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  • Finally one morning, she found a bulky manila envelope and slid the contents—an advance copy of The Sea Shells of the Eastern Seaboard, by Catherine Danielle Clark—into her hands.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong fell on Christmas; North Borneo, Rabaul, Manila, and the U.S. base in the Philippines fell in January.†   (source)
  • He handed me a guidon, a manila-colored book the size of a small spiral notebook that contained all of the "knowledge" we had to memorize in order to make the transition from plebe to new cadet.†   (source)
  • Father judiciously traded these for an extra orang-utan from the Mysore Zoo and a chimpanzee from the Manila Zoo.†   (source)
  • They walked along the shore while his uncle studied the treestumps, puffing at his pipe, a manila rope coiled over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • Seiler pulled a manila envelope out of his desk drawer.†   (source)
  • He pulled a manila folder out of his briefcase but didn't hand it to me.†   (source)
  • She handed me a manila envelope.†   (source)
  • When the shelling began that night, as Nathan was hit and stumbled unseen through the darkness into a pig shed, the company received orders to move quickly to the Bataan Peninsula, where they could hide in the jungle, regroup, then march back to retake Manila.†   (source)
  • They were supposed to be taken by train to be loaded on an American boat sailing from Tientsin to Manila, but the ship was sunk.†   (source)
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  • He was an architect and had done his work pretty well in Chicago, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Manila, and many other cities.†   (source)
  • I bought fifty feet of Manila hemp just to have it around, show it to my son, talk about where it comes from, how it's made.†   (source)
  • In order to enhance the silence, the tiles had been covered with the Turkish rugs purchased at the World's Fair in Paris; a recent model of a victrola stood next to a stand that held records arranged with care, and in a corner, draped with a Manila shawl, was the piano that Dr. Urbino had not played for many years.†   (source)
  • They were all three-strand manila lines with a bowline knotted into one end, pretty well worn down, too.†   (source)
  • The shipment originated at Ferlite Farms, a monkey wholesale facility located not far from the city of Manila.†   (source)
  • The box held seven hammered-gold rings, each as thin as manila paper, to be worn stacked.†   (source)
  • Civille had a salad, followed by risotto with Prince Edward Island mussels and Manila clams, finished with squid ink.†   (source)
  • In Cavite, an hour south of Manila, Mortenson visited the Institute of Rural Reconstruction, run by John Rigby, a friend of Lila Bishop's.†   (source)
  • In his hand was a manila file.†   (source)
  • When nearly two hundred Japanese bombers arrived over Manila, ten hours after the Pearl Harbor attack, they simply obliterated this fleet, which sat in convenient clusters on the tarmac.†   (source)
  • The dog whimpered and squealed in brute, dumbfounded hysteria at the end of an old Manila rope and groveled and crawled on its belly without resisting, but the man beat it and beat it anyway with his heavy, flat stick.†   (source)
  • Plastic evidence pouches and manila evidence envelopes were spread all around the bedroom.†   (source)
  • He opens a manila file and, after a moment, asks if Cedric is "thinking about applying and coming to MIT."†   (source)
  • The manila envelope still sat on the kitchen table.†   (source)
  • We stood there, manila X-ray folders (a requirement for immigration which no one checked) clutched awkwardly, baggage straps crisscrossing our chests, wide-eyed like animals coming off the Ark.†   (source)
  • He'd been here before, in the back alleys of Manila.†   (source)
  • The rope was three-quarter-inch braided natural Manila, of some age and easily strong enough to handle Seth, who weighed 160 pounds a month earlier at the doctor's office.†   (source)
  • I stopped at my office to join the assault squad and on my desk were eight large manila envelopes, only one of which had been opened.†   (source)
  • The bleeding subsided, leaving her able to fly, along with my siblings, to Manila.†   (source)
  • I flipped through her part of the manila paper file.†   (source)
  • The contents of the manila envelope lay scattered across the bed, everything but the letters, which seemed to have vanished.†   (source)
  • Old Chao rifled through the manila folders.†   (source)
  • He puts Manila postmarks on them to fool me.†   (source)
  • I never even kissed another woman, not really, not even when I had duty in Tokyo or Manila or Hong Kong, and she was half a world away.†   (source)
  • The manila envelopes were glued together with blackened blood.†   (source)
  • I was about to climb aboard a bucket called the General Jones bound for Manila, Taipei, Yokohama, Pearl, and Seattle when a dispatch came granting my USAREUR, Heidelberg, Germany, by available military transportation, for discharge, at own request see reference foxtrot.†   (source)
