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If Iraq's prospects are as dismal as my analysis suggests, any international contribution to the US-driven reconstruction effort is likely to be little more than money flushed down the drain.
Three days after the hurricane hit, the hospital had no electricity, the water supply had failed, and toilets could no longer be flushed.
The United States arrived on the Chinese scene during the 19th century flushed with its “manifest destiny” to trade and save China's soul, following this in the 20th century with a messianic effort to save China from Godless Communism.
She shrank together, flushed till tears filled her eyes, and seizing the ends of her shawl began twisting them in her red fingers, not knowing what to say or do.
'It would have been so painful for you alone,' she said, and raising her arms high so that they hid her cheeks, now flushed with pleasure, she twisted her braided hair and pinned it up at the back of her head.
Agatha Mikhaylovna, with a flushed face and aggrieved expression, her hair ruffled and her thin arms bared to the elbow, was shaking the preserving pan over the brazier with a circular movement, looking dismally at the raspberries and hoping with all her heart that they would harden and not get cooked through.
Once Dolly was stung to the quick; and so aroused that she even flushed up, and afterwards wondered whether she had said anything superfluous and disagreeable.
And however white and shapely her bare arms may be, however beautiful her full figure and her flushed face surrounded by that black hair – he will find others still more beautiful, as my horrid, pitiable and dear husband looks for and finds them!'Dolly made no answer and only sighed.
I not consider that!' she repeated, and flushed.
The Secretary knocked, the door opened and two landowners with flushed faces plunged out past Levin.
Levin flushed, and to hide his confusion was about to ask her if it was long since she had seen Dolly, but at that instant Anna herself began to speak.
Her flushed face surrounded with soft hair that had escaped from beneath her night-cap shone with joy and resolution.
And he really had flushed with vexation and had said something disagreeable.
She flushed and moved away from him.
Levin flushed with annoyance, not at being beaten, but because he had not refrained from the dispute.
In essence, beating the bushes, the two friends flushed a herd of kangaroos that fled by bounding away on their elastic paws.
She was charming on horseback—upright, with her slender waist, her knee bent on the mane of her horse, her face somewhat flushed by the fresh air in the red of the evening.
Madame Bovary's face flushed purple.
His cheeks were flushed, his eyes downcast.
As he walked between these women whose cheeks were flushed with the embarrassment of an intense discomfort, Julien's sombre and decided air formed a striking contrast.
The boy, burning with fever, was extremely flushed and did not recognise his father.
He was flushed with anger.
He turned round and flushed with pleasure when he heard the name of Comte Chalvet.
He noticed, however, that she was extremely flushed.
Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained faces up to hers, and smiles; and, though she does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone.
"Major Dunwoodie," said Frances, in a voice barely audible, as she beckoned to him to be seated; her cheek, which had been of a chilling whiteness, was flushed with a suffusion that crimsoned her whole countenance.
"His character is above the imputation of such an offense; neither do I think it altogether prudent to cross this brook into the open plain, in the face of those Virginian horse, flushed as they must be with the success they have just obtained."
"Your pulse even and soft, your skin moist, but your eye fiery, and cheek flushed.
Advancing instantly to the chair of Wellmere, the surgeon instinctively laid hold of his arm, and exclaimed,-"Bless me! - a quick and irregular pulse - flushed cheek and fiery eye - strong febrile symptoms, and such as must be attended to."
"The Southern temper is quick and fiery," continued Miss Peyton; "and your brother, feeble and weak as he is, has looked the whole afternoon flushed and angry."
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