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  • They've made pacts and everything.†   (source)
  • IF HE AND CLAUDE HAD struck a pact that night, it remained a silent one.†   (source)
  • With sisters a pact is everything.†   (source)
  • Currently, both NATO and the Warsaw Pact are intensely active in fundamental research and investing heavily in it.†   (source)
  • Mary was only a kid, but she made a pact with herself at that moment: she would get her education and leave the neighborhood no matter what it took.†   (source)
  • You told her to remember — it was your voice — 'I thought,' said Dumbledore, inclining his head slightly, 'that she might need reminding of the pact she had sealed by taking you.†   (source)
  • Someone had a secret pact with Mr. Benedict to help get the others on the island.†   (source)
  • She tried not to panic, but that pot of boiling water, and the otherwise eerie quiet of the house, arranged itself in a crooked way in her mind, and very suddenly she was thinking of robberies, or suicide pacts, or kidnappings.†   (source)
  • I believe the Illuminati have resurfaced to make good on an ancient pact.†   (source)
  • Boys might play with swords, but it took a lord to make a marriage pact, knowing what it meant.†   (source)
  • We made a pact that no matter what, we would try and stay together.†   (source)
  • I was named after Mary Magdalene, who was nearly killed from love: "So infected with deliria and in violation of the pacts of society, she fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her."†   (source)
  • For twenty years she had respected the pact the two of them had made with Rosaura; now she had had enough of it.†   (source)
  • Since the summer of 1941, when Germany broke its pact with the Soviet Union, conquered Soviet-occupied territory and invaded the Soviet Union, a German victory seemed only a matter of time, but actually time was against the Germans.†   (source)
  • The Big Three ...their pact not to have mortal kids ...how could we not have known about him sooner?†   (source)
  • The Beginning of the Pact.†   (source)
  • It's all internal, within the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • I made a pact: heal me, and I will help others.†   (source)
  • The lovers make a suicide pact, and are found the next morning, washed up on the beach with their arms around each other.†   (source)
  • In late August they made a pact that if one of them should ever get totally rucked up-a wheelchair wound-the other guy would automatically find a way to end it.†   (source)
  • They say the Varden have formed a pact with the Urgals and are massing an army to attack us.†   (source)
  • By the time she was twelve she had made a pact, with two other Bengali girls she knew, never to marry a Bengali man.†   (source)
  • Before we split up we made a pact: "Whoever gets out first, has to go see the other one, all right?"†   (source)
  • When you read about arainbow, as in Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish" (1947), where she closes with the sudden vision that "everything / was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow," you just know there's some element of this divine pact between human, nature, and God.†   (source)
  • This covenant—or pact—was that Abraham and all his seed would keep the Lord's commandments.†   (source)
  • Should we hand each other over to the police, or make a non-aggression pact between criminals?†   (source)
  • The two of them made a pact: whichever one got a chance to run would take it; together if possible, alone if not, and no looking back.†   (source)
  • It was as if he was asking me to make a pact with him, to get our stories straight.†   (source)
  • The pact Suleiman Wandati had made with him.†   (source)
  • How could we know if they were affiliated with a Taliban militia group or sworn by some tribal blood pact to inform the Taliban leaders of anything suspicious-looking they found in the mountains?†   (source)
  • It was as if all had made an unconscious pact to defy the shortcomings of their new home field by simply refusing to acknowledge them.†   (source)
  • The pact did not succeed, however, in incorporating Fernanda into the family.†   (source)
  • But he and Gott fried had formed some sort of...pact, and they tried to initiate Harriet into it too.†   (source)
  • "We should make a pact," Yetta said.†   (source)
  • For the past three years they'd forgotten to leave out milk and cookies for Santa, somehow forgotten their pact that we would go camping every Fourth of July weekend, and even, on occasion, forgot to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.†   (source)
  • I also like the way it sounds when you say it: com-pact.†   (source)
