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...e summer of 1912, Vincent's sister, Norma, found work as a waitress at a hotel near where they lived. One night, Norma insisted that Vincent attend a masquerade ball, given at the hotel, if only to get Vincent out of the house and to meet people. Vincent finally gave in, and while there, sang songs and recited Renascence, the first poem in this collection. This immediately...

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...ed. Despite the tiny sum and nearly equal chances – I waver nauseous and scared. Until the ball reposes and the croupier announces black. Twenty eig... ... Players and house alike frantically observe each card, each turn of the wheel, the rested ball, the flickering digits of the stressed croupier. We ... ... His arms by his side and my arms by his side, divergent. I thrust into my bulging pocket a ball of ruby paper. There is a clock in here that ticks ... ...r of pain and of commitment. We dwell on trust. He unfists and bleeds anew. I use the paper ball to soak it up. It's dripping. I gallop down the spi... ... for the exit. Then Dinah exclaimed: "Janusz, wait, I will come with you!" She hurled the balled apron at us and went and flanked Janusz, provocat... ... of consciousness. I articulate the first things that come into my mind. I am tired of the masquerade of "Listen, I am the catch of a lifetime, suc...

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...to English meant, ‘Speedy Bunyip’ from which the locals derived the name ‘Ballistic Bunny’ presuming Bunyip and bunny, the same animal. If the local... ...an history they would know that the introduction of these cute little fur balls didn’t occur until after white man arrived on Australian shores. Non... ...ted. An end of report memo stated that Stella had a bodyguard more on the ball than any security devise known to man. It is able to leap mountains i... ...ogs, as a fox terrier once bit him. The story always begins with a little ball of fluff that supposedly conspired against the good pastor and appare... ... No more fund raisers. No more preaching on deaf ears. He had started the ball rolling and now it would only be a matter of time before living it up... .... 180 CHAPTER 35 2 Corinthians 11: 14-15 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his serva... ...uerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their acti...

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...ing with plants. I attempt to chase a sheep down my drive, but would this ball of wool do as it was told? Not on your bloody life! It went everywher... ...woolly mammoths put up a good fight, so did Michael, who showed the fluff balls, who was boss. He grasped victim number one, which kicked and begged... ... one terrorising them. If their mouths were open any wider, I could pot a ball and win a prize. “Okay, I’m sorry.” I bury my pride. “I shouldn’t hav... ...ys hiding in the wall and if one pokes its head out, I’ll punch it in the balls, there’ll be ninety-nine spookys hiding in the wall. Ninety-nine spo... ...ptain’s voice comes across the speakers; he sounds like one who’s had his balls crushed by a brick. Does this man sound encouraging as he informs us... ...she was more referring to our parents. Apparently, his family and friends masquerade as upper-class millionaires and won’t tolerate lower class wome...

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...the bus, disconnection was making his mind jittery, soft, and rolling like a ball away from him. He tried sleeping but his mind kept trying to imagin... ...d cold. Besides him, there were only two boys and a young man with a rubber ball within the cold pool, but only he swam circularly enjoying the solit... ...he newness of running around trying to beat the clouds or run barefoot after balls in the ecstasy of just being alive ended quickly to girl chases, o... ...hat scholarly pursuits forced him to endure and became the animated billiard ball being shot from one area of the table to the next--one part of the c... ...ot everything. He needed more connections to keep himself from rising like a balloon and going adrift; and lacking them, looking onto his life from th... ...t know why it happened. She just did not kill the cat but instead watched it masquerade itself as dead. Gabriele picked up the cat by the neck and th...

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... a straight line; it also curves. Look at NFL kickers: their approach to the ball is a curve. Watch their foot curving before it hits the football... ... in a straight line. A baseball bat curves before it hits the baseball. The ball first goes in a straight line and then it begins curving. This h... ...is not happening? Put it this way: take a house and smash it with a wrecking ball into ten million pieces. Are you going to put one million of the... ...one of the rules is that you can only keep on playing as long as you keep the ball inside the lines of the court. If that rule did not exist, then n... ...body wanted to play to win at all… What if all they wanted to do was keep the ball in play as long as possible… Then who would play tennis at all? ... ...ack Death evil of their actual actions and intent: hiding under the white pus masquerade of supposed healing and surrender, and cowardice. There is...

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...ne puts into an object is converted into mass." [2] Z&Z continue: "A golf ball that is traveling at the speed of light cannot speed up any more." Tr... ... captives of our own doubts & fears, superstitions & beliefs, which often masquerade as superior knowledge, and which hold us back even while our dr... ...s a little less than c and on pp. 119, 123: One might think of hurling a ball from one location to the other with indefinitely great speed, so that... ...asses increase with velocity as the mass of the electron is known to do, a ball could not possibly be projected with a speed exceeding that of light....

