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  • The waters around us seethed with wash, the boat pitched up and down.†   (source)
  • When Cassie wasn't raging, she was seething and moody, and she continually taunted us with threats of running away.†   (source)
  • A large, bulbous creature the size of a cow but with no distinct shape twisted and seethed along the ground in the corridor outside.†   (source)
  • The lifeboat fell through the air and we hit the seething water.†   (source)
  • Eddie mostly seethed.†   (source)
  • Fache drew a seething inhalation, clearly preparing to launch into a reprimand.†   (source)
  • The seething hiss of it washing over the beach and drawing away again.†   (source)
  • Now he felt himself coming back to life—but all he could feel was seething anger.†   (source)
  • The police were summoned, and the whole of Little Hangleton had seethed with shocked curiosity and ill-disguised excitement.†   (source)
  • He was still seething, so he "vented" about Craig.†   (source)
  • The Hazaras, with their long history of being oppressed and neglected, seethed.†   (source)
  • Unlike Stargirl, I was aware of the constant anger of our schoolmates, seething like snakes under a porch.†   (source)
  • I'd already pruned two bushes down to a respectable size, and before long she'd seethe place was going to look just dandy.†   (source)
  • "Inside, Danny will be seething because I won't come right down there.†   (source)
  • The Darkness seemed to seethe and writhe.†   (source)
  • Daddy was seething, and we knew we would get it just for being late when we got home.†   (source)
  • Celaena seethed.†   (source)
  • This woman was a seething pot of sexual contradictions.†   (source)
  • New York was an archipelago of ghettos seething with aliens.†   (source)
  • Ten years old, and onto the black screen of her imagination she can project anything: a sailing yacht, a sword battle, a Colosseum seething with color.†   (source)
  • As of old, the more Emily seethed, the more attentive she became.†   (source)
  • Seething with anger, Redd strode toward the South Dining Room, paying no attention to the explosions going off to the left and right of her, the palace guardsmen falling dead at the hands of her soldiers.†   (source)
  • I'm sitting on the sofa, seething, and I don't know why.†   (source)
  • He still seethes, trying to hold back another outburst.†   (source)
  • The teacher changed the subject, saying it was time for classto begin, but Rameck seethed inside.†   (source)
  • There was no escaping the monsters, not even on this island, no bigger on a map than a grain of sand, protected by mountains of fog and sharp rocks and seething tides.†   (source)
  • In one short hour she had conjured away the rebellion that had been seething in the girl's mind for weeks.†   (source)
  • There were many things she needed to work out in her mind, and she could not find the words to express the feelings seething inside her since she left the ranch.†   (source)
  • A mighty earthen ramp had been raised amid the grass palaces, and there Dany was seated beside Khal Drogo, above the seething sea of Dothraki.†   (source)
  • Cinder froze, halted by the seething glare of her stepmother.†   (source)
  • Water boiled up beneath the bubble, it seethed and spouted.†   (source)
  • Yours, Anne SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1943 Dearest Kitty, I'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it.†   (source)
  • He's seething.†   (source)
  • Everybody in the gymnasium was glaring at George and Harold and seething with anger.†   (source)
  • My stomach flopped and seethed like a fish on the hook; aches, jumpy muscles, I couldn't lie still or get comfortable in bed and nights, after I closed the shop, I sat red-faced and sneezing in a tub that was hot almost beyond endurance, a glass of ginger ale and mostly melted ice pressed to my temple, while Popchik — too stiff and creaky to stand with his paws on the edge of the tub, as he had once liked to do—sat on the bath mat and watched me anxiously.†   (source)
  • I don't want to be anywhere near the upper mountain when those punters are up there," he seethed.†   (source)
  • Gabi seethed.†   (source)
  • I felt the blood rush to my face and sank low in my chair, seething inside, yet I did nothing.†   (source)
  • The radio a live mass of wire oozing from his trunk, a seething congregation of snakes.†   (source)
  • I say nothing, still seething, irritated at the whole scene.†   (source)
  • Leigh Anne seethed.†   (source)
  • And as we crossed that coastline heading out toward the open ocean, it really was good-bye, from me at least, to the Arabian Peninsula and the seething Islamic states at the north end of the gulf, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, and Iran, that had dominated my life and thoughts for the past couple of years.†   (source)
