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Usage examples of demi.

Without changing his clothes, and using a wooden racket, he played tennis with Demi, Urania, and Callisto on a court so rich in excrescences and asperities that his choice of groundstrokeforehand or backhandnecessarily depended on the ball's right-angled bounce.

It showed things like Gwyn helping Demi in the garden, and bringing Demi tea, and sitting there gazing at Demi in childish absorption while she talked on the telephone and absentmindedly rearranged lunch dates.

If he did, then someone, surely, a woman or a childGina, Demi, Anstice, Lizzete, Marius, Marcowould take his hand and lead him to somewhere nice and soft and white, kindly whispering to his gasps for breath.

Richard, at his desk, fondling Darko's letter, fondling Demi in his thoughts, had a couple of ideas.

Up until now, with Demi, he could think of no investigative move to make, other than sexual harassment.

Big, blond, unsatir-ical, but not quite the other thing either (unburnished, unrefined), Demi performed her tiptoe without ease and without talent.

He was thinking of Demi at dinner, covering her empty wineglass with her hand.

When Gwyn took up with Demi, he ended it with Gilda, his teenhood sweetheart, and with some dispatch: he ended it the next morning.

When that was over Demi regained her balance and stood there, with a change of clothes in her shopping bag, smiling weakly at Richard, who moved forward to kiss her, in his turn.

When Demi had gone on up for her class Gwyn spent the last few minutes filling Richard in on his European deals for Amelior Regained.

She was talking to Demi, who now shook her head with a flat brief smile.

Riding on with this assumptionas it were in tandem with Demi and GinaRichard imagined Gwyn's quest for full voidance steadily growing in complication and dolor.

Half the time, accordingly, in necromode, he thought he was smelling his own death, of water and book on the other, Demi was sleeping in the middle of the bed.

As Crash approached central London he relented, and taught Demi something nice: the use of the hazard lights to express gratitude.

So Demi said "vicious snowball" and "quicksand wit" and "up gum street".