  • They wept and talked until eight o'clock at night, and that afternoon in the Hotel Frances they sealed a pact of friendship that would last for many years.†   (source)
  • Very late up the literary clock one named Locomotives and Trains, The Mystery of Sleep, Between Midnight and Dawn, The Witches' Sabbath, and Pacts With Demons.†   (source)
  • We reach out our hands and seal our pact.†   (source)
  • We made a pact, he and I. Tuesdays and Fridays.†   (source)
  • He had always been a heavy, healthy boy, had played like other children, and fought as they did, made friends and enemies and secret pacts and grandiose plans.†   (source)
  • This was easy and right, no division, no confusion, no objection, just Ian and me, the molten rock moving through this new body, melding it into the pact.†   (source)
  • I wondered if they had made a suicide pact.†   (source)
  • Form a pact.†   (source)
  • Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other, each would nod, as if making a secret pact.†   (source)
  • I had made a pact with my mother: If I jumped up and down enough on a couch that she hated, we might convince my father when he returned from Spain that I should take it to school.†   (source)
  • A pact was made, and to the beat of songs like "Kickstart My Heart" by Motley Clue and "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor, the teammates pumped iron in the weight room, ran the bleachers and did wind sprints, and cranked out push-ups, sit-ups, and leg lifts.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XIX — A PACT†   (source)
  • We made a pact that we could talk to each other about anything at any time.†   (source)
  • The Dwarves were first to form a pact with the king, then the Goblins.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, when we're very drunk, we make pacts that if we're not somewhere more exciting in three months, we'll both leave our jobs.†   (source)
  • Later in January 1787, they would sign a pact with Morocco, whereby the United States, like France and Britain, agreed to pay for protection.†   (source)
  • We both made a pact with spit on our fingers and our palms and everything about never, through the rest of our lives, being guilty of "the sin of ingratitude."†   (source)
  • I do not know what words were said or what pacts made, but one day he was amongst us again, having slipped quietly back into a croft on the high farm of the Billings, a nonconformist family.†   (source)
  • Such men could make a pact with Carlos, if only for the covert power it gave them.†   (source)
  • i pact up my close and all in a box so you woodn have to fool with it.†   (source)
  • I know nothing of such a pact— do you, Annika?†   (source)
  • This is the great, formal, nose-counting event, where the victims come in order to show how safe it is to destroy them, and the destroyers form pacts of eternal friendship, which lasts for three months.†   (source)
  • Turning the page, I see the headline "National pact with Ngala."†   (source)
  • Bryn Shander will certainly not oppose a unified alliance of the four towns on the largest and most prosperous lake, and Easthaven will make six in the pact, a clear majority.†   (source)
  • The soldiers in the gondola cars, under the same stars, racing through the same fields, breathing the same scented air, were included in the pact.†   (source)
  • Since the summer of coconuts, Milagro and I have had a pact to ignore Mamá, to stay as far away from her as possible.†   (source)
  • —The Constitution is a document, not a suicide pact.'†   (source)
  • We have a historical pact.†   (source)
  • I made that pact with myself and broke it time and time again, for I was a son of the South and I had grown up using the word we when I was referring only to myself.†   (source)
  • So on mornings like that one, we ate our sausage biscuits and hash browns in secret, together, and we had a silent pact that my mother would never find out.†   (source)
  • Not since I was in Europe, when the Russo-German Pact of 1939 was signed, had I seen news spread such bitterness and despair.†   (source)
  • And when she related the story of their "suicide pact" on that weekend in the frosty Connecticut countryside, I was saddened and astonished.†   (source)
  • He made and kept a nightmare pact, so that some of them do still walk the world.†   (source)
  • Where trails are, men may go; and where men go there is often death, and the buzzards have a pact with death.†   (source)
  • She's never fussy about method and would con the Virgin Mary and make a pact with the Old One all in one breath, did it suit Her purpose.†   (source)
