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  • I saw a bullet— pocked sign half buried at an angle in a heap of debris.†   (source)
  • I pulled the joystick to the right, weaving through the digital debris one final time.†   (source)
  • Hayden has lit a candle he found in the debris, making the basement smell like cinnamon over mildew.†   (source)
  • Two life rafts, holding the entire five-man B-25 crew, floated amid plane debris.†   (source)
  • August and June scraped off every piece of river debris there was from May's skin and clothes, and Rosaleen, poor Rosaleen, who I realized had lost her new best friend, stood, not making a sound, but with her chin shaking so awful I wanted to reach up and hold it for her.†   (source)
  • The slope was littered with brittle dead logs and broken branches, the debris of many cold, windy winters.†   (source)
  • Madame Hoo tried to make the injured woman as comfortable as possible on the debris-strewn floor.†   (source)
  • A lump of dirt was growing as gravity drew much of the debris downward again.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I poke around in the debris of the back garden, clearing away dry stalks and fallen leaves, but that's about as far as I go.†   (source)
  • He sized up the debris piles, which had grown impressively over the course of the day, and walked to the shed and looked in.†   (source)
  • I also took a pillow to protect my head from falling debris.†   (source)
  • Several soldiers began to shoot at the ceiling, and dust and debris fell.†   (source)
  • People were making an effort to pile trash bags together, and hills of them were growing at the intersections, glued together by windblown snow and debris.†   (source)
  • This attic was originally built to house the butlers and ladies' maids of the Metropol's guests; but when the practice of traveling with servants fell out of fashion, the unused rooms had been claimed by the caprices of casual urgency—thenceforth warehousing scraps of lumber, broken furniture, and other assorted debris.†   (source)
  • Garbage piled up in the house, with an entire bedroom devoted to trinkets and debris that had no earthly value.†   (source)
  • She had delighted in hearing his stories of the children and their attempts to play, with no toys, kicking balls made out of snow or debris, seeing who could jump the highest to touch the timber slats on their building, mostly just playing tag.†   (source)
  • Debris fell from the cavern ceiling.†   (source)
  • And there was a lot of debris?†   (source)
  • The common room was lit with the glow of the dying fire, still littered with the debris from the party.†   (source)
  • So, I just opened my locker, put all my old papers and things in my backpack, and walked over the debris of books and papers and notes in the hallway to the parking lot outside.†   (source)
  • The road was littered with debris and it was work to get the cart through.†   (source)
  • It shuttles across debris, illuminates a fallen hunk of wall, lights up a twisted piece of shelving.†   (source)
  • He had to do something, so he began to pick up the fallen coffins, to remove the debris, and to replace the tangle of tumbled bones into the coffins, disappointed to discover that none of the many Frobishers and Frobyshers and Pettyfers gathered around to watch seemed to be quite certain whose bones belonged in which container.†   (source)
  • I clambered over debris back to Lewis's space suit and put my head back in for more good air.†   (source)
  • Only dust and debris and that looming shape of the building, almost on top of them now They'd lost any hope of organization or staying together.†   (source)
  • They didn't find out about it until an hour later when they were picking up the debris from the fight.†   (source)
  • A revolting smell of burnt rubber seeped up from the debris.†   (source)
  • What hit us was all the stuff that ricocheted off the ceiling—there was a sharp, stinging hail that raided like BB's around the room, and all the chips of cement and tile, and the plaster debris, fell down upon us.†   (source)
  • It had shattered like a giant egg, its pieces all mixed up in a heap of debris and smashed floorboards.†   (source)
  • They were making their slow way up the hill, clearing weeds and debris from the paths.†   (source)
  • Around her tree, the one her nest is in, there was a lot of debris on the ground.†   (source)
  • As he was pushing debris away from under his buttocks, Turner felt his soaked shirt.†   (source)
  • The roads would be covered with debris, impassable for days.†   (source)
  • Will said with a laugh as the three friends headed tothe barely paved parking lot of the Dayton Street Projects, which was filled with weeds, sparse patches of grass, broken glass, and all kinds of debris.†   (source)
  • Something poked up in the middle of the debris but then disappeared.†   (source)
  • Her floodlight targeted the body of a rusted hover, entrenching the piles of debris behind it in shadows.†   (source)
  • "Pack your things and go," Chacko would say, stepping over the debris.†   (source)
