rings of power

You shouldn't discount the possibility of him coming back.

She is a person of great magnanimity and vision. They were embarrassed into magnanimity by their all-out victory.

The production of religious artefacts in Celtic society called for highly skilled designers and artificers.

My mother's apple pie recipe calls for two glasses of sugar.

What annoys me about these girls is their complacency - they seem to have no desire to expand their horizons. You can't be so complacent all the time. Grow up.

to be lost in reverie. He was lost in reverie until he suddenly heard someone behind him. daydream

We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society. The problem is not confined to secondary schools. He was tired of the constant confinement of his office.

My brother is a divine. Can you divine my name? The divine watches over us.

We pray for deliverance from our sins. The families hoped for the safe deliverance of their husbands, fathers, and brothers.

Some of the bank's lending operations come under/within the purview of the deputy manager, and some are handled directly by the manager. the contemporary university, though, has reached beyond the purview of education

He had no idea what the last sigil was, either. Put the Sigil in place and let's get out of here

He squirted some tomato sauce on his burger. There was a leak in one of the pipes and water was squirting out all over the kitchen floor. I caught my neighbour's son writing graffiti on our wall, the little squirt. jet, spurt, gush, spew, spout

How did you fare in your exams? Low-paid workers will fare badly/well under this government.

See you anon.

Like many local governments in the state, the county has a long history of political shenanigans. He told stories of his childhood pranks and prep school shenanigans.

Have you seen the scissors? I want to snip off this loose thread. I snipped out the article and gave it to her. Give it a snip with the scissors. The sunglasses are now available in major stores, a snip at £12 a pair.

I was actually thinking about something else: how easy it would be to break his kneecap

Three years after the accident the lawyers finally managed to hammer out a settlement with the insurance company.

Violent squalls signalled the approach of the hurricane. I could hear next door's baby squalling at night

He laughed when I asked if anything had happened to vex him.

huge pillers that looked as though cut out from the quartz.

just make it to the clearing

People are put off by his strident voice. a strident newspaper article They are becoming increasingly strident in their criticism of government economic policy.

The zebras fanned out when a lion approached them. The radio waves fan out vertically.

He frequents this club, he's here almost every weekend.

Can I quote you on that?

It's not fair to dish him, he's a nice person. Don't dish, I don't want to hear it.

Though ill for most of her life, physical frailty never stopped her from working. Most of the characters in the novel exhibit those common human frailties - ignorance and greed.

The best ink-jet printers can reproduce photographs with amazing fidelity. We measure complexity and fidelity of data in terms of polygonal count. I take this ring as a sign of your love and fidelity.

She has stowed away many times. I want to stow away during dinner.

He claimed that he signed the confession under duress.

Hurry up. We have precious little time. There is precious little to do in the house in the evenings.

Channel your energy into action. A one million dollars must be channelled to those people. He channeled her name in wood with a jackknife. She claims she can channel Marilyn Monroe.

In this open space I was not very likely to be waylaid. Some of the older children had waylaid him on his way back from school.

a cask of water/wine

My grandpa is very lavish. He gave me 100 dollars.

He can bring a team together in a special not tangible way.

fallow land, idle land

They humbled the opposite team, beating them 6:0.

The train sped through the station with a whoosh. wind is whooshing

She's one of those children who can wheedle you into giving her anything she wants. She wasn't invited, but somehow she managed to wheedle her way in.

So much of what's on TV is pure dross. We read all the manuscripts but 95 percent are dross.

Share prices fell again today after yesterday's rally. The team played badly in the first half of the game but rallied in the second. The pound rallied against the dollar in trading today. You have to rally, you didn't win but you were great anyway.

Steel is a metal alloy whose major components are iron and carbon.

The submarine surfaced a few miles off the coast. Doubts are beginning to surface about whether the right decision has been made. A rumour has surfaced that the company is about to go out of business. He never surfaces until at least 11.00 a.m.

I exhausted two buckets of water from the well. We've already exhausted our supply of food. deplete something of something

You'll have to scour out those old cooking pots before you use them. The police are scouring the area for the missing child. I scoured the shops for a blue and white shirt, but I couldn't find one anywhere.

The constraints of politeness wouldn't allow her to say what she really thought about his cooking. Financial constraints on the company are preventing them from employing new staff.

wrathful

was up betimes this morning

they opposed her at every turn

a moan of distress. made a great moan if he had to work. The boy was moaning in pain.

had not the faintest inkling of what it was all about. there was no path—no inkling even of a track

Middle earth stands upon the brink of destructuon. Our country were standing upon the brink of civil war

I wonder what kind of punishment the chairman is going to deal out to the traitors. Deal five cards to each of them

there other forces at work