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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...ing to kiss her neck. Marian feigned resistance, and soon they were playfully wrestling on the sofa, when... “Is that anyway for an old married co... ...No problema," Cardona said, grinning wide and flashing his teeth. "We are not amateurs, nor are we stupid. If you find our system has flaws, I would ... ...e he wants to do something,’ Radcliff fired back. “But not this way. Not with amateurs...I'm sorry Senator." "No need to apologize. It's true. I am... ...s question. "We planned this attack for weeks, but you beat us to it. You are amateurs, but good amateurs. I am sorry about your friends, but we coul... ... time," he said waving a finger at Soule’. "You know our history. We are not amateurs." Soule’ looked at his watch. "We would like a flight to Los ... ...in the hell did you get Artemis in this thing?" Garza said shaking his head. "Amateurs. They'll get us all killed." "Artemis got a message from Hut...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...gs are almost like a hybrid of Montien Boonma's Buddhist sculpture with an amateur painter's penchant for easily obtained nude models in Bangkok's red... ...be gained in no other way. A m้ ้ lange of croquet and billiards, polo and wrestling, this sport and aggression performed in the heterosexual role cou... ...erms of intimacy and reproduction, it was; and yet in terms of this bit of wrestling, this sport, it was pleasure and pain that was distinct from all ... ... bad you will be finding yourself in a deeper fog. You'll be lost in guilt wrestling with yourself. Far better to feel hateful sometimes, appropriate ... ...foreigners and especially to someone like Kimberly who was an accomplished amateur sculptor herself, and yet he knew that Noppawan would have enjoyed ... ...ttresses, was vastly less credible than one of naked sportsmen at a bit of wrestling. For in this plain of existence where all was an illusion, one co... ...ich he had passed before. They would not become nude sportsman at a bit of wrestling for the victory of pleasure rather than the pleasure of victory, ...

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Signature for Sunshine

By: Christine Jones

...nd. He’d thought her strong from the moment he met her, but this was like wrestling a bull. The doctor was reluctant to leave; however, he’d been cal... ...ll’s room. One minute they were standing, the next they were on the floor wrestling. He remembered catching his side on the drawer with him and Chri... ...ess to express emotion, especially as she’d not pushed him away. Being no amateur when it came to comforting women, Rick was prepared to see this th...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...lf: if you can take ordinary people from any walk of life and put them into an amateur theatrical production, and create an entire cast of fictional ... ...omes a dance of two men… one with a ball, and one without a ball… kind of like wrestling… only not quite… One player is trying to find ways of picki... ...ss you make money from it: it is worthless. Why do you think there are so few amateur sports compared to professional sports? Because when you make... ...red to professional sports? Because when you make winning the first priority… amateur sport stop being fun. People find that when they get no posit... ...like they did for over 500 years in Roman coliseums? Look at professional wrestling: which the entire audience knows is faked. The bouts are pai... ...the Roman masses: as the modern fake wrestlers are today And what keeps the wrestling audience glued to the set. Subconscious suppressed Hate. A ... ...ing applauded by millions of adoring fans. That’s exactly what professional wrestling does also. But back in the locker rooms you can’t tell the... ...r has become three times cheaper than it ever was. Now there are millions of amateurs at home using cheap printers improperly; creating hundreds mil... ...wealth, accumulated status, accumulated sports ability. All professional and amateur sports that glorify winning, rewarding the winner with a Gourd...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...elves. The regular filibusters claimed that the colonists and negroes were but amateurs at the business of robbery, and therefore not entitled to the ... ... of her subjects. The amusement thus provided consisted of boxing, fencing and wrestling matches between the best athletes of the district, and of sin... ...w and then suspended for a few minutes. During these intervals there were both wrestling and boxing matches. The first were performed in the same mann... ...P.M. until 3 o'clock in the morning, and the entertainment then concluded with wrestling and boxing matches. INITIATORY CEREMONIES OF ROYALTY. Ten day... ...erangement. In this condition he travelled through all the islands, boxing and wrestling with every one he met. He subsequently set sail in a singular... ...his departure he was deified by his countrymen, and annual games of boxing and wrestling were instituted in his honor. As soon as Captain Cook arrived...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...imself that an ability to record notes on a staff would tranform him from an amateur cello performer and general musical dilettante to a composer. it... ...eply engrained in his psyche. The students stared and waited at his childish wrestling with his shoes. He knew that he needed slip-ons that would fost... ...innocuous frivolity caused them to squeal like piglets. It was insignificant wrestling around with the children in a job that did not take too much ta... ...ixed into his cries of despair. Five seconds earlier he had been running and wrestling with the other boys and then with a little pain and the rolling... ...addresses of art galleries the curators there would guide her toward various amateur art fairs so that she could sell her work. There was, however, t... ...--never Mr. Petulant-- with her grocery shopping or searching for acceptable amateur art for the school lounge (a Gabriele Sangfroid deemed not tame e...

