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  • He is adopted by Christine and lives for a couple years after the end of the novel and dies peacefully in his hamster sleep.†   (source)
  • They'd begun to consider adoption when, in the winter of 2034, Kira was killed in a car accident on an icy mountain road just a few miles from their home.†   (source)
  • With five natural siblings, plus one adopted, and three that arrived "by stork," Lev was exactly one-tenth.†   (source)
  • And like McCandless, upon embarking on his terminal odyssey, Ruess adopted a new name or, rather, a series of new names.†   (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)
  • Isolate him enough that he remains creative—otherwise he'll adopt the system here and we'll lose him.†   (source)
  • His adoptive father, a Presbyterian minister, was quoted as saying that he prayed every night for Alex's soul, but that this was a generation of vipers.†   (source)
  • I have half entertained the notion that you manipulated me from afar into adopting a sire for your project.†   (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)
  • What's more, the young man, having adopted an expression as serious as hers, was clearly out of his depth.†   (source)
  • Bob Hamel, my stepdad and eventual adoptive father, was a good guy in that he treated Lindsay and me kindly.†   (source)
  • But even they had sensed the significance her roots would have for her, otherwise they wouldn't have kept the adoption from her.†   (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)
  • Scared and depressed, the thirty-four-year-old hid her pregnancy and hoped to secretly put the child up for adoption.†   (source)
  • 8, a horse named Jersey Finch, which isn't a bad gamble, not at four to one, but what Noel has just said about "the kid"—the one Eddie and Marguerite are planning to adopt— flushes him with guilt.†   (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)
  • If they were old enough to adopt a snake, she told my brothers, they were old enough to clean their own room.†   (source)
  • Instead he adopted an oily voice that was no better than his cackle.†   (source)
  • Etienne adopts a British accent.†   (source)
  • "In agreeing to adopt you," he said, "I have become your father, and as your father I am not someone to be trifled with.†   (source)
  • It seemed almost true, although he could think of exceptions—his parents adopting him, for example.†   (source)
  • And sure, Oscar was only an adopted stray mutt, but he was the only living thing that I could depend on.†   (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)
  • In the big envelope the social worker had sent, Pattie now found a pamphlet for the next state-sponsored Adoption Fair.†   (source)
  • The woman seemed ready to say "I know that," but then, as if remembering they were on camera, adopted a studied, performative tone.†   (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)
  • Well, then,' she said, 'I can give you information about adoption, if you haven't already contacted any agencies yourself.†   (source)
  • The problem was—though Dan Needham had legally adopted me, and I therefore had the privileged status of a faculty son—the academy was reluctant to accept me.†   (source)
  • Lettie would say of her boss, the interior decorator who'd traveled all the way to Paraguay to adopt a baby, "What she fink?†   (source)
  • But Lula been adopted already.†   (source)
  • I've never really been that curious to find out who my father was or why he "put me up for adoption."†   (source)
  • In his last breaths, was he trying to tell me about the death of his adopted family—or admit to some tawdry, decades-long affair?†   (source)
  • It's easier to keep up the irreverent, invincible manner we've all adopted when there are more of us.†   (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)
  • " 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)
  • In fact, I think that's how Mr. Benedict put the question to Constance: 'Would you be willing to adopt us as your family?'†   (source)
  • When I was a little kid, I used to pretend I was a princess who had been adopted when my kingdom was overrun by bad guys.†   (source)
  • Conscious of her mother watching her, Cecilia adopted an expression of amused curiosity as she unfolded the sheet.†   (source)
  • You shoulda stayed single, put the child up for adoption, and you'd be a free woman today.†   (source)
  • They adopted many of the techniques that Mohandas Gandhi had used to liberate India from British rule.†   (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)
  • I saw that it was adopting an individualist line to stay for such a reason, so I secretly packed up my bedroll and left without telling anyone.†   (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)
  • But your adoptive parents?†   (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)
  • They said they still had Annie and could maybe have another child or adopt one.†   (source)
