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  • And across the patio, up the stairs, through the door left wide-flung behind him, continued to pulse in his brain: She beat me to it.

    CHAPTER XXXI 2010

  • He bows to me and turns and walks down the hall, through the wide-flung double doors and out into the bright sunlight.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • He bows to me and turns and walks down the hall, through the wide-flung double doors and out into the bright sunlight.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • He bows to me and turns and walks down the hall, through the wide-flung double doors and out into the bright sunlight.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • Through it all should march Hope, confident Hope, radiant and invincible, until at last it would be the triumph march of Hope the conqueror, coming with trumpetings and banners through the wide-flung gates of the world.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • Eager to gain objective feedback, helpful hints and wide-flung research resources, writers are committing themselves to helping each other climb the rickety ladder to publishing success.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • He sat, bowing forward on the side of the bed, his sleeping-jacket open, the dawn stealing into the room, the morning air entering fresh through the wide-flung window-door.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • Again on the generalized beam, wide-flung enough to be intended for anyone from here to Starbase Twelve.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • Kirk stood still for a moment, looking down past Chekov's shoulder at the increasingly confused readings within the cloud as they approached the outer fringes of the dwarf-star's wide-flung gravitational influence.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • Again on the generalized beam, wide-flung enough to be intended for anyone from here to Starbase Twelve.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

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