  • Weaving through the stalled cars that seem to pop through a white curtain, covered in three seasons' worth of debris.†   (source)
  • He rummaged around in a pile of debris and pulled out a large Plexiglas block with his name on it and a model of Norway molded into it.†   (source)
  • In the short hallway that led to my room, there was a pile of debris that I had to climb over to get to my door.†   (source)
  • Butler glanced down at the debris strewn in the troll's wake ...Perfect.†   (source)
  • I witnessed the buildings' collapse and the massive cloud of dust and debris that rose in their place.†   (source)
  • At almost exactly the same moment there was a black flash, with debris sweeping and twisting around me, and a roar of hot wind slammed into me and threw me across the room.†   (source)
  • It was like the debris you get on a sea-shore: the wind must have carried some of it for miles and miles before finally coming up against these trees and these two lines of wire.†   (source)
  • Pieces of debris that he could not have moved normally now seemed to shift on their own accord.†   (source)
  • His mother waded through this debris of other years, clearing a path to a box tied with old rope, about four feet square, in the corner.†   (source)
  • The force of the blast knocked Alyss over in her chair and she was still on the ground, coughing from dust and debris, when she saw innocent courtiers and civilians attacked by a mob of Redd's card soldiers and fierce ex-Wonderlanders.†   (source)
  • Still I sprinted down the gangway which led to a debris-strewn alley, filled with furniture parts and overturned trash cans.†   (source)
  • By gingerly probing around the soggy gash he succeeded in picking out the biggest pieces of debris, until it hurt too much to continue.†   (source)
  • Kassad pulled himself along, floating through debris and the tangled entrails of the ship's wiring.†   (source)
  • Christina whoops as we bump over another piece of debris, like she's having the time of her life.†   (source)
  • As we made it out of the trees and over the top of the hill the wind gusted again, pelting us with more debris before it died down.†   (source)
  • But the only thing in the living Loom is debris: price tags from all the gifts they've packed for their relatives, plastic hangers, cardboard from shirts.†   (source)
  • But the first order of business is for him to compulsively pick up every speck of dirt, debris and tobacco by hand.†   (source)
  • On March 13, we packed up all the debris of a lengthy hospital stay in a hodgepodge of shopping bags, duffel bags, and plastic bags and headed for the elevators, me pushing Colton in a wheelchair and Sonja holding a thick bouquet of going-home balloons.†   (source)
  • If someone was out there, if it wasn't just debris, it was Anaander Mianaai.†   (source)
  • Light flooded through the windows, which seemed impossible considering the windows on the outside of the house were completely covered with vines and debris.†   (source)
  • In the foreground stood mountains of debris.†   (source)
  • The shock wave and debris ripped apart the two other buildings and walls, causing a secondary detonation in one building—probably housing explosives used in making IEDs.†   (source)
  • A huge spiraling gout of sparks and flaming debris rushed up into the howling winter night.†   (source)
  • THE STREETS WERE COVERED WITH SPLINTERS AND various debris.†   (source)
  • The ice around the fallen tree, perforated by branches and debris, was weakened already, and as he drove his powerful legs into the trunk, his head and shoulders broke through the ice, crashing up into the winter night.†   (source)
  • The captain claimed to have had a fire aboard, but photographs taken by naval reconnaissance aircraft—ours and Japanese—did not show smoke or fire-damaged debris being jettisoned from the submarine.†   (source)
  • Smartwheels use sonar, laser rangefinding, and millimeter-wave radar to identify mufflers and other debris before you even get honed about them.†   (source)
  • Pedro Garcia had a blanket brought and, between his son and his grandson, they laid the patron on it, lifted him carefully, and raised him onto an improvised table that they had set up in what was formerly the courtyard but was now no more than a small clearing in that nightmare of debris, animal corpses, crying children, moaning dogs, and praying women.†   (source)
  • We hit the deck, jamming ourselves into our rocky crevasse, heads down to avoid the lethal flying debris, rock fragments and shrapnel.†   (source)
  • There was broken glass and trash on the field that posed a hazard to players; Luma had her teams walk the field, scouring for such debris.†   (source)
  • Mostly they lived outside in the weeds or piles of debris.†   (source)
  • One night, mysteriously, it burned down, and the next day Goetz was out on the street sweeping away the debris.†   (source)
  • One-story, spacious and cool, it had a portico with Doric columns on the outside terrace, which commanded a view of the still, miasmic water and the debris from sunken ships in the bay.†   (source)
