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  • The streets of Mingora were very empty, as a third of the inhabitants had left the valley.†   (source)
  • The OASIS atlas described Syrinx as "a desolate world with rocky terrain and no NPC inhabitants."†   (source)
  • The four or five inhabitants took turns cooking for one another, went drinking together, and chased women together, without success.†   (source)
  • They had heard of the Japanese enslaving native populations and moving them en masse off their home islands, and they thought that perhaps this had been the fate of this island's inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Inter-Planetary Launch was a city of three thousand inhabitants, breathing oxygen from the plants that also fed them, drinking water that had already passed through their bodies ten thousand times, living only to service the tugs that did all the oxwork in the solar system and the shuttles that took their cargos and passengers back to the Earth or the Moon.†   (source)
  • If it's another dimension of space, shouldn't the inhabitants have been talking lizards or something?†   (source)
  • One would think that the inhabitants of Newport Beach, a town two hours from the Mexican border, would speak at least a few words of Spanish.†   (source)
  • After selecting a few possible sites, the task force stayed for a brief rest at a village where most of the inhabitants still lived in traditional cave dwellings.†   (source)
  • Half of the inhabitants of Europe would move there tomorrow just for the conveniences.†   (source)
  • Most of the city's inhabitants had moved there for work in the new industrial plants, and most of these new workers were from Appalachia.†   (source)
  • The life of a zoo, like the life of its inhabitants in the wild, is precarious.†   (source)
  • I had no idea what most of the inhabitants of Granta House thought of me.†   (source)
  • The appearance of the sign in the entrance hall had a marked effect upon the inhabitants of the castle.†   (source)
  • Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town, they say.†   (source)
  • It's always easier to die gently, to wake in due time in the place you were buried, to come to terms with your death and to get acquainted with the other inhabitants.†   (source)
  • On reaching Entrance Crater, the lone inhabitant of Mars turned his vehicle toward the Schiaparelli Basin.†   (source)
  • Ishmael understood that an air of disdain, of contempt for the island and its inhabitants, blew from the knot of out-of-town reporters toward the citizens in the gallery.†   (source)
  • And that means including all of the inhabitants of this ecosystem.†   (source)
  • All ruled by their larger, human-like cousins, the immortal Fae—the original inhabitants and settlers of the continent, and the oldest beings in Erilea.†   (source)
  • I'd gone there to find the curator, hoping he knew a thing or two about the island's history and people, and could shed some light on the empty house and the whereabouts of its former inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Science proclaims that Planet Earth and its inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme.†   (source)
  • Like the other villages, their inhabitants stand in the streets to watch us pass.†   (source)
  • The inhabitants of Mbanta expected them all to be dead within four days.†   (source)
  • The captain had quietly told me, Baz, and the other cabin crew to keep an eye out for any island inhabitants.†   (source)
  • We're to take the inhabitants to the Central Hospital.†   (source)
  • Many of the original inhabitants still lived there, although now each building was shared by several families.†   (source)
  • One that is fair and beneficial to all inhabitants.†   (source)
  • It was a plea, a cry so terrible that Montag found himself on his feet, the shocked inhabitants of the loud car staining, moving back from this man with the insane, gorged face, the gibbering, dry mouth, the flapping book in his fist.†   (source)
  • The transports had emptied the ghetto of many of its inhabitants, including not only the Luftigs and my brother Tsalig, but also Samuel and Yossel's father, Mr. Bircz, who had shared his family's food with me.†   (source)
  • Next, I wound up in Brazil, where I read about Bahia tobacco, the abundance of coffee, the one and a half million inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco and Sao Paulo and, last but not least, the Amazon River.†   (source)
  • It was because of where the original inhabitants of the region came from.†   (source)
  • By the other districts' standards, the Capitol babied the inhabitants here.†   (source)
  • The Elders were the first inhabitants of Lorien, those beings who made it what it was.†   (source)
  • Driving into our development occasionally makes me shiver, the sheer number of gaping dark houses—homes that have never known inhabitants, or homes that have known owners and seen them ejected, the house standing triumphantly voided, humanless.†   (source)
  • Every time it tried, he pushed it away with his mind until it learned to avoid the house and its other inhabitants.†   (source)
  • He was in the bed and aware of the cold sheets but he was also suspended, isolated, inhabitant of an unknown land, an unknown world and he himself unidentified.†   (source)
  • Lesson number 1b in Bibwit's carefully planned curriculum: For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; it is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive-let alone survive with dignity-is heroic.†   (source)
