idx,sentence,label
3491,"“we’re sure,” says irwin.",0
6456,"she crooked her finger, then led me back up the center aisle of my church with a confidential expression on her face.",0
10166,he told me that nothing i could do would really make any difference and that my fate was in the hands of the gods.,0
9878,"8


roberta grinnel was murdered on the morning of friday, february 12, and she was buried on monday, the 15th, in los angeles.",0
9196,"damn you, no!”

“what do you want?”

“i don’t know!” she screamed, then fled the office, her shoes ringing down the hall, all the way down the stairs, oddly confident in flight.",0
10269,"“did anyone other than astwick ever skate so early in the morning?”

“heavens, no.",0
10957,"the matter gave him enormous regret, no doubt an unhappy situation whose solution lay in the lap of the all-merciful allah; nothing would give him greater pleasure than to return to mr. laing his passport, which he had taken into nightly safekeeping only at the specific request of mr. pyle.",0
2492,"i don’t know for sure where the other one went ross told me he was successful, though.",1
1857,"it was irresponsible, it was malpractice —and yet he could not be sure it was his mistake or a mistake at all.",1
9486,we decided to follow what we heard in church and begin to help ourselves.,0
6214,"that’s where faith must work.”

“i lost my brother jimmy when i was nine.”

nella straightened from tending livie and gave her a stricken look.",0
3070,"even now, despite all that she had seen and heard at harlow, celia was unsure.",1
2612,"""i admit i've had some doubts about this outfit, and broderick, but your story is pretty far out.",1
2348,"what if—”

“don’t worry, i’ve got it covered.”

he grunted skeptically.",1
7071,she seemed to become more confident of her balance after a moment.,0
9136,"something was wrong.”

“did you know he was a narcotics addict?”

once again there was that quick exchange of glances, the slight hesitation and the feeling of nervous tension in the air.",0
4526,"if need be, i would buy them; the brooch princess elena had given me would no doubt purchase a half dozen of his best.",0
10288,"the major
wondered whether the evening was one hell of a mistake.",0
10402,they were still watching him when bosch took the telephone tip that led to the shooting of norman church.,0
5607,"“a precautionary measure,” dr. enos explained.",0
8226,but what about mrs. clausen’s belief that he had known regina and lied about it?,0
3410,"'well,
he was a good customer, no doubt about it.'",0
11023,but his apprehension grew when he read the nurses' notes and learned that gi symptoms had appeared during the night.,0
659,"he longs to tell you there is no condemnation and no curse for those who belong to christ jesus.”

something in his gentle smile cut me, spreading an infection of doubt.",1
7946,"he muttered, backing off furtively from the solitary audience propped up before the screen there in a litter of crusts and glossy wrappings —good god!",0
10790,"this is the end of his first term, and no doubt he will be reappointed by the state legislature.",0
8250,i hung around to make sure.,0
11970,"oh god, it hurts.”

once she was all the way up it seemed a little better.",0
11366,but we mustn’t stand here discussing hibernian monks.,0
11507,"when we got married, that’s what she said when she came to her moment to say “i do.” susie said,

“earl!”

“what?” the minister said.",0
11627,"nor had the priest, it was evident.",0
6510,"if there’s any hesitation on your part, an enemy could grab it and turn it on you.”

she closed her fingers around the gun, outwardly accepting and cradling the thing in her palm.",0
2722,"and such a doubt as must cast a shadow over any future protection you extend to her.""",1
7581,"‘in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god.’ he went on to talk about jews and jerusalem, levites and pharisees, moses and philip and andrew and peter.",0
10033,"“jesus, you’ll wake her.” he prepared bunks for him and coen under the footboards of the two beds.",0
9750,josette—a woman who knew him much better than i did—had told me the other juy liked practical jokes and sang in a church choir and played a harmonica.,0
8039,"david had been so certain, so arrogant, so indignant at her wretched life, he had not even spoken of it much to annabelle, except to say once or twice, with more violent words that he did not utter choking his throat, “i’ll take you out of all this and soon, very soon.” he was twenty-six then.",0
7438,"because churches disagreed very much, yet all said they were the churches closest the lips of god.",0
7350,he wrote ‘praise the lord and pass the ammunition.’ a real character.,0
378,"in the beginning he was doubtful but, after several months, he began to encourage me as he became convinced that i had a true vocation to the priesthood.”",1
6576,surely joseph doesn’t know of his influence with the men and the terrible things he’s planning.,0
10734,"the pilum is such an efficient piece of work compared to the old hasta-type spear, but there's no doubt they're a lot more expensive to make—little properly barbed head instead of big leafy head, long iron shaft, and then a wooden shaft shaped to suit the throwing action instead of the old hasta broom handle.",0
9019,"but that, without a natural immunity, which is rare, he would probably come down with measles in about two weeks as a result of his exposure to george.”

“which would have been just about when george would have been up and around?”

“yes.”

we stared at each other, but it was impossible to guess what dr. friedman was thinking.",0
3241,after tonight he would make certain that she played no more songs for the pygmy race.,0
1958,"i know because i checked.”

“did you think he might have been lying?”

“i doubted him, yes, but i shouldn’t have.",1
7423,"beyond the fence the amish boy and his father were loading their buggy with tied-up sacks, neither of them looking away from their concentration on positioning the load, as if they wore blinders, like the standing, well-groomed horse.",0
5381,"“the leader-cum-follower relationship is a bore,” he decided, “and the new relationship will be some sort of tenderness, sensitive, between men and men, and between men and women.” he gets a good deal of himself into these few words.",0
1696,he wasn’t sure.,1
9352,“i’ve arranged a christmas present for him.,0
9923,"""they's only one opinion here counts,"" sin said.",0
4699,"she confesses, or rather boasts, that this was so, and it was as if she were determined to trample herself into the mud.",0
9491,"lucy’s father, mrs. landry’s husband, was being confirmed as a roman catholic, having been received only recently into that faith.",0
11075,"the money he won from tonio's side was thus paid out to solly's side, and no suspicion attached to micky, for the pile of sovereigns in front of him remained about the same.",0
2135,. . ” the apology trailed off into indecision.,1
8956,"“on what little we have been able to determine so far, the district attorney’s office feels fairly certain that laredo masterminded this deal.",0
9357,he’s an unfrocked priest—did you know that?,0
2903,"yes, of course, how could you doubt it?",1
4205,"the way our relationship ended certainly tops my list.” he stopped, startled by movement over his right shoulder.",0
4926,surely they went through the narrowest defile in those mountains.,0
6628,i sure would.,0
10418,"christie, ltd., real estate, since 1922. small world.",0
7696,"there must have been two hundred people in the jammed courtroom: in holiday finery, the women in silk bonnets and tasseled shawls, the men in black morning suits and patent leather shoes, stern, aggrieved, blinking and blinking, they crowded together on the straight-backed benches like a congregation of owls, silent now and attentive, breaking the steaming stillness with only a sneeze or a strangled, rattling cough.",0
3074,"he'd play with them, but if they ever got unsure he'd back off and leave them be.",1
1904,"“i was thinking in broader term.” in view of the headmaster’s excuses, his father’s evasions, and the mathematics teacher’s horrified dullness when a clear view of his wife would have told him what was happening or at least that something like it would certainly happen, he was starting to suspect a wide-spread will to see things skewed and call them straight.",1
4434,"so make sure you're willing to die over this before you go into those mountains to find it.""",0
8759,time was measured for him in minutesand he had a great deal of ground to cover.,0
7400,"sick people newly brought from the ships, lying outside the church and screaming for water: “they were lying on the ground,” he said.",0
6654,"ian asked, “will gideon’s mother be home?”

“sure.”

ian scrutinized her.",0
4916,"no doubt his system is swimming in dope.”

“get the hell back in there,” lana said to darlene, who was staring at ignatius.",0
8606,"by now, breda was certain that the sperm bank must have something to do with an heir and money.",0
313,"sharon said, “what if we’d have lost you?”

mr. golden said, “where’s your faith?",1
5112,“i’m sure of it.,0
2262,"if you weren’t such a nice person, i doubt if i’d…one pair of swim trunks at…no…ties, no…one raincoat black, one suit charcoal, three pair lisle…here it is, here it is,” jerralds said.",1
6663,"just leaving me this nothing of a,this this fuck, kade!just look at this farewell fucking nothing of a

if i run away, even with money and a passport, even to america, i will be cheered by the thought that i am not running away for pleasure, not for happiness, but to another exile as bad, perhaps, as siberia.",0
8739,“are you sure the world is ready for them?” simon asked.,0
451,"brendan wasn't sure what kind of future she was seeking, but she was absolutely certain what she didn't want that future to be: a never-ending loop of sameness, reporting meaningless stories that faded into oblivion as soon as the camera panned away.",1
5626,"i’m not the kind of woman who thinks that men are men, all alike in certain basic ways.",0
11243,the tracker was wrapped in several blankets and buffalo robes; one covered his head like a monk's cowl.,0
10428,"‘laura chase remembered him through some sort of semi-alcoholic haze, sitting in a chair by the bed and sipping a martini while his friends took turns.’

monk was quiet for a time.",0
3459,"he wore his belief like a skin, and his convictions were expressed with the gentleness of one who had acquired them at a price he would not ask others to pay.",0
556,"though my brain was completely convinced, my heart wasn’t so quick to believe anything anymore.",1
1495,"i sort of doubt it.”

“i wouldn’t of married her if i thought she was all crazy, and she wasn’t.",1
10056,"angel can't make it before then.""",0
5489,"the value of a writer can be measured best, probably, by his capacity to express what he feels, knows, is, has been, has seen, and experienced, by means of this paraphrase which is art, this process of taking his own material and making what he wants to make of it.",0
11573,"she, who at your side enjoyed rich stuffs lined with squirrel fur and jewels, when she sees the courtyard of the lepers, when she has to enter our hovels and lie with us, then she will truly recognize her sin and regret this fine pyre of brambles!”

“i see that for a novice of saint benedict you have done some odd reading,” william remarked.",0
10494,"“at which point their wives no doubt pry em out of their weakening palsied hands.”

“except for all the ones who’re divorced,” sully said, and they both laughed.",0
9330,"""i say paultz is dirty, he's making dirt, money, and he's laundering it through the church.""",0
4467,the nation—pending congressional approval that would surely be given—was at war.,0
2467,"“now,” he said, “i ain’t so sure.”

“where did dolly work at the capital?” i asked.",1
12119,we have never favoured persecution of heathen religions.,0
12359,"it's—it's—why, it's like offering our old gods a sacrifice of a turd!""",0
8542,"and, of course, there’s always mr. powers to make decisions.”

“do you and mr. powers work closely together?”

she thought about it, then said, “we coordinate, i’d say, on certain things.",0
11657,"she renounced us in beautiful round early-victorian terms--her letters were period pieces, you know--the family, britain, god, the lot.",0
4423,"""surely ... the purest of all beings.""",0
4787,"the resident help had almost nothing to do, we were so undemanding and so few, so they leapt into the breach and devoted themselves to his wardrobe, starching and ironing and bleaching his vanilla costume, for example, into a blinding state of perfection.",0
8679,and to dress a man was a pleasure she felt in the marrow of her bones.,0
4864,"“but ignatius, a thousand twenty dollars.”

“i am certain that you can procure some funds,” he told her.",0
10547,"it seems to slip from her automatically, with less malice

than lassitude; he is certain she wants to listen.",0
6731,"sir jasper met with him in private while in london.”

lavender’s surprise must have pricked her mother’s sentiment, for she said more gently, “darling, surely you must know you cannot marry baret if his title and inheritance are taken from him.”

lavender gazed into her mother’s eyes, a look of dismay on her face.",0
1125,"i cannot be sure until i have visited the-"" he paused and chirped a
word that sounded to spence like krassil and then continued.",1
2887,out of her house?” anna stressed her disbelief.,1
7650,"“are you?”

“i don’t know,” fred whispers back, wondering what the hell he can possibly tell his department if he doesn’t.",0
8982,"“you know how people who slash their wrists have hesitation marks, little cuts they make while they’re getting up their nerve?",0
151,"perhaps this was the explanation of much of the anomaly of the mediterranean church: the strong belief in the supernatural, the thick overlay of superstition, the fierce zeal of the latin saints and the equally fierce rejection of the communists and the anti-clericals.",1
5801,"he has never in his life been rejected by any girl or woman he seriously cared for, and he is almost as certain of rosemary’s feelings as he is of his own.",0
8895,don't be misled by a certain amount of paranoid ideation in the tat cards--- that's fairly common among transsexual subjects who cross-?dress a lot; oftentimes they've had bad experiences with the authorities.,0
549,"because now, when she went to her room to do her homework, her doubts and fears besieged her, demons so numerous that the room seemed just as crowded and more distracting than a rush hour train.",1
2245,"you might need us some day.”

“i doubt that.”

“i’ll have to report back to langley.",1
5034,"on subsequent nights he reminisced about other conquistadors—the treacherous narvaez, the dark olid, the faithful alvarado.",0
5343,"her still younger brother, toby, was studying the figures of some tonsured monks drinking beer on the polished brass of the woodbox.",0
10648,conklin would officially secure a room through the management in the event that summer reservations were tight.,0
4906,tia dolores convinced herself that she had to paint a new medallion.,0
11958,"angela looked at david in hopes he would answer, but he gestured for her to field the question.",0
5176,". .

—butterfly mcqueen twittering around and old hattie mcdaniel grousing all loving and faithful, horses and beautiful women and leslie howard off to fight the good fight?",0
11540,"as for hospitals, the most important things to me at this time, there is one great one, called the friends', though it is not exactly quakerish.""",0
6858,"i guess we're all present and accounted for.”
“i sure hope rayford's right about hattie,” amanda said.",0
4385,"make sure she knows it.”



the evening sun still peered over the rolling ozark hills in the western horizon when lukas stepped out of the hospital for the first time in thirteen hours.",0
48,"i thought of the way bebb would have worked brownie over if he’d appeared there to us— brownie, the most faith you ever had was just one part faith to nine parts aqua velva.",1
6699,"then came a hand from the dark, gripping his throat with the pressure of a vise.",0
9610,"i went to the parish priest in confession.”

there was a pause.",0
4388,"if it can receive a wide readership, his efforts to free these downtrodden people will surely succeed.”

the earl paused for a sip of wine, but no one ventured to interrupt his discourse, so he continued.",0
851,"“i’m not sure i’m in the spirit for silly surprises, janjic.”

“silly?",1
2959,"“may i help you, sir?”

“i’m not really sure,” replied brendan hesitantly.",1
8571,"he’s undoubtedly the guy who killed, or had killed, your pal bakewell or big jake—if he was your pal, that is.",0
3646,"staying in tourist homes for a dollar a night per room, including breakfast, had certainly been the economical way to travel.",0
9714,"admittedly, though escaping economic devastation, berkley suffered other disturbing consequences: a regrettable number of spontaneously exploding heads among its executives, their offices infested with a curious species of large meat-eating tortoises as fast-moving as cockroaches, a viral plague that left its survivors without noses, an evil-robot event, and of course the only known incident of terrorism perpetrated by quakers.",0
1715,"that i should, in fact.”

“i’m the sergeant, grossbart—not your aunt!”

grossbart looked at me in disbelief.",1
688,"the peace we have labored so mightily to protect has been compromised because you insisted that the heathen weren’t good enough to marry—”

“i preached nothing but the word of god!”

“you preached your own opinions!",1
3110,"i had only my notes left, and i was beginning to have doubts about them.",1
5847,"roger seldom thought of his father, but his father was serving him as the measure of a man.",0
9203,"i’ll let you have that.”

bascom assigned her to a room with southern exposure on the tenth, the top, floor.",0
1738,"this general suggestion of secrecy should have given suspicion and caused me to lose heart, but still i was consumed with fervor.",1
1007,"“i plan to, even though i’m not sure it’ll do any good.",1
8403,"as we walked toward the donkeys i said, ""father todorus is certainly generous with his cognac.",0
10096,it was eleven-thirty by the time i decided to catch a cab and go down to seventh street and talk to a couple of men who wanted to kill a prime minister.,0
1102,"this pastor of one of the more affluent churches in alderton was startlingly honest and, yes, uncertain about himself.",1
11085,cobb was too drunk to follow the line of the questioning.,0
7203,"the amir looked around, as if to ascertain who spoke.",0
1775,"in retrospect the religiosity that had prompted his vocation seemed, insofar as it was not sheerly his mother’s will, a sickly phosphorescence exuded by sexual uncertainty.",1
10303,"but kilcannon has managed to persuade more and more voters to hold dick mason responsible for the president’s recent misfortunes—a near recession; the collapse of welfare reform; a thousand-point drop in the dow; recurring allegations of adulterous affairs, one involving the president’s principal economic adviser and the breakup of her marriage; and a series of revelations arising from apparently illegal contributions made to the democratic party within the last year, which have underscored kilcannon’s attack on the current system of campaign finance.",0
11569,"fear prophets, adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.",0
10434,"then he realized it must still be in the car, thank god!",0
1145,"“i’m not sure melissa is telling us the truth, larry.",1
10995,"i know you are not

questioning me because of these wretched little sins.",0
2920,"we expressed doubt about permitting more geothermal electric plants, fearing they would upset the economies of established tourist areas.",1
4670,"""aeddan is a priest,"" gunnar declared blithely, raising a hand to my overgrown tonsure.",0
5955,inflating promises and concealing risks were a pleasure.,0
4735,"my love for ty, which i had never questioned, felt simple like that, like belief.",0
222,"“what do you want to know?”

“i’m not certain how to put this, but after listening to the bible verses alex has been reading to us, i have a whole stack of things piling up in my mind.",1
4887,"be certain that if the present forces and influences bury either of them, the future will dig him up again.",0
3021,"he looked north along the turnpike, eyes wide and unbelieving.",1
9348,one of their more sympathetic neighbors discreetly told the nuns the next morning what a red light in the front window would more likely signify in that or any adjacent neighborhood.,0
11905,angela called david.,0
422,a lot of my doubts and questions were settled.,1
9775,"she shot at me four times, all of them coming so close i swear i could hear the blessed angels whispering, ‘bonsoir, gene.’”

daly scooped up a handful of snow and held it against his throbbing temple.",0
5986,the princess was so pleased with his work she gave him letters to present to certain persons of quality residing in versailles.,0
936,"though she herself had been uncertain of the wisdom of their marriage, she knew that after this moment she would never look back.",1
3284,you’ve got to have faith.,0
7456,"the landlady and her children had just finished off a turkey, which had been sent to them by the local democratic club, and they were stuffed and uncomfortable when charlie began pounding on the door, shouting “merry christmas!” he dragged the bag in after him and dumped the presents for the children onto the floor.",0
1404,"across the heart of a hot, still day will be drawn a shadow as deep as velvet, and a bitter rain will extinguish the mountains; but this continuous displacement of light and dark, the thunder and the sunsets, the conical lights that sometimes end a storm and that have been linked by religious artists to godly intercession, have only accentuated the indifference of the secular male to his environment.",1
5313,i never doubted felicia’s love.,0
10133,"""jesus christ,"" hawk said.",0
9529,my father is strict house amish and would never forgive me if i came home in an automobile.,0
9005,he waited until she understood that he was not questioning her.,0
1115,i have too little faith or fervor.,1
2195,stallings looked dubious.,1
2519,"""i wasn't sure russell would let me.",1
10065,"“what the hell does that mean?”

“fuck if i know,” said swanson.",0
1188,and the agnostics and the atheists are howling their ‘see?,1
3443,"""if there's one thing for sure, we don't want to be late.",0
4833,"and why should you have to choose?” she was already near tears, and if she continued in this vein, whatever she said would surely start her crying.",0
5339,"or had watched a woman’s face contort with pleasure and heard her crying out, “jesus, jesus, jesus”?",0
239,"each age presents its own competing philosophies, the equivalents of godless stoicism and hedonism, of mithraism and astrology, of ecstatic and murderous and obscene cults such as still rampage through asia and africa.",1
1055,"“what will the other king do with all of it, grandpa?”

“i’m not really sure.",1
1817,"what belief did i ever hold in my father, whose daily life i so often ridiculed and looked upon with such abject shame?",1
8405,"he died in february while the war was ending in the persian gulf, and determined to put the pain behind me i had sold my house and moved to a new neighborhood.",0
4022,"whether he is with others or not, he is certainly alone.",0
1341,"then he answered, as though it was one thing he was sure of, while she was certainly not sure of it, that there would be more wisdom at that age.",1
4964,kunta knew that this surely was their kin- tango.,0
10795,"otherwise, they'd still be warring one italian nation against another—and undoubtedly losing more men in the process than any roman consul has lost.""",0
2571,but what if there was no heaven or god?,1
9256,"write.”

	”sure i will.",0
4965,"at risk of gross immodesty, i must say that i was fairly well convinced that my presence in miss sarah’s dowry helped cause travis to woo her in the first place.",0
6034,"the chinook bucked hard, throwing the men against the walls, then a gnashing, ripping, tearing, searing noise—hot metal—then blue smoke everywhere, then a force that drove the men against the walls and pinned them there, then a fierce pressure, then new holes and new wind, and the gunners squatted behind their big guns and fired and fired and fired.",0
5576,"during our wait and search, there occurred, adding nothing to coulter’s pleasure, a storm of such unbridled fury that we were like to be wiped out in toto.",0
10789,"when i saw him hunch his shoulders, and turn the collar of his suit jacket up—about to go home from the gasthaus freud, after a no-doubt saddening and disgusting day’s work—i was struck how in profile he reminded me of chipper dove.",0
5237,"the wrens's dentist fancied himself a devotee of dickens, although peter was under the impression that he had read only oliver twist the cousins made much of him.",0
11714,"it’s a problem that

involves our two congregations.”

“go up to his room, why do-an tcha?",0
6785,"“did you do all these murals around here?”

“we sure did,” replied ten-year-old zeke.",0
7534,"after a while we tried the sermon on the mount, but somehow it didn’t work for me; the grand old hebrew woe seemed more cathartic, so we went back to job.",0
12384,"""it's the british prime minister, mr. vice president,"" he said.",0
11882,"“he is in a greater hurry than we are, for his mother is already preparing pease pottage for him in the western land.”

the stancher of blood took a warm farewell of us, made the holy sign of ammon, and knelt meekly on the floor before the leather scrolls.",0
8470,there was not the slightest doubt about that either.,0
4407,"then, when he became sure that i was pretty much beyond recall, he jumped up and started kicking me.",0
9226,". . .”

“are you ever serious?”

“sure, i am.",0
3287,"“i’m sure it isn’t for the same reason.”

“reason?” jenny frowned, beginning now to regret her hasty decision.",0
7789,"well who else would it be at this ungodly hour, you .",0
11226,"“o lord, forgive us all!”

william bent over the corpse for another moment.",0
5522,"it was like marble or chert, equal in the composure of stone to the awful frenzy of the bird, and the bright red wattles of the bird lay still among the long blue nails, and the comb on the swollen heel of the hand.",0
11533,"as the monks departed, my curiosity made me linger in the kitchen, where they were preparing to lock up for the night.",0
4761,"i became very much a listener, and i’m certain that my archly chaste detachment allowed me eventually to learn as much about sophie and her past (or more) as nathan ever learned.",0
3552,"sally, you must have faith.",0
11438,"when the waters fell, eie the priest died.",0
8503,the message had been tantalizing enough to ensure a return call from the most jaded newshound.,0
9503,and it must have been the priest who gave away hannah’s place of refuge as well.,0
12059,"""oh, my god.""",0
3986,dirck engelshofen seemed confident he could be trusted.,0
10875,"they paid mundt by a special system which they

called rolling stone, and no doubt they treated the information he gave them with

prodigious caution.",0
9181,"the broken glass—’ he stopped, and asked, ‘are you sure you want to hear this?’

‘yes,’ she said.",0
7552,"we all belong to you, like it say in scriptures.",0
11470,the bible so big it embarrassed him.,0
12375,"i was astonished to observe one of the priests of ammon walking boldly among the crowd with his head shaven, despite pharaoh’s order, and arrayed in white.",0
12318,"“good god, darling!",0
4271,"but not in our lifetime,
not now, not here in jerusalem, that's sure.",0
7853,"she’s got a new lawyer for her mess of a divorce who wants to handle oscar’s accident, shock, injury, loss of income, disfigurement, a million, five, god knows what nonsense, you said he’s called you?",0
10730,"the cost of fielding armies of insolvent men will financially break the back of the state, there can be no doubt of it.""",0
1612,i wasn’t sure you’d remember.,1
10605,"it was an elated, almost gleeful, expression, full of hate and malice, and there would be a certain glitter in her eyes which courtney had felt was not entirely sane.",0
3797,"he had thought it was so easy at one time, had even been secretly scornful of husbands whose wives left them, sure that the men had been guilty of some heinous misconduct they weren’t admitting.",0
1122,"he could not be certain that all these did not emanate from himself, but they seemed to
come from within the growing - box.",1
3501,"make sure you’re taken care of.”

georg watched through the slats as she stepped aside and swept her hand over the empty room.",0
288,"“i’ve never wanted to say them to you, mostly because i didn’t like the thrust of them, and i wasn’t sure of the reason why he must work this way when he had the power to rattle utah territory until you dropped out.” he tried to grin but knew it was without humor.",1
4827,"he was sure the rutabagas, which he liked, would give him indigestion.",0
11581,that was the deal zechariah had made during his humming prayer.,0
7028,"“sure i do,” said timothy.",0
327,"robert kennedy was buried from saint patrick's cathedral, and with him was buried any hope not only for a prompt end to the killing, but for a return to our simple faith in the goodness of our government.",1
9982,"why?”

“when i was thinking of lord palmerston’s death this afternoon,” replied clive, staring at the fire, “i remembered hundreds of press reports about army officers using revolving pistols in the crimea and the mutiny and the american war.",0
4975,he would start pacing up and down and take five to call the apartment to make sure everything was all right.,0
8211,the book popped open again; i’m sure i never touched it.,0
1088,"“but here’s a copper for you.”

joshua looked uncertain.",1
9403,"“you don’t go to mass anymore?”

“i suppose you do?”

“not too often.”

she said, “well, i attend the church of healing grace now, since i’ve become acquainted with reverend don forrestall . . .” letting it hang.",0
9454,"so as blair accompanied harry, the cat, and the dog into various houses, people marveled at the white christmas, and at the holiday bow tied on tucker’s collar, compliments of susan.",0
7497,the preacher said.,0
6962,"i’d sure be doing it differently, irwin thought.",0
9309,"apparently pastor made the mistake of being brave, and—” larsen shrugged—“and that was it.",0
2856,"""since you ask, miss molineaux,"" nim said coldly, ""i'll admit to having doubts.""",1
1632,"where everything is words, you’d think i’d have some mastery and know my way around, but all this churning hatred, each man a verbal firing squad, immeasurable suspicions, a flood of mocking, angry talk, all of life a vicious debate, conversations in which there is nothing that cannot be said … no, i’d be better off in the jungle, i thought, where a roar’s a roar and one is hard put to miss its meaning.",1
248,niki wasn’t sure.,1
3835,"persuaded that a meal was forthcoming, donnie huff felt sufficiendy optimistic in his prospects to carry on with his testimony and so provided his loving wife's mother and his boy delmon with an ever so stirring version of his return through the ether to his supine form where he awoke on the siltspit, got roused by the ministrations of his associates who had not themselves looked sufficiently improved to him to shake his newfound faith which donnie huff contributed as an unscripted opinion that opal criner did not see fit to alter and excise.",0
8342,"i didn’t mean to be secretive certainly, but it was your story that was so interesting.",0
1891,"except in the vocal presence of miss talmadge, she was acclimated and she did find new england charming, although she was not quite sure that she had found it so both within and without, having no idea what the headmistress meant.",1
10683,no doubt of it.,0
12064,it was clear to all concerned that lord's days at felding-roth were numbered.,0
7887,any railroad station on sunday afternoon seems to lie close to the heart of time.,0
11820,"but i don't like it.”

"" neither will mace,"" lord said.”and permit me to remind you that he is the criminal, not us.”

sam seemed about to say something more, but lord spoke first.”when the time comes, let me do the dirty work.”

as sam nodded reluctantly, lord added silently to himself, i might even enjoy it.",0
5397,"“he has to have those brain tests once a year,” says the woman to ruby in a confidential whisper.",0
629,some must doubt the lie his uncle had perpetrated accusing him of derek's death.,1
4280,"no doubt my
system is in shock.",0
6024,"several arrows fell inside our enclosure, but none caused damage.",0
2309,"it was a matter of the utmost importance and i required her counsel.”

“what did she say?”

“that she wasn’t sure she’d be at the george cinq.",1
7846,"he had come back spent and filthy, his coat a mass of cockleburs and ticks, his eyes bloodshot, loud râles in his chest; for half a day he lay motionless before the front door like someone in a hangover, his groaning eyes explicitly saying “oh, for god’s sake, leave me be” when we offered him food or bowls of water.",0
8942,"“but lieutenant,” koesler addressed tully, “i believe you said you were pretty sure augustine’s drinking was the reason krieg was able to blackmail him.",0
134,"within a few minutes all darcy knew of the harp, and all the men, before going to their work, and all the women, before making the breakfast, gathered at stephen’s house, and one by one, like those entering a small shrine, they went within to see the harp and stare at it with open-mouthed disbelief, and in silence.",1
959,'i wasn't sure about that letter.',1
7031,i offered a smile by way of reassurance.,0
4047,“now i no longer have any doubts.,0
7578,"about the services in the ramshackle church (keeping four stoves fueled all afternoon and evening with hickory logs made sunday one of my most arduous days) it is best to remain for the most part quiet, drawing over these mysteries—as sir walter scott might say—a prudent veil.",0
1714,"she carries all the burden of doubt and fear for the author, and is the most valid human being in the book.",1
10578,"""fairly sure.",0
2374,"“i doubt whether miss brown is a candidate for a man-to-man talk.”

“miss brown?",1
709,uncertain.,1
11663,were methodists naturally more tense than jews?,0
1693,"sitting she was a child, delicate, uncertain.",1
4877,"""i said as much at the time, i'm sure.""",0
8969,"until tomorrow.” he grinned at her straight back; there was—he was aware—a certain promise in being called an insolent male animal, by a female like alison.",0
1292,his brown eyes were wary now and skeptical as they followed the doctor back and forth across the creaking floor.,1
8066,"we have to act as if there's no doubt whatever that john's testimony is the deciding factor.""",0
3061,"his uncertainty was based on a decision reached, alone in his los angeles hotel room, the previous night.",1
10568,"yet there dwelt still a remnant of the faithful, as has been told, at rуmenna and in the country near, and other few there were here and there in the land.",0
5557,"er of other potent spiritual safeguards: the perfumed ex- iracts of certain plants and barks which, like every other mandinka man, kunta rubbed onto his forehead, upper inns, and thighs each night before going to bed.",0
403,"then he said, faintly, “i am not so young nor inexperienced, father, that i do not know that the world is full of faithless men, and that they do not suffer from their doubt.",1
5275,reactionary mexicans work faithfully with reactionary foreigners to achieve their ends by devious means.,0
9113,anything you tell me will be strictly confidential and will be used only with your permission.,0
10723,"if norman had still been doing rose, thumper would undoubtedly have spotted him, but norman was doing norman again, detective inspector daniels on stakeout, and that meant he blended into the scene.",0
6550,"“it’s my pleasure to spoil you, gabriel.”

he liked it when she called him that.",0
2916,"""i doubt it.""",1
11355,"he and my father had got on very well together; they seldom discussed anything more spiritual than chess, but i had heard daddy say that mr. bryanston's faith was the kind of rock on which any church could be built.",0
8177,very imaginative and certainly makes a good story but has little to do with the facts at hand.,0
12187,"her mattress was beyond salvation, slit from end to end, its springy stuffing used to fill the plaid shirt, the torso, and the arms, until it was stiff enough to sit unaided in the upright chair.",0
866,"bubbletown?”

jaire nodded uncertainly.",1
587,"he half stood, half leaned on the chair arms, as though uncertain whether or not to raise himself and greet this man who had disturbed his evening.",1
2509,they weren’t sure.”,1
4389,he certainly hadn’t forgotten her dark warning never to eat a bite or drink a drop at rose watson’s house.,0
11444,"margaret hated church, but her father would not let her miss the service, even though she was nineteen and old enough to make up her own mind about religion.",0
6355,"i understand his actions caused douglas a good deal of displeasure, which makes me wonder if douglas is all bad.",0
2717,she was uncertain of her geography.,1
12184,"""the weekend is history,"" angela said.",0
6595,"she patted faith's cheek and sailed out the door, calling over her shoulder, ""i'll send annie up to help you.""",0
3635,"she turns the very color of green tobacco.”

murphy laughed at the story but was quite certain that he also would turn green in a closed automobile of such reeking smoke.",0
10498,no doubt of it in anyone's thoughts; gaius marius was sure to declare himself a candidate.,0
8584,she told him the name of the motel and assured him again that they were all right.,0
4956,"not the twenty-eight outlined in the handbooks, but certainly, in addition to the standard one, three or four or five.",0
11088,"come in and sit down!”

she walked hesitantly into the room, which she had seen only once before, long ago, after her father had taken her and her mother to the theater.",0
289,"besides being calming, it’s s’posed to have healing powers.”

uncertain, anna looked to erik, waiting for his opinion.",1
10812,“that there was outside help is beyond doubt.,0
10129,"anddon’t let yourself get drawn into a debate about abortion, for god’s sake.",0
637,"seeds of faith dropped from her hand and scattered, falling between the cracks.",1
11766,"i'm on my own, being christmas eve.""",0
2092,"how?”

the suspicion was gone from his voice.",1
10759,"gray owl warned charles and magee that red bear, now a village chief, was formerly a fierce red shield society chief, which no doubt explained why he'd balked at giving up along with the others.",0
781,it came more as a feeble wish than an expression of faith.,1
9527,he circled the church and entered the ark on the west side of st nicholas avenue and approached the building from across the street.,0
7494,"and since these are precisely the moments that are necessary for all of us, in which spiritually we grow, in which, so to speak, we maintain and enrich our connection with god, then the loss of such moments is grave and perilous.",0
5080,"in the end though it was adequate, for he eventually smote the three down to their knees in the dirt of the street so they looked like those of the romish faith at prayer.",0
10651,"she was like some plump vulture, endlessly circling in her endless leisure, and endowed in the first field with a miraculous sixth sense as regards dust, fingermarks, insufficiently starched linen, smells, stains, breakages and all the ills that houses are heir to.",0
9040,"i assure you.” he blew his nose, and his long mouth twitched, and he asked, “has the live baby burro come yet?”

“oh jesus,” said o’connor and then they all started laughing.",0
7971,"“the truth is that my brother’s quite mad.”

“oh christ,” i murmured.",0
3496,"with a devoted husband and a lovable little son both pouring out affection on her, no wonder her face shone with joy.",0
9013,the chilly silence from spike’s side of the bed made me pretty sure this was one of those times.,0
12200,"in the grass.”

“you all massacred those women?",0
7057,"slaves quickly measured out equal portions of wine and water into a large mixing bowl, and stirred the blend.",0
10308,"but, god, you couldn’t remember everything.",0
12014,then i paused before a representation of princess tadukhipa of mitanni making sacrifice to the gods of egypt.,0
3203,"pete did everything that way, always seeming sure that if she did it, whatever it was, it would work out just fine.",0
10693,"you will doubtless wish to see how thebes has changed since you were here, and in this way we can be alone.”

she went to change her dress and anoint her face and adorn herself with gold and silver.",0
7523,the rev said lazarus was lucky to have such a good friend in jesus.,0
10594,"“but certainly, m’sieur.",0
9025,"sorry.”





“have you weighed and measured her yet?”



“no.”



“let's do that first.”



she hurried out of the autopsy suite before i could comment further.",0
9758,she felt the insult keenly; she would never think of comparing herself to jesus.,0
6244,"they’ll never find the pictures and i’ll live out the rest of my life under suspicion, here or in like escanaba, michigan, or in athens, either georgia or greece, it makes no difference which, because everywhere i go the story’ll catch up with me—or they’ll find the pictures and there’ll be some fluke in the photography that looks funny and i’ll end up with a rope around my neck.",0
2650,"what was different in lord's case was an intuition, a suspicion among his peers based on lord's reaction when confronted, that he had known about the errors, probably discovered after his paper was prepared, but had kept quiet, hoping no one else would notice.",1
5330,"in particular, i think the influence of whitman on certain american writers has been disastrous, for he encourages them in the vices or self-love (often disguised as love of humanity, or the working classes, or god), the assumption of prophetic powers, of romantic superiority to the limitations of craftsmanship, inflated feeling and slovenly expression.",0
8128,and they sure as god didn’t walk alone.,0
7474,"a believer, he never blamed god for her death, rather asked his forgiveness, prayed he would not end up the same way.",0
271,"mackenzie smiled at her but still said, ""i'm not sure if i'll see you next week or not.""",1
284,"‘don’t look to me like nobody else is coming.’

‘now, don’t you sit there,’ laughed sister mccandless, ‘and be of little faith like that.",1
12071,"and there’s no trace of marie, no word from her, and then we learn that bernardine was killed in a shoot-out only hours ago on the rivoli—christ, shot in broad daylight!",0
9094,"“sure.”

“notice my bag right against your gut?”

“hard not to.”

“just keep walking, booth, and shake your head no at the guy with the red face.”

her fingers again dug into the elbow nerve and again stallings sucked air at the pain.",0
6437,"but we didn't
meet the automobile; obviously i was being protected; to have had to do it in public
would have been intolerable, gratuitously intolerable for one who had served non-virtue
this faithfully for four days and asked so little in return.",0
1568,"i thought all he wanted was to have nothing unusual sully his days, that what he disliked or feared most was uncertainty.",1
7680,"just toys that knock the hell out of a ten-dollar bill.”

“con—”

“this is the thinking that gets us into trouble.” he looked at billy and susan.",0
8210,"""you certainly sound professional.",0
1606,"“they’re all screwed up.”

“i bet somewhere there are some who are footloose and fancy free,” i say, not believing it.",1
9717,"yet, there are sixty-three carmelite monasteries sprinkled throughout the united states, and one of them is located in the outskirts of detroit.",0
9444,it was a very close thing … but it was enough.” he raised his eyes to heaven.,0
11051,"scan was moving restlessly up and down the room, and endlessly chattering and questioning, but joseph held his sister to him and felt that he had rescued her from something direful, and the very thought made him shiver again.",0
6538,"he realized he had taken a positive shine to their white bread, and even the processed cheese seemed to possess a certain delicacy.",0
11386,"each christmas he remained in the employ of the ""major legatee"" he would receive an additional five hundred dollars.",0
10398,it puts dangerous ideas into the mind of the goddess of fortune.,0
11796,"pontoon boats, for god's sake.""",0
6669,surely you won’t let her sit with decent folk.,0
2994,"la femme!”

in short, i am full of doubts.",1
802,"“couldya fill it up with regular?”

the man starts to pump it in and rabbit gets out of the car and

goes around to the back and asks, “how far am i from brewer?”

the farmer looks up with a look of curt distrust from listening to

the gas gurgle.",1
2885,but now they begin to doubt.,1
7445,"since the preacher said that the point of the parables is mysterious and needs explaining, they have no choice but to believe him.",0
11946,"but the crippled and unfit were purchased cheaply for sacrifice to baal on behalf of the city council, who would then laugh and slap their chests and commend themselves for their cunning in thus deceiving their god.",0
4963,"—jo coppedge used to say, when i get growed i’m going to get to be a mason, sure enough.",0
2403,"in the semidarkness i couldn't be sure, but it felt like solid oak.",1
3950,"surely she was safe, for no one looking at her in armor would suppose her to be a woman … but john could not ride in peace knowing she might be exposed.",0
652,"what do you think were her secret wishes and desires?”

as she covered the body and reached over to stop the clock on the nightstand, and moved about the room, hanging towels on mirrors and glasses, making all her death rounds, she said, “i’m not sure, but it could’ve been something having to do with a certain useless doctor.",1
1017,"he had heard it everywhere, in prayer and in daily speech, and wherever the saints were gathered, and in the unbelieving streets.",1
11356,"because, i said to myself, if anything, they should fear men who wish to live in wealth and take money away from others, and lead the church into sin and introduce simoniacal practices into it.",0
5448,all this is strange new pleasure.,0
10757,"if it is so very important, no doubt 'he' will tell you.",0
4185,"yordanus, keen as a youth, slender still, wearing his age but lightly ... and beside him, sydoni, she of the dark hair and soulful eyes, distant, watchful, a secret waiting to be known ... wazim, smiling, his brown head bobbing, traversing an uncertain world with quiet courage and bountiful good will ... and padraig, true friend of my soul, wise guide and boon companion for a pilgrimage or a lifetime ... i was blessed beyond measure and, as the sun warmed my back, and the wine warmed my stomach, i knew myself to be held in the strong arms of a love greater than any i could have thought or imagined.",0
8364,"“we have a way of being sure.”

ivey shook his head.",0
8261,“the reason a guy puts a gun in his mouth instead of against his temple is that it’s the only sure way.,0
10161,"he got there at 17.10, and he sat till 17.15. and what do you think he did?’

‘what?’ muffin asked, but angelo looked around the table.",0
145,"i didn’t want to tell him any more than i had to about why we were there and what we were

after—partly, i suppose, because when you got right down to it, we weren’t all that sure ourselves what we were after.",1
6401,"""i understand, mrs. lacy, that you're soon to be a woman of leisure.""",0
11099,that would account for his reluctance to have her join him in europe.,0
9555,"i ain't no criminal, i'm a church lady -- "" she was becoming hysterical from her load of junk.",0
11008,"then there had been a more lengthy questioning by counsel for the commission, who was followed by roderick pritchett, manager-secretary of the sequoia club.",0
3353,"he noticed his flashlight, which he surely didn't want to leave behind.",0
9372,they didn't do construction and they didn't do bible study.,0
2285,"getting a chance to shoot him might be a little harder, since he might have a faint suspicion i had come to try to get the paper, but it could be managed.",1
3925,they had a clergyman of a different faith at every lunch.,0
1459,the look on her face evolved from challenging to doubtful to speculative to careful.,1
11172,"his chin also denoted a firm will, though the long face covered with freckles—such as i often saw among those born between hibernia and northumbria—could occasionally express hesitation

and puzzlement.",0
3761,"strength returned more
surely with each bite.",0
1954,"or,” he added, again with the flicker of a wink, “more suspicion than is her normal lot.”

			kate sighed.",1
4231,somehow one didn’t doubt stan.,0
3310,"he would be careful not to do anything or say anything anybody asked him to, unless he was sure they were really nice and really meant it.",0
11565,"one day before the christmas holidays joseph strolled into the con- was a gloomy day gray snow falling outside, conservatories.",0
11047,"that’s why the medusans reaching carlos had to be so solid, so above questioning that carlos accepts them and dismisses any sort of a trap.”

“because,” added the cia’s director, “jason bourne came out of saigon’s medusa—a fact known to carlos—but he never shared in the riches of the later, postwar medusa.",0
6857,. . but you surely must know all this.,0
1870,"but he’d never been able to find the words either, had never heard them or read them anywhere, and so distrusted language.",1
2303,"maybe he would feel better tomorrow—then i suddenly remembered that i was a lieutenant again, and i doubted that doc would even speak to me after he found that out.",1
12291,angela echoed.,0
11812,"""oh liz,"" he said desperately, ""for god's sake believe me.",0
9065,"but in that atmosphere, i saw them not as my work but as objects that did have a certain appeal.",0
10240,early-early sunday morning.,0
9701,"you should be home cooking and cleaning.”

at this remark, bess and george told the amish couple about nancy’s fine accomplishments.",0
5970,"not a calm and measured judgment, exactly, but not without its truth, either; i discovered that as over the years, and from one source and another, i came to know a good deal about charlie.",0
8091,"it had given me faithful service, and it got fifty kilometers to the gallon.",0
12002,"i said to kaptah, “it will not suffice for us to report that the babylonian warriors are as the sands of the sea in number; we must count them.”

he protested, “lord, this cannot be done, for there are not so many numbers in the world.”

yet i reckoned as well as i might.",0
5231,"i am sure she speaks to him, in a sort of purr, the purr that is used for talking in that room, and the young man does not know what she seeks of him, and she is leading him on, all the time.",0
835,"on the sidewalk, the musicians stood idly together, still fanning themselves with their handkerchiefs, their faces blandly watchful, ignoring the occasional panhandlers, and the policeman who walked up and down with his lips pursed and his eyes blind with unnameable suspicions and fears.",1
11369,once our abbeys ruled the world.,0
7634,twould be good for christmas greens as well. . . . you zoral!,0
1064,he seemed dazed and not quite sure where he was.,1
8262,but surely mccullough was too sound to involve himself with owen abercrombie.,0
5387,"his misandry turned out to be a genuine if sporadic thing and continued, although accompanied by hagiographical asides re certain obviously countertypical men.",0
2026,"she had slept, she realized, and felt disoriented, unsure where she was.",1
857,"‘if you cannot tell us why the work fails, how is it you can declare with full certainty that my sacrificed blood will save it?’

he glared at me, and turned to his lord in protest, but vortigern silenced him.",1
6267,"“did you like it?”

“sure, it was nice.” behind bill, annie leaned against the car with her arms crossed and a smug i-told-you-so smile on her face.",0
6036,"there had been only small incidents like those, sharp but hardly illuminating, moored to the particulars of cleaning and shopping and her new job, and to the surprisingly intense nightly pleasure she found in going to bed alone.",0
6981,but she was almost certainly in trouble.,0
9566,"there is literally not a sentence in that diary that doesn’t refer to his sister, how he wants her, how he can’t stop thinking about her, blessing god for letting him spend his life close to her, cursing him for making it a sin to do anything about it.”

he shuddered.",0
4116,"isaiah surely knew all of these mysteries, too.",0
2834,"""he doesn't need to,"" said clitumna, the first hint of doubt appearing in her tone.",1
584,they were unbelievers and they left.,1
10336,god dammit.,0
11180,"pyjamas, washing things, a small towel-after hesitation he added his passport.",0
8049,"he seemed ...
maybe more sure of himself, more sure he was right, and
so he didn't have to yell about it or' keep convincing
people.",0
4295,“and i assure you that flanna o’connor’s reputation is quite safe.,0
3416,"“when the man phoned,” she said, gazing quietly upon her moving fingers, “and said jay had been in a—serious accident”; and now hannah realized that mary was looking at her, and met her brilliant gray eyes; “i felt it just as certainly as i’m sitting here now, ‘it’s his head.’ what do you think of that?” she asked, almost proudly.",0
7431,"when the other preacher replied, “from friday the nineteenth of august until tuesday, guess that’s the twenty-third,” i (who was holding the bridle of the preacher’s horse) understood that the date of my great mission, emanating from those ecclesiastical lips, had just then been revealed to me as vividly as the fire of the lord that showered down at the feet of elijah.",0
2869,"please fix it.”

bobby looked at him a little doubtfully.",1
3376,"‘if this were it, i am sure i would be told.",0
8203,"""stealing an entire tomb is certainly a challenge.""",0
6256,surely murphy’s plane would have taken off again by now.,0
9145,"“i wouldn’t call him a friend,” christine said, fighting for composure.",0
9882,"for that matter, why shouldn’t i make myself one thousand dollars, just for going to los angeles and getting an interview that any crime reporter in the country would give anything to get?",0
2354,"he turned back to vera and she asked the question in her eyes: “why?”

“i’m not sure, but i think somebody was looking for a file i took the last time i came here.”

“you?",1
12388,"god, i could just eat him up right now.",0
9928,"when it was time for nikki to go to bed, angela told david that she would see to nikki's respiratory therapy while he cleaned up the kitchen.",0
10352,before you tell his lordship or anyone else.,0
11653,but she couldn’t be a minister’s wife.,0
4115,"since i’d never before walked this far in a day and didn’t want anybody to know until i was sure i had, i took over all the thinking myself.",0
6370,"elisabeth wished she was bold enough to ask ben straight out, “so when will i see you?” rather, she said, “that doesn’t seem to leave much time for anything else.”

“it sure doesn’t,” he said, looking past her to a cloud of dust boiling up from the gravel half a mile away.",0
2570,"maybe god did, if there was a god.",1
5645,"think about this: just a moment’s pleasure will ruin our lives for good.”

she didn’t answer.",0
6935,you are dear to me beyond measure.,0
1993,"hubert’s salutatory question, “douglas, what is this all about?” confirmed his suspicion that mrs. clausen had phoned him.",1
3698,"but he was an untrained soldier on the battlefield, for he had never doubted and had never been wounded before.",0
3679,"it was a tiny, unequipped and untrained bunch, yet as orde looked up toward the metal outline of the star on the synagogue, he felt the certain presence of other captains and other troops and the approving nod of their commander here watching today.",0
12221,robert was strangely oppressed.,0
4734,"she did not have enough money to buy a return ticket, and at any rate, she knew in her bones, she could not return to her family in japan—her parents had sold her and paid a percentage to the deceitful baishakunin who had assured them that hisao had amassed great wealth during his years in america.",0
898,"elizabeth wanted to talk to him about the night before, but wasn’t sure how to approach the subject: “did you sleep all right?” “how are you today?” “that was a quite a storm we had last night.” none of the subtle approaches seemed right.",1
11968,"he was only the second or third in his sprawling family (their religion, skip once said, was irish alcoholic) to ever go to college.",0
6693,he thought about peers and peer pressure and how every kid’s gonna hang with other kids.,0
11896,"""living in a house where there's been a murder is very distressing,"" angela said.",0
7942,"yet it was horrible to hear herself described this way: a “pauper,” a “half-naked pauper.” before the blight fell on the potatoes, her family had been hard-working and decent; if they had no savings it was only because the landlord took everything in rent.",0
573,"people can be cruel, and i wasn’t sure i could handle it if someone saw my scars.” her voice contained the rawness of remembered pain, but she continued steady and even.",1
6155,"you won’t mind my saying that i would do the same for you, and take pleasure in it, and furthermore can easily see our positions reversed.",0
6199,she brushed the accusations and the suspicions aside.,0
4552,and yet she had accepted a certain darkness that she had lived in too intimately to deny.,0
11739,"man is good—""

""then you believe that god lies when he says that 'none save god is good?'""",0
3955,sending so many officers home on leave had lulled them into believing that israel wasn’t ready to attack.,0
7064,"lost and forgotten it may \ be, but if you would hear such a tale, if you would learn the measure of a man whose name will outlast this sorry age, listen .",0
2352,"well, it seems to me that it very definitely does have a structure and i’m not too sure if you’re being totally honest with us.” it was not put in the form of an accusation but as a polite, sincere, concerned inquiry.",1
8115,the clerk remembered him well enough to describe him and there’s no doubt about it being agrounsky.,0
6071,"""surely not roman law.""",0
1594,"i don’t have to know for certain one way or the other if—”

“nobody knows, ishmael.",1
3511,"hee hee!”

but tippis, faith knew, was not so easily set at ease.",0
5198,"and now she was just repeating it, making it into a certainty.",0
7060,"she wanted to know about his past, about his thoughts and his beliefs, about so many things.",0
1481,"then he began “the old rugged cross” and they listened politely but when he had finished they said, “let us sing one!” and before he could start another, they began to sing with their convent-trained voices,

“tantum ergo sacramentum

veneremur cernui:

et antiquum documentum

novo cedat ritui:”

the child watched the boys’ solemn faces turn with perplexed frowning stares at each other as if they were uncertain whether they were being made fun of.",1
6217,"he felt numb, almost relieved that a decision had been made, right or wrong; dreading the good-bye and the two hours he would have to kill before his boat was due; feeling the pressure of so much left unsaid between him and his father; puzzled by how this man sitting beside him could love him so much and understand him so little.",0
12333,"they alone seemed without joy, sitting sternly in their sweltering uniforms and staring at general sherman as if at a tribal god, and disapproving of all the uproarious vivacity about them.",0
9315,“i hope my baby found a guardian angel that night.” she looked suddenly as if she might cry.,0
4412,"would you allow me to place a mark on it by which it could always be told from the others?”

luke had no doubts.",0
1251,"i may have seen the car yesterday, too, but i can’t say for sure.”

“god … please, no …” the words came out as a craggy whisper.",1
3665,"he had lots of girlfriends, i’m sure, but he never quite got over my mom’s death.”

“she died?",0
5685,mr. basie: i think the record will show that the entire course of the questioning has turned into a digression.,0
2238,"i doubt an old theater could survive, if somebody really wanted to tote them all up.”

“blackmail,” she said.",1
7966,“goddam her!” brenda said to me as she paced up and down my room.,0
7213,"as he raced down the apartment steps, the volcanic anger within him swirled as in a lidded cauldron, a pressure cooker poised for eruption.",0
4069,"if maureen could handle the conclusion of his report, surely she could, too.",0
5935,"i could tell by the sound and the rhythm that he was a little drunk and i remember that at that moment a certain disappointment, an unprecedented sorrow entered into me.",0
10447,"he was simply grateful—to liam for helping him through college and law school at seton hall; for the discovery that, in addition to a surprising gift for poetry, he had a decent head for law; for the softness in his mother’s eyes at his private swearing in, administered, at liam’s request, by the venerable judge thomas riordan in his spacious oak-paneled chambers.",0
8473,"i took the hint, and the fork; as i busied myself with the preparation of a fresh slice of bread, emerson went on, ""in fact, i am certain he is not physically addicted to either opium or hashish.",0
6439,"then, without hesitation, i dialed his number.",0
515,"“it sure is!” lorene cries out into the night, but agnes wonders if that’s what she really thinks.",1
692,"and so, no doubt, will you, you little heathen.”



beth drew janie away from the counter, placing her hands on the girl’s shoulders and holding her close to her own body in a protective gesture.",1
11074,his hesitation allowed prudence to seize the bell rope.,0
6494,public health measure.,0
3063,"the awful eyes, robbed of all humanity by anguish, disbelief, and torture, glared at joseph.",1
8434,no doubt the readers’ reports were excellent.,0
2136,"let’s talk sensibly.”

“fifty thousand?” she asked, uncertainly.",1
2498,"in fact, you look it,” raymond said warily, not sure whether it was proper to talk about such things in front of these house-detective types.",1
5888,"part



iv


“it is done …”




surely i come quickly …

cloudless sunlight suggesting neither hour nor season glows down upon me, wraps me with a cradle’s warmth as i drift toward the river’s estuary; the little boat rocks gently in our benign descent together toward the sea.",0
9157,"“this is a pleasure,” he said, “unless you want my fingerprints to compare them with the ones you found on the dagger that was sticking in the back of the corpse.",0
6975,she measured by eye and by guess how far out from the wall to set them and began to dig.,0
2854,“i doubt it.,1
10788,doubtless these things were written in the stars before my birth and were unsusceptible of change.,0
9425,she’s in her christmas mood.,0
2497,"“i may have given you the idea,” benning continued, “i didn’t have much faith in you.",1
1218,"until i realised that, strictly
speaking, we had no strategy; we had nothing to plan for nor even with: a horse whose
very ownership was dubious and even (unless ned himself really knew) unknown, of
whose past we knew only that he had consistently run just exactly fast enough to finish
second to the other horse in the race; to be raced tomorrow, exactly where i anyway
didn't know, against a horse none of us had ever seen and whose very existence ('as far as
we were concerned) had to be taken on trust.",1
11169,"without hesitation or change of expression she said, ""absolutely.",0
6328,"taking her toil-roughened hands, he said tenderly, 'metella, you are indeed a faithful friend.",0
11972,“goddamn it!,0
3219,"she is dead, and the child is your own.”

wolf would make certain that those words were true.",0
2261,a wave of skepticism ran through the crowd.,1
9269,"“and it’s sure as hell not how they remember me in cebu.”

durant shrugged.",0
3738,"""it has happened before, my friend, and will no doubt happen again.",0
4893,"i’m sure we would be glad to have him play with our soldiers too.”

the judge’s teeth glinted quietly.",0
5915,"then they measured the distance he had covered, and the tractor, which kept the other end of the strap hooked to it, pulled the truck out.",0
2191,for some reason this young woman appeared to harbour extraordinary suspicions of me (of me!,1
12008,"maybe dropping off another boyfriend catching a plane out of los angeles, anything.",0
9937,"‘and what percentage of those women reporters,’ he asked softly, ‘would have nylon fibers under their nails if you subjected them to the same test that you administered to ms carelli?’

paget watched the faces in front of him focus on elizabeth shelton; beneath the particulars of the question, paget sensed the press absorbing its subliminal impact – the instinctive fear of being falsely accused.",0
6190,"is that so?”

“precisely,” mordecai said, with relief and pleasure in his voice.",0
12213,"why, they can't even read, for christ's sake.",0
3560,"i have no doubt you paid highly
for samos, but not what you have stated.",0
11778,"i hate you, jorge, and if i could, i would lead you downstairs, across the ground, naked, with fowl’s feathers stuck in your asshole and your face painted like a juggler and a buffoon, so the whole monastery would laugh at you and be afraid no longer.",0
3650,"after making sure that darnell wasn’t sneaking around spying on us, four of us carried tom back to the quarters to madame couseau, who was the healer.”

they had reached the side road which led to joshua’s house, but brother emory didn’t even glance at it.",0
9071,"gorman’s scam.”

“sure.",0
724,"“meself hardly doubts that ye’re very sorry ye brought me.”

“sorry?",1
1723,"and you know, i’m never sure how to recover when something like that happens.",1
7074,did he dare raise with young ernie the subject of hidden treasure?,0
2741,“britain and germany will wipe one another out and leave europe to be dominated by atheistical communism!” he said.,1
5052,"honey, make sure you give her our phone number….’” she spewed out the words, as if it were a matter of talking or exploding.",0
2857,he still had doubts about jackson's offer.,1
5254,"“be sure and wipe your mouth with a napkin,” she said.",0
4783,"with an abrupt clatter of heels toward the hall leaving open the odds and the hazard itself so certain of returning a minute later with the winning hand holding —the paper, see?",0
10532,"but i knew i had kept no one alive, not ever: not those people in the opera, because sitting among them was surely that shape frank and i had seen in the car, driven away between ernst and arbeiter, that animal shape of death, that mechanical bear, that dog’s head of chemistry, that electrical charge of sorrow.",0
2603,"she said, in disbelief.",1
1531,"at the last moment, just as he was beginning to tell them, he always felt such sudden, profound doubt of their sincerity that he did not want to go ahead, but he always felt, too, maybe they mean it.",1
11494,"when mary magna and sister roberta left on business in september, sister mary elizabeth and three, now, feckless students continued to pack, clean, study and maintain prayer.",0
928,"and i reluctantly perceive that you are already skeptical of my moral and judgmental qualities, so obviously you have quantified my beliefs as an aberration.""",1
6110,in his parents' house rabbit not only reverts to peanut-butter sandwiches and cocoa and lazing in bed when the sounds of pop and nelson leaving have died; he finds himself faithfully masturbating the room itself demands it: a small long room he used to imagine as a railway car being dragged through the night.,0
6670,she assumed it had been taken from a treasure galleon.,0
11804,"you worry too much, honest to god, you do.",0
2171,"carolyn and her two children stood bewildered, uncertain what they should do.",1
1833,"he wasn’t sure what he wanted to say, though he felt the words would come when he began to talk; but the more he thought about it, the more the idea scared him, and he decided he’d better not.",1
4132,"determined that he would stand this time, he moved between the parallel bars, got his feet into place, and tightened his gluteals.",0
10255,"he thought, “jesus, i can’t stand it!”

he sobbed out loud, “c-christ, i can’t stand it!",0
12038,it was angela who broke the silence.,0
8427,"when she was certain sue would be out of sight, she retraced her steps and stood in front of the restaurant into which cheong and his lookalike had disappeared.",0
2989,william was dubious.,1
3273,"“if this were an orthodox hospital on shabbat, i would certainly believe that i was blind.",0
9702,"she had become a broker, he a pastor and, over the past seven years, the author of three mystery novels.",0
1331,"she doubted that there were more beautiful lands in the world than her own, but she could easily believe that there were countries less steeped in vanity, malice, sloth, and contempt for women.",1
1334,". . all soaked and gasping he stumbled past an embrasure, fighting through a tangle of country people and slaves who pushed first one way, then another; they did not know where to run, they felt that they must run somewhere.",1
11986,at least the goddam thing was off his head.,0
1126,"ronsard was to have been among them, although he was

presumed drowned try as he might, jaspin could not make any connection

between these people and any possible threat they might hold for him,

though the group certainly seemed most suspicious.",1
9740,"returning to arabic, he addressed the priest.",0
10938,"first and foremost would undoubtedly have been: ""she goes out alone.""",0
3595,"i don’t love him, and he certainly doesn’t love me.",0
9764,"""see a shrink, read a book, join a church, talk with me.",0
6197,surely not younger men.,0
3513,she was sure it was he.,0
11606,it was certainly a change from spending christmas with his wife in london.,0
6379,"he was convening with his followers, 
young men like himself, then suddenly he pausea ind glanced over his shoulder, 
and his eyes lighted on me.",0
9568,"“if he ain’t, he’s the first live man i’ve ever seen who could hold still while he was getting kicked in the balls.”

rose’s eyes lit up like i’d given her a christmas purty.",0
7499,into the open doorway stepped one of that pair of bejeaned abductors who had looked vaguely familiar to me out in the parking lot where my last act as a free man was to lend a helping hand to an anti-semitic priest.,0
852,i was obviously confusing pressure from my peers with god’s inner guidance.,1
4320,if you were an ordinary girl i’d be sure by this time where i stood.,0
11498,"""the priest had to look it up.",0
9455,"well, to get along in charleston, that’s what you have to do—you don’t dare speak your mind about anything from god to the hired help.”

i wasn’t in town to chronicle social conventions, so i decided to change the subject.",0
5841,"his eyes were alert but quiet, and in the miraculous moonlight they had a look of composure and of ancient wisdom as if they belonged to one of the great guides of men.",0
2892,"he couldn’t be sure the shadow at his heels was mine, as i couldn’t be sure the shadow whose heels i followed belonged to him; but as i had no doubts about him, he had none about me.",1
1455,"then eddie’s voice, disbelieving: “nobody.",1
1160,for if he entertained so much as the merest suspicion that the child was his none of this would be taking place.,1
7550,hellfire in offing.,0
8489,"and, he said to himself, if cousin nestor is involved in something, there isn’t any doubt that this is shaping into a new case.",0
7855,". .

—i know she had it, my god i was with her wasn’t i?",0
8146,no doubt by accident.,0
12360,"an avenue bordered with ram’s-headed sphinxes carved in stone led to it, right through the city from the temple and pool of the moon goddess.",0
11398,"to tell you my honest opinion you and

mrs. ferry would hit it off splendidly, you’re both equally

childish.”

“lucy, just because mr. ferry owns a shoe factory doesn’t make

them more important christians than somebody who works in a

shoe factory.”



“oh jack, you’re too tiresome.",0
11508,"the dirty snow looked as if it shone through crêpe, and the firs behind the churchyard railings, wet and dark like tarnished silver, seemed to be in deep mourning.",0
11545,"steps rose to the level of the church floor, which was above the street entrance.",0
4256,but bobbi jo had only fired thirty rounds before she was certain that she had the scope adjusted for close-quarters battle.,0
3362,"certainly she would survive another few weeks without
hannah's undivided attention.",0
1107,"ben was a good man, and he had his own suspicions, but the last thing he needed right now was yet another debate about supernatural forces at work.",1
1821,"his judges, being also spanish, and prone to judge a man’s importance by his dress—a reflection of his financial state, which was in turn proof of his caste—were inclined to doubt he was so dangerous as they had thought, since lizardi at that moment was “emaciated, pallid, of shabby appearance,” with his “black cloak smeared and crumpled from using it as a bed” in his cell; ten years after he remembered with regret that he had no time to clean it properly before having to show himself.",1
4823,"“yes,” he said, “that is certainly a fine argument.",0
3392,but she could not tune out the soft motherly whispers of devotion and comfort.,0
1780,"at any rate, one would expect a waiter who daily waited on people like the mayor and helmuth to show a certain mistrust, a certain skepticism, if only as a defense against the unexpected assault, the unexpected complaint, the unexpected betrayal.",1
9667,but was it god doing all this?,0
3663,he wanted to be dead sure.,0
12035,wadley's face was inches from angela's.,0
5568,"sure, you bandogs, and it’s men like us you think you can fright with your twaddle of hanging?",0
4089,"“he convinced me to, every time.",0
10314,"“it just so happens that i know the s.s. orinoco sails from southampton this afternoon, for rio, and there will be at least two empty berths aboard.”

“this afternoon?” lord wentwater pulled a gold hunter from his fob pocket.",0
11182,"willie set off at a brisk gait, setting the pace for his rapid questioning.",0
5021,"there can be no other like me.”

“i sure believe you’re right.”

“do you ever want to kiss me?”

“always.”

“what else do you want to do with me?”

“i couldn’t say.”

“you may say.”

“not me.",0
8161,"and your personal assessment of his credibility, well, i imagine that if you believed my story you'd write your reports a certain way, and inform the district attorney that the case is probably untenable.",0
799,"he supposed, since hudson was an atheist, that rupert shared the same viewpoint.",1
8230,"“no doubt its wit is too keen for your coarse sensors,” i said.",0
10756,"“you will doubtless find the avenue much changed.” john’s politeness is pleasing, but his gift for saying only the obvious makes him something less than the perfect companion.",0
10684,"coming to help, no doubt.",0
2329,"there are simply times when i find it necessary to curtail activities—leave a dinner party early, absent myself on weekends to the mediterranean, or decline a few days on the slopes in gstaad.”

“i’m not sure i understand.”

“my wife and i are often apart.",1
10512,"that way, the centuries called upon to vote could be sure that each man's opinion wasn't known.",0
1178,"some liberals missed the brilliance and charm of lord rosebery, others were glad that the haze of doubt surrounding the party leader’s intentions had finally lifted.",1
6819,"he just mounted his horse and rode away.”

“faith, ’tis good he did.” murchadh reached out, smoothed the frizzed hair at her temple, then dropped his hand to his side.",0
5379,"old naledi


i spent the better part of the next day trying to ascertain where in gaborone denoon was staying.",0
11737,"from the

position of the sun at that hour of the day, i noticed that the main church door opened perfectly westward, so choir and altar were facing east; and the good morning sun, in rising, could directly wake the monks in the dormitory and the animals in the stables.",0
9951,"oh god, for just a little release from pressure!",0
10203,"“i could damn well think of other names— i will be goddamned!”

“no wonder he’d x-ed out your name.” mendoza laughed.",0
819,"he was instantly alert, unmoving, un-breathing, watching and waiting and desperately calculating the distance of a sound he wasn't sure he had even heard.",1
10002,"if i get any calls from los angeles, you can tell the caller i’m on the way back there now.”

i was packed and gassed and on the road west ten minutes after that.",0
11327,"now, some twenty years later, his uncles listened weekly to misner’s sermons, but at the close of each of them they slid behind the steering wheel of their oldsmobile and impala and repeated the old fathers’ refrain: “oklahoma is indians, negroes and god mixed.",0
1132,"with tears drenching her cheeks, she repeated opa’s words spoken in the church: “‘when moments of doubt come, simply rush to this spot and gaze on this painting and remember your anointing….",1
9319,"i say again, we are sinners, sister!",0
3649,"temporary to be sure, but the fighting has stopped.",0
3911,"as the
nazarene slept, the young follower studied him intently.",0
2499,i'm not sure that you want to take a chance on anybody's getting hurt.,1
227,"from france, la chartreuse de parme with subtitles and gérard philipe, and les enfants terribles and le silence de la mer; essie had never seen on the screen such disillusion, such despair, such blunt black godlessness, not even in the ox-bow incident.",1
6555,"faith herself turned them away, excusing herself to do school- or housework, or simply hiding from them in her bedroom.",0
295,i wasn’t sure which was worse—waiting for the baby to arrive or waiting for the dreaded draft notice.,1
6834,grey suggested that the best way of ascertaining facts was to let the naval attachés visit shipyards in both countries and see what ships had been laid down and how far along they were.,0
10094,"he'd
had a -number of other
calls to finish; aaron green expected him to accomplish
one hell of a lot for a single day, in washington.",0
536,"he shifted on his feet, unsure how much power he truly held over this scene.",1
8439,"george, out there, he’s convinced of it.",0
1463,"i only say this because i overhear the skeptical and desperate remarks, as though the town were being invaded.",1
846,"head lowered, from beneath his gray brows malachi studied the man, struggling to conceal his suspicion.",1
1559,"the vogelers, however, remained skeptical.",1
12297,he found christopher todd already established in one of the heavy leather chairs.,0
719,“and you want to find that treasure!” she regarded me with a mixture of terror and disbelief.,1
6449,"he sure hadn’t learned anything about women in prison, except that he missed a soft voice, a gentle touch.",0
330,"“yes—well—i’m not sure i follow you exactly, but—isn’t it thoughts you have, or feelings—about women, maybe?",1
8775,"yeah, sure.”

arthur sipped from his own cup, then carefully placed it on a table.",0
1278,"she's gonna have to direct me right to her, if possible.”


any remaining doubts rayford steele had about the incredible and instant evil
power that nicolae carpathia wielded were eradicated a few minutes after the
condor 216 left the ground at san francisco international.",1
4849,"clearly, he told sophie, a course of spinal-column manipulations was needed in order to restore normal nerve function and to bring her back to what the doctor called (picturesquely, even to sophie’s inexpert ear) “the full blush of health.” two weeks of chiropractic treatment, he assured her, and she would be as good as new.",0
6251,“you look good.” the hesitation was slight enough for her to notice.,0
11100,"he dipped his stylus in his inkpot, and wrote without hesitation.",0
5056,surely i come quickly.,0
4953,"“now,” she declares, checking to make sure that none of them are visible from below through the banisters.",0
6606,"surely even you would be able to understand that.""",0
10514,"there’s no statute of limitations on war crimes, and medusa was officially determined to be a private organization, a collection of violent misfits who wanted the corrupt southeast asia back the way they knew it and used it.",0
10132,"all i've ever got out of you is a big fat headache-yes, all, by god!",0
11295,that’s just a religion or a hobby.,0
304,"want to give me some idea what’s on your mind?”

i hesitated, unsure how to focus my churning thoughts.",1
9936,"so i made the mistake of giving one of the people at consolidated the number of the goddam booth, to call me back.",0
3940,"the man who accepts it claims divine guarantee against error, yet is less assured of salvation than the meanest of his subjects.",0
8081,"before getting up during recesses, he would sit at the defendant's table until he was sure they were all safely down the hall and on the escalator.",0
6453,"to my knowledge, all whose names shall appear are now dead; but some of their relations and descendants might be dismayed by disclosures pertaining to their ancestors.",0
6360,"dionysus was then led before pentheus by a band of soldiers, who said their prisoner had not tried to resist arrest.—sound familiar, cornelius?—but word came that the maiden followers of the stranger, who were also imprisoned, had shaken off their fetters and escaped into the mountains…a great wonder!",0
8351,"i told burke to put on a pot of strong coffee, i was that sure you’d be by to drink it.",0
11553,"i promise not to preach.” but his eyes shifted from sully’s when he said this, as if they knew it was a promise he couldn’t keep.",0
7773,"“i hope to hell he’s happy with it!” miriam said, sobbing.",0
3436,"she thought for a moment that she hadn’t heard him right, but then she was certain she had.",0
9935,"“who in god’s name was that, kay?”


my first months at georgetown i was so overwhelmed by law school and feelings of alienation that i kept my own counsel and distance from others.",0
5288,i was certain he had.,0
12027,"“oh, my god, that’s terrible!",0
6896,"“oh, just the thought of seeing jonathan again,” meri said, trying to regain her composure.",0
971,clarence and harley looked at each other in disbelief.,1
5319,he was sure he could.,0
811,the priest rubbed his long nose and gazed at yarden doubtfully.,1
4254,"even now, you can get on this bolt thing and make sure that something is done to find these counterfeits.",0
11374,"alas, if it is so, for a quiet and god-fearing community of a few souls.",0
7229,"arthur, deriving great pleasure from his wife's appearance, grinned and put his hand to her chin.",0
8310,"whut’ll he charge me?”

“first i have to find him.”

“you tell him i ain’t no rich man.”

“i’ll be sure to tell him.”

at a quarter past eleven, the jurors returned a true bill signed by the jury foreman and requesting the state’s attorney to prepare an indictment for first-degree murder.",0
6282,"i don't think you should trouble yourself about having or not having children, tabitha- not if it costs you such a lovely, devoted man.""",0
10841,"during a quick breakfast in my room, i received a telegram asking me to dine tonight at the sanfords’, no doubt to meet my daughter.",0
5119,"suddenly i felt certain that this was exactly what he was going to say, and with this i felt a quick panic: i had no wish, none at all, to leave st. paul's.",0
3127,"it chanced that celegorm and curufin went on a hunt through the guarded plain; and this they did because sauron, being filled with suspicion, sent forth many wolves into the elf-lands.",1
8896,"i don't know what my face looked like, but i'm pretty sure it wasn't charming.",0
11926,"“goddamned fairy decorator!… mario?”

“hello, lou,” said the pleasant voice in new rochelle.",0
3247,"wherever i was for new year's eve, , i'm sure i was drunk and throwing up; wherever hester was, i'm sure she was drunk and throwing up, too.",0
6209,"“i sure didn’t aim to hurt anybody’s feelings,” she said.",0
5825,"between sky and sea lay alec carrière, sprawled like a starfish in his hammock and imagining how the treasures packed in the holds were about to change his life.",0
10686,"“no doubt through prague.”

“what will you do now?”

krupkin arched his neck and raised his eyes to the ceiling in false, silent laughter.",0
4032,he certainly hadn’t seen her at her best.,0
2170,“he wasn’t sure.,1
5495,"upon neither occasion did i accept, though i incurred the displeasure of the people.",0
9345,"whether or not there’s a god, it’s beginning to dawn on me that i’m not him.”

he thought that over, working on the whiskey in his glass.",0
162,"i understood that to mean that people who could see their own guilt could open themselves to the kingdom of heaven.”

she looked straight into paul's eyes and saw they were full of doubt.",1
6290,"it will cut costs by half.”

“then you’re going to england?”

“do you think i’d miss the chance to play nora?”

“are you sure you’re going to?”

“i just told you—oh.",0
1913,is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure— never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?,1
6920,"he stood up, and his hard round face gave off the slightest blush of pleasure.",0
3979,"she had been fortunate that no one had required her to speak to master hus directly, for surely he would recognize her voice or her smile if she confronted him.",0
11058,"when paperman put out his hand they took it, and he experienced the limp hesitant handshake of the west indian.",0
565,"just like that handsome hunk in the wind song perfume commercials!”

“well, young lady, never having seen those commercials, i don’t know whether i’m being complimented or placed in a category that i doubt would appeal to me.”

she tossed her head saucily and laughed.",1
8335,"i looked around a little, from habit, to be sure things were as i had found them, and left with my loot, as i passed the door of sarah dacos’s apartment on the way down i threw it a kiss.",0
11329,"* * * * *





an hour later they were at the corner table in the cheval noir with henri hovering about them like a benign and elderly angel.",0
8486,and you sure as hell don’t know what’s going to break next week.,0
1434,"“adam,” she said, “the worst of war is the fear and suspicion and the awful expression in all the eyes you meet.",1
506,"“it may be hard for you to believe,” he said, “that red-blooded u.s. army doctors consider your faith a form of madness.",1
7633,"they pay him with your good u.s. tax dollars and i’m going to tell them to take a look at one, take a good look at a u.s. dollar bill where it says in god we trust and that u.s. dollar’s gospel enough for me.",0
169,"the more i studied the events of that last week in the life of jesus, the more i tried to wrestle with and resolve the strong inconsistencies one finds in the four gospels, the more i searched the writings of far wiser men than myself who have struggled with this enigma for over nineteen hundred years—the more i became convinced that jesus never rose from the dead!”

a piercing hiss immediately swept across the audience, followed by a crescendo of boos beginning at the rear of the studio.",1
5070,and it could seldom be worn again; certainly not to another recital—by then an “old” dress.,0
3419,"but the macdougall was the law, the nun assured him, and that made matters all the more terrible.",0
9902,"i don't know what the hell it was, but this guy didn't come back to florida.",0
3082,"he sounded unsure, perhaps even uneasy.",1
4112,“i am sure it would do you good.,0
6824,"[hitler’s niece] reads, like all good books, as a vehicle for the writer’s obsession—an intelligent, haunting, and oddly devotional exploration of the unimaginable—hitler in love.”

—bookforum

“a brilliant, chilling account.”

—entertainment weekly





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the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford

desperadoes



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editor

you’ve got to read this: contemporary american writers introduce stories that held them in awe (with jim shepard)

you don’t know what love is: contemporary american short stories





copyright




this book is a work of fiction.",0
2009,leaphorn doubted it.,1
2385,"i wasn’t sure i oughta bother you, you know?",1
8535,"“those quacks at the stacy studio will never match that,” he assured me.",0
1506,i doubt very much if you opened your textbook even once the whole term.,1
9718,"“when they were blissfully in their pews in church before some damn fool ever thought up the parish council idea,” dailey answered.",0
8454,"""you could certainly try,"" john said agreeably.",0
11460,"… and our order, growing up under the double command of work and prayer, was light to the whole known world, depository of knowledge, salvation of an ancient learning that threatened to disappear in fires, sacks, earthquakes, forge of new writing and increase of the ancient.",0
7114,"available may 2005





women of faith

fiction collection 3-in-1

three great reads in one at the low price of $19.99



patricia hickman’s sandpebbles

lori copeland’s stranded in paradise

angela hunt’s the pearl",0
187,"god’s judgement ratifies this state.”117

114: “suspect”

dan means that church officials have always been subject to suspicion, not that they are by their nature always worthy of suspicion (which is how the world typically sees them).",1
10626,"there is no pleasure in the knowledge, however.",0
2423,"""that's what everyone always says, but we're not sure it's
so.",1
6049,"“you singin’ better all de time, june, but

i’se sure gittin’ cold out dere eavesdroppin’.",0
1613,"dr. reynolds said if we had been boil-prone things would have been different, but we doubted it.",1
1049,"when he finally spoke his voice was subdued, uncertain.",1
4831,"“it was of course the old story that we had only to be with more intelligence and faith—an immense deal more, certainly, in order to work off, in the happiest manner, the manysided ugliness of life; which was a process that might go on, blessedly, in the quietest of all quiet ways.",0
2073,"“but now i see him again, i’m not sure.”

ernest stickley, sitting about fifteen feet away, was staring at him.",1
9240,"gin and tonic?”

				“sure thing.",0
533,"would i ever adjust to the uncertainty, being shuffled from place to place?",1
738,"“i’m doing my best, god, but i’m not sure i can win this battle.”

it is written, “you shall be holy, for i am holy.”

that’s a mighty tough gig, lord.",1
3478,"""you and your men shall assuredly go out to battle with us,"" he
promised.",0
8498,"“why, you’ve just turned me loose.”

“we sure did,” holcomb agreed.",0
11636,"but mrs. smith, to her amazement, pleadingly touched her arm and said, ""sister, i will answer mr. armagh,"" and the nun was more amazed than ever that this shy creature had suddenly become so bold.",0
1522,i doubt that any of them knew.,1
4729,"i probably would've done it, too, if i'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as i landed.",0
6136,"you was like kujichagulia, girlie, the kind of child who’d forgotten how to play, to sing, and trembled in the darkness instead of enterin’ into it; you clung desperately with both arms to the belief in certainty, and screamed at the wind, the shadows—you were the child whose throat is dry when everyone else’s is filled with song.",0
3584,"if the entrails were in any way abnormal in such rites, armies could not go out to fight, the senate would suspend its business, and certainly weddings would have to be postponed.",0
4979,"“whatever is,” mary went on, “it’s already over and done with.” she was speaking virtually without emotion; she was absorbed beyond feeling, hannah became sure, in what she was beginning to find out and to face.",0
3903,"'now, it happens that a very considerable number of jews thought they had reason to believe that this galilean, whom the temple executives and the roman provincial government tried for treason and heresy, was their promised messiah — '

'but, surely,' broke in diana, 'marcellus doesn't believe anything like that!",0
11432,"she was holding the mike in one hand and the reins in the other, and the horse was livelier than she’d expected, and she was praying she wouldn’t fall off before she got to sing the anthem.",0
10926,"doubtless that had its effect.""",0
3093,"then, slowly, his desperation turned skepticism to an almost euphoric hope.",1
12041,"“jesus, i can’t leave a single thing to you!",0
2648,"claudia was positive that he would be nominated as the candidate of his party, though rory was skeptical in spite of his father's power and money.",1
10452,and was just about big enough to pull the goddamn pony cart.,0
6057,he sure was one good-looking indian.,0
5976,for some reason the lake was a source of particular pleasure to fingerbone that year.,0
3906,"she says mother céline should drink some hot tea.”

sister aimée sighs impatiently and steps outside to get the tray, saying, “i’ll be sure to put it by her palliasse.”

mariette pettishly retracts the tray and says, “mother saint-raphaël particularly wanted me to give it to the prioress.”

“you only?”

“she was thinking it a penance.”

sister aimée simpers and says, “you see, it is just that mother superior is sleeping now.”

mariette smiles insincerely and inches toward the door.",0
5654,"sure, andy admitted, australia was settled by convicts—but wait a moment, mate, just ask yourself how they got to be convicts in the first place.",0
11368,"i sat at the back of the church, huddled down to combat the chill.",0
1796,"i’m telling you i have my doubts, and that’s all i’m trying to tell you.",1
6901,"and when at last they reached the inn, it was little better than a
square stone wall, moss-grown and decrepit, with an open enclosure
for the animals, and a wooden loggia to shelter the people.",0
9188,"georgie shot off his mouth at eddie, sure; he had stood for a lot eddie did, but this, no.",0
3117,"“i doubt it.”

when the cars pulled out of the station, we were still in possession of our unpaid-for reading matter.",1
3551,"yes sir, i’m sure of that!",0
10736,mulrooney had completed his circuit of the mountain and established this beyond a doubt.,0
8441,'it certainly isn't!',0
10254,"not just, not just his hands wrapped around my throat but, oh god, he was sort of pressing with just his fingertips.",0
4984,"not very often, but once in a while.”

“he’s probably glad of a little vacation, especially right now, since corn planting was so quick.”

“no doubt.”

i was putting in tomato plants the next day, a hundred tomato plants, mostly better boys, gurney girls, and romas that rose had grown in her cold frame.",0
7503,"opal, here, had got the word the day she was born, and by the time she was five and a half years old she could preach to a fare-thee-well against the catholics and the wets.",0
8780,“they didn’t know faith.,0
1010,"if i had surrendered it to the church, it would have been venerated as a holy relic or destroyed by those who would tear it apart in a quest for authenticity.”

“if it hasn’t been examined or dated,” i said, my mind congesting with doubts, “how do i know it is genuine?”

“you don’t know.” asher looked at me with an invitation in the smoldering depths of his eyes.",1
11584,"adelmo took care that his art, indulging in bizarre and fantastic images, was directed nevertheless to the glory of god, as an instrument of the knowledge of celestial things.",0
7316,"dear god, forgive me, forgive me, bless my father, my mother, my grandfather, now let me sleep.",0
1999,"his voice was quiet, though not gentle, and it held a professional skepticism.",1
8965,"now, i know he’s got personal problems andi won’t bother him until tomorrow and irealizeyou’ve given your word to stay secure, butgoddamn it, somebody had better start telling mesomething!”

there was no response from the other end of theline.",0
7403,"“it’s the other jesus she means,” i said.",0
3736,"the last hip



sarcoma cure we had, before mrs. moore's, dates back to 1963. i have no doubt—and certainly as a specialist in this area, you will agree -- that the cure of such sarcoma will be less unusual in the future, as medicine progresses.""",0
9899,"“no, but there’s always a first time for everything.”

	“jesus,” he said at exactly the same time that upstairs in the kitchen above them, bob said, “i don’t want to cry any more for dead people.”

	constance tried to think of something to console him but she couldn’t think of anything, so she remained silent, sitting beside him at the table, holding his hand.",0
1113,"joseph looked hard at fonny – a long look, in which one watched skepticism surrender to a certain resigned tenderness, a self-recognition.",1
4134,we surely won’t go clean to the top .,0
3263,"they assured me that for all of the devastation of the coast, peace still reigned inland on the western shore.",0
12190,"i will not fail the boy whose weakness i once shielded with my shoulder cloth by the hills of thebes; my goal is the greatness of egypt, and only i can save it.”

pharaoh asked, “have you spoken?”

they answered with one voice, “we have spoken.”

then pharaoh said, “i must watch and pray before i make my decision.",0
1267,"it was a nice thought, and most likely true, but allie doubted that george’s heart was ready for that kind of speculation.",1
10360,“he paid that off long ago.” angela closed the lipstick and dropped it into the bag.,0
12307,"soon after that, christina came to the university as a history student.",0
10772,"it was good to have a growing-up son, and he thought happily of the corner table at the cheval noir which henri was doubtless already preparing.",0
6666,"the old man surely hadn't driven anything since a model a, and he poked along, fumbling at it, scared to death-and that old woman, i know, mouthing at him every foot of the way.",0
4662,"surely she was hearing sounds of evil spirits flitting about, cackling in her ear every time they passed her way.",0
2889,"“i doubt it.”

“are you on the pill?” she shook her head.",1
5546,"sustaining that state of mind is another matter entirely, but it sure is wonderful while it lasts.",0
9661,"you’re not stacking a lousy pervert like boy flyte-martin against god almighty, are you?” but he couldn’t get a rise out of her.",0
7648,you remember when i wrote it christina?,0
11266,"he'd insisted the boys be called john, paul and george and terri thanked the lord he'd gone before there was a fourth.",0
10049,"the last two advisers were nat schlesinger, the wealthy public relations executive, whose personal signature was the bow tie and whose rich experience in presidential politics had begun with james kilcannon; and mick lasker, the sharp-featured california campaign manager, a los angeles lawyer in his fifties who had run california for kerry’s brother until the night james was killed.",0
4074,"“and i, who have convinced you to stake your lives and fortunes upon this journey, cannot desert the expedition.",0
6318,"the carpenter's pickup truck is parked in front of the door, and through the afternoon the men at the card game have heard the measured sounds of his hammering and sawing.",0
1029,but with a wounded man in uncertain condition this was no longer a strike mission; it was a rescue mission.,1
7081,"then he saw mary's
white, determined face.",0
11966,"after ripe reflection, it seems as if the gods intended me for an innkeeper, though by some error i was born a slave.",0
10089,for god's sake!,0
12397,angela and david looked at each other.,0
8831,"wolfe’s mutiny had put me in a humor that would have made it a pleasure to take a swing at somebody, and this character was the right size and build to make it not only a pleasure but good exercise.",0
3271,i was sure i was going to bite that thing in two.,0
8448,wolfe is convinced that when real trouble comes the first thing to do is eat.,0
156,"pastor nolan spoke words of comfort and hope, but ross sincerely doubted if anything he said would alleviate the look of hopelessness he read on amanda jackson’s face.",1
6906,“it’s not secure!” he yelled.,0
6918,"i
need you!”



                    monday of gala week
leah rose prided herself on thinking under pressure.",0
960,"no matches found


susan sat a moment, unsure what she was even looking for.",1
8980,‘you sure?,0
8378,his boots were undoubtedly hand-tooled; he had insisted on bringing them along.,0
668,"the young guard gasped, then threw back his head and
howled in disbelief.",1
10279,he had stopped tapia only because he recognized him and knew his background and suspected what he was doing in the commercial area of the flats on a sunday afternoon.,0
3098,"he said, peering at klug in disbelief.",1
7968,"—i don’t know christina, but the insurance company’s doctor when we file this lawsuit they’ll probably .",0
10921,you get a list of big shots for members–hopkins undoubtedly has that in his mind already.,0
5724,"""but a man can't live for himself and i need the money for certain important things.",0
1138,"let him go in peace.”

sterling lifted a fist to his hip, still unconvinced.",1
12215,"the three parallel scratches barely showed, thank heaven.",0
10392,"the six-and-a-half­foot egomaniac bent and folded into a five-foot child’s bed down the hallway of this middle-class apartment would awaken with righteous certainty that he alone was the target, the total enemy, the lobo messiah.",0
1239,maybe she wasn’t a believer anymore.,1
6427,he displayed no pleasure as i might have expected of him; his whole attitude was one of reluctance.,0
6196,"“amy, i’ve never wanted you to feel that way.”

“what way?”

“weren’t you going to say pressured?” she nodded, and he asked, “how would you want a friend to act?”

“so friendly that he’d accept me no matter what i thought or said.”

“about people like silverheels and lizzie?",0
3729,"the tender love he had felt for her as a little girl had become the chivalrous devotion of a subject for his queen, but it had never been passion.",0
398,"maybe not, though she couldn’t be sure.",1
317,"she was devoted to no saint, not even st. patrick, and would remind shocked others that the saint had not even been an irishman but had come from some heathen country or other.",1
7391,"as it's turned out, my own life isn't much of a model for all priests everywhere-or even for any priest anywhere-but whatever it is, it's mine.",0
8182,i have more faith in machines than i have in people.,0
6515,"in addition, you will refrain from calling certain individuals witches or wizards, and in conjunction with this, no more are you to indulge in the burning of boards to heal or deliver those so-called witches from their bewitchment.”

old man walker sitting in front of mark muttered, “some teaching.",0
12338,"1985, a hell of a year.",0
224,"""very little,"" i told him, with i suppose some agnostic smugness, ""except that it is evidently correct.""",1
6412,"they 
drifted on like snow, and there, surely!",0
9684,"“god, al, i had no idea you knew so much about nuns.",0
11849,"""i'm getting the feeling that finding out who killed hodges won't be easy,"" angela said.",0
8660,"zwingli whispered confidentially: “god, that spade gets under my skin…look, i went way out on a limb for you.",0
9971,christ.,0
5980,"snopes had no friends; there was no man nor woman among us, not even hoxey or mrs. snopes, who we believed could say, “i know his thought”—least of all, those among whom we saw him now and then, sitting about the stove in the rear of a certain smelly, third-rate grocery, listening and not talking, for an hour or so two or three nights a week.",0
10395,he'd gotten up from his disordered desk to escort angela into the room.,0
2553,"i doubt one in ten can tell a

dye pack when he sees one.",1
10468,"we can make sure we have no more visitors.""",0
7963,"“there!”

he was dressed as a monk.",0
5806,"“there’s an hour of light yet.”

“sure; we might even reach the crest by dark.” he looked at me.",0
10076,"god, he thought, for ten pence i’d just turn west and keep walking.",0
2744,“doubt it.,1
10020,"“i’ll phone him again a bit later.” he hung up and smoked another cigarette, and wondered what in hell he was going to do with his life.",0
3058,"tentatively the times gave tilden 184 electoral votes and hayes 181, making the point that if “doubtful” florida should go republican, hayes would be elected by one vote in the electoral college.",1
15,"“but it may be several days before we can tell.”

			the next day paul was still seriously ill, and although luke was fairly certain that he was merely suffering from a severe recurrence of his old fever, there was no way to be sure that something more serious had not occurred.",1
783,"for comfort or for revenge or just for his own sanity, he wasn’t sure, but he ran faster as he neared the old cave.",1
1398,theology had given his doubts shape and depth.,1
5128,"the spring of extreme youth was in her frame, appreciation for the gifts was foaming, the certainty that she must follow lucy claffey’s injunctions (and the sooner the better) was a delight intense enough to be named as a pain.",0
5499,doc took me aside and told me confidentially that he was especially glad to have me as a member.,0
334,"amy will know what to fix.”

“thank you, doctor, but i’m not—”

“uncle mark.”

“thank you, uncle mark, but i’m not sure i can come back into town tomorrow.” mark stared at carrie for a moment.",1
6336,"then he took the other string, on the far side of the apron, and tied it securely around his neck.",0
9850,"“know what it costs to hire a chopper?”

“neither do i have any idea of how an urban slumlord could fly one.”

“rusty!",0
7289,"he was the biggest and the loudest jew that i had ever seen and he was booming down at a priest, an elderly, round-faced catholic priest, who, though of medium height and rather stoutly built, looked, by comparison, like a little, shatterable statuette of a catholic priest.",0
3791,"i made   sure he had a chamber pot, a bottle of water, peanut butter and a box of crackers.",0
4290,"you will enjoy your stay.”

“i’m sure i will.”

at that moment i would have enjoyed any room with a mattress in it.",0
2733,"the suspicion will remain unproved but indelible for all that--this was a kgb operation and it ends with the vanished agent known only as the fat man, now presumably back behind the iron curtain.",1
7482,"listen, i want to honor you with my prayer.",0
8996,"and without the least hesitation, his mind moved to wyndham school and the fire.",0
7810,"like christian dior, like johnny carson and the portable toilet—out!”

“christ, you’re on a short fuse, philip.",0
1979,"what difference does it make?”

“i’m not sure it makes a difference,” i said, recalling her liquor cabinet.",1
3883,"my joy and my crown, my earthly shield and buckler, and my widowed sister.”

“it’s my great pleasure,” said the rector, feeling as if he had gone to another country to visit.",0
8034,"well, i knew what was coming and sure enough, i was right.",0
7241,the woman accepted the attendant's assurance.,0
1428,mckee wasn’t so sure.,1
11744,"the old aristocratic frenchman who had recognized her in the lobby came crashing out of the front entrance, his automatic weapon on repeat fire as he sprayed the black limousine, stopping for an instant to switch his aim and shattering the legs of a “priest” whose weapon was leveled at him.",0
5380,"i suppose you have some heirlooms.”

“yes.” moses was unprepared for this and he answered hesitantly.",0
11441,this is when i thought i understood what god intended for us to feel.,0
4754,"he thought my interest—my awe—was amusing, no doubt, but also, to be fair, horace had a genuine urge to enlarge my mind and deepen my sensibility, the instinct of all great teachers.",0
11481,let us hope to god the abscess is walled off!,0
6569,"if his sword had broken in his hand
at a critical moment, or his horse had failed to obey the pressure of
his knees, or as he set down a cup he had drained to the dregs he
realised that he had been poisoned, he could not have felt more sharply
the sense of having been betrayed.",0
1487,"either way, though, you had to work at it, and they'd both fail you if you doubted them too much.",1
3810,"many of jesus' followers
and all his apostles were divided among a fleet of vessels.",0
8080,"you handled it all over, made certain no fingerprints were on it but yours, knowing i’d seen you pick it up.’

			kate looked at the floor.",0
6915,. . and i’m pretty sure we’ll bury him next to your parents.,0
7275,“maybe angels aren’t flying things with harps!” she cried.,0
8139,she apparently felt confident in the safety and sanctity of the yard.,0
12047,why didn't they get off the goddamn road?,0
9565,"unlike me, aaron miller was a mennonite who lived by his pacifist faith.",0
11787,"the next thing, battaces himself comes striding down to the rostra trailing gorgeous priests and gorgeous roman ladies behind him like a fishmonger stray cats.",0
3674,"but i’ll be sure to call you first thing i get home this evening.” and with that, he grasped bonnie’s elbow, jerking her arm painfully, even through her heavy winter coat, and propelled her through the crowd and back to the office.",0
6856,"… simply stunning: human, bold, sweetly simple yet sensitive.”

—the sunday oregonian





“generous, resonant and funny … an affirming epic that’s complicated, messy, mirthful and has the smell of real life.”

—the des moines register





acknowledgments




i wish to thank my wife, adrian arleo, my son, thomas faredoon, and my mother, donna, for their faith and great patience throughout the writing of this book, and my daughter, cecilia, for providing us a happy ending.",0
5931,"he was worn out, dirty beyond belief, and home.",0
10483,"""i don't know what has gone wrong, but something most certainly has.",0
433,"“i — i see,” said father tom, dubiously.",1
126,can we be sure it was not hobab who looked back at him from the plate of brass?,1
5922,"all of this was too dreadful to consider, and every aspect of the situation grew worse with every day that passed, until we began to find a giddy and heavy-hearted pleasure in it.",0
5321,"in selecting his cabinet obregón announced his belief that de la huerta, radical philosopher, would work harmoniously with alberto pani, friend of the american senator fall.",0
8187,"“this is the right place,” i assured them with a laugh.",0
9918,the hell with johnny doom’s parroted sing-song and the cia’s obvious attempts to put me on ice.,0
1915,"in addition, he was unsure whether his daughter would be willing to leave with him.",1
7159,"the hud investigative hearings required a clear head and all of his attention, especially on a day when he intended to seize the lead in the questioning.",0
9496,"he can’t keep disappearing inside the elephant’s ass.”

“he wouldn’t be isaac if he didn’t disappear.”

“but it’s less than four weeks to his coronation.”

“and two weeks to christmas,” marilyn said.",0
6685,"“let me take some blood, a urine sample, listen to your chest and back, take your blood pressure.",0
8506,the illustrations are certainly deceptive; they make you look considerably older.,0
1163,"several lawsuits were filed against jennings, jon, and the rama staff for having undermined the faith of someone who subsequently committed suicide.",1
2929,"""mr. francis, edmund, has expressed some : suspicions of our friend, whom he had not seen before.""",1
462,"why magnify god, who cannot become less by subtraction through our atheism or greater by the addition of our praise?",1
6444,"“and yet, i often think that they are little more than slaves themselves, bound by the law to the limits of their rank and station as surely as you and i are bound.",0
10361,"but i can do it next sunday.”

“that sounds fair to me.” hutton nodded.",0
12373,angela immediately recognized the voice: it was phil calhoun.,0
393,"“all those years i wondered why i could never measure up, why i wasn’t as good as max.",1
11397,"“a saint will appear,” it had been said, “and he will follow the teachings of christ, he will live an angelic life: tremble, ye corrupt priests.” perhaps celestine’s life was too angelic, or the prelates around him were too corrupt, or he could not bear the strain of the

interminable conflict with the emperor and with the other kings of europe.",0
8508,"this professor harmon sounded fine, and undoubtedly priscilla had simply been worried about nancy’s taking such a decisive step as marriage at barely eighteen.",0
6971,"vivaldo had been with eric when he was drunk and knew that this was not at all the way eric behaved— on the contrary, it was the southern rebel and a certain steel-rod quality which came out in eric then; and vivaldo, at the same time that he realized that eric was doing a great deal by doing very little, also, for the first time, caught a glimpse of who eric really was.",0
955,murdo felt his once-solid certainty beginning to crumble.,1
3445,"they would invent the most terrifying, and certainly imaginative, punishments for him: torture, exile, insanity, compulsive hand-washing, suicide, drowning, decapitation, being swallowed by the earth, and even that ancient punishment for parricide—being sewn up in an ox-skin with a cock, a viper, and a monkey, and pitched into a river.",0
10061,"we’ve had five killings on this island since sunday night, and nobody’s seen a thing.",0
1057,"although it seemed as though the torah would permit a second marriage, he found it difficult to accept the idea after believing differently for so many years.",1
6272,"""i'm sorry you won't agree to appear in court, but we respect your beliefs.",0
7487,"i still clung obstinately to my flattering view of myself as a unique case, as a humane, blood-avoiding civilized being, somehow a fallen angel, perhaps?",0
4310,"long ago, i determined to spend my life pursuing caution, that i might have opportunity to live long in the peddling of books and ideas, to open men’s minds and free them from the shackles of tradition.”

“so, your life work is endangered by traitors.",0
3721,"“it’s true,” faith said.",0
12098,"there was some bunch went out there on sundays sometimes, warden gastony said; some lad brought them out there — he had his name down because the lad had a gun permit for shooting specimens.",0
195,"the man who embodies in his office the marxist heresy, who has tried violently to extirpate the faith from the land of russia, now turns to the papacy to provide a free and secret mode of communication with the rest of the world.",1
6821,i don’t want to pressure you in any way.,0
6818,bailie kept insisting that opechancanough had determined and planned an attack to wipe the english from virginia.,0
10641,one might even detach himself from where he was already meant to be secured.,0
3974,"for many months she had borne hubert’s public flaunting of her and his private humiliations, and now she was sure she was dying.",0
2906,"now carcharoth espied them from afar, and he was filled with doubt; for news had long been brought to angband that draugluin was dead.",1
8880,"yet due to the lateness of the hour and the vileness of the weather—fog with freezing needles of ice and very uncertain footing—no one was abroad to bear witness to the event except the indigent thread seller and ward of the church, mad tom.",0
4598,"and then i was struck by a blasphemous thought that shocked me even more than my resentment against my father: why, if my grandfather had been such a superb diagnostician, able to walk into a party and see that a strange woman was going to die … why had he not been able to spot the illness growing in my grandmother, whom he slept beside every night and looked at countless times every day?",0
8088,for four years there had been no doubt for him about what he had done.,0
2362,"i may have seen her, i'm not sure.",1
5046,"and that way,” she added, after a moment, “i'll be sure to get something out of the deal.”

it was i, then, who felt a dreadful holding back.",0
805,"it’s not likely that miriam has a phone, and if someone else in her family does, i’m sure they wouldn’t appreciate her receiving calls from a nosy english reporter.",1
5531,“what kind of pleasure?” he said.,0
8218,"certainly not in public.”

dave followed him.",0
3842,he even gave vent to a low whistle when the skilled hands created the nose of the apostle with no more than a moment of pressure on the clay.,0
4942,he’s white-livered for sure.,0
853,"“your father’s probably in the afterdeck—isn’t that where you sleep?”

she thought the boy nodded, but in the darkness she couldn’t be sure.",1
207,she was unsure where they would land.,1
576,i’m not sure romey was afraid of anything.,1
10068,"for christ's sake, who was it?'",0
1472,the captain stood uncertainly.,1
3529,he was sure it was the girl helena and that she had climbed up from the slave quarters by means of the garden latticework.,0
4267,"“if you’re too tired from your trip to come to dinner, i’m sure meredith will understand.”

“no, i’m fine.",0
11990,"in this way the research director's own views were often placed before the felding-roth board of directors with the bonus, for vince lord, of a lawyer's skilled persuasiveness.",0
9030,"boy, miriam sure works fast and under cover.”

clark said, “i’ve heard miriam has done some of her best work under cover.”

“oh pappy!",0
9439,"“we’re going to begin practice for our christmas pageant.”

willy and alvirah slipped into seats near the staircase and watched affectionately.",0
7058,"tonight’s small moments of connection, rosie’s pleasure in their company, filled elizabeth with quiet relief.",0
10499,"'there's nothing like a dog,' peters assured her.",0
8271,"a little doctoring would bring it out, i’m sure.”

“we can talk about that.",0
2269,"well, let's face it, what i told her was so bizarre it was outrageous - including a fabric of lies from the us state department, vanishing guards from the central intelligence agency, suspicions that led to the higher levels of your government.",1
1622,"kunta couldn't be sure, but it seemed to him that omoro had slowed down a tiny bit.",1
6015,no … i think i’ll stay … sure you won’t change your mind?,0
2378,"""hell, i'm not sure what i'm considering anymore,"" he retorted.",1
5923,"she said, “i’m never anywhere but here.”

“sure, baby,” uncle will said.",0
10832,"the trouble was, she didn't particularly want to be linked with priscilla quinn-an undoubted snob, a society ill do-gooder forever in the social columns, married to old california money, and thus representing many things which laura bo abhorred.",0
8170,"if this was only lunch, she was certainly looking forward to dinner.",0
231,"“please,” she protested, not sure she wanted to hear this.",1
3407,were you here when i felt so sure that something almost new and hopeful was taking place down inside me?,0
9295,or a ups deliveryman the priest who had buried her sister.,0
11096,“did she look like she’d been raped?” the interviewer said without hesitation.,0
4085,"so endeline was mistaken or deluded, there was no doubt about it.",0
10972,"she seemed as if she would like to say something, no doubt reaffirm her gratitude, but his stance of brisk waiting made her, after one last lingering look into his eyes, move past him.",0
6324,it was determined that sister celina was not in possession of her senses when she ran the blade down the long vein of her arm.,0
1556,but i won’t be in such a hurry as to go in there while i still have what i think are reasonable doubts and condemn the defendant to the hangman’s rope or fifty years in prison.,1
9543,"but i am a catholic, happy or not.",0
8407,"“do you think you’ll get peaches back?”

“i’m certainly going to try.",0
9449,"grace: ""officially, i am a presbyterian.""",0
9207,"typically, she was practical, wanting something safe that would get her around in any kind of weather.”

hesitantly, i inquired, “when you mention a plastic surgeon, are you referring to something specific concerning your daughter?”

“large breasts are incompatible with gymnastics, dr. scarpetta,” she said, not turning around.",0
1352,"or is it platonic?”

i remember the acute embarrassment of hearing my voice in the pitch blackness say, “i feel desire for him.” i would never have said that without that cloak of total darkness, and i wasn’t even exactly sure it was true.",1
7291,"the slate is being wiped clean-and sometimes, for the priest, this is tedious and unusually trivial.",0
7463,a stand of spruces made him think of christmas.,0
3506,"undoubtedly, they would never know what happened to scipio or polly or anyone else.",0
11794,it could be her salvation.,0
3901,"then richie began to go to nursery school, and my re-education secured my position at the divinity school, and our private life, the hard-won and once-illicit intimacy in which we were like two gladiators whose heated grappling fascinates an entire arena, slowly, imperceptibly, became an enactment, a transportation hither and yon of lifesize representations of ourselves, while our real selves shrank to the size of dwarf puppeteers, unseen manipulators
who when alone with each other at the end of the show had no voices left.",0
5272,"certainly this terrible deed validated once and for all the profundity of julius streicher’s understanding of what atrocities jews are capable of.”

“kompletter unsinn!” höss spat out the words.",0
11566,you know very well that they are for our christmas day diuner!,0
5068,i am sure that would make your mother very unhappy.,0
11535,"pointing forefingers and waving fists, they chant: “god will crumble you.",0
8771,"""sparky, are you sure?",0
9796,"""o lord, our saviour and our master, receive the soul of our dear departed brother, john hill, who gave his life in support of our humble aspiration to return to our home in africa.""",0
7778,right in the palace flop house the holy bounds of matrimony got its spikes dug in on the starting line.,0
873,"i would be asking each of you to break a sacred oath.’

‘but what happened here tonight,’ someone stammered, ‘it certainly transcends our laws!’

‘does it?’ mortati boomed, not even knowing now where his words were coming from.",1
6655,"here he was able to meet with other freemen, feel a sense of unity as he sat with his faction cheering a certain chariot team, and impose his wishes on the emperor himself for, as the romans' themselves said, ""in the circus alone are the people rulers.""",0
2708,"""i sincerely doubt it,"" dr. hasselbaum said.",1
8395,"she told him of turk bending's efforts to secure her aid in convincing her husband to come in on the deal, and her demand for a reward if she did.",0
3695,"""that is certainly the least i can do,"" i told him.",0
3174,"his skepticism, though, about his parents-in-law's almost fanatic jewishness had not changed.",1
1601,and who could argue with that—at least without seeming to confirm his suspicions just by guessing them correctly?,1
5683,"just send up a flare, you know?”

he looked at her questioningly.",0
5762,"he knows, with a certain resignation, that all things die.",0
10520,"i told him that, i kept telling him that—""

""no doubt,"" said jonathan.",0
8409,"he looked around, as if to ensure their privacy, and then looked back at kerry.",0
9465,"or was it that she thought if she sinned with her minister, god would forgive her; and the more she sinned, the greater would be god's forgiveness?",0
354,how meaningless were all of god’s favors and blessings when he had taken from me that which i prized and treasured above all others.,1
5356,it is true he hated most in the catholic faith the elements of judaism.,0
5318,"“my grandfather,” he said, and only then had she realized how surely she was in over her head.",0
7545,liebowitz stands in front of people who are literally griefstricken and he gives a sermon about how his zeide died in his sleep and what peace it brought him to see zeide go at ninety-three with no pain.,0
2596,i had had reason for my godless talk and now waited impatiently for the arrival of a mourner.,1
2233,"“it’s a nice color,” he said dubiously.",1
7878,"“god’s mercy, look at that indecent thing,” she said.",0
12079,"it was eie who taught her how to administer poison, so that princess tadukhipa of mitanni died while she was yet weeping and calling for her son and would have fled from the palace to seek him.”