  • On the seventh day of the war he was in Manila Bay looking at the city through his periscope, still without orders.†   (source)
  • The manila envelope would probably still be lying on my kitchen table.†   (source)
  • I found the answer on the kitchen table, neatly masked by a manila envelope.†   (source)
  • Okay, so maybe it was a little far-fetched, but I just kept seeing that damn manila envelope.†   (source)
  • The leader then began her talk—"Jesus will never ask you to do anything he wouldn't do himself"—and Emma reached into her pocketbook and took out a small manila envelope with "Emma Kelly: $24" written across the top.†   (source)
  • Even Gabriel, who had nothing in his possession other than a manila envelope filled with photographs, was thoroughly searched before being allowed to pass.†   (source)
  • Next to it was a mobile phone, and next to the phone was Natalie's passport, which had been hidden in a manila envelope in the bottom drawer of her bedside table.†   (source)
  • But the bomber made it to Manila, where Louie got passage out on a transport plane.†   (source)
  • You were not aware of mechanical problems after leaving Manila?†   (source)
  • Reports came from informers in Manila, Osaka, Hong Kong and Tokyo.†   (source)
  • They had Ismael's sketches in a manila portfolio.†   (source)
  • The manila file landed on the carpet with a soft plop.†   (source)
  • Earlier that day I had seen some idiotic cat masks made from manila folders.†   (source)
  • On the intercom the pilot said conversationally, "I wonder if that's Manila down there.†   (source)
  • As long as we don't go running off to Manila or Bangkok.†   (source)
  • Instead, from the closet where he'd hidden it, he retrieved the manila file.†   (source)
  • Some troops in World War II will have the honor of liberating Paris, others Manila.†   (source)
  • We can't just run off to Manila or Bangkok, or wherever!†   (source)
  • He held a manila file in his hands, and a moment later, I saw him glance at his watch.†   (source)
  • He felt like a child stumbling through the streets of Manila.†   (source)
  • At the bottom of the chest lay an old blackened machete he'd bought in one of Manila's back alleys.†   (source)
  • It's taken me ten years to make the break from Manila.†   (source)
  • He created citywide plans for Cleveland, San Francisco, and Manila and led the turn-of-the-century effort to resuscitate and expand L'Enfant's vision of Washington, D.C. In each case he worked without a fee.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he'd squatted for a moment, building a bowline into the manila, and heard the steam whistle of the passing freighter sounding low across the water.†   (source)
  • It's a three-strand manila rope in new condition with a fancy eye braided in at one end—braided in by hand, Mr. Hooks, the way Carl Heine was known to do them.†   (source)
  • We left Manila and entered the Pacific.†   (source)
  • On ships docked at Yokohama, in tents in Manila, and in stateside hospitals, former POWs were telling their stories.†   (source)
  • We sailed from Madras across the Bay of Bengal, down through the Strait of Malacca, around Singapore and up to Manila.†   (source)
  • The two of them would stoop or stand in the garden picking the seeds from the feathery spires of astilbes a few weeks past their prime, then sit at a garden table shaking the seeds clean and collecting them in small manila packets.†   (source)
  • Rumors eddied around camp: Manila had been captured, Germany had fallen, the Americans were about to charge the Japanese beaches.†   (source)
  • I put a message in the bottle: "Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila.†   (source)
  • With another American, he had escaped and embarked on an eight-and-a-half-hour swim across Manila Bay, kicking through a downpour in darkness as fish bit him.†   (source)
  • Ishmael recollected his father at work here, his neatly arranged manila folders spread out before him, his yellow legal pad laid off to his right, an array of heavily scrawled index cards, onionskin typing paper in both goldenrod and white, a thick dictionary on a stand, a thicker thesaurus, and a heavy black Underwood typewriter, the desk lamp pulled down low over the keys and his father blinking through his bifocals, slow and expressionless, absorbed in his words, afloat in that pool of soft light.†   (source)
  • On the second flight, to Manila, the plane was so overloaded with POWs that it nearly crashed just after takeoff, dipping so low that seawater sprayed the POWs' legs through gaps in the bomb bay floor.†   (source)
  • We were in Manila for two days, a question of fresh feed, new cargo and, we were told, the performing of routine maintenance work on the engines.†   (source)
  • He still wore the black ribbon on his hat as a sign of respect for the family, and he took pleasure in showing his affection for Ursula by bringing her exotic gifts: Portuguese sardines, Turkish rose marmalade, and on one occasion a lovely Manila shawl.†   (source)
  • Next to the photo was the manila file filled with information he'd compiled himself, on his own time.†   (source)
  • Manila, she said.†   (source)
