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...was made by a lawyer?s clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper--a messenger in fact--who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet, and fired it gleefully through the open pane of the window against which he was leaning. The pellet, well aimed, rebounded almost as high as...

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...er-jumper—a messenger in fact—who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into ... ...ir of a schoolboy who has caught out his master. And he went on eating his bread and cheese, leaning his shoulder against the window jamb; for he rest... ...a bricked-up fireplace; on the marble chimney-piece were several chunks of bread, triangles of Brie cheese, pork cut- lets, glasses, bottles, and the ... ...t do you want, sir?” asked Godeschal, swallowing as he spoke a mouthful of bread big enough to charge a four- pounder, flourishing his knife and cross... ...y the events of the war, I have wandered about like a vagabond, begging my bread, treated as a madman when I have told my story, with- out ever having... ...iven an entertainment, and where nothing was given me, not even a piece of bread. Hav- ing agreed with Boutin on the road I was to take, I went to 23... ...d. I shared what I had with him. Unfortunately, it is not much to boast of—bread, milk, eggs. Well, well; it’s neighbors’ fare, sir. And he is heartil...

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... upon the fierce waves of the crowd, bustling, shifting, struggling to keep himself somewhat above water--fighting for reputation, or more likely for bread, and ceaselessly occupied to-day with plans for appeasing the eternal appetite of inevitable hunger to-morrow--a man in such straits has hardly time to think of anything but himself, and, as in a sinking ship, must make...

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...himself somewhat above water—fight- ing for reputation, or more likely for bread, and ceaselessly occupied to-day with plans for appeasing the eternal... ...ines and hatchings which he is obliged to render; let him go, not a hair’s breadth, but the hundredth part of a hair’s breadth, beyond the given line,... ...zing energetic fecundity do we find in him! As a boy he began to fight for bread, has been hungry (twice a day we trust) ever since, and has been obli... ...e a day we trust) ever since, and has been obliged to sell his wit for his bread week by week. And his wit, sterling gold as it is, will find no such ...

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...hich justly divide friends, far more acquaintances. Your letter to the Reverend H.B. Gage is a document which, in my sight, if you had filled me with bread when I was starving, if you had sat up to nurse my father when he lay a-dying, would yet absolve me from the bonds of gratitude....

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...ude, and offences which justly divide friends, far more acquaintances. Your letter to the Reverend H. B. Gage is a document which, in my sight, if you...

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...Contents 4 CHAPTER 1. LESS BREAD! MORE TAXES! 10 CHAPTER 2. L?AMIE INCONNUE. 15 CHAPTER 3. BIRTHDAY-PRESENTS. 21 CHAPTER 4. A CUNNING CONSPIRACY. 26 CHAPTER 5. A BEGGAR?S PALACE. 33 CHAPTER 6. THE MAGIC LOCKET. 39 CHAPTER 7. THE BARON?S EMBASSY. 44 CHA...

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...ide, send No glance to meet the silent end. Contents 4 CHAPTER 1 . LESS BREAD! MORE TAXES! 10 CHAPTER 2. L’AMIE INCONNUE. 15 CHAPTER 3. ... ...LVlE. 91 CHAPTER 15. BRUNO’S REVENGE. 3 SYLVIE AND BRUNO CHAPTER 1 LESS BREAD! MORE TAXES! —and then all the people cheered again, and one man, w... ... was for the Sub Warden, or not, did not clearly appear: some were shouting “Bread!” and some “T axes!”, but no one seemed to know what it was they re... ...th the hat as it bobbed up and down. “Hoo roah! Noo! Consti! T ooshun! Less! Bread! More! T axes!” “That’ll do, that’ll do!” the Chancellor whispered.... ...ons your—your High Excellency? I—I—scarcely comprehend!” “Well, the length, breadth, and thickness, if you like it better!” And the old man smiled, h... ...om a hoarse confused cry, in which the only clearly audible words were “Less—bread—More—taxes!” The old man laughed heart ily. “What in the world—” h... ...e quite distinctly, and with the regularity of the ticking of a clock, “More—bread— Less taxes!’” “More bread!” the Warden repeated in astonishment. “... ...w Government Bakery was opened only last week, and I gave orders to sell the bread at cost price during the present scarcity! What can they expect mor... ...he window. The old Beggar looked up at us with hungry eyes. “Only a crust of bread, your Highness!” he pleaded. He was a fine old man, but looked sadl...

