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  • Frantically, he jerked the shaft free, throwing it angrily to the side.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Frantically pointing at the TV screen, which displayed a route map, the terrified teen noted we were over France and told the air hostess she needed to inform the captain that we could safely divert and make an emergency landing in some area of the French countryside that he seemed to know very well as he'd holidayed there the previous summer with some Etonian chums.

    Kim Carillo: The Day Prince William's Pal Held My Husband's Hand and Other In-Flight Shockers Kim Carillo 2011

  • Frantically, he dialed Rachel's number again and again, getting only her voice mail.

    Vince Beiser: Lethal Sting: How the War on Drugs Killed a College Student Vince Beiser 2010

  • Frantically I wrote down the call numbers of over a dozen books and hurried up the stairs towards the general collection.

    Plath's Plague Meghan K. Barnes 2012

  • Frantically, he dialed Rachel's number again and again, getting only her voice mail.

    Vince Beiser: Lethal Sting: How the War on Drugs Killed a College Student Vince Beiser 2010

  • Frantically he tore at the skeleton then, pecking and pulling until a large chunk of salmon skin came off in his beak.

    The Place He Had to Go Cortney McLellan 2011

  • Frantically, he flipped through the thin yellow pages, several of them tearing beneath the force of his clumsy fingers.

    The Fallen Oak Nathaniel Tower 2011

  • Frantically she searched the alley for a weapon—a brick, a broken piece of wood, anything.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Frantically he tore at the skeleton then, pecking and pulling until a large chunk of salmon skin came off in his beak.

    The Place He Had to Go Cortney McLellan 2011

  • Frantically, he jerked the shaft free, throwing it angrily to the side.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

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