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  • Moreover, he appeared to trust her, more perhaps than he trusted Jimmy.†   (source)
  • I assured him I was naturally hard—very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character … he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Kit had soon discovered that Mercy was the pivot about whom the whole household moved.†   (source)
  • Leadership was in her blood, and once she joined the army, she began a rapid ascent through powerful positions until she arrived at the top; moreover, she was coming back happily married to Juan.†   (source)
  • It is moreover his command that Lord Slynt be seated immediately upon his small council, to assist in the governance of the realm.†   (source)
  • Certainly no one could attack him here—and moreover he had a stroke of luck.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I've read a lot of Korner plays.†   (source)
  • It was Andy who had talked me into sneaking over and scattering them in defiance of the city rule, scattering them moreover in that particular spot: well, I mean, it's where she used to meet us.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the Mara Salvatrucha street gangsters, some deported from Los Angeles, always prowl the train tops looking for sleepers.†   (source)
  • He doubted, moreover, that enough time remained for anyone to do the fair justice.†   (source)
  • Moreover, is every trip really a quest?†   (source)
  • Moreover, I could not claim to be opposed to war as a matter of general principle.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the tremendous success of the fast food industry has encouraged other industries to adopt similar business methods.†   (source)
  • Moreover, my planning for the event was complicated by the uncertainty as to the numbers involved.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the Poles made common cause with us against the German overseers and gave us a hand.†   (source)
  • Moreover, a clandestine life shared with a man who was never completely hers, and in which they often knew the sudden explosion of happiness, did not seem to her a condition to be despised.†   (source)
  • Moreover, you discover that the highway maps are often inaccurate about county roads.†   (source)
  • Moreover, everything can be divided into even smaller parts, but even in the minutest parts there are fragments of all other things.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he found misanthropy an excellent means of developing character: when he subdued his revulsion and occasionally touched, helped, counseled, or befriended somebody, he was able to think of his behavior as generous and his intentions as noble.†   (source)
  • Moreover the pane of a window could itself become shrapnel so easily, shattered by a nearby blast, and everyone had heard of someone or other who had bled out after being lacerated by shards of flying glass.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the reputation of her six mean children and the fact that she was a precinct captain compounded her power and gave her the leverage to deal with even the lowest crook without fear.†   (source)
  • Moreover, most Haitians don't like being out in the rain.†   (source)
  • Moreover, it would be of no use to Roran, as too little grew or lived on Helgrind to fuel a man's body.†   (source)
  • It was smaller than the Kidwell's, and, moreover, he shared it with a wife, three active children, and a perpetually functioning television set.†   (source)
  • The doctors had felt that it would be criminal to release her into the custody of the man who was the principal reason for her breakdown, and who had, moreover, no legal claim on her.†   (source)
  • Moreover, it was a house that because of its size and expense seemed somehow inappropriate for a leader of the people.†   (source)
  • Professing myself, moreover, convinced that the General's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern….†   (source)
  • Moreover, a section of this room, for it is not really a room unto itself, though the landlord's lease would make it seem so, slopes backward to provide a small kitchen area, where the family prepares the meals that are eaten in the living room proper, which must also serve as dining room.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Johnnie is in no crying need of mere schooling.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the nest was less than fifty feet from his bedroom window—which he intended to keep open— so he was confident he'd hear something if Ronnie ran into trouble.†   (source)
  • Moreover, studies have shown that an unemployment decline of 1 percentage point accounts for a 1 percent drop in nonviolent crime.†   (source)
  • Moreover, for Russians the island of Cuba was as exotic as Tahiti, a promised land of white sand beaches and dusky girls.†   (source)
  • It was true that the man was a dreadful gossip, and a gossip, moreover, who had scant materials to work with.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the contrast with Mumbai was misleading, because southern and western India had always had far higher HIV rates than northern and eastern India.†   (source)
  • The head guard took responsibility for paying the guards; moreover, he had responsibility for their lives.†   (source)
  • Moreover, they obligingly took up the names, the clothing, the religion, and the rules and regulations of their exploiters.†   (source)
