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  • When Cassie wasn't raging, she was seething and moody, and she continually taunted us with threats of running away.†   (source)
  • The lifeboat fell through the air and we hit the seething water.†   (source)
  • Now he felt himself coming back to life—but all he could feel was seething anger.†   (source)
  • Eddie mostly seethed.†   (source)
  • The Hazaras, with their long history of being oppressed and neglected, seethed.†   (source)
  • Fache drew a seething inhalation, clearly preparing to launch into a reprimand.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Harry was still thinking about what Malfoy had said, while Ron was seething about Snape.†   (source)
  • He was still seething, so he "vented" about Craig.†   (source)
  • The seething hiss of it washing over the beach and drawing away again.†   (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)
  • Inside, Danny will be seething because I won't come right down there.†   (source)
  • The Darkness seemed to seethe and writhe.†   (source)
  • Unlike Stargirl, I was aware of the constant anger of our schoolmates, seething like snakes under a porch.†   (source)
  • If my father could sit tight until our place seethed with this life and movement, he would, Ty was sure, be reborn into a contented retirement, busy, as the farmers at the café said, solvent, and interested.†   (source)
  • He was fastidious and timid and easily teased by the boys on his floor; on the nights he was given dorm duty—for the entire four floors—Waterhouse Hall seethed with revolution.†   (source)
  • New York was an archipelago of ghettos seething with aliens.†   (source)
  • Celaena seethed.†   (source)
  • He's seething.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He still seethes, trying to hold back another outburst.†   (source)
  • I'm sitting on the sofa, seething, and I don't know why.†   (source)
  • As of old, the more Emily seethed, the more attentive she became.†   (source)
  • The teacher changed the subject, saying it was time for classto begin, but Rameck seethed inside.†   (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)
  • In one short hour she had conjured away the rebellion that had been seething in the girl's mind for weeks.†   (source)
  • Cinder froze, halted by the seething glare of her stepmother.†   (source)
  • Water boiled up beneath the bubble, it seethed and spouted.†   (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'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it.†   (source)
  • Gabi seethed.†   (source)
  • I say nothing, still seething, irritated at the whole scene.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "He's a male," I said, seething.†   (source)
  • Threpe was apologetic and morose, while I seethed with irritation.†   (source)
  • The NCO was seething with anger.†   (source)
  • Her voice was seething with anger.†   (source)
  • I felt the blood rush to my face and sank low in my chair, seething inside, yet I did nothing.†   (source)
  • She's quietly seething, ticked off at something I've just said.†   (source)
  • The giant's head went under in a seething whirlpool, and he was gone.†   (source)
  • Lena just stood there, seething.†   (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)
  • The radio a live mass of wire oozing from his trunk, a seething congregation of snakes.†   (source)
  • The unending seething rage.†   (source)
  • "Of course," Edward seethed.†   (source)
  • Leigh Anne seethed.†   (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)
  • In front of the seething biomass.†   (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)
  • But Luma was seething.†   (source)
  • Everybody in the gymnasium was glaring at George and Harold and seething with anger.†   (source)
  • Nasuada scowled and paced the length of the room, seething with anger at her own clumsiness and at having another problem added to her already overwhelming list of worries.†   (source)
  • His mind seethed with resentment.†   (source)
  • Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult.†   (source)
  • He seethed in anger at the pounding of their footsteps, and the voices rising around him like the tide of some obliterating sea.†   (source)
  • "I don't want to be anywhere near the upper mountain when those punters are up there," he seethed.†   (source)
  • Anger is seething through me like liquid.†   (source)
  • Sparks, bled from his fingernails, dripped seething spatters on pine planks.†   (source)
  • In one seething, frenzied tangle, the two horses and their riders careered down toward the road.†   (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)
  • She was seething.†   (source)
  • Out of the corner of my eye I see a seething Carmen.†   (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)
  • I knew she hated Ximena, but for some reason, the way she had said it, in this seething tone, just surprised me.†   (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)
  • "Two beers!" he shouted at the bartender in his typical vexed way, then stood there and seethed for a second before noticing us.†   (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)
  • (seething with irritation and frustration) Tell me something I don't know, Sam†   (source)
  • It's all the blood that is owed to you tonight:' The smoky horde paused in their seething.†   (source)
  • August is staring with his arms crossed, seething.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The word seethed from her mouth like spittle.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He spat into the bowl, and the beer seethed for a while.†   (source)
  • As Jake drove and seethed, he kept waiting for his foxhole buddy to pass along an observation that might lift his spirits, if only for a moment.†   (source)
  • Salander was seething inside.†   (source)
  • JFK can see that Bobby is seething.†   (source)
  • The East Wind was streaming through the bare branches of the trees, and seething in the dark pines on the hills.†   (source)
  • Seething with indignation, Pickering pulled on a coat and hurried three blocks to the President's House.†   (source)
  • "A bowl on the floor!" he seethed.†   (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)
  • I was seething.†   (source)
  • I would leave her room seething over his greater claim to the place at her side.†   (source)
  • Inwardly, she was seething.†   (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)
