Word: thinned
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...reach the shack Jimmy has to pled up seemingly endless staircases and tread through cold, deserted rooms with thin, gothic, stained-glass windows...
Disillusion dogged the trail of Saint-Sylvestre's Forty-Niners. Farmer Lucien Cantiant's cows had lost their pasture to government prospectors; they were thin with hunger. Lucien himself had not yet received a sou of the 16,000 francs yearly indemnitv promised him. Without compensation how could he buy a new pasture? His tiny wife Marguerite railed that it was all his fault in the first place. When the strangers came from Paris he had let them dig holes in the fields. She had seen Lucien also with a pick in hand. "What are you doing...
...Efficient use of coal in thin, tortuous, or hard-to-get-at seams...
...proposal seemed to sit well with the delegates. Then up jumped thin-lipped Rev. Joseph M. Dawson of Washington, D.C., public relations executive for 14 million U.S. Baptists. In a crackling voice he read an amendment: "The practices of freedom in non-Communist countries are imperiled by pressures exerted ... by the Roman Catholic hierarchy . . . The ecclesiastical organization and policies of the Roman Catholic Church do not accord with the preservation and extension of religious freedom...
...flashbacks of life in the slums are too thin and diffuse to flesh out a convincing killer or a solid case for society's guilt...