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  • The killings took place in Aurora, Colorado, at closing time, and police later arrived to find a macabre scene.†   (source)
  • AURORA Earlier today me and Cut drove down to South River and bought some more smoke.†   (source)
  • Rose was all magnified through — I could hope I might reading glasses, one day be: aspen and always ready — physique, new penny to recommend new — hair, aurora green literary windows — eyes, and hands that to gaze through.†   (source)
  • First a dawnlight, a great aurora glory massing on the color monitor.†   (source)
  • Stellan—Professor Sigurdsson—and I once shared a long voyage with him in the southern isles on a ship called the Aurora.†   (source)
  • But in a matter of days the full text was published by the Philadelphia Aurora, which had replaced Freneau's National Gazette as the leading Republican newspaper.†   (source)
  • Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue.†   (source)
  • THE AURORA AND THE POLESTAR.†   (source)
  • Far below, a river dashed over ice-sheathed boulders as big as houses, and mist filled the gorge like an aurora, rising and falling in thick arches that buckled, twisted, and sometimes collapsed.†   (source)
  • Why, that's what it really is, I'm sure-a great auroral storm.†   (source)
  • My sight returned to me when I awoke in the pigsty, in the red and black aurora of flesh, and it was day.†   (source)
  • I took the ramp to Aurora Avenue and drove along the viaduct toward West Seattle.†   (source)
  • I was in the Aurora's entrance lobby, at the base of the grand staircase which led up to A-Deck.†   (source)
  • I felt the Aurora pivot and her bow dip.†   (source)
  • The Aurora was too low, and I was sure we would not clear the peak.†   (source)
  • All I had to do was remember my fears as the Aurora had come close to crashing in the sea.†   (source)
  • We talked about the Aurora and the pirates and the island.†   (source)
  • Like the other three that powered the Aurora, this car was about twenty-five feet long and ten high.†   (source)
  • It took my mind a few seconds to catch up, for at first I thought it was the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I marveled that it all fit on the ornithopter that brought her to the Aurora.†   (source)
  • They'd known he'd served dutifully and well aboard the Aurora.†   (source)
  • Without hydrium, the Aurora was just a crumpled hull.†   (source)
  • It wasn't the Aurora climbing; it was the balloon falling.†   (source)
  • Beneath my feet I felt the familiar vibration of the Aurora under full steam.†   (source)
  • I looked at the Aurora and everything else seemed suddenly, colossally, unimportant.†   (source)
  • Every breath of hydrium saved was more to lift the Aurora.†   (source)
  • It wasn't the Aurora he'd signaled but the pirates' airship.†   (source)
  • We are indeed to have a new junior sailmaker aboard the Aurora, but it is not to be you.†   (source)
  • I felt the Aurora start to dive and roll, but we were too late.†   (source)
  • Crouching, I could just see it, behind the Aurora's tail fins, coming in.†   (source)
  • "Tell me," Kate asked, "at what altitude does the Aurora sail?"†   (source)
  • There were other fine ships, I knew, and some perhaps ever grander than the Aurora.†   (source)
  • Keeping to the palms, I led us closer toward the Aurora.†   (source)
  • It was our cloud cat, aboard the Aurora.†   (source)
  • The engines had all but stopped, and the Aurora slid slowly alongside the balloon.†   (source)
  • It soared away from the Aurora, trying out its wings, playing with this new thing called flight.†   (source)
  • We were connected now, the Aurora and this diabolical little ship.†   (source)
  • I didn't need money up here—all my meals and clothing were taken care of by the Aurora.†   (source)
  • The leader gave a shout, and then there were more of them, rushing for the Aurora's bow.†   (source)
  • "The Aurora's as fine a ship as sails the skies.†   (source)
  • I missed my bunk on the Aurora, and Baz and Captain Walken and all the crew.†   (source)
  • He was deathly white in the flare of the Aurora's spotlight.†   (source)
  • Right now, I need the Aurora as light as possible until we've sealed every leak."†   (source)
  • The end of the pipeline fed directly into the forward gas shaft in the Aurora's bow.†   (source)
  • "But won't they recognize us from the Aurora?"†   (source)
  • I could see the Aurora's elevators angled high, trying to keep the ship's nose up.†   (source)
  • I'd chosen the ones my father had kept with him aboard the Aurora.†   (source)
  • "Welcome aboard the Aurora, ma'am," I said, stepping up to give her a hand.†   (source)
  • I bet my molars and a leg you'll be flying the Aurora within ten years.†   (source)
  • I'd never felt the Aurora lift so swiftly, and a wave of pure pleasure swept my body.†   (source)
  • It must have been the Aurora he'd sighted, but I'd certainly seen no signal from his gondola.†   (source)
  • A thin pirate flashed through the forest, coming from the direction of the Aurora.†   (source)
