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  • On the other hand, he was also enjoying the ecstasy of an idea, not daring just yet to envision its complications, dangers, and vicious absurdities.†   (source)
  • Esperanza, on the other hand, wore a light silk dress that stopped above her summer boots, and no hat.†   (source)
  • Peeta Mellark, on the other hand, has obviously been crying and interestingly enough does not seem to be trying to cover it up.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I'm really excited.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, how could he help Lina if she was in the hands of the mayor's guards?†   (source)
  • You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.†   (source)
  • Neville Longbottom, on the other hand, greeted them cheerfully.†   (source)
  • Roland, on the other hand, was sent to be unwound.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I figured Mom would approve, since accepting it would make Billy feel good about himself.†   (source)
  • McCandless, on the other hand, went too far in the opposite direction.†   (source)
  • Rosaleen, on the other hand, was out here biding time till we got caught.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he sure did hate Sam Westing.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, she had an uncanny resistance to physical pain: if she burnt her mouth or cut herself, as a rule she didn't cry.†   (source)
  • "I don't know how to tell you this," he said, "but on the other hand, I don't like keeping secrets, either."†   (source)
  • But on the other hand, no tuatara.†   (source)
  • Francois's life of affluence in the Parisian suburbs, on the other hand, had left him itching for adventure.†   (source)
  • Yang, on the other hand, was nothing more than a typical intellectual of the period: cautious, timid, seeking only to protect himself.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, forcing them to stay outside was tantamount to a death sentence given the subzero temperatures.†   (source)
  • Although, on the other hand, since the beginning of time men in pursuit of wisdom had routinely retreated to mountaintops, caves, and cabins in the woods.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I had no idea what to do with those opportunities or any clue which opportunities served some long-term goal.†   (source)
  • In Lotte's homeland, on the other hand, daffodils and forsythia provided the first cheerful hints of spring.†   (source)
  • Brad, on the other hand, was relieved by the whole thing, and willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.†   (source)
  • Heroes, on the other hand, have certain privileges.†   (source)
  • This Son, on the other hand, who goes hungry, who suffers from thirst, who gets tired, who is sad, who is anxious, who is heckled and harassed, who has to put up with followers who don't get it and opponents who don't respect Him—what kind of a god is that?†   (source)
  • Legal visits, on the other hand, were "contact visits"—the two of us would be on the same side of the room to permit more privacy.†   (source)
  • Will, on the other hand, was a picture of stillness.†   (source)
  • My sister, on the other hand, tried to sabotage me any chance she got.†   (source)
  • My brother, on the other hand, has posters of "super models" and cars and beer and things like that on the walls in his room.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, they had never heard of Count Olaf and didn't know what he would be like.†   (source)
  • Minho, on the other hand, was a different story.†   (source)
  • "On the other hand," he went on, "there is Lee Adler.†   (source)
  • Celeste, on the other hand ...†   (source)
  • On the other hand he had the advantage of the prominently wounded and of any veteran whose war years are forever a mystery to the uninitiated.†   (source)
  • Dad, on the other hand, seemed more like those friends who had abandoned Erik, who now regretted ever getting involved with him in the first place.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it could have been an embolism, because your blood clots much more easily when you are lying down for a long time, like when you are in hospital.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, one of my father's favorite remarks about things in general was, "Less said about that, the better."†   (source)
  • Hanna, on the other hand, wore a skimpy black V-neck dress and black stockings.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, a pessimist was someone with expectations lower than reality, a fraction of diminishing returns.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the sight of how small and peculiar he was might have been an equal shock to my cousins.†   (source)
  • Jack, on the other hand, is Karen's twin incarnate, so he doesn't mind the cooking.†   (source)
  • His performance, on the other hand ....he didn't want to think about it.†   (source)
  • Miss Windbag, R.N. Phil Latham, on the other hand, hardly ever spoke.†   (source)
  • Evangeline, on the other hand, blushes white.†   (source)
  • Uzowulu and his relative, on the other hand, were whispering together.†   (source)
  • My father, on the other hand, was a stranger, someone I barely knew at all.†   (source)
  • The kaleidoscope, on the other hand, is rather a bad kaleidoscope.†   (source)
  • Now, Kate de Vries, on the other hand, was sensibly wearing flat-soled shoes.†   (source)
  • Kiki and Carlos, on the other hand, are patrol boys.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, we're rushing toward summer, which means shorts and T-shirts and maybe even a bathing suit now and then.†   (source)
