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...“You will never be a leper nor will any Sister of our Order.” The amazing promise was made by Mother Marianne of Molokai, the “Quiet Flame” of the this title who, as a Sister of St. Francis , spent 30 years on that island helping lepers during and after the time of Father Damien. Mother was speaking to a young nun, and she spoke the truth. Not one of the S...

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...s of life, this 'novel' nuances man-woman chemistry on one hand, and portrays woman-woman empathy on the other. Who said the novel is dead; 'Benign Flame' raises the bar. ...

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...as-w-hanshew/ Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces . This time, Cleek investigates the sinister disappearance of people and the mysterious appearance of flames at night in the desolate Fens, and his friend Superintendent Narkom of Scotland Yard tries to solve some tricky cases of bank robberies in London. While not quite up to the standard we have come to expect from previous...

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...Her published novels include, The Blue Flame, The Emerald Dagger, and The Silver Angel, the first three fantasy novels in her Daradawn series. She has also co-authored, Shadow Worlds, a science fiction suspense work with Darrell Bain, and Stargazer's Children, a s...

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...sign: Barbara M. Hodges and Janet Musick Books by Barbara M. Hodges The Blue Flame The Emerald Dagger The Sword and the Flame THE BLUE FLAME FOR SE... ...sed in clothing more suited to a traveling troubadour, and with a small blue flame birthmark on his cheek – twin to the one she bears on her shoulder ... ...rk and declares that, like him, she has been marked by the Power of the Blue Flame. He shows her Kelsey’s pendant. Seven days, he says, only seven day... ...Twice. Three times. The ember flared, casting an evil hue upon his face. The flame spread until green fire filled, then danced suspended on the air in... ... desires, and provides it if the holder can withstand the cleansing purge of flames. If not, the holder ignites and burns until nothing but ash remain... ...e and, as they watched, it flared the same sickly green as the still dancing flames, then melted into it. “The dagger has fed; now it will fulfill my ... ...around them.” “How are they chosen?” “You are born with the mark of the Blue Flame,” Angus said. Delilah glanced at Kelsey. “Your sister was marked?” ... ... It was small, no larger than Kelsey’s thumbnail, yet clearly a perfect blue flame. “The Power has chosen for Daradawn’s future,” Angus said, a quiver... ...ing to surprise his daddy. And then he’ll teach me, even if I don’t have the flame. I just have to prove myself worthy.” Worthy? Apprentice? The words...

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...sake, from my hands,’ ‘The ranks of human heads dwindle: they’re far away.’ ‘Your thin shoulders whips will redden’ ‘This is what I most want’ ‘A flame is in my blood’...

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...who has raised the lyre But you now, you whom I knew like a flower O this is the creature that has never been. Will transformation. O long for the flame, Be in front of all parting, as though it were already See the flowers, those, so true to the earth, O fountain-mouth, you giver, you Mouth, Oh come and go. You, almost a child still, complete Quiet friend of many ...

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...st Fences Civilisation Doorway No Silence Un-Confessional Deer Inattention City Meditation Absence All Kinds Hill-Fort Whitethorn Earth-Flame That Strain, That Churning Un-Managed Alone Find Silence Going Owl-Cries II: The Citadel of Mind Ancestral Mapping Wilderness As Selves River Things The More And Less Mind-Clothes Every Child Intense D...

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... forehead has 1he diameter / of the sky ... ' (Exist impotriva mea), or: "The poet lights a candle /In his skull! and It burn., It burns there / with flame' Through his eyes two sparrows / take out their little beaks' (Cuvinte/e trecute prin foe), and more: "The men have got me out, got me away / than got me out from outside ... The wind blows down 1he letters from 1he new...

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...iscover the void late in life, A Touchy Affair renders her amenable to her man’s other woman well in time. Just as Love’s How’s That inflames her old flame, A Hearty Turn brings the female lesbian leanings to the fore. As Love Jihad bridges lovers’ religious divide with a secular plank, Tenth Nook creates a marital gulf on the material plane. If Eleventh Hour is about woma...

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...armonious Blue Offering Concerning The Future Poetry Forsythia Waiting for Treatment, Reading the Magazines Metaphysical Music Looking into the Flame Away Outer Falls Through Inner The Shores The Territory All the Tongues Every England Cities Within Pine After Pine Do We Love? Minnow Words for the Large Hadron Collider On the Veins The Question Our Loss...

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... Indoors The Handsome Heart At the Wedding March Felix Randal Brothers Spring and Fall Inversnaid "As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" Ribblesdale The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe To What Serves Mortal Beauty? Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves (The Soldier) (Carrion Comfort) "No Worst There Is None ...

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...ourts Of The Night Keep It Real Its Movement Is The Drama In The Mind At The Full Far Enough, High Enough, To Turn Back Woman The Pillar And The Flame Netsuke Unaccompanied Sonata The Blue-Flowered Weed The Age Of Empathy The Man Of The Future Looks At The Stars Sudden Thunder Everything Is All Of What It Seems Bee And Butterfly Beauty Born Of Transience New...

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... has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is growing content with her uneventful lifestyle, a long-lost flame re-enters the picture -- now as the beau of her significantly younger cousin. Anne is now faced with a choice: will she watch Captain Wentworth settle into life with another woman, or will she strive to win back his lov...

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...To the Young by Adam Asnyk (1838–1897) The brightening flame of truth pursue, Seek to discover ways no human knows. With every secret now revealed to you, The soul of man expands within the new. And God still bigger grows! Although you may the flowers of myths remove, Alt...

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...oment while thumbing the engraved symbol of Light upon the scabbard of the dagger, a solid white chain interlinked with a black chain of seeping dark flames. "What does the symbol of Light stand for?" he was mesmerized by the emblem. Tyramear followed Danny's captivated gaze down to the small sheath. "At the core, the symbol is meant to represent a balance of a sort, a ...

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...peechless when on his leaden molar. She has a grudge against a another decayed tooth. The doctor sterilizes its instruments which become engulfed in flames. Radiography talks to him in veiled terms. It makes the blood boil the suffering gum in the specimen. Then the doctor extracts from his patient's throat bad words....

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...ics Recorders Ages Hence When I Heard at the Close of the Day Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me? Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone Not Heat Flames up and Consumes Trickle Drops City of Orgies Behold This Swarthy Face I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing To a Stranger This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful I Hear It Was Charged against Me The Prairie-Grass D...

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...uth Remembrance Amelanchier, Pieris, Aware Craving Carriers The Light The Journey Blue, Luminous The Age Deer Walk Through at Night In the Flames Mind-Zen Performing Art Translate Obvious Falls The Force Reality is Local Deeper then the Root Field-Mouse Arrows Ilium Re-visited Signs of Eternity Refined Nine Paintings of Paul Klee Water-Gazing The...