gut-deep

• “It's gut-deep in America, twisted 'round her innards and un-purged even as we facetiously scream “We are cured!””

  Miss Ashley and Her Chifferobe...Busted.

• “I closed it with a sense of complete and utter satisfaction, and this gut-deep sense that Mercury and his heroine would make it, that they were absolutely meant to be together.”

  Mercury's War - Lora Leigh

• “But he kept his clothes on, because he wanted it too much and because he knew, gut-deep, bone-strong, that whatever need she felt for him in this moment came from all the wrong places.”

  Simon & Schuster: Risk No Secrets

• “Crawling up the slope, he was shaking and sweating, not from mere exertion but from gut-deep fear.”

  Simon & Schuster: Black Magic

• “He'd done his best to conceal the gut-deep fear, but he didn't know how much she'd discerned anyway.”

  In the Midnight Hour

• “Male Kudiyas feel gut-deep that lands owned by the Bayars of Barkur were former settlements of republican adivasis.”

  Archive 2006-07-01

• “This was a gut-deep venting of feelings, and she felt the menace behind it.”

  Devil's Bargain

• “A feeling, gut-deep, assured him that the threat was real; something would remove ... remove? remove to where? ... any being that cast a spell, drew a weapon, or committed violence.”

  This Scepter'd Isle

• “And the part of her that was Hana of the Three Rivers had a gut-deep fear of wild animals that the civilized Hannah Snow could never begin to approach.”

  Simon & Schuster: Night World No. 2

• “It came as a shock to him now to realise that he was capable of such a gut-deep physical, aching, compulsive need, and even worse that that need. that ache should be directed at a woman whom he had determinedly and consciously held at a distance.”

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