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...ches of her mother’s taste; an elegant room, richly carpeted, with gleaming rosewood and mahogany furniture, silver-framed portraits and cameos, com... ...ened the door to the cabin and Helen glimpsed a comfortable, largish room with polished mahogany furniture, chintz hangings and sparkling brass fitt... ...paraphernalia of an artist carefully displayed on shelves. The pictures were housed in zinc lined chests to protect them from dampness and Isabel to... ...ped in tents, elegant affairs in themselves, furnished with carpets, divans, desks and sandalwood chests. A great deal of food, fruit juices and win... ...ly of wood, the rooms had walnut panelling and ceilings. A large, open drawing room, with elegant furniture, crystal wall lights mounted on the pane... ...r the beautiful place she had come to regard as home. It had been looted and defaced, its elegant furniture and priceless paintings piled up on the ...

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...ickets that mendicants sold from wooden attach ็ ้ cases hung around their chests. "I thought she didn't have the chance of a snowball in hell of win... ...She was content with it for a few days and then became discontent with the furniture. The chairs and the sofas, despite their padding, were still wic... ...u took off." He laughed and sat down on the sole wooden chair that was the furniture of the apartment. "I don't want to talk to you," Jatupon sai... ...h had a brother's foot inimitably in a mouth; full term fetuses with their chests dissected so that their internal organs were exhibited from the slit... ...ar from balloon peddlers, sandwich salesmen with a box strapped onto their chests, holy jasmine makers, goldfish in the bag mountebanks, car window ne...

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... the dormitories of the fresh initiates. He mutely pointed at the crooked berths, the metal chests, the hanging hair shirts. "We fast a lot. We pray... ...se and washed over the bowl of fruits and the heavy, murky curtains, and the antique wooden furniture, rebounding, a thousand echoes. My aunt calle... ... lust – both others' and his own – the prison authorities allowed him to import his shoddy furniture into the concrete monastery that later became ... ...ed home, immersed in thought. I found Nomi slouched on an armchair, surrounded by heaps of furniture and bundled carpets. Her face wore tearful mak... ...ly mother is scrubbing and carefully dusting the nightly build-up off the expensive Formica furniture. I am the only one who sleeps there at night, ...

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...d evidence of great wealth was every- where around them – paintings of tapestries, linens, chests, sculptures, vases. “This was obviously a sophistic... ...llen portion of wall. “Medetha!” she shouted, picking her way through the toys and broken furniture that littered the floor. The woman did not move....

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...ich soever their houses be, they have neither doors nor windowes, nor any chests to locke: yet are all theeves much more severely punished there tha... ...th flying, And triumphs most in races hoarse with crying, and not for his furniture: a greyhound for his swiftnesse, not for his collar: a hawke for ... ...h the sweetnesse of Greeke wine, or a horse the riches of a costly faired furniture, wherewith he is trapped. Even as Plato saith, 'That health, beau... ...e images seem'd lead, And men to breathe in mettall with them bred, Like furniture for horse, with steeled head, They threat, and safe from wound, ... ...ægritudines, iracundias: 'Their shapes, their ages, their aparrell, their furnitures are knowen; their kindes, their marriages, their kindred, and a... ... other conditions, he sent them their weapons, their horses, and all other furniture. The citties he had taken by maine force he freed to follow what...

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... getting himself another port. Imps relaxed, some were seen patting their chests, airing they had near had a heart attack. From under the table, the ... ...ectful Norma, but let’s be honest here; it’s nothing more than a piece of furniture with a plaque on it. This is exactly how the majority would see ... ... congregation. “You get the power turned off, the phone disconnected. The furniture and car is repossessed and your house is sold over your head. Pr... ...s that. It’s the same when you put things on credit. We all want our nice furniture and modern cars, our two-story houses and landscaped gardens. Do... ...to repossess your goods? I don’t think so; it’s extra money. Car dealers, furniture salesman, bank staff, landlords, the list goes on, but they all ... ...o, you go right on talking Fred. Sometimes we just need to get it off our chests.” Alan forced a smile and Fred took up his invitation to continue. ...

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...ies of ancient fairie kings and queens draped the walls. Tables, chairs, and chests, all intricately carved from richly glowing dark wood, furnished t... ...the feast.” Six wolf-beasts paced toward him, low growls rum- bling in their chests. The fairie leapt upon the back of a wolf and rode into the trees,... ...brated by leaping high and casting an orange glow around him. The only other furniture in the room was a bed and a basin rest- ing on yet another rick... ... around the room. Like the others she had seen, this one was round, the only furniture an oblong table and two chairs. The table and chairs were made ... ...gger fenris’ena emerged with lowered heads. Soft growls rum- bled from their chests. She called the Power and pulled it up into her palms. “Dirkk, I’...

