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Pructus Posted 18 years ago
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hottop
0 Hi! 02 br
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00 It came on, eating up the blue sky and the fresh black 01 u 00 hottop 02 u 00 with equal ease. Even twenty feet away the line of demarcation was perfectly clear. I had the nutty feeling that I was watching some extra-good piece of visual effects, something dreamed up by Willys O'Brian or Douglas Trumbull. It happened so quickly. 02 br
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00 The blue sky disappeared 01 u 00 to a wide swipe 02 u 00 , then to a stripe, then to a pencil line. Then it was gone. Blank white pressed against the glass of the wide show window. I could see as far as the litter barrel that stood maybe four feet away, but not much farther. I could see the front bumper of my Scout, but that' was all. 02 br
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00 Above is from Mist by Stephen King... 02 br
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00 (1) It's hard to figure what hottop is.... 02 br
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00 What is hottop? 02 br
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00 (2) The blue sky disappeared to a wide swipe.... To a swipe? What should it mean? 02 br
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00 The dictionary is saying that swipe is "A sweeping blow or stroke". 02 br
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00 But still difficult to figure out the meaning.... 0-
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00 It came on, eating up the blue sky and the fresh black 01 u 00 hottop 02 u 00 with equal ease. Even twenty feet away the line of demarcation was perfectly clear. I had the nutty feeling that I was watching some extra-good piece of visual effects, something dreamed up by Willys O'Brian or Douglas Trumbull. It happened so quickly. 02 br
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00 The blue sky disappeared 01 u 00 to a wide swipe 02 u 00 , then to a stripe, then to a pencil line. Then it was gone. Blank white pressed against the glass of the wide show window. I could see as far as the litter barrel that stood maybe four feet away, but not much farther. I could see the front bumper of my Scout, but that' was all. 02 br
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00 *********** 02 br
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00 Above is from Mist by Stephen King... 02 br
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00 (1) It's hard to figure what hottop is.... 02 br
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00 What is hottop? 02 br
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00 (2) The blue sky disappeared to a wide swipe.... To a swipe? What should it mean? 02 br
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00 The dictionary is saying that swipe is "A sweeping blow or stroke". 02 br
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00 But still difficult to figure out the meaning.... 0-
Top answer
0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 I haven't heard this expression before, but I think it refers to the asphalt that is used to form the surface of a road. 02 br 02 br 02 br 00 This quite is from S. KIng's 'Night Shift'.
- 0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 I haven't heard this expression before, but I think it refers to the asphalt that is used to form the surface of a road.
- 02 br 02 br 02 br 00 This quite is from S.
- KIng's 'Night Shift'.
- pdf 02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 I can see great convoys of trucks filling the Okefenokee Swamp with sand, the bulldozers ripping through the national parks and 02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 wildlands, grading the earth flat, stamping it into one great flat plain.
- 02 font 02 br 02 br 00 Perhaps it's an expression used mainly in the region that the author lives in.
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0 Hi, 02 br
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00 I haven't heard this expression before, but I think it refers to the asphalt that is used to form the surface of a road. It is laid when it is in 'hot liquid' form. 02 br
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00 This quite is from S. KIng's 'Night Shift'. 01 font 00 dc19.4shared.com/download/35854268/ 01 wbr 00 7d99cba1/ 01 b
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00 I haven't heard this expression before, but I think it refers to the asphalt that is used to form the surface of a road. It is laid when it is in 'hot liquid' form. 02 br
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00 This quite is from S. KIng's 'Night Shift'. 01 font 00 dc19.4shared.com/download/35854268/ 01 wbr
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