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  • 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)
  • Esperanza, on the other hand, wore a light silk dress that stopped above her summer boots, and no hat.†   (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)
  • Roland, on the other hand, was sent to be unwound.†   (source)
  • Neville Longbottom, on the other hand, greeted them cheerfully.†   (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)
  • Or, on the other hand, did we feel excluded?†   (source)
  • But on the other hand, I can understand it.†   (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)
  • On the other hand, we could also prosecute this case to its fullest extent.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I was hungry, starving in fact.†   (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)
  • Johann, on the other hand, resembled his German father.†   (source)
  • I can understand why someone would do a thing like that, but on the other hand, it bothers me.†   (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)
  • My sister, on the other hand, tried to sabotage me any chance she got.†   (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)
  • Heroes, on the other hand, have certain privileges.†   (source)
  • Celeste, on the other hand ...†   (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, 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)
  • Minho, on the other hand, was a different story.†   (source)
  • "On the other hand," he went on, "there is Lee Adler.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he didn't ask for it.†   (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)
  • The kaleidoscope, on the other hand, is rather a bad kaleidoscope.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, they had never heard of Count Olaf and didn't know what he would be like.†   (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)
  • Mrs. Brinker-Smith, on the other hand, appeared a trifle tired.†   (source)
  • His performance, on the other hand ....he didn't want to think about it.†   (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)
  • On the other hand, a pessimist was someone with expectations lower than reality, a fraction of diminishing returns.†   (source)
  • Hanna, on the other hand, wore a skimpy black V-neck dress and black stockings.†   (source)
  • Miss Windbag, R.N. Phil Latham, on the other hand, hardly ever spoke.†   (source)
  • Evangeline, on the other hand, blushes white.†   (source)
  • Ugliness, on the other hand, had infinite variation.†   (source)
  • Jack, on the other hand, is Karen's twin incarnate, so he doesn't mind the cooking.†   (source)
  • Uzowulu and his relative, on the other hand, were whispering together.†   (source)
  • We, on the other hand, had to continue.†   (source)
  • Kiki and Carlos, on the other hand, are patrol boys.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I would not say he looked happy.†   (source)
  • Now, Kate de Vries, on the other hand, was sensibly wearing flat-soled shoes.†   (source)
  • Kai, on the other hand, would be coronated next week.†   (source)
  • He, on the other hand, is most definitely not in-between.†   (source)
  • Tita on the other hand had always been a good eater; she would eat anything.†   (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)
  • My father, on the other hand, was a stranger, someone I barely knew at all.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand: 'Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.'†   (source)
  • George, on the other hand, was really enjoying dental school.†   (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)
  • Grown-ups, on the other hand, paid me an uncomfortable amount of attention.†   (source)
  • Peter, on the other hand, could only make them fear what he wanted them to fear.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Margot is a lot shyer than I am, and yet she's not in the least embarrassed.†   (source)
  • I, on the other hand, only have to think about it for one more day.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand — no. I lost their childhood.†   (source)
  • Rahel, on the other hand, was wide awake, fiercely vigilant and brittle with exhaustion from her battle against Real Life.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Foaly, on the other hand, delighted in antagonizing his superior.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But on the other hand, I simply didn't care what "Old Maid" Aunt Mary thought of me.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, maybe it was lucky my stomach was empty.†   (source)
  • Dad on the other hand, didn't really date till college.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, one thing Candor knows that Dauntless does not is how not to get carried away.†   (source)
  • On the other hand ...He plunged his left hand into his pocket and it came out holding the passkey.†   (source)
  • My father, on the other hand, was at least as mad as me.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, when you can't pay, it's a lot more humbling.†   (source)
  • "I could say that, Reshi," Bast said smugly "You, on the other hand, would complicate things needlessly."†   (source)
  • My scientific education, on the other hand, was something less than stringent.†   (source)
  • Mommy, on the other hand, seemed unconcerned.†   (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)
  • Lori, on the other hand, was a hobbyist, motivated more by love of the breed than by profit.†   (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 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)
  • 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, enemy air raids were being stepped up.†   (source)
  • On the other hand ...who was going to block Lawrence Taylor?†   (source)
  • Perenelle, on the other hand, was one of the most powerful sorceresses he had ever encountered.†   (source)
  • The Polish grenades, on the other hand, give a series of explosions.†   (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)
  • On the other hand, I didn't want Ice to really tear up Brothers.†   (source)
  • Charlie Turnbull, on the other hand, made it clear he didn't believe a word she said.†   (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, maybe she was the reason the cheer squad was having a tougher year than usual.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • On the other hand, Elsa and Sinita, just starting their third year at the university, are already getting offers from the best companies.†   (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, the Taliban, hidden all around in the hills, could scarcely miss me.†   (source)
  • Hayden, on the other hand, knew that such a hodgepodge of materials would result in an aesthetic abomination.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, his father had been a model Party member and a hero of the Great Patriotic War.†   (source)