  • Moreover, several-fairies are Likely to be present.†   (source)
  • He believed, moreover, that Adam's virile member could be made to rise like an arm or a leg, when and as its owner wished.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I was a good eight feet away from where Shiva was getting bandaged.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I was taught that bodies come in all shapes, colors, and sizes, and that everyone was struggling in some way with their physical inadequacies.†   (source)
  • And no doubt the sort of person who would buy a flier with no documentation, no proof of ownership—a flier, moreover, that had obviously been deliberately disabled to prevent its being moved by anyone but the owner—it might very well be a good idea to avoid confronting such a person.†   (source)
  • There were, moreover, near sixty women and children on board, the widows and children of men who were slain.†   (source)
  • Moreover, my gowns are crafted by the finest San Francisco seamstresses and fashioned to designs created by Paul Poiret himself, and that all of this was at your request.†   (source)
  • Moreover, she had all but succeeded in that objective when she struck him in the face with an axe.†   (source)
  • She was left, moreover, in dreadful circumstances, for George Wick-ford had to his name little but the mine.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I was reluctant to admit the flaw in the tidy, familiar orthodoxy I had been taught.†   (source)
  • Moreover, she could hardly settle for a ransom she'd already refused.†   (source)
  • ...the land of Narnia was covered with ice and snow and was moreover ruled by a most powerful enchantress.†   (source)
  • Moreover, schools of writing have never been more popular.†   (source)
  • We in the house of Denethor know much ancient lore by long tradition, and there are moreover in our treasuries many things preserved: books and tablets writ on withered parchments, yea, and on stone, and on leaves of silver and of gold, in divers characters.†   (source)
  • Moreover, officers are less overrepresented in the Union sample than in the Confederate: 35 percent of the Union sample were officers for at least half of their service, compared with 47 percent of the Confederate sample.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Socrates suggests to the jury, if Critias really understood his words, he never would have gone on the bloody rampage that he did in 404-403.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Authority had useful functions.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states.†   (source)
  • Moreover, she had worked a twenty-four-hour shift with Natalie that week, and the two women had shared a gossipy dinner during which Natalie made no mention of any pending leave of absence.†   (source)
  • As the light grew stronger I even began to suspect that I had muffed an opportunity — one which might, moreover, never again recur.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Karellen took no action against those responsible, or even indicated that he had known of the attack.†   (source)
  • She squirmed at the idea of revealing her secret—even to Blackstock, a professional man and, moreover, a person in whom she knew she could confide.†   (source)
  • Charley and I stayed at the grandest auto court we could find that night, a place only the rich could afford, a pleasure dome of ivory and apes and peacocks and moreover with a restaurant, and room service.†   (source)
  • And one, moreover—as she confided in her next letter—who referred to himself as "Kid Muscles."†   (source)
  • Moreover, as long as he kept what he knew to himself, there was the danger of his father's getting foolishly involved.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this Nation's first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000.†   (source)
  • Moreover, a little to my left and back of me there was a saddle about six or seven hundred feet higher than where I now lay.†   (source)
  • The two boys were playing the most terrible and adult of games, war; moreover, participation in this particular war was punishable by deportation and hanging.†   (source)
  • But by now they were really worn out with laughter; moreover, images of the dead body beside the capsized automobile began to dart in their minds, and then to become cold, immense, and immovable; and they began fully to realize, as well, how shamefully they had treated the deaf woman.†   (source)
  • Moreover, stocks of aviation fuel had to be husbanded so carefully that training programmes had been reduced to virtually nil, so that it now seemed inexpedient to carry on the Fleet Air Arm at all.†   (source)
  • So we ate with easy conscience, for I would not like to have taken from the store of a family who were for all their kindness only strangers to us, and who moreover had enough mouths of their own to feed.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I question whether any Senator, before we vote on a measure, can state with certainty exactly how the majority of his constituents feel on the issue as it is presented to the Senate.†   (source)
  • Moreover, cars were strictly limited to the skyways.†   (source)
  • Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was that he hated her.   (source)
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  • Moreover it was filled with a sort of exaltation, a lunatic intensity.   (source)
