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  • The hamster gets adopted by Christine"—who was one of Anna's presickness friends.†   (source)
  • "Listen," he said, adopting a confidential tone.†   (source)
  • With five natural siblings, plus one adopted, and three that arrived "by stork," Lev was exactly one-tenth.†   (source)
  • So I asked Alex if I could adopt him, if he would be my grandson.†   (source)
  • He ordered the men to do push-ups for about twenty minutes, then adopt the Ofuna crouch.†   (source)
  • Once in a while I had us living in a foreign country like New York, where she could adopt me and we could both stay our natural color.†   (source)
  • He was adopted, from an orphanage.†   (source)
  • The stray seemed just contrary enough to come back after wintering with some adopted family.†   (source)
  • I'm going to adopt you, Large!†   (source)
  • This is not an Iranian tradition, but any ritual that might lead to finding a husband is quickly and readily adopted into my culture.†   (source)
  • Opening my eyes, I saw Lauren sitting on a chair next to the bed, wrapped up in a flower-patterned synthetic blanket she'd adopted.†   (source)
  • The Count cleared his throat and adopted a more serious tone.†   (source)
  • Dad gave me up for adoption when I was six.†   (source)
  • I was adopted in England.†   (source)
  • The lower half of his face was shrouded by the long beard that he'd grown, an outward sign of the Islamic faith he'd adopted in prison.†   (source)
  • For nearly a year now, she has been talking about adoption.†   (source)
  • If they were old enough to adopt a snake, she told my brothers, they were old enough to clean their own room.†   (source)
  • Scared and depressed, the thirty-four-year-old hid her pregnancy and hoped to secretly put the child up for adoption.†   (source)
  • But she just looked a bit surprised, and then adopted that tense expression that meant she was already imagining all sorts of possible and undesirable consequences.†   (source)
  • In this case, Langdon had entirely forgotten that the peaceful, equal-armed cross had been adopted as the perfect symbol for the flag of neutral Switzerland.†   (source)
  • Instead he adopted an oily voice that was no better than his cackle.†   (source)
  • On the day you adopted me.†   (source)
  • Tensions rose, but peace prevailed, largely because of the tireless efforts of a forward-thinking mayor, Malcolm Maclean, and a nonviolent strategy adopted by black leaders, notably W. W. Law, the head of the local branch of the NAACP.†   (source)
  • And sure, Oscar was only an adopted stray mutt, but he was the only living thing that I could depend on.†   (source)
  • I'm adopted.†   (source)
  • Etienne adopts a British accent.†   (source)
  • Once in Poland and then again here—his adopted family.†   (source)
  • "Put me up for adoption," he says.†   (source)
  • He said, "You get a good breeding line of your own going and you can put those babies up for adoption.†   (source)
  • Mr. Benedict is adopting Constance, eh?†   (source)
  • You must be adopted by a relative.†   (source)
  • You're a style leader, early adopter, all that.†   (source)
  • But Lula been adopted already.†   (source)
  • You're going to the academy, if I have to adopt you.†   (source)
  • Wylie said that Duff was adopted.†   (source)
  • I wish I were adopted.†   (source)
  • Wah's adopted brother.'†   (source)
  • At chapel the day following the heaviest snowfall, two hundred volunteers were solicited to spend the day shoveling them out, as part of the Emergency Usefulness policy adopted by the faculty that fall.†   (source)
  • It's easier to keep up the irreverent, invincible manner we've all adopted when there are more of us.†   (source)
  • Conscious of her mother watching her, Cecilia adopted an expression of amused curiosity as she unfolded the sheet.†   (source)
  • " That was the night he decided to "go for it," as he put it, which is a phrase I have personally detested ever since a bank I used to work for adopted the slogan for its employee productivity contest.†   (source)
  • She adopted me.†   (source)
  • They adopted many of the techniques that Mohandas Gandhi had used to liberate India from British rule.†   (source)
  • Now I know Vietnamese, and I know that Vietnamese is not what Herman Jade, who owned Hop Fat, was, and that Herman Jade was not Herman Jade's real name but one he adopted when he came to the U.S. from China.†   (source)
  • When he adopted me.†   (source)
  • No foster parent will adopt a child whose past has been tainted by the disease.†   (source)
  • You shoulda stayed single, put the child up for adoption, and you'd be a free woman today.†   (source)
