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.... She had daydreamed about that smile, those eyes and that body for almost nine years. Nine long, invisible, tormenting years where she was subject... ...t with a grunted expletive. “Piece of—” She kicked the door with her two inch heeled pump and cursed again when her toe throbbed. Coming around ... ... reveal Olivia Taylor and her only son. Well, hell. Cade, dressed to the nines in a white jacket tuxedo a la Hugh Grant, escorted his mother to th... ...his heart swell. A guy could never lose with that kid. The band changed songs and his parents broke apart, his father whispering in his mother’s ... ... close to Cade’s body while he ravaged her lips, throat and heart. After nine long years Julia had, she thought, crushed all girlish fantasies abo... ... His fingers lifted as though he would touch her face but he hesitated only inches from her burning skin. Julia’s cheeks flushed and her eyes gre... ...to cover them. Cade’s eyes met hers. His body did not move so much as an inch. “What are you doing?” he croaked. He actually croaked! Julia r... ...o his ear. If he didn’t slow her down, it would be over in seconds. Her nails sank into his skin as he grasped her hips and guided her movements ...

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...y registered in my stubborn and resistive brain. Kathryn stood five feet two inches. Her swing was perfect for her height and body build. I, on the ot... ...ect for her height and body build. I, on the other hand, was five feet eight inches. I had not calculated how a swing is developed according to a pers... ...y time we fall.” Confucius H ow great is this quote? Especially for writers. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the writer is the underdog, always fight... ...After the initial emotion, I felt encouraged. The Holy Spirit had taught me, inch by inch, exactly what I needed to know. If I’d been given all the te... ...th in Him. Then I Try Not to Panic.../Tina L. Miller 115 pray. And I sing songs of joy and praise and thanksgiving. I get lost in the music and th... ...s of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd. And further , my son, be admonished by thes... ... having received national awards. Some of my books have been translated into nineteen foreign languages. I hope my amazing career helps people realize...

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...ronism. I was also diminutive in height, topping five feet tall by just an inch. The most dramatic moment of my performance was when I dismounted,... ... horses. I was resigned to remaining on the proverbial shelf. I was twenty-nine years old when Philippe Andreux came to Baincthuin. It was June of... ... fitfully and waking often from bad dreams. I heard a quiet voice, singing songs of love in such a beautiful, pure tenor that it wrung a tear from m... ...e. His hands were ungloved, with long, slender fingers ending in manicured nails. He caressed my face and continued to croon in much the same manne... ...ist and pulled him in deeper. I licked and nibbled at his chest, raking my nails across his shoulders. The sounds issuing from my throat seemed mo... ...hat offset his warm brown eyes. Dressed in Erik’s clothes, he looked every inch the gentleman. “Yes, my friend, much improved,” Erik added. He rubb... ...cropped Caesar cut with a fringe that emphasized his eyes. He looked every inch the gentleman dandy. I wondered how I would keep the neighborhood s... ...rington informed us that her daughter, Olympia, would be performing several songs and asked that we prepare something ourselves, should we be so inc...

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...“She’s not at all what you think her,” the man said, his nostrils flaring an inch from Daniel’s own. “She’s not to be used.” “You don’t know what... ... the setting sun as if the house were flirting with the river below. Every inch of her scrollwork testified to Daniel’s failed first marriage. And... ...f her knowledge of it, while Helene must have known every square foot, every inch. Just as she must have known Daniel’s every mood and whim. A sh... ...f his gloves, his fingers were clumsy and inept at such detailed work. His nails, damaged by the fire, were brittle and unusable to pry the slippery... ...d with far less in the letters her mother sent her. The mantle clock chimed nine, three hours until she could see him again. Not long, when it seem... ...eart 109 Morgan unclenched her fists and rubbed at the half moon dents her nails had made in her palm. You can never love too much. Never. She h... .... Albany, 1862” “You remember that? You must have been a baby.” “I was nine years old. Rupert is my father. You fired him, and I begged you to... ...e gave three more raps with his hammer before muttering with his mouthful of nails, “Yes, Camilla. I got it.” “Hmm mmmm. I didn’t think you’d be ... ...five thousand years ago with their party of followers. Three men and forty-nine women altogether. A bit lopsided, don’t you know. There was bound ...

