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...hat there really was a destination. The sensory input of traditional Thai music was coming to them from the front and back speakers of the car that w... ... front and back speakers of the car that was their confinement. The radio music, no matter if interpreted as harmonious or strident by the three indi... ...at will happen if you are lucky. If unlucky, I suppose you will eventually snap like a crazed immigration officer who begins to shoot tourists. You a... ...ing through crowds and hangers of clothes, he heard the blaring of pi phat music, saw a vegetable market, and smelled redolent papayas, durians, water... ...eps that rose up to the bridge that went over a canal. He slammed his fire-snappers against the cement watching the air burst before his feet. They pa... ...e was just slumbering as all slumbered. This was life, and unlike a movie, music did not accompany it's plotless plodding of time. The sliding out of ... ...need money. He considered becoming a Luk Thung singer of Traditional Thai music. They wore their heavy makeup and pointed golden tiaras for beggarly...

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...n her nerves. 7 “Oh, why don’t you just tell her that you fancy her?!” she snapped. Philip was momentarily derailed. “It’s so obvious. That’s... ...al way.” “Well then why don’t you, instead of dribbling over her all day?” Nina snapped, and returned to reading her magazine. “Well perhaps you fa... ...antha’s twin brother, removed his earphones and paused the track on his phone’s music player. The mobile was brand new. It had been 8 his and ... ...ll at once. “Everyone just keep the noise down,” bellowed Mr Stark. “I hope you snap in half Blake, you freak,” shouted out Emma Venton, half stand... ...attening up. They should build these hospitals with bigger corridors.” “Roger!” snapped Yvonne Blake. “Sorry luv.” Sam smiled weakly. Ordinarily h... ...ed like she was cuddling it. The money shot! He clicked away. He took a few more snaps of Sam’s cards and trophies, and hastily departed. As he clo... ...ed the screen. A news ticker relentlessly delivered headlines, while a bombastic music score built up the dramatic tension. It was too much for the ... ...ot of Brent Valley General Hospital, with the accompaniment of more hard-hitting music. Then it was Jasmin Sharma, looking stunningly attractive, ta...

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...omplete day In the twenty-three years here Of hard work. The quandary then snaps, and you escape. When out of the valley you enter the truck And close... ...in the spitting fumes; bad-muffler sounds; The rocking phallicism in radio music of passing cars, He feels he has to move or die And gets down To hi...

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...hat look easy,” the skinny man said. “Just get the hell in there,” Vincent snapped. The three rebels wasted no time in descending into the tunnels. V... ...hem since, so no, I won’t relax and neither should you two idiots,” Lexi snapped. “There’s nothing here the Seekers would want. Besides, with those... ...t of your ears and get in that truck. The Seekers are on their way!” Lexi snapped as she hurried over to her motorcycle. It was a black sport bike w... ...’re going to kill me then just get it over with you Seeker bastard!” Lexi snapped. Mullen laughed, “Resilient to the end I see. I am no Seeker, but ... ... think so sir. She…” Callous slammed his fst on the table and caused it to snap. “She? SHE!? Some girl killed a Commander in the Grand Army? Either ... ...is what we need. Okay, maybe not that particular one as we could use some music down here, but we could fnd a powerful subwoofer that I could modify...

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... “Ahhhh,” he finally said, pulling out from under the hood. Julia’s eyes snapped to his face. “Hmm?” She asked, distracted. She shook her head ... ...ot discussing the same thing. “For whatever bug crawled up your ass,” Julia snapped. She refused to be turned to jelly over that smoldering look he... ...oved closer. “And you shouldn’t give everyone so much to talk about,” she snapped. Julia tossed her hair over her shoulder and looked away, study... ...he worn velvet seat cushion. She searched the crowd for any sign of Cade. Snap out of it, she told herself. He’s just a guy like any other guy. ... .... She tore her gaze away and tried to pay attention to the procession. The music changed and Julia rose with the other guests as Janessa appeared wi... ...nough time.” “One time is all you need honey.” Paige snorted. Julia’s head snapped up and she saw hurt and confusion in her friend’s eyes before sh...