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...she deserves. I have never met anyone more evil than she is. It's the kind of evil that masquerades as good." "It was the losing of myself that caus... ... met this wonderful, caring individual. Nothing wrong with that. It is when the cannon-ball of devaluation hits you that the horror of the situatio... ... The second was to spend two hours out at the river. It was wonderful." "He was like a ball and chain around my neck. All Ns are. Every day I pray ... ...are (estimates range between 3 and 15% of the population. I think 5- 7% would be a fair ballpark figure)." An Overview of the Narcissist – Sam Vakni... ...STICPERSONALITYDISORDER/toxicrelatio nshipspathologizingthevictim.msnw "Better to play ball and adopt the sleek mannerisms of your abuser. Sadly, s...

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... “Never again. Do you hear me?” Cheeks flushed, Regan struggled to raise her balloon-shaped form from the bed. Damn. She felt like a floundering whale... ...sage her lower back. “You okay?” Kelsey said. “I’m fine. Just tired of being ballooned out.” Kelsey looked her sister over. Besides the bulging stoma... ...hree more days and, if things aren’t taken care of by then, it’s a whole new ball game. She felt, rather than saw, the tension leave Peter’s frame. H... ...hirling mass. The strands writhed, coming first together and then apart in a ballet of throbbing blue. One at a time she threaded them down her arm an... ...it to grow. It enlarged, filling his palms. He parted his hands and the blue ball hovered in the air before him. Its warmth radiated, bathing his face... ...egan his part of the tale and she turned her gaze to him. He told of Thomas’ masquerade as Healer Kerry, and of his own capture. Regan glared at Talix...

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...ept. Democracy, Participatory vs. Representative Governors are recalled in midterm ballot initiatives, presidents deposed through referenda - the v... ...o. And they must hold their emissaries responsible and accountable in fair and free ballots once every two or four or five years. As heads of the s... ... that is Not Worth Living in 1920 ... their motive was to rid society of the 'human ballast and enormous economic burden' of care for the mentally i... ...with the pratfalls of "reform". Age and experience reassert themselves through the ballot boxes - and with them the disingenuous habits of the past... ... them in 2003-5 and got away with it. Private counterparties are a whole different ballgame. They are loth and slow to pay. Dismayed creditors have... ...rational belief (which relies on reasoning). In other words, the moral mental state masquerades as a factive attitude, though it is not. The confusi...

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...ept. Democracy, Participatory vs. Representative Governors are recalled in midterm ballot initiatives, presidents deposed through referenda - the v... ...o. And they must hold their emissaries responsible and accountable in fair and free ballots once every two or four or five years. As heads of the s... ... that is Not Worth Living in 1920 ... their motive was to rid society of the 'human ballast and enormous economic burden' of care for the mentally i... ...with the pratfalls of "reform". Age and experience reassert themselves through the ballot boxes - and with them the disingenuous habits of the past... ... them in 2003-5 and got away with it. Private counterparties are a whole different ballgame. They are loth and slow to pay. Dismayed creditors have... ...rational belief (which relies on reasoning). In other words, the moral mental state masquerades as a factive attitude, though it is not. The confusi...

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...at shapes they please. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the dari... ...e. What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance... ...t tender maid but must a victim fall To one man s treat, but for another s ball? When Florio speaks what virgin could withstand, If gentle Damon did n... ...flaw, Or stain her honor or her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade, Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven ha... ...et her prayers, or miss a masquerade, Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doomed that Shock must fall. Haste, then, ye sp... ... a court; In various talk the instructive hours they passed, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, An...

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...akes, and of wars, How many miles the moon might have in girth, Of air balloons, and of the many bars To perfect knowledge of the boundless sk... ...onstant love, has been my constant guest, And yet last night, being at a masquerade, I saw the prettiest creature, fresh from Milan, Which gav... ...areen; So that all hands were busy beyond measure, In getting out goods, ballast, guns, and treasure. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Three” 83 Arri... ...e a chanson; In England a six canto quarto tale; In Spain, he’d make a ballad or romance on The last war—much the same in Portugal; In Ger... ... he must needs mount nearer to the moon, Could not the blockhead ask for a balloon? ‘Pedlars,’ and ‘Boats,’ and ‘Waggons!’ Oh! ye shades Of Po... ...’s maid;— I did my very boyish best to shine In tricking her out for a masquerade; The pins were placed sufficiently, but not Stuck all exac... ...falsehood to it. And, after all, what is a lie? ‘T is but The truth in masquerade; and I defy Historians, heroes, lawyers. priests, to put ... ...gher class, And draw them nightly when a ticket ‘s sent: And what with masquerades, and fetes, and balls, For the first season such a life sca... ...ymmetrical, but deck’d with carvings quaint— Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint: The spring g...

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...ances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. ... ...broad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence. It was a voluptuous scene, that ma... ...asked ball of the most unusual magnificence. It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade. But first let me tell of the rooms in which it was held. Thes... ...hat no ordinary appearance could have ex- cited such sensation. In truth the masquerade licence of the night was nearly unlimited; but the figure in q...