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...own the 6 Bozo and the Storyteller dunes, the long mornings of making up songs beside the wine-streams, and the nights of playing dot-to-dot with t... ...s kind of thing, but sometimes it still got to her. After all, here was a nine-year-old child who had spent the last three months in a coma, and who... ...d boy and get some rest.’ He gave a kind of a false wink that made Theo f inch, and left the room. Theo found himself alone for the f rst time that d... ... comics and listening to the rain on the windows. Knowing that just a few inches away the wind was driving a chilly downpour against the glass made ... ...half-an-hour old doesn’t mean you’re worth less than anyone else.’ ‘I am nine years old,’ Theo insisted between gritted teeth. ‘Do you think you ca... ...the shelves for so long that they were each covered with 35 Diagnosis an inch of dust. Every time they opened a new one, Bozo sneezed and they grew... ...looked so absorbed in his reading that no one thought it strange to see a nine-year-old boy studying medical diagnosis. ‘This one might help us,’ The... ...ed to mean?’ ‘The Storyteller is the Enemy,’ Lou said gravely. She bit her nails as she looked for the words to make things clear to her young guest.... ... air. The rain in- creased in strength so that it pounded on his head like nails. The wind bit viciously into his neck. ‘Oh really? And I suppose you...

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...gators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic before the time of Columb... ...seal and sea-birds -- Report of Captain Furieaux on the massacre of his men -- Nine men slaughtered and devoured by cannibals -- A horrifying spectacl... ...sterly out of its course that the crew came in sight of the coast of a country nine days' sail from Greenland. During this time the ship was enveloped... ...be disastrous. Equally bad luck is it for the thoughtless passenger to cut his nails or hair during a calm, for a storm is certain to succeed. All the... ...low satin, a chair covered with brocade of large nap, studded with silver-gilt nails; a cushion of Crimson satin, with tassels of gold thread, and ano... ...of a vessel similar to the powder pot, save that in the cover an orifice of an inch in diameter was left. Through this passed the fuse, and the conten... ...g the bodies of their victims at the sacrificial feasts. But gradually, almost inch by inch, the Spaniards pushed forward, breaking down, but only aft... ...esus and Maria, and had great hopes of his conversion, until he stole a bag of nails and vanished. The Patagonians were a source of amusement too, for... ... shall all perish of thirst, and I, for one, would rather die fighting than by inches under a burning sun." "So would we," shouted his Crew, and the l...

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...as sick of playing the teacher, especially as her mother fought her every inch of the way. It wasn’t easy for Kelly. From an early age, she had lear... ...tell him I’m really nasty with a big hammer, I mean gun. A round of eight inches and they’d need a crow bar to haul his lying butt from the wall.” “... ...ned her back on her friend and looked out the window, tapping her painted nails on the ridge of the sink. Chris heard the resentment in her friend’s... ... his head in amusement with Rick picking out the loose coins from amongst nails and fluff. Sandy leant up close and whispered. “You’re not obligated... ...e, yet not eager enough to do it in front of others. They sung a few more songs and before John closed in prayer, he invited people to come out the ... ...he’s a Christian now and has God to answer too.” Chris sat chewing on her nails, only lowering her fingers from her mouth long enough to answer ques... ... the floor to ceiling windows, a gentleman on the grand piano played love songs, entertaining those standing and seated at the bar. Thanking Rick fo... ..., as she walked around the bench. “No, crucifixion has ten; Christine has nine letters in it.” “Do I look like I give a shit? It’s still too bloody l... ...It’s all done.” Paul smiled. “Tomorrow morning we see Richard Elthrich at nine on the dot, then Neil Carlton at ten thirty.” “Great, now all I have t...