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... be lethal!" – another advises. "I am not forcing anybody down who has paid the ticket!" – snaps the driver and reverts to the hazy windshield. A ... ...eputation was cemented by this nocturnal recital. We didn't understand a word he said, his music fell on arid ears. My mother beseeched him softly,... ...ucked under the bed, I extract a rumpled blazer, age-patinated pants. "Put on cravat!" – he snaps – "She is not a floozy, has a lot of style" – he s... ...ttering purplish Polaroids on a nearby coffee table. "That's him" – she pinkie-indicates a snapshot – "In Turkey, Istanbul…" Her scent is primal,... ... that, no severance fee, no nothing, simply because he caught me drinking on the job." Eli snaps calloused fingers. He orders a glass of the finest ... ... I said to Nomi: "Why don't you approach the organisers? Tell them that you have composed music to some of his poems and that you are willing to p... ...ed the womaniser's tensile, proud, virility. He dyed his hair jet black. Original Moroccan music, wistful and lusty, the desert's guttural refrain,... .... "Whose is it, do we know?" – my grandpa probed at last. My father snuffed the ornamental music and shrugged uncertainly. My grandpa rubbed his re... ...shes. Every week one of them would remain stuck at the bottom or float and the others would snap at it and we know it is dead and it is bloated too....

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...k Mercedes, no license plates, a white-gloved chauffeur holding the door wide open, snapped to attention. My attendants blindfold me. A few minut... ...y. “Some fools in the SD and the SS even learned Hebrew, listened to Jewish folk music, and published pro-Zionist articles in Goebbels’ propaganda... ...left-adjusted in their appropriate rubrics. It must have taken hours to prepare. No snap decision at the heat of the moment this. I needed stale ... ...unning the motor to warm it up. When he sees my host, he rushes out of his seat and snaps to attention, his gaze averted, white-gloved hand resting ...

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...HELENA A failure? DOMIN Yes. For no reason at all their limbs used to keep snapping off. Evidently our planet is too small for giants. Now we only m... ... ACT II Helena's drawing room. On the left a baize door, and a door to the music room, on the right a door to Helena's bedroom. In the centre are wi... ...st make a start any minute now. If they lean against the railing they'll snap it like a match. DR. GALL They aren't armed. DOMIN We couldn't hold ou... ...BUSMAN (sotto voce) Carried forward, four hundred and twenty millions. The music stops. HALLEMEIER What a fine thing music is! We ought to have gone i...

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..., her eyes shining with cruelty. “Our child is not an abomination!” Helena snapped and hugged her frightened little girl closer to her body. The litt... ...ed her hair away from her face. “Hey, stupid. I’m talking to you!” Violet snapped her fingers in front of Laylah’s face. “Stay away from my man or yo... ...e best of her and unconsciously she began humming. “Stop that,” her father snapped. Laylah twitched and went silent. Tentatively she spoke, wanting to... ...g too deeply. It was the warning growl of the white wolf that had her head snapping up, eyes going to the double doors that swung open. An eerie sile... ... It shall be as you command.” Zina grinned and hung up. She turned on some music and started singing, her day much better after hearing Gerard’s news... ...ns be introduced? More characters? The possibilities were endless. Britta snapped her fingers in front of Laylah’s nose. “Laylah? Wake up, Chica.” “O... ...was silent for most of the drive home. She was amused by Kattcha’s strange music tastes. The sounds were interesting. Nothing like the stuff they hea... ...f trees swaying in the breeze? Father agrees with me on that one. And the music back then…it had beat and rhythm.” Britta hummed a few bars of a son... ...Satisfied, Zina got in her vehicle and drove away, singing off-key to some music blasting from her speakers. Chapter 44 Laylah was in good spirits a...