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...rvesting corn. Its borders recreated the revels of a harvest dance. Ghost's furniture, made entirely of wood under WindTamer's humming lathes, conta... ... of heresy. He traded his rifle for woodworking tools and bent to construct furniture that incorporated no bones and that almost no one wanted. Now... ...ck toward his laboratory and the two wooden boxes that were now part of its furniture. On one stood the pale, bruised feet of the child. The other h... ...sturdy, notched logs, the cabin's internal walls planed smooth. Handcrafted furniture, simple but robust, bearing WindTamer's modest brand. A quiet ... ...en beds, sitting tightly and compactly, holding their weapons against their chests. She watched a departing runner wait for the cart ahead to clear ... ... the border, holding the dead and the dying, and still citizens pulled more furniture from their homes. Blood sluiced over scrimshawed inlays, pollu...

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... and their stench would be the only outcome. - Why have you shoved all the furniture to the back of the room? - I don't know. Comfort, said the retice... ...ne else and it wasn't just you aching and mad in your own thoughts. So the furniture gets shoved to the back of the room, so I look into space. - What... ...its victim. Not knowing what to say he changed the subject--Let's move the furniture where it belongs out of the corners. This was his response to sil... ...o reflect her thoughts, all in different parts of the house. She moves the furniture to see a world where the same pain exists elsewhere to prove to h... ... deadened to a bland and withdrawn expression as strangers, these treasure chests in which conversation could unlock knowledge and spontaneity, seemed... ...hat the invitation was ten days belated and followed you giving them some furniture. You know that it is less of an invitation than a token payment t...

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...ng. I have worked in Lampang myself, too, on building sites, and also made furniture for sale. When my children were small, I was a tricycle rickshaw ... ...ho literally raced with death. Thirty years ago, village houses rarely had furniture other than a cabinet with glazed doors, where bedding, dishes and... ...nsects. In the 1990s they were abandoned, and replaced by heavy solid teak furniture decorated with carvings. A well-to-do villager's living room toda... ...ng room today is furnished with a teak three-piece suite, glazed cabinets, chests of drawers and, of course, the TV and stereo equipment. In the hiera... ...ng national (Buddhist) themes and blending in with the style of the carved furniture. A similar change has taken place in the kitchen. In the past, th... ...c electronic goods, and many living rooms are today crammed full of heavy furniture and ornaments. In accordance with international culture, ever mor...

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...balance. Hominids did not need their legs, their stomachs, their hips, their chests, or internal organs to create tools. The tool-using dynamic was... ... things to which we become attached. Just as we worship and preserve old furniture, old buildings, old books. Just as our ancestors could not s... ...ow-away clothes, throw-away cars, throw-away half-used containers, thrown-away furniture with tiny scratches on them, thrown away broken things that ... ...re wise, with better personalities, better cars, better homes, better interior furniture, better clothes, more interesting lives, more and better fri... ...nd perfectly beautiful. They live in perfectly designed houses, with perfect furniture, and perfect kitchens. Their houses are always in THE PATH... ...s the other powers who once oppressed and killed them. They still beat their chests about being victims even after they have become a war nation. E... ...roudly with the logos of their owners and enslavers and manipulators on their chests: as proud mass-produced tokens of their upwardly exclusive lifes... ...ourds, ladles, to pitchers and teapots with decapitated lids, all containers, chests, holding treasure, wealth, valuables, all spices and decapitate... ...r want or see. Stuffed into attics and basements and closets and corners and chests… to be ignored for decades: only to be taken out and looked at ...

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...enal), eight in all, very large, in which are kept the Khan's ammunitions, and furniture of all sorts; horses in one; in another bows and shooting art... ... accompanied him, but also the natives whom he would come in contact with. The furniture and equipage of his ships were therefore splendid, while the ... ...ordinary value, the ship having a cargo of thirty-six tons of silver, thirteen chests of ryals of plate, and eighty pounds of gold, besides diamonds a...

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...volts, Brigand expeditions; of Chateaus in the West, especially of Charter-chests, Chartiers, set on fire; for there too the overloaded Ass frightfull... ...anchions, smitten out with sledgehammers, be- come iron-crowbars: it rains furniture, stone-masses, slates: with chaotic clatter and rattle, Demolitio... ...evised; which holds perfumes, toilet- implements, infinite small queenlike furnitures: Necessary to terrestrial life. Not without a cost of some five ... ...; then insurrection; want of due cash in Civil List; general want of cash, furniture and or- der; anarchy everywhere; Deficit never yet, in the small-... ...laume, dexterous Old-Dragoons, instantly down blocking the Bridge, with a ‘furniture waggon they find there, ’ with whatever waggons, tumbrils, barrel... ...nown it: of molasses and ardent-spirits; of sugar- boileries, plantations, furniture, cattle and men: skyhigh; the Plain of Cap Francais one huge whir...

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...ts of France, and drive bargains;—and lastly that the Army gets next to no furniture. No shoes, though it is winter; no clothes; some have not even ar... ...es weighing it out at a just rate of eleven-pence a pound; likewise coffee-chests, soap-chests, nay cinnamon and cloves-chests, with aquavitae and oth... ..., 1801), ii. 280.) Above all things there come Patriotic Gifts, of Church- furniture. The remnant of bells, except for tocsin, descend from their belf... ...ses, ’ says Mercier, ‘have become like Pawn-brokers’ shops;’ all manner of furniture, apparel, vessels of gold and silver accumulate themselves there:... ...e of Luxury. For your Emi- grant Ci-devants carried not their mansions and furnitures out of the country with them; but left them standing here: and i... ...er Prisoners-of-war— eager to desert; of fire-arms, Proclamations, clothes-chests, Royalists and specie. Whereupon also, on the Republican side, there...