  • I had never felt such fear before, because as the whirlwind blew its debris around me the gushing wind seemed to call my name: Antoniooooooooooooooo ....Then it was gone, and its evil was left imprinted on my soul.†   (source)
  • Gurney glanced at him, looked back to the patches of smoke and debris out on the desert where carryall and ornithopters had been brought down by Fremen rockets.†   (source)
  • If she could find the source, she could help LuLing unclog the pathways in her brain and prevent more destructive debris from accumulating.†   (source)
  • THE WIND GUSTED THROUGH THE OPEN fields rimming the farmhouse, spraying debris against the windows.†   (source)
  • This way, they could make sure they weren't being followed and weren't going to stumble over any of the gurneys and debris littering their path.†   (source)
  • Fifteen minutes down the glacier from our tents, their camp was clustered atop a hump of glacial debris.†   (source)
  • Burning debris fell with a clatter.†   (source)
  • He kicked the blackened edges into the ditches, where more snow lingered, broken through with weeds, debris.†   (source)
  • I grasp for the words like a drowning man reaching for floating debris," ...you said you hated me?"†   (source)
  • In the debris of invisible matter, the question seemed to be, What is happening here?†   (source)
  • The runoff from Colorado Springs eroded the land beside the creek, carrying silt and debris downstream all the way to Kansas.†   (source)
  • The water below was dark, making it impossible to spot any boats or floating debris—not that Adam cared.†   (source)
  • With a sickle she is harvesting the forest's debris, gathering the branches into piles.†   (source)
  • I looked over my shoulder at the choppers as they landed, blowing away the loose grass and debris on the ground.†   (source)
  • He ran his finger around the patient's tongue to clear the mouth of debris, sweeping out mucus and blood.†   (source)
  • A note, scratched on a piece of debris with a broken pencil.†   (source)
  • Debris had been swept down the river when it was in flood and had lodged against the rocks.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly she spotted a flock of willow grouse pecking at some tree debris that had fallen not far away.†   (source)
  • By midweek, hopes for the block party started to disappear, the weeks of planning washed through the rusted drains with the gutters' debris.†   (source)
  • Mr. Clutter now fed Babe the core of his apple, calling good morning to a man raking debris inside the corral-Alfred Stoecklein, the sole resident employee.†   (source)
  • Hemingway's house had survived the storm, except that the giant swimming pool was filled with brackish water and debris, along with a magnificent sea turtle that I immediately named Ernest.†   (source)
  • Every sound that had ever been uttered or made, from way back to when there were none, to way up when there were too many, came hurtling out of the debris in a way that sounded as though everyone in the world was laughing, whistling, shouting, crying, singing, whispering, humming, screaming, coughing, and sneezing, all at the same time.†   (source)
  • Clary turned to look at face; he was kicking bits of debris with a savage satisfaction.†   (source)
  • Festering together in the debris of a realtor's whim.†   (source)
  • Johnnie looked curiously at the dirty yards with their debris of lard buckets and tin cans.†   (source)
  • there goes hearing, and often ability to open both eyes, etc. even hydrocephalus is often due to inflammatory debris blocking the foramina...it's anatomy, my friend.†   (source)
  • There was no debris.†   (source)
  • I remember the police chief said something like "for lack of a better word, debris from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, or other situations ...can be everywhere, and you don't know if the debris contains a disease that can take your life."†   (source)
  • With this he swept the street to remove some of the debris that cats and rats had pulled from the trash.†   (source)
  • At first they were hard to see, tangled as they were with debris and as gray as the ashen mud.†   (source)
  • He spat out water, sucked in air, grabbed hold of the nearest chunk of debris, and held on.†   (source)
  • By the end of August we were almost finished with our work preparing the warden's house for its new resident, painting the garage door bright red and cleaning up the postconstruction debris.†   (source)
  • "Dusting off some debris," I said, and smiled toward Chris.†   (source)
  • Last night's smoke and debris were being cleared as a one-armed boy they called Loot mopped around the tables.†   (source)
  • The lobby was a chaos of debris.†   (source)
  • When the ringing in his ears subsided, Max pulled David to his feet, brushing bits of rubble and debris from the dazed boy's face.†   (source)
  • I step gingerly into the almost total darkness, careful of debris on the floor.†   (source)