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............ 150 THE MALTESE CAT................................................................................................................... 165 ?BREAD UPON THE WATERS? .............................................................................................. 183 AN ERROR IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION..........................................................................

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........................................................................ 165 “BREAD UPON THE WATERS” ....................................................... ...CESTORS S OME PEOPLE will tell you that if there were but a single loaf of bread in all India it would be divided equally between the Plowdens, the Tr... ... off a mess- table for a bet. So he behaved himself very politely, and ate bread dipped in salt, and was petted all round the table, mov- ing gingerly... ...knew, Past Pluperfect Prestissimo Player of the Game. 183 The Day’s Work “BREAD UPON THE WATERS” I F YOU REMEMBER my improper friend Brugglesmith, yo... ... the other tide of Borneo. These were loved and known, for they earned our bread and a little butter, and 185 The Day’s Work we despised the big Atla... ...me. That was providential. In a minute he was back again. ‘Ye’ve cast your bread on the watter, McPhee, an’ be damned to you,’ he says. ‘Whaur’s my do... ...ould settle you.” “You’ve settled me now, you damned anarchist. Takin’ the bread out of the mouth of an English workin’man! But I’ll keep ‘old of you ... ...he presence of an enormously fat man, who asked him if he would like some, bread and cheese. Georgie was used to eat all round the clock, so he took w...

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............ 7 The Best Birthday Is the Sixteenth Brent Heimbach ......................................................................... 9 Sharing the Bread of Angels Christa Sist ......................................................................................... 10 Tragedy in the Night Danielle Gehman .....................................................................

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............................................................... 9 Sharing the Bread of Angels Christa Sist ................................................. ...ing out the window for the first star. Once the first star is seen we bake bread. We follow Jesus’ behavior from his Last Supper during which he bless... ...We follow Jesus’ behavior from his Last Supper during which he blessed the bread and shared it with his disciples. This is a custom, which in our fami... ...his disciples. This is a custom, which in our family is centuries old. The bread is sometimes referred to as bread of Angels. Through the bread we are... ...r that Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, which literally means “House of Bread.” The breaking and sharing of the Christmas bread is our way of showi... ... dinner. When we are done eating we play games and just relax. SHARING THE BREAD OF ANGELS Christa Sist 11 Volume 5 I WA S BROUGHT UP in a depressed...

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...economic, since the electronics manufacturing industry, that once was its bread and butter, has taken a bit of a financial hit. But the shift here w... ...hat time to make themselves and their societies better and more complete. Bread and circuses will not suffice for self actualized people. They want ... ...pair person. Who is more valuable to the society? “When it comes to bread and circuses we don‟t mind paying for the bread, but the circus perfo... ... said it all a few thousand years ago when he noted that people need only bread and circuses to keep them content. They only want the Jonas Salks whe... ...and the Roman empire was decaying from their neglect, they lived only for bread and circuses. As he said ‟.. Already long ago, from when we s... ...everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.‟ We must continue to work at developing our society po... ...ging social relationships and fulfilling lives. Certainly we don‟t live by bread alone, and we don‟t want to rely on circuses to entertain ourselves....

