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  • They carry me under a half-lowered blast shield that looks nuke-proof, then through a vault door, and finally into a series of cold, concrete rooms where I am fingerprinted and photographed, palpated and probed, swabbed, scanned, and scrubbed, deloused and depilated.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • They carry me under a half-lowered blast shield that looks nuke-proof, then through a vault door, and finally into a series of cold, concrete rooms where I am fingerprinted and photographed, palpated and probed, swabbed, scanned, and scrubbed, deloused and depilated.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • “Get in,” Quentin shouted through the half-lowered window.

    A Different Light Mariah Stewart 2010

  • Once situated to his liking, he looked at her from beneath half-lowered lids.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • King grunted with the lids half-lowered over full dark eyes.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • Once situated to his liking, he looked at her from beneath half-lowered lids.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • She nodded, then looked at him through half-lowered eyelids.

    One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze 2007

  • With one more sidelong glance through half-lowered lashes, she reached for the tiny petals — pink, to match the tender skin of her taut nipples — and plucked them off.

    One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze 2007

  • The man had clearly been about her rape, but Chang saw that her undergarments were yet only half-lowered — he had been surprised in the midst of his attack.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • The man had clearly been about her rape, but Chang saw that her undergarments were yet only half-lowered — he had been surprised in the midst of his attack.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

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