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1  You'd be afraid to open your lips.
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2  His lips would not bend to kiss her.
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3  But his lips would not bend to kiss her.
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4  A cry sprang to his lips, a prayer to be let off.
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5  At those moments the soft speeches of Claude Melnotte rose to his lips and eased his unrest.
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6  He twisted his features into a grimace of heavy bestiality and made a lapping noise with his lips.
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7  Tears of joy and relief shone in his delighted eyes and his lips parted though they would not speak.
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8  But he could not laugh because his cheeks and lips were all shivery: and then the prefect had to laugh by himself.
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9  He inclined his head, closed his eyes, and, licking his lips profusely, began to speak with the voice of the hotel keeper.
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10  His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss.
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11  The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the unspoken brutal words rushed forth from his brain to force a passage.
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12  With a sudden movement she bowed his head and joined her lips to his and he read the meaning of her movements in her frank uplifted eyes.
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13  He closed his eyes, surrendering himself to her, body and mind, conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips.
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14  A soft peal of mirthless laughter escaped from his lips and, bending down as before, he struck Stephen lightly across the calf of the leg with his cane, as if in jesting reproof.
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15  He stretched out his arms in the street to hold fast the frail swooning form that eluded him and incited him: and the cry that he had strangled for so long in his throat issued from his lips.
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16  I let her bawl away, to her heart's content, KITTY O'SHEA and the rest of it till at last she called that lady a name that I won't sully this Christmas board nor your ears, ma'am, nor my own lips by repeating.
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17  They pressed upon his brain as upon his lips as though they were the vehicle of a vague speech; and between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odour.
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