taking off

• “Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “The young women were pretty and happy and like summer itself, bright and warm and shiny, a hundred of the thousand soldiers taking off their helmets to speak to these girls, accepting from them small colored-pencil drawings and, from the bolder girls, a kiss on the cheek.”

  Simon & Schuster: Our American King

• “I iced the leg for several days before taking off for the long flight to Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands for the Beat the Beast 70.3 triathlon.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Grace to Race

• “The boy advanced to meet him, and, taking off his hat, asked politely: "Is this Dr. Crawford?”

  Driven From Home

• “I stabled Corbeau, taking off the saddle and harness, finding the place to stow them where they belonged, then caring for him as carefully as if he were my own horse.”

  Simon & Schuster: Belle

• “Some black woman S and M-er out there right now might be thinking of taking off my head for saying that, weird as those S and M-ers are.”

  Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

• “Just then, Kirsten noticed Kate Grisholm taking off her headphones and closing down the main studio.”

  Simon & Schuster: After Hours

• “He further adds, "If we separate the eyelids of a child to examine the eye, while it cries and struggles with passion, by taking off the natural support to the vascular system of the eye, and means of guarding it against the rush of blood then occurring, the conjunctiva becomes suddenly filled with blood, and the eyelids everted.”

  The expression of the emotions in man and animals

• “As Stu and Margaret began chatting calmly, though, they heard a screech of brakes that sounded as if a jet taking off from Kennedy Airport had overshot the runway and was about to land on the wide strip of the Long Island Expressway.”

  Simon & Schuster: Manifesting Michelangelo

• “Two departed and returned with folders, and Anto Grogan sat across from Bob, taking off his ballcap, running a hand through his dark crew cut, smiling broadly; handsome fellow he was too, radiating charisma.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set

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