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  • So I asked Alex if I could adopt him, if he would be my grandson.†   (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)
  • "Listen," he said, adopting a confidential tone.†   (source)
  • For nearly a year now, she has been talking about adoption.†   (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)
  • Scared and depressed, the thirty-four-year-old hid her pregnancy and hoped to secretly put the child up for adoption.†   (source)
  • Professors McGonagall and Moody kept them working until the very last second of their classes too, and Snape, of course, would no sooner let them play games in class than adopt Harry.†   (source)
  • On the day you adopted me.†   (source)
  • You must be adopted by a relative.†   (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)
  • Benedict is adopting Constance, eh?†   (source)
  • If they were old enough to adopt a snake, she told my brothers, they were old enough to clean their own room.†   (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)
  • They adopted many of the techniques that Mohandas Gandhi had used to liberate India from British rule.†   (source)
  • But Lula been adopted already.†   (source)
  • They first adopted the fighting stance of males, they developed the mating whistle of males, they stimulated the hormones and grew the gonads of males, and eventually they successfully mated with females.†   (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)
  • He said, "You get a good breeding line of your own going and you can put those babies up for adoption.†   (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)
  • Etienne adopts a British accent.†   (source)
  • The travelers adopted the practice of arranging the animals in a circle at night, sleeping together in the center as protection against the nocturnal cold.†   (source)
  • I'm adopted.†   (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)
  • She paused before she said, "Maybe we should let my sister adopt Ji-yun.†   (source)
  • Conscious of her mother watching her, Cecilia adopted an expression of amused curiosity as she unfolded the sheet.†   (source)
  • "Put me up for adoption," he says.†   (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)
  • " 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)
  • "You weren't considering adoption?"†   (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)
  • The others he took to the local pound for adoption.†   (source)
  • Once in Poland and then again here—his adopted family.†   (source)
  • She doesn't adopt Ganguli, not even with a hyphen.†   (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)
  • Are you adopted?†   (source)
  • It's easier to keep up the irreverent, invincible manner we've all adopted when there are more of us.†   (source)
  • When he adopted me.†   (source)
  • It later became an adoption agency, the finest in the Mideast.†   (source)
  • They said they still had Annie and could maybe have another child or adopt one.†   (source)
  • In many places I've adopted the words interviewees used to describe their worlds and experiences.†   (source)
  • You decide whether it would be wise to adopt a strategy that would invite reprisals.†   (source)
  • She adopted me.†   (source)
  • Adopt me" I stood up.†   (source)
  • You shoulda stayed single, put the child up for adoption, and you'd be a free woman today.†   (source)
  • No foster parent will adopt a child whose past has been tainted by the disease.†   (source)
  • I thought she might be adopted, or something.†   (source)
  • The Retrieval Squad adopted the V goose formation with Root on point.†   (source)
  • Clean, sated, in his mother's adopted country, he is happy.†   (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)
  • As I limped toward the car, she adopted a concerned expression and reached out to stop me.†   (source)
  • After a few months, we decided to adopt.†   (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)
  • 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 tried to adopt a languorous expression.†   (source)
  • You're adopted anyway.†   (source)
  • The instant we get back to Georgia I am filing for an adoption.†   (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)
  • The Cullens adopted you?†   (source)
  • They don't even know they were adopted.†   (source)
  • "You gonna adopt this one, too?" he asked.†   (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)
  • Every single grouse egg, along with her own ten eggs, hatched out and she adopted them.†   (source)
  • Holmes adopted his most sober expression.†   (source)
  • A moment occurs in this exchange between professor and student when each of us adopts a look.†   (source)
  • Granger has kept Nick after school so much that everyone thinks she wants to adopt him.†   (source)
  • You're a style leader, early adopter, all that."†   (source)
  • After this we adopted the more neutral signal, "fifteen."†   (source)
  • After building the rocket that took his beloved adopted country to the moon, he died of colon cancer in 1977.†   (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)
  • Whoa, you are not adopting thah—†   (source)
  • Hiro does not have time to adopt the proper stance, but this is fine since he has already adopted it.†   (source)
  • That proposal was never adopted.†   (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)
  • Local Teen Adopted — Finds Adoptive Family Within 24 Hours of 18th Birthday.†   (source)
  • They adopted him, and now he's a doctor."†   (source)
  • You could say he's adopted me.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • They're my adopted family.†   (source)
  • In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's.†   (source)
  • He got married and adopted children.†   (source)
  • Adopting his usual strictly upright attitude, he said he was not going to work with bandits.†   (source)
  • If I straightened myself out and sobered up, there's a possibility that I could adopt.†   (source)
  • "They've adopted him," I told my parents.†   (source)
  • But I have no intention of adopting a homeless, middle-aged, mentally ill man.†   (source)
  • I try to adopt the formal speech common to the Erudite.†   (source)
  • Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.†   (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)
  • Unless my Lord wishes to adopt Harkonnen methods.†   (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)