  • Are you adopted?†   (source)
  • You are our contact, Nguyen Xuan, and you have adopted this pathetic disguise to discreetly check for weaponry.†   (source)
  • As I limped toward the car, she adopted a concerned expression and reached out to stop me.†   (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)
  • It later became an adoption agency, the finest in the Mideast.†   (source)
  • "Excellent call, Cable," I said, adopting Platt's hateful drawl.†   (source)
  • Clean, sated, in his mother's adopted country, he is happy.†   (source)
  • No foster parent will adopt a child whose past has been tainted by the disease.†   (source)
  • Meriwether Prep had adopted him as a community service project so all the students could feel good about themselves.†   (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)
  • Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.†   (source)
  • He tried to adopt a languorous expression.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • You could say he's adopted me.†   (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)
  • I try to adopt the formal speech common to the Erudite.†   (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)
  • My adoption was the final blow, of course, but still I couldn't help holding myself partly accountable.†   (source)
  • Even if we adopt the 'my country right or wrong' view and accept what we have done with equanimity, such hypocrisy is out of place and can only make us look ridiculous.†   (source)
  • With the glances she was throwing at their adopted children, I would presume the reason was jealousy.†   (source)
  • They have come to rely on her, Gogol realizes, to collect them together, to organize the holiday, to convert it, to introduce the tradition to those who are new It has always felt adopted to him, an accident of circumstance, a celebration not really meant to be.†   (source)
  • On open school nights, the question most often asked by my schoolteachers was: "Is James adopted?" which always prompted an outraged response from Mommy.†   (source)
  • He got married and adopted children.†   (source)
  • He spends much of his youth adopting ways of walking that will hide his deficiency, as he perceives it.†   (source)
  • But I have no intention of adopting a homeless, middle-aged, mentally ill man.†   (source)
  • We were just crossing the outskirts of Imperial when I decided to adopt his attitude toward the whole thing.†   (source)
  • They don't even know they were adopted.†   (source)
  • It wasn't likely a memorial for an Orsian—I couldn't imagine anyone in the lower city adopting Radchaai funeral practices, or at least not anyone old enough to have died since I'd seen them last.†   (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)
  • The uncle was blood proud and had bequeathed Holmes his estate on condition he first adopt the uncle's name in full.†   (source)
  • Every single grouse egg, along with her own ten eggs, hatched out and she adopted them.†   (source)
  • After this we adopted the more neutral signal, "fifteen."†   (source)
  • In my mind, Ben's story kind of explains the quick move from Florida to Georgia and the quick adoption.†   (source)
  • She appeared to understand him so well she'd like to adopt him and have his mixed-race family move right in.†   (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)
  • 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 had adopted a very ceremonial posture, but the only thing he had with him was the crown on his head.†   (source)
  • In many places I've adopted the words interviewees used to describe their worlds and experiences.†   (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)
  • My mother adopted me because she wanted to make sure there'd be someone to attend this place after she was gone.†   (source)
  • If I straightened myself out and sobered up, there's a possibility that I could adopt.†   (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)
  • In general they have frowned upon the forward pass; opposed it, sneered at it, called it basketball and done what they could to retard its adoption.†   (source)
  • Also along the way he had gathered to himself a number of young officers whom he and Natalia virtually adopted.†   (source)
  • I visited my adopted family, the Chongs, that Sunday and tasted their delicious dumplings for the last time.†   (source)
  • Hiro does not have time to adopt the proper stance, but this is fine since he has already adopted it.†   (source)
  • He was even more afraid than Amanda, but to make her think this was all routine, he adopted the relaxed, pompous air he had seen doctors use.†   (source)
  • When he left, he walked out into the night very upright, the kind of posture adopted by men who are unused to defiance.†   (source)
  • The only way they could lose, her argument suggested, was by adopting the ordinary ways of their mostly American opponents.†   (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)
