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  • Dor turned his eyes away-and met the gaze of the Queen.

    Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010

  • The un - icorns had to get away-and they were almost surrounded.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Then he glanced away-and I thought, don't let this one go.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • I was so astounded that I picked up a cue and slapped the red away-and not ten minutes earlier I'd been hanging upside down from a wagon tail trying to avoid being tomahawked!

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • When you get away-and you will-I'll be waiting for you, and then we'll be together again.

    Men Don't Leave Me 2010

  • In less than a minute they would be on us; I turned sobbing to run for the hill-top, a bare hundred yards away-and even in that moment it crossed my mind: we've come a long way damned fast, for I'd no notion it was so close.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • But that outcome is at least several years away-and wouldn't ease the pressure on Clinton now.

    Crossing The Gay Minefield 2008

  • Sure enough, a shell explodes a hundred yards away-and when the initial shock recedes, mourners head for the journalists, tearing at a Spanish TV crew's cameras and flak jackets and pounding on their jeep as they flee.

    Crossing An Invisible Line 2008

  • He ended up on a helicopter ride to the next closest trauma hospital-in Austin, more than 150 miles away-and died shortly after arrival … The United States has not had a serious political discussion about health care reform since the early 1990s.

    Read an Excerpt From 'Sick' 2007

  • Yet, we continue to throw things away-and how could we not?

    A World Without Waste 2007

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