  • He knew of the Indonesian island called Papua through a friend of his in Manila, David Lunlow, who attended Faith Academy.†   (source)
  • The church money arrives in bundled manila envelopes from Christian congregations called Presbyterian Glory, Heaven on Earth, Korean Fellowship of Devotion, Building Up The Christ, from Korean Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Evangelicals, even Lutherans.†   (source)
  • The Centers for Disease Control focused its efforts on trying to trace the source of the virus, and the trail eventually led back to the Ferlite Farms monkey-storage facility near Manila.†   (source)
  • Manila, Hong Kong ..."†   (source)
  • The doctor told my parents that if we had not come to Manila, Mom probably would not have survived my birth.†   (source)
  • But blocking the successive blows had left him exposed, and Kara had seen enough street fights in Manila to know that this was precisely what his attacker intended.†   (source)
  • The good doctor from Manila.†   (source)
  • Hazleton began buying more monkeys from the Philippines, from the same monkey house near Manila, and restocked the building with crab-eating monkeys that had been trapped in the rain forests of Mindanao.†   (source)
  • After living in Manila for a month, my family moved to General Santos City, on the more primitive southern island of Mindanao.†   (source)
  • Suddenly uneasy, she also spotted the manila file he'd mentioned before, the one filled with information he'd assembled after Missy died.†   (source)
  • That, and the fact that sometime while she'd been sleeping, Miles had quietly removed the pictures and the manila file that had cast their shadow over them the night before.†   (source)
  • The streets of Manila had taught her a few lessons as well, and his older sister could handle her-self surprisingly well.†   (source)
  • Fights in Manila as a teenager were one thing, but here in the States at the ripe age of twenty-five?†   (source)
  • The move was simply an inverted bicycle kick, but he hadn't executed it in half a dozen years, and this time his eyes weren't on a soccer ball tossed up by one of his Filipino friends in Manila.†   (source)
  • What do you think this is-Manila?†   (source)
  • I lived in Manila.†   (source)
  • He crunched up the Salinas Morning Journal and lighted it and dropped it in the stove, and when it flared up he dropped the manila envelopes on the flame, set the damper, and closed the stove.†   (source)
  • He had been at sea in his atomic-powered submarine on patrol between Kiska and Midway when the war began, and opening his sealed orders at the appropriate signal he submerged and set course for Manila at full cruising speed.†   (source)
  • She inserted it into one of the strong manila envelopes that the Bureau used to mail clippings in.†   (source)
  • Tokyo or Teheran, Manila or Muscat; people in his profession never knew what was coming.†   (source)
  • Then I sorted out the carbons, stamped on a byline, put the stuff in a couple of big manila envelopes and rang for a boy to take them to the Gare St. Lazare.†   (source)
  • Seville: it brings to the mind girls dancing with castanets, singing in gardens by the Guadalquivir, bull-fights, orange-blossom, mantillas, mantones de Manila.†   (source)
  • Hans and Pete moved along the bank, snubbing with a thin Manila rope from tree to tree, while Thornton remained in the boat, helping its descent by means of a pole, and shouting directions to the shore.†   (source)
  • Clearly he must have shifted the scene of his operations farther west, because a year later he plays an incredibly audacious, but not a very profitable part, in a serio-comic business in Manila Bay, in which a peculating governor and an absconding treasurer are the principal figures; thereafter he seems to have hung around the Philippines in his rotten schooner battling with un adverse fortune, till at last, running his appointed course, he sails into Jim's history, a blind accomplice…†   (source)
  • He was born with the Missouri Compromise and lay a-dying amid the echoes of Manila and El Caney: stirring times for living, times dark to look back upon, darker to look forward to.†   (source)
  • Maurice P. Dunlap[55] offers the following specimen of a conversation between two Americans long resident in Manila: Hola, amigo.†   (source)
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  • Roy's father clicked open his briefcase and removed a thick manila folder.†   (source)
  • She pulled out a long manila envelope, checked inside, then gingerly put it back again.†   (source)
  • Finally, he pulled out a densely packed manila folder full of messy papers, many of them bent and sticking out at odd angles.†   (source)
  • Plans "This just came," Ellie said the next day, walking to the back of the trailer with a thick manila envelope.†   (source)
  • Then she put the forms and the photocopy in a manila envelope addressed to the agency and mailed them off, fully expecting to hear nothing for weeks or months, or possibly ever.†   (source)
  • By then she's dug up the postcards, saved in an unsealed, unmarked manila envelope in the box where she keeps her tax returns, and read them, too, amazed that his words, the sight of his handwriting, still manage to discombobulate her.†   (source)