“o fair mehunefer!” said i, stroking her heavy, painted cheeks.",0
9983,"""i'm sorry,"" angela said.",0
3638,we’ll burn the film for sure now.,0
5179,"could he, for her sake (for the sake of this pathetic rube all but weeping for her own pathos in the metropolitan museum), forget the whole dispute and, believing his eyes for a change, admit that the earth was flat?",0
7949,"what i did, i finally put my suitcases under my bed, instead of on the rack, so that old slagle wouldn't get a goddam inferiority complex about it.",0
524,"though she wasn’t sure exactly how, what with only twenty-four hours to the day and just one set of hands.",1
8790,"diminished kidney function, slight congestive heart failure problem, low blood pressure.",0
9841,"like, graveyards at midnight—hiding behind tombstones—all this goddam fog, suddenly.",0
5102,"as i resettled myself in bed i relaxed into the comfortable foreknowledge of the familiar cycle of a cold: the loosening cough, the clogging nose, the subsiding fever, the sure three days in bed.",0
12278,"you know the kind i mean?”

“sure.” in gates you saw them in giggling little groups outside frank’s fountain or the dairy delish, waiting for the boys to come by in their dropped fords and plymouth hemis, fast cars with the fenderskirts and the decals saying fram and quaker state in the back windows.",0
3854,"by morning marie criner had not still cleanly allowed that she would in fact travel with the rest of them to the church in laurel fork, so opal criner took motherly steps to persuade her, laid out upon the bedspread her girl marie's green corduroy shift where her girl marie would surely come across it.",0
10862,"but rose madder was safely put away in the closet, where she undoubtedly still stood with one hand raised to shade her eyes, looking down at the ruins of the temple.",0
10607,"it was certainly possible; for a certain type of bad guy, places like this were feeding-pools.",0
7566,"in the winter, they lived in a town called hoxie, arkansas, where evangelist gerlash clerked in the buttorf drugstore and preached and baptized on the side.",0
4789,i assure you that i have been the very soul of cleanliness.,0
1583,"though an agnostic, she has faith in the power of vitamin c; like most believers, she worships her god more devoutly when things go ill. now she downs the fizzy, acid-magenta beverage and returns to bed, blows her nose again, pulls her sleep-mask down and the comforter up, and sinks into a snuffly, headachy slumber.",1
6129,"i can survive only by understanding what is possible, by yielding to one pressure in order to avoid a greater one.",0
6348,"reassured, true skipped away like a small, golden butterfly.",0
3385,when he finally rose he was certain he had a foolproof plan.,0
9542,"i thanked god again that starr had covered for me, and made a mental note to buy her some flowers.",0
5209,"""l can assure you it isn't that.""",0
4428,"in this delicate, suggestible state he felt the loss of all those years of determined self-denial-
the endless studying, working, striving.",0
8024,"“i shouldn’t of toog you id,” angelo breathed.",0
6351,"bp 130 over 90, heart rate 120, respiration 36, temp 100.6.”

“okay, thank you.” he gave orders for iv treatment and reassured darlene.",0
4157,"he's a mentor—which i'm sure you've figured out is pretty high up in the fieri chain of command—and he set great store by my speaking before the assembly just as soon as possible—my second night here, in fact.",0
11857,"it's education, for godsake, not some stupid beat-'em-up game.'",0
6141,"“a braw laddie.” the macdougall was several inches over six feet tall, all muscle and extraordinary strength, and remarkably handsome, with eyes as gray as the atlantic, hair black and curling and lively, a strong heavy nose and a gay but resolute mouth.",0
4243,"“afton bears us no love, my lord, i am sure of it.",0
12036,the last thing i need is a sermon from you!,0
3276,"more than usual certainly, but it wasn’t bad at all anymore.",0
8131,"he’d seen them on television, and the cops were convinced: one killer, a psycho.",0
4282,"what i was sure of was that i wanted to get out of there and be gone, but i didn’t want to go back through the dance hall and the dancers.",0
2815,"david and angela looked at each other, unsure of who should begin.",1
10825,"but the old fellows were no doubt excited, for the gates of sekhmet’s temple have not been opened for at least forty years.",0
7465,use the brains god gave you.,0
3124,"watching him, celia remembered the occasion seven years ago when she had come here, wanting to see those early, dubious reports about montayne.",1
3440,"if israeli troops storm the haram and take it back, there will certainly be some sort of international response.”

“what if they send in palestinian troops?",0
4834,"i thought at first it had to do with too much horror, and i was right, but i would only later learn the real reason for this silence, this evasiveness—certainly i thought little enough about it at the time.",0
2598,"let’s say i hang onto my job, and over the years get a few small raises–i’m beginning to doubt like hell i’m going to get rich quick on a mental-health project.",1
3155,"we’re having such a good time here.” page stared at her unbelievingly, not even sure what to say, it was all so surrealistic.",1
7629,"she had never sold anything in her life beyond an occasional angel cake for the altar guild in the basement of the episcopal church, but she began to sell bonds by the bale.",0
10542,"he was handsome, certainly.",0
2613,"however, i was oppressed by the suspicion that these hands were less skillful than they had once been.",1
5943,"think you can manage?”

“sure,” eddie said.",0
3197,"we were supposed to be making sure the guests had plenty of punch, but we were giggling behind the hydrangea bushes instead.",0
10362,"to hell with him.”

i took a deep breath, held it for a second, then proceeded calmly.",0
6632,"i knew that my mother had once suggested to owen that her old voice and singing teacher might be able to offer owen some advice of a corrective kind-or even suggest certain vocal exercises, designed to train owen to speak more .",0
7395,"when he was twenty-one, poor and desperate for further education, he entered the augustinian monastery in the capital city of brünn, which is now called brno.",0
6721,"frustration, resentment, and especially apprehension swirled in the cauldron of his emotions.",0
12042,"the presence of goy made

92

heaven and hell



him think of his son.",0
859,"bows and arrows in hand, they regarded me coldly, deep distrust in their dark eyes.",1
8329,"“be lost without them,” i assured her.",0
610,"(though judas doubted if any of the apostles really believed this how
could they?)",1
12077,"the sunday sunrise found andrew drake in far better humor, for his saturday night had brought

information of a different kind.",0
5681,"reason he did, of course, was to reassure boyd on that point.",0
8714,it was essential that everyone be confident.,0
1519,"i doubt if you’d bring a pound and a half of dried beans on the open market.”

“i don’t believe you—what else did they say?”

“some of the others stated they’d like to see you stood up within sight before further palaver.”

“they’ll pay,” i said, relieved that the first part was mainly a lie.",1
9780,"i haven’t been to church since — i can’t remember.”

“we could go,” she said suddenly.",0
3382,"that would, without doubt, have come to pass.",0
5009,"something in his attitude convinced me, in the state i was in, that reducing him to paper was the right idea.",0
2124,"i felt pretty sure, but still i was a little uneasy.",1
2948,"six gold sovereigns had been stolen from the desk of mr. offerton, the latin master, and the whole school was under suspicion.",1
2939,"in all but a very few victorian atheists (that militant elite led by bradlaugh) and agnostics there was a profound sense of exclusion, of a gift withdrawn.",1
2379,"""when i closed my eyes i could imagine myself in that house of satan, listening, as i had done so often, to the calling of the heathen.""",1
3617,"i am sure you will never say enough words like that to satisfy me.”

luke had followed her out from the supper table at a discreet distance and was standing in the shadows of the court.",0
2794,"""if rory wishes to be president then he must begin now to serve us-and not just you, if he indeed serves you, joe, which i doubt.",1
10755,he kept thinking of parson's corner and how the news must have reached the fuesslis--how they would doubtless be trying to explain to gerald what had happened.,0
2224,"but although i was dying—make that ""anxious""—to know more, i had no intention of blurting out my suspicions to one of the people i was suspicious of.",1
3545,i was so sure the worst was over for cecy.,0
11275,"because not all truths are for all ears, not all falsehoods can be recognized as such by a pious soul; and the monks, finally, are in the scriptorium to carry out a precise task, which requires them to read certain volumes and not others, and not to pursue every foolish curiosity that seizes them, whether through weakness of intellect or through pride or through diabolical prompting.”

“so in the library there are also books containing falsehoods.",0
12314,thank god he had recovered.,0
9275,the reason: it was probable the police lacked the insight he had as a catholic priest and one who was interested in all aspects of religion.,0
7867,"at lunch the sunday papers had arrived, and after the meal they sat on the lawn in deck chairs reading, littering sections of the grass.",0
4806,it seemed that surely he would come soon.,0
8347,"“jessica, tom devoted his life to cleaning up the hudson and keeping it clean, for all of us.",0
342,“how about me in doubt and turmoil?,1
9092,"look, it was my decision to take this job...”

“sure, sure, your own decision.",0
7678,the woman makes a goddamn career out of being lost.,0
3710,"marcellus was more eager than the shambling horses to return to the city, but even at their plodding gait it was an uncomfortable ride, certainly not conducive to the pleasant perusal of letters, for the dusty, deep-rutted highway was crammed with lumbering wagons and overburdened camel-trains, requiring frequent excursions to the ill- conditioned roadside.",0
12162,"""oh, my god,"" he said.",0
10095,who the hell was she?,0
9278,"of course, in the present congregation-rabbi relationship, my ban has no force behind it.",0
5561,"he looked hard at her face, as if he was saying, “i know you’re not my parents, i know that much, you look so strange.” and ruby and i sometimes said, if we could get a word in edgewise, “hey, ma, you want to watch justy for a minute so we can feed the chickens?” she always said, “sure i will, you run along.”

here was something she could really be a star at, being an old grandma.",0
10464,"and why should i treat your old lady like some sort of goddess when you don’t have any respect for her?”

“who says i don’t?”

“i say you don’t.”

“you think you can read minds or something?”

“didn’t you tell me that your old lady always spent more time with her girlfriends than she did with you?",0
8451,or make sure they had gone.,0
2201,"after a short silence, the confessor said, “neglecting one’s job seriously is a doubtful sin, my son.",1
4997,“i’m sure you do.” his grandfather’s face clenched with pleasure.,0
9700,i wondered if patrick were home for christmas vacation.,0
4501,surely there was something he could use to pull this off.,0
6929,'i will bring it back to caithness and place it in my father's treasure room alongside the sacred lance.',0
315,"some sort of communication passed between them, though joel was not sure about the message.",1
10340,"alone.”

“something personal?”

“i don’t know.”

dawson waved him in, and billy lord said, “don’t worry about me, hawes, i’ll hide my head.”

hawes looked at dawson, and dawson said, “go ahead, what is it?” the young officer gave a quick account of events at the southwick lane residence, passing his cap from one hand to the other, running a finger over the visor.",0
10120,"""good god!""",0
2412,"maybe, that day comes, it will be; i tend to doubt it, myself, but yeah, it is possible.",1
8929,"""well ..."" wayne said hesitantly.",0
11908,"but, for god's sake, get young harrington for her or someone like him.",0
12330,"the ambassador and the head of chancery regarded his return with considerable misgivings,

and it was no surprise when his name was carefully excluded from any diplomatic invitations, or

that he could not be received by any representative of the soviet ministry of foreign trade.",0
900,"a stubborn, unbelieving fool.”

“well, as the psalmist has written, ‘there is no one who does good, not even one.’ but god provides forgiveness if we ask.” he gestured to the altar, then guided joshua through the gate into the courtyard.",1
117,"""well, up until yesterday i wasn't too sure.""",1
8199,"“whoever you are, you’re misinformed, but clearly you’re harmless and you’re surely not the police.” she took a drink of her coffee and grimaced.",0
8318,reached the gemeinschaft and convinced the bank into confirming the fact that the woman might—just might—be tied with a massive theft.,0
884,ty heard someone yell “sixties!” but wasn’t sure if it was friend or foe.,1
1183,"i think that it's discovered a way to defeat the vault!”

* * *





chapter 16



a graveyard-dead disbelief rose from the depths of chesterton's sullen eyes.",1
557,what would become of her faith?,1
2678,"i doubt if any member of that self-regarding fraternity would be seen in such a place where even i, a sort of bohemian, ought not to be at my ... no, that word no longer.",1
20,"how can you assure yourself that so many will n0t 
babble?""",1
8237,"kincaids look upon the criminal side with the same distaste that i reserve for their discreet civil practice: i am glad that there is someone else around to handle such tiresome matters, because i certainly do not wish to handle them myself; the first time such a client heard gretchen mutter “fuck” after striking the wrong key, or cooper whack the common wall to let me know that he was in, and to receive his answering whack, the poor devils would faint dead away.",0
3515,"both men gestured happily—speaking italian, no doubt.",0
85,"no, not everyone had that obstacle to faith, which was clearly a favorite of the enemy, but miss sadie had had it, and he had had it and come to terms with it, and forgiven his father, long years ago.",1
4037,"“are you going to the docks again today?”

“yes.” aidan glanced around to be certain lili was not close enough to overhear.",0
568,"it was more an unofficial peace treaty or at least a truce, an agreement to cooperate with each other in maintaining their separate positions in the uncertain world of a suspicious tiberius.",1
11102,"and yet, i've never met a more acute diagnostician and never a man, even a modern physician, who could cure faster.",0
6262,"""surely you didn't cross britannia by foot.""",0
9277,"but maybe their horse is extra slow.”

the words were scarcely out of her mouth when an amish couple rushed excitedly into the barn.",0
8750,"nuances in these things, sure—nothing crude about it, pay for services rendered—he'd make the graceful protests on the ground of his pride and so on, he'd have been good at that.",0
10528,he had no doubt the reaction of the british government and people was totally genuine.,0
3787,"although fanny defended beaulah matthews to her own mother and sisters, she believed she probably understood why buster was rebelling at his mother’s domineering ways, and she certainly saw why her own family looked down on the woman.",0
1189,"why she felt this way sara didn’t know, but she was certain mara disliked her.",1
3274,"a man can have freedom without love—for example, he who violates another is free in his action when there is no one around to restrain him—yet he certainly has no love.",0
2581,"— 

nones

in which william speaks to adso of the

great river of heresy of the function of

the simple within the church, of his doubts

concerning the possibility of

knowing universal laws; and almost parenthetically he

tells how



he deciphered

the necromantic signs left by venant u

i s.



i found william at the forge, working with nicholas, both deeply involved in their task.",1
947,"to oppose it, even by so much as the merest hesitation, would be to hinder god himself.",1
11035,"“wasn’t this the command of our lord and of your own francis?”

“yes,” ubertino admitted with a slight hesitation in his voice, sighing.",0
3313,"still

shaking with the aftermath of sobs, he roots the bottle in his

mouth and she is certain from the glaze on his watchful eyes that



he is locked into the channel to sleep.",0
10073,"“goddamn,” terry said.",0
4170,he knew only one thing for certain—he was deeply alarmed.,0
7361,"i felt slightly closer to jesus now, with my bloody hands.",0
8223,rhinau convinced me we--we could create a new world.” the face of christ lay across her chest.,0
9215,"“and between your invitation and arai’s pressure . . .”

kruger spread his hands a foot apart, then snapped them together with a crack.",0
4067,"“caleb, what do you want to be when you grow up?”

“a newspaperman.” caleb answered so quickly, there seemed no doubt in his mind.",0
12227,"if he shows up, they’ll stop him and shoot him on sight.”

“i told krupkin not to do that.”

“for christ’s sake, why?”

“because it won’t be him and lives could be lost.",0
8968,"are you even sure the so-called victim is dead?”

“melvin, for pete’s sake, just come on out.",0
9394,“christmas.” miranda smiled as if to explain the tension.,0
1676,"—i’m not sure oscar would call it fun trish, he’d probably rather talk about something else because .",1
5142,"""certainly he loved you.""",0
12315,"what we're selling around here ain't from louis pasteur.”

""yet overall, the industry's o-t-c drug sales are shooting up and up.”

""like a goddam rocket!",0
3580,"“could i talk with you, alec?”

“certainly.”

he led the way toward his truck.",0
4177,we are assured of a fine day.,0
3053,"with the denial came over a kind of uncertainty, puzzlement with an element of extra doubt running through it, like a thread of the wrong colour through a piece of weaving.",1
5997,"""sure, sure,"" butch said again.",0
9402,"the umpires were priests with the power to send players to heaven or hell, except for crack, whom they could merely relegate to purgatory, where he stayed no more than a day.",0
12189,"""god!",0
344,"and i wonder, as one does in the midst of love, how my doubts could have arisen, how i could want anything but this.",1
5699,"there was a certain stiffness about his figure that seemed to make it necessary for her to approach him slowly, even in her thoughts.",0
11672,"but since you gave him christian burial, the windows must have been closed.",0
9658,"if nothing else, what we speak of may require some communication with the priests and religious of the archdiocese.",0
7407,"“father, son or spirit?”

“just god,” parker said impatiently.",0
8983,"you saw that.”

“our conversation is confidential, gladdie.",0
3909,"it sounds very much like the metaphysical concepts of the mithraeans and the followers of dionysius.”

			“it is an interpretation which paul has put upon the life of jesus himself,” luke explained.",0
10127,"the five secretaries who went for coffee at 9:30 each morning were like the three monkeys: hear no, see no, speak no.",0
6060,"her name was may schwartz, and her comely jewish bulk, her ripe yolky warmth and vitality typified a certain order of female appeal, often irresistible to the gentile eye.",0
3485,"checking the price tag, perry was sure this was it.",0
564,"i may be a member of the second class, the unbelievers, and no doubt an even greater asshole than they since they generally perform good works, help niggers, pore whites, etc., but at least i’m not crazy.",1
1135,"while not truly autobiographical, i do know firsthand the heartbreak of an unfaithful spouse, and i also know what it is like to be called upon by our heavenly father to forgive all parties involved.",1
4642,"it was comforting
to think of the lovely garment secure in the saddlebag beside her....
they would soon see jesus!",0
1020,"a bachelor was, by nature, under suspicion.",1
9581,"he remembered his father laid out under the oil portrait of pius xii at d.f.’s house and the voice whispering loudly as the priest saying the rosary intoned the third sorrowful mystery, “stop stuffing your face with the shrimp, edso.”

			“i wanted kev laid out at our house,” tommy sweeney said, “but the judge put her foot down.",0
9970,"when people asked fin why the hell he'd got married three times, he always said, ""because they were there"" when people asked if he was going to do it again he always said, ""islam permits four wives and every arab and iranian in california drives a mercedes, so maybe four's a magic number.""",0
12068,"to hear them cheer, they adore the man the way they adore no gods.",0
11155,"perhaps you see very little link between the charles of 1267 with all his newfangled french notions of chastity and chasing after holy grails, the charles of 1867 with his loathing of trade, and the charles of today, a computer scientist deaf to the screams of the tender humanists who begin to discern their own redundancy.",0
1450,"under his consciousness henry wirz thought of the prisoners as animals, although he was not sure what sort of animals.",1
6993,"several of the

younger knights, and a few of the less secure nobles, had begun using

the royal designation as a show of deference, and it did not fail to

please the greedy prince who took it as his right.",0
7794,"i could see them all sitting around in some bar, with their goddam checkered vests, criticizing shows and books and women in those tired, snobby voices.",0
9386,"""she means the monk who preaches and sings in the courtyard over at cdsp.",0
11674,"he had certainly been a christian, and dignified in the extreme, but the painter had drawn on imagination for the other qualities.",0
291,"sure, he intended to
marry her someday maybe.",1
5783,"for a time mrs. briscoe leaned almost out of sight, as assuredly she thought she was.",0
5335,"“at night when the rest of you are sleeping.”

“sure,” said daphne, “and if you don’t watch it, soon jesus and his mama are gonna be talking to you like they do to margaret.”

bruce smirked as if she were incapable of understanding the mysteries that were the foundation of his life.",0
8094,"will slow things up, i suppose.”

“undoubtedly.” smith stood.",0
5907,"i don’t want to get anyone in trouble, any poor person or someone that had to steal to eat or something like that.”

“you sure sound like a nice lady.",0
11192,the elderly couple was hesitant about committing themselves to a final figure-the difference between an allowance for their used car and the price of a new one.,0
11200,"another point: we would like some assurance that your line of questioning is relevant.""",0
7049,"again, helena gazed upon what must have been hundreds of towers built with embrasures to defend the open ground.",0
5364,such hideous exposure might never occur on any plantation he’d ever visited or heard of.,0
10160,"“my god,” she said in a whisper as she saw the photos.",0
9270,and i sure as hell ain’t going again.,0
11379,he made a wild gesture almost as if he would strike the nun before whom he still stood.,0
2390,"""i don't say it's certain, no, but i like it enough that i've told the d.a.",1
6247,would she have pursued obedience so resolutely if she had known how hard it would be?,0
5088,"certainly, i have but rarely seen such ideal conditions for planting.”

there is a pause as the sixth and final chime lingers for an instant with a somnolent hum, then dwindles away dully into infinity, while at this same instant i catch sight of myself in the ceiling-high mirror beyond the far sideboard: a skinny undersized pickaninny in a starched white jumper, the toes of one bare foot hooked behind the other leg as i stand wobbling and waiting, eyes rolling white with nervous vigilance.",0
2626,"chapter thirty-one




miss amelia forster regarded howard best with horror and disbelief as he sat opposite her in the deserted waiting room, for this was saturday afternoon and robert morgan was in the hospitals and jonathan was not to be found.",1
11348,he had kept a million-dollar-a-year customer by giving him a new rolls-royce every christmas.,0
2395,"if we had any doubts at all as to the pressures to be applied in the sanderalee dawson investigation, reality came upon us in full force in the form of what is known as a “blind item” on page six of the new york post.",1
7548,"that just sort of caught me off my guard, that about heaven, that’sall.”

“well, what can you say?”

“i’m godd—i can’t imagine, sweetheart, and i better just keep my mouth shut.",0
7624,he had also given her a black lace veil to wear in church—lace veils were once the prerogative of the rich—and had told her to put aside her reboso.,0
488,"the things of faith for me have totally evaporated.”

now the young man did look tired; the reputed graininess of energy had gone to his voice, which had hoarsened.",1
4201,"empyrion is a colony like any other—it just happens to be on a rather more distant planet.”

“one that just happens to be in another star system.”

“undoubtedly chairman neviss would prefer to visit empyrion himself, but that is out of the question.",0
9267,"open and close certain times?”

“thought you was a detective, mister,” said silvers.",0
1581,"and francis and pee wee too joined the chase, pounding through the night, no longer sure which one wore the skull mask.",1
9043,"“sure.”

as seth slapped me on the shoulder, i found myself pleased that he had read my mind, that even after all this time our instincts traced parallel planes.",0
2424,"""but i'm not even sure that i am twenty-one.",1
2369,"i mean, they could say they do and act like it, but you can't tell for sure, can you?""",1
11725,"but as they pulled, their haunches braced askew, i heard them mutter one to another, “why should we row this fat swine if all men are equal before his god?",0
8357,"the folks in new york were certainly worried, teaker said more than once.",0
578,"he looked shaken, as if he might be sick, and i realized that underneath his calm assurances that god would provide, he was as distraught and unsure about our future as i was.",1
7988,"""but they didn't have the gumption, so the hell with them!""",0
7479,"so nelson didn’ have no business goin’ to no meth’dist meetin’, specially when dey was preachin’ to de niggers like now.",0
6696,"there were buttons instead of a pressure seal, and they were as large around as a naoli eye, stamped from heavy black metal, each with the reaching claw and the ring of nails.",0
10561,"but his realism soon convinced him that his real impulse was jealousy, and he was mortified.",0
6787,"send everyone home now.”

“yes sir.”

“and, carruthers …”

“yes sir?”

“inform them all the payroll money was lost in the bank closure.",0
5095,"you will ilso be charged with the responsibility of inspecting the ivomen's cooking pots--including those of your own mothsrs--to make sure they are kept clean, and you will be expected to reprimand them most severely if any dirt or insects are found inside.""",0
539,"it was easy to be a clever sinner, for the race to an earthly visible goal was short to run, so impossibly hard to be a wise saint, with the goal set at so vast a distance from this world and clouded with such uncertainty.",1
5391,"would it be possible, do you suppose, to condition them, to light them constantly, so that the photophobia subsides?”

“oh sure,” said mack uneasily.",0
233,"i suppose it’ll be a while before we see much of the prophet.” mark looked at andy, hardly believing the grin of amusement he was seeing.",1
8669,“how sure are you?” i asked him.,0
4242,"a great storm has invaded
the palace courtyard, and i am convinced the hour is near.”
buck limped gingerly down the stairs and found chloe and kenny.",0
2796,"at that time john was still uncertain about this question, so he summoned both men to his court, where they argued without arriving at any conclusion.",1
2176,i’m not sure exactly how much—” she paused here as if hoping the chief inspector might be able to fill her in.,1
8729,“sure you will.,0
6171,"as if the casket itself weren’t up to the job!”

“watch your blood pressure,” he said, laughing.",0
8827,"""sure,"" she said, looking at him curiously.",0
11987,"angela got in first, followed by calhoun.",0
6806,"“certainly, private.”

flanna turned away, shivering in the rain as he left the circle of his men and came toward her.",0
8583,"jack’s quick with his hands; oh, he’ll pop you before you know it, but he’s never used a gun, i’m sure, on another person.”

“have you?”

“have i ever shot anybody?",0
3912,"despite the mighty towered walls which
flanked the town, the winding streets, full of pilgrims and citizens,
could be seen from the vantage point of the mountain road which
jesus and his followers descended.",0
8997,"after a moment’s hesitation, kate ran back to answer it.",0
9809,"during the year five babies was the most they had had together, because this was a small fifty-bed hospital in a small town and most girls were on the pill, the sluts, and nurse spandex—who went to mass every sunday, or pretty near—thought if she’d really got knocked up in cardiology, then dr. balfour was in for a surprise.",0
8672,"“and your eyes are the sweet brown of a cow i once had the pleasure of milking in minnesota some years back.”

the fat woman blushed.",0
7050,"“certainly.” i stood as he entered and closed the door behind him, but he waved an excusing hand in my direction, then lowered himself into one of the two leather chairs facing my desk.",0
2522,"“jimmy should have contacted all three by now, with any luck.”

“i don’t see— oh, i suppose it could be,” said hackett doubtfully.",1
7086,it took all her concentration to maintain a facade of composure for his benefit.,0
1418,"i’m not sure he deserves it, but he’s going to be a golden boy again.",1
1628,surely he could not retain belief while passing time in such a place.,1
1429,now he was no longer certain.,1
6496,"”

“pore little ole jackie, so lonesome.”

he reached up for him and took him, and faintly recalled, as he gave him comfort, a multitude of fire-tipped candles (and bristling needles) and a strong green smell, a dog more gaily colored and much larger, over which he puzzled, and his fathers huge face, smiling, saying, “it’s a dog.” “his father too remembered how he had picked out the dog with great pleasure and had given it too soon, and here it was now too late.",0
5051,"“why he started that riot i’ll never know.”

“for one thing because he had a police record.”

“when he came to apply, i certainly didn’t think he was a police character.” the office manager shook his head.",0
5591,"i began with the water on low, and she turned around in a full circle, hesitantly, letting the droplets from the spray fall on her as if she were submitting to a death by stoning.",0
9821,"it’s — like god is after me.”

she stared at him.",0
1348,she looked at him with a half smile of doubt.,1
11683,"that is the way this country decides, and we pray that it may ever be so.",0
9261,"maybe if you looked there...”

“sure, he wrote his name down.",0
5106,"she reacts like a devoted, slightly bewildered dog: she snaps when he scolds and fawns when he pats.",0
9356,"she looked back and recognized detective brennan, who along with another man was coming out of the church and approaching her.",0
8086,"if you tell him that i’ll give you my word that i’ll pass it on to no one, not even lily, no matter what happens, i think he would tell you to open up.”

“so you’re sure i shot him.”

“damn it, i am not!",0
2638,"he doubted when he dialed if he would get through, or if he did, whether there would be an answer from the other end.",1
1865,"she remained perfectly still, not in fright, but in a freezing unbelief.",1
10623,annie now felt a welling pressure in her breasts and for a moment thought of waking him to feed.,0
646,do you doubt me?,1
4737,a certain grim if slatternly efficiency was now apparent in the whole enterprise.,0
5218,"at last a vision appeared, the familiar figure of the large and devoted collie that had been his pet when he was in high school.",0
10244,"god willing, he thought, in this new day he would be able to see miriam again.",0
8191,"folks up in the nation used to say that you didn't have to be a crazy drunk killer to play it, but it sure gave you a big edge.",0
1869,"“look, stingo,” she was saying in front of my disbelieving gaze, “it’s good for the complexion.” and i watched while the crazy polack took a gulp of whiskey straight from the bottle and with her other hand—the one which had wrought upon me such mixed mortification and pleasure—gently massaged into the skin of her face my hapless exudate.",1
10517,"i will check further with the night concierge, but i’m sure he would have left a note for my personal attention if someone had come here seeking you.”

“why are you so sure?”

“because he did leave such a note for me to speak with you.",0
5964,"he was a war veteran with a missing arm, and this fascinated a certain type of woman in her early twenties who fancied herself mature beyond her years and was serious about herself.",0
5418,she took her throat in her hand and swallowed against the pressure of her fingers.,0
5396,"withdrawn, mannerly, intense, tremulous, unearthly, moody, mesmeric nikki, a difficult personality impossible ever to grasp, whose mark on him was indelible, who could more confidently imitate someone than be someone, who’d clung to her emotional virginity until the day she’d disappeared, whose fears, even without danger or misfortune at hand, were streaming through her all the time, whom he had married out of sheer fascination with her gift, at only twenty-two, for unartificial self-transformation, for duplicating realities she knew virtually nothing about, who unfailingly imparted to everything anyone ever said an inward, idiosyncratic, insulting significance, who was never really at home outside the fairy tale, a juvenile whose theatrical specialty was the most mature roles .",0
10424,"i liked the way her full lips moved even as they said, “what the hell is wrong with you?”

the mall was lit up in one giant orgy of red and green commercialism and “what child is this” was roaring out from the loudspeaker system in lieu of the usual muzak.",0
3135,"""even so, i doubt if it will.",1
5879,"“try just for me?”

“well, sure honey.",0
5767,“sure you have.,0
9508,"""'anyone who commits adultery, makes no difference whether it be man or woman, breaks one of my father's commandments,' jesus say: 'makes no difference how good it is,' ""john said.",0
1886,"men have no faith in their own judgment when it comes to women—they’ll always wait to see what their friends think, and then that’s what they think too.",1
9736,"that’s all the time i can afford, even though cutler’s paying well for this.”

“will cutler—” she broke off as a palpable ripple of anticipation swept the congregation.",0
12013,"""then it should be fine,"" angela said.",0
7335,christ in the conversation embarrassed her the way sex had her mother.,0
7708,"compared to lord george, or to ronnie, you have to admit—”

“oh, i do.",0
12185,"i meet this woman in my dad’s swap n loan, i talk to her for maybe ten minutes, and the goddamnedest thing happens to me—i can’t forget her.",0
1990,"an unlikely candidate.”

as holmes talked an unpleasant suspicion began to unfurl itself in my mind.",1
9175,i treasure the compliment.,0
11551,my wife is a pretty strict catholic.,0
2426,"kyle may have left a message.”

skeptically, dee picked up an airline schedule from the top of the desk.",1
10585,"""certain facts of life,"" he told his colleagues, ""ought to be faced.",0
1172,"if you doubt me, the specific campaigns are recorded by the french and early germanic historians ocino, ragnarold, and umberto of guineve.",1
2049,the ebb and flow of feeling had become an undertow; he was not sure enough of himself to reassure anyone else.,1
9743,"i have nice green stuff in my lockbox, enough so it will be next christmas before i have to think of beginning to look around for somebody who needs somebody to handle a little problem.",0
6581,"j ^ ^^ the force of
her young flesh, felt f«*°^*£ death at bay, and faith can the spirit, he 
reflected, can often keep a
sometimes accomplish jhc i impossb ^ ^ ^^ <<you speak
diodorus was not satisfied.",0
3086,"i had been unable to buy such a weapon, not liking to insist for fear of arousing suspicion.",1
2078,"if he does, you let me know immediately, anytime day or night.”

she turned her head to look down at me, disbelief clearly reflected in her eyes.",1
8350,"you sit on the sidelines, where everything we do is cynical and self-serving, and the only risk is believing anything we say.” he stood abruptly, hands shoved in his pockets, looking down at her.",0
9411,it was always the monk’s style to reduce the numbers to as few as possible.,0
8585,there can be no doubt that whoever poisoned the liqueur intended to kill someone.,0
7488,"“what are you talking about?”

two men in white smocks like doctors were working on the wooden doors of the church.",0
100,"passing condoms out to children doesn’t come close.”

“frankly, ms. flaherty, we’re not sure what works, so we hedge our bets.”

“sounds like nothing’s working, which is why you’re considering day-care centers in the high schools.” she could see the fatigue lines on the man’s hard face, and she realized he had the weight of the whole school district on his shoulders.",1
10389,"and if he’s desperate for time—well, isn’t it possible he could be using rees as a red herring?”

“for chrissake, you and your goddam theories.” krug gulped his coffee and crushed the cup.",0
4770,"but during that night, the legions of the consul hirtius had been marching to our relief; and joining us, made an attack upon antonius’s camp, which was complacent and disordered in its false certainty of success.",0
5404,"looked to her, i know, like i couldn’t wait long enough to hear her pleasure.",0
6553,their coming is made even more an act of faith because in this house on the river i have no mirrors on the walls.,0
604,"how is it that ye have no faith?’”

she drew in a deep breath and tried to calm down.",1
6108,"…”

his style had a certain jimmy stewart-ish sincerity to it.",0
9588,"and when the pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, ""why does your teacher eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?""",0
10967,charles had no doubt he'd do it.,0
10194,it looked strangely obscene.,0
10980,"“anyway, the cabinet has talked him out of going to st. louis.”

“as he no doubt intended they would.” emma is getting most eerily the range of these monsters.",0
2718,"we'd like to have it do the same thing here.”

mace smiled thinly.”and just by coincidence, make felding-roth a potful of money.”

lord bridled.”that part never concerns me.”

“if you say so,"" mace said skeptically.”but from where i'm sitting, you sound more like a salesman than a scientist.”

still vincent lord contained himself.”you mentioned safety a moment ago.",1
10705,"undoubtedly just his imagination, but it really did feel that way, and it was a nice feeling to have.",0
6184,"katie shrank back in horror, determined to have nothing to do with something so fancy—not the fine stationery nor the woman who had penned it.",0
1670,"""i--well, i can't be sho',""she said uncertainly, ""but believe i ain't never read nothin' 'bout dat in de bible.""",1
10720,"they were the ones airline pilots were rumored to use, which was supposed to make you confident about the pills, not doubtful of the pilots.",0
6659,"and you are right; she is not a woman one forgets easily.”

“you were certain she was expecting when she disappeared?”

“yes.",0
3048,"it stops wagging and droops

in an uncertain wary arc when they surround it like hunters,

crowing.",1
6238,“i sure hope taking him along isn’t going to be a burden on you.,0
8726,look at how many times i've kept you confidential as a source.,0
5488,"i forgot.”

what i had forgotten was the pleasure of a guest for dinner, someone unrelated, with sociable habits learned far away.",0
6311,"""you need only to ask,"" quintus assured him.",0
6030,"i saw her repeat rather wonderingly to herself certain phrases, of which trinity of plunder was one.",0
9034,"it says like— ah—‘just because you’ve silenced a man doesn’t mean you’ve convinced him.’ ”

	”gaon, schmaon.",0
12102,"""what the hell do you want to see him for?""",0
11429,"the priest had marveled at this, for joseph had been but fifteen then, and then he was frightened for he vaguely felt that he was confronting a phenomenon new to him, and terrifying, for it was like a natural force which no man dared refute or defy, but only accept.",0
5124,"surely, surely, this was not how he was meant to spend his life.",0
507,"god will take care of us without roland.”

“you threw the money out?” zelda’s voice was disbelieving.",1
10776,"tonio had grown a beard and moustache, no doubt to hide the scars of the beating he had been given by micky's thugs eleven years earlier; but hugh instantly recognized the carrot-colored hair and reckless grin.",0
6231,"and so he had come to this remote and isolated hamlet and had set up his own laws and his own rule, his own measures of justice, his own penalties, and not a man would dare say him nay nor question his word.",0
4357,"i knew from the first that you weren’t ordinary.”

as the summer progressed and my afternoon visits to her gathered cumulative impact, i was actually relieved to return to the average, less demanding environment of lucas meadows, where children shouted and rode their bicycles, and fathers mowed their lawns and washed their cars on saturdays, and my mother, looking lovely and lost, bowed her head over her typing exercises, and aunt mona invariably asked, “well, and what have you done with the afternoon?” i don’t think i ever, even at the height of my devotion, visited ursula more than twice a week (i gave much thought to the spacing of my visits and the “reasons” for each, so she would not grow tired of my company), but, even so, i found that my brain, my emotions, my imagination needed a rest after being with her.",0
7429,“could i take the bible along?” he asked.,0
11930,thank god.,0
5166,"some doctor at the college helped her out.”

“i’m sure he did.”

“sandra may have a setback when she hears of what you did to that young activist.",0
1621,"percy must have perceived, early in her marriage, that her husband’s lechery was compulsive and incurable, but she was determined, like any other lover, to authenticate her suspicion.",1
6170,"if not from the shees, if not from the otherworld, then surely from the throne of every living pagan ri.”

he rubbed his foot back and forth over the earth until he had loosened the soil.",0
11734,"lone could not count how many times she had sat in new zion and heard his father, harper, begin to testify, begin to examine his own sins and end up going on about loose women who could keep you from knowing who, what and where your children are.",0
9689,he understood the tension the two priests were under and forgave them their trespasses.,0
4889,"""i'm sure it's all right,"" she said.",0
8164,the only thing we’re certain of so far is that three people are dead and you and paquita are going to be charged with their murders.,0
5054,"sure enough, they were all naked excepting ozamanides, who wore a crown.",0
7212,"“she’ll come back.”

“you’re sure?",0
7020,"he has limited response to pain.”

jarvis bent to look at the pressure dressing on the patient’s forehead, then stopped suddenly.",0
8608,"i checked the gun in my belt, to be sure it would come free when i needed it.",0
8979,"""sure wish i could help you.",0
11693,"god bless you, mr. president, i hope it works.",0
9469,"do you remember the priest of dronkeh?""",0
2112,"calhoun was not sure; but calhoun pictured him now in a strange room up in dover village, perhaps whimpering in his sleep, and the redhead coming in at him quickly, with hand uplifted.",1
9745,"pacific city, in the words of our publisher, is a “city of homes, churches, and people”—which translated from its chamber-of-commerce lingua franca means that it is a small city, a nonindustrial city, and a city where little goes on, ordinarily, of much interest to the outside world.",0
4292,"i am determined, however, to bring to the world a complete edition of the incomparable letters of this prince of epistolary writers.",0
3546,the stringency of mother’s food budget sure had helped.,0
1642,his tone mingled doubt with outrage.,1
3054,"if however it really was as urgent as robert said, which by her tone she seemed to doubt, she would try to contact dr auerbach on his behalf.",1
10380,“you’re goddam right.,0
10438,"the apartment, thank god, was air-conditioned, and phil—whose parents had christened her phillipa rosemary before she decided to be a police-woman—looked cool and comfortable.",0
5403,"for good measure, she forbade felicia to visit her best friend, herminia, whose father everyone denounced as a witch doctor.",0
10735,i don't think you even had the slightest suspicion.,0
11134,"the hesitant swineherds approached the edge and, staining themselves with blood, drew out the poor, bloody thing.",0
276,he was uncertain what attitude he should take toward her.,1
1320,"and while now it was doubtful that he would ever see the seven wonders of the world, he had suggested to emma that they take a simple little pleasure trip—modestly, on the bus—down the inexpensive side of the peninsula; but it had been his luck to mention it on the anniversary of fan’s death and she had slammed the door in his face.",1
6800,"“surely you shall not need to answer such questions again,” she muttered under her breath.",0
5565,"what do they know about ‘jewish,’ these ‘healthy, confident’ jews who look down their noses at you diaspora ‘neurotics’?",0
3397,"you best make certain that the walls haven’t ears to carry the news back to joseph.”

“and that, my dear wife, is precisely what i mean.” mark turned away, shoulders hunched.",0
8798,‘why don’t you take him in for questioning?’ bannerman said.,0
11607,"they sensed that current accounts of the world were inadequate; that they had allowed their windows on reality to become smeared by convention, religion, social stagnation; they knew, in short, that they had things to discover, and that the discovery was of the utmost importance to the future of man.",0
3389,"strictly as a precautionary measure.”

those nearest the barricade stopped shoveling and hammering to listen to orde’s reply, but it came without any hesitation.",0
7486,the next morning people going to church found them sound asleep with horseflies buzzing in their open odoriferous mouths.,0
10342,"benny said he knew that gus collected it because the connection told him that gus was waiting when the boat arrived; and furthermore, when the boat returned to the yacht basin in hoboken the t-men were waiting for it and searched it and they found it clean.”

“by god, i got a report on that boat!” the t-man said.",0
11932,angela wasn't happy about david's getting up so early.,0
606,doubt and fear haunted iddina.,1
2511,levin couldn't be sure which.,1
12021,calhoun drove with nikki and angela in the cab.,0
4512,"he knew without doubt that they were close to him, probably less than twenty feet away.",0
5367,"and in the child’s eyes there was fright and beauty and a critical blue distance, a certain severity that made william laugh right from the beginning.",0
374,she wasn’t sure how to ask if she could borrow his computer to send an e-mail letter.,1
1707,"in one way or another, they had all “come down in the world,” but they had descended from a stratum so middling, so snobbish, and so uncertain of itself that it had looked on penury as a disgrace and to have joked about it would have been as alien to their upright natures as it would have been to say aloud the name of a venereal disease.",1
1875,"sometimes i’m not sure what’s real and what’s a joke anymore.”

“everything used to be real to you, dupush.",1
10103,goddard jumped to help lind.,0
8387,but the police did not deal in perhapses where tug trowbridge was concerned; they were resolving no doubts in his favor.,0
5639,"but wallace would have such fantasies--ali baba, captain kidd, or tom sawyer treasure fantasies.""",0
7609,"through thy nativity, deliver them, o lord!",0
4780,". . i am sure thomas was a little disappointed, and so will you be at first.",0
6289,"“well, if you’re sure—just one story more and then we’ll take a break.” goodness knows she needed that, but she needed to hear joe’s story even more.",0
12237,"the money was wired through a bank computer transfer directly from switzerland; that is the proof.”

“a sacred trust,” added mr. pritchard.",0
6414,"they lived a dreaming and devoted life apart from the world, after the initial dismay.",0
3865,"jesus answered him with a parable: “a certain man went down from jerusalem to jericho and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.",0
6786,arthur regarded the object with bemused pleasure.,0
7271,“put that bible up!” sheppard shouted.,0
4697,"no doubt it seems ludicrous to you, hale and young and ready for your supper, but i can assure you it’s no joke for that unhappy sufferer, mr. beldings—”

“beiden.”

“—for mr. beiden, lying up there perhaps at death’s door.",0
5089,"it was in winter, that i'm sure of.",0
8173,"i said, certain i was right.",0
4597,"if
you could call around and find any doctor in the church who has not been pressed
into service, i'd sure appreciate it.”
buck tried to drive carefully so as not to exacerbate chloe's pain.",0
5927,"maybe she likes certain towns, maybe you prefer others.",0
2514,"the barrel was inches away from my head, and i stiffened, closing my eyes and biting into my lip in anticipation of the next shot—which i doubted i'd even hear.",1
8072,"i mean, you sure can’t deny the words you said to me.” the driver climbed out of the cab.",0
12380,"the importance of montayne to felding-roth was underlined soon afterward when the vice president and comptroller, seth feingold, confided to celia, ""sam has promised the board that montayne will give us a big boost moneywise, which we sure as hell need.",0
2582,"godless.""",1
9361,"jack, watching from the front hall, counted thirty-seven sitting and kneeling, the priest leading the rosary from the prie-dieu at the casket—a batesville made of hand-rubbed walnut with the cameo crepe interior.",0
5798,"the screw on the artery could not reduce the pressure, and where the vessel was varicose and weaker than cobweb it would open.",0
6596,"the people were accustomed to the sight of them, but their pride would never become accustomed to the pressure of the roman sandal on their throats.",0
3705,both of them were convinced that this downturn in the market would spring back and right itself if people would just be patient.,0
11048,this holds true also for the secular lords.,0
4741,"he wondered what village it was; he was sure he would know its name if his father said it, but omoro had neither spoken nor looked back ever since they left juffure.",0
4096,"“i can travel to the plantations, and make certain that the boys are well treated,” he said, wincing as she began to wrap the bandage.",0
3680,"i assure you, i don’t want anything from either side.",0
11323,"“a heavenly being?”

“yes.” then he continues, in that even, unemotional voice, “if not for me, she might not have died.",0
4585,yet the loan from the bank had certainly eased our financial pressures.,0
5704,". . oh hi, sure i remember, that day you came out here with that big picnic and that man with the .",0
9310,"“wager, another one of those angel drawings came in the mail this morning.",0
6035,the pressure inside his head expanded and pushed against his eyes.,0
6637,will he still be determined to put all his dreams into being?,0
11512,"later, after the priests leave, i’ll come out looking for you, but i won’t be in this uniform, from any distance you won’t know me.",0
413,manuel cabrillo studied murphy with a doubtful look.,1
8552,a sure sign she was antsy as hell.,0
4850,"he could even seem to hear what they were saying about him, the undercurrent of believing beyond the immediate fury: old wash jones he come a tumble at last.",0
501,i’m still not sure of what i’m doing.,1
7251,"brandishing it in front of him like a sword, he pointed the sharp end toward his apprentice and studied the resolute face of fallon bailie.",0
3970,"certainly, he cannot be expected to provide supplies and provisions for all.'",0
9216,"one ounce of pressure beyond the flex tolerance and the wing would crack, the lift-sustaining limb torn from its tubular body, shredded into the winds; one burst of rivets and there would be an explosion, the screaming plunge to follow.",0
9239,"""you sure.""",0
10397,"jeez-us christ.”

it stopped chucky cold.",0
2951,"the lieutenant was to tell authorities that colonel braithwaite's suspicions had been aroused concerning the isabel, and had sent his subordinate to investigate at the last hour.",1
60,"she was personally against non-catholic education, and cyprian had kicked up a terrible fuss, which only made felicitas get her back up and be more determined.",1
10264,"“i think he will, angela.",0
2420,"and at the same time, i was afraid of what he’d do if i asserted myself at all.’ linton turned to terri, hazel eyes full of confusion and self-doubt.",1
2516,"that's why i doubt this esobus is anything more than a legend.""",1
2659,"the general uncertainty about oil was an ominous, overhanging cloud for gsp & l because nearly half of the company's generating capacity was dependent on oil fuel, the bulk of it imported.",1
7492,"after the church dinner, jess needed a place to stay until everything blew over.",0
767,"days enlarged for her, weeks spread out like blank sheets, and she stepped onto her writing as onto water, buoyed by her decision: forget about actually having faith, simply behave as though i possess it!",1
3408,"“that is certainly more than enough turkey for the present,” i said, realizing that thomas had now sliced a sixth piece.",0
3737,undoubtedly.,0
8122,"i've been recopying a fresh draft of his oration, while rufus sorts through each of the legal references to make sure nothing has been overlooked or wrongly attributed.",0
10249,"“had themselves a hell of a time.”

booth stallings read the headline first, which claimed in 48-point bodoni bold italics across three columns: ‘surrender’ report disputed.",0
2121,"so i misdoubt i’ll be marryin’ her.”

rose gazed at me in the mirror.",1
1432,"the men expected different moves from a woman than from each other, feminine tricks and bluffs, and doubts, and she’d learned how to turn their expectations to her advantage.",1
6526,"master bar harsha and his followers leaned toward each other
in a quick strategy meeting.",0
1986,"thorne olson eyed skeptically the half-typed page in the machine, the heap of mimeographed scripts on the desk.",1
1773,"and again the doctor looked untrustworthy to him, and he doubted him.",1
3541,"i am sure that there are those, however, who would say the same about grilling a turkey outdoors on thanksgiving day.",0
1677,"you will understand why there are certain suspicions.”

“we’re soldiers,” eddie said.",1
12180,"“so is france—england—the soviet union—all racist states!”

father said: “for god’s sake!”

margaret said: “half past nine would suit me fine.”

percy noticed the rhyme.",0
8577,"the man on the stretcher said in a weak voice, “i is got the faith.”

she crept down from the throne and knelt by his side.",0
3052,"but since this tragic figure had successfully put up with his poor loneliness for sixty years or more, one may doubt the pining as much as the heartless cruelty.",1
8459,"when you buy from us, you can be sure the stuff is good.",0
8881,"the pressure of the mask against his broken jaw was painful, but he could manage it.",0
4604,"and yes, it may indeed be ‘earthshaking’!”

“who’s ‘we’?”

“ah, the holy father and i.”

“oh, sure!",0
8479,"that fallen angel of his did make sure i took a good shot in the gut, you know, to even the score.”

she thought that over.",0
764,"she raised a brow and eyed him skeptically, but did as he requested.",1
10169,"some vestige of discipline made him find the men’s room, leave his jacket, gloves, and wool cap in a stall, and walk to the platform with a numb unhurried stride, a young man in a holy cross sweatshirt.",0
8278,dr. mercado hastened to assure captain huggins that no disparagement of his community was intended.,0
9822,"there had to be a crazy angel squatting on the chapel wall, in elijah’s chair, an angel who loved to burn down churches and shuls.",0
5885,"i dislike to sound picayune, but there are certain features of your present costume which fall below the level of strictly good usage.",0
311,"john wheelwright had been a good minister of the english church until he began to ""question the authority of certain dogmas''; he became a puritan, and was thereafter ""silenced by the ecclesiastical powers, for nonconformity.""",1
3417,"dozens of hopeful men were entering the lists, and any horseman who could last more than a few minutes against the well-mounted and superbly armed champions was sure to find a place in the entourage of a great nobleman.",0
2785,"he feels at home; eccles feels most at home in godless

public places.",1
3372,"she was a proud, intelligent woman—as i’m sure your mother is.” smith turned to stare at me.",0
7381,"it happens to me a lot, i know, partly because my
      
last name is irish, and most people of irish descent are catholics.",0
5278,"“i’m sure there are advantages in not having to go to work every day,” she remarks brightly after the waitress has left.",0
5376,"“mother was over yesterday.”

there are certain advantages to being made of stone.",0
11149,"but artie was not an unfamiliar figure, and it actually did not occur to us that he was brought in for questioning.",0
5086,"i'm sure i'll outguess them.""",0
3246,"i feel like i don’t know much about any of you, and i’m sure you know very little about me.",0
3784,"at any rate, the scream of a woman in the savoy hotel would certainly be investigated.",0
7375,"i said, “we slept together while mommy was sick.”

“and then, that christmas, we moved into separate rooms.",0
7955,"that was a lousy thing for me to do, you know, but i just can’t help myself sometimes and i’m glad it’s over and i swear to god i’ll never do it again, but jesus christ coverly sometimes i get so lonely i don’t know where to turn and if it wasn’t for this kid brother of mine that i’m sending through college i think i’d cut my throat, so help me god, i’ve thought of it often enough.",0
4711,"darkness was pressing on fast, and i knew that if i did not get back to the parsonage before nightfall i would surely lose the way and just as surely freeze to death in the forest.",0
5719,"bits of paper escape me, too; they love to hide themselves at the bottoms of large baskets of other papers marked “miscellany.” but e. m. forster’s volume of essays, called abinger harvest, until now my favorite book of his except a passage to india, is never far from my reach, so by turning to a certain page in it, i am able to name exactly the time, the first and last time, that i ever saw mr. forster.",0
7755,los angeles.,0
2830,"""i suppose so,"" said caepio junior dubiously.",1
6163,"he was rather angry at you after reading vitellius’s report.”

“i am prepared at any time to offer a full defense of my conduct.”

“it’s impossible,” macro said, “to decide on any hearing now, or even if there will be a hearing.”

“certainly.” pilate noticed that the prefect was extremely nervous.",0
7178,". . folks?” becker interjected, appearinghesitant to get involved.",0
3733,"the card lay under her mattress, and at one point she was sure she could feel it.",0
929,but chloe's suspicion had put him on guard.,1
11571,"people were selling gin, cider, meat pies, oranges and bibles.",0
7659,"he muttered, “oh, jesus.” i said, “jess?",0
2705,"celia hesitated, uncertain whether to go or stay.",1
8938,"“the beginning and end of those dalliances are always over-determined, don’t you think?",0
269,"he said, ""a man who leaves-the feast-before the king grants him 
departure casts degradation and despair on those who love him, for they reproach 
themselves thereafter, asking themselves if there was aught they had done, or 
not done, or what sin they had committed, or what love they had not given in 
full measure, or what seeming indifference they had displayed, or what neglect, 
which had impelled the afflicted one to turn from them in silence and enter into 
the everlasting darkness.",1
8993,"“oh, sure,” i said.",0
11352,"still, being a sassenagh-there ain't anyone keener for a dollar or a sovereign than the sassenagh in spite of his piety and all them churches of his, and the queen-he might sell to both sides.",0
1899,"a young agnostic, reared in an intensely protestant environment (but who now shunned any established religion, and was darkly contemptuous of catholics)— he called herrity or hanrahan a mackerel snapper or a pope’s child.",1
178,"that was when i asked dan needham-since he had no apparent religious faith-why he had insisted that my mother and i change churches, that we leave the congregational church and become episcopalians!",1
1063,"langdon could only name a couple of raphael’s more famous tombs, but he wasn’t sure what they looked like.",1
7611,"“i thank the lord he has blessed me with a good one,” mrs. turpin said.",0
9621,"“using god’s name irreverently is a venial sin, my son.",0
1047,she rushed to pluck the suspicions from her heart.,1
6133,"all this sitting in bed blowing up balloons!”

“yes, really, horswissel,” foyle interjected, “don’t you realize it’s all a mammillary obsession?” horswissel, without having the faintest idea what had been said, nevertheless wriggled with pleasure at being the butt of so erudite a thrust.",0
10615,across from the hotel a neon sign on a small restaurant flickered uncertainly.,0
6205,"if i’m lucky they’ll be concentrating on their list of names and leave me alone.”

despite tom’s warning, mark lingered on, trying to reassure the bewildered people.",0
8330,"thus far no young children had been victims, but the police theorized this was only because young children were usually accompanied by one or more adults, and their abiding fear was that the first child victim would undoubtedly be a little boy or girl momentarily left alone on a swing or in a sandbox on some playground.",0
8526,certainly he had not shaved.,0
8186,"i’m sure you appreciate that and—”



“mrs.",0
3146,"i do not really believe in heredity as much as i do in the ordinary circumstances that shape a life, but there is no doubt that emma and i have in our veins most curious blood.",1
8635,was she so determined to prove she could get a man to replace leo that she had stopped listening to herself?,0
9739,"anyone born of a jewish mother, not father if you please, is automatically considered jewish, pro­vided”—he paused to emphasize the point—“that he has not repudiated his religion by conversion to another reli­gion or by public disclaimer.”

“to the best of my knowledge he belonged to no other church.”

“but you said mrs. hirsh was not jewish.",0
7498,the cross and signs and streamers in the office reminded the office manager of christmas decorations and made him feel slightly sentimental.,0
4929,"but if one or two or three of them had had enough faith at the right time, we’d have . . .”

he sprang up a boulder that the trail had straddled, and reaching down a hand, helped her up.",0
2485,"my sense of isolation was becoming unbearable, my fears so acute i no longer was sure of my judgment, my acumen, my reason.",1
8070,"i am sure miss russell is as in need of refreshment as i am after our walk.” he turned to the older man, who had stood watching his wife affectionately as she dealt with dogs, guests, and men.",0
9876,"since he was a child, paget had loved this city, counted himself fortunate to live here; as an adult, he had taught carlo to love it too, exploring its vistas and its nooks and crannies – a neighborhood italian restaurant in north beach, pocket parks with swings and slides, places to walk on sunday morning for croissants or blueberry muffins.",0
3818,"to the book of john?”

“you sure didn’t seem like a churchgoer when i met ya.",0
10917,"the king of mice himself, no doubt, once sang this little song.",0
3194,"all those things are an enormous strain on any individual.”

""then there are doubts about the work being done,"" celia said.”serious doubts?",1
1474,"i knew i was groping for straws, desperate, he could have simply shut me up right there—but i had to say it, had to say, ‘no, you’ve got to give me a more definite answer than that, i cannot bear it living with any more uncertainty.’ after a moment he said, ‘all right, i will see that he is removed from the camp.’ but even this was not good enough for me.",1
1772,"her response was so quickly emphatic that torn nearly dropped the reins, doubting his ears.",1
6451,"she had alternated for weeks between feeling bitter grief, thinking her natural mother must not have loved her, and remorse, believing she had been loved but given up because her mother was not able for one reason or another to keep her.",0
306,"i’m just not sure what that is yet.”

“he’ll show you.",1
6839,"and i’m strongly suggesting that we maintain a holding pattern on further tests until adequate safety measures are installed.”

hoffman nodded.",0
829,i’m not sure about my schedule.,1
4171,"she has been convinced, almost from the beginning, that you were one of us.",0
2952,"he might indeed outrun any pursuit, he thought as the horse carried him over the slick road like a cork in a typhoon sea, but he doubted he could ever outrun her.",1
5744,"she’s a darned good sport,” max said, still speaking from the floor, “and she’ll stay with me through thick and thin and i know that, but she’s very insecure, you know, oh she’s very insecure and i think it’s because she’s lived in so many different places.",0
11093,"he gave jonathan a murderous look, but jonathan merely raised his black eyebrows questioningly.",0
11514,"when some wise men have determined an interpretation of scripture, he will not be able to—”

“he?” ubertino interrupted him.",0
10671,"there is no suspicion of fortune hunting.""",0
9875,"lord, jake, i have to laugh right to this day when i think of how you looked when i called you by name that day at mcateer's.",0
4768,"convinced, or defeated, he promised to give back writing to its natural owner.",0
6917,"once the money is there, then come the damned managers and the damned insurers and (i am embarrassed to say) the damned lawyers, not to mention the damned doctors who were there for the money before anybody.",0
9576,they were married at sacred heart parish just a year before you were born.,0
1777,you were not sure whether the rawness came from the tidewater or the blood.,1
5138,"“well, what i’m to tell you might weigh a little heavy on your belief if you did not
know that.” “tell me.”
  “samuel, you know that chinese with his slanty eyes and his outlandish talk and that braid?”
“lee?",0
5468,(the cruelty that “civilized” people can practice upon each other often passes belief.),0
7719,"heavens no, an everyday fact.",0
5934,"speaking in khmer, confident and protective and quiet and manly, he gently ushered us to yet another living room, where enormous white leather couches swallowed up my parents with a whoosh.",0
9140,"may i ask how you expect to survive this kind of exposure?”

“what i gave you is local.",0
11433,"he moved toward his horse, and the priest grasped him again.",0
6264,"do it, mom!”

“are you sure this is what you want?”

“isn’t it what you want?”

“i never wanted it any other way.”

“won’t dad cause you a lot of trouble?”

“don’t worry about that.”

“mom, do i have to see a shrink thursday morning?”

“a what?”

“dad made me an appointment with this guy he knows.”

mercy bit her lip.",0
2038,"“a man works here with stiffs all day long, he begins to have his doubts.",1
8591,"colin bit his lip, determined not to cry out.",0
11308,"we never knew what lilly’s religion was (no doubt it was a small idea, kept to herself), and egg would be the retriever of 

sorrow, in more than one sense.",0
2335,"i’ll get over it.”

“of course you will,” i said, not all that sure.",1
4518,"convinced that he was about to be “neutralized,” he fled to england in 1937, and then, under the name of dr. sedgwick, he served in the american white house, furnishing president franklin delano roosevelt, his old harvard classmate, with information on the nazi hierarchy as an adviser on psychological warfare.",0
2551,"be not then an unbeliever.” he decided that the woman could only be one of the fravashi, that army of angels that has existed in heaven before the birth of man, that protects him during his life, and is united to his soul at death.",1
9293,"only thing i see that night, there’s this nun in a gray thing, there, wants to know, do i wanna learn the fuckin’ guitar.”

“i know her,” russell said.",0
8421,i certainly don’t think anyone i know killed her.,0
7390,she had lain in bed imagining dialogues for them that were insane on the surface but that reached below to depths that no bible salesman would be aware of.,0
11854,"he returned at -1 mouth any farther than to say `jesus martinez at your service.""",0
16,there are times when i’m just not sure that i’m cut out for this preaching business.,1
6763,"""look, sol, this line ain't secure and, i'm telling you, archette says it's over.",0
1872,i doubt if he ever even gave anybody a feel.,1
1313,"i really don’t know.”

her indecision had not impressed him.",1
11248,"the consuls were finally being inaugurated; that pompous ass lucius caecilius metellus dalmaticus who rejoiced in the title of pontifex maximus was rattling off the concluding prayers, and soon the senior consul, minucius rufus, would have the herald call the senate to meet inside the temple of jupiter optimus maximus.",0
2014,but how could he be certain krug wasn’t having him followed?,1
5784,"on the other side of the pavilion, father müller would sit with the sober grandfathers, their long curved pipes wagging on their chests as they discussed local politics with profound gravity, their hard peasant fatalism tempered only a little by a shrewd worldly distrust of all officeholders not personally known to them, all political plans except their own immediate ones.",0
6887,"a thousand miles away, sure, but he flew on business trips all the time.",0
445,"most of the vestry turned out, some with the lingering apprehension that they’d robbed mitford of a thriving new business, others completely satisfied with a job well done.",1
11214,"her sixteenth-birthday gift, a red toyota with a built-in eight-track tape deck, was crammed with christmas presents.",0
1573,"and now, looking at himself in the mirror, he was momentarily uncertain as to who was tempting who into what.",1
9283,"it works for small, human-scaled buildings and churches, not institutionally inhuman large ones.",0
9393,"as such, she was responsible for the religion program for the entire parish.",0
10470,"a good man, teddy, but a little simple and too much corrupted by hope and dreams and his belief that it was possible to change the nature of man, the only thing which had not changed in thousands of uncountable years, the only thing which was immutable.",0
332,"that’s why, even now, with his great prestige, many of the sheikhs doubt that he will be the new saviour of islam.’

‘and, as i told you, every one of them will doubt it when they have seen henri’s performance,’ deniau said.",1
6458,"‘well done, good and faithful servant.’”

catherine was the only person who had spoken of wilhelmina’s father with joy instead of in morbid tones of sorrow.",0
8663,"""i'm sure.""",0
6349,she sure made that piece of bacon last a long time.,0
8791,"""yes, i can feel pleasure.",0
9516,made him feel like marley’s ghost in a christmas carol.,0
5898,"pull your prices down to a certain level, advertise in the ethnic papers, and a whole invisible population came to light.",0
12222,"“you were known to have a problem, and dr. panov is not that experienced where security matters are concerned.”

“what the hell are you driving at?”

“a third name was added to the clearance procedures for that official record on hong kong.… edward newington mcallister, by his own insistence and with both presidential and congressional authority.",0
10472,"they left a force of six thousand of their finest men to ensure that the atuatuci suffered no incursions from other tribes; and they left every last tribal treasure they, owned—gold statues, gold chariots, gold harness, gold votives, gold coins, gold bullion, several tons of finest amber, and various other treasures they had picked up along their migration to swell what had been theirs for many generations.",0
11793,"""christ,"" said jonathan.",0
6612,"all this mess is begging for trouble.”

“joe, if you’d come with us instead of staying at stowell’s peering in that stone, we’d known to clear the brush.”

jenny heard his heavy voice turn to the fellow talking, “and if i’d been here, we’d never have known all those spirits were guarding the treasure.",0
1964,"“why?”

				“he isn’t sure.”

				“he’s crazy.”

				“maybe.”

				“can you give it to him?”

				“no.”

				“are you going to find somebody who can?”

				“the mafia.",1
7836,that's something that annoys hell out of me--i mean if somebody says  the coffee's all ready and it isn't.,0
8629,"by the time he was done with his propaganda effort, he was virtually certain that they would draw attention to themselves in some way.”

“but he couldn’t know that abercrombie was going to pull a gun,” protested parry.",0
40,"that those who declare a state now shake their fists in the face of god and deny his chosen one?”

“yes, rebbe,” yacov answered, uncertain if akiva’s pent-up fury was directed at him.",1
2605,"""they have ruined me,"" he said, and his voice was thick and unsure.",1
11927,angela walked out into the front hall and brought the shotgun back into the family room.,0
7537,"donna carla was cursed in every leaky castle in europe, but surely shining choirs of angels in heaven will sing of mrs. cecil smith.",0
2599,"shannon doubted all these stories; for one thing he wouldn’t trust the cia as far as he could spit, and the arabs were not much better when it came to making up their minds.",1
2537,"and campaign reform is ‘moral’ with a capital m.”

mason’s smile was that of a tutor for a slightly dull pupil—kind, patient, and somewhat condescending—tainted by suspicion.",1
7187,"with a movement at once violent and hesitant, she let her head fall forward on his breast.",0
3137,my father and mother were as agnostic as any two people could be without being branded godless pariahs.,1
7774,"so we'll have a little celebration on sunday, father.",0
6478,"his only weapon was a jeweled dagger;
worn in a flat scabbard secured to his left upper arm just below the
shoulder by a leather strap, it could be drawn with a single motion of
the right hand.",0
5690,"comes out the same.”

“i’m not sure.”

“no?”

paul berlin ran his tongue along his lips.",0
10518,nevertheless it is true that ammon is selling land hastily and in secret to any of the faithful who have money.,0
6616,"“it made an indelible impression on my grandmother, i can assure you, and she was ever after afraid of even her own servants.",0
1061,"another woman with whom i can share my hopes and dreams, my uncertainties and disappointments.",1
7784,"when he finished picking the flecks of dirt out of the grooves, he put the shaft of the driver in the small vise attached to the bench, sprayed a little polish on the head, and began buffing it with a clean white rag.",0
5201,"he wondered whether his sister and his son and his daughter, if they were thinking of it at all, understood the smile as he was sure he did.",0
7735,"oh, god, what a sunday.",0
3828,"did not many who had been loyal followers of jesus begin to fall away, after a while, because they feared those in authority?”

peter rubbed the back of his hairy hand across his eyes.",0
4714,but he had to be sure he had the freedom paper.,0
8856,"“one or both?”

“one.”

“wholesome, man.”

“you’d have to hustle a hundred barrels of blood to come up with the same amount.”

dracula nodded pensively, presumably relishing the prospect of removing someone’s eyes and getting paid for the pleasure, but after a minute his expression began to cloud.",0
11710,"when it was all finished, they went to their bedrooms to read, say their prayers, and go to sleep.",0
5846,"but no, you’re fine.”

“can i go up to ernesto’s?”

“do you want to ask me any more questions?”

“no.”

“you sure?”

“yes.”

“is going to ernesto’s what you really want to do?” she said.",0
11480,from beyond the lime trees the church clock tolled the half hour.,0
7505,"“you are too young to understand it,” she said, “but sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father.”

i was shocked.",0
11489,misner had scripture and the future on his.,0
11094,a humanist.,0
6440,"“she’s taken to sophie like a duck to water, and she thought you were draining the pond.”

“well, i’m not,” alec assured them.",0
11738,"a robust abbatial church such as our forefathers built in provence and languedoc, far from the audacity and the excessive tracery characteristic of the modern style, which only in more recent times has been enriched, i believe, above the choir, with a pinnacle boldly pointed toward the roof of the heavens.",0
6584,"but there was little doubt that, exaggeration or no exaggeration, the young soldier had affected him as had no other—not in my acquaintanceship with dan, certainly.",0
2687,"""we must give them the material and remain skeptical to their conclusions.",1
8848,"there's
good pressures and   .not@so-good pressures.",0
10074,berber origins go back into a dim past when the gods were female.,0
11888,"i am with the ministry of finance, of course, and having admitted that, i absolve myself of complicity for being clear about my status.”

“whatever that means, accountant, you’re about as clear as your paralyzed ministry,” interrupted an obese man in a black suit too small for his girth.",0
8476,"desmond saw her, because he kept turning around to make sure she was still okay.",0
7533,why was heaven so merciless?,0
9061,"“i told her you probably could, and if she didn’t hear from you, you’d be there.”

				“i could, sure.",0
10037,"god, please don’t.”

she began to wail, rolling her head, wild.",0
5782,"alert as ever, brumhold had fielded questions regarding the resurgence of nazism and the oppressive and nihilistic tactics of the urban guerrillas by repeatedly saying that he was not in a position to talk about these matters.",0
5651,"i learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group—bacteria, mice, people—and subject that group to certain conditions.",0
5912,i want her to see this treasure.,0
5496,whoever said he had measured out his life in coffee spoons was talking about me that day.,0
11954,"that’s the dumbest thing you can do around here.”

“from what we heard about hong kong, you did a hell of a job, alex,” said the man named casset softly.",0
7495,"i preferred them to have been productive, but now to be dead, like daphne du maurier or charles dickens, so that their books formed a kind of afterlife for them and seemed as distant and self-contained, for me, as heaven or hell.",0
2110,"her looks seemed unsure—not of what the old woman was saying, but somehow of fletch.",1
6741,"“faith, ‘tis good to know some things never change,” he said, smiling.",0
11161,and judd was a little ashamed of his own past hesitations.,0
12134,it was still early sunday morning.,0
7507,"she pictured kaiulani in wool coats and mufflers, and the fervor of these prayers made elena’s body grow and her hands shrink to meet it.",0
6434,"someone sneezed: that homely sound convinced me that this, at least, was no dream, no colossal wish fulfillment.",0
9480,"it was harper i seen and nobody else, and i’ll swear to that on a stack of bibles.”

“thank you, mr. jackson,” i said.",0
119,i wasn’t sure .,1
2624,"she supposed some did understand, but doubted that they were in the majority.",1
6189,"“red sky in morning, sailors take warning,” grammy would often say, and sure enough, a storm usually brewed up by evening.",0
1781,no one could tell him for sure.,1
1009,"""and how can you be certain?",1
8864,"“take your hand off me, please.”

“i don’t want to frighten you, but i have no choice.” he spoke quietly, his eyes over her shoulder, the killers had slowed their pace, the trap sure, about to close.",0
6752,"she had never seen his eyes so stony, devoid of all expression save a certain grim pleasure.",0
5836,"when bruch bustled out--black coat, short legs, sack-wide bottom, cap tight, bicycle clips at the bottoms of his trousers (the suicidal challenge of cycling in manhattan)--sammler was again thinking of the pickpocket, the pressure of his body, the lobby and the hernial canvas walls, the two pairs of dark glasses, the lizard-thick curving tube in the hand, dusty stale pinkish chocolate color and strongly suggesting the infant it was there to beget.",0
1011,he could not keep the suspicion out of his tone.,1
11447,"then adelmo came out, his face pale, thrust away berengar, who was trying to speak to him, and rushed out of the dormitory, moving behind the apse of the church and entering the choir from the north door (which at night remains open).",0
9685,"that’s it, eh, brother—the hours?’

“the monk thought that over and said, ‘not really, bishop.",0
2268,"on suspicion.”

i laughed bitterly.",1
5432,"the ground was softer, thanks to the rain, than during my previous expedition, at least in certain tracts it was.",0
1988,"the man had heard that coffey was
stationed in washington, and so presumed his suspicions
were correct.",1
8023,"five hundred dollars, that’s what they offered me christina, the insurance company said they’d settle for five hundred dollars and pay these terrible hospital bills now they’re trying to get my claims dismissed completely by pleading immunity under these no fault statutes and if they saw me up running around the room they’d .",0
7053,"the beam settled us into a pod, and the officers there, a wizened old gentleman surely past retirement age and a young trainee who watched and listened to his superior with carefully feigned awe, unlatched the hatch and slid it back, helped us out.",0
8263,certainly none of the intense young advocates who had shared his bed in law school.,0
11021,grace walked hesitantly to the horse's rear.,0
67,i'm not sure she realized how much mackenzie hates it when she kicks toward her.,1
10339,"“morris alburg on the line.”

“well, thank heavens,” mason said.",0
3078,"unless attempt made

avert this disaster, operation to bring out n to west cannot proceed.”

munro looked down at the stream of paper coming out of the telex with disbelief.",1
8528,syph was always a possibility and galloping dandruff a certainty.,0
8286,you certainly didn't have to return the watch and the cufflinks tonight. ',0
10950,it undoubtedly concerned some of his former patients.,0
10098,"but the county paid him to be god on occasion, and tonight god had late duty.",0
9618,boyd: (voice muffled): is the preacher there?,0
439,"and he answered them, ""o faithless generation, how long am i to be with you?",1
8309,"i didn’t think he was so bad, myself—odd, certainly, but not dangerous.",0
11261,the one-time polish slum kid from chicago stood with one hand on the president's boyhood bible while secretary todd swore him in.,0
3941,"the insults concerned a savage girl massé had been sleeping with, a girl laforgue had lately tried to instruct in the faith.",0
9933,"they could worship odile, but they kept girlfriends on the side.",0
574,"my parents will love the pictures i took of the lake.”

again the old man looked uncertain.",1
9015,"it’s—” i thought about it a moment, then said: “it’s a confidential assignment, actually.",0
6634,"chapter 16
pi he was well over eighty now, the man moved i quick and sure foot as he mounted a huge rock a which a million people were gathered.",0
11867,"""by god he will,"" i said.",0
6755,"i know, babe, and i’m sorry to pressure you after a week like this.” the sympathy sounded genuine.",0
12196,"“what is he?” she ventured a glance at the temple over her shoulder, almost as if she expected the god to come at the sound of her voice.",0
6797,"we welcome you back.”

with the sure grace of a forest creature she pressed forward into the woods, and within a quarter of an hour she discovered a deer trail that led westward.",0
7468,"i suspect it's very hard for most of us to pray-to pray well, that is.",0
2432,"by the time i was aware they were inside, they’d found the living room and were just sort of standing there being very dear and unsure of what to do next—there was no blood-drenched man, just the kids … a sort of fat one, older, called ralph, was the natural leader … they just interviewed him on tv.”

“but no man,” narleski said quietly.",1
575,"only those blazing eyes 
gave any sign that he heard, and even of this milo was not very sure.",1
11203,no one talked; the dank air in the eerily lit abandoned store was tense with apprehension.,0
5883,"maybe it’s a good thing—i don’t know.”

“i’ll listen.”

“sure, but you won’t learn.",0
1919,harry gave me a skeptical look.,1
4355,"“believe me, i know the feeling.”

shout accepted my affection with delicate pleasure, then his ears pricked to attention as his eyes saw something in the distance.",0
7215,"sometimes to find the key that will unlock the future, we have to see what keys we buried in the past.”

the pressure building inside shelly hit the bursting point.",0
11977,"but lady oxenford said: “that’s too long for percy to wait—let’s make it earlier.”

all right, harry thought uneasily, but not too early, for heaven’s sake.",0
2146,"a big problem was that joey, the bartender from the grotto, could not be one hundred percent sure it was sharkey he had seen disappearing in back of the gas station.",1
1045,"the next morning, rested, fed, and as hale as i could hope to be in the uncertain days ahead, i determined to try my luck with amir ghazi.",1
7242,"won’t take a minute.”

percy disappeared behind the grill, opened the hatch in the floor, and went down the steps where he stored certain food items.",0
10581,"the heat was stifling, so jonathan opened a casement with caution and immediately could smell the sharp electricity in the teeming air he inhaled it with pleasure, though water splashed on his face, and it recalled to him very clearly an earlier storm like this, when he had been a child.",0
6491,"his expression rushed in one moment from the most absolute 
seriousness to such gentle and hearty merriment that the old men who sat with 
him felt their hearts move with affection, and with sighing memories of their 
own youth and assurance and vigor.",0
8514,"no doubt they were turning over various ways to murder him and his family when he made his escape, first to a friend in ameria, a certain titus megarus, and then to caecilia metella in rome.",0
9090,"""sure,"" holloway said with a slanty smile.",0
1882,he has thought of giving a speech this year (the new february plaque hangs by the pepsi clock) but doubts they will ask again.,1
12276,"""the local police chief suggested suicide,"" angela said.",0
3548,"it is not fair to the workingmen.”

he waited for the female plea, “what else can i do?” it did not come, and stephen knew that lalage menton intended to go on begging until she could find some surer source of income.",0
7003,"“i live down in arizona, but i’m spending the summer in the area and thought i’d ride over the divide.”

“it’s a mighty nice trip in the summer.”

“sure is.",0
3719,you sure chose the wrong target!,0
7430,"connie’d be all right.”

“have you got all this work to do over christmas?”

“most of my work i do by mail now.",0
7712,"“god damn, you kill me.",0
5196,"of course she was not a rich man's daughter, and money, the dollar, was certainly a terrific sexual additive.",0
2187,"“but we’re not absolutely certain,” the police spokesman cautioned.",1
5631,"hell, i used to think that way myself.”

“mm,” vinnie says, remembering certain meetings of the tenure staff of her department.",0
10233,"“just my natural curiosity,” she said, tilting her head, “but why?”

“why what?”

“why in hell did you decide thumbs up for this skinny broad?",0
9778,"to turn my holy brother into a dentist, to buy me that van when i got to be twenty-one.",0
12061,"and, norman, you’ve got on a short-sleeved shirt, you goddamned idiot!",0
6014,it had a certain interest.,0
1604,"by the way, both of them are atheists, so this is not about religion.",1
1217,"but i recollect there bein’ somethin’ else that needed doin’ up here.”

“what’s that, jem?” tj ran an uncertain hand over his cheek.",1
42,he was not sure he liked it yet.,1
8887,". . say tonight, it will be held confidential?”

massey nodded.",0
10292,"but there were still the russians, the british, the french with their mysterious agent, and god only knew how many others, all beating the bushes for rafferty.",0
8436,was it because he wasn’t the faithful dog you thought he was?,0
11887,"“jesus god!” father shouted upstairs to me, and i thought that if iowa bob had still been with us, he would have said that franny was wrong.",0
8256,"sure it did, no one else even came close: faithful ernie, none other than you, you were that trustworthy lad, unlaid hack of the woebegone countenance.",0
3793,"when he came off the hill, he was sure that almost no one had seen him, or if they had, they would have small curiosity about this nature lover and exercise freak.",0
7415,"that was the way my mother’s life ended, with a grave in new mexico and a stained-glass window in the methodist church in madison city.",0
10873,"he had known then, without any doubt, that regina armagh had her brother's complete love and confidence and absolute trust, and that she knew the import of his thoughts if not the thoughts themselves, and that for him she had the tenderest love and an almost saint like compassion, and knew all about him and sorrowed over him.",0
3321,he invited her to savor her koele moment and stated that he hoped her stay would be “an unforgettable moment of old lana’i hospitality.” she had no doubt her stay would be unforgettable as she downed the refreshing beverage.,0
312,"i don’t have the faith that miss alice has, lord, in you, in this book, in anything.",1
6338,“i thought for sure i’d be eaten alive back there.,0
3607,"“we gotta make sure linc and your ma have a home to come back to, you hear?”

jessie nodded, fighting the blasts of wind.",0
844,"the complete agnostic who considered himself the perfect man for editing church news had caught my curiosity, to say nothing of the man who suffered such strange experiences as acute attacks of futility and disinterestedness.",1
11177,"a knowledge, an apprehension of nobler things than are compatible with either evil or madness.",0
2866,"""if you can pull it off your way, you're a miracle man,"" clark said dubiously.",1
7370,i thanked god it was my grandmother’s car.,0
6867,he greets me with gentle pleasure and shakes his hair out of the thin dark ponytail that he binds up in a net.,0
5440,"it is true there are a few names to lend reality, and the attempt to present reality is a brave one, but there is a portentous air of legend in the style, and in spite of herself the author writes in a heightened mood of one enchanted and convinced by a miracle.",0
1406,"she just had the operation in february.”

“i doubt if harold, or even loren, has ever let the words ‘breast cancer’ pass his lips.” he smiled.",1
3210,"he pressed forward with, “i thought you wanted to be certain that she had no opportunity to .",0
2960,"can you believe that?” the other women’s jaws dropped, and they looked at her in delighted disbelief, but it was tanya who spoke first.",1
3619,“you can rest assured that we will take good care of these sweet little motherless girls!,0
5677,"why, then, did she leave out certain elements and details that anyone might reasonably have expected her to include?",0
10077,thank god.,0
7601,he wiped his wet lids with pudgy fingers and the curious sephardim turned back to their prayer books.,0
4181,"‘but we had to be certain, you see.",0
6945,"certainly not the new suit she ordered from new york and which, he was aghast to find, was double-breasted.",0
1205,"how could he, or anyone, doubt the existence of
god now?",1
109,“something none of us can be sure of.,1
689,"“tell him to dip out some lard and throw it on the fire.” elton did so, unbelieving, but the fire flared, grew hotter, the foaming lard subsided in the kettle, and elton’s face relaxed from anxiety and self-accusation into a grin.",1
10046,but first-degree burns are a hell of a lot easier to take than a personal barbecue.,0
8717,"lempke, when you're in that green sofa, can you be seen from the street?”

“sure.",0
8630,"“i wasn't aware you had a license for carrying a concealed weapon,” i said, taking the revolver from her and making sure it was unloaded.",0
6269,are you sure you won't stay for dinner?,0
1358,"they had, many of them, put up cash money to send missionaries among true savages, folks they pictured in skins of various dine colors living in locales they conceived of as infinitely more remote and heathen than their own, and so the remark did not pass easily.",1
2915,this is iniquity—the most godless iniquity of all that pharaoh has perpetrated.,1
5360,"“you know he’s the older boys’ teacher up at the reformed sunday school.”

“sure.",0
9158,"‘what about edward?’

			‘edward?’

			‘did you take him home on monday?’

			‘sure.",0
11230,"minea danced for them every day to keep in practice for her god, and they marveled at her art, saying, “never have we seen the like of this!”

the journey was profitable to me, for it taught me that, if the rich and powerful are everywhere alike and think in the same way, so also are the poor the same the world over.",0
9790,the bible's never said a word about bourbon.',0
228,never before were democracy and belief in god so nearly identified; never before were atheism and tyranny so much a twin.,1
1109,"like a wild animal caught in a snare, he seemed frightened and uncertain whether to flee or fight.",1
4079,"certainly nothing i could easily fork over, and clearly, no one else will offer to do it.",0
9461,"“i was wondering about christmas,” carella said.",0
6883,"“this way, please.” sven motioned that i should follow him across a secured walkway that led into the ship.",0
11232,“what an evil idea; those preaching friars must have put it into his mind.,0
4051,now the fire was sure to come.,0
7818,"maybe you could wait till christmas, when i’ll be gone.",0
1223,"“and you’ll probably hear it again.”

“i’m not sure time can heal the rift between us.",1
730,"took longer than we thought to take care of it, and i’m not sure it’s cleared up yet.",1
9038,"let me see.”

			mattie fetched faith’s handbag from the floor where it lay in the closet with its contents scattered about.",0
9139,"i think we could give an opinion that the exposure to guthion could've caused the behavior that contributed to his accident.""",0
5688,"when i increased the water pressure, she slipped and fell on the sudsy floor.",0
4325,"“he was, i will say, a faithful man.”


it was a lonely gathering for henry catlett.",0
2737,girard stared in disbelief as they rolled past a line of automobiles halted on each side of the landing strip.,1
4006,surely at any moment cardigan would give the order to wheel and attack.,0
5258,"“sometimes if i think i see smoke i go walking toward it, and now and then i’m sure there are children around me.",0
4039,"i'm sure we could book you through to denver.” rayford was
disappointed.",0
5022,"tina modotti, an italian, makes photographs of hands and has made a beautiful study of the hands of amado galvan, the potter, for this book, and so united were the artists, no matter what their medium, and so faithful were they to their visions, tina modotti’s photographs from life appear at first glance to be photographs of diego’s paintings.",0
9391,"the desolate church loomed like a crouching dinosaur, its tower the stiff, raised head.",0
480,"and even though he was a doctor, catherine doubted that he was any smarter than blake, at least in a general sense.",1
8247,"apparently you’ve seen the register.”

“i sure have.",0
7339,(we had visited my grandfather every christmas since i was old enough to travel.),0
2847,i always doubted that she gave me her real name.,1
7512,"the jubilance in the slave row was beyond any measure now as they poured out across the big-house front yard and up the entry lane to reach the big road to join the hundreds already there, milling about, leaping and springing up and down, whooping, shouting, singing, preaching, praying.",0
4966,"once having decided to open the letter, he took out his pocketknife, opened the big blade, and inspected the envelope for a point of ingress, found none, held the letter up to the sun to make sure not to cut the message, tapped the letter to one end of the envelope, and cut off the other end.",0
4564,"“i’m sure he loved her.”

“some love,” he said.",0
7864,"on the street below the window of his hotel room, vendors sold caged birds and monkeys that screamed.",0
2890,"ivanenko was different, the main reason he was distrusted by the risen apparatchiks of the

politburo.",1
9703,"yet when you carry your thoughts back from the scene which you have just witnessed and review the line of presidents you find that if they have not all been great men—far from it—they were all honorable men; and you cannot help repeating the american saying: “god takes care of drunkards, little children, and of the united states.”

the climate of welcome in which the convention of 1960 opened was like many of those that had preceded it.",0
8216,"“come on, if you’re sure you’re all through here.”

beam’s eyes all but vanished as he smiled.",0
5904,"“you gets a telegram.”

“sure she misses you,” little brother adds.",0
4106,"even so, he found a fat duck which he bought and carried determinedly to the home of the rabbi to be blessed and killed.",0
7372,"pray to improve his religion; he whimpers and gapes because you have removed his teeth, puffed his gums, fattened his tongue, put the poison in his belly and his blood. . . . and final admonition to you, you cringing federal moses: see that you do not despise god’s chastening hand, see that you do not faint under god’s rebukes! .",0
8782,are you sure?,0
6750,"“may it be wise, monsieur, to ask captain farrow what he may wish for this act of generosity?”

“a share in the treasure of the prince philip.",0
5277,because surely she doesn’t think that vinnie is personally messing up london and knows fuck-all about life.,0
10768,he himself belonged undoubtedly to the fittest; but the human fittest had no less certain responsibility towards the less fit.,0
1030,"i don’t even know what i’m doing.”

“you’re staying by the side of an unfaithful woman, that’s what you’re doing.",1
5188,"sylvie stood up and stretched, and nodded at the sun, which was a small, white, wintery sun and stood askant the zenith although it was surely noon.",0
11978,"my god, he thought, i must be mud and slop all over from shoes to collar.",0
5446,"“don’t they have good fishing down there?” “sure they have good fishing, mike,” i told him.",0
8422,only by putting terri at risk could he ensure that carlo would never hear the tape.,0
5533,"all we have to do is go directly south, and sooner or later, and probably sooner, if i remember what i’m thinking about correctly, we’ll come to that state road that goes off below our house.”

“you mean just below lucille’s house?”

“sure.",0
7315,"“maybe they could turn it on just for special occasions, like easter and christmas, or revivals.”

“that's ridiculous,” he said.",0
3657,we are also of the opinion that certain persons knew his identity and are still attempting to hide it.,0
913,"hamilton used his authoritative tone, knowing that by now they had been properly prepared; their suspicions were dulled, their fears assuaged by his honest appearance of his own pain and shock.",1
7827,"i slept in the garage the night he died, and i broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it.",0
5905,". .

—out in the country oh i know, it restores your faith in human nature not having to see anyone, i’ve been helping bunker do over his country place and i can’t tell you how the creative spirit takes wings simply choosing new slipcovers, of course the place is bedlam because they’ve torn up the floor to put in the new bar with the space behind it for his barman a good foot lower since bunker can’t bear to look up at him and he’s putting in an entire carpentry shop where his handyman can repair the furniture that gets broken at his parties without the outrageous prices and haggling these antique restorers put you through pookie!",0
10939,all the directors of the corporation were members or associates of the miranda family and i have no doubt the entire two million went straight into their war chest.,0
5325,"it was a house like a church, built for nothing else except to hold the pictures she picked out to put in it—pictures from all over the united states, painted by people who loved what they had seen or where they had been born or lived enough to want to paint pictures of it so that other people could see it too; pictures of men and women and children, and the houses and streets and cities and the woods and fields and streams where they worked or lived or pleasured, so that all the people who wanted to, people like us from frenchman’s bend or from littler places even than frenchman’s bend in our county or beyond our state too, could come without charge into the cool and the quiet and look without let at the pictures of men and women and children who were the same people that we were even if their houses and barns were different and their fields worked different, with different things growing in them.",0
8951,"having secured her gin, she went on.",0
10746,"we laymen must make sure we have a broad understanding of the problems the physicians face and the the physicians have the tools they need to find solutions.”

hopkins looked up from his notebook to smile hesitantly at the audience, then glanced down again.",0
11900,"""ye gods!",0
5410,"now that she was safely away from those international clothes-horses and had only to contend with a rather puny englishman whose cuffs, she observed with pleasure, were none too clean, she allowed her dander to get up.",0
6492,"“do you really think so?”

“i do.”

“but,” she said, regaining her composure, “you’ll have to run it by the vestry.”

“right.",0
9187,"“it’s just a question of which is supposed to be clotted, the cream or the scones, and i’m pretty sure it’s the cream.",0
1252,"for all his outward adherence to the doctrines and practices of the established church, he did not share her faith in a personal god.",1
5511,"there is something about the pure and radiant beauty of a certain kind of woman—fair of skin and of hair, although if truly aryan she can of course also be somewhat darker—that inspires me to idolize that beauty, to idolize it almost to the point of worship.",0
5706,"all of their charleston friends had expressed the opinion that the mountain region was a heathenish part of creation, outlandish in its many affronts to sensibility, a place of wilderness and gloom and rain where man, woman, and child grew gaunt and brutal, addicted to acts of raw violence with not even a nod in the direction of self-restraint.",0
1699,"tsau seemed to be secularizing in a trendless way, very gently.",1
392,"“i want it to be home for us and that’s all.”

“does ida live here?” lauren wasn’t sure if she was being too nosy.",1
4257,"i thanked her and strode away, determined to leave the building before my fragile facade cracked and shattered into a million tears.",0
1965,"her eyes moved uncertainly, huge and heavy and dark, with morphine dragging down hard on the lids.",1
12149,"""that was a lousy trick to pull, and if i've lost my hearing i'll sue the goddamned utility.""",0
1579,"he owned one of the horses (i still didn't know for certain just who owned the one
i was sitting on) and the dirt we were going to race on and the nice white rail enclosing it
and the adjacent pasture which the tethered wagons and buggies were cutting up and the
fence one entire panel of which a fractious or frightened saddle-horse had just wrenched
into kindling, but nobody knew where he was or seemed to bother or care.",1
254,"so she came back to the bungalow the way her momma and her aunt fay nell had figured all along she might, and she determined evermore to go untempted by any man otherwise and, consequently, stayed on at the bungalow, where she nursed her relations in their illnesses and attended at their decrepitude and gave them all over at last to their plots on the hillside until they left mrs. lila b. underwood alone in the house where she occupied her time pardy with her lilies and her peonies and her gladiolas and her dahlias that she grew out back in the door- yard and pardy as well in study of the scriptures as had become a custom there in the bungalow where mrs. lila b. underwood's momma and mrs. lila b. underwood's daddy and mrs. lila b. underwood's aunt fay nell had been wont of an evening to sit about in the front room reading each in silence from their bibles, silence that would come to be troubled and interrupted by assorted significant necknoises whenever lila's momma or lila's daddy or lila's aunt might come across a postulation that seemed to them dubious and farfetched.",1
7976,"god, it’s good to hear from you!”

“we still gonna take that trip down south?",0
5113,"“she’d sure turn her ring around on her finger if she passed one, and look in the other direction so they couldn’t see she was pretty and carry her off.",0
3133,"the chief nurse on the floor said that for a doctor he’s a terrible patient.”

“thank christ!”

“i thought you were an agnostic.”

“it’s a symbolic phrase, check with mo.” bourne noticed the gun in alex’s belt; he gestured at the weapon.",1
9360,"in general.”

“yes, one was before church, the other after.",0
2338,"but as tragic as that is, i’d defend myself again.’

slowly, sharpe shook her head in silent disbelief.",1
8239,"she can sure eat roast beef, though.",0
6900,“i’m pretty sure i can get tj to accept it.,0
4623,"“this slave—a phrygian named tothmos— schooled us in our letters and when we were old enough taught us the old religion too.”

“which you have been using to treat my father.”

“yes.”

“to dubious effect, it seems to me.”

lile looked at her curiously.",0
1210,"180: “perfidy”

“deceitfulness, untrustworthiness; breach of faith or of a promise; betrayal of trust; treachery” (oed).",1
367,"the sceptics might sneer at it, believers might chuckle at its excesses, but in essence it was sound.",1
9851,"once i got the job, i gave a healthy donation and never set foot inside again, at least not on sundays.",0
1305,"he said, “i think he’d know.” but there was uncertainty in his tone.",1
3615,"i personally am of the opinion that he was simply taken in by lucy strasburg, who used him carte blanche as a means of getting information and then passing it along.”

hess shrugged with surly reluctance to accept this thesis.",0
2595,"so the faith of the simple was mocked, the mysteries of god were eviscerated (or at least this was tried, fools they who tried), questions concerning the loftiest things were treated recklessly, the fathers were mocked because they had considered that such questions should have been subdued, rather than raised.”

“i do not agree, venerable jorge.",1
11117,"but he obeyed without hesitation, just as his master had, at the sight of sam's face, decided--and somewhere deep in him a decision had remained to take-- without hesitation on his course of action.",0
8957,"‘we were pretty certain hendricks was behind the trouble, but we didn’t know how he fitted in, and how far back it had begun.",0
1936,mankind has always built a little more than he has hitherto been able or willing to destroy; got more children than he has been able to kill; invented more laws and customs than he had any intention of observing; founded more religions than he was able to practice or even to believe in; made in general many more promises than he could keep; and has been known more than once to commit suicide through mere fear of death.,1
4613,"""you could not be content at the abbey believing jerusalem's streets are built not with stones, but chunks of gold,"" he said.",0
4778,"i certainly did.""",0
6114,"“chuck,” jane said, “you owe me five dollars.”

i gave her a five-dollar bill, the last one in my wallet, with a great show of reluctance.",0
6006,he would routinely stoop to saying he knew a certain work.,0
5264,"i’m sure you couldn’t guess it

if you guessed a long, long while.",0
7037,"she had missed sleeping next to him, feeling his warmth when she was cold, touching him for reassurance when she woke to in the middle of the night.",0
6373,"tyke would almost certainly beat him up if he was in a foster home, as it would not be like having his own folks to protect him.",0
1021,"why, they are heathens who are not christian,” calhoun said, pounding his palm with his fist.",1
1489,"“i don’t know for sure that i’m selling.”

“i seen the ad.”

he nods.",1
10155,"jesus, you were lucky.",0
5180,"i had no idea what i was about to say—doubtless some gauche words of comfort—but it was she who spoke first, behind hands clenched to a tear-stained face.",0
9641,"“i mean it’s like christmas, isn’t it?",0
10277,i've been looking all over the goddamn city!,0
5308,"as she prepared to leave she said: “porky, you see the ashleys from time to time, don’t you?”

“once in a while i do.”

“is it true they’re opening a boardinghouse?”

“people say that.”

“porky, you can keep a secret, i’m sure.",0
3138,"whether it was petersburg that he regarded as his home, or some other place, remained uncertain.",1
1117,tancred’s suspicions grew that matters with irene had not gone well.,1
5029,"a restraining influence would certainly have been exerted on me, on ty, possibly on my father.",0
10879,"but in pharaoh’s golden house there must be many fair women, and no doubt as a physician you have used your leisure hours conscientiously on their behalf.”

it is true that i had taken pleasure with some of the court ladies who in their boredom came to ask my professional advice.",0
8712,"sure, we’ll comp you exactly the same as you got here.",0
12088,"now where the hell is this gull reef club?""",0
4762,"“i’m sure she’ll get straightened out with bob in no time.”

“i don’t know.",0
1837,"it was a chocolate icecream cake and look, he already had a fire going in the fireplace, it was like old times, everything was so cozy, it was like he expected her, when she’d called and he hung up in her face she just came right over, to tell the truth she wasn’t too sure what kind of welcome she’d get, coming down beside him, didn’t he even have a kiss for her?",1
3771,"dear tim,

as i’m sure you expected, i found out where you are.",0
12139,angela accompanied him as far as the back door.,0
1185,"do me a favor, david, and don’t tell anyone else at the station, since i’m not sure who else norah’s inviting, okay?” patrick patted his stomach, visions of biscuits dancing in his head.",1
4799,"pretty pink feathers on her red hat—and curly yellow hair—

doubtless a whore from a goosing slum on water street.",0
9993,"apparently, she'd seen me on the news and had even tried to contact me, but continued to hang up when she got my machine.”



""are you thinking she might have had papers or something that would tell us what the hell this is all about?”



""if she had,"" i said, ""then she was probably sufficiently frightened to get them out of her house.”



""and stash them where?”



""i don't, know, but maybe her ex-husband would.",0
5560,"“isn’t there something you can do about it?”

“sure.",0
7386,"she stood in the back of the church in a brown dress flecked with small white leaves, and when my family left after the service she turned her face from us.",0
11655,"those acts were against god, and he and his woman were about to face him; there had to be certain ameliorating circumstances.",0
4580,to be sure not jack.,0
1238,"chapter twenty-one




because no one knew for sure whether jamie larkins was a believer—and from her behavior, most assumed she was not-hers was a funeral of despair.",1
5207,he certainly expected something more from the fellows than what he had gotten.,0
9438,"bernhard, after checking the doctor’s identity, told the extern nun it would be all right to summon sister margaret mary and began explaining to bailey the reason for these unusual precautions.",0
8222,"""make sure,"" maurice said.",0
9598,‘god encompasseth us’?,0
1925,"sure, there’s worse things than not being christian.” like being chinese, he told himself silently.",1
5671,"is guilt the unconscious device by which a man cries for attention in an unperceiving world, or can it be that the final human plea sure is pain?",0
3288,"""it certainly is.",0
12239,"625

626

heaven and hell



yellow light, summer light, painted the ceiling and the whitewashed wall behind the head of his bed.",0
8144,"as surely as a murderer was destined for the gas chamber, he was destined to be here, enduring this indignity inflicted on him by the man across the desk.",0
453,"“grandmother,” tanya objected, “i’m not sure this is the time.”

shannon looked at tanya and then lowered his eyes to the table.",1
5463,"a silver headband was tied around her orange hair, and it made her look like a certain social leader recently deceased.",0
3643,no doubt haj amin husseini will be first in line to fill that vacuum with his own power.,0
11340,"at that time i had passed very little of my life in a scriptorium, but i spent a great deal of it subsequently and i know what torment it is for the scribe, the rubricator, the scholar to spend the long winter hours at his desk, his fingers numb around the stylus (when even in a normal

temperature, after six hours of writing, the fingers are seized by the terrible monk’s cramp and the thumb aches as if it had been trodden on).",0
6500,"she sat down, poised her fingers over the keypad, and began to type—a dedication for the book that was yet to be written:

to the blue bottle club,

letitia, adora, eleanor, and mary love,

whose faith, strength, and determination helped me discover my dreams.",0
6051,they were surely off on holiday!,0
5285,"they joined her, catherine waiting for those words of which she was sure, rufus lowering his voice almost to silence while she hesitated, trying to give her the words distinctly.",0
4070,"“shhh!”
and sure enough, as they watched, buck quickly and quietly reached into his little
sack, surreptitiously and almost invisibly slid out the cookie, put it to his mouth, and
took a bite.",0
3017,"""i very much doubt that either of us will have to go as far afield as italy.",1
10064,"with nikki happily occupied, angela called robert scali in cambridge.",0
8651,"the nearest, an old woman secured with a knotted yellow sheet so she wouldn’t topple from her rocking chair, lolled her head toward carver and smiled as if she recognized him as a long-lost family member.",0
5932,by the time they had three of the horses sidelined in the trap blowing and glaring about there were several vaqueros at the gate drinking coffee in a leisurely fashion and watching the proceedings.,0
11450,"'i beg of you, when you're at the beach and have plastic, shove it in the

trash, because these fellows don't have ph.d.'s,' the guide was saying with the

passion of an evangelist.",0
6954,surely he wouldn’t have seriously considered asking a child to be an attendant.,0
11802,"""my lord king?""",0
9849,"“oh, god, that’s a lovely thought.” his pipe had gone out again.",0
6193,"has the methodist episcopal church ventured into new mexico or”—the man hesitated—“is this a pleasure trip?”

keeping his voice even, daniel responded, “lucas tristram, i believe.",0
8873,"“you wouldn’t let her talk.”

“sure,” mason told him.",0
9089,"sure, i seen him with a few creeps before, but nobody i could finger.",0
8550,“you are surely not suggesting that any medication i have been administering to mrs. seaingham .,0
834,"if you let us finish our job they’ll…wheel her out in a few minutes.”

manuel shook his head in disbelief.",1
923,"“if you were the pastor and i was sitting in this chair, telling you that i was marrying an unbeliever whom i didn’t even really love, what would you do?”

wes leaned forward then and set his elbows on his knees.",1
6447,"she'd not yet even settled full onto the seat when she shared with her donald her acute apprehensions as to their immediate prospects, apprised him of how they'd never likely get up out of the bottom until maybe it froze and consolidated, which she'd not hardly left off being truly apprehensive about when donnie huff accelerated as recklessly as a fellow might and so skidded and slid prior to advancing precipitously up between the fenceposts and passing at last into the road for which donnie huffs loving wife's mother gave praise and blessed donnie huff for his skill and his daring and so earned for herself a look from her donald and heard shortly from him a ""yeah.""",0
1092,"at the moment, it still left his gut churning with doubt.",1
1137,"while they had no doubts about the authenticity of their discoveries—something like this was beyond contrivance, after all—anyone not present at the dig would, almost viscerally, have to greet anything as phenomenal as this with massive skepticism.",1
7377,"were they still married, quarreling at the dinner table, decorating the christmas tree?",0
9897,"i wanted to feel human again, and the only way i knew was with a woman, and the only women i knew were gay divorcees, stoned hippie chicks, and tired barmaids whose emotions were as badly mangled as mine, and i wanted more, wanted this squirrelly, oddly virginal english professor from some goddamned crossroads in iowa, wanted her like i hadn’t wanted anything in a long time, too long.",0
9001,"you’ve got a girl friend named sue stewart.”

“sure,” she said.",0
5661,"“sure,” my father said.",0
10964,"no doubt santos’s minions were checking the streets, a final inspection before the high priest of conduits appeared.",0
11654,the killer in priest’s clothing suddenly snapped; visceral bolts of lightning electrified his madness.,0
3345,"and there certainly is no need for us to be hurtful to one another.”

the one with green eyes looked away and gently bit her bottom lip.",0
7765,angel had made her mind up she would either prove herself that night or she wouldn’t.,0
9947,"“by god,” mcginnis said, his voice enthusiastic.",0
3089,"today, however, samuel did not wear that amused, skeptical smile.",1
7842,"it was four days after the day she’d called margaret sanger—she put it off and put it off, but finally on friday, three days before ron’s wedding and four before her departure, we were heading through the lincoln tunnel, which seemed longer and fumier than ever, like hell with tiled walls.",0
90,he hadn’t been sure that she understood who he was.,1
7749,the sacred novel.,0
485,"""why should a man feel guilt because of the sin 
of his ancestors, if the story be true, which i doubt?",1
7096,"surely, thomas, who was found to have worn a hair shirt under his robes, would have preferred this powerful symbolism of the empty space left by a man’s death.",0
5892,"several squads of guards with fixed bayonets entered the enclosure through its outer gate, and key shrugged hopelessly.",0
4900,he lay in wait; his faith was in innocence and his knowledge was of ruin; and had these things been shaken?,0
5314,"he swore that he had escaped barely with his life, and was confident that his wife was ravished by invaders.",0
10622,"one he had not seen at all, the fourth, who had stayed at the hideout ready to kill simon cormack at a phone call or a no-show by his colleagues by a certain time.",0
6050,"ah, and the astonishment of his first bath!—for though, afterward, years afterward, he was always to be ignored if he claimed, however hesitantly, that he did remember the hour of his birth, he did remember, with remarkable exactness, the lapping warmth of the water, the surprising cold and hardness of the porcelain basin, the pressure of hands—strangers’ hands—the soft caressing greedy feel of a sponge—for the sponge, larger than a grapefruit, with its queer porous texture, was as real to him, and as living, as the strangers themselves who treated him, from the first, with such startled love, such half-fearful concern, whispering in his presence as if he were incapable of hearing: “ah, look at him!",0
3170,"the suspicion increased his anger because, as he saw it, the matter was trivial compared with his overall scientific record.",1
3494,einstein had to be sure about those other two fellows before he took the trouble to take the next logical step.,0
6475,"that pie hits whar ye can hold it!”

in the strategy opal was trying was her faith that this strange man’s heart could be changed.",0
2851,"at last, when he could bear the uncertainty no longer, castle said, ‘well, what was the result of all that talk?’

ivan said, ‘they told me that i was handling you wrongly.",1
11467,to joseph armagh it was a street scene that might have been but a mural for all it had life to him and he did not hear the loud fervency of the singing which burst from door and opened window in the churches.,0
12243,"oh, ye gods!",0
4379,"they married into all classes and races, and many of them eventually obtained considerable wealth, status, and power—power that spanish officials now seem determined to test.",0
10711,"""some female you've bedded in boston, no doubt,"" said timothy with anger.",0
7635,the korean money funnels in mostly through the dozens of churches across the metropolitan area.,0
6191,"“now, bob, you know that europe does have some talents we don’t have, don’t you?”



“sure, i know,” said the driver.",0
6960,“surely he’s got to be out by now!” impatiently christoffel threw down the stick and sprinted across the yard.,0
9762,"his father didn’t use the word god, but something like the hand of providence that would guide maggie into the right path herself.",0
10793,"when father had heard that franny was

“beaten up,” he’d never doubted the worst.",0
8530,no doubt he wanted an excuse to leave that seemed inspired by someone else.,0
11063,"help him, girl!”

consolata looked at the body and without hesitation removed her glasses and focused on the trickles of red discoloring his hair.",0
3328,"as chris beth brushed her skirt free of possible dust and made sure the plume on her hat was still intact, she noticed a sudden hush about her.",0
6987,'are you sure?',0
12240,"christ!""",0
9178,"he knew that the pressure doubled by one atmosphere of pressure—14.7 pounds per square inch—every thirty-three feet, so that at sixty-five feet, the tank would have only a half-hour supply, and at ninety-nine feet, just fifteen minutes of air.",0
9636,“he never came back from church.,0
3543,"this week’s kind of tight, but i’ll be sure to make time just as soon as i possibly can.”

they exchanged goodbyes, and silverwood hung up the phone.",0
5827,"well, i had to ask my mother and then i went the next day and said, why sure.",0
6033,emmet worried that he would betray him if he did not try to describe the pleasures of a life he did not feel.,0
2017,"i need your help.”

as he had done the night before through the noise and the smoke and the flashing lights of the raucous bar, the young german looked hard at joel, as if trying to see something he could not be sure was there.",1
6248,"and i, of course, am you.”

“b-but, you said i shouldn’t fall in love with you,” i said hesitantly.",0
10321,. . jesus christ .,0
9069,"“you want to play, leech?”

“come on, give it to me.”

