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Folding in sentence

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The show was at Sloss Furnace in a concrete pit normally used for rock concerts and had small folding chairs for seating with a plethora of smoking and drinking.
But, rather than folding their cards, European leaders doubled down.
Our knowledge of the structure and function of proteins, for example, has been greatly expanded through the discovery of dynamic folding processes.
The Lasting Damage of IraqMADRID – The folding of the American flag in Iraq amid a collapse of public security and a severe crisis in the country’s fragile political order seals a tragic chapter in the history of the United States.
Newspapers in most advanced countries are struggling or folding, and investigative reporting is often the first thing they cut.
'Do you believe in the teachings of the Holy Apostolic Church?' continued the priest, turning his eyes away and folding his hands beneath his stole.
Then, just spreading its wings slightly and folding them again, it vanished round a corner with an awkward backward jerk.
Instead of its former animation it expressed weariness and lifelessness..'What is it you wish of me?'Karenin said, turning round in his chair and folding his pince-nez.
Suddenly around the church appeared the first colliers returning from the pit with black faces and damp garments, folding their arms and expanding their backs.
They shivered beneath their thin garments, folding their arms, rolling their hips, expanding their backs with the humps formed by the brick between the shirt and the jacket.
she went on, speaking to herself, "the table that comes in so handy for folding the washing, and on which, in the hunting season, I have slept six visitors!
He turned away slowly, and, folding his arms, said to her—"My good lady, did you think I should go on to all eternity being your purveyor and banker, for the love of God?Now be just.
For an instant Harper paused in silent admiration of the lovely pleader, and then, folding her hands on his breast, he replied solemnly, "I cannot, and I will not."
"Sarah, my child, my beloved niece," said the former, folding the unconscious bride in her arms, "you are saved, and may the blessing of God await him who has been the instrument."
Frances and her aunt held a long and animated discussion by themselves, when the good spinster reluctantly yielded to the representation of her niece, and folding her in her arms, she kissed her cold cheek, and, fervently blessing her, allowed her to depart on an errand of fraternal love.
The captain took out his pocketbook, and wrote a few lines with his pencil; then folding the paper, he handed it to his sister.
Lawton threw his huge frame by the side of the surgeon, and folding his cloak about him, leaned his head upon one hand, and appeared deeply engaged in contemplating the moon as it waded through the heavens.
As soon as he had satisfied himself, folding up the parchment, he took the warrant in his left hand and with his right seized Don Quixote by the collar so tightly that he did not allow him to breathe, and shouted aloud:"Help for the Holy Brotherhood!
"My only son, Sir, and he is dying before his father's eyes!"'At the first word the old man uttered, the stranger checked himself in his career, and, folding his arms, stood perfectly motionless.
'Do you mean to tell me, Mr. Weller,' said Serjeant Buzfuz, folding his arms emphatically, and turning half-round to the jury, as if in mute assurance that he would bother the witness yet--'do you mean to tell me, Mr. Weller, that you saw nothing of this fainting on the part of the plaintiff in the arms of the defendant, which you have heard described by the witnesses?''Certainly not,' replied Sam; 'I was in the passage till they called me up, and then the old lady was not there.'
It is not half as innocent a thing as it looks, that shaking little pieces of carpet--at least, there may be no great harm in the shaking, but the folding is a very insidious process.
So long as the shaking lasts, and the two parties are kept the carpet's length apart, it is as innocent an amusement as can well be devised; but when the folding begins, and the distance between them gets gradually lessened from one half its former length to a quarter, and then to an eighth, and then to a sixteenth, and then to a thirty-second, if the carpet be long enough, it becomes dangerous.
With these words, which he repeated with great emphasis and violence, Sam Weller dashed his hat upon the ground, in a most unusual state of excitement; and then, folding his arms, looked firmly and fixedly in his master's face.
'Say what you have to say; it's the old story, I suppose?''With a difference, my dear Sir; with a difference,' rejoined Perker, deliberately folding up the paper and putting it into his pocket again.
Let him writhe, in impotent malice, as we pen the words,WE WILL BE THERE.''There, Sir,' said Pott, folding up the paper quite exhausted, 'that is the state of the case!'The landlord and waiter entering at the moment with dinner, caused Mr. Pott to lay his finger on his lips, in token that he considered his life in Mr. Pickwick's hands, and depended on his secrecy.
Here, Mr. Slurk laughed very heartily, and folding up the paper so as to get at a fresh column conveniently, said, that the blockhead really amused him.
Ha!Arabella!''My sister!' exclaimed Mr. Benjamin Allen, folding her in a most romantic embrace.
"Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it to our visitor.
"Come to the other side so," said the child, beckoning Tarvin in the native fashion, by folding all his tiny fingers into his palms rapidly and repeatedly.
D’Artagnan sprang from his horse, threw the bridle to Planchet, and departed at a quick pace, folding his cloak around him.
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