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... by a single window. Why were we in such con- trast? Laughter and outworn songs...swaying and shuffling...until the shutting of my door. Alone, I s... ...s message. Was this the Alcaeus who had joked and sported and sung ribald songs, as the popular friend of young men who were proud, rich, playful and... ...am unable to sepa- rate beauty from tragedy. I wish I could. Caterina was nineteen. She was my blonde, my Leda. Was our love unique? Maybe it was ra... ...play together. Laughter—in memory—does not blur as words and faces blur. Nineteen, twenty, twenty-one...we had three years together: there was money... ...ant a civil war to put them on their feet. At Vaprio, I recall a child of nine or ten: I saw her often on my visits there: she reminded me of that f... ...ts, rags, gold leaf (always being stolen), sketches, frames, saws, chalk, nails, rats. Someone was always leaving food around, wine bottles; there w... ... You have to visualize them, in a shallow cradle, some pieces one and two inches square, some pieces two and three inches square, most of them conca... ... flapping, fog leaving us inconspicuous. I saw her carriage ap- proaching, inching the fog, fog through the spokes of her wheels. And then out- cries,... ... years ago for an Illinois newspaper. May 20, 1863 I am six feet four inches tall and weigh one hundred and eighty pounds. I am lean, muscular, ...

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...ll 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 spookys hiding in the ... ... Sis.” Steven places his arm around my shoulders. “You should be on cloud nine. Just think of that big, fat inheritance.” “Knock it off, I’m supposed... ...om the eighteen hundreds. By the way, he’s not a good singer. 50 CHAPTER NINE I’ve never been accused of scare tactics until now. A few threats here... ...e was no way in hell, Ali was going to get all the dirt out from under my nails yet she painfully and I mean painfully, did a bloody good job trying... ...wo hours, I’ve sat here watching the big screen displaying video clips to songs. It must be party time, as not only is the music cranking up, but al... ...slowly fermenting in his hand. I hung on him, he hung over me, he gave an inch; I took a mile. My adrenalin pumped with each win and I pathetically ... ...king this, the answer might kill me! “Tell her Steven.” Ali is biting her nails. “Veronica.” He looks worried. “Who, where and why?” I release my gri... ...ures for me to come closer; you can’t miss those long, painted, manicured nails. “For what it’s worth, I think Michael is a real honey, but listen h... ...suddenly feel this hand run down my back. The muscular body, I know every inch of, has slid in beside me. I’m now franticly trying to get shampoo ou...

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...e age of two up until sixteen. Because of her sexual traumas: she split into ninety-two separate personalities in order to survive her ordeals. Wh... ...h abstract imaginary separations where no actual ones exist. Each imaginary ‘inch’ or ‘centimeter’… is marked by an imaginary abstract line. Each ‘... ...resents an imaginary segment that is absolutely separated from all the other ‘inches’ and its only characteristic is that it ‘accumulates’.. Math... ...in the open: the entire focus outside is on eighteen, tiny shallow holes a few inches wide in the middle of trees and grass and water; that have been... ...es out to one B-52 bomb load of anti-personnel bomblets every two minutes for nine years. Roughly 10 to 15% of them never exploded. There are sti... ...uite dead. Our bone structure is semi- dead. Our skin is partially dead, our nails and hair are dead... we are full of dead and dying cells. It is ... ...ankrupt and shuts its doors. Throw out all legal evasions of debt like title nine. Force corporate executive to be more responsible for their actio... ... the tops of bottles, jars; all tools that have a head, the head of a hammer, nails, the head of a nail, pounding the head of a nail, the cutting off... ... as possible, the decapitation of hair… haircuts, shaving daily, cutting your nails, the idea of assassination as a political tool, the concept of c...

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...eferre Truth or Falsehood to our sufficiencie XXVII. Of Friendship XXVIII. Nine and twentie Sonnets of Steven de la Boetie, to the Lady of Grammont X... ... Thyestes, of Oedipus, and of Macareus, having with the pleasures of their songs infused this profitable opinion in the tender conceit of children. C... ...is Citie, and how far he extends him selfe about their exercises, sports, songs, leaping, and dancing, whereof he saith, that severe antiquitie gave... ...ssays Return to Renascence Editions Montaigne's Essays CHAPTER XXVIII. NINE AND TWENTIE SONNETS OF STEVEN DE LA BOETIE, TO THE LADY OF GRAMMONT, ... ...y of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. CHAPTER XXVIII. NINE AND TWENTIE SONNETS OF STEVEN DE LA BOETIE, TO THE LADY OF GRAMMONT, C... ...s. Nil adeo fieri celeri ratione videtur, Quam si mens fieri proponit et inchoat ipsa. Ocius ergo animus quam res se perciet ulla, Ante quarum in ... ...y a solemne, grave, severe, and spondaicall kinde of musicke, did sweetly inchaunt, allay, and in-trance their rash, violent, and law-lesse lust. It... ... and whereof a man should make no use, so long as there remaineth but one inch of hope: That to live, is sometimes constancie and valour; That he wil... ...pond and duckt under water, lifted up her hands and joyning her two thumb-nails in act to kill lice above her head, seemed to call him lousie still,...