  • Each crew spent twenty-four hours on standby, making periodic checks, clearing the debris, doing whatever was necessary to keep the water moving into camp.†   (source)
  • Soon there was a small pile of debris in the hollow as the rabbits brought anything from which it could get food.†   (source)
  • Not even any debris in the water.†   (source)
  • Berger empties the other chair of debris and drags it over to the desk.†   (source)
  • It was hard to make out his features, even as he drew clear of the fog, for he was spattered from head to foot with the damp brown debris of rotten fruit.†   (source)
  • The ground was clear of debris and rocks, but they couldn't be doing the man's belly any favors.†   (source)
  • They raised their feet high with each step, to get clear of the debris.†   (source)
  • 'And this—" Noah touched the top tip of his tattoo on his other arm "—is from where I used my body to protect Tyler and Jacob from debris falling in the fire."†   (source)
  • Anywhere on the trail back to Askole, there would be debris left behind by the military.†   (source)
  • But the crisp beauty conceals fallen trees and washed-out trails, hillsides treacherous with mud and debris.†   (source)
  • Clarke raised her arms to protect her head, but she could still feel the debris scorching her neck.†   (source)
  • Like the Mississippi, it keeps forging new channels and abandoning old ones, picking up debris, depositing unwanted silt, and frequently bursting its banks.†   (source)
  • See inbred girl; lie breeds grin; leering debris; greed be nil, sir; be idle re.†   (source)
  • We could pole the skiff down to his house, maneuvering around the debris as we would ice floes.†   (source)
  • A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset.†   (source)
  • We're law-abiding, so clear the street of the debris.†   (source)
  • A piece of debris, a plank of some sort.†   (source)
  • Bits of burning debris fell from the bridge and set boats below on fire.†   (source)
  • "It's rather far-fetched," Stone said, "to postulate debris from some extragalactic source other than—"†   (source)
  • When they got to the kiosk, they looked down to see a cement stairway that was covered in garbage and debris.†   (source)
  • Scaffolds had been erected, and men of different trades worked diligently, repairing roof rafters, shoring up timbers, chipping away the deteriorated masonry, and cleaning the twisted metal and concrete debris.†   (source)
  • It's strewn with debris.†   (source)
  • A pair of Army fuelers wearing goggles to protect their eyes from debris hauled a hose up to the Black Hawk.†   (source)
  • When the submarine passed through the debris, I thought the crew looked remorseful-because the wounded were giving up, letting go, and sinking-but when they passed me they laughed.†   (source)
  • When they started separating the debris, a few bodies, or parts of them, became distinguishable.†   (source)
  • He moved up the side of the rubble and began digging around the debris with his bare hands.†   (source)
  • He's radioactive debris on Klendathu and it's much too late to court-martial him, so why talk about it?†   (source)
  • Hide and confine your debris.†   (source)
  • When the remains of his wife and children had been conveyed to him, after the investigation of the crash and the meticulous cataloguing of both the organic and the inorganic debris, Joe was given only fragments of their bodies.†   (source)
  • It's like watching a video of an explosion played backward, every piece of debris being sucked back into place, like nothing ever happened.†   (source)
  • And the way Trent does it has resulted in entire valleys being filled up with debris.†   (source)
  • We step through the debris of charred cabinets and chair legs used as firewood, and move through the offices skylighted by gaping holes punched through the ceiling and roof by the firefighters.†   (source)
  • Even the pile of debris outside Ralph's rooming house window turned picturesque, its jagged rustiness tempered into drifts, swoops, and in one corner, a series of pretty balls, like a snowman laid down for a nap.†   (source)
  • We conducted another baptism at our house one night when the river was really high, which brings water up close to our house, along with the snakes, alligators, and other dangerous debris.†   (source)
  • They had databases of all the really enormous amounts of stuff, comets, asteroids, bits, pieces, minor moons, rocks and just general debris, that filled the system.†   (source)
  • There were no bodies and very little debris on this side of the building; everything had been blown inward.†   (source)
  • All through the night we worked with the rest of Murphy's citizens dragging debris off the road.†   (source)
  • But I am a prisoner of memory, and I have needed to clear out the debris of that year for many years.†   (source)
  • I lighted the gas mantle lamp, stuffed the debris in a little closet, and put on water for coffee.†   (source)
  • Eventually the jam broke and the waters sub= sided; but the cabin had lost its charm, for the debris on the floor was a foot thick and somewhat repellent.†   (source)
