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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

... that, embraced. My grandparents' tiny home was government property and was reclaimed. The sanitary engineers, revolted, removed from the garden th... ...e I made my move. Soon, temples sheathed in perspiration, you use the outfit's thick paper napkins to wipe it off. Loosen your tie. Pretend to be i... ...amilies. With eyes downcast, hands sculpting breadcrumbs or folding and unfolding wrinkled napkins, they silently cruised through the night, tight- ... ...r instructed me and my sister. We helped her carry greasy plates and cutlery and shapeless napkins to the kitchen and pile them there indiscriminat...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...ut he repeats a story that was told him, to the effect that there is a certain napkin in Rome woven of salamander wool, wherein the handkerchief of th... ... were made in Lisbon, and the sheaths gilded. All these things were wrapped in napkins, and all in very good order." DANGEROUS JEALOUSY OF THE MOORISH... ...a powder specially recommended to each of the men, and in the adoption of wise sanitary measures. His supply of fresh water also ran short, which comp...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...er to grab the nearest Time or Newsweek as quickly as most women reached for sanitary napkins. Still the human goddess who once dressed Barbie dolls f... ...b the nearest Time or Newsweek as quickly as most women reached for sanitary napkins. Still the human goddess who once dressed Barbie dolls for imagin...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Which one matters more? Which one outweighs the other? What good are paper napkins if the entire fucking planet is a radioactive gravesite? Killi... ...cking planet is a radioactive gravesite? Killing trees so you can have paper napkins is not an intelligent way to live. When will human beings lear... ...is revoltingly ugly; so we must all buy tons of bleach to make our clothes as sanitary, and white and sterile and as dead as possible. If there is a...

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Falk a Reminiscence

By: Joseph Conrad

... and two rows of shiny plates. Three Chinamen in white jackets loafed with napkins in their hands around that desolation. Schomberg’s pet table d’hote... ...uld hardly credit it—eh? A white man, too… .” He wiped his lips, using the napkin with indignation, and looking at me. It flashed through my mind in t... ... a low mutter who the devil could be there at this time of the day, got up napkin in hand to peep through the doorway cautiously. He retreated rapidly... ... on opening, and had been thrown over- board soon after leaving home, as a sanitary measure. After- wards the crew of the Borgmester Dahl thought of t...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...eak to him again till, after she had heated the rolls and passed the paper napkins, Mr. Marbury captured her with a loud, “Oh, quit fussing now. Come ... ...d with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch- bark napkin-rings labeled “Papa “ and “Mama.” She hinted of her new enthusiasm. ... ...ent rain. As seen from Main Street, Oleson & McGuire’s Meat Mar- ket had a sanitary and virtuous expression with its new 361 Sinclair Lewis tile coun...

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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

By: Honoré de Balzac

...imum. Monsieur Molineux lived in one of the angles, on the sixth floor for sanitary reasons, the air not being pure at a less height than seventy feet... ... when he caught sight of the table, and the bottles swathed in significant napkins. At Gaudissart’s shout, his pale-blue eyes sparkled, his big head, ... ... a charcoal brazier gleamed on an omelette aux truffes. Two covers and two napkins, soiled by the supper of the previous night, might have enlightened...

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The Wheels of Chance a Bicycling Idyll

By: H. G. Wells

...ly and scrutinisingly at the ring, then put his hand under the fold of the napkin and examined the texture, and put the thing down again. Then he had ... ... don’t know at all. I believe there are a great many women journalists and sanitary inspectors, and black-and-white art- ists. But I suppose it takes ...

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Love and Mr. Lewisham

By: H. G. Wells

...am plunged reck- lessly—orientally—into an awe-inspiring place with mitred napkins. They lunched on cutlets—stripped the cutlets to the bone—and littl... ...teaching. They’ll take gold plate from company promoters and rent from in- sanitary houses. But if a man is poor and doesn’t profess to believe in wha...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

...e composure. As if this were not enough, another waiter, born, as it would seem, expressly to look at you in this passage of your life, stands at a li... ...al only, is available on the spur of the moment. You anxiously call out, ‘V eal, then!’ Your waiter having settled that point, returns to array your t... ... Mel- lows, looking at nothing, and apparently experiencing that it failed to raise his spirits. ‘I don’t care for the town,’ said J. Mellows, when I ... ...rday’s sherry, one and eightpence, and here we are again two shillings. And what the devil does ninepence mean?’ This new portent utterly confounded t...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...f long tables set out for dinner, and made to look sumptuous by the aid of napkins folded fan wise, you would rightly judge it to be an uncommonly go... ... eyes wide open; not with my nightcap drawn almost down to my nose, for on sanitary principles I never wear a nightcap: but with my hair pitchforked a...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...r, a porcelain water-jar (guaranteed hy- gienic), a drip-less non-clogging sanitary faucet, and ma- chine-painted decorations in two tones of gold. He... ... supported it some one had drawn a mustache in lead-pencil. Crumpled paper napkins were dumped among the Michaelmas daisies. On the walk, like shredde... ... competi- tive industry, and as an expert on hygiene he was pleased by the Sanitary Communion Outfit Company’s announce- ment of “an improved and sati...