  • This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base—by the presence of these large, long range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction—constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas, in flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of 1947, the traditions of this Nation and hemisphere, the joint resolution of the 87th Congress, the Charter of the United Nations, and my own public warnings to the Soviets on September 4 and 13.†   (source)
  • Create your own pacts to succeed and stick together.†   (source)
  • And a castellan has no right to make marriage pacts.†   (source)
  • And there they are, instantly drawn into one of those pacts you'd be hard-pressed to break if you ever expect to go home and face your district.†   (source)
  • He had had to start thirty-two wars and had had to violate all of his pacts with death and wallow like a hog in the dungheap of glory in order to discover the privileges of simplicity almost forty years late.†   (source)
  • Mutual military travel pacts.†   (source)
  • "Men suffer when they break pacts with demons," said Taraka, "but no Rakasha has ever suffered so before."†   (source)
  • The Pact began four thousand years of friendship between men and children.†   (source)
  • It was as if they had made a pact not to give up on us.†   (source)
  • No. Still, I made a pact with Rue under the same circumstances.†   (source)
  • You saw Carter Kane and his sister make a pact with Set at the Red Pyramid.†   (source)
  • Margot and I, we made a pact, back in middle school.†   (source)
  • Everybody but the Warsaw Pact, and they want you dead.†   (source)
  • The most obvious literary angle is the Faustian pact with the devil.†   (source)
  • Rosaura insisted loudly upon her rights: Pedro and Tita had broken the pact; it wasn't fair.†   (source)
  • It was solemn and sad, as if an unbreakable pact were being sealed.†   (source)
  • I made a pact with Jason: my help to win the fleece, in exchange for his love.†   (source)
  • By not mentioning his name, she sensed that a pact had been forged between her Dream and the World.†   (source)
  • You have to call for the Warsaw Pact to lose official status.†   (source)
  • And that the midwives of that pact were, or would be, her sawdust-coated two-egg twins.†   (source)
  • As if she were fulfilling an implicit pact, she took her son to the "chamberpot room."†   (source)
  • Me and my partners from high school made a pact and have been talking about it.†   (source)
  • But Peter and I made that pact: we explicitly said we would never tell anyone.†   (source)
  • The signing of the Pact ended the Dawn Age, and began the Age of Heroes.†   (source)
  • But do I really want to make a pact with her, only to possibly have to kill her later?†   (source)
  • If it hadn't been for our pact, I might not have even tried for this," Sampson admitted.†   (source)
  • So the Warsaw Pact marines are going home.†   (source)
  • We three Song girls have an unspoken pact: to make life as easy as possible for Daddy.†   (source)
  • We also had no idea that day that we were forming a pact that would last a lifetime.†   (source)
  • Not all the Warsaw Pact people went with the Polemarch.†   (source)
  • Demosthenes wasn't wrong to suspect that the Warsaw Pact was not abiding by the terms of the League.†   (source)
  • But between the Warsaw Pact nations these things are internal matters.†   (source)
  • The Warsaw Pact was on its way to hegemony before the First Invasion.†   (source)
  • We could find ourselves locked into the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • Will you make a pact with me, Shadeslayer?†   (source)
  • He proposes a pact between Astapor and Meereen, against the Yunkai'i.†   (source)
  • He and his woman in a pact of final deliverance.†   (source)
  • Lord Wyman and Lord Walder have made a pact, and mean to seal it with a marriage.†   (source)
  • My mom and I had a pact—which sounds creepy, but it really wasn't.†   (source)
  • But still, we made this pact that if we ever did, that's where we'd go.†   (source)
  • And so a truce was struck and a pact was sealed between the dragons and the elves.†   (source)
  • And that one of our own has made a wicked pact in exchange for power.†   (source)
  • And then one day' a bunch of kids left campus and drove off a bridge—a suicide pact, I guess.†   (source)
  • We hold the Blood-oath Celebration once every century to honor our pact with the dragons.†   (source)
  • Especially now we've signed the friendship pact with Ngala.†   (source)
  • "Then, Lorna," Alessandro said, "make a pact with your swan."†   (source)
  • Otherwise, they might have turned against the Urgals the very day Nar Garzhvog and I made our pact.†   (source)
  • Because the four of us had made a pact together.†   (source)
  • I will make a pact with you, Saphira, and with you, Eragon.†   (source)
  • The pact is bound in Old Magic—signed in Bram's own blood and utterly irrefutable.†   (source)
