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Turning back, Rardove sailed a brief look over the young, derelict soldiers.
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The building seemed even more derelict than it had twenty minutes ago.
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Property porn was a great escape: derelict castles, run-down farms, lighthouse conversions.
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Some promoters didn't share our concern, and staged events in derelict warehouses.
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The city, the island, now carried the haunted feel of a derelict.
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Tens of thousands of children enter Russia's decrepit orphanage system every year.
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The decrepit regime Syria's president heads is getting really good at repression.
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The second house was a converted detached garage in back, equally decrepit.
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Its location in the middle of Dublin 4 belied its decrepit state.
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Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
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Nodding without really understanding, Luke indicated the run-down though obviously popular cantina.
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It is far from the stereotypical image of a run-down city suburb.
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Although the house was run-down, the land itself was a gold mine.
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He gave a run-down on the relatively new science of marine bio-acoustics.
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But truly, Marianne, this place was almost as run-down as Woods House.
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At once his countenance fell; he turned upon me a woebegone eye.
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Withhold not Thy countenance from the tears and beseechings of the woebegone.
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The boys groaned in unison at this, and even Betty looked woebegone.
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The Wobegon Boy in question, John Tollefson, should be anything but woebegone.
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She looked very pale and woebegone when she came down to breakfast.
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The last thing Lucius needed was a flea-bitten monster disrupting his household.
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You flea-bitten harpy, have not you had enough of me today?
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You are worse than a dog, you old flinty-faced, flea-bitten scrub.
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He was a mouse-coloured, slate-coloured, flea-bitten roan- dun, if you can conceive it.
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Gertie was skinny and flea-bitten, but she started licking my face.
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You have to add creaky voice and it means something totally different.
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Analogous measures can be taken to keep creaky old operating systems working.
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These creaky old tools could adapt better to how we work today.
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Mr Verloc heard the creaky plank in the floor, and was content.
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Then I heard the scraping of a creaky portal on the floor.
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And the decks it's looking out from appear increasingly creaky and junked.
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St Petersburg's creaky roofs are one thing, its creaky lifts quite another.
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But how will its creaky noughts-and-crosses format fare in the modern age?
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But jammed at random between the creaky cabins were the new structures.
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Using the handrail, he pulled himself up, bypassing the creaky ninth step.
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Her spine didn't feel like a creaky mass of bones rubbing together.
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Thorndyke asked, as the cabman's footsteps faded away in a creaky diminuendo.
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In one corner was a creaky rocking chair and a CD player.
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Constrained by her burden, the matron attempted a creaky and impertinent curtsey.
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That creaky metaphor does capture the joy and terrors of interviewing Denis.
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He leaned back on his creaky office throne and cradled his fingers.