“with pleasure, leech.",0
5961,a moment of grace when both man and bull were sure of themselves.,0
4314,"""you mustn't worry, grandmother, i'm sure my
parents understand.",0
1757,"my father wanted to bury her at sea but could not figure out how, and he was unsure what to do with a methodist corpse.",1
5566,"everyone i saw, except for aunt sid, i told off without a bit of pleasure.",0
481,"that’s chet atkins over there to the left, and i’m not sure who that is next to him.",1
10858,"pierre prefontaine!”

“my pious, departed mother would no doubt take offense at your omitting the ‘brendan patrick.’ like the french, the irish are quite sensitive in such matters.”

“but it was the family.",0
2019,"how are you?”

“fine, sir.”

“any progress yet?”

“not yet, mr. powers.”

“well, i have some information that might be of help to you.”

“oh?” maccauley’s voice was politely skeptical.",1
4913,"they were “ordered to volunteer.” be it said to their credit that these tough-fibred men, who had as much interest in the mexicans as they did in the inhabitants of central borneo (and most assuredly were not mad at them) patriotically took leave of their families, under conditions of extreme privation, and did their military stint with distinction.",0
11619,"i know, finally, that such a glorious abbey as murbach in these very sad times no longer has a single scribe, that at st. gall only a few monks are left who know how to write, that now in the cities corporations and guilds arise, made up of laymen who work for the universities, and only your abbey day after day renews, or—what am i saying?—it exalts to ever greater heights the glories of your order.",0
9368,"we simply had the resources to make itcome to pass as is said in the old testament.”

abrahms stood in front of the enormous desk,arms akimbo above the pockets of his safari jacket.""",0
10960,"however” — he strove for his summarizing line — “a society of supermen would undoubtedly in turn evolve its own laws.”

“superlaws!” milt lewis hawed.",0
11515,"what i meant was the colonel belongs to the hush-hush boys, and so in a way does a clergyman, when you come to think of it… you know, the secrets of the confessional and all that, they are in the hush-hush business too.’

‘my father wasn’t a roman catholic.",0
3882,"“but it is also important that jesus’ followers live rightly and love and respect their fellow man, which is the way of christ.",0
3378,"he has assured mary's upkeep without making difficulties for the firm.”

even livia dared smile, but then her features sharpened.",0
1367,"the raiders were twenty yards from andy’s lean-to by then, with andy, rudy, and francis still immobilized, watching the spectacle with disbelieving eyes.",1
973,"when he told her he doubted if anybody coming to the wedding would run a white glove in there, she said, “i know, but it seems like such a shame to waste good seasonal help.” then she told him she wanted to have me keep working in the house, cleaning, keeping things in order, and then she told him she also wanted me to serve and pick up at tiny fran’s reception.",1
7770,"i thought skies weren’t much to look at, in los angeles.",0
6609,"he was meaning to utter the next suave and manly item that popped into his head and had swung somewhat about so as to allow marie criner the pleasure of gazing upon his rugged profile while a suave manly item came to him, but he caught sight straightoff of the pardues who he was not himself acquainted with and so demonstrated quite naturally a curiosity about them, inquired of marie criner, ""who in the hell is that?""",0
7879,christina?,0
4837,"late at night, nearer morning, after the travelers had all certainly pulled off their boots to fall into bed, he waked by habit and passed with the candle shielded up the stairs and through the halls and rooms, and gathered up the boots.",0
2202,"there would be no discussion, no debate, no screaming back and forth—arguments based in love and uncertainty.",1
7941,"this accounted for our fragmentary, but strangely useless and ornamental education, appropriate to our history and our station in life, neither of which could be in the least altered by the accident of straitened circumstances.",0
9098,"“you are also willing, i gather—for a price to be determined—to go on the witness stand in court and, according to your statement here today, perjure yourself and state that william dupaul pitched both honestly and well, but that dupaul was the victim of poor umpiring.",0
6277,"“sure,” she said.",0
2104,"for that matter, i wouldn’t wanna be in that melanie star’s shoes.”

“i doubt they’d fit,” carver said.",1
301,"having seen the man, quintus rather doubted that the magician wished to take such a chance at this time.",1
7925,"“lord, no,” melissa said.",0
7321,the priest wanted to know if it was true gold and bascomb then regretted his choice.,0
1342,"“i wasn’t sure until now,” said adam.",1
2330,"joel blinked; he had been in a peaceful,rest-filled void, for how long he was not sure.",1
4607,"“sure,” dad would snort, “it was a brilliant financial decision not to build the new church in 1937 because he thought prices were going down even more.",0
192,a pang of doubt hit hannah.,1
6828,if you weren't—if you had been self-assured like the old anaxemander cockley—you would have jumped that desk and beaten me to a pulp.,0
5062,"i’m sure larry wishes we were at his house, a modern brick home in a good section of town, five doors down from a u.s. congressman.",0
4441,"in the torchlight the sweat could be seen beading philip’s brow as they fought back and forth, the sounds of clashing metal echoing off the walls, filling the night with the certainty of death.",0
4339,"it was bread, to be sure, but it smelled of fennel and other herbs i could not name.",0
10807,"no doubt he hoped we would be captured by the patrol or killed by them, beyond the harbor.""",0
9997,by her lights he deserved it - they deserved it -and let washington go to hell in a basket.',0
1199,"independent, self-contained, cool under pressure, and very private, i didn’t need anyone and i certainly didn’t need god.",1
11907,david and angela looked at each other briefly.,0
907,"“well to be honest, i wasn’t so sure myself.",1
8653,"""sure, sure,"" ed managed to get the door open.",0
7757,"“yes, but it also has other meanings: earth and sky and even sacredness.",0
5158,"i'm sure he knew this; his head moved forward in a slow and rather absent nod, as if acknowledging the words.",0
2030,"“you understand that, don’t you?”

“i’m not sure cot—” she closed her mouth hard on the half-spoken name.",1
8830,"everybody in town knows that the chief of police and you are buddy-buddy.”

“so?”

“so, i don’t think an outsider, who isn’t even a mem­ber of our faith, should interfere in a matter that is strictly a temple matter.”

“are you trying to tell me that chief lanigan came and tried to get you to change your stand on hirsh?”

“he didn’t come himself.",0
5929,"even a healthy man, awakened by accident at three in the morning becomes aware of his heart beating on toward its final exhaustion, of his lungs pulling his weight like a locomotive on a lonesome landscape resolutely carrying its load to the pacific, to some ultimate discharging station.",0
638,"“will you marry me?” he asked suddenly, then laughed at the look of disbelief on her face.",1
5263,"that it came as a dark flash from nowhere stunned me as much as the blow, and after the doctor stitched up my head, he peered into my eyes to make certain i had not gone too far into another world.",0
7092,"his steps were hesitant, and his tense gaze darted around the room until he caught sight of lukas at the central station.",0
161,"aware of her latent eagerness, he maintained an appearance of disbelief which he abandoned only when necessary to relieve momentary discouragement.",1
10847,"he was plainly nervous, and when a shot or firecracker went off nearby, he winced noticeably—no doubt aware of all those heavily armed whisky-filled southern congressmen on the warpath.",0
7687,"diana, the heavenly huntress, wore of course a sensible tunic, perhaps with leggings, probably of a heavy green or brown cloth such as what i am wearing.",0
4352,"sure enough, it was rachel, whimpering.",0
10119,"if the california angels can’t distract him, then it’s hopeless.",0
1666,"despising this doubt he called our modern crown of thorns, our hesitating retinue of finer shades, true believers go forth to war says the koran.",1
6113,"that’s a measurement.”

“no.",0
9221,"sure, they’re tellin’ me, and they got some pretty goddamn persuasive ways of telling, too.”

“i want franco’s address.”

davis downed the dregs of the bourbon.",0
4549,"see, now: i have often enough stood on the battlefield after a bloodletting to have heard the sounds wounded men make, and there was no doubt in my mind that this is what i heard - clear and unmistakable, the sound of a broken man moaning over his wounds.",0
11080,if natural apprehension nibbled a little at the edge of his intense concentration on the book he ignored it and dismissed it.,0
9550,"what's more, she was baptized a lutheran - as an infant, no less.",0
4276,"""you may rest assured you are valuable, tancred, or i would not have arrested you.""",0
10600,"we were going to test it widely, then pressure the fda to pass it.",0
7077,"tall and gracious, flushed with
pleasure, she indicated the silken cushions arranged
before the linen cloth.",0
356,for the enemy at every turn puts them in doubt whether it is god’s will for them to do one thing rather than some other.”,1
8208,"?”

“i’ll make sure of it.”

delafield shrugged.",0
4568,"“hear me say this: if you want me there, i’ll be there.”

he nodded, never more certain of anything in his life.",0
7835,"a stifled row, overheard from the kitchen, a door slamming into its frame—then aunt libby shouting “goddamn” and “shit” and “turd,” and uncle dan thundering down the stairs and out the side door, spitting gravel back at us as he disappeared up the drive in his delivery truck.",0
1638,“you and the dog can live with me until you find a new place.” he lit a cigarette and held the smoking match uncertainly between two fingers.,1
11111,"and

further inside, so ghostly it comes to him last, hangs a jagged

cloud, the star of an explosion, whose center is uncertain in

refraction but whose arms fly from the core of pallor as straight as

long erasermarks diagonally into all planes of the cube.",0
7208,"forty-six

the people of cyprus travel by donkey, and although exceedingly undignified, the sturdy little beasts are sure-footed and uncomplaining.",0
10123,"“well, congratulations, that’s nice.”

“for god’s sake, don’t encourage him,” said o’connor.",0
416,"when they finally turned toward the rothmore building, kyle became increasingly uncertain and agitated.",1
8493,"lily was certainly trying to get dawson, and wolfe was probably trying to get jessup, but all i could do about that was to wish them more luck than they were likely to have.",0
9810,“the inheritance of the sinner is as the waterless desert.” leaphorn turned down the volume.,0
10083,"the blonde was dulcibel henneage—effie, to her pals, and christie’s reputed married-lady lady friend.",0
5359,"that the hospital catered not only to christians, but to people of the jewish faith?",0
7600,"her aunt.”

everybody took a chance to yawn or look out the window, but mama inclined her head at poldy going through his papers and said, “sweetest thing in the world, christmas, second to love.” she suddenly looked to the other side of her.",0
4676,and you better realize god ain’t gonna adjust it all to fit your beliefs or minister farrakhan’s or mine or anybody else’s.,0
4131,surely this kind of information isn't worth an incident.,0
4905,i was determined that nelson was not going to be someone with a neurotic stance toward his origins.,0
7332,our christmas lights outside were lit; they were wound around the long stairway railing that led to the sidewalk below.,0
1694,"now go home.”

burris seemed to be afraid of a child half his height, and miss caroline took advantage of his indecision: “burris, go home.",1
9521,"why he turn against us like this?”

“is not god, mama,” juan said.",0
7695,they could find no buffalo; they had to hang an old hide from the sacred tree.,0
12072,truly a demigod.,0
10450,i sure as hell wished i had found c.w.,0
6385,"“but i’m thinkin’ that besides young joshua, someone might be giving annie an earful—about certain things, you know?”

“well, now, if you mean the accident, i think i know exactly what you’re askin’.”

for a fleeting moment, she wished she could see dat’s face, witness the way the smile lines had carved deep furrows at the corners of his mouth, see the sincerity and goodness in his eyes.",0
3861,"though his indignation
was directed heavenward, it at least expressed the essence of faith
that someone might hear, that someone might be listening.",0
4459,"you have such a lovely touch with a needle, afton, will you make sure the work goes well?”

afton was flattered and agreed easily.",0
1179,"“oh, sure.”

he did not believe me.",1
11578,"god allowed such a monster of vice and iniquity to govern his church so that his

successor’s virtues would blaze with glory!”

“but, sainted father,” i replied in a faint voice, summoning my courage, “his successor is john!”

ubertino put a hand to his brow as if to dispel a troublesome dream.",0
1232,"he owed it to her after causing her first baby’s death, yet he wasn’t sure what he should do.",1
5211,"this is of course much more difficult than loving just everybody and everything, for each one must really do something about it, and show his faith in works.",0
1409,"within minutes, they had walked the length of the street and paused at its end, uncertainly, before they turned and retraced their steps.",1
1300,be uncertain of my good intercession brother until you have piled on your account.,1
6564,bruthne informed me that the rigan had sent a messenger to ascertain the reasons for my tardiness.,0
5491,"how better to mislead your palestinian admirers than to let them observe us forcibly abducting their treasured anti-zionist celebrity jew?”

with that, even i had heard enough, and after close to five hours as smilesburger’s captive i finally worked up the courage to leave through the door.",0
11071,"so, joseph francis xavier something-or-other, you're going to titusville with this lad with the heathen name?""",0
525,meg doubted he would have noticed if she’d even disappeared.,1
5484,there is a certain endearing innocence about rodman–he makes the world’s worst conspirator or gumshoe.,0
8089,he felt sure that it should have been and made a note of it.,0
4591,sure of it!,0
12074,"""all right, thank god.",0
11616,what did christ call them in one of his less benign moments?,0
11811,"her place will help without preaching.""",0
9184,"“and that he had made a nasty discovery that herr bach discussed with you earlier this evening.”

andersen’s eyebrows rose at this police interest, but he replied without hesitation.",0
3654,"i know andrew gregory would be a fine person to work with, and certainly miss sadie would be thrilled, she was so pleased with what you did at hope house—”

			 				“i’ve laid out long enough,” buck said curtly.",0
8925,"and now here he was, stealing other people's coins, surrounded by hard, violent, self-assured men, betraying all the people who had ever befriended him.",0
7961,well thank god.,0
8229,they made absolutely certain the next time.,0
10732,"mr. tarlow seems to have very poor physiological defenses, undoubtedly due to his leukemia.",0
8307,"it was suddenly impossible for him to ask ed about his work, as he had certainly meant to do.",0
7880,"there were such titles as “the dead make no complaints”; “the cat’s testimony,” a fable imitating la fontaine; “it is all right to cut the hair but don’t take the hide too,” which in spanish contains a sly play on words impossible to translate; “there are many shepherds who shall dance in bethlehem,” another punning title, meaning that many priests shall go to belén (bethlehem), the great prison which exists still in mexico city; “make things so clear that even the blind may see them”; “even though robed in silk, a monkey is still a monkey”; “all wool is hair,” which has a most salty double meaning; “the nun’s bolero,” concerning scandals in convents; “the dog in a strange neighborhood”; “the devil’s penitents”—these were only a few of the provocations lizardi showered upon the censors, the royalist party, the church, venal politicians of all parties, social and political abuses of every kind.",0
7526,studies were piling up faster than anybody in the ministries could figure out what they were supposed to conclude from them.,0
4940,"the owner of
tihe car was told, assured--by mr buffaloe, it appeared; a little strange since nobody had
ever known him to be far enough away from the light plant or the little shop in his back
yard, to have ever used roads enough to prophesy their condition--that the roads would be
impassable for at least a week, maybe ten days.",0
2827,"with media people, he thought, it was so often an uphill battle, a fight against disbelief no matter how straightforward anyone involved with industry and business tried to be.",1
11188,"i never used a curette on a woman unless it was absolutely necessary to remove the results of a spontaneous abortion, or to save a life, or for diagnostic purposes.",0
1259,pieter-lucas couldn’t bear to ruin all this childish innocence and implicit faith.,1
9564,i gave the works to the salvation army.,0
3293,"when she heard the first wild animal, like the call of an indian, she was certain.",0
6682,"now that gilda’s body had determined to mend, fallon was forced to reenter the ghost village to search for stores of substantial food.",0
7565,why don’t you skedaddle over to home and get the small sum of twenty-five cents off your christian ma?” he opened his notebook and checked my address.,0
9118,"“what is it?”

“about faith usher.",0
6040,"“did you notice where i was speaking?”

“no.”

“the white citizens council.”

“oh,” i said, “oh.”

“honey,” he said, “i hope those bastards of cousins didn’t upset you.”

“it was what they wanted to hear, wasn’t it?”

“sure,” he said.",0
5175,"all right but listen, that last part there i certainly don’t want to be credited with creating this revolting spectacle, isn’t that one of the things we’re suing them for in the first place?",0
7640,"“glynese and carramae are both fine girls.”

“carramae said when her and lyman was married lyman said it sure felt sacred to him.",0
4625,"while they may not choose to adopt our faith, the majority of middle eastern citizens are most willing to listen.",0
12129,"a bonus, courtesy of the goddam company.""",0
8142,"i knew which of my skeleton keys would do for the lock on the iron gate, since i’d already determined that tuesday night, so i had the key in hand as i crossed the street and i was through the gate and had it locked behind me in a matter of seconds.",0
1728,i doubt that there is a more minute physical description of one human being by another anywhere.,1
3577,"""no doubt.""",0
9383,"she was wearing a big black skirt and a lavender blouse and her lips pursed and her face shone with righteous indignation when he said:
	""so i just out and asked jesus who was the biggest sinner; my wife going with this man, or this man going with my wife, and jesus say: 'how come you ask me that, john?",0
7587,"“you got eyes and see not, ears and hear not, but jesus’ll make you see!”

“you be watching if you can see!” haze said, and started running up the steps.",0
2823,"""i very much doubt that, lucius cornelius.",1
12207,"""we're here to offer our cooperation,"" angela said.",0
11904,"alan angell, newark star-ledger: mr. president, how did you learn that the officers you named today were still opposing the treaty?",0
1554,"he wasn’t sure where he was with elsie, but she seemed cheery enough.",1
5695,"by party-revolutionists i mean the followers of some leader who is not an adherent of any particular revolutionary formula, but who is bent on putting down whatever government happens to be in power and establishing his own, based on a purely nationalistic ideal of reform.",0
4515,"i mean after the funeral, when people are getting real on the phone and stuff, when they’re being honest.”

“no.” there was no doubt in josh’s voice.",0
2547,"he couldn't be sure about it at all, later on when he was making his deathbed statement to the inspector in the emergency ward at the hospital, but he felt pretty positive that at least nine of the shots had gotten the third gunman who was escaping in the second getaway car.",1
9811,o'malley didn't run and all the hiding he's been doing is behind the bible.,0
9585,"29


				arthur stood in front of his parents’ closet in the bedroom, pulling his father’s clothes off hangers, making a heap for the salvation army.",0
9135,"hartman’s voice shifted into sarcasm—“ ‘our national treasure.’ ”

“that’ll be a pain,” highhawk said.",0
2050,"an hour after i got back to the normality of my own home, i had begun to doubt everything she had told me, including that she actually had been talking to adam.",1
1213,"it should tell us if your suspicions are based on fact or fear.”

“great.",1
1517,"lining up for them.”

ben’s mother said, “ben, honey, do you want some more soup?”

“i’m not sure about handing him a bank account,” ben’s father said.",1
2577,"a heretic fraticello, accused of crimes against religion and haled before the bishop and other ecclesiastics, was being subjected to severe inquisition at the time.",1
7265,"'surely, master — '

'i wonder that you still call me master.",0
3563,"i haven’t any definite plans yet, but i’m sure this monstrous place was not given us just as a home for a half dozen people.",0
9303,"“that’s an unpriestly thing to ask.”

			“true.",0
11018,"“hello, frankie baby, how’s my closest friend?”

“oh, hi, lou,” came the floating, but hesitant, languorous tones from an expensive apartment in greenwich village.",0
2826,he had sensed a certain indecision in the lady's voice.,1
7983,"i mean, i get a lot of guys who come in like this and they say, jesus christ, i can't just start over, you know?",0
667,two or three men—it was still too dark to see for sure how many—tramped into the cell and stood before the prisoners.,1
8851,"but even now through the tears, through the anguish, a terrible hatred rose, and she thought, most of all he wanted his own pleasure.",0
10700,"""and no doubt you will be, too, normie.",0
8522,"first, we've shown all the signs of believing that 'smith' has left singapore and is out of our hair.",0
2101,"think the publisher would risk ‘taking a bath,’ i believe they call it, by publishing a writer with so uncertain a future?”

david was speechless.",1
4109,"but he was convinced that those folk who had been robbed of their goods by these peasants would not consider their survival a miracle, but a curse upon the land.",0
369,i doubt we have many on the books just now.â€,1
10278,"to the north, to shaft’s left, thompson, macdougal and sullivan streets sprayed bead and bangle shops toward washington square.",0
10413,christine leaned across the table toward him.,0
7024,"they agreed to pain medications to keep the child from suffering, but no other measures would be taken.",0
1241,"“a letter to miss nell scott of boston.”

flanna wasn’t sure, but she thought she saw the beginnings of a smile amid the tangles of his beard.",1
1539,"shortly, however, he was to be taken away from her, and a doubt had been growing in him about whether he really knew anything at all.",1
8699,"your witness couldn’t help there, either.”

“well, you know better.”

“sure, i do, only i’m just a cop.",0
5759,"martin squinted, seeing it ""they've got this big scoreboard up in the lunchroom, measures lines of code, is what it does, and the guy with the most lines at the end of the week gets a bonus.""",0
6668,"“this isn’t what it looks like,” he said in a carefully measured tone.",0
2377,i’m not even sure he understood me.,1
671,"""i am not as certain as you.",1
94,"since he had been known from his boyhood to be a heathen who smoked, played cards, drank whiskey and did all those things abhorrent to the baptists of new dominion, many doubted the truth of the rumor.",1
3849,"is he the sort of heathen who would be offended by the singing of a catholic hymn?”

“hold your tongue!” the abbot shouted.",0
6523,"everything sure is trim and pretty, margaret.” if the truth were told, i had begun to view the interior of our duplex as empty and lackluster in comparison to the occupied corners and vivid colors of birdie’s house.",0
10915,"she thought of all the violent stories she had heard about helen lawson, stories undoubtedly spread by the legions of lesser people, jealous of her success or shocked by her coarseness.",0
2227,i wouldn’t have tried that if i weren’t certain.,1
2033,"“hmm,” she said skeptically.",1
919,"still fearful and hungry for blood, the disgruntled crowd dispersed and gilda noticed that more than one pair of eyes turned toward her in distrust.",1
4612,"“i know why there is animosity between our two faiths in ireland,” he said.",0
3856,"""you seem to be saying that if beliefs and customs which meet your needs do not exist, such beliefs and customs should be manufactured ex nibilo—even if they have no basis in truth.",0
244,"let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the lord.’ well, i ain’t an elder, and i haven’t had much faith for my healin’ in the past—haven’t much cared to see, really.",1
3677,the first page assured her that they were all three fine and that lewis was not discouraged at the prospect of the problems facing him when he became mill superintendent.,0
8639,and i sure as hell ain’t going again.,0
3639,"when the third woman left, she felt confident enough to cross the street, open the door of the barbershop, go directly to the empty chair, and sit down.",0
2716,"then he joked: ""but i don't know whether to thank you or curse you for this dubious honor.""",1
3069,"'that's true, but on the other hand what would happen if spilsbury were to give these doubts the place they would certainly have if he were lecturing to scientists instead of offering an opinion to a group of laymen?",1
11290,"suitably dressed in black, she arrived in her barouche at the heavenly gates.",0
3668,"and i’m sure that, in time, we’ll grow to love her too.”

“oh, mama!” irwin cried.",0
1818,"and so, feeling odd and foolish not because he felt they were really deceiving him or laughing at him, but only because with each public repetition of it he felt more silly, and less sure that it was really as pretty and enjoyable as he liked to think it was, he would give them one last anxious look, which always particularly tickled them, and would then raise his arms and turn round and round, singing,





i’m a little busy bee, busy bee, busy bee,

i’m a little busy bee, singing in the clover.",1
12032,she had assumed the reports would be in a general office filing system and that lord would send for them.,0
10958,"it could found a scholarship, or a foundation, called the sir ian macallister trust, so that people would remember him.”

he had already tried that ploy once, but no doubt she had not heard him or had not grasped what he was saying.",0
10032,"vintage crime / black lizard





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6597,"the older she became, the harder it was to stop and savor each little moment, because all the moments that had come before were now ganging up on her, pushing her with ever greater pressure toward that final door.",0
2807,"nim said skeptically, ""sounds like the old story-there are two kinds of justice, depending on who you are and whom you know.""",1
8544,"only the emptiness was left, most certainly revealed in his face, himself betraying himself, his own worst enemy.",0
12412,"""i know that's not your cup of tea,"" angela said.",0
8394,"anyway, you’re sure aching to be with amy, even if you don’t have to be.",0
4065,"i am certain the streets of both reek with smelly barbarians and arrogant knights.""",0
6235,"but he would have married her—jonathan would!” she felt herself defending her younger half sister as always, even at her own exposure.",0
1782,and i am not sure that even i would have the power to prevent that.,1
4401,"in forceful, often luridly exaggerated language, he hammered home his belief that war could only be deterred, not by a limitation of armaments, but by making war too horrible to contemplate.",0
8633,so we make sure not to insult our jewish guests by including pork on the menu.,0
5809,"good lord, i sure made a mistake when i enlisted.",0
11459,"then grant and his son and the chief justice led hayes into an empty parlour where the chief justice administered the oath of office, just in case.”

“so today was simply ...”

“the religious ceremony.",0
1198,nothing else in all the world is certain--only this: that a man and woman should come together in love.,1
1545,"i mentioned to someone from meteorology how well tsau had done with rainfall, and he seemed dubious.",1
8190,"‘i’ve often thought that a lot of lawyers would be tower snipers if they’d failed the bar exam.’

terri shook her head, wanting to make sure he understood.",0
8184,we could be sure of this for several reasons.,0
9050,"but you killed him for the list.”

surrendering to the pure pleasure of complete contempt, she began to smile.",0
3115,"therefore, potential tyrants were impotent to use them, for they had the forthright man's skepticism of ""ideals"" and ideologies and ""causes,"" and mass protests.",1
7950,what the hell is wrong with you?,0
11695,"in a baritone voice not much better than a monotone, he sang to himself, one of the sweet sad songs he'd first heard when he lazed outside the mont royal praise house, the slave chapel, of a sunday when he was small and trouble-prone and didn't understand the world around him, or the suffering the song expressed.",0
8860,"it was marie who now sat forward in her chair, her expression concerned, her eyes questioning.",0
737,"i’m not sure he could handle that.”

“no.",1
6849,"“what’s your pleasure, sir?",0
6827,"from reading asher’s journal, i knew he possessed great courage under pressure, but i read unmistakable signs of nervousness in his body when he confronted justus.",0
3064,some gravely doubted whether anyone could actually have dared to say these words to the awesome lady.,1
7603,"more especially we pray for thy holy church universal; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good spirit, that all who profess and call themselves christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.",0
7461,"“y’know they have these parish records, who lived in a place, who was christened, and married, and buried there.",0
651,"niamh glanced at murdo for confirmation; he nodded curtly, suspicion swarming around him like wasps.",1
2281,i'm not sure what i've asked you to do is .,1
6421,faith stood watching lenora come down the aisle with measured pace.,0
1719,"wilderness barely fit for pasture, these eminences were; no one was ever quite certain just where the joining lines ran, and no survey had been made since the earliest times.",1
10932,"'and as for m'sieur palan's knowledge of the world, i have no means of computing it, but i should not readily assume it to be greater than mine, though doubtless it has been of a very different kind of world.'",0
11755,"“what a little shit he is,” marjorie said, when he showed up again after christmas, to check out their new roommates.",0
8570,"time’s running out!”

“to be sure, but we cannot do the wrong thing, can we?”

“converse said you had access to powerful people in washington.",0
11390,"""jon,"" said the priest, ""little martha best died three hours ago at the hospital.""",0
11380,"you may burn a cardinal’s house because you want to perfect the life of the clergy, but also because you believe that the hell he preaches does not exist.",0
3029,their position in the social hierarchy was dubious.,1
6592,"he squinted into the sun, almost certain that the boy waved back.",0
9856,"“now, can you tell the jury how many of these pubic hairs found on these women were analyzed and identified as having been from the body of norman church?”

“none of them were from norman church.”

“thank you.”

belk was up and moving to the lectern before chandler had time to remove her pad and the rape kit protocols.",0
138,"“i wasn’t aware i was,” bonnie replied, not certain whether she could commit herself to such an admission.",1
9152,"“sure, we’re your friends,” the owner of the standard oil station said.",0
225,"hesitantly jean admitted, “sometimes when i pray, i really don’t know what to say.”

“god doesn’t always need our words,” elizabeth said.",1
10562,"but switzerland—that would cost a fortune.”

“if it’s a legitimate treatment, i’m sure we have it here,” kevin declared.",0
7564,"“if i come back tomorrow…”

“we’ll see about tomorrow,” said the preacher, who grabbed the doorknob himself and pulled it to as he ushered little red out into the night.",0
6316,"unaware that they were being observed, faith settled into a chair with her plate of sandwiches while jeff lowered himself onto the springy grass carpet alongside her.",0
11974,angela was beside herself with anger.,0
6653,"a gentleman answered, listened to mrs. lake inquire whether he knew dewey mcmillen, and replied,

“oh, yeah, sure, i know ’im.",0
10210,"i would have to take him out with one blow, or it was goodbye robert christopher.",0
3296,"i'm sure she's here.""",0
9673,"priests and nuns today, particularly those who minister in the core city, are not prone to blind obedience, as they once were.”

koesler reflected on the number of times boyle had patiently explained that he wished the detroit catholic to be free of controversy.",0
7262,"though her eyes were cast down in their habitual discipline, she felt the pinpricks of probing eyes from every woman in the enclosure.",0
3398,"you have admonished them for their belief in ghosts and fairies and the little people, and the return of the dead, and vampires, and their conviction that virtue resides in some objects and evil in others.",0
11713,"the handful of earth and the holy water also fell, and joseph did not turn away but looked at his brother's coffin and nothing at all showed on his ravaged face.",0
3157,"so, how could prissy get it without throwing suspicion on herself?""",1
12097,"apart from the home office, there was a minister of state from the foreign office, which would try to maintain relationships with the state department in washington and thus the white house.",0
10000,‘you goddamn judas!,0
9023,"""sure, if it has nothing to do with age or money.""",0
5085,"in passing, to be sure, they were pleased by the surprising survival and supremacy of a foreign language spang in the middle of the middle west.",0
8501,i am certain it would give me a blinding headache.,0
6422,"of a certainty, ill. not quite penniless though, because she still had a dime in her pocketbook—the remnant of two dollars a pawnbroker had given her for her coat.",0
3350,of that she felt confident.,0
2641,"‘love of money.’

‘that certainly doesn’t apply to castle.’

‘he loves his wife,’ muller said, ‘and his child.’

‘what of that?’

‘they are both black,’ muller replied with simplicity, looking across the room at the photograph of the kru chief upon the wall as though, thought hargreaves, even i am not beyond his suspicion, which, like some searchlight on the cape, swept the unfriendly seas beyond in search of enemy vessels.",1
1977,she doubted it was his first.,1
6855,"“it was luck, not a warrior’s skill that felled those two.”

“do not mock the faith of simple men,” replied hafgan.",0
11765,"""holy god, holy and mighty, holy and deathless,"" the words drifted softly down the street and stayed there; as if a feather duster had softly brushed the air, everything was swaying—wreaths, passers-by, plumed horses' heads, the censer swinging on its chain from the priest's hand, and the white earth under foot.",0
2342,no woman enters a man’s family circle without meeting some sense of suspicion or hostility.,1
7245,"kaiser wilhelm ii: new interpretations, 96

43 “my son, the complete guards officer”: holstein papers, ii, 34

44 “nice but silly”: balfour, 86

45 “for a woman in that position”: ibid., 87

46 “hallelujah aunts”... “blessed set of donkeys”: lamar cecil, “history as family chronicle,” in röhl and sombart, kaiser wilhelm ii: new interpretations, 98

47 “the english colony”: ibid., 99

48 “a false and intriguing character”: ibid., 100

49 “our state of dependence on england”: william ii, my early life, 210

50 “considering the unripeness”: bismarck, new chapters, 6

51 “my service in the foreign office”: william ii, my early life, 211

52 “now bismarck governs”: holstein papers, ii, 202

53 “have you asked the crown princess?”: ibid., 195

54 “everyone agrees”: ibid., 164

55 “you have only to look”: ibid., 195

56 “knowing her liking for stewed peaches”: ibid., 166

57 “my father... has a soft heart”: thomas kohut, “kaiser wilhelm ii and his parents,” in röhl and sombart, kaiser wilhelm ii: new interpretations, 75

58 “now i cannot talk to my father”: ibid., 76

59 “the extraordinary impertinence”: balfour, 101

60 “the old hag”: holstein papers, 11, 254

61 “william is always much surprised”: balfour, 101

62 “he did not condescend”: empress frederick, 200

63 “the dream of my life”: ibid., 215

64 “the doctors determined”: bismarck, the man and the statesman, ii, 331

65 “not more dangerous”: william ii, my early life, 284

66 “recovery of my father’s voice”: ibid., 285

67 “the idea of a knife touching his dear throat”: barkeley, 193

68 “the greatest living authority”: holstein papers, ii, 344

69 “fibromatous swelling... like any other mortal”: william ii, my early life, 285

70 “my arrival gave little pleasure”: ibid., 288

71 “you ask how willy was”: empress frederick, 256

72 “my father took his sentence”: william ii, my early life, 289

73 “to think that i have such a horrid, disgusting illness”: empress frederick, 260

74 “my darling has got such a fate”: queen victoria, i, 359

75 “the more failing”: longford, 503

76 “emaciation and the yellow color”: william ii, my early life, 294

77 “i thank you”: empress frederick, 286

78 “at this moment of deep emotion”: queen victoria, i, 390

79 “in my entire ministerial career”: lamar cecil, german diplomatic service, 205

80 “my own dear empress victoria”: longford, 505

81 “what a woman!”: ibid., 506

82 “he assured me he would”: queen victoria, i, 405

83 “a jolly little body”: holstein papers, i, 142

84 “i don’t understand”: bülow, iv, 618

85 “it was terrible”: queen victoria, i, 408

86 “i soon noticed”: william ii, my early life, 300

87 “we are living in sad times”: empress frederick, 229

88 “the crown princess’s behavior is typical”: holstein papers, ii, 348

89 “the english princess who is my mother”: thomas kohut, “kaiser wilhelm ii and his parents,” in röhl and sombart, kaiser wilhelm ii: new interpretations, 79

90 “the decisive interference”: william ii, my early life, 285

91 “though he fully believed”: queen victoria, i, 377

92 “am in greatest distress”: ibid., 416

93 “i am broken-hearted”: ibid., 417

94 “darling, darling, unhappy child”: ibid., 507

95 “none of my own sons”: ibid., 417

96 “try, my dear georgy”: magnus, 202

97 “colonel swaine arrived from berlin”: queen victoria, i, 417

98 “the queen is extremely glad”: ibid., 421

99 “let me ask you to bear with poor mama”: ibid., 423

100 “there are many rumors”: ibid., 424

101 “where i hope to meet”: ibid., 425

102 “trust that we shall be very cool”: ibid., 429





chapter 3


“blood and iron”


1 “not as friends, but as tools, like knives and forks”: stern, 231

2 “a swabian family”: crankshaw, bismarck, 177

3 “he was the clever sophisticated son”: taylor, 12

4 “by no means intended”: ibid., 18

5 “i asked myself what harm the indians had done me”: crankshaw, bismarck, 21

6 “i have never been able to put up with superiors”: taylor, 20

7 “i like piety”: ibid., 28

8 “on a night like this”: ibid.",0
10293,"hadn’t had a woman whistle at me in years, except sugar, and sugar don’t exactly count.”

“sugar?”

“hangs out on the corner of adam and church.",0
10914,"what i most dislike about your plan is that you require me to venture on uncomfortable journeys and tramp about in the mud, where doubtless i shall stumble and fall into some irrigation ditch—and then you will have my life upon your conscience, lord, for i am a tired old man, and my limbs are stiff.",0
5723,"and if i ever get hold of that … but you’re a straight-shooter, you are.” pushing himself up, the old man glanced behind him and let his voice drop to a confidential whisper.",0
2414,"“i had trouble believing it when teddy told me about trooper hudson’s diet, but doesn’t it seem strange that it’s the same trooper, first arresting the husband and then arresting the wife, separately, in the same week, and both of them have the same explanation for the charges?",1
1551,he wasn’t sure what he was asking for.,1
12209,"“where the hell are you?”

“coming.",0
11851,"""my god, virgilia, it's hell growing old.""",0
7108,so she measured her options .,0
8734,"when he was satisfied, he said, “in 1946 a soviet agent was planted in this country by the regime then in power with specific instructions that at a certain time, when the economic and political factors were right, to totally sabotage certain key cities through the use of biological or chemical means.",0
8053,go to the ritz and make sure the cops come.” the voice i heard was very clear and very cold.,0
2280,"“fine,” i said, not really believing it.",1
608,"she recalled her failed efforts to give him the tracts, picturing the somber cover that promised hellfire to the unbeliever.",1
10075,"during this period his wife and son emplaned for london, the prime minister expressed the deep regret of the british people, and the japanese ambassador announced that his government was following developments.",0
11002,david was even reluctant to order further diagnostic or laboratory tests since nothing had proved to be of any value with the other patients.,0
10309,“that’s right.” david lay his arm along christine’s shoulders.,0
11885,"thank heavens i’ve always been in the background, out of reach—like nicky’s associates.",0
7829,"since the east end school was way to hell and gone across town and the children who lived east of main street attended there, i will not bother with it.",0
9805,we don’t go in much for petitionary prayer.,0
9782,"i tried on a few, to shut him up; when i saw him in a whispered conference with the shopkeeper, i realized he was planning to buy me one for a christmas present.",0
3562,"it was the ill-treated mrs. hoyt who observed that buzzy thurston was simply another victim of the vietnam war; although no one listened to her, she maintained that the war was the cause of the many abuses buzzy had practiced upon



himself-just as surely as the war had axed her harry.",0
7734,"she is a card-carrying member of this liberated generation, and though i am hardly one to go around clucking my tongue and asking is nothing sacred, i find myself wondering about the state of mind that holds nothing worth the respect of unhumorous suspended judgment.",0
4374,"more details explain things more, but less details confuse things less, and a leader out to galvanize thousands of zealous followers must consistently shun complexity, even at the cost of lucidity and truth.",0
9312,you had chosen the church that had saved your grandfather when he knew his arthritis was robbing him of the gift he had as a violinist.,0
4469,"the food’s not lou’s, that’s for sure.",0
6674,"and the tenants, in turn, pester the lawyer in order to secure minimum supplies and to keep their houses and barns standing.",0
9693,"she said shrewdly that he was thinking about the temporary clerks over christmas, but they’d all seemed like nice respectable girls, and the couple of young men taken on in men’s wear were nice too.",0
9422,"would you care to come?”

			“kate, i fear for your immortal soul, not to mention your sanity.”

			“i know, but leo likes me to come, heaven knows why.",0
2182,"before, i was disbelieving, angry, ashamed.",1
8446,"‘well,’ she said, ‘i’m sure he’ll tell you.’

abruptly, mary stood.",0
2895,"i very seriously doubt that you’d like it, even for a visit.” he really felt an obligation to discourage her, but it was obvious to the colonel from the questions sarah asked that she was determined to go to deerfield, and see it.",1
11757,"for that matter, the walls of zion were decked with the same jewels that decorated the pectoral of moses’s brother, except for carbuncle, agate, and onyx, which, mentioned in exodus, are replaced in the apocalypse by chalcedony, sardonyx, chrysoprase, and jacinth.”

he moved the ring and dazzled my eyes with its sparkling, as if he wanted to stun me.",0
7310,you have probably forgotten that the junior epworth league of the methodist church was holding a picnic in memorial park across the hedge.,0
7544,"there is no store, no church, nothing central.",0
6210,but he took obvious pleasure in explaining how he’d created and worked the mob of “muslim vigilantes” at aurangabad station.,0
5383,a former member of the group now residing in gänzlich was brought to the police station for questioning but later released.,0
5200,"this conversation now was by no means typical, and i was sure that the one she had begun earlier, back in the clearing, and then had stopped so abruptly, would have been even less so....

but all such speculation came to an end with a renewal of commotion in the back seat, with the little twins-who once again had been forgotten by me-scrambling over each other to the car window and waving and calling out, ""grandpa!",0
9563,"he spoke to the priests, saying, ""and if he now recants his claim to be king of the jews?",0
12031,"but then i suddenly do but i decide i don’t know this man and i didn’t tell winston my last name and this guy’s like a complete stranger and he might not even be a registered guest at this hotel and he could like actually be a rapist or a serial killer who jogs and also happens to be fine as hell so i just say, “stella’ll have to do for now.” you are a slut, i think, because i say it like i’m flirting with him which i guess i kind of am.",0
206,"""he said that he would believe the claims of protestant faith healers only if people who had no arms and legs were made to grow new arms and legs.",1
2447,the sergeant wasn't too sure.,1
5279,i was sure if he used the big one that frank would get very angry.,0
10193,"he can make a lot of noise, and god knows he’s ready to.",0
2257,"i get to know my girls pretty well, and she was here nearly five months, and i doubt it.",1
1186,"already they disliked the principles of their ally, france, governed by republicans, catholics, and atheists.",1
6367,"“just look outside.”

confused, faith pulled back the thin curtain to the window (it was, she realized, made of skin—great strips sewn together with human hair).",0
7015,"anyway my mother had packed me some food for the train trip and i ate it late.”

“if i may ask,” the voice was hesitant.",0
1939,"he was so happy we were both nonreligious and empiriocritical, because it was no good for a person to go along with a partner’s strong convictions against something like socialism or religion as an act of will when in fact there were private residues to the contrary, residues of credulism.",1
8030,"he was certain that, like carolyn, she had recognized him at the end.",0
12165,"christ, he’s there!",0
246,"i had no idea how charlotte would make danny sorry he'd been born, but no doubt she could pull it off somehow.",1
10426,"he remembered caldwell from angela's interviews, and he'd met beaton at several hospital functions.",0
3535,"but i was determined to tell him—probably at lunch, when we’d sit together at the family table where he’d once diffused zoot’s anger, right across from hattie.",0
8373,"and robbie—he still doesn’t know?”

				“arthur, it’s not a matter of knowing—for sure.",0
639,"she wanted to say, “what about that oxygen bottle strapped to your side?” but she wasn’t sure betty’s declaration of independence was all bad.",1
9180,“your cuban embargo deprives them of such pleasure.,0
7760,"then, when it was nine o’clock, we drove right up to the landlord’s house.",0
4903,i am sure you will be able to arrange something.,0
7620,"he prayed to god, ‘grant me that i should say nothing that is unnecessary and that all my speech should be for the sake of heaven,’ and meanwhile his jews were speaking everywhere simply for the sake of speaking.",0
12363,"“grab your weapons!”

“christ, the jackal’s dead!” yelled conklin.",0
7869,"the day he emptied the bottle, and smashed it against a brick wall in sacred ceremony so that nothing else would ever be contained therein— that day he thought to himself, hard lines from now on.",0
4421,"“are you okay?”

“i’ll be fine, i’m sure.",0
2458,"i looked around at kimberly stacy, not quite believing what i had heard.",1
4238,"should a war between austria-hungary and russia be unavoidable, we might be convinced that germany, our old faithful ally, would stand at our side.” the risks, william thought, were low: “russia is in no way prepared31 for war.”

it was a historic moment.",0
8605,and we know for sure that women aren’t equal.,0
8348,"""but i'm sure he'd be willing to change helpers if i asked him to.",0
4694,"but she did not see this, since she was determined to leave nothing out, and every scene that had gone into her work was clear to her.",0
9872,"he fussed and pottered and grumbled to himself, conjecturing about the reactions of a woman he hadn’t seen since she had been a girl, but did not give a thought to having jumped out of a rowboat into a shallow lake in broad daylight in the center of a city because it embarrassed him to have to think of himself as having so lacked grace in front of all those strangers and those goddam policemen who had treated him as if he was bellevue hospital’s problem and not theirs.",0
3187,at this stage all she wanted was to plant the seed of doubt: anything more might be too heavyhanded.,1
86,james of alphaeus was always addressed by jesus as “my brother.” and this james loved him dearly but had difficulty believing that jesus was the messiah.,1
10709,"however, the peat-smiths would be comfortable because of martin's substantial peptide 7 income, and he would undoubtedly use some of it, he said, to supplement his department's research funds.",0
4692,"you have seen the scars on mary mcnutt's body ""there is no reasonable doubt.",0
4756,"we were most certainly then of a different cast of mind and feeling than we are now, or such a thing as the sacco-vanzetti protest could never have been brought about by any means.",0
11278,"a committee of concerned methodists, organized to blow them up or disguise them with cement, got started, but it died after a few preliminary investigations.",0
9812,"""you joined the church on your own?""",0
650,"there are some in the room who are lacking in faith to that degree, and for them the cup does not shine.”





2


for a week after that the house was filled with visitors.",1
1493,she wasn’t even sure it happened.,1
4021,now he felt each thud go through him as surely as if he were atop the horse himself.,0
3289,"""why, yes, i'm sure she is.",0
7999,"“behold the lordly moose, mama finelli,” evarts shouted.",0
132,"she told god everything through those tears, her doubts and fears, her pride and stubbornness, but mostly how much she wanted to know him and how afraid she was that he would turn her away.",1
3641,"she was certainly not pretty, not like emily crawley, who had even the oldest boys stopping to watch as she walked by.",0
9863,"“the hell with that, charley.",0
2105,"so while i stumble around uncertain about everything from the implications of the budget deficit to the safety of irradiated food, clarissa has made up her mind about virtually everything.",1
7132,"but i’m sure he didn’t explain any of them to you, did he?”

miriam didn’t reply.",0
7416,"enlightenment, universal education, universal suffrage, the rights of the majority acknowledged by all governments, the rights of women, the rights of children, the rights of criminals, the unity of the different races affirmed, social security, public health, the dignity of the person, the right to justice--the struggles of three revolutionary centuries being won while the feudal bonds of church and family weakened and the privileges of aristocracy (without any duties) spread wide, democratized, especially the libidinous privileges, the right to be uninhibited, spontaneous, urinating, defecating, belching, coupling in all positions, tripling, quadrupling, polymorphous, noble in being natural, primitive, combining the leisure and luxurious inventiveness of versailles with the hibiscus-covered erotic ease of samoa.",0
31,“in 2 corinthians it says that we are not to be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.,1
1039,much of this doubt was deliberately stirred by army officers.,1
6402,"she had to admit to a bit of lightheadedness, but surely that was from the excitement of the day, not the alcohol.",0
8363,"“maybe it’s something from langley or arlington the bastards! i can run a check on the navy’s chief legals in an hour, and i’m sure the aba can tell us who converse is if he is.",0
7305,"“oh, no!”

a cross, at least five feet tall, had been put up on the methodist church, across the street and on the corner.",0
4178,"""i'm going to assume she's already made the right decision there, and you may assure her that i will cover all expenses.""",0
10860,"and though, doubtless, the gift of life unending is not for all, but only for such as are worthy, being men of might and pride and great lineage, yet against all justice is it done that this gift, which is his due, should be withheld from the king of bangs, ar-pharazфn, mightiest of the sons of earth, to whom manwл alone can be compared, if even he.",0
5521,"i didn’t want this temptress, i wanted to be ten; despite a lifelong determinedly antinostalgic stance, i wanted to be ten and back in the neighborhood when life was not yet a blind passage out but still like baseball, where you came home, and when the voluptuous earthliness of women other than my mamma was nothing i yet wished to gorge myself on.",0
9956,when in the name of god would it ring?,0
7957,"let me tell you something”—and here he began to shake his entire outstretched hand at her, as his voice grew more outraged and unstrung—“i need you like any goddamned insufferable disease i can name.",0
1066,"“i’m not certain, for no one has spoken directly to me, but i’m thinking he intends me to marry my kinsman rian once the brehon arrives.",1
9189,"joe, i’m still hungry.” she reached for my hand, squeezed it with a desperate pressure.",0
2339,"""it's just i'm not sure where you'll be in the eyes of the jurors by then.""",1
9252,what i’m also pretty sure of is that he pays them surreptitiously even though no other bank uses paid donors.,0
96,"he approached god timidly, at first with shrinking, then with the sure knowledge that god welcomed him as a son.",1
9364,"the mountain way sing was the right one because the sickness came from the spoiling of holy things, and the black rain because a taboo had been broken.",0
12150,"but let me write to a friend in new york, an expert on tropical diseases, though god knows this disease is more widespread in america than we dare admit.",0
9185,only a germanvery sure of himself will call attention to you.,0
5184,"i tossed my cigarette into the toilet (ping) and straightened my back, but the pain in my chest was only sharper, and i was convinced that the corruption had begun.",0
11891,"“good god, why not?”

“because krupkin obviously never told charlie that he knew me.",0
9737,"they could not frequent public places, and even in entering church they had to use a low side door constructed especially for the purpose, which door is still to be seen in many village churches.",0
11669,"“non in commotione, non in commotione

dominus.”



— 

last page

the abbey burned for three days and three nights, and the last efforts were of no avail.",0
7362,"when he smiled, she saw a gold cap on a molar, shining like a christmas ornament.",0
1166,not even the senator was totally confident.,1
6876,"well, surely.” he looked up at eric.",0
10148,"""what the hell would anybody want from here?""",0
4817,"well, he sure as hell would not have liked what he saw the next year.",0
12096,"now the orcs that multiplied in the darkness of the earth grew strong and fell, and their dark lord filled them with a lust of rain and death; and they issued from angband's gates under the clouds that morgoth sent forth, and passed silently into the highlands of the north.",0
12219,"if we went down in the mid-atlantic in a storm like this, the plane would break up in seconds.”

“oh, god,” luther moaned.",0
2982,"ammon’s offer is so strangely tempting that a jackal must be lurking in it somewhere, and this is borne out by wealthy men’s suspicions of the temple safes.",1
10538,"...""

""he certainly wrote you a letter.",0
3673,"what it meant to be the birth child of a wealthy, worldly family, never having been told of your real roots, yet knowing it in your bones as sure as you were alive.",0
12009,"then sauron sent draugluin, a dread beast, old in evil lord and sire of the werewolves of angband.",0
4190,"she felt certain that her aunt, lady irene, had used intrigue against her mother, which had brought about so despicable a destiny.",0
7508,"the words on the outside of it said, “jesus calls you.”

“i’d like to know who the hell you think you are!” the man with the peelers was yelling.",0
4544,her eyes fixed upon him with awestruck devotion.,0
8861,"even his weight suited him, and he appeared, to her mind, not stout but robust and self-assured.",0
2777,"and quite my favourite distant cousin.”

i got the subject as quickly as possible from our dubious cousinage.",1
12011,"ryan on the line for you, again,” the secretary said to him, rolling her eyes to heaven, pleading with him to take the call this time.",0
4214,"he sprang up and with a jerk of his head beckoned imperiously to
matthew, sure that his astute, hardheaded partner would agree with him.",0
309,"everyone says the first year is the hardest, but i'm starting to doubt that, jack.",1
2054,i ' m not sure.,1
4449,"“call for you.”

“be right there.” connor took another moment to make certain the coed understood how to thread the microfilm cassette properly; then he moved toward the desk.",0
11148,"with no further hesitation (she didn’t believe even the thought of bill would have been able to save her if she’d waited much longer), rosie stepped onto the first stone with her hands held out to either side for balance.",0
7870,"in the four directions did the priest of the sun, standing painted in the street, serve notice that something holy was going on in the universe.",0
12389,"i will bring you a cake next sunday, and a cake for regina.""",0
11027,"when the party broke up and we were both at the door in a little crowd, there was a moment of hesitation between us.",0
10396,"“mother of god,” the mayor said.",0
9871,who the hell ever told you that you dealt yourself into something?,0
10781,"unhappily, it is one of the earlier ones which is missing, the second volume, 1780 to 1837. .

. . the latter, as no doubt you know, was the date on which the full procedure of registration was instituted as we know it today.",0
6820,"the stage, however, was secured.",0
3165,"do you believe for a moment that those dedicated and blameless men never have their long periods of dryness and despair, of unbelief?",1
3297,"“the fault, my dear captain, certainly does not rest with you or your ship.",0
3431,"mary wished that she might ease them; her continued silence, she was sure, intensified their self-reproach; but she felt, as they did, that an attempt to speak would be worse than quietness.",0
3609,"i am sure our father would agree to keeping him there.”

“a week will be long enough,” declared adam, savoring his victory with a hearty smacking of lips.",0
3066,"i was sorry for poor daintry.’

‘why poor?’

‘he was losing a daughter and i doubt if he has got any friends.’

‘there seem to be such a lot of lonely people in your office.’

‘yes.",1
9751,they are to replace the ones the master criminal stole from the church at dronkeh last year.,0
1705,"her welcome seems doubtful to fred, for she is not only late but ill-equipped.",1
5437,once when he asked she would have smiled with her particular kind of half-make-believe pleasure.,0
298,"their talk stayed offhand and easy, but it was conditioned now by the presence of the war, the uncertain nature of their involvement in it, their sense of helplessness before an immeasurable fact.",1
5099,"when my mother finished reading all the bad things she could find about chagres, she laid joseph ware’s book down with a contemptuous rustle of taffeta and observed that, “it certainly seems explicit.”

“oh, pshaw,” replied my father.",0
6798,"51

through casual questioning of mahmoud, i was able to discover that, after one delay and another, lord sadiq had given up waiting for abu's oft-promised return, and had ridden to the south with a company of warriors--his rafiq, i was told; a word which meant companions.",0
3998,"“well,” said saul, after a long pause, “you certainly seem to have thought about your problems.",0
1079,"we’re not sure whether it’s down or not.”

“oh, no,” he said to himself then glanced out at the plane circling overhead.",1
3831,"christ, who is the sword of his own death, continues the thrusts even after his death, by making longinus the instrument for opening the treasures of his sacred heart, which becomes the new ark into which souls to be saved from the flood and deluge of sin might enter.",0
5170,"“oh, rose,” he said, “i assure you i mean no harm.” he touched the yellow ascot with the palm of his hand and said, “the most unsightly wen you ever saw.",0
10621,"she took on the voice of the greenwich village avant-garde movie buffs and showed him for the dull bastard he was, yet she was smart enough to see him as an idiot savant, the dumbest guy who ever put words on paper, with a real feeling for certain movies.",0
7895,"the little bottle of nembutals.”

“christ, how awful.",0
7104,"that is ridiculous.”

we both began to laugh then, and for a moment that yak butter belief in a comeback filled me a second time.",0
2701,she doubted if she had looked this perfect at twenty.,1
5482,we sure do miss you around here.” she was tapping something.,0
2765,"""you must say, 'i do not care that his crime was to have shown a few hours' indecision, i don't care that he has expiated it by sacrificing his good name, his ...' not that that matters, i would sacrifice everything i possess a hundred times again if i could but know ... my dearest sarah, i...""

he had brought himself perilously near tears.",1
9162,"after a certain amount of explanation, i persuaded her to let me talk to her husband.",0
8783,"“i’ll make coffee…”

“coffee would be fine.”

sherman busied himself with the melitta, talking over his shoulder as he measured out fragrant ground beans into the paper cone, covertly watching dain’s reflection off a glass-protected greek icon of st. nicholas above the table.",0
4323,"he
had been certain his daughter was embarrassed to death.",0
11680,"""trust in god,"" said the priest.",0
7472,when the line started or stopped he was yanked forward and his bound hands flew up before his face like a man in sudden need of prayer.,0
9611,he was the only member of his seminary class who was still an associate pastor.,0
2249,but this gerald was inclined to doubt.,1
59,with mandy it was uncertainty.,1
5012,it was a certainty—certainty that she would be sent to one of the camps.,0
2448,"he thought not, yet he wasn’t sure.",1
5031,"certainly zhou’s comrades were amazed by the sudden breakthrough, and he became more mysterious in their eyes.",0
11543,"never before, as in our days, amid processions of flagellants, were sacred lauds heard inspired by the sorrows of christ and of the virgin, never has there been such insistence as there is today on strengthening the faith of the simple through the depiction of infernal torments.”

“perhaps it is the need for penitence,” i said.",0
274,"and then, for all
his doubts, his orthodoxy rose in protest.",1
364,"as she expected, his frown was skeptical, disdainful.",1
766,"i have suspicions that he is at worst a spy, at best an opportunist concerned only with privateering for his personal gain.”

raleigh leaned back in his chair and stroked his beard again.",1
2326,it wasn't only the analysis of the paint that cast doubts on the one i removed from the b.m.,1
12052,"if rory ever talked-as he did privately-with members of the holy name society and the knights of columbus, it was not mentioned in the press.",0
5130,"tough fibered and resistant, he is an emotional revolutionist, and when he explains his social beliefs in words it comes down pretty fairly to a simple philosophic anarchy, such as almost any spaniard might express.",0
3652,"on the other hand, she was one of those new yorkers who thought she would ""die"" if she spent a minute outside new

york-who was sure that the rest of the world was a provincial whipping post whereat people like herself, of sophisticated tastes and highly urban energies, would be lashed to the stake of old-fashioned values and virtues until she expired of boredom.",0
11260,"and i felt responsible, because it was as if she would also expiate on the pyre the sin i had committed with her.",0
735,"promise me that.”

she looked dubious for a moment, then smiled.",1
10410,and the gods that didn’t exist granted the wish of boris manizer.,0
10885,"no one knows that i have been really ill. emma tells them that i am simply “under the weather,” an ominous phrase, whose origin is no doubt nautical.",0
4244,i thought for sure someone would fall out of a tree before the performance was over!,0
4462,"you surely must have encountered some fine adventures since you distinguished yourself by becoming an officer.” she expected to see granville’s warm smile and to be regaled with stories of drama on the high seas, but instead the shuttered, withdrawn look descended like a shroud.",0
11862,thank god i had worn boots.,0
1991,"he was calling the book “verdict in doubt.”

he’d already finished three chapters.",1
12157,and he clambered down the rails like a monkey until he stood beside her.,0
7796,"no, against all dictates of conscience and the calvinist work ethic, and despite the fact that i was far from tired, i lay flat on my back in bed, immobilized like one near prostration, bemused in the realization that the fever which i had run for these recent days had caused my muscles to twitch, and that one could actually be taken ill, perhaps seriously so, with venereal ecstasy.",0
8277,why was she so sure that the answer was yes?,0
4696,"it was silly to feel serious about it, but there was no doubt that he was serious.",0
11106,"from me he must have been getting a mixture almost as confusing: surprise, questioning, reassurance making it clear that whatever it was, i was with him, and part of it. . . .

my hand, groping in the dark, touched cloth.",0
9932,"as soon as angela had calmed down, david used his portable phone to call the police.",0
10027,it was hell being a dumb goddamn american.,0
5620,"there he stood, dumb and docile at her pleasure, not knowing, she supposed, how even to take his leave.",0
9177,"she said that she couldn’t make it but that she was sending her confidential secretary, gladys doyle, up there, that gladys could get the proposition i had in mind thoroughly thrashed out and then bring it back and submit it to her and that miss doyle would co-operate with me up there on any information that i needed.”

“well?” mason asked.",0
4682,this here pied old buttonwood she had surely seen before.,0
102,"sister saint-léon, sister dominique’s associate in the kitchen, says to her, “every moment this evening, i too, have discovered a hundred defects in my own religious devotions.",1
6242,she should have argued more vehemently against this foolish exposure.,0
7216,"she dipped, swayed with half a secondÂ’s hesitation, then landed on the twisted semi-shoulders behind the beastÂ’s head.",0
8943,"does that answer your question?”

it was an answer, but it didn’t help jaime’s blood pressure.",0
9292,"will that be the amish lifestyle package option, or do you want housekeeping snooping in your rooms?”

again the slight smile.",0
11311,"you’re church of england.”

margaret could not help laughing.",0
10731,"thus, from the second day after her return, there was not the slightest doubt that celia was in charge.",0
10978,"but temesvar’s pages were before my eyes, and the episodes he cited were the same as those of the vallet manuscript (the description of the labyrinth in particular left no room for doubt).",0
7139,"after a moment’s hesitation, he knelt, leaving nathan and melissa the only two people in the room not on their knees.",0
6866,you don’t have to know port william long before you see that whatever coherence it has is largely owing to certain women.,0
7861,"""when we get back from possum
wednesday--""
 ""god damn it, parsham,"" miss reba said.",0
4815,"on the way over i'd convinced myself that neither of them would be here, that somehow mary would have failed to reach them, and now that i saw they were here, i immediately-and irrationally-felt better, much better, as if their very presence were a sign that the tide had begun to turn.",0
4101,"what i want from you
is your real name, the name of the person you're looking for, why you are looking
for that person, and what you plan to do should you find that person.”
“but michael, until i'm sure you are on my side, i could never risk revealing that
information.”
“even to the point where you'd be willing to die to protect your friend?”
“i hope it doesn't come to that, but yes.”
buck's eyes were adjusting to the darkness.",0
4648,"he did not consider it a sacrilege to hide men in the sacred caves, for the englishmen were his special treasure, the key to making weapons and utensils and good magic.",0
3007,even the idea we had had of the criminal as an educated man seemed to become uncertain.,1
1464,"“i’m only twenty so i called.”

“that must’ve been what he meant,” joey said, realizing that, in doubt, her voice and smile were reassuring as the girl’s, she’d learned the manner.",1
2842,"“vanessa told me about your job.”

“it’s no biggie.”

“i’d say it’s a very big biggie and i hope you seek legal counsel so that you can get some kind of redress and you know kennedy has all kinds of friends with expertise in this kind of situation.”

“i doubt if it’ll come to a lawsuit.”

“you never know,” she says, heading for the door hallelujah.",1
12024,"the prime minister said heavily, ""yes.",0
5340,"“hit do seem to me, nat,” he said in a measured voice, “dat de lawd sho must be a white man.",0
7078,"while the lawyers for both sides conduct their questioning during voir dire, we take notes.",0
7847,"“i’m going to call my paper ‘symptoms in some cephalopods approximating apoplexy.’”

“great god almighty!” said mack.",0
142,"one night he had browsed for several hours through a copy of the guinness book of world records, filled with disbelief that somebody had thought of collecting all that remarkable data—the highest price paid for a lock of hair, the largest number of piglets born in a single litter, the greatest distance for spitting a watermelon seed, the longest kiss in a movie—and then not only had thought of it but had gone to all the trouble to actually do it.",1
9413,"my wife, may she rest in peace,” he crossed himself reverently, “forty-two years we were married when she left me for heaven, and not once, in all those years, did she ever know about any of my women.",0
10301,"to start, clayton’s equanimity was a godsend.",0
9397,the classic scene of the devil tempting jesus.,0
3926,"i’ve heard animal lovers quote that before, but you’re not one of them, are you, pastor?”

“no, he certainly isn’t one of them,” the one who always agreed said.",0
10242,"you’re too full of hell.”

“i’m in my forties, goddamnit.",0
6874,"but i read another with certain similarities to some ideas vicky and i discussed, if you take my meaning.” his glance at linden leigh, just rising from signing his last autograph, was more meaningful than the inspector’s words.",0
1851,i doubt she’d been to sleep.,1
2757,"then he smiled a little uncertainly and asked, ""if i didn't,

what would you do?",1
2093,"sorry, kev, you haven't convinced me.""",1
1201,"peter, uncertain, hesitated.",1
5225,"“i'm sure,” i said, “that you'll want to get to know the barman.",0
146,"john, the disciple beloved of jesus?” he read again the letter luke had given basil, but his manner did not lose the edge of suspicion it had taken on at the first mention of the latter’s errand.",1
3956,"he’d be there early, be waiting, be certain she saw him and understood his feelings.",0
7803,"i still don’t know, on this sunday morning, what i should have done.",0
399,"i’ve been as worried as you are lately, but i’m not sure what’s wrong.”

“she won’t say?”

hannah shook her head.",1
11285,"good morning!” i look over at my exercise trainer alarm clock that krystal gave me for christmas and i say, “shut up!” and there she goes with that “one two, one two three!” business again until i press the cotton-candy-colored button on the top which causes her entire pink unitarded body to freeze with her foot caught in a kicking position and i am tempted to crack the plastic open and snatch off the little pink sweatband that’s going around her blond hair and break her bony barbie body in half once and for all.",0
10677,doubt not the power of morgoth bauglir!,0
5023,"if you’d take a doctor’s advice about a disease, you’d surely take the patrón’s about a hustler.",0
7121,"on this day, however, the silence was pierced by a high, quavering, angry voice, singing: bism’lahi’r-rahmani’r-rahim …

with great reluctance, mrs. babcock later admitted to mama, bet and the elder that the voice had been freddy’s.",0
2661,"if there could be any doubt that they deserved death, horn reminded the court of artie’s own mother’s opinion, before the murderers were known.",1
2204,"mykonos?”

“i’m not sure.",1
11179,"there’s no doubt about it?”

“none at all.",0
3959,"ari heard voices from outside speaking
in the rapid birdsong of hindi; this confirmed her suspicion that they were indeed in the land of
the dream thief.",0
3421,"as she watched them, jenny became convinced that trouble was brewing.",0
10819,"after studying the military situation of clarence, there is no doubt the attack must be from the sea, and launched directly from the sea at the palace itself.",0
11999,"but when we have conquered and have regained the silmarils, then we and we alone shall be lords of the unsullied light, and masters of the bliss and beauty of arda.",0
8910,her name was faith usher.,0
1848,i knew which lie i would tell him and i knew the lie would work—only—i was not sure that it would be a lie.,1
981,"one young man stopped to give hunter a flower and he said something like, ‘all paths lead to god, little boy.’ i don’t doubt that he was sincere, but hunter stared at him and very politely said, ‘that’s a great big lie.’”

connor stared at her, then burst out laughing.",1
6078,surely these underdogs of rome were not of a different species?,0
9579,"“would it please you, rosa, if i went in and said a prayer for her before i go?”

rosa glanced at the doctor, then looked at juan.",0
6860,"i


“that sure went well,” nick muttered under his breath.",0
208,"fair enough?”

they sat woodenly, unbelieving.",1
9678,"god, and the abbot, knew that saint francis abbey, an expansion abbey to which he’d been assigned, regularly moved from thin ice to open water.",0
8287,"after only a couple minutes of thinking about it, alan was convinced mitchell had gone to the cops.",0
9779,"after ordering them to be quick about the job and not leave him hanging there, dangling like christ on the tree, or he would come back up and do them exquisite bodily damage, he said, “all right, niko, i’m coming down!”

“that’s the only way gravity works,” hel commented, as he looked up for the first glimpse of le cagot’s helmet light emerging through the mist of the waterfall.",0
12372,angela said when david was finished.,0
6558,"some you are expected to admire, and some you are expected to hate, and all of them are never quite happy unless they are frightening you and assured that you are afraid.",0
5015,her ambitions for her children seemed certain to be frustrated.,0
7820,"oh god, come on, though.”

roy seemed almost to wake up then.",0
12100,"*

108 heaven and hell ""i didn't realize i was--it's just something i made up to remind me of home.""",0
2512,"i guess i’m just a little out of focus right now.”

“how come?”

“i’m not sure.”

“you want some time, maybe take a few days?”

“no, i’m cool.",1
12004,"while ernst the pornographer had been preaching his dialectic to us, the whores had been slipping past us in the lobby—the whores were checking out of the hotel new hampshire.",0
8693,"you’d need a clear path for a wheelchair.”

this upset miss dinmont, who required immediate reassurance that the snowblower had not been sabotaged as a deliberate attempt to inconvenience or imperil her.",0
11915,"the priest who had welcomed us came up with a triumphant smile and said, “what do you say now, royal sinuhe?”

i looked him fearlessly in the eye and answered, “i perceive that the woman and the old man were under some spell that fettered their wills, and magic is cured by magic if the magician’s will be stronger than that of those bewitched.",0
4664,my belief doesn’t change anything.,0
2192,the fact that easter had vanished immediately was grounds for suspicion.,1
916,"""i'm not sure, eli, but i think so.",1
4014,"but he didn’t doubt she needed someone; she could hardly take her feelings to roger, and her mother was barely hanging on.",0
4380,vittoria knew it had been she who convinced her father to create the specimen.,0
12405,"the senior james gordon bennett’s eyes were equally crossed, but stared only toward heaven.",0
14,"“your mother doing any better?”

“afraid not.” she doubted that he cared much one way or the other.",1
9217,"it was max’s case.”

“you’re all right, aren’t you?”

“oh, sure!” he blinked and saw again the spurt of yellow light spearing toward him and knew that, in coming moments on the threshold of sleep, the scene would come back, teasing him in its dreamy slowness and starting a scream from his throat as the bullet grew out of the flame toward his frozen eyes.",0
920,"“some of his pictures were published in newspapers and magazines too.”

nat resettled himself in his chair, unsure why he had been shown the pictures.",1
5957,"where were women, what were women when one considered food and drink and other comfort to be secured through bestiality and—later—barter?",0
203,"i am immediately suspicious and repelled 
by a man who finds our faith grim and joyless and life-denying, instead of a 
song of rapture sung in the morning in the sun.""",1
4018,"brackman was scowling, ranting, henry had no doubt, at his tardiness.",0
8457,"but i was sure these two had been tailing us, because i had checked it out.",0
9642,"scientists and scholars from all over the world would get to hear of it.”

the congregation had quieted as people began to set­tle down, their eyes now on the altar in anticipation.",0
4265,he certainly did not want his hated enemy to know that any had escaped from the slaughter at ocanahonan.,0
479,the next morning olivia stepped out of her room to find beth looking shy and uncertain.,1
10761,"""undoubtedly,"" booth said.",0
2526,"snaking his way through shadowy neighborhoods and dubious suspects, he’s increasingly haunted by memories of his lover jacques, whose death from aids six years earlier precipitated his fall from grace.",1
6419,certainly not to tell her that she’d brought light into that man’s life.,0
734,"patrick’s face was a mirror of her own in those dark days … hoping there might be someone she could put her faith in, yet doubting that such a miracle existed.",1
2631,i doubt it.,1
2672,"in the united states charles had found the style, with its sly and paradoxically coquettish hints at emancipation in other ways, very charming; now, and under so many other new suspicions, his cheeks took a color not far removed from the dianthus pink of the stripes on her shirt.",1
6467,"besides, everyone's eyes will be on the bride, not me,"" replied faith indifferently.",0
2221,"gomez bent down and picked up the loose end of the rope, he looked over at hirsh and said, “this alligator idea couldn’t be improved upon, eh?”

hirsh said, “doubt it.",1
631,"i think the king would have told me himself if he wanted me to resign, but i can’t be sure.",1
8906,"when she came closer, he hefted her bag of treasures, peering at the wet shells.",0
2690,"but let even a faintly blasphemous word be uttered, a single deprecation of that which was held holy by most men, and the atheistic irishman bristled as if just that morning he had made his confession and had received, though probably he had not done this since childhood.",1
1838,"i see what you mean.”

mike senior shook his head in disbelief, staring at the ax like something must be wrong with it.",1
2376,"somehow the tears had cleansed him, purged the doubts and the fears and made him whole again.",1
335,"just suspicions, just circumstantial evidence that makes her story questionable.""",1
8370,now she was convinced it was from a dance slipper.,0
7052,"how high can his blood pressure shoot if we ask just one question?”

			 				“oh, all right, but don’t go on and on.”

			 				coot hendrick banged a spoon against his water glass.",0
4684,"there was a shape to his life, she was sure of that.",0
10345,"we’ve had nothing to do witheach other or so long.”

my god!",0
2113,"in fact, most of them were atheists or jewish.",1
3051,"weu, celia was now the one who had come around to having doubts, but andrew was too big a person ever to say, ""i told you so.”

if she were to apply andrew's standards to her own present dilemma, she wondered, which way would it be decided?",1
8121,"boiled down, judge iselin’s response expressed his lifelong faith in her and in her proposition: “just you tell me what to do, hon, and i’ll get it done.” falling in love had been as simple as that because she had set out, from that moment on, to bring his appreciation of her and dependence on her to a helpless maximum, and when she had finished her work he was never again to be able to recall his full sanity.",0
2128,"only one little file drawer of carbon copies was going to be worth maybe as much as a quarter of a million bucks to him.”

“your brother was going to sell it back to the mayor?”

“i’m not sure who exactly he contacted,” said lana.",1
2461,"“they were familiar with spurrier, though i doubt they knew him very well.",1
6605,it seemed to be clay’s greatest desire to indulge her every wish and to try to anticipate anything that might bring her pleasure.,0
1963,but i doubt your motive is purely to supply fragments of a great confession.,1
1951,"everybody.”

that was true, but wager wasn’t sure what the bulldog was working toward.",1
12202,that is when i will arrange for the holy terrorists to strike.,0
598,"david dressed carefully for the affair at the palace; he was determined
not to let saul know he suspected treachery.",1
2578,"minister, general of the order of the friars minor, he was in principle the heir of saint francis, and actually the heir of his interpreters: he had to compete with the sanctity and wisdom of such a predecessor as bonaventure of bagnoregio; he had to assure

respect for the rule and, at the same time, the fortunes of the order, so powerful and vast; he had to keep an eye on the courts and on the city magistrates from whom the order, though in the guise of alms, received gifts and bequests, source of prosperity and wealth; and at the same time he had to make sure that the requirement of penance did not lead the more ardent spirituals to abandon the — 

order, scattering that splendid community of which he was the head, in a constellation of bands of heretics.",1
1002,"the more my affections and sympathies had got involved in port william, the more uneasy i became with certain passages, not just in the letters of st. paul, that clarifying and exasperating man, but even in the gospels.",1
2290,"if you know any of the photogs who covered the thing, maybe one of them might have clipped a shot of her face.”

“something doing?”

“she might be a witness in something else, but i want to be sure.”

“i can check,” he said.",1
337,"""but i doubt if he will ever reach rome.""",1
9111,"""uh, that's like, you know, confidential.""",0
8197,"you left behind you the house with the gorillas running loose, the dogs barking, the sirens sounding.”

“i did that because i was under orders.”

“but you fled, didn’t you?”

“i did not.”

“you were leaving the scene of all this commotion?”

“i had to leave it to get you to police headquarters.”

“and yet, despite the fact that you weren’t fleeing, you did look back over your shoulder several times, didn’t you?”

“well, i glanced in the rear view mirror two or three times and . . .”

“and did look back over your shoulder?”

“i believe i may have done so—very briefly.”

“certainly,” mason said.",0
4458,we must be certain.,0
4447,"dr. ferrand believes—and i agree—that only one motive is good enough to warrant giving: because the self, without pressure, freely chooses to make the gift.”

as we left the table, miss alice took my arm and led me to the far corner of the living room.",0
12395,‘what the hell are you talking about?,0
10178,"his small, almost dainty hand formed a cup around his mouth and he leaned forward and whispered, straining for some delicacy, “well, peter, the thing of it is, mother of god, but there’s a part of brian that appears to be missing.”

this terrible confidence given, tommy farley seemed to hunch into himself.",0
4747,"once they had gone to the mountains and, leaving the car, had climbed a stony trail, and had come out on a ledge upon a flat stone, where they sat and watched the lights change on a valley landscape that was, no doubt, miranda said, quite apocryphal—“we need not believe it, but it is fine poetry,” she told him; they had leaned their shoulders together there, and had sat quite still, watching.",0
9109,"308



thirty-one

cicero rose and walked resolutely to the rostra, his toga billowing about his knees.",0
10496,"“but surely you don’t want to write about our theatre.”

“no.",0
7164,"the servingmen had vanished just after clearing the supper board, lest they come foul of their lord's displeasure, and none were to be found anywhere.",0
9170,"oh, sure, some contractors cut corners.",0
2710,"i don’t think even the

blackest atheist has an idea of what real separation will be.",1
8460,"his weekly seminars often continued far beyond the hour when they were scheduled to end, so marie never planned dinner, knowing they would go out to eat, their two unobtrusive guards somewhere in the darkness behind them - as one was walking across the barely-visible field behind him now, the other no doubt inside the gym.",0
7554,"in addition to the staff, that is, but including the three or four priests i've already mentioned as being especially helpful.",0
746,"that i should give up my questioning was good enough advice, which i would have been glad enough to take, except that my questioning would not give me up.",1
2735,"inwardly judd feels tumultuously threatened; he doesn’t dare examine what doubts may be rising in him, but some horrible upheaval is there, as if all, all he were ever sure of were suddenly crossed out, wrong!",1
8559,carver d certainly had some contacts.,0
8118,“i’m sure you do….,0
7886,"finally, on a sunday, two days before the appointment, she let it ring and what may have been a little boy answered.",0
2917,he looked dubious.,1
11768,"that if moses wartberg was really in love with me or really liked me, i would be on my way to being a star.”

for a few minutes she gave a charming pantomime of false virtue arguing itself into honest sinning.",0
7811,captain goddamn pierce.,0
1713,she had the feeling that all her years and years of doubting love were over.,1
1364,he aroused the suspicion of this patrol.,1
8312,"nestor, without a doubt.",0
4930,"it was a rainy night, and the dark, wet paving, deep in the station, did not glitter, but it was still alice’s belief that diamonds had been ground into it, and that was the way she would tell the story.",0
5520,here and there a determined jogger running back and forth.,0
6097,"the detached kitchen looks fairly rundown to me, but maum easter will handle that in no uncertain terms.",0
11538,"she gave a frightened cry and murmured: ""mighty protectress of the sorrowful, chaste mother of god, help of the afflicted, shelter of the universe ..."" halfway through the prayer she burst into tears.",0
7317,he had opened the suitcase and was sitting with a bible on each knee.,0
5611,"“sure, you wait,” diao returned in a low voice.",0
9783,"the balding, moderately-sized priest plodded determinedly from the dining room, his hands clenched skaterwise behind his back.",0
1942,"at least six weeks before she could be sure, maybe longer—a few more weeks making the arrangements for the wedding .",1
10577,"william wanted to speak with him, but nicholas asked us to wait a few moments, until he had to go down into the crypt of the treasure to supervise the polishing of the glass cases, which was still his responsibility; there he would have more time for conversation.",0
11948,"its people are first and foremost merchants; nothing is more highly regarded than commerce, so that even their gods trade among themselves.",0
7313,"to himself, wilhelm said, now god alone can tell why i have to lay my whole life bare to this blasted red herring here.",0
9063,"“will you be at the arraignment?”

“sure.",0
10431,"“i understand.”

“no you don’t.”

“okay, i don’t.”

“then don’t say you do.”

“jesus christ, all right!” i shouted.",0
836,"if there were hiders and child murderers here, which he doubted, he would just stay away from them.",1
4511,"“relax, darlin’, i’m sure not every plane flies over this house.” tony began to unload the baggage.",0
6121,"on the el, faith checked her purse and found close to three hundred dollars there.",0
9628,it was a prayer.,0
8474,"“they’re certainly well concealed,” she said.",0
6435,“that sure was a dream!,0
5027,"it pays to be careful.”

“it sure does.",0
9223,"he found only blunt instruments among the family treasure: ice-cream scoops, plastic whistles, shoelaces made of bone.",0
8481,"many cockers leave about an eighth of an inch, believing erroneously that the slight padding will give the head protection from an opponent's pecking.",0
6930,. . or that confident.,0
4411,"the archer paused and the other savages studied him warily, doubtless afraid of some superior weapon on his person.",0
12191,"admittedly, sometimes the choices of men made for an uneasy and changeful society, but that was preferable to the hell of monotony where men had no choices and were duly fed, bred, put to planned activity, deprived of decisions concerning their lives and their recreation, and fell to the status of domestic creatures.",0
543,"i'm not sure what else i'd be interested in right now.""",1
3892,"“do you call it a coincidence, ari, that millions of followers of the three great world religions all come to worship god within these ancient walls?”

“i call it unfortunate,” he said, frowning again.",0
3305,"president nichols was very sure of his power and his position, a man totally at home with the authority that his office carried.",0
99,"you’ll be forgiven and feeling gut again, jah?”

katie nodded, unsure of herself.",1
5733,"“you want to hear mantovani?”

“sure,” i said.",0
425,"“no, not until i’ve read a bit more.” cynthia’s voice was full of suspicion, and the glance she threw rebecca’s way made her heart sink.",1
9861,"but i ought to have come back a whole hell of a lot sooner than this.”

“yeah, daisy mentioned it was wet,” cecil said.",0
7764,"you god-damned weak-minded, parasitic ape, he shouted at me, and then he went into the house and upstairs to his bedroom, slamming about every door he passed, and my mother took me down into the garden and told me i had made an awful mistake, but i couldn’t see that i had done anything wrong.",0
523,"sometimes it is better not to be too sure of the identity of our clients.”

				“thieves!”

				matthat shrugged.",1
9377,"hick cops always think they’re john wayne making the frontier safe for decent, god-fearing folk.",0
10644,“do you think i’m going over for pleasure?,0
11998,"the jones kid, nim vowed silently, would have-the best, most conscientious godfather there ever was.",0
10484,"he was plainly nervous, and when a shot or firecracker went off nearby, he winced noticeably—no doubt aware of all those heavily armed whisky-filled southern congressmen on the warpath.",0
4473,"keep faith, my friends.",0
11980,"i had brought nothing home from los angeles except an american flair for dressing, an accent which i lost as soon as i reasonably could, and three years' experience of the frenetic world of american commercial television, where i had served a wild apprenticeship as producer's assistant in a small company calling itself sunshine television incorporated--this apparently in blissful ignorance of the fact that like most companies it was normally referred to by its initials, s. t. inc.

now here we were again, my cousin and i, and back without effort on the same terms.",0
615,“up to now i wasn’t sure the dam was a real issue.,1
10205,"“this goddamn city,” he said.",0
1307,now they looked really uncertain.,1
7393,god spit him from the mouth of the buffalo head.,0
11249,"a quick trip to the abbaye de la source, in the vicinity of passy, and a



— 

conversation with my friend dom arne lahnestedt further convinced me that no abbé vallet had

published books on the abbey’s presses (for that matter, nonexistent).",0
6239,"i walked down the hall and into the master bedroom, i’m not sure why.",0
11855,"a sunday afternoon — artie was so cute, so darling that day, and mr. straus himself had been unusually relaxed and had taken the pictures.",0
8817,"""sure,"" he would say, ""i know we can make better time on the parkway and i know twenty-two is always crowded, but the scenery is nice and anyway we aren't in any hurry.""",0
8822,"“kilcannon wasontonight,” someone said behind him—ann rush of thetimes, nate was pretty sure.",0
12112,"""well, if you're lying, it's a hell of a film set,"" he said.",0
5475,i am the philip roth who in order to get up there would say i was a floral-delivery person and i gotta be sure this is personally done because the guy gave me a hundred dollars to get it up there.,0
3636,"these people were part of a community that was well established, secure.",0
1382,"“you were so sort of—offhand—i couldn't be sure whether you were glad or sorry to be throwing in with me.”

“oh,” she said, “but we've always been offhand.",1
2769,"but when the prime minister begins to have doubts about ben greenbourne, just remind him that there is a safe alternative in joseph pilaster.""",1
1260,"""i don't know, for sure.",1
10165,"“good god, home.”

“to our place?”

“home.",0
3993,'no doubt you crossed his scent some way back.,0
4249,be sure to thank maury for letting you boys use his car.,0
6518,"“it is my pleasure.”

without any more conversation, the men dedicated themselves to the serious business of eating.",0
5616,"it is now like a tabletop, the trees mostly gone, the hedges uprooted in favor of barbed wire—resulting in more land under cultivation, more money in the bank, but also in a total exposure.",0
8133,"he was further annoyed at being called away from an intimate social affair to deal with some unexplained problem resulting, no doubt, from the incompetence of his compatriot and these cia ruffians.",0
9885,"""i need angel cortillo,"" i said.",0
1340,"yet—strange woman—after all this; after going back to that island where she had once been with her love, and there in search of a cure she had done all that she could to degrade and humiliate herself in all the ways that would most surely put her love and her marriage to shame, and offend most deeply the ghost of her husband, she says quite suddenly and flatly: “i was not even sure i ever loved dylan.”

after a short coda, the story closes, or rather, comes to a pause, on a note of sentimental collapse into total bathos of nursery rhyme and rather tardy maternal tenderness.",1
4873,"which certainly included sheriffs,
who were not only sensible but family men too, and who had the example of the federal
revenuer who had vanished in that direction not so long ago.",0
8954,"“are you serious?”

“certainly.",0
1319,i doubt that she reopened the matter of her violated bedroom.,1
2559,"he stared, unbelieving, then looked at the faces hovering above him.",1
10059,"ultimate high, sin of onan.",0
3676,"every time he interviewed a new client, his grandfather had said, he was tempted to walk out the front door and make sure all the hot air hadn’t lifted the building off its foundations.",0
3238,"after they served the men and teenage boys first, as was their custom, rachel made sure there was room for lavina to sit next to her.",0
4902,“i’m sure he’s not the world’s most dynamic suitor.,0
2364,"buster shook his head in utter disgust and disbelief and said into the phone, ""you look like shit!""",1
1683,no globe or map fully convinced me that zebulon county was not the center of the universe.,1
5143,"he was afraid of coulter, all right, but he’d done a heap of bully-brawling, no doubt about that, and he held all the cards here.",0
3122,"don’t worry about strangers because we are going through our old friend fummiro.”

it was the mention of fummiro’s name that dissolved all of cully’s suspicions.",1
6885,he feigned confusion with consummate composure.,0
2837,"“it’s been a long time, but i thought i should tell you what hap-pened.”

she paused, her voice uncertain.",1
24,"they won’t know anything for sure, however, until she regains consciousness.",1
10773,"i have no doubt the hague will feel able to handle

the matter.",0
11418,"too many calamities had befallen the abbey, he said, to allow even the spiritual father to speak in a tone of reproach and admonition.",0
2179,"“i was here, i remember, all afternoon and evening.”

“i must have been at home,” said vivian, uncertainly.",1
9133,"you seem to.”

“maybe i do, to a certain extent.",0
11832,there is nothing sacred.,0
3780,"“then why did you feel it necessary to spear him with a lance?”

“just an executioner’s gesture, i suppose, to make assurance doubly sure.”

“which of you threw that spear?”

“i did, sir,” a burly young auxiliary replied, “only i didn’t throw it.",0
4852,"he didn’t doubt her truthfulness, although he had heard the words a hundred times.",0
9078,"“my friend josef thinks i’m a filthy rich, decadent capitalist and wants to know how he can get that way too.”

“tell him?”

“certainly not.",0
8124,"if you were president, would you appoint justices who share your belief that a fetus is a ‘life’?”

kerry willed himself to stay calm.",0
2440,"you're
not even sure you can stop him now.",1
4136,"i survived despite his lack of feeling and kindness, and i wish to know of certain that my students will survive at least as well here in virginia.",0
4213,"although it was as dark as the deepest cavern, i smelled the night-blooming flowers in the breeze from the vertical shaft and knew without a doubt where we were.",0
5959,"slouched down at an angle with her cheek on the arm of the chair, she was speaking in a voice so confidential that even standing there he couldn’t make out her words.",0
8235,"her business in iowa city was successful, certainly.”

“i didn’t mean that.”

i looked at him sharply.",0
11089,"“but she may not be able to keep her promise, because her brother is trying to take the company away from her.”

he looked at her, then looked away with an uncharacteristically diffident expression on his face, as if he were a little unsure of himself for once.",0
1211,"we can show the others, the doubters.",1
4202,"one quick peek through the peephole confirmed my suspicions, and when i opened the door, taylor morgan stood there.",0
1027,"it’s obvious.”

“i’m not sure that this encourages me too much.",1
10456,"and then—

sunday morning, november 15.

harper finds a painting that puzzles him, and when he questions michelle about it she confesses her love for lloyd—but delicately manages to avoid the entire subject of the little orgies she herself originated and promoted and, in fact, misses with all her heart.",0
8703,"at least this way we scratched one assassin and got an id besides.”

dave’s eyebrows went up questioningly.",0
6362,"come up to the house and i’ll try to clean up your boots.”

christine then stalked off with a determined stride, pail still swinging, leaving the confused man to follow in her odorous wake.",0
3068,"""well, i doubt you and i will live to see america become a despotism; that's one thing to be grateful for.""",1
1902,"he was so unsure about the future and so plagued by anxieties that he continued to work at the meat plant, reporting every so often to pablo to pick up assignments, so that the family always had money coming into the house.",1
722,"“we followers of jesus believe not, as do the papists, in saving grace administered through the sacraments.",1
2561,"“by god, i can’t believe it!” he appealed to amy wynn.",1
3213,no doubt the plays had taken her mind off whatever had been troubling her.,0
5363,"this rural festivity, with sagging baskets of good things and with pretty girls bound to turn up, excited the interest of certain hulking youths who had a dangerous reputation throughout the community.",0
743,"i'm not sure what's broken and what isn't.”
“try to brace yourself somehow and get loose of that thing.",1
7085,"burley’s mother, zelma, a determined-looking woman with her white hair in a bun, stood there with her hand on the knob.",0
10852,"no doubt about it, even for a non-african, this was a most exciting day.",0
1779,some of rosemary’s friends view this as another sign of dangerous battiness; fred’s own suspicion is that mrs. harris is more or less illiterate.,1
4988,"have faith in the mind that thought of this, was the dazed sort of injunction i was giving myself in my elevated state.",0
5777,"uninvited she has promised herself to this place; she can no longer imagine herself as living in another country, and there is no pleasure in remembering her life before she came here.",0
8274,"""there's no doubt in my mind she was murdered by the same man.""",0
11120,"his face changed, showed a hesitant smile.",0
818,"wild oleander was growing along the upper cliff and up there too was a small porch of flat rock that held, he was half sure, a shoe.",1
8299,"certainly, you must realize it doesn't look good that ""within weeks of your morgue assistant's depositing an unexplained amount of cash, you wrote a check for a large amount of cash.”



i shut my eyes and ran my fingers through my hair as wesley got up from the table and came around behind me.",0
4454,"by sending her upstairs, endeline had made certain afton would not meet wido and corba again before they departed for the village.",0
9940,"norman church killed—”

“thank you, mr. bosch.”

“—a lot of women.",0
3426,"the bishop, standing off by himself, was approached by novices who doubtless saw this as their opportunity to make his excellency’s acquaintance.",0
4587,"i just want to make certain that she’s well.”

“‘tis fine by me,” brody said, slamming his mug on the table.",0
10821,"""we have checked all the stock portfolios in his blind trusts, and there are huge holdings in a number of defense contractors whose share values would undoubtedly be affected by the terms of the nantucket treaty.",0
270,"eliciting faith from the wary is like getting a wounded bird to walk into your hand, but michael, a natural priest if i ever knew one, could do it effortlessly.",1
6160,"as for making and selling the fake draft cards, the u.s. army recruiters knew what that was about: that was about drinking-no disrespect for the draft had been intended, they certainly knew that.",0
6642,it had taken resoluteness to know that the low whistles of a quail in the woods might not be a quail at all—but the signal for an indian attack.,0
6109,the pressure of the approaching deadline was making her tension almost unbearable.,0
4538,the arms driving his face toward the bottom of the basin thrust with a force that left no doubt that it intended to kill.,0
4872,"it’s a pretty safe rule of thumb that where there’s smoke there’s fire.” that finished jimmy and me, for afterward i was nervous with him and i confounded and alarmed and finally bored him by trying to convince him, although the subject had not come up, that i did not doubt his good intentions.",0
8886,"""there may be a certain amount of satisfaction in breaking a guy's leg that gets behind, but how does he repay the loan if he's laid up?",0
5296,"he took a step back and, as if he’d put a mile between them, bellowed, “if you need—and then, hearing his voice resounding down the hall, dropped to a whisper—

“anything—i’m right there.” he nodded, then followed his own lead, “five-oh-seven,” controlling the impulse to laugh again, because, at the sight of the other one, joey, ensconced in 507, this one would surely disappear.",0
2954,"the man looked up in suspicion at the englishman and

nodded.",1
1725,she wasn’t sure what she thought.,1
8823,"giorni, now that he had taken the measure of his man, sensibly deferred his own goal in order to create goodwill.",0
3531,"""i don't know him any but i know guys that know him, that's for sure.""",0
1716,it would be like trying to persuade a believer that there was no god.,1
4599,"•

read psalm 51:10. how is this a prayer for every believer in every age?",0
9190,he ate leisurely and read the evening papers.,0
11991,david motioned for angela to step back through the cellar door.,0
11730,"“jesus, twenty years in the united states air force and i get to chauffeur a scotch protestant.”

the triple-perspex canopy capable of withstanding the tremendous air-pressure differences of

ultra-high-altitude flight was closed upon them.",0
8858,he was pretty sure where krieg was headed.,0
7156,he measured her.,0
11319,"he had not used ""loving"" language to the mill owners, nor creamy words to soothe their sensibilities, nor had he exercised ""christian charity.""",0
11564,"i was no angel, but i never slept with another man's wife, and i never deflowered a virgin, even though-""



henny said tartly, ""okay, dear.""",0
53,"i wasn’t so sure i wanted to go back into music, anyway.",1
8806,"she sensed his indecision, but maybe not its cause, and pressed the point, leaning inward toward him, palm still pressed flat against the door.",0
11910,"and even now there’s two cars coming in asking after her, my brother’s telling them we haven’t a god clue where she is.”

“was she sick do you think?” ria asked.",0
9251,"“i’m a very low-pressure type myself.”

she looked me over carefully, did everything but feel the texture of the material my coat was made of.",0
9434,"a preacher of no little note, undoubtedly.",0
11143,after a moment’s startled hesitation he hugged her and kissed the top of her head.,0
9401,"the index finger of his right hand was touching the numerical identification of psalm 109, one of the “cursing psalms.” just what the doctor ordered.",0
8801,"sure, it looks like a big stink now.",0
5148,there certainly were lots of men around.,0
3249,"she had determined to use the afternoon better by resuming her pursuit of



bernadette.",0
11326,"the procession makes a circuit of the church grounds,

walking along the very curb of the pavement,

and brings in from the street within the portals

the spring, and all the murmurings of spring,

and air that has about it the tang of consecrated wafers

and of the heady fumes of spring.",0
6353,"as he hesitation-stepped forward, the overhead lights swam across his shiny brown scalp like goldfish.",0
12203,"“doris williams is in hospital and i ought to visit her.”

“who’s doris williams, for heaven’s sake?”

there was no such person.",0
9102,"what i wanted was for you to be happy and secure.’

carlo’s look became more open.",0
11992,i’m her landlord.,0
2445,"i could phone her, though i doubted if it would do any good.",1
11190,"an arabic grammar, a few books on syria and the lebanon which i had already read during my convalescence in charles's room, and a collection which might be said to represent john lethman's homework--some volumes (also familiar to me) about the original lady of the lebanon: joan haslip and roundell and silk buckingham and the three old volumes of dr. meryon's diary about his redoubtable patroness.",0
7451,the preacher looked toward it and nodded.,0
8748,“are you sure you don’t want the name of their dentist?” hogan asked.,0
940,"i had just gotten up.”

“had you?” he asked skeptically.",1
5971,"but that certain face, so erect and restrained with others while warm and eager to him, was hidden under long black veiling so he could see nothing except the form, like the outline of a memory whose living heart and breast were still barred from him.",0
4118,"poor henry, i am persuaded that he is quite in love with the lady and am certain they should suit.",0
10154,“what about sam goddard’s great love?,0
8003,"“sometimes they stretch all the way across the road, but if you hafta go through one you say, ‘angel-bright, life-in-death; get off the road, don’t suck my breath.’ that keeps ‘em from wrapping around you—”

“don’t you believe a word he says, dill,” i said.",0
8574,"i don’t care how exacting your standards may be, i assure you, male or female, that if you ever saw connie you’d think me a dolt for casting a libidinous eye at any other woman.",0
6850,"are you sure?”

“a white stag,” said taliesin, his eyes gleaming in the dimness of the clearing like two dark stars.",0
11224,"god exists, of course.",0
1101,gage seemed to shift; d'oncetta could not be sure.,1
5902,miss eckhart would go toward it with measured step.,0
3306,"ashton was never to forget the amazing kick of the rifle, the cracking sound, the certainty—he was never to forget the astonishing life—the livingness—of the rifle as the trigger was pulled and the bullet shot to its mark.",0
7868,"that’s good to know, as though some breath of fondness lingered, tinging her lips with a smile the way he’d sat here with something he’d torn from the paper about the hairy ainu gone on the instant, breaking out with —my god i hope he drives carefully, two or three drinks and those pills he’s been taking.",0
3969,my daughter will undoubtedly meet these ships at the port.,0
6063,"“norm showed me lots of things,” he said, “like how to take a whole paragraph outta one spot on a page and stick it somewhere else”—he snapped his fingers—“just like that!”

“it defies belief,” i said dryly.",0
8243,"“of course not,” i assured her.",0
358,"but nathan could not be sure whether he himself existed, and whether other people existed.",1
1242,"haunted by the suspicion that she and the others might have judged matthew larry too harshly, flanna squinted at the man.",1
7286,"i must find it.”

on sundays roger called for his sister at the church where she had been singing.",0
5501,"there was the taint about drugs of the irredeemably depraved, almost as evil as certain images of sexual intercourse—which until i was at least thirteen i visualized as a brutish act committed in secrecy upon dyed blondes by huge drunken unshaven ex-convicts with their shoes on.",0
4046,"dane and lindsay won’t let me stay underneath their trailer anymore, but my attorney is even more sure he has a case so he puts me up for the month in a downtown rooming house.",0
3188,"st. teresa of avila had thirty years of dryness, and she was only one of the many saints who confessed that they were frequently torn by doubt and tortured by the despair of un-faith.",1
7912,"mister boatwright, my god, reeling around waving a bottle like a two year old learning to walk when nobody’s watching, is that what this ridiculous performance is all about oscar?",0
8313,she’d been so sure the governor would commute his sentence.,0
4733,"there is—or was, for friendships collapse as swiftly as other things in mexico—a long and firm bond between the collaborators on this book: personal and esthetic sympathies, similarity of political belief, and a shared continuous loving preoccupation with mexico.",0
551,"""well, owen,"" mr. merrill said cautiously, ""i'm sure isaiah would have liked john kennedy; i don't know, however, if kennedy was 'the very thing isaiah had in mind,' as you say.""",1
731,"her hands moved along his back, up and down, sometimes seeming to wish to bring him closer, sometimes being tempted to push him away, moved in a terrible, a beautiful indecision, and caused him, brokenly, deep in his throat, to moan.",1
10640,“are you sure this is going to work?” asked jason.,0
5114,"what the hell’s the matter with you, mack?”

mack said, “vice is a monster so frightful of mien, i’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” he put his arm around hazel’s shoulders.",0
6232,"seeing faith and lavidia, reverend brown spun on his heels and, from across the room, pointed his finger like a revolver at lavidia.",0
11864,"some of those personal problems have come to my company's attention.”

mace bridled and his voice sharpened.”what the hell are you talking about?""",0
7819,"""jesus.""",0
527,why then did she feel such apprehension about going in?,1
842,"i doubt very seriously that you shall talk.”

frank looked up hard.",1
8111,"this was a dedicated group, and i was sure that someone else would be after the aec package when hassan didn't appear.",0
7095,“are you sure…i mean…” he stammered.,0
9803,"still, he went back to the small headstone with the weathered angels with the crumbling wings.",0
1525,"there time altered itself to match your mood and there, if you let yourself fall into torpor or futility, the world seemed to share your lapse of faith, which it demonstrated by showing you empty rooms full of furniture, the bird feeder standing unused as old mrs. ramble across the street came out in her coat and scarf to remove a scrap of paper that had blown onto her lawn.",1
3690,"we knew, even when he was very young, that he would be an important person someday.”

rick finally found his tongue and asked, “did you really and truly teach my dad when he was only in the first grade?”

“i certainly did.",0
6302,"‘‘i don’t believe we’ve met, but your sister certainly spoke highly of you.’’

ivy spoke highly of me?",0
10356,what the hell on?,0
11373,"they did

not speak or look up, christmas for them forever wrapped in pain.",0
7153,"judas ought to
know; he was the treasurer for their travels, a job he shared with
matthew.",0
5624,"then, too, if i were a negro, i would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available.",0
11678,sometimes i beg god to deliver me from everything connected with ' 'the reconstruction!!',0
6905,"officers were already questioning some of the neighbors, and other uniformed cops came and went through the building’s front door.",0
10031,"that came when the twentieth century god of progress managed to sell itself to the have-not’s as salvation, and as a result killed the best of the old society with its worst.",0
11984,"when kaptah heard this, he broke out in imprecations and invoked the gods to his aid.",0
10100,he’d make an appointment with his good philadelphia client for monday and go to atlantic city on sunday.,0
11331,"the only joy any of them possessed was an occasional mug of beer, and their church, and their faith.",0
3937,"despite calumny, insult and outrage, they have reestablished the true faith and, even now, by their great labors, are filling the world with learned men.",0
8844,he says it would give him pleasure to hear whatever you feel free to tell him about it at that time.,0
4576,the rest of you didn’t seem to doubt my fitness to be among you as a worker.,0
7122,"“the cost for surgical care for a pressure sore alone averages 50,000

dollars.”

i’m losing them.",0
4274,"“she thinks you are quite…original.”

flanna paused for a moment to make certain charity had been safely seated on the dickey at the rear of the carriage, then squeezed roger’s hand as she stepped from the block into the creaking phaeton.",0
2472,i’m not sure how all of this came about.,1
2515,"i doubt that the miscreant understood, but the tone of my voice was vehement enough to attract his attention, and when he glanced at me the sight of the pistol i held had the desired effect.",1
8515,"if somebody else murdered ella then they certainly wouldn't murder miles just as he was about to be arrested for ella's murder.""",0
5571,"what cash down payment would it be necessary for us to put forth, mr. ransom, in order to secure the highly estimable privilege of printing your remarkable diary?",0
9398,"what is your interest in the rosary?”

koesler told the sergeant about father lord and the rosary he’d been found holding, about how he—koesler—had received it, and that he wasn’t sure, but he thought the two rosaries were similar.",0
11656,they were going to wear them at the traditional christmas party at the sventitskys' on the twenty-seventh.,0
4914,they are reassuring statements of the great hopes and dearest faiths of mankind and they are acts of high imagination.,0
7228,“i am a pirate—if you agree with men like my uncle that attacking spain’s ships and denying madrid treasure to supply their armies in europe is a crime.,0
4297,"but what if he was sure the christina wasn’t going to move for a while?”

“the housing—the wood framework outside the paddle wheel.",0
12109,"they used insecticides on any area with hair, and sprayed lice shampoo on them, and then hosed them down again.",0
1625,"instead of reading on and on about the tenuousness, ambiguity, or uncertainty of someone’s feelings, she preferred to question the meaning of a thing or the meaning of a thought, preferably raising the question in german, a foreign or at any rate adopted language that enabled her to reduce these crucial questions to pure signs, since in german the word thing and the word thought did not immediately evoke in her brain the multitudinous response it did in english, where the words, those everyday words, conjured up an entire panorama of familiar associations that blunted the preciseness needed in order to bring her philosophical investigation to a satisfactory conclusion.",1
8028,"rantlee pushed through the crowd suddenly and gus knew he was going to the radio, and for an agonizing moment gus was alone in the center of the ring of faces, some of which he told himself, would surely help him.",0
395,harvey began to entertain doubts about the diocese as a theater for his future.,1
5013,"“maybe i can’t.”

“sure you can,” said suzy.",0
2360,"wouldn’t have said boo about him, but you did ask about little suspicions and observations.” he leaned forward.",1
9808,"i had decided to reason, to bargain, to plead with the priests... anything to extricate my master from their snare.",0
11402,"for when the priests saw that the soldiers were attacking in earnest, they closed the pylon gates, and the people fled this way and that like stampeded sheep.",0
697,"i won’t.”

“i’m not sure i want to be in god’s plan after seeing what happened to my father in timmeton.”

“painful, i’m sure.",1
7936,"“oh, my god.",0
8101,"i'm confident i'm clean, she thought.",0
1926,"zoe had made this person the godmother (her term) of her baby, though of course it hadn’t been a real baptism and, of course, zoe couldn’t be persuaded to give the child a real baptism, in church.",1
7823,"angela represents the realism of the race, which is always pointing out that wisdom, beauty, glory, courage in men are just vanities and her business is to beat down the man's legend about himself.",0
437,"if they did not turn to him, it was because of their own negligence and want of faith.",1
9964,so angelo was surprised when the person who came through the door was his sister.,0
9294,"grave digger took a deep breath and said in a voice gone thick and cottony again, ""ready, if you don't tell me what i want to know, you'd better get yourself one of those prayers.",0
11245,"wilson, a few years older than orr and prematurely gray, had the earnestness of a baptist preacher and now looked worried, probably because a client's displeasure could cost him his job.",0
11195,no matter how much i snubbed him or humiliated him he just looked at me questioningly.,0
8196,"but i assure you, i shall die with a curse on my lips.”

she tiptoed to the door, listened with her blondeness against the cover of the spyhole, and then returned to where i only now felt it feasible to stand fully upright.",0
243,i wasn't sure what i was doing there at all.,1
2248,"‘can’t even be sure it’s them,’ said the deputy.",1
8273,"did you think when i came back here—and there was never any doubt of that, but that i would be back, bob, except maybe in your dreams—i’d come back like saint francis, meek and mild and kissing flowers?",0
2873,"daniel's fairness had incited the suspicion in ireland that he had some sassenagh blood in him, and he had had to fight with fury to disprove this evil and insulting canard.",1
9474,"instead we have tea and canned beef stew and canned spinach and triscuits, we have snow and a christmas-card view through a rimed window (who needs cards when you’ve got the real thing), we have unrelieved static in place of traditional music, and we have chains in lieu of colored lights and tinsel.",0
4626,"the music stacked on top of the ancient upright piano carried out the same universality, so to speak, ranging from children’s hymns and chants gregorian to such barbershop ballads as “in the shade of the old apple tree” and “sweet adeline.”

i have intimated that this diversity and divergency of book, picture, and song indicated a certain universality of taste in dan.",0
11360,"""you’ve got a mighty fine congregation,"" he observed.",0
1402,she wasn’t sure why she’d come.,1
11852,"i have with me a small but remarkably powerful god, thanks to whom i did not come yesterday—for if i had, it would have been to no purpose.",0
10911,"when we don’t have enough fuel to get back to foynes, we’ve passed the point of no return.” eddie spoke brusquely, and harry now had no doubt the engineer was trying to scare tom luther.",0
5862,it was conceivably even part of his youthfulness--youthfulness sustained with certain tremors.,0
8016,he drove straight from washington to a trout pond in the poconos that he had visited before and where he was able to rent a cabin or shack that was as dilapidated as the camp at langely.,0
7273,"he was someone who came to us from cuba and now he has gone on to a more glorious ancient kingdom, the kingdom of everlasting light, brilliant with the love of god who is everywhere in his infinite universe.",0
1000,"“surely, dr. frank, you have no means of being certain that leviathan will achieve immunity to nitrogen.",1
10209,"listen, kid, you never know when the hell you’ll find yourself in a situation that calls for some quick protective thinking.",0
8248,if any one of your victims might have stumbled upon your secret it surely would have been the rabbi.,0
9725,"mr. mavole sat on the other side of the bed and stared at the floor, his eyes feverish captives in black circles, his lower lip caught between his teeth, his hands clasped in prayer as he hoped he would not begin to cry again and start her crying.",0
4524,"the bleeding has stopped and that is good, but i have no doubt it will begin again if you stir from this room.’”

“very well, i will do as you say.",0
9248,"“isaac, you sure chino will run uptown?”

defalco answered again.",0
7828,i was settin pins in a bowlin alley in ardmore oklahoma and i got dogbit by a bulldog took a chunk out of my leg the size of a sunday roast and it got infected and the man i worked for carried me down to the doctor and they thought i had rabies or somethin and all hell busted loose and i got shipped back to uvalde county.,0
7312,jesus is historical.” ozzie mimicked the monumental voice of rabbi binder.,0
4934,no doubt she will be too overcome to respond to the originality of my project.,0
9946,"""my god,"" mike foster whispered.",0
6847,"she’d expected ruth’s speech to be more refined than zeke’s, but apparently grandma had even less exposure to books and standard english than great-grandpa.",0
9578,the funeral procession from church to cemetery runs along the royal road to wilanowski palace for the interment ceremony at dowazki cemetery.,0
3891,"for the first time mackenzie could remember, she wouldn't allow herself to think about god or her mother's salvation beliefs.",0
6069,"how long do you suppose it will be before all those thirty-two rooms he’s adding will be finished?”

