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  • Thomas Stevens smiled quietly to himself as he lighted his fifth cigar and sent curling smoke-rings ceilingward.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • Mr. Ends 'snow-white beard, still maintaining its immaculate trimness, pointed ceilingward at an angle of forty-five degrees.

    Chapter 33 2010

  • Thomas Stevens smiled quietly to himself as he lighted his fifth cigar and sent curling smoke-rings ceilingward.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • The soft snores of the soundly sleeping pit bull-bull drifted contentedly ceilingward.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • Her eyes now rolling ceilingward, Sylvie took on a beatific look.

    Nutrition 2010

  • "Well if you've gazed upon such, though not, I dare to say," and he gazed admiringly ceilingward, "of such elegance and skill, then why the red face?"

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • Gloria lifts her face ceilingward, as if asking God to witness the madness.

    Maia in Yonkers 2007

  • Gloria lifts her face ceilingward, as if asking God to witness the madness.

    Maia in Yonkers 2007

  • Gloria lifts her face ceilingward, as if asking God to witness the madness.

    Maia in Yonkers 2007

  • The question was for himself, his gaze ceilingward.

    Savor Me Slowly Gena Showalter 2008

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