  • And a tall, stout African-American man with oversize glasses wearing a gray suit, holding a manila folder.†   (source)
  • Then, toward the end of the third day, I noticed a thick manila folder on my pillow.†   (source)
  • Beneath it is a manila envelope carrying my name across the front of it.†   (source)
  • He is wearing a trench coat and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses and is holding a manila folder full of official-looking papers.†   (source)
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  • A narrow manila envelope, slightly larger than letter size.†   (source)
  • On the table in a brown manila envelope were one hundred passports to safety.†   (source)
  • On Christmas morning, Mom came into my room and sat on my bed, handing over a large manila envelope.†   (source)
  • Now to get the key out of his pocket without dropping either the manila envelope containing the bound galleys or the sticks.†   (source)
  • "Do I have to go to court?" he asks when I hand him the manila envelope.†   (source)
  • Boney was even holding a paper coffee cup and a manila folder that looked like a prop.†   (source)
  • When at last they were alone in the bedroom, Cousin Hildebranda bolted the door with a crossbar and from under the straw matting of her bed took out a manila envelope sealed in wax with the emblem of the national telegraph.†   (source)
  • "I brought another set of applications," Edward told me then, holding up a stuffed manila envelope.†   (source)
  • Horace dropped it into a manila envelope.†   (source)
  • He'd be carrying something if he was going home-a briefcase or a manila envelope or something.†   (source)
  • Miss Greene crouched in front of a file cabinet behind her desk, tugged out a clean manila folder, and printed my name on the tab in black Magic Marker.†   (source)
  • Without comment, he gave her the manila envelope.†   (source)
  • After giving her the note—she seemed to know what it was about, but asked me to read it anyway, I guess to test my English—she slid out a manila folder from a squeaky steel cabinet and, with an "I know more than you" smile, handed me the records.†   (source)
  • Instead of answering she stands up and takes the manila folder away from the doctor and puts it back in the basket under her watch.†   (source)
  • He opened the little refrigerator where his father kept the film and took a cool manila envelope from the back.†   (source)
  • They're in my top desk drawer, in a manila envelope.†   (source)
  • He smiled a kind of "checkmate" smile and flipped open a manila folder that was about an inch thick with documents.†   (source)
  • I had a manila envelope in my hands, which I handed to her.†   (source)
  • Davenport stood and handed each man a manila envelope.†   (source)
  • He took some still frames out of a manila envelope and showed them to Brian.†   (source)
  • He placed a manila envelope into a pair of gnarled hands and watched Hoerni's face as he opened it.†   (source)
  • Oh, and this big one's yours," she said, sliding a large manila envelope out from under the calculus textbook she was carrying.†   (source)
  • Many of the conference papers she showed me last May are here as well as her diary and a bulging manila envelope full of letters.†   (source)
  • I opened my manila folder and took out the top photo.†   (source)
  • Pogie's handcuff key was tiny, shiny, formed from the fastener of a manila envelope.†   (source)
  • "The Philippine attache dropped off the report on rubber exports," she said, handing him a manila folder.†   (source)
  • When he got into the Honda, he saw the manila envelope on the passenger's seat.†   (source)
  • Without speaking he pulled open a drawer and took out the manila envelope that held his most recently developed prints.†   (source)
  • He held the thin manila folder in his hands and read the contents for the fifth time.†   (source)
  • Eduardo stepped behind his desk and pulled a manila folder from a drawer.†   (source)
  • The colonel reached for a large, thick manila envelope on his left.†   (source)
  • He was studying a sheet of onionskin covered with blurred typewriting—a carbon copy, obviously; the one and only item in an unmarked manila envelope.†   (source)
  • Dr. Raeburn said, flipping through a manila folder.†   (source)
  • He would smile and say, "Cong Giao, Cong Giao," and bow, and smile some more, and then go through his rucksack to find the pictures of Jesus Christ he carried in a brown manila folder.†   (source)
  • I was proud of it, it was a good beginning, and now I took it out of its manila folder and reread it for perhaps the ninetieth time.†   (source)
  • Kate arranged the pictures in four piles and slipped each pile into a heavy manila envelope.†   (source)
  • A manila folder on the table beside his bed caught his attention.†   (source)
  • But then Nels dropped the manila folder on the mattress, dropped it and stood directly over him.†   (source)
  • And the next morning Nels had come yet again, carrying a manila folder.†   (source)
  • Ishmael picked up a manila folder and turned it toward the lantern light.†   (source)
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