  • Who knows how she adopted that resolution or how it affected her; as the years went by, the poor thing went completely out of her mind.†   (source)
  • My mother and father also adopted this saying as a tool of survival, perhaps as a way of keeping darker thoughts at bay.†   (source)
  • Are you adopted?†   (source)
  • She paused before she said, "Maybe we should let my sister adopt Ji-yun.†   (source)
  • Adopt me" I stood up.†   (source)
  • otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him.†   (source)
  • Clean, sated, in his mother's adopted country, he is happy.†   (source)
  • And Estha, walking on the riverbank, couldn't feel the wetness of the rain, or the suddenshudder of the cold puppy that had temporarily adopted him and squelched at his side.†   (source)
  • Or Ted Lavender adopting an orphan puppy-feeding it from a plastic spoon and carrying it in his rucksack until the day Azar strapped it to a Claymore antipersonnel mine and squeezed the firing device.†   (source)
  • It later became an adoption agency, the finest in the Mideast.†   (source)
  • The Retrieval Squad adopted the V goose formation with Root on point.†   (source)
  • They said they still had Annie and could maybe have another child or adopt one.†   (source)
  • He tried to adopt a languorous expression.†   (source)
  • Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.†   (source)
  • The Cullens adopted you?†   (source)
  • As I limped toward the car, she adopted a concerned expression and reached out to stop me.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tanaka can't adopt us.†   (source)
  • Meriwether Prep had adopted him as a community service project so all the students could feel good about themselves.†   (source)
  • I try to adopt the formal speech common to the Erudite.†   (source)
  • Masterton, part owner now but still walking with the patented shuffle he had adopted back before World War II, was pushing a bin of lettuces into the high, dark building.†   (source)
  • You could say he's adopted me.†   (source)
  • She doesn't adopt Ganguli, not even with a hyphen.†   (source)
  • God adopted her.†   (source)
  • She knew she had started to change, to adopt some of his attitudes towards people: being mean and judgmental, thinking she was better than them.†   (source)
  • Every single grouse egg, along with her own ten eggs, hatched out and she adopted them.†   (source)
  • You're adopted anyway.†   (source)
  • In many places I've adopted the words interviewees used to describe their worlds and experiences.†   (source)
  • In the back lot of the local elementary school, about a year after Tines death, five of us gathered in the grass and created a club — "Thee Impersonations," the "Thee" being an old English usage that other clubs would adopt because it made everything sound classier, nobler, badder.†   (source)
  • Given the name of the state we were adopting, both of them arrived fully expecting to see bright yellow writing implements hanging like berries from every tree and shrub, there for the plucking.†   (source)
  • A moment occurs in this exchange between professor and student when each of us adopts a look.†   (source)
  • So now we are forced to adopt the opposite view.†   (source)
  • But on May 24, 1955, the newspapers said the Little Rock school board had adopted a plan to limit integration to Central High School.†   (source)
  • He got married and adopted children.†   (source)
  • Have you made peace with your adoption?†   (source)
  • The kids giggled, and a tall boy with reddish-brown hair and glasses said, "Mrs. Granger has kept Nick after school so much that everyone thinks she wants to adopt him."†   (source)
  • After this we adopted the more neutral signal, "fifteen."†   (source)
  • Hiro does not have time to adopt the proper stance, but this is fine since he has already adopted it.†   (source)
  • Adopting his usual strictly upright attitude, he said he was not going to work with bandits.†   (source)
  • "You gonna adopt this one, too?" he asked.†   (source)
  • If I straightened myself out and sobered up, there's a possibility that I could adopt.†   (source)
  • Adopting the name Chatte Noire Black Cat because of her jet-black hair, she set herself up in a little booth in sight of the cathedral.†   (source)
  • Most of them had adopted the simple skirt and added a light, loose shirt, as Lieutenant Awn had.†   (source)
  • Many well-to-do dandies-even those uncomfortable with any woman who appeared smarter than themselves-thought it unfortunate that she'd been adopted.†   (source)
  • They don't even know they were adopted.†   (source)
  • Now I was the adopted child and had to see Leon every day.†   (source)
  • The instant we get back to Georgia I am filing for an adoption.†   (source)