  • I will probably have to give her up for adoption, how can I possibly raise a baby in this environment?†   (source)
  • Then someone — the teen equivalent of a Maven or a Connector or a Salesman— sees it and adopts it.†   (source)
  • I think it will teach me about how the environment can influence whether teen moms decide to keep their babies, have abortions, or give them up for adoption or foster care.†   (source)
  • He gave active encouragement to every religious and civic society in the city and had a special interest in the Patriotic Junta, composed of politically disinterested influential citizens who urged governments and local businesses to adopt progressive ideas that were too daring for the time.†   (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)
  • He was not going to find anything that his professional predecessor and his experienced team had missed, and he was undecided what approach he should adopt to the problem.†   (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)
  • I've always found this to be the best, most encouraging thing you can tell an orphan, that we're all adopted into the family of God.†   (source)
  • "They've adopted him," I told my parents.†   (source)
  • They adopted him, and now he's a doctor.†   (source)
  • Hybrid Inglo-Slavic with strong traces of cultural-specialization terms adopted during the long chain of human migrations.†   (source)
  • The final chapter of a family tragedy was written yesterday at the county courthouse when Cynthia and Tom Lemry signed formal adoption papers, gaining custody of Sarah Byrnes less than 24 hours before her 18th birthday.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of walk spies adopted in old movies.†   (source)
  • She only looked into adoption because she thought she'd be alone.†   (source)
  • Well, there happened to be a family reunion blog ...and ...anyway, it said that they adopted a baby, Margaret, in 1929.†   (source)
  • I was a foster kid for a while and then I was adopted by my current parents, but there have been some weird things this summer that make me think I might have stumbled on my birth relatives here in Camford.†   (source)
  • After building the rocket that took his beloved adopted country to the moon, he died of colon cancer in 1977.†   (source)
  • She'd adopted the tone of a social worker, an impartial third party, and I wanted to smack her for it.†   (source)
  • In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's.†   (source)
  • Annie always picked her up on the way she spoke, adopting her loftiest English accent to do so.†   (source)
  • She gave me the name of a local adoption agency, urged me to consider placing my baby in a loving home.†   (source)
  • Iowa adopted similar franchise rules in 1992, without driving Burger King or McDonald's out of the state.†   (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)
  • The Orders are directly in contradiction of the language and spirit of the United Nations Charter, subscribed to by Canada as well as the other nations of the world, and are an adoption of the methods of Naziism.†   (source)
  • Then, in 2000, the UN formally adopted the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015.†   (source)
  • This new Hema, the adoptive mother of the twins, rose at once to do his bidding, never asking why or how.†   (source)
  • No one understood why, for no one knew his history, other than that he was a vagabond Kenyon had adopted years ago.†   (source)
  • Their fantasy game club had adopted a stretch of highway and spent one Saturday a month cleaning it up.†   (source)
  • ",pwoch ech jdgumkwu azzoogH" I told Chock, hoping he'd adopt my addition.†   (source)
  • Like at Brown, most students can manage a brief trip home, and the ones who can't are usually adopted by roommates or friends.†   (source)
  • "If you're riding north with old Shang we may never meet again this side of the bourn," Augustus said, deliberately adopting the elegiac tone.†   (source)
  • Ef you was married, and yo' mother would let you adopt 'em, I reckon the courts might agree to that.†   (source)
  • Sharing a body with a human psyche carried with it the danger of adopting human vices—as well as human virtues.†   (source)
  • And when the bell rang and we all hurried off to class, each of my four friends smiled at me, gave me a secret wink, and said, "Later, Z." They made me feel better, too, even though their easy adoption of Erik's nickname for me gave my heart a twinge.†   (source)
  • "Unless some speedy, and effectual measures are adopted by Congress, our cause will be lost," he told John Hancock in a long, foreboding letter dated September 25.†   (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)
  • You got it," Manx says, hearing himself adopt a high pitch that's meant to be cheerful and optimistic.†   (source)
  • Friends at Harvard Medical School had already adopted pih and given it a second name, the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change.†   (source)
