puckered

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wrinkles or iregular folds

(his mouth was puckered and old)

barracks

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 a building or set of buildings used especially for lodging soldiers in garrison

(below them,down gravel enbankmentwas a stark line of low barracks)

 to not affect or alter noticeably

("run" Fayge said catching the last word,and repeated it in a soft uninflected voice)

  a ceremonial act or action

(petend you are in one of your ritual baths)

vulnerable

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urge

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a strong need, wish, or impulse to do something

(she wondered what she looked like herself,resesting the urge to put her hand up to her head again)

trough

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boxlike container for holding food or water for a domestic animal

(the dead baby was torn from its mothers arms and cast behind a horses watering trough)

gesturing

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movement of a body part to express an idea

(a shoulder shouted,gesturing with his rifle)

fetal

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clenched

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to set or close tightly

(her hands clenched and un clenched into fists)

to bring together ,collect

(touching it with as much tenderness as she could muster)

 an introductory fact or circumstance

(he said suddenly without preamable)

hovering

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 to remain suspended over a place or object

(the angel of death was hovering over head)

loomed

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 to come into sight in enlarged or distorted and indistinct form often as a result of atmospheric conditions

(beyond the fence loomed the smoke stack)

sanctuary

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a place of refuge and protection 

(one of my sisters could not run fast enough to disapear into the middens sanctuary) 

triumphantly

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 notably successful,victorious

(she ended triumphantly, though part of her wondered what she had meant)

sobbing

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 to cry or weep with convulsive catching of the breath

(then she would begin her sobbing again,slowly gathering volume and strengh)

punctuating