  • Ugliness, on the other hand, had infinite variation.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I would not say he looked happy.†   (source)
  • George, on the other hand, was really enjoying dental school.†   (source)
  • Tita on the other hand had always been a good eater; she would eat anything.†   (source)
  • Kai, on the other hand, would be coronated next week.†   (source)
  • Rahel, on the other hand, was wide awake, fiercely vigilant and brittle with exhaustion from her battle against Real Life.†   (source)
  • And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise," said Frankie.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand: 'Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.'†   (source)
  • Foaly, on the other hand, delighted in antagonizing his superior.†   (source)
  • Grown-ups, on the other hand, paid me an uncomfortable amount of attention.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Margot is a lot shyer than I am, and yet she's not in the least embarrassed.†   (source)
  • The professionals, on the other hand, steadily increased their practice time every year, until by the age of twenty they, like the violinists, had reached ten thousand hours.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand — no. I lost their childhood.†   (source)
  • He, on the other hand, is most definitely not in-between.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand, I simply didn't care what "Old Maid" Aunt Mary thought of me.†   (source)
  • Dad on the other hand, didn't really date till college.†   (source)
  • I wasn't wanting to force it on him, but on the other hand it had occurred to me if we left it too long, just when we were starting out together again, it would just get harder and harder to make it a natural part of us.†   (source)
  • Rand, on the other hand, was literally losing his head; I half expected to see it shoot off his shoulders on a jack-in-the-box spring—cuck000000!†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I'd already been hit with two bullets; I was superstitious; I believed in the odds with the same passion that my friend Kiowa had once believed in Jesus Christ, or the way Mitchell Sanders believed in the power of morals.†   (source)
  • Charlie Turnbull, on the other hand, made it clear he didn't believe a word she said.†   (source)
  • My father, on the other hand, was at least as mad as me.†   (source)
  • My mother, on the other hand, never wanted to leave Mexico; she did it to be with Dad.†   (source)
  • Kate, on the other hand, had become a rock, busying herself making sure that everyone had everyone else's addresses and emails.†   (source)
  • We, on the other hand, had to continue.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if the patroller himself hadn't spread the word about me or taken revenge on Alice and her mother, maybe he was dead.†   (source)
  • My scientific education, on the other hand, was something less than stringent.†   (source)
  • I, on the other hand, only have to think about it for one more day.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, one thing Candor knows that Dauntless does not is how not to get carried away.†   (source)
  • Lori, on the other hand, was a hobbyist, motivated more by love of the breed than by profit.†   (source)
  • "I could say that, Reshi," Bast said smugly "You, on the other hand, would complicate things needlessly."†   (source)
  • On the other hand, enemy air raids were being stepped up.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Elsa and Sinita, just starting their third year at the university, are already getting offers from the best companies.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, maybe it was lucky my stomach was empty.†   (source)
  • Mommy, on the other hand, seemed unconcerned.†   (source)
  • Wily veterans, on the other hand, will absorb those details, or possibly overlook them, to find the patterns, the routines, the archetypes at work in the background.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, when you can't pay, it's a lot more humbling.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand, if you can believe I am in Africa, and I am, you can believe anything.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, you do command ancillaries and not vulgar human troops, which the old-fashioned deplore just as much as they deplore the scions of obscure, nobody houses getting assigned as officers.†   (source)
  • Perenelle, on the other hand, was one of the most powerful sorceresses he had ever encountered.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, maybe she was the reason the cheer squad was having a tougher year than usual.†   (source)
  • Hayden, on the other hand, knew that such a hodgepodge of materials would result in an aesthetic abomination.†   (source)
  • I, on the other hand, fell in love with each boy in my class in turn, in a kind of hopeless, regular rhythm.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, through his scope, the sniper becomes intimately familiar with his target, learning his lifestyle and habits, often over a period of time.†   (source)
  • Father, on the other hand, was probably all deeply gratified, just gratified up one side and down the other.†   (source)
  • On the other hand ...He plunged his left hand into his pocket and it came out holding the passkey.†   (source)
  • The Polish grenades, on the other hand, give a series of explosions.†   (source)
  • On the other hand the Greeks marveled at how live fish could come from water, and huge trees and brilliantly colored flowers could come from the dead earth.†   (source)