  • "Does this village have any normal inhabitants?" asked Elinor.†   (source)
  • Their barrios had names like El larclin (the garden), Monte Flores (mountain flowers), Canta Ranas (singing frogs — named for the watery inhabitants of a local swamp), Bolen (a Spanish corruption of Baldwin Park), or La Puente (the bridge).†   (source)
  • The village inhabitants were all farmers, so I had no way to escape this fate.†   (source)
  • I have taken photographs, recorded video and audio chips, and imaged a full holoscan of the village and its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Rodale's theory was that the chemicals were gradually poisoning the earth and all of its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • He's just another inhabitant!†   (source)
  • I noticed that the inhabitants of this level were mostly couples and I felt something of a voyeur as I passed from table to table.†   (source)
  • I'd learned during my years in Gion to regard myself as the inhabitant of a special world that separated me from other women; and in fact, I'd felt so separated all these years that I'd only rarely wondered how other women lived—even the wives of the men I'd entertained.†   (source)
  • The street might have been swept clean: doors were locked or left wide open in the buildings from which all the inhabitants had been taken.†   (source)
  • Life in Maidan Sabz was hard for all its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • From this little story the condition of paralysis grows into one of Joyce's great themes: Dublin is a city in which the inhabitants are paralyzed by the strictures laid upon them by church, state, and convention.†   (source)
  • Cleveland was awash in money at the time, and certainly some of it could be used to foster the full development of the city's neediest inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Its sounding would trigger the storm shutters of most of the buildings in the lower city, and would certainly wake the inhabitants of any building not automated in that fashion.†   (source)
  • Whole villages had been imported from Egypt, Algeria, Dahomey, and other far-flung locales, along with their inhabitants.†   (source)
  • THE INHABITANTS [OF NEW YORK] ARE IN GENERAL BRISK AND LIVELY...IT RATHER HURTS THE EUROPEAN EYE TO SEE SO MANY SLAVES UPON THE STREETS ... THERE ARE COMPUTED BETWEEN TWENTY-SIX AND THIRTY THOUSAND INHABITANTS ...THE SLAVES MAKES AT LEAST A FIFTH PART OF THE NUMBER.†   (source)
  • Father explained to us that he had gone plumb crazy, consorting with the inhabitants of the land.†   (source)
  • Nadia passed her family's home once on purpose, not to speak with them, just to see from the outside if they were there and well, but the home she had forsaken looked deserted, with no sign of inhabitants or life.†   (source)
  • The few inhabitants they found inside had to be taken out and moved to safety.†   (source)
  • This covers all European nations except those whose inhabitants speak one of the Finno-Ugrian languages (Lapp, Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian) or Basque.†   (source)
  • 'I can hear the inhabitants of the house,' I said to him.†   (source)
  • She understood now why this was called the Silent City: Its only inhabitants were the mute Brothers and the dead they so zealously guarded.†   (source)
  • The cellar windows, as if reflecting Annie's paranoia (and there was nothing strange about that, he thought; didn't all houses come, after awhile, to reflect the personalities of their inhabitants?)†   (source)
  • The rattle of the cart wheels and the woodcutter's curses roused the inhabitants of the huts, who gradually emerged from their doorways.†   (source)
  • THE DIKORIS WERE from the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan, an area the size of South Carolina, with more than a million inhabitants.†   (source)
  • From the sky they could see, just as God saw them, the ruins of the very old and heroic city of Cartagena de Indias, the most beautiful in the world, abandoned by its inhabitants because of the cholera panic after three centuries of resistance to the sieges of the English and the atrocities of the buccaneers.†   (source)
  • Hedestad was practically deserted, and the inhabitants seemed to have retreated to their Midsummer poles at their summer cottages.†   (source)
  • And they were no better than the first inhabitants, in fact they were worse.†   (source)
  • WATER DISCIPLINE: that harsh training which fits the inhabitants of Arrakis for existence there without wasting moisture.†   (source)
  • According to the man, who identified himself as Morton Thornton, the night got real long and by midnight, he was darn well wed to one of the lovelier inhabitants of the' dish, a comely middle-aged amoeba of unknown parentage named Rita.†   (source)
  • Others, evidently, showed less concern for Germany or her inhabitants, but were of the opinion that the economic chaos of that country, if not halted, might spread with alarming rapidity to the world at large.†   (source)
  • They'd given up their checkers and their nap and were arguing about how much cereal they were going to get in January (food was in short supply at the settlement, and although rationing had long since come to an end, certain articles were sold to them, at a discount, which were not available to the civilian inhabitants).†   (source)