“so we can jump right in and begin giving parties there?”

“well, sure.",0
2114,"i told you that.”

“you did but i’m not sure it’s right never to cry.",1
530,"she wasn’t even sure she believed that anymore, either.",1
9115,"“yes, sure.”

“great.”

they were again enveloped in the music and talk and gaiety of the party.",0
618,the bull dancers looked at one another in disbelief.,1
5525,"coming home, forcing open the water-swollen door, was a plea sure and a pain to him.",0
8105,harold was blessed that begin continued to urge him to be faithful to the meetings and that several members of that group were tenacious in their invitations to join them.,0
10766,"doubtless you have a plan for that as well?”

“personally, i do not.",0
4857,"now it so happens that this man bears a decided physical resemblance to the american writer philip roth, claims that philip roth is his name as well, and is not averse to playing upon this unaccountable, if not utterly fantastical, coincidence to foster the belief that he is the author and thus to advance the cause of diasporism.",0
4409,"and as the polished brass doors silently slid shut, i realized that justus’s personnel director had done a very good job of hiring faithful people thus far .",0
10794,"this is kosher, marilyn, she knows i’m coming.”

“i don’t doubt it for a moment.”

“you do.",0
7904,"“so how the hell is school?” she’d say, laughing in the stale light, winking as if there were secrets being shared.",0
7849,all those goddam golden locks.,0
4690,"sitting on the edge of her chair, marie wilson said, “that’s quite true,” and “i know what you mean,” and “i’m sure you’re right,” and finally, reaching the end of her patience, she said, “i’m afraid you’ll have to excuse me, i have things to do.” still talking, the widow followed her up the attic stairs.",0
3072,everything seemed uncertain.,1
511,"i confronted her, but i’m not really sure she understands how serious it could have been.”

“i feel angry at her.”

alec put a hand on the younger man’s shoulder.",1
9637,"“can’t we, richard, take them a christmas box on christmas day?",0
10966,"""a wise choice, i have no doubt, lady whitehaven,"" he said.",0
7138,"ashcroft then moves to pressure tony jr. into planting the bomb.”

“which the evidence suggests tony jr. did.”

kate shook her head, and dave was startled at her confidence.",0
5750,"“can i help you?”

“sure.”

“then let’s do that,” she said, “and go over there some other day.”





that morning caroline was thinking of everything that had occurred the night before.",0
2032,she still didn't know how she could introduce the matter of gold mines; there was no certain bridge from harry knecht to mines without john's testimony.,1
2965,"“maybe tony will change his mind and go with you.”

“i doubt it,” tanya said quietly.",1
741,"there are two chairs on the landing, however—i’m not certain of their origins, but they’re charming.",1
10955,"chapter thirty-nine




in the next few days the ferrier house was filled with flowers and gifts for marjorie, and letters of happy congratulation to jonathan because, as they said, ""our dear senator, kenton campion, has proved, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that you were innocent, as the majority of us believed from the beginning.",0
12337,"standing at her side, charles rested his hand on

fe

204 heaven and hell

her shoulder and adopted a severe expression.",0
2993,"the rest lay with their new plots, which he doubted would be efficacious with a man like the senator.",1
761,"the people felt so
secure that even when they turned from god, they believed jerusalem was
impregnable, as long as the temple stood.”
a cab pulled up and the doorman loaded the large valise into the trunk.",1
8976,"but i’m not exactly in a position right now to...well...”

“well, yes, sure, i mean, yes, but,” crowley mimicked him precisely, then laughed shortly.",0
6636,"sister celie, he say, you faithful as the day is long.",0
9451,"and if you ever get caught with loaded dice in this town, you’ll feel like jesus on good friday.",0
9847,"and so was that other man, that poor son of a bitch who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and it just happened to work out to morrison’s advantage and he’s going to get away with two murders to protect the whole goddamn corruption that pete was trying to expose.",0
5005,"but there was a country, as surely as there was herself.",0
2739,"the interrogation was matter of fact, and had artie then given the same story as judd, about the two girls, suspicion might have been turned away from them for a time, perhaps altogether.",1
9066,the trip was leisurely but purposeful.,0
10668,"""i have no certain knowledge-and i have no doubts.""",0
2936,"to which mace answered, emotionally but lamely, ""i . . . i just don't know.”

the answer-the worst he could have given-produced from spectators in the hearing room an audible shock wave of disbelief and horror, and donahue's tirade a moment later.",1
10867,"she hoped birdsong had not detected her taxi trailing him, but if she persisted he undoubtedly would.",0
9051,‘pressure’ is probably too strong a word.,0
6946,"i will yet find the treasure of the prince philip, for i call you a liar and thief!",0
9694,"except that while winnie was plumbing his spotty memory, he was informed by his lawyer that the law firm's own bertram 46 was decorated with the parade's biggest christmas figure, which was not dopey but rudolph the reindeer.",0
3323,"before he even began to think it through, he was convinced of that.",0
5426,"during the ride the driver said nothing else, but ignatius practiced his speech loudly in the backseat, rapping his cutlass against the front seat to emphasize certain key points.",0
7630,"then, after him, they had this christmas thing they have at radio city every year.",0
8657,"you helping me.”

there was a silence on the line before the bear said, “i’m not gonna do it.”

“you sure?”

“i told you, i quit.”

“i hate being alone, bear.”

“that’s too fucking bad.”

“i hate it so much, man, if i go down i’ll pleadeal you in.",0
12409,"“get the hell out of my car!”

“you gonna make me?",0
171,i'm not sure what to do.,1
9787,when i first got sober there was a meeting every night at twelve at the moravian church at lexington and thirtieth.,0
3182,"they'd doubt yours, jon.""",1
10241,the lords giveth .,0
8375,certainly not to upper palm canyon falls.,0
11375,"he not only knew how to read the great book of nature, but also

knew the way monks read the books of scripture, and how they thought through them.",0
10554,"i’m sure i don’t know what the world’s coming to...""

as member after member came into the room the debate continued and more joined in the discussion.",0
9845,"god in heaven, why?",0
3212,they seemed in no hurry and certainly weren’t about to go the allowed seventy miles per hour on the interstate.,0
5864,"for example, i was hungry enough to begin to learn that hunger has its pleasures, and i was happily at ease in the dark, and in general, i could feel that i was breaking the tethers of need, one by one.",0
1378,"the walkway to the house looked like the one he had carried his father up, but he was not sure of it.",1
1401,"roughly they were divided into two parties: those who were full of an active, pragmatic unbelief, and those who searched their own vitals and fished up strange horrors in the style of transition.",1
10243,"predictably, angela had kept the key.",0
10099,"goddamnit, he thought, why’d he ever brought her up to the office in the first place?",0
5515,"""you sure you want to do this, boy?""",0
599,"melchior held no beliefs of that kind, but he was not a man
to scorn the beliefs of others, so he called her name, softly, then
more loudly and only when she stirred and groaned did he put his hand
on her shoulder and give her a little shake.",1
9100,“i’m pretty sure by sunday i’ll feel up to driving.,0
2413,“ ‘not long after he first appeared in new orleans he was picked up on suspicion of murder.,1
11839,"bye, angela.",0
10195,"“come on, darling, goddam it!”

“what you layin’ down for?” i said.",0
9920,"like the classic hero, the antihero leads the mass toward salvation.",0
5281,he howls to all the songs like he’s overflowing with devotion.,0
2142,"it could be that magnus was in the office across the hall when she came, and heard her make the call, and knew that whipple wouldn’t be there until nine o’clock, and drove her there and killed her, but i doubt it.",1
2799,"the times’s headline: “a doubtful election.” the editor made much of the fact that oregon had gone democratic by only 500 votes; also, of the fact that the crucial states of louisiana, florida, and south carolina were being claimed by hayes’s electors—as we had always anticipated.",1
5978,"yes, someone else came to that place and secured quail.",0
10664,"i was thinking that if the party had been arranged some time back, then no doubt emory and james would both be there.",0
3853,"from the glimpse of the nazarene she had had that day on the road to jerusalem, he had seemed to be a kind and deeply pious man, not the sort of revolutionary who occasionally stirred up jerusalem as barabbas and his followers had done.",0
8374,"she did not think him physically repulsive, exactly, but he certainly wasn't her type.",0
4592,"'of course,' i agreed; and it seemed he had taken me into his confidence - an intimacy i was certain he did not bestow lightly.",0
4075,"i closed the taxi door and waited there a moment, making certain i hadn't forgotten anything.",0
6613,"for faith—that day, that kiss, those words were a treasured memory, cherished as a special bond between them of mutual trust and love.",0
1257,"24: “he lost belief in himself ”

chesterton has a whole chapter on this topic in orthodoxy: “a man will certainly fail, because he believes in himself.",1
7109,"this could be the biggest story of the year.”

“sure, it could.",0
10710,"...”

“no doubt they will,” observed lawrence.",0
7311,he heard the priest’s youthful voice mingling with the thin music of the bells.,0
7257,"“sure, evan and i’ll do her.” cathy answered for her brother, but for once he seemed to agree with his sister.",0
9237,"""sure,"" i said listlessly.",0
9029,"he wants all our guests to feel secure and, besides, it’s against house policy for me to accept — ”

“who’s gonna know?",0
6250,then he abandoned the smoldering cigarette in the ashtray to faith’s right.,0
1909,"not that i don’t trust you, but we’d doubt the pope if he tried to adopt a pet.",1
2270,"“the way to solve it is to muddle around in it and disrupt everybody’s lives and doubt everything everybody says and make a general pain in the ass of yourself.”

quirk nodded.",1
10379,"mo panov had recited them back to him ... oh, christ i he had been looking for two people, one whose physical appearance could belong to hundreds of men in those four crowded blocks.",0
5660,"“not a white person’ll go near ‘em but that saintly j. grimes everett.”

mrs. merriweather played her voice like an organ; every word she said received its full measure: “the poverty… the darkness… the immorality—nobody but j. grimes everett knows.",0
4584,"this began to seem strange to lily and nona—if not unreasonable, then certainly unkind.",0
7935,"there is something overfinished about fred’s looks that reminds vinnie of the arrow collar man in the advertisements of her childhood—though that isn’t his fault, heaven knows.",0
3095,he gave her a skeptical look.,1
11955,"""that's very generous,"" angela said.",0
3763,"""you may not recall the incident, but he and all my relations
assure me of its truth, though it happened before i was born.",0
10799,"but no matter how little corroborating evidence there was, david never doubted her for a moment.",0
2501,"“what does the girl herself say?”

			“i’m told she can’t remember.”

			“can’t remember having sex?”

			“that’s what i gather.” burke spoke less certainly.",1
8615,"i haven’t been a suspect in ages.”

“cut it out, groucho!”

groucho said to hazel, “i’m sure it’s dangerous when he uses that tone of voice.",0
9659,"through spinneyton, turn right, is that it?”

“believe me, once you’re on that road you can’t miss the abbey.",0
8589,"or had larry always been this way, determinedly unconscious of the deadly results of his ""harmless"" schemes?",0
3430,he’d already determined his will.,0
6969,"the first thing, then, was to secure banalog so that he could not spread an alarm until hulann and the boy were beyond the clutches of the second division.",0
6990,"he felt an overwhelming fear, which yet contained a curious and dreadful pleasure.",0
10295,"“jesus, partner,” dunston said to the actor beside him, “fella with a name like that surely deserves a full measure.” and he complied.",0
10097,"by god, we’ll pay for a general alarm, too.",0
3486,"slowly, but surely, the steerman’s exhaust trail wrote the next word.",0
7902,"her lord the count was absent, and the deceitful mother-in-law advises her to return to her home, where she will be in more skillful hands.",0
7779,"lord,” she said, “we ought to spend half our time on our knees.”

“i know if i was in an iron lung there would be some things i wouldn’t do,” mrs. pritchard said, scratching her bare ankle with the end of the hoe.",0
7162,"i’m right behind you.”

“sure,” kent returned with a smile.",0
1538,"you are shocked to see debonair zee in a state of blind, consuming rage, and you are too ironical, too worldly, too skeptical to accept with graciousness what i am about to tell you now, but, philip, you are a jewish prophet and you always have been.",1
10870,"finally, i had no more doubts as to the gravity of my situation when i read quotations from the great avicenna, who defined love as an assiduous thought of a melancholy nature, born as a result of one’s thinking again and again of the features, gestures, or behavior of a person of the opposite sex (with what vivid fidelity had avicenna described my case!",0
5100,"but then mexico city is so wonderfully wild.”

“i certainly hope that no one has tried to inflict any warmongering resolutions upon the gathering.”

“oh, goodness, no.”

“i’m relieved to hear that.",0
12123,"""you 6io

heaven and hell

prepared well, father.",0
10122,"“goddamn you, milo.”

“goddamn you,” i said.",0
12136,"what lord had said about his support of any promotion was true, but that was because he never took a position on one until he was sure it would be acceptable to the faculty.",0
933,"addison knew she waited for him to tell her if the news was good or bad, but for the life of him, he wasn’t sure which it was.",1
5582,"with her job gone, she had lost practice in certain devices.",0
6480,"""but her own daughter's weddin' would be different, surely.""",0
3022,"it was a low and uncertain laugh, but it was certainly a laugh.",1
11302,"then, one finger at a time, he began to list what the congregation had deprived itself of.",0
11041,henry’s face took on a look of tired apprehension.,0
12169,"it was a hell of an improvement from where she had been a month before, or before that.",0
2585,"a weakness in the pike family—""

jonathan, leaning against the table now, prayed for patience somewhat blasphemously.",1
12262,and on sunday morning we were all pretty sure of his identity.,0
10338,i listened now while willoughby emphasized once again the sole matter that should concern me upon my return from mexico—namely where and how george harper had spent his time on the sunday and monday he claimed to have been in miami.,0
4671,"you will also be required to bring certain tools and articles of clothing with you when you report to the ship.”

the minister shuffled his feet uneasily and looked at the floor.",0
9509,jury’s tone was so serious that he might have been asking the sergeant to finish up the lindisfarne gospels.,0
5008,i was sure he would shoot out our tires but i guess even mr. phelan knows better than to shoot at people.,0
1973,"you know how it is, officer, i met this blonde, didn’t mean any harm but a fellow likes a night out once in a while; sure i felt guilty, sure i love my wife, but, well, the blonde said she’d meet me—i tell you how it was, i’d lent this guy a five-spot, felt sorry for him you know, guess i was a sucker, anyway he said he’d meet me and pay—well, i met this fellow who said he’d give me an inside tip on a horse, only he wouldn’t know for sure until tonight, if i’d meet him—

			all right, he thought furiously, all right; of all the damn-fool ideas… so, produce the blonde, the debtor, the tipster!",1
286,"i'm not sure i do, either.""",1
10592,i’m tripping too hard again so i decide to go on and call him even though i don’t like calling him so much because i don’t want him to feel pressured and i want him to feel good about this whole thing in general.,0
6364,"there was certainly no point in me making baby clothes or little blankets, since helen and vonda louise were already hard at work on this, plus about half the women of the tabernacle.",0
1253,"josey protested, sounding doubtful.",1
5167,"he was sure, though, that whatever they might think, it couldn’t be very good, because there wasn’t any very good thing to think of.",0
4141,"cahira had been a kind and devoted nurse in the month of his convalescence, but he had married to protect and serve her, not to be served and protected.",0
12056,"from over the balcony rail, avram hirsch looked

down at the broken body and muttered to detective constable bentsur:

“what the hell did he do that for?”



the service aircraft that had brought the two specialists to gatow from britain the previous

evening returned westward soon after the takeoff of the dominie from berlin for tel aviv.",0
4336,“i certainly would!,0
2729,"and though as soon as he began to grow up he knew himself an atheist, the madonna image persisted as someone in whom he believed, and as his mother.",1
9756,he didn’t have a prayer.,0
10929,"that is all i know of the mansions of the sea god, but i do not doubt your word, and i wish all good to minea.”

minotauros said coldly, “you shall see the labyrinth for the night of the full moon is near, and upon that night minea will enter the house of the god.”

“and if she refuse?” i demanded fiercely, for his words angered me and froze my heart with despair.",0
9253,"if you’re wondering who might stand to profit politically if monroe goes to jail, it will almost certainly be another african-american.",0
7233,hesitation.,0
3973,"straightening himself, he returned to his chamber, determined to wait… and watch.",0
11681,"she said, ""the answer god gave to that 'magnificent question' was, i believe, 'your brother's blood cries up to me from the ground against you.'",0
694,"others silently dismissed him as a loose gun or worse, harboring private doubts about the events that left nathan mcallister in a wheelchair.",1
990,"then his eyes seemed to laugh, though aramus could not be sure.",1
2621,"“they won’t remem-ber him.”

mr. hiller looked doubtful.",1
6888,"i have the rent covered the first few months, so why don’t you plan to start paying your half when we hit november.”

“you sure that would work out?”

“yes.",0
6645,"""sure, he is,"" george said.",0
739,"“i want you to understand that this is as awkward for me as it is for you.”

“so you've said.” treet doubted that anything was ever awkward for varro.",1
5614,"now, squatting on the sands of kinsale, he allowed for the first time the total measure of his sorrow to overtake him.",0
11791,"""that's all well and good,"" angela said.",0
7457,"i wanted to say that it was the same with the bible; that the serpent was doomed before he hatched, that something so low and sneaky and slippery wouldn’t, by its very nature, be taken for good.",0
8385,"“yeah, i’m sure.",0
1361,i’m not sure that your quitting tomorrow would make things different anyway.,1
4283,i’m sure she’ll find her true niche someday.,0
7054,what i’m going to say to you has to remain absolutely confidential.,0
9450,"thank the lord that papa and mama, in their earthly wisdom, left the controlling interest in the farm to me.",0
1492,but i’m not sure he knows.,1
8825,"it’s enough for you to know that he’s a trusted soldier in the brigade.” in contrast to his hectoring back at the park, bedford’s voice had become confident and modulated.",0
12012,"or, god forbid—

she stepped into the office, feeling for the light-switch beside the door, then stopped, puzzled by what her fingers had found.",0
9208,"“sure.”



larry reached over and touched his arm.",0
4251,"“tons of things are better for thee than oat meal!”

“it’s an exaggeration, certainly,” grandawma said.",0
11652,but the question is not whether christ was poor: it is whether the church must be poor.,0
7698,the accused calmly testified that he had assumed that he had been invited to the customary sunday-afternoon rifle practice.,0
10017,"""holy christ!""",0
11264,"outside, a church bell struck the hour of one, the hour of lunch.",0
10465,"“god damn, mike . . .” druze’s face was normally as unreadable as a pumpkin.",0
10826,no doubt about that.,0
10798,"the book of reservations hadn’t a single name marked down; there was nothing until the summer, when the circus called fritz’s act would arrive and (no doubt) appall us all.",0
6177,why wasn't faith paying attention?,0
2562,"""i doubt anybody's saying novenas for me, but i'm sure as hell not

going back there.""",1
355,"the old man paused, shook his head slowly, and added, 'we doubt whether you can do anything.",1
4273,"that honorius had written it, i had no doubt; i recognized both the hand and signature from the letter the eparch had received.",0
11554,"“we already have so many truths in our possession that if the day came when someone insisted on deriving a truth even from our dreams, then the day of the antichrist would truly be at hand.",0
1471,i doubt that she was twenty-six.,1
12264,"he said to me, “my lord sinuhe, when a man attains a certain wealth, he cannot become poor but grows even richer without lifting a finger to help himself, so strangely is the world ordered.",0
1228,"“you bet i’m going with you.”

“caleb, that’s really nice of you.”

“well, i’m not sure about that.",1
11412,"...” he raised his face and recited, with the prodigious memory of a reader who for forty years now had been repeating to himself things read when he still had the gift of sight: “ ‘the moment god laughed seven gods were born who governed the world, the moment he burst out laughing light appeared, at his second laugh appeared water, and on the seventh day of his laughing appeared the soul.",0
11427,"down there among the litter of fallen branches it was dark and dank; flowers were few, and the notched stalks of horsetail looked like the staffs with egyptian ornaments in his illustrated bible.",0
9992,"god damn!""",0
4955,"you go alone.”

overtaken by a gust of loneliness, she cried, “oh, daniel, i have nothing to do!”

a moment’s silence fell, and then he said, “i’m sorry to put you through this, my dear, but you must surely admit that it’s not my fault i got sick.”

in her shame, her rapid, overdone apologies, her insistence that nothing mattered in the world except his health and peace of mind, she made everything worse, and at last he said shortly to her, “stop being a child, may.",0
896,"because of the darkness and the fire thrown from waving shadows, soloman wasn't sure of his aim, wasn't certain whether he had hit it or not.",1
7517,"and as i watched the franciscan go up the stairs, led by helen, who was holding the prescribed lighted candle, and followed by the young doctor, once more i was almost overcome by the special feeling of this moment, this profound and unique moment that is like no other in time, this moment that is suddenly stripped clean of everything that once seemed so important, and in which nothing now matters but the limitless mercy of god....

they reached charlie's bedroom and went in; a few minutes later helen, the doctor, and a nurse came out.",0
4025,"“you sure about this?”

“dead sure.",0
11257,and her son would be saved from the most grievous and easiest-to-fall-into sin on this earth.,0
1749,"when she looked up, her skepticism was focused.",1
5536,white pearl buttons adorned the bottom hem of the waist—elizabeth had sewn them at the proper intervals—probably she had used an old wornout pair of his uniform pants to measure with.,0
11033,"“well, i know it was in between the crime and the apprehension.”

“at the time of the discussion, did you think it was strange?”

“it was just one of his nutty ideas.”

“nutty, did you say?",0
467,"so they began to 
regard the christians with suspicion, as haters of men.",1
2310,"evidence of foul play.”

“you suspect something?”

“not necessarily.”

“but maybe?”

“maybe.”

“who?”

i hesitated, more from embarrassment than uncertainty.",1
10504,"no doubt the new government will find it, eventually.",0
5851,...assuredly.,0
8428,"dr. levin looked at her with wonder, convinced she was trying to hoodwink him again, and cleverly at that.",0
7679,"my goddamn knees.""",0
1372,he was prepared for disbelief; he threw up his hands dramatically.,1
4402,whatever doubts he had disappeared when he met commander strathmore.,0
404,or was i trying to quiet any last-minute doubts of my own?,1
5252,"the voyage by boat, however, would probably enervate me, and i am certainly not perverse enough to attempt air travel even if i were able to afford it.",0
11736,"“got your christmas shopping done, ralphie?”

“almost,” ralph says, grinning and jingling the bathroom key.",0
1328,"but at that doubtful moment, framed in a lighted window level with mine in the apartment house across the street, i saw a young man in a white t-shirt and white shorts at work polishing a long, beautiful dark table top.",1
1277,"take it and be comfortable.” aidan moved toward the corner, still uncertain of his intentions, but she relaxed slightly when the doctor sat on the edge of the other bed and pulled off one boot.",1
6681,"""the pressure release marks in this track.""",0
10373,"and anything that had been shoved down in the middle of a can, and stuff put back on top of it, it wouldn’t be noticed.”

“jesus!” said o’connor.",0
8456,"what manner of cruel inquisitor would
manufacture
connectives that surely would cause the generosity to cease?",0
1643,"“could i ask you a question or two?”

mr. ewell backed up into the witness chair, settled himself, and regarded atticus with haughty suspicion, an expression common to maycomb county witnesses when confronted by opposing counsel.",1
6697,"for a moment she shut her eyes, trying to gain a measure of self-control.",0
11612,the cabs drew up closer to the church.,0
10285,"but if it wasn’t a raid, i thought, what the hell was it?",0
2554,but one’s escorts … you know how it is.” she regarded him with doubt.,1
8114,"“i made an immediate surveillance of the area to ascertain whether the suspect was operating alone or with accomplices and when i determined he was alone, i gave chase and was able to apprehend him on the corner of putnam and grand.",0
882,"my long suspicion that dan’s stories had more purpose to them than was immediately apparent might now, i thought, be soon corroborated.",1
4337,"when he returned to london, fisher summoned him to the admiralty in order to clarify the nature of lord charles’ new channel fleet command and make sure that the incoming commander-in-chief understood and accepted the limitations on his control over the various fleets in home waters.",0
6561,"sara rose leisurely, folded her napkin, and replaced it carefully into the silver ring engraved with her name, and asked to be excused.",0
945,"might i have a moment of your time?”



beth hesitated, feeling uncertain, afraid of what might have brought him here to speak to her.",1
7736,"the next night he slept on the dry square of ground under a steepled dovecote, a structure suggestive of a temple devoted to a tiny null god.",0
3260,"it’s nearly midnight, but i’m sure we can convince him to talk with us.”

the small man followed as vince led the way out of the room.",0
83,"i’m not sure what inspired the mutual trust; maybe their very different but simultaneous exiles, maybe their very different but simultaneous heartbreaks.",1
3811,"the followers of jesus the messiah—the christos—are now called christians.”

for some moments pilate stared blankly at cornelius.",0
2714,she had a momentary sense of shame for doubting sam's motives.,1
2074,"mrs. irwin was much too smart not to realize that that was the first and foremost question a detective would want answered about faith usher’s past, and if i hadn’t asked it she would have wondered why and might even have been bright enough to suspect that i already knew.",1
1209,"they all don't have to like you

okay, god, i've got to face it: this boy just doesn't like me, and i doubt if he ever will.",1
12108,"""it's just taking me longer than i thought,"" angela said.",0
992,he doesn’t know for certain.,1
3813,"tell me something of your own experience with this faith, luke.”

			luke recounted to him the now familiar story, including the seemingly miraculous series of events which had culminated in the death of herod agrippa at caesarea.",0
2751,"he was still digesting the news that the wonderful hippolyte had been a mental case, probably a homicidal one; and that there was no assurance he was cured, except for the dubious fact that he was at large.",1
566,"numbed, she heard with growing disbelief the rest of the conversation between the other girls.",1
5006,"he bought two and made sure to chat up the clerk, who looked like a regular guy, a good guy, carter thought, maybe had a family.",0
7888,"oh, christ almighty, i’m free!”
  he reached out and stripped the fur from the silver-gray sage beside the road, and when his fingers were sticky with the sap he smelled the sharp penetrating odor on his fingers, breathed it deep into his lungs.",0
8126,"i make sure she gets the best of medical attention.” he abruptly slapped the seat, startling carver.",0
7780,"“times change,” he said, rushing over to help angel off with her coat.",0
4962,but i am sure you do not know.,0
4651,"the voice falling down to me from directly overhead reaches me as an echo merely: 'seeker...' it is pemberton, 'with the eyes of faith, i bid you seek... and may you truly find.'",0
4015,"“i’m sure that’s what the writer of the book wanted you to believe.”

tedi’s eyes widened.",0
8937,"i gotta keep warm, ain’t i?”

“sure, birdie.",0
3090,it’s hard to believe that at seventeen i actually entertained certain doubts about the immortality of the soul.,1
571,"secretly, perry suspected marty of manipulating the whole thing—of seeing pat drop her pen and then quickly reaching down to place his own beside hers, then pretending to grope around in search for it.",1
5289,that yankee coat for sure.,0
1090,“doubtful.,1
1624,"she smiled, but slow and irresolute, while pressing her cheek against the crown of charlie’s head.",1
8044,"'he had his own conditions, not unlike yours, which is certainly understandable.",0
11288,"he misses the familiar lutheran liturgy,

scratched into his heart like a weathered inscription.",0
4826,"anyway, we got up to his camp and sure enough he was sitting there in an overstuffed rocker, wearing white kid gloves, just like they said.",0
1091,"“so, you’re conducting the investigation?” mary ann still sounded skeptical.",1
263,"but, doubting, she raised her head once more and saw that it was paul.",1
6557,"yet there were some tiny ones, surely not more than five years old.",0
2859,"but pendulums swing too far, and bureaucratic indecision has now become a national disservice.",1
3629,i am sure of it.,0
726,"i’m not even sure what gifts i had.”

“well, maybe you never used them because you never felt they were needed.",1
11971,"custer's luck, someone had christened it.",0
7143,"“i mean, with the patient being a do not resuscitate and all—”

“oh, sure—i guess you are able to anticipate which patients aren’t likely to make it, aren’t you?” tyson felt some relief.",0
3773,it was all he could do to ensure the security of his mother and sisters.,0
7738,"as he slipped them over his toes, he invented a genesis: a g.i.’s present in 1945. plus everything else lost between 1938 and 1945, he had also lost his socks.",0
499,"she turned away, not sure if it was in shame or anger.",1
1518,"no wonder it was like ai, ai, ai, a cry of remorse, disbelief!",1
9894,"and he definitely didn't like--""oh, my god,"" he said, looking up the deck, ""i'm off indeed, here they come again.",0
8042,"he hadn’t remembered telling elkins anything about mama, certainly wouldn’t have normally, but elkins said he talked about it when he was coming out from under the sodium pentothal—the stuff they’d given him when they fixed him up there at the prison infirmary.",0
11084,"“cat shannon,” he said without hesitation.",0
11151,"he wore a victorious smile, and gave a tremendous whoop as he jumped from his horse, and ran to her, and this time there was no hesitation on her part, as he pulled her into his arms and kissed her.",0
1438,"somewhere, sometime, somebody taught her to question everything–though it might have been a good thing if he’d also taught her to question the act of questioning.",1
4982,though indeed i’m sure you’re right.,0
9169,"""sure you have, bill.",0
12308,"god, danny, who do you think i told her i was?",0
465,“roxie has alzheimer’s.” it was so blunt and quick margaret wasn’t even sure she remembered who roxie was.,1
4577,juror number three was another certain vote for the defense.,0
6631,"sometimes thomas waited too, but he wasn’t nearly so faithful.",0
8488,"he had heard that in some winters, the really bad ones, there had been three hundred inches, though surely that wasn’t all at once.",0
7237,i felt his eyes riveted on my back as i forced myself to walk at a leisurely pace.,0
3587,"she could only see his back, but she was sure of it.",0
292,"above all, i r fear for my 
people's uncorrupted faith-which this man would destroy in confusion and 
controversy.""",1
1702,"kunta stood there wild- eyed, his body shaking, his brain flashing a memory of toubob faces in the wood grove, on the big canoe, in the prison, in the place where he had been sold, on the heathen farm, in the woods where he had been caught, beaten, lashed, and shot three times before.",1
10376,"“i’m a goddamned tourist, man, into sightseeing and all that crap, i’m a tourist everywhere i go.” but the role slipped and the giggles came back.",0
11279,"however, the decision shall not be mine but yours.”

in my heart i knew that i deceived her, for my desire to visit the land of hatti was simply my desire to keep her with me longer before relinquishing her to her god.",0
7144,"even if they complained and threatened, which they might, as long as i had a compelling case waiting in manhattan, they would surely sympathize with my situation and allow me to escape with my reputation untarnished.",0
4107,"believing that the gladstone cabinet was treading too softly, lord charles wrote to the prince of wales that, as he saw it, unless arabi was quashed, england’s position in egypt and her new grip on the suez canal were doomed.",0
1756,"i suppose i could take boy back to milton.” in defeat, she thought, justifying all of augusta’s doubts.",1
5415,he said dineo thought adelah’s mother might have already gotten a gift of money from hector which would have reassured her that he was prepared to do his duty.,0
6774,"angela saw that paula was openly yawning, geli’s chin was on her fist as she dully fiddled with her fork, and leo was staring wide-eyed at his uncle, as if thunderstruck by hitler’s ability to take such pleasure in himself while offering only boredom to others.",0
3497,"we can be sure of that, and it is very sad, anne, that because of the yankee forays up and down the coast between st. simons island and savannah, almost everyone has been driven out.”

a week or so into the month of september 1862, john couper, now eager and waiting with his regiment for battle near sharpsburg, maryland, very near the virginia border, surprised them all at his mother’s house in marietta by predicting in a letter that the confederacy would never risk the enemy’s freeing the intrepid andrews and his fellow raiders at chattanooga.",0
2399,"“do you know who he is, what he was looking for?”

“we’re not sure,” i said.",1
4960,"then after that there was further excitement over a display of aunt elinor’s inarguably superior wardrobe, up to the moment, which they knew would belong to them in due time, certainly soon enough for the glacial progression of fashion to sherwood.",0
9017,life had taught her a certain respect for the frowns of fate.,0
9096,"in view of the recent... situation, we would like to hear it firsthand.”

“sure,” i told him.",0
9528,"they hired this young assistant pastor a few months ago, and he wasn’t there a week before he announced that it was inappropriate to display the american flag on the altar.",0
10348,"“why the hell don’t you make him eat more?” i said, following socorro up the stairs.",0
948,"certain this was god’s will for her life, she had often claimed psalm 32:8: “i will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; i will guide thee with mine eye.” but how could she believe the lord was guiding her when a beautiful young girl from wales could shatter everything?",1
12048,"it is fortunate that titusville still has only one train a week, on sunday night, but it is expected that in a few months it will have daily runs and our fears mount accordingly.",0
10318,"a hell of a gamut to run but he had one thing in his favor: none of them was armed, they didn’t carry sidearms.",0
6377,"i was quite sure that, like the house on menard, the lake geneva place would quickly be put on the market and replaced, even before it was sold, by a house in long beach or grand beach, close to mom and dad.",0
5405,"when the place was secure she stood for a moment in the dark, listening.",0
7410,"praise the lord and pass the ammunition,

praise the lord and pass the ammunition,

praise the lord and pass the ammunition,

and we’ll all go free.",0
2713,"his apathy was frequently startled into savage rebellion, disbelief, hate, rage, like flashes of scarlet lightning in a night which would not end.",1
11643,"but at that point the power of the prince ends, because no one on this earth can be forced through torture to follow the precepts of the gospel: otherwise what would become of that free will on the exercising of which each of us will be judged in the next world?",0
12343,"""good,"" angela said as she caught up with him.",0
400,. . i don’t even know for sure where it’s found.,1
9769,"“you ed noon?—you’ve got to protect me—”

i held up my hand like a minister sealing the marriage rites.",0
10481,"surely you don't want to leave your grandson destitute?""",0
2946,"just this once,

you’re going to bring her into the europoort at rotterdam fully laden.”

larsen stared at his employer in disbelief.",1
4353,"they could be particles from anywhere at all.’

‘actually,’ vittoria said, sounding confident, ‘they couldn’t.",0
455,but faith was already having second thoughts about the wisdom of what they'd done.,1
10513,"back in nikki's room, david assured her that if her bed wasn't fixed by that evening, he'd do it himself.",0
389,"at the moment when mary pickford fainted, the reverend clarence arthur wilmot, down in the parsonage of the fourth presbyterian church at the corner of straight street and broadway, felt the last particles of his faith leave him.",1
10479,"""doubtless,"" she said, and she went out.",0
4703,"it was one of his phrases, the kind he hoarded with his secret belief that there was more between words than in them, here, for instance, in the unlikely leap between the middle and nowhere, everything he’d been trying to say.",0
12225,"as i walked the half-empty sunny sunday streets, the conversation lay on my mind.",0
2616,"for all his intelligence and ambition, i doubt if he has the capacity or the will to do anything about those sooty figures which like monsters in a nightmare suddenly appear and re-appear when least expected, to remind us of the pit.",1
3495,"i felt that surely i had come to the wrong place, that whatever these girls had was not what was wrong with me.",0
3333,"it had been a mistake, he was sure.",0
850,"i am not certain what happened so many days ago at the friendly islands, but i know i behaved abominably.”

aidan cut a glance from dekker to her husband.",1
3223,kenneth assured her that there had been no direct action taken against the trust.,0
3003,"the fact is that correct interpretation can be established only on the authority of the fathers, and in the case that torments me, i have no auctoritas to which my obedient mind can refer, and i burn in doubt (and again the image of fire appears to define the void of the truth and the fullness of the error that annihilate me!).",1
12116,"a few minutes later, when she turned onto van slyke's street, angela spotted the volvo instantly.",0
3796,"no government, and certainly no political party, can support a situation where a correspondent for the foreign press can determine the career of one of its ministers.”

				in spite of himself faber laughed dryly.",0
5445,she had been searching for reassurance and had found an embarrassment.,0
4498,"“i could eat that big a cake by myself.”

so they got the dishpan and repeated the recipe until the pan was full, making sure they would have plenty for everybody, and using up in the process most of the eggs annie may had saved up to sell at the store.",0
8109,"i’m sure you remember the theft.” graham looked expectantly at bernhardt, who nodded on cue.",0
9258,"the bulk of the work was accomplished by the silent, minute, relentless work of scrubbing and dissolution, and only occasionally was this patient action punctuated by the high geological drama of major collapses, most of them triggered by the earthquakes common to this underground system of faults and fissures which found surface expression in a landscape of karst, the abrupt outcroppings and frequent runnel pits and gouffres that earned this region its caving reputation.",0
1765,"""the law,"" he said, ""is reasonable doubt.",1
2417,"also, i once spent a few months dancing around with a bunch of creeps who had the same belief system i suspect you have.",1
10177,but angela tried to make it cozy with a fire in the fireplace and candles on the table.,0
155,"and in the lunchroom, i could pick out other fire and brimstone children just by looking at the table, seeking out the paper bags in which we carried our food—because lunch boxes featured television characters, and we never ate school food since nobody could be sure who grew it.",1
3751,i’m sure it was just a pulled muscle.,0
108,"still, she felt too unsure of what she was experiencing not to be afraid it would show.",1
2742,i can fool the doctor perhaps for twenty-four or forty-eight hours—perhaps—but i doubt much longer than that.,1
5755,"i'm pretty sure he yelled ""good luck!""",0
8590,"they got off their train and stood around laughing and talking loudly, and parker waited for ten minutes by the coke machine, wanting to be sure.",0
2912,"after a grunt of disbelief from mavis, the car was silent again.",1
1394,i've always been skeptical of that myself.,1
10377,"6



it was a red plymouth that was dirty as hell and hadn’t been new for twelve years.",0
2151,"later, marie admitted that although she had done as he instructed, she thought his suspicions were excessive, a case of overkill.",1
1298,"the one thing never certain was how or when i should get back, the least disturbing of all questions to me—i like going onward.",1
791,"others might suspect carpathia of being other
than he seemed, but only rayford, his daughter, his pastor, and his new friend
journalist buck williams knew for sure.",1
9825,"it said that c. hartman lived in apartment 26. it also said, opposite the name, in the jagged, blood-red letters of a manifesto, white christian patriot.",0
6273,“surely we can talk about all these things that interest us later.,0
5413,"she is walking mile after mile, pumping her arms furiously, her eyes fixed determinedly before her.",0
8004,"elijah said that the democrats were bound to be defeated, come november, and all the ragtag and bobtail of creation would ride into office on that quarter-witted monkey’s shoulders or through his appointments.",0
6644,"“if a man has known a good measure of happiness on earth, why wish for immortality?",0
1884,doubt that she knew what she knew.,1
6275,"he gave me his baseball cards, but he really wanted them back, and i gave him my stuffed armadillo, which i certainly hoped he'd

give back to me-all because it was impossible for us to say to each other how we really felt.",0
1952,"i’m not sure i could go through with it, knowing it was him.”

“the message will reach him.”

“what is it?”

“i’ll write it out for you; you can give it to the man he sends.",1
11922,"“jesus,” malomar said.",0
8914,"their thoughts and beliefs were all tangled together.”

mark got to his feet, shoving his cup on the counter.",0
9952,"for god's sake, you are human.""",0
290,"for the first time in her life she suspected how mistakenly prayer can be used, but she was unsure why.",1
3987,"opechancanough would not waste time at ritanoe, for he wanted most of all to capture the englishmen, and gepanocon would surely try to hide them.",0
9482,"kate didn't think she really needed to know all about ""fedotov's analysis of this russian manifestation of kenoticism,"" ""via's exploration of the kerygmatic nucleus of gospel and the generative linguistic matrix of greek comedy,"" or even ""harvey cox's dated but valuable feast of fools.""",0
12147,"we were joined by john’s sister—a sallow maiden of thirty, appropriately named faith, who brought with her a large box from lord & taylor, containing an expensive shawl for emma, a gift from faith herself (not from john, as that would be bad form).",0
7099,"her very uniqueness was alluring: dark eyes, straight nose, determined mouth.",0
10896,"i have no doubt, therefore, that some-disagreement-can be stimulated between germany and france in the near future.",0
3136,"“these violent winds carry lumps of ice or even stones.”

lovesey was skeptical.",1
3672,i must go.” he walked so resolutely that he quite missed the turning and was some way into the disused wing of the rectory before i could halt him.,0
12223,"and if there were hope or fear that beren should come ever back alive to menegroth, he should not have looked again upon the light of heaven, though i had sworn it.'",0
351,"“i’m not sure you realize what kind of trouble has just landed on your doorstep, my friend, but trust me—your world is about to change.”

“perhaps,” abdullah said evenly.",1
2029,"he smiled when he saw me, but the closer i got, the more uncertain his smile became.",1
2020,"i picked it up and heard a hushed, confidential voice, erratic and uncertain, birdie’s voice.",1
7299,"just because somebody had kept buster a long time to vic made it seem buster was very valuable, and even though the horse did come with some history tied to it, the real reason the people had buster for so long was because they were old and could not seem to kill the horse by just shooting it with bird shot over and over even though they tried again and again, them just making buster meaner and easier for vic to buy when the two old people saw him in church and asked did he want a good deal on a historical horse.",0
10913,"""it is plain, gentlemen, as only documentary evidence can make it, that i have been guilty of deception and-no doubt deservedly-been caught.""",0
5287,"mr. levy did not appear today; i am given to understand that he visits the business rarely, that he is actually, as mr. gonzalez puts it, “trying to sell out as soon as possible.” perhaps the three of us (for i shall endeavor to make mr. gonzalez dismiss the other workers if they arrive tomorrow; too many people in that office will probably prove distracting) in the office can revitalize the business and restore the faith of mr. levy the younger.",0
8045,i'm sure you want to speak with him.',0
4174,"the other’s part of his skin, and when she knows you better, the wife of the oil agent at the float store will ask you to help her get it off him and into her washing machine.’

‘oh, no, she won’t.’

they slipped through a pass so narrow mark was sure the boat would scrape on a huge rock shaped like a whale and covered with brown seaweed.",0
4894,"every year he finds me a better one, i don't know where i'll put them, look, already some don't have a decent place to stand.” she laughs, and with her large, knobby fingers, blue-green with veins, she sets down the flamenco dancer carefully, puffs out the skirt evenly in all directions and double-checks to make sure it is balanced.",0
3354,"however, he has mentioned that several of the strong governors in the south see lincoln as a threat.” he paused, adding thoughtfully, “certainly lincoln seems to have an ability to move those who listen to him.”

after matthew left, alex said, “i think i’ll ride over to the awl, take a look myself.",0
3524,"alex, i’m convinced half of the difficulties you encountered would have been avoided if you had been escorting a woman.”

“and you want to volunteer for the job?” he chuckled, tweaked her nose, and said, “no thanks, dear bodyguard; you’re going to stay safely at home.”

she wrapped her arms around him and snuggled close.",0
6088,"“fawn, if you confess—”

“it’s faith,” she said.",0
3961,"like a child, with a child’s trust in the moment - here, surely, was a true soul.",0
184,"she told me it makes her feel better to go, but i'm not sure why.",1
11501,"as

far as i can tell the problems of being a baseball player are the

same as those of the ministry.”

“say, don’t you want to go home?",0
3215,"“as broken-hearted as john harding was when his baseball-playing dreams came crashing down, he still graduated near the top of his class in 1971, was recruited by a california high-tech firm and now, in less than twenty years, he has certainly made it to the major leagues in the business world!",0
1555,she flaps open a shade and blinks unbelievingly at the carnival below her.,1
7837,"you can use her home on sunday.”

“thanks,” manna whispered.",0
360,"i’m not sure she wants us, but my mother insists we go.",1
9515,boyd: (voice clearer): the preacher.,0
6048,"this century was surely, in spite of wars and the rampageous voices in the united nations, and skirmishes here and there, the dream of men long dead who had struggled for an existence and had fought the frightful wilderness and had set sail on dark seas.",0
8061,"i put my hand in my side pocket to touch the marley .38, stepped to the door and touched the edge to make sure it was closed, stood until my eyes were as well adjusted to the dark as they would get, and sat down on the chair at the wall opposite the rack.",0
12142,"""he works in the er at the hospital,"" angela said.",0
2684,but there were times when control was uncertain.,1
1192,"if you do, people are apt to become offended or think you’re loony.”

patrick gave me a quick glance of utter disbelief.",1
9379,"but the final prayer was devoted to lydia gillsworth, a former member of the congregation.",0
633,"when tolletson turned the witness over to me, i felt like the proverbial salmon heading upstream, looking for any current of reasonable doubt i could catch.",1
9021,she flushed and then regained her composure.,0
12133,"and there are a hell of a lot of moments and a hell of a lot of right girls around this town.”

“i can’t believe every man feels that way.”

“lyon burke isn’t ‘every man.’ just like new york isn’t ‘every town.’ sure, maybe there will come a time when lyon gets his fill and will settle for one girl.",0
1521,"i stood just outside the living-room door, unnoticed for a moment by my grandmother, who was sitting rather stiffly, with an odd expression on her face; a doubtful smiling mouth, brows knitted in painful inquiry.",1
8551,to refresh your muzzy memory she was the twitchy maid who had discovered the half-strangled sylvia forsythe and was convinced she was being blamed for the assault.,0
7329,"ruby walked across the street in honey creek—don’t ask me where he was going, maybe to church to pray—and he dreamed himself into one of his dazes where he has to stand still and look at something hard; the thing either looks tremendous or minuscule to him.",0
5304,i’m prepared to believe that certain circumstances must have conspired against you.,0
1497,"when he asked her to marry him, luisa had her doubts, but fearing old-maidhood, and because julián had sworn by cesar, she said yes.",1
12275,"jesus!”

“it doesn’t change anything, but it looks that way,” agreed bourne halfheartedly.",0
11153,"the girl's wanted for questioning about an assault on her employer.""",0
1080,"and what most frightens the two boys in her talk of these things is not so much the horrors themselves as the old woman's delight in them, as though in telling of them she affirms, beyond any power of small boys to doubt, that these truly are the foundation of the world.",1
6878,"as i looked down upon you, i received your hurt as my own, and so have had a double measure all these hours.",0
11702,"""old and new testament?""",0
4952,i’m so grateful i could assure him.,0
11883,"""it looks better now when i'm not pregnant,"" angela said.",0
10409,"for the love of god, stop your posturing.",0
11430,"“i was adequate, which is superb given that audience and all that i could not say.”

“you must spend christmas with us, in the south.",0
9609,"i always obeyed the rules, and god always took care of me.",0
8306,"i am very careful about lambasting somebody for showing up without one, until i check to be sure that in fact he didn’t have one.",0
8060,and i sure didn’t see a weapon of any kind.,0
3760,"“the doctor wants to observe annie for several hours, just to make sure she’s clear before we release her,” one nurse said.",0
2592,"he did not take to organized religion, just god.",1
12043,"this being so, i will praise this day as a good day, for i can now drink wine without misgivings for my head’s sake though i thought that never again in my life should i dare to taste it.”

he crept into the cabin, broke the seal of a wine jar, and took a deep draught, for which he praised all the gods of egypt and of babylon by name, and he also praised many other gods whose names he did not know.",0
2667,"but i doubt she

gave them up willingly.",1
796,"“it isn’t fair,” paige whispered, not certain if she still addressed god or the black space around her.",1
318,how can we ever be sure what his purpose is in the things that happen to us in life?,1
870,soon his audience was shaking their heads in disbelief.,1
4068,the girls who really know me must surely know better too.,0
5894,"the present government of mexico is made up of certain intensely radical people, combined with a cast-iron reactionary group which was added during the early days of the administration.",0
902,"she is his child, and he will see her through.”

so eleanor and philip prayed, and night after night hope fought her battle against distrust and fear.",1
1675,"waldo killed her, i never was just sure how.”

on the tray were a plate of english muffins and a jar of peanut butter and one of marmalade and a store-bought pound cake and a dish of pickled peaches.",1
8527,i'm sure of it.,0
9479,"“this goes all right, this’s my last night, a priest.",0
10535,"isn't it a private organization devoted to the study of foreign trends in business, banking, tariffs?",0
283,the atheists set off some firecrackers when nancy oglethorpe tried to approach them with a handful of flyers.,1
5574,"a few more moments’ drowse riven by a sun-flooded, splendid, heart-wrenching, manic dream: herself begowned and bediademed, seated at the keyboard before ten thousand onlookers, yet somehow—astoundingly—flying, flying, soaring to deliverance on the celestial measures of the emperor concerto.",0
11030,"“i thought i’d sleep with andy.”

“you can sleep here.” he smiled hesitantly.",0
4318,"at first, he had been worried that he was not being honest about the horror he must certainly feel over losing the old stauffer davis husk; he was certain that he was suppressing the disgust and terror, and that his subconscious mind would accept them and let them fester.",0
11122,"he had not been seen, the conspirators had no suspicion of his presence.",0
80,"now amy stood gazing at cocoa, thrilled to have the puppy, but totally unsure of how to deal with silas and his feelings.",1
8022,"she yawned—strangely, for she felt at that moment as though somewhere a little boat was going out on a lake, never to come back—to see two little meanies coming now that she’d never dreamed of, instead of the one that would have terrified her for the rest of her days.",0
7871,"“thank heaven that’s over,” he said.",0
10770,"matt zaleski's eyes were open and the doctor had told barbara that although her father was presently under sedation, at other times he could undoubtedly see and hear.",0
3252,"september 1, 1971

the bleeding has been getting worse, and dr. harris convinced me that i should enter saint john's hospital tomorrow for some tests.",0
6332,"never, ever speak to her in such a way.”

seeing the quiver in her mother’s lower lip, katie left off the questioning, even though it was obvious that they knew far more than they were willing to tell.",0
10946,"kozlov had chosen the deputy because the head of the gru was an old kgb man foisted on the general staff, and no one had any doubt that he constantly scuttled back to his pals in the kgb with any tidbit he could gather to the detriment of the high command.",0
3055,and intrigued by his suspicion of laura hutchinson.,1
7341,"do you suppose the lord will forgive us for being a bit hasty, lucy?",0
5547,"“if i started i couldn’t stop.”

their laughter reassured her.",0
405,"in fact, he wasn’t sure he liked her all that much.",1
3292,make sure to pack them a lunch.,0
10845,"but he did not doubt for a moment that the politicians would soon find a way of buying a country through gigantic bribes, for their own power, and that way would be the way of a personal income tax, an evil which had inevitably destroyed every nation in the past.",0
4029,"abby will come down for a minute, i’m sure.”

“ok.",0
4560,she convinced me that black haw root made babies hang on tighter.,0
4151,"shaking off the dreadful idea, laura directed her thoughts to her most recent trip to lancaster, destined to be her last, she was certain.",0
5438,in certain ways the episode—when i first heard of it—caused me a mixture of feelings.,0
6947,"""i sent the doctor away,"" she
whispered, sounding confident.",0
1961,"i remembered how he had glanced at me last night, and as i passed him i swore his eyes kept shooting to the center of the terminal, but there were so many people so much confusion, i couldn’t be certain.”

“you think you were picked up?",1
5061,"he killed bulls, one at a time until there were no more bulls to be killed, and the revolutionists were convinced of his vocation as he had declared it to them.",0
490,“that’s nice.” i scratched my jaw dubiously.,1
12130,"3



paperman returned to his hotel office and sent for church.",0
5595,"even so, once we were alone i sensed something in leslie’s manner—i suppose you could call it a kind of skittishness—that told me that a certain delay was necessary: this despite the enormous head of steam we had built up and her onslaught upon my mouth, which now again suddenly thirsted for more tongue.",0
5400,i did not always feel that certain people were going to humiliate me.,0
10961,"no doubt some were remembering gossip they had heard, including the detroit news item about pierre and erica, which distressed her at the time.",0
12164,i have to say they were a hell of a lot more charming and interesting than i ever was at a party.,0
10743,papa nodded as if there could be no doubt about it.,0
4147,"i’d be terrified!”

“don’t worry, i’m sure they’re all friendly indians.",0
5742,"“god damm it,” the old man said in a slow monotonous certain tone as if he were saying it to the beating of his heart.",0
11246,"no catholic will ever be nominated for the presidency, let alone be elected to it.",0
7231,"what finally quelled this particular conflagration was the number of times he had to listen to high school coaches damn him with faint praise like “he makes up in desire what he lacks in ability,” or “he’s a real scrapper out there,” or “whatever else you have to say about him, that li’l everett always gives it his best shot.”

as a freshman at mcloughlin high, li’l everett stood 5′5,″ weighed 130 pounds, played a sure-handed but feeble-armed catcher, hit .315 in the leadoff spot, and led his team in walks and on-base percentage.",0
8504,"“are you sure i can’t assist you?” the prison matron said, and carella immediately answered, “i’m positive,” and moved swiftly toward the lingerie counter.",0
5715,"his voice was measured, illegible.",0
1537,she never was sure what made her call up sandy that night in berkeley.,1
417,"why the girl was so resolute, she did not know.",1
12415,"""i won't bear these insults from a jackanapes, an incompetent, who even bungled—""

""emil, for god's sake!""",0
3889,"as the bus climbed up into the cool green hills, the difference in landscapes was as stark as the contrast between abby’s faith and her friend’s.",0
3088,"william hesitated an instant, most likely too long, uncertain whether to seize jorge again or to hasten to put out the little pyre.",1
6730,"he would accept invitations to dinner at the wealthiest homes—without hesitation, gladly.",0
4351,there was no doubt.,0
5227,surely they are.,0
2119,". ."" i talked for several minutes, trying to divert him; then, still unsure as to whether i had or not, i left.",1
454,"the stage won’t be through, and i doubt a customer will sail forth on a day like this.",1
7806,the portuguese women left figuras de cera for god where the sun could anoint the glints of melting wax with prism rainbows that would catch his eye.,0
2968,and william chandler are deliberately putting it in doubt.,1
2000,"chiefly, she was beginning to doubt whether working in the lily-white suburb was what she might do best.",1
10829,"without a doubt, it has been the stormiest and most confusing session in the country’s history.",0
8945,"what’d he do?”

“he’s wanted for questioning.",0
6539,"“are you sure, pratt?” but eleanor had glared at them until each had broken off nervously and was silent.",0
7891,"—well we’ve taken her in because she thinks her husband’s out to get her in this idiotic divorce while she moons around about reconciling with daddy so he’ll leave her all his money to spend on cosmetics and i do the cooking for both of them while the gentleman poet reads aloud from his play my god, it all seems like a thousand years ago.",0
9375,"the people swirling around them were dressed as rabbits and rodents, harlequins and harlots, grande dames and playschool children, villains and viscounts, convicts and cooks, pirates and priests.",0
3660,“i’m certain we can find something for all of you.” she stopped and eyed erik critically.,0
5537,"i left out certain details, but while these were important to me, they would have been to no one else: they were those moments, those parts of life, which are so purely personal and private that you can no more share them than you can share your heart or brain: in all of us there is that small and unsurrenderable core that ... well, that in the end determines everything.",0
9369,"my wife and i look at her and our souls hum,

natasha, natasha, more than heaven sent.",0
1972,"he whirled around, disbelief staring from his eyes, the ten hairs on his upper lip twitching like a crawling caterpillar.",1
1761,"could it be that an inner turmoil, an absence of serenity, an unresolved entanglement, self-doubt, self-hatred may be due to nothing more serious than a person’s inability to appreciate the idyllic weather?",1
4465,"she kept checking to make sure he was there behind her, and he was.",0
4491,"if he had been here, he was certain, this never would have happened.",0
7384,"“father was reading from the bible,” says her mother.",0
5055,she was determined that the ghost of ignatius j. reilly would not haunt her party as it had haunted so many evenings of bowling.,0
6204,"though the facts of their kinship would almost certainly remain a family secret, miss sadie had told him her plans.",0
11552,two of the nuns had accompanied him in order to help.,0
3783,"for fifteen years he had studied under able masters; now, his apprenticeship over, his journeyman service behind, stephen’s touch was steady, his voice sure, as he disposed of the council’s business.",0
3075,"you have traveled in many countries, sinuhe, and seen many cures, yet i doubt if you have seen such healing as is performed secretly in thebes today.",1
679,"with all his training, with all his confidence and courage, she had dismissed it as even a consideration, but she was suddenly not sure anymore and the thought was agonizing.",1
7007,sure you still work here.,0
5474,"his elbow burning, he cocked the lever as many times as he could, fighting the rising air pressure.",0
1426,"maybe, certainly, that was the trouble; but he had no way of knowing.",1
9727,'great christian jesus!',0
9591,you can still see that kind of traditional christmas spirit in san francisco’s neighborhoods.,0
2829,ashe sounded uncertain.,1
6875,"after all these prisoners—the petty criminals, i assumed—were secure, the guards closed the doors and the van sped through the gate.",0
2545,"i can smell ’em.”

just so he wouldn’t feel too sure of himself i chuckled back and said, “i don’t really need them.”

“uh-huh,” he said, but he gave me a peculiar look as though he were seeing me for the first time and his smile faded completely away.",1
9545,"the line “i my loving vigil keeping,” seemed to her almost like a prayer.",0
8041,"get used to human faces again.”

it occurred to me that if bentyne was hooked up with cable, as he undoubtedly was, bates could get used to a lot more human attributes than just faces, but i didn’t tell him.",0
8733,"so i've just gone on, getting in deeper and deeper, and now…""

""you're sure there isn't some way, doc?""",0
6016,"this was followed by an hour of strolling, of sitting on galleries and front steps, of low-voiced courtships, of measured discussions in the cafés—lofty intelligences discussing politics.",0
9211,"won’t everybody understand that?”

“certainly.",0
2181,"i wasn’t sure that i believed in ghosts, but if such a thing existed, well, a ghost couldn’t ask for a better house to haunt, or a better night to walk the earth.",1
9929,"the sun's a mattress fire her god died in, clarice.”

“pity you have to pander now and lick a few tears when you can,” starling said.",0
2219,they seemed to chide her for doubting the man who had been her husband.,1
11897,"“i’m taking lessons , for christ’s sake!” susie roared.",0
1421,she seemed caught in a moment of amazement or disbelief.,1
9828,"on the way to mcdonald’s, he asked star if she had been asking the sister to pray for nonna when she took the nun aside.",0
11165,"the united states is—you’ll forgive me—quite the worst country in the world for a humanist to live in, i think.”

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“fuck what you think,” franny said.",0
9765,"""how does a mormon board suit you, punk?""",0
712,i could not keep the suspicion out of my voice.,1
3954,"though he had undoubtedly seen more than sixty summers, age had not diminished the man’s size or the strength of his voice.",0
4335,"“see ya!”

making sure the screen door was closed tightly behind her, meredith headed for shelly and jonathan’s jeep.",0
11238,"alyssa had looked horrified when she came home at christmas, and couldn’t wait to go back to paris.",0
3103,"""i doubt if they'll even miss me before dinner.",1
3344,"she was already pouring him a cup from the water jar, and as he lifted it and swallowed the water, he was sure no wine had ever tasted better.",0
9250,"staring at the house, she thought about the time she came home from school and saw her mother crying while a man in a uniform tacked a foreclosure notice on the front door.",0
9426,"they seem to be the unhappiest of the lot.”

“what’s the avenging angels have to do with it?”

“nothing—it has to do with mormons.",0
2384,“i suppose lestrade will examine his bank accounts?” mycroft asked doubtfully.,1
10667,"he takes out the pair (he will want them today, no doubt about that), and then the sign on its length of stout cord.",0
2361,"i felt fairly sure it was the latter emotion that had moved suzi to join us, but i was willing to give blenkiron the benefit of the doubt.",1
12253,"""godamighty.""",0
1944,"“what are you going to do with it?”

“not sure.",1
5807,and it was treasure.,0
10007,who the hell does he think he is?,0
11792,angela didn't get home until almost seven o'clock.,0
9853,what the hell are you being so righteous about?,0
3968,"he asks for a great sacrifice, and so his power must surely be very great in return.”

uriah didn’t reply.",0
12385,"tilion had traversed the heaven seven times, and thus was in the furthest east, when the vessel of arien was made ready.",0
3741,"when we’re sure of that, then we’ll marry.",0
9307,the sign came - two abrupt nods - as the priest turned and walked through the beaded entrance of a raucous cabaret.,0
8219,he was determined to look at every one.,0
9362,"the priest’s eyes were squeezed shut against the light, his face jerked away from the beam.",0
7945,nan christie had decided to get married.,0
10595,"the relations are the ways in which my mind perceives the connections between single entities, but what is the guarantee that this is universal and stable?”

“but you know that a certain thickness of glass corresponds to a certain power of vision, and it is because you know this that now you can make lenses like the ones you have lost: otherwise how could you?”

“an acute reply, adso.",0
8281,he was devoted to my husband.,0
3655,"we’ll make sure that husband of yours don’t fine you alone.”

“best he not fine her here a-tall,” ruby spoke up, surprising jessie.",0
10436,"“what the hell are you talking about?”

“like if i wanted to live in london or paris or something?”

kibble opened her eyes, shook her head and looked astonished.",0
7014,"if you just keep your eyes open and your head down, you’re gonna be all right.”

“sure.” flanna squeezed her maid’s hand with a warmth she didn’t quite feel.",0
11488,that would have appealed to him if he had heard some mighty preacher tell the story of joshua crowned.,0
6122,"it was with me the day faith was born.”

“i found it,” hannah said, standing to retrieve it from a lamp table near the window.",0
11014,"then i understood: obviously because bernard had heard from servants or from the cooks rumors about nocturnal movement between the outer walls and the kitchen, perhaps

without learning exactly who was responsible; and perhaps the foolish salvatore, as he had divulged his intentions to me, had already spoken in the kitchen or the barns to some wretch who, intimidated by questioning that afternoon, had thrown this rumor as a sop to bernard.)",0
11474,and now i could see the christmas lights decorating a nearby store.the pain receded a little.,0
5602,"you let us know.”

“certainly.",0
7342,eugene had died in mortal sin and now while they were chanting he was burning in the fires of eternity.,0
8990,"last fall.”

“just once, you’re quite sure?”

“yes, last fall.”

“you couldn’t possibly have been up there when the children arrived?",0
10296,"she closed her fingers on dolores’ shoulders, looking upward supplicatingly, speaking inside her mind: the child is young, god, she does not understand.",0
11670,"at last the priest turned to me, knitted his shaven eyebrows, and said sternly, “and you, sinuhe!",0
1679,"“because i get lonesome and afraid when i’m pregnant.”

in the silence my thoughts ran around my head, rattling like marbles: you’re not sure, you’re not sure.",1
9408,praise god!,0
3767,"it would help me, help api, and certainly help the person who led me to it.""",0
383,"i’m not sure i understand.”

“an examination over what i thought he had mastered.",1
10347,“angel!” toy screamed.,0
1173,he didn’t know why his eyes were drawn to her—his mind certainly wasn’t.,1
8083,"no, she could not remember ever having a coat like that and certainly had none now; it sounded quite attractive, very smart.",0
3279,"""tell that to my boss, who will no doubt have some choice words to say about my expense account.""",0
2520,"""i'm not all that sure i want to get away.",1
8940,"i don’t blame him for being touchy.”

“do you think there’s treasure in one of the tunnels?”

“oh—i’d like to think there is.” harry curled her toes.",0
1062,but you won’t believe what they’ve done now.”,1
797,"if it was more than routine, if i was picked up on suspicion of robbery or murder in the neighborhood, i looked as humble as i could and kept my mouth shut and prayed.",1
11,"he was wary, to be sure, and karl wondered if the stowaway had a light source.",1
3395,over fifty certainly.,0
6144,"at the time she examined the tiny drop of gold in the bottom of the cupel, she had determined to fill the crucible to the top with all the gold nuggets she would dig herself.",0
3803,without a doubt they are on their way back to the duvalls.,0
7896,"if the world loved such a fool, it could be said of boyd, one of the goddamdest, that few men in his time had been so well loved.",0
1808,"i reached a point.”

“when did it start happening?”

“there was always a suspicion.",1
11324,"“some prebenders live there, abbey dependents, and they share our wealth in the good years.",0
2295,"""i wasn't at all sure,"" i replied.",1
8096,"this fellow simpson is nothing but a damned troublemaker.”

with a start of alarm, stanton carruthers said, “i certainly hope you’re not making public statements to that effect.”

“for god’s sake!” said robichaux indignantly.",0
10121,goddard followed the bos’n and the two englishmen into the passageway.,0
1315,"somehow she doubts it—a woman of her sort wouldn’t stand for that; she would fly into a rage, she would curse out rosemary or maybe even smack her, the way vinnie would have liked to.",1
1842,i doubt they laid a hand on her.,1
6180,"are you certain?”

ehud silently stroked the wheel and nodded.",0
7858,"then patience, with godkin on one side of her and thomas on the other, laughing themselves weak.",0
4225,"now, i can see, you are most sincerely convinced of the truth.",0
2474,"hell, i don't know,"" said clay doubtfully.",1
1272,"she just didn’t know for sure, but she had a perty gut idea that gabe had had no inkling how to battle such things as the sins of his forefathers.",1
12401,"but then, obviously (i said to myself), william has lost the assistance of the lord, who not only teaches how to see the difference, but also invests his elect with this capacity for discrimination.",0
2963,his speech was intended to remove any doubt about his qualifications.,1
4809,"this close to freedom, hark decided that he could at last hazard a direct inquiry, and so he approached the negro confidently.",0
8157,"not kit bridges again, surely.",0
956,“i’m not sure when i’ll get home.” there was a pointed silence on the other end of the phone.,1
4497,and to think he had her father convinced he was a gentleman!,0
8765,"you want in, i'll put your name on the card.”

“sure, thanks mr. burroughs.”

starling got the clothes out of the dryer.",0
7322,"when they got their papa in their ring-around-a-rosy and he couldn’t get out, plez said it was enough to make an onlooker a little uneasy, and he called once or twice on the lord.",0
4720,there was no uncertainty any more and the jurors were bound to do their duty to the people of island county.,0
5150,"eventually, the rocks show a path, she raises walls with the twigs, and the canopy of leaves she blows gently with her breath, to make sure its utility.",0
12413,"368 heaven and hell



he laughed again, and dry-washed his hands.",0
2504,"i don't entirely share your blind faith in maxie.""",1
6476,"and sure enough, on this day, while mem coughed and shivered, the blow fell.",0
5384,"like any group of skilled artisans, the elite of which sophie was a member (they included such craftsmen as highly accomplished tailors from france and belgium who were employed in making fine clothes out of the fancy goods snatched on the station ramp from condemned jews, expert cobblers and workers in high-quality leather, gardeners with green thumbs, technicians and engineers possessing certain specialist capabilities, and a handful like sophie with combined linguistic and secretarial gifts) were spared extermination for the raw pragmatic reason that their talents came as close to being invaluable as that word had any such meaning in the camp.",0
12174,"thoth was my son, and if what i believed was true, the holy blood of the pharaohs had run in his veins as it ran in mine.",0
7801,"caldwell’s thought seems to his son to be describing wide circles, like a scouting buzzard, in the opaque mauve of the heaven above them.",0
8371,"he’s not our first citizen, i’ll grant you, but he’s certainly not a — a murderer.”

“not unless he needs to be to survive,” abbot said blandly.",0
7626,"somebody that waits for her at church on sunday and walks home and takes sunday dinner, and maybe fights the other young men because of her?”

“you wont take us, then?”

“no.",0
2694,"he met william, and when he learned who he was, he looked at him with polite hostility: not because his face betrayed his secret feelings, i was sure of that (even while i was unsure that he harbored any feelings at all), but because he certainly wanted william to feel he was hostile.",1
6622,"david did not have long to enjoy the pleasures of home, however.",0
9817,"which was just fine with the attendant priests, who wanted, more than anything, to get this over and relax at the end of a demanding sunday.",0
2527,"even then, you can't always be sure.”



marino's face was unreadable.",1
9351,"his only words to the police were “i think my mommy’s dead.”

they rushed bridget to the hospital and her son to a catholic home for boys.",0
6002,"he knew angus was there but he no longer saw him except on holidays, parts of vacations, and when he was pressured into going for annual physicals.",0
7529,"light was coming in through our faded christmas green felt curtains, making delicate lacy patterns over the apartment.",0
2237,"tess, now plagued equally by doubts about archie mcmurdo and indigestion from the veal piccata, was convinced she would never sleep and dropped off instantly.",1
4506,"“i’m sure they never wanted to hurt you, gracie,” he said as we talked on the crumbling cement steps of my apartment building.",0
8579,"he’s not the only guerrilla leader in mexico determined to overthrow the government, but he’s an effective one, not at all flamboyant like the others.",0
6018,"the compressed density of its core, like a great black snake writhing, drew out of the mouth of the canyon, recoiled upon the warm expanse of the valley, and resumed the slow, sure approach upon the intervening gullies and hills and fields above the town.",0
11479,"words pressed into the caverns of my memory rose to the (dumb) surface of my lips, and i forgot that they had served in scripture or in the pages of the saints to express quite different, more radiant realities.",0
11605,"there was a photograph of all of them three christmases before, laughing, their arms around each other, horsing around while an exasperated photographer had begged them to be serious for a moment so he could take their picture.",0
3283,"and in a way the even greater honor going on while hugh read the fine print of the contract was when marion asked bucky if he’d like a second cup of rat-puke coffee, and bucky calmly rejoindered, “almost certainly, mam!",0
958,"my heart has no desire to stay

where doubts arise and dreams dismay.",1
11484,"the servants were permitted to hold evening prayer in the kitchen, under mrs. fairley's indifferent eye and briskly wooden voice.",0
8716,"it was the fact that the man was laughing softly, not the laugh of hysteria, but the laugh of gentle pleasure.",0
4211,"he believed profoundly in friendship, made shyly emotional little speeches about it on every occasion, and saw in all his acquaintances the loftiest of loyalty and devotion.",0
5816,"it was a man, a voice slightly tinny through a long-distance connection, but underneath that his voice was svelte, assured.",0
1947,"i’m so happy about leaving this draggy place i had to buy myself a going-away present.”

“good for you,” i said, not believing a word she said.",1
4813,"and if i say faithfulness consists of a great many things beside the physical, never let it be dreamed that i hold with the shabby nonsense that physical infidelity is a mere peccadillo beneath the notice of enlightened minds.",0
9112,"if that created the possibility that i might run into somebody on my way back to mr. rathburn’s room, it also meant i could put a foot wrong and step on a creaking board myself without raising suspicion.",0
7140,"sarah turned her head at the sound, her narrow and careful green eyes regarding him with a measured look.",0
11647,"— 

first day

prime

in which the foot of the abbey is reached, and william demonstrates his great

acumen.",0
10729,"no doubt you already know through the offices of lucius cornelius—later on, when all this german business is over, i shall claim sufficient friendship with you to be given the true explanation.",0
10774,"undoubtedly, wilk agreed, if one limited oneself to the legal definition of insanity.",0
8687,"“get me another drink, will you, frederickson?”

“sure,” i replied easily as i walked toward him across the polished hardwood floor.",0
6729,"the crowd screamed with pleasure, and charis raised her arms to their noisy adulation.",0
6944,"the ambassador advised bethmann that grey’s assurances “left nothing to be desired.”32 the chancellor, although knowing the truth, played grey’s game and told lichnowsky that the foreign secretary’s statement had been “most satisfactory.”33 jagow told goschen how pleased he was and that grey’s declaration had come as a “great relief.”34 in st. petersburg, sazonov not only buttressed grey’s denial but carried it even further from the truth, telling the german ambassador that anglo-russian naval conversations existed only “in the mind of the berliner tageblatt35 and on the moon.” the wilhelmstrasse, concluding that very little was happening and that, in any case, it was preferable to leave their spy in place to continue to monitor events, rather than reveal him and embarrass grey, let the matter drop.",0
4959,"like everything else john had said so far, it undoubtedly held some truth, but there was a queer lopsidedness about it: a wildness, a disproportion.",0
1365,"he was not sure about that, though.",1
1500,"he tried to shake it off by figuring it, judging the last hill before the flag against the green’s surface, but he was not sure of his judgment, and when he hit his three-wood he could not be certain of sending the ball out correctly.",1
4250,"rumon rumor messengers are already at work, and our agents have been alerted; you can be sure we will find out very soon.”

“and then?”

“and then we will talk.",0
10738,"no doubt in her bedroom, carefully and anxiously applying various cosmetics to her round somewhat flat young face, or brushing that long fall of straight brown hair, or trying on some new gowns.",0
10497,"she hoped birdsong had not detected her taxi trailing him, but if she persisted he undoubtedly would.",0
10894,he is no longer skeptical.,0
9711,“sammie put his mother's head in the collection plate at the highway baptist church in trune.,0
9792,"""do you contribute money to the church in some way?""",0
4269,"i’m sure they didn’t mind that you still had curlers in your hair.”

			 				“i married a bachelor who led the quietest of lives, and now look!” she exclaimed, eyeing a kitchen sink that contained a roller pan, rollers, and a bevy of brushes.",0
2584,"amid screams from the shattered bodies nearest the door, the assassin raced outside, leaping over the corpses, his assault rifle on automatic fire, cutting down the figures in the street, screaming curses, condemning the unbelievers to a hell only he could imagine.",1
6276,subsequent “appearances” to his followers would have to be hallucinations or optical illusions of some kind—or lies.,0
8676,"you ought to try it sometime.”

“never mind that, do you still have a set of copies?”

“yup.”

“can i get a set?”

“sure can, but you’re going to have to wait about twenty minutes or so till i’m done with this.”

“come on, artie, it’s probably just sitting in a file cabinet or something.",0
2434,that’s pretty small.” brad shook his head dubiously.,1
3756,"i think that is why it was so easy for me to imagine, for years, that the baseball that killed my mother was surely a resident souvenir in owen's odd room.",0
4059,"""i'm certain that mr. hunter can far better illuminate you on that scenario, marshal.",0
9957,"saying: “jesus, rest in peace, huh?”





one


“there it is—twenty-one forty-six.” haigh braked the buick to a stop on the steep slope of vermont street and pointed to a turn-of-the-century building.",0
8355,i am convinced my father banished me there to prove to other employees that there would be no nepotism at mcnally & son.,0
3662,"the idea of ezekiel bailey’s “gift hymn” comes from here, as well as background on other primitive baptist beliefs and practices.",0
7793,not only was it false gold; it was communist gold and not a fitting present for the sacred angel.,0
8509,i want you to check it before you close to make sure that tape is nice and secure.,0
6620,"now, lay off, will you?”

just as he felt a certain warmth in his spirit, he felt the creeping cold in his feet.",0
7063,"“i just need to cut a few things out of my schedule, and i thought it might be easier to find someone for the festival than for a children’s sunday school class.”

“of course i can find a substitute, but are you sure?",0
1116,". . you can't be sure airport
personnel won't be on alert.",1
5554,"""oh, our olga is a pleasure to look at.",0
3451,mama was powerful glad to get the pig and said it was one of the finest she’d ever seen and she was sure she could get him up to three hundred pounds by killen time.,0
26,"your grandfather could have gone on in the ministry—a lot of us have doubts, but we just brush them under the table and get on with the job.",1
6566,‘aren’t you tired of having a life with no pleasure?’ asked felicitas.,0
8772,"i can’t help it how you look.”

this guy was not only sure of himself, he was starting to get cocky, insulting even.",0
2415,"“if i put some rather blunt, impertinent questions to you, would you give us the benefit of the doubt and try to answer them?”

“you want to know about morty, don’t you?” she sighed dramatically, looked away from them toward the emptiness and darkness which lay between them and the city.",1
9998,"inside, scotch-taped to the lid, there was a newspaper photograph of tom satriano, the first-string catcher of the angels, in full regalia.",0
10406,"jesus, give me a break.”

“mr.",0
2907,"his chief doubt was whether, if a fire ever started in the middle of the night, anyone would wake up in time to unroll the thing out of the window.",1
2196,"if you had been at the meeting yesterday when the discussion came up, you could have explained what the real issue was—”

“i’m not sure i could have, from the way you report it,” said rabbi small.",1
4609,"“and so, my beloved friends, it is not a requirement that your sect align itself with
the one world faith for you to remain citizens of the global community.",0
457,"taking a
dead king's wife or concubine would naturally leave a man open to
suspicion as a pretender to the throne; and it would certainly seem
that by taking rizpah, abner was attempting to strengthen his position.",1
7848,"“holy christ, chinese goddam egg roll!”



a week later, when i read the orders that had come down from c. and a., i couldn’t believe my eyes.",0
7932,"these in turn may be divided again into delicate classifications: the aristocracy, the wealthy upper-class mestizo, the middle-class shopkeeping folk, and the great body of indians who cling to their religion.",0
9084,"when he had assured himself to the point of downright fussiness, he brought his assistant and two nurses with him into the corner apartment where raymond slept and began the complex work on the reconstruction of the sergeant’s personality.",0
6978,"on the eve of the french announcement that the brest squadron would move, the first lord expressed this concern and his own rationalization of the dilemma in a letter to the prime minister and the foreign secretary:

“the point i am anxious to safeguard is our freedom of choice.... that freedom will be sensibly impaired if the french can say that they have denuded their atlantic seaboard and concentrated in the mediterranean on the faith of naval arrangements with us.",0
1929,he didn’t tell her that he had stopped going to church.,1
1314,"jack, as usual, wasn’t sure if he was ready to meet anyone.",1
7396,"we think of that time as repressed and intolerant, as though sex got invented in 1960, but there’s mabel o’brien, and she went to mass every sunday with her three boys.",0
9524,"in hackett's book, the ones like the slasher hadn't one damn thing to do with god's will.",0
11829,"""my behavior was inappropriate,"" angela said.",0
10140,"my wife is very knowledgeable in matters of fashion.”

“oh, jesus.”

“what?”

“general, i can’t go inside that house.",0
4408,the checkbook and the suitcase he took with him convinced her.,0
10864,"""as for the keys, no doubt there will be some perfectly rational explanation,"" he said, as he showed me out.",0
4867,"i was—”

“i’m sure it is,” elsie said.",0
10836,"when he lowered his face and surveyed the five men with him, his eyes burned with the conviction of those who truly have no doubt.",0
8276,"a staff member seems to recall that he said he was from texas, but a boy who knew him is just as certain he came from north carolina.",0
3316,and he certainly made that clear enough.,0
470,"“i’m not sure, but don’t forget the insurance.",1
8510,"even then she was being careful, the little automatic in her hand being on full cock until she was certain it was me.",0
4187,"the farm, the businesses, everything.”

if what roger said was true, it was certainly a change from what henry remembered.",0
10457,"it was the body of a middle-aged man, and the only items on him were half of a greyhound bus ticket from san diego to los angeles, three single dollar bills and some change, in an otherwise empty wallet, and a hat pint bottle of scotch, nearly empty.",0
1034,"“are you sure?” he asked, and i told him i wasn’t sure but i thought so.",1
11123,they had hardly sat down when the door opened and a young woman stood there hesitantly.,0
9037,a hesitation.,0
486,ashbrook’s lectures were cynical and very amusing; he called them “secular fantasies.” palmer edited our monthly newspaper and was a boy of immense physical presence.,1
3985,"what medications have you taken before?”

“demerol and morphine work best.”

“but i can’t in good conscience give you a narcotic without running some tests to make sure you’re not in danger.",0
8209,"“now,” dennison said, “the library, right above us here, heated toasty-warm by no less than two quartz heaters, is certainly large enough to accommodate one person working at the desk at one end and two other persons talking across the desk at the other.",0
5372,it would describe honora’s manner although he wondered if it wasn’t the fear of death that had determined her crabwise progress through life.,0
11296,once only priests were physicians.,0
9091,"“watch yourself, fat man.”

the bartender stopped, grinning, lowering his voice to a confidential whisper.",0
3349,"book 5


avalon





quintus did not doubt for a moment that veronica's own hand had painted the scene on the vase; that particular crimson burst of blossoms among green thornbushes existed, he was sure, only on the hillsides around jerusalem.",0
2614,"i got it again, the love and the longing and the uncertainty which, now, i understood.",1
1501,"“i doubt he forgets it.”

i stayed down there in the arena for the duration of the rodeo, drinking warm beer behind the chutes with the boys and running the barrier for the calf roping when it was time for that event.",1
7379,possibly we could do penance as catholics do.,0
11846,ashley (it seemed) was still secure from the contagion of the world's slow stain; we had never locked our doors; and please heaven we might never need to.,0
4608,"the galileans realized, humbly, that they were
considered notoriously lax in obeying the law, especially about fasting and washing--actually regarded as little better than heathens by most of
judea.",0
6387,"his fever hung on; the calf of his inflamed leg now measured thirty inches, more than twice its normal size.",0
2956,"“i doubt it,” he said with a rueful smile, “unless i manage to entice sarah.”

“now, there’s a thought!” gladys palmer laughed with him, and before she left, charlie told her that the next day he was going skiing.",1
3923,"the gentiles, looking around, were certain that some of the friends of the prisoner were more sinister than he.",0
4415,"that we would jam in all the details, then thin it out a tad to make sure the material still retained its crispness.”

price leaned against the windowsill and tucked a hand under her chin.",0
11682,"""well, damn it, i was in boston, and i like beer and i went to a pub, as joe calls saloons, and there was scan singing like an angel--and not drinking.",0
2080,"some looked familiar, but vultura could identify none for certain.",1
4717,he was convinced it was every bit of it true.,0
3731,'of course i'm sure!',0
547,jesus faced his most difficult trial—his moment of doubt—alone.,1
6405,"there she faithfully worked beside him, supporting him, loving him, sharing his triumphs and his disappointments.",0
12295,"with tears in his eyes he protested, ""oh christ!-it's had enough to hear.",0
12058,"the greatest sufferers were of course the simplehearted and the poor, for the secret power of ammon’s priests was formidable, and pharaoh’s guards dared not interfere with them.",0
9011,"a speech of reassurance sprang full-blown to tom’s mind, and there was time to see bernard before he left tomorrow afternoon, but tom was afraid bernard might be more upset and negative, if anybody made an obvious effort to reassure him.",0
10106,"""god forbid that you should faint from malnutrition.""",0
7723,"everybody was all dressed up, because it was sunday, and that made it worse.",0
12378,"“all right, continue.”

“i have received instructions from snake lady and was told to confirm the origin from you.”

“confirmed!”

“and therefore i am to carry out these instructions?”

“good lord, yes!",0
8762,"frank asked him more questions, which he answered concisely without hesitation.",0
2622,'but there are still some doubts in mine.',1
5243,rosie was sure henry ray oughtn't to tight him.,0
11113,"it was a full five minutes before the guard appeared at the window in the door to the jail, as the heavy door was unlocked, and grace stood looking at them hesitantly.",0
3388,"""i would certainly classify myself as antiwar,"" i said in those days.",0
8435,"because of the challenge the thief had thrown at her the day before, nancy was more determined than ever to find the pin.",0
8264,not a bright person certainly.,0
6025,of course i drop confidential words.,0
2781,"even in hegewisch, he was still a child watching for the stork.”

i must have looked dubious, because he said, “all right.",1
10591,"their gods were sky gods, but when they saw these towers tickling the underbellies of the clouds, they began to worship the gods they were sure lived beneath the towers, and shoved them up out of the ground.",0
9820,"crypto-jews who converted to catholicism to preserve the wholeness of their skin, they became priests, sailors, and ministers to the kings of portugal until the inquisition struck and pushed them into holland and the americas.",0
7918,"thank heaven, i found my mittens in the straw.",0
660,there wasn’t much doubt in my mind that you’d do so.,1
11473,never preach disaster.,0
4393,"still, she felt certain that her life of restless melancholy was at an end.",0
11411,"an episcopal divine in charleston had preached against ""the abomination of permitting a man who is neither your fiance nor your husband to encircle you with his arms and slightly press the contour of your waist.""",0
11268,"she had gotten used to everything in the north but the howling white storms of the chicago winter, which must be some kind of curse god had placed on yankees.",0
8799,"she took it and stood up facing me, her hands touching my waist with a gentle pressure.",0
7585,"he would then have a clean bed, clean clothes, three squares, and a warm room with jesus in it for as long as it took him to answer the question: what next?",0
4368,"william’s belief had been buttressed by a growing hohenzollern mystique, taught in thousands of schools, preached from hundreds of university lecterns throughout the empire.",0
944,"“i don’t know whose truck it is, it sure couldn’t be mack’s.",1
6400,"no big deal.”

“sure you will.”





chapter sixteen


sunday

“i don’t know, but i don’t think it’s about the boy,” helen said.",0
7205,"now, someone spat on the pavement at gabriel’s feet, and he walked on, his face not changing, and he heard it reprovingly whispered behind him that he was a good nigger, surely up to no trouble.",0
10583,"“sure i am, of course.”

“would you like to be in business too?”

for no reason ria remembered the fortune-teller, mrs. connor, prophesying that she would run a successful company or something.",0
1647,"her pointed chin and dark red mouth moved in an uncertain way, as if she wished to laugh again; her long black lashes flickered with the quick-moving lights in her hidden eyes.",1
772,"in his mind, ruling what he considers these uncouth, impious, petulant lands on the fringes of his empire is a religious crusade.”

“which means,” dirck added, “that no matter how irreligious a rebel may be, if he would change his ‘very catholic king’s’ mind, he must do so in the name of religion.”

“bah!” laurens puffed.",1
157,"i resisted god for so long, telling him

i was a good person and that surely he would not turn me

away, but i finally stopped lying to myself.",1
541,"for in his gentle but
penetrating way he said just loudly enough to be heard above the
wind, ""why are you fearful, oh you of little faith?""",1
4773,be sure you and schuyler stand clear.,0
5346,"miss sophia jane took pleasure in reassuring her; as if she, who had been responsible for nannie, body and soul in this life, might also be her sponsor before the judgment seat.",0
9077,but that her trick was being measured off against other unknown and even better tricks made it pleasantly risky.,0
10918,undoubtedly.,0
3630,"""in my case, that was certainly true.",0
9260,"“then, too, incurring my displeasure means nothing to me, but a great deal to you.”

“i’ll think about it.”

“do not take too long.",0
10933,"“the pig i sat next to—a politician, no doubt, looking for an issue—punched me in the chest before he threw me out of the car.… i told you, i don’t know all the new people who attach themselves to the bureau these days.",0
10476,the owner of tranquility inn was determined that it live up to its name.,0
540,"in time its incessant clamoring began to demand an answer—her own answer, compiled out of the depths of her innermost psyche, jarring the foundations upon which she had built her faith.",1
10800,they are doubtless partly attributable to remorse.,0
686,"it was my business because i did not want to be what he was, and that was no sure thing.",1
11271,"methodists did not believe in costly ornament, and her parsimonious husband joseph used that as an excuse not to buy her jewelry.",0
9035,"her voice grew vibrant as she prepared herself for a quarrel that was really passionate conversation, the pleasure of her life.",0
9925,"do you think i’d be here listening to that crap if i knew where bubbles was?”

“what would you be doing, androvich?”

“i’d be with her, goddamnit!",0
9664,"after the fall, man’s freedom of choice leads him to debauchery, gluttony, folly and avarice, the worst sin of all in bosch’s world being lust.",0
6164,but i sensed a reluctance all around me.,0
1290,"as though not believing what had happened, he seemed unable to give orders.",1
2240,"still, it was not an auspicious omen and the cool water sloshing over my heated body didn't settle the doubts that sloshed around in my heated brain.",1
5763,to my surprise i didn’t see books anywhere—maybe george felt his books were more secure at his university office—though there were a lot of arabic magazines and newspapers strewn atop a table beside the sofa.,0
6648,"""she better be sure,"" belle said, still from her distance.",0
9668,"“yes, sister.”

the nun patted the girl’s arm.",0
10891,"the porter's lodge, no doubt; perhaps originally a guardroom.",0
8555,no doubt these shafts had been aimed against young men from bridgeport.,0
5666,"“sure be nice to have the money, though, wouldn’t it?” carl said after a while.",0
11638,it's on his chest: a bald eagle holding a banner that reads 'in god we trust.',0
9241,"blanche leapt right in, although she didn’t expect much: “what did she say about their daughter?”

			mattie looked surprised for half a second, but was still in charge of herself: “let’s just say faith’s favorite sport was revealing other people’s secrets before as large an audience as possible.",0
2676,"he looked

skeptical.",1
3775,"""i was sure you were, but i purposely didn't ask you details,"" vitellius told him.",0
5990,"it was all over the papers i can still see the headline heiress slain in swank suburb, he tried to make it look like a burglar broke in while he was away and killed her with a . . .

—that was nonsense trish, a lot of people thought that but it was nonsense, the kind they make up to sell papers, she simply had a heart attack, that’s what came out later but you don’t sell papers with a story about high blood pressure and a heart attack when the blunt instrument that hit her was really the corner of the table she hit her head on when she fell, anyhow he didn’t find her there first the maid did.",0
9886,"he was finance minister of russian roumania, and advertised her as his niece.",0
2381,he thought it a very dubious idea.,1
7437,"isolated as i was from the cabins and such activity, i grew up in almost total ignorance of these fleshly pleasures, and whatever further knowledge i might have gained was confounded by the fear (and this was a fear i must confess i was unable to shake totally free of even in later life) that adventures in this sphere were unholy and obnoxious in the sight of the lord.",0
11539,". . jerusalem-""the hill nearest heaven, where a man can cup his hand to the wind and hear the voice of god.” .",0
11782,"as i felt a bit of warmth, i moved my lips to join the chorus of the praying brothers.",0
4935,renée knew that katherine was lying and she determined to forget the tennysons.,0
3164,"we had some doubt of him at first, but after i had had a few conversations with him, joseph, i found him an eminently reasonable man.",1
6943,"there must be a back stairs, because he next hears eccles’ voice in

the kitchen, arguing joyce into her sweater, asking lucy if the cake

was ruined, explaining, not knowing rabbit’s ears were around the

corner, “don’t think this is pleasure for me.",0
8628,"""the girl convinced me that our only chance to nail down the hijack location is to get into bayak's safe.""",0
601,"unable to make them see the stark futility of their faith, i shut my mouth and turned my face away until the boat bumped against the low stone quay, and we disembarked.",1
1347,"indeed, because far more ss troops than prisoners had cause to frequent höss’s roost under the eaves, it seemed logical to sophie to assume that trusted inmates like herself might escape the burden of the most immediate suspicion—allowing an even better opportunity to get rid of the goods.",1
4179,it transcended machine just as surely as it transcended naoli-at least in the art of destruction.,0
5889,"we came back to the chairs now and then and sang hesitant, clever, nervous, gentle dithyrambs about how we were beginning to feel towards one another.",0
7977,"he sat by the phone, and when it didn’t ring, he said to himself, to hell with her.",0
4057,"i’ve fought against it tooth and nail, but bernhard was determined to go.” princess von bülow mentioned the reichstag tax vote as the reason for her husband’s resignation.",0
6541,low blood pressure.,0
6202,i feel like an alcoholic who knows certain people only when he is drunk.,0
8302,"“i’ve already forgotten,” i assured her.",0
4645,it is the cup the nazarene used when he broke bread for the last time with his followers.,0
8563,"“you mean he threatened not to renew your contract in the fall?” asked becker, as if to make sure he had all the facts straight.",0
3648,"that will give me another chance to make sure she’s not overdoing.”

“sounds like a good idea.” lewis opened the barn door and stepped outside.",0
4129,"there was no room for doubt, no need to question.",0
2252,"her eyes were closed, but i doubted she was unconscious; one of her arms was draped around feisal's neck.",1
6683,"this peter the second fellow wearing the
funny costumes and welcoming the orthodox jew into the enigma babylon faith.",0
12144,"or, god help us, talk to them.""",0
8946,"it was overcast, with dark thunderheads rolling low in the sky, and i took two more photographs at different exposures.",0
3442,"one thing was certain: the wallace family was being plunged into unknown adventure in this unappealing town, alderton.",0
2489,she wasn’t sure.,1
1121,“we know tony was fired from o’hare under the suspicion that he was moving drugs.,1
6772,"“letting too many blacks on the jury?”

“not blacks per se, just certain blacks.",0
6073,"“but if i have spoken well, why do you strike me?”

				they continued the questioning but realizing at last that it was futile, they took him to the palace of caiaphas where the priestly council had been waiting since the end of the passover to pass judgment upon him.",0
3301,"but there were the strong arms of our neighbors around us, and the neighbors cryin’, too, and you’d feel comforted for you knew for sure that you were loved and that the dead were loved, too, and always remembered.",0
10975,no doubt that was why nat ridgeway wanted to buy the company.,0
1152,"can i help you?”

“i hope so.” i glanced at my notebook, not certain where to start.",1
2109,"possibly restraints?”



“that's what i said.”



“meaning, you can't say with certainty, dr. scarpetta?”



“there's very little in this life that one can say with certainty, mr. grueman.”



“meaning that it would be reasonable to entertain the possibility that the restraints that caused the abrasions could have been of a different variety?",1
6795,jessica had been given the treasured piece by the pioneer’s great-great-granddaughter.,0
11315,"the smells, familiar as childhood, met me as i went in and shut the door behind me; old dusty hassocks, wood gently warping in the scent of the beeswax and turpentine still used by miss marget the church cleaner, like her mother and her mother's mother before her.",0
2841,he made this somewhat dubious assertion sound as if it were the very foundation of the american constitution and of all civilized law.,1
11059,"as she moved among her guests, she put out of her mind the irritating reluctance of her nephew hugh to pay court to a perfectly suitable young girl.",0
6585,. . sure am sorry for the delay.,0
2427,"“maybe the guy really liked her,” jack said, reserving judgment, still not sure which side the colonel was on, even taking off, briefly, the extra weight he’d put on the guy.",1
7005,"pilate thought it one of the emperor’s few enlightened measures, since he had never forgiven vitellius for the high-handed manner in which he suspended him from office.",0
12167,"""nothing you've told me,"" sam said, getting up, ""changes my opinion that creating a british research center is a good idea.”

""and i'm still opposed because it's unnecessary.”

the research director's reply was adamant, though as an afterthought he added, ""even if your plan should go ahead, we must have control from here.”

sam hawthorne smiled.”we'll discuss that later, if and when,"" but in his mind, sam knew that letting vincent lord have control of the new british research institute was the last thing he would permit to happen.",0
3268,"please—while i finish dressing.”

jenny opened the door and with surprise said, “why, dr. bennett!”

he bent over her hand in a way that warmed jenny’s cheeks, saying, “we’ve not been introduced, but i’m certain you are mark cartwright’s wife.”",0
2042,"""mr.  green isn't convinced of that.""",1
5377,"he would not remember until much, much later the times she told him he gave her pleasure, when she whispered into his ear that she was glad she had found him, raised her head in that bed as she lay under him.",0
7685,"he knew it was the next village's final prayer call, blown by their alimamo through a hollowed elephant's tooth.",0
11918,"in the interim sam somerville and duncan mccrea stared at the flash-line telephone almost without cease, praying that whoever he was, the man would call back and not sever communication.",0
3558,"“well, the name was common enough, but the ability to write it certainly wasn’t.”

“but why would she leave her personal things in two very different houses?”

“that’s a good question,” hannah said.",0
3850,"71: “orvieto…pope urban iv”

as mentioned in “the body of our lord” note above, the circumstances surrounding the delivery of this sermon, which connolly paraphrased from the brief introductory note preceding the sermon in the 1939 selected writings of aquinas,84 cannot be true as given, since scholars have since determined that aquinas did not, in fact, give this sermon.",0
2835,"""there is some doubt as to whether this does refer to the magdalene or to one of the other marys, but anyway, she begs our lord:

"" 'unbind my debt as i unbind my hair.'",1
9865,"""my behavior was inappropriate,"" angela said.",0
2831,"why didn’t i see what was going on?” she stared at him, unbelieving.",1
7833,"by god, he told himself, you’ll pull yourself together.",0
1032,"rayford knew carpathia wanted to pave the
way for the apostate union of religions to move to new babylon, but he wasn't sure
how dr. kline fit into this meeting.",1
1911,"dr. gillies had no faith in progress, in the future of mankind.",1
9721,"if i was going to be godmother to the devil's own spawn, so be it.",0
9389,"this christmas there were as many fruitcakes as claxton, georgia, could produce, plus the homemade variety drowning in rum.",0
2115,"in the first place, he couldn’t be sure it could be done quietly enough to keep from alerting jessup.",1
8093,cat would like the faithful departed.,0
2738,". . the thing was . . .”

she looked at them uncertainly.",1
6590,"it’d sure mean a lot to ’em.” another pause before he inserted the key into the ignition and then, “birdie sure sets a store by you.",0
5132,certainly much time was spent scrubbing; washcloths in our house were rough and soaps were heavy duty.,0
5157,"still clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old new orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces.",0
6794,without hesitation she put her hands on the door and pushed it open.,0
5513,"she’d allow him a few kisses and embraces and one evening he unbuttoned the four left-sided pearly buttons of her blouse and got his hands inside, touching her tender breasts, but she never let him go any further, and he’d laugh out, telling her, “don’t you know, it’ll happen sooner or later—even if i have to marry you!” there was something funny about this man who’d bedded down many women being foiled by this girl who used to blow air into his mouth and who’d lock her legs tight whenever his long musician’s fingers prowled under her skirt, searching out her most precious “treasure.” how this courtship turned into marriage, no one would be able to explain.",0
9316,"he had sam for two weeks during the summer, and two more weeks at christmas, no strings attached.",0
8901,"what did i do with my watch?”

parker went over and took him by the upper arm and applied pressure.",0
7272,mind turned only toward god's finer productions.,0
988,"otherwise my life’s been a bounty.”

“you’re young yet.”

bob smiled uncertainly.",1
7750,"they travel day and night around her bloodstream, destroying the muscles, doing god knows what to the liver and kidney and spleen, to the will and desire and ambition and rage.",0
2802,"i’m going to be like my mom’s friend rionda.”

“rionda’s pretty fat,” bobby said doubtfully.",1
11422,"when he pulled up outside the house and walked up to the front door, the church bells were playing a tune he hadn't heard since he was a kid in sunday school.",0
11384,"…”

“why not?”

“because i imagine they were so virtuous that today they remain in the kingdom of heaven to

contemplate the divine countenance, if this answer will satisfy you.",0
6513,"please, tell me.”

the pressure on his chest felt like a dam set to burst.",0
4196,it was a strange case to be sure.,0
11951,god she’s dumb.,0
11615,it was only by overhearing bits of his conversations with the abbots of the monasteries where we stopped along the way that i formed some idea of the nature of this assignment.,0
5126,"it was unfortunate that the girls had never been very sociable with their fellow residents in the quarter; someone would certainly have pointed out that marvelous patrolman to them, and they would not have made the fatal mistake of attacking a member of the police force.",0
7469,maybe you got religion like old grandad-blow-his-bottom-out that you tolt me about?,0
352,"she was still not sure why georgina had felt it necessary to warn her in this way, a favor that did not seem consistent with their volatile relationship.",1
4150,"i’m sure he’s back home in chestertown, maryland, by now.”

“is that where he lives?”

“that’s what he said.”

“maybe we could call him up?” melody suggested.",0
1921,at that moment my fear was so great that i felt that i was even beyond reach or counsel of the lord.,1
883,i would rather hear honest reasons for disbelief than never to have had the conversation with you.” she took a slim book from her pocket.,1
2230,"the more he thought about it, the less certain he was.",1
11492,"the creche on the central square looked pretty - undoubtedly a violation of the first amendment - but pretty nonetheless and hey, it was christmas.",0
5510,"and then leave the porch light on like would be usual and come on in and let’s watch a movie or something.”

“sure,” he said.",0
4861,"he had a lump on his chest that could surely be pneumonia if he had a cold, which he hadn’t, specially.",0
9692,"four churches and, oh, yes, four bars, a bowling alley, and the brewster inn, which is a forty-unit motel with half the units closed until may 1. until five years ago it was called the brewster motel, but then the owner, melody baker, decided she could raise prices ten percent by changing the name to the brewster inn.",0
5333,the meeting turned then into a group discussion on the general subject of faith.,0
6077,"conner was a head shorter than he, with a smooth face that had little harm in it, discounting the sureness and appetite of the young.",0
4885,he told himself that they must surely have had as long a night as he had.,0
11078,"cain was a centralized computer system linking police departments and

other investigative agencies to one massive database maintained by the fbi's

violent criminal apprehension program, or vicap.",0
784,"he felt responsible for her skepticism, for her
believe-only-what-you-can-see-and-feel attitude.",1
3500,"“thank you for loving me so.”

————

katie was determined to leave her bedroom tidy—the kitchen, too.",0
5010,"in the golden light memories of paradise perhaps; youth, surely, innocence.",0
510,"they hadn’t really finished talking, leaving grandma em unsure just how luke felt about christine.",1
8058,"the rest of you had given him your last dime already.”

“i sure as hell had,” mccaffrey said.",0
9337,koznicki knew the priest was very familiar with the topic the force needed to learn: why and how a goodly number of catholics hate one another.,0
194,she was sure that he was uncertain about what she was feeling or how he should act.,1
9116,"plant let the redundancy pass, but asked, “what makes you so sure the murderer is psychotic, agatha?”

“are you barmy?",0
6958,"are we to accept him on faith and let him know our most closely held secret, the whereabouts of john?”

at first basil had nothing to propose for the unraveling of this unforeseen difficulty.",0
37,"“what right have we to be so confident?” he demanded to know, staring unhappily at his two companions.",1
8067,"""i'm sure you could have.",0
4706,"“powell,” she said, “i’m sure your mother would be ashamed of you,” and she stopped and waited for this to make its effect.",0
518,una's eyes were circles of disbelief.,1
10801,"dr. eaton thereupon declared to me that he had never believed dr. ferrier to be guilty and had fully accepted the defense's contentions that dr. ferrier had been in pittsburgh during the crucial time, and had not doubted the sworn testimony of prominent physicians who had been in the company of dr. ferrier for several days and had been present at two operations which he had performed on well-known citizens of pittsburgh.",0
6146,"it gives two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for:

it will give a new gladness to the sunshine,

a new fragrance to the flowers,

a new beauty to the earth,

and a new mystery to life.",0
472,then how can i be sure?,1
8533,his pleasure in the process was obvious.,0
11776,"the richmond directory right in the airport had the usual yellow pages at the back, showing that the reverend was incumbent at the smyrna church of st. mary's at three square road, but resident at 290 rockcastle road.",0
6007,"his father ate with a finicky reluctance that was not his ordinary way, cutting each bite precisely, like a tailor.",0
8971,"just ahead of us the gates to the cemetery were open wide and i entered them, not for the first time, to see a member of my family interred within the enclosure.",0
9472,"there was also a christmas tree, a fir of some kind, not artificial, about seven feet high.",0
11129,"""i can only tell you-i had intended to say this later but i'll state it now-that omission of our dividend was an action which i and my fellow directors took with great reluctance .",0
11509,"it was amazing how fate or life or god had provided for him, and found a place where he could heal and think and be.",0
6677,"surely you agree that we are long past the time
where we can tolerate the extreme negative by-product of free speech run amok.”
“not only do i agree,” mathews said quickly, “but i stand ready to assist in any way
possible.",0
7593,"sunday mornings, they said, he had had a habit of looking keenly out over his bible to see who was missing, and god help those who were not sick when he called monday morning.",0
2232,"“have you ever considered what a very strange man you are, dain?”

“i doubt nielsen would choose you as a test viewer, doug.”

sherman chuckled and nodded.",1
3009,she couldn't allow the tiniest suspicion to remain in paquita's mind or she might tell her mother.,1
198,“i wish to apply for admission.” my carefully cultivated manner of assurance and superiority had deserted me in these strange surroundings.,1
9197,"he’d been drunk, sure.",0
10999,questioning elicited that she had been to mexico with her husband for a brief vacation the previous month.,0
11673,"my curiosity aroused, i was about to question william, but he motioned me to wait: in fact, a few minutes later we heard cries of rejoicing, and at the turn of the path, monks and servants reappeared, leading the horse by its halter.",0
7826,"in fact, wolfe so captured her imagination that she decided to have a go at look homeward, angel in english, but quickly gave up that chore, which she found excruciatingly difficult.",0
494,"having made such a point of renunciation, with a pious wife at his side and a disheartened congregation spread before him, why would he, in his fury of faithlessness, not seek to propagandize credulous children?",1
5262,"those bastards don’t give me any quarter and i don’t give them any.”

“well that’s certainly a very poor attitude for a teacher to have.",0
8764,"“al, are you serious about reenacting the murder?”

“sure i’m serious.",0
10876,"""no doubt you've memorized it, bill,"" snapped odell.",0
5331,"in white she did suggest, remotely, a certain concept of angel.",0
82,"“i’m afraid i don’t believe in miracles, have that kind of faith…” he shrugged.",1
1930,i might have seen her once or twice in church; i could not be sure.,1
11764,"""merry christmas, my dear.""

.",0
644,"if her suspicions were correct, could she…?",1
8000,"lord graveairs, she had called him once, after a character in a play.",0
5950,each dot had to be measured with long paper measuring strips from the four corners of the room.,0
8934,"but he did demand a certain breeding in his mistresses.”

alec bit back a smile at her frankness.",0
12016,o god!,0
7411,"“i have some quaker ancestors,” i told him.",0
6890,"if you promise to sit and keep me company while i do.”

“it would be my pleasure.”

akira grabbed some pillows and placed them behind nora’s back.",0
7787,"if you hadn’t come to town or if you had brought mr. trask in, we’d of been in one hell of a mess.",0
9504,"did those high priests talk about this?”

“it wasn’t an issue.”

“of course it wasn’t.",0
11890,"his uncertainty was based on a decision reached, alone in his los angeles hotel room, the previous night.",0
8419,"my girls have their squabbles and their peeves, naturally, but i assure you that nothing that happened here put murder into the heart of helen or ethel or rose.",0
6933,dr. barnes pulled the curtain and began gently removing the tape that secured the endotracheal tube to web’s flaccid cheeks.,0
7699,"lord, i believe.",0
11176,"scan had inherited his aristocracy of flesh, his fine golden hair, his patrician features, his hesitant, charming smile with lips that were softly colored, his dimpled left cheek, his air of gaiety and trust and joyful abandon, his impertinently tilted nose, his thick fair brows and milky skin, his quickness and eagerness, and his pale large blue eyes.",0
8249,"i went downstairs to a pay phone and called the police to make sure it was the same emily cariaga.”

“then what’d you do?”

“i went out.",0
6047,"are you sure he’s not

there?”

“daddy, aren’t you funny?",0
3942,"to get extra faith, roxanne squeezed her eyes impossibly tight.",0
7409,"as much as he enjoyed the gamecocks and uncle mingo, george knew this would mean the end of his enjoyable times in the big house, waving the peacock plumes and preaching for the massa and the missis and their guests.",0
6484,"in their corner of the bar, faith tried to make her peace with the problems of change, permanence, and the free-will-destroying tyranny of history.",0
6335,"she lit the lamp, keeping the light dim so faith wouldn’t awaken.",0
5663,"he remembered her explaining to him—because he had asked her to—what exactly made her choose one man in a room over another, and now he felt like the most foolishly innocent of husbands who uncovers the true history of an unfaithful wife—he felt as stupid as the holy simpleton dr. charles bovary.",0
11490,"i had often heard repeated the motto according to which the people of god were divided into

shepherds (namely, the clerics), dogs (that is, warriors), and sheep (the populace).",0
2365,"he'd then just landed here from some place back east, the kingmans aren't sure exactly where, and was trying to break into the movies, without much success.",1
10806,"""i don't doubt your despair.",0
11941,he stole out of the house without waking angela and nikki and got on his bike.,0
10844,"it would slow his career down, no doubt.",0
137,"but now i was unsure what it would be proper to pray for, or how to pray for it.",1
6517,"“that’ll leave you doing all the work.”

