Her face was still damp from crying.

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At such times, the house would close in around her, dark, damp, utterly still, and yet busy with the echoes and memories of those who had gone before, generation upon generation of Lowes, all dark-eyed and stocky and taciturn, watching her from the shadows, listening when she spoke on the phone: listening, watching, judging.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer

Her face was soft now, damp from the steam of my bath and the heat of her news.

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With damp eyes, Miss Monsoon stoops slightly to receive her tiara, and begins dreaming of the next pageant she needs to win.

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It was here that my mother learned the simple culinary art of making the beans and cornbread meal from her grandmother Charity, who ran a small boardinghouse that welcomed miners hoping to find work inside the damp hollows of the nearby mountains.

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