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... staple food of Asian culture is rice. 12 Grand Ma's wake is scheduled for nine o'clock at a local funeral parlor, just a few blocks down the stree... ...ty. ” Haha...pretty funny. Alright, how about five o'clock? I need to get my nails and “ makeup done, I joke reciprocally. ” Seriously? Emilie gasps.... ...because The Velvet Underground's Sweet Jane was playing, one of my favorite songs of all-time the wonderful things I have to give up — for women. "S... ...wn to — — gently pick up the caterpillar and put it in the grass just a few inches away. Apparently, all that studying didn't teach them how to simp... ... cartoon in which a man sitting on a couch and sweating profusely, yells to nine television screens in front him, collectively broadcasting ABC, CNN,...

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...ury and the Spanish Inquisition. It wasn‘t officially ended until the mid-Nineteenth Century. By modern standards of Christian justice the methods o... ...iron masks, a rack, and metal spikes that would be forced under the finger nails or inserted into body organs. But the main exhibit was a tableau of ... ...dges are appointed politically for life terms? Should one, three, five or nine judges be allowed to rule on an initiative passed by a direct vote of ... ...e lost.‖ -- ―Are unions a positive or a negative force in society? Ninety per cent of Frenchmen are covered by collective bargaining unions. ... ...e incomes of the top 20% of wage earners, wages stayed flat and inflation inched up, the average household income was reduced and the yearly deficit ... ...their fathers the organ with the direct connection to the heart is several inches below the stomach, and is outside of the abdominal cavity. ... ...le infants being penetrated anally by a male who might be 18, is 4 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 80 pounds has four hairs on his chest, is blond and ha... ...h? ―Is the definitely erotic ‗Song of Solomon‘ or ‗Song of Songs‘ pornographic? Or is it the most romantic poem ever written. Is it a... ...original meaning of gay, it meant happy and carefree. Some of my favorite songs and stories use the word in this way. Undoubtedly some homosexuals a...

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...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Dumas Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] The Vicomte de Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWA... ...e keels of its ships in a clear sum- mer day, a gigantic mirror in which heaven delights to re- flect sometimes its stars, sometimes its storms. The k... ... lines already traced.” “I am there.” “Write seven hundred and sixty thousand livres.” “That is written.” “Upon Lyons —— “ The cardinal appeared to he... ...n, seeing that everybody has the stupidity to be- lieve me rich in millions. I repel the silly idea. A minister, besides, has nothing of his own. Come... ...they will quarrel, they will fight. They are the only two mari- time powers. Let them destroy each other’s navies, we can construct ours with the wrec... ...very one, therefore, was obliged to be sat- isfied, or at least to appear so. Monk quite as hungry as his people, but affecting perfect indifference f... ...spot, and the charcoal of them was still jagged with the action of the fire, which had gone out of itself, powerless, no doubt, to get to the heart of... ... y, and here is the ring — but the ring is sealed into the stone.” “We must have a lever.” “That’s a thing very easy to find.” Whilst looking round th... ...- keteer; whilst Raoul eagerly pressed the hand of his old friend. “Take care, Raoul,” said D’Artagnan, “the second horse of the fifth rank will lose ...