“i don’t mind,” brook said, trying to reassure her sister.",0
1294,"we would have found out the nurse’s suspicions about simpson, but we wouldn’t have had him.",1
3412,"if you have to sleep in an alley again, just make sure there’s enough room for me.”

“i do have an empty hotel.” he put his hands on her shoulders.",0
9607,the sudden image of blackwater bay matrons dancing naked in the prim cemetery of the methodist church she’d passed earlier nearly made her laugh aloud.,0
10346,"“can’t you even say thanks without the goddamn attorney general looking over your shoulder?”

			dutch shea, jr., picked up the layout.",0
4818,dorcas was now certain that the voice she’d heard summoning hector was nelson’s.,0
10614,"orry, orry--joy beyond belief.",0
2872,“you also cast doubt on your ability to recognize a decent return!,1
4485,"yet if it were true, kash would surely know it.",0
12104,"he would stick till hell freezes over!”

“he says it was all your idea,” horn continued in a quiet voice, not without sympathy.",0
823,"“faith need not be kept with a heretic,” the cardinals replied, “since he has none.”

though sick, weak, hungry, cold, and often burning with fever, hus was not forgotten or abandoned.",1
661,"i think i have a hangover, but i’m not conscious enough yet to be sure.",1
12300,"wouldn’t it be hell if it was raining?""",0
4090,"that he is a fool, the world will certainly say.",0
10213,what the hell good is a sidebar without the lead?,0
9747,"“‘a lawyer and a wagon wheel must be well-greased.’ german proverb.” “’no lawyer will ever go to heaven as long as there is room for more in hell.’ french proverb.” “’virtue in the middle,” said the devil as he sat between two lawyers.’ danish proverb.” “ ‘i am a lawyer so i can never get away from evil.’ kafka.”

			right on, franz.",0
468,"“i’m not sure.”

trent turned back to barbara and his voice softened.",1
10857,"by the power of aton pharaoh can look into the hearts of all men and see even their most secret thoughts.”

but i protested, “then he is not human, for it lies in the power of no man to see into the heart of another.”

they conferred with one another, and replied, “though pharaoh himself may desire to be no more than human, yet we do not doubt that in essence he is divine, and this is shown by his visions during which he can live many lives in a short space of time.",0
3346,"she couldn't keep working three jobs, that's for sure, and she had to find someone to keep david while she did work, even if she only worked one job.",0
11649,"the young woman said sure and gert called her an angel, which randi definitely was not .",0
9399,"as a woman, i don’t like the way women are viewed by fundamentalist religions of any kind.",0
6758,"‘arthur,’ charis said, ‘are you certain this is the way?’ she gripped arthur by the arm as if to hold him to account.",0
6142,"she was truly delicious and he 
thanked the gods-in whom he did not believe-that he had discovered such a 
treasure-with a large dowry.",0
5857,"the news was posted on the bulletin board, and nearly everyone received the news with pleasure.",0
10052,"and if, god forbid, the weather worsens . . .”

their immediate predicament was enough for madame nordstrom.",0
3547,"because students—believing the slaves of a hundred and fifty years ago—used the platform and who knows, even the podium, as places to make love.",0
3148,"however, a little moral doubt never troubled him for long, and when the waiter went away he said: “i absolutely forbid it.” his tone was conclusive, as if that ended the discussion.",1
750,"""tell him i'm not sure-i will come if i can.",1
6939,"with a determined grunt, miriam grabbed the stack of envelopes, marched across the room, and flopped onto her bed.",0
23,"yet would he call it back, his shaky half-faith, with its burden of falsity and equivocation, even if he could?",1
7561,she felt she must have this out with the priest before she fired the displaced person.,0
8898,stallings took it without hesitation.,0
12029,"what the hell were they doing in azerbaijan?""",0
5284,"sometimes he thought that he had forgotten all; sometimes he was confident that he remembered clearly, even back unto the day when he was drafted and left the steam and boiling water and floating bits of food in that restaurant kitchen where he washed dishes on madison street in chicago.",0
6061,"4


heretofore sweet faith slumbered; then, past midnight, after two days’ tiring journey from georgia to chicago and a restless sleep in her train seat, faith awoke to the wrenching of gears and a shrill whistle.",0
101,"“do you really?”

it was angie’s turn to look down at the table, uncertain and nervous.",1
7083,“you are sure the logs arrived at the boats intact?” he waved the question off with a nod of his head.,0
10618,"she’s a—”

“you sure you don’t want something?",0
9976,"i don't think... christ, it's hard to think.",0
11784,"at last the priest entered in a great hurry and with him, to my surprise, metufer.",0
5042,"eventually i learned that it was wiser to devote myself to the science of living here, living as well as possible and as long as possible. . . . i wonder what that big jew has got in his big knapsack?",0
9710,"with some frequency, penitents were either young and had forgotten their story, or adults who were too nervous to begin without a little support from the priest.",0
1731,how could anybody be so damn sure that if you added two parts of hydrogen to one part of oxygen it always came out water?,1
7107,"without his love of adventure, he’d be as plodding and shy as charles, who exhibited neither enjoyment or displeasure unless he was out in the fields.",0
11853,"my god, thought jonathan, who had a shadowy revelation.",0
4319,"no doubt this was a drunken sailor who had wandered in from outside, and lili had always said a wise girl could talk a man out of almost anything if she kept cool and did not panic.",0
158,"""it was not that jesus violated any of the levitical 
ceremonial laws, or annoyed his teachers with heretical questions or expressed 
doubt over the regulations of the pharisees.",1
1195,"“like i said, my faith took quite a blow with richard’s death.",1
3838,“you sure you searched th’ church good?,0
3691,"that’ll swing plenty of votes.”

“we need one, that’s certain.",0
656,“but i cain’t believe you’d let her go north all by herself.”,1
2619,"as a final doubt, the defense also pointed out that a similar series of letters had been found previously in the morells' paris house, and at a time when la ronciere was on the other side of the world, doing service in cayenne.",1
10067,robert had seen the announcement in the new york times one sunday.,0
7571,"like the shaped stone, the fully formed architecture, the household with its routines as fixed as holy offices, he represented a civilized continuity unbroken even by transplantation to a new country.",0
9476,"my god, krummel, you’ve seen them; unhappy turds, either drunks or religious fanatics, waiting for a war.",0
2103,nana lewis’s suspicions were right on the nose.,1
2983,"""colonel braithwaite has been waiting for us since last night, and we were very late and our arrival uncertain.",1
9106,not too long ago she had taken a pair of killers off my back without a second’s hesitation.,0
12214,"my god, a united states senator can't just vanish.""",0
9167,"at nineteen, a two-to-seven for attempted homicide, served at the santa fe prison without parole— which almost certainly meant a rough record inside the walls.",0
10196,"with the dog barking to be fed and nikki whining that she couldn't find her favorite jeans, angela felt her patience was at an end.",0
5172,"“there is no reason i cannot adopt a cat,” he assured himself as he walked home.",0
570,"it was st. augustine who said, “it takes a big mind to make a heresy.” and there are noble minds and noble spirits from whom the gift of faith is withheld",1
10223,"""angel,"" i said again.",0
7127,"“you’re sure?”

“absolutely.”

she carefully wrapped her arms around him.",0
755,"the question pulsated with hope and doubt, and emerald’s heart knew a pang.",1
3239,the attitude of thiel and his men only fueled uncle jim's anger and made him all the more determined to see the union recognized by the mill.,0
957,“i…i cannot say with certainty.,1
2861,"then tuor stood before turgon son of fingolfin, high king of the noldor, and upon the king's right hand there stood maeglin his sister-son, but upon his left hand sat idril celebrindal his daughter; and all that heard the voice of tuor marvelled, doubting that this were in truth a man of mortal race, for his words were the words of the lord of waters that came to him in that hour.",1
10690,"he whispered to edgar feldscher, no doubt some jibe about the high school lawyer with his primitive blackstone.",0
3890,"the thirty-six red pins stood for charitable institutions—hospitals, orphanages, houses of shelter and mercy, their inmates numbering 40,670. other pins told the cardinal that his archdiocese sheltered communities of jesuits, augustinians, redemptorists, oblates, and franciscans, not to mention 1100 secular priests, and 1676 nuns gathered together in some thirty different orders of the sisterhood.",0
6076,"for kids, picking beans was a measure of adulthood, a rite of passage.",0
5182,"there was nothing like it except standing on his land and knowing there was water underneath, that certainty when for a moment he forgot he needed it as simply as a man or dog or plant did.",0
11583,one of my sins is a belief in intuition.,0
5317,"she felt in the pockets to make sure no change or kleenex was there, and she came upon a long object, plastic and metal, shaped like a very narrow folding comb.",0
390,"but deep down, kitty harbored an apprehension of some unknown danger.",1
8709,"after we’re through waiting, i want to go to the ambassador hotel.”

“sure,” he said.",0
10865,"""well, ma'am, if you bought it, you'd undoubtedly want a new manager, your husband being with the bureau and all.",0
7845,"painted common thing, traipsing up and down the streets all afternoon alone in a buggy, and the one and only time mrs. church called on her, and that was because of mr. pruitt’s position alone, mrs. church found her without corsets on and mrs. church told me she smelled liquor on her breath.”

and papa saying here, here, and aunt louisa crying good and saying how it was mrs. pruitt that did it because uncle rodney was young and easy led because he never had had opportunities to meet a nice girl and marry her, and papa was driving fast toward grandpa’s house and he said, “marry?",0
2883,"""you may know that my colleague kevin brown has long harbored suspicions that mr. quinn knew more about this thing from the start than he was letting on; could even have been involved at some stage.",1
6416,"you are compiègne’s latest adornment.’

‘i hope you’re wrong,’ she said, but felt a rush of pleasure at his words.",0
5570,"you can say, ‘yeah, jake, but you’ve got to feed him with your own spoon, and let him sleep on your side of the bed,’ and they’ll say, ‘sure, ty, anything.",0
7632,"“it isn’t much of a holiday for me,” he told them when they wished him a merry christmas.",0
11899,"nor was there on sundays any of the movement which, like systole and diastole, drew the inhabitants to and from linstead station and gave ladysmith road, between certain hours on weekdays, the appearance of being actually on the way to somewhere.",0
111,"""father walsh ridiculed the cures claimed by christian scientists and other protestant faith healers.",1
6468,i can see her still the way she leaned over the bed in her crisp white uniform and applied what you could tell was a good deal of pressure but not an ounce too much.,0
3936,"according to the law, i had to give judas the 
prescribed thirty pieces of silver which is the reward for the exposure of a 
blasphemer, and judas burst into the most awful tears and flung the
money into my face, and ran from me with great howls of despair
and torment.",0
9571,"she selected her husband, “the most loving, gentle man ever to tread the earth,” as her executor and prayed god to be merciful with her peccant soul.",0
3939,"it projected the gloomy savor and amplitude of a church, and yet the living room had a certain oriental sensuality, with its ottomans and fringes and patterned persian carpets.",0
2062,he said missy is sick.” nancy could see doubt on dorothy’s face.,1
9304,"she had first noticed the note, neatly tacked in its envelope to the outside of twelvetrees' door, late on sunday morning as she left for church.",0
6454,"“abba father, surely this suffering has been for my benefit.",0
7347,i think they even gave you some extra lines to say—i suppose they couldn’t have such well-dressed angels just stand there doing nothing.,0
3250,"it got so that i could see into the houses, and all the expensive antiques and the pictures and drapes and silver and the orientals, and sometimes at night i’d go right up to the windows and look, and sure enough, the rooms was like the ones i saw in the magazines!",0
3109,"from what i know of him, i doubt it.""",1
11292,"louis the

emperor or john the pope?”

“oh, my lord!” nicholas said, quite frightened.",0
9975,"it has the three monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.” she laughed again and said, “i thought it was particularly appropriate for a woman author who had seen all, heard all and was telling damn near everything.”

“that scarf interests me a lot,” mason said.",0
9298,"""it is salvation.""",0
1900,"you should be grateful to be here,” she added, “but i’m not sure you are.”

“ya,” he said and gave his little shrug and turned back to the tractor.",1
11357,"“i’m getting the christmas eve bus tomorrow.”

“i’m sure it’ll be nice, lots of returned emigrants and everything,” she said.",0
9327,"and the thing is, the church shows no visible source of income.",0
4422,"i’m sure you did your best.”

they began a slow tour of the palace, beginning with the lower hallways, chambers, and council room.",0
5542,"little lee roy, in reluctance and shyness, shook his head gently.",0
5135,we had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait.,0
4918,surely it is no less reasonable to suppose that the waking mind of a child corresponds in the same way to the whole evolution of human thought and perception.,0
7135,"and i read a lot of fiction!”

—bath, new york

“deadline is without a doubt the best christian fiction i have read.",0
10141,"it was a blanched, starving-pale beauty, almost transparent, so that mary was reminded of the strange visions she’d had of angela moving toward her through the wavering desert heat.",0
5646,"abra saw that she had crushed their highest treasure, and while she knew the weaknesses of men she still liked them, and, besides, she was a lady.",0
11034,"i confess

that i myself have been guilty of excessive reluctance in reaching such a seemingly

fantastic deduction.",0
8931,"with the crated paintings secured in the airplane, there would still be room for one more passenger: powers.",0
12355,"“i do not permit him to touch the god,” said the queen.",0
8532,there was no doubt about that fact.,0
88,i’m not exactly sure just what.,1
12141,"""what the hell are the british police doing?""",0
4821,ty surely saw it as the long-withheld recognition of his talent with the hogs.,0
4020,now she was determined to carry on full steam ahead to stir richard to action.,0
11115,"somehow, it seemed to erica, the ex-marine parts manufacturer managed to bring out all that was best in adam, and she followed the talk about hank kreisel's thresher, including adam's cogent questioning, with fascination.",0
8809,"for how long?”

“well, sir, between six in the evening and about two o’clock in the morning.”

“you are sure of that, mr. strickland?",0
7404,"the one not purely aesthetic impulse he conceded might have gotten admixed into his project was what he called cathedralism, the impression osmosing to him from his church-mad mother that the most significant human creation of all time is the cathedral.",0
3420,"come to think of it, i didn’t see joe anywhere either, though i was certain that was his harley parked out back.",0
275,"john could only point mutely, and james looked doubtfully
down the beach.",1
11463,heaven for the victorians was very largely heaven because the body was left behind--along with the id.],0
678,"if ever i had doubted the existence of our creator, that doubt would have ended in the early hours of this morning.",1
8904,"but not in jewish law until she has obtained a jewish divorce, a get, here, the jewish law is not contrary to the secular law; it is additional to it.",0
8819,"in the bright sun of the warm day johnny mcguire walked along the side of the highway feeling just a little lonely, but so proud of his comfortable new hat that he was able to put certain other worrisome thoughts out of his mind.",0
1720,"and i thought to myself, well, we’re making a step—it’s just a baby-step, but it’s a step.”

“‘t’s all right to talk like that—can’t any christian judges an’ lawyers make up for heathen juries,” jem muttered.",1
4996,"no, my father said, i’m sure it’s not michael.",0
8706,"i could use exposure to some of the nicer things in life.”

dulcie threw me a tilted glance.",0
7759,". .

—christina?",0
3300,"when she came back to her body—and she felt sure she had left it—her eyes were stretched wide open, and they were dry, because she found herself staring directly into the sun.",0
4879,"a procession of suppliants climbed the knoll on bare, bloodied knees to show their devotion or purge their grief or beg forgiveness in the slow tearing of flesh and bone.",0
10104,god help that guy peterson.,0
2251,"i’m not sure my friend went out with this girl; i’m not sure she’ll admit it if she did and i can’t blame her; i’m not sure about anything any more.”

“what did juno tell you?”

“come back tomorrow.",1
2226,i wasn’t sure where i was.,1
4299,“i’ll make sure dexter doesn’t see me.,0
1618,she had never put permanently out of her mind augusta’s doubts about oliver ward.,1
10101,"jesus, last time i saw you he was having that ulcer taken care of.",0
1935,she had no more faith in the power of god than she had in the magic of the evening star.,1
10899,that she did love him he had no doubt.,0
11135,"it was during questioning, when the australian matter was reached, that mace became emotionally disturbed, then seemed suddenly to go to pieces.",0
3254,no doubt wolf would have them watched.,0
8311,"“be assured of it, mademoiselle,” said the general, “it was the killer pig.” villiers stopped, his breathing audible, the next words drawn out, a strong man close to weeping.",0
3472,"“you there, tie up dutton and make sure he does not leave,” peder ordered.",0
4859,"“last night i told him in no uncertain terms that if he drove drunk again, i’d take the truck keys away from him.",0
7569,"at the crest of the hill she halts, peering anxiously about at the crowd of spectators; then she trudges on, wavering this way and that as if uncertain whether or not to approach her fellow-worshipers.",0
2228,"“how can you be sure, especially with a body—or what’s left of it—this old, that one person killed him?",1
1229,so i was not certain as to what to expect.,1
6650,"the judge’s displeasure had irritated him, but wondering how to interpret last night’s attack on del was more upsetting.",0
3414,"something was wrong, angie knew that for certain.",0
3752,"""i'm sure you've worked up an appetite by now.",0
8686,"'that's not what the government doctors determined,' said conklin icily.",0
2449,"that seemed to hold some advice for a detective, but i wasn’t sure if i agreed with it.",1
10055,"they argued through twenty-seven advertisements, fourteen bills, two postcards, a note from a cat he knew in the army who was now in the federal penitentiary at danbury and wanted help, and a notice from his landlord that he was in trouble for repainting without permission.",0
10386,"“as near as we can make it out,” riordan said, “harris went down to the marina and slept in his car all night with his goddamned chrome-plated forty-five loaded and cocked on the seat beside him.",0
2943,"""i'm going to see publius rutilius, and i doubt i'll be back before you're in bed.""",1
11199,"there were buttons from long-punctured uniforms, medals won in long-past skirmishes with long-liquidated heathen tribes.",0
9741,"the minister had given me a xerox copy of his eulogy, so i had been able to mark the paragraphs i wanted to record in advance.",0
66,add to these assorted apprehensions the anxiety my mother never ceased expressing over my habit of sleeping with louie.,1
10320,"“the hell i didn’t,” he said.",0
10997,they appeared to view any questioning of their rhetoric--even an honest difference of opinion by a man-as chauvinist.,0
3572,they are the ones who have convinced lodge and westmoreland that the struggle for a third way is viet cong.,0
11337,the nun sighed again and looked down at her clasped hands.,0
2439,"but right now, i’m not certain of anything.”

he turned his head as the door of the self-service elevator opened.",1
7307,"poor myrna.”

mr. robichaux, unable to think of anything to say, asked, “why don’t you get a priest to talk to your boy?”

“a priest?” mrs. reilly wept.",0
2317,“i’m not sure this … recapitulation … is good for us.,1
11557,"“we are married in our own eyes, little one … and the eyes of god … you can never have been married to that terrible man, in england … there is no god in any heaven who would want you to spend a lifetime of such torture.",0
5060,"and as to any sordid intrigue, i can assure you—”

“please say no more,” exclaimed my father, coughing furiously.",0
9653,"now repeat after me: if reverend o'malley gets hurt, it will be god's will.""",0
1424,"it was so dark that he had needed her to talk almost constantly, lest he stop believing she was there, start believing he wasn’t there himself.",1
11919,"at that time they were from home, riding with caranthir east in thargelion; but the people of celegorm welcomed her and bade her stay among them with honour until their lord's return.",0
7337,"he is a good deal more important than any of our own “priests,” and he is useful to me; and besides, he is an amusing fellow.",0
4261,no wonder she has to make sure i turn out right!,0
9814,"div., ph.d. she pulled it out, then saw another with the name sawyer on the spine, a slim volume called the reformation of the catholic church.",0
11347,"baptist, probably, or maybe free methodist.",0
10290,"yes, he was one helluva great guy and what the country needed was more like old pete caputo and less of the goddamn war-dodging, snot-nosed little punks who were nothing but liberal commie pinko bastards causing trouble all over this country.",0
4166,"“and since the emperor was willing to release master hus only a few weeks ago, we can certainly hope he intends to keep his word.",0
4108,"he’ll be safe with me.”

“what if he wakes up again?”

“i’ll send a servant to fetch you if he calls for you.”

zechariah finally convinced her.",0
9477,just a minute.” he opened his prayer book to a sheet of paper he had inserted.,0
8483,"now, that was certainly thoughtful of you, mister bascom!”

he shuffled through the call slips, then glanced at the lobby clock.",0
4848,"it’s certainly sound, so long as you watch your lysine and b12.",0
2076,"i doubt if i should.”

“why?",1
7125,"along the way he had also gained significant exposure to deadly snakes, fish, and spiders and discovered, to his own surprise, that he had a remarkable acumen for pinpointing the molecular characteristics of each type of venom.",0
4685,"but before you despair, let me hasten to assure you that this acceptance is of less moment than either of us might have dreamed.",0
3025,"flora eaton returned, uncertain and hesitant.",1
909,"i need to talk to you, that’s all.”

he seemed uncertain.",1
5979,"their families and friends wondered how they got their treasures; in fact, the families worried.",0
10174,"it was goddard's function as the financial keystone of
genessee industries to absorb and coordinate the massive
influx of listed and unlisted-old and new-material with
respect to changing market conditions; to allocate financing to the divisions
as necessary; and to distribute contractual workloads among,the
plants--always oper@ting on
the assumption that 120 percent of capacity was the median.",0
9317,the nun glanced quickly in its direction.,0
6602,"“that was some delicious meat too.”

“sure hope i can get us a moose this winter.”

“for sure, lad.",0
6115,"“mary, if that’s a problem for my keepers, try to handle it for me.”

“sure thing, pal.”

jean started to argue, but she really wanted him along.",0
12019,"and i knew that their hearts would not be found wanting in the great scales before osiris, though they lacked the death books of the priests and the lies learned by rote to which the wealthy pinned their faith.",0
8598,"when the bell rang wolfe had finished his eggs and was drinking coffee, really a pitiful sight, and i was toward the end of a second helping of the starlings and polenta, which was certainly edible.",0
10658,"""then no doubt it was sam.",0
9428,i read the bible every night with my family.,0
2048,"you’ll want to hear this too.”

bowman’s transparent attempt at nonchalance redoubled thatcher’s suspicions.",1
5741,"as they developed a more extensive food system, they dug pits and lined them with milk for house storage and later carried finished houses to the river as an offering to perkins, to secure sleep knowledge or possibly to prevent the numbed limb slumbers under arkansas grass, brought on by exposure to houses built without grains or steam.",0
8401,the possibility that macgregor was coming to redeem his former girlfriend’s honor had grown into a certainty.,0
432,"does she think i had anything to do with what happened?”

“she’s generally distrustful of us all.",1
8710,"the victim is easily led; she’s highly suggestible; easily influenced, i think she thinks cohen is her assailant.”

“but you don’t.”

“lynne, there are some people who just cannot, under any circumstances, commit certain crimes.",0
11395,"before they burst upon us, here is what i wish you: may god grant us not to lose each other and not to lose our souls.",0
4394,"to his surprise, they seemed almost
carefree, certainly not concerned.",0
1246,"with you hovering around, you’ll only bring more suspicion back on yourself.”

“no one suspects anything, lenore.”

“just the same, get out of there.",1
1461,"his eyes were doubtful, as though asking, really?",1
9026,"you can notify my appointments secretary as to the time of the conference.”

“certainly, archbishop.”

boyle stood, as did his visitors.",0
7160,"so, perched near the end of the bar, i could sip my diet coke, quietly listen to passing comments, and measure my perceptions against prevailing conventional wisdom.",0
10486,"we chose sam hawthorne as president, believing he would give leadership, ideas and guidance.",0
2350,"for a while her mind stayed on the dog and that vet, dr. krueger, whom she didn’t trust but wasn’t sure why.",1
7304,"i believe with all my heart in the mercy and providence of god, and i believe in a future unimaginably brighter and better than anything i have known here-and yet of course the whole difficulty is that i have known and have loved ""here.""",0
1082,"all around us are unbelieving minds that have been blinded by the god of worldly success so that they do not see the splendor of the gospel that shows forth the glory of christ.”

jennifer gripped her hands so tightly her fingers ached.",1
6138,she became shielded against the pressure and the tension under invisible wings of love and comfort and serenity.,0
8062,he sure hadn’t meant to contradict ken.,0
10944,"it was not in the least analytical or problem-solving, and it is no doubt symptomatic that the one subject that had cost her agonies to master was mathematics.",0
2071,i doubt that either of them can read anything more complex than the label on a beer can.,1
5092,"as sure as fate, as a law of nature, a stone falling, a gas rising.",0
10495,"i mean, if i were really certain i was in love and we wanted each other, and for some reason we couldn’t get married, then i should give myself.” there is something almost prim in the way she makes this announcement.",0
8978,“sure it was an accident.,0
11469,"she spent her time gathering medicinal herbs, flitting from one church to another to receive a helping hand collection, and surveying the fields, which invited her not because they were open but because they were full of secrets.",0
11281,"a few minutes before the news was broadcast on the wireless, margaret oxenford was outside the sprawling brick mansion that was her family home, perspiring gently in a hat and coat, and fuming because she was forced to go to church.",0
4730,"this line of questioning has been employed only for prejudice, and you and i and everyone in this courtroom knows there is enough of that here already.""",0
11239,"then at last, it was christmas eve.",0
7863,“my god!” said kennerly over coffee an hour later.,0
7724,". .

—my god harry what do you want him to do, just forget the whole thing?",0
3855,"moreover, it seemed to the pharisees that the messias was 
somewhat loose with the law, interpreting it to his followers and the people as 
no pharisee would interpret it.",0
1995,"yet to be determined was whether he inflicted this tight interpretation, this legalistic rigidity, on himself as well.",1
6165,the pleasure of their sex had been marred for him by maggie’s plea that he leave nora for her.,0
7905,"he walked through dust all the way to church hollow, then a farmer came along with a team and gave him a ride.",0
2162,"you not only didn’t know what had become of it, you weren’t even sure what it was any more and couldn’t remember what it had been when you’d had it.",1
2287,unless bryan had talked—and that was very doubtful—brady could not know what jencks intended.,1
1437,"again and again she would doubt her own identity, and that of everyone else.",1
4481,"“i have faith, nathan.",0
597,"of course, eldeen had told him so much as he was unloading the car that he couldn’t be sure.",1
642,"that might have been healthier, actually, because mama’s raving went on almost solely in her head, where there was no way to hear it, hence no means of challenging it, hence no means of preventing her from believing every bit of it.",1
3092,"i am overemphasizing the worse, that is the time-serving, morleyish half of charles's mind; his better self, that self that once before had enabled him to see immediately through the malice of lyme to her real nature, fought hard to dismiss his suspicions.",1
7263,"i sure don’t want to be left alone down here, in the dark.”

there was a note deliberately plaintive in that last statement, and i did not want to pursue it.",0
8291,"“she called me in the lab today,” wes said, “wanting to make sure.",0
1168,"officially they deny this, of course, for a formal partnership with such a purpose would violate the bylaws of the weu.”

“but we have our suspicions,” synn said, his blue eyes sinking into nets of wrinkles as he smiled.",1
4543,"the guy needs a shrink, that’s for sure.",0
7546,"later this fall, a group of army engineers, sent from washington to survey the mormon territory, boiled down five gallons of water from salt lake and made what they called an “analysis.” my father copied it out in his journals: “out of the 5 gallons were recovered 14 pints of salt; the exact composition as follows:

chloride of sodium 97.80%

chloride of calcium 0.61

chloride of magnesium 0.24

sulphate of soda 0.23

sulphate of lime 1.12

_____

100.00”

we rode into the mormon capital the next morning, but i’ll let my father’s letter, written some days afterward, tell the story:


plodding toward the amazingly treeless citadel, we beheld a party of men at the outskirts, dressed in buckskin or homespun, with black hats and chin whiskers, in an obvious attitude of toll collection, blocking the trail.",0
6961,"could it be because of a certain crisis, involving the fall of a certain individual in rome?”

what nettled pilate was not so much the verbal thrust, which was true to the mark, but the sneer with which antipas spilled the words from his mouth.",0
5543,the whole enclosure took up about three quarters of an acre.,0
7808,"“come awake, my little bible-worm,” bronek persisted, and at this moment lotte roused herself and sat up.",0
529,"but . . .” he hesitated a long moment, then continued, “you’ve been so quiet, i haven’t been sure how you feel.”

it was true.",1
5002,"we glanced at one another with our eyes grown bright, like people under a spell, for she was bent upon destruction.”

“a fury and a pleasure seemed to rise inside her, that went out like lightning through her hands,” said cora.",0
5891,"he walked the streets, inquiring about a certain maría rivera.",0
9759,"thanks, mother, for your amish heritage.",0
8999,"""are you sure he came back?""",0
3876,"""but you would not have come to lourdes unless you are a believer.""",0
10638,sherwood had gotten the second piece of land on a foreclosure of a family whose breadwinner had been one of hodges' patients.,0
6843,"can’t you believe i can do a lot more than you think i can, that just because i look a certain way doesn’t mean i’m not smarter and better than you and everyone thinks?”

“yeah,” she said.",0
12091,"""i think you still might be over her head,"" angela said.",0
7235,"no fat spanish treasure galleon as you make jest of, but the warspite!”

baret fixed the telescope on the sleek brigantine with its guns, its flag flying.",0
11884,they reminded bobby of the littluns in lord of the flies.,0
11127,"a crow floated close overhead, its black feathers gleaming, splintering hesitantly in the breeze before it slipped away in sudden alarm.",0
5866,his mother was crocheting a home sweet home sampler while katrina measured off a bolt of new cloth and helen snipped the ragged threads.,0
7258,a tiny gold latch secured the lid.,0
1938,"not that he is not an extremely religious person, with a great regard for the priesthood.",1
5867,"but he was not in the box when we arrived; and i must say that, despite the pleasure i was having in the company of this most delightful troop, i found myself a little disappointed.",0
11258,"it had not occurred to her, of course, to ask why sarah, who had refused offers of work from less sternly christian souls than mrs. poulteney's, should wish to enter her house.",0
2635,"marius didn't answer, merely looked skeptical.",1
219,"i don’t know who they are, and i’m not so sure they’re troops, but eagle has spotted them.",1
1476,they don’t know for sure what happened but just the other side of monroe the car went into a skid and hit a truck parked off the road.,1
8839,wouldn't have been in such a rush for the money to pay off some of the astronomical campaign expenses and secure credit for the eleventh-hour media blitz her staff told her she needed to defeat that tedious hausfrau yannick.,0
7515,the hearts which might have beat with the rhythm of philanthropist and priest and educator .,0
11588,"and at every sentence the cellarer read, jorge laughed, pounded his fist on the table, and shouted, “you shall be the next abbot, by god’s belly!” those were his very words, may the lord forgive me.",0
7118,“just wait until you see this.” she opened the next brochure in their file and with great pleasure described the luxury hotel she had found for them near the romantic piazza san marco.,0
2505,"why should you now believe celia’s sanity can’t possibly be doubted?”

dr. bland’s voice took on richness and power.",1
10811,"the president has, no doubt, the tougher temperament, though i'm afraid the strain is already beginning to become noticeable, and the telltale signs of post-abduction parental trauma are beginning to show in him too.""",0
11196,"he was talking now to me, with an ease quite unlike mr. emerson's hesitant kindness, about my father's death.",0
4954,"the greatest joys are those that come to us upon some confirmation of our faith—even in small fragments of faith, faith in st. casimir’s home, in a friendship, in the survival of a family.",0
3099,mama elena asked the doctor to lock the door and confided to him her suspicions about the bitterness of the food.,1
8678,"he tucked the rabbit fur cloak around her, careful to apply no pressure.",0
1852,"let’s not say another word about it!”

“just one word more, because i’m not sure you’ve ever quite known it.",1
9052,"“certainly, sgt.",0
808,"of all the ways the baby could have died, why did you destroy jennifer’s faith in the process?",1
10589,"“for christ’s sake,” she said to franny and junior, “you wake us up with what i’m sure is another fucking rape and now you’ve got him all red in the face and unable to speak !",0
3822,"surely your god is not a pharisee!""",0
3808,"“it was a red setter, and he didn’t seem to belong to anyone, though he was certainly no maverick.",0
1603,"i wasn’t sure what jem resented most, but i took umbrage at mrs. dubose’s assessment of the family’s mental hygiene.",1
10371,"“good god,” i said severely to no one but my own distracted self as i quickly opened the garage door.",0
4724,"and if it wasn’t for something that come from outside us all to tell about it, i wouldn’t have the faith i have that it came about.",0
9210,"“doctor, could you speak with jonathan for a minute, please?” ray was making a determined effort to keep his voice even.",0
143,"then, the article stated, something happened that caused john to renounce the mormon faith.",1
265,"she cry, then cry some more, can’t bear to be home.”

since it was obvious that the balazes must be having to sleep on the floor and decidedly doubtful that those mattresses leaning on the porch would ever be usable again, we wrote down opposite their name “mattresses and bedding.” one glance into the kitchen told us there was little food in the house, so groceries were also needed.",1
8453,"if you know where he is.”

“ah damn sure know where he ain’t.",0
5728,"then came the raid, deliberate and sure.",0
7726,"now one may ask, since she knew that the ambiguous hermes had outcharmed her, why did she not, as some women or even some goddesses might have done, steal the herb and destroy it or cast a counterspell to annul it?",0
8811,"""you sure about that?""",0
894,"""it isn't safe to trust ourselves too much to such beliefs.",1
7418,god is strange.,0
3479,"you make sure to think of each other first.”

gabe spoke before akira could.",0
5775,"he said, “did burning the money give you much pleasure?”
“i—i guess so.”
  “and are you taking pleasure from this whipping you’re giving yourself?",0
1258,they hid there and waited while their messengers called forth weapons and warriors from their heathen homeland across the sea.,1
6418,"""well, sure!""",0
5369,"the three in front heard only one speech from the limping man: “i won’t take less …”

“sure,” the tall man said.",0
6297,"the woman turned to look, and her feigned composure shattered.",0
2875,he said skeptically.,1
3894,"he vamped a few bars, then, laying back his head, sounded off with his own variant of the all-but-forgotten ditty describing the forlorn plight of one cassidy, longing amid wealth, for the old carefree days in shanahan’s ould shebeen:


in me bran’-new brownstone mansion—lace curtains hangiri fine,

the cathedral round the corner and the cardinal in to dine—

sure i ought to be stiff with grandeur, but me tastes are mighty mean,

and i long for a mornin’s mornin’, at shanahan’s ould shebeen.",0
11336,"“and god must be good, since he generated nature,” william said with a smile.",0
10054,"dad, i had no intention of bringing up any business what-so goddamn-ever.""",0
4624,"it would allow
him to listen in on conversations in the condor 216's cabin between global
community potentate nicolae carpathia, supreme commander leon fortunato,
and pontifex maximus peter mathews, head of enigma babylon one world faith.",0
9597,"half a dozen photographers lounged around the steps to the church, but kate had expected them, so she continued on around the block to a delivery entrance.",0
193,"and he tells her, the calm of his voice uncertain at first, contradicted by his effort to keep it calm.",1
10505,"of course, the fellow must certainly possess another, but daintry had never learnt it.",0
3396,"""then we must withdraw the fluid,"" said lucanus, questioningly he examined the 
vial again.",0
12358,lord knew it also.,0
6895,"“you’re sure, sister?",0
2606,which left dearie and his third-floor charges to stare at each other with mingled expressions of distrust and reproach.,1
8464,"i mean, i’m sure not going to ride with maria, that bitch.",0
6573,"apparently everything in connection with steel making had to be grossly exaggerated—titan in size, ear-splitting noises, fiercely high temperatures, loads measured in hundreds of tons.",0
10752,"and it seems

to me beyond doubt that they existed.",0
175,"slowly, she whispered, “joseph, i wish with all my heart that i could believe as surely as you do.",1
3633,"“but when i looked at her myself, i was sure that she was no longer among the living.”

				“then you believe she was really brought to life again?”

				jairus nodded solemnly.",0
3618,"“there is a way to make sure that you follow doris when you do leave this earth.”

frankie shook his head slowly.",0
698,"rachel couldn’t be sure, of course, but she thought philip’s eyes were on her just now.",1
268,"i suppose one could adopt their beliefs; but my
credulity has limits.""",1
2324,"“not in so many words,” he said, aware of the shadows of her disbelief.",1
5564,"there was a certain amount of subterfuge, naturally; some of the sick did go along with the well.",0
954,"she was not certain if she believed all this, but her dilemma demanded that she trust someone.",1
4588,"pilate, herod, the high priest-if necessary the whole sanhedrin would
be sure to send armed men to guard the tomb, lest the
body disappear.",0
3270,"we owe it to daddy and alicia to make sure that man doesn't
ever kill anyone again.",0
8496,"he gracefully fended off specific questions with the well-received statement: “surely you gentlemen know i am honor-bound not to discuss any injury incurred by a member of the royal family.” when told that the news had been leaked that it was a royal thumb that had been cleanly detached and successfully reattached, dr. cohen shrugged roguishly and gave a winning thumbs-up signal, which was flashed around the world.",0
4972,your buddy yonder might be willin to haul your ass all over mexico but i damn sure aint.,0
10319,"‘christ, what a fool i was.’

terri moved closer to him.",0
718,"someone had remarked, “if these were expelled for having too much religion, it would be very proper to inquire into the conduct of some who had too little.” if he was refused for believing too much, what would become of the ministry of those who were ordained because they believed too little?",1
8308,"“she’s shrewd enough to have pulled off something like this.”

certainly, it was possible.",0
9697,"after all, the good lord was born in a barn, wasn't he?",0
11381,i know he was a christian.,0
3990,"the king will be wanting fresh bread soon and it’ll have to be hot out of the oven.”

***

after three days of the king’s residence at margate, afton was convinced the old castle had disappeared and something new had taken its place.",0
6359,"it
filled me with apprehension.",0
6046,"had he 
avoided this line of questioning, the jury would never have seen the meticulous 
care nick crabb took to present accurate details.",0
5878,"here, that the recovery of the author of a copyrighted work ought to be limited to those profits which result from its exploitation; and that since the value of the picture here depended only in very small measure upon those parts which the defendants have been found to have lifted, they should be accountable for only a correspondingly small part of the .",0
2367,they were intrigued but doubtful.,1
4510,"of course, elaine had never been unfaithful.",0
3682,"“i’m not the only one who misses isabella and annie, and i’m certainly not the only one who misses my mama.”

the words were barely spoken into the cloudless, hot day when tears began to flow again, and until her first hard weeping for her dead mother slowed, she couldn’t have seen well enough to finish fanny kemble butler’s unhappy letter if she’d tried.",0
8659,"""are you sure?""",0
2198,"otherwise he would go to the police with his suspicions, and he felt there would be enough to warrant reopening the investigation.",1
6688,"if men of such varied background could band together under the term brethren and live in reasonable peace among themselves, it was in order to raid new spain and the main and plunder the annual treasure fleet from porto bello on its route to madrid.",0
8867,"""sure,"" he said.",0
5268,"you don’t trust me no more now than you did then!” the voice, disembodied, seemed to come more surely from the depths of johnson than when his face was visible.",0
4615,"how godric filled his time, and certain holy sights he saw.",0
10388,where the hell had the night gone?,0
5764,i treasured the cheapest sort of vanity.,0
3804,hannah pulled her hat further down on her head and checked to make sure no unruly curls had sprung from beneath it.,0
4143,it would be safer and surer to shoot the man in the back if necessary.,0
6873,"i want to swim just below the surface—nothing deeper—since i have to check my bearings from time to time.”

“okay, read off the pressure in both air tanks.”

“two thousand pounds in each.”

“will that give you enough bottom time?”

“ninety minutes’ worth.",0
10191,"he could only suppose that he was experiencing that great american illness known as the saturday night funk, not to be confused with the sunday evening hiatus or the monday morning blues, none of which are daily newspapers.",0
6266,the wasting disease has its hold on her and nothing may now be done for her.” he went on with every evidence of reluctance: “there are such cases all over the world.,0
8010,"mama first pulled him down, then rose herself with her own arms stretched empty, like a prophetess.",0
461,"alena paused unsure, worried that she did look like a lost lamb.",1
5320,his feet hurt from the walk; he determined to have someone look them over.,0
3454,"certainly, the area between small and tilted nose and wide thin mouth was overly 
long, the chin small and receding, the lips slightly protruding, the little 
skull crowned with rough black hair which no brushing and combing could tame.",0
7628,"""a girl he beat on the church square in sight of god and man, just four years ago.""",0
10850,"it was like trying to kill an octopus with a peashooter.”

“i have no doubt the germans, dutch, and belgians will not hesitate to ask for a joint allied

operation in this matter,” said the man from the foreign office.",0
471,"i mean, i was sure, everything in me said this baby was going to stay, but then i thought maybe i just wanted it so bad, maybe i was trying to will it so.",1
475,"those are his mother's words, and they return to him in her voice, the weary, determined inflections of her old sunday-morning efforts to sober him up and set him straight, revealing the strain between her persistent faith that this would be the last time and her suspicion that it would not.",1
5020,"each glistening éclair is a grenade aimed at celia’s political beliefs, each strawberry shortcake proof—in butter, cream, and eggs—of lourdes’s success in america, and a reminder of the ongoing shortages in cuba.",0
3799,"no doubt he will bore me to tears with a discussion of actuary tables and the like.”

kyle ended further comments by walking away.",0
3963,"his features were impossible to identify, yet a radiant glow had settled over him, from the lantern light, no doubt.",0
793,but when science heralds its godless pursuits as the enlightened path?,1
4111,"buck sat back down, confident he was hidden and alone.",0
7067,"never again would he be allowed to

return to the temple, except as a dutiful worshipper begging some boon

from the god.",0
9864,"""god, look at that!""",0
2127,"the truth was that you could never be sure what someone might do, even someone you thought you knew very well indeed.",1
2242,apparently he was brooding on the magnitude of the task ahead and questioning his ability to carry it out.,1
7894,"but now i could not resist asking, “what did nathan do during the war?”

“oh god, he was strictly 4-f. during one of his lucid periods he did try to join up with the paratroopers, but we nipped that one in the bud.",0
1467,"i'm not so sure that's the point, anyway.",1
9186,one of the firemen said something about the water pressure in july.,0
11752,"piously they blessed the name of aton and entered his temple, which had been hastily cleansed, receiving the cross of life at the hands of such priests as survived.",0
9200,"confidentially, it wasn’t a very literate age, and many records aren’t really lost.",0
2373,i’m still not convinced he was.,1
5632,"he died years ago and they stuffed him up the chimney.”

dill said, “jem, you and me can play and scout can watch if she’s scared.”

i was fairly sure boo radley was inside that house, but i couldn’t prove it, and felt it best to keep my mouth shut or i would be accused of believing in hot steams, phenomena i was immune to in the daytime.",0
10778,"i have no doubt that whatever you might have to do to save catulus caesar from himself, you will do.""",0
10565,". . mrs. underhill, i noticed something this morning that worried me—maybe i should say puzzled me, because i'm quite sure there'll be a simple reason for it.""",0
7584,they made plans to build separate churches.,0
2513,it was a huge old castle set so far back and so concealed by hedges and twisting brick pathways that i wasn’t sure where the front door was located until i was nearly on top of it.,1
9639,. . i wondered idly if i might find myself a rich wife at the party--every wholesome boy's dream of heaven.,0
11052,"his first instinct said trouble, something he had been fearing all along, some slip-up in the paperwork, a sudden block put on the whole deal by the authorities, and an extended stay under questioning in the local police station.",0
3221,"she’s the real thing.”

the idea of the real thing being a good thing was certainly something new for me to think about.",0
1827,"he was not quite sure where he stood on mr. cutter’s payroll, but he had nothing better to do.",1
6914,what pain must he be trying to hide beneath the surface of his calm composure?,0
4429,"each time jonas called, she made sure their brief discussions steered clear of sentimental subjects.",0
8215,"“it does not.”

“did your wife say anything to you when you entered the bedroom?”

“my wife was dead when i entered the bedroom.”

“you’re sure of that?”

“i’m positive of it.”

“all right, mr. fletcher,” byrnes said abruptly.",0
6281,he sat down without hesitation.,0
5751,"two years later she found herself hesitant to mention her marriage, so she played it down, said it made no difference; she and ben could go on forever without marriage, but there were the presents to think of, and they could use some new dishes.",0
9619,"“strange, isn’t it, jury, how sex maniacs are still prowling the woods on christmas.",0
11660,"“and yet—” the maid interrupted us not with coffee or tea, as i had prayed, but with bryant’s topcoat and beaver hat.",0
3437,"they’ve demanded their slaves, and they’re determined to keep them.",0
5434,"then he said to her, “could this viejito take the pleasure of calling you sometime?”

“yes.”

on the back of a budweiser beer coaster she wrote, “lydia santos, 989-8996.”

“thank you.”

was she really interested in him, or was she just being nice to an old man?",0
6717,"“because they were playing milwaukee.”

“that insures they were going to lose?”

she sighed and gave him a long-suffering look that said he didn’t understand baseball.",0
5269,"maria and jacopo—who in real life are surely sister and brother, probably twins—were married beside the dry fountain.",0
9889,"if someone else were to reach for the frangelico as an after-dinner liqueur, whoever poisoned it would be able to block its use—by ‘accidentally’ spilling the contents or dropping the bottle, for instance.",0
250,"had you persisted, he may have come to doubt his very reliable instinct at last.",1
11166,"clutching her bundle, the woman hesitantly approached the seat.",0
5301,"she’s got a nice little house up the street next to reynaud’s bakery.”
“i’ll certainly do that,” said adam.",0
10419,"“thank god for literate women,” he said fervently.",0
10704,"it seems that in the light of his torch he noted secret signs on the walls, no doubt set there by minotauros to help him find his way.",0
7852,"one sunday morning, a few weeks later, george was in the big house ""helping"" miss malizy prepare the noon meal when sister sarah invited kizzy into her cabin for the first time since she had come to the lea plantation.",0
9433,"""the church, the power, the home, the car, the deacons, the whole thing.""",0
9771,"in any church you name.”

“a justice of the peace will do.”

“fine,” i said.",0
3036,but she knew that to the end of her days she would always have doubts.,1
6188,faith's heart was sore.,0
8534,"and, far from destroying myself, i know for a certainty that the news media will be grateful.",0
3042,"i have been only a ;i nominal catholic, skeptical and aloof, smiling at reports of miracles and '?",1
11865,"dotty, now twenty-three, was engaged to lord ipswich, eldest son of the duke of norwich.",0
11318,"there’s a nice little adage i heard once: ‘god is on the side of the big battalions.’ it’s the gospel of the rich and powerful, the cynical and the gullible.",0
3005,he sounded amused and skeptical.,1
7744,"flowers growing in pots and flowers spilling off the balconies, and lichen on the sea-rotted walls: astragal fences and antique doors, cornices brown and orange-hued, animal head and angelic door knockers.",0
8339,or whether she was so danged mad and determined to put rose in a fix that she just wasn’t thinking.,0
12110,"we can—oh, christ, i see what you mean.” subdued, bourne’s words trailed off.",0
8507,"slater had a very short fuse, and brownley undoubtedly felt that slater would feel more comfortable chewing on gonzalez's ass every day than he would sanchez's.",0
7383,"upshot was that joseph smith and his brother hyrum (with the subsidiary rank of patriarch) were murdered, shot down, while trying to leap from the window of a jail in nearby carthage, in 1844.

brigham young, as the lord’s prophet and seer, with the official title of first president, took over the reins, no enviable job for anybody with normal instincts for self-protection.",0
5916,"it was all done in nathan’s careful, intelligent, methodical way, with as much attention to the arcana of the various regions we would be traveling through (the botany of cotton and peanuts, the origins of certain local dialects such as gullah and cajun, even the physiology of alligators) as that of a british colonial empire builder of the victorian era setting forth toward the sources of the nile.",0
3768,the senator's belief that this might be safely accomplished had proved correct.,0
3112,". . on the radio.”

hurriedly, with a look combining horror and unbelief, sam hawthorne snapped on a radio beside his desk.",1
6166,"26



sure mercies


the next day i was beset with worry.",0
3533,"i’ll bring you some, if you’re sure you want t’ see ’em.",0
7610,her lips had moved and i thought she might have been praying.,0
8921,"oh, sure, he’s got money enough for all the toys he wants.",0
5725,"“sure, sir.”

“‘sergeant.’”

“not so much at home,” said grossbart, stepping between us, “but away from home it gives one a sense of his jewishness.”



“we have to stick together,” fishbein said.",0
9272,"superintendent mcleod, normally the most phlegmatic of men, was beginning to regard the matsuda case as punishment for whatever sins he had committed.",0
11483,she said a little prayer of gratitude within herself.,0
3801,"“what i was shown confirmed a suspicion that has been in my mind.” observing a look of apprehension in his host’s eye, he went on to make an explanation.",0
10952,"his eyes skipped halfway down to the lines that had no doubt riveted his mother and driven every other thought from her head:

we will pay a very large reward

($ $ $ $)

here was the something good she had been wishing for, hoping for, praying for; here was a very large reward.",0
5982,"now moses knew that if we grant men vestigial sexual rites into his hands, if the pleasure he took in the athletic equipment in the closet at west farm or the sense, during a football scrimmage on a rainy day, of looking, during the last minutes of light and play, deep into the past of his kind, had any validity-there must be duplicate rites and ceremonies for the opposite sex.",0
8649,"man, i’d sure like to know why he did it—almost more than who he is.”

“we may just learn all the answers if we can take him alive.”

they were passing st. william’s rectory.",0
2085,"“my sense of it is that we let him go.”

“do you remember why?”

“i doubt that i’d have known in the first place.",1
11005,“of course i’m not!” hopkins said without hesitation.,0
10564,surely that newspaper reporter was crazy.,0
11485,you will remember the cry of a man to our lord: 'i believe!,0
12286,"but now drink wine, lord, and compose yourself.",0
11139,"we got into the ford and went to work again, questioning watchmen and gardeners in the neighbourhood.",0
1703,the first few years after samuel came to salinas valley there was a vague distrust of him.,1
930,he wasn't sure how it could get any worse.,1
9843,"she’s gonna think she’s marvelous; anything she does, you say it’s great.”

stella laughed raucously and rita laughed softly and brian wondered how the hell little arthur pollack did it.",0
6719,"he was arrested on the suspicion he stole bob rogers’s horses, but none of those mustangs carried the rogers brand.",0
10048,"“my god,” nickie said.",0
8175,"he’s just approaching people he’s sure of, but they tell me that he’s got some important signatures.",0
6817,"movements were purposeful, swift, pressured by what was clearly coming.",0
2902,"but franny and i knew that there were very few “good” students at dairy, and on a halloween saturday night we doubted that even the good ones were studying—and we doubted that any of the dark windows meant that anyone was sleeping.",1
6734,"first, the treasure house.'",0
1662,"for the world at large the first mention of brumholdstein to appear was in a guidebook in 1959. to begin with, brumholdstein was considered a somewhat dubious and questionable architectural undertaking.",1
3229,"his future seemed already certain, though he was only nine years old.",0
10558,"i'm sure it upsets you, too.""",0
3514,she’d have to be retested several times before they knew for sure she was okay.,0
7188,"“certainly.”

schirach shoved in her chair as she sat.",0
3336,"did i tell you, a lot of girls would kill for this contract?”

“i’ll sign the contract, i’m sure.",0
8117,"""i'm sure as hell sorry, four trey.""",0
10417,"had she had any sense that it was to be her last sunday, that her life was going to end in just a few days?",0
8818,"you’ll have to give me your word that they’ll be available for questioning when i want them.”

for a moment the rabbi hesitated.",0
6882,“are you sure you’re all right?” randy looked concerned.,0
5078,"he certainly deserved something good in his life, and twyla was that all right; she was good.",0
8610,"i’ve got to be sure the material reaches every one of the publishers.”

“very well—if you feel the risk is that great.",0
769,the queen bit her lip uncertainly.,1
5226,"the things we had been trying to reach—the black car, the sandstone house, my distant and by now, surely, intensely worried mother—tugged like weights within my skin, which seemed stretched transparent by starlight and madness.",0
7814,god bless her!,0
8220,“surely you didn’t get all this from that little visit out to agnes tsosie’s night chant.,0
8680,"but there are certain things you don’t know, do you?",0
4064,"“through all the years of my life i have sought a way of escape, and i can assure you there is none.",0
6870,"but it was a soldier.”

“so?” beatriz masked her apprehension with scorn.",0
2730,"your dream cast doubt on the teachings you have received.”

“my dream,” i said virtuously, “not i. but dreams are not divine messages, then; they are

diabolical ravings, and they contain no truth!”

“i don’t know, adso,” william said.",1
22,her father was a minister—why did she turn away from her upbringing and her faith?,1
5722,"i had very little use for moore, and my grief was meager, yet at the time i could not but help begin to wonder if ownership of me did not presage a diminution of fortune, as does the possession, i am told, of a certain kind of elephant in india), and upon mr. moore’s demise i became the property of his son, putnam, who was then fifteen.",0
11026,"however, when he arrived at his office barely fifty minutes ago and found his concealed private telephone ringing, he had experienced a twinge of apprehension at such an early morning call over that particular line.",0
429,"i should have continued to doubt his analysis had i not heard similar observations by leaders of annecy who welcomed an apparent opportunity to strike geneva heavily, not for affronting a french king but for affronting their bishop francis.",1
6291,faith asked indifferently.,0
6675,"""surely you don't
think...""
""if it were just a matter of what i think, you would be right to tell me to mind my own business.",0
8233,"a gunman came in one day and robbed the bank, and kidnapped irma as a hostage.”

“oh,” barney leaned forward, intent now, sure that he had come to the end of his search.",0
2183,"hoke had a good idea about who these two men would be, but he wasn't certain.",1
3100,"erica surveyed it all, at first in detachment, then in disbelief.",1
941,"the subdirector swallowed hard and added, “we may have lost him, hage leader.”

“does jamrog know?”

“no, he has not been notified.” the subdirector glanced uncertainly at his superior.",1
1890,"“pigging it all for themselves, most likely.”

unsure whether this is an accusation, vinnie again says nothing.",1
10125,". . with any luck, and god knew they were due for some luck, they should get him now.",0
10549,"""you surely give it a cheerful lilt.",0
6313,"no wonder you’re flat fuckin’ broke all the time!”

papa beamed with pleasure as the six of us who’d flat fuckin’ broke him found various perches from which to gape at our guest.",0
1589,"for a while, there were doubts whether he’d live.",1
11487,it was as if be had entered the priesthood as far as i was concerned.,0
12055,"the problems arose from lord's habit, close to an obsession, of looking over his shoulder mentally and asking himself.",0
1488,"it did not die yet nor even become terrified yet: it just became unbelieving, like a child’s incredulity.",1
7158,"but once aletta was mounted behind her and had wrapped her moeder securely in her arms, the woman yielded to her daughter’s protective embrace.",0
6462,sometimes she was quite sure.,0
2197,"one-part
boy genius of industry-which means he knows his way
around the board rooms; one-part skeptic--he doesn't subscribe to certain
realities.""",1
1139,"in
time, if there's evidence he's really blaspheming, saying things that
could disturb the faith, threaten to overthrow the system, get rome
on our backs-""

""he claims to be the messiah of god,"" caiaphas managed to break
in, tightly.",1
8054,"“yeah, we give you the bonds and they don’t get to maxton, and we end up—”

“i don’t want the bonds, vangie.”

“oh sure, i believe you.”

dain scratched the black lab behind the ears, stared out over the slow brown water, shook his head, said patiently, “you came in by bus, you’re too smart to leave a locker key with zimmer, so if i searched you right now…”

vangie had sprung to her feet at mention of a bus depot locker key.",0
8391,"at least, i know as much about you as i need to, or choose to.”

“i assume your information came from the gnome?”

“much of it came from the person you call the gnome.”

“we would give a great deal to know how that man came by his intelligence.”

“i don’t doubt it.",0
110,anna wished she could be certain.,1
12341,"and then here, on a rainy sunday morning, lay her chance.",0
217,"""well, i doubt that you'll have much time in your own room.",1
10920,"it was undoubtedly her, with that mushroom-colored silk tie at her throat.",0
11895,"by the time the five soviet soldiers were meeting to consider the invasion and occupation of iran, khalkhali was hated by the population of iran, who had finally had enough of holy terror, and by the west.",0
6215,"“bonnie, are you sure you have ruled out wanting a place of your own just so you won’t have to listen to the ridicule you receive from your family?",0
12067,"""i still think angela and i should drop this whole business, considering what's happened.",0
8059,"“certainly as regards failure in this case.”





chapter three


			if you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

			or being lied about, don’t deal in lies

			kate began the next morning with butler, the man in the security force who had been in charge the night the body was found.",0
1695,"he went through a period of remorse over his suspicions, prayed to god (if there is a god) that nothing had happened to her.",1
9495,"its flaking painted sign read haven house and, in smaller letters youth outreach of our savior’s church hollywood.",0
11969,"and some hold that this was not at first falsely done, but that sauron in truth repented, if only out of fear, being dismayed by the fall of morgoth and the great wrath of the lords of the west.",0
5305,no doubt it was a friendly face to have around and to hear it ticking sociably through the day and night.,0
11388,the center was an old army warehouse next to the simonov monastery.,0
5154,"if i had that desk i would double what he takes in.”

“have you thought of changing jobs?”

“certainly, but i could never start at the salary i am now earning.",0
2012,"perhaps it was because gerald wynans seemed hesitant, unsure.",1
105,"the man—who was little more than a boy—searched over his own shoulder, looking for a voice of authority to assure him he had done the right thing.",1
6619,"she has tended to avoid dale's own minimal, kim-flavored apartment, with its faint underscents of jogging sneakers and soy sauce, after a few experiments there, and again insists on entertaining him in the upper reaches of her house on malvin lane, where the leafy signs and birdy sounds of early spring now infiltrate through the third-floor windows, left open a crack as if to simulate winter's invigorating drafts; at their lightstruck attic height the lovers, as they wade into each other with a hearty smack of secretions, are serenaded by ,the hesitant warble of lovely miriam krieg-man, in bikini top, practicing her flute on our neighbors' sun deck.",0
8181,"""no doubt the same old complaint,"" sherwood interjected.",0
4854,"he started to panic, sure someone had taken it away, then he touched it, stuck between mattress and wall.",0
6312,"knowing every part of jerusalem intimately, for he had lived there all his life, mark was fairly sure where judas was going.",0
10267,"they came from scharhorn,from what was undoubtedly a highly sophisticatedcell of this multinational military collusion thatcould put the goddamned catfish generals in thecatbird seats.",0
68,"who’s to say that it won’t be ten million the next?”

“i’m not sure whether to take that as a threat or a warning, bob.”

“take it as a warning.",1
5838,"just another relaxed, leisurely, timeless summer spent on the wide, beautiful, unspoiled beaches of the east frisian islands.",0
9921,"dear god, i wish bonnie hadn't insisted on coming over right now, but at least i can change into something a little more comfortable before she gets here.",0
11020,"""gnaeus domitius ahenobarbus junior,"" aurelia said without any hesitation, giving him his whole name.",0
2386,"luckily, susie always took fifteen minutes to fix her face or change her clothes or something, even when she said she was popping right over, but jenny was not sure how much time had passed since susie called.",1
7795,"hunting a god, she started toward my father, veered past my legs, jumped on the sofa, and in frantic gratitude licked my grandfather’s face.",0
8031,“certainly i have a permit.,0
7701,"then kill me, god damn it.",0
8961,"""it sure is,"" jules said.",0
2817,"she doubted that he had, though; he would know better.",1
7123,"without an eyeblink’s hesitation, pieter-lucas left the path and shoved his way past overhanging branches, creeping berry vines, and healthy bushes of wild carrot, cow parsley, and liverwort.",0
1167,"but victory is far from assured, and i would sooner force twrch trwyth back along a path he has previously trampled than offer him opportunity to venture farther afield.'",1
7709,yell your goddam head off.,0
4945,"then he went off to make sure that jem was not hoeing too closely to young cornstalks, that coffee was using only old dried guano at the bottom of the cucumber hills.",0
7906,"to wield a whip and a pistol and a sword and a club, to be young and healthy and strong and drunk and powerful, boundlessly powerful, like a god!",0
7653,what the hell might a general confession be?,0
6429,"immediately he summoned the young caligula to capri for protection, and then plotted the fall of sejanus.”

“the princeps certainly proved himself a master deceiver…”

“he had to be, pilate!",0
3589,"yes, she was undoubtedly in bad shape.",0
993,"and while his absence grew longer, her uncertainties mounted with the burdens and troubles that came hurling against her like a hurricane.",1
8314,don’t doubt that there is such a plot.,0
11840,"once the material was stored in the trunk, angela gave robert a long hug.",0
6072,"it must be evident to you that i know very little, that i am as ignorant as certain of nathan’s disciples, who wanted only to kneel before him in brainless adulation, begging that he allow them to call him master.",0
1379,"it would be no use telling him that she had only said that she didn’t know, that she hadn’t turned him down, that she had expressed a perfectly reasonable doubt, perhaps even doubt a lawyer must express, that his own lawyer would express when my father set this project before him.",1
6361,"her special gifts are an unassuming but precise descriptive power, an unerring eye for detail and a graceful, unhurried style that conveys perfectly her generous and humane view of family life.”

atlanta journal & constitution

“tyler’s novels are always a pleasure to read, and with the decline of minimalist fiction writers, tyler’s sympathetic and sentimental attic-of-family-secrets has the american family all to itself.”

the detroit news

“exquisitely crafted … saint maybe is classic tyler: wry, offbeat and engaging, with sentences to die for.”

the miami herald

“perfection.”

the kirkus reviews





“may well be her most

important work …


finishing a tyler novel is like waking from a dream-filled sleep.… she has a gift for drawing readers into her world.",0
3080,"the overall plan involved an enormous investment which, after doubts and discussions, was approved by the board of directors.",1
4188,"“i’d like to tell you about him.”

“only if you’re sure.”

he thought about it a moment before answering, “i’m sure.” he glanced toward the door.",0
4855,"townes waited a moment, making sure everyone understood.",0
459,"six men escorted francis, bringing him to annecy as though distrustful that, left to himself, he might return to chablais.",1
3532,he had no doubt that she also kept an updated address book and careful service records on her car.,0
10171,"underneath his veneer of calm and reason, david was just as angry as angela.",0
1813,"rocked emotionally, my eyes dropped downward as we tend to do when we're uncertain, insecure, and my glance fell upon my own hands' brown complexion.",1
8740,his sole recourse for any measure of personal peace was to end the affair and see pam no more.,0
12022,"mr. montrose received twenty thousand dollars outright, and ""a prayer that he serve my major legatee for a period of one year at least.""",0
9823,"heslip had posed as samuel rounds, verna’s brother and a deacon of the four square gospel church of oakland, california.",0
3978,"he opened the car doors for the two ladies, then made sure the doors were firmly shut.",0
11416,"to be cohabiting with her dead mother's husband, in her mother's own home on that island, flagrantly, without regard for decent christian public opinion!",0
4740,"the witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of maycomb county, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption—the evil assumption—that all negroes lie, that all negroes are basically immoral beings, that all negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber.",0
1754,"but your general run of indians, though stupid, comes a long shot from having complete faith in humbugs of that kind; they recognize a lot of it for just what it is—low-down trickery and superstition.",1
5373,"mought skeer her if ye all come a whoopin up at her in a flock.”

“sure, ” his father said.",0
3825,"it was because they seek to kill him that we came here to plead with him to come home.”

				“he knows that,” mary magdalene assured her.",0
8138,"‘the first thing you notice about caroline is that she has immense self-confidence, and an overwhelming – and generally justified – belief in her own intelligence.",0
9990,"“oh, god, please find her.”





the king and queen was actually on the outermost fringe of the quarter, really closer to the brownstone houses that huddled in the side streets off hall avenue than to the restaurants, coffeehouses, small theaters, and art shops that were near canopy avenue.",0
9131,"and beneath the surface exuberance there
was a flne intelligence, a questioning mind impatientmwiffi
unsatis&ctory answers.",0
2108,"“i hope it’s simple.”

“i doubt it,” dave said.",1
10895,"i do not doubt that it would fell even a strong man like a blow from a crocodile’s tail.”

my body was afire, and in my mouth lingered the tang of spices.",0
10043,"dr. philip hutchinson, 73 years old, a retired college professor, and his wife bertha, 69, were on their way from los angeles to san francisco yesterday morning when their buick station wagon was forced off the road by three men in a pickup truck.",0
7055,"ain’t many accused me of bein’ a sophisticated thinker.” chambers smiled, secure in his self-deprecation.",0
8547,"“i prefer,” wolfe said, “to speak with you separately, but first i must make sure that there is no misunderstanding.",0
552,"thiel might not have convinced everyone that our city was in danger of a communist revolution, but one person he did persuade was the mayor.",1
12033,"howard thought, my god, how this will shake this town!",0
9617,wasn’t worth thinking about all that was wrong with the church anyway.,0
837,"now i’m unsure of myself again, wondering how i’ll cope with the future.",1
11525,"you’re church of england.”

margaret laughed despite herself; and once again her laughter infuriated her sister.",0
5450,"they have those, they provide them confidentially to terminal patients who don’t want to leave without knowing whether friendly frank really stole that money or if beautiful jessica will have that abortion, if that’s the .",0
1826,he felt the first distinct stroke of doubt.,1
9297,"brotherton seemed to resent the implication that his rescue of doris had not been permanent, like an ascent into heaven.",0
11178,"""all night i usual charges ..."" and her tiny hesitation was pathetically dishonest, ""... a sovereign.""",0
2011,"“you know better than i. just look right, you know?”

she wasn't sure that she knew what he meant, but she knew how anxious he was.",1
4307,her aunt asked her sharply if she got enough to eat in this place and then assured her that her father had his round dozen of zeeland oysters delivered fresh on the half-shell every friday at exactly a quarter past one.,0
4551,i certainly dominated that one.,0
8773,"“how do you travel, plane?”

“sure.",0
11270,calvary’s new minister.,0
674,"she turned and looked up at him, uncertain of his expression, for it was concealed.",1
6804,"nat shuffled around the enclosure, stretching out his muscles and attempting to reintroduce his body to the idea of blood circulation.",0
647,"you’ll then have been guilty of tearing the faith out of millions of lives, to say nothing of the suicides, nervous breakdowns, and other catastrophes you’ve already caused!",1
6909,she whispered that she appreciated the “help” molly and a certain boy cousin had given while over in paradise township not so many days ago.,0
2597,"then the elves looked up, and despaired no longer; but morgoth was filled with doubt.",1
5341,"there, ‘god struck that (expletive) pile of (expletive) with his good old lightning because it’s a (expletive) abomination on this beautiful land the lord give us here, some old pup got in the way that’s just a accident,’ contended with ‘god he don’t have accidents, wouldn’t never have struck a poor dumb little creature like that, bible says right there he marks the sparrow’s fall don’t it?’ provoking the rude rejoinder ‘don’t say he does nothing about it though does it?’ however these earthy viewpoints may reflect disagreement, god presides over both in common with plaintiff’s objection to the court’s instructions to the jury as implying divine culpability in the matter before us through its use of the phrase ‘an act of god.’ with all respect due the parties, the jury, the god fearing community, and the common man of which it seems to have more than its share of over half this country’s population planning an afterlife in the felicitous company of jesus and even god himself, belief in god has neither bearing upon nor any relevance to these earthbound proceedings.",0
12039,"here’s another marked passage.’

“worth how well, those dark grey eyes, that hair so dark and dear, how worth, that a man should strive and agonise,”

‘and taste a veriest hell on earth .",0
3309,"more and more i felt the urge to get away, to start life anew, certain that then and only then would i find peace, and this horrendous ache inside me ease.",0
3180,"rosie had her doubts about that, but kept them to herself.",1
2518,"i doubt if you need or want what happened next, since it’s relevant to me but not to the inquiry.",1
11220,"convent peppers, hot as hellfire, did all the cooking for her.",0
5416,"as he sat beside his uncle, certain old desires came over him—to run away, go somewhere else, be someone else.",0
394,"i’m telling you, that child needs round-the-clock watching, and the father is in no state—”

cutting off further argument, she walked back to where emma stood uncertainly.",1
9048,"buckmore phipps, driving leisurely, looked at the surly combatant and said, ""maybe we oughtta just book him for drunk instead?""",0
9007,"""i'm pretty sure.""",0
11601,"“my boy,” he said,

“you have before you a poor franciscan who, with his modest learning and what little skill he owes to the infinite power of the lord, has succeeded in a few hours in deciphering a secret code whose author was sure would prove sealed to all save himself ... and you, wretched illiterate rogue, dare say we are still where we started?”

i apologized very clumsily.",0
9324,"mrs. glick went outside with the girls and introduced her husband, a nice-looking kindly man, but pale compared to amish farmers they had seen.",0
303,"she nodded as crystal said, “i’ll come help.”

“i’m not certain it’s necessary.",1
6481,"praise for david james duncan’s

the brothers k



american library association

notable book of the year



pacific northwest bookseller award-winner



“duncan’s prose is a blend of lyrical rhapsody, sassy hyperbole and all-american vernacular.”

—san francisco chronicle





“the brothers k does what a novel should do, what one almost despairs of contemporary fiction ever doing: it teaches you something, makes you think, breaks your heart, and mends it again.”

—booklist (starred review)





“the brothers k affords the … deep pleasures of novels that exhaustively create, and alter, complex worlds.",0
11735,"abo then spoke up and said that, though he was a man of the church and abbot of an order to

which the church owed much (a murmur of respect and deference was heard from both sides of the — 

hemicycle), he still did not feel the emperor should remain aloof from such questions, for the many reasons that brother william of baskerville would expound in due course.",0
8719,"marino: ""you sure about that?""",0
888,"maybe we're ok for a while.”
“don't get overconfident.",1
11072,"then artie wanted to make it a stolen car, but judd said no, that would only increase the danger of apprehension.",0
10265,"the door opposite him opened, and angel cortillo stepped onto the courtyard.",0
2455,"i had my doubts at first.”

“how come?”

“the guy was a little flaky.",1
3742,aaron apologized at least a dozen times and brook assured him each time that the accident was hardly his fault.,0
9879,"“he is a serpent in the heart of his mother.”





chapter 18





lucia santa angeluzzi-corbo rested, her shadow thick in twilight.",0
9512,"to my eight-year-old mind, not only was it possible that pastor lantz was god's helper, but it was conceivable that from time to time god made special in-person appearances in the pastor's body.",0
11209,"i am roman catholic.”

“oh, yes.",0
2908,"when he returned to london he fingered and skimmed his way through a dozen religious theories of the time, but emerged in the clear (voyant trop pour nier, et trop pen pour s'assurer) a healthy agnostic.",1
10038,"‘what phone call?’

			‘godamn you, neilson,’ toscarelli growled.",0
4312,to end war was certainly a noble gesture.,0
9341,orthodox religion.,0
8576,"one reason why i was reluctant to appeal to the police, or the ssi, was that i felt certain some of them must be involved.",0
251,"i’m just asking what you believe.”

“i’m not sure you would call it belief.",1
3873,"“the indifferent heart is as a ball of wax in the hands of god, receiving all impressions of the divine pleasure with equal receptivity.",0
6714,"clarence sat and stared icily as gray and sheila whispered, gray expressing his displeasure in animated style.",0
11405,but not on jesus.,0
7642,“thank you thank you.” christa gently kissed each of drenka’s breasts.,0
7509,"he took a quick suck on the barrel of his gun, then added, “if you want to go to heaven, you got to go to hell first.”

mirror-like the ice-blue eyes that boyd looked into returned his gaze.",0
10820,i suppose there was never a doubt.,0
11211,"at 2:40 that morning, a white male of medium build, clean-shaven, sallow-complexioned, wearing steel-rimmed glasses and in the uniform of a salvation army officer, approached the main gate of la mission on foot.",0
7090,"his mentor’s pathetic state had unnerved him, and he struggled to regain his composure as he wandered down the corridor.",0
3040,"but i doubt if the maze could ever have been put right again even if you wanted to.""",1
11825,david proved even less handy than angela had feared.,0
11979,"john osborne suggested lunch at the pastoral club, and presently he wiped his hands on a clean piece of rag, took off his overall, locked the garage, and they drove up through the city to the club.",0
3106,kevin gave his wife an irritated look of disbelief.,1
11455,"the big fieldstone church, austere and dark even in the hot bright afternoon, flared with shadows and candlelight, and the air was stifling and rustled with fans.",0
986,"perplexed, frustrated, harald bull-roar, king of the danes, gaped at the chain in disbelief.",1
5853,"she said gently, ""sure?",0
2320,"is it yours?”

“i doubt it.",1
7348,"all ye holy angels and archangels, pray for them.",0
4572,no doubt he wondered how she had ever gotten geneva to allow her to do this.,0
11305,"she is an angel, as you know.",0
5465,inman could figure in his mind as it happened that none of the measurements would work out.,0
3864,"sure, some of the families were poor, but they didn't seem to be poor in spirit.",0
4713,"but i used to say to such persons that, no matter what the appearances were, i had faith in amy’s virtue.",0
3748,"that his attendance would be welcome, she was sure.",0
1386,"afterward, he felt irresolute.",1
2055,"“you just finished telling me, two, three minutes ago, that buddy royal told the guy who called him up last wednesday or thursday, you weren’t sure, that his line was tapped.",1
255,in spite of all risks and doubts this is still our conviction.,1
9984,"cumin was the cuban ministry of sugar and charts, rusmin the russian ministry of trade, sugfut the futures prices of cuban, brazilian and indian sugar as they competed in commodities pits.",0
1235,"maybe he doesn't see
any-thing—just vast emptiness, pitch, void, godlessness.",1
293,"waiting in the
cold haze of dawn, he had twinges of fear, but the spirit assured
him, ""you are worthy, john.",1
2523,"i do want to talk to you.”

“how many more performances you got to go?” i asked, not sure i could stay upright in my chair if i had another drink.",1
2025,"mccaleb took the wire and looped it around the owl’s neck so that he could carry it without touching it, though he doubted there would be any usable fingerprint or fiber evidence remaining on it.",1
11104,"“will you marry me, sarah ferguson?” there was not even an instant’s hesitation.",0
1014,"suspicions will grow.""",1
8708,i was pretty sure it was going to be as elegantly animal tonight as it had been last night.,0
1540,we all had our suspicions.,1
3204,wilson assured them both that it was neither.,0
9569,"sleep tight, mr. hope.”

the next voice, a man’s, said only, “god will strike you dead, mr. hope, for taking up with niggers.”

and then a woman: “hope is the thing with feathers.”

click.",0
10030,"i’m not god, you know.",0
8970,"“everybody all right back here?”

“sure, man,” challis said, “this is great, just great, y’know?” he touched his forehead, saw blood on his fingers.",0
10221,"'good lord

'he was between a rock and a hard place.",0
5843,"the treasure of possible enunciations, which is included in any northern angel wind, is too vast to disguise, however, and the elements most often accused of singing in the archaic sense—the happy person, the mosquito, the improperly designed house—are still perfect receptacles for three treasures.",0
4007,"“she’s sure kyle loves her, but she can’t get him to make a commitment.",0
2416,but other doubts and worries obsessed him.,1
5199,"he lighted matches though, of course, to try and make sure.",0
9603,"""was sawyer saying that he is a prophet, would you say?""",0
8055,"the frame-up, and i was sure it was a frame, was almost too perfect.",0
4528,"certainly the people would be inclined to blame rome, rather than their own countrymen in the temple guard.",0
3360,certainly not about the comings and goings of our hotel guests.,0
6985,"""to share bread with you, my ]lord sadiq, would be a pleasure most profound.""",0
10669,"the second contradiction to the decor, and undoubtedly an affront to the memory of the elegant romanovs, was a heavyset man in a rumpled uniform, open at the neck and stained with vestiges of recent meals.",0
7406,"after the trial he had said that he would come again this evening, and he promised to bring me a bible.",0
5680,"coe will devote the winter to his projected book, an amble over the rockies and a stroll through the diggings.",0
10702,"pierre, in racing garb and crash helmet, was shown being kissed by two girls at once and was beaming-undoubtedly because of the girls but also, probably, because most prognosticators had picked him as among the two or three drivers most likely to win both today's and tomorrow's races.",0
6241,you come a certain way and you think it is the end of the journey.,0
1751,"it is undisputed that plaintiff and his work, as here represented by the steel sculpture cyclone seven, have been held up to public ridicule both locally and, given the wide ranging magic of the media, throughout the land, as witnessed in a cartoon published in the south georgia pilot crudely depicting a small dog pinioned under a junk heap comprising old bedsprings, chamber pots, and other household debris, and from the arkansas family visitor an editorial denouncing plaintiff’s country of origin as prominent in the soviet bloc, thereby distinctly implying his mission among us to be one of atheistic subversion of our moral values as a christian nation, whereas materials readily available elsewhere show plaintiff to have departed his birthplace at age three with his family who were in fact fleeing the then newly installed communist regime.",1
10809,there wasn't a shred of doubt--she hated them all.,0
11520,"so the voluptuous odor of mint and sweet william disturbed the congregation, made it reel in anticipation of a good time with plenty good food at soane morgan’s house.",0
10689,"no doubt about it.""",0
107,"i’m not sure about methodists.”

“you can never tell about methodists.”

“he says he’s wearin’ his birthday suit, an’ that’s enough for him.”

“maybe you should concentrate on more important things.",1
10555,"""if it could help others in some small way,"" mr. kleber said, ""i'm sure marjorie would want it done.""",0
4135,"yet he was determined not to ask jephia about the delay, hating the translator’s mocking smile and the way he explained everything as if ahaz were a child.",0
5622,"somehow, atticus had hit her hard in a way that was not clear to me, but it gave him no pleasure to do so.",0
5411,"the tan- tang drum resounded again; and now omoro whispered the name into the ear of binta, and binta smiled with pride and pleasure.",0
11076,"value got up quickly, a look ofsurpriseon her face, and glanced at me questioningly.",0
3438,"she knew with the springing assurance that as certainly as joshua had sought her and given her the ring, he would not rest until he found her again.",0
6899,"jah, and she felt ever so confident with him by her side.",0
10391,"what the hell are we dealing with here, tim?”

that, of course, would be the worst possible situation to deal with: terror would spread into the heart and mind and home of every vulnerable citizen of the good borough, the safe borough, the borough of homes.",0
7183,"surely you have a name?”

“noshi,” the boy said, punching fallon playfully in the ribs.",0
11343,"when, jesus, i embrace thy feet

as i support them on my knees

it may be that i am learning to embrace

the squared beam of the cross

and, bereft of my senses, am straining for thy body

as i prepare thee for thy interment.",0
3885,she was therefore more than ever determined to destroy the baptist before herod realized how much this marriage to her had cost him.,0
2502,"“i got a suspicion, all right.",1
6520,what a pleasure this is.,0
2770,"""without a federal income tax in america our objectives remain uncertain there, and frustrated.",1
10526,"as a result, the price of the u.s. wheat surplus over domestic requirements had shot up, in the

certainty the russians would after all have to buy close on 20 million tons.",0
2106,cecil looked doubtful.,1
12076,it was sunday morning and the family had gathered in nim's and ruth's bedroom.,0
6342,"""surely my lord the king does not think his humblest and most loving
servant would set out to trap him,"" bathsheba said demurely.",0
4504,"“granville, i am sorry to keep you in suspense so long, but i simply couldn’t leave until dr. milkwood was finished with his examination.”

“no, most assuredly not, ma’am.",0
3030,when she came here she had been uncertain of her own feelings.,1
6927,"surely you do not speak of .his army?""",0
6327,it was clear that things had reached a certain point already.,0
12299,"and if _that_ wasn't gentlemanly, the landlord was damned if he

knew what was.",0
982,"yesterday, such a short time ago, he had been serene, content to flee from the enemy in his swift-wheeled magic wagon; today, he was ferrying a naoli across the country and was no longer certain he could tell an enemy from a friend.",1
3585,this here is the surest thing of all.,0
1452,i’m not sure it’s even appropriate.,1
10471,"certainly not without a full explanation for such a-shall we say unusual?- request.""",0
11976,thither we cannot come where the gods dwell in bliss.,0
2976,"then the voice of yvette, speaking uncertainly, came through nancy's hi-fi system.",1
1419,"spoken inadvertently enough, her name turned out to be just the thing to resuscitate her uncertainty as to what kind of madman she was dealing with.",1
720,"sister félicité tries to spell out the word that sister virginie’s knuckle is printing surreptitiously on her upper thigh: “mariette.”

mother saint-raphaël uncertainly walks up to the altar of our lady of sorrows and kisses it and turns.",1
12257,"too

heaven and hell



""do you trade with the indians?""",0
5117,i hasten to add that their failures have no bearing on the certain success of our mission.,0
4798,certainly other tunes were played that day; merry could not remember them.,0
12306,"general hardesty's crumpled memo: a big airlift to new york, chicago, los angeles and ... and maybe utah.",0
2681,"the limp, drooping shapes of the curtains were like the limp, drooping shapes of the bare, dark trees in the garden with their uncertain outlines.",1
1089,i don’t know the answer for sure.,1
7088,"the señora pacifica has come home to stay.”





~~the end~~





about stephen bly (1944-2011)

an award-winning western author, stephen published more than 100 inspirational novels and nonfiction books, plus hundreds of short stories, cowboy poetry, devotionals, and articles for writers.",0
3819,"“and those of our faith shall be trapped in the middle.”

“all the horns.” ellie nodded toward the sound of the automobile horns.",0
9688,"i wanted you to touch me, but i was scared to death.”

“well, listen . . .”

“i learned something about myself i never knew before.”

“boy, you come out of the nuns you come flying.”

she was smiling at him again.",0
5248,"jake said it was too bad sayward had meat for all hands, for he surely hated not to butcher that hog.",0
11194,"she sensed great passion beneath margaret’s hesitant surface, and identified with her on that account.",0
3735,"still, he sat erect and determined as could be.",0
5796,“why should we deny ourselves the one pleasure the fates forgot to take from us?,0
4589,"he would certainly be upset—” she lowered her eyes, terribly conscious of his scrutiny.",0
1275,"she was not sure yet that she needed a lawyer, but she could call henry as a friend.",1
760,"and you can’t believe the wild variety of pressure groups on both sides.”

“such as?”

“well, among the palestinians it’s hamas that makes the plo or fatah look tame.",1
5590,"this was the wisdom of age-old youth and which man lost, never to admit the enemy of life, the adult conceit that pleasure or joy could be created or even improved by man’s cleverness, by taking it apart, measuring it, weighing, judging and comparing it, even thinking about it, only to bar the soul from consummation of all the prepared wonder and delight.",0
2812,edward's face settled into an expression of decided skepticism.,1
8905,"do you get what i’m talking about, parker?”

“sure,” said parker.",0
3683,"“a song of praise.”

“how wonderful.” another smile, then, “i am sure we will all want to stop by afterward and thank her for helping out at the last moment like this.”

as the pastor seated himself ariel adjusted the harp to her shoulder and ran through the strings.",0
1520,"if he stank he wasn’t able to tell, but every time he did laundry he’d sniff and sniff, unsure.",1
5562,"then i would know that for every grain of dust which pleasured my feet, she would pay with a second of her life.",0
10685,"also there seemed little doubt, at this moment, about who was in command.",0
705,"james was not crazy about luther, although he was not convinced that the man was dangerous, but he actually hated rosie’s coach, her big handsome pro, j. peter billings.",1
8038,"you may’ve been pretty sure we were on the same planet when we started out, but you’ll be absolutely certain when i’m finished that somehow i went into a time-warp you didn’t happen to notice, and we’ve come out in different spheres.",0
8331,"and you know, i don't suppose they gave one look at the car and spotted it, bang, right off—they'd take a closer look to be sure it was those kids, which cuts down the time a little.""",0
2727,this was like a homecoming; like the docking of a vessel after a long and uncertain sea voyage.,1
4665,restore faith.,0
7694,"he has never tried to make himself a lamb, or a dandy, or a lawyer; and therefore neither can i try here to make him out such.”

in winding up, he paid tribute to the prophet’s speech and the criticisms some people made of it as being too sprightly.",0
5375,i don’t want to hurt his feelings but you know the pressure we’re under down there.,0
10078,"try to remember everything he said.”

“he asked me if i knew anything about the zuñi religion,” susanne said, “and i said not much.",0
4573,"even though he felt strongly about the compassion that motivated him toward the nontreatment of certain disabled infants, he knew he couldn’t let it get out that he sped the dying process in many of his sickest patients.",0
10005,"“what in god’s name are you talking about now, rafferty?”

rafferty’s eyes didn’t waver.",0
6371,"“we sure did, dent.” she kissed him on the cheek and said, “get me a gun while you’re there, too.”

dent laughed in delight.",0
1883,"i’m not sure how he found out, but when i come in the next evening, dave’s in the booth with the door locked.",1
10408,"he was in san francisco.”

“jesus, i’d find him not guilty myself, knowing all that.”

“that’s why we need you.",0
4555,i’m sure he didn’t want to go any deeper with me.,0
7850,"god damn it, naz, don’t go way.",0
9093,"them,” he added for good measure.",0
4005,"the others in the sanhedrin""-his tone was disparaging-""the
pharisees and sadducees ... certainly they are furious at the things
he says about them; they can't bear to hear the truth about themselves.",0
2664,"“are your folks atheists, too?”

it angers him that she has touched on his folks.",1
2189,"“i wish i could see them up close,” milo says, turning his back on the darkening swells, “maybe hear them sing.”

i tell him i’m not sure these are the singing kind, but if he wants, we can take a guided boat tour.",1
4218,"there is absolutely no doubt of it, doctor; this seeming restlessness is only because i am unemployed.",0
7889,"pacing his lonely house, miserable and broken, christopher imagines the ship slowly moving down the thames toward dover and the channel.",0
7274,"“she say to tell you that she is living at new church, if you ever have need to find her.”

“where, exactly?”

he looked puzzled.",0
7087,"he planned to use the time to his benefit,

arranging precisely what he would say and do in the queen’s presence:

how he would confess his subterfuge, deliver his message, and most

especially plead for the release of his friend-although he did not know

why theido had been taken, he assumed it to have some connection with

the secret communication secured to the inside of his jerkin.",0
4702,mosby certainly did look out for number one in more than a fair way.,0
4505,it certainly looked like one more of our boys had made it.,0
11070,"""do you have any suspicions about who killed your husband?""",0
8529,"it was all quite good-natured, without animosity.”

“even though they were urging customers to stay away?”

“i spoke to the proprietor and he assured me he did not take the matter seriously—”

“oh, then you weren’t there at the time.”

“no, i came along some time afterward.”

“in the course of your regular evening walk?”

the younger man showed his surprise.",0
12309,"my god, joseph!",0
1302,constantine wasn’t sure how he felt.,1
3745,"and when marcellus had agreed to that with a nod, and an indifferent 'doubtless,' justus said: 'there will be no need to buy pack-asses.",0
6986,"private henry fraser lived because of flanna’s courage and devotion to detail, so why in heaven’s name couldn’t john gulick achieve the same measure of success?",0
5134,"the word was a reproach upon them all, much more grave, they were sure, than mary had intended, so that to spare her regret they all hastened to say, kindly and as if somewhat callously, “no, let’s not.”

in the embarrassment of having spoken all at once they sat helpless and sad, sure only that silence, however painful to them all and to mary, was less mistaken than trying to speak.",0
8227,"""certainly you  can understand.",0
7732,"“you figured that yourself.”

“jesus christ,” harry armstrong said.",0
672,"if he’s going to print it, it has to be great.”

nick wasn’t reassured.",1
11556,"“your eunuchs have done a poor stroke of business,” i told him, “for minea, the girl they bought for you, is raving and will not come near a man because her god has forbidden it.",0
780,"this space is decidedly more impressive than the one you had at citizens.”

he looked suddenly unsure of himself, as if he couldn’t decide whether to stand or sit, smile or not smile.",1
11124,"“he said when i was questioning him that the caliber of the zangaran army was so low that any assisting force of technicians would have to do practically the whole job anyway, then hand over to the new men when it was done.”

“did he now?",0
2923,charles was smiling; and sarah stared at him with profound suspicion.,1
10111,"“it won’t be very goddamned scientific that way,” baird said with disgust.",0
5572,"with no fear or hesitation at all, he walked safely through the fiery walls and out into the wide bright street, carrying a suitcase which knocked against his knees and weighed him down, but he could not leave it because it contained all the drawings he meant to do in his whole life.",0
9798,“the bible did its work—tom lived through it.,0
478,"saul thought that aristo was merely conducting an exercise in perversity and 
contradiction, but since he had known dacyl he was no longer certain.",1
11097,"if a peasant comes along you may receive him, but as i saw yesterday, you do not hesitate to hand him over to the secular arm.",0
9161,"“those things happen.”

“sure do,” said max.",0
8632,"one sure way for me to get to the bottom of this is to find out where she was last, begin tracking the manuscript that way.",0
754,"i’ve nae idea, but i doubt it, sir.",1
4490,but the doubts fled when she caught sight of the glass doors to the intensive care unit.,0
5633,"i seen him a month ago up at primrose delivering in the patch.”

emotion and a certain excitement came up in john donner.",0
6835,"i’ve seen a man or two drunk, and it’s no pretty sight, that’s for sure.”

“no, it’s not.",0
9464,"what do i know about these things?”

“you’re the one who taught me how to sail.”

“mary’s on the assistant pastor’s side, naturally.”

“naturally.",0
2156,"“a...voice on the phone.”

“an anonymous voice?”

for the first time since those dreadful midnight moments, she felt a stab of uncertainty.",1
11881,"that was his name.”

1985, a hell of a year.",0
256,"she waited, unsure for what.",1
3166,"""i doubt that even politicans would be stupid enough to pass such a law,"" he said.",1
8665,"don’t you know who fred sims really is?”

“sure,” i said, thinking about the ribbon i’d found.",0
10877,"there was no doubt, artie declared — the cops were on the right trail.",0
8953,"if we tried to do it before that, while the coffee shop was still open and a lot of people were still up—”

“uh-huh, sure.",0
4931,"i'm convinced i'd never know another sick day.""",0
6544,"he is very deaf and very faithful.”

“i will take every precaution,” promised basil.",0
9159,"necesidad urgente?”

she looked down from his eyes and her hesitation told him she had a number.",0
5917,"thus she had a certain dependence on him, totally aside from her meager pay.",0
7692,"i never knew anyone could be so selfish even christina, i can’t even reach her.",0
7082,"and
seeing cora's big, assured, dominating, yet warmly effusive face, and
deborah beaming beside her (looking gaunt, however, and so much
older than mary), the two of them moving aside so generously to make
room at the railing, hannah's heart melted.",0
1405,"she never quite believed her eyes—that is, was never altogether convinced that they were really beating one another up.",1
12060,casey felt strangely unsettled and a little irritated as he stuffed the paper into his pants pocket.,0
5968,"in this manner nearly two dozen makeshift knives and eight real knives were secured, together with two lead-filled billies and many improvised slung-shots; leaders worked at improvising more.",0
1706,"also, i began to see how if the worst parts of the nightmare she had lived through were at once so incomprehensible and absurd as to tax—but not quite defy—the belief of a persuadable soul like myself, they would have found no acceptance whatever with nathan.",1
11789,between the cruelties of our own age and our guilt we have erected a vast edifice of government-administered welfare and aid; charity is fully organized.,0
8084,mother said this was the part johnny was actually born to play because he overacts so much and we can certainly use plenty of that here.,0
7392,"a clapboard church, whitewashed.",0
3428,"""the days are certainly getting shorter,"" mary said, urging tom a little, since jim had done the same in the buggy ahead.",0
6157,from belmaray blood and treasure had drained away for the king.,0
5386,"but meanwhile, secure in old st. paul's, i did what seemed best or at least safest: i simply stayed away.",0
8992,"the tea was warming in his stomach, and the stolid impersonality of parker was the best kind of reassurance.",0
7148,"however a day’s or a week’s use might have maimed the velvet bows and plastic belts, the atomizers and gilt dresser sets, the scalloped nylon gloves and angora-trimmed anklets, sylvie always brought us treasures.",0
10996,"he knew that, once his legation was on the abbey’s terrain, it would be subject to the abbot’s jurisdiction; and since some of his envoys belonged to the secular clergy, he would not accept this control, claiming fears of an imperial plot.",0
7000,"he loves you even more than i do, and i love you deep in my heart, where i hold those things i treasure close.",0
7791,i'm not saying it ruined our conversation or anything--it didn't--but it sure as hell didn't do it any good.,0
779,"“so, will you take his call tomorrow, you think?”
“i doubt it.",1
4673,i no longer must compare faith in christ to every other belief system.,0
8377,"it was certainly an odd signature, almost totally illegible.",0
7300,"i thought of earl instead, smooth arms, cool hands, earl who only burned himself, hair flaming around soft ears, holy angel, face melting into bone.",0
5765,faith is not enough.,0
12238,"""i've never heard you mention her before,"" angela said.",0
9107,"all we ask in return is your discretion.”

“sure,” he said, “i’m good at that.",0
2824,for a moment garfield looked uncertain.,1
10010,"which he had no reason in the world to do except for the one he couldn’t admit to: to find out what the hell i was doing, and how far i’d gotten doing it, if i was any closer to him—and of course once more i was the man who wasn’t there, he had met upon the stair, on friday; again i wasn’t there.",0
9165,"and he finally came.” then, in a more normal voice, this part not confidential, “guess who beat fred and ellen at doubles today, joe?” i heard the laughing, the friendly groaning and teasing.",0
1978,"when she thought these things, she always had to admit that she wasn’t even sure of that.",1
10432,"_""hombre,__ jesus christ!",0
7873,"the priest of the sun spread a clean white cloth before him on the floor, and on this he placed the things which he removed from the paraphernalia satchel:





a fine fan of fancy pheasant feathers.",0
9913,"jesus, are you crazy?",0
2478,what was important was that the jury retained a doubt long enough to darken noonday.,1
4306,i’m sure not.,0
10786,"by my falcon, i will flog you with my own hand if you have left your good sense in the cages with your pedigreed cats, for in the time of the late pharaoh you were an eminent warrior, i hear, which is doubtless why pharaoh has entrusted you with this tedious task.”

he thumped the new commander on the back so that the little fellow gulped and gasped, and the words he had meant to say stuck fast in his throat.",0
7711,lord but he was slow walking.,0
12414,"christ, that’s no part of town for a kid.",0
10511,"'don't you want to take 'im 'ome, then--make sure 'e's all right?'",0
12399,“i don’t know how the hell it happened.,0
11983,"the goddamn earth is one tomb, he thought, and we the walkers on countless graves.",0
2408,"having measured the brain power of the chief finaglers of his time, he developed a singular distrust for colleges and books.",1
1025,"“german, right?”

the man nodded, uncertain.",1
5749,"stricker ate again, he ate more slowly, there was painful leisure in his approach to the morsels which remained.",0
12138,"it is precisely, it has always seemed to me, the look an omnipotent god--if there were such an absurd thing--should be shown to have.",0
6952,her eyes had widened with pleasure over what he was accomplishing.,0
1877,"i doubt if mrs. hale is even very involved anymore, but i think at least for now it’s a source of stability for tiffany.”

i was quiet and for a moment there was some throat-clearing, which would indicate we were not agreeing with each other.",1
7647,"for god’s sake, woman!",0
1657,. . he couldn’t be certain .,1
4182,"hadn’t he talked her into reducing the rent for belle, giving her an extra-long lease to make sure she’d stay for a while, throwing in free utilities?",0
693,"“cameron, i do not understand how anyone with any
exposure to the bible could doubt the meaning of the mass vanishings.",1
10724,"he didn't answer and left ms. molineaux still working on her notes, no doubt seeking the sharpest quotes with which to impale him.",0
3957,"last but certainly not least, if c could lift me in my armchair and put it by the window while i’m dozing, she would do it.",0
2235,"jennifer asked, not believing.",1
11105,there was a moment of hesitation as dr. mcnarry glanced toward the defence table.,0
4113,"there shall be tribulation …

the quiet words in his heart shook him, and he knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that there would be obstacles to overcome when he returned from the mountaintop, his father chief among them.",0
3335,"frank praised gloria’s work on the notebook and the manuscript she’d helped with, saying, “i’m sure there will be many more if you’re willing.",0
10137,"he turned the knob and walked in, and the man at the desk dropped his pen and cried, “good god!”

“take it easy,” parker said.",0
6459,"she felt him still on her skin, though his pressure had become less passionate.",0
9695,"if i am gone to god you must be very strong for the sake of the...

but the fugitive couldn't go on.",0
9888,"perhaps he was considering spinning a cocoon there, or whatever it is that praying mantises lay their young in.",0
11817,"it was hot enough here, god knew, but down there it was unbearable in the valley.",0
5592,"i recalled how actors profited by notoriety, how legends were born of violence, bankruptcy, indecent exposure.",0
8338,"""i didn't mean to suggest... i'm sure she does.""",0
11707,"i must also recall how, that very year, the chapter of the franciscans was convened in perugia, and the minister general, michael of cesena, accepting the entreaties of the spirituals (of whom i will have occasion to speak), proclaimed as a matter of faith and doctrine the poverty of christ, who, if he owned something with his apostles, possessed it only as usus facti.",0
150,"i doubt he will provide thee with a servant.”

olivia smiled.",1
10661,"bob murphy, who since 1931 had been a member of the zoning board, would use the case as an excuse to continue his unending battle against what he termed “the privileged few.” and old mrs. allison, the fourth member of the board, would undoubtedly agree with everyone on both sides of the controversy, but would end by voting for young rath, because she would be almost sure to judge him the underdog.",0
11579,"* what little god he managed to derive from existence, he found in nature, not the bible; a hundred years earlier he would have been a deist, perhaps even a pantheist.",0
2022,"when i was tired, as i was just then, i wasn’t absolutely sure that i cared.",1
8852,"“if you will come with me, madame,” he saidquietly in english, obviously noticing the fear in hereyes and assuming her reluctance.",0
9631,"“why don’t you put it on?”

“i wear it when i’m praying, miss.",0
10586,"she still seemed embarrassed, and she was more hesitant about talking to him this time.",0
9651,"“the chorus of angels will begin to sing, the shepherds will see the angels and listen, and you, tommy, will point to them and… then what do you say?” sister maeve marie asked.",0
4370,"on april 28, when cambon announced that the situation was now so ominous that the sultan had appealed for help, that france must rescue the europeans but would quit the city as soon as order was ensured, kiderlen told him soberly, “if you go to fez,19 you will not depart.",0
5575,"she listened to the thing endlessly, it felt like, during certain periods, like a drug.",0
8746,"god, how it steadied him, hearing her calm, measured voice.",0
11936,"on the way back on sunday afternoon he chose to wander off the main roads in the general direction of london, not caring how he would eventually arrive there.",0
8646,"this approach was offset by the reluctance, particularly on the part of catholic laity, to smile in church.",0
6508,"if this woman was a hypocrite, she certainly was a loveable one.",0
8531,he’d have to discuss his devotion to margaret tolstoy.,0
9690,"next time he comes down from heaven, he’ll sit with us.”

isaac’s three “children” couldn’t believe the gullibility of irish jews.",0
5776,i never voiced any displeasure at this.,0
7660,"he didn’t want to worry christine, so he lay awake, dreading morning and the van, their doomed smiles in the mirror.",0
1202,"""i doubt there are castles in the barbarian west.",1
786,"jagow told goschen that he would have to consult the emperor and the chancellor before he could answer, and “he rather doubted whether they could answer at all, as any reply they might give could not fail, in the event of war, to have the undesirable effect of disclosing to a certain extent part of their plan of campaign.”

grey’s official diplomatic contacts in berlin were with the chancellor, bethmann, and the state secretary, jagow.",1
1724,"but he seems to have convinced you.”

“i don’t know.",1
11303,"and we would follow jews’ lane to the church of st.

ruprecht.",0
8075,"therefore he sent his bullies here to collect the corpse and no doubt strip it of identification and bury it in an isolated marsh on staten island.”

“or jersey,” peggy added, with her bias, old news to me, against the garden state.",0
11602,"but they all looked whole in body and soul again, as they packed their house in washington, and went to spend christmas in connecticut.",0
6285,"yes, some few treasures had fallen down the steps and been covered by creeper: an iron stove, two books, and a grimy transom-size window.",0
702,and you find the faith you lost.,1
3450,"“leon crawled into the hole toward me, and very gently began prying my shoulders up and away from the sides of the well, and slowly but surely he was able to lift me a little.",0
6842,"“sure, we can do dinner first,” she agreed.",0
495,"but perhaps that was the reason: if her own family, and all of gravesend, had suspicions regarding my mother's morals-regarding the general ease with which, they might assume, she could be talked into anything-my mother's lengthy engagement to dan needham certainly showed them all a thing or two.",1
326,"""if you are not david, then you are his twin,"" he said, but doubt was
already beginning to show in his voice.",1
9914,"how the hell did you slip up like that?”

thank you, chief of detectives jim barrow, but as long as you’re on the line: “jim, who have you got over there with sanderalee right now?",0
230,"i thought they were believers, but obviously they weren’t, or they would have been better wives.",1
5108,"there had hardly been a day when he had not been made to feel the power of money, but he found that the force of money was most irresistible when it took the guise of a promise, and that years of resolute self-denial, instead of rewarding him with reserves of fortitude, had left him more than ordinarily susceptible to temptation.",0
1516,"“though it may not be any better than mine.”

he tipped his head sidewise skeptically.",1
11186,"with apparent reluctance the two thugs stopped hitting tonio, who slumped to the ground and lay still.",0
2944,"corralled in the quietly closing angle of the jackknife stood the other horse, uncertain now where escape might lie.",1
9523,"the church was covered in flowers, signifying the hope of rebirth through christ.",0
11024,"""just a moment,"" he said hesitantly.",0
1577,"i had already seen in her face that morning a skeptical view of my sentimental legends, she was plainly trying to sort out one thing from another in them; and i was turning over in my mind the notion of beginning again with her on other grounds, of making an attempt to draw, however faintly, some boundary lines between fact and fancy, which is not so difficult; but also further to show where truth and poetry were, if not the same being, at least twins who could wear each other’s clothes.",1
8525,"the vally can tell us that, if he’ll talk, which it’s my belief he will when he hears about his master’s nasty end.”

“if your chummie is in fact astwick’s manservant.",0
11728,"“well, i’m only telling you because you two were very nice to me when i was being an eejit last christmas.” orla was very nice.",0
2296,you doubt it now.,1
9632,but he’s alternated priests and nuns.,0
8018,"he passed a rock cairn that the cherokee in times long past were in the habit of building along the way to signify something, though whether way marker or memorial or holy place was now unknowable.",0
3377,"i was dredging up beliefs i had once arrived at and long ago buried, to keep them safe.",0
3216,"the three accused, thonon determined, should have a fair trial uninfluenced by the status of francis or fear of geneva.",0
7996,“my god!,0
10197,"‘do you think that was a judgment that this woman should have made?’

monk turned to him.",0
9202,"the greek anthology telephone call



the telephone rang just as the logan brother’s hand touched the receiver and he picked it up without any hesitation in one motion as if the telephone had been ringing all the time.",0
3772,certainly he never said anything that justified her in such a feeling; nor did she feel anything of that largeness.,0
7522,the priest brushed his huge hand in the air as if he were bothered by gnats.,0
7194,"surely not from roanoke—that’s miles south of here . . .”

“roanoke was abandoned twenty years ago, but i’d wager my life that this boy’s parents came to virginia with john white.",0
6603,"87.ce, “materialism.”

88.ce, “casuistry.”

89.see ce, “blaise pascal.”

90.scott hahn and benjamin wiker, answering the new atheism: dismantling dawkins’ case against god (steubenville: emmaus road, 2008), p. 21.",0
2709,"the doctor emphasized this, probably as reassurance to the public, to the world; but even at the time i had a doubting thought: wouldn’t the needed personalities somehow attract each other, to come together?",1
7671,"and sammler on many occasions, listening to angela as he lay in bed, considering two sets of problems (at least) with two different looking eyes, a tense stitch between rib and hip making him draw up one leg for an ease he did not attain, had a slight look of rebuke as well as the look of receptivity.",0
7480,"later, we are told that heaven—which is the memory of infancy—is white.",0
7189,"“i really appreciate this.”

“i enjoyed it.”

“sure you did.",0
426,"for the first time in my life i am questioning, and it started when i didn’t know there were such questions to be asked.” he reached for his tankard and gulped the beer.",1
11510,"he asked me to bring him a bible.”

“he’s sold it by now.”

seneca looked away.",0
4998,"i didn’t know whether it was right for me to take the money or not, and tried not to, but they assured me that it was perfectly all right, my father wouldn’t mind, and in the end i took half of it.",0
600,"i tried to tell myself that this great stride toward beauty was worth any amount of mother's wrath, but by the time i pulled open the squeaking screen door, i realized i wasn't convinced.",1
1783,"she could not be sure from the window, but it appeared to be buster devonne behind the wheel.",1
6104,"by right of his father’s distinguished service to this family (and certainly to advance himself by their favor), francis presented himself at the house of madame, was received by her because of his father, and proceeded so to charm her by his manners, personableness and wit that she extended the audience for a full hour.",0
5823,"sophie told me once—as she went on to reveal certain bits of her life in cracow which she had previously withheld—that whatever the professor’s grim authoritarian disdain for her, his adoration of his two little grandchildren had been melting, genuine, complete.",0
2911,"when the german saw that a bear was after him, he had not yet got his bearings; he was unsure which way the main road was.",1
11662,"so much blood from so young and fragile a body-but at last the girl was at peace, safe in the arms of our lord who had come for his lamb.",0
10044,"she clearly didn't like anything about jules temple, including his goddamn haircut.",0
1245,"the family isn’t interested in digging up ghosts, the state attorney isn’t going to push us to do it, and other than our suspicions i have nothing to go on.”

“it makes no sense to think he killed himself.",1
2060,and i rather doubted if he'd let one girl more or less interfere.,1
509,"it was true that certain individuals invariably turned away from him, irritated or insulted or frankly discomforted (“has jesus come into your heart?",1
12080,angela lifted her eyes from the microscope and accepted a photograph from walt.,0
10582,"it was only when regina came to him, silently, touching his hand, kissing his cheek, her eyes filled with a mysterious light, that he felt comforted, reassured.",0
5977,"when earnest-minded people made pilgrimages down the narrow, cobbled street, picked their way carefully over puddles in the patio, and clattered up the uncertain stairs for a glimpse of the great and yet so simple personage, she would cry, “here come the pretty sheep!” she enjoyed their gaze of wonder at her daring.",0
8744,i asked you how far i can count on you because this has to be absolutely confidential.,0
497,"“spell it,” said arnie, not convinced.",1
3191,"nim said doubtfully, ""that still doesn't explain that last place.",1
3235,"he was devoted, she dated no one else, they were ""engaged"" within a few months-and it was clear to everyone how much i liked dan.",0
9675,he thanked the god of esau for preserving hairy men.,0
11830,"of course, none of this would matter, not even the insult in the past at u of 1, and no one would come close to vincent lord in power and respect if a certain event occurred which now seemed likely.",0
9117,foolish pleasure.,0
3466,alec was certain of this since he’d walked to the door of the kitchen and looked up the stairway to the apartment every few minutes for the last two hours.,0
4681,"where did you think i’d gone, with only this bit of blanket to cover me?”