  • A streak of light from the front flowed past me, illuminating dusty weeds, debris and outbuildings some distance to the rear.†   (source)
  • The ground about him was strewn with debris, but none lay near him.†   (source)
  • Save for the paper debris, nothing was left.†   (source)
  • ANNIE freezes on the pump handle: there is a change in the sundown light, and with it a change in HELEN'S face, some light coming into it we have never seen there, some struggle in the depths behind it; and her lips tremble, trying to remember something the muscles around them once knew, till at last it finds its way out, painfully, a baby sound buried under the debris of years of dumbness.†   (source)
  • Before it's cluttered With the debris of journalistic camp-followers.†   (source)
  • There was an orange flash and an enormous ball of brown smoke and black bits of debris rushing up to meet him.†   (source)
  • He buckled to; pouncing on bits of debris like a hungry chicken pecking at scattered corn.†   (source)
  • He's tough," I said, and dropped down on the sofa among the debris.†   (source)
  • moment's hesitancy, advanced a few feet, and now a man who had stood in the empty sidewalk across from the house walked westward and crossed the street in front of the children, putting on his hat as he reached the farther curb, and they heard the last of the streetcar, but now they heard the hard chipping of two sparrows, worrying a bit of debris in the street, and Mr. Starr said, "Better go now, and they realized that he had never shut off his engine, for as soon as he said this he began to back the car, as silently as he could and with great care; and he twisted it backward around the corner, and they slowly descended the same quiet back street up which he had brought them.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [pointing, for the WAITRESS'S benefit, to the debris] Over there, over there!†   (source)
  • His mind was like the sea itself: troubled, and too deep for the bravest man's descent, throwing up now and again, for the naked eye to wonder at, treasure and debris long forgotten on the bottom?†   (source)
  • You walked into Jerry Church's cellar store, crammed and littered with the debris of time, and you were in a museum of eternity.†   (source)
  • If the crushing debris and the flames didn't get them, the smoke did.†   (source)
  • The advance winds hit, stirring up debris on the open field.†   (source)
  • Others were stuck under piles of debris.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that it might only have been some debris knocking into the hull as I passed.†   (source)
  • "Flight," a voice said over the radio, "US destroyer Stockton reports debris filling from the sky.†   (source)
  • She shuffled back, her heels kicking up debris on the deserted street.†   (source)
  • Phil looked at the head bobbing across the debris field and registered that it was Louie.†   (source)
  • Collision with debris a possibility, but unverifiable.†   (source)
  • I was wretched looking, damp from rain and dust-covered and squatting in a mound of debris.†   (source)
  • It's the flying glass and debris that kills most people, you know, often at pretty far range.†   (source)
  • Eragon and Murtagh pressed against the wall to avoid the falling debris.†   (source)
  • As they got closer, they saw a dark smudge in the water, a log or piece of debris.†   (source)
  • Millions of tons of rock and ice and volcanic debris crashed down the mountain.†   (source)
  • Like pulling out weeds and sweeping up debris.†   (source)
  • Their debris settled on the after wall of the reactor vessel.†   (source)
  • There was nothing left except scattered debris when our guys finally got up there to investigate.†   (source)
  • We began to sort the debris into piles—aluminum, iron, steel, copper—so it could be sold.†   (source)
  • The desk is cluttered with papers and books and other debris as if someone abandoned it hurriedly.†   (source)
  • A kitchen full of debris waits down a corridor.†   (source)
  • • The big dome turns into a 'fountain of jagged, flaky debris.†   (source)
  • Debris begins to litter the forest floor.†   (source)
  • Magrathea," and he strode on through the dirt and debris that littered the tile floors.†   (source)
  • They had no clean water, as the river was brown with wreckage and debris.†   (source)
  • Instead of mountains, there were hills of tangled debris.†   (source)
  • Bicycle riders and mule-drawn carts swerved around kids, stray dogs, and piles of debris.†   (source)
  • Dust and debris rained down from the ceiling.†   (source)
  • They sat on the stoop eating potato chips and looking at the remaining debris.†   (source)
  • They ran, each with an arm over their head to protect themselves from falling debris.†   (source)
  • Almost halfway to the top, but we haven't hit the debris Evan warned us about.†   (source)
  • My eyes drifted to the debris-filled doorway, the only other exit from the room.†   (source)
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