  • They were adoption papers with my new name, Rachel Pritchard.†   (source)
  • By the time the adopted children became adults, they had veered sharply from the destiny that IQ alone might have predicted.†   (source)
  • I asked my momma why, in a time when they had so little, my granddaddy adopted this man.†   (source)
  • Keep the baby ...adopt the baby out.†   (source)
  • Among the very poor and the wealthy, brothers married their adopted sisters, like doves.†   (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 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)
  • The animal's heavy face began to flicker and shift—momentarily adopting the unmistakable features of Mrs. Millen, Nigel, Miss Awolowo, and the strange man from the train.†   (source)
  • For nearly two decades he did adopt many of the practices of western society and, unlike so many of his counterparts, divorced himself from politics.†   (source)
  • Felicity adopts the same ridiculous face.†   (source)
  • Gynir Rednose became so wary that he shunned wine, took to sleeping in byrnie, coif, and helm, and adopted the noisiest dog in the kennels to give him warning should anyone try to steal up on his sleeping place.†   (source)
  • I was lying to my family about every aspect of my life and growing sick and tired of my adopted drug "family."†   (source)
  • She'd been my shadow since I adopted her from the Border Collie Rescue Society.†   (source)
  • She was thirty years old before Cypress told her the truth about being adopted; in fact, Cypress never met Lettie's mother.†   (source)
  • At the lectern before the party faithful in New York City, the president adopts the chaste mien of an altar boy.†   (source)
  • And I do not ask, for I have already been told that you are the kinsman and adopted heir of our friend Bilbo the renowned.†   (source)
  • She was married to a Japanese man, and they had adopted a little Japanese girl I sometimes played with.†   (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)
  • She nodded, adopting a casual tone, but her still-f rightened eyes betrayed her.†   (source)
  • After she came to terms with the fact that we'd never hold our own natural-born child, we decided on adoption.†   (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)
  • I shed the slave's shuffle I've adopted and walk the way I used to, my head straight and my shoulders thrown back.†   (source)
  • Adorning oneself with flowers was the one Forest Dweller practice that Chelise enjoyed adopting more than perhaps any other.†   (source)
  • Those who think Texas is a good place to live, adopt the flat T [Ah]—it's like the badge of Texas.†   (source)
  • And that she planned to give the baby up for adoption because she didn't want to end up like her mom (poor and a single parent).†   (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)
  • So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled.†   (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)
  • I adopted a rather unorthodox work schedule: I would write most of the night and sleep during the day.†   (source)
  • Last season, the boys' adopted team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, lost the final game to the New York Yankees.†   (source)
  • I understand that these days adopting a child involves red tape; in those days it was as simple as adopting a kitten.†   (source)
  • Unlike her husband, she welcomes her adopted language, its possibilities for reinvention.†   (source)
  • Rumors indicated that The Vigils had adopted the sale as a special crusade.†   (source)
  • If you marry the mother now, you can adopt him.†   (source)
  • Alice and Harold, who years ago had adopted me into their hearts, began to nod their heads before exploding with laughter.†   (source)
  • There's one clique-the Ferris-Lawson-Meigs faction-that's been after me for over a year to adopt stronger measures.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he'd take me to the wars and I'd save his life in a battle and then he'd set me free and adopt me as his son and give me a palace and a chariot and a suit of armour.†   (source)
  • We adopted Luke four years ago.†   (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)
  • The lieutenant was therefore forced to adopt an unnaturally upright position, like a man struggling to control his bowels.†   (source)
  • She also accused him of being an adopted space alien their parents had found beside a garbage container.†   (source)
  • He said he would not ever get adopted by anybody and would have to stay there until he was might near eighteen.†   (source)
  • Why couldn't I be adopted?†   (source)
  • He had found friendship with the halfling, and the dwarves, and Bruenor's adopted daughter, Cattibrie.†   (source)
  • "So a year ago," Joshua continued, "we adopted the robes as a distraction.†   (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)
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