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Then his hands froze and he lifted his head, gazed off to the side in a fugue of stillness, listening.
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The switchman lifted his head from the rail, blew his nose, brushed the dirt off his clothes, and adopted a serious, dignified expression.
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He lay on his armor-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff segments.
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My father arrived in Ravenna, lifted his head, saw the vision of Eden, bought a cheap little picture of the picture, and sent it to me with love fortified by exclamation points everyone chooses his own language.
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When the executioner lifted her severed head, it fell away from his hand and he was left holding the auburn wig she had chosen to wear.
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He testified that he cannot remember anything, even the trip home, after Sandusky lifted him up to the shower head to get the shampoo out of his hair.
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