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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

... never had openin’ night jitters in your life.” “I’ve never dressed a rank amateur before, either,” she said. “Five minutes! Five minutes,” the s... ...to her, to stop her from saying anymore, but his guards were on top of him, wrestling him to the ground. “Your name headed that list, Amos Carew,” ...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...eemed to be ebb­ ing. He reminded himself that just two days before he had been wrestling in the throes of depression. But whatever insanity he was ... ... raised Insider Trading to an art form that made even Ivan Boetsky look like an amateur. After all, Boetsky got caught. Pierce believed everyone ha... ...d as FBI immediately follow Cox and the two blondes out of the restaurant. "How amateurish," Taranto thought, and then left by the rear exit next to... ...nd. Maybe, this was going to be easier than he expected. After all, Hawk was an amateur. Still, Taranto was right, he would not under estimate the e...

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A Set of Six

By: Joseph Conrad

...g at. You, too, like to see mischief being made. The demagogue carries the amateurs of emotion with him. Amateurism in this, that, and the other thing... ...of genius. You must have seen his work. It is much sought after by certain amateurs now. He began by being revolutionary in his art, and ended by beco... ...what could be done quietly. “My first step was to call upon our young Lady Amateur of anarchism at her private house. She re- ceived me in a flatterin... ...ople in the world I wanted to see then! They had gone that evening to some amateur con- cert for the delectation of the poor people, you know; but she... ...d not advance with the free gait and expanding presence of a distinguished amateur anarchist amongst poor, struggling professionals, but with slightly... ...not be sure of ever rejoining his battalion; and the ghastly intimacy of a wrestling match with the frozen dead opposing the unyielding rigidity of ir...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...riness which poured into him worked like venom to cause an encounter and a wrestling: his battery of jaws expressed it. They gaped. At the same time, ... ...kelands. On the Sunday previous to the day, Dr. Themison accom- panied the amateurs by rail to Wrensham, to hear ‘trial of the acoustics’ of the Conce... ...—Mr. Peridon was generally conductor. Victor was to lead the full force of amateurs in the brisk overture to Zampa. He perceived a movement of Nataly,... ... fills, whatever it may be. Zampa takes horse from the opening. We have no amateur conductor riding ahead: vio- lins, ‘cellos, piano, wind-stops: Peri... ... an exchange of smiles. Ah, these mer- chant-princes! What of Mr. Radnor’s amateur instrumental- ists? Amateurs, they are not to be named: perfect mus...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

... time ago, I drove to an Indian military cantonment called Mian Mir to see amateur theatricals. At the back of the Infantry barracks a soldier, his ca... ...ool,” Penfentenyou almost wept, “do you pretend that these banana-fingered amateurs at home are grown up?” “You poor, serious, pagan man,” I retorted,... ...cs were all on. Miss Mary—I knew her by her height—was at the open window, wrestling with Miss Elizabeth, who gripped her round the knees. Miss Mary’s...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...as Kennicott’s comment. She defied him by encouraging Raymie: “Do you have amateur dramatics and so on here?” “Oh yes! The town’s just full of talent.... ...me at seven instead of eight. please hurry!” She was as unreasonable as an amateur leading woman on a first night, and he was reduced to humility. Whe... ...ed throughout the engagement, but in the middle of the floor Kennicott was wrestling with Harry Haydock—their collars torn off, their hair in their ey... ...nted. “But if we did,” Carol cautioned, “it would be awfully silly to have amateur theatricals. We ought to paint our own scenery and everything, and ... ...y the deuce do you want to see those darn foreign plays, given by a lot of amateurs? Why don’t you wait for a regular play, later on? There’s going to... ...erformance in Minneapolis, was mak- ing them up, and showing his scorn for amateurs with, “Stand still! For the love o’ Mike, how do you expect me to ...