  • Here they were within sight of the City they were going to, also here met some of the inhabitants thereof.†   (source)
  • San Bernardino had just sixty thousand inhabitants, but millions of people passed through there every year.†   (source)
  • The valley was a deadly piece of real estate where insurgents could strike coalition forces and then retreat into their mountain strongholds—villages and valleys whose inhabitants, in many cases, had never seen an American.†   (source)
  • Insofar as she saw him at all, she saw him as Rufus' friend, one of the inhabitants of the world in which her son had chosen to live.†   (source)
  • The virus has killed a large portion of the inhabitants.†   (source)
  • A house full of pictures but no inhabitants.†   (source)
  • The inhabitants are Dalits—Untouchables.†   (source)
  • Surprisingly, the others seemed not to mind, despite having been taught from the days of their childhood that weakness was not tolerated among the inhabitants of this harsh motherland.†   (source)
  • Its inhabitants evidently had been caught by surprise.†   (source)
  • Not that the inhabitants would tolerate such an opinion-perhaps rightly.†   (source)
  • I want the Thieves Quarter empty and all the inhabitants jailed twenty-four hours before my wedding.†   (source)
  • The inhabitants—camels, zebras, and other hay burners—kick and fuss and make all manner of protest, but they are going to have to travel with the meat because there is no other place to put it.†   (source)
  • We found that very few, even among the oldest inhabitants, had ever seen a cannon.†   (source)
  • In fact, President Novotny, who had ruled the country for the fourteen years preceding 1968, sported the very same barber-induced gray waves and had the longest index finger of all the inhabitants of Central Europe.†   (source)
  • When he returned to camp, he tacked the photo to a message board near the entrance to the computer center, figuring that pretty much every inhabitant of the camp made his way there at one point or another.†   (source)
  • Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.†   (source)
  • He told her there were no human inhabitants of the refuge.†   (source)
  • The town reacted to us as its inhabitants had reacted to all things new before our coming.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson noted this while reflecting on the tiny incentive that led to the Boston Tea Party and, in turn, the American Revolution: "So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."†   (source)
  • No one had lived in it for at least five years, not since a series of hauntings had made its inhabitants come down with ghost fear that shattered their brains for studying.†   (source)
  • There were no plants hanging on the porch, no doors open for a breeze, no outgoing mail in the box—nothing to indicate that the inhabitant was home.†   (source)
  • Don't worry about any Sanctuary inhabitants mistaking you for food," she assured them.†   (source)
  • Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants' attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen, will be like.†   (source)
  • Then Imports and Character of Inhabitants.†   (source)
  • I hoped the half million inhabitants of Folkvanger liked one another's company, because there was no privacy.†   (source)
  • The habit of building farmhouses and barns was said to have begun among the inhabitants of the Marish down by the Brandywine.†   (source)
  • And some say that when the lands were destroyed, not all of the inhabitants perished with them.†   (source)
  • The flat was a simple two-bedroom apartment, but one glance and even the most jaded traveler would know its inhabitants were not your average, simple people.†   (source)
  • It's not big, with maybe 15,000 inhabitants.†   (source)
  • The tent city appeared deserted at first because its inhabitants were huddling under their tarps, seeking mercy from the sun.†   (source)
  • An African American in Detroit will sound much more like his soul brothers in Philadelphia and Los Angeles than will the white inhabitants of the same cities.†   (source)
  • The walls were filled with framed photographs of the Beautiful People, their beauty too often marred by gaping mouths and smiles as false as the one on the mask of the inhabitant of the office.†   (source)
  • They have no aspirations beyond providing lodging to their inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Some had been burned, as if the inhabitants had wanted to make certain they could not come creeping back, but this one had been spared the torch.†   (source)
  • Before she could begin enrolling students in her new academy, Connecticut, at the urging of Canterbury's state representative, passed a law forbidding the teaching of students who were not "citizens and inhabitants" of a town.†   (source)
  • Chamberlin's distaste for the area and its inhabitants was shared by a great many people living in the city's wealthier sections and would go a long way toward fixing the blame for the Great Fire.†   (source)
  • Iron and steel would become more than a source of employment; they would set the life rhythms of generations of Regiomontanos-the local word for an inhabitant of Monterrey.†   (source)
  • Can it be stipulated that the majority of inhabitants of Earth's major satellite are not undischarged consignees but free individuals?†   (source)
  • It was small, little more than a hut, with a window in one wall — a typical crude little window opening that the inhabitants would cover with banana leaves or old clothes.†   (source)