  • Thus it is that the postulates can remain rigorously true even though the experimental laws that have determined their adoption are only approximative.†   (source)
  • God adopted her.†   (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)
  • So now we are forced to adopt the opposite view.†   (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)
  • Tanaka can't adopt us."†   (source)
  • He always felt like he'd lucked out with Paul and Sandy, even before they'd officially adopted him.†   (source)
  • What pih ought to do next in its adopted piece of Haiti, where amc's abounded.†   (source)
  • Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?"†   (source)
  • She was married to a Japanese man, and they had adopted a little Japanese girl I sometimes played with.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of walk spies adopted in old movies.†   (source)
  • No one understood why, for no one knew his history, other than that he was a vagabond Kenyon had adopted years ago.†   (source)
  • Wah's adopted brother.'†   (source)
  • Time seemed to mean nothing to the average Iranian, and Moody re-adopted this attitude easily.†   (source)
  • We adopted a strategy to deal with our own constituency in the ANC.†   (source)
  • Ask the adoptive parents.†   (source)
  • Tribe Saif adopted me, raised me as one of their own.†   (source)
  • The only way they could lose, her argument suggested, was by adopting the ordinary ways of their mostly American opponents.†   (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)
  • I used to have one, but when my mom got remarried I had to give it to Street Cats to be adopted.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't adopted all at once.†   (source)
  • Her eyes overflowed as she made an end, but Stoddard adopted a tone of determined lightness.†   (source)
  • Clarke had been born in China, and the Reynoldses had adopted her when she was six months old.†   (source)
  • The child is adopted.†   (source)
  • I squared my shoulders and adopted my most arctic ice-queen stare.†   (source)
  • Also along the way he had gathered to himself a number of young officers whom he and Natalia virtually adopted.†   (source)
  • "It seems you've adopted him.†   (source)
  • They talk about is he adopted or was he abused?†   (source)
  • It then adopted Tostan's approach as a national model.†   (source)
  • Now I was the adopted child and had to see Leon every day.†   (source)
  • Felicity adopts the same ridiculous face.†   (source)
  • No one ever said the word "abortion" out loud, or even "adoption."†   (source)
  • Have you made peace with your 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)
  • The rest of the team had adopted the approach as well.†   (source)
  • Sharing a body with a human psyche carried with it the danger of adopting human vices—as well as human virtues.†   (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)
  • ",pwoch ech jdgumkwu azzoogH" I told Chock, hoping he'd adopt my addition.†   (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)
  • Why couldn't I be adopted?†   (source)
  • Otho would have been Bilbo's heir, but for the adoption of Frodo.†   (source)
  • This year there are two Native girls, sisters, twelve and thirteen years old, both adopted.†   (source)
  • She'd been my shadow since I adopted her from the Border Collie Rescue Society.†   (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)
  • But Clara had adopted him.†   (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)
  • Maybe I'll just adopt some kids.†   (source)
  • They were adoption papers with my new name, Rachel Pritchard.†   (source)
  • She nodded, adopting a casual tone, but her still-f rightened eyes betrayed her.†   (source)
  • Gave him away for adoption.†   (source)
  • She'd adopted the tone of a social worker, an impartial third party, and I wanted to smack her for it.†   (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)
  • She died when I was three and somebody else adopted me.†   (source)
  • Adorning oneself with flowers was the one Forest Dweller practice that Chelise enjoyed adopting more than perhaps any other.†   (source)
  • Last season, the boys' adopted team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, lost the final game to the New York Yankees.†   (source)
  • I believe in adoption now.†   (source)
  • Most of them had adopted the simple skirt and added a light, loose shirt, as Lieutenant Awn had.†   (source)
  • So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled.†   (source)
  • He wanted rules and regulations adopted, punishments made more severe.†   (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)
  • Annie always picked her up on the way she spoke, adopting her loftiest English accent to do so.†   (source)
  • Unlike her husband, she welcomes her adopted language, its possibilities for reinvention.†   (source)
  • "So a year ago," Joshua continued, "we adopted the robes as a distraction.†   (source)
  • Books such groups don't like will not be adopted by the school district where they hold power.†   (source)
  • Max squirmed as his father adopted the tone of voice he used with clients.†   (source)
  • You adopt phrases like Best Ever, and yet it doesn't work out with the fairytale ending.†   (source)
  • Queen Selyse has adopted her faith, along with many others, but more of His Grace's followers still worship the Seven.†   (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)
  • Rumors indicated that The Vigils had adopted the sale as a special crusade.†   (source)
  • At the lectern before the party faithful in New York City, the president adopts the chaste mien of an altar boy.†   (source)
  • We can't adopt an idealistic theory, which-"†   (source)
  • They was looking for somebody to adopt.†   (source)
  • Though nobody much liked it, it was Hwin's plan which had to be adopted in the end.†   (source)
  • And it was common on the radio, whose early broadcasters adopted that same standard.†   (source)
  • Are you going to put it up for adoption?†   (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)
  • Adoption, I know, is a noble and mostly happy practice.†   (source)
  • But I'm sure it would be really hard to give up your baby for adoption.†   (source)
  • If you marry the mother now, you can adopt him.†   (source)
  • Jacob had an adopted son who had gone North to live.†   (source)
  • They didn't adopt him.†   (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)
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