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...d he would not live any longer with the captain, and went forward with his chests among the sailors, where he was received with open arms as a good fe... ...on by two outlandish cross-timbers bracing the vessel, and by the sailors’ chests, over which you must needs crawl in getting about. At meal-times, an... ..., and especially when we indulged in af- ter-dinner chat, we sat about the chests like a parcel of tailors. In the middle of all were two square, wood... ...eets like a cascade, swashing about, and afterward spirting up between the chests like the jets of a fountain. Such were our accommodations aboard of ... ...ut of sight Presently they all came forth; the larger sort racing over the chests and planks; winged monsters darting to and fro in the air; and the s... ...f grass were growing here and there under the very roof. The only piece of furniture was the “stocks,” a clumsy machine for keeping people in one plac... ... T ahitian for a sailor’s trunk. So ornamental is it held as an article of furniture in the hut, that the women are incessantly tormenting their husba... ...xt the sea was the house; newly built of bamboos, in the native style. The furniture 176 Omoo consisted of a couple of sea-chests, an old box, a few ... ... of vermin, as in the huts of the poorer natives. Besides the couches, the furniture consisted of three or four sailor chests; in which were stored th...

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...m which it was reflected in the Loire. In the rooms were royal tapestries, furniture, Saracen pomps, vanities, and inventions which were much admired ... ...n various ways, promised her the keys of his sideboards, his granaries and chests, the perfect government of his houses and do- mains without any cont... ...our sound senses? Where do you see a chest? Is the usual to put friends in chests? Am I a woman to keep chests full of friends? How long have friends ... ...a woman to keep chests full of friends? How long have friends been kept in chests? Are you come home mad to mix up your friends with your chests? I kn... ...ster, having briefly ordered the handling of the said chest, this piece of furniture dedicated to love was tumbled across the room, but in passing the... ... in a way that in- duced him to discontinue his studies in the language of chests. The shepherd, accompanied by the good jeweller, carried all the bag... ...endid hotel 117 Droll Stories – Vol. 1 in the Rue Barbette, with handsome furniture and Italian paintings and many considerable lands to inherit. Som... ...erwoman into a dyer’s wife, a good townswoman, with laces, fine linen, and furniture to spare, and was happy in spite of the dyer, seeing that she kne...

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...s home and listened. He could hear his mother moving heavily about among the furniture of the room. She was chanting in a mournful Maggie: A Girl of t... ...in chorus as if a battle were raging. With all was the crash of splintering furniture. The eyes of the urchin glared in fear that one of them would d... ...bare floor, the cracked and soiled plastering, and the overturned and broken furniture. In the middle of the floor lay his mother asleep. In one corne... ...Her eyes dwelt wonderingly and rather wistfully upon Pete’s face. The broken furniture, grimey walls, and general disorder and dirt of her home of a s... ...g, Maggie contemplated the dark, dust stained walls, and the scant and crude furniture of her home. A clock, in a splintered and battered oblong box o... ...y. The breaths of the fighters came wheezingly from their lips and the three chests were straining and heaving. Pete at intervals gave vent to low, la...

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...the devil they were fighting for. “Dollars! Dollars, sir. All their rotten chests got burst open. Blamed money skipping all over the place, and they a... ...were keeping a full head of steam, and a profound rumbling, as of an empty furniture van trotting over a bridge, made a sustained bass to all the othe... ...wn in the reek- ing ‘tween-deck, lying sick and scared between the rows of chests. Then one of these chests — or perhaps several at once —breaking loo... ..., scratches, bruises, torn wounds, gashes. The broken porcelain out of the chests was mostly respon- sible for the latter. Here and there a Chinaman, ... ...me angry hot. Of course you couldn’t keep a thing like that quiet; but the chests had been secured in the usual manner and were safe enough for any ea...

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...anation of the Arabian myth), superb sketches by our best artists, lids of chests made into panels alternating with fluted draperies of Italian silk, ... ... masses on which the figures of some hunting scene are swarming, pieces of furniture worthy to have belonged to Madame de Pompadour, Persian rugs, et ... ...you shall be lodged in better rooms, comfortably furnished.” “I shall have furniture!” cried Malaga, looking at Madame Chapuzot. “And servants,” said ... ...k. Her vanity increased the six thousand francs which Paz had spent on her furniture to sixty thousand. According to the clowns and the supers, Malaga...

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...emolished, the partitions removed, 19 Thackeray and, with all the elegant furniture of the cabins, flung into the sea. The Prince de Joinville was th... ...his argument was in the course of debate between us, straightway flung his furniture overboard and expressed a preference for sinking his ship rather ... ...r, their eyes to the ground, their hands placed at right angles with their chests. Then came two gentlemen bearing remarkable tall 47 Thackeray candl...