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...before you today, for the annual celebra- tion to mark the start of our harvest season.” Musicians who were seated on either side of the platform be... ... side of the platform began to play stringed instruments with melodious bells. Additional musicians were weaving through the crowd, playing a cheerf... ...ere weaving through the crowd, playing a cheerful song. People began to sway along to the music. Children laughed, playfully following the musicians... ...hildren laughed, playfully following the musicians around. King Traeus motioned, and the music became very soft, then stopped. “Today, we come toge... ...ld never relinquish any power to me, not if he could help it.” “Listen to yourself,” she snapped suddenly and pulled away from him. “He has you bra... ... all the while eyeing him suspiciously. He laughed a soft laugh. “What is so funny?” she snapped at him. Secret of the Sands 85 “Oh, just th... ...response is interesting, my Lady. Either you are not willing to say, or…” “Or what?” she snapped. “Or,” he said, his eyebrows rising, “you do not k... ... and the beam in place, the force of the winds turned the sail, twisting the center beam, snapping it in two, almost capsizing the boat. The sudden ... ... the lion gave a huge, bellowing roar and bolted. The sudden movement caused the leash to snap free from Odai’s hand and the giant cat took off runn...

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...ot entirely disagreeable. In many ways it besot him like orphic sound to a musician, or the tenebrisms of artists (Carvaggios like himself); but nonet... ... minute of temporary derangement that was quite natural in life, a game of musical chairs in which the chairs also moved. He further averred that a mo... ...ough his paintings and tabloid gossip they could learn more about than any snapshot of a movie star in bed with someone other than his wife. From tiny... ...ld not help but that repeated dulcet tunes were cloying to any listener of music, that a repeated tune eventually became travail to the ear that requi... ... he knew what he was there for and without thinking he raised his hand and snapped his fingers augustly, but it did not get the man's attention. "What... ...u. You looked lonely. Thought I'd cheer you up if you needed cheering. You snapped your fingers but the other guy didn't hear you. I've heard and have... ...r me up?" asked Nawin with a sheepish grin. "Better not say in words but I snap. You do what is pleasant for me and it will please you." "Free?" "Give... ...arly in the morning to say a lot of nothing." "It's not nothing," he said, snapping the elastic--he himself wearing nothing but his grin. "No, that's ... ...debris remained even as it dragged circuitously although less tediously in music. "And I know that you will always be there for me," Nawin remembered ...

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...erious claim on her who is the heart of it. He marched on that road to the music of sonorous brass for some drunken minutes. The question came, What o... ...ed—quite alarmed about him. In the bud! I carried her off on the spot, and snapped it effectually. Warned he meant to be desper- ate, I kept her away ... ...of the red-lipped mate, where there were no words, went through him like a music when the bow is over the viol, sweeping imagination, and they said he... ...a man who insists on capturing you and lets it be seen he doesn’t care two snaps of a finger?’ Aminta petitioned on his behalf indifferently: ‘He ‘s w... ...be presented, she may wear his name publicly, I say he’s laughing at them, snapping his fingers at them louder and louder the more they seem to be pus... ..., therefore to live. She had yester- day read letters of a man who broke a music from the word— about as much music as there is in a tuning —fork, yet... ...is in a tuning —fork, yet it rang and lingered; and he was not the magical musician. Now those letters were as dust of the road. The sphere of beauty ... ...n even a very little way up into azure heavens. It is far easier to take a snap-shot at the psychic, and tumble her down from her fictitious heights t... ...for what it wanted, and they were the instance of two that did not have to snap false bonds of a marriage-tie in order to walk together composedly out...

