• The sun had finally risen above the horizon, lighting up her path.
• The sun had risen above the horizon, and threw a faint light over the mountains.
• Her eyes watched the stars dance as the full moon rose over the horizon.

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• It is still too early, I think in mock amusement, the fish haven't risen yet.
• Like the shark rising from the briny deep, the challenges of change management have risen to the surface.

• They would be looked down upon by others who rose in the society to be successful individuals.
• Allan is clearly a spineless kind of fellow - a philanthropic friend to the poor but lacking drive and the ability to rise in his profession.
• During more than 20 years in the profession, he had risen to the post of deputy head at a school in the north of England and was happy with his workload and responsibilities.

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• She has an air of American pragmatism that complements her relentless determination to succeed and rise above her class.
• In its general aspect, modularity is the process whereby concretely given individuals struggle to rise above their own limits by means of a script of self-fashioning drawn from the media.
• By no means is it an original movie, but it is a well constructed one that often rises above its stupendous flaws and contradictions.

• There are times when this doesn't rise above the level of superior student production, particularly in the awkward doubling and some of the crowd scenes.
• Elgar's Sea Pictures seldom rise above the fustian level of their poetic texts, and among the six Chausson items only two or three were memorable.
• I concede that the score by the young and promising composer seldom rises above the serviceable.

• Ted rose early the next morning and took a taxi to the Museo Nazionale, cool, echoey, empty of tourists despite the fact that it was summer.
• She rose early one morning, determined to make it up to Emmy.
• They rose early the next morning, and Rhia sensed that the soldiers seemed well-rested and eager to resume their journey.

• There was, therefore, considerable disappointment that when the Dail rose for the summer recess nothing had been done.
• The courts sit from 11 am to 1pm, then rise for lunch and sit again from 2pm to 4pm.
• Before the Dail and Seanad rose for the summer recess, Dempsey formulated a series of proposals for the reform of the Oireachtas.

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• An angel reported that Jesus had risen from the dead.
• He died on the cross and is said to have risen from the dead three days later.
• We were all startled by the transformation, as if a man had risen from the dead.

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• He was impressed by how families rose to the challenge in different ways.
• I can imagine another future, though - one in which individual and collective responsibility rises to the challenge.
• The men whose lives are celebrated in this enlightening book had their moment and rose to its challenge superbly.

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• Niall swept his hands in front of them, and a strong wind immediately rose.
• He moved his hand in front of him, a strong wind rising around him.
• I will sleep, I think; for the sheets of shimmering water are growing dark and angry, and the wind is rising.

• Before them, a great structure of green stone rose seamlessly from a basin of grass.
• The battered masonry walls rise dramatically from the landscape.
• Barely a thousand feet high, it rose dramatically from the surrounding landscape.

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• He pulls the covers from his body, stands, and feels the hair rising on his arms.
• Fear prickled at the nape of her neck as the hairs there rose.
• His eyes narrowed and she felt hair rising on the back of her neck.

• The triangular four-story building will rise on the site of a former strip club, another step in a major downtown renewal initiative.
• Trees started to become rarer and buildings kept rising.
• Indeed, taxi drivers take tourists from airport to city centre via the riverside building site out of which the palatial new house is rising.

• It grew gradually like bread dough rising in a bowl on a radiator, until it filled her up and made her feel slightly sick with excitement.
• Making the bread is a living process, similar to yoghurt, where the dough rises and develops with the yeast.
• The downstairs rooms were moderately clean by the time the dough had risen the second time.

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• Goosebumps rose on her skin immediately and she stopped struggling almost all together because of the extreme cold.
• He kissed her on the back of her neck and her breathing quickened as the goosebumps rose on her skin.
• Goose bumps were rising on her skin, her breath shallow.

• I screamed as the rollercoaster slid down the first dip, my stomach rising into my mouth.
• However Amy had no time to ponder over this, for as soon as the doors closed, she felt her stomach suddenly rise as the elevator zoomed upwards.
• She swallowed hard as her gorge rose at the sight of the busted-up fighter and the stench of burnt flesh.

• Slowly but surely, the water level is rising, and pathetic river and sea defences aren't going to do anything to stop more flooding.
• As the seas rose, new coral islands grew from the underlying shelf platform.
• And yet, we have a whole bunch of people, serious, accomplished scientists, telling us that the seas will rise in some places while deserts will be created in others.

• At once, the thermostat on the tank's control systems immediately rose from 47 degrees Celsius to sixty.

• Felix was growing upset now, his voice rising in pitch and volume.
• I objected, my voice rising in pitch of its own accord.
• She yelled, her voice rising in pitch until she was screeching.

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• His hopes rose when he learned that some leaders had ‘gone to ground’.
• Full fledged panic rose through her and she let out a loud scream.
• An odd feeling rose up inside of me as I watched, and I wasn't sure I liked it.

• I soon found my mood rising as my feelings for Denny began to fade.
• His spirits instantly rose at the sound of Jessi's voice.
• She felt her heart rise a little as he winked back.

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• He bowed slightly, nervously biting his bottom lip, and Tanaki felt the colour rising in his face.
• She could feel the colour rising in her cheeks and her grip on the sheets tightened.
• She felt her colour rising again, but she was once more determined to get her own way.

• After a meteoric rise comes the inevitable fall.
• As she began her rise in the political world, the media began to take notice.
• If he keeps being cast as such one-dimensional, charisma-free characters, his fall may be as quick as his meteoric rise.

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• Shrugging me off, he ordered me to go stand by the massive pine topping the largest of the graveyard's sloping rises.
• It was a land of scattered hills and rises.
• Down the path and over the rise of the last hill the army went, as if nothing had ever happened.

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• The incipient rebellion was quickly quashed, however, when journalists received email notification of the enormous salary rises which will accompany the deal.
• But analysts say compromises on wage and pension rises are likely.
• In terms of wages, 69 percent of exporters surveyed expect to pay a wage rise in the next 12 months.

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