  • What I wanted, with the intensity of all my dreams, was to one day fly the Aurora.†   (source)
  • Still, every pound I lifted was a pound lighter for the Aurora.†   (source)
  • The Aurora was beached like a whale, but getting home was a certainty for her.†   (source)
  • I imagined the Aurora lifting off into a cloudless sky, imagined myself at her controls, flying her.†   (source)
  • A gust hit, and the Aurora rolled to starboard.†   (source)
  • There would be sleep later, waiting for me in my cabin on the Aurora when we were aloft.†   (source)
  • All through the night, the sailmakers had been working, once again patching the Aurora's skin.†   (source)
  • I pointed, making sure to point in the opposite direction to the Aurora.†   (source)
  • The Aurora's belly had about seven feet of clearance now.†   (source)
  • The Aurora sailed without a bump or roll.†   (source)
  • But maybe she was right: strictly speaking, this had nothing to do with the Aurora.†   (source)
  • If there was ever a breakdown in the main control car, the Aurora could be flown from back here.†   (source)
  • Two sailmakers were rappelling down the port side of the Aurora.†   (source)
  • The Aurora's belly no longer rested so heavily on the ground.†   (source)
  • It was flat, and wide enough and deep enough to accommodate the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I was not afraid the Aurora would founder, but the pirate ship.†   (source)
  • All I wanted was to get back to the Aurora.†   (source)
  • The Aurora was my home, and I couldn't bear the thought of abandoning her to the waves.†   (source)
  • I saw the gas cell slowly swelling and the Aurora growing firmer and stronger.†   (source)
  • I summoned the Aurora before my mind's eye, tried to count her mooring lines.†   (source)
  • Those amazing eight-foot wings swelled open, and the albatross lifted off the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I stepped over the rim and onto the Aurora's broad back.†   (source)
  • I turned and slowly made my way back toward the Aurora.†   (source)
  • Rain started clattering against the ship's skin, and the Aurora bobbed sharply as the wind hit it.†   (source)
  • I have walked the back of the Aurora in a gale.†   (source)
  • I never dreamed of him when I was landlocked, only when I was aboard the Aurora.†   (source)
  • This ship, the Aurora, was more home to me than the little apartment in Lionsgate City.†   (source)
  • The Aurora could take off without risk of being blown toward the island.†   (source)
  • Were you aboard the Aurora last year, about this time, when she rescued a damaged balloon?†   (source)
  • At that moment the wind took the Aurora in her grip and gave us a mighty downward shove.†   (source)
  • The Aurora's intricate anatomy scrolled before my mind's eye.†   (source)
  • The Aurora didn't even shimmer with the sudden extra weight.†   (source)
  • I'd turned the Aurora one hundred eighty degrees.†   (source)
  • I had no intention of damaging the Aurora.†   (source)
  • She's going to be frantic when she hears about the Aurora."†   (source)
  • He was coming back from Kath-mandu on the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I heard the crew above in the Aurora, cheering me.†   (source)
  • I hoped he was all right, and that he was well on his way back to the Aurora.†   (source)
  • One of the things I loved about night aboard the Aurora was how the ship never really slept.†   (source)
  • My heart purred to the vibrations of the Aurora's engines.†   (source)
  • It all seemed nonsense to me right now, when the Aurora was ailing.†   (source)
  • "Look, she's about to cast off," I said, leaning against the balustrade and pointing to the Aurora.†   (source)
  • His leg would slow him down, and night might have fallen before he'd reached the Aurora.†   (source)
  • The Aurora's stern was close to the water.†   (source)
  • A ladder led down to it from the Aurora's hatchway.†   (source)
  • Didn't want to be reminded that I was on an island, with the Aurora aground.†   (source)
  • He looked at me, then back at the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I gazed over at the Aurora, bellied up on the sand like a beached whale.†   (source)
  • However, your safety is my first concern, so I would urge you to stay within sight of the Aurora.†   (source)
  • He's not a fan of Aurora, never gives me the messages she leaves with him.†   (source)
  • Utterly smitten, the maiden spurned the Polestar and chose the Aurora.†   (source)
  • A lively new newspaper had begun publication in Philadelphia, in answer to Bache's Aurora.†   (source)
  • Even Bache's Aurora seemed to experience a miraculous change of heart.†   (source)
  • Tonight me and Aurora sit in front of the TV and split a case of Budweiser.†   (source)
  • While Max might have been Julie's Aurora, Scathach was his.†   (source)
  • The Aurora taunted Adams for being "afraid to tell."†   (source)
  • Cut's still giggling over the cookies, and me, I'm just waiting for Aurora to show up.†   (source)
  • While the Aurora was beautiful and glamorous, he was inconstant.†   (source)
