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His voice crackled like a low-burning fire, sounding stranger than ever mingled with the murmurs of the river.
The Demons Covenant Sarah Rees Brennan 2010
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His voice crackled like a low-burning fire, sounding stranger than ever mingled with the murmurs of the river.
The Demons Covenant Sarah Rees Brennan 2010
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But I feel sure that even with Mr. Suchet, “The Last Confession” would have been no more nor less than what it was: a low-burning historical potboiler that, aside from its somewhat daring subject matter (at least for those who believe in the infallibility of Popes), might have been written 40 or 50 years earlier.
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But I feel sure that even with Mr. Suchet, “The Last Confession” would have been no more nor less than what it was: a low-burning historical potboiler that, aside from its somewhat daring subject matter (at least for those who believe in the infallibility of Popes), might have been written 40 or 50 years earlier.
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Also, west of Denver, going to be the same story and that situation where you have cold air, of course, high loft and you have low-burning moisture which could spell out as one to three feet of snowfall near Rapid City and points west of Denver anywhere from eight to 16 inches of snowfall.
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First Sentence: “Underneath the street a low-burning flame chewed warmly on a candle stub — brightening a corner of the hidden room and augmenting the thick, friendly stink of moldering paper with the gummy scent of paraffin.”
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First Sentence: “Underneath the street a low-burning flame chewed warmly on a candle stub — brightening a corner of the hidden room and augmenting the thick, friendly stink of moldering paper with the gummy scent of paraffin.”
To New Beginnings 2008
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First Sentence: “Underneath the street a low-burning flame chewed warmly on a candle stub — brightening a corner of the hidden room and augmenting the thick, friendly stink of moldering paper with the gummy scent of paraffin.”
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But it was the attractive, sexy older gentleman Rita had bumped into a few nights ago, who claimed to be present at all of her sets, that caught her rapt attention—a spark that ignited a low-burning ember.
A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007
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But it was the attractive, sexy older gentleman Rita had bumped into a few nights ago, who claimed to be present at all of her sets, that caught her rapt attention—a spark that ignited a low-burning ember.
A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007
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