  • The field at Indian Creek, on the other hand, was something like the refugees' town square.†   (source)
  • This girl, on the other hand, hails from New Jersey.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, she might do very well and never have seizures again.†   (source)
  • Aureliano, on the other hand, took a step forward and put his hand on it, withdrawing it immediately.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I visited Tennessee on an unofficial visit my junior year and was excited to be there.†   (source)
  • Brittain, on the other hand, is having blood pressure difficulty, and explodes.†   (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, Jason, may be the last great vestige of hope in our family.†   (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, my parents were both only children.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, there's little chance that it will be as mild as 1921, the warmest December on record.†   (source)
  • "Dan, on the other hand, already looks middle-aged," Jordan continued, chuckling again.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand ....I believe that the person who really deserves to go most of all is Grandpa Joe himself.†   (source)
  • You, on the other hand, seem to observe nearly everything about whatever interests you.†   (source)
  • Art, on the other hand, was the soul of understanding.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Fetlukov, on the other hand, grew lazier and lazier.†   (source)
  • Clara, on the other hand, was delighted with her daughter.†   (source)
  • I, on the other hand, was all alone.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The girl, on the other hand, was all angles, bone, muscle, jaw; even her breasts seemed stony.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, suppose AIDS had been noticed?†   (source)
  • I told myself maybe I should leave.... On the other hand, what if Vee was right and he was stalking me?†   (source)
  • Jose, on the other hand, had no illusions.†   (source)
  • Her daughter, on the other hand, despised it.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the dentist seemed more conscientious: he asked me to open my mouth wide.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Pecola, on the other hand, restricted by youth and sex, experimented with methods of endurance.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either.†   (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)
  • 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, leaving it all to his housekeeper is hard to figure.†   (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)
  • On the other hand, nudity at home is completely thinkable.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, my French teacher is clearly illiterate.†   (source)
  • Perry, on the other hand, was without appetite; he subsisted on root beer, aspirin, and cigarettes.†   (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)
  • Brad, on the other hand, looks fine.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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, there seemed no point in taking particular pains to get hold of rabbits who were going to behave like Toadflax.†   (source)
  • If, on the other hand, you treat them with respect, love, and humanity ....†   (source)
  • On the other hand, she wouldn't be here if it weren't for the children.†   (source)
  • Adam, on the other hand, was most inspired by the stunt.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the way the Dwarfs had behaved last night was a warning.†   (source)
  • She, on the other hand, awoke with great reluctance with a desire to stave off the day by keeping her eyes closed.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, his schooling was like almost everything else he tried.†   (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)
  • I, on the other hand, stayed on in Northampton, Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, not too many of them get to do it.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it would be cool if I got two or three times the votes of the next-closest person.†   (source)
  • Laia, on the other hand, would be noticeable pretty much anywhere.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, she spouted optimism and I needed a dose of that right now.†   (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)
  • On the other hand, the book didn't actually say the chaperone had to be alive, only present.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, a young knight's repute derived at least in part from the honor of the man who conferred knighthood on him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • To treat him with courtesy, on the other hand, was unthinkable.†   (source)
  • The day, on the other hand, could seem like a perpetual twilight.†   (source)
  • Fredi, on the other hand, was spending his free time hanging out at Justus's workshop with teenagers who were building strange and often useless contraptions.†   (source)
  • Natalie, on the other hand, shined at me like I'd hung the sun.†   (source)
  • This village, on the other hand, was very, very real.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I think as I walk away, that's quite a lot of new points on my Club Card.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Vlad wasn't entirely convinced that Henry's intentions were honorable.†   (source)
  • You, on the other hand, must be forgiven your ignorance.†   (source)
  • On the other hand...if I hadn't said anything, would he ever have told me?†   (source)
  • Drew, on the other hand, is another story.†   (source)
  • An animal, on the other hand, is dominated by one or more centers of experience.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he had not experienced a single moment of tiredness or loss of concentration.†   (source)
  • Caroline, on the other hand, was playing Chopin by the time she was nine.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if the stench of wine or whiskey was too pronounced, one took one's chances.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, even a big '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying children and their talking dog.†   (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)
  • "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, he should see how you've suffered.†   (source)
  • Danny, on the other hand, had his daily Talmud goal increased to three blatt by his father.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • On the other hand, it was a proposal that blasphemed holy matrimony.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, something inside Jess felt as if Dess was actually trying to communicate with her.†   (source)
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