  • Now it looks exactly like the curtains of the aurora, dancing and flickering across the stars.†   (source)
  • On infrared, the Falabala encampment is a turbulating aurora of pink fog punctuated by the white-hot bursts of campfires.†   (source)
  • The old road takes you from the city limits to Cripple Creek, once a gold mining town with real outlaws, now an outpost of casino gambling full of one-armed bandits and day-trippers from Aurora.†   (source)
  • That was her job, and she was already at work, priming the Aurora's four motor cars from the engine control panel.†   (source)
  • Take heart, Mr. Cruse, there are only three or four places on the island where one could land a vessel the size of the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I was flying alongside the Aurora, and he'd come and joined me, and when I woke up that morning, everything was different.†   (source)
  • I moved nearer the bay doors and saw that the balloon and the Aurora were very close to touching at their widest points.†   (source)
  • If Tom Bear was indeed leaving ship, then the next time the Aurora weighed anchor, I would be assistant sailmaker.†   (source)
  • "The Aurora was my father's ship too.†   (source)
  • "I'd transfer ship if I could," he said, "and get out of your way, but my father made me sign a two-year service contract with the Aurora.†   (source)
  • Meals were heaven aboard the Aurora.†   (source)
  • My father was on shore leave, and the Aurora was in harbor, and he'd taken me on board to show me around.†   (source)
  • The island was still a ways off, but the Aurora would surely collide with the central mountain if left unchecked.†   (source)
  • She was smaller and faster than the Aurora, and I could feel the vibration of our engines at full capacity.†   (source)
  • And he did, for I'd served aboard his ship for more than two years, and he'd seen the ease with which I moved about the Aurora, inside and out.†   (source)
  • It made me nervous, seeing that hosing disappearing into the trees, like a trail leading straight to the Aurora.†   (source)
  • The Aurora needed a set of eyes up top.†   (source)
  • I am loathe to cannibalize the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I caught the rungs with my hands and started to climb like a crazed orangutan, my eyes fixed on the hatchway of the Aurora.†   (source)
  • The Aurora was responsive as a falcon.†   (source)
  • I looked up and saw the balloon slowly billowing down toward me, all but blotting out my view of the Aurora.†   (source)
  • In my years aboard the Aurora, I'd spent plenty of time around the kitchens, and believe me, Vlad was scary.†   (source)
  • I checked the davit hook, for once I cut these last two lines, the only thing holding us would be that hook and the Aurora's crane.†   (source)
  • With all her provisions and cargo and gear and passengers and crew, the Aurora weighed more than two million pounds.†   (source)
  • Despite being hooked to the davit, the gondola was dragging the great balloon ever closer to the Aurora's hull and engines.†   (source)
  • The Aurora was running with the sun, leaving behind the coast of North America and heading out over the Pacificus.†   (source)
  • It could find me wherever I was: on the Aurora, or here in Paris, or back home with Mom and Isabel and Sylvia.†   (source)
  • Something had landed on the Aurora.†   (source)
  • Problem was, even though the balloon and the Aurora were almost touching at their curves, the gondola was still a good thirty feet away and—Sinking.†   (source)
  • The sun was low in the sky, and pretty much the entire crew was out on the beach, manning the Aurora's lines.†   (source)
  • And tomorrow, in the early hours of the morning, while they all slept, we would make our break, cross the island, and warn the Aurora.†   (source)
  • There was the Aurora, and my heart swelled to see her looking so well, hovering in the miraculous way of airships, eight feet off the sand.†   (source)
  • My last glimpse was of yet more men sliding down the boarding lines and landing on the Aurora's back.†   (source)
  • The Aurora's officers and crew had their hands tethered and were lined up together against the outer wall, beneath the windows.†   (source)
  • But then the Aurora banked sharply, dipped, and the lines slewed off the Aurora's back, leaving the men dangling in midair.†   (source)
  • The Aurora wasn't ready to fly yet.†   (source)
  • I felt the slightest heaviness in my heels and knew that we were climbing, the Aurora angling gently heavenward to meet the Endurance.†   (source)
  • With fewer lines on her, the Aurora would shift if the wind picked up, and the pirates would surely notice and come to investigate.†   (source)
  • The two females in my life seemed strict taskmasters, the Aurora and Kate de Vries, and there was no pleasing both of them.†   (source)
  • It wasn't just disobeying orders; I couldn't help feeling that if I left the Aurora, some disaster would befall the ship.†   (source)
  • Just then, the Aurora cast off from the Eiffel Tower and was free again, gracefully rising and turning in the wind to begin a new journey.†   (source)