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...Belloni being a money-maker was redeemed in their sight by his devotion to music. Music was now the Art in the ascendant at Brookfield. The ladies (fo... ...eir house not simply attractive, but enticing; and, seeing that they liked music, it seemed a very agreeable de- vice. The Tinleys of Bloxholme still ... ...d noblemen known to him, with familiar indiffer- ence, as things below the musical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his Frenc... ...werful. This was a different song from the last: it was not the sculptured music of the old school, but had the richness and fulness of passionate blo... ...he bow, and knocked down our candle, and in the darkness I heard something snap and break with a hollow sound. When I could see, he had broken it, the... ...pounds with levity.” “Has she so much?” Adela glanced at him. “She will be snapped up by some poor nobleman. If I take her down to the yacht, one of L... ... you don’t think of the situations in Clelia, and what I can do with her,” snapped T racy. “I see a song there that would light up all London. Unfortu... ...awful temptations. You think, this’ll save me! You catch hold of it and it snaps. That’ll save me; but you’re too heavy, and the roots give way, and d... ...sure was correct. Her back gave a sharp bend, as if an eternal support had snapped. “Oh! ye hit hard,” she moaned. “I tell you kindly that we (who, yo...

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...he strings of sensualism,’ to the delight of a world gaping for marvels of musical execution rather than for music. For our world is all but a sensati... ...age and the voyage to India. We have not yet exchanged a syllable: she was snapped up, of course, the moment she en- tered the room. I knew she would ... ...as right, wrong alto- gether her deduction of the corresponding sentiment. Music was resumed to confuse the hearing of the eaves- droppers. They behel... ...as in the first conception of the edifice, backs were damp, boots liquidly musical, the pipe of consolation smoked with difficulty, with much pulling ... ...harmony. He sees all difficulties through his own sanguine hues. He is the musical poet of the problem, demanding merely to have it solved that he may... ... hoped for Diana to make a splendid marriage. The nibbles threatened to be snaps and bites. There had been a proposal, in an epistle, a quaint effusio... ...t ex- cruciating twist within of the revolution of the wheels of the brain snapping their course to grind the contrary to that of the heart, was revea... ...dn’t suggest it,’ he said. ‘But Dannisburgh’s an old hand. But they say he snaps his fingers at tattle, and laughs. Well, it doesn’t matter for him, p... ...reath in old times. Home-fed hog! They’ve a treat in store, they have. And snap your fingers at the world for many a long day. And the hams! They cure...

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...nto their chests, as appears to be the case now. The tinkling works of the music-cart, I DID find out, to be made of quill tooth-picks and wire; and I... ...ngs—a magic bell, which still sounds in my ears unlike all other bells—and music plays, amidst a buzz of voices, and a fragrant smell of orange-peel a... ...fragrant smell of orange-peel and oil. Anon, the magic bell com- mands the music to cease, and the great green cur- tain rolls itself up majestically,... ...hey break my childish sleep! What images do I associate with the Christmas music as I see them set forth on the Christmas Tree? Known before all the o... ...ure—be the images once as- sociated with the sweet old Waits, the softened music in the night, ever unalterable! Encircled by the social thoughts of C... ...words? Feathers, to pelt such an idiot as you with,” said he. “Here! Betsy Snap! Look at him!” Betsy Snap was a withered, hard-favoured, yellow old wo...

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...half-dozen of you put together.’ ‘She was more worth it,’ said Ethel; ‘her music and draw- ing are first-rate. Harry was frantic about her singing las... ... with restrained breath and moist- ened eyes. Ethel, far less sensitive to music, was nevertheless touched as she had never before been by sound; and ... ...e window with them clinging to him, and Averil returned to her post. ‘Some music, Ave,’ said Leonard, with an instinctive dread of her conversation. S... ...st renowned instrumental pieces, which she could play as mechanically as a musical-box. ‘Not that jingling airified thing!’ cried Leonard, ‘I want som... ...lity . She fretted and tossed, moaned and wailed, sat up in bed and cried, snapped off attempts at hymns, would not listen to stories, and received Et... ...ill intent on the glove. ‘What is to be done, Ethel! that rogue Tom always snaps up all the beauty. I dare say he has engaged Miss Ward and the widow ... ... ‘but I do not ask you to stay in it.’ ‘My word is my word,’ said Leonard, snapping little boughs off the laurels as he walked. ‘A hasty word ought no... ...iled, and so had her test; her influence had not succeeded, but it had not snapped; the boy, in all his wilfulness, had been too much for her, and she... ... the tie of brotherhood. There was a half-formed link that had more easily snapped. His courtship had been one of prudence and convenience, and in the...