  • I have no pact with Carlos-you know I don't.†   (source)
  • The Mutual Military Travel Pact of 1965.†   (source)
  • I know you've made a pact with the Winterlands creatures.†   (source)
  • Part of the pact was that he wed a Dornish princess.†   (source)
  • Did we ask to be included in their pact?†   (source)
  • She made a pact with the creatures long ago, and she wanted me to think that was in the past.†   (source)
  • Without looking at her, he said, "You have to break your pact with the Urgals."†   (source)
  • The pact worked like this: If I had money, then they had money.†   (source)
  • It is required; and if it means a pact with Carlos, so be it.†   (source)
  • The Book stays here to ensure that you honor our pact.†   (source)
  • Beyond that, I am here to see that the pact that Brom forged between you and the humans is honored.†   (source)
  • Let me remind you, it was Myles Toyne who put his seal to this secret pact, not me.†   (source)
  • And the humans also joined the pact with the dragons.†   (source)
  • The man known to me as Jason Bourne has no pact with Carlos.†   (source)
  • Daenerys might have had no better choice than Quentyn and his marriage pact.†   (source)
  • Call Clovis back in, Baldor, and we'll seal this pact.†   (source)
  • A pact more ancient and powerful than you can imagine links you.†   (source)
  • "It is a secret pact," Dany said, "made in Braavos when I was just a little girl.†   (source)
  • Instead of Viserys and your sister, you and I must seal this pact if I want Dome.†   (source)
  • "No doubt that was why Prince Doran chose to keep the pact a secret," suggested Daenerys.†   (source)
  • Yama and Agni say that he had made a pact with their leader.†   (source)
  • A magical pact needed to be carefully worded, with clear limits and an expiration date, or the whole spell would unravel.†   (source)
  • And no more pact of the Big Three.†   (source)
  • The "Big Three" gods-Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades-had made a pact after World War II not to have any more children with mortals.†   (source)
  • As for me, I could have laughed with glee; for Jeremiah had done a conjuring trick, as surely as if he'd pulled a coin from my ear, or made believe to swallow a fork; and just as he used to do such tricks in full view, with everyone looking on but unable to detect him, he had done the same here, and made a pact with me under their very eyes, and they were none the wiser.†   (source)
  • She thought that night she'd made a pact with death itself: she could stay if she allowed death to stay as well.†   (source)
  • I can't help but wonder if Mama has forged a similar pact with Thalia, if she has chosen Thalia to rescue her when the time comes.†   (source)
  • Analysis of consequences of Soviet Revisionists and Warsaw Pact making initial contact with extraterrestrial intelligence and monopolizing such contact: [still classified]†   (source)
  • That's the real reason Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades swore a pact after World War II not to have any more kids.†   (source)
  • From that moment, I understood Mrs. Downs and I had an unspoken agreement, a "don't ask, don't tell" pact that worked like a charm for both of us.†   (source)
  • What ancient pact is this?†   (source)
  • Laura was sitting on the ledge beside me, humming to herself complacently, secure in the conviction that everything was all right really and the angels were on her side, because she'd made some secret, dotty pact with God.†   (source)
  • The monster represents, among other things, forbidden insights, a modern pact with the devil, the result of science without ethics.†   (source)
  • That a Rider, even one as evil as Galbatorix, would consider a pact with such monsters is indeed proof of madness.†   (source)
  • The "Big Three" pact had only been broken twice-once when Zeus sired Thalia, once when Poseidon sired me.†   (source)
  • For the first time, she broke their pact and hurled curses at Pedro and Tita, holding up to them all the suffering they had caused her.†   (source)
  • Their pact consisted of taking into consideration the fact that it was vital to Rosaura to maintain the appearance that her marriage was going splendidly, and the most important thing for her was that her daughter grow up within that sacred institution, the family—the only way, she felt, to provide a firm moral foundation.†   (source)
  • The power of his presence was such that from the first time he was seen in the church everybody took it for granted that a silent and tense duel had been established between him and Remedios the Beauty, a secret pact, an irrevocable challenge that would end not only in love but also in death.†   (source)
  • There they forged the Pact.†   (source)