  • So when I wasn't stealing glances into the darkness of the trees, I was watching the Aurora, afraid something disastrous would befall her.†   (source)
  • He wanted to bring the Aurora in as close as possible without fouling the balloon's rigging in our propellers.†   (source)
  • After years working cargo ships for the Lunardi line, he'd been offered a position aboard the Aurora.†   (source)
  • There'd been plenty of times I'd been so lonely and miserable I'd wanted to quit and return to the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I saw and heard Szpirglas's propellers come toward us, two great whirling blades on her starboard side, slashing the night and then— The Aurora.†   (source)
  • "The engine cars are welded on," I said with a shrug, "as much a part of the Aurora as what we're standing on."†   (source)
  • Once I started working on the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I wished I had some brilliant idea to win the captain's praise—and save the Aurora from such an undignified end.†   (source)
  • Otto Lunardi was the magnate who owned the Aurora and a vast fleet of more than forty other airships.†   (source)
  • Kate and I worked, silent and intent, along both sides of the Aurora until we'd cast off all her landing lines, letting them drop to the sand below.†   (source)
  • Midnight was long past; the passengers were all asleep, and only the crew and the Aurora were awake, working and moving through the sky.†   (source)
  • We moved toward him, in among a thick screen of ferns and trees that completely shielded us from the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I needed to get back to the Aurora.†   (source)
  • I passed out the last of the coffees and pastries and left as the Aurora began her slow graceful turn.†   (source)
  • I noticed the wind picking up some, and realized that Szpirglas must have taken the Aurora lower in preparation for landing.†   (source)
  • But when you saw the Aurora, saw her floating and rising, you forgot all about the math and just stared.†   (source)
  • The Aurora swayed in the humid air.†   (source)
  • If the Aurora lost any more hydrium, she would be forced to start bearing her own weight—something no airship was designed to do.†   (source)
  • All across the Aurora's bulging flank were other sailmakers, hanging from their lines, examining the ship's fabric skin.†   (source)
  • I recognized it at once, for it used to rest in the display case of the Aurora's A-Deck reception lounge.†   (source)
  • A spotlight flared from its underside, and I saw ropes springing from open bay doors and unfurling toward the Aurora.†   (source)
  • Down the ladder I went, through the webwork of alumiron beams and bracing wires that gave the Aurora her rigid shape.†   (source)
  • I heard the captain shouting out the control car window through a bullhorn, "Endurance, this is the Aurora.†   (source)
  • The rubber hosing was thin, and I'd heard the sailmakers say it would take at least twenty-four hours to completely replenish the Aurora.†   (source)
  • "I waited a moment as my voice hurtled down through the tube, one hundred fifty feet to the control car suspended from the Aurora's belly.†   (source)
  • Here came the ornithopter again, skimming the Aurora's belly, straight as a Canada goose toward the loading bay.†   (source)
  • "Don't fancy lugging buckets of water back to the ship much," said Baz, turning to see how far it was to the Aurora.†   (source)
  • Off the Aurora's port side, there was nothing but beach, so the crew was tethering her lines to mooring spikes, driven deep into the sand.†   (source)
  • And then all the Aurora had to do was dump a few hundred pounds of water and she was lighter than air.†   (source)
  • Once more the boarding lines hit the Aurora's back and down slid six men, clothed in black, with more already on the way.†   (source)
  • They were flying low over the Aurora's spine, wheeling around her flanks and skimming beneath her belly, as if curious about this huge airborne thing.†   (source)
  • The remainder of the reward money would take care of my mother and sisters while I was a student and sending back no salary from the Aurora.†   (source)
  • It hunkered down atop the Aurora.†   (source)
  • My eyes were fixed on the Aurora.†   (source)
  • Three years ago, after my father died, we'd needed money badly, times being what they were, and I was lucky the Aurora had offered me a job as cabin boy.†   (source)
  • "Well, we've come to an understanding, Marjorie and I. I never told my parents how hopeless she was aboard the Aurora, and she gives me quite a bit of freedom now.†   (source)
  • Szpirglas's face and voice were completely altered as he talked to his son, with none of the sharp, mocking humor I'd seen in him aboard the Aurora, none of the danger.†   (source)
  • All across the Aurora, stem to stern, starboard and port sides, sixty of us hit the ground at once, each with a line uncoiling behind us, holding the great ship steady.†   (source)
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