  • I can't help but laugh, and he strides out of my cell, seething.†   (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)
  • Woref was seething, and Qurong thought it odd.†   (source)
  • But under the grammatical veneer was a seething disobedience.†   (source)
  • A gigantic planet that seethed with gasses, too huge to support itself, oblate in consequence.†   (source)
  • A vast seething, hot world of fluidity, and Rine the rascal was at home.†   (source)
  • Rellin answered with a seething yet controlled tirade that Osa translated for me.†   (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)
  • Here they would be able to see Rome far behind them, lower, and seething with lights.†   (source)
  • Miri was seething, her gloved hands shoved deep into her coat pockets.†   (source)
  • Then, more quietly, but with seething malice, "Be silent while you can.†   (source)
  • The pale blue orbs snapped open, their seething flames immediately apparent even under their icy veil.†   (source)
  • My voice is calm; the coffee seethes within me.†   (source)
  • Now, driving through placid Burbank, he seethed with a sense of injustice, treachery.†   (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)
  • I am still seething by the time Ryan shows up, five minutes early.†   (source)
  • The year was 2011; Syria was burning, British Muslims were seething.†   (source)
  • Seething, Frederic opened the letter.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • He looked at Hodge again, still seething with rage but this time more as he might look at something human.†   (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)
  • And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething— Coleridge must have followed that route and reached the Singing Waters.†   (source)
  • Her anger burned and seethed across every page of this long, strangely eloquent communication with the other world.†   (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)
  • "I do not have time for this," Olivetti seethed.†   (source)
  • Daddy was seething, and we knew we would get it just for being late when we got home.†   (source)
  • "You know nothing of sacrifice," Peter said, his voice seething with pain and loathing.†   (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)
  • Dark, bulbous tree trunks seethed and bulged.†   (source)
  • Celaena made a disgusted noise and sat back, seething.†   (source)
  • When he woke, the apple trees seethed in the wind.†   (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)
  • He seethes, not breaking eye contact with his mother.†   (source)
  • Beatrice was obviously the stronger of the two, and she was seething mad.†   (source)
  • Below me the darkness seethed like inky soup.†   (source)
  • This woman was a seething pot of sexual contradictions.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't in Kanue's nature to seethe or hold grudges.†   (source)
  • Whispered conversations seethed through the crowd as they tried to make sense of what had happened.†   (source)
  • His voice seethed with a feral intensity.†   (source)
  • "I'll help him toss you, dog," Rosalie promised, her voice 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)
  • Inspector Williams held up his hands apologetically, but I was still seething.†   (source)
  • The two men stood talking in low whispers while Arya seethed.†   (source)
  • And there is this: Qarth wants no khalasars seething round our walls.†   (source)
  • Smith took Seabiscuit back to the barn, his secret seething in his head.†   (source)
  • He didn't feel this because it was made with a pugio—a dagger seethed in angel blood.†   (source)
  • "Explain yourself, Commander," seethed Ms.†   (source)
  • Hazel was still seething from his blackmail threats earlier.†   (source)
  • Simon seethed quietly to himself as he rounded the corner of an aisle lined with soup cans.†   (source)
  • He seethes as he listens to Lincoln's speech.†   (source)
  • Hatred seethed in Khione's eyes, but she withheld her frost.†   (source)
  • Max seethed at the sight of Vyndra turning his back on the leader of the Red Branch.†   (source)
  • Did you ever seeThe Andy Griffith Show ?†   (source)
  • "Follow orders," she seethed, "or I'll have you thrown down in the Hollows!"†   (source)
  • Right now he's nothing but a seething nose-less ball of fire, raging down in Muspellheim.†   (source)
  • Richard seethed as he watched it happen.†   (source)
  • "That demon has been here hunting humans," Max seethed.†   (source)
  • He looked into the giant's seething eyes.†   (source)
  • Whilst Stannis had seethed at the defiance, she had shuddered with relief.†   (source)
  • I am seething, with a fury I can neither explain nor express.†   (source)
  • The apoplectic smee was set upon a pillow by the fire, where he continued to seethe and gasp.†   (source)
  • Smith seethed and fulminated, and made increasingly desperate pleas for more bombardment.†   (source)
  • "If Woolf did not protect Seabiscuit," he seethed, "it was a cinch the stewards wouldn't.†   (source)
  • A seething fire of hatred burned in Errtu's eyes as it looked upon the foolish Kessell.†   (source)
  • Carlos looks at my hand in disgust, his temper seething.†   (source)
  • I seethed in the darkness as I waited for Charlie to check on me.†   (source)
  • Max isn't trying to make a decision for you," he seethed.†   (source)
  • The sky seethed with ozone, leaking a scent hot and electric.†   (source)
  • She shut it again, letting the rage seethe inside.†   (source)
  • Federalists everywhere were aghast, disbelieving, or seething with anger.†   (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)
  • Anger seethed inside him—anger that he couldn't hide.†   (source)
  • After a minute of seething in the driveway, he marched toward Tuck's house and kicked in the door.†   (source)
  • The opponent seethed, but suddenly had more pressing matters.†   (source)
  • This isn't the end, Pendragon," he seethed.†   (source)
  • "That a pair of witches get their jollies by humiliating us," seethed one hotheaded lieutenant.†   (source)
  • "All right then," he said, his voice seething with disapproval.†   (source)
  • "I thought we were rare, too," he seethed.†   (source)
  • That demon's lucky they stopped me," Max seethed.†   (source)
  • Instead she stuck her nose in my face and seethed.†   (source)
  • I can see it all now—my mom seething in disgust at Alex and his tattoos.†   (source)
  • What's to understand?" asked Max, seething.†   (source)
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