“i’m sure i don’t know,” annie said.",0
6956,"give her pleasure, any form of pleasure, and she would cling to you.",0
11417,she just wanted to go to sleep and forget everything that had happened … the funeral … the things people had said … the smell of the flowers … the words of their minister at the graveside.,0
8073,"then a foundation in philadelphia devoted exclusively to numismatics came to us offering to exchange the copley portrait of charles carroll of carrollton.” she went on to explain that charles carroll, born in annapolis, had been a member of the continental congress, a signer of the declaration of independence, and a united states senator.",0
302,she glanced again at the girls to be sure they were neither seeing her distress nor hearing uncle al’s uncertainty.,1
8776,paula goldman's voice was firm and unhesitant.,0
5236,"“it won’t be long, i guess,” he assured her.",0
1682,"couldn’t say for sure, said francis.",1
4153,as certain as i can be.,0
12339,"i never knew what happened that sunday until years later when artie told me that when he had found out i had run away, he had refused to put on his adoption suit, that he had screamed and cussed and tried to hit the matron, that he had been beaten.",0
8624,"she’s supposed to be wearing a silk ... it’s her!”

“let’s make certain before we radio the others.”

both men got out of the car, the passenger moving discreetly around the trunk to join the driver.",0
4757,—you certainly read that line with relish.,0
3570,but you have me; there can be no doubt of that.,0
6680,"“our baby is in there.”
“just as well,” albie said without hesitation.",0
6641,"della boyd might be irritating in a lot of ways, but she had sure taken philip down a notch or two.",0
9696,"when the men went off to work, hel joined the priest at his table.",0
114,"besides, i’m not sure he’d be safe there after what he’s told me?”

at the question in maggie’s voice, chris beth shook her head.",1
10767,"he can’t have any doubts, all thoughts of a trap gone with their coming forward.”

“would you also like me to make baby roses bloom during a january blizzard in montana?”

“close to it.",0
502,". . i'm not sure—"" ""kitty, nothing in life is guaranteed.",1
6836,"cormach’s hawthorn bier was set on the slab and the boughs were placed all around, once again forming a dense enclosure over the body.",0
9155,"if he could get to her first and talk her into giving the bonds to him, he was pretty sure maxton would accept them and give up the search.",0
2164,"you can’t see them clearly, because they’re not you.”

“i doubt it.",1
1945,he stood silently until the doubt began to fade.,1
11090,anger replaced despair as he pulled out all the diagnostic stops.,0
4557,he’d make sure of it.,0
4948,"oh, i hope nathan’s okay.”

“listen, he’s going to be all right,” i assured her, a little uneasily.",0
9760,"his father had knelt with head bowed almost the whole time, except when the congregation had stood up to sing something; then his father had boomed out in rather good baritone, though so loudly that a couple of people in pews in front of them had turned around to see who it was.",0
10912,"they were accounts, i noticed; no doubt parish accounts left here for the next council meeting.",0
8749,“sure i did.,0
4559,you will inform your president of the foregoing in strictest secrecy as soon as war’s outbreak with united states is certain and a suggestion that he immediately join in inviting japan and at the same time mediate between us and japan.,0
3000,"she looked up at him with a terrified air, as trygve watched him with suspicion.",1
10107,"“well, goddamn, i guess you dear abbys are going to miss him and his family troubles,” i said to the trick in general.",0
3623,"she was a different person now than she had been a while ago; she was certain of that, but she couldn’t exactly say why.",0
6301,"for the first time she saw the width of the gulf that divided what
people professed to believe from what they were actually capable of
believing.",0
1325,or do you think miss faye did?” she saw the puzzled look come into his eyes and knew that by now he was far from sure that he had not told.,1
4509,he had assured sennacherib that he could force a surrender.,0
1931,"i don’t need no jesus, haze said.",1
10019,"god knows, it happens.",0
1590,"""you might surrender your hertz in new rochelle, but i doubt that they are open at night.",1
8521,"""not at all,"" he assured her.",0
721,"and though smith strongly suspected that the child had english blood in her veins, he was not certain of the fact until the night when he happened to warn the child away from the fire.",1
3534,"“whatever i can do.”

“i’m sure they’d appreciate that,” sylvia said.",0
7380,"i know if the rev scrapped jesus altogether i’d get the same point, how you have to feel with all your might for other people, how you have to go outside of yourself and take part in the world’s community.",0
6039,"the british spy


my last relationship before nelson denoon rose in the skies of my life was with a spy, z. z is for zed, meaning the last in a series of things of a certain kind.",0
4924,"when she spoke in that voice she seemed to be addressing someone who lived inside her, an invisible friend who shared her belief that the world was great and wide but finally too exhausting for anyone to live in it.",0
9549,"but almost as he said it to himself, like a silent prayer, it was too late.",0
9487,"sonia had heard of the marranos, who could call upon moses of sinai, jesus, jacob, and the kings of babylon to protect them.",0
1112,having to watch their mother slowly die of cancer in the hospital in toronto had been a trial of faith for both sisters.,1
9353,"the fact that the hostess lorded it over them pleased no one, but there were so many people to talk to at the christmas party, you only had to say “hello” to mim and “thank you for the wonderful time” as you left.",0
4658,it’s an instrument of torture and death—the symbol of our faith.,0
9247,"“hesitant, apologetic.",0
5462,he feels confident.,0
11446,he’d have a big stomach hanging over his belt and lots of plaques on the wall of his office and he’d coach youth sports and start every peptalk with listen up guys and go to church and march in parades and be on the city council and all that.,0
10548,"make sure you get you some.”

somewhere in wichita there probably was very good barbecue, but not in mrs. turtle’s house.",0
8962,billie smiled with secret pleasure.,0
277,"“thank you, lord!” did she have faith to believe he might actually improve?",1
5965,"everything he did, everything he touched or smelled gave him pleasure.",0
2845,"“the most significant fact about me is that i once threw a vase costing forty dollars against a wall.” that would be as sensible as anything else he could think of, but he doubted whether it would get him the job.",1
7721,"lord, you’re getting to be a big boy.",0
10058,"i’m taking a hell of a chance.’

‘gotta gamble to win, little girl,’ terry said.",0
2767,"yes.”

celia recalled the celebration in sam's office in which she had shared, though she dampened it later with her doubts about montayne.",1
1158,"although he knew hadad wasn’t armed, it didn’t ease his distrust.",1
6172,"“see you in the morning.”

as he walked out she watched his confident stride and well-groomed ponytail.",0
2018,"he was uncertain, even, what she had said.",1
5125,"i know i got perfect health, if you don’t count my leg.”

i sure had the notion we were turning over a new leaf.",0
10045,"“in which case the talk hunnicut stirred up would have scared the bejesus out of him.”

privately thatcher thought pepitone was aiming at the presidency of asi, not shortsighted gains.",0
8923,"“i have to admit a certain curiosity about marriages of extremely short duration,” he said.",0
7602,"frantic phone calls, visits to lao dong headquarters, letters from teachers and commendations from his priest and family doctor and headmaster.",0
11748,"then the hand turned and one dead gray finger pointed down the hill, as the ghost of christmas yet to come had pointed out one particular grave marker to ebenezer scrooge.",0
2013,"i’m not even sure that i do.”

“you can still do it up until tomorrow,” he said.",1
12365,"""please, angela.""",0
7986,i want you to look at my goddamned driver’s license.,0
978,"stan turned all the lights on, and began to search the premises—for what, he wasn’t sure.",1
9615,"“i’m afraid i’ve lost someone.”

“no one is lost in the house of god, sir,” replied the cleric, smiling.",0
1373,this i am not convinced.,1
11223,"as the priest looked, he saw that the mountain seemed to be glittering in the morning sun, and he called it the crystal mountain.",0
11012,"i thought he must have noticed my hesitation, but apparently he did not.",0
3462,i’m sure you can find good use for the balance.,0
5795,"a bit exuberantly, i had recounted to aharon the details of my first meetings in jerusalem with pipik and jinx, but i’d never told him anything more, and afterward i asked him as a friend to treat confidentially what i’d said and to repeat the stories to no one.",0
1381,"this whole sudden errand was so uncertain, so ambiguous that it was hard for either of them to hold a focused state of mind about it.",1
6195,"’course, you could never be too sure of that, ’specially with outsiders.",0
2696,"let us beware of going astray, and above all let us ensure that we find our way back—if we are ever to come back, which i gravely doubt.”

upon this he took a ball of thread from his pouch and fastened the end of it to a bone pin, which he drove between the bricks.",1
9638,"being the last in, the bada party was among the first to be ferried to the church of saint alexander.",0
9874,"he was in this country from 1936 to 1941, while we occupied ethiopia.’

‘england occupied ethiopia?’

‘not england,’ angelo said.",0
10042,"“jesus,” mack said, “she’s a cold-blooded little bitch.”

“i think that would be a fair statment,” i said.",0
10842,"they had unseen but powerful friends, and of that he had no doubt.",0
8386,"he did not even know if they spoke russian, but he was sure they must in some manner.",0
9719,"you mark my words, before this is over a lot of the more liberal churches are going to get involved in this.",0
3143,"once again, irresistibly, i was remembering the patterns of his love that had come to me in the past, the love mixed with doubt, and with something that at times had been hopeless longing.",1
787,"i visit anybody in my flock who’s in the hospital.”

“you count me in your flock?” he asked skeptically.",1
1207,"she wasn’t sure how long she had slept, but her head felt as though it had filled with cotton.",1
6822,“you’re sure about the wells?,0
11121,"his voice gave nothing away, either of surprise or suspicion.",0
814,"there seems to be no trouble afoot, and i don’t believe the captain will send a barge back to the ship.”

“are you certain?” sterling stood above her, hesitation evident in his features.",1
5947,she read with distaste; her uncle’s pleasures were different from her own.,0
9806,"this is foxy.”

the priest felt his throat constrict.",0
9418,"maggie came over for a few minutes christmas eve day, with a box of candy for the family and a present in a small package for arthur, which he did not open then.",0
10259,"lord, but they had all manner of hardware: rifles, shotguns, pistols, and even at least one semiautomatic.",0
2628,it was that part of masculine nature which elizabeth feared and distrusted.,1
9606,"she thought of one of those mirror lakes you see at christmas, tiny figures gliding on skates across glass.",0
10170,"“twenty, man.”

“jesus!”

“i told you it’d be a big mother.",0
5401,"joe read her quick start, the apprehension, and then the almost hopeless fear and weariness.",0
3319,"he, she could tell, was like all the others: certain of their power over her, yet blind to the bonds that such power brought.",0
7319,"while the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in silently and gravely, with its head bowed and its face covered.",0
3457,"if anyone heard, they would surely be detained and questioned.",0
1128,doubt and insecurity overwhelmed her.,1
4347,"he just wants a housekeeper and a mudder for mary ellen.”

“i’m sure he wants more than that.”

“jah, he probably wants someone to darn his socks, scrub his floors, and cook his meals.",0
6279,john turned in at the vicarage gate reassured.,0
4672,"sure, i knew i should feel deep grief and guilt for a sin of such iniquitous magnitude.",0
1507,i’m never quite sure about the reception.,1
9912,"holy god, there’s some mess in there.",0
11414,the girls were pretty and the young men with their beards and long hair prettier in a christ like way.,0
9931,"sammy doyle, the kings’ publican, was shrewd enough to allow the old jews of congregation limerick to pray in his storage room.",0
12236,thank heaven there are signs of a movement toward peace.,0
9594,"2

“just two shopping days to christmas, and i’m sure i’m coming down with something,” said detective sergeant alfred wiggins, the bottom half of his face masked in a handkerchief as if germ-warfare were here.",0
6556,"i must take my meal break in ten minutes, but i will be here until one o’clock.”

“ten minutes,” janet said with pleasure.",0
12320,"""not now,"" lord said.”but he still has all that alimony to pay, and money troubles make people do strange things.",0
2476,"and, finally, the uncertainty, then the fear.",1
11901,"god, jennifer, before i knew you i often wondered if something wasn’t lacking in me.",0
7781,"she had not heard from angelica in months, but she had not been alarmed, for neither of them was a letter writer.",0
1443,"we’ll make it, sooner or later.”

“in heaven, i expect.”

“oh ye of little faith.",1
8360,"bicester-strachan, i’m sure this is extremely painful for you.",0
7047,he kissed her leisurely.,0
5530,"why was my father standing solicitous listening, patient gelding, spur accepting, animal faithful?",0
10343,"but for the hell of it, he didn’t see how he could have done anything else.",0
6005,"when she heard his moans of pleasure and saw an expression of ecstatic release on his face, a new sense of purpose descended upon her: to release this young musician from his pain.",0
1733,why did the severe librarian with the bifocals pushed down low on his pointy nose watch her with suspicion?,1
5127,"without doubt, it was going over the bank.",0
5259,"you are undoubtedly familiar, father, with his many editorial efforts?""",0
8933,"are you sure—”

“and she took the car?”

“i suppose so, of course.",0
2122,"“hah.”

i winked at honeylou, who looked uncertain.",1
10039,short for evangeline.,0
4530,i hope our show of good faith will convince you full cooperation is in all our best interests.”,0
1182,“how can the rest of us be sure that the hand is not motioning him to stay away?,1
10427,"“twenty-nine goddam years old.”

he cut across the oakland flatlands to the nimitz freeway.",0
3997,ahaz suddenly recalled her request to be his favorite wife and knew she undoubtedly wanted her son to be chosen as his heir instead of one of his concubines’ sons.,0
279,maybe it was because she was so unsure herself about what she felt or what she really believed.,1
1042,"but now, here was this man, pearl, who made her feel weak and uncertain.",1
9101,"a line?”

“certainement, monsieur.”

the shower was as hot as his skin could tolerate,the steam filling his lungs, cutting short the breathin his throat.",0
11339,"that the goodness of god is made

manifest also in the most horrid beasts, as honorius augustoduniensis explains.",0
4876,"“because if he’d been conscious they’re sure he wouldn’t have been thrown out of the auto, for one thing.",0
12026,"""wait, for god's sake!",0
39,"taking advantage of their uncertainty, some of the scribes who had hoped to seize upon jesus’ words as blasphemy, now sought to create a diversion and take the minds of the people off the man they had been ready to acclaim as messiah and king.",1
965,"i’m not even sure such a thing is possible.”

lara regarded him with bitter amusement.",1
9734,"i taught john all the words to schmidt’s favorite christmas carol, which he approved — “kitsch at its finest” — and he taught me the second part of the glorious duet in bach’s cantata 140, where the soprano’s “mein freund ist mein” is echoed by the baritone’s “und ich bin dein.” my voice had suddenly descended from soprano to tenor during my last year in high school, so i took the baritone part and john sang soprano, both of us shifting octaves with reckless abandon.",0
10070,"suddenly, it seemed very funny: harry angel, the human fly.",0
2590,"all those painted screens erected by man to shut out reality--history, religion, duty, social position, all were illusions, mere opium fantasies.",1
7511,"many sundays with their manly sermons on virtue and the glittering choir marching toward the door with graceful, halting tread, gold stripes shining on the sleeves of the leaders.",0
5601,"the hermit side of me, the secret boozehead side, looked on the alliance with even greater pleasure: i was blissfully addicted to the fantasies the genie of the bottle contrived for me each night they went for a late swim in the lake, each day they went clamming on the mud flats of the tidal river.",0
10004,should he call up effie—which was what an innocent man would do—and ask her if the man she had talked to on sunday had told her his name or what he wanted?,0
8964,"i was afraid schmidt might take advantage of larry's emotional state to start hinting about certain other things he could do for the art lovers of the world, so i changed the subject.",0
8098,mexicans are great believers he thought.,0
7172,"sewn into it with white thread were the words, “from leesa, with love.”

“harold,” clarence said, “can i borrow this tie from you?”

“well, sure.” harold laughed.",0
9891,mr. kearny and mr. o’bannon came to my apartment in los angeles and they... were present at the time i wrote it.,0
4486,fallon certainly never considered building or finding a permanent place to live on the peninsula.,0
5159,"then peter was born, and isabella fell into a new kind of devotion, awash in an unexpected energy that made her arms quiver and her fingers jerk.",0
11458,would ben greenbourne swear on a christian bible?,0
10281,"“oh, god,” she said.",0
9387,“you going to church after—after—!,0
10246,"“jesus, just a kid— maybe she don’t remember too good, it’s three days back.",0
12135,"he'll shock the hell out of philadelphia, and so i wish him well.",0
5442,then all at once she seemed to explode like a piece of machinery that had been given one ounce of pressure too much.,0
5212,"i had fixed the dismal swamp already in my mind; it seemed to me even then, even before i had the map in hand, a perfect stronghold for a small band of resolute, woods-canny negroes: though large (just how vast it really was i could not then know), trackless, forbidding, as wild as the dawn of creation, it was still profusely supplied with game and fish and springs of sweet water—all in all hospitable enough a place for a group of adventurous, hardy runaways to live there indefinitely, swallowed up in its green luxuriant fastness beyond the pursuit of white men.",0
5757,"she belongs to someone else after she’s married.”

he said no more, amazed by a sudden realization that if she were manna, he might embrace and kiss her, calling her “little treasure” or “sugar ball,” but he did not know what to do with shuyu, whom he had kissed only in the darkness a long time ago.",0
9151,"gaping down into an empty hole, while vulgar policemen snickered behind their hands and went home to tell their wives about the crazy old man who thought there was a treasure buried in an innkeeper’s grave….",0
5077,"degradation, she thinks, goes hand in hand with the certainty of deprivation.",0
8855,"“sure sam remembers,” his father said.",0
5834,when they were done it was with great hesitation that he finally brought out the paper bag.,0
3743,"setting it carefully in the little hallway, he made sure it was on solid wood and not on the grated floor heater.",0
3373,she was usually proud of her smart white convertible and would glance over it to be sure no hot-rod had marred its bright finish.,0
385,"“yes, and i’m not sure about this movie business anyway.”

“well, it’s too late.",1
2566,"he says he don’t believe in god, but he wishes he did, so then he’d believe you don’t die like a sheep or something, you go to heaven.",1
10207,". . for god's sake, do you really think we're all such fools, marlowe?",0
92,"have you tried over at southern?”

jerry refused to let the fatigue and doubt show on his face.",1
12242,akhetaton was a domain accursed; priests and horns guarded all the roads leading thither and slew every fugitive from it who refused to make sacrifice to ammon.,0
5096,"i felt so sure that this was what was going on that i was about to remind her that we were from new orleans, but before i could speak, she looked back to vinh and said, “white wine.”

vinh called over the waiter and ordered the drinks and frank caught the waiter by the sleeve before he went to get them and said, “coca-cola from a bottle.",0
7211,i often marveled that the interior peace of the woman was reflected so faithfully in her surroundings.,0
6783,"sure, and wasn’t their plan purely brazen?",0
9687,"the oddity is that had it not been for the revolution, the party, i would have left the church as a young man.",0
9630,maybe he lent it to somebody who passed it on to somebody else who gave it to the church rummage sale.,0
2066,"maybe that’s what she was doing, jack wasn’t sure.",1
2587,"...

it has been said that when the moment is near, a foreign king will rise in the west, lord of immense deceits, atheist, killer of men, fraudulent, thirsting for gold, skilled in tricks, wicked, enemy and persecutor of the faithful, and in his time he will not hold silver dear but will esteem only gold!",1
9815,"“you know, i’ve always thought one of the strongest proofs for the resurrection of jesus was the transformation of the apostles.",0
6013,she pointed confidently and pushed the stroller close to the slanted window of a bakery.,0
1247,"a certain food?”

edith shook her head, considering whether or not she should share her suspicions, then she blurted out the truth: “she has them occasionally, to be sure, but she has the worst dreams on the days you visit us, master fallon.”

he blanched in surprise, then bit his lip and stood.",1
2035,"“i’m not so sure i can put it into the right words, and then get the words out.”

sarah didn’t say anything.",1
7582,this is how god gets revenge: he leaves one to remember and one to forget.,0
10604,"its employees awaited the pleasure of the new owner.""",0
5668,"he tried to pillow his head on his bag, tried to secure himself against the tenacious hammering of patched equipment.",0
11309,much of our democratic support is catholic.,0
4769,"surely things would get better further south; nonetheless i felt compelled to lay my tender skull back against the seat, writhing as i did so with a combined fear and exhaustion such as i had never in my life known before.",0
10252,"i don’t know anything about what goes on in your office.”

“god knows you’ve proved that,” she said weakly.",0
9855,"“what’s this person’s name, jesus?”

there was a long silence; in the background, a car horn beeped and the rapping sound of a motorcycle or truck passed, and wager guessed the man was calling from a telephone booth.",0
135,"the next time it was he who went out first, to stalk me from god knew what cover, for i was now certain that he was spying on me—or on us.",1
2558,i’m not certain as to the date.,1
9833,"michael, the sword of the lord, prince of celestial armies.",0
12037,"he had just been given harsh proof that he had lost the people who once had worshipped him, and any hope that he might have entertained of continuing in office was now entirely at an end.",0
9818,but maureen married john kinelli in church with all of them present and not one of them dead.,0
11511,"there are words that give power, others that make us all the more derelict, and to this latter category belong the vulgar words of the simple, to whom the lord has not granted the boon of self-expression in the universal tongue of knowledge and power.",0
9836,and some bad news: god and the dea will figure it out before you do.,0
3640,"“i burned it.”

“are you sure?”

“i’m sure.",0
2355,he wasn’t certain how long he could go on ignoring it.,1
9246,"the thought of how confused and dazed reid must have been, caught in his own bed by blackmailers, was bad enough, but dottlinger’s exposure somehow touched a more tender wound.",0
11216,"for god's sake, thought leamas, it's like working for a bloody clergyman.",0
1646,"god, what unspeakable things went on in that heathen sanctum!",1
997,"we might have slipped him, but i’m not sure.",1
9988,"i won’t say a word.”





chapter twenty-one


once again, as he had half a dozen times during the weekend, daniel cohen covered his head with the prayer shawl.",0
5603,"pretty strong, but not so strong as that.”

“this all right?”

“a little more whiskey, please.”

“certainly.”

“that looks all right.”

“you all right, poll?” her father asked.",0
736,"he thought he heard the hanging man scream, but he was not sure.",1
895,"not if you know the raw code.”

“what are you saying?”

“i’m not sure.",1
3105,"no one ever questioned the necessity of the visit, but castle doubted whether even his mother enjoyed it, though he had to admit she did all she could to please them-according to her own idea of what their pleasures were.",1
12145,"maybe he’s just in a hell of a hurry.”

“what’s going on?” asked bourne angrily.",0
6869,"dugdale, i, 374; dgp, iv, 405

49 “i see in england”: robertson, 436

50 “we no longer ask for love”: crankshaw, bismarck, 406

51 “the kaiser is like a balloon”: empress frederick, 363

52 “too much talk of the chancellor”: bismarck, new chapters, 102

53 “a rascally young fop”: kennan, 398

54 “to earn money on certain days”: bismarck, new chapters, 105

55 “the employers and shareholders”: ibid., 118

56 “the practical aimlessness of the scheme”: ibid., 110

57 “the increased expectations”: ibid., 113

58 “the waves will mount higher”: nichols, 17

59 “they are not my ministers”: eyck, 315

60 “cease all direct correspondence”: röhl, 45

61 “the chancellor... has taken sides”: eyck, 317

62 “i am just leaving the political deathbed”: robertson, 490

63 “so?",0
12292,"oh, for god's sake!",0
11598,"they were married on april first, in the little log church in shelburne in a simple ceremony, and no one was present except the two boys who worked for them, and alexandre, who was seven months old.",0
7436,"instead i would take my bible to a sunny corner of the wooden gallery at the front of the market and there, some feet apart from the hubbub and the confusion, i would squat for hours with my back against the wall, immersed in the great prophetic teachings.",0
10353,"this is mr. bacardo, angela.",0
10601,"they say to their broads, sure you can fuck anybody you want, i’ll still love you.",0
2315,"but i doubt that i’d be half as interesting as delaney.”

“you’re entitled to your opinion.”

“delaney is one of the keys to help unlock a lot of money, and that should make him very interesting.”

“perhaps, but it doesn’t, because you’re wrong.",1
29,"“it’s one thing to sit snug and comfy in church and ask god to speak through you, and something else entirely when it happens.”

“i expected a lot more doubts from you,” tj confessed.",1
4488,"this story became one of my grandmother’s favorites because it illustrated both what a devoted daughter and a passionate, headstrong young woman my mother had been.",0
1745,"in english, which he did not pronounce with much assurance, he asked, “are you a zionist?”

“i’m an old friend of mr. ziad’s,” i replied.",1
669,"there are hussites who place more faith in freedom than in christ, and there are catholics who have found the truth of the gospel even amid the trappings of rome.",1
12070,"don't you tell him, though, for god's sake.",0
8458,""" i f i discover anything, i'll make sure that you know.""",0
11322,because surely he would not stand before the bride and groom—a guest preacher asked to make a few (few!),0
12290,"""dinner's ready,"" angela said.",0
9654,"“it would take more than church to square you,” i told him.",0
1887,they doubted that he could read.,1
12049,"it meant as much to me as this country, russia, which is part of my soul.”

munro knew about the patriotism of the russians toward their country, a fierce flame that

would make them endure any suffering, any privation, any sacrifice, and which, when

manipulated, would make them obey their kremlin overlords without demur.",0
8151,"humans sure make it hard on themselves.”

tucker flicked her ears forward and then back.",0
1254,"“has the world gone mad?”

“she’s a girl,” the knight replied, his voice heavy with disbelief, “a bloomin’ irish princess.",1
504,"it was only the last name i wasn’t sure of—hoptoad, hotstraw—but bebb recognized it immediately.",1
1912,"she wasn’t sure what a good theory about her would be, but knew the look of one when it was wrong, and she made up her mind to surprise him all right.",1
6283,"having secured the emperor's attention, he recited tales of other mysterious occurrences in and about capernaum; spoke of the aged nathanael bartholomew; and tiberius — with an old man's interest in another old man's story — showed enough curiosity about the storm on the lake to warrant the telling of it — all of it.",0
5451,"the blackthorn topped with a two-humped gnarl, yellowish in the fissure.",0
7641,"facing her across the sill was a creature a little larger than a large monkey, dressed in a voluminous blue overcoat of a private in the federal army, with, tied tentlike over his head and falling about his shoulders, a piece of oilcloth which might have been cut square from the hood of a sutler’s wagon; within the orifice the woman could see nothing whatever save the whites of two eyes, momentary and phantomlike, as with a single glance the negro examined the woman standing barefoot in her faded calico garment, and took in the bleak and barren interior of the cabin hall.",0
3447,"“seldom at a loss for words, today i find myself fumbling a bit, but the conviction concerning what i want to say is so strong, i believe i must try, at least, to let all of you know—my cherished old friend thomas spalding and each member of my treasured family—that it is not my advanced age causing me to imagine there are four more blessed members of my family here gathered with us than merely those we can see.",0
5969,"uncle dan was trimming a leg of lamb, his knobby scarred hands directing the sharp knife keenly, surely.",0
58,"sophie wasn’t certain if she should go out to the car or wait inside, but she was too tense to stand still.",1
3207,"a boy was found 'fondling' his date in the trophy room of the gym: as the couple was fully dressed-and standing-at the time, it seems unlikely that a pregnancy could have resulted from their exchange; and although the gym is notorious for it, i'm sure they hadn't even exposed themselves sufficiently to risk an athlete's foot infection.",0
979,"""i thank you,"" fraoch said doubtfully.",1
8755,are you sure she doesn’t work there?,0
11844,"the afternoon newspapers and radio and tv shows across europe had their headlines for the

five p.m. edition, and frantic calls were made to four navy ministries for a report on the

conference if and when it took place.",0
2288,"her broad face would have been plumply pretty except for half a dozen warts on her cheeks and the sides of her nose, and the glint of suspicion in her narrowed blue eyes.",1
5035,i’m sure somebody like abelman could.,0
2305,"""i doubt it.""",1
9263,"as chairman of the english department at greer he saw his job as a comparatively low-paid dead end, the only dividend being a certain slight prestige among his colleagues.",0
1692,"he had grunted in agreement, not quite certain whether she was mocking him, or them.",1
11284,"and i know for certain that not long ago, in avignon itself, with necromancies of this sort philters and ointments were prepared to-make attempts on the life of our lord pope himself,

poisoning his foods.",0
1249,"i'm still not certain that i understand it.”

a reluctant pause, and frank spoke.",1
4464,"“the choice lies35 between such increases of naval power as will ensure sea command of the mediterranean... or a complete reversal of the traditional policy of great britain in regard to her trade routes and military highways to the east,” esher advised the king.",0
9346,the priest dried his eyes on the sleeve of his cassock.,0
10712,"nothing did he doubt in sulla's story, for he had seen clitumna himself, and listened often enough to marcia on the subject.",0
6066,"once she had been sure that the deeper, more throaty howl was that of a wolf.",0
3150,"""if you're going to cast doubt on my good faith i'll leave right away.""",1
3951,"the great warband was assembled for the last time so that the pendragon could pay tribute to their stalwart devotion and reward their sacrifice with high words - and good gold, which he shared out from the wealth of his war chest.",0
7527,that’s what hell is—impatience.” he wiped the perspiration from his forehead.,0
1563,"what he was doing was to evoke in the people he knew a sense of uncertainty, a sense of doubt, a sense of dismay, a sense of disgust.",1
7769,"“jesus, stab me in the heart!” and she fell back flat in the dirt, a huge human mound, her legs and arms spread out as if she were trying to wrap them around the earth.",0
5230,i’ve certainly seen who gets the meat in african families.,0
813,i couldn’t stand the uncertainty a moment longer.,1
1985,"possibly, you are questioning your own motives.",1
5362,"the effect of the water on voices, the illusion of brilliance and suspense, was the same here as it had been at the bunkers’ but the sounds here were louder, harsher, and more shrill, and as soon as he entered the crowded enclosure he was confronted with regimentation.",0
2933,"it was not only that he forbade himself the luxury of a vain nostalgia; he became increasingly unsure of the frontier between the real sarah and the sarah he had created in so many such dreams: the one eve personified, all mystery and love and profundity, and the other a half-scheming, half-crazed governess from an obscure seaside town.",1
869,"she was wearing something pink or beige, i' m not quite sure now, but in all that gloom, it showed.",1
748,"at least, i would have said it wasn't possible,"" he added hurriedly when others registered his words with skeptical looks.",1
6525,"and when that quiet, faithful man died, there were the thoughts of the son as he stood over all that was left of the man who had given him “legality” and—much more than that—his love.",0
11497,"many otherwise quite sane politicians become livid at the mention of the mormons, a curious sect recently invented by a “prophet” and confined for the most part to the utah desert, where mormon women live in harems and breed incontinently.",0
3035,"and as a matter of fact--""

""not much doubt of that.",1
4805,"doubtless she would have spent most of her time with her nose in a book, assiduously continuing her self-education.",0
7035,"“i cannot say where.”



quentin had finished freeing the parchment sera from its p pouch and

produced it without hesitation, saying, “he who owns that knife sends

this in his stead.” he watched as she took the knife and broke the seal

of the letter.",0
10824,"no doubt that woman would slyly talk to reporters, too, simperingly, calling rory her ""husband,"" for god's sake.",0
5174,"""i'm sure you'll be very happy.",0
914,i doubt that opechancanough will take kindly to his children being taught in a christian school.,1
4219,"‘that sure is a crazy boy,’ ventured sarah, soberly.",0
321,"have you ever been that hungry?”

“well, i—i can’t say that i have.” she stumbled uncertainly with the answer, fearing that some dreadful revelation was about to ensnare her.",1
2755,"so brendan patrick pierre prefontaine hailed a taxi, which he had not done sober for at least ten years, and directed the skeptical driver to take him to louis’s men’s store at faneuil hall.",1
8036,you sure as god don’t have to be clairvoyant to see the headlines: smart house claims third victim.” charlie finished his coffee and leaned back to brood at the sparkly ocean and the approaching fog.,0
1550,"“he’s jewish, yeah?”

“he says he’s an atheist.”

“well, you try be a witness to him.”

ginnie slides off the bed, relieved.",1
1046,"if it could be done, and charles had his doubts that the general could maintain the necessary secrecy at his end, it would not be a cheap endeavor.",1
2318,"i sure don’t know what he looks like.”

“meet you back here in a half hour?”

“right.”

mac watched annabel’s long-legged gait take her across the avenue to a succession of expensive shops but she quickly disappeared from his sight as the crowds swallowed her.",1
1208,"but then, how would anyone know for sure that they weren’t simply brother and sister?",1
3542,"i think you’d like it.”

“i’m sure we would,” answered bob, “but we’d better get downtown to see about our hotel rooms.",0
5151,"so i must have determined at least a hundred times that if he shoved those raw nubs past my face again or called me britches just once more i was going to buck the front of the tractor up, so help me jesus, and pitch the old bastard off, sail him over his lousy belt contraption and, with any luck, if there was any justice under that sun, snap the strings in his scrawny neck.",0
3872,"tucked away in his confidential files were sketches of a structure that would dwarf the poor dimensions of chartres and strasbourg, not to mention manning’s anglican effort on morningside heights.",0
9225,"you sure you don’t want a beer?” he asked, and picked up the can again.",0
7944,"she was not at the teas, or the receptions, or the sunday dinners.",0
8499,"i’ll be sure to keep my opinions about sir harry’s attire to myself.”

she laughed again.",0
10521,"she couldn't see any way to draw chencha out of her depression, to dissuade her from the belief that no one would marry her after the violent attack she had suffered at the hands of the bandits.",0
9791,"it seemed to him that there were certain occupations—psychiatrist, policeman, gynecologist, judge, and perhaps even priest—that automatically disqualified those who sought them.",0
5793,"at one certain time of year, i could read up in the mountains, in any number of clearings and dingles and amphitheaters, and that was in the fall.",0
4123,"as the cab pulled up to the curb at kennedy international, rabbi marc feinberg
said, “i'm sure you won't mind including my trip in your total, as you did interview
me.”
“certainly,” buck said.",0
89,". . i don’t know for sure what to pray.’’ and she didn’t, not really, but when she thought of the possibility of policemen coming and snatchin’ them away, separating them far from each other, she knew there was something —surely, there was—that she could be prayin’ in front of her hurt sister and the others.",1
2344,"“yes, i told her i’d be coming out to see her in albuquerque.”

“i don’t think you’ll be strong enough to leave tomorrow.”

“i’m not sure the police will allow it, either.” robert squeezed the bandage on his left arm gently and felt nothing.",1
9404,she had just gone back to work after the christmas holiday.,0
11256,"of these eight, including the nuns who were taking nine orphans to california, the remaining six were identified as follows.” the old man reached into his pocket and shakily took out a typewritten sheet of paper.",0
11377,"on the death of friends in childhood

we shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven,

nor sunning themselves among the bald of hell;

if anywhere, in the deserted schoolyard at twilight,

forming a ring, perhaps, or joining hands

in games whose very names we have forgotten.",0
2387,"i thought only the colored would take the stuff, and i thought colored people were animals, so it didn’t matter if they did take the stuff.”

kenni’s voice was skeptical.",1
5691,"since the monopoly games had ended, jess didn’t come around as regularly, and so there wasn’t even the fearsome pleasure of maybe exposing myself to the scrutiny of the others as i handed him cups of coffee or asked idle questions about harold.",0
4550,the notation in a sweeping script removed all doubt: gemeinhaus!,0
11056,"the telephone repairman had reached the second floor, where he turned right in the narrow, filthy corridor; he had obviously been there before, as there was no hesitation, no checking the barely legible numbers on the doors.",0
5266,and he assured me it was the quietest profession on earth.,0
4427,"if you ask me, they’re even more stupid than jenny.”

i’m sure that i had not thought of her since the warm spring evening on which we had graduated from grammar school and like so many of the other girls in the class she had wept through tears.",0
4296,"and he stayed with it the whole time, making sure it wasn’t damaged in the fire.",0
10897,"i looked around me at the shining water, at the grassy banks sloping straight into their own intense and clear reflections, at the tops of the orchard trees beyond, where the thrush's song, no doubt, still echoed in the blossoming bell tower of the pear tree.",0
12283,"but these laughed loudly and called after the people with one voice, “go then, ye of little faith—but ammon is a false god!",0
3441,"certainly the little flower had suffered; as the introduction said, she had packed a lifetime of suffering into her short span.",0
9589,"""i already look like daria strutt, and you, well, you look sort of like a mennonite.""",0
10970,"there was undoubtedly still more to worry about in an adjoining pile of papers-other headaches, including critical material shortages (there were always some, each day), or quality control demands, or machinery failures, or some new conundrum which no one had thought of before, any or all of which could halt the assembly line and stop production.",0
2828,"so will you tell me the basis of your doubts?""",1
5,but always it is vague and they long to have their minds set at rights.â€,1
1119,"that was how it began, that was all it meant to me; i am not sure now, in spite of everything, that it ever really meant more than that to me.",1
1615,irresolute and sleepless.,1
11585,"she screamed silently at him as her hand closed on the comforting round shape of the keyring in her jacket pocket—she had stuck it in there after all, thank christ, thank god, thank all the angels in the kingdom of heaven.",0
7776,“you goddamn liar!” i said.,0
11828,"""for heaven's sake,"" i broke in, ""cover her face and let's get out of here before i'm sick.""",0
3637,"and you'll get another job soon, i'm sure of it, uncle jim, i'm--""

i stopped when uncle jim went into a fit of coughing that drowned out my words.",0
9308,"somebody out there, probably a catholic, liberal or conservative, with some real or imagined grievance, was actually killing clergy and religious.",0
2674,"but i doubt you'll be going anywhere tonight, will you?""",1
7592,he was adamant about the catholic church.,0
6652,"“my pleasure, mrs. maxwell,” jones said, grinning.",0
5832,"and sure i ought to be able to do something about that, at least about that.",0
3236,"“you don’t normally think of growing blueberries here in south carolina, but it sure can be done.",0
4772,"i think it was just some kind of soft soap.”

“is jay a man for soft soap?”

“no,” she smiled a little, “he certainly isn’t, ordinarily.",0
901,"but fear is such an open door, ’cause when we fear, we’re believin’ the devil, whereas faith is believin’ in what god says.",1
3153,"judd runs around to all the churches but hasn’t quite got the nerve to renounce his father-religion, to become a meshumed, a convert, so he nominally rejects all religion and says he’s an atheist.",1
8721,it has been a source of wry pleasure to have them envy me for the possession of something i value very little.,0
4169,i’m sure this is quite a shock to you—riding in your white cadillac beside some lowlife running for her life.,0
12259,"turn, o you years—roll again, you vanished years—sail, ammon, from west to east across the heavens and bring again my youth!",0
8482,certainly she had no right to discuss justin with a perfect stranger.,0
10900,the big thing in his career had undoubtedly been the macedonian boundary commission; he must concentrate on that.,0
71,“a tragedy?” echoed barbara incredulously.,1
7978,"twenty issues or so of successful farming magazine were stacked there, brochures for farm equipment, some national geographics, a bible, two reader’s digests, and a book of american folk songs.",0
12261,"nevertheless, i can well understand the saying current in other parts of the world: “he lies like a cretan.”

no temples are to be seen there, and they pay little heed to the gods but content themselves with serving their bulls.",0
6552,he sure did.,0
4204,"now that egypt is defeated, the assyrians are sure to come back and demand our surrender again.”

“and will the king surrender?”

“i don’t know,” he shrugged.",0
1415,"helen said doubtfully, ""yes, i guess so...."" and what she would have gone on to say i don't know, for now frank appeared from the bedroom and signaled to her; they were going in....

helen took my hand and said, ""all right, hugh.",1
6325,"instead she nodded and said curtly, “well, that’s good.” barb chewning was sure taking her time getting unpacked and settled in, and it didn’t seem to bother her a bit.",0
4973,"“somebody’s got to stick around and make sure you don’t burn the place down,” she says.",0
6803,with sure hands she spooned up two bowls full of grits.,0
7897,"“you seen a monkey like that?”

i had to admit: “no.”

“then i reckon it ain’t a monkey.” that was all he’d say besides telling me to go away and play because it was almost time for us to be starting back or my mama’d worry.",0
6765,"""sure, we can wait.",0
1533,he was still not sure if he had heard anything.,1
9883,"unfortunately for them, there was a small minority fascinated by the sparling revelations, and it happened to be uniquely positioned.",0
12248,"who can tell what gods, or what devils, drive us?",0
449,gone was the look of despair and unsureness on her face.,1
10383,holy christ.,0
1739,he shook his head almost in disbelief.,1
240,"“do you think it likely that the arabs would hold them as prisoners?”

“only if they saw a chance to collect ransom money.” adam paused and gave his head a dubious shake.",1
5388,"seated in the back of the desoto, cesar castillo was fooling around with vanna vane: they were both drunk enough that he kept sliding his hand up into the warm upper reaches of her skirt, to where the nylons hit the garters, and she was pure pleasure, kissing him affectionately and laughing, the two of them sipping their rum while nestor, in the front seat, kept his eye on the road and tried not to be thrown by the icy curves or by the lovely snow which had continued to fall everywhere.",0
10149,"“god, i’m sorry about this, mr. laverdiere.",0
11626,"‘don’t the secrets of the confessional apply to non-catholics?’

‘you should go to a priest of your own church.’

‘i haven’t got a church.’

‘then i think what you need is a doctor,’ the priest said.",0
4590,"‘‘if your mother were alive, she would be appalled, no doubt.’’

lydia sniffled, shaking her head.",0
9380,"the birds will eat his body, but the angels will take his spirit.” she wasn’t exactly sentimental about death, but maybe she was close enough to know something the rest of us didn’t.",0
1866,"not convinced of the worth of his prayers, but pleased with the fact that on his knees in christ church he was, more than in any other place in the world, face to face with the bare facts of his humanity.",1
6117,"“after forty years in the construction business, i sure as heck don’t want to be crushed under a pile of rubble.”

“that bad?”

“you wouldn’t believe it.",0
666,"they were all watching her with ill-concealed concern, despite her assurances to each of them that nothing was wrong.",1
1784,"""gosh, dad, i'm not sure.",1
1969,“your doubts cut me to the quick.,1
8125,"if he could be sure that he had done it, then it might stop.",0
2007,"after all, this isn’t south carolina.”

“you may find that some of your colleagues wish it were.”


kate was still uncertain about how to discover the political views of her colleagues, something she had never thought to question, at least not lately.",1
10802,"no doubt the new government will find it, eventually.",0
7727,sunday the skies wept at thought of their going.,0
864,"it’s—david, i was a bit surprised to find that the doctor is practically an atheist.",1
9033,"today he would report for his new job, handling pressure-actuated depth-charge detonators being prepared for experiments in anti-submarine warfare.",0
12247,"lord, you have once again resolved to enter a dark house, ignorant of what awaits you—and it may be that a rotting monster and a stinking death await you.",0
1433,"the notion that sex was nonpresent as an issue in tsau, or was being transmuted wholesomely and wonderfully into something neutral and socially positive had always felt dubious to me, not to put too fine a point on it.",1
10258,"tell me why in the world you ever

became a federal marshal, jesus.",0
12258,"he even asked brigitte for a date once, and grace had raised hell with him when she reported to him at his office.",0
1535,"staring ahead, he could feel the girl considering him skeptically.",1
11902,"he loved tonia, he worshipped her.",0
9830,the only surprise about hugh was that he was able to capitalize on both his specialties in the priest­hood.,0
1123,"“the puzzle is solved.”

the room filled with confused applause from the spectators, who weren’t sure whether the elaborate solution was an attempt to win the originality prize or the answer to an actual murder.",1
4418,"i’ve spent day and night, ever since, massaging the tiny limb with oil of ripe olives and a gardenful of herbs, each of which some doctor has sworn to be a sure cure.",0
1425,"mrs. stuart chase, who had been faithfully on the picket line and was now waiting trial with the rest, also had been one of the speakers at some of the rallies; she showed me several anonymous letters she had received, of an unbelievable obscenity and threatening her with some very imaginative mutilations.",1
3508,she was sure he was aware of her schedule.,0
3785,the purpose of my request to you is to insure that the law not be circumvented.,0
5220,"the men were determined that no more of them should commingle with that yonder sacred throng than became absolutely necessary, but that as many raiders as resisted should commingle.",0
6099,"do you ’spect he’ll be findin’ a treasure?”

she watched the excitement light his eyes and felt her own heart thump.",0
9955,"these goddamn people and their attitudes, and the attitude of the authorities toward these people with attitudes, is enough to give you an attitude.",0
8853,tibbs showed a rare flash of displeasure.,0
1736,"the jury learned the following things: their relief check was far from enough to feed the family, and there was strong suspicion that papa drank it up anyway—he sometimes went off in the swamp for days and came home sick; the weather was seldom cold enough to require shoes, but when it was, you could make dandy ones from strips of old tires; the family hauled its water in buckets from a spring that ran out at one end of the dump—they kept the surrounding area clear of trash—and it was everybody for himself as far as keeping clean went: if you wanted to wash you hauled your own water; the younger children had perpetual colds and suffered from chronic ground-itch; there was a lady who came around sometimes and asked mayella why she didn’t stay in school—she wrote down the answer; with two members of the family reading and writing, there was no need for the rest of them to learn—papa needed them at home.",1
3340,"maggie-now
was sure he was doing it on purpose because he knew she
was going out and he wanted to make her so nervous that
she wouldn't enjoy herself.",0
4164,"4. tariki




if a man wishes to be sure of the road he walks on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.",0
91,"i’m not sure what you mean, what that word means, but it was good between us.",1
4019,"needless to say, the sergeant knew nothing about me borrowing the hk53 from your trunk.”

“blanks don’t fire as loud,” ollie said, “but i guess that close indoors, most people wouldn’t notice.”

“gray was the only one who had to believe it, and to him i’m sure it sounded like dynamite.”

“how’d you manage to fire more than one blank?” ollie asked.",0
2608,"is that possible?”

bobby shook his head, but doubtfully—he had reminded len of someone, too.",1
9344,god bless you and take care of yourself.,0
7119,"the girl glanced ahead, and for the first time her eyes showed reluctance.",0
8214,certainly he had been strangely quiet since clarissa’s death.,0
3482,"it was this that had roused me, no doubt.",0
5422,"“on the other hand,” he said slowly, “we got certain responsibilities to consider.",0
5509,"“or isn’t it ‘life’ any longer when people have a big, bright apartment and quiet, intelligent neighbors and the simple civilized pleasure of a good job and raising children?",0
3802,"i could even take you back to new york with me, but you’ll want to think about it, no doubt.",0
5908,"just get rid of them, for chrissake, he’d argued, they’re done for now, sure, anyway.",0
5423,"i can imagine how interested he will be to hear this latest news concerning his redoubtable old foe!""",0
8285,"people can certainly carry on, he thought, holding her fat hand because she had asked him to, and feeling sure she was going to drop dead any minute.",0
8232,"what happened to our decision to have an open relationship: both of us free to date whomever we choose?”

“so you are going to see her again!”

“only in the line of business.”

“just make sure it’s not monkey business, buster,” she said darkly.",0
10833,"agent orange, the gift that keeps on giving.”

sully popped up a second finger—yer fuckfinger, ronnie malenfant would undoubtedly have called it.",0
10159,"""get that car the hell out of here,"" said roy and he never forgot the foolish grin and the look of patent unconcern on the face of the little freckled man who leveled the sawed-off shotgun.",0
9073,"i’ve heard that you have been questioning people around halsey and twenty-third about who shot young hogan.”

“shouldn’t i?",0
10407,"how the hell are you?”

“back to normal when you let go my hand.” i laughed at him.",0
3001,and how the doubts had grown inside her head!,1
5300,but i’m very sure i’m right.,0
3214,"it had been, without doubt, the swellest affair since president woodrow wilson had attended a ball at fernbank and given little sadie baxter a hard candy wrapped in silver paper.",0
36,"now, however, he must punish nabal, otherwise, he would lose face
before his own people and give them, for the first time, a legitimate
reason to doubt his qualities of leadership.",1
242,"191: “ambrose had faith in man”

that is what makes ambrose’s tale a “secular gospel,” or, as connolly might say, the tragedy of secular humanism.",1
9044,"“for your hospitality, thank you.”

“it was my pleasure.’

“you will wait until i am on the balcony and have closed the doors.",0
6339,"but since then i have known the pleasures of living such as only 
greeks can know, in the contemplation of the world's beauty, in women, in 
poetry, in noble statues, in fine buildings, in harmony, in music, in painting 
and in textures and colors.",0
8048,he told a switchboard operator what the problem was and she assured him a car was on the way.,0
7663,"—well my god, he simply lost his temper again do you blame him?",0
1880,he’d talk on anything from conservation and the boll weevil to the godlessness of youth—always perfectly serious and sincere.,1
9880,when he had finished he handed it to angelo.,0
7327,"with admirable opportunism, the church organised a complete philosophical overhaul of its mission in the community and reopened a more overtly christian rendition of the house in another part of town, but by then big john had returned to america.",0
3435,"there were no glamorous bars in the
neighborhood and he'd be sure to be arrested if he
brought a little girl into a saloon.",0
12366,"the hacks still wear their frock coats and striped trousers and wipe their scalpels in a lordly fashion on their sleeves, or the nurses' backsides, or whatever is handy.",0
4033,"the decision... lies in england’s hands.” to ensure that everyone in london read his words, count von moltke instructed jagow to send the message “uncoded.â€

on saturday morning, august 1, when asquith met the cabinet, russia had mobilized; germany and france were on the brink.",0
6162,"“can’t i walk into my own house, kiss my own wife?”

trying to recover her composure, she asked, “where’s luc?”

“with niki.",0
8345,"got a report?”

i brought him up to date, made sure it was recorded, and signed off.",0
2077,"but, as you probably know, one of our strictest rules is that we never give out the addresses or home phones of our associates.” and, again, suspicion narrowed her eyes as she said: “if you’re with mr. grinnel, you should know that.",1
11596,"she is in the limbo about which we were taught by the priests, that is, in a state of 'natural' happiness where there is no darkness, no fright, no longing, but only affection and kind words and care.""",0
397,i am not certain of anything any longer.,1
12205,"that would not interest her.”

“then what the hell would?” asked sir james.",0
10584,"marino glanced at both of us and said, as if the question had been posed

to him, 'sure.",0
4727,"norma jean has never complained about his traveling; she has never made hurt remarks, like calling his truck a “widow-maker.” he is reasonably certain she has been faithful to him, but he wishes she would celebrate his permanent homecoming more happily.",0
623,"do you remember when i was here yesterday, with nick?”

tracy nodded, her expression holding more than a little suspicion.",1
3341,"i pinched her lip playfully, kissed her forehead, and assured her that uncle jim wasn't dead.",0
6240,"“she’ll make a believer out of you yet, buddy.",0
9156,"“just find out what the hell she’s doing.”

“i’m pretty sure she’s not going to tell me,” leaphorn said.",0
10777,"he was undoubtedly in there himself two or three times a week—maybe five or six, if his current cash-flow situation was good—buying rock from that bad nigger richie bender.",0
3370,"“i knew you’d find him, chuck.”

“we mounties always get our man.”",0
9127,"then, with a sense of heaviness, an unexplained reluctance, he exchanged a long, searching look with the woman he knew as andrea.",0
3983,"surely there had been other times, now forgotten, when the beauty and mystery of this small place, enclosed by house and hedges, had moved him like this . . . .

			 				the morning mist rose from the warm ground and trailed across the garden like a vapor from the moors.",0
4161,“no doubt they are simply too busy to come down and see to things.,0
5598,"“if you come along to the back porch, i’m sure the ladies in the kitchen can fix up a plate for you.”

“no, thank you,” john donner said.",0
8707,"cool blue eyes took his measure before that pleasant voice calmly advised him, ""you're in a no-parking zone, turisto.""",0
10142,greed became his god.,0
10415,it was that which had pushed christopher paget into letting terri go on television.,0
9268,and he sure went out of his way to help me that time my partner mel bronstein was in all that bad trouble.,0
6582,"he was watching the oncoming lance, glancing at the white cross on the shield where his own lance was aimed, and guiding his horse with pressure from his knees.",0
1974,"""i doubt if she'll come,"" breda said, painfully forcing herself to endure the agony of sitting up.",1
1473,"if there is in your minds a reasonable uncertainty regarding the truth of the charge made here, you must find the defendant not guilty.",1
1043,"oh yes, he was so comfortable that he could actually commit himself to several women at a time.”

“he never had another lover while i was married to him,” dot asserted, forgetting in her extremity her suspicions of eleanor and, as well, the valentine’s heart.",1
8292,"you can be rock-solid sure somebody, sometime, is going to bypass your rather laid-back chancery and go directly to rome.",0
8037,he’s certainly solid enough.,0
6270,"however, i am sure emmeline would be delighted to see the – what did you call it – the kasbah.’

‘and i will be delighted to show it to her.",0
1903,you are apparently a faithless people.),1
5152,i ran water down the sink until i was sure the diluted traces of juice had gone into the septic tank.,0
10490,not her devoted—uncle.,0
11142,the girl looked questioningly at cully and he nodded.,0
6179,"""o.k., sure enough.",0
7745,"—look christina, there’s really nothing you could have done.",0
912,"hezekiah felt safe beside zechariah, but he longed to be certain that yahweh’s power was greater than molech’s.",1
7467,"it wasn’t as much as the quarter when he was in business with the other lady in mottstown christmas, but that was just one time and he visited us all summer and so by that time i had a lot more than a quarter.",0
9296,through the half-open door could be heard the muffled confusion of half-a-hundred kids freed by the lord’s day from weekday restraints.,0
856,"too stunned to speak, his eyes probed her face for a flicker of uncertainty.",1
6369,you certainly slept a long time.',0
828,surely this could not be god’s will!,1
11283,"you know, i never did have much time to think about god, but now i do.",0
4617,"“from sister gertrude at the beguinage.”

“beguinage?”

hesitant, hopeful, she told him at last, “yesterday, my moeder was having one of her bad howling spells.",0
3467,for years now i’ve had them all convinced that i work as a makeup artist on the movie sets of hollywood.,0
3228,"""no,"" she said softly, ""but when he walked me to class, i made sure he knew i was a black belt.""",0
1527,"he’ll be here in a minute, i’m certain.” at this point i made another reference to my father and his arrival in new york (fondly mentioning his generous concern for me, and his moral support, though making no note of the slave artiste and his part in my destiny, rather doubting that sophie had sufficient comprehension of american history, at least yet, to be able to grasp the complexities of the debt i owed to that black boy), and i continued in a general way to praise the luck of those young men like myself, relatively few in number, who possessed parents of such tolerance and selflessness and the will to have faith, blind faith, in a son reckless enough to seek to pluck a few leaves from the laurel branch of art.",1
6079,'don't be too sure of that!',0
4360,that convinced him.,0
1494,"at some point in this narrative belief had suddenly collapsed under the burden of absurdity; i found myself looking at roy, who had begun to breathe heavily, slap his sides, and stamp on the floor in order to emphasize this account of jailhouse injustice, and all at once i knew that at the moment when he should have been here to meet me he had in all probability been asleep in his bed.",1
8813,"like i told you.”

“your neighbors haven’t heard about the miracle yet.” easy put more pressure on the bent arm.",0
409,she doubted she did now.,1
382,she saw the swift uncertainty in them before he smiled.,1
12288,"pharaoh akhnaton is a curse to the poor and ruin to all egypt, and he must be overthrown before the evil he has engendered becomes so great as to be irredeemable even by bloodshed.”

i drank his wine and said, “i have had enough of gods; i care not for them.",0
7425,"plain wooden walls, varnished when the church was built, subtly reflected the light.",0
12172,"“jesus,” frank said.",0
7481,"“if it’s this river of life you want to lay your pain in, then come up,” the preacher said, “and lay your sorrow here.",0
11154,"“i even remarked to my partner that artie was obsessed with the case because he was so crazy about detective stories.”

“it didn’t bring suspicion upon him?”

“no; he himself had the explanation that his own kid brother might have been the victim.” willie weiss was staring at me.",0
2039,"lyle westover told me.”

“after all this time?” she wasn’t letting go her stubborn disbelief.",1
3202,"you’ve just got to have faith, dear.",0
4463,"but with the information alexis supplied, the egyptian authorities are again combing the area, and no doubt they will soon have everything under lock and key.",0
8051,"unless fabrese believed that the treasure was within grasp, everything came tumbling down.",0
2805,"""i doubt it,"" walt said.",1
7023,"i offer my heartfelt appreciation to my editors, barb lilland, anne severance, and carol johnson, whose faith in my work gave me courage for the journey.",0
9314,churchgoers and sliders.,0
10530,"it is madness, for surely the gods exist to keep the people quiet and not to sow unrest among them.”

after a pause he went on, “tomorrow ammon is to be deposed and i for one shall not regret him, for he has grown too powerful to share egypt with pharaoh.",0
2937,don ' t shake your head so skeptically.,1
4445,"no doubt you will remember more later.’ he nodded grimly, and i shouted for peredur to bring one of the horses.",0
1839,"lin was also glad that he had accepted bensheng’s offer, because he wasn’t sure how to put the property up for sale and might need bensheng’s advice and help.",1
10381,"i hope to god you are.” she kissed his cheek, her prelude to discussion.",0
2651,marino asked skeptically.,1
11221,"“salva me ab ore leonis,” i prayed as i fell asleep.",0
4640,"yes, i understand you very well.you’ve worked long and hard to get where you are, and now that you’re at the top, you sometimes have to do things that compromise your faith.",0
8700,helen and ethel left a month before faith did.,0
605,the word was a whisper of disbelief on my fear-numbed lips.,1
8492,"the grass was nothing like that at 78 haddon place, but no doubt she would see to that after she collected from amy wynn.",0
7059,"he stayed twenty minutes and later recalled: “she was thinner and there was a certain look of delicacy about her,” but “she showed not the slightest sign of failing intelligence.... [she] spoke about the war, regretting its prolongation and the loss of life, but said earnestly, ‘i am not anxious about the result.’” on january 13, she made a last entry in her journal: “had a fair night, but was a little wakeful.” her last words were testimony to duty: “rested again afterwards, then did some signing and dictated to lenchen.” the following day, january 14, there was no entry; it was the first time in nearly seventy years that victoria had failed to write.",0
12348,"i’m not blind, for heaven’s sake, even if you are.",0
4241,"if this could be achieved, he was certain that the kaiser and even admiral tirpitz would pay a price in ships.",0
5694,"the front left-hand corner had been shorn off on impact, but apart from that there’d been little damage, and those who’d come running when they heard the collision were saying it was too bad the driver was uninsured when a boy took a stick and smashed the taillights.",0
5385,"“well, it sure is good seeing you girls, you do look wonderful, whatever you're doing must be right by you.” she laughs, turning to put her purse back in the closet.",0
11544,"the inquisitors were reading to brother michael the confession he had made the day before, in which he said that christ and his apostles “held nothing individually or in common as property,”

but michael protested that the notary had now added “many false consequences” and he shouted

(this i heard from outside), “you will have to defend yourselves on the day of judgment!” but the inquisitors read the confession as they had drawn it up, and at the end they asked him whether he wanted humbly to follow the opinions of the church and all the people of the city.",0
11101,"but beyond that, did it occur to you that you might wind up questioning the killer himself?""",0
1711,why am i?” she was not entirely certain what she had done.,1
6624,"a foxhound who clattered all around the place chewing things up, but very devoted.",0
2159,"“professionally,” susan said, “i’m not at all sure that love, as such, is not simply a complex of human impulses: need, identification, possessiveness, fear of loneliness, impulse to replicate the family from which you sprang, sexual desire, anger, the desire to punish, the desire to be punished.”

i didn’t say anything.",1
9767,"of course, the good woman would die of shock to discover that god was a cat and therefore humans were off the board entirely.",0
648,"""and i wasn't certain if i believed.""",1
5183,"we are friends in the way people in an unprovisioned lifeboat are, chance consorts who are sure that they’ll be picked up soon, any day now, but not exactly how or when.",0
11108,he was clearly enjoying his role as chief diagnostician.,0
9047,"are you sure you have alibis?""",0
7102,"this is her first— exposure,” and he mopped his brow, ironically.",0
4921,"some, no doubt, would scoff at such an orpheus; but they would scoff who have forgotten that all romans are descended from a god, and bear the name of his son; and from a mortal woman, and wear her humanity.",0
2468,she’d been about to tell jed her suspicion that justin wells’s critically injured wife was the mysterious karen.,1
790,grumbled roupen dubiously.,1
5223,"that they have a profound effect on some of us, at least, i cannot doubt: even now as richard whitehead warms up to his subject, and his pale face dampens and begins to flush as if from the glow of promised hellfire, i can see around me a score of faces popeyed with black nigger credulity, jaws agape, delicious shudders of fright coursing through their bodies as they murmur soft amens, nervously cracking their knuckles and making silent vows of eternal obedience.",0
9961,"“goddamn you,” he said to the machine, “where is it?”

			“trouble?” i asked.",0
1726,in turn it had been that alarm which may or may not (i cannot be certain) have given the enemy their ultimate advantage and tipped the balance against us.,1
7872,"—i didn’t say i knew he’d lose christina, i said he could, that he could lose, you never know which way a judge will go, and this one, this woman?",0
4226,she spent her miserable existence making sure everyone knew it.,0
4556,"i’m sure if i reached that goal, i’d come up with a new crop of desires.”

they sipped at their wine, relaxed.",0
1611,"—no but this is the part, listen to this part, the decision by a federal judge questioning the good faith of a jury and reversing its verdict in a trial to determine the cause of the dog’s death, for which he has been vilified as an unamerican ungodly racist and even burned in effigy.",1
10971,"it would never do to steal the boat from the poor boatmen, who are no doubt lurking somewhere in the reeds, waiting only for darkness to murder us.",0
8366,"are you sure?”

“sure enough to want a better look.",0
729,"still others held other ideas, but no one seemed at all certain which of the various stories were true.",1
4016,"llenlleawg rode directly to find the missing woman, and even then no one doubted that we would soon see them both before the sun had so much as quartered the sky.",0
325,"""i wish i were as sure as you.""",1
54,he wasn't so sure that would continue after they moved to the construction phase.,1
7185,“is the turtle man certain levasseur returned from saint croix?” she inquired.,0
6689,"enjoy your new saddle.”

“sure’n i am, mr. gardell.",0
5599,"the excitement of this occupation carries all the accidents and mischances of living triumphantly up to a certain point, and then the signs of exhaustion, the hints and surmises of disaster to come, begin to oppress the reader’s mind—or is it only because we know the end?",0
1018,". . out of poland, czechoslovakia, china, out of all the sad new godless lands called iron curtain where first of all the cloistered had been hunted down.",1
12349,"and there marcus livius drusus made her swear a terrible oath to terrible roman gods who had no statues and no mythologies and no humanity, who were personifications of qualities inside the mind, not divine men and women; under pain of their displeasure she swore to be a warm and loving wife to quintus servilius caepio junior.",0
800,ari nodded uncertainly; the cloud still hung over her features.,1
9593,"how could tobias wander off to become a monk without telling anyone what he was doing, just before janio got his throat slit?”

“there had been a storm at sea.",0
514,"i don’t know, maybe it’s a stretch, but you could be looking for a little more to keep you occupied.”

the massage regained momentum at last, accompanied by ivy’s skeptical voice.",1
431,"“mostly, when jacob asked for my hand, i was thinking that i’d lived all those years alone, and i wasn’t sure i was ready to be someone’s wife.",1
4725,"on one hand, he was pleased that fengjin encouraged hua to seize the opportunity to go to the city; on the other, the young man was undoubtedly a practical fellow, who knew how to use her to improve his future—because if hua stayed in the village, he might have to come back to the countryside when he left the army.",0
1687,"the next time kunta saw the fiddler pass by, he nodded at him uncertainly, but the fiddler kept walking as if he hadn't even seen anyone.",1
5457,"franz had seen to it that everyone in his neighborhood did not suffer from any misapprehension that he, merely because he was a waiter, served the meals at home.",0
3549,"tikhanov inquired, wanting to be certain.",0
6300,"karl sighed and rocked in tandem with the ship for a while, relishing the great washing sounds of waves passing by and the creak of solid beams that groaned from the pressure but were certain to hold.",0
3843,". . has not the lord almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?",0
1169,there were times when he believed that the youth’s suspicions were fed by anguish rather than fact.,1
11383,"good spot, but holy redeemer might not think so.",0
12081,"""where in the lousy hell is our daughter?",0
2660,"small doubts, unresolved, unanswered.",1
1469,"imagine that noah knocked his house apart and used the planks to build an ark, while his neighbors looked on, full of doubt.",1
10754,"he has to know that all moscow taxis are a silent arm of the state, and he is, after all, severely wounded and undoubtedly now without a gun or he would have used it on you.",0
4003,"they must have been put up in the middle of the night, she said, because when she drove home yesterday, she certainly hadn’t noticed mack stroupe’s ugly mug plastered on three new boards, all the way from hattie cloer’s market to the shoe barn.",0
3852,"“i—i have come to beg that you lessen your zeal in persecuting those who follow jesus of nazareth.”

			“are you a follower of the nazarene?”

			“yes.”

			herod’s face purpled, and his fingers in the girl’s hair clenched, so that she squealed with pain.",0
7476,"you can’t love to do what you are made to do, and you couldn’t love god if he made you.”

“but if god can do anything, why can’t he do that?”

“because he doesn’t want to,” their mother said, rather impatiently.",0
5593,"i would have pursued it except that i’d sworn off all pressure for the week, just to see if he might slide back toward normalcy.",0
5097,"mr. dinger is convinced it’s not serious.”

“mr.",0
1376,if this is owning the earth i doubt it.,1
810,"it was difficult enough to believe that eliakim was involved—but surely not his son joshua, not manasseh’s trusted friend since childhood.",1
4342,how she peeked inside the doorway on her tiptoes to be sure there was someone she knew.,0
6228,"“don’t stray, del!”

his impetuous, determined daughter dragged him into the thick of the crowd.",0
10655,no doubt it would have crossed his mind that this was what freud wanted mother to forgive my father for.,0
1499,"holy romans, next to being heathens.",1
9478,"soon, surely before christmas, she would drop the hyphen.",0
9712,"for a moment, it’s as if the dream is telling me what i always told myself when i was young: that the church is as empty as the latin mass became when i first heard it in english.",0
9279,"i stayed in the shadows, praying that i could make my getaway before either jack or peter showed up.",0
5684,"always, when she was left alone at a certain hour in the afternoon, she was a shade beside herself.",0
154,there was now some doubt in father urban’s mind that the one had led to the other.,1
6574,"she looked so young and slender, and so very desirable that he stood for several moments and considered her with awe and devotion.",0
9150,"but secretary matsuda is so busy weighing the factors he understands that he forgets entirely that murder has certain consequences.”

thatcher was beginning to see why they were sipping coffee together.",0
6503,"“both of us are doing what we must for the children.”

sophronia stepped to the doorway of the house, holding tiny faith in her arms.",0
7254,"but even simple pleasure, bought and paid for, did not take long to fail— pleasure, as it turned out, was not simple.",0
6352,these faith quickly removed.,0
8012,"so much time that there had been no time for anything else, and i saw now, in a flash of long postponed revelation, and with a sense of shock and dismay, how little by little the unimportant had become important for me, how those things that belonged properly on the edges of my life had in fact become the center.",0
3702,"i am sure you are ready to seek the couch that i have emptied, with some difficulty, for your use.",0
8908,"i don’t want him in here, a damn cocksman on my watch, just can’t have that happenin’ here.’

“so, yeah, sure, i know, i took it upon myself, which you know there was nothin’, obliged me, it’s not like i hadda do it, i just felt like i hadda, is all.",0
2325,"it sounded as if it would take a long time to consume, and he could have a cup of coffee afterward and sit at the table and watch executive tower without arousing suspicion as other customers came and went.",1
8430,"he stalked away, his tail in the air, confident that i would follow him.",0
7314,"what i wanted to do was to give her a boot, a swift kick, and i imagined—i let myself imagine the whole awful scene—the look on her face and the way she would straighten her skirt and say that i was an ungrateful son; that i had never appreciated the advantages of my life: christmas in kitzbühel, etc.",0
2437,"at the same time, this witness called into doubt the reliability of sworn police testimony.",1
496,the doctors weren’t sure why there were no children; some said it was giuseppe’s physical fault or mine.,1
7428,"‘and adam knew eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare cain, and said, “i have gotten a man from the lord.” ’ ”
  adam started to speak and samuel looked up at him and he was silent and covered his eyes with his hand.",0
6043,but i sure hate to be so poor!,0
10986,"dr. ivanov was incensed, not for the first time and doubtless not for the last.",0
10903,"he could do it, he had no doubt he could do it, but yeah, it would be spooky.",0
3573,"“are you sure?”

“this guy has never failed me yet.",0
12090,"“i’ll take care of it.”

“oh, for christ’s sake, frank,” franny said.",0
11906,"he allowed his ""sunday lads"" fifty cents extra for a lunch, but joseph did not spend it.",0
11175,"trouble in exercising restraint, difficulty in maintaining patience, a reluctance to curb his own harsh words which could speak the truth forthrightly.",0
1704,"what all louie had against her, sayward wasn’t certain.",1
10272,"her cosmetic light didn't look like it was directed from the point loma lighthouse, revealing every goddamn sag and crease!",0
10260,"""christ, yes,"" jake said with an expansive wave of his hand.",0
12118,"“jesus god,” father said.",0
10026,godwin was sitting in the far corner.,0
10403,"“watch my dog and don't let nobody steal it,” sister heavenly said and got out.",0
10822,"in one snapshot eight-year-old harry is trying to eat a piece of willie’s birthday cake with a blindfold on (a forfeit in some game, no doubt).",0
11610,"i remember his saying, “i don’t know what you’re trying to do, but fm with you.” i couldn’t explain that i had to keep working two jobs until christmas so my kids would get toys and still believe in santa claus.",0
8110,"the floor of quigley’s rest was covered with sawdust, the lights were dim, the place at twenty minutes to midnight was crowded with people who had undoubtedly awoken at 10:00 p.m. and who would go till 10:00 the next morning.",0
6658,"by now, everyone at doubleday—president steve rubin, who honors me by retaining for each new novel my dear friend and expert editor, carolyn blakemore; marysarah quinn, my designer of choice; whitney cookman, art director supreme; rob wood, artist for the beautiful jacket; renée zuckerbrot, my bright, careful, skilled in-house editor, who along with eileen keeps the ball rolling in my behalf; the entire doubleday sales staff, especially bebe cole, ellen archer, publicity director, jayne schorn, marketing director; and emma, my dear friend who sets the welcoming tone at the house as capable receptionist—everyone keeps me convinced that i couldn’t be happier at any other publishing house.",0
8423,"“be sure you get tight shots of the faces,” i warned him.",0
6756,he will surely be here by morning.,0
310,"she said, ‘that mr. eberley’s a prayerful mennonite man, so you don’t hafta worry one bit.’ ’’

fannie looked mighty skeptical all of a sudden.",1
11193,"the moon, pale and hesitant, hung in the east like a lantern in a watchtower.",0
2808,"for the job, us two, plus five to stand guard.”

“such a thing has never been done before,” observed the tatar doubtfully.",1
11468,"in a little while i will be forty, but even now, when i work out, i remember the christmas season of 1956. now they have such fancy weight machines; there’s no more sliding the weights on the bar, and forgetting to tighten the screws and having the weights slide together and mash your fingers, or fall off the end of the bar on your toes.",0
3564,"he was certain his editors were out to get him, just waiting for him to make some mistake.",0
3505,"“he wanted to make sure that the love of steel would be part of my blood and bone and marrow, as it was my father’s.” for an instant there was a softened, faraway look in his eyes.",0
6058,"""he sure do,"" minnie said from the door.",0
168,"i arrived at the tomb first, just as the sun’s first glow appeared in the east.”

“how could you be certain that you were at the tomb where jesus had been laid?",1
2160,"now, hearing the earnest and anxious tone in his voice, i began to have horrible doubts.",1
3225,none—and certainly not m. berthelot—knew the identity of his assailants.,0
12146,"“he’ll realize that marilyn couldn’t have told you.”

“look, i’m as sorry as hell that it all happened.",0
11686,"straight from the hospital, consolata, in a clean brown dress that reached her ankles, accompanied the nuns to a ship called atenas.",0
885,"what i have more difficulty believing is that the cia actually cooperated with us.”

“you don’t know the drug trade.",1
9083,"certain signs, certain very significant signs, told me you would make this pilgrimage to my coven.",0
4031,"“if some of the glitter i saw at dinner last night was real, it would certainly be enough to attract a jewel thief.”

“dinner!” the word brought gavin to his feet.",0
8154,"“and bennet is convinced you’re the mastermind who’s blown the whistle on him.”

“me?” she said indignantly.",0
3498,“you would?” he had certainly not meant to sound so joyful.,0
771,"i will.”

catherine wished she could feel as sure as he sounded, but she must do something to keep the flicker of knowledge burning in this young mind.",1
2090,"he wanted to surprise everyone, he said.’

			more likely he didn’t want to pay the going rate, kate thought, and when she asked the girl what her fee was, her suspicion was confirmed.",1
6003,all the innocent industry of the households getting mobilized for the day was a pleasure to see.,0
8417,she had called first to make sure michael was not at home.,0
5974,"you and thomas can visit us here, instead of at that lighthouse on the pacific to which i once confidently invited you.",0
4596,"when she was certain her eyes were under control, she leaned into the space between the two beds, checked the baby in his dresser drawer bassinet, then curled in her own bed and pulled the blanket closer to her chin.",0
8900,"oh god, for just a little release from pressure!",0
2024,"he thought he saw her stiffen, but he could not be sure.",1
4125,"""well, the more i thought about it, the more sure i got that they're in some kind of trouble, and the more i sort of hung back from the thought of walking into it by myself, to tell you the truth.",0
7921,—i never said a million dollars christina.,0
8541,"arthur was sure frank would give him enough, but frank also depressed arthur.",0
1734,but he wasn’t sure of what color his daughter liked.,1
12256,"“oh god, i wish it had all been different.",0
419,"catherine saw him glance uncertainly at blake, who sighed but said nothing.",1
9816,"i swear to god, if i could just touch that pussy, just touch it one time”—weiner put his palms together, as if in prayer—“i’d die a happy man.”

the bar’s front door swung in, and a small bell sounded above it.",0
4413,yet closer inspection convinced her she was wrong.,0
5523,"or anyplace else for that matter.”

i looked him over without shyness, with the inspecting gaze a wife earns after a certain number of years.",0
10611,get some kind of closure.,0
8835,"he spoke quietly
but with assurance to vicarson.",0
1664,not that living in a villa or driving a mercedes can automatically exclude one from such suspicion.,1
6780,"as a villein on margate land he and the land could be bought, sold, or traded at perceval’s pleasure.",0
12377,shut the hell up.” mavis looked eagerly at pallas.,0
2313,"she looked wary and guarded, uncertain as to how she should act: undecided whether she was sorry or relieved that i had been witness to and participant in the emotional explosion that she had been unable to contain.",1
2797,"thus it was that the host of the naugrim crossing over aros passed unhindered into the woods of doriath; and none withstood them, for they were many and fierce, and the captains of the grey-elves were cast into doubt and despair, and went hither and thither purposeless.",1
10954,undoubtedly the admission was the only one that ever would be made; such things were never inserted in a written record.,0
10105,"on sunday morning, john stefanovitch’s black van entered the queens midtown tunnel at six-fifteen.",0
7283,"she left her recipes to the methodist church—i hope.”

“she was a living saint,” answered another lady, as if this would agree with everything.",0
12161,"he returned at a 556 ' heaven and hell

gallop.",0
2896,"mother resisted this, and frank was morose about it, and franny and i were probably believers of this religion—or if, at times, we doubted iowa bob, the world would always come up with something that seemed to prove the old lineman right.",1
6923,"every spanish treasure ship i sink will be a fortune lost to king philip which he would otherwise use to feed his army in the netherlands.”

“you’ll not bring caroline back by throwing away your life to become a common pirate!”

“pirate?” his father had repeated scornfully.",0
5524,"we are all right–life continues, the old bonds hold–and if there is a certain unhappiness, a real regret, why that is what man, and even more woman, is born to.",0
2250,"my loose morals, and the notion that i might be ‘raping’ his daughter, who happened to be my wife.”

“a lot of people talk puritan,” i said, “and behave heathen.”

“true,” freddie admitted.",1
6446,a vocal group from a foreign shore had paved the route to a new decline in morality and to the practice of a heathen religion whose insidious influence had once been removed by a vast ocean.,0
3642,"flaherty, i need for you to come to the police station as soon as possible.”

if she hadn’t still been standing, she would have been certain her heart had stopped beating.",0
5016,no doubt it will be ready for use just as the emigrants cease to come.,0
1276,it’s because his feelings have been stronger than his beliefs.,1
3571,"“i know what you’re thinking.”

“i’m sure you don’t—”

“it isn’t gratitude,” he interrupted her, his voice heavy with building frustration.",0
9459,"“hmm,” said the minister, thinking aloud.",0
3724,no doubt they were watching him even more closely now from the heights of berlin’s citadels of power.,0
10063,"later, empt said disgustedly to turk bending: ""prudent, for god's sake!",0
7743,“now where the hell is that chip?” he said to himself as he got out of the truck.,0
2098,i doubted that last.,1
30,"in my unfinished book i had originally planned, before i had lost faith in the project, to make the historical marcellus a member of my fictional christ commission, and i would have had him send pilate back to rome, at the end, not for his crime against the samaritans but for his illegal actions against jesus.",1
11425,"""small place, little white houses, little old church, little old priest ...""


""just so long as he recalls the words of the marriage ceremony.""",0
7674,"you’re simply not making any sense oscar, i don’t know what in god’s name you’re complaining about.",0
5261,"even i, who have devoted my life to the pursuit of knowledge and truth, can have some sympathy for the state of the world which has occasioned this disdain.",0
10051,"""dear god!""",0
10461,"i certainly do.”





15


robert drove to new york on sunday evening.",0
12186,"so lola was happy to be the best-minded girl in town, and jean-baptiste was content to while away the days until another contract to fight came up.",0
11534,"many christians are valued colleagues and dear friends, but the partners have always been jews, and it will ever be so.""",0
10237,"'jesus christ-'

'and my price was heavy.",0
8369,"“make sure they sit here, not over on the sofa.” he saw harry tugging at the string to lower the venetian blinds.",0
4152,"his beliefs were there, but never challenged, i guess.”

she lifted her cup.",0
6309,"an auspicious debut for a very talented writer.”—lee smith





“an original, lyrically written tale ... a beautifully realized character ... reynolds aims high and just about hits the bull’s-eye, displaying a self-assurance and a taste for moral and social issues that make her debut a most welcome one.” —publishers weekly





“a wonderfully compelling, powerful, moving, and complex coming-of-age story.” —booklist





“a powerful new voice among southern writers ... jael is captivating; she is bright, strong-willed, and very believable.”—raleigh spectator





“the book opens with a rush of pure poetry that begs to be read aloud; it’s laced with the sort of language that can lift you off your feet ... a first novel that will be tough to top.”—richmond times-dispatch





“while bitterroot landing is a candid depiction of the acts and scars of abuse, it’s also the unsentimental story of a young woman who reconstructs her defiled youth ... reynolds brings a fresh look, her prose clear and distinct, to the prospect of reinventing one’s life.”

—san francisco chronicle book review





“disturbing ... full of haunting imagery ... a story for our times.”

—creative loafing





“close the pages of bitterroot landing, and the smell of swamp water and red earth remains.",0
3358,"“are you sure that lucas knows about this bride?”

hannah considered the question then nodded.",0
4044,"you’ve been promised your own thievin’ neck to take away mine!”

baret was sure it was so.",0
9473,"""god won't approve?""",0
640,"i know there'll be times when i doubt my own ability, when i'll be discouraged, on the verge of despair.",1
12226,"i’ll tell him that if he makes good—if the job works out—i’ll come there and get in a broadway show and have a baby and live in new york.”

“would you?”

neely looked at her strangely.",0
6792,"that official was franz xaver schwarz, a former accountant in the finance section of the münchen city hall who had lost his job after the putsch and was now party treasurer.",0
1462,"then he said, “i don’t know about waiting inside.” he wasn’t sure why it bothered him to think of waiting in the house.",1
4367,"it seems to him that from the minute he sits back down at the table and leans over the fragrant steam of that cup, he begins-surely, this time -to mend.",0
11392,"it was not a good time for painting, but brunon had a short vacation from school and charles, after christmas at beeching, had been glad to return to the continent to meet his friend.",0
9214,"i’m as bad as these guys.”



“low pressure system.",0
6430,"david gulped, thanked his hostess, then determinedly dipped into the applesauce.",0
6375,sure he does.,0
8692,"and if, after a certain length of time, he failed to do so, why they'd just pick him up again and throw him in the can.",0
4217,"staring at the lifeless giant who had pulled her from certain death, emily fought off a team of emotions—anger, remorse, sorrow, grief—knowing that if she gave in to them now, bryn would have saved her in vain.",0
9755,"“first time i’ve ever seen a portrait of christ smiling,” said richardson.",0
11877,who in hell was in the pool?,0
5890,"and, like all persons of resolute mind and long experience, she had become impatient at the presence of independence in others.",0
2094,"sally had some kind of strong feeling for him, but i wasn’t sure what it was, and i’m still not sure, so i’ll skip it.",1
5780,"when they left to walk back home her mother said, “that little russian man sure is funny-looking.”

“woman, you always got to talk ’bout how someone look,” her father said.",0
10959,"when they left the restaurant the people in the gardens seemed more boisterous than they had earlier, no doubt because they had consumed a good deal of beer and gin in the interim.",0
7981,"and as though that weren’t enough, the elder rabbis gave him homework, too—just like you!”





all the sunday school books tia had read were written this way, but this was the first time they seemed so ridiculous to her.",0
8626,"needless to say, in spite of the official theory, everyone was convinced that there was a connection between the deaths of miles and ella and magda.",0
2819,all it brought her was doubt.,1
8849,"both in congress and in the commission itself, proponents of increased regulation always become more vociferous when internal policing measures of the exchange prove inadequate to a crisis.",0
1454,i don’t understand him!” all her devotion is combustible and goes up in despair.,1
2174,"“i doubt it,” he said finally.",1
3917,41.joseph pearce devotes an entire section of his book on literary catholics to the chesterbelloc.,0
9481,"he closed his eyes, cradling the gun in his hand, the sound of the television as muted as prayer.",0
4364,"""a worthy ambition, to be sure,"" confirmed farouk.",0
6000,"coverly was excited to see so many lights burning after dark and by the apparatus for the tightrope artist - a high pole secured by guy wires with a summit of fringed platforms and pedestals, all of it standing in the glare of two up - angled searchlights in whose powdery beams moth millers could be seen to swim like scraps of gum paper.",0
10412,"they carry with them the heavy scent of bread, baked fresh in a thousand stone ovens around the city, each oven sending up its slender tendril of smoke like a daily offering to the gods.",0
3671,"however, i think they’re all, except sam, too big for their jobs, and i am sure they’re off balance.",0
9373,"“the trouble with you, lover, is that you don’t understand what priests and nuns mean to catholics.”

“how would you know?",0
12092,"the minister was away and i was in charge, which made it all the worse--for me.'",0
5845,"in a sense the question of survival had never been more imminent, for no land is more the measure of human strength.",0
11126,"somewhere, we knew, horn was questioning the possible owners of the glasses.",0
8745,"i dinn kill her.”

“you’re a hundred percent sure of that?”

“a hunnerd percent.”

“so what do you want to do?”

“if i doan answer them, they goan think i killed her.”

“not necessarily.",0
1941,"chili, not at all sure, didn’t say anything.",1
11723,"and, in fact, jorge’s words filled me with a great desire to see the tigers and monkeys of the cloister, which i had not yet admired.",0
5219,certainly i could not be more deep in the heart of jewry had i just been set down in tel aviv.,0
6512,she tried to sound confident.,0
9911,“jesus!” krug braked unconsciously in the passenger seat.,0
8761,"you understand that you will have to appear before the grand jury?”

morrison inclined his head slightly, and when he spoke, it seemed to brian he was trying to reassure the young district attorney.",0
9705,that was his worst sin because it was the root of all his others.,0
3383,"“just be sure you bring her back, miss gardner.” he turned to greet another behind them.",0
4287,"“i’m sure she cares for you, too.”

			 				“i don’t know.",0
5024,"her mother had been a college graduate, specializing in french; with that kind of education she could surely have made a lot of progress in her career.",0
11053,"mundt asked casual y. leamas hesitated,

uncertain of himself.",0
7782,"—but who christina, what .",0
2451,"‘i’m not sure yet.’

‘for example,’ the voice went on, ‘the district attorney suggests that the bullet which killed mark ransom traveled from at least three feet, in contrast to your claim that the gun went off while he was on top of you.’

for a moment, mary looked surprised.",1
11451,"at least she hadn’t died, and they were still praying she wasn’t going to.",0
11218,"she did not really know whether she was a believer or not, but now she prayed hard, figuring that she had nothing to lose, anyway.",0
7970,"many entirely naked. . . . sores afflict us now, and the lord only knows what next.",0
996,"""how do you know
my doubts and my desires?",1
7919,"i saw you drive up, you know, and i wondered who you were.”

“we live in california, my husband and i, los angeles….",0
2477,"“grieg’s no worse than the rest of them.”

“abel had false teeth,” i said, “so i doubt he’d have needed dr. grieg’s services, reasonable or otherwise.",1
11491,at last betty anne came back: he was prayed to go up.,0
4853,"if i were to look for someone, that's certainly where i'd go.",0
2572,"and that settles the question!”

“it does not settle any question at all,” the bishop of alborea shouted, “because these minorites, who produce heretics as bitches produce puppies, claim everything for themselves, boast of martyrs, but have fine churches, sumptuous vestments, and buy and sell like all the other religious!”

“no, my lord, no,” jerome interrupted, “they do not buy and sell on their own, but through the procurators of the apostolic see, and the procurators have possession, while the minorites have only the use!”

“is that so?” the bishop sneered.",1
10740,"paperman said, ""in special excursion steamers, no doubt.",0
9003,"“no, the pleasure was mine.",0
10079,"“trust me.”

• • •

alone in the small fitting room at roberta’s ladies shoppe, christine poole treated her fingers to the silky feel of a black evening shift, one that roberta had not recommended.",0
580,"in my opinion, from that moment on, peyramale was no longer a doubter.",1
5122,he went to his foot-locker and made sure he had clothes for tomorrow.,0
12350,"""who goes out to these godforsaken fringe places to try and scratch a living?",0
11081,"“you are not even a humanist !”

“please,” schwanger was soothing.",0
7166,"“gracious, miss flanna, what’s come over you?”

“we did it, charity.” flanna felt a blush of pleasure rise to her cheeks.",0
10302,"at last he shouted through her words: “what the hell have i done that’s so awful?”

“you’re such a heel, you wouldn’t know!",0
6848,"steady, holding his composure, he crossed the room and approached the august form of aveling, alone and unmoving in the open doorway of the vault, staring inside at the thousands and thousands of documents still to be inventoried.",0
5295,"but even when she was young, she was granted her freedom for faithful service, so that she might, in the law, marry the freedman hirtius, who became my father.",0
10294,"come.”

“there’s a cup of tea and a sandwich for you while i look to your back.”

“for god’s sake, woman, we must be on the docks in thirty-five minutes!",0
10785,"she mad, no doubt in the world ’bout that, but her madness don’t extend to the child.",0
3190,she gazed up unbelievingly.,1
8415,let me assure you that your husband provided us with the diary in the course of giving us access to all his belongings.,0
6662,surely amos has no real concern for my well-being.,0
2922,"""i do not anticipate an unhappy relationship with you, gaius marius, for i see nothing in you to make me doubt your temper or your integrity, and you will find mine all they should be.",1
10839,"no doubt, he mused bitterly, mr. al-haroun had a friend in that bureau.",0
9414,"""i pray for miracle.",0
622,"for some reason which is difficult to explain, i am somewhat hesitant to trust everything they tell me.",1
5700,that one so charming could also rule one of the richest lands in the world is almost beyond belief.,0
3653,"a body who loves him sure won’t be gleeful over his misery.”

“what makes you think i feel mistreated?” mark asked, astonished.",0
11600,"and if the earth could really have its way

it would sleep through all of eastertide

to the droning of the psalms as a lullaby.",0
11424,"timothy, who was fearless, and several years younger than joseph, said, ""mr. armagh, may i enquire, then, why you chose catholics for your sister and your brother?""",0
2964,"therefore do not expect to leave this place unscathed, uncensured, or unburdened of a guilty conscience which should stay with you through all your days.”



what mace had done a few minutes earlier, astounding all who heard, was admit that prior to recommending fda approval of montayne, he had had serious doubts about the drug, based on the earliest australian report--doubts which never left him.",1
4158,"'there is no need,' ranulf assured him.",0
2569,"they hate the coach, a godless man who, it is rumored, keeps alcohol in his home.",1
9392,i closed my eyes and prayed.,0
5478,"this vicarious contact with comfort pleased laura, and the pleasure would stay with her as she pushed the baby carriage over to madison avenue and then began to cook supper, hearing the thump of the steam iron and smelling the cleaning fluid from the pants presser’s below.",0
11697,"“after all, the abbot asked me to investigate adelmo’s death when he thought that something

unhealthy was going on among his young monks.",0
2471,quick suspicion came to her eyes.,1
6415,"but what are we going to do?”

“we?”

“you don’t have a bishop looking down your throat.”

“i sure don’t.”

jack pulled him close.",0
12381,"all that they could see was a silent waterfront, exactly as it would have looked upon a sunday or a holiday, though then there would have been activity among the smaller craft.",0
235,"lucanus gazed at her, expecting tears and protests and disbelief.",1
8494,"but they could run afoul of a security guard, one of dozens, certainly, hired by affluent local residents.",0
5597,"words that capture the views on this side of the critical fence include “beautiful,” “glowing,” “classic,” “luminous,” “moving,” “absorbing,” and “full of wisdom”—a term typically tied to a special appreciation for wilder’s exploration of good and evil, faith and love.",0
3477,then she commenced making signs at him made him know for sure if he stayed he was a goner.,0
2453,annabel was not a religious person in the sense that she devoted much time or thought to it.,1
7591,you have taken a life and you doubly owe a life to god and to his creation.,0
6334,"if my memory serves me correctly, i believe one certain young lady tried to get me to—er—‘take advantage’ of some such golden opportunity at one time.",0
11435,"alien, with his angelically huge eyes, was standing behind him.",0
1873,he hates and distrusts professional diplomacy and politics.,1
2938,"“maybe,” she said uncertainly, maybe even therapy would be too hard to handle.",1
1840,"it has no obstacles save those provided by the hazards of fate (that is to say, society), and such sufferings as the lovers may cause each other are only another word for delight: exciting jealousies, thrilling uncertainties, the ritual dance of courtship within the charmed closed circle of their secret alliance; all real troubles come from without, they face them unitedly in perfect confidence.",1
6107,"“i’m apologizing, pratt—sure,” he said, beginning a monologue.",0
2928,"they sat in the huge dim drawing room of the ugly house near the river, and flora eyed howard best dubiously, plucking at her gray linen skirt and biting her lips.",1
27,"""i do not censor you, nor complain, for had i not seen with my own eyes what had occurred in this house i 
should doubt also, and probably with more contempt.",1
2475,i didn’t put a label on it.” he wasn’t sure what to say next and the sound of the buzzer on his telephone saved him.,1
1698,"though she agreed, a shade of doubt came over her mind because she was uncertain whether she could understand the poems, not to mention report to him her appreciation of them.",1
11933,"""i indicated in my letter that my availability is contingent on his acceptance,"" angela said.",0
9363,"but worse than the procession down the narrow aisle was kneeling during the forty hours devotion, in an empty church, cold and shadow-shrouded, during the twilight hours when the wounded, tortured saints and martyrs loomed like bloody phantoms in the gloom.",0
2941,in this country the sun shineth night and day; wherefore this was beyond the valley of the shadow of death and also out of the reach of giant despair; neither could they from this place so much as see doubting castle.,1
10931,"no doubt the men knew of each other, might even be acquainted, but there would not be a question of discussing each other’s business together.",0
1968,her eyes were slits of suspicion.,1
9382,"ever suspicious, overby drove around the church three times.",0
9613,"“can i talk to jesus, please?” asked wager.",0
1448,"i mean, what can you sell a hundred sacks for in salinas?”
“i’m not sure.",1
6881,"“i sure hope you’ll consider our offer, though.",0
9134,"do you have a name?”

“sure i have a name.",0
1141,jarvis shot her a skeptical glance.,1
8907,"just showing an old picture worked with lil y, he reminded himself, somewhat reassured.",0
3076,but somehow trygve was haunted by his suspicions.,1
7638,". . godsakes, piper, i dipped out a half-canteen of that stuff and lifted it up to drink and— godsakes, there was a turd floating right under my nose! .",0
2609,"“but they’re just babbitts.”

looking up at the sky, ruth tells him, “my folks are agnostics.",1
2056,or was he just trying to throw suspicion off himself?,1
3,"i hesitated, i doubted, i thought, i worried.",1
7856,what the hell sense does that make?,0
2293,"but if i may venture to make a suggestion, a packet of matches would be more useful.”

“i’m not so sure.",1
51,"""and because i have known all these doubts myself, i can understand them.",1
7354,"she is in the bosom of a lutheran cult and likes it: they operate a nursing home on a freezing peninsula, where she works in the mailroom for room and board, essentially.",0
1369,"but as i looked at charlie and saw him so weak, so passive, so stripped of all the apparatus of his normal skepticism, so trustingly defenseless against each of these barely plausible tales, i couldn't avoid the thought that it was somehow unfair: that while it undoubtedly was all for his benefit, at the same time it was a little like taking advantage of the credulity of a child.",1
3565,"john loitered in front of woolworth’s, staring at the candy display, trying to decide what candy to buy—and buying none, for the store was crowded and he was certain that the salesgirl would never notice him—and before a vendor of artificial flowers, and crossed sixth avenue where the automat was, and the parked taxis, and the shops, which he would not look at to-day, that displayed in their windows dirty postcards and practical jokes.",0
6879,"i think she’s been reasonably convinced.”

jarvis blinked in surprise, then frowned and shook his head.",0
12398,"god help you if you actually hit some kid.""",0
10722,"there was no doubt that he was impressed with tanya’s career, but even mary stuart, always fiercely defensive on her friend’s behalf, had to admit that he was a decent guy and obviously cared deeply about her.",0
8644,"he produced a small black rosary, wrapped it securely around the priest’s left wrist, stringing the beads between the dead man’s thumb and forefinger.",0
10587,"if anything happened to them, there was no way in which the

federal republic’s government would escape a howl of censure from within germany, by the

combined media and the political opposition.",0
6950,"“but she wouldn’t—”

“yes, i would!” without hesitation audrey dropped the beaver fur and threw her arms around rowtag’s neck.",0
10071,"when she found phil dead, she naturally turned to me.”

“neddy was number two, but he tried harder.”

“honest to christ, jeannie, will you shut the fuck up!” shouted her husband.",0
11371,it was clearly the will of god.,0
4653,"already there was pressure from the global community north american
government outpost in washington d.c. to convert all churches into official
branches of what was now called enigma babylon one world faith.",0
2853,"i doubt if even emory can compete for long with paris, france.""",1
6134,"indeed, he seemed to derive a certain pleasure from another’s venality, as narrowing the disadvantage against him.",0
5492,"“i want a lot of money and i’m going to get it too.”
“how?”
  cal felt older and surer than his brother.",0
5924,“he sure a sweet boy.,0
6965,"suffering from his headaches as usual, unfortunately.”

“yes, to be sure.",0
7002,you sure could call it that.,0
9676,"“here goes nothing.”

and we were out the door, walking down the little tiled hallway about as casually as two priests in a strip joint.",0
11231,"no—the gospel wasn't needed for that—the greek philosophers, the roman moralists, and the hebrew prophets had known this long before.",0
5483,"it was far from an easy job, and it had duties and obligations beyond belief.",0
7136,"are you sure you don’t mind?”

price leaned forward until she could see more of the outline of the old red bridge that stretched across the flathead.",0
5792,"finally, they thought it would be good for me to stay awhile because it was always a pleasure to meet persons from one’s own country when one was in a far place, so they thought rra puleng would be glad to see me there in tsau.",0
11297,they never explained what angels they were referring to.,0
7259,she returned the pressure.,0
7761,"she starts in october and practically every day she’s punching out candy canes and angels, or gingerbread boys with raisin eyes, santas with frosting beards!",0
2388,but you can’t even be sure about that—could have been the drunk ex-doctor or some bungling practical nurse.” he shrugged.,1
8566,"maybe tomorrow, or next week, or even next year, but something will happen, i’m sure.”

as he drove home dan cohen thought of what mezzik had said, and his face relaxed in a wry grin.",0
9877,“god.,0
6983,"indeed, surprisingly few treasures remained the sole property of their recipients.",0
8090,"they’re going to make sure we win despite all the damn stupidity and fear you find in the mice.”

“but not you,” randolph said.",0
763,"and that’s why i never liked you, he wanted to say.you’re a hypocrite and as much of an idolater as hephzibah.",1
2168,"some of the nonethnic grocery and chain stores carried what was called “caribbean specialties” to lure the illegal immigrants from the islands, an uncertain number of phantoms who creeped out at dawn to factory jobs and came back late at night to sleep in a crowded subdivided apartment for which they paid a greedy landlord an exorbitant rate.",1
8244,"i believed it, and went on believing it for nearly two decades: until i learned the truth three months ago.”

he stared at the green-glass shade of the lamp as emotion grew inside him.",0
3314,"certainly they did not suspect anyone of spying on them, they were still talking earnestly.",0
10988,"it will no doubt suggest something unpleasant, some kind of devious sexual approach ... a desire to know you in a way you do not want to be known by a stranger.",0
3727,father cantave is the voice of the poor and their voice should surely be heard.,0
4722,"halfway, he turns to make sure the children haven’t left the bus.",0
9436,"she was slicing cucumbers at the time, so i prayed for her fingers.",0
6372,life returned to normal in the house of pleasure.,0
4631,and it’s politically incorrect to talk about personal faith in public.,0
11745,"new priests were co-opted by the surviving members of the college, a plebeian being replaced by a plebeian, and a patrician by a patrician; the colleges of priests and of augurs normally stood at half-plebeian, half-patrician.",0
7933,"she was given to anything vampiric, went wild for blacula, christopher lee, lugosi, bats, venus’s-flytraps, and she said it was the best way, to use your mouth, that this was it, this was the thing that made us human.",0
8204,"the court will permit the examination of mr. mason as a witness, but the court is certainly going to be very alert to safeguard the interests of the defendants.”

“very well, your honor.",0
4516,"surely now, with london crumbled around them, they needed each other more than ever before.",0
5328,"on the other hand, they could gather thousands of “sympathizers” of every shade of political and religious belief and every known nationality and carry off great may day parades peaceably under police protection.",0
4760,"same ocean.”

since she was approaching the beach as a principle as well, there was nothing he could say about specific features of certain stretches of the shore to make them any more attractive than this one, though he tried, even after he saw the trouble he’d made for himself when he finally gave up and tried to convince her that this very venice beach, despite every drawback he’d just named, was exactly where he wanted to spend the day too.",0
8195,"i find anyone else in there i’ll kill them just to make the point.”

“i’m sure you will.",0
443,"the critics applauded the new, light, “good” alma demott, but the public was not so sure.",1
2548,he had few friends and i doubt if any of us could give a complete picture of him.,1
11994,why couldn’t adele have found some big english lord and stayed in london?,0
12,"“i’m sure she cares for you, too.”

			 				“i don’t know.",1
8536,“i’m sure it’ll come back to me in time.,0
10131,"i’m always expecting, almost any day, but especially on sundays when the board meets.",0
1193,"still not convinced, katie washed her hands and helped set the serving platters on the table.",1
9691,"take the first right after you pass it.”

the sign in front of the church read a.m.e. i asked seth what it meant.",0
7149,"going to the hoovers’ farm turned out to be the salvation although it sure didn’t look that way from the car window, all those tobacco fields hot and thick, and i said to myself driving by, if i have to work another day in this nasty, sticky heat i will surely die.",0
6017,"“sure we could,” ray said.",0
149,"there were dark circles under his eyes and his once confident, almost arrogant look of self-assurance was gone.",1
5909,"after another two or three miles uncle ralph said, “now around this bend you run through a branch and you turn up sharp to the right, ”and they ran through the branch and turned into a sandy woods road and his father went a little slower and a cool breeze flowed through them and his mother said how lovely this shade was after that terrible hot sun, wasn’t it, and all the older people murmured that it sure was, and almost immediately they broke out of the woods and ran through two miles of burned country with stumps and sometimes whole tree trunks sticking up out of it sharp and cruel, and blackberry and honeysuckle all over the place, and a hill and its shadow ahead.",0
7100,the commander’s eyes again measured tancred.,0
9441,"all that are holy have convened in the temple to hear mr. tunny speak of peace.”

i glanced at fred.",0
1885,"some doubt might be entertained as to whether eustacia sims was ever married, truly married.",1
4829,"soldiers trooped along the platforms, they passed the open window where henry wirz sat in dejection— they passed unheeding, although doubtless there were ex-prisoners from andersonville here and there in the jingling throngs.",0
5753,"when certain indians got tired of living in a place—when they used up the soil, or the garbage pile got too high—they moved on to the next place.",0
8556,"arlene’s third girl friend talked exclusively about a nude stage show she had seen downtown the night before, stating flatly that it was the filthiest thing she had ever seen in her life, and you know me, arlene, i’m certainly no prude.",0
9124,we don't want to force you into being a certain kind of person.,0
8325,"this is patrick o’garro.”

they were certainly popping the precedents.",0
7614,not to mention the congregation.,0
19,her voice sounded so hoarse she doubted if he would even recognize it.,1
2546,"there was no point, he knew, in trying to introduce a new subject of conversation until tom had settled to his own satisfaction whatever doubts and suspicions had been raised in his butterfly mind by foote’s order.",1
5171,i rubbed my eyes to be sure i was seeing right.,0
8936,"martin scroggins cleared his throat and said, ""surely, you can't be having money troubles?""",0
8463,"‘why are you so mean to daddy?’

her daughter’s voice was part inquiry and part accusation; there was an eerie certainty in it, as though elena knew she was speaking an indubitable truth.",0
5460,"“see how many kinds we can find.”

tipped head, questioning look half timid and half trusting.",0
1355,"helton too, the victim in my story, is also a murderer, with the dubious innocence of the madman; but no less a shedder of blood.",1
8402,"he does seem interested in mrs. seaingham, certainly.”

“well, i wouldn’t know about that.",0
9378,the bible tells us that white power is god’s will.,0
11082,"he had no hesitation in making the trip this way, at company expense, since reflection this morning while driving to the airport in darkness confirmed the good sense of last night's impulse.",0
1203,"she wished she could be certain she was working her way east, but the leaden sky gave her no hint where the muted sun might be.",1
9834,"he must be regarded, therefore, as a figure in church history, rather than roman history.",0
3723,"she remembered the first time she had ever seen luc montrose, his confident walk, his cap at a jaunty angle, the ultimate cocky airman.",0
3523,it is undoubtedly the most volatile excavation i’ve been involved with.,0
6547,faith caught her breath.,0
4562,a frown surely waited in the wings.,0
5717,"i liked him, all right, but i couldn’t stand a certain thing he said.",0
4881,"it was as though he had suddenly decided he could expect no more sympathy from me than from thurston, the reason being that i was of thurston’s faith, and not his.",0
191,"i’m not sure i know the answer to your question about how long it takes to learn to decide what the real you wants or needs—because it took me years to reach the place where i didn’t cry out, in my heart at least, that all i really needed was to have robert with me again.",1
6219,"it was the suspicion of this odor that drew me nearer to the bag, until i crawled under the telephone table and put my ear to the bag and listened, and peered over the top of the bag-but the bag inside the bag blocked my view.",0
2647,"i doubt if it could happen when you are submerged, except under very extreme conditions.",1
160,"the people he knew of a dispostion to hold forth were plagued themselves with convictions and troubled with resolve while donnie huff did not hold himself too awful many strong opinions and was hardly tempted to squander his leisure in the cultivation of them since, after working in timber the day long, it was a chore for him to muster sufficient energy to believe in anything much at all.",1
8130,"as i watched him, i’m sure he saw the contempt in my face.",0
8800,"""a pleasure, brother,"" said gerald.",0
3779,karl ibsen sat on the floor of his cell and waited with perfect faith that it would come again.,0
9199,"but then, as he swam determinedly outward, breasting the strong waves, his body temperature rose, the cobwebs were rinsed from his brain, and he began to glory in this muscle-stretching fight against the sea.",0
3699,"the candles, the carols, the story of the baby born in a cattle stall, all reinforced the comforting belief that my life was part of an unbroken tradition that would never change.",0
4739,"certainly not everybody was happy during the last days, because some of us were assigned to good units while others had to go to bad ones.",0
10567,"i think, i am sure, that it was knowing about his brother—that damned dilettante—that really knocked him off his precarious perch.",0
10965,no doubt he was saving his rage for the flogging.,0
2260,"i was not yet certain of anything concerning the forsythes but i was curious—nay, obsessed!—about the passions that were riving the family.",1
4969,there’s no doubt what was going on in chuck’s mind and body—is there?,0
3361,"this was no place for them, certainly not for ken, who needed comfort and rest and quiet.",0
7199,"with his bundle tied securely, uriah scanned the room to see if he had forgotten anything.",0
5038,. . dreaming certainly no further ahead than the next turkey gobble or christmas gift or yielding of a giggling shiny body in a bed or down a fence-row.,0
10823,".

.""

""and you said,"" karden suggested with irony, ""that you would always wait for him, no doubt?",0
9130,"""sure i know those two.",0
2849,david stared at the three administrators in disbelief.,1
10201,"not a hell of a lot, but a nice pile of lam money.",0
4440,". .

“that ladder?”

“yessir, be sure’n hold on tight.”

he peered into the black and churning sea, and made a couple of quick steps to a chair that was bolted to the cockpit deck.",0
3814,surely god wouldn’t do this to him.,0
8467,he says that whoever killed his father is determined to kill him as well; the trial itself is a plot to dispose of him.,0
1567,"i doubt if i’m much of a catch.”

she held up a finger, gay-making in the county fashion.",1
4999,your task as you deliberate together on these proceedings is to ensure that you do nothing to yield to a universe in which things go awry by happenstance.,0
10775,but he agreed that in the end jamie bennett would doubtless support good government if obliged to choose.,0
7080,surely she hadn’t been ill the whole ten days he’d been away!,0
380,"he shook his head in disbelief, as if trying to awaken from a dream.",1
7926,"why, by god, it has come under my observation that the sick will nerve themselves to remarkable accomplishments, and steal from the well!",0
4878,"“but if you’re all determined to have no more to do with the u.s. mail, think of this: what will stella-rondo do now, if she wants to tell mr. whitaker to come after her?”

“wah!” says stella-rondo.",0
9577,"why has it never occurred to anyone that god, if he existed, would clearly be seen to be regularly on the wrong, if winning, side?",0
4192,"“make sure you take enough,” she had murmured in a sleepy voice as olivia studied the ultrasound screen and guided the harvesting needle into one of lara’s ovaries.",0
6871,"but now was no time to offend his subjects with the pagan crosier motif, and the pressure behind such coinage was dead anyway.",0
5075,"i stopped, curious about his next overture, but with a firm clutch on my purse, you may be sure.",0
6851,"“just the thing for such a blustery day,” hiltje said, hesitantly letting the tightness slip from her arms and neck.",0
52,"why?”

“no one knows for sure.",1
2602,"""perhaps, though i doubt it.",1
7303,"he hazarded a note or two in shaky handwriting, then left the church and was walking down the sweeping flight of stairs, when he beheld at the bottom—his heart misgave him, was he still seeing pictures, a sneaky apostle added to the overloaded boatful ?—ecco, susskind!",0
1475,he doubted that the rebels were any worse than hulk allen at the livery barn; and once hulk allen had knocked benny flat with one slap of his big hand .,1
338,"for an instant they were dazed and uncertain, but they cleared quickly and his gaze swept the open area around him and the edges of the crowd now drawn away several paces in a circle, exposing the open stairway.",1
2763,"“thank the lord,” i say and i do feel relieved because if he were my son i’d be a little skeptical about his traipsing off to america with a forty-two-year-old woman he’d only spent a few days with.",1
9164,"“certainly, sharon.” he nuzzled his nose against her face.",0
6924,"it seemed to him thieves could as easily steal a camel as a wagon full of treasure, and he said so.",0
1377,the yankee wailed in disbelief.,1
526,"“i can’t say for sure, but we can’t spare a boat to send down river to get her back if she has been taken.”

porter turned to mike and said slowly, “i’ve got an idea.”

