The air was chilly. This was my last chance; my only chance. Whatever happened after this, it would determine what I become. I could do this! I had to do this. I tightly clutched the sword ... cut in the process. Ryland reached his arms in between their bodies, trying to pry the Bezerker off. By the look on his face, I knew he didn't have long without air. The only idea that came to my head was to set it on fire. They hated fire more than anything, so this was my chance to get it unaware. My ... to the ground with a piercing cry. The creature swung its arms around, trying to put out the fla...

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... a tornado and the wind from outside was his rage. His fury filled the room with evil. You could feel the fear in the air. My warm breath against the cold air went stale and gray against the freezing winter air and created an eerie fog. Before I could rub my eyes to get up, he was leaned over me and started striking me. It ... ...

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... . Then I took one deep breath and started on my approach counting my steps one, two, three, four ..ten, then I planted my left foot with great force and jumped into the air arcing my back and closing my eyes as I go over the bar then kicking my feet upward so that they don't hit the bar on the way down. Crashing into ... I could clear this height on my first attempt I would be in the lead, one, two, three ten planting my foot and leaping into the air closing my eyes arcing my back I feel as though I"m floating slowly through the air and over the bar, I kick then thud I've hit the mats. I...

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... of their lungs. After a few passes my teammates got the ball to me and I went up for what I thought was going to be an easy two points. I was in the air and a tall, six foot seven kid from the other team jumped up to contest my shot. He ended up knocking me to the floor so hard that it felt like ... it to my teammate who was standing wide open behind the three point line. He took the shot and the crowd fell silent as the ball was floating through the air. The ball ended up going in and the crowd went crazy, giving each other high fives and yelling as loud as they could. We then called a...

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... mom preparing the meal. Since it is mid day almost lunch, the light is coming in through the kitchen window and the smell of lunch being prepared is in the air. The sharp smell of cut onions and bell peppers dominate the room.! I stand with my father for a second as we watch my mother's fast hands pause from cutting vegetables from ... can imagine them jumping up and splashing hot oil around. As soon as the onions start to cook up, the strong sharp aroma of onions and Indian spices fill the air. The aroma spreads fast, as if it was a tornado running through our living room racing to get...

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... Images of light and fire to express God's presence in the material world and the experience of unity. She also uses air, wind, clouds, and the sky to symbolize the breath of God. So everywhere we are there is always air, wind or clouds, so we are constantly surrounded by God, he is always there. It is as if Dillard is saying ... ...

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... it all over again the next day. It was a quiet walk home that day. The silence was something I had never experienced before. There was something about the smell in the air and its eerie calmness. That's something that will never leave my memory. It was a feeling that I had never felt before, when you can feel it in the ... air, sense what is about to happen isn't going to be something "fun". Approaching our old house on Scott Drive, we went around the side and walked down the cellar steps ... ...

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... dirt road and continue my trek up the hill to the mysterious man's mansion. By this time the rain has stopped and the cold silence of the night fills the air. My feet are covered in thick slushy mud. My shoes feel as if they are made of stone. The farther I walk up the darker the sky seems. The trees are ... fear and continue to follow the man into the darkness. Dragging the body for a quarter mile, we end up in an old graveyard. Distant cries of wolves filled the night's air. A thick wet mist layers the field of grass. Suddenly the man stops in the middle of the graveyard next to an op...

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... it hears it rearranges these sounds to create new combinations and new thoughts. The wild birds symbolize the freedom Edna's awakening leads her to desire. They fly freely through the air. They exist in a world of little resistance. Edna's world, which is a cage, is full of resistance or rather duties, obligations, and responsibilities designed to limit thoughts and activities. The visit ... the last time End watches the coast. There is no living thing all along the beach, but there is a bird, a wild free bird, with a broken wing that "was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, cir...

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... character of the movie: The Red Violin itself. I strongly believe that throughout the movie the violin develops an identity of its own. "What keeps the various balls in mid-air throughout the movie are the framing stories and the growing realization (through one of them) that the violin itself is possessed of a human spirit," (http://mountainx.com). When we ... ...