  • Moreover his varicose ulcer had begun itching unbearably.   (source)
  • In the end they finished the harvest in two days' less time than it had usually taken Jones and his men. Moreover, it was the biggest harvest that the farm had ever seen.   (source)
    moreover = in addition
  • The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club.   (source)
    moreover = in addition to what has just been said
  • Moreover, no fighting ever occurs except in the disputed areas round the Equator and the Pole: no invasion of enemy territory is ever undertaken.   (source)
  • Moreover, the labour of the exploited peoples round the Equator is not really necessary to the world's economy.   (source)
  • As usual, the voice had battered Winston into helplessness. Moreover he was in dread that if he persisted in his disagreement O'Brien would twist the dial again.   (source)
  • Moreover, to be efficient it was necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly accurate idea of what had happened in the past.   (source)
  • She was used to judging people by their faces, and it seemed natural to her that Winston should believe O'Brien to be trustworthy on the strength of a single flash of the eyes. Moreover she took it for granted that everyone, or nearly everyone, secretly hated the Party and would break the rules if he thought it safe to do so.   (source)
  • It conflicted with the tendency towards mechanization which had become quasi-instinctive throughout almost the whole world, and moreover, any country which remained industrially backward was helpless in a military sense and was bound to be dominated, directly or indirectly, by its more advanced rivals.   (source)
  • And, moreover, is there not a quality of awful sacredness in the relation between this mother and this child?   (source)
  • Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.   (source)
  • Moreover, at a proper season, the tithing-men must take heed that she go both to school and to meeting.   (source)
  • At another window of the same house, moreover appeared old Mistress Hibbins, the Governor's sister, also with a lamp, which even thus far off revealed the expression of her sour and discontented face.   (source)
  • And, I conceive moreover, that the hearts holding such miserable secrets as you speak of, will yield them up, at that last day, not with reluctance, but with a joy unutterable.   (source)
  • The entire array, moreover, clad in burnished steel, and with plumage nodding over their bright morions, had a brilliancy of effect which no modern display can aspire to equal.   (source)
  • Behold, verily, there is the woman of the scarlet letter: and of a truth, moreover, there is the likeness of the scarlet letter running along by her side!   (source)
  • The angel and apostle of the coming revelation must be a woman, indeed, but lofty, pure, and beautiful, and wise; moreover, not through dusky grief, but the ethereal medium of joy; and showing how sacred love should make us happy, by the truest test of a life successful to such an end.   (source)
  • On this eventful day, moreover, there was a certain singular inquietude and excitement in her mood, resembling nothing so much as the shimmer of a diamond, that sparkles and flashes with the varied throbbings of the breast on which it is displayed.   (source)
  • Knowing what this poor fallen man had once been, her whole soul was moved by the shuddering terror with which he had appealed to her--the outcast woman--for support against his instinctively discovered enemy. She decided, moreover, that he had a right to her utmost aid.   (source)
  • It was, moreover, a separate and insulated event, to occur but once in her lifetime, and to meet which, therefore, reckless of economy, she might call up the vital strength that would have sufficed for many quiet years.   (source)
  • This bright panoply was not meant for mere idle show, but had been worn by the Governor on many a solemn muster and training field, and had glittered, moreover, at the head of a regiment in the Pequod war.   (source)
  • There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its volume of tone.   (source)
  • There were others again, true saintly fathers, whose faculties had been elaborated by weary toil among their books, and by patient thought, and etherealised, moreover, by spiritual communications with the better world, into which their purity of life had almost introduced these holy personages, with their garments of mortality still clinging to them.   (source)
  • In his Indian captivity, moreover, he had gained much knowledge of the properties of native herbs and roots; nor did he conceal from his patients that these simple medicines, Nature's boon to the untutored savage, had quite as large a share of his own confidence as the European Pharmacopoeia, which so many learned doctors had spent centuries in elaborating.   (source)
  • In fine, the gossips of that day believed—and Mr. Surveyor Pue, who made investigations a century later, believed—and one of his recent successors in office, moreover, faithfully believes—that Pearl was not only alive, but married, and happy, and mindful of her mother; and that she would most joyfully have entertained that sad and lonely mother at her fireside.   (source)