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... at all sleek. She was much given to the carrying about of small bags with snaps to them, that went off like little pistols when they were shut up; an... ...along. It was soon gone again to return no more that day; and the bands of music and the straggling Punch’s shows going after it, left it a prey to th... ... played ostentatiously , crowned with the Copenhagen and Bird Waltzes in a Music Book of Miss T ox’s own copying. Over and above all this, Miss Tox ha... ...r do.’ ‘Why not?’ asked Paul. ‘Because it’s not polite,’ said Mrs Pipchin, snappishly. ‘Not polite?’ said Paul. ‘No.’ ‘It’ s not polite,’ said Paul, i... ...y; but Mrs Pipchin took it into her head that it was impudence, and made a snap at him directly. ‘How dare you laugh behind the gentleman’s back?’ sai... ... rarely exposed him to be singled out for such distinction. He was a great musical ama- teur in his way -after business; and had a paternal affection ... ... he answered, looking up with his widest and almost sudden smile; ‘humming musical recollections— of his last night’ s quartette party , I suppose—thr... ...er and over in the dust, got up’ again, whirled round the giddy T oots and snapped at him: and all this tur- moil Mr Carker, reigning up his horse and... ...s and invigorates a man, Sir, does Dombey, in his moral nature.’ Mr Carker snapped at the expression. In his moral nature. Exactly. The very words he ...

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...rles Dickens 13 ‘No, indeed, papa.’ And so another time the dreadful little snapping pug dog, next door, made a rush at one of the young princes as h... ...rincess Alicia, and it instantly flew down the throat of the dreadful little snap ping pug dog, next door, and choked him, and he expired in convulsi... ...e. At last they did begin in a slow and melancholy way to slide about to the music; though even then they wouldn’t mind what they were told, but would... ...d they wouldn’t smile, — no, not on any account they wouldn’t; but, when the music stopped, went round and round the room in dismal twos, as if everyb...

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...e who had nothing to do but to stare at one another on the great flat down. There were thou- sands of little chairs and almost as many little Jews; an... ... to be, as every one said, too shocking. Lord Iffield had gone to India to shoot tigers, but he returned in time for the punctual private view: it was... ...ver, ever before!” It gave them almost equal pleasure and made Dawling blush to his eyes; while this in turn produced, in spite of deepened astonishme... ...nsciousness of guilt. I had caught him some- how in the act, though that was as yet all I knew; but by the time we sank noiselessly into our chairs ag... ...on the right note—that was what eased me off: it drew all pain for the next half-hour from the sense of the deep darkness in which the stricken woman ...

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...keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist. Helena looked slowly from her music. ‘My dear Louisa,’ she replied, ‘it would be simply unen- durable.’ S... ...a’s score of the Mozart sonata. Louisa obediently took the chords, and the music continued. A young man, reclining in one of the wicker arm-chairs by ... ...ed luxuriously from the girls to watch the flames poise and dance with the music. He was evidently at his ease, yet he seemed a stranger in the room. ... ...e, seemed friendly. The three candles on the dark piano burned softly, the music fluttered on, but, like numbed butterflies, stupidly. Helena played m... ...ke numbed butterflies, stupidly. Helena played mechanically. She broke the music beneath her bow, so that it came lifeless, very hurting to hear. The ... ... hands, in its red silk shroud. After two dead months the first string had snapped, sharply striking the sensitive body of the instru- ment. The secon... ... bed and began to pack it. When at last it was finished, he shut it with a snap. The click sounded final. He stood up, stretched him- self, and sighed... ... then continued softly. ‘Mam, there was a lady had a dog—’ ‘Don’t bother!’ snapped Vera sharply. The child looked, wondering and resentful, at her sis... ...tiously asking: ‘Mam, is dad cross—is he? What did he do?’ ‘Don’t bother!’ snapped Vera. ‘You are a little nuisance! Here, take this into the dining-r...