  • The only thing that she needed to be completely happy was the birth of her children, but she respected the pact she had made with her husband not to have any until they had been married for five years.†   (source)
  • So long as the kingdoms of the First Men held sway, the Pact endured, all through the Age of Heroes and the Long Night and the birth of the Seven Kingdoms, yet finally there came a time, many centuries later, when other peoples crossed the narrow sea.†   (source)
  • We've kinda made a pact with each other to help us make it—a little like a support system for three.†   (source)
  • Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel Aureliano Buendia could understand only that the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.†   (source)
  • Actually, those who saw that man in his forties with careful habits, with the leash around his neck and his circus bicycle, would not have thought that he had made a pact of unbridled love with his wife and that they both gave in to the reciprocal drive in the least adequate of places and wherever the spirit moved them, as they had done since they had began to keep company, and with a passion that the passage of time and the more and more unusual circumstances deepened and enriched.†   (source)
  • Sam thought back to the three skinny boys in tennis shoes who had once made a pact to stick together and make something of themselves.†   (source)
  • We made a pact, a promise, to each other to pull when one of us felt down, to push when one of us needed encouragement, and to stand by each other no matter what difficulties we encountered.†   (source)
  • That pact changed our lives.†   (source)
  • It's very complicated, but what it means here is that the I.F. will stay in existence, but without the Warsaw Pact in it.†   (source)
  • We made a pact, didn't we?†   (source)
  • Partly from the spirit of their pact and partly from their fear of failure, the three used each other as crutches when one felt weak, as tools when another needed information, and as weapons to face the future together as they headed into the unknown.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows that from the beginning the Warsaw Pact was to be regarded as a single entity where those rules were concerned.†   (source)
  • If I write this like you say I should, Peter, I'm pretty much calling for war to break up the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • STRENGTHENING THE PACT.†   (source)
  • And suddenly we'll look around and discover that all the old alliances are gone, dead and gone, except one, the Warsaw Pact.†   (source)
  • They're going to start a war, Americans claiming the Warsaw Pact is about to attack, and the Pact saying the same thing about the Hegemon.†   (source)
  • Certain military people who corresponded with her dropped hints about things without meaning to, and she and Peter put them together to build up a fascinating and frightening picture of Warsaw Pact activity.†   (source)
  • It seems Russian intelligence is concerned that some of the active citizens on the nets are already figuring how America ought to use the I.F. to destroy the Warsaw Pact as soon as the buggers are destroyed.†   (source)
  • Warsaw Pact?†   (source)
  • But I wished I could find some way...I might feel better if I weren't holding fast, all alone, to a broken pact.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist considered himself virtually computer illiterate, but Salander handled computers as if she had made a pact with the Devil.†   (source)
  • Will they respect the Varden's pact with the elves and send us to Ellesmera for training, or command otherwise?†   (source)
  • Among the brotherhood of the Night's Watch, there was an unspoken pact never to probe too deeply into such matters.†   (source)
  • This is the pact of casual sex.†   (source)
  • An exchange of hostages will seal the pact, and each side will agree to make common cause with the other should the Iron Throne—" Victarion chuckled.†   (source)
  • Drizzt had returned to the rock shortly after Wulfgar but had remained hidden, watching the barbarian to see if the impulsive young warrior would trust in their pact or decide to take matters into his own hands.†   (source)
  • Besides dedicating myself to being the best father I could, I had made a pact that I would do what I had to in order to ensure that no one became anything like my mother.†   (source)
  • I'm not exactly running—Lindsay, Ally, Elody, and I made a pact years ago never to run on school grounds, not even in gym class (let's face it: sweating and huffing aren't exactly attractive)—but it's a close call.†   (source)
  • Superstition, hope, disbelief—all these made pact with our old friend, fear, and prevented us from doing so.†   (source)
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