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... men moving all of our belongings into a truck and driving off, so much for trust. Within the same year, I was walking down the street by the Hudson River. I remember the air smelling foul and a big man with a grease stained face and curly black hair in disarray pulling a gun on me asking me for my backpack. Fortunately for me, my brother came ... ...

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... scene in particular was after Mrs. Wilkinson fought with Tony. Billy left the house in a fit of frustration and began to angrily dance down the street. He was punching the air, kicking the pavement and at one time kicks and punches a street sign. This behavior suggests Cooper Thompson's traditional masculinity. In another scene of the film, Billy's father finds him dancing ... ...

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... . He also had diabetes which was what got him in the hospital to begin with because his sugar got very high. Once we landed, I could tell the difference in the air because it smelled pure, and tasted like the beach and coconuts. We left the airport and rode in a really hot, small taxi cab to his sister's house where we were ... ...

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... or their wish for freedom this shows their lack of control of their mind. As Edna is walking along the beach she sees, "A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water" (Chopin 127). This represents the fall of convention achieved by Edna's suicide. Mrs. Pontellier ends her life in the sea ... ...

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... through the forest, I find a cave and decide that this would be a great place to take shelter for the night. I place the deer just inside the cave so the cold mountain air will keep it fresh until morning. I ignite my lighter and make my way deeper inside the cave. I find a smooth piece of earth to lie down on. I shut my eyes. I hope ... ...

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... , occasionally glancing back toward the forest I once knew. There was another young man who lost his father. His name was Hamlet. Hamlet found life to be a sterile promontory, and the air a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. His whole demeanor changed for depression had found him. He even wishes that he himself could die and in dying find peace from all ... ...

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... to be happy too. We continued on with our trip, and I felt great. We arrived in California the next day. The weather was sunny, blue sky, the smell of fresh air, and the sun was wonderfully warm. As we drove on the freeway I saw signs that read "To Disneyland". I heard so much about Disneyland, and I hoped so much that we would ... ...

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... me. This was not how she imagined it to be when I arrived in New York City. At this point it felt as if my lungs had collapsed and all the air from my body was being sucked out at once. I just sat there in complete silence for a good hour trying to understand why this had happened. I then proceeded to beg her ... ...

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... listen to it. It was a great privilege. Jeremy gave me a hug and then leaned over and pressed his lips against mine. I felt a shock race through my veins as I grasped for air. It wasn't a friendly kiss, it was a "movie kiss-, sensational and magical. My mother and I then headed back to our Alamo rental car and drove out of the parking lot....

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... a guard holding up a soccer ball, proclaiming that, "The ball is round, game lasts 90 minutes. Everything else is pure theory." After which, he kicks the ball high up in the air, signaling that the game has started and time has already been set. Here, game seems to refer to life as the guard spoke about this, moments after the narrator has ... ...

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... to kill the remaining boys. Ralph tries to escape their savage attacks desperately. "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy...Ralph screamed, a scream of fright and anger and desperation." Ralph survived when the naval officer arrived on the island. All of the other boys ... ...

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... , she would be killed. Her identity would be destroyed. Weirob would know that there was no point in teleporting to Earth. Even when she was reaching her last gasps of air she wouldn't falter in her beliefs of personal identity. She turns down the opportunity to possibly save herself when she is in her deathbed based solely on her belief of ... ...

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... boys have discovered that there is no one to punish them for the things they do wrong and because of this, they feel the need for savagery. One night, an air battle is going on and a dead paratrooper falls from the sky and lands next to the signal fire where Sam and Eric have fallen asleep. When they wake up, they ... ...

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... a guard holding up a soccer ball, proclaiming that, "The ball is round, game lasts 90 minutes. Everything else is pure theory." After which, he kicks the ball high up in the air, signaling that the game has started and time has already been set. Here, game seems to refer to life as the guard spoke about this, moments after the narrator has ... ...

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... come across a piglet, Jack tries unsuccessfully to make his first kill. The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm is the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. The pause was only ... ...

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