  • This girl, on the other hand, hails from New Jersey.†   (source)
  • On the other hand ...who was going to block Lawrence Taylor?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, his father had been a model Party member and a hero of the Great Patriotic War.†   (source)
  • Clara, on the other hand, was delighted with her daughter.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the Taliban, hidden all around in the hills, could scarcely miss me.†   (source)
  • The field at Indian Creek, on the other hand, was something like the refugees' town square.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, she might do very well and never have seizures again.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, this is something I have worked hard to put behind me and to write about it in such detail years later is difficult.†   (source)
  • I, on the other hand, felt like I was starring in my own chapter of Babies Are from Mars, Gaby Is from Venus.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino, on the other hand, loved it enough to see it with the eyes of truth.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the aboriginal people of Australia regarded as sacred the region and the flora around Ayers Rock.†   (source)
  • You, on the other hand, seem to observe nearly everything about whatever interests you.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I visited Tennessee on an unofficial visit my junior year and was excited to be there.†   (source)
  • Her yard, on the other hand, doesn't look much different now that their sad little tree is gone, the one that never quite grew.†   (source)
  • My father and I, on the other hand ... She hadn't forgotten her promise to Mr. Corrigan to write her father a letter.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he had been known to walk halfway across town, knock on a door and say sweetly to a surprised parent, "I hear there's a birthday boy in here."†   (source)
  • Brittain, on the other hand, is having blood pressure difficulty, and explodes.†   (source)
  • We, on the other hand, were descendants of Indians blessed with a color that was as necessary as dirt to the earth, as important as the sun to all the trees.†   (source)
  • Art, on the other hand, was the soul of understanding.†   (source)
  • I told myself maybe I should leave.... On the other hand, what if Vee was right and he was stalking me?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, there's little chance that it will be as mild as 1921, the warmest December on record.†   (source)
  • You're not exactly tall, and your lack of muscular definition, well ...Abby is, on the other hand—" "Yeah," Dan said, cutting him off.†   (source)
  • I, on the other hand, was all alone.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand ....I believe that the person who really deserves to go most of all is Grandpa Joe himself.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, my parents were both only children.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I didn't want Ice to really tear up Brothers.†   (source)
  • Fetlukov, on the other hand, grew lazier and lazier.†   (source)
  • On the other hand I'm not old, I haven't suffered an injury to the head and there's nothing in my family background except tipped uteruses.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, not too many of them get to do it.†   (source)
  • Jose, on the other hand, had no illusions.†   (source)
  • Adam, on the other hand, was most inspired by the stunt.†   (source)
  • And perhaps he didn't like these people very much, but, then, he didn't, on the other hand, know them.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, nudity at home is completely thinkable.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, suppose AIDS had been noticed?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the conventional wisdom in development circles is that women officeholders do make a difference at the local level, as mayors or school board members, where they often seem more attentive to the needs of women and children.†   (source)
  • Brad, on the other hand, looks fine.†   (source)
  • My mom and her current husband—my step-loser, John Heller—on the other hand, hated absolutely everything about me.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the dentist seemed more conscientious: he asked me to open my mouth wide.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I think as I walk away, that's quite a lot of new points on my Club Card.†   (source)
  • Perry, on the other hand, was without appetite; he subsisted on root beer, aspirin, and cigarettes.†   (source)
  • "On the other hand," she said, then stopped talking.†   (source)
  • If, on the other hand, you treat them with respect, love, and humanity ....†   (source)
  • You, on the other hand, Jason, may be the last great vestige of hope in our family.†   (source)
  • Her speech, on the other hand, is as careless as her carriage is precise—she is inclined to slur everything—but her voice is perhaps not so much quiet as simply soft) MAMA: Who that 'round here slamming doors at this hour?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.†   (source)
  • The Hat Creek outfit was hardly known as a trail-driving bunch, but on the other hand Captain Call was not a man to indulge in idle talk.†   (source)