  • The lights of the house newly visible through the wall usually blazed until eight, and were then extinguished until one or two in the morning, when they came on just long enough to see the inhabitants to the upper floors and into their beds.†   (source)
  • The dinner was served by a silent figure in a white jacket, the only other inhabitant of the house, an elderly Indian with a stony face and a courteous manner.†   (source)
  • I believe we are more than the inhabitants of our cubicles, more than engineers or even parents, husbands, and wives.†   (source)
  • When a large enough number of inhabitants had been herded together, the German officer in charge stood on top of his armoured car and told them that they had two hours to get their stuff together and leave.†   (source)
  • The world is set adrift and its inhabitants are lost.†   (source)
  • Despite the reputation of its inhabitants, Regis found this town to be the best in the region.†   (source)
  • If you peer into the features of Crusoe you will see something of the man who was not the lonely inhabitant of a desert island but who lived in an alien land among strangers, cut away from his own countrymen ...and striving hard not only to return but also to employ profitably the single talent that had been given him.†   (source)
  • He could then effect a proper siege, his encircled troops denying Lee's army and the inhabitants of Petersburg all access to food, ammunition, and other supplies vital to life itself—or, in more graphic terms, Grant's men would be the hangman's noose choking the life out of Petersburg.†   (source)
  • I mean, I have this big house, but not much in the way of inhabitants.†   (source)
  • The race of those pirates who first found it has died out, and it is without inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Providence blessed it with a variety of soils, watered with countless streams to delight and fulfill the needs of its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • There was no notation as to the condition of the systems, whether there were inhabitants, livable planets, nothing.†   (source)
  • " After leaving a fiery trail through the state, another Ohio infantryman wrote to his brother that "her black ruins will stand as a warning of more terrible things to come" if the inhabitants persisted in treason.†   (source)
  • This was an attractive room, spacious and well designed, but it had the comfortably shabby air of a place whose inhabitants had long ago stopped seeing it.†   (source)
  • It had changed the face of our village beyond recognition and altered the lives of its inhabitants in a myriad ways.†   (source)
  • She discovered that she missed her patients, the inhabitants of the cites, the citizens of the other France.†   (source)
  • I try to picture us arriving, a little harbour perhaps ....roads ...inhabitants to point the way ...horses on the road ....riding for a day or a fortnight and then a palace and the English king...That would be the logical kind of thing.†   (source)
  • If you were crass, lowborn, or socially offensive, it would have made no difference to the proud inhabitants South of Broad that you owned France; they would not invite you to their homes.†   (source)
  • They soon found out that they would not have to entice the inhabitants away.†   (source)
  • Apart from a small band of Eskimos including his mother's family, living seventy miles away to the north, this young man, whose name was Mike, was the only human inhabitant in an area of some ten thousand square miles.†   (source)
  • And I invite Mr. Gorbachev: Let us work to bring the Eastern and Western parts of the city closer together, so that all the inhabitants of all Berlin can enjoy the benefits that come with life in one of the great cities of the world.†   (source)
  • Then you know that they are the native inhabitants of this world, that they were present here before the arrival of Man from vanished Urath.†   (source)
  • Hoss had received a letter from a priest in a nearby village—nearby, but beyond the perimeter of the surrounding area, which had been cleared of Polish inhabitants.†   (source)
  • To get the walls built, Gilgamesh is forced to make all the inhabitants of his city work for him like slaves.†   (source)
  • As a result the inhabitants of Athens had plenty of exercise, uncongested streets —and no traffic accidents.†   (source)
  • From that moment, its inhabitants would have to subsist on whatever was already within its boundaries, plus what they might scrounge from the countryside.†   (source)
  • Most of the inhabitants are grouped round three or four small towns — Tennant Creek, Hooker Creek, and Daly Waters — which means that the rest of the area is virtually uninhabited.†   (source)
  • Its inhabitants were solid, self-respecting, prosperous members of the liberal professions.†   (source)
  • The Government often answers its critics by saying that Africans in South Africa are economically better off than the inhabitants of the other countries in Africa.†   (source)
  • Not an inhabitant of Natchez, Mississippi, cares if he is deceived by old Mr. Marblehall.†   (source)
  • It seemed as if she were holding that immensely pitiful thing, the farm with its inhabitants, in the hollow of her hand, which curved round it to shut out the gaze of the cruelly critical world.†   (source)
  • Inhabitants of the high-rise project complain of living in dehumanizing conditions.