  • To the firemen, according to the department's official report, it appeared "as though the gaseous contents of the air-shaft surrounding the smokestack had become ignited, and the entire interior of the tower at once became a seething furnace."†   (source)
  • Every bone in my body seethes with pain and weariness and my lungs burn and my hands and feet are freezing, but I go on pedaling.†   (source)
  • In front of the seething biomass.†   (source)
  • Inspector Williams held up his hands apologetically, but I was still seething.†   (source)
  • The unending seething rage.†   (source)
  • The NCO was seething with anger.†   (source)
  • Even in his exhaustion the anger seethed, and he once again took aim at the indifferent God he imagined somewhere beyond the roof of the shack.†   (source)
  • Threpe was apologetic and morose, while I seethed with irritation.†   (source)
  • She's quietly seething, ticked off at something I've just said.†   (source)
  • That she hadn't actually been imprisoned in a cell that contained nothing besides two metal cots, a silent, seething Arcadian cell mate, and the ghosts of sobs that remained long after her tears dried up.†   (source)
  • His mind seethed with resentment.†   (source)
  • "Of course," Edward seethed.†   (source)
  • "He's a male," I said, seething.†   (source)
  • The day Cholly's uncle was ready to leave, when everything was packed, when the quarrels about who gets what had seethed down to a sticking gravy on everybody's tongue, Cholly sat on the back porch waiting.†   (source)
  • Her voice was seething with anger.†   (source)
  • I seethed with shame and anticipation and yet had time to be offended at the silly poetry that I could have bettered in my sleep.†   (source)
  • "No," Dan seethed.†   (source)
  • Inwardly, she was seething.†   (source)
  • Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult.†   (source)
  • His thoughts as sharp and clear as a shard of glass, he drove himself at the Shade's seething consciousness.†   (source)
  • Out of the corner of my eye I see a seething Carmen.†   (source)
  • Sparks, bled from his fingernails, dripped seething spatters on pine planks.†   (source)
  • August is staring with his arms crossed, seething.†   (source)
  • I knew she hated Ximena, but for some reason, the way she had said it, in this seething tone, just surprised me.†   (source)
  • I can't help but laugh, and he strides out of my cell, seething.†   (source)
  • But Luma was seething.†   (source)
  • It's all the blood that is owed to you tonight:' The smoky horde paused in their seething.†   (source)
  • Anger is seething through me like liquid.†   (source)
  • She was seething.†   (source)
  • This claim would spark a belief that still seethes to this day, especially among urban blacks, that the CIA itself was the chief sponsor of the American crack trade.†   (source)
  • (seething with irritation and frustration) Tell me something I don't know, Sam.†   (source)
  • The word seethed from her mouth like spittle.†   (source)
  • The trash is bumping and mashing around and it has a life of its own, a kind of seething vegetable menace that pushes up out of the cans and boxes, it's noisy and restless, or maybe that's just the vermin moving around, on the verge of being carsick.†   (source)
  • Seething and fearful of what would become of his sister, Vivek decided that their only hope would be for him to run away and try to find the person who claimed to be their mother.†   (source)
  • I thought of a story we'd been told at school about Mao not eating pork, of him deliberately suffering hardships just like the rest of us, and I seethed with rage.†   (source)
  • "Two beers!" he shouted at the bartender in his typical vexed way, then stood there and seethed for a second before noticing us.†   (source)
  • A Marine, seething with four days' worth of grief and terror, grabbed the blade out of the samurai's hands and sliced its owner to death with it.†   (source)
  • A gigantic planet that seethed with gasses, too huge to support itself, oblate in consequence.†   (source)
  • I was seething.†   (source)
  • The East Wind was streaming through the bare branches of the trees, and seething in the dark pines on the hills.†   (source)
  • The crawlway was Yossarian's lifeline to outside from a plane about to fall, but Yossarian swore at it with seething antagonism, reviled it as an obstacle put there by providence as part of the plot that would destroy him.†   (source)
  • Lena just stood there, seething.†   (source)
  • Ali found his brother a toehold in the seething, swarming docks of the Merkato, where, monsoon or not, he hauled sacks off the trucks and into the godowns.†   (source)
  • "A bowl on the floor!" he seethed.†   (source)
  • Simeon seethed but held his fire.†   (source)
  • Woref was seething, and Qurong thought it odd.†   (source)
  • A vast seething, hot world of fluidity, and Rine the rascal was at home.†   (source)
  • He spat into the bowl, and the beer seethed for a while.†   (source)