  • Pecola, on the other hand, restricted by youth and sex, experimented with methods of endurance.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, she wouldn't be here if it weren't for the children.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, how much do you suppose he made in the short time he was croupier of his little Monte Carlo here on the ward?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it would be cool if I got two or three times the votes of the next-closest person.†   (source)
  • On the one hand everyone that could was packing up and getting away; and on the other hand country soldiers from the neighboring places came in from all sides.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, my French teacher is clearly illiterate.†   (source)
  • She, on the other hand, awoke with great reluctance with a desire to stave off the day by keeping her eyes closed.†   (source)
  • Romance, on the other hand, dilates upon their piety and heroism, and portrays, in her most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity.†   (source)
  • An animal, on the other hand, is dominated by one or more centers of experience.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the way the Dwarfs had behaved last night was a warning.†   (source)
  • St. Louis teachers, on the other hand, tended to act very siditty, and talked down to their students from the lofty heights of education and whitefolks' enunciation.†   (source)
  • And, on the other hand, a lovely-looking young woman being treated for drug-resistant tb, now in the midst of a sickle-cell crisis and moaning in pain.†   (source)
  • To treat him with courtesy, on the other hand, was unthinkable.†   (source)
  • On the other hand is a man who seems to have abandoned hope of ever having anything better, who prefers society's idea of punishment to his place in the society, said Ms.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he should see how you've suffered.†   (source)
  • On the other hand...if I hadn't said anything, would he ever have told me?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, she spouted optimism and I needed a dose of that right now.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the book didn't actually say the chaperone had to be alive, only present.†   (source)
  • You, on the other hand, are as big a fool as every other man.†   (source)
  • I, on the other hand, stayed on in Northampton, Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it was hard to believe that a man worth $20 million wouldn't have a nicer office.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he had fanatically ridiculed Eisenhower about Castro and knew he would look soft on communism if he did nothing to deter the brutal dictator.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if the gang is drawn by the noise of the window breaking, they would be fully occupied as soon as they saw the angel.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, his schooling was like almost everything else he tried.†   (source)
  • Jessica, of course, would believe me if I told her she was imagining things; Casey, on the other hand ...well, hopefully Casey was too absorbed in Mrs. Perkins's grammar lesson — ha, yeah, right!†   (source)
  • On the other hand, there seemed no point in taking particular pains to get hold of rabbits who were going to behave like Toadflax.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, even a big '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying children and their talking dog.†   (source)
  • This village, on the other hand, was very, very real.†   (source)
  • The day, on the other hand, could seem like a perpetual twilight.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Vlad wasn't entirely convinced that Henry's intentions were honorable.†   (source)
  • Isaiah, on the other hand, took his time and stared at me with sad eyes as he followed his best friend.†   (source)
  • On the other hand ....†   (source)
  • Laia, on the other hand, would be noticeable pretty much anywhere.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it is not only human but very American to delight in novelty, and our language bursts with it.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand, I guess I'd be willing to find out, if I had the chance.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Eddis couldn't cast an entire army to destruction trying to save one prisoner or the handful of prisoners Attolia held.†   (source)
  • I, on the other hand, was educated on a grand estate, the seventh pup of the seventh pup in an illustrious line of hunting dogs.†   (source)
  • Caroline, on the other hand, was playing Chopin by the time she was nine.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it was a proposal that blasphemed holy matrimony.†   (source)
  • A motorcycle mechanic, on the other hand, who honks the horn to see if the battery works is informally conducting a true scientific experiment.†   (source)
  • "Ambition is a wonderful force," he said, "but sometimes it can be blinding ....On the other hand, it can make you successful-like my father ...."†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if the stench of wine or whiskey was too pronounced, one took one's chances.†   (source)
  • Baldwin, on the other hand, had sat straight and still, watching the presenters and the judge, and only writing down a few occasional lines.†   (source)
  • The Communist Party's main aim, on the other hand, was to remove the capitalists and to replace them with a working-class government.†   (source)
  • Lee, on the other hand, wore a very elegant ice-blue suit, and the nerves that gave her her drive were evident in the hands that were never quite still.†   (source)
  • I, on the other hand, understood nothing.†   (source)
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