  • Heretofore, the mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze, which spends its time in airy sport, and has its gusts of inexplicable passion, and is petulant in its best of moods, and chills oftener than caresses you, when you take it to your bosom; in requital of which misdemeanours it will sometimes, of its own vague purpose, kiss your cheek with a kind of doubtful tenderness, and play gently with your hair, and then be gone about its other idle business, leaving a dreamy pleasure at your heart.  And this, moreover, was a mother's estimate of the child's disposition.   (source)
  • But then, what reams of other manuscripts—filled, not with the dulness of official formalities, but with the thought of inventive brains and the rich effusion of deep hearts—had gone equally to oblivion; and that, moreover, without serving a purpose in their day, as these heaped-up papers had, and—saddest of all—without purchasing for their writers the comfortable livelihood which the clerks of the Custom-House had gained by these worthless scratchings of the pen.   (source)
  • Then, moreover, as regarded his unceremonious ejectment, the late Surveyor was not altogether ill-pleased to be recognised by the Whigs as an enemy; since his inactivity in political affairs—his tendency to roam, at will, in that broad and quiet field where all mankind may meet, rather than confine himself to those narrow paths where brethren of the same household must diverge from one another—had sometimes made it questionable with his brother Democrats whether he was a friend.   (source)
  • Moreover, the speck in the canister was invisible, microscopic.†   (source)
  • Moreover, to Harry's amazement, he turned out to be quite right.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he knew that there was something he had to say.†   (source)
  • Moreover, his wife has become accustomed to a luxurious way of life.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Langdon knew, this little pyramid—with its flat top—was not even a true pyramid.†   (source)
  • Moreover, they had a hostage and could not take public transportation.†   (source)
  • And moreover to tell you, that I'm really, really trying to get it back.†   (source)
  • Moreover he had access to the authors, who were members of the department.†   (source)
  • Moreover, high levels of Salmonella in ground beef indicate high levels of fecal contamination.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he carried a gleaming new rifle.†   (source)
  • Moreover, your guess is as good as mine when it comes to what it means.†   (source)
  • Moreover, some of the truckers fear that migrants might assault them.†   (source)
  • Moreover, you can be assured my Recruiters would come for you.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Cuba seemed to have mostly abandoned its campaign to change the world by exporting troops.†   (source)
  • All that space, moreover, was to be lit inside and out with electric lamps.†   (source)
  • None of the climbs I'd done in the past, moreover, had taken me to even moderately high altitude.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the turnover rates for both jobs are among the highest in the American economy.†   (source)
  • Moreover, one of them stays mounted with a rifle slung across his lap.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the two nations that control access to the peak-Nepal and China-are staggeringly poor.†   (source)
  • Moreover, all the access codes were five-digit.†   (source)
  • And moreover, every single one of us is a unique individual who only lives once.†   (source)
  • Moreover, dots would amplify already existing drug resistance.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the confidentiality had been her brother's idea.†   (source)
  • Moreover the knots I'd chosen weren't even a matched pair: one purple, the other blue.†   (source)
  • It is moreover more than the sum of its citizens.†   (source)
  • Leapfrogging past others, moreover, was not only nerve-racking but exhausting.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the abbey had a series of sprawling cloisters attached.†   (source)
  • Moreover, his message is not one of love and universal brotherhood.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the rest of the characters can be interpreted using the Roman alphabet—SBB.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the cups were tiny, stemless, and made of glass.†   (source)
  • Moreover, there just aren't that many villanelles in the world for us to see them very often.†   (source)
  • He moreover refused to inform on his political enemies.†   (source)
  • They could count on their readers, moreover, having considerable training in the tradition.†   (source)
  • Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal—because nothing can come from nothing.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he discovered that the planet Jupiter had four moons.†   (source)
  • This Christian view was moreover in harmony with the teachings of Plato and Aristotle.†   (source)
  • Moreover, labor now belongs to the workers themselves and capitalism's alienation ceases.†   (source)
  • Moreover, there are plants and animals which reproduce by budding or by simple cell division.†   (source)
  • He is very good-tempered—and moreover, a good deal more intelligent than a lot of people.†   (source)
  • Moreover, it can be so dangerous to sayit in public that it can cost you your life.†   (source)
  • Moreover she could not for the life of her see what Lego could possibly have to do with philosophy.†   (source)