  • and they took me but made me adopt the traditional Afghan body position for this operation.†   (source)
  • Holmes adopted his most sober expression.†   (source)
  • But I have no intention of adopting a homeless, middle-aged, mentally ill man.†   (source)
  • Also along the way he had gathered to himself a number of young officers whom he and Natalia virtually adopted.†   (source)
  • The only way they could lose, her argument suggested, was by adopting the ordinary ways of their mostly American opponents.†   (source)
  • And then this vampire, still holding the mask before his face, adopted marvelously the attitude of resting his weight against a painted silken tree, as if he were falling gently to sleep.†   (source)
  • They're my adopted family.†   (source)
  • I've adopted the philosophy that if somebody is going to die if we don't do something, we have nothing to lose by trying.†   (source)
  • This is often pervasive, and is manifested by uncertainty about several life issues, such as self-image, sexual orientation, long-term goals or career choice, types of friends or lovers to have, and which values to adopt.†   (source)
  • Aureliano scolded him like a child and he adopted a contrite air.†   (source)
  • You adopt phrases like Best Ever, and yet it doesn't work out with the fairytale ending.†   (source)
  • Local Teen Adopted — Finds Adoptive Family Within 24 Hours of 18th Birthday.†   (source)
  • Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?†   (source)
  • They adopted him, and now he's a doctor.†   (source)
  • You weren't considering adoption?†   (source)
  • He always felt like he'd lucked out with Paul and Sandy, even before they'd officially adopted him.†   (source)
  • Unless my Lord wishes to adopt Harkonnen methods.†   (source)
  • There was the famous poet, and Philomena Guinea, and Jay Cee, and the Christian Scientist lady and lord knows who, and they all wanted to adopt me in some way, and, for the price of their care and influence, have me resemble them.†   (source)
  • ",pwoch ech jdgumkwu azzoogH" I told Chock, hoping he'd adopt my addition.†   (source)
  • No one ever said the word "abortion" out loud, or even "adoption."†   (source)
  • "They've adopted him," I told my parents.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't adopted all at once.†   (source)
  • But Clara had adopted him.†   (source)
  • After building the rocket that took his beloved adopted country to the moon, he died of colon cancer in 1977.†   (source)
  • The others he took to the local pound for adoption.†   (source)
  • I might adopt one day.†   (source)
  • Maybe they would adopt her, and give her an allowance like other American girls got, which Sandi would then pass on to her real family.†   (source)
  • In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of walk spies adopted in old movies.†   (source)
  • That proposal was never adopted.†   (source)
  • We adopted a strategy to deal with our own constituency in the ANC.†   (source)
  • She'd adopted the tone of a social worker, an impartial third party, and I wanted to smack her for it.†   (source)
  • Instead, I adopted a more blas' attitude, like I hadn't even really noticed she'd been gone.†   (source)
  • Ask the adoptive parents.†   (source)
  • It then adopted Tostan's approach as a national model.†   (source)
  • She died when I was three and somebody else adopted me.†   (source)
  • I could have reminded him of the rumor he spread about me when I was six involving being adopted and Puerto Rican, or the one he spread about me when I was ten involving me lifting my skirt in his basement and showing him everything.†   (source)
  • This year there are two Native girls, sisters, twelve and thirteen years old, both adopted.†   (source)
  • Gave him away for adoption.†   (source)
  • Sharing a body with a human psyche carried with it the danger of adopting human vices—as well as human virtues.†   (source)
  • No one understood why, for no one knew his history, other than that he was a vagabond Kenyon had adopted years ago.†   (source)
  • He told the people that he was adopting the bum as his son giving him the full powers and privileges of The Son of the Creator of the Universe throughout all eternity.†   (source)
  • At the lectern before the party faithful in New York City, the president adopts the chaste mien of an altar boy.†   (source)
  • It seems you've adopted him.†   (source)
  • I used to have one, but when my mom got remarried I had to give it to Street Cats to be adopted.†   (source)
  • Felicity adopts the same ridiculous face.†   (source)
  • The child is adopted.†   (source)
  • Maybe I'll just adopt some kids.†   (source)
  • They were adoption papers with my new name, Rachel Pritchard.†   (source)
  • They talk about is he adopted or was he abused?†   (source)