“what’s that, sir?”

“did you notice the battery of guns up there on the hill?",1
232,but elisabeth herself had nearly lost her faith.,1
6726,"‘we are!’

‘well, then,’ cai declared, his broad face glowing with pleasure in the firelight, ‘let us defy this ill-favoured night with a song!’

‘a song!’ the cymbrogi cried; every man was with him now, shouting for a song to roll aside the gloom and woe.",0
1836,"what will you do?”

“i’m not sure,” she said, startled by his words.",1
7167,"under pressure from birth to “get out of here and make something out of yourself,” kyle’s father had come to louisville and worked his way into a farm equipment dealership.",0
878,"they proclaim that i am barred forever from entering heaven, but they would quickly change their opinions if i were to recant my beliefs.",1
4923,"i ceased eating for a moment, both ears cocked and straining, waiting for some sound outside—a bird call, the plashing of a duck on the millpond, a whisper of wind in the forest—to convince me that i could hear, but i heard nothing, nothing at all, and my panic swelled until just then the startling noise of my own bare callused foot scuffing roughly on the pine floor reassured me: i chided myself for my silliness and continued eating, and was further soothed by a fly’s insensate deafening mutter as it settled on the topmost edge of my ear.",0
10446,"it was behind him, thank god.",0
8180,"you are very sure?”

clive had reason to be sure, and said so.",0
643,"“i doubt she’d want to live there.”



beth’s pulse began to race at the idea.",1
2747,"well, i tried.”

""we'll take it,"" the man said; he seemed to have forgotten his earlier doubts.",1
11866,angela bit the inside of her lip as she pondered.,0
3685,"the little snub-nosed barracuda was five months old, had wire wheels, leather upholstery, and so on, and it certainly made a man feel good to drive it.",0
3308,“just make sure lavina watches the speed of the horse.,0
5657,"that’s real funny.”

“you know what i mean.”

“sure.",0
753,"i’ve learned that questioning is good, and that not one dogma, theory, or interpretation should be exempted from its demolishing attempt.",1
9419,"supposedly she’d’ve divorced him, except that she’s catholic.",0
7236,"“for sure.”

he looked at me keenly, grabbed me with his eyes, kept talking.",0
7972,"even if to destroy him, i have been his priest; and even if to weaken his power, i have done his bidding.",0
2139,"“so these clients were patients under professional care.”

“if you want to be ironic about it.”

“situation like that, i’m not sure it’s illegal.",1
520,"""well, if you have a reason—"" said trask doubtfully.",1
4752,"she started for the door but stopped, amazed to find the man’s seat empty, as if he’d faded without a doubt.",0
9919,"""vice officers get in some good ones and that onesies on twosies wristlock they teach you in the academy never seems to work when you're squirming around on some piss-covered restroom floor with some bloody sweaty fruit, or maybe battling some hugger mugger's pimp in some dark hotel lobby when your partner doesn't know where the hell you are.""",0
9320,"“god bless you and keep you with him... and with your folks,” crawford.",0
2544,'if you've any doubts i can still let you go. ',1
11928,"and as i walked, there grew in me that peculiar elation that comes to us when we are young men, eighteen, twenty — that mystical sense of infinite creative connection to the universe, that winy sense of godlike power.",0
3770,"and if you’re like faith your lips will turn up in a smile, because you’ll know reality is simply a rhythm, repeating itself, flashing the same faces into the world in different ages and different times and always—as far as your life is concerned—returning you, from time to time, to some touchstone from which your heart has tarried but to which it must always return.",0
6093,"again she opened the book at random: i gave myself to you utterly.… i gave my life to you the first moment i saw you, and it is my pleasure to sacrifice it to you.… shouldn’t i have given you everything that was most precious to me?",0
373,"and truthfully, i never felt sure that i wasn’t merely rationalizing, once i’d seen how hard the rule was to follow.",1
5995,"i told him…i said, i said, ‘i’m gonna leave it with her just this one time.’”

“you sure bout that?”

“please, mama joyce.",0
6754,"if i were a merchant, i do not think i would be overeager to risk life and livelihood on the naked assurance of ..."" he hesitated.",0
11310,“i wonder now whether you think there is a god or not!,0
4105,"seeing he was determined to get his way in something, i relented.",0
7890,"after dinner, christine left willie t. to himself.",0
2010,"what is your interest in the rosary?”

koesler told the sergeant about father lord and the rosary he’d been found holding, about how he—koesler—had received it, and that he wasn’t sure, but he thought the two rosaries were similar.",1
3812,"in almost all cases the man would soon be exposed, and then jerusalem would go back to its normal life, determined not to be seduced spiritually again.",0
6810,“i sure think so.,0
5758,"several of the company were apes close to mosby the raider in size and threat; but he had taken the measure of each as their resentfulness or ambition dictated, and at last they served consistently—if with occasional rebellion—the cause of willie’s enrichment and their own.",0
611,". . opinionated, contemptuous of christian faith .",1
9507,"as mischievous fate would have it, both the young women fancied that handsome rogue, zabala, who was not yet called zabala-one-leg, for he was still to commit the unknown (but doubtless carnal) offence for which the righteous god the father punished him by taking one of his legs in the great war, while his benevolent son, jesus, revealed his mercy by leaving him the other to hobble along on.",0
5679,i hardly put any pressure on his thigh.,0
3694,"no, i’m sure.",0
3928,"at least try.”

“you’re doing both at holy faith?” said rooney.",0
10325,"“jesus, what a pigpen,” he said.",0
3896,"oh, god, faith prayed, help us as we begin this journey.",0
917,"i think i’ll hold off on a decision until you and i can make it together and be more sure about how we feel.”

tedi let out a little sigh, and mercy could tell she’d given the right answer for the moment.",1
5255,"i’m sure they’re already finished.”

arnetta acted as if she hadn’t heard me.",0
7401,"just about the time i think you’re going to take action, really give it to me, maybe just outright hand me an accounting, you back off and begin to preach.",0
9916,"“it’s more like…i’m god.”

colin laughed.",0
6442,"""this isn't right,"" i ventured, limp in some parts, stiff in others,
""nunc, it's no big deal,"" my childish seductress reassured me.",0
620,i’d doubt if she has a proper read on the situation.” he shrugged.,1
3540,“no doubt he means that he will be rejected again in jerusalem.,0
11575,does not tempt a monk with serpents and two-headed men.,0
5036,"ah, and i thought i had kilt you surely that day at the bowery and bayard. . . . willie darling, it’s me that was certain i was kilt; and months it took me to regain my strength, with half my ribs stove in.",0
2990,"besides, there was another factor which brett had no intention of discussing with these two: lately he had experienced some of the same questioning and doubts himself.",1
5018,"yes, yes, i most certainly had been, hidden no more than an inch or two behind that mild exercise in malicious cynicism.",0
4475,"certainly, marriage changed the nature of my work.",0
7821,"he has been backstage at the bbc studios in ealing, and at the offices of the sunday times, and has met a score of people who were once only names in magazines or on the syllabi of college courses.",0
8383,"the precautions about the meeting place, beforehand, were to assure smith that morgan came alone: and satisfied of that, smith’s mind might have gone no further.",0
6470,"i am ready.”

“do you, then, in love’s mystery and fear, give yourself to this woman to be her faithful husband from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death?”

“i do.",0
7691,"his grandfather was rich and gabriel was his favorite; they had quarreled over the race horses, and gabriel had shouted, “by god, i must have something.” as if he had not everything already: youth, health, good looks, the prospect of riches, and a devoted family circle.",0
12340,"“jesus, howard, you’re dead !” father said to the old man, shaking him.",0
1286,"i thought i could see, across the street, a colored man, in the shadows, staring, but i could not be sure.",1
6363,"“i am not too sure about all this redecoration anyhow,” he said in that sincere way which meant he had been wrestling with it.",0
8760,"i couldn’t—”

“sure, it’s crazy,” i said.",0
11743,"and does not my venerable brother jacques fournier recall that on the deathbed of the inquisitor geoffrey of carcassonne two black cats appeared, who were no other than devils come to taunt those remains?”

a horrified murmur ran through the group of monks, many of whom made the sign of the holy

cross.",0
4004,"“you mean you’ll actually do it?”

			 				“whatever you say,” he assured her.",0
1967,"“did you see a gun, sir?”

“i’m not sure, but i believe that maybe i did.”

virgil swallowed hard.",1
1934,"dr. mackenzie shrugged his shoulders—christians, mohammedans, and buddhists were all one to him, all groveling before idols, seeking unmerited rewards.",1
6588,"in her moment of displeasure, she supposed she ought to offer to assist young lydia with whatever supper plans the girl had in mind.",0
6577,"until last night, i had to keep this information confidential while mrs. moore considered what to do.",0
6690,"""are you sure you won't come down later, mother, to eat a celebration meal with us?""",0
6230,"but it had a certain 
immaculate comfort and hillel sat down.",0
11307,"the priest stood up, and then he staggered with weakness and he bowed his head as he caught at the edge of the upper bunk to steady himself.",0
8912,he’s so confident.,0
10273,where the hell were you?,0
12303,"“has it ever occurred to you how magic-goddam-lucky you are just to be alive?”

“yes,” rosie said.",0
3556,"she wanted to make sure delphi was treated well.”

“mercy called you?”

“relax, lukas.",0
7432,"there i’d be with blackie ball, holding her up in front of me, looking at her like i’m worshiping, and what came to me was the sentence “in the beginning was the word, and the word was god.” and i had to look at blackie very hard for a few seconds, thinking about “in the beginning was the word.” i love how extraordinary that sounds, nothing in the world but one word, out in the blackness, not even stars.",0
1287,"he thought he blinked a few times, but even then he couldn’t be sure.",1
10688,no doubt she sent the message herself.,0
12063,"""no,"" angela said.",0
8720,"“what say you, mr. district attorney?”

this time varick was not at all hesitant.",0
3895,the pontifical body had been handed to the embalmers so that it might be a seemly object for the veneration of the faithful.,0
7,"“if we elders of the church lack faith, what hope is there for the people?â€",1
11774,"the wise

one above, the holy spirit you white men call god, began to speak from the clouds, and from pebbles in a stream, and from a snake passing by.",0
7980,"every goddamn thing.”

elsie sighed.",0
2833,"but adam doubted if he would-at least, for the thresher, in detroit.",1
5539,"he went outside then and considered getting hard waked, the big swell from the freighter going right through him, and it seemed to him he was secure to take it, there was nothing to get bounced around very much, everything was in its place.",0
11091,"slow, hesitant, and through the shadows of the deserted path walked two short men—old men.",0
4000,"she could not see his expression, but she was certain his countenance was scornful.",0
1391,"i have times of terror and doubt and indecision, i am confused in all the uproar of shouting maddened voices and the flourishing of death-giving weapons. . . . i should like to save myself, but i have no assurance that i can, for if the victory goes as it threatens, i am not on that side.",1
2639,"he had come in to borrow something and he had found todd in bed, asleep, and something about the way he lay there aroused suspicion.",1
5936,"and i think i may have stopped still; i know that at that precise instant i was suddenly yanked from the past into the fact of the present, and now, for the first time since my arrival, i felt a spasm of apprehension, and a regret that i had come.",0
5967,"suddenly i was hard-bitten and recalcitrant, the kind of kid who took pleasure in sticking pins into cats; the kind who chased down smart kids to spray them with mace.",0
8840,"put me down as an additional source.”

“are you sure?”

“yup.",0
4764,"kick aside a fallen pine and you were sure to find a bull snake, blotchy grey, and hissing at you.",0
5682,"“what?”

“i just asked you a question.”

suzy blushed, “i sure fell into that.”

“no, you didn’t.",0
5535,"“yes, sure, you can look for swordfish.",0
11404,"we called this meeting in god’s own house to try and find—”

“one of his houses,” snarled sargeant.",0
4366,she felt certain that karyn would support her claim for custody.,0
5548,"in a voice grave with composure he told her, “the linden has many healing properties”: a deferential rebuke if she chose to accept it; otherwise a harmless medical truth.",0
2301,and if the judge had doubts he'd just put it all on hold and declare warner dead after five years of being missing.,1
2266,"he had to drive the johnsons into town.”

“what time did he leave here?”

“i’m not sure.",1
6916,"file:///g|/program%20files/emule/incoming/stephen%20lawhead%20-%20dream%20thief.txt (201 of 222) [10/16/2004 5:36:29 pm]
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spence and all the rest marveled at kyr's swift, sure movements.",0
11206,what was the purpose of the line of questioning?,0
5251,"as his upper lip felt the moist warmth of his breath inside the hood, it flashed through kunta's mind that surely once such a hood had been thrust in the same way over his father's head.",0
12361,"running back to the car, angela got the shotgun.",0
4209,"to be sure, the drought and plague persisted into the following year, giving way only slowly and grudgingly.",0
8322,"alex conklin was very much alive, whether drunk or not, and even if he was preserved in bourbon, he had his sources, those contacts he had cultivated during a lifetime of devotion to the shadow world that ultimately rejected him.",0
3439,"he’s the one that sent his gunmen to shoot us up.”

he began to excoriate kingman in no uncertain terms, and finally kingman saw that it was useless.",0
6980,"but gage opened it without hesitation, vanished inside.",0
11620,it was certainly written after christmas's last will and testament.,0
8108,"no one is capable of more bitterness and scorn than a scalded romantic, and jim thompson, the disillusioned leftist, was certainly that.",0
6812,"books by terri blackstock

soul restoration

emerald windows

restoration series

1 | last light

2 | night light

cape refuge series

1 | cape refuge

2 | southern storm

3 | river’s edge

4 | breaker’s reef

newpointe 911

1 | private justice

2 | shadow of doubt

3 | word of honor

4 | trial by fire

5 | line of duty

sun coast chronicles

1| evidence of mercy

2| justifiable means

3| ulterior motives

4 | presumption of guilt

second chances

1 | never again good-bye

2 | when dreams cross

3 | blind trust

4 | broken wings

with beverly lahaye

1 | seasons under heaven

2 | showers in season

3 | times and seasons

4 | season of blessing

novellas

seaside





zondervan

evidence of mercy

copyright © 1995 by terri blackstock

all rights reserved under international and pan-american copyright conventions.",0
2200,"but if he sees you, he’ll know it’s all right.”

“i wish i was sure it was all right myself,” she said.",1
10387,like poking a stick at a goddam mouse cornered in a box.,0
8926,"""sure,"" she said.",0
2184,wager wasn’t quite sure which.,1
214,"i couldn’t think of anybody i loved enough to die for—except maybe the baby, and i wasn’t even sure about that.",1
6639,surely not!,0
47,"“yes,” he thought he said, but he couldn’t be sure with all the commotion streaming through his head.",1
2203,he couldn’t be sure.,1
3726,"the woman at this desk had been more kindly than any of the others, and hope determined that when her turn came today she would ask if there were any places where the work would be among women only.",0
10262,angela cried.,0
10509,"his life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed

to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.",0
662,"at that moment something in him shifted and gave way—sand, aggregate, uncertain ground, and he closed his eyes, slid down to a fiercer level.",1
9445,"“father koesler!”

the priest spun around.",0
57,"“well, i didn’t have a dress to wear and your aunt was kind enough to let me borrow hers.”

“where are your dresses?”

unaccustomed to speaking with children, christine was not quite sure how to answer.",1
725,"i wasn't sure if it was a trap or what so i came in real quiet, checked things out real good before i waltzed in here.""",1
11962,"there was no religiosity in his reverence for the supreme powers of heaven and earth, which he worshipped as his progenitors.",0
12107,"it isn't religion, you know, that holds jewish people together.",0
4127,"he’s not a cousin, another relative?”

“tony emerson jr., named for dad no doubt,” she said bitterly.",0
1623,"it was as if they doubted, from his manner, that he had understood the extent to which they were insulting and cheating him, or as if, being safe in their advantage, they wished to goad him to protest so they might do him further damage.",1
3717,"but i'm sure you know.""",0
10189,"the grease monkey, a thin man in green overalls, was sitting on a stool outside the office, drinking a nehi.",0
11847,"bathed and rested (one must, alas, go down the hall to the bathroom—the appointments here are not in a class with those of the fifth avenue hotel, but then neither, thank god, is the price), we met charles nordhoff in the lobby at seven o’clock.",0
569,"it was, luke thought, a look of doubt, perhaps of momentary uncertainty in regard to what he was doing.",1
8609,"he’s managed to remove most of the vital records, a lesson he undoubtedly learned from carlos.",0
133,"deputy to the chief police.”

“you?” the unbelieving tone she used made rooney flush.",1
863,"“i wasn’t sure you were really with jerry,” i said.",1
9980,"odds on


a novel



michael crichton writing as john lange





“there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”


benjamin disraeli





contents


saturday, june fourteenth

sunday, june fifteenth

monday, june sixteenth

tuesday, june seventeenth

night, june seventeenth

wednesday, june eighteenth

thursday, june nineteenth

friday, june twentieth

afternoon, june twentieth

saturday, june twenty-first

afternoon, june twenty-first

night, june twenty-first

sunday, june twenty-second (12:00-1:00)

morning, june twenty-second (1:00-12:00)

afternoon, june twenty-second

a biography of michael crichton





saturday, june fourteenth


le perthus, france: the dynamite, neatly bundled in “happy birthday” wrapping paper, lay casually on the back seat.",0
1605,i don’t know for sure.,1
3413,nor was there any doubt about their intention to kill him; the body of a man pushed or thrown from the crag would be broken and crushed on the rocks below.,0
2703,"""i doubt it,"" said sulla tranquilly.",1
1943,"“i doubt if she’ll live.”

“my god,” elliot said.",1
12220,"“anne, thank god you’re still there.",0
6704,“certainly.,0
9227,"he ran in a crouch across the open spaces, lingered in the wreckage between until he was fairly certain that the next unprotected patch of ground was safe, then dashed on.",0
3989,this particular aspect of lazarus’ return had not before occurred to me: but it certainly made sense.,0
2721,so mrs. talbot concealed her doubts about mrs. poulteney and advised sarah to take the post.,1
11719,"then he allowed himself to strike, like his childhood hero allan quatermain, off on that long slow underground stream which bore him on towards the interior of the dark continent where he hoped that he might find a permanent home, in a city where he could he accepted as a citizen, as a citizen without any pledge of faith, not the city of god or marx, but the city called peace of mind.",0
3059,"bourne spastically whipped his body around and sprang off the couch, at first disoriented, unsure of where he was and for a terrible moment … of who he was.",1
8868,for pretty sure their boy on the milliken-nordhammer thing.,0
4148,it’s a heartfelt belief.â€,0
4502,"with one quick, disobedient glance behind him, fallon made certain that none of the proctors followed, then he dove into the water closet where brody waited with an expectant grin on his face.",0
9291,"it drove away, leaving five guzmanns and a portable hospital bed on the steps of congregation limerick.",0
7790,"“he worshipped you, cesar,” she told him.",0
6687,"although the guards were gone, the door was barred, and the bars were secured with large, iron box-like locks which required the use of keys to open.",0
6837,"“actually, my name is jan. jan jovic.”

“and mine’s helen.”

“it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

“the same, jan jovic.” she shot a quick look behind her again, and jan saw concern flash through her eyes.",0
4298,we certainly didn’t mean to be rude.,0
6994,"windgate risked a quick glance backwards to see that the lion was moving slowly after him on the narrow ledge, talons grasping securely at the black ice.",0
8689,"sure. """,0
3390,"i am sure the waiting is the hardest job you've had in your short life, but you are doing it with grace and courage.""",0
8944,"""sure,"" he said awkwardly, fumbling with the latch.",0
11878,"""no,"" angela said sharply.",0
10573,dolcino made men fear and women cry out with pleasure.,0
5805,"and contents noted duly, with especial attention devoted to the illustration which was executed with a flourish remarkable in one professedly so weary.",0
8047,"“i’ll at least scout around the steps and make certain he’s not lurking right by the door.”

he was gone before they could argue, carefully edging himself along the railing that ran down the six steps to the ground level.",0
2706,"this is why i have warned you, and this is why we must ward off every suspicion or

insinuation on the part of the avignonese.”

“am i not also to suppose your sublimity has suggested to me a line for my inquiry?",1
3342,"weapons were more advanced, to be sure.",0
4168,she no doubt thought it might be advantageous to her in some way to have me as an ally and so spoke sincerely.,0
2082,"i doubt that you will, though,"" he added.",1
5674,"my bladder was beginning to be insistent, too, and though i was armed with my policeman’s friend, and would ordinarily have let fly with the secret pleasure of a bedwetter, i couldn’t see myself pissing down a tube with a lady standing six feet from me.",0
4375,"and he certainly isn’t my rabbi.”

the nurse shrugged.",0
3953,pauline obviously misunderstood the hesitation.,0
4750,"it’s an imitation i don’t do badly—once, on the phone, i fooled even mischievous sollers—and the one i’d decided on even while claire and i were arguing at the dinner table about the wisdom of my trip, even while, i must admit, the exalted voice of reason had been counseling me, earlier that day, that doing nothing was the surest way to do him in.",0
307,"but strange it is that doubt often increases faith, as they say the fire tempers the fine blades of toledo so that no man knows the secret so well as they.",1
4477,“i believe in living my life a certain way.,0
8251,"‘this is probably a mother speaking, but i’m sure that elena will be someone out of the ordinary – a sculptress or a terrorist or something.’

‘maybe she’ll content herself with vandalism.’ paget thought for a moment.",0
8432,in just a few more minutes they’d know for certain they’d lost him and they’d beat their way back to their car and stake out the street because they’d reason that he might have something in one of the cars there that he’d have to come back for.,0
12158,"angela lay back against the pillow, but her eyes were wide open.",0
7596,"i didn’t know what the fright was about, but in a sudden the prayer stop in my mouth and i could feel the wind blowing in the church around me, very wet and cold.",0
8279,"“they’re convinced certain people are no good: you’re one of them, and any way they can get you off the street is perfectly fine.",0
9867,"“or having a thirty-eight stuck in your ear?”

“you’re dead right there, bro’.”

“what happened?”

“the goddamned firing pin shattered,” sughrue said.",0
7775,"“when i came to this goddamn country,” he said, “i thought niggers were niggers.",0
5817,what a treasure.,0
5245,"the undertaker came to lay the first one out here, in front of me if you please, and he did not see fit to pull the curtains until i told him to in no uncertain terms.",0
11567,"the bronk’s an animal and i’m a born-again christian.” the short trucker swung back the door, nearly shoving panov back into the wall again.",0
1058,"""i am loath to believe,"" he said at last, dropping the treasure into the bag at his side, ""that your new friends hold so little value in your eyes.",1
2145,"but if it will set your mind at rest, the man you call the gnome is very ill. it is doubtful that he will live out the year.”

“so you will soon be without protection?”

“i shall miss him as a man of wit and charm.",1
6691,"could be another week, at least.”

i was upset to hear that, but i was glad about one thing: my father had not pressured me for the real reason behind my decision to give up piano.",0
408,". .

“ah yes, but it was a thirty-five-day trip out from antwerp then and ship arrivals were never certain.",1
2913,"but he hated those who were making it impossible for him to stay in his city, who were driving him out with uttered violence, lies, innuendoes, distrust and malice and hostility.",1
6168,"the essenes lived apart, were celibate, owned nothing,
everything being the property of the community, in many ways their
beliefs and their ritual did not conform to the law by which ordinary
jews lived; they claimed to be at once better informed and more holy
than secular priests.",0
11621,"dear ria,

i should have been better about writing letters but somehow god does not put enough hours in the day.",0
1206,"i’ve decided to go with canned from here out.”

			 				“canned chili?” percy was unbelieving.",1
3071,"""and i very much doubt if the senate will condone my recruiting among the italian head count,"" said marius.",1
627,"“my people are loyal.”

“but this one, i fear,” she looked down, idly smoothing her fingernails with her thumb, “has escaped your suspicion.",1
6123,"""you certainly do,"" said sheila.",0
11868,"incredible as it may seem to you, even my tongue is weary, since one single crocodile’s tail can cause it to stumble.”

we then rose to depart, bidding the landlord farewell, and merit came with us to the door, the silver bangles jingling on her wrists and ankles.",0
11925,"i believe getting the man with the detonator is our best chance.”

“if she does blow up with you and your men topside, i suppose you can dive over the side and

swim for the argyll?” suggested another of the ministry civil servants.",0
252,close up your spreaded knees before this innocent child and my gray head!” but he became unsure of himself when she began to cry.,1
12132,he is wearing baggy brown shorts and has to be at least six three or four and he is lean but his shoulders are wide broad and as he walks toward my table all i can think is lord lord lord some young girl is gonna get lucky as i don’t know what if she can snag you.,0
6225,"he knows, she thought, of the gold of the treasures guarded by the power of the spirits.",0
4304,"her tears wet her cheeks as their adoring gaze held, speaking silent words of love, determined that nothing should ever part them again, they clung to each other.",0
10217,"but this love which brought him back to life brought him back to danger, and perhaps it was this knowledge, animal-like, felt rather than known, that had made him so weak that sunday afternoon.",0
3866,"in public, he said all the right things, but in private, he was a mean man who used the faith in evil ways.",0
9570,oral roberts said god would call him if he didn’t meet fund-raising goals.,0
9242,"i don’t know what the hell’s going to happen tomorrow, but i still want to be ready . . .”

charlie sped him on his way with reassurance, then studied the table top soberly.",0
1863,the massa couldn't look into george's disbelieving eyes and became more abrupt.,1
2715,"she realized that she was overreacting, reflecting her own uncertainties.",1
4483,"after more than seven minutes of continuous questioning, he was becoming more and more certain that archette was playing a carefully crafted game.",0
2697,he regarded the boy doubtfully.,1
1023,"port william, watching troy, would be (by turns or all at once) skeptical, impressed, envious, dismissive.",1
6102,"“it’s a pleasure to meet you, christine.” his voice was extremely polite.",0
3298,"“i’m sure miriam wouldn’t have driven over here if she didn’t believe she could handle the horse and buggy in the dark or on the icy road,” she said, coming to her daughter’s defense.",0
10226,"i’ll send you a written copy of my report, and god help you all.",0
1436,"it just shows the lengths they’ll go to, it’s all sheer greed you almost want to lose your faith in human nature, i don’t know what this poor boy thinks he’s up to but oh, i have to tell you.",1
1635,"i believe, today, that down underneath he felt he could excuse everything—debts, drinking, skylarking off for gold, all the doubts that plagued and chafed him—if he would leave behind a good, true, faithful document of pioneering that people might read later and profit from.",1
10537,"no one had any doubts as to why he had gone to the top; from 1987 to 1989 he had quietly and expertly supervised the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan, an exercise that had been achieved without any scandals, major defeats, or (most important of all) publicized loss of national face, even though the wolves of allah had been snapping at the russian heels all the way to the salang pass.",0
1100,also-kareem shook his head sadly as though in doubt of success.,1
5072,"what about basarwa, who were undoubtedly being cruelly cheated by him?",0
5587,"i know, furthermore, that my reluctance to expose her trouble is calculated to spare myself, not her.",0
11699,"out there where your children were sport, your women quarry, and where your very person could be annulled; where congregations carried arms to church and ropes coiled in every saddle.",0
1802,"looking dubious, massa lea took the pitcher by its carved cow horn handle and gave it a cursory inspection.",1
4745,"i says, “why, mama, stella-rondo had her just as sure as anything in this world, and just too stuck up to admit it.”

“why, sister,” said mama.",0
9412,"elizabeth prayed constantly for patrick’s son; her lips moved over her prayers as she scrubbed and cleaned and polished the floors and walls of the fine house patrick had one day moved them into, far up in the country section of the bronx.",0
5234,"“wal, if you’re sure you don’t need them now.”

vinnie assures him that she does not.",0
6466,"""but you sure don't look like it suits you much.""",0
2496,"cool and clear, because he knew now what the doubts were and what he had to do about them.",1
9624,could anything god did be more a sign of divine providence!,0
9088,sure.” she yawned.,0
7367,"he was a member of the church of christ, he was a member of the vestry, a devout and habitual communicant, sincerely sworn to defend the articles of faith.",0
10399,“it’s about goddamn time.,0
4381,"and even farther the light descended to reveal long muscular legs—not like those of an ape, but of a man, yet so overdeveloped and powerfully defined that they could have undoubtedly propelled this colossus of human evolution to shocking heights or hurled that hulking weight with a cheetah's speed across the vined and tepid slime morasses of a world long buried beneath the awesome weight of time.",0
9967,"“the other woman.”

“who is she?”

“angela scali.”

i frowned.",0
11350,"grace had teased her when she told her, asking how many centuries it was since she'd last seen the inside of a church.",0
11301,"this was his third trip through what he always called the word of god, he’d told me.",0
6617,"harrison says, “it’s like that story about this whore that had the

biggest—ah—you don’t want to hear it, do you?”

“sure.",0
5721,up to now he had felt pretty confident that nothing would interrupt his work.,0
7441,"on my face, god had relented; except for traces along the hairline which i let my hair fall forward to cover, my face was clear.",0
7768,"""i sho' wouldn't go to no africa wid all dem niggers up in trees wid monkeys""--""where you git dat at? """,0
2212,"and since there was no way of knowing for sure which route aliso would take home that night, it seemed obvious to bosch that the car stop and abduction would have been somewhere along that one mile of road.",1
8652,"when you went with the countess to malaga, expecting me to follow you.”

“but you did follow me, remember?”

“certainly, you fool.",0
10846,"i had no doubt that whatever could be salvaged out of it, cotta would.""",0
8870,"“your enemy is the race mixer, the baby killer, the liberal, the queer, the tax collector, the debt dealer, the humanist, the environmentalist, the feminist, the peacenik.",0
1650,and he would catch them both in that same awful look of distrust.,1
6740,"“faith, let us not deceive ourselves!",0
6499,he did not meet her questioning gaze.,0
4474,i was sure he despised us both.,0
182,"though she had come to love carol dearly, the wedding meant an end to the hope she had held that jodie would somehow return to faith and that she and dylan would resume their courtship.",1
12357,"""just one goddamn minute,"" david said, breaking into the conversation.",0
2627,"i've always been proud of you, and i'll go on being that, whatever you decide.”

looking at her husband fondly, she thought: a lesser man would have reminded her of their argument in the hotel in san francisco, when andrew had refused to concede his doubts about montayne, or the use of any drug by pregnant women.",1
7623,"martin's mother, who taught religion at the university, kept college girls as boarders in her big timbered house.",0
10351,“the poor goddamned innocent bystanders.,0
9917,"she said tersely, “if you said it, you would be an anti-semite.”

“jesus, i don’t get you, debbie.”

“good,” she said.",0
6618,"i do not think that she recognized me or that such impulsive gestures from male passengers were anything new to her, but i treasure the look that passed between us as the train started to pull out.",0
4468,"no, the emperor said, he had certainly never tasted such a wonderful apricot.",0
489,mr. merrill brought his familiar stutter and his almost-as-familiar doubts to both courses.,1
2762,not at all what we think of as a divine look; but one of a distinctly mean and dubious (as the theoreticians of the nouveau roman have pointed out) moral quality.,1
12179,"but the priests of ammon hold that a name is an omen, and it may be that mine brought me peril and adventure and sent me into foreign lands.",0
11798,"“america will have to come into the war sooner or later.”

mark shocked her by saying: “christ, i hope not.",0
7255,"i shall surely miss him,” she said simply.",0
4569,we must engage a london hairdresser.” mary looked in the gilt oval mirror in her room and determined that her west country coiffure would never do for london.,0
69,"she wasn't sure why she was nervous about this, except that shay's opinion was so important, and oliver had been an unending source of comfort and help.",1
2822,"“it’s not important.”

“all my babies have died,” she said as she clung to him, and he told her how sorry he was for the agony she’d been through, and then she stunned him completely, “and i know this one will too …” she whispered, and suddenly he understood, and pulled her away from him so he could look at her in disbelief and terror.",1
522,4. charlotte struggles with her faith.,1
4950,"it is strange, for those who know only the lamentable last years, to see dylan thomas treating anything or anybody with respect, but watkins plainly had him convinced from the beginning, and i believe quite simply by his profound reserves of moral force, calm generosity, acute critical sense, besides a first-rate talent and a head start as a practicing poet who could teach thomas a number of things he badly needed to know.",0
10886,"yet, the one person who really cares about you is to be left destitute, for he will be fired from this miserable job of his, no doubt because he was indiscreet enough to save your life.",0
9125,but she could not tell carlo about paget’s fears that sharpe would find the second tape; or the days in which johnny moore had not found a single witness; or the nights paget spent trying to find a way to cross-examine monk and shelton; or the mock courtroom session in which paget had torn mary’s testimony apart until her eyes blazed with anger; or the endless pressure of trying to give interviews that would do more good than harm.,0
2169,"“your man, maybe?” the captain said, his expression somewhere between skeptical and sardonic.",1
3121,"we strolled awhile in the cloister, uncertain what to do next.",1
2229,"all that business afterward—no, she couldn't— how could he say for sure?",1
4791,"at least he’d see he was wondering instead of—” she looked to giffard for help—it was impossible to describe, the sense of being known with certainty and completely misunderstood—but she got only the same intent look, as if he were compelling her to say it didn’t matter what, anything.",0
10276,bosch: my name is detective hieronymus bosch of the los angeles police department.,0
5190,"i believe i determined that evening that we should become lovers, and i foresaw nothing in my conquest of jullus antonius that i had not seen before.",0
5208,"my energies at this time were devoted to enrolling and equipping in italy those legions that were to lay siege to brutus and cassius in the east, and to organizing the lines of supply that would allow us to do battle on that distant soil.",0
18,"the city’s jewish community frowned on marriages between the chosen and pagans, while gentiles in the capital were just as convinced that cornelius would demean himself by “such a misalliance.” though startled and somewhat skeptical, pilate would deny nothing to his favorite, and so approved the marriage.",1
4674,"though patches of ice still gleamed lethally throughout the village, ron malcolm’s son had doused the church walks with salt and sand, giving many the first sure footing they’d had in days.",0
4091,"but he feels called to something—just what, he’s determined to find out.",0
2150,finally bess said that mr. drew was dangerously ill in a hospital and it was doubtful that he would recover.,1
8586,one of our men is waiting to follow you down the parkway now to make sure you don’t get stuck or delayed.,0
5754,this had happened twenty-five miles from any doctor and in the time before women had capitulated to the notion that the chief advantages of civilization were to dress well and have the leisure to be sick.,0
3935,"'well,' grunted the old man, 'that's no compliment to our belief; though i suppose you intended your remark to be polite.'",0
8891,"""i just wanna know how secure you really are.",0
1114,"the omens won’t be blocked by your unbelief, and you will worship god in his fullness.”

the more manasseh thought about it, the more he saw how isaiah had used guilt to control his father, making him a slave to the temple rituals, a slave to his prophecies.",1
8265,"orris assures me that as soon as he has the snowblower operating, he’ll be able to clear a path to the bridge.",0
3483,"""no doubt about that,"" agreed liz.",0
9746,"‘and what are your sins – in the dream, that is?’

more silence.",0
9400,most of his stuff is in churches or museums.,0
1759,"pilar

(1978)

my mother told me that abuela celia was an atheist before i even understood what the word meant.",1
4328,"even if he couldn’t escape, he determined to find a way to save them.",0
5232,"she wondered why she liked him so little (for to say that she actually disliked him, she earnestly assured herself, would be putting it falsely).",0
6224,"to me he said, ""a pleasure to meet you, professor.",0
4194,"i knew the whole thing was temporary, and i was determined to
just enjoy it while it lasted.",0
415,"he came often to hear saul converse of the messias but faith did not 
touch his skeptical soul.",1
10676,"but now he was wide awake himself, and vagrantly, with the theme of trees still on his mind, he thought of the trees so far from yosemite and so much smaller, the little trees in linstead, all planted by hand, the trees in ladysmith road that mr. mansfield had chosen, loved, and watched as they grew, and mr. mansfield himself, who would doubtless, given a choice of poems as well as trees, have preferred joyce kilmer's idea to havelock's .",0
245,she had not been certain what he was talking about.,1
3083,"prison, if possible, though i doubt we can arrange that.",1
1147,"“but—” denis turned back toward the room “—but here, with these discoveries we feared were impossible, with these achievements we were afraid could exist only in fantasy, you have power incredible!",1
8695,"the moneyed families who had been sending their sons to browning for decades were secure in their old, enormous wealth, wealth, which they never flaunted but merely used as the foundation for the future giants of industry and banking.",0
1008,"he could not be sure, except to know that he had somehow known the tone before.",1
11289,"“be thankful we don’t stone adulteresses like they did in the bible.”

“it’s a horrible word.”

“you should be ashamed of the deed, not the word.”

“you’re so bloody righteous,” she said wearily.",0
5003,"as surely as that slug went through frank sargent’s head, it went through susan and oliver and ollie ward.",0
12392,"oh, christ, who am i?",0
1673,"“it's only just recently, i'm ashamed to say, that i've become politically aware.”

he looked at her doubtingly.",1
1261,"“do you understand?”

treet heard several words he thought he recognized; but with the old man's wavering voice coming through the faint distortion of the barrier field, he could not be certain.",1
6912,"with all her studying, she had read little for pleasure.",0
11255,"when the guards threaten the storytellers, these maintain that the tale is an ancient one-and they can prove it, for the priests have found it in writings that are centuries old.",0
9583,"edgar said it looks like a mummy or something.”

bosch saw the door to courtroom 4 open and members of the church family came out followed by their lawyer.",0
6356,"the mississippi waterfront had drawn him daily—the vast stretches of crowded docks, the people who poured on and off the snow-white pleasure palaces, coming and going from ohio, kentucky, missouri, tennessee, alabama, mississippi.",0
2276,"is that all you wanted to ask her?”

“that’s all.” he studied me doubtfully.",1
45,"a determined man, utterly without scruple where he considered his own welfare to be involved, herod had never been sure of his throne though he had reigned longer in israel as king under rome than had any other for a long while.",1
7728,"it was sunday and the streets were crowded, vendors shouting and greasy smoke rising here and there on the sidewalks.",0
7146,"“with back-pressure like that, several million, with that much more ahead.”

the three watched the blaze in silence for some time.",0
7414,it was nearly one o’clock in the morning and 1962 when they quit their shouting and settled into prayer.,0
8727,"i could maybe give you a couple bucks kickback.”

“maybe i’ll do that.”

“sure.",0
3747,"he knew what the life entailed, and so from the very beginning he could have no doubts.",0
11332,"(later in life, when some of charles's moments were more arduous, and those who shared them with him pictured whimsically or ironically the kind of heaven they would choose for themselves, charles would say: 'ah, you should have been en poste at ---- during the twenties--those were the days!'",0
122,"“the air.”

she skeptically complies.",1
10326,then i'll probably have some of that goddamned oatmeal. ',0
2040,rosella looked at andi with deep suspicion.,1
12313,"""jesus, jiggs, aren't you pretty far out of channels?",0
12404,"and maybe i can stop some other poor kid from going through what i did.”

“my god, my god … grace … how did you survive it?” he held her close to him, cradling her head against his chest, unable to even begin to fathom the kind of pain and misery she’d been through.",0
6549,"the reports are coming on again, so i’ll just see myself out.”

“thank you, gladys.”

“it’s my pleasure, dear, and i look forward to seeing you thursday.”

they embraced again before sophie sat right back down and watched more of the news.",0
4578,"and there are only two means of egress, front and back – one of which cain will surely be forced to use.",0
8885,"i go in there and try to make the jury understand what it was like, what the pressures were that drove my man to do what he did.",0
238,"sensing her mood, i wasn't sure richie should hear what would be coming out of her mouth; but we were all in the kitchen, where she, above all, had the right to be.",1
10982,"though he, joseph, could doubtless manage to provide some food and shelter for two boys, the little girl needed womanly comfort and care, and where were these to be found for the derelict?",0
8792,"they were loading the wounded, tied securely to their stretchers, flattened by the protective tarpaulin so that they all looked like cardboard corpses.",0
3554,"he wasn’t a big man, but he brought a powerful presence of assurance and peace into the room.",0
11773,the priest uttered an exclamation of anger.,0
9715,"nearer, my god, to thee,

nearer to thee.",0
11114,heathen name.,0
3312,"“you have to admit he’s one-in-a-million.”

“he certainly is.",0
3836,"""so does everyone else in half the world -- but most of the believers won't bother to go.""",0
4062,"most mountain water was superb but this mint appetizer surely made it the longest, coolest, most delicious drink of water in the world!",0
10239,the victim’s family was relieved as hell to have the case over and done with.,0
2304,"our tables that day were not close enough for me to be certain, but i think he was eating a platter of boiled kittens.",1
10316,"the mall was filled with sunday shoppers, most of them wearing izod alligator shirts and shorts, or running togs.",0
5014,"she remembered her testimony from a month ago, how she’d been working the hotline, and a mother had called to say that her son had eaten ants, and sister clareese had assured the woman that ants were god’s creatures, and though disturbing, they wouldn’t harm the boy.",0
10053,"“what the hell did you do to that prisoner?”

“he resisted arrest.”

“you got any witnesses?”

“only the scars.” wager pointed to his cheek.",0
1480,i have no faith in free-form marriage.,1
10747,"a description of the van, and undoubtedly its license number, was in the possession of police, sheriff's departments and the highway patrol.",0
261,"at least before they had shared a friendship, but now he was even unsure of that.",1
11609,"“god will wish it.”

god, however, did not wish it.",0
10036,"“my god, can’t you see the red flags flying?”

once more crusher raised his head, this time whining anxiously.",0
7540,her love for him and her sense of salvation were at that moment so lunatic that she would have tried to swim the atlantic with him had he commanded her to do so.,0
6055,"also by frederick buechner

fiction

a long day’s dying

the seasons’ difference

the return of ansel gibbs

the final beast

the entrance to porlock

lion country

open heart

love feast

treasure hunt

godric

brendan

the wizard’s tide

the son of laughter

on the road with the archangel

the storm

nonfiction

the magnificent defeat

the hungering dark

the alphabet of grace

wishful thinking: a theological abc

the faces of jesus

telling the truth: the gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale peculiar treasures: a biblical who’s who

the sacred journey

now and then

a room called remember

whistling in the dark

telling secrets

the clown in the belfry

listening to your life

the longing for home

the eyes of the heart: a memoir of lost and found speak what we feel





copyright

the book of bebb.",0
10173,"“jesus,” she whispered.",0
8711,"my turn will come due.”

“you’re trying to reassure me.”

“maybe i am.”

“are you sorry for me?”

“it’s more than that.",0
12099,"by now, every street leading to the christopher columbus was jam-packed with vehicles-fire equipment, police cars and wagons, ambulances, all with dome lights flashing.",0
10126,"nicholas was anxious to leave the courtroom, and get the hell out of town.",0
12317,"now how in god's name, norman, has it happened that nobody told you?",0
4303,"“it is not fair to spring an invitation on a busy woman.”

“i’m certain ms. godfrey is more than able to handle her caseload.” sloane spoke in a cultured rumble that was both powerful and gentle.",0
3868,"an old friend who was a pastor in atlanta said this: “i did not have a crisis of faith, but of emotion and energy.",0
7181,but he mounted the stairs with the same reluctance he had felt digging through the rubble at loretta's.,0
1470,"but then kunta reviled himself for the ridiculousness of thinking of his village in any connection with these pagan, heathen black ones here in the toubob's land.",1
2809,"“if there is anything you run into that you’re in doubt about, artie, maybe you’d better ask james first whether you should tell it.”

a snort escaped from artie.",1
2801,". . here we go!”

terry king was standing in the center of the stage staring at the director in complete disbelief.",1
204,"i didn’t either, unsure of what i could or should say.",1
2081,"just her.”

“but he might have hurt you.”

“but he didn’t.”

“she couldn’t know for sure what he’d do when she left you with him.”

“it worked out okay.",1
8602,"he had a presidential medal of freedom and if he ever actually died, the academy was sure to inaugurate a solomon roth memorial ward for something or other.",0
6562,he handed her a fat packet of mail secured from the harbor master.,0
1154,"with no one there to help him.”

“we don’t know for sure that he even crashed.”

“we’ll take a look around; if we don’t see him, we’ll come right back.”

“you’re talking crazy.”

“katy, he’s your brother!",1
112,"i didn’t see the boat.”

“i, i’m not certain why i came back; it just seemed to be the thing to do.",1
12271,"but elsewhere the elves received him gladly, and few among them hearkened to the messengers from lindon bidding them beware; for sauron took to himself the name of annatar, the lord of gifts, and they had at first much profit from his friendship.",0
733,"papa laughs at this—so irwin laughs too, though i doubt he has any idea whether it’s just like a russian or not.",1
5374,"to conclude the series he played one he called stone was my bedstead, a tune made up largely of scraping sounds, chiefly of middling tempo, rhythms of approach and retreat, a great deal of suspense in the relations among its measures.",0
10306,"christ, it was nicole, nicki.",0
1655,"there was a time when barbara would have doubted a three-year-old could walk all that way, but jakob has showed her an otherworldly determination that she must respect.",1
4083,"“the position of interpreter is an important one, and there are certainly security issues that must be addressed,” i told him.",0
3355,"well, this boy was sure he was in love with that woman.",0
3948,"“i don’t know, beth, but you sure make me feel younger.",0
1411,"one word, and she would have been spared all her doubts about him.",1
10610,and confidently expect that the women of the house would be banished to their quarters; gaius julius caesar was not the kind of husband or father to permit his womenfolk to rub shoulders with his clients or his men friends.,0
690,"“i doubt the weekly would send a chicago staff writer to an international event of
that magnitude.”
“i am not asking that you join the press corps of thousands from around the world
who will be seeking credentials as soon as the announcement is made.",1
11587,"joseph, slowly and deliberately, and watching the priest balefully all the while, tore the paper into shreds, over and over, and then stuffed the remnants in his pocket.",0
11845,"to be hunted by men is bad enough; to be hunted like that by a goddam robot--hell, what a nightmare!""",0
6778,"it appears to have saved him from the displeasure of lady irene.""",0
5470,"mr. hartley wrestles manfully with these and a hundred other trivial or dubious or off-color questions of laurence sterne’s career with a discretion and strait regard for the records that might surprise his subject, who, being a novelist, was hampered by no such scruples.",0
7898,"perhaps the name that we give to the power is inadequate; but if it is, so are the names, spoken and unspoken, that we give to all the simpler gods.",0
2410,"mrs. tillinghurst thought somewhere back east, but isn’t sure.",1
10650,"maybe he doesn’t like the speech either.”

“sure, it might turn out that way.",0
8376,"his being here was another coincidence, of course, but surely not one related to the case at hand.",0
2788,"i told him to tell robertson his suspicions by phone or write him a letter, but dennis wouldn't hear of it.",1
7352,about the priest what kind is he?,0
3499,"relays, no doubt.",0
7881,"goddammit, we are going to talk.”

“i’m going to have a baby,” she said.",0
3237,"right now, the mail is very slow coming all the way from america, but i'm sure lynette keeps writing to you.",0
11541,"i wondered again, but this time wholly without blame, what he had been doing in the church.",0
8763,"do you have one?”

“sure,” said roger converse.",0
3833,"surely, i don’t have to be standing on it to pray over it.",0
6580,"she put an arm tightly around each of them and felt gratitude and pleasure, in the firmness and warmth of their moving bodies, and they walked three abreast (like bosom friends, it occurred to her, the three musketeers) to the nearest chair; and she could see andrew twist it towards her with his outstretched left hand, and between them, slowly, they let her down into it, and then she could see only her aunt’s face, leaning deep above her, very large and very close, the eyes at once intense and tearful behind their heavy lenses, the strong mouth loose and soft, the whole face terrible in love and grief, naked and undisciplined as she had never seen it before.",0
2806,"""well,"" wooden foot said, cautious, ""considerin' that no one chief or village represents the whole shebang, i guess i'd say the tribe's mood is distrustful.",1
1329,"there was something wrong, some half-known evil in her worship of the bucolic scene—some measure of her inadequacy and, he supposed, of his.",1
4628,"and just when it seemed all hope was gone, annie lapp came to the rescue, calling on her husband to fill some baskets for “bishop john’s family.”

in spite of daed’s forlorn look, levi and the rest of them headed outdoors for the newly painted carriage—intended to carry home a new mam—happy with their tasty treasures.",0
10863,"it gave nicopolis no satisfaction to know that the despised and feared metrobius had undoubtedly been shown this special place first, but she said nothing, simply flopped down in the grass and watched sulla take a big skin of wine from the interior of the hamper.",0
2662,doubts and anxieties sprang to her mind.,1
5855,faith.,0
2443,"“this individual might even have been waiting in elizabeth’s car.”

“i doubt they would have left the car unlocked, but i suppose it’s possible.”

“did the women frequent this bar?”

“as i remember it, they didn’t frequent it, but they’d gone there before.”

“a rough place?”

“that was my expectation since it was a favorite watering hole for military guys,” she replied.",1
8766,surely not even he would try .,0
2188,"harry wasn’t certain that it relaxed her, but it began to obsess her.",1
9020,"i promise you.”

“are you sure?” stellina asked, looking searchingly into his eyes.",0
5552,"her taste was modern, and he repudiated as soulless or dull or ugly everything that had been built or painted or written (except for certain poetry and the prose of certain contemporary english divines) after 1850. moreover, he was, by heritage and by instinct, anti-semitic, and soon after we met jerry zumwalt, he dumbfounded me by saying, “i would never have a jew as a close friend.” and they never had been close—not in the way he was close with friends from boarding-school and college days.",0
2780,"in the case of andrew's career, only one thing marred it slightly, and just how important that worry was, andrew himself was uncertain.",1
10998,"the gardener hesitantly took it, removed his paper hat, and set the straw on his head.",0
1743,"but he turned back to me, smiling doubtfully, and said, ""i don't get it, hugh.""",1
827,"""i'm not certain of that,"" thompson replied with a hard stare.",1
12170,"""i guess he didn't expect them to die,"" angela said.",0
1312,and about that he was uncertain.,1
2636,"we live in sad times when one can entertain suspicions on such slender grounds.""",1
12323,"she lived next door, for heaven’s sake.",0
1957,"none of which clubs, melrose damned well knew, richard jury had ever bothered to go into except on business, and melrose sincerely doubted there was ever any business going on in them that would interest scotland yard.",1
9235,"“you tell him about the ballistics?”

“sure, i told him.",0
11316,"he suited lyme, a traditionally low church congregation, very well.",0
343,elisabeth wasn’t sure she wanted to sit with frances and her other friends.,1
8076,he probed with fingertips; the skull felt intact and certainly wasn’t depressed.,0
1548,how could you be sure of the difference between emancipation and suicide?,1
9941,"the rent is paid until the first of the year; my landlord is a generous sort, he won’t start pressing for back rent until february, but what then, when he does start pressing?",0
1755,i’m not so sure about a spotter plane.,1
9763,"it’s harder when you want to run the government, and the alternative is turning it over to bible thumpers and reactionaries.” he paused a moment.",0
7597,"“she says it’s ten million more like them, displaced persons, she says that there priest can get her all she wants.”

“she better quit messin with that there priest,” mr. shortley said.",0
2089,"“are we working together?”

“yes, but i’m not sure i need to tell you at this point.”

“great, fitch.",1
4967,and then he said there was never any doubt.,0
1332,"so i guess he tried the navy next, and being a little smarter now he no doubt lied about his age, but he wasn’t the fuzzy-cheeked piece of dough the navy was looking for, either; not that he wasn’t used to being treated like a dog, you understand, they just couldn’t be sure he could learn their new tricks.",1
7069,that was why the foreclosure occurred.,0
2652,"""he must have had his suspicions,"" david said.",1
3386,"she looked around, to make sure no one was watching her; there was a gob of mustard on the swollen belly of her wrinkled dress.",0
2015,"see if you can dredge up any more facts about kerry.”

“is he a kidnapper?”

“very likely,” i said, though i doubted it.",1
11940,"yet it appears to me but right that you should continue in your loving kindness on earth and share with me the golden goblets and the jewels in your tomb, so this next night i shall visit you when the moon is veiled in cloud.”

“what are you saying, noseless?” i exclaimed in consternation and unthinkingly made the holy sign of ammon.",0
1087,ulfias smiled doubtfully.,1
8675,"the flap had been secured by a simple slip knot, running through a ring in the canvas floor.",0
5139,"“i held him in my arms till i was sure, then i ran into the river and tried to drown myself.",0
11499,"he carried out his orders, whatever they were, went to mass between the battles and the executions, and believed, deeply, in god, the virgin, spain, and franco.",0
11025,"""the professional criminal,"" said quinn without hesitation.",0
4638,"“i’m home,” she shouted, first hugging her mother, then grabbing the angel’s hands and dancing in a circle, turning around and around and around, taking pleasure in his unfamiliarity and awkwardness at the dance, while her mother clapped a beat.",0
9326,"did you change anything in my editorials?”

“does the pope change anything in the bible?”

“it probably hasn’t occurred to him.”

koesler was on his way into the editorial office when his phone rang.",0
3943,would it affect your view of or belief/disbelief in god?,0
762,"his knowledge made him proud, dan declared, and his pride made him an agnostic.",1
466,i am not sure.,1
7876,"lord, how i strove to drive the idea of a nigger napoleon into their ignorant minds!",0
10047,"we’re having a family meeting in the garden in five minutes.”

				“oh, my god!” beth breathed, staring at bruce.",0
4992,"so many persons have looked at dylan thomas through themselves, it is a change for the better to have thomas looking at himself through a friend, a good, faithful, gifted friend who played it straight.",0
10827,but no doubts or half measures!,0
2452,"i’m not certain i understand it.”

“i’m sure my father will explain.”

“i guess we’ll be coming into a bundle.",1
7040,"“i think i would have had to grow up with a father to know how.”

“i can do it,” ingrid hurriedly said, and geli watched closely as her uncle hesitantly offered his throat to her and oddly held his breath as she tied a four-in-hand, flushing with panic when she got one part wrong, and falling back with relief when she finished.",0
10011,"“matthew,” he said, “i don’t know why the hell you went on television, but i hope the state’s attorney doesn’t ask for a change of venue after hearing you proclaim harper’s innocence to any listening prospective juror.",0
10451,"“freddie,” lurleen said, “do what christopher said.",0
11917,"horemheb told them, “the god is round and is like the sun’s disk, so look into the sky if your eyes can endure the brightness.",0
5169,“make sure nothing’s going to fall out.,0
11016,"he had come swiftly to the conclusion that mr. chisholm was not very intelligent, but was a gentleman and a slight ditherer, and a kind and somewhat hesitant man.",0
11590,"christmas was the following week, and that weekend they put up the tree, and it looked beautiful when they finished it.",0
9142,"sure the pay was pretty good, what with the security and pension.",0
6132,"behind the priests of serapis marched the devotees of isis, never very widely separated, for osiris had been the dead and risen lord of isis and father of her infant son, horus, as well as father of the man-made god of the ptolemies, serapis.",0
1514,"at the last minute, i would be unsure, and the sense i had of her would swell into something impossible and painful.",1
9371,"“if you be a nice little mama and go to bed and let me get some sleep, i’ll help you search for that bible when i wake up, i promise!”

mama frowned.",0
1640,"i’m glad you realize it.”

“i realize how very much he really does think of jay.”

“great—heavens, i should hope you do!”

“well, for a long time there was no reason to be sure,” mary retorted with spirit.",1
2814,tonio looked dubious.,1
6586,"now take the money and be still!”

“but what about the—”

“take it!”

“i really think we ought to be considering what—”

“take it!”

“but—”

“take it.”





camas/autumn/1964




by the time we’d finished landscaping doc franken’s clinic—a story in itself, characterized by such wonders as an unasked-for goldfish pond, a flock of pink plastic flamingos, a herd of larger-than-life plywood dairy cows compliments of the old jazzy jersey connection, and also by a water-balloon war between irwin and the good doctor, which grew so ruthless in its final stages that irwin sneak-attacked and drenched his adversary just seconds before he was to deliver a keynote lecture to two hundred physicians at a surgeons’ convention, thus inspiring franken’s first and last visit to the first adventist church of washougal, where, disguised by a mouse-colored fedora, dark glasses, slicked-back hair and a huge briefcase labeled holy bibles, he slipped up behind irwin, mama and the twins as the faithful were pouring into the church, opened the briefcase, whipped out a latex prophylactic swollen beyond recognition (thank goodness) by an easy half gallon of jet-black disappearing ink, and exploded the thing squarely on top of irwin’s head—by the time this enjoyable but decidedly digressive episode was over, then, papa had healed enough to return, toe in hand, so to speak, to his backyard pitching.",0
3566,"she had protested to the soldiers' home, and to the gravesend retreat for the elderly-both of which she served as a trustee-that making television sets available to old people would surely hasten their deaths.",0
5087,"he finally answered it that the man, no doubt because of his terrible experiences as a refugee, was afraid of the world.",0
7399,do you want to be deprived of god for all eternity?,0
4961,he made certain his chin glistened wetly when he returned so that louise could not mistake his parsimony.,0
2784,"cully had taken merlyn’s call on the casino floor, in the blackjack pit, where table number three was under suspicion.",1
1250,"it assumes tony is the bomber, something i understand you doubt; therefore, its conclusions are probably wildly wrong.",1
11814,"david had angela hand him the hammer, and he tried nailing the plywood in place.",0
10981,"and you have no

doubt this transcript comes right from inside the politburo?”

“mr.",0
7277,"there’s a kindergarten in the basement, church offices on the first, and dave lives on the second.",0
1819,about this the chofetz chaim remained uncertain for years.,1
5090,"doubtless none of them knows, save the eldest.",0
9848,"jenny was acting contrarily, but was strangely relaxed.",0
6572,"there might be certain advantages in being the sole object of the emperor's devotion; but, considered as a permanent occupation, it left a good deal to be desired.",0
1534,"“you know, to wash up.”

“well, why not?”

“i couldn’t be sure of anything.”

“sure of what?” mary put her fingers around his thumb.",1
1333,it makes me doubt the wisdom of my plans for him.,1
11574,"two crazed middle-aged hunters obsessed with killing each other, not caring who else is killed or wounded or maimed for life in the bargain?”

“you want compassion, go to a church and appeal to that god of yours who pisses on this planet!",0
3996,"and these ignorant, arrogant men are filled with the belief that they can achieve what they have set out to do.",0
3766,she certainly looked pleased.” ross was once again taken by her selflessness.,0
3844,"“if oxford prepares some to be priests, it prepares more to be scholars.”",0
5464,"despite a measure of triumph, despite the single short mile that finally separated us from our goal—a nearness to jerusalem so tantalizing that i could still feel in my flesh the remembered thrill of almost-victory—despite everything we had nearly achieved, in the end we failed beyond all hope or salvage.",0
1812,"“maybe we should say something,” erin said, looking dubiously, first at it, then at the hole they had dug.",1
3369,"as soon as you
are sure that they have sighted you and your men, fall back into the
chasm under the ridge of hammahlekoth.",0
3816,it would show the un and the world how foolish they were to think that jews could ever hold their ground against the tidal wave of the faithful who surrounded them.,0
7639,"on sunday, and for trips to town, he put on a tie.",0
5315,"“sonny,” said she, with an incredible amplitude of faith and good cheer, “dey is only one good book.",0
7351,"go to the head of the stairs and renounce your sins and distribute these tracts to the people,” and he thrust the stack of pamphlets into haze’s hand.",0
10599,“sure.,0
10081,"""i was thinking of a woman in los angeles,"" i said.",0
11741,who am i to quarrel with god?,0
5007,"people were supposed to suffer well, and she made sure she did.",0
3158,"unhappily, i doubt that i shall live long enough to see him duly installed at his alamo.",1
1830,"all the rest of his life william remembered sitting and watching those great grey eyes, watching the light fade from them, gradually, bit by bit, until he was not sure when it had happened exactly, when it was gone.",1
1582,"reverend lee.”

			“will you send something from us, too?”

			“i’m not quite sure how to do that.”

			“speak to sherrie.",1
6964,"but must i give you away entirely?”

“i keep tellin’ you i’m comin’ back!”

“i keep needing reassurance.”

“you’re a big baby.”

he supposed she was right, as usual.",0
9409,"when he didn’t come down right away, they were sure they had been abandoned, and they forced aaron to make them an image of a golden calf so they could worship it.”

brennerman’s tone had changed, and the congregation was giving him its full attention.",0
10728,"p. underwood group was no doubt heading for the waldorf, she walked, with teddy osch and nigel knox, the other creative staffer who had been at the client meeting, a few blocks uptown on third avenue.",0
10492,"there was one thing on which rory was determined: if he were to be elected president, america would not be engaged in foreign wars.",0
2779,"despite his skepticism, edward was intrigued.",1
3173,but for seconds of uncertainty he hesitated.,1
11783,"but until the millennium occurs definitively, until the triumph, however brief, of the foul beast that is the antichrist, it is up to us to defend the treasure of the christian world, and the very word of god, as he dictated it to the prophets and to the apostles, as the fathers repeated it without changing a syllable, as the schools have tried to gloss it, even if today in the schools themselves the serpent of pride, envy, folly is nesting.",0
6664,angie had neither the presence nor the confident strength of many of the other teachers.,0
8438,he felt certain she must despise him.,0
6389,"in return, we propose certain conditions.",0
3834,"alvis nevins himself wasn't meaning truly to travel to the riser, had not intended to venture up to the front of the church for the pleasure of gripping there a forearm he could grip most any hour of the day he pleased without going truly much of anywhere to do it, and he informed a gentleman a pew up from him and the stout hatless lady alongside him how he was personally quite well acquainted with donnie huff, had known him way on back before he'd been dead and redeemed, and had discovered already occasion to take him up at the forearm more times even than alvis nevins could count which that gentleman and that lady appeared to appreciate as a disclosure and departed presently to take their turns at the riser where they each of them spoke of their intimate acquaintance with a buddy of donnie huff's who they jerked their heads and twitched their noses to indicate, a buddy of donnie huff's who'd led them to believe that perhaps, as friends of a friend of his, they might lay their fingers to the forearm and enjoy the sort of sensation that just any old body would not be privy to.",0
11050,"“i gave a yogurt pop to a guy this morning,” she began hesitantly.",0
7141,"surely, it would be no problem to merely put it out of sight somewhere.",0
6183,"i’ve never been unfaithful to you.”

“was she better in bed than i am?” she was striding back and forth across the parlor.",0
9395,i am saying prayers to god every night.,0
3706,owen assured me; he'd already arranged everything.,0
5544,"look dere.”

my skin still tingled with pleasure, a tired gentle luxurious feeling which at the same time i felt to be a danger and a warning.",0
4073,but the old adage ‘you never appreciate anything unless it’s taken away from you’ surely applies here.,0
1708,"“you go into business, you’re agreeing to distrust another person.",1
6068,he possessed an indefinable air of assurance she envied.,0
1799,"now you can say it, you ought to find out what it means, sometime.”

“what does it mean?”

“not sure myself, but then i don’t say it.",1
10762,"""well, she's had a shock, no doubt of that, and she's had a head injury and some bad cuts.",0
6546,"where pleasure seekers used to roam and idle away the

time, soldiers now crowded about.",0
5185,"certainly that was a fine way to repay us for the hospitality we were nice enough to show to him, a perfect stranger.",0
3581,"""i'm sure he can by now.",0
567,"so the priests came to grandmother’s home, when they passed through leeds, for though a lapsed catholic and obviously living in sin in more ways than one, she was still the daughter of a catholic family and had been baptized in the faith.",1
6074,"faith felt herself stiffen, reminding herself that once this was over, there would only be one more hurdle—the reception her parents were giving tonight in her honor.",0
1868,mckee doubted that he did.,1
11763,"the day’s got a load of snow caught in its throat, but that doesn’t worry him much; it is just eight days until christmas, and business will be good.",0
3644,"no doubt hoping murder will be done so she will be on hand to photograph the deed, no?",0
1155,"“i’m not certain it’s just his eyes.”

“then what?”

“i think it may be the scarring.",1
3762,"a sound investment, to ensure a proper return on the call that brought you among us.",0
1234,"as much as she distrusted the loathsome being before her, she wanted to believe there might be a
way to influence him to release them.",1
4055,"our cause is just, our hearts are true, and our victory is assured if we only stand with courage.""",0
4700,"you can take a lunch.”

mr. shiftlet was deeply hurt by the word “milk.” he didn’t doubt that she had more money sewed up in her mattress but he had already told her he was not interested in her money.",0
12175,"good god, casey thought, they complain about scott having right-wing oddballs on his side.",0
5073,"no doubt about it, no matter what, beginning the harvest was exciting.",0
11291,he tries praying to relax him but it doesn’t do it.,0
3920,"st john bosco’s, unlike holy faith, was a new plant, with paid secretaries, the latest in equipment, and programs and organizations galore, many overlapping.",0
1099,"with this realization came a moment of dizzying
indecision.",1
1001,"he was not sure he should tell this investigator anything at all, but
figured a refusal would arouse undue suspicion where there was none to begin with.",1
1285,he looked at me doubtfully.,1
4534,"“because if jamal isn’t killed, i’m quite sure he’ll kill you.",0
5696,"kind of try to wonder what he’s thinking instead of how you’re going to answer him back.”

“you’re sure putting the finger on me,” suzy said softly.",0
3144,there were suspicions.,1
444,"'i doubt it, my lord.'",1
11788,"he was like an acolyte attending a priest of his faith, and in spite of the heavy moustache there was something priestly about the old man, about his kindly smile and the hand he extended like a blessing.",0
4425,"""but i--"" ""all is well,"" i assured him.",0
1906,he wasn’t sure he wanted that to happen until he had said what he had to say.,1
6815,"they come at unguarded moments—the image of german soldiers drinking and gorging themselves while belgian children starve; the image of our little medieval town sacked, buildings that have stood forever charred and engulfed with flames; our treasured library, filled with shelves of books that it took centuries to collect, now ashes.",0
1216,"“from the look of things, i doubt they know how to use it properly.",1
711,"sure, i’ve doubted it all before.",1
939,"will you come with us?”

mary glanced uncertainly at roger.",1
199,"if i had doubted it at first, i was absolutely certain of it now, and that struck me as very funny.",1
11010,"after a moment’s hesitation, he got to his feet, saying: “by all means.”

harry led him forward, past the kitchen and the men’s room, and turned right, mounting the twisting staircase.",0
11676,"then the other monks, who had followed the conversation a bit shyly, laughed heartily, as if they had been awaiting the librarian’s consent.",0
9826,"mordeckay made a shawl for the palestino from the linen of a barber on boston road; they crept under the striped shawl around noontime and wouldn’t come out until after six, when they finished celebrating santa esther, santa teresa of spain, the christian and marrano martyrs, the turks who once loved the jews, each of moisés’ sons, and the angels of adonai.",0
5392,"she found no wine but turned up instead a genuine treasure, one that greatly advanced their efforts toward barter.",0
2984,"“i doubt it,” he said.",1
11138,"she hid her own

private modem and the dial-in is the number of a diagnostics line almost never

used.'",0
6396,"and now we get to listen to the senators and the representatives who are running for office again; they tell the colonel all he doesn't know about the u.s. constitution; they point out to him that patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda-and that to dispute a



presidential policy is not necessarily anti-american.",0
3218,"how hard he had labored hammering, measuring, lifting, sanding, all with belief that they would live there for good.",0
817,"“in case you are ever unsure of your safety, you should immediately switch this on.",1
4321,“you’re a gentleman pirate to be sure.,0
5516,his intial reluctance.,0
3678,"""i wanted to be sure i'd made no mistake,"" resumed gisele, relentlessly, ""so i decided to check on the person you claim to be.",0
3732,“i am sure he was killed on purpose.,0
11191,"he deferred to the pierce-arrow, but gave me a questioning look.",0
12287,angela paused to think about it.,0
8358,i don’t doubt you can do it.,0
5877,"besides, he was such a touchy guy, it wasn't any pleasure discussing anything with him.",0
11634,"if anyone's prayers would be heard by god-if there was indeed a god who heard and listened-then he would hear sister mary bernarde's prayers above the prayers of anyone else, for surely, though she accused herself of ""hard-heartedness and stupidity"" she was as sinless and as good and pure as any human being he had ever known, even including his mother.",0
9430,"some of these old ladies think all god has got to do is wait on them, he thought sourly and shifted into gear.",0
4838,"""the girl surely don't like this here,"" he said.",0
3364,"to sally she said, “at times i’m tempted to pinch myself just to make certain it’s real.",0
1311,it is the superstition of a godless people.,1
10153,"“when milo comes back with the wranglers, please tell him that i need him to drive me across the border to my uncle’s place when i finish the gunfight reverses.”

“how the hell does somebody end up like you?”

“i don’t know,” she admitted.",0
11475,"we reentered the church and came out through the north door, finally sitting down happily on the tombstones.",0
9287,“thank heaven for small favors.,0
6296,"they had come eagerly, however, for much gold could be earned, and stolen, while serving the romans whose pleasure villas lined the shore of the amethyst-green lake.",0
4991,the foundation will really give them faith in their name.,0
7452,"we moved on to the withy tree, which tells how the child once cast a bridge of sunbeams over a stream and crossed upon it, and played a trick on little john the baptist, who followed him, by removing the beams and letting john fall in the water.",0
6854,"do you understand your rights, mr. jake denney?”

with a heavy breath i said, “sure.”

“then why don’t you tell me what happened?”

“i’m not talking.”

“you want a lawyer?”

“i’ve got one.”

“you?”

i said nothing.",0
5336,"yes, it would be something if the pope were to call upon europe publicly and openly to invite its jews to return from their exile in israel, and for him to mean it; if he were to call on europe to confess to its complicity in their uprooting and destruction; if he were to call on europe to purge itself of a thousand years of anti-semitism and to make room in its midst for a vital jewish presence to multiply and flourish there and, in anticipation of the third millennium of christianity, to declare by proclamation in all its parliaments the right of the jewish uprooted to resettle in their european homeland and to live as jews there, free, secure, and welcome.",0
6095,"he is a most determined man, as you have reason to know.",0
8814,"“no note, no hesitation marks,” said inverness.",0
5189,"it is a pernicious system: but i surmise the same kind of threat to freedom in a recently organized group of revolutionary artists who are out to fight and suppress if they can, all “reactionary” artists—that is, all artists who do not subscribe to their particular political faith.",0
9325,"we see a man walking along the street after dark, and the patrolman on the beat will make a point of speaking to him.” he looked at the young minister quizzically.",0
5345,"he made a little speech, full of pomp and reassurance, telling my mother how comfortable and well off she would be, and said, “now you have the income from the old gentleman’s estate—god rest his peculiar new orleans soul; he let a fortune slip through his fingers when he declined to finance my convalescent home for drunkards—and this house with inclusory chattels will be intact during the period of my separation.",0
8472,"i had no doubt that some day (next year) i should make my pilgrimage to the birthplace of my people, but a pilgrimage is a planned and contemplated event of the mind and, perhaps, the heart, which this most emphatically was not.",0
950,"“these are the marks of heathen devil-worshippers,” crompton proclaimed, turning to display the arm to the younger boys who stood in a single file against the wall.",1
3079,doubts about ted.,1
6623,she felt stifled and more certain they’d made a mistake in moving here.,0
5693,"i make good money.”

“i’m sure you do,” vinh said.",0
1892,"as much thought as he had given to his plans for and his responsibilities to this firstborn, he found himself uncertain how to act.",1
1547,"he remarked once, that of all the names he had been called, such as agnostic (which tag he adopted later, ruefully), atheist, immoralist, pessimist, and so on, a properly fitting one had been overlooked altogether: “churchy.” he had once meant to be a parson.",1
9730,"i’m archer.”

“to l.a.?” he said it as if there were really angels there.",0
5583,“are you sure of your doctor?,0
3921,"regardless of father’s decision, you need to stand up for your faith.",0
5297,"but she quickly decided not to exasperate him by a question; she was sure of his kind intention, and deeply touched by it.",0
4586,"if abba doesn’t get him for my husband, i know i will surely die.”



hephzibah paused for breath when she reached the sacred grove of asherah on the hill outside jerusalem the following afternoon.",0
1586,"an american woman who teaches italian in rome is unusual, but then all arrangements in rome are so complicated that lucidity and skepticism give way when we try to follow the description of a scene in court, a lease, a lunch, or anything else.",1
2084,on and gone before anyone could be sure he had seen it.,1
8193,"i made sure no one was lingering on the porch, then collected my kit and a fresh set of underwear and scampered down the veranda to the bathroom at the end of the building.",0
11406,"once the emergency was plain, representatives from all three churches met at the oven because they couldn’t agree on which, if any, church should host a meeting to decide on what to do now that the women had ignored all warnings.",0
278,"accidental or on purpose, no one could be sure, but the actress had been en route to a remote location in alaska where she was filming her latest movie.",1
2409,"lawrence hobbes stood at the head of the table, and as he spoke there was a quiver of uncertainty (or fear?)",1
8793,"at five o’clock monday, feeling buoyant, young, confident, he’d whistled as he’d left the office.",0
8723,she left tina a note on the kitchen table with marching orders for the children and headed across the lawn toward faith’s cottage.,0
11834,"tomorrow i must go away for two

weeks, but we can meet here, four sundays from today.” she looked at her watch.",0
1074,"just as i am, though tossed about

with many a conflict, many a doubt,

fightings within, and fears without,

o lamb of god, i come, i come!",1
333,"because that greatest good would have to be because part of being good is being actual, right?”

“i guess,” faith said, but she wasn’t sure.",1
11715,"but that morning he, william, had heard very wise people assert that it could not be proved that christ had been poor.",0
11997,"“and they drank some beer and they found two bikes and they decided that this was a gift from the gods.”

“they found them?”

“yes, found as in stole them outside a restaurant.",0
11502,"as everyone knows, the houses of life and of death had stood for untold ages within the temple walls, and also the theological schools for priests in the higher grades.",0
10853,"she undoubtedly did have to work late, but eating leftover stew by himself on his birthday was also punishment for talking to the new tenant when he wasn’t supposed to.",0
2491,"“hayes told the hotel to hold the rooms for them, because he wasn’t sure when they would be back.",1
6391,after a brief hesitation he reached for a jeweled box that lay on the table close to his hand.,0
6317,"the centurion hurried ahead of his column and tacked up a notice on the outside of the gate, which explained who would be executed that day at the pleasure of tiberius caesar, and for what crimes.",0
3469,really believing demands action.,0
11650,"that first great wave of conspicuous consumption had suited his accounting books very nicely; and by way of compensation--and in imitation of an earlier generation of puritan profiteers, who had also preferred hunting sin to hunting the fox--he had become excessively earnest and christian in his private life.",0
5071,he certainly made some enemies there.,0
1322,"does every other girl in the school walk around carrying a thing like this?”

“i doubt it,” suzanne said.",1
10576,"do you pay my wife to clean your house?”

“certainly not, jack.",0
11903,next we bade the astronomers consult the book of the heavens to learn whether the day was auspicious for this undertaking.,0
683,"i need more faith, i guess.daddy says i should tell the lord about it, but what he doesn’t know is that i already have.",1
12083,"god, they’re handsome kids.",0
7993,he is a good doctor; he doesn't complain about sunday visits and he is gentle.,0
4155,even my mother confirms them—that i must surely be with child.,0
9665,strange how people get religion when something upsets the normal flow of life.,0
5617,"and with a certain drop of the mouth, smiling at himself, transmitting to sammler as he had done before the mother's sense of the graceful boy, the child's large skull and long neck, the clear-lined brows, crisp hair, fine small nose.",0
9657,"and today when she saw the name of the nun mentioned as part of our investigation—well, as i said, it rang a bell.",0
3104,"from the floor the

ukrainian stared back in disbelief.",1
5205,"he wasn’t a bully like leon sisca and certainly not cruel like denny zmiga, who tortured cats.",0
6775,"“then we is sure enough ready to go!”

“jordan, are you certain about this?” this time it was paul who warned him.",0
8194,"but at least now you know why i want to find him before we dock.”

“so what do we do now?”

i had mixed emotions about the fact that it was now “we.” on the one hand, it meant i had convinced her.",0
10892,"""that's nine to one,"" sam said.”it doesn't leave any doubt that this company will continue with the launching of montayne.”

once more there was a silence, this time awkward, as if no one knew what to do or say next.",0
7169,"how he'd love to get a peek at the treasure trove of
bruce's computer archives.",0
630,"“maybe god speakin’ to you about this, evey, but he sure ain’t spoke to me about it.",1
5079,"but in my own case, i can surely say that those first years at st. raymond's were all light and no darkness at all.",0
845,"“what!”

midge was staring at the readout in disbelief.",1
8491,"“i’m sure you will.”

“but can i do it before the thieves find the diamond?",0
9724,"he returned to his chair and looked around at the congregation, nodding to members who happened to catch his eye.",0
10300,"cigarettes

1 bottle rum (bacardi)

1 wrist watch (lord elgin)

1 diamond ring (lady’s — approx.",0
7346,"now and then the pioneer lady minister, pleasant daisy harriman, floated in all white, horse-haired lace garden hats and pink or maybe blue chiffon frocks, on her way to or from some social afternoon festivity.",0
7460,i only went to church.,0
2083,"he bit his lip, not quite certain how much he wanted to tell me yet.",1
1075,"he had given up the belief that god had created all there was, including the blackfoot river, on a six-day work schedule, but he didn’t believe that the job so taxed god’s powers that it took him forever to complete.",1
4987,you talk about showin faith.,0
3503,"“sure enough, they have!” she said with a little cry of joy.",0
3131,"rejecting a morgan offer, casting doubt on morgan righteousness might squeeze some favors from morgan pockets.",1
2178,"“i wasn’t sure.”

“stop riding my bus,” i said again.",1
3924,she left standing the stately old elm that for decades had stretched heavenward from the very spot now within the enclosure.,0
9431,"although she didn’t question the authority of the two men from the ministry, she made a point of loudly snapping on surgical gloves.",0
9323,"“there may be worse sins than murder, kimball haynes.”



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32





warren randolph buttoned his shirt as larry johnson leaned against the small sink in the examining room.",0
5840,"this cheered him, cleared away all his apprehensions and let him regard the overcast sky and the cold air with indifference.",0
4976,"“some poor sufferer of the not too distant future, prostrate on the alkali plains, may owe his deliverance to these very selfsame volumes.”

“the more i think it over,” she went on, “the more i’m convinced that i’ve agreed to a fool’s errand.",0
12302,". . consider distorted, tortured sculpture from michelangelo to henry moore .",0
8245,"once he was sure the book could not possibly have been salvaged by a single redeeming feature, koesler had put it—and all future p.g.",0
6707,"as he reached to check for hannelore's pulse, the
flashlight slipped and illumined her ankles, tied securely to the front legs of the
chair.",0
3172,"his face was like cracked plaster, quivering, his sensual mouth hanging loose, his chin uncertain, his forehead glazed and wet.",1
3458,"antigone says, “the god of the dead at least desires equality,” and it certainly is the case that all deaths, no matter how little, are lovely levelers of people.",0
11282,"so that night we were waked by those who moved through the dormitory and the pilgrims’ house

ringing a bell, as one monk went from cell to cell shouting, “benedicamus domino,” to which each answered, “deo gratias.”

william and i followed the benedictine custom: in less than half an hour we prepared to greet the new day, then we went down into the choir, where the monks, prostrate on the floor, reciting the first fifteen psalms, were waiting until the novices entered led by their master.",0
10784,she had no doubt he was capable of committing such a daring murder-and getting away with it.,0
11880,"prefontaine had no idea who the woman and the children were or what their relationship was to lord randolph of gates, but whoever they were and whatever it was, dandy randy meant them no good.",0
165,she wasn’t sure she wanted to hear what joe had to say.,1
11797,"but, at least he would be the one to open the subject and not herself, and perhaps she could avert the final revelation.",0
10199,"“sand, all right.”

“god!” tony said.",0
3817,"""jesus made exceptions and took exception to certain laws,"" i granted, ""but he never said that law should not exist.",0
6294,brownie did his best to reassure us about john turtle.,0
6825,"books by

lynn austin

from bethany house publishers

________________________________

all she ever wanted

eve’s daughters

hidden places

a proper pursuit

though waters roar

until we reach home

wings of refuge

a woman’s place

refiner’s fire

candle in the darkness

fire by night

a light to my path





chronicles of the kings

gods and kings

song of redemption

the strength of his hand

faith of my fathers

among the gods





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chronicles

of the

kings



lynn austin





the strength of his hand

copyright © 2005

lynn austin





cover design by the designworks group





scripture quotations identified niv are from the holy bible, new international version ®.",0
4793,"sure thing, he thought, shuyu doesn’t know how to take care of books.",0
2466,"he appeared uncertain, confused by a dude with a cadillac coming on like a street fighter.",1
2760,garth brooks was singing on regardless on the tape machine and wayne had been so stunned at his own survival that he was unsure if it was he or his ghost climbing down from the cab.,1
1566,"does this mean that if tsau wants you to end up as the village atheist while she goes her merry way, while she or it turns into something entirely different, you’re up for that because it would be such a privilege just to be there to witness for the old idea of tsau?",1
9655,he has no reason to kill neighbors and the nun except that their names fit his plan.,0
4400,"and if you think you can win lord john’s heart through this little pretense of yours—”

“my lady, i can assure you nothing lies further from my mind,” anika interrupted, keeping her voice low.",0
5711,"stingo, you may recall a number of years ago when your grandmother’s will was probated we were all baffled by her reference to a certain sum in gold coins which she bequeathed to her grandchildren but which we could never find.",0
10022,"she watched him get a bottle of vodka from the refrigerator that stood in the barely furnished room; she sat with him in the old sofa that used to be downstairs and didn’t say anything, not a word, until he had told her everything that had happened from the trip to carville on sunday until this tuesday evening at the st. louis hotel.",0
4639,“doth not the very word of god forbid us to cut our bodies as the heathen do?,0
1003,"'one piece was given to the emperor, and the other two have fallen into the hands of the heathen infidel.'",1
938,"it all benefited the next generation of white children.”

jake sat there, not sure how to respond.",1
7668,"they rolled up the windows of the car, turned on the air-conditioner and found a sunday morning radio station that was playing classical music.",0
3886,you sold your soul’s salvation for a few moments of carnal pleasure.,0
8381,"“and you feel that psychology is your forte?”

“i sure do, doctor.",0
1878,"“you know, it’s a funny thing, but i’m not sure myself.",1
3367,"she was watching the procession eagerly and when her
gaze met his, he was sure her eyes twinkled momentarily in the smile of
mischief he remembered so well.",0
5869,"it also occurred to her, as it has before, that she might slip the magazine into her canvas shopping bag, sneak it out of the library, and destroy it at her leisure.",0
9376,"“christmas is the time for families to get together.”

earlier in their married life, she had sometimes found it impossible to lever conrad out of the shop.",0
4775,"yes it sure would be that, his father said, always supposing she could still recognize them.",0
5191,"but tyrannion assures me that whatever texts i may need are available, though in private collections.",0
11472,(i didn’t mention that i was working nights in a bank to get extra money for christmas.),0
9996,"when this indictment is thrown out—as it must be—wright’s going to look like one hell of a fool.”

“more than a fool,” added brill.",0
1441,"“i would rather have the whole thing at once.”
  “well, suppose there’s a slight doubt that the boy should be in the army and we send him and he gets killed.”
“i see.",1
6748,she had made several copies for noblemen in prague and had committed certain melodic verses to memory.,0
804,"the winds of adversity had blown harshly, and there had been a time when she thought they could engulf her untested faith.",1
4392,"we're called to purity, and i'm sure it won't surprise you—”",0
474,"and i certainly don't need the
bible.",1
1823,"it was instantaneous.”

she was silent; he felt that she must be doubting it.",1
11204,"""just about immediately,"" david said without hesitation.",0
5987,"and the sweet smell of the glaze on h’s hands reminds me of others that i would want in the square, the people from the ship, too, the vietnamese boy from a village near my own who died of a fever in the indian ocean and the natives in dakar who were forced by colonial officials to swim out to our ship in shark-infested waters to secure the moorings and two were killed before our eyes without a french regret.",0
3399,"""he's certainly given you a lot to think about.""",0
10092,"my point, however, is that you probably have to dismiss the details as unreliable and concentrate on the chief thrust of bach’s account, that zabriski had stumbled onto an illegality connected with bada and planned to expose it.”

“if bada wasn’t the one losing money,” oblonski argued, “there was no reason for zabriski to be as upset as everyone agreed he was.”

“like hell there wasn’t,” caroled samaras.",0
2099,"isaac had an unnatural gift for pulling himself out of his own debris, for surfacing whenever he chose, and brown could no longer be sure what was legitimate and what was sham with isaac in the area.",1
10182,"and who in all the world should want me but sulla—it's a joke of the gods!""",0
9046,"i took a long hot shower: let the water steam over me, let my hair stick to my face, let the back of my neck be drilled by the concentrated pressure of the needle setting on my shower head.",0
5778,"we—in recollection i feel no reluctance to speak of lucille and myself almost as a single consciousness even through the course of that summer, though often enough she was restless and morose—we always stayed in the woods until it was evening, and when it was not bitterly cold we stayed on the shore throwing rocks into the water until it was dark.",0
11372,"but among the crowd outside the building i heard many compare him to christ before the

pharisees, and i realized that among the people many believed in the holiness of the friar michael.",0
9080,"""are you sure this isn't mr.",0
5069,i pawed through the night to justy’s room to make sure he was still breathing.,0
12270,"insist on more and we could be eating ashes.”



the visit of the british prime minister and her foreign secretary to washington two days later was

described in the press as being informal.",0
10006,went back to the sun god or whatever indians worship.” witover glanced quickly at leaphorn.,0
653,"“i’m not sure.”

“you had a vision but you’re not sure what it was?”

“something terrible is happening, and somehow its outcome rests in my hands.",1
3526,"determined to love everyone, she smiled at the people she passed on the way to school; but by second period, she was hating sister angelica, the latin teacher, for getting all teary-eyed and quivery over cicero’s oration against catiline.",0
6846,"many of his followers saw him.”

“i am a jew and i live by the law of moses,” declared adam.",0
1180,the suspicion in his voice leaked through.,1
5037,". . sure, and willie was confident that delaney died beneath the stamping of his brass-heeled boots.",0
8368,"“mom, can’t i do some of that answering for you?”

				she remonstrated, saying the letters were addressed to her, but arthur won her over by saying surely some of them were “mixed.” so arthur got a pen and set about answering the first letter he opened.",0
10834,no doubt they had when built enjoyed a pleasant prospect down towards the river.,0
2953,"i am convinced, if you search your heart, that faint doubts must have already crossed it.",1
9174,he felt handsome and assured and sophisticated and in complete control of america.,0
4500,"“but, imagine,” ida was saying, “that he came, that man who’s your man— because you always know, and he damn sure don’t come every day— and there wasn’t any place for you to walk out of or into, because he came too late.",0
707,"i certainly didn’t turn him in, just in case i was wrong, let’s say.",1
500,mat's coming has added something implicitly formidable to the uncertain pleasantness of the gathering.,1
8384,"they increased the advertising.”

“did you know how much money the tobacco companies were making off cigarette sales to children?” rohr asked, certain of the answer.",0
2134,all these suspicions—these attempted murders.,1
10474,"whether they did or didn't, nim thought, one thing was certain: patterns of life were changing significantly, and would change still more.",0
9945,“christopher?” he asked expectantly.,0
6625,"""certainly.",0
4701,"while you are away, you may be sure that i will protect your interests.",0
8087,"curtis little, fiftyish, silver-haired, and exuding nervous energy, said dryly,

""i'm sure under the circumstances you're happy to settle for the bruises and the cracked rib, peter.",0
12252,"temple gault had always been magical, a god who

wore a human body.",0
5958,"“you know, the loony bin.”

“oh, sure,” i said.",0
7038,'secure some more burial shrouds and bindings.,0
1874,"i’m not sure now what it was i really wanted, other than to see him either alter before my eyes or be confirmed as what i was afraid he had become.",1
2600,o.k.” he is uncertain what to do now.,1
1762,"the mexican government was paying them heavily; moscow was paying mexico for the privilege of making the film: uspensky was the most dangerous agent moscow had ever sent on a mission; moscow was on the point of repudiating him altogether, it was doubtful he would be allowed to return to russia.",1
4236,"""be sure everything is in order, tell the cabin crew to wait until after the welcoming ceremony to deplane, and you two should be last off.""",0
11577,"'there's someone following me,' i said to a security guard decidedly

lacking in christmas spirit as she sat at her desk.",0
11527,"perhaps god isn't bored with us yet (victor hugo's phrase, not mine).",0
11029,"it went like a dream, no suspicions, winding up as smoothly as clockwork, cash due to come in, myself due to check out finally at the end of the summer .",0
624,"so the ear infection and the fever, which are normally minor disorders, are in her case threatening to be fatal.”

		“you’re saying she can actually kill herself?” jason asked in disbelief.",1
854,"the deal would never work without him.”

“sutter, is this stuff for real?” it confirmed jake’s worst suspicions, fit perfectly with finney’s letters to doc, but it still sounded so incredible.",1
4633,he had never liked the pressure to do and say the right thing because he was a preacher.,0
1265,if it were me throwing i wasn’t sure i’d even hit the mattress.,1
6528,"but one night when i had ordered a beer and she had brought it, and “san antonio rose,” a particular favorite of mine, was playing on the jukebox, and the singer sang, “be-neath the stars all alo-one,” i said, “fair maiden, might i have the inexpressible pleasure of escorting you to the picture show?”

she painted me a brief mustache with the wet rag she was carrying in her hand, and went her way.",0
8842,"for a few hours’ work, you can have the pleasure of holding it in your own hands whenever you want.”

“what are my other choices?”

“two: you can sell it to me tonight.",0
1144,"to dispense with the long, tiresome, disgusting business of sorting
and disposing of the unclean fish; be rid of the stuff that could be sold
only to the heathens.",1
6732,"“i’ve never had the pleasure to meet him personally.”

the three men exchanged handshakes.",0
11043,"“do you want to call brad?”

she shook her head without hesitation.",0
11617,"but he believed both in god and his club, and slept sweetly.",0
4293,"but neither could it be said that they had been trying to attract each other— they would never, certainly, have dreamed of doing it that way.",0
1142,"though he doubts that he will ever have occasion to see for himself, and knows that he does not want to, he imagines this change to have taken place in all the rooms of the house.",1
7333,"he knew that inside the catafalque eugene’s soul was black as the black-silk vestments of the priest, black as the woolen habits of the murmuring nuns.",0
2560,"for some reason i felt edgy, little fingers of doubt crawling their way up the curve of my spine.",1
5247,"she is watching her grandchildren eat, making sure every spoonful of precious broth and meat gets into them.",0
10421,"my god, you were leaving me!” her eyes went blank, two blind circles of panic.",0
5549,"despite certain unforeseen halts and delays, our advance was everywhere successful.",0
2865,joseph doubted that he would prefer execution to life.,1
7580,"she prayed that someday she wouldn’t have to lift one single pail, or stand in a muddy cow yard with cows staring out as if their eyes weren’t connected to a brain.",0
11251,"and yet many came to gherardo, not only peasants, but also people of the city, members of the guilds, and gherardo made them strip themselves so that, naked, they could follow the naked christ, and he sent them out into the world to preach, but he had a sleeveless tunic made for himself, white, of strong stuff, and in this garb he looked more like a clown than like a religious!",0
1350,"the practice was good for composure, and on saturdays, mind made up again, she was sitting two feet from mr. giffard, playing melody, without a notion of whether, after a week of working on it, her performance was better or worse than before.",1
136,"when he remained and said nothing more for several minutes, she realized he didn’t know for certain whether she was there.",1
5567,"much of it is made of a soft pink stone that in certain lights, or when wetted by a shower, glows almost rose.",0
6516,"when miss grissom discovered that birdie played the piano, she had asked whether she would consent to serve as accompanist so that miss grissom could devote her full attention to conducting the group.",0
7473,her missionary society refreshments added to her reputation as a hostess (she did not permit calpurnia to make the delicacies required to sustain the society through long reports on rice christians); she joined and became secretary of the maycomb amanuensis club.,0
2470,"“was mr. pivarski ever in the office again?”

“not while i was there.”

“how old a man was he, would you say?”

“um... late thirties or early forties?”

“i sense indecision.",1
5481,"carol’s voice came from the door head: “with pleasure.” the girl looked mildly after her, apparently unimpressed by carol’s beauty and hauteur, which he knew would’ve prompted a look of strange longing from the sick girl upstairs, as it did from her sisters in the secret club, their mark, so he dallied till following might seem gratuitous but there’d still be time to see that carol reached her car in safety.",0
9453,"the monk is dead, whoever and whatever he was.",0
3374,but there was no doubt who it was.,0
2370,"it was too dark to be certain, but it looked like the same car that had tailed me from the beach.",1
9370,"the demons of darkness had been banished for a year, and tonight the birthday of the child would be celebrated with midnight mass at the church and private family devotions.",0
1478,"he was not sure what the driver wanted to know, but he considered how he might convey his feeling that his whole life consisted of things set in motion that could not be stopped.",1
4977,"she would have to hide from her husband, if she could, the same spot in her feelings she had hidden from her parents, and for the same no doubt disreputable, selfish reason: she wants to keep his love.",0
12192,"i’ll have to spend more time in l.a. protecting you, because i’m sure as hell not going to let you take this crap without me.",0
10112,which could possibly mean that the revelation would be too painful or might pose a threat to wayne personally.,0
8656,"the raggle-taggle congregation might have been from another world compared to the group of his admirers in berkeley, except for one thing: on these faces was an identical look, a blend of pleasure, awe, and love.",0
9772,all mothers are god's helpers.,0
6465,"vonnie lee remarked, “he sure looks a whole lot older than you,” an observation to which i did not reply.",0
3156,"criminal elements are given shelter, people of doubtful morals stay on without registration.",1
6509,"“actually, my name is jan. jan jovic.”

“and mine’s helen.”

“it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

“the same, jan jovic.” she shot a quick look behind her again, and jan saw concern flash through her eyes.",0
8015,she was ostracizing the hell out of me.,0
2059,he wasn't certain about the light.,1
3907,"he was 
fiercely and devotedly loved, or as fiercely and devotedly hated, in the church.",0
4040,and certainly not before we fix that tire.,0
6578,"will you stay with the kids?”

“sure,” he said.",0
10312,"god knows.”

				the commissioner spun around and flung himself up the steps toward the entrance, where a uniformed cop stood guard and now raised his hand in salute.",0
4224,"oversupply at the moment, i’m sure,” the banker reassured him.",0
6733,"“sure, and the ocean ye can control by reason.",0
6345,thuc was seen to have a certain independence and they wanted to reinforce it.,0
12066,"if the gods govern them, the throne needs no weapons to support it.",0
3130,"do you doubt it?""",1
1735,"it coulda been fur in the picture, you couldn’t tell for sure.",1
4866,"why, there were some right there on the plantation he was sure the massa could leave unguarded for a year and find them there--still working--when he returned.",0
11183,there was no hesitation to indicate he would have to consult someone else before agreeing to terms.,0
8696,"he comforted himself with the thought that his illness and the nurses' had been self-limiting, suggesting a low exposure to an airborne agent.",0
11434,"or, then again, i might be buying you a christmas present.""",0
7883,"moreover, had it not been for a calamitous fall of cards, i stood to make a potful, again in the name of providence, for i am certain that the heavenly wisdom would have applauded any clipping of these wolves.",0
10698,"what had happened to ann marie did indeed demand vengeance, but it must not be the sort of vengeance joseph armagh could inflict, for ann marie might live and she must not be the cause of violence between her parents and the things which joseph would undoubtedly do.",0
11233,"it stopped in front of a wood-framed, three-story house, where an old priest got out and walked to the door.",0
10887,"so?”

“well, in recognition of the services i rendered that undoubtedly contributed to the removal of a life-threatening situation in which he found himself, said threat emanating from paris, he saw clearly the validity of compensating me.",0
10529,"he even seems to have a child by her.’

‘we have no colour bar here, muller, and she was very thoroughly vetted, i can assure you.’

‘all the same, it was the communists who organised her escape.",0
1959,"""i wasn't sure when you'd release the report.""",1
833,her research on the original gemeinhaus—“common house”—was strictly off the record until her suspicions about the location could be verified.,1
6105,for an instant the policeman seemed to blanch; then he regained his composure.,0
5618,"we were good friends then, may and i, in a certain way.",0
3588,"of course.”

shenstone came bounding up the stairs two at a time in answer to her summons, so breathless was her account of my condition, which was certainly by now ghastly enough.",0
9132,"three cruisers were parked in a straight line, their dome lights bubbling blue in the chill air, and farther away officers in fur-collared jackets were questioning guests.",0
7830,"“jesus,” he growled, “another woman.”

she dropped back from the window and stood with her back against the wall, squinting fiercely as if she had been slapped in the face and couldn’t see who had done it.",0
414,kaeso's mouth hung open and his eyes narrowed with unbelief.,1
7186,the king would have to die in a way that would throw no suspicion on himself.,0
5532,then kabuo’s mooring lines were made fast to deck cleats in the efficiently wrought half hitches carl heine could lay out with no thought or hesitation.,0
11011,"""i've decided that, chris,"" said lyman without hesitation.",0
2543,"vonovich looked with suspicion at the two newcomers, who ignored him, spoke of trains and tracks, and looked at their watches impatiently.",1
9031,"“are you sure you gave her the right envelope?”

stallings thought about it.",0
7579,"he wanted to sing a gospel, and the fiddle was after all the devil's box and universally prohibited from such songs.",0
93,"i can never be comfortable, i guess, in my faith.",1
8581,i made sure of that twice over.,0
9427,"almost thirty years ago, harold may had abandoned a promising advertising career and entered what he considered to be a little bit of heaven on earth—our lady of gethsemani abbey.",0
1609,she was shy of believing that a woods indian would drop off to sleep like a baby in a white man’s house.,1
2433,"i doubted if mrs. gillsworth even knew the willigans, and it was absurd to believe her guilty of swiping their cat.",1
4880,"just what i surmise.”

“it certainly would be good to be near home.",0
1668,"elsie said, “you can’t just say forget it.”

“i’m sorry you took it wrong.”

“i’m not so sure i did.",1
8137,"when it was committed is irrelevant to me.”



“surely, no one is in danger today.",0
10749,"“they are being courteous enough not to exert any pressure to influence our decision, but i have

no doubt they would view a refusal on our part to send mishkin and lazareff to israel with the

deepest misgivings,” he said.",0
1700,"nothing mean.”

“when have i ever?” he asks her in a bold and mocking pretense of disbelief.",1
3043,"“goddammit—she probably eloped with allen cooper.” he kept his suspicions to himself, but found himself being unusually short with miss steinberg and the rest of the office staff.",1
314,"some christians sold their furniture and moved out on the lawn to show their faith, a behavior pastor fish ridiculed.",1
6148,"but a neighbor was one of ruthie’s followers, and she took lily and emily along to a meeting at the fair mile crossroads.",0
10066,quietly lord wentwater apologized to his guests and thanked wilfred and phillip for their intervention.,0
4442,"and i’ll make sure they do, too, before it’s all over.”



dan was distraught as vern led him out of the interrogation room.",0
6158,"i want to marry you, and i’ll not take no for an answer.”

she shook her head slowly, studying his determined face and shrinking further back into the shadows.",0
8928,"“sure,” the student nurse replied.",0
2816,"she asked, a shade uncertainly.",1
2795,he doubted the house of sa'ud would see it that way; or the state department.,1
4028,"“planning to drive soon?”

“i certainly am!",0
5421,but it had never given them any pleasure or interest to look at each other and it gave them none today.,0
6461,surely the photograph posted on the internet had been taken by a professional who’d cleverly masked its flaws.,0
3248,"“tell him i want to follow crystal’s car, just to make sure she gets there.”

“right,” leonard says again.",0
6366,"thereafter he was to refer to timothy as 
""my dear child, my lawfully born child in faith.""",0
491,"now i know they were the forces that contributed to our illusion of owen's weightlessness; they were the forces we didn't have the faith to feel, they were the forces we failed to believe in-and they were also lifting up owen meany, taking him out of our hands.",1
10113,"when caldwell looked down at the folder on his desk, angela looked david's way.",0
34,and i doubt i’d take too kindly to the simple life.,1
6124,"that’s the law’s job.”

“sure.",0
5662,"it was ritualistic in that its format was fixed—although the flail was a new touch, an improvement, and i suppose an escalation over the switches or lengths of rope i had seen used in previous outings when the ottoman was being lashed for emphasis at certain junctures in the performance—but the content was only partly fixed.",0
1323,"we germans like to draw attention to our most conspicuous flaws, since the uncertainty and doubt we arouse in strangers saves us from being inundated by a deluge of uncritical admiration.",1
7575,"“i brought you some books.”

books on religion, saints, meditation.",0
4915,we entered in the middle of the thing and somehow became convinced that we must conclude it.,0
3758,"ari’s hair and beard were darker than jake’s, his eyes a deep chocolate brown, instead of green, but his height and build were nearly the same, and he carried himself with the same confident self-assurance.",0
3265,"“you are very sure of yourself.”

				“i am beautiful, i have a fine voice, and i dance well.",0
2702,"she began to sweat, imagining herself on horseback with her arms clasped around one of poncho villa's men: the one she had seen in the village plaza the week before, smelling of sweat and mud, of dawns that brought uncertainty and danger, smelling of life and of death.",1
7825,"then right away he gets his goddam memory back and he goes in and

kisses his mother on the forehead and all.",0
347,"i can quit while i’m losing but still have a few coins of doubt to jingle in my pockets, or i can stay and play the possibility of thick ankles or a bad gait’s canceling out my turmoil against, of course, that of a voluptuous figure’s intensifying it.",1
3905,"… to the whole church—to my brother bishops, to all priests and monks and nuns, to all the faithful, without whom our office is meaningless.",0
5355,"certain people in certain ministries were in the pay of the boers, who were convinced that somehow tsau was giving aid and comfort to swapo, if not the anc, or both.",0
2970,"celia wasn't sure, and that thought made her wonder whether sometime soon she would experience regrets and anguish even greater than her present doubts.",1
10102,"we made a bargain, and by god you ain't backin' out on it!""",0
8561,"beth dropped the rifle into the dark trunk, and mcgregor hurriedly slammed down the lid and made sure the trunk was locked.",0
2967,"he had his doubts for a while, but then he said that as courtney was no in-law, really, but only the adopted son of my grandfather, the real son of a stranger--"" rory stopped, for his father even in his fixed silence was more formidable than the young man had ever seen him.",1
8578,"he sizes a man up, but not a woman, because of his conviction that any opinion formed by any woman is sure to be wrong.",0
4334,"after eating, drinking, and making merry, the natives would certainly tire and fall asleep.",0
2314,"“it’s too early to get up.”

“i’ve got to find the farmers’ market, and i’m not sure where it is.”

“in the big lot behind golden packinghouse.",1
922,"in a moment, though, because she is my mother, she goes from disbelief and refusal and shock into justification.",1
8202,"it looked like something i ought to investigate, anyways, just to make sure.",0
628,"“i doubt it,” she said, standing.",1
8410,"he was watching to make certain, and when bruce did go down, he followed in time to see constance and me in there, too.",0
2978,"at this juncture the pickings are ours but that won’t last long, i doubt through the morning.”

“i beg your pardon?”

“carlos will close up shop here and he’ll do it quickly.",1
9163,mrs. hogendobber seized the opportunity to slip away from the determined josiah.,0
9525,so i kind of tried to make sure that the folks working on the condemnation proceedings in the district court wouldn't climb up onto any white horses and go after any holy grails.,0
6974,"after a moment of hesitation she asked, “so you ran away from your master—what then did you do?”

his cheek muscles stood out as he clenched his jaw.",0
11721,"she said, ""why, mr. francis is irish and a catholic, mr. healey told me, and 'sister elizabeth' is probably a nun!",0
6928,"and you are yet deceived inffbelieving you love philip.""",0
8116,"won’t that stir something up?”

“we should be more certain just what we’re going to stir up.”

she hit the arm of the chair with her fist.",0
3427,i’m sure the last thing miriam wants is to be alone with me.,0
7785,"and i, myself, having to hide away from my own table and beg breakfast, while the official representative of the government has nothing to do but …”

“… but explain again each morning to the treasury,” the secretary said in shrill rage, “why another dutch farmer in pennsylvania or new york must have three hundred dollars in gold in payment for the destruction of his farm and livestock, and explain to the state department that the capital is not being besieged by demons from hell itself, and explain to the war department why twelve brand-new army tents must be ventilated at the top with butcher knives.…”

“i noticed that, too,” the president said mildly.",0
7649,"their father, a brewer by trade but a naturalist by avocation, had educated christopher and sarah anne together after their mother’s death, as if they were brothers.",0
9753,"in this brave new world, everyone’s on his own and the constitution is less a bill of rights than a bill of lading and the court is as oblivious to misery as god.",0
1971,he was not sure where they were going because the chief took turns that did not make sense.,1
2568,"“it takes out the smell of the godless slave traders!”

“talking of slaves, let me tell you,” said the afrikaner warming to his story with a glass of wine,  changed with each new course.",1
1596,"since frank had gone up to kellogg to the gold mines, i have to assume it was grandfather whom she doubted.",1
10057,then pepe drove the van to a pottery maker named ruben ochoa who sold his goods to customers in san diego and los angeles.,0
4350,'never doubt it.',0
11944,"“boy, if this is what seeing your sister does to you i’m glad we’re

not married.”

“what brought that up?”

“what brought what up?”

“marriage.”

“you did, don’t you remember, the first night, you kept talking

about it, and kissed my ring finger.”

“that was a nice night.”

“all right then.”



“all right then nothing.” rabbit feels he’s been worked into a

corner where he can’t give her hell without giving her up entirely,

without obliterating the sweet things.",0
6307,"but the guilt, the torment, and the self-contempt he now felt because of their experience, would never go away, it seemed, nor would the shattering memories of its pleasures.",0
10570,"“i am devoted to the president and to every man of our grand old party ...”

“except roscoe conkling.”

“there is a place in my heart even for that turkey gobbler.” blaine finished off the wine in his glass; then rose, as did nordhoff and i (the whole room was now more or less openly watching us, and trying to eavesdrop).",0
401,"""you are very dear—"" began victor doubtfully.",1
6472,"“day by day, in every way, we’re getting better and better!” and “never—never—never—never—never—never give up!” were chanted so frequently and loudly by our team, at timothy’s urging, that the spectators immediately behind our dugout picked up on it, and soon the entire grandstand crowd on our half of the field was repeating those valiant words, over and over, “never give up!”

on tuesday evening of the following week our opponents were the pirates, managed by grandfather tony piso, who was also the town of boland’s treasurer.",0
10643,"“very well, but we can deduce who it was from many and certain clues.",0
7412,"“pray for her who prayed for me,” sings a dying man after battle, “she who bound up my wounds and brought me water, she who will remember my grave when all others have forgotten!”

corridos celebrating the executions of men taken bearing arms against the government are curious mixtures of admiration for valor come to a hard death, and cautious warning to all who revolt against the government.",0
12346,"""they're in the car,"" angela said.",0
1133,"thoughts flanna had not dared formulate came welling up as they walked, an ugly swarm of doubts, suspicions, and fears.",1
1037,"she would spend the entire weekend obsessing that the house had burned down, that rosie was dead, that she would lose her mind up in the mountains not knowing for sure.",1
9099,"there’ll be a bonus.”

