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...lled a trilby. <brThe plot inspired Gaston Leroux's 1910 potboiler Phantom of the Opera and the innumerable works derived from it, and introduced the phrase in the altogether (meaning completely unclothed) to the English language. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...en his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase Jekyll and Hyde coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was an immediate success and is one of Stevenson's best-selling w...

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...Miss Frances, the youngest Ward sister, married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice. Some years later, pregnant with ...

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... a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, or the dedication page, is the phrase: _SAY THIS /Three times, with your eyes shut_/ Mothuighim boladh an Éireannaigh bhinn bhreugaigh faoi m'fhóidín dúthaigh. _And you will see/What you will see_ A loose translation of this Gaelic phrase is I sense the sm...

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...of other works. He makes use of many long, impressive-sounding words (some of which he very possibly made up!). Ignore these and his occasional Latin phrase, treat the rest as a farce, and you're on track for a fun listen!(Summary be Mark F. Smith)...

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...o Section II, the museum director discovers a teenage girl dead with an arrow through her heart. An older woman hovers over her whispering incoherent phrases in the girl's ear and offering incomprehensible answers to the director's questions. She is the only witness to the crime, or accident, as the case may be. How will the feeble, 83 year-old Mr. Gryce unravel this myste...

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...de nuit, que I'aile brisee n'aide plus s'envoler, des ombres passageres, traversent les prairies. Espoirs. Paroles imml~bilisees, sous Ie filet d'une phrase, survenues a I'instant dans rna pensee. Aspiration vers I' inaccessible. Soif permanente el ardente. Force qui brule. Foi mystique. Vague qui engloutit, no ie, purifie. Lueurs jaunes dc lampe. Frontiere du feu. Limite ...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, ...

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...ALF OF 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a “War of Ideas.” A phrase, “The War to end War,” got into circulation, amidst much sceptical c... ...to end War,” got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essen- tially pacifists, towards t... ... taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writin... ...ross the At- lantic that has carried the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by the phrase, “The League of Nations,” a phrase sug- gesting plainl... ...te a scramble for attention, but an attempt to express in every variety of phrase and as- pect this one system of ideas which now possesses us all. In... ... A A ATION TION TION TION TION MORE AND MORE frequently does one hear this phrase, The League of Nations, used to express the outline idea of the new ... ...he new world that will come out of the war. There can be no doubt that the phrase has taken hold of the imaginations of great multitudes of people: it... ...he imaginations of great multitudes of people: it is one of those creative phrases that may alter the whole destiny of mankind. But as yet it is still... ...ay alter the whole destiny of mankind. But as yet it is still a very vague phrase, a cloudy promise of peace. I make no apology therefore, for casting...

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...ment to quality that never ends.” Although he had just commenced his job, he already had the tired, repetitive tone of someone who had repeated that phrase innumerable times. To the couple's surprise, the horses quickly lurched into a dark underworld of a street. Untamed mosses and vines swallowed up the dilapidated, vacant houses, which bore signs of antiquated enginee...

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...ea in the Kohala District in the north of Hawaii Island (the largest and southern-most island of the Hawaiian chain). “Kanu o ka aina” is a Hawaiian phrase meaning “natives of the land from generations back. ” The one hundred fifty students of Kanu o ka Aina. . . perpetuate Hawaiian language and culture by practicing native traditions such as kalo (taro) cultivation, ...

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...king,? yet this egotistic way of speaking, wherein I take precedence of my chimney, is hereby borne out by the facts; in everything, except the above phrase, my chimney taking precedence of me....

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...himney , is hereby borne out by the facts; in everything, except the above phrase, my chimney taking precedence of me. Within thirty feet of the turf-...

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...either period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James?s phrase and story of ?The Great Good Place,? twinkled across my mind, and passed and left no light....

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...pia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James’s phrase and story of “The Great Good Place,” twinkled across my mind, and pa... ...ng them out of my mind again. Mr. Gabbitas, you see, did sometimes, as the phrase went, “take notice” of me, he had induced me to go on reading after ... ...to me were simple enough, written in a round- ish, unformed hand and badly phrased. Her first two or three showed a shy pleasure in the use of the wor... ...ve” pointed me to that—that for her to face about with these precise small phrases toward abandonment, after we had kissed and whis- pered and come so... ...eak our full meanings, we stamped out our feelings with clumsy stereotyped phrases; you who are better taught would fail to catch our intention. The e... ...woven cloth of gold… . The earth recreated—only by the reiteration of such phrases may I hope to give the intense freshness of that dawn. For a time I... ...know that something of that noble dream came back to me with his words and phrases. 192 In the Days of the Comet We walked up to a place called Bourn... ... And she would sometimes even speak tentatively in those narrow, old-world phrases that her lips could rob of all their bitter narrowness, of Nettie. ... ...r pity, and the great riches of her voice, of her few reassuring words and phrases. I noted and remembered very clearly how once my mother’s lean old ...

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...s but there is still a great need to make Hawaiian more accessible to more learners. To address this need we have included basic Hawaiian words and phrases in the English translation of No ke Kumu Ulu. A Hawaiian language lesson sheet and glossary are also included at the back of this book to provide additional learning opportunities. Our hope is that readers will dis...

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...s, but there is still a great need to make Hawaiian more accessible to more learners. To address this need, we have included basic Hawaiian words and phrases in the English translation of No ka Elepaio Kolohe. A Hawaiian language lesson sheet and glossary are also included at the back of this book to provide additional learning opportunities. Our hope is that readers will ...

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This book teaches you beginner gramma in Hawaiian language through pictures, basic words, and phrases.

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This book teaches you the beginning level of the Hawaiian language using basic words, phrases and pictures to aid you in the learning process.

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...ful to be a writer. I’m more determined than ever to search for that elusive phrase, send an article for submission for the tenth time, or hone my cra... ...ce with me as I am constantly writing in the margin what a wonderful turn of phrase or use of sensory image the author has written. Bibles and non-fic... .... With some serious critiquing I was forced to face my blind devotion to pet phrases, apt cliches, or even familiar anecdotes. I finally saw and admit... ...hat advice I’d offer unpublished and/or established authors, I think of that phrase, and remember this quote from G .K. Chesterton: “A good novel tell...

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...edia and reveal all.” Jasmin smiled. ‘Reveal all.’ Tommy kept dropping in media phrases when talking to her, which was sweet. “Poor things, they mu... ...out of her coma, only for their son to disappear, seemingly into thin air. That phrase struck a chord in his head. Something about the fantastical ... .... “That’s all right. Were you asleep?” “No...” said Sam, not really sure how to phrase her next question. “Did... did you see those other patients ... ... Jasmin. She turned around to see Mr and Mrs Randerson standing behind her. The phrase ‘bulldog chewing a wasp’ leapt to Jasmin’s mind when she saw...

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...Arnold. [Aside.] God have mercy upon us! ,Arnold. I'll not read all, but phrases here and there. [Arnold reads from the letter with some dificult...