  • She was married to a Japanese man, and they had adopted a little Japanese girl I sometimes played with.†   (source)
  • I squared my shoulders and adopted my most arctic ice-queen stare.†   (source)
  • She'd been my shadow since I adopted her from the Border Collie Rescue Society.†   (source)
  • Her eyes overflowed as she made an end, but Stoddard adopted a tone of determined lightness.†   (source)
  • Annie always picked her up on the way she spoke, adopting her loftiest English accent to do so.†   (source)
  • Tribe Saif adopted me, raised me as one of their own.†   (source)
  • Time seemed to mean nothing to the average Iranian, and Moody re-adopted this attitude easily.†   (source)
  • Determined to adopt his mentor's resolve, Max ignored the dark spires and instead set a brisk pace toward the Sanctuary, where he knew Julie would be waiting.†   (source)
  • Queen Selyse has adopted her faith, along with many others, but more of His Grace's followers still worship the Seven.†   (source)
  • I asked my momma why, in a time when they had so little, my granddaddy adopted this man.†   (source)
  • Alice and Harold, who years ago had adopted me into their hearts, began to nod their heads before exploding with laughter.†   (source)
  • What pih ought to do next in its adopted piece of Haiti, where amc's abounded.†   (source)
  • He wanted rules and regulations adopted, punishments made more severe.†   (source)
  • Otho would have been Bilbo's heir, but for the adoption of Frodo.†   (source)
  • During the days he spent showing Tara around his adopted hometown, driving into Skardu's southern hills to share a meal at Parvi's house, or hiking up to crystalline Satpara Lake south of town, he became convinced he was being followed by an agent of Pakistan's feared intelligence service, the ISI.†   (source)
  • The Czech immigrant to America, born on the Marine Corps birthday, serving his third tour of duty for his adopted country, the sergeant who was a friend to his boys, was cut down by friendly fire.†   (source)
  • The rest of the team had adopted the approach as well.†   (source)
  • After a few months, we decided to adopt.†   (source)
  • She nodded, adopting a casual tone, but her still-f rightened eyes betrayed her.†   (source)
  • The neighbor women visited, bringing us red-bean dumplings, in hopes that our bones would soften faster, or dried chili peppers, in hopes that our feet would adopt that slim and pointed shape.†   (source)
  • Keep the baby ...adopt the baby out.†   (source)
  • She encouraged women to adopt the "bloomer," a baggy-legged pant worn beneath a knee-length skirt that would not in any way be considered immodest today.†   (source)
  • I thought she might be adopted, or something.†   (source)
  • So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled.†   (source)
  • You...you're adopted.†   (source)
  • Among the very poor and the wealthy, brothers married their adopted sisters, like doves.†   (source)
  • The passage was a difficult one, he said, gesticulating with his hands as he spoke, the thumb of his right hand describing wide circles as he emphasized certain key points of interpretation, and both men had been correct; one had unknowingly adopted the interpretation of the Me'iri, the other of the Rashba.†   (source)
  • Thus it is that the postulates can remain rigorously true even though the experimental laws that have determined their adoption are only approximative.†   (source)
  • But I'm sure it would be really hard to give up your baby for adoption.†   (source)
  • We adopted Luke four years ago.†   (source)
  • We can't adopt an idealistic theory, which—†   (source)
  • So we adopted Hazel.†   (source)
  • Though nobody much liked it, it was Hwin's plan which had to be adopted in the end.†   (source)
  • Last season, the boys' adopted team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, lost the final game to the New York Yankees.†   (source)
  • Rumors indicated that The Vigils had adopted the sale as a special crusade.†   (source)
  • He had found friendship with the halfling, and the dwarves, and Bruenor's adopted daughter, Cattibrie.†   (source)
  • As a result, the planters had adopted a proven method to ensure they got their money's worth: They worked the emancipados to death.†   (source)
  • And it was common on the radio, whose early broadcasters adopted that same standard.†   (source)
  • Adoption, I know, is a noble and mostly happy practice.†   (source)
  • They was looking for somebody to adopt.†   (source)
  • If you marry the mother now, you can adopt him.†   (source)
  • Why couldn't I be adopted?†   (source)
  • "So a year ago," Joshua continued, "we adopted the robes as a distraction.†   (source)
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