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The Village Rector

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ne. When Aline passed them carrying the instrument of torture wrapped in a napkin, she said:— “Madame’s body is one great wound.” The doctors returned... ...esting him to superintend the erec- tion of the building with reference to sanitary arrangements, 235 Balzac conjointly with Gerard, who was to be th...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

...en he had crossed the Plaza on that mission, waving above his head a white napkin belonging to the table linen of the Amarilla Club. He was rather pro... ...at Fidanza may be quite enough to send some fool’s knife into my back. The Sanitary Commission I preside over is not in favour with the populace. ‘Bew...

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

...gs, I hope I have taken every available opportunity of showing the want of sanitary improvements in the neglected dwellings of the poor. Mrs. Sarah Ga... ...ly there appeared a being in a white waistcoat, carry- ing under his arm a napkin, and attended by another being with an oblong box upon his head, fro...

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An Enemy of the People

By: Henrik Ibsen

... is seen sitting at the dining table, on which a lamp is burning. He has a napkin tucked under his chin, and MRS. STOCKMANN is standing by the table h... ...in the winter; a rec- ommendation of the Baths—an account of the excellent sanitary conditions here. But I held the article over, tem- porarily. Peter... ...who considers it desirable that unreliable and exaggerated accounts of the sanitary condition of the Baths and the town should be spread abroad. Sever...

...de. At the back of the room, an open door leads to the dining-room. BILLING is seen sitting at the dining table, on which a lamp is burning. He has a napkin tucked under his chin, and MRS. STOCKMANN is standing by the table handing him a large plate-full of roast beef. The other places at the table are empty, and the table somewhat in disorder, evidently a meal having rece...

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...idst of a cluster of cabins crowded closely together, and as there were no sanitary regulations, the filth about the cabins was often intolerable. Som... ...atter of having meals at regular hours, of eating on a tablecloth, using a napkin, the use of the bath-tub and of the tooth- brush, as well as the use... ...ly grown by the students them- selves—and see tables, neat tablecloths and napkins, and vases of flowers upon the tables, and hear singing birds, and ...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

...ing with almost three of our six months’ engagement as V oluntary Drivers, Sanitary Section 21, Ambulance Norton Harjes, American Red Cross, and at th... ...us Room “ Ah yes” impenetrably remarked the mysterious one in posi- tively sanitary English. “Y ou shall put all your baggage in the car, at once”—the... ...f before I had time to focus my slightly bewil- dered eyes. Monsieur spoke sanitary English, as I have said. “What is your name?”—“Edward E. Cummings.... ... Government was about to take over the Red Cross (which meant that all the Sanitary Sections would be affiliated with the American, and no longer with... ...these words: “Have you any change about you?” He knew, of course, that the sanitary official’s first act had been to deprive me of every last cent. Th... ...ted by a stabbing crash of icy water. I leaped from the tub. “Here is your napkin. Make dry your- self”—he handed me a piece of cloth a little bigger ...

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

... to say to the vaccination officer, the school attendance officer, and the sanitary in- spector: “Is this child mine or yours?” The answer is that as ... ...grounds, of social distinctions. He is at the oak chest counting a pile of napkins. Mrs Bridgenorth reads placidly: Collins counts: a black- bird sing...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...inner, as she would express it—by care- fully extricating herself from the napkin which has been tucked around her. Then the waiter, ever attentive to... ...ities have had the experience of the world before them. They have known of sanitary laws as they began. That sewerage, and water, and gas, and good ai... ... Park; and hence it has come to pass that there will be water not only for sanitary and useful purposes, but also for ornament. At present the Park, t...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...4 Magnum Bonum sion,” said Janet; “he means to read law, get up social and sanitary questions, and go into parliament.” “I know,” said her mother, “I ... ...parliament.” “I know,” said her mother, “I have always lived in hopes that sanitary theories would give him his father’s heart for the sufferers, and ... ...helmet barred. In the midst, however, in marched Reeves, with a tray and a napkin, and a regular basin of invalid soup, 477 Yonge which he set down b...

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The Last Chronicle of Barset

By: Anthony Trollope

...waiter. The waiter immediately pulled himself up, and ad- justed his dirty napkin under his arm, after the fashion of waiters, and showed that he inte... ...his heavy trouble would not have be- fallen him. The waiter with the dirty napkin stood at the door and bowed, thinking perhaps that as the Proudie pa... ...andon that idea. Greek was not the thing for him, but he would take up the sanitary condition of the poor in London. A fellow could be of some use in ...

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