“my pleasure.",0
1368,"but now that he had made them, he was unsure what to do with them; at least that's what he told himself.",1
423,“our philosophers gave up belief in demons long ago.,1
4084,"but after she left i started thinking that she might try to go see him on her own, and sure enough, i found her in his room.”

“did the king see her?”

“he’s so sick he thought he dreamt it.",0
1181,"still, i could never be talked into believing that all a fish knows is hunger and fear.",1
4742,"a product of the nazis’ phylogenetic delirium, lebensborn (literally, spring of life) was designed to augment the ranks of the new order, initially through a systematized breeding program, then by the organized kidnapping in the occupied lands of racially “suitable” children, who were shipped into the interior of the fatherland, placed in homes faithful to the führer and thus reared in an aseptic national socialist environment.",0
4822,"stay in, she’d say, and we’d go out; leave that, she’d tell us, and we’d cover whatever it was in palm prints and smudges, so determined were we to do the exact opposite of whatever she decreed.",0
5938,"“wyitt!” she said when he got close, and you could see the soft pleasure in her face.",0
5897,"crossing the street, the patrón asked, “you going to the party tomorrow?”

“sure.”

“i like you, doc, but i don’t get you.",0
4790,"he often took constitutionals with his dog, spiro, an old gray-and-white shepherd mix that limped devotedly behind him on stiff arthritic hips.",0
5019,"the only name they knew in piano was liberace, so they were impressed and satisfied when joey said a name they didn’t know, and would have been as satisfied if she’d said she was heading off to juilliard, just like that, as a girl could surely do if she was as good as they thought their granddaughter was, and they thought she was good because she spent so much time at it that she had to be.",0
6455,"decimus, keenly observant, scowled his displeasure and stalked stiffly away.",0
7232,she felt the burning pressure of his eyes without glancing in his direction.,0
8,he was doubtful about going in there.,1
2962,"9

frederick forsyth – the devil’s alternative



miroslav kaminsky looked across at drake with indecision on his face.",1
213,he wasn’t sure he did either.,1
4432,"you’ll have to make sure you come in the summer when they’re at their best.”

pauline wasn’t listening.",0
5083,"uncanny; literally so, because it overturns our belief in the uniqueness of the individual, vinnie decides as she stands waiting for the bus in a queue of half-a-dozen women of varied ages and walks of life, any one of whom rosemary might presumably if she chose become, as she had a few minutes ago become vinnie miner.",0
1065,"they watched in silence for several moments longer, luke more than half convinced that a heavenly hand, like the one that wrote words of doom on the walls of belshazzar’s palace, would materialize out of the darkness and snatch it away.",1
4191,"“only make sure you don’t let go of the pole.”

wilhelmina gripped the pole, drew her arm back like mickey had shown her, then threw a perfect cast out into the middle of the river.",0
3050,he doubted that even his minister-grandfather would have condemned poor young james.,1
10609,"take what you have come for.”

she lay upon the bed and opened her embrace, but took no pleasure in me.",0
1076,"so i want to know why you believe the things you do about justus—and about yourself.”

my doubts didn’t seem to upset him; he merely smiled and looked back at his reflection in the black window.",1
2791,"i'll write an extra sweet deal for you, then see if i can con the boss into okaying it.”

""well . . .”

the woman sounded doubtful.",1
1393,"“you keep it,” calpurnia said, “you’re my company.” jem’s face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket.",1
6764,"""certainly.",0
9437,she came to our school after christmas.,0
12000,"oh, lordy, wait till i tell mel!",0
3788,"she loved mother, of course—loved her with the determined duty and suppressed rage of an only daughter.",0
2263,i'll never know for sure whether or not you stuck your dive knife in that old man's guts and dumped him in the catalina channel.,1
7222,"just make ’em good enough, keep carving out a loyal audience, and they won’t dare throw you back to sports.”

“thanks, winston.” clarence walked out wondering if “good enough” meant content, style, or a certain ideology.",0
4233,"’twas only pity convinced your father to count me as your husband.”

“my father has never felt pity a day in his life.” her smile vanished, and he could see no trace of amusement in her black-lashed eyes.",0
9204,"* * *

			ehrlich went on saying doggedly, “my place didn’t have nothing to do with it.” that door, well, sure, the inside one oughta be kept locked, it usually was—but neither he nor the attendants would swear to having checked it for months, all three maintaining it was the other fellow’s responsibility.",0
5217,"to the best of my knowledge, i have never heard of him.”

“i’m quite sure we don’t know him,” said aunt jane; she coughed experimentally, but her asthma was still in hiding.",0
512,"“we might not be open if it threatens to snow.”

the weather forecast had been suggesting the possibility of snow for three days now, ever since sunday morning, but perry was skeptical.",1
5370,and when she turned her eyes in his direction she realized with a curious mixture of hope and apprehension that he must have been eying her for many minutes from the cot where he lay.,0
590,"only with god and man, it’s always man who’s unfaithful to his vows.",1
5701,"“he sends his regards.”

“sure, i send mine too.",0
5886,"it never even made clinker.”

“couldn’t you try again?”

“sure.",0
3085,"there was no way of telling if she’d been pretty, or ever would be, if she even lived, which seemed doubtful.",1
7266,"on november 30, the kaiser prepared the way for the navy bill by informing the reichstag that “the development of our battle fleet45 has not kept up with the tasks which germany is compelled” to assign to it, adding: “our fleet is not strong enough to secure our home ports and waters in the event of hostilities.” william denied any intent “to compete with sea powers of the first rank.” hohenlohe, speaking a week later at the first reading of the navy bill, seconded this promise: “we are not thinking46 of competing with the great sea powers... a policy of adventure is far from our minds.... [nevertheless] in maritime questions germany must be able to speak a modest, but above all, a wholly german word.” tirpitz’ maiden speech also stressed the limits of the program: “our fleet has the function47 of a protective fleet,” he said.",0
11128,"medusa found the jackal!”





36


“it was a trial, wasn’t it, alex?” said bourne, bewildered, the words floating, hesitant.",0
9329,the pallotine priest.,0
1190,"now that i stood on the brink of a decision, i had to admit that among my swirling emotions was a sense of reluctance to return to new york.",1
3991,"then tell me what i must do to quiet you, and you may be certain that i will do it at once.'",0
2930,"""clearly the future of the law is in doubt.",1
10963,"in his simplicity he would doubtless be content if i weighed out a couple of deben to him, for never in his life has he squeezed soft gold between his fingers.",0
11003,"""he is no heathen.",0
9757,"with a vengeful will of its own, le cagot’s makila had flown to the village of alos and punished the perfidious priest who had informed on him.",0
12370,"“well don’t i know that, for heaven’s sake, this would be different, not better.” ria sat back from her position hunched up and leaning over the table.",0
1131,"she looks steadily at him, considering that-whether unsure of her answer or unwilling to answer too readily, he cannot tell.",1
11746,"he recalled

how in the year of our lord 1322 the general chapter of the friars minor, gathered at perugia under the leadership of michael of cesena, had established with mature and diligent deliberation that, to set an example of the perfect life, christ and, following his teaching, the apostles had never owned anything in common, whether as property or feud, and this truth was a matter of catholic faith and doctrine, deduced from various passages in the canonical books.",0
6968,"the agility of his maneuvers surprised him, and he took a mean pleasure in them.",0
5819,"and whatever excess of sentiment there was in his wanting to see his wife in the jungle each time he stopped to smoke a cigarette, his government had bred such a thing in him—it was their power over him—and i look beyond this smiling woman and there is a sward of blue-green nearby but then the land goes dark and i bend nearer, straining to see, and the darkness becomes earth turned for planting, plowed into even furrows, and i know his family is a family of farmers, his wife smiles at him and her hair is the color of the sunlight that falls on farmers in the early haze of morning and he must have taken as much pleasure from that color as i take from the long drape of night-shadow that my wife combs down for me and the earth must smell strong and sweet, turned like that to grow whatever it is that americans eat, wheat i think instead of rice, corn perhaps.",0
8939,"after all, i am here on business and not for pleasure.""",0
3681,"by the time he got to the burned man at the hotel, he was sure mrs. hall was going to faint.",0
11570,"they were moneylenders, but they acted as if charging interest were a noble calling, like the priesthood.",0
8068,"and a lot of other people pushing to make sure they get there and stay there.”

her eyes snapped; the careful voice was low and intense.",0
11666,"behind, to the left of the church, rose the aedificium, separated from the church by a yard scattered with graves.",0
1987,"the woman called lorraine lynch, whom mary had decided was a teacher or a librarian, hovered by mary’s shoulder, uncertain what to do.",1
1511,anyway i’m not sure i could stand being attenuated in mr. james’s fashion.,1
7884,"i thought all you americans were mad about british tv, but he didn’t even own a set, for christ’s sake.",0
5550,and after one minute she came riding leisurely down the gray road on a yellow bike with a flowered banana seat and windblown streamers on the handlebars.,0
2154,"but the subtext of this pronouncement was to alert me, lest i had doubts, that her politics were in the correct alignment to fuck me.",1
8150,certainly more than the puerto ricans in the south end.,0
1336,"without setting her up in rivalry with her great jealous, dubious male colleagues and contemporaries, let us just be glad of such a good, sound, honest artist, a hard-working one; we could really do nicely with more “light writers” like her.",1
5444,"jullus antonius disappeared into a gate at the far end of the course, and a few moments later reappeared in his enclosure above the starting gate.",0
2292,“but i doubt it.,1
6521,"this day’s grayness was several notches darker, and just as she had hoped the sidewalk was speckled with the start of a hesitant rain.",0
7998,"now, you know you was comin to jail, so why didn’t you bring my goddam smokes?",0
6782,chaney also remembered reading something more obscure—news reports of hunter somehow aiding in certain rescues.,0
8336,"wherever she does turn up—whenever—it's got to be a hundred percent sure whatever happened to her, it happened on the central beat.""",0
7573,"then, speaking directly to her, he said, “of course you are roman catholic, aren’t you?""",0
6212,there are certain things a young lady must learn.,0
5910,"“sure.”

“i’ll pick you up,” he said, and he drove off.",0
4542,"i am certain that those who are to be freed will be forever indebted to your majesty's compassion,"" i paused, ""as for the rest--they will no doubt remain usefully, if less gratefully, employed.""",0
7813,"there’s nothing there to resent any more, or worry over, or be grieved by, for any of us, and hasn’t been for a long time, thank god.",0
3881,and whose faith shall you be keeping?,0
4041,"“but let’s make sure dick has a ‘take’ on all the photos first.”

“obviously.”





eight

two weeks later, shannon and jon drove to rehovot to pick up the radiocarbon report.",0
3232,whatever personal assurances of her well-being and affection she wished to give murphy would certainly be allowed.,0
7458,"the minister’s flecked eyes melt and his crisp lips pucker bashfully, puzzled.",0
6941,"surely there
must be some technology that would allow him to do this without being detected.",0
10718,"""no doubt a very estimable lady but not one to know what to do.",0
9075,"he puts it in an envelope and writes on it 'urgent, extremely confidential,' and so on.”



""he couldn't have done this without donahue's permission,"" wesley said.",0
11217,"he is by nature an unwarlike god, and i do not think you will take much delight in him.",0
6712,"the back-pressure alone tells me that it’s not just sitting in the pipe.” he handed the light back to henry, and reached up for a hand.",0
196,"from beneath the accumulated weight of two months of atheistic dreariness and dread he glimpsed this blithe creation bathing naked in the sun, and felt the eclipse in his heart as some kind of sin which the other man, with his rapid, stabbing equivocations, might lift from him.",1
3181,give him the benefit of every doubt.,1
6505,"""are you sure the girls preferred to stay with l. i. instead of coming here?""",0
3142,there he was a timid and uncertain person--not uncertain about what he wanted to be (which was far removed from what he was) but about whether he had the ability to be it.,1
10991,i did not understand why the men of the church and of the secular arm were so violent against people who wanted to live in poverty and held that christ had not owned worldly goods.,0
886,i wasn’t sure what to say.,1
3161,"his normality, his cool common sense, his lack of hysteria and impulsiveness, would have been soothing to rory, might even have given him some assurance that the normal people far outnumbered the villains-which rory frequently doubted anyway.",1
9420,"he gave money and food to the orphans’ asylum, to the sisters of charity, to the priests from the spanish church, to the widows of dead firemen, to gypsies, retarded children, and the poor of boston road.",0
1491,i’m not at all sure of the future.,1
5508,they were engaged as clowns in a pleasure park at the edge of the city.,0
10422,"""of course,"" angela said.",0
4679,"christ says, “take up your cross and follow me.” if you would rather follow me, take up a sack to put your treasure in instead.“”

a mouse would nip him or a cramp.",0
1722,"the nurse shook her head, and smiled uncertainly.",1
11237,"they're all on the side of the angels, the president mused, and i couldn't ask for better people.",0
8815,"i couldn't free them; his fingers had moved from my breast to twist through my hair, and the pressure of his mouth held my head in the hard cradle of his hand.",0
3405,"then faith’s tiny face slipped into her mind, and she knew she had to stay out of sight.",0
1056,"only the barrett seemed to affect it, but we're not sure if even the .50-caliber rounds really cut through its skin.",1
5984,"his ill-tempered brown pony, his jolting wagon with oilcloth top and sides: this vehicle was a peripatetic treasure house.",0
2300,"that’s got to be a record.”

uncertain how to answer, i simply smiled in return.",1
2442,"“ah’ve seen your picture here and there and it’s a pleasure, sir. frankly, i never thought i’d meet you, leastways not in this world.”

“there were a number of times i had my doubts just how long i’d be here.",1
3154,"i said as

my disbelief grew.",1
2172,"the tenants vacillated between extreme suspicion and fear and pride, believing that somehow her presence provided those under the roof with a special protection.",1
9987,"jesus christ.""",0
2279,"“i can’t be sure,” i said after a time.",1
8440,"given the ugly fact that he’s going to get publicity of some kind, your uncle would infinitely prefer a monster hunt in the woods to an in-depth investigation of his precious mountview clinic, i assure you.”

“why on earth do you say that?”

“i am, for lack of a better phrase, a trained observer.",0
10443,"and if she’s selling the stuff, she sure as hell ain’t going to write down anything incriminating.”

“nope,” leaphorn said.",0
9000,my word on it.” oakley said it reluctantly but without hesitation.,0
4066,"it seems that this established an understanding between them.”

“a complete understanding, i am sure.”

basil did not ask any questions but went on with his account of the journey to aleppo.",0
10459,i shook my head as he went on to the next card which also had four strangely shaped blots.,0
5692,"nothing right all the time she was here—raining outside, no sun in the room, no brightness in the mornings, no warmth on my neck, no pleasure or progress in the work.",0
10029,"it’s why we went to school, for god’s sake.”

“nothing we learned in school governs what you and i should do in the next hour.” i put my hand on hers.",0
12232,especially after his discussion an hour ago with vincent lord and the decision they had reached jointly.,0
11234,"i never heard you till you came right up to the church door.""",0
585,if only i could be sure you will be safe …â€,1
1052,he stared at the ornate lettering in disbelief.,1
5665,"it is suggested to her by the warm, determined way chuck grasped her arm—or rather, the arm of her raincoat—just above the elbow as he guided her through piccadilly circus toward her bus stop.",0
10691,"“i am neither in doubt, nor have i neglected to take a position.” this was unexpectedly sharp, even presidential.",0
3827,"hopefully, some pressure from the u.s. will help dissuade the radicals who are pursuing you.”

alexana grinned, realizing that he was reluctantly bestowing a blessing on her project.",0
5642,"don’t compromise your principles.”

“sure?”

“absolutely.”

“all right, we’ll see.",0
4232,"“certainly, if berridge feels it would be wrong for him to marry, then it would be.",0
11691,"and when her strong christian principles showed him the futility of his purposes, he took ship.""",0
1565,"you pay attention to that sunset, and see what it’s going to do!—listen, that picture made twenty-six,” she murmured she was keeping some kind of tally in her head, as you do most exactly out of disbelief.",1
8107,"i was, as i said, really most annoyed at mr. dickson for knocking you about so thoroughly, and had to delay miss russell’s bomb for a day until i could be sure you were up to defusing it.",0
6009,"“as long as we follow certain rules.”

“you make ’em, you follow ’em,” louise said.",0
10890,"in the distant house the untalented lady, no doubt seized by remorse (or perhaps by poor chopin's tortured ghost), stops playing.",0
4026,“but i’m convinced she needs me.,0
375,“i could come along—” alex said uncertainly.,1
10085,"“that's angelo,” she said casually, and looked sharply from one to the other to see their reactions.",0
2758,"college is always a time of change, i guess, the last major convulsion of childhood, but i doubt there were ever changes of such magnitude as those faced by the students who came to their campuses in the late sixties.",1
8631,". . well, i don't know what i expected, but it certainly wasn't what i heard.",0
9045,mostly she wanted to reassure herself she was alive.,0
11286,"and you could hear their parents crying and praying and you could see them tearing desperately at each other, and trying to comfort each other, and screaming— what the hell is the matter with people?",0
420,"“everything else is real.”

sister pauline asks skeptically, “are they truly?”

“yes,” she says.",1
2642,fortescue looked dubious.,1
3465,"i’ll be sure to ask next time.”

i lifted my eyes to hers and spoke, my voice much louder than i had intended.",0
6640,"robbie picked him up, nuzzling her face into his thick fur and rubbing him behind his ears until the small purring sound deep in his throat indicated his pleasure.",0
7193,"he had recited readily, and with some pleasure, all the facts and figures andy had asked for.",0
9890,"“it’s tuesday.”

“well, for god’s sake, i know it’s tuesday!” said o’connor impatiently.",0
2431,"you said you thought it might be the same woman, but you couldn’t be certain.”

“that was when i first glanced at it.”

“so you studied the photograph, didn’t you?”

“yes, sir.”

“and did you become more positive as you studied the photograph?”

“yes, sir.”

“however, you weren’t completely convinced from just looking at the photograph, were you?”

“no, sir.",1
980,"but for the first time in more than four years, jerusha recalled her own past, her own sin and unbelief and bitterness toward god.",1
1510,"mr. joseph travis, our master, had “a right honest stench about him,” said hark, “like a good horse what worked him up a sweat.” joel westbrook, the boy whom travis employed as an apprentice, was an uncertain, gawky lad, given to temper fits but amiable, even generous when in the mood; hence to hark his smell had a changing, fitful quality: “sometime dat boy smell right pretty, like hay or somethin’, other time he smell up a storm.” this offensive miss maria pope was to hark, however, in every way consistent in her smell.",1
8268,growing up i certainly was no head-turner.,0
7730,"god, phoebe!",0
6252,". . .”

disillusioned, faith removed her eye.",0
6229,"'you are sure, madame?'",0
2517,"who can’t?”

“you know what i mean.”

“i’m not sure i do.”

“friedl said her husband planned to communicate with someone about the treasure.",1
9009,"he must have come in the small hours, when he could be reasonably sure that i would be asleep.",0
5116,"i wished at first, when i began writing to you, merely to thank you for the nicolai, to assure you of my friendship, and perhaps to give us both some comfort in our old age.",0
4882,"when he leveled out of his loop the pilot looked back again and shouted, “more?” olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot so that he would not be too afraid before they hit the earth.",0
4437,"hunter had seen hundreds of well-conditioned gym athletes crumble completely after ten days on the trail, unable even to roll out of sleeping bags to put on their boots, while other, less-conditioned hikers who had a simple but determined will just pushed themselves up and finished the task.",0
8618,"keep in touch, won’t you?”

“i certainly will,” steve said warmly and was conscious of half lying.",0
5479,"daphne’s initial reluctance to approach the young woman when, quite suddenly, she did appear in the office was not due to a sudden loss of nerve or shyness.",0
11476,"good-by, and god bless you all.",0
3224,"but the shallop is anchored at the mouth of the river today.”

they watched until they were sure it was a sailboat.",0
6112,“i am certain that your .,0
6358,"he, too, perished, and all his followers were scattered abroad.",0
8343,"""well, without doubt it would be great eastern surety.",0
987,"in the austrian cabinet minutes, the source of this reversal was falsely identified: “we had a very doubtful support  in the german representative in london.",1
3220,it certainly had been more than that to her.,0
200,"getting my hunk of land is the first step.”

from out of the crowd a man spoke, and his voice reflected his abiding doubt.",1
8667,"that’s what we did last night.”

“sure,” i said.",0
11777,"your sister would never forgive you.”

“anne, you not only talk like a virgin but you think like a priest.",0
3179,"severinus, do you believe his illness could make him lose conscious-ness and drown?”

“that’s possible,” severinus said, dubiously.",1
6087,"he does not care about me at all.”

basil watched, nevertheless, with considerable apprehension and was prepared to rush to his new friend’s assistance if the need rose.",0
1230,"“i’m not sure he can tell you the most important things.”

“well, can any director do that?” barbara asked.",1
6647,"those who are capable of making choices are surely happier, but those who are not are much less happy, drifting as they do through life with neither career (in any meaningful sense) nor family.",0
8803,"""well, sure,"" i said.",0
4063,and he was certain his way had been right.,0
3614,said you were prob’ly determined to go out there and face the world all by yourself.,0
9074,"i get your message, morgan; now can we get to business?”

“my pleasure, sweetheart.”

for twenty minutes she was on the phone to her people, her guarded conversation giving the details of the wedding and our location.",0
10657,"“at which point their wives no doubt pry em out of their weakening palsied hands.”

“except for all the ones who’re divorced,” sully said, and they both laughed.",0
875,christianity is tough enough to believe in a secular age.,1
4610,"your new
faith has clouded your judgment.”
“i hope not.”
“well, you see that green truck there, the old english ford?” buck nodded.",0
6501,"through many a winter’s evening before an open fire, through leisurely meals at the round table in the big kitchen at evergreen farm, mother would reminisce while i would take notes.",0
1791,"“i wasn’t sure, but i thought it was a real possibility.",1
5766,"you want to hear the life i had picked out for us?”

sure.",0
1423,bessie is uncertain about accepting it–she suggests sending it to me!,1
9234,a look of apprehension replaced john's scowl as i wobbled toward him.,0
2695,scaurus doubts it.,1
7717,god bless you.,0
1546,cried lucy with disbelief.,1
6233,"""my government approved this project,"" the vietnamese said gravely, ""because certain cases require treatment we cannot provide as well as hospitals in america.""",0
5800,"after examining manna briefly, she told nurse yu to test the patient’s blood pressure and then shave her.",0
3972,"canning is sure to outgeneral him in parliament.”

harrowby cleared his throat.",0
11159,"“one of you will come up with something.”

“you know about … brussels?”

“there’s very little i don’t know.”

“that son of a bitch conned me into thinking he was one of us and he had me by the balls!” said armbruster angrily, continuing to walk along the edge of the parking lot, the other two joining him, desole hesitantly, apprehensively.",0
153,“i feel like he wanted me to tell you … to tell you.” she looked uncertain.,1
6852,"surely once he could get aletta to look him in the eye and let him hold her in his arms, she would follow him home.",0
7279,helen walked to the church with head bowed.,0
7282,"come, come, preacher, you don’t mean that.",0
44,"the screech of saws and the clang of hammers came from the rear of the house, where carpenters were constructing an ingenious device with hidden wires; a most curious contraption, indeed, which simon the magician intended to employ soon in his efforts to shake belief in christianity.",1
10235,"without doubt, augustine would make certain there was hell to pay for everyone.",0
6830,"“you’re sure?”

he was pressing her to change her mind, and her sense of fatigue grew all the greater.",0
9898,"my god, dan, which case are they—”

“something kathy was handling out at oakland—” he was leafing through the complaint.",0
5342,"where i hardly got to ever talk to them alone because reverend bobby joe was always there comforting them with how happy bobbie is in the next world so daddy wouldn’t feel so bad about the car reverend bobby joe kept calling the death instrument, that daddy gave bobbie the money to buy the death instrument and maybe this is all some grand design of the lord where all this money’s coming back because it was insured so daddy can cleanse it by putting it in the lord’s service, look at these shoes.",0
2707,"“could he be following you?”

“to america?” harry said skeptically.",1
1771,you couldn’t be sure.,1
5436,"it was the one time in his life, he would tell himself years later, when he had truly lost his composure and suffered dearly for it.",0
9049,"“fireworks?”

“sure.",0
4804,“it’s for certain no one ever said you couldn’t talk.,0
11037,"""yes, yes, catch him, the heathen!""",0
8254,"if stuart sent for me to tell me about his will, he certainly didn't hide what he was doing from you.""",0
6593,"they did not know it, but no demonstrations had been conducted at the headquarters before, and because of what they started that day, it would be moved soon to a secure concrete building in the middle of tan son nhut.",0
8408,"that sort of thing.”

			“i’m certain the university can persuade the police to tell you all that.",0
8884,"""are you certain, abdullah?",0
3904,"we talk of a great many things, of affliction and faith and the full love of god.",0
1338,possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person’s lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one’s soul.,1
10028,"“by god, it was passing itself off as human!”

				milton sweetwater did not hesitate a second about taking off his jacket.",0
8406,"knudsen hung around and, sure enough, the kid remembered the whole thing.",0
5814,"their wives were not particularly attractive, just assured.",0
3291,"yes, she was certain these had been the kinds of thoughts she had had all those years ago.",0
8752,i kinda thought he might be on the bent some way—he sure cleaned me out.,0
4666,"faith puts you out on a wide river in a little boat, in the fog, in the dark.",0
7541,it was the warm september of a holy year.,0
9511,he received his ordination by mail order from a bible college in south carolina and formed a sect he called christian aggression.,0
2372,“how can you be so certain?” gardner asked him.,1
12007,angela walked over to david and followed his line of sight.,0
7805,"“let’s go in before you make the gods angry.”

she steers felicia down an airless passageway lit on one side with red votive candles set on wooden tables coated with hardened wax.",0
442,i’m not sure you can feel it as much as i can.,1
3304,"earlier he had seen a bird, undoubtedly some kind of a hawk, fly across the fairway straight as an arrow and with astonishing swiftness, across a ridge covered by scarlet and gold trees, then fold its wings and drop like a stone into the woods.",0
10172,"she was terrified of something but wouldn't tell me what.”



as unsettling as i found jason story's public disparagement of me, worse was the revelation of susan's recent financial transactions.",0
3938,he could not instruct an old man in the faith who was living in sin.,0
4260,"i’m sure the viscount will come see you there tomorrow.”

he nodded.",0
9873,"“that’s the hell of it, how can we know?",0
4579,"as he slid through the slick emptiness, he decided he would most
assuredly get his bearings and then his re-venge.",0
9012,“low pressure.,0
1362,"the boy wanted to ask why the restaurant was here, in an alley among warehouses and factories; to say he wasn’t sure he wanted to be a waiter.",1
10889,there would have been no uncertainty but only certitude.,0
7756,"maybe i’ll give you a call day after tomorrow, let you know what i find.”

or maybe i won’t, he should have said, vinnie thinks now; for chuck did not call on friday, or on saturday, sunday, or monday.",0
4622,"in spite of all my years of torah study, i think your faith is much stronger than mine in the end.”

“why?",0
4581,"""i was certain that it was venus and saturn.""",0
10334,i called you sunday night and asked you about my stiff named aliso.,0
9010,"no
partnership is entered into without ftill
audit disclosures.""",0
9442,"“because these murderers choose to violate god’s law,” he answered.",0
11843,“thank god she told us.,0
8893,“lost treasure!,0
11144,"""if you insist,"" david said with reluctance.",0
6864,"sure, they are curious.",0
11202,"after the late-hour questioning, judd had been sent to rest up, at the south clark street station, and artie to hyde park.",0
5039,"“jean louise, there is no doubt in my mind that they’re good folks.",0
3879,"attending church every now and then doesn’t make for a life of faith.”

she had to stop.",0
12073,neither angela nor david said a word.,0
6599,"she forced herself to say, “sure.",0
3862,"you can certainly hit the nail on the head,” said my father, whose familiarity with holy writ was perhaps not as great as my uncle need have feared.",0
10271,"well, he did thank god.",0
7154,"the water was kind to her, softening the tired lines around her eyes and the resolute line of her jaw.",0
5637,all the time i was trying to work with this miss morrow i kept imagining what a pleasure it would be to have someone like susan burling to sort pictures and file papers and transcribe faded and barely legible letters.,0
7800,it’s a god who commands you to cut off your foreskin.,0
11823,"the bottom rail is on the p.""

hampton paused in the corridor to say, ""what transpires in there 414 * heaven and hell

is a travesty and a tragedy.",0
379,"if god so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, o ye of little faith?",1
3337,"when they gave us our shots it was like they were making us even on the inside too, making sure we would all be sick at the same time, well together.",0
12228,"""why the hell should it offend me?""",0
6749,"“amanda can’t go on the crandall property without him, and i made the decision it was worth the risk.”",0
704,his heavy-lidded eyes narrowed with suspicion.,1
2375,"she may have demanded a large share of the half million to offset the risk, but i doubt it.",1
589,"cusa shook 
his head doubtfully.",1
9494,"god does not want race mixing, ladies and gentlemen; god does not favor usury; god does not support the communist zionist conspiracy.",0
9860,"in world war ii, boys no older than angela flew bombers into germany and fought hand to hand in the jungles of the pacific islands.",0
8655,"""a man by the name of richard patern got the credit, but the building is almost certainly victor rafferty's idea.""",0
7570,"i tell you, there ought to be more priests around the city today like little kazmeer.",0
7657,"on the clapboard house, nailed over the scars from the quarantine signs for measles and scarlet fever, a bronze plaque that would read—

birthplace of

the hero

widely loved and known as

a goddam fool

down the road from this house, up like a caboose on concrete blocks, so one could hide beneath it, the home of walter mckee—

birthplace of

the witness

without whom there would not have been

a hero

boyd watched the matador da silva, a young man said to wear false calves, but otherwise fearless, gaze from the funk hole with beads of sweat on his face.",0
10678,"it would open the front door of their clubhouse, no doubt about that.",0
4114,"he
took a cab back to the king david, confident that he would, before long, be reunited
with tsion ben-judah.",0
1654,"maybe she’s just tired or doesn’t feel well.”

“maybe.”

“in any case, i doubt if she’s the only woman in logan county that’s as cross as a bear this morning.”

“there’s no pleasing her sometimes,” clarence said, and there the conversation ended.",1
8950,"inverness and i will be checking out.”

“certainly, sir.” the clerk got out both bills, ran them through the computer to get the final totals, handed them over.",0
5439,"yeah, sure she’s all right.",0
2222,"i have no evidence.”

“supposing, just supposing, your suspicions are correct, who is the victim of the blackmail and committing the actual theft?”

she leaned forward to scratch a bare ankle.",1
4258,the innocent bliss of its unquestioning acceptance.,0
4654,perhaps your only exposure to the moravians has been spotting one of our many-pointed white stars shining brightly on someone’s front porch at christmastime.,0
12086,"""we're particularly interested in these five,"" angela said.",0
6999,"couldn't argue with it and couldn't store much
power in advance, but we sure hope he's wrong.”
“he won't be,” buck said.",0
8876,"he doesn’t care at all, long as it’s, you know, private, away from where you could be seen.”

“you going to be there?”

“if you want me to, sure.”

“i mean does sportree want you to come along or am i supposed to show up alone?”

“i suggested it.",0
3489,i was sure you would approve.” he pushed the sheet forward.,0
3481,"she wandered about most of the morning, slowly disconnecting herself from the past, spending time with jan and ivena, pinching herself from time to time to make sure this was not some long hallucinogenic trip she’d taken.",0
7662,"“holy christ,” said billy.",0
5630,"he had walked on into friedrichstrasse, where, in the early evening, the thin streetwalkers came out and moved rather swiftly in the middle of the pavement, and though they all appeared to be going somewhere, they never left each one her own certain fixed station.",0
2027,"i have somebody pulling together the tapes so we can look at everything.”

karch nodded but was unsure how the fire alarm could have played into things.",1
7651,we’re talking here about a goddamn stuffed monkey that cost nine dollars and fifty cents.,0
3555,"if i'd of had the atomic bomb and these rich-kid revolutionaries to worry about, i'd no doubt just have put a shotgun to my head and let the world roll on without me.""",0
1291,"this is
surely a test of our faith, thomas.""",1
8398,"she certainly could use a little outdoor exercise.”



“good idea.",0
8168,"“that’s for damn certain sure.”

“…then please do it outside,” she continued flatly, not even a hint of a smile cracking the smooth planes of her face.",0
12316,"oh, god, and it was miss cuzins’s evening out.",0
11869,the priests and temple guards could make no stand against so determined and well concerted an attack.,0
8643,the devils in her eyes laughed their pleasure too and she walked to her desk.,0
8877,"""sure, in a
minute.... mom, why didn't you bring down lillian?",0
11321,"'good evening, sir, and happy christmas,' i said.",0
5103,"had antonius gone over to the republicans, or was he still faithful to caesar’s party of the people?",0
7684,"angel, i have to go to petaluma on business.",0
8420,"they were having a parley on jr's patio, setting up some new distribution routes, no doubt, for the kingdom of misery.",0
8866,but she could not hide a certain contempt for their anxiety.,0
11486,"boniface was the mystic antichrist, and the abdication of celestine was not valid.",0
2685,"that frank had taken a harmless, farting labrador retriever and made him a killer was one thing; but to reassemble this truly disgusting body, matted and burned and bloated in the bathtub, was a miracle of perversion that we doubted even frank was capable of.",1
5283,"with someone like sophie, you are part of a greater agency, you make sure things are going right for her.",0
7617,"macbean pointed out that the next day was sunday, and thousands of prisoners might object to a sextuple execution on the sabbath.",0
12325,"though at my age, heaven knows ..."" that ""bullfinch"" he did refuse.",0
11677,"i've known many old priests-"" he paused, and timothy held his own mouth still.",0
9493,kind of like he was praying and singing together.,0
8221,"mutual confidence will sustain us to the end.’ no doubt my problem is that i have never known homelessness, hunger, rags, or beggary.",0
4239,"and it would certainly be the wisest course, all things considered.",0
8843,"christ, patrick,” his father said, “i think the old man would have given the last ten years of his life for the sight of you right now.”

when patrick turned and faced his father, he was unprepared for the open expression of relaxed and genuine pleasure with which his father regarded him.",0
8413,"if dora ever picks up anything for glenda at the store, she spends twenty minutes making sure she’s given her the exact change.",0
12046,he would put it in a mailbox when he went out sunday night.,0
6021,"her systematic efficiency as hostess-manager of the inn—just the sheer pleasure, year after year, of banking all that dough—might long ago have mummified her lower life had not sabbath suspected from the flatness of the nose, from the roundness of the limbs—from nothing more than that to begin with—that drenka balich’s perfectionism on the job was not her only immoderate inclination.",0
5829,"he knows a lot of rich and influential people, and if you don’t mind your own business, it won’t be hard for him to get you kicked out.” mr. coolidge was surrounded by all the treasures he had extricated from the rubbish baskets in the back halls—broken lamps, broken vases, a perambulator with three wheels.",0
10184,"angelo repeated what he had heard howard say and then asked everyone, ‘what do you think?’

salvatore said, ‘i think shayler initiated contact and has been pushing howard to ring back, something to do with his job.’

‘and howard doesn’t want to talk about it,’ gina said.",0
9544,"bonwell,” i said, “is a minister.”

she looked at me.",0
3455,"even his eyes took
on a newly confident gaze.",0
2793,"he kept his interested, skeptical gaze trained on my roommate and on skip.",1
11805,"the consultation with dr. lord took place a few days later in sam's office, with celia present.",0
79,"""not likely,"" he says finally, ""though we may not know for certain for a long time.",1
6023,"then he aroused it with saline and touched it here and there with the frustrating needle, noted the flush, the growing intensity of color, the uncertain whipping and groping of the arms, until suddenly it collapsed and died.",0
1094,"ryan would never make it, and it was doubtful she would either.",1
8213,"his marie was not there; there was nothing but a primitive string-device that had triggered a shotgun, angled for a certain kill when he pushed the door open.",0
5941,"she felt startled delight as bronek handed her this indescribable treasure; although dried and wrapped in cellophane, they had a marvelous warm heft in her palm, and lifting the package to her face, she saw the streaks of delectable juice congealed on the grayish-green skin, inhaled the distant voluptuous aroma, faded but still sweet, phantom fragrance of the mellow fruit.",0
8604,"it makes for a cluttered basement, but it also ensures that we will not be caught needing a record that has been discarded.",0
6092,"""no,"" daniel reassured her.",0
10150,martin welborn had known three los angeles policewomen who did it.,0
3277,i asked him about it very particularly because—i knew you’d want to be sure just how it was.,0
6926,"sure, he was no rhodes scholar, and wasn’t mr. congeniality, but he’d just saved his life.",0
11795,"“maybe it would be easier to tell the docs.”

james said, “this may be your life, kid.”

“the hell you care!” artie snapped.",0
3988,"whenever i walk through a store, i see thousands of exquisite things that i’m sure really ought to belong to me, and it’s as if i owned them already.”

they were quiet in the dark.",0
9539,"“he is a harmless boy who cannot hear or speak,” the amish girl answered.",0
7985,"as soon as he had sung the melody through, he instantly sang the same verse in the bass, as if trying to sing harmony with himself, and she was reminded of the guides augusta had told her about, who sang two notes up into the ceiling of the baptistry at pisa, and let the roof fuse them into a fat round chord.",0
4341,"i have heard that they are gods, that they cannot be killed—”

“they can be killed,” gilda answered, certainty in her voice.",0
7448,"“what’d the lord say to you again, nat?",0
11334,"the walls were white-plastered, and nothing the nuns could do could remove the stains of damp permanently.",0
5322,"and she admits that certain other liberties she has taken with the commandments of god and the church might also loom large against her when the time of judgment comes (brass and clock, brass and clock).",0
3087,"summoning the skeptical physicians, i said, “you may believe or you may not believe, but i mean to open the skull of this man to heal him though his death is the more probable result.”

the doctors sneered, “this indeed should be worth seeing!”

i borrowed fire from the temple of ammon, then purified myself and my distinguished patient and all that was in the room.",1
5067,"they took pointless drives around blighted newark, where he was determined to unearth “documentation” that would disclose how i was not at all the person i pretended to be.",0
8621,"“i got it for sure.”

“like shooting pigs in a barrel,” said davie.",0
5153,"surely i come quickly …





then behold i come quickly …

and as i think of her, the desire swells within me and i am stirred by a longing so great that like those memories of time past and long-ago voices, flowing waters, rushing winds, it seems more than my heart can abide.",0
3231,"and you, too, will witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.”

this was the second time, within the hour, that he had assured the eleven that they would not be alone after he had gone.",0
4369,"""i am certain he does not.",0
4715,"when the young people were reassured that helen was fully alert and probably not going to collapse again, they left her.",0
1280,all along i had my doubts.,1
6747,"one sunday evening, ambrose was taking a leisurely walk in the dusk, his head humming with harmonies for the last movement of his concerto which he was about to finish, when out of the open window of a fraternity house along his walk came the sound of an orchestra on a national radio broadcast.",0
11170,"as if recognizing and accepting his colleague's concern, noah would often discuss his difficult cases, and it was evident that, drugs or not, the elderly doctor's diagnostic skills were continuing to function.",0
1356,when i told my father he shook his head doubtfully and asked what i planned to do.,1
10925,"schuyler is far too distinguished a man of letters for this sort of thing.” tilden’s eyes opened very wide as he held in his throat what must have been a powerful belch that slowly, and no doubt painfully, he allowed to dissipate through widely flared nostrils.",0
8447,"i didn't look at him, but i'm sure at least one of melvin's eyes began to roll slowly in its socket.",0
10236,"when all the scrolls were received, the men clus­tered around the reading desk facing the congregation and the rabbi recited first in hebrew and then in english the ancient formula that traditionally introduces the yom kippur service: “by the authority of the court on high, and by the authority of the court below, by permission of god and by permission of this holy congregation, we hold it lawful to pray with the transgressors.”

then the cantor began the mournful yet uplifting chant of the kol nidre.",0
9573,"the tall priest, frail as a secretary bird, would point a bony finger toward those bleeding martyrs who had been consumed by fire, stripped of flesh, ripped asunder, blinded, mutilated, buried alive.",0
6838,"“rowly, offer miss tudway your arm.” and mary could see his irrepressible humor conquer his reluctance.",0
5973,"“look up the track and see if the block’s turned green.”
  train schedules are a matter of pride and of apprehension to nearly everyone.",0
10482,"""i’m sure he’d marry you.""",0
6667,"and could you ask borst to give me a call?”

“sure.”

that had been seventeen days ago.",0
2756,"he glowed upon jonathan, though his big, froglike brown eyes showed suspicion and caution.",1
5848,"a well-fleshed woman cooed beside him and wiggled her hip against him; she wore red gloves and red stockings; faith, and she wore little bells on her garters, the bells tinkled when she moved.",0
11174,"now do you read me loud and clear?”

there was a moment’s hesitation, as if the man at the other end of the line had not expected such a tirade.",0
5837,"but i reckon it can wait.” then he looked at me and then he said, “you’re sure he’s out of town, then?”

“yes, sir,” i said.",0
5337,"sure, they’re sinners.",0
6067,she sucked blissfully for a moment or two and then suffered a pang of apprehension.,0
5011,her stare was like a small room he surely couldn’t get out of.,0
6185,"“sure, rita,” mercy said.",0
11103,"""attaboy, pierre i"" he seemed to have forgotten his reluctance about adam listening.",0
10804,"after actuating a timing mechanism, undoubtedly he reached up and placed the bomb there.",0
7349,they had me dressed up like a little st. john the baptist.,0
1746,"for a whole afternoon manna was fidgety, unsure whether lin would come home for dinner and whether he would continue to go out in the evening.",1
5514,"i’m pregnant.”

nestor took a deep breath, stared out into the middle of the living room, where sat a dolly and the black case of a bass american kit drum, blinked, sighed, and then said to her, “are you sure?”

but when he saw the happiness in her expression wither away, he added, “no, i’m happy, querida.",0
7470,"now, inside the church, black people were praying for carter too.",0
3140,"despite his own dedication to his work, he would have been compelled, in honesty, to admit some doubts.",1
7518,"to say nothing of my own....

i left the rectory and went through the connecting passage into the church.",0
10854,"“and finally we have heard of the escape to israel of the murderers mishkin and lazareff, men

who it has been proved to you beyond a doubt were responsible for assassinating our dear

comrade, yuri ivanenko.",0
8736,"“father may.”

“father augustine, really.”

“certainly.",0
6934,"we secured the city and returned it to the emperor's rule, as we were foresworn to do, for all we were that eager to move on to jerusalem.",0
6710,"“‘tisn’t pleasant, that cane.”

“ah, sure ‘tisn’t,” brody answered, rolling back onto his bunk.",0
4784,"there was no considering, wavering, or doubt.",0
6397,"lavidia shaved her head and told her, “your daddy sneezed his soul away—it’s just.” faith accepted this without further questioning.",0
6767,"i mean, he was still very handsome, and there was a certain sad, romantic quality to our meeting again, but what i had felt for him had less to do with love than with … satisfying my pride.",0
10323,you that goddamn dumb?” schuler’s fist plunged wrist-deep under the man’s ribs and mills dropped him to stand with a boot on the cuffed wrists and strike again at the man’s stomach.,0
5066,"his use of the phrase allowed her to press her initiative a little further, enlarging the opening where she was confident now she had secured a fragile but real hold.",0
6237,"any hopefuls not sifted out by these considerations were confronted with my ace in the hole: “i am a garbage man.” naturally this fact was held in reserve until absolutely necessary, when its disclosure was usually terminal: the scraping up of new acquaintance was contingent on its concealment, of course.",0
5675,"“i’m allen, remember?”

“sure,” she said, remembering nothing.",0
10692,there was no doubt in his mind what van slyke had in mind for him.,0
1653,"i had dropped into sylvia’s shop looking for something to read, just at early dark on a cold, rainy winter evening, maybe in 1934, i am not sure.",1
77,"but stuart wasn’t in the office and wouldn’t be in for two long weeks, as his wife, according to stuart’s secretary, had forced the bishop to go away to—she wasn’t sure where, but she thought it was southern france, or at least someplace where they spoke another language and wore bikinis on the beach.",1
2218,"he wanted mike zinna.”

“i doubt if you can get him mike,” amato said.",1
11345,“i have surely sinned.,0
2538,"i wasn’t even sure what i thought, except that there were a lot of guns being shown around.",1
1296,"his hands, i noticed, with an unbelieving shock, were very large and strong.",1
1893,the bohemians realize she is dead and now—turning around in disbelief—rodolfo realizes she is dead as well.,1
3352,"i'm sure he'd been up crying all night, like me-and, unlike me, he'd probably been up drinking, too.",0
8511,"i'm sure of it.""",0
4086,she asked him to stand by her daughter; “he assured me he would.”82 “what a woman!”81 the chancellor said afterwards.,0
4045,"it was clear that they had identified caer dyvi as a major stronghold and were determined to take it or destroy it, no matter how high the cost.",0
10253,i was still thinking about the conversation with brennan and evans; it hadn’t ended with the revelation of ginnie’s million-dollar insurance policy.,0
8057,"all he asked me was, “i’m not going to be stuck with a murder weapon for an indefinite length of time, am i, joe?”

i assured him that would not be the case; either i would ask for it by file number in the future or someone authorized by me would ask for it.",0
4322,"“if he did need to appropriate it for another project, you can be sure it wasn’t deliberate on his part,” she said quietly.",0
2407,"“i doubt that speaking alone will do the job.”

“haw,” brady said, and punched jencks in the arm.",1
4763,"denoon’s cadre was faithful about it and knew just how to inject historical injustices appositely into the proceedings when vox populi got off the track, got fanciful or notional or brought up injustices not strictly traceable to men or nongermane in other ways.",0
294,"because of the ear story and the servant’s new faith, he questioned the reliability of malchus’s statements in their discussion.",1
5893,"“now shut up and listen.”

“a real old-time trouper now,” said oscar into the bar mike, “will give us a song or two for your pleasure, lovely miss helen archer.”

and then helen, still wearing that black rag of a coat rather than expose the even more tattered blouse and skirt that she wore beneath it, standing on her spindle legs with her tumorous belly butting the metal stand of the microphone and giving her the look of a woman five months pregnant, casting boldly before the audience this image of womanly disaster and fully aware of the dimensions of this image, helen then tugged stylishly at her beret, adjusting it forward over one eye.",0
10384,"you don’t want to wake up his wife.”

“the hell i don’t!",0
6306,poor all his life he always worked for the same man and was a faithful servant.,0
5937,"“my deeah,” she said, “treasure your eyes and all that you behold.” i looked out the window and saw may in the distance cutting the lawn in her curlers and her apron.",0
7413,"and at all the other masses on christmas day there seemed to be something of the same sort of lift, so that while there were still no crowds, and in comparison with other churches on this day our own attendance must have been pitifully small, nevertheless there were signs of gain, of at least a little progress.",0
2850,it was shocking how quickly i had been able to adapt myself to suspicion.,1
3461,"“make sure you keep grandpa out of trouble, all right?",0
2888,"the mother, perhaps, was a vulgar woman, and that explained rory's skeptical wide laughter, vibrant coloring, vitality, and the cynical smile he bestowed on everybody, and his way of lightly mocking his elders.",1
1820,"she
  


didn’t mind his suspicion of her.",1
3857,"aided by the pure fires of discipline, and skill sprung of extra grace, might one not transform forbidden clay into a vessel of singular devotion?",0
10544,"it allows minor comforts-palliatives-to the proletariat, deluding the masses into believing they are free.",0
5772,death by exposure.,0
1271,if they had been animals—and i am not certain they were not—the bristles on their backs would have stood on end.,1
2768,"...”

“but it is a story of theft and vengeance among monks of scant virtue!” i cried, dubiously.",1
6054,"it's sure warm today.""",0
9153,"“do you think i’ll be able to get a hotel here tonight?”

“i’m absolutely sure of it.”

“i’ll take care of that, sergeant,” mr. mavole said hurriedly.",0
5716,are you sure?,0
11856,"hold your goddamned fire!”

“is that you, mon?” came a panicked voice over the radio.",0
10363,"tell him to bring something for her.” so to hell with draker, he thought.",0
7543,"it was prophesied in matthew and in revelation that there would be less and less reverence for the bible, greater lawlessness, depravity, and selfindulgence.",0
4203,making sure wasn’t nobody gone run over me.,0
7954,"how can a guy be so goddam mean?”

“he ain’t done it yet,” said mack.",0
7506,"her still younger brother, toby, was studying the figures of some tonsured monks drinking beer on the polished brass of the woodbox.",0
10385,". . the monkey killer?’

			kate stared at him.",0
11184,"she left him there, and after a moment's hesitation he took out a book and

looked at the flyleaf.",0
7198,"“on the street of the pleasure sellers.”
     “mapwise, what quadrant is that?” babe asked.",0
331,"at the bottom of the vessel there were three balls of gold left over, each the size of his fist.”

abigail’s skepticism was lost on lucy in her enthusiastic recounting of the tale.",1
2116,he was never quite sure whether or not she screamed.,1
10124,"when i got sick up there i wrote to tommy, i said, ‘promise me if i die in this place you’ll bring me home to new orleans, i won’t have to be buried at point lookout, jesus, and never have any visitors.’ next thing i know i’m in charity.”

“tommy come to see you?”

“yeah, he comes.",0
2704,"i'm told mrs. howard's very beautiful, and she probably is an r.c., but i doubt very much if they'll come to ashley.",1
5588,the profusion of color almost stopped his breath with insidious pleasure.,0
5623,"his large hands, stained with the grime of garden earth, simultaneously became the uncertain, misshapen hands of an aged person.",0
9722,“this is the rosary father lord was holding when he died.,0
4565,"how to pay for this service was a vexing problem, but inasmuch as we had, according to dodu, at least a three-day walk ahead of us, i was confident we would think of something along the way.",0
7862,lawd god amighty!,0
9804,"then, koesler was reminded of jesus christ’s extremely modest home town.",0
1175,"“i doubt jay leno would have stood by me like you did,” she said, her head fitting perfectly into the hollow between his shoulder and neck.",1
1688,"“radiance beyond itself,

sun above apollo,

earth below hades,

sea upon sea,

“grant us proportion,

arc of the firmament,

curve of the gilliflower:

zeus, let us thrive!”

the centaur’s grave voice, uncertain in song, joined in the final petition:

“brightness of brightness,

sky of our mortality,

home of our hopes,

height of our fear,

“send us a sign,

a sign of benevolence,

show forth thy government:

answer our song!”

they fell silent and above the treetops on the left of the clearing a black eagle arrowed across the sun.",1
6684,"“but how are you sure i am
tarnilee?”
     “but you just said—”
     “my name is now rashinghiana.”
     “you have assumed the feminized version of rash-inghi?”
     “my name is rashinghiana.”
     he felt himself swaying.",0
11039,several of them had been picked up for questioning.,0
8104,"and if we ask him, i’m sure he’ll say everything is right and kosher.",0
6575,"she wanted to be free, to feel confident again.",0
11729,"sell my old clothes, i’m off to heaven.",0
11306,"""mel, i have prayed to the lord over that man--many, many times.",0
10519,"to be sure, anyone who tests the curative property of herbs knows that individual herbs of the same species have equal effects of the same nature on the patient, and therefore the investigator formulates the proposition that every herb of a given type helps the feverish, or that every lens of such a type magnifies the eye’s vision to the same degree.",0
3476,"and so hard on the family, i’m sure.",0
299,"i hope she’ll have me.”

“somehow i doubt you’ll have any trouble convincing her of your love.”

they smiled at each other, and ross started for the front door when pete stuck his head in.",1
12280,"what in heaven's name do you and your family do in that gigantic place?""",0
11493,then all men will hide on the mountains to escape the gaze of the just angels.,0
10580,georgos archambault possessed a certain animal instinct about danger.,0
7645,"two





“with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.” ignatius was writing in one of his big chief tablets.",0
8554,i'll put it in a drawer where the cops are sure to find it.',0
11163,"“will you sign the consent forms now?” he asked quietly, and after a long moment’s hesitation, she nodded.",0
8808,"like the right to express yourself, even in ways that are ill-advised or outright stupid.” pausing, he added with a trace of humor, “as i’ll exemplify tomorrow, when i speak in opposition.”

so his reluctance had been feigned, lara thought, an extension of the joke.",0
12336,"once, on a wet sunday in a mediterranean city, he painted--from memory and in his bedroom at the legation--a curiously attractive portrait of his father, as he remembered him during the old man's last years.",0
11815,"goddam sheets don’t even match—you got a white one on the bottom, and one with flowers on it on top.",0
349,". . well, that calls upon more faith than i have.""",1
3628,"this part of her, new, sure and ready, even eager, for the world, he knew he must meet again and recognize for its true value at some future time.",0
9148,"“i ask for reassurance,” she cried.",0
6259,no pressure.,0
11824,"church blandly introduced them to paperman one by one: daughters and granddaughters of hill-crowd families, home from school for the winter recess.",0
10313,"“rabbi, remember i told you that goralsky, mr. ben goralsky, was the one who recom­mended hirsh for the job at goddard?”

“yes.”

“well, did you know that hirsh and goralsky were originally partners, and that the process the goralskys now use by which they made a fortune, i might add, was hirsh’s idea?",0
7422,"maybe rose put them away.”

“or sold them.”

“or gave them to the church.”

she said, “i remember those.",0
10274,"“once it hit the media they could jump on it and use it and act like it was news to them, like they were behind the curve when all along they were bending the goddamn curve.”

mccaleb nodded hesitantly.",0
10882,"though the occupants in 1867 would have been quite clear as to who was the tyrant in their lives, the more real monster, to an age like ours, would beyond doubt have been the enormous kitchen range that occupied all the inner wall of the large and ill-lit room.",0
1924,"there ain’t no jesus and there ain’t no god.”

the old man felt his heart inside him hard and tough as an oak knot.",1
5900,"you sure doc’ll go for it?”

“you let me take care of that—and don’t none of you blab it to him.",0
3163,"""and yet mr. brown's suspicions may not be entirely unfounded,"" said jim donaldson.",1
1637,"ruby had always functioned at arm's length from the buying of things and viewed money with a great deal of suspicion even in the best of times, especially when she contrasted it in her mind with the solidity of hunting and gathering, planting and harvesting.",1
3809,"old guy, long beard, white robe, big book, that kinda thing.’

“the big fellow chuckles a little more, says, ‘you sure got yourself in a fix, haven’t you?’

“preacher jones realizes right then and there that the father believes him.",0
9977,the intended victim had undergone emergency surgery at columbia presbyterian and was in critical condition.,0
6813,"this time, though, a cloud veiled those penetrating eyes and the man spoke hesitantly, “uh…good morning, jongen, you’ve come early.”

“i have indeed,” he said, squirming under the disapproving gaze.",0
7298,"tents would be pitched, for four days and nights there would be singing and praying and feasting from wild turkey and barbecue.",0
4099,"without a doubt, david knew it would go down as his happiest holiday on record.",0
1962,"he’d gotten her number from someone, she wasn’t sure who, and his first visit had been not unlike the first visit he paid to elaine.",1
2644,"""i doubt it,"" hugh replied.",1
5948,"but while he did not look at her very closely during the routine questioning, mostly about relatives who might cause  trouble, something  in mr. edwards’  body  began to  feel  her.",0
6249,"maybe for the first five minutes, but he got over it.”

a note from father roland:

“i must tell you that the pressure here is unrelenting.",0
6029,"because of his refusal, he was always getting into shouting matches with club owners who’d pressure him.",0
3037,"charles, had he ever been asked, would have told anybody (and sincerely) that he doubted if he had more than talent; but he did not enjoy being assured of it by a man whose opinion he valued but hadn't sought, and in front of his father, who (he was now convinced) had planned the whole thing as some kind of personal humiliation.",1
9218,"i knew.”

“sure,” challis said.",0
7239,"the englishman gazed about, seeming to measure distances.",0
1927,"it is simply that i have suffered, through my lifetime, from an inability to view with seriousness any extreme form of organized religion.",1
6657,"handsome and bright, by all accounts, but he didn’t get much pleasure out of it.",0
4820,"you’re just sitting here like a kid playing wish games.”

she saw her words go home as surely as though she had watched arrows drive into his chest, and misery and shame overwhelmed her.",0
11704,"the nuns seldom touched it, connie told her, only when they could get a priest out there to say the mass they were starved for.",0
8333,"""i only intend to shoulder my own sins, kate, i assure you.""",0
9087,he's got good pressure.,0
8162,"surely you haven't eaten,"" he said.",0
7788,my mother called the los angeles school system.,0
11688,i ran at once to the monastery to inform william.,0
8471,"“get lost in this place, or stumble into a ravine, and only the buzzards know for sure.",0
6973,"rayford informed ernie at palwaukee, who promised to pass the
word to the staff there and secure ken's belongings until rayford could get there to
assess them.",0
10624,"the studio was lighted by oil lamps, as all the rooms were so lighted, and they flickered as gusts of wind found their way even around the locked and secure windows.",0
6594,"between tales of ancient treasure and scalping parties, it was repeatedly clear to owen and me that we lived in a dull age-that adventure always happened elsewhere, and long ago.",0
9193,"he was brusque, obviously under pressure, and i hurriedly blurted out an invitation to stop by the mcnally home that night at nine.",0
5760,"on the morning following my revelation to my followers, for example, when i came back out of the woods as i returned to travis’s, i was smitten by this hallucination to an intense degree.",0
6532,"they would have had trouble enough explaining why they were moving southward at such an hour, and if the treasures hidden deep inside the roll of sleeping pallets were discovered, could hope for nothing less severe than being hailed before a magistrate to explain whence such valuable things came.",0
9183,he tossed her a chiffon robe that was draped over a screen and waited until she had secured her dignity against invasion.,0
8148,"bernard’s disappearance, surely a suicide and probably in the river salzach, must have taken place the night of the day tom and bernard cremated derwatt’s body.",0
3525,and i know for certain that he never eats there when we do-always fixes it so he won't be there at dinnertime on those days.,0
6862,"she asks, “are you sure we’re talking about the same thing?”

“what do you think we’re talking about?” he’s too fastidious to

mouth the words.",0
11346,he is always campaigning against the catholics.” my host is a roman catholic.,0
371,"a black-and-white picture except for her gray eyes with a touch of blue that held a hint of uncertainty, as if questioning who and what they were to each other.",1
4995,"intercourse

with resuscitated wife





intercourse with resuscitated wife for particular number of days, superstitious act designed to insure safe operation of household machinery.",0
3091,"but to thothmes ptahor showed a gold ring that was about his wrist and said, “read!”

thothmes spelled out the characters there inscribed and then read aloud uncertainly, “a full cup rejoiceth my heart.” he could not repress a smile.",1
6203,surely this will call off the investigator.” she stood up.,0
6253,war presents men with certain circumstances and they act.,0
9754,"mother of god, mary most holy, pray for us.",0
2867,"i tell them, if i was young, i might he doing the same thing, and they laugh.’

it had always seemed strange to castle that ‘they’ had chosen so dubious an intermediary as young halliday, whose shop might be searched at any time by the police.",1
3863,"“i guess i never thought about your father’s faith,” she said.",0
10477,"“should there be a ‘later,’ i would certainly not let such a mind as yours go unused.”

there it was—as good as in writing.",0
7459,"patients, bare-assed in their hospital gowns, streaked down the corridors chanting, “we’re number one!” someone popped a bottle of champagne and tears streamed down the faces of the nuns, who’d prayed fervently for such a miracle.",0
10425,"“well, you missed the most important part.”

“what the hell do you mean?” said pepitone narrowly.",0
12351,"tell them to shut down the elevators, barricade all staircase exits, and stay the hell away from this floor!”

“i see what you mean—”

“do it!” bourne raced down the hallway, wincing as he approached the couple who lay on the carpet; each moved, groaning.",0
5925,"“they want to make serious talk, so cut out the piffle.”

at this odd point in their reunion, they shook hands, but each did it as though the other was an object of miserableness almost past belief.",0
9500,"right now, all i know is that it’s hard work, clean living and trust in the lord.",0
1667,rayber could see that he was not so sure of himself as he’d been the last time.,1
2418,"“why?”

“that’s what i’m working on now.”

“who for?” he asked, his eyes squinting with suspicion.",1
6529,"they knew this was not the time to be
questioning, however, so they stepped a few feet away, huddling
beneath a nearby ledge.",0
11376,"and in fact some of those present were saying, “he is not a saint, he was sent by louis to stir up discord among the citizens, and the fraticelli are tuscans but behind them are the emperor’s agents.” and others said, “he is a madman, he is possessed by the devil, swollen with pride, and he enjoys martyrdom for his wicked pride; they make these

monks read too many lives of the saints, it would be better for them to take a wife!” and still others added, “no, all christians should be like him, ready to proclaim their faith, as in the time of the pagans.” as i listened to those voices, no longer knowing what to think myself, it so happened that i looked straight at the condemned man’s face, which at times was hidden by the crowd ahead of me.",0
6859,"and he had a large mouth and very heavy, sensual lips, which suggested a certain wry cruelty when turned down but looked like the mask of comedy when he laughed.",0
12331,"david, angela, and nikki hovered at the doorway.",0
3460,"there was no doubt at all in her mind: she was in love with him, every inch of him—from his gorgeous dark head to his no-longer-limping feet.",0
812,"he considered asking renata to go out and talk to the mexican girl, but he felt unsure that he’d get anything further, that renata was free to tell him the facts as she got them.",1
484,"he did not want to come any closer to confessing his secret, the still-raw sore of godlessness within him.",1
28,"i am not sure i have ever seen it even from afar, god knows, and i know i don’t have forever to see it in either.",1
1240,"and there was coach grammas hiding amongst the urinals, spying on us!”

bowen snorted in disbelief.",1
7567,"sarah ruth’s father was a straight gospel preacher but he was away, spreading it in florida.",0
3281,she was shivering again and thomas thought that if she did not die of an ague then the grief would surely kill her.,0
11593,he turned up at hugh's suburban home on christmas eve.,0
3227,"“i am certain that she’ll be delighted to know how you have confided her scheme to us.”

draigenn’s shoulders twitched and rounded upward.",0
12224,sunday he never had to work on sunday.,0
6098,"chapter 14
sometime during the long hours before dawn,
john at last found a measure of troubled rest.",0
4814,but she would certainly not let him pay her back.,0
5105,“did you see miss livvy or mr. ben last week?” one or the other was sure to ask every sunday.,0
2528,"“i think harry might’ve told catlett, and that’s who it is.”

she said, “oh.”

maybe accepting it, he wasn’t sure.",1
5395,"he never gave me a reason sufficient to justify the strength of his command; he merely said that it was unseemly that the wife of the second citizen be so long absent from the people who loved her, and that there were certain social and religious duties that only i and livia could perform.",0
9738,"abruptly, he said:

“he was an evangelist, and my mother was a drunk.",0
7655,"the float had been only a few feet from the junction of water and hill streets and the horse took off hell for leather in this direction with old mr pincher shouting whoaa, whoaa.",0
4343,she assured him she would be proud of him regardless.,0
205,"`poor hannah, throwing away her faith when she 
needs it most.'",1
4436,she never had the slightest suspicion there was anything to snoop or pry about.,0
4222,there was no doubt who they were.,0
5398,"thus i conceived within myself, and let forth upon the world, a series of personages that would deceive whoever might look too closely; the innocent girl who did not know the world, upon whom a doting father lavished a love he could not give elsewhere; the virtuous wife, whose only pleasure was in her duty toward her husband; the imperious young matron, whose whim became the public’s wish; the idle scholar, who dreamed of a virtue beyond roman duty, and fondly pretended that philosophy might be true; the woman who, late in life, discovered pleasure, and used men’s bodies as if they were the luxurious ointments of the gods; and who herself at last was used, to the intensest pleasure she had ever known. . . .

i was twenty-one years of age when my father decreed the centennial festival to commemorate the founding of rome, and i had given birth to my second son.",0
115,"""are you sure we can handle such a big farm?""",1
11993,"“jesus h. christ,” he breathed.",0
12131,"well, what the hell was that smoky-looking stuff, an ice cream soda?",0
12137,"i wouldn't bet on not giving myself away to cat, and god help us all if that happened.""",0
4396,"scholar lucca was convinced that certain men from parliament who were working silently for his release from the spanish viceroy were doing so not for king charles, nor for his own sake, but with the treasure in mind and, more important, to silence his knowledge of the fate of the viscount.",0
8400,"but as her literary executor, i had to abide by her wishes, which i interpreted as eventual publication and use of the, papers, but not with unseemly haste or slipshod editorial work.”

			“surely no library would allow slipshod editorial work.”

			“naturally not.",0
8169,"but i wanted to be sure you knew what to do in case you got attacked, that’s all.”

“you ever do this, willie?”

“not with a real dog, no.",0
5107,"“he was terribly excited, certainly.”

“he didn’t seem himself?",0
328,"“i don’t know about spokane,” freddy hesitantly replied.",1
8266,"if i know that, it certainly will color the way i speak, hold my body, everything about my performance.”

“we’ll discuss it later,” fletcher said.",0
10183,"the one over the weekend lasted two full days, broke at last on sunday afternoon—and the worst of my depression broke with it.",0
6537,"a girl like that, and sure, it could be anybody
a-tall.""",0
3708,"come with me.”

she nodded, still searching his eyes and believing him.",0
4286,"i can be sure of one thing now: he does not love me.” basil, thoroughly miserable and at the same time angry with himself, found nothing further to say.",0
7702,"""i'm feeling very jumpy, angela.",0
11604,"it was not a dangerous attachment: mac was a devout catholic and faithful to his plain, dumpy, loyal wife.",0
11786,"i will give it thought""

""give it plenty of thought jon,"" said the priest then jonathan said, ""i never told you.",0
9781,"in the center of all this jubilation of good food, good times and good pay, were a blown-up photomontage beside a similarly sized drawing: one showing pictures of famine in the congo, tribal wars, mutilations, depravities, hunger and disease, above the caption, _unhappy africa_; the other depicting fat, grinning colored people sitting at tables laden with food, driving about in cars as big as pullman coaches, black children entering modernistic schools equipped with stadiums and swimming-pools, elderly people clad in brooks brothers suits and saks fifth avenue dresses filing into a church that looked astonishingly like saint peter's cathedral in rome, with its caption: _the happy south_.",0
4371,"he washed his face, watered down and slicked back his hair, and made sure his clothes were as neat as possible.",0
10462,"the people won’t stand for a decrepit police commissioner.”

“sam, i won’t be your tiger john.”

“then help us out, for god’s sake.",0
8021,"""by god, everythin' happened to martin!""",0
1614,i have always doubted that art could be used as a medicine for the artist’s personal unhappiness or confusions.,1
5526,"see what i mean?”

“sure,” i said.",0
1570,"“but, look here, i’m an atheist, sir, the exception to the rule that there ain’t no atheists in foxholes or firefights, and i’m gonna stay a goddamn atheist to the goddamn end, goddamn it!”

“so be it,” chaplain thomas answered softly.",1
2456,"i realize now that i should have taken dempsey in that night for a paraffin test to determine if he had recently fired a gun, but i had at that time only a strong suspicion to go on and i was anxious to keep it to myself.”

outside the sounds of life going on seemed to be gaining in intensity.",1
4782,"he could have taken the car alone, and doubtless would if i had
been incorruptible, even knowing that someday he must bring it back or come back
himself in order to face lesser music than he would if--when--grandfather's police caught
up with him.",0
12396,"i’m coming, just a second, be right there.” she didn’t sound pissed, thank god, so maybe he hadn’t rousted her out of the bathroom.",0
2141,"just make certain your scriptwriter, if you have one, which i doubt, or your director produces a definite story.",1
2838,"laughter foments doubt.”

“but sometimes it is right to doubt.”

“i cannot see any reason.",1
2998,i'm doubtful about the safety of your drug; it could be carcinogenic.,1
3114,"""the trouble with poor old joe,"" harry once said to timothy, ""is that he believes no one honestly and completely cares about him, except his sister regina, and i think he has his doubts there, too.",1
1792,"now, the appearance of the dwarf only confirmed her suspicion that they had entered a grotesque land from which they would be lucky to return.",1
4416,"there was no driver with a whip behind the cows, and the butcher didn’t even look behind to make sure they were following.",0
4693,"""make sure you have a guest room ready,"" said the massa.",0
7892,"she took me straight to the backyard, through the store itself, through a smaller room that served mostly as a storage area, to the back door, which took a hell of an effort for us to open.",0
9057,“we sure do.,0
7576,"“the voice of god waking his servants from the sloth into which they have sunk.…”

“what, padre?” i said.",0
9614,"but when he arrived at the passageway linking rectory to church, farmer was still droning on.",0
1204,“but how could i change your mind when i wasn’t convinced?” she asked without inflection.,1
12327,"calhoun asked, looking over angela's shoulder.",0
1844,"a smart girl who sat safely strapped in the passenger seat, watching the landscape with skepticism and stern admiration.",1
2798,"it needs a man who has some knowledge of military matters, and who can travel to a foreign country without exciting any suspicions.",1
5408,"but then he felt the pressure of her hand, and squeezed her hand, and he felt that whatever had been wrong was all right again.",0
1050,and of course cecelia held some secret doubts about herself; you can’t dislike nearly everybody and be quite certain that you have exempted yourself.,1
6686,"she started through the gate, only to hear the piercing voice of the stranger who had admitted her with reluctance.",0
1318,"but as he sits on the circle line train being shaken toward south kensington, its whining roar begins to sound a chorus of doubts.",1
6056,"i had to be sure about margot, about what she had done and was doing now.",0
5302,"the ashley children and the lansing children certainly had energy of mind, but the ashley children had something more: a quality of abstraction, an impersonal passion.",0
10440,"""a revolver—heavens, i don't think so, did you find one, i mean in his apartment?",0
10114,"oh, god, the skirts on annie had begun to rip.",0
7066,"for there, heaped in a jumbled, gleaming mass beneath the dying man was a treasure trove of gold and silver objects, more valuable, more opulent, more wonderful than anything he could have dreamed.",0
6771,"“um, sure,” i answered, wrapping the phone cord around my wrist.",0
1293,she was staring at him in disbelief.,1
10460,"""in liberty city,"" hoke said, ""five thousand bucks is a hell of a lot of money.",0
11269,might i join him for dinner at 15 gramercy park on christmas eve?,0
7010,"for, before dismissing them to their various journeys, the king had stood at the fierce dragon prow of his handsome ship and restated the terms of his offer: anyone who followed him to miklagard would be exempt from paying tribute for five years and would also gain a share in the treasure to be won.",0
6743,"“will anyone join me?”

“sure,” said vivaldo.",0
11912,"the process whereby an apartment was let occurred in any of several ways; the landlord hung a notice upon his front door and more notices on the walls of his shops, did the same thing outside the baths and public latrines and any wall owned by friends, then spread the news of a vacancy by word of mouth as well.",0
473,"but i was thinking too, as troy winked at me and raised his sign: “we’re not alike!” and that was what sickened me, because i wasn’t sure.",1
8894,he locked his car and crossed the worn concrete of the old sidewalk which had heaved like a string of uneven dominoes from the pressure of tree roots.,0
7011,"surely she must be joking, i thought.",0
12393,"the resulting disorders should be treated prudently with beer and salt fish, after which a man resumes his labor, as the gods have ordained and decency requires.",0
10025,"finally, through his attorney, he agreed to be interviewed the next day, which was sunday, on the condition that we come to him and conduct the interview in his office at archway studios.",0
1895,"wouldn’t it be unbecoming at my age if i were lovesick?” she was by no means convinced of her argument, for her uncle had that effect on her; he could make her doubt anything—the testimony of her own eyes, the judgments of her own intellect.",1
7151,"with a determined motion, he waved percy out of the cockpit.",0
11767,"you know

ubertino wasn’t with the emperor that year: he was right there in avignon, in the service of

cardinal orsini, and the pope was sending him as a messenger to aragon!”

“i know, i know, he took his vow of poverty at the cardinal’s table, as he now lives in the richest abbey of the peninsula!",0
10679,"clearly you had no doubt piggle-wiggle would be elected consul, and you were correct.",0
7802,"jesus, i can smell it on you from here.”

“just beer, i swear it.”

“i’ll see you next sunday,” she said, and hung up.",0
5726,the pressures encircling his foot lifted.,0
10888,"i can inform you

beyond any doubt that i am not going to die of alcoholism or liver failure.”

“i’m glad to hear it,” said petrov.",0
11236,"he realized, however, that to destroy the weed of the fraticelli, who threatened the very

foundation of the church’s authority, he would need to condemn the notions on which their faith was based.",0
7044,"in july 1906, under further pressure from the government, the sea lords decided to lower the strength of the active fleet by seven battleships and four armored cruisers.",0
6992,"soloman shifted, his hand tightening on the trigger of the spas until no slack at all remained in the trigger; a half-ounce more pressure and the weapon would discharge.",0
11633,"in fact, he asserted, the executed elephant had more dignity and would go to a higher heaven than the heroin-crazed murderers who were allowed to live in a comfortable prison for five or six years before they were let out to murder more middle-class citizens.",0
3339,"before they left, i determined to return to the first goal i had ever held in life.",0
3045,"there was a wild agitation about him, a trembling uncertainty, a desperate upheaval.",1
732,"the old-timers had looked at him and just grinned while the newbies had shaken their heads, not sure how he had done it.",1
7922,and they had this goddam secret fraternity that i was too yellow not to join.,0
8380,"surely, she’d recognized someone from that awful night.",0
3348,her expression said that the doom she had predicted would surely come.,0
164,"silently, he prayed for words that weren’t confrontational, but that would shoot through the faithlessness straight into david’s heart.",1
9274,i hung up and lit one of my christmas montecristos in celebration.,0
10188,"but when other publishers passed, my agent sent the manuscript to beacon, where it was published as pads are for passion by sheldon lord.",0
128,"“i’m afraid he’s been arrested.”

a wave of uncertainty and denial washed over cathy, and she took a step back and bumped into steve.",1
10466,"“jesus, it’s a fine day when your own family is against you.",0
1774,"and leaving right then would also serve to quell any suspicions, at least at the level we were working.",1
3947,"surely there is no greater calling, nor one that requires greater skill.",0
6766,"out of pride—out of some ineradicable pride that must be rooted in the body alone, in the purely structural integrity of tissue and bones perhaps, for even the lowest of men, convicted child molesters, say, or mass murderers, will use it to hold their heads high when thrust on display in front of other humans—out of this unkillable kind of pride irwin was able to take a few slow, almost leisurely paces away from the jeep, the watching men, dudek’s fury and the boy.",0
4808,"we didn’t really expect to find him, because he mostly came out and walked on dark and stormy nights, when it was raining hard and blowing and he was sure to be covered with mud.",0
6156,"once, in winston churchill park, when there were children rough-housing-at least, moving quickly-i saw someone about his size, standing slightly to the side of whatever activity was consuming the others, looking a trifle tentative but very alert, certainly eager to try what the others were doing, but restraining himself, or else picking the exactly perfect moment to take charge.",0
11761,"the first is celestine, the second is boniface the eighth, of whom the prophets say, ‘the pride of your heart has dishonored you, o you who live in the fissures of cliffs.’ the third pope is not named, but of him jeremiah is supposed to have said, ‘there, like a lion.’ and—infamy!—dolcino recognized the lion in frederick of sicily.",0
387,“she was no longer afraid of the uncertain future that loomed ahead.,1
5045,i point this out to charles who notes that there are certainly none on his side.,0
12018,"“let’s go!”

“what?”

“let’s get your goddam glasses!”

fleetingly, judd wondered, was even artie at that moment giving the whole plan a chance to collapse?",0
498,certainly you must be aware that some of the world’s greatest minds have raised serious doubts that you ever existed.,1
5503,"besides, though small, govinda was in certain ways like ussher arkin.",0
12194,"for all those of elven-race, even the vanyar and ingwл their lord, must breathe at times the outer air and the wind that comes over the sea from the lands of their birth; and the valar would not sunder the teleri wholly from their kin.",0
10962,"or am i mistaken?”

“no, that is the case, beyond any doubt.”

“then this means there is identity in different men as to their substantial form, and diversity as to the accidents, or as to their superficial shape.”

“that is so, unquestionably.”

“when i say to ubertino that human nature itself, in the complexity of its operations, governs both the love of good and the love of evil, i am trying to convince ubertino of the identity of human nature.",0
8153,"fell, or got pushed?”

“fell, but i’m handling it as homicide until i know for sure.",0
2541,"probably didn’t mean to do it; give her the benefit of the doubt, at this point.",1
7264,"they waited nervously until the chamber closed, equalized with cabin pressure, and the door in the floor was opened.",0
6948,'you are certain?',0
9596,"“barry was such a nice man.” tucker mournfully looked at the square-jawed face, wide-open eyes staring at heaven.",0
10248,"that’s why i went for it, for christ sake.",0
11046,"those who heard his remarks, however, sometimes wondered whether he was afflicted with self-doubt.",0
1552,of this sammler was not sure.,1
10430,"which ties in with the car holland saw stop.”

“what the hell kind of goddamned lead is that?” said o’connor.",0
7875,goddammit.,0
782,"months earlier, she had gone back and forth about giving up the baby for adoption—one day deciding it was best for the precious life within her, and the next, certain she could never part with the baby she’d carried all these months.",1
9699,the methodist church's steeple was especially prominent.,0
10534,"he had thought wrongly that it would be better to come without warning, otherwise she would have certainly found some excuse not to meet him.",0
10634,"celia had wanted to set up a report system, with spot checks of detail men's performance obtained through confidential questionnaires.",0
8077,"she certainly referred to addicks with great respect and seemed to feel there was something important back of his experiments.”

“and then she was murdered,” della street said.",0
5074,"she squirms upward and plants a kiss on his cheek, knowing we are watching, certain we are envious.",0
12304,that his true and infallible god was the percentage.,0
11750,by the time of the adjournment charles could only pray that sir malcolm's arthritis would improve enough for him to take over the following morning.,0
5528,"just tell her i called to say hello.”

“certainly.”

“i hope she’s managing in the heat,” mary said.",0
10629,"she lay silently in his arms afterward, lying close to him, feeling his heart beat next to her, and she smiled as she looked up at him in sated pleasure.",0
3603,"and
when they had made certain that she had only a short distance to go,
and that over a safe road, they left her.",0
3934,"one was, they concluded that in believing that the inner light would teach each individual all he needed to know, they had neglected sex instruction as well as religious instruction for the young.",0
10815,baron jacobi pointed out to me the historian” george bancroft; the sage was listening gravely to a long disquisition from garfield—no doubt on the ease with which true history can at last be written in this marvellous candid age of telegraph and newspaper.,0
5303,"—well if you could have heard him out there harry, i mean he’s certainly got his act together if that’s what you .",0
1793,"even the ablest thinkers groping as they approached their limits, running out of evidence, running out of certainties.",1
3626,yacov’s stomach tightened and twisted with the certainty that he had said the wrong thing.,0
4054,"“if there's one thing i
do know, one thing i am certain of, it is that i am lost.",0
2503,it was an uncertain mix of each.,1
8452,"the terrible irony is that something bad certainly has happened, to you and garth.",0
9972,this is because it has one hell of a goddamned short barrel.,0
5670,"he changed his mind.”

“but he promised!”

“sure,” oliver said.",0
4731,“you could make a case that her charity is in maimonides' seventh degree—she doesn't know the names of the people she's relieving and they've certainly never heard of her.,0
6540,"surely, with even her limited skills, she should be able to manage the superb bot boi, that rich stew of chicken with vegetables and tantalizing squares of egg noodles smothered in broth that must cause buz homesickness just at the memory.",0
2840,"i could see clearly, now that i knew him, the reasons for his doubts and hesitations, and for his long-drawn-out refusal to reveal himself.",1
5861,"i organized the courts of rome so that each man might go before a magistrate with some assurance of receiving at least a modicum of justice; i codified the laws of the empire, so that even the provincial might live in some security from the tyranny of power or the corruption of greed; and i made the state secure against the brutal force of ambitious power by instituting and enforcing those laws against treason that julius caesar had promulgated before his death.",0
6445,"but denny said, “sure.",0
9681,"the royal palm-lined avenues and acres of white beach still crawled with young folks, old folks, bible thumpers, bolita ticket peddlers, tourists from forty-eight states and swaggering big league baseball players down to begin spring training.",0
9435,"""which church?""",0
4461,"he had been sorely afraid of letting go, and katherine had reminded him in no uncertain terms where fear comes from.",0
9028,“he was raised a certain way and couldn’t cope with the changes.,0
849,"“you know opa, always keeping us guessing what’s next,” he said, trying to sound convinced.",1
9110,"i suppose they’re decent people to begin with, but boy, they sure wind up—piranhas.",0
532,"you know how long that’s been my dream.”

“dreams sometimes have a way of being replaced by something you hadn’t dreamed about.”

“i’m not sure i understand your meaning.”

“often, in the guise of love, we sacrifice our own dreams to fulfill someone else’s.",1
6357,surely it was as simple as his dread of letting sadie baxter go entirely.,0
3582,she was sure they were laughing at her.,0
1970,"“i doubt the people in your agency have ever authorized this.”

i pointed to the guard.",1
4348,“i am quite sure that he fully expected the decks to come down wholesale.,0
2874,"for several days the weather was variable, uncertain, with a warm, constantly murmuring wind in the night, smelling of damp earth.",1
38,meridian was not sure.,1
8836,“a pleasure.,0
2921,i looked skeptically at her.,1
8834,"but she felt a genuine pleasure in being out, of participating in the great tide of humanity, at not being just something washed up on the shore.",0
11118,"“jean-baptiste, which city do you know best in the mediterranean?”

“marseilles,” said langarotti without hesitation.",0
2186,"he had a gun in his hand.”

“what?” nowell’s face twisted in disbelief.",1
7689,"then one day her mother said, “your grandmother wants to come home sunday.",0
11703,"finally it was the day of the execution, and a gonfalonier came for him, appearing friendly, for he asked what sort of man michael was and why he was so stubborn when he had only to affirm what the whole populace affirmed and accept the opinion of holy mother church.",0
10,"we will see, janjic.”

she wasn’t sure if the hunch they would one day return to see her daughter’s grave one last time came from her own latent desires or if there was more at work there, and she’d given up trying to discern three years ago.",1
5608,"don’t you see?”

“well, if you’re sure; of course i’d be most grateful.",0
3869,"moreover, eusebius’s motivation in recording the tradition of pilate’s suicide is less that of a critical historian and more that of an apologist and moralist in describing divine vengeance as overtaking pilate.",0
4173,"i assure you, i merely thought to make you welcome.'",0
5294,on the off chance of a second miracle the woman tied another sack to the fence—and sure enough the next morning it was so heavy it pulled the fence after it on its way to the ground.,0
5563,"the avalanche of charity he had precipitated filled the locker room and made him hesitant, now and then, as if he had touched some wellspring in the female heart that would bury him alive in food and dressing gowns.",0
1984,"he sat down, looked at the yellow pad, and summarized:

they were not sure enough to arrest him yet.",1
410,"he added 
quickly, and in the monotonous and uncertain voice of the lowborn, ""welcome to 
this house of my father, phlegon.",1
2879,dekko was doubtful.,1
9415,"but it’s past the understanding of a baptist.”

“a good detective would have known that, despite my racial persuasion, i couldn’t be baptist.",0
8587,she was too busy watching the road uncoiling in front of them and thinking for sure they would go off the shoulder and down the embankment.,0
7900,"regarded by his colleagues as intransigent and even somewhat eccentric, his fierce judicial commitment to first amendment rights occasionally collided with an equally strong sense of privacy in such intemperate outbursts off the bench as ‘damn the public’s right to know!’ this disposition found similar expression elsewhere in his habit of destroying early drafts of his judicial opinions threatening to place him at the mercy of collectors and biographers, echoing justice holmes in his wish to be known only by the final product with the observation that how he got there was his own affair, an approach carried through to the last in his stipulation, according to his law clerk, for immediate cremation with no funeral services of any sort and the forbidding of a grave marked by a cross or any other such barbaric instrument of human torture well thank god, i mean that takes care of that.",0
1846,"however, this explanation only satisfied him briefly, based as it was on the flimsiest sort of conjecture, which he distrusted anyway, and crafted out of his own discomfort with someone whose behavior was obvious only insofar as it flouted any consistent interpretation.",1
6545,"now his talisman was pinned next to her own, and her lips tingled again with the remembered pressure of his kiss.",0
11964,"666 heaven and hell

he turned and shuffled back toward his front door.",0
10536,you must first convince yourself that you are above all others-even if you know it is not so-or you must act as if you are so convinced.,0
9485,"however, church divinity school of the pacific could be anything.",0
1861,she is not sure she won’t continue her marriage.,1
1026,"a minister who truly cared for his flock would use such a time to offer the comfort of true faith in christ—which this man couldn’t do because he didn’t know it himself.”

pentycross’s reply was cut short by the entry of rowland’s lugubrious servant.",1
9829,"only a well-thumbed new testament, and a book of common prayer.",0
11803,"according to the rules, if anyone wants any part of that record—from the white house to the state department to the holy joint chiefs—he has to go through the offices of the director and his chief analysts right here at langley.",0
11213,"a line or two from the bible adds a touch of class, don't you think?""",0
3422,"the lyre maker is too big for one.”

				joseph could learn no more, either from the old man or from the neighbors, but all agreed that demetrius’s party had gone southward, so he could be sure their destination must be alexandria.",0
12403,"but save your own life, lord, if you may.",0
10871,"like others who had met the dictator, he had few doubts about the man’s insanity.",0
9456,"this posed a threat to the social and economic well-being of the rich landowners who controlled the church; their answer to the problem was to start burning people.""",0
9194,"""… and we figure if we leave immediately after lunch we can take it leisurely and we'll have plenty of time to get into los angeles before dark, where we will spend the night.",0
6340,surely they didn’t think we were coming next week.,0
5734,"“on behalf of the passengers,” said my father acidly, “i want to thank you for the most indigestible presentation of swill it has ever been our pleasure to reject.” i never saw him in a worse humor.",0
1741,"uncertain how to soften the next part of the story, she decided to make it brief: ""--an' when he kept on runnin' 'way, dey chopped off half his foot.""",1
1750,"dr. douglas says i am needed here on the island more than on the ships; he is courteous to me, but not much warmer than dr. jaques, and i cannot help believing that i am under some sort of suspicion because of my behavior that first day.",1
1822,"for one thing, i’d been so certain that she was wrong—suspicious and dismissive of her memories.",1
6020,"“first, they can’t stand heat, and second, they are to a certain extent photophobic.",0
147,“i doubt if you can convince him.,1
5610,"obviously,” ruth adds, “this is all confidential.”

“obviously,” grete echoes.",0
9761,by his sixteenth year he had lived in fifty houses and committed the sin of poverty in each of them.,0
2486,"why tell me?” he had begun to understand his use in my world, and wasn’t so sure he liked it; but he had wanted to know.",1
932,"“oh, good lord!”

“the lord is more than good.” jonas closed his eyes, fighting the old doubts that still surfaced on occasion.",1
879,"and i do not know if faith will be enough.""",1
9467,"then he carefully folded it and held it in an almost holy way, as if it were a fragment of veronica’s veil.",0
9574,. . want to play god?” she asked.,0
7484,"“i pray god i may not fail,” he said.",0
809,"nathan saw his name, then read the heading on the top of the page in disbelief.",1
4072,elisabeth had made sure the staff knew will’s children were coming.,0
7068,"that’s great.”

“but you’re sure it means i’ll walk.”

“it means you’ll be able to get around on your legs.",0
3579,"although the meanings of those clearings and his devotion to them remain firm in his mind, he knows without sorrow that they will end, the order he has made and kept in them will be overthrown, the effortless order of wilderness will return.",0
5271,"her father tipped the orderly to make sure that she was kept clean, and she was, she said.",0
2792,"he had never revealed any religious interest, any speculative doubts or thoughts.",1
2351,"knowing it could only hurt you.”

“in what way?”

“in the very remote chance that i’m wrong about the relay—and that possibility barely exists.”

the old man nodded the way old men do when repeating words that have stunned them to the point of disbelief.",1
2031,"“now then,” mason went on, “if that is the case, any individual who suddenly pushed back his plate, with food still on it, would arouse the suspicions of the police.”

della street nodded.",1
7294,"i felt bad because for some reason i sort of believed in the universe part of university, that it was all about life and time and god, and freedom, and when i got back in it was just so male and linear and there wasn’t any magic in the religion classes, it was all a construct—the angels were symbols and the miracles were just things in nature.",0
2909,"then she remembered orry describing what he'd put brett and billy through before the war, when he was uncertain about the wisdom of a carolina girl marrying a northern officer.",1
6495,"“i’d sure appreciate it if you’d take a look at my brakes,” said scott.",0
407,"here’s a crux, actually, where history helps the believer, and puts the burden of explanation on the skeptics.” seeing clarence about to speak, he lifted a shapely small hand whose palm had a lily’s waxen pallor.",1
5292,"then slowly i started back—with an emptiness such as i had never felt before—knowing that i did not have to read the paper in my hand to make me sure of what i already knew, thinking miserably, fiercely: willis.",0
2243,"“well, your doubts aren’t good enough.",1
10349,"and combined with ‘just thinking if there’s anything the hell else i can do,’ it definitely suggested a problem.",0
5350,"this desire to make a treasure hunt out of the sad prayers and wants of others ended when my father and brother died in a car wreck, in the stretch where we converged with outsiders.",0
11503,"it's america's loss, gentlemen, even more than his parents' loss, and may god console them in his mercy.",0
9381,"after overby watched her disappear around the far corner of the church, he turned, tugged open one of the massive doors and went inside.",0
3502,"“it’ll be tough and it’ll take time, but i’m going to make it.”

“the shrink say that?”

“certainly not.” she waved her hand in dismissal of such an absurd thought.",0
4884,"but naturally, he must be sure.",0
381,"the baby lay on its side, intently sucking, and looked at his big brother with swollen distrustful eyes.",1
1712,but she’s not sure she wants to give him the pleasure of total freedom.,1
5043,"i did not like mrs. patimkin, though she was certainly the handsomest of all of us at the table.",0
8411,"“i'm sure,” said bellamy, “her brother had reasons, what with the neighborhood where she's been living.",0
8158,“you certainly are not familiar with it.,0
12254,"still others went

directly to the ministry of defense and its intelligence arm, the gru.",0
3456,"no doubt it was dubh, with all of his ‘honor,’ who devised such a scheme.",0
1574,"constantine wasn’t sure what he was doing, what he wanted here.",1
7940,"listening, they heard a sound of spraying above, and a steady, rapid tapping, trickling cascading, snaking of water on the staircase.",0
6708,"ace books

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the best authors and their best stories are sure to be in these top-rated collections of
science-fiction and fantasy.",0
10810,"doubtless they, too, slept in the heat of the afternoon.",0
5745,for a certain period mr. sammler had resisted such physical impressions--being wooed almost comically by momentary and fortuitous sweetness.,0
7740,"god help me, the name sojourner was laid on my head like the top teetering crown of a pile of things to remember.",0
2557,despite my considerable doubts.’ mary turned to her.,1
3186,but the picture was real enough; she only had to look down at the parcel she held under her left arm if she doubted that.,1
10656,"""it is no doubt for the best.",0
8097,be sure to convince him that he can’t walk; he might want to stand up someday.,0
4139,"it was true that lavender often took to spells of illness that kept her confined to her chamber, but most of the time she was convinced that her cousin was exaggerating to win support for her plans.",0
9551,"the door of the small, packed shabby bus began to close, stopped by the inserted arm of the priest, who wedged his shoulder inside and obviously begged to be released, as he had been caught.",0
2975,"willa looked stricken, watching the skepticism crumble from his face, to be replaced by something frightening.",1
7672,"he tethered evangeline to the hitching rail and stood on the bluff for a long time looking at the river, his back to the general store.",0
6611,his highness showed no evidence of displeasure; rather did he seem disinterested in me and in the incident that had resulted in reclaiming by him of the great seal.,0
7137,"a tall, slender young woman with long honey-blond hair, a stack of books cradled in her arms, was waiting outside the doorway of the lecture hall, hesitantly, as though she wanted to say something to me but was afraid to do so.",0
11555,"all men were supposed to be equal before god, weren’t they?",0
1054,"“you think dr. adler took the money?”

“no, of course not,” she hastened, for she wasn’t certain yet.",1
9813,"mechanically, with very little effort, he kept a pleasant look on his face, returned “merry christmas” merrily, and he had not forgotten the present of perfume for helen, his secretary.",0
185,"i need your advice

	because i had moments of doubt, father.'",1
3331,let me assure you then that neither monsignor meredith nor i would wish to embarrass you with inquiries.,0
11247,"“the point is that to resemble the apostles, who had still been jews, gherardo segarelli had himself circumcised, which is contrary to the words of paul to the galatians—and you know that many holy persons proclaim that the future antichrist will come from the race of the

circumcised.",0
8455,i'm sure he has a speech all prepared.,0
12087,"winston, my sister angela.”

“hello,” he says, and walks over to shake her hand but of course i’d like to yell, “don’t touch her!",0
4807,not a suspicion in more than thirty years.,0
2004,"""but we can't know that for sure, miss turnbull.",1
8779,"ordinarily, he would have allowed himself to show the full extent of his displeasure at my having used him as a red herring to get the false-bates to give us a nice juicy handwriting sample.",0
528,"“have you ever doubted the purity of your faith, livvie—i mean, that’s a good reason for the lord never answerin’ when you call, don’t you think?”

“no.” lavidia’s voice trembled.",1
6245,"…”

“tower of ivory, singular vessel of devotion,” added milky, realizing for the first time how beautiful the names were.",0
1483,"gazing at the boy, his mother said uncertainly, “that would be nice,” and david carried the little enthusiast into the kitchen.",1
3753,"the nobles who did not fawn upon him for their own advancement feared and hated him for the monster he undoubtedly was, but the rabble who spent his gold and lived without working on his gifts of state corn adored him.",0
7129,he could no longer feel the pressure of his fingers on his skin.,0
10739,he had little doubt; despot was years ahead of boeing's pave tiger system and the newer tacit rainbow.,0
370,"he walked uncertainly, looking this way and that, as if overcome by the splendour of his surroundings after the barren harshness of the village.",1
9938,"“good heavens,” etna said, “you certainly told him off, mr. mason.”

mason’s eyes narrowed.",0
538,the beanstalk of suspicion grew rapidly in glennon’s mind.,1
6784,"almost at once arthur's scouts began returning with further reports about the enemy siege at caer edyn: ectorius still held the fortress, and seemed in no immediate danger; the stronghold remained solid and secure.",0
6615,his touch was gentle but sure.,0
5137,she was sure that your mother would be very angry.” she paused and looked at him with a faint inquiry.,0
924,"""i wish i could be certain.""",1
2979,"'i don't know if anyone has, but i doubt it, to be frank.'",1
9959,“angelo is sitting up with your pretty.,0
7716,"“god,” my mother said.",0
1197,"everett slowed, suspecting already what had happened …

and sure enough, there they were: a pair of eyes, bright green in the headlights, right in the center of his lane.",1
2241,"in fact, he wasn’t sure what fritz intended, except that he hoped to plant the seeds of suspicion, even fear, so that lebrun would do something about hawthorne.",1
773,"or him.” norah was improvising now, less certain of her facts, but more clear than ever about the desired outcome.",1
9119,"“can the bullshit, carver.”

“okay, canned.”

mornings were something—mornings after certain nights before.",0
11938,"“that there’s dearborn avenue.”

“oh god, is it?” rosie wasn’t sure if she needed to laugh or cry.",0
10665,muller would no doubt arrive from london in an embassy car.,0
2988,"so are the others who have doubts.”

celia asked, ""can you refute factually what sastri says?""",1
2637,"the important thing is to keep this house in shape for you and betsy.”

“i doubt whether we’ll be able to afford such a place,” he said.",1
5918,"“don’t you feel good?”

“sure, mack.",0
8963,i decided he was torn between his desire for sympathy and his reluctance to admit he was no more immune to common weakness than any inferior tourist.,0
966,he still thought of her suspicions as those of an emotional child tormented by nightmares.,1
8580,"""learning you were going to get caught just after you'd made sure of the money.",0
4030,and death has surely taken calhoun from me.,0
9262,"gunnerson said, “have you determined what kind of a gun it was?”

“the bullet was sent to the lab, but i had a chance to see it first.",0
5735,"actually, he’s crazy about children, he’ll probably reassure her.”

leonard’s mother, like many people who are not “good” with children, was slightly afraid of them.",0
12085,"“but that doesn’t include us, for the moment.”

“well, personally i think it is stretching the friendship between us a bit far,” said the foreign

minister, “but i think we ought to grant him an extension, while making plain, at least unofficially,

that it is at his request, not ours.”

“perhaps he has an idea to storm the freya,” suggested defense.",0
5559,"oscar patted the buffalo’s huge nose, whispering to it in a soft voice, and stink and doc secured the women’s belongings to the cart.",0
3795,i am sure he will be very proud of it and strut when he has it on.,0
2813,and bobby at once began to doubt what he had heard.,1
257,"it cried that all effort was worthwhile; that doubt and fear and discouragement were a desecration of beauty, that hope was always right.",1
9036,pleasure wouldn’t distract this man from prey.,0
4611,so did our faith.,0
8523,"but surely there’s a larger purpose to your visit.”

woody stood by the window, half looking at brantley but also watching larry.",0
10985,"i have no reason to deny that we became close friends, nor had i any reason to harbor suspicions of this man.",0
4095,"“besides which, a five-year-old child is certainly capable of understanding simple language, such as ‘i killed her.’ i don’t think mr. denney is here to assert that his daughter is mentally challenged.”

i could have punched him then.",0
9634,"the christian jews.”

“marranos?” coen asked.",0
6343,surely you know there are many varieties.,0
4927,"he did so three or four times a week, but mainly to make sure that he was around his dead brother’s children and that their stepfather, pedro, was good to them.",0
1636,"then, when someone like kwang attempts anything larger, there’s instant suspicion.",1
2766,"“it now ranks as one possible ‘third alternative’ that no longer exists,” remarked david

lawrence, “even if maxim rudin had accepted it, which i doubt.”

it was one hour to midnight; lights were burning in five government departments scattered



183

frederick forsyth – the devil’s alternative

across the capital, as they burned in the oval office and a score of other rooms throughout the

white house where men and women sat at telephones and teleprinters awaiting the news from

europe.",1
1303,"wirz would have been dyed in suspicion because of the bloomington printer’s essential american qualities, his essential yankeeness.",1
285,"on second thought, he doubted that brother hawthorne would do that—plan a church activity at the scene of a former tragedy.",1
1795,"i doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation.",1
1896,"when the—what day he’ll—be—the funeral, andrew!”

“not for sure.",1
2194,"“but you’ve come so far, perhaps you’ll go on a bit longer.”

“i rather doubt it.",1
10856,"""no doubt of it.",0
7854,"goddamn, said rawlins.",0
1359,"“but you could go,” emmet said, unsurely.",1
8469,"i went straight to bed.”

“was that particular sunday the only time roger brought home a package after his fishing trip?”

“yes, i’m sure it was.",0
10993,"and there was nothing in this drawer but pencils and so on, and there is my spare cassock still hanging by the door, so that was not what you saw. . . .""

he turned finally, with reluctance, to look at the safe.",0
2161,"thomas burwell, you are under arrest on suspicion of murderin' one albert 'bud' lassen, an' anything you say may be used against you and what d'you want for breakfast?""",1
4302,"they’d never darkened the door of the newsroom, that was certain.",0
3601,you had had a peculiar experience that had forced you to a belief in the supernatural.,0
8135,"and this thursday he was especially eager because lunch had been terrible—the first of hawthorne’s meatless thursdays, meant to save the school thousands each year, money chip felt sure would wind up in hawthorne’s pocket.",0
10143,"i go, ‘excuse me, but you know anybody who wears a hat this way?’ she goes, ‘you do.’ sunday, the last day, we’re shooting on the top deck of the algiers ferry, riding it back and forth.",0
4081,3) she will certainly have 13 big ships in commission in the spring of 1911.,0
7440,"mercy, but it’s hot as churchtime up there, with ’em so packed in!",0
5435,"he worked at three corners, managing the pressure-cleaning machines, renting out the rug doctor.",0
3264,"lewis would find him eventually—

—ah, to make doubly sure, drop a note down the chimney.",0
12245,"but they alone (zechariah morgan and juvenal dupres in louisiana, drum blackhorse in mississippi) were reduced to penury and/or field labor.",0
9336,like a pair of dangerous guardian angels.,0
11833,"shock and amazement were then added, so that he gasped out: 'good god, you didn't suppose that was in my mind, did you?'",0
11131,"she wrote to me, and told me how sorry she was about allie,” page said without suspicion.",0
8414,"“i was so sure this would do it.”

“now, stefan,” she murmured automatically.",0
1523,“it’s an aggravation to me to think how little faith some people have.,1
12195,"“christ, you too?” he asked, again coarsely but innocently.",0
9680,"but after they were seated again, behind the concealment of his prayer book, gorfinkle touched the tip of his forefinger to his thumb to form an o to indicate his unqualified approval.",0
8008,"“there’re good people and there’re bad people, and the bad always make life hell for the good people.”

“that’s true,” he said.",0
3011,"""i doubt you know him,"" he said.",1
4656,maybe eliakim had learned about faith instead of ritual.,0
11622,"and that was why he had been here for many years, with scant interest in the order’s pomp, but much to the administration of its cellar and larder, where he was free to eat without stealing and to praise the lord without being burned.",0
5643,"my husband showed me the places where he had done battle with the forces of brutus and cassius, and told me the tales of those days; and then we made our way leisurely to the shores of the aegean, and sailed upon that blue water among the islands; and the weather warmed as we went southward.",0
3208,"""you certainly won't be at a loss now.""",0
2654,"how's the world, good friend.”

at brett's easy greeting to the young black man, a flicker of doubt crossed matt zaleski's face.",1
9625,"she had no life insurance and it would be financially inconvenient for the church, unless the members contributed to defray the costs.",0
937,"'in truth, i had begun to doubt the vision we were given.",1
2536,was it possible that emerson believed—that he suspected—that he entertained for a single instant the slightest doubt of the wholehearted sincerity of my devotion?,1
6635,"the whims of cnligula were completely unpredictable, but it was his duty to report what he knew, particularly the fact that the kingdom of cunobelinus was strong and such a small expedition as lentulus gaeticulus planned to bring to the shores of britannia would almost certainly result in a sharp defeat for the romans, encouraging the britanni to further resistance.",0
11696,the sins of a child?,0
1051,you don’t know how certain he was.,1
6723,"closure?”

the frown on her face betrayed her pain as she brought her eyes back to him.",0
3521,and i certainly didn’t think of him as one of the fatherless.,0
1502,"this was something else, this love of his, and if you didn’t get it, if you were still so unsure of yourself that you needed to parade around with prom queens, well, too bad for you.",1
860,"maybe sold it cheap to somebody in portland on the way out of town, but i doubt it.",1
10628,"charles smiled, not without a certain sense of wan foolishness.",0
10390,"you have needlessly complicated your own life, and mine too, to say nothing of poor sally’s.”

“the hell with poor sally!",0
8592,"“i’m sure i’ll get them all sorted out,” i told him.",0
8564,"now scoot.”

				there were twelve people at the dinner in margo’s restaurant, and although ginnie had met most of them at one time or another, he was certain she did not remember.",0
11613,"powdery shafts of moonlight fell steeply in through the narrow windows, illuminating a ruin that looked spookily like the church where rose and her folks had worshipped back in aubreyville.",0
4419,"“i have no secrets, and i know you people
sure don't.”
tsion entwined his fingers.",0
1196,"murdo drew no comfort from this vague assurance, but lacked the will to argue the matter further.",1
8259,"now there’s just this one last thing, kit.” he leaned close to her face and solemnly told her, “i’m not saying i know the history of this ring or nothin’ like that, love, but for the love of god be sure you wash your fingertip thoroughly before it finds its way into your mouth, after having touched that little secret chamber.” he nodded and winked.",0
11399,"“you give an awful lot of yourself to others … and to god … no matter how you view it.”

“i don’t think it’s quite as saintly as all that,” grace smiled, embarrassed at what the nun was saying.",0
3433,"“well, it was certainly a private, hopeful place.” he paused, adjusting his glasses.",0
6452,"consider your responsibility gravely and execute it faithfully.”

perry hardly heard the rest.",0
2087,"“if a car ran over her this morning here on main street, and people who saw the driver say he was a dwarf with whiskers and one eye, i doubt if mr. wolfe will think his talk with her yesterday was relevant.",1
9669,"‘oh, god—’ that was twice she had invoked the deity, and twice she had been disappointed.",0
7491,"as the priest was giving a speech about how the poor inherited not the earth but god’s “other bounties,” cesar spotted lydia in the crowd, and just seeing her made him happy.",0
8869,"judge and jury were the highpressure, and they also carried out their own sentences.",0
3887,"as darkness fell and the sabbath began, the scattered followers of the crucified leader remained in jerusalem.",0
824,"“but don’t they—” flanna hesitated, unsure how to ask about private matters.",1
10787,"he intends to leave his mark, a highly destructive memorial to himself, no doubt, in answer to those he believes betrayed him thirty-odd years ago, as well as the poor souls who fell under his gun this morning in the vavilova.… he took the papers from our agent trained at novgorod; he thinks they’ll get him inside.",0
9819,"here you are, working, praying, eating, living shoulder to shoulder with your fellow monks, and you don’t even know what their speaking voices sound like.",0
1013,"'my only worry,' i told him, 'was what doubters like fergus would think if i refused.",1
2419,"she was not convinced villiers could face the next twenty-four hours, and if he could not, the assassin would know how deeply his apparatus had been penetrated.",1
4668,his faith floated in and out of him.,0
7953,“oh break the goddam things.,0
11244,"'it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god,' "" jane quoted with pleasure.",0
5498,"""i have this certain matter to discuss with you, father.",0
8412,there’d be no doubts.,0
1233,"breathless and disbelieving, jesus realized that a
horse and rider were approaching, ascending the
steep face of the mountain.",1
4649,discover randy alcorn’s two-point checklist of christlikeness—and begin to measure everything by the simple test of grace and truth.,0
7670,jesus!,0
5727,"“rot in hell.”

“thank you, thank you, treasure of my house, light of my life,” the old lady said, and made her way toward an open door.",0
1220,"""i'm not so sure.",1
11500,a victim in the roman coliseum might as well have told the lions he was really only a very thin christian.,0
9958,"“until he betrayed me and became my enemy.”

“betrayed you how?”

like the offspring of ancient royalty, he gave me a look both lordly and insane.",0
11524,"so if you trifle with her--if you should in any way hurt her--as god is
my witness--"" he exhibited his fist again--""i will grind you down, sir.",0
3209,she could see it sure as day.,0
10245,"“jesus, you are really some kind of a nut.”

she could see it was an effort for him to control his anger, to leave the bed, cross the room for a cigarette.",0
5697,"she would not ride the buses by herself at night since they had been integrated, and because the reducing class was one of her few pleasures, necessary for her health, and free, she said julian could at least put himself out to take her, considering all she did for him.",0
9041,i accept—with pleasure.—know what’s happening at my house?,0
3243,"noting the sudden perplexity on justus's face, he added, 'i feel sure she would not want to talk about her son — to a roman.'",0
4403,"the big hare desperately dug deeper into the hideous brow, determined to hold the beast long enough for benjamin to rescue the children.",0
5280,"the queen met them and gave fuegia basket a ring.”

but the fuegians weren’t happy, the doctor said, and fitzroy was no longer sure that he’d done the right thing in taking them from their native land.",0
2969,"i noticed nothing.”

william hesitated before asking the next question, and he did so in a whisper, taking care that the others could not hear: “berengar was in his stall?”

the abbot looked at him with uneasy amazement