... he twisted off the top and drank deeply. He knew he was stalling, but didn’t know why -- the musty room, Frankie's questions,.... He drank the bottle dry, alone in the darkness before the dawn, trying not to think of anything too specific at all. He let...rosary, his hand clutching the medallion strung around his neck. Sometime around dawn, he finally drifted off into an uneasy sleep. ~//~ The sun ...
...s thigh. "Who knew celebrating was such hard work." They'd all been up since way before dawn and Rodney had spent the time waiting for John to return from the airport putting away the leftover ... of having a family of your own?" Rodney waited, mentally ticking off each tried and true Sheppard stalling tactic as John went through them before simply replying… "Yeah, but—" Rodney pounced. "There you ...
... inquires so obvious that the butler didn’t bother waiting for the actual question. There was no point in stalling; he could already see the words forming on those chapped, pursing lips… “Yes, demons have fathers,” he... is nigh, my lord… I will return to kiss you goodnight.” X Up before the light of dawn… X It started, as it often did, with a goodnight kiss. “ Ah … Seba…!” The fifteen-...
... achieve them, but so that you can prevent them?" That patience would not last long. The human was stalling. "Bring me Castiel." He whipped the sword in his hand, catching and tearing at Jason's shirt. "You ... the slowly dawning sky at the horizon. To Puriel, and Puriel alone, the archangel put his next words, Dawn is coming, and it looks like to be a Good Day, my Brother. Beside him, the ashes ...
... choral power to back it up. "The Dawn of the Red Moon" is among the ...more overwrought before it begins a Carl Stalling like shift for changing tempi and abrupt...by the slick motif again. Following the Stalling template it shifts between tempi once ... really stands apart from the earlier Stalling mannerisms and is among the track's... moves on with some teasing Carl Stalling bits before we hear the regal ...
...to get to the point without stalling. "Yeah, so what's this urn...to my vision and suddenly everything Dawn said about cool helmetless Spike is...Who told you I traded it?" "Dawn." "Oh. Right." The wind blows past...onto him rigidly. "You lied to Dawn?" I squeak aloud, my fingers ... lip. We're close, as Dawn said, we probably tell each ... catching me talking with unattainable Dawn, all makes my blood curl ...
... give it much thought. I showed you where the hidey-hole was, and reminded you to get in there before dawn. For some reason I thought maybe you wouldn’t know when sunrise was, and I’d find a great big ... of the pantry without Eric noticing. “There are many things I want to know, and I fear you are stalling.” He said plainly. “This isn’t easy for me to talk about with you, Eric. We have both said ...
...tracks in the direction they had travelled before the stalling. “What the heck happened?” she asked. “There ...’t that right, Nibblet?” “Yep, you are correct.” Dawn Summer’s light, young voice drifted through the ... girl named Caridad Vossen who reminded Buffy and Dawn of the late Kendra. Caridad was so glad ..., she looked to Buffy and Spike for guidance. “Dawn called. She’s having a study date,” Buffy...
..., which complicates coordinated military actions, and threatens to cut Nationalist China completely off from the sea, still essential for getting supplies from trading partners like the United States.
Unfortunately, the stalling-out and quagmire that the script calls for here --- and this is with my funneling supplies as best I can to China, and funding partisans in occupied territory, albeit ...
... still there. His laugh made her heart sing. “It’s possible…what year did you graduate?” “Stop your stalling.” She nudged him gently. “One whole day off, what would you do?” “I’d start with an ... “What a minute. You would go back to bed?” “It’s still pretty early. Getting up at dawn, running, reading the paper…I’ve killed about three or four hours. That means it’s somewhere in the ...