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...ms, as Keat’s “Endymion,” Shelley’s “Queen Mab,” and Wordsworth’s “Lyrical Ballads.” T wo years later, (in 1711), a far better and more characteristic... ...lease. 70 What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the dari... ...70 What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades, Safe from the treacherous friend, the daring spark, The glance... ...t tender maid but must a victim fall To one man’s treat, but for another’s ball? When Florio speaks, what virgin could withstand, If gentle Damon did ... ...aw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven ha... ...et her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doom’d that Shock must fall, 110 Haste the... ... 10 In various talk the instructive hours they pass’d, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, An...

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...ation that are happily to be found at the end of every week. There was Mr. Balls, the great grocer of South Audley Street, a warm man, who, they say, ... ... “What hair,” said he, “what eyes the girl has! they’re as big as billiard-balls; and five thousand pounds. Eglantine’s in luck! five thousand pounds—... ...e same hue. He was brief and stern in conversations; and he always went to masquerades and balls in a field-marshal’s uniform. “He looks really quite ... ...as brief and stern in conversations; and he always went to masquerades and balls in a field-marshal’s uniform. “He looks really quite the thing to-nig... ...nt,” hiccupping. “Such hair!—such eye- brows!—such eyes! like b-b-billiard-balls, by Jove!’ 22 Men’s Wives CHAPTER II. IN WHICH MR. W ALKER MAKES THR... ...mour some further particulars regarding the young lady with the bil- liard-ball eyes. It was for the very same reason, too, that he had made the attem...

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...atronly advice you once gave me, when I la mented being disappointed of a ball, though you could not be then fourteen years old.—O my Sophy, how bles... ...er you now lament may hereafter ap pear as trifling and contemptible as a ball would at this time.” “Alas, my Sophia,” replied the other lady, “you... ...e utmost mirth, in deed, shewed itself in ever countenance; nor was their ball totally void of all order and decorum. Perhaps it had more than a coun... ...nt of Mr. Jones: and the contents were found to be a domino, a mask, and a masquerade ticket. Jones was now more positive than ever in asserting, th... ...e sent you by some lady whom you will have the happiness of meeting at the masquerade.” Jones had not a sufficient degree of vanity to entertain any... ...f those respective offices. Mr. Jones having now determined to go to the masquerade that evening, Mr. Nightingale offered to conduct him thither. Th... .... She said, “she did not conceive the harm which some people imagined in a masquerade; but that such ex travagant diversions were proper only for per... ... them blessings to their husbands:—I beg, therefore, I may hear of no more masquerades. Nancy is, I am certain, too good a girl to desire to go; for s...

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...two of Mr. Hartmann’s seven outlines,) en- able any lady at the next great masquerade in London, to support the part of one of the ancient daughters o... ...ce it is ‘broken into detached fragments of infinitely varied dimensions.’ Balls, bullets, grape, and canister shot, have all been ‘parked’ in inexhau... ...rmadion, with some of the proper- ties (we believe) marking a good cricket-ball, but it ought to be [Greek Text: ochxioeis]—such is the Homeric epithe... ...ssions to sustain such a construction. Rome, with a little more propriety, masquerades as England, and France as Greece, or, more strictly, as Athens....

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...her, into pikes. The very coffins of the dead are raised; for melting into balls. All Church-bells must down into the furnace to make cannon; all Chur... ... we have ‘eight thousand Peasants at Chatillon-sur-Sevre,’ who will not be ballotted for soldiers; will not have their Curates molested. To whom Bonch... ...ridden thither against persuasion, into the dance and firing of the cannon-balls, with a scientific de- sire to understand what that same cannon-fever... ...rendered itself. The Lille trenches opened, on the 29th of the month; with balls and shells, and redhot balls; as if not trenches but Vesuvius and the... ...s-indispensables in Lille that would surrender for a King’s ransom. Redhot balls rain, day and night; ‘six-thousand, ’ or so, and bombs ‘filled intern... ... however, Barrere holds the threads of. Such Church-burning and scandalous masquerades of Atheism, fit to make the Revolution odi- ous: where indeed c...

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...nkles about the eyes that vary in their expression from the set smile of a ballet-dancer to the dark, suspicious scowl of a discounter of bills; in sh... ... woman, as the toilette is her tin- sel. If the delightful excitement of a ball had made the pale face glow with color; if the delights of a luxurious... ... ing to see her father, came shortly afterwards in the evening. She wore a ball dress, and came in a carriage. “Four of them!” commented Mme. Vauquer ... ... letter to Mme. de Beauseant. The Vicomtesse replied by an invitation to a ball for the following evening. This was the position of affairs at the Mai... ...r at the end of November 1819. A few days later, after Mme. de Beauseant’s ball, Eugene came in at two o’clock in the morning. The persevering stu- de... ...it was all summed up in those few words. As for keeping the secret, little masqueraders like us are capable of anything (according to our aunt), even ... ...Your love for me is as yet only the conventional gallantry that men use to masquerade in; and, if you really loved me, you would be driven to despair....