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Smokey says: if you aren't going to show photos of me (because you are behind ...), at least tell them that you saw a few golden retrievers in the metro, and how it scared you when they got so close to the danger line on the platform -- but not as much as it scared you when their non-seeing master followed close beside.
Alps 2010
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Sea-boots and storm-trappings were gone; his feet, in carpet slippers, rested on a hassock; while he lay back in the big leather chair smoking dreamily, his eyes wide open, absorbed, non-seeing -- or, if they saw, seeing things beyond the reeling cabin walls and beyond my ken.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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Smokey says: if you aren't going to show photos of me (because you are behind ...), at least tell them that you saw a few golden retrievers in the metro, and how it scared you when they got so close to the danger line on the platform -- but not as much as it scared you when their non-seeing master followed close beside.
Cafés 2010
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Smokey says: if you aren't going to show photos of me because you are behind..., at least tell them that you saw a few golden retrievers in the metro, and how it scared you when they got so close to the danger line on the platform -- but not as much as it scared you when their non-seeing master followed close beside.
Alps 2010
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Guys with these big non-seeing eyes and giant claws, and I was saying, ‘You tenderly take that claw here…’ so we choreographed the whole scene and it was fantastic.
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He struggles to identify the familiar-sounding voice of the man he cannot see; then, with a sigh, he uses his non-seeing senses to reach out on the air currents that dance around the holding.
The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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The next morning he told Stanley that he might be obliged to go east the following day on important business, and leave him to receive the travellers, and remained imperturbably grave and non-seeing when
The Rhodesian Gertrude Page 1897
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Sea-boots and storm-trappings were gone; his feet, in carpet slippers, rested on a hassock; while he lay back in the big leather chair smoking dreamily, his eyes wide open, absorbed, non-seeing -- or, if they saw, seeing things beyond the reeling cabin walls and beyond my ken.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896
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He knew how to turn into a non-seeing, non-hearing piece of stone after somebody was shanked in a corner and the shank was passed hand to hand before it was thrown at someone’s feet.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He knew how to turn into a non-seeing, non-hearing piece of stone after somebody was shanked in a corner and the shank was passed hand to hand before it was thrown at someone’s feet.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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