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She started reading again, and felt Levi's elbow curve around her shoulder. — Rainbow Rowell

She listened intently, her chin in her hand, her elbow on her knee. Poe couldn't remember ever having felt so heard by anyone in all his life. — Greg Rucka

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room. — Brendan I. Koerner

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. — Harper Lee

You never knew if he was nodding a lot because he was thinking and all, or just because he was a nice old guy that didn't know his ass from his elbow. — J.D. Salinger

Selma dug her sharp elbow right into my ribs and then kicked me hard on the ankle under the table. I couldn't help giving a little squeal of pain. — Jacqueline Wilson

The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard? — Peter Elbow

You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the Devil was at his elbow — Cormac McCarthy

I've been in the hospital once when I had my daughter, and, oh, when I broke my elbow, but other than that, I've been very fortunate. — Hillary Clinton

Harry resumed the patting of his elbow, saying as he did so (for the potion seemed to indicate that it was the right thing to do), — J.K. Rowling

You might get an elbow in the face, maybe kicked in the 'nads. — James Dashner

How long could she be expected to stay in a remote elbow of the Welsh border, where the idea of an eligible batchelor was a man with two tractors? — Phil Rickman

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world — Mick Foley

may tranquillity walk by his elbow When wandering in the forest, if he love No — W.B.Yeats

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. — Marcus Aurelius

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow. — Hillary Clinton

Temptation: the fiend at my elbow. — William Shakespeare

I caught an elbow playing basketball — Michael Scofield

Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG. — Sam Kean

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what? — Peter S. Beagle

I was shy, said six-foot-one of bashful male. He grunted as a sharp, feminine elbow thudded inconspicuously into his side. — Anne Gracie

The preacher rose high on his elbow. "Law changes," he said, "but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do. — John Steinbeck

Necessity invented stools,
Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. — William Cowper

Whither thou know'est thy ass from thy elbow — J.R. Ward

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense. — Thomas Carlyle

Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic."
"I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining . — Lois McMaster Bujold

If there was ever a person begging for an elbow to the face, it is Evangeline Samos. — Victoria Aveyard

There's elbow room, a value we've forgotten we ever had. — Fausto Brizzi

Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with. — Peter Elbow

Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling. — Luis Bunuel

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding ... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow. — Gwendoline Christie

Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear. — Peter Elbow

I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail. — Edward Abbey

For the record, I am so turned on by your elbow patches, I'm coming out of my skin over here. — Alice Clayton

The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead") — Robert Barr

Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room. — Robert A. Heinlein

I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow. — James Cosmo

Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow. — Adrian McKinty

He still wore, in the warming barracks, a muskrat cap with earlaps. Under it his eyes were gray as agates, as sudden as an elbow in the solar plexus. — Wallace Stegner

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century. — Ray Bradbury

I loved the hole in his jeans and the dirt on his bare feet and the scab on his elbow and the scar that laced through one eyebrow. — E. Lockhart

There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius. — Jamie Lawson

My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge. — Maya Angelou

He imagined that he stood near Emma in a wide land and, humbly and in tears, bent and kissed the elbow of her sleeve. — James Joyce

It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none. — Peter Elbow

The price one pays for having a kind man at one's elbow. — John Hersey

If you want a thing, get it the old-fashioned way, by elbow grease and brain power. Don't mess with the fairies. But — David Mitchell

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again! — J.R.R. Tolkien

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice. — Benny Goodman

He's a book full of footnotes brought to life. He's a jacket made of elbow patches. — Rainbow Rowell

I'm definitely an elbow-room guy. — Ryan Kwanten

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. — Roald Dahl

Too much empty enthusiasm can even be demotivating, if not supported by the right skills and a lot of elbow grease. — Derek Murphy

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today ... — Bill Burr

Mrs. Bantry reflected a minute and then applied an urgent conjugal elbow to her sleeping spouse. — Agatha Christie

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it. — Peter Elbow

She grinned. Lifted herself up on her elbow so she could look down at him, and said, "Now that you've recovered, ready to go again? — Dale Mayer

Tapping a finger against the flesh of her elbow, she deadpanned, Jacin Clay, there is an assassin under my bed. — Marissa Meyer

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. — Zora Neale Hurston

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow. — George Herbert

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent. — Tug McGraw

He cannot hunt. He cannot sleep. He is angry. He is sad.' The Frenchman ticked off symptoms and jabbed Tom with his elbow. 'He is in love! — Christine Blevins

By coming down elbow first, I'd made a large enough crack in the ice to sink through.
The water was so cold that it stopped time. — Rachel Sharp

Shanks moaned, stirring. "You broke my nuts"
So that was what my elbow had hit. "Sorry." My voice cracked. — Lili St. Crow

I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine. — Shaquille O'Neal

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity. — Ellis Peters

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. — Peter Elbow

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue. — George W. Bush

Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles. — Tennessee Williams

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter
and much safer. — Robert A. Heinlein

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. — Marcus Aurelius

The deepest dependency is not of students upon teachers, but of teachers upon students. — Peter Elbow

When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done. — Ava DuVernay

Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

elbow. I had been without sleep for most of the last three days, — Diana Gabaldon

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words. — Peter Elbow

He lifted up on one elbow and looked down at her. What she wouldn't give to see what he saw, to know what made him look at her that way. — Sarah Addison Allen

have to say. He just has to give an elbow room for other people's truths and answers. — QuickRead

In the past five minutes, I had managed to tease my libido, scald my crotch, and catch a world-class elbow with my forehead. — B. Justin Shier

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw. — Thomas Harris

and I'm thrown backward. I land on my left elbow, hear it crack. Pain splinters through me. A Scavenger looms over me. Impossible to say whether — Lauren Oliver

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure. — Bob Shacochis

Will Solace sighed. He was, of course, tied to Nico. He propped his elbow on Nico's shoulder as if the son of Hades were a convenient shelf. — Rick Riordan

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.

To drink champagne with a blonde at one elbow and a brunette at the other gives a man a sense of well-being, and — Rex Stout

I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles. — Taylor Schilling

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two. — Mark Shields

Pushed forward. A flying elbow struck his cheekbone just below his — Stephen King

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it! — Kate Voegele

Sometimes being given the elbow can turn out to be the best hand. — Benny Bellamacina

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director. — Guy Garvey