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...ving, too. The Anglo-American Club, composed of British and American students, had twenty-five members, and there was still much material left to draw... ...to the proprieties. It would be a mistake to suppose that the easy-going plea- sure-seeking student carries an empty head. Just the con- trary. He has... ...re led in from another room. They were stu- dents panoplied for the duel. They were bareheaded; their eyes were protected by iron goggles which projec... ... head and touched the place with a sponge once or twice; the surgeon came and turned back the hair from the wound—and re- vealed a crimson gash two or... ...or the only reason which ever permits him to inter- fere—and the day’s war was over. It was now two in the afternoon, and I had been present since hal... ...o have done that; even their great-great-grandfathers had not been the first to do it when they were children. The strokes of the bare feet had worn g... ... One of the searchers came suddenly upon a sleeved arm projecting from a crevice in the ice-wall, with the hand out- stretched as if offering greeting... ...ht of day.” The hand and arm were alone; there was no trunk. After being removed from the ice the flesh-tints quickly faded out Mark Twain 246 and th... ...male, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female—tomcats included, of course; a person’s mouth, neck, bosom, elbows, fi...

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...e window in those days, of grinning, good-natured mechanics, who spelt the songs, and spoke them out for the benefit of the company, and who re- ceive... ...,—he renders all this with a few strokes on a little block of wood not two inches square, upon which one may gaze for hours, so merry and lifelike a s... ...er, and whole generations of smiling, jovial men, women, and children half inch high, whose portraits are car- ried abroad, and have the faculty of ma... ...il’s tattoo on his forehead; and a pair of imps are nailing great tenpenny nails into his hands to make his happiness complete. The late Mr. Clark’s e... ...rriment and ob- servation, can afford to throw away upon a drawing not two inches long. From the practical dustmen we pass to those purely poetical. T... ... from the pew!—how it is wadded, and stuffed, and spangled over with brass nails! what hassocks are there for those who are not too fat to kneel! what... ...here are, count up what they have done, and see what in the course of some nine-and-twenty years has been done by this indefatigable man. What amazing...

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...ing been driven with prodigious strength, and piercing an iron plate 1 3/8 inches thick, had withdrawn itself by a backward motion. Such was the last ... ...of these defensive weapons, two yards and a quarter in length, and fifteen inches in diameter at the base. “Very well! suppose this weapon to be six t... ...us weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds to a mean distance of ten miles. Thus the Abraham Lincoln wante... ...re equal to that of the atmosphere, that is to say, 15 lb. for each square inch of its surface. It follows, then, that at 320 feet this pressure equal... ...the log a second time. “Well?” asked the captain of the man at the wheel. “Nineteen miles and three-tenths, sir.” “Clap on more steam.” The engineer o... ... repast, were devouring it with avidity. Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store- rooms. There electricity,... ...s round eyes, and white whiskers like those of a cat, with webbed feet and nails, and tufted tail. This precious animal, hunted and tracked by fisherm... ...airie, we arrived at the skirts of a little wood that was enlivened by the songs and flight of a large number of birds. “There are only birds,” said C... ...incident occurred. Several times in unrolling the cable they observed that nails had recently been forced into it, evidently with the motive of destro...

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... my hands. I tried to reach it, in a mad resolve to claw into the wood with my nails, but my arms were heavy and lifeless. Again I strove to call out,... ... with a pair of pale blue, washed out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other. The abbreviated leg looked as though the... ...asual glance had rescued me from the sea. His height was probably five feet ten inches, or ten and a half; but my first impression, or feel of the man, ... ... the wheel. A moment later he emerged, a heavy set young fellow of eighteen or nineteen, with a glowering, villanous countenance, trailing at his heel... ... model. Her beam, or width, is twenty three feet, and her length a little over ninety feet. A lead keel of fabulous but unknown weight makes her very ... ...ncoctions. My hands bothered me a great deal, unused as they were to work. The nails were discolored and black, while the skin was already grained wit... ...ling, as with ague, in every limb. He proceeded very slowly and cautiously, an inch at a time. Outlined against the clear blue of the sky, he had the ... ... spectacle for grief. They have a parboiled appearance, are afflicted with hang nails, while the nails are broken and discolored, and the edges of the ... ...s nobility. Watch me.” Three yards away from Johnson he was, and sitting down. Nine feet! And yet he left the chair in full leap, without first gaining...

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