  • Salander was seething inside.†   (source)
  • Seething with indignation, Pickering pulled on a coat and hurried three blocks to the President's House.†   (source)
  • I would leave her room seething over his greater claim to the place at her side.†   (source)
  • In one seething, frenzied tangle, the two horses and their riders careered down toward the road.†   (source)
  • Now, driving through placid Burbank, he seethed with a sense of injustice, treachery.†   (source)
  • He was just a harmless old wino, but Kiswana knew her mother only needed one wino or one teenager with a reefer within a twenty-block radius to decide that her daughter was living in a building seething with dope factories and hang-outs for derelicts.†   (source)
  • Max clutched his sketchbook and pencil and stalked down the hall, silently seething that his dad never passed up an opportunity to talk business, even on his mother's special day.†   (source)
  • JFK can see that Bobby is seething.†   (source)
  • Dess pointed out of the snake pit and across the sand, to where spiders still poured from the darkling she had speared, spreading over the desert to form a black, seething sea of legs and teeth.†   (source)
  • But under the grammatical veneer was a seething disobedience.†   (source)
  • Miri was seething, her gloved hands shoved deep into her coat pockets.†   (source)
  • Rellin answered with a seething yet controlled tirade that Osa translated for me.†   (source)
  • My voice is calm; the coffee seethes within me.†   (source)
  • Here they would be able to see Rome far behind them, lower, and seething with lights.†   (source)
  • And suddenly, he wasn't sleeping at all, he was unable to close his eyes, his body was tense, his brain seethed from night until morning.†   (source)
  • Then, more quietly, but with seething malice, "Be silent while you can.†   (source)
  • I am still seething by the time Ryan shows up, five minutes early.†   (source)
  • The pale blue orbs snapped open, their seething flames immediately apparent even under their icy veil.†   (source)
  • Down there somewhere in the seething, vastly overpopulated territory was Marie — that was uppermost in his thoughts and the most agonizing to think about.†   (source)
  • Salem was still seething.†   (source)
  • The year was 2011; Syria was burning, British Muslims were seething.†   (source)
  • Seething, Frederic opened the letter.†   (source)
  • I wanted to be a writer myself until halfway through Harvard I realized I could never be a Dostoevsky, and so turned my piercing mind toward the seething arcana of human protoplasm.†   (source)
  • She herself spoke in her normally commanding voice; every word could be heard all over the Library above a steady seething sound coming from her electric fan; it was the only fan in the Library and stood on her desk, turned directly onto her streaming face.†   (source)
  • A deadly force was to be employed, atomic energy, to release an even more powerful phenomenon, live magma, which seethed and bubbled now miles beneath the sea itself.†   (source)
  • I was seething with resentment and anger, and soon I was embarked on a campaign of remorseless hostility against my new stepfather.†   (source)
  • Her anger burned and seethed across every page of this long, strangely eloquent communication with the other world.†   (source)
  • It was true that the sheriff represented armed force in the county, but in a community seething with individuals a harsh or stupid sheriff did not last long.†   (source)
  • He looked at Hodge again, still seething with rage but this time more as he might look at something human.†   (source)
  • And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething— Coleridge must have followed that route and reached the Singing Waters.†   (source)
  • Nadia seethed with inner indignation, and Nika ached all over, as if someone had beaten him with a club and cracked his ribs.†   (source)
  • They went to the crowded barroom, with a boarded, sagging ceiling, a huge fire of logs in the grate, a number of chromium-plated chairs and tables, and a seething mass of people.†   (source)
  • In 1961 there had been riots in Warmbaths, and all this time the Transkei had been a seething mass of unrest.†   (source)
  • Church lay frozen against the back door, suppressing the seething hatred in his heart.†   (source)
  • Though he was seething with excitement, his mind was coldly clear, and he had to admit to himself that he had sensed all along that Sobel felt this way.†   (source)
  • Sato stood perfectly still, her eyes seething.†   (source)
  • While everyone around him filled their flagons, Harry cleared away his things, seething.†   (source)
  • Harry sat in seething silence, glaring at Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • Harry was still thinking about what Malfoy had said, while Ron was seething about Snape.†   (source)
  • "I do not have time for this," Olivetti seethed.†   (source)
