remote control

• “The sister was half-lying on the couch, stockinged feet danging over a padded arm, wineglass on the coffee table, remote control in one hand.”

  Shiver

• “Detecting piecemeal and by remote control — if anyone could be said to control Anna Pigeon — was an exercise in frustration.”

  Firestorm

• “He lowered himself into an armchair facing the holovision and picked up the remote control from a nearby table.”

  Phule me twice

• “Disgusting," Marc informed me cheerily from his bed, as he played with the tilt settings and television remote control at once.”

  Undead and Unworthy

• “The remote control was to hand and after a couple of abortive attempts, Mrs Wood managed to stab the correct button.”

  No Laughing Matter

• “A hush fell over the crowd as Rev picked up the remote control for the holojector.”

  Phule me twice

• “I hit the remote control to close the garage door, dropping him gently into the deep ultramarine blue that presaged the coming dawn, and wondered if he, a detective of such repute, could miss the symptoms that Faye was displaying.”

  Fault Line

• “Two months behind on their mortgage and he still arrived home some nights, pale and exhausted, with ribbon-wrapped remote control cars for the boys, stuffed bears for Laura.”

  Simon & Schuster: Strangers at the Feast

• “But instead of stretching out, she pulled off her Wicked Witch socks and aimed the remote control at the VCR, then watched the movie one more time until the scripty words The End splashed up on the screen.”

  Manhattan Is My Beat

• “Riaz Pasha had centralized the imperial government and now ran the Sudan by remote control from Cairo.”

  Simon & Schuster: Three Empires on the Nile

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