The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3)
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leaching the heat out of her.
Mike
More likely leeching.
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Dave Higgins
For one thing getting warmer by drawing the heat from another, leeching does seem a better metaphor.

I could see a tenuous argument for leaching if the context is an environmental factor causing body h…
Mike
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Mike
Leaching/leeching are a tricky pair, and it's often a line call as to which one is correct in a given context (given that they're both metaphors, and refer to very similar processes).
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How are you actually helping anyone by supporting the current status quo?” She could have said I’m stopping things from getting worse,
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folding-tables
Mike
No hyphen
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Nothing went boom or splat. Irene was still alive and moving freely. She decided to call her mission a total success so far.
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“Book that I am holding, lead me towards the centre of this library!”
Mike
New application of the Language; it hasn't previously seemed able to be used in locating things, at least not in this book, even when that would be useful.
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“That’s suspiciously vague,” Irene said. “And rather lacking in details.”
Mike
Indeed. Fudge by the author.