  • "You know nothing of sacrifice," Peter said, his voice seething with pain and loathing.†   (source)
  • Beatrice was obviously the stronger of the two, and she was seething mad.†   (source)
  • Formless light seethed when Edgar closed his eyes.†   (source)
  • They cross a seething thoroughfare, then go up an alley that smells like a muddy ditch.†   (source)
  • Her heart burst into a seething passion.†   (source)
  • Hermione was still seething at the way Harry had triumphed without doing the work properly.†   (source)
  • Seething, Harry replaced his wand inside his robes and made to leave the room.†   (source)
  • If you only knew, Kitty, how I seethe when they scold and mock me.†   (source)
  • Below me the darkness seethed like inky soup.†   (source)
  • Dark, bulbous tree trunks seethed and bulged.†   (source)
  • He seethes, not breaking eye contact with his mother.†   (source)
  • His voice seethed with a feral intensity.†   (source)
  • Celaena made a disgusted noise and sat back, seething.†   (source)
  • The Amsterdammers who saw it seethed with rage at such a dastardly deed.†   (source)
  • Five minutes passed, then ten, while Ted continued to seethe.†   (source)
  • The two men stood talking in low whispers while Arya seethed.†   (source)
  • Max seethed at the sight of Vyndra turning his back on the leader of the Red Branch.†   (source)
  • And there is this: Qarth wants no khalasars seething round our walls.†   (source)
  • "Follow orders," she seethed, "or I'll have you thrown down in the Hollows!"†   (source)
  • He seethes as he listens to Lincoln's speech.†   (source)
  • "Explain yourself, Commander," seethed Ms.†   (source)
  • He didn't feel this because it was made with a pugio—a dagger seethed in angel blood.†   (source)
  • The giant's head went under in a seething whirlpool, and he was gone.†   (source)
  • Hazel was still seething from his blackmail threats earlier.†   (source)
  • Right now he's nothing but a seething nose-less ball of fire, raging down in Muspellheim.†   (source)
  • Simon seethed quietly to himself as he rounded the corner of an aisle lined with soup cans.†   (source)
  • Smith took Seabiscuit back to the barn, his secret seething in his head.†   (source)
  • Hatred seethed in Khione's eyes, but she withheld her frost.†   (source)
  • Did you ever seeThe Andy Griffith Show ?†   (source)
  • He looked into the giant's seething eyes.†   (source)
  • A seething fire of hatred burned in Errtu's eyes as it looked upon the foolish Kessell.†   (source)
  • Whilst Stannis had seethed at the defiance, she had shuddered with relief.†   (source)
  • The apoplectic smee was set upon a pillow by the fire, where he continued to seethe and gasp.†   (source)
  • I seethed in the darkness as I waited for Charlie to check on me.†   (source)
  • She shut it again, letting the rage seethe inside.†   (source)
  • "If Woolf did not protect Seabiscuit," he seethed, "it was a cinch the stewards wouldn't.†   (source)
  • Smith seethed and fulminated, and made increasingly desperate pleas for more bombardment.†   (source)
  • Carlos looks at my hand in disgust, his temper seething.†   (source)
  • "I thought we were rare, too," he seethed.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't in Kanue's nature to seethe or hold grudges.†   (source)
  • The opponent seethed, but suddenly had more pressing matters.†   (source)
  • What's to understand?" asked Max, seething.†   (source)
  • The amazing place was a fertile, seething cornucopia of female nipples and navels.†   (source)
  • They massed at the edge of the pit—a seething black carpet of creepiness.†   (source)
  • I am seething, with a fury I can neither explain nor express.†   (source)
  • Federalists everywhere were aghast, disbelieving, or seething with anger.†   (source)
  • This isn't the end, Pendragon," he seethed.†   (source)
  • "I'll help him toss you, dog," Rosalie promised, her voice seething.†   (source)
  • After a minute of seething in the driveway, he marched toward Tuck's house and kicked in the door.†   (source)
  • The sky seethed with ozone, leaking a scent hot and electric.†   (source)
  • Richard seethed as he watched it happen.†   (source)
  • "Anger seethed inside him—anger that he couldn't hide.†   (source)
  • "All right then," he said, his voice seething with disapproval.†   (source)
  • You're not supposed to be here," seethed Max, struggling to control his emotions.†   (source)
  • Whispered conversations seethed through the crowd as they tried to make sense of what had happened.†   (source)
  • "There is no other way, Pendragon," she said seething.†   (source)
  • Max isn't trying to make a decision for you," he seethed.†   (source)
  • I can see it all now—my mom seething in disgust at Alex and his tattoos.†   (source)
  • "That a pair of witches get their jollies by humiliating us," seethed one hotheaded lieutenant.†   (source)
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