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  • There was fire in her and throughout her: she seemed the unpremeditated offshoot of a passionate moment.†  (source)
  • And not merely our beloved branch of the Holy Tree, but all of its offshoots, vestiges and cankers.†  (source)
  • His heart skipped a beat when a boy unexpectedly appeared around a corner up ahead, entering the main passage from one of the offshoots to the right, running toward him and the Glade.†  (source)
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  • Value, the leading edge of reality, is no longer an irrelevant offshoot of structure.†  (source)
  • If they are allowed to develop freely they flourish, putting out dreadful offshoots, the kind of ideas necessary if the Jews and the Poles are to be murdered like this.†  (source)
  • Within a few days we had more company, including Neville Alexander, a prominent Coloured intellectual and member of the Non-European Unity Movement, who had formed a tiny radical offshoot called the Yu Chi Chan Club in Cape Town, which studied guerrilla warfare.†  (source)
  • He retreated down the main corridor, and then took one of the offshoots, his feet whispering on the nap of the carpet.†  (source)
  • Ursula admitted him grudgingly, conquered once more by the obstinacy of her husband, who could not tolerate the idea that an offshoot of his blood should be adrift, but he imposed the condition that the child should never know his true identity.†  (source)
  • Pollux knows details that would lead to disaster for a newcomer, like which offshoots might require gas masks or have live wires or rats the size of beavers.†  (source)
  • Civilization did not rise and flourish as men hammered out hunting scenes on bronze gates and whispered philosophy under the stars, with garbage as a noisome offshoot, swept away and forgotten.†  (source)
  • We academicians never take a direct route because it doesn't leave us any offshoots to claim if we're wrong.†  (source)
  • I am clinging to my mother's leg, a flesh shaft that grows from the ground, a tree trunk of which I am an offshoot—a young branch attached by right of flesh and blood.†  (source)
  • He and Trina have fled through the subtrans tunnels, finding abandoned offshoots, going deeper and deeper.†  (source)
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