  • On the other side though one occasionally sees inhabitants.   (source)
  • "How many inhabitants has Melbourne?" asks Miller.   (source)
  • Aren't there any inhabitants here at all then?   (source)
  • On the way we meet the fleeing inhabitants trundling their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows, in perambulators, and on their backs.   (source)
  • Her speech was crisp for a Maycomb County inhabitant.†   (source)
    inhabitant = a person (who lives in a particular place)
  • Once they'd figured out what was going on, the Compound inhabitants had dropped everything and fled.†   (source)
  • Refrain from fraternizing with the female inhabitants.†   (source)
  • We extend our best wishes to you, inhabitants of another world.†   (source)
  • "There may be inhabitants, Captain," said Mr. Rideau.†   (source)
  • The sole remaining inhabitants were four gray wolves that loped through the wreckage.†   (source)
  • And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars...†   (source)
  • As for the other inhabitants of the city, they were all killed.†   (source)
  • All around Bod, the inhabitants of the graveyard were waking and gathering, worried and alarmed.†   (source)
  • The inhabitants have to leave the city, and are going westward in crowds of many thousands.†   (source)
  • Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town, it says.†   (source)
  • The inhabitants of Macondo found themselves lost is their own streets, confused by the crowded fair.†   (source)
  • The duke was ambitious, but certainly not a threat to the castle or its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Abadan's desert climate, which resembles that of Palm Springs, produces olive-skinned inhabitants.†   (source)
  • The village was small and wild-looking, without any signs of inhabitants.†   (source)
  • We came because it was destroyed by the inhabitants of another planet named Mogadore.†   (source)
  • Capricorn's village had acquired some strange new inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Rome had over a million inhabitants in antiquity.†   (source)
  • The owners and inhabitants of the hovels around us barely scratched out a living.†   (source)
  • But the inhabitants were not so primitive that they did not have an active datasphere.†   (source)
  • They could hear the various inhabitants of the house calling 'Merry Christmas' to one another.†   (source)
  • He can't help it: any house speaks to him of potential inhabitants.†   (source)
  • We've walked about quite a lot, looking for inhabitants, and I've got turned around.†   (source)
  • We'd caught the inhabitants completely by surprise.†   (source)
  • They, the dwarves, and a few others are the true inhabitants of this land.†   (source)
  • Now the last remnants of the Jewish inhabitants of the ghetto are being exterminated.†   (source)
  • Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town, it says.†   (source)
  • Ron was now standing on tiptoe to look over at the inhabitants of the two beds.†   (source)
  • They had no memories or evolved instincts to shape their view of the world or its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Why did the inhabitants of the London Institute get to live when her family died?†   (source)
  • There were no villages or known inhabitants above the base of the mountain.†   (source)
  • An Institute should be open to any of the Nephilim who mean no harm to the inhabitants.†   (source)
  • No demon lord or aspirant shall invade these, lands or harm its inhabitants under pain of death.†   (source)
  • Max looked to the room's other inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Your presence here proves that it is not impossible for a Lunar inhabitant to return to Earth.†   (source)
  • The factories were a memory, as were Molenbeek's original inhabitants.†   (source)
  • The local inhabitants did not look pleased at the prospect.†   (source)
  • It had jurisdiction in controversies between inhabitants and people who came to consult the oracle.†   (source)
  • "The inhabitants are in general brisk and lively," wrote one visitor.†   (source)
  • About a third of the city's inhabitants have lived there less than five years.†   (source)
  • When they reached the first of many houses, they saw their first inhabitant of the Sidh.†   (source)
  • In the bottom left, Urgals—Kull, mostly—burning down a village and killing the inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Many inhabitants of Rowan are blessed with mehrun—the gift of 'magic,' in your tongue.†   (source)
  • It was darkened and deserted, because its inhabitants were already in lockdown.†   (source)
  • The inhabitants of New York had never had to be aware of the weather.†   (source)
  • The resignation of its inhabitants encouraged me to relax.†   (source)
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