  • It is, moreover, 'imperative,' which means it is commanding and therefore absolutely authoritative.†   (source)
  • Moreover, having once been attained, it can never be lost.†   (source)
  • It is round and yellow and gives light to the whole room; and hangeth moreover from the roof.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the apparition gave Eragon strength and speed equal to those of the elves themselves.†   (source)
  • Moreover, she found it ridiculously easy to imagine a life with Logan.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he is a thousand leagues away, with whatever meagre strength he still commands.†   (source)
  • Moreover, it is said that a number of Burundian Hutu refugees joined in killing Rwandan Tutsis.†   (source)
  • Moreover, whatever you and I may think of Cersei, my father and brother hold her dear.†   (source)
  • Moreover, you will prove to your detractors that we cannot trust a Dragon Rider.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he saw no necessity to be constantly present, as Adams had.†   (source)
  • Moreover, even the best precautions might fail.†   (source)
  • Moreover, his attitude toward the crime made it, as he later said, "a personal proposition."†   (source)
  • Moreover, the silent black man, Frog, had a very fast horse.†   (source)
  • Moreover, black children didn't measure up even when controlling for a wide array of variables.†   (source)
  • Moreover, we were tired, and the prospect of starting to travel on foot was far from attractive.†   (source)
  • Moreover, it would take an impractically long time.†   (source)
  • Moreover, recent disorders showed that Authority had been too lenient.†   (source)
  • Moreover, there is no corresponding activity whatever in their other armed services.†   (source)
  • Moreover, microfinance hasn't worked nearly so well in Africa as it has in Asia.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the encouraging trend was maintained.†   (source)
  • Moreover, it is high time we had some proper light in here.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Camfed has avoided the cult of personality that afflicts some aid groups.†   (source)
  • Moreover, if the KGB discovers the truth, will they want to report it?†   (source)
  • Many of the jurors, moreover, were "well acquainted with the deceased.†   (source)
  • Dutch banks, moreover, held substantial loans to Britain.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the character of the noise will be different from what we're used to.†   (source)
  • The warriors detested the labor, but it kept them busy and, moreover, it might save their lives.†   (source)
  • Moreover, a girl named Hou Yifan may be the greatest talent ever in women's chess.†   (source)
  • Moreover you are a friend of Mithrandir.†   (source)
  • Moreover, our people do not have undertakers.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I had narrow hips, which would be a help.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the men are worried about their families who are fleeing from the Whites.†   (source)
  • Moreover, to take any further action he would have to see the Observatory librarian.†   (source)
  • It was, moreover, a struggle between Executive and Legislative116 authority.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I saw you in the reading room.†   (source)
  • Moreover, somewhere he had boxed a little, stand-up, amateur style.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he had begun to fear he might be an accessory to a complicated suicide.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I was sentenced under a different article, so the conditions were quite different.†   (source)
  • Moreover, a limited land area made it impossible for too many people to live in the Colony.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the patient must go to the hospital.†   (source)
  • Moreover, it's a great relief to listen to you.†   (source)
  • He had recently spent nine months in what he had thought was Mad-Eye Moody's company only to find out that it wasn't Moody at all, but an impostor; an impostor, moreover, who had tried to kill Harry before being unmasked.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Masonry is open to men of all races, colors, and creeds, and provides a spiritual fraternity that does not discriminate in any way.†   (source)
  • Moreover, I agree that readers are often poorly served when an author writes as an act of catharsis, as I have done here.†   (source)
  • Moreover, it had seemed the right destiny for him since he had heard the prophecy a few weeks ago… Neither can live while the other survives…Wouldn't he be living up to the prophecy, and giving himself the best chance of survival, if he joined those highly trained wizards whose job it was to find and kill Voldemort?†   (source)
  • Moreover, she was very particular — A gentleman of quiet habits, if willing to take meals elsewhere, her notice had read.†   (source)
  • Moreover, when Miss Kenton and I questioned her, it became clear that she had never remained in any position for longer than a few weeks.†   (source)
  • Could Uncle Willie, a Black man, Southern, crippled moreover, hope to answer the questions, both asked and unuttered?†   (source)
  • Moreover, the crowd in the mysterious room at the bottom of the basin was comprised of adults, and Harry knew there were not nearly that many teachers at Hogwarts.†   (source)
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