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Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

...ter to compensate for the want of personal advantages. Mr. Rochester is an amateur of the de- cided and eccentric: Grace is eccentric at least. What i... ... all his energy gathered— all his stern zeal woke: he was in deep earnest, wrestling with God, and resolved on a conquest. He supplicated strength for... ...r my hierophant’s touch. My refus- als were forgotten—my fears overcome—my wrestlings pa- ralysed. The Impossible—I.E., my marriage with St. John— 42...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... the dreadful London murderer of the last generation; not only because the amateurs had so much insisted on his merit as the su- preme of artists for ... ...overbalance of probabilities, it was, however, definitively agreed amongst amateurs that Williams must have been alone in these atrocities. Meantime, ... ...ing murder? The fact is—and known from the very first to a select party of amateurs—that X, our superb-looking skeleton, did, about three o’clock on a... ... the cost of all after alterations. It may serve to show how inevitably an amateur architect, without professional aid and counsel, will be defrauded,... ... also under the ben- efit of another principle—the conservative feeling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British ... ...er imperfect arrangements of culture. Now, the one great qualification for wrestling strenuously with such difficult contingencies in solitary situati...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

... surface of its formal acquiescence. As a matter of fact his own spiritual wrestlings were almost exclusively nocturnal. During his spells of insomnia... ...hip of political economy with the writing of music-hall lyrics, was a keen amateur theologian, nor that Bent, the sentimental novelist, had a similar ...

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An Episode of the American Civil War

By: Stephen Crane

...their view points made him more miserable than before. No one seemed to be wrestling with such a terrific per-sonal problem. He was a mental outcast. ... ...ts against the numbing 64 The Red Badge of Courage pain he was like a man wrestling with a creature of the air. There was a sinister struggle. Someti... ... have yeh fixed up in jest about a minnit.” He had the bustling ways of an amateur nurse. He fussed around the fire and stirred the sticks to brillian... ...his ban-daged hand. “Come on!” Presently he grap-pled with him as if for a wrestling bout. It was as if he planned to drag the youth by the ear on to ...

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The Confidence- Man

By: Herman Melville

...ine; you played it, Charlie, to the life.” “You see, I once belonged to an amateur play company; that accounts for it. But come, fill up, and let’s ta... ... to believe; though, from vanity, I confess, I could never yet, by my best wrestlings, entirely free myself; nor, indeed, to be frank, am I at bottom ...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...s It was the queerest of rooms, fitted and furnished more like a luxurious amateur tap-room than anything else within the ken of Silas Wegg. There wer... ...entleman of property. He invests his property. He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do... ...e weather was varied with blasts of hail at times, might be wea- risome to amateurs, the reporter closed with the recommen- dation that the two gentle... ...g I knew, a silence of days, weeks, months, years, was broken by a violent wrestling of men all over the room. The figure like myself was assailed, an... ...t at the end, and turned his face down-stream to see who hailed. It was an amateur-sculler, well up to his work though tak- ing it easily, in so light...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...to the provoking indifference, or more provoking criticism, of fashionable amateurs. ‘During the summer of my year,’ says Dudley, ‘I am as free as a w... ...e with her song. The words ran nearly thus— Wasted, weary, wherefore stay, Wrestling thus with earth and clay? From the body pass away;— Hark! the mas... ... in high order, the claret excellent, and the learned counsel, a professed amateur in the affairs of the table, did distinguished honour to both. I am...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

...little discre- tion) was but a variety of the same species. He also was an amateur, and an enthusiastic amateur of murder. But as this taste, in the m... ...reaks of nature, whether in action, taste, or opinion; for a collector and amateur of misgrowths and abor- tions; for a Suetonius, in short, it may be... ...ared for malignity and baleful tendency to the cool and cowardly spirit of amateurship, in which the Roman (perhaps an effeminate Asiatic) sat looking... ... such gymnastic exercises as he held consis- tent with his public dignity. Wrestling, hunting, fowling, 100 The Cæsars playing at cricket (pila), he ... ...s, and entering so critically, both as a con- noisseur and as a practising amateur, into such trials of skill, so little did he relish the very same s...

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