source)
  • Like a physician, she points out, a plumber is on call day and night; like that of a physician the work of a plumber is quite intricate and involves exposure to germs; and both often come home smelling badly.†   (source)
  • And in the intricate traffic pattern, as you try to find your way through, there's no possibility of seeing anything.†   (source)
  • Bird's-next cactus, prickly balls the size of his fist, put forth intricate starry purple blossoms.†   (source)
  • It reminded me of a fantastically intricate, life-scale version of one of those maze things you do with a pencil (or ballpoint, as the case may be), to get you into or out of something.†   (source)
  • Arthur Hodge Jr, brother to Will Sr and Ben, sat, all triangles and squares, hooking colored wires together in a pattern so intricate no ordinary man could have read the chart.†   (source)
  • At breakfast he had sung my prowess up to date in a thousand intricate lines.†   (source)
  • She prepared her mind and her disposition for it as carefully as she dressed for it, and Rufus had seldom seen her forced to consult a shopping list, even if she were doing intricate errands for others.†   (source)
  • The ring Burr wore caught the firelight repeatedly and started it up again in the intricate whirlpool of a signet.†   (source)
  • The wives were arguing violently in sine curves, @kins and West were interlacing cross-conversation in a fascinatingly intricate pattern of sensory images that made Church's starvation keener.†   (source)
  • "You look beautiful, Ames," she says, reaching up to touch the intricate high collar of my dress.†   (source)
  • Kohler motioned to an intricate electronic device mounted beside the door.†   (source)
  • Finnick yanks on the end of his rope, and an intricate knot becomes a straight line again.†   (source)
  • The bathrooms, all four of them, had intricately carved marble tiles and porcelain sinks.†   (source)
  • His neck looked too thin to support the intricately wrapped turban on his head.†   (source)
  • The lid was decorated even more intricately than the sides-with scenes of carnage and power.†   (source)
  • Her fingers moved rapidly, turning the thin white thread into an intricate narrow border.†   (source)
  • Crime reporters were not expected to investigate intricate dealings on the Stock Exchange.†   (source)
  • Sophie watched as the woman pulled her hair free of its intricate braid and shook it loose.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked at the pair of intricately sculpted columns at the far end of the sanctuary.†   (source)
  • It was almost the size of my little finger, a mottled green and white color, intricately carved.†   (source)
  • When the intricate De Laval nozzle was ready, Mr. Caton proudly displayed his work.†   (source)
  • It was an old-fashioned box made of silver, tarnished but intricately decorated.†   (source)
  • The stone floor was covered by an intricate oval rug.†   (source)
  • I paid the driver, took my lone suitcase, and walked up to the intricately carved door.†   (source)
  • The bottom of the pyramid was entirely covered with intricate carvings.†   (source)
  • What was this strange, tubular seaweed, so intricately entangled?†   (source)
  • She saw slaves carrying bolts of intricate Myrish lace and fine wools in a dozen rich colors.†   (source)
  • The entire park came into view as an intricate landscape of color, texture, and motion.†   (source)
  • A blue haze of human breath and dust blurred the intricate bracing of the ceiling 246 feet above.†   (source)
  • It was a beautiful construction, the intricate curves glowing silvery in the light.†   (source)
  • All of the images looked to be similar in style—intricate black-and-white engravings.†   (source)
  • The armor was intricately wrought with engraving and gold filigree.†   (source)
  • On their shirts were insignias intricately wrought with silver thread.†   (source)
  • I just didn't realize your dad had the ability to make something so intricate.†   (source)
  • David held up one of the sheets of paper on which several intricate diagrams had been drawn.†   (source)
  • Inside is a music box, handcrafted of cherrywood, intricately inlaid with gold leaf hearts.†   (source)
  • Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions.†   (source)
  • They eschewed frippery, except for small, intricate brooches of iron and stone.†   (source)
  • The columns were taller, more intricately painted.†   (source)
  • Leo could admire the intricate workmanship, but it was too much, too bright, too flashy.†   (source)
  • An intricately knotted dwarf rug covered the ground.†   (source)
  • Thin wisps of smoke rose from his burned palm; an intricate design had been charred into the skin.†   (source)
  • This is an intricate story, as Mikael Blomkvist claimed from the very beginning.†   (source)
  • Dark blue sapphires were clustered into intricate floral shapes atop the teeth.†   (source)
  • An intricate cursive script crossed the page.†   (source)
  • Fluorescent lights were scattered about an intricate latticework of temporary supports and braces.†   (source)
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