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.... Soon after our dinner was served in; which was right good viands, both for bread and meat: better than any collegiate diet that I have known in Euro... ...f our brew houses, bake houses, and kitchens, where are made divers drinks, breads, and meats, rare and of special effects. Wines we have of grapes, ... ...rs, especially in age, do desire to live with them with little or no meat or bread. And above all we strive to have drinks of extreme thin parts, to i... ...shing, so that they are indeed excellent drinks, and many will use no other. Bread we have of several grains, roots, and kernels; yea, and some of fle... ... as a strong heat would meat otherwise prepared. We have some meats also and bread, and drinks, which, taken by men, enable them to fast long after; a... ...inventor of silk of the worm, the inventor of wine, the inventor of corn and bread, the inventor of sugars; and all these by more certain tradition th...

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...conceivable. He could not give up his dancing-lessons, because he made his bread by them, and metaphysics would not have found him in so much as salt ... ...y them, and metaphysics would not have found him in so much as salt to his bread. It was really the same with Mr. David Faux and the confectionery bus... ...cept that the rector’s wife had given a general or- der for the veal sweet-breads and the mutton kidneys, while Mr. Rodd, the Baptist minister, had re... ...arters at once; of rounds of toast cut straight from 22 Brother Jacob the breadfruit trees; of toes bitten off by land-crabs; of large honours that h... ...I really think he was doing him- self a wrong; I believe he worked for his bread, and, in fact, took to cooking as, after all, the only department in ...

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...line of life. Having enough to live on, he has not been forced to work for bread; he has declined to subject himself to what he calls the drudgery of ... ...hen all the world turned against us, and we couldn’t longer earn our daily bread? A’n’t you all as rich in your ways as he in his?’—and the orator poi... ... The silver forks were so heavy as to be disagreeable to the hand, and the bread-basket was of a weight really formidable to any but robust persons. T... ...hickest; there was dry toast and buttered toast, muffins and crumpets; hot bread and cold bread, white bread and brown bread, home-made bread and bake... ...d and cold bread, white bread and brown bread, home-made bread and bakers’ bread, wheaten bread and oaten bread; and if there be other breads than the... ...er found the rectory a pleasant house. The fact that man shall not live by bread alone seemed to be somewhat forgotten; and noble as was the appear- a... ...e had been there described? Was he to be pointed at as the consumer of the bread of the poor, and to be allowed no means of refuting such charges, 79... ...warden, who had hitherto eaten nothing all day, de- voured the plateful of bread and butter, unconscious of what he was doing. Eleanor had made up her... ... that be all, let us go. Oh, papa, you and I could be happy if we had only bread to eat, so long as our hearts were light.’ 89 Anthony Trollope And E...

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...n sapped and sopped away. The adjacent low lying ground for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a s... ... occasion and be busy and fluttered, but it is shut up now and lies on the breadth of Mrs. Rouncewell’s iron bound bosom in a majes tic sleep. It is ... ... Vol. One “By my soul, Jarndyce,” he said, very gently holding up a bit of bread to the canary to peck at, “if I were in your place I would seize ever... .... Snagsby appears, greasy, warm, herbaceous, and chew ing. Bolts a bit of bread and butter. Says, “Bless my soul, sir! Mr. T ulkinghorn!” “I want hal... ...nagsby takes his book down from the safe, makes another bolt of the bit of bread and butter which seemed to have stopped short, eyes the affidavit asi... ...In fact, he lodges at a—” Mr. Snagsby makes another bolt, as if the bit of bread and buffer were insurmountable “—at a rag and bottle shop.” “Can you ... ...was willing enough to be carried. “I shouldn’t wonder if we found a ginger bread soldier downstairs. Let’s go and look for him!” He made his former ro... ...g which is always late in getting down there, and munches his dirty bit of bread as he comes along. His way lying through 222 Bleak House – Vol. One ... ...fic or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco nuts and bread fruit. He goes to his crossing and begins to lay it out for the day. ...

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...w a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? 6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself ... ...lf knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.... ...here came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:) 24 When the people therefore ... ...31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I s... ...us said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 ... ...om heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the ... ...fe unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh ... ... the last day. 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the... ... say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. 48 I am that bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dea...

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...ed a new expression into his face. ‘Now I’m off. I’ll just take a crust of bread with me, for I’m very hungry— and don’t wake her, Uncle Sol.’ 87 Cha... ... a whisper until twilight. For tea there was plenty of milk and water, and bread and butter, with a little black tea-pot for Mrs Pipchin and Berry, an... ...in to shake her. At about half-past nine o’clock the odour of a warm sweet-bread (Mrs Pipchin’s constitution wouldn’t go to sleep without sweet-bread)... ... possible, delivered himself of these words: ‘Half a loaf’s better than no bread, and the same remark holds good with crumbs. There’s a few. Annuity o... ...s, and of requiring to be coaxed to sleep by the soporific agency of sweet-breads, that it utterly set at naught the predictions of Mrs Wickam, and sh... ...land return to India, by secreting from his supper a quarter of a round of bread and a fragment of moist Dutch cheese, as the beginning of a stock of ... ...nd as he was; and on its way to whom Paul presently encountered a round of bread, genteelly served on a plate and napkin, and with a silver fork lying... ...eder. ‘Of various sorts of fowl, five thousand dishes.’ ‘Or try a crust of bread,’ said Mr Feeder. ‘And one dish,’ pursued Doctor Blimber, raising his... ...ing-room, where the butler afterwards presided over a side-table, on which bread and cheese and beer were spread for such young gentlemen as desired t...

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...hout illusions as to her appearance. She had taken its measure to a hair’s breadth, she knew the worst and the best, she had accepted herself. It had ... ...ngland metropolis. His diges- tion was weak and he lived chiefly on Graham bread and hominy—a regimen to which he was so much attached that his tour s... ...An old lady who curtsies and expresses herself?.... Ah, you mean poor Mrs. Bread. I happen to know that you have made a conquest of her.” “Mrs. Cake, ... ... in the vestibule, as he entered the house, he encountered his friend Mrs. Bread. She was wandering about in honorable idleness, and when his eyes fel... ... of an eighteenth-century nymph, simpering, sallow, and cracked. Here Mrs. Bread stopped and looked with shy kindness at her companion. “I know the go... ... to know it,” said Newman. “You have taken such a friendly interest.” Mrs. Bread turned away and began to blow the dust off 175 Henry James the statu... ...a fool, sir, thank God. I have guessed some- thing else beside,” said Mrs. Bread. “What’s that?” “I needn’t tell you that, sir; I don’t think you woul... ...liberty, to recommend you to lose no time.” “Whom are you afraid of?” Mrs. Bread looked up the staircase and then down and then she looked at the undu... ... prevent my marriage?” “I am afraid of already having said too much,” Mrs. Bread replied. “I won’t take it back, but I won’t say any more.” And she to...

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...n sapped and sopped away. The adjacent low lying ground for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a s... ... occasion and be busy and fluttered, but it is shut up now and lies on the breadth of Mrs. Rouncewell’s iron bound bosom in a majes tic sleep. It is ... ...– Dickens “By my soul, Jarndyce,” he said, very gently holding up a bit of bread to the canary to peck at, “if I were in your place I would seize ever... .... Snagsby appears, greasy, warm, herbaceous, and chew ing. Bolts a bit of bread and butter. Says, “Bless my soul, sir! Mr. T ulkinghorn!” “I want hal... ...nagsby takes his book down from the safe, makes another bolt of the bit of bread and butter which seemed to have stopped short, eyes the affidavit asi... ...In fact, he lodges at a—” Mr. Snagsby makes another bolt, as if the bit of bread and buffer were insurmountable “—at a rag and bottle shop.” “Can you ... ...was willing enough to be carried. “I shouldn’t wonder if we found a ginger bread soldier downstairs. Let’s go and look for him!” He made his former ro... ...g which is always late in getting down there, and munches his dirty bit of bread as he comes along. His way lying through 222 Bleak House – Dickens m... ...fic or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco nuts and bread fruit. He goes to his crossing and begins to lay it out for the day. ...

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...ed a new expression into his face. ‘Now I’m off. I’ll just take a crust of bread with me, for I’m very hungry— and don’t wake her, Uncle Sol.’ 87 Cha... ... a whisper until twilight. For tea there was plenty of milk and water, and bread and butter, with a little black tea-pot for Mrs Pipchin and Berry, an... ...in to shake her. At about half-past nine o’clock the odour of a warm sweet-bread (Mrs Pipchin’s constitution wouldn’t go to sleep without sweet-bread)... ... possible, delivered himself of these words: ‘Half a loaf’s better than no bread, and the same remark holds good with crumbs. There’s a few. Annuity o... ...s, and of requiring to be coaxed to sleep by the soporific agency of sweet-breads, that it utterly set at naught the predictions of Mrs Wickam, and sh... ...land return to India, by secreting from his supper a quarter of a round of bread and a fragment of moist Dutch cheese, as the beginning of a stock of ... ...nd as he was; and on its way to whom Paul presently encountered a round of bread, genteelly served on a plate and napkin, and with a silver fork lying... ...eder. ‘Of various sorts of fowl, five thousand dishes.’ ‘Or try a crust of bread,’ said Mr Feeder. ‘And one dish,’ pursued Doctor Blimber, raising his... ...ing-room, where the butler afterwards presided over a side-table, on which bread and cheese and beer were spread for such young gentlemen as desired t...

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...the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on hi... ...hey should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse: 9 But be shod with sandals; and not put on ... ...go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat. 37 He answered and said unto them, Giv... ... eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat? 38 He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye... ... which came from Jerusa lem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault... ...walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the el ders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? 6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esai... ...et the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. Mark 7:13 7:27 21 28 And she answer... ...d his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilder ness? 5 And he asked them, How many loaves have y... ...ain departed to the other side. 14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, nei ther had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. 15 And ...

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...omon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. 3 And ... ...emple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the hou... ...e oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with p... ...f the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon fo... ...d he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other... ...e upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. 26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, wit... ...ases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. 28 And the work of the ... ...t give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place: 9 For so was it charged me by the word... ... place: 9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. 10...

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...Excerpt: Nearly all young men have a compass with which they delight in measuring the future. When their will is equal to the breadth of the angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this phenomenon of the inner life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which for all men lies between twenty-two and twenty-eight, is the period of g...

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...ch they de- light in measuring the future. When their will is equal to the breadth of the angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this ph... ...ave died of my first march, and my poor father would to-day be begging his bread.” I had thought out many dramas; Pauline was accustomed to great emot... ...g in their hovel, awaited, in silence and darkness, a meal of the coarsest bread and shell-fish, if the sea permitted. “Do you ever drink wine?” I ask... ...hall drink it to-day,—you and your father; and we will send you some white bread.” “You are very kind, monsieur.” “We will give you your dinner if you... ...of moss, and on a sort of ledge carved by nature on the granite, a loaf of bread, which covered the mouth of an earthenware jug. Never had my imaginat... ...e word since he locked himself up in the open air in this way; he lives on bread and water, which is brought to him every morning by his brother’s dau... ...r’s daughter) could be married. Then, to help Joseph Cambremer to earn his bread, Pierre took him with him a-fishing; for the poor man was now obliged...

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...was fine and dry. At this moment the artist, who ate 6 Pierre Grassou his bread with that patient, resigned air that tells so much, heard and recogni... ...lle. Fougeres, who relied on his palette to go to the baker’s, bravely ate bread and nuts, or bread and milk, or bread and cherries, or bread and chee... ...next day he bought colors, and canvases of various dimensions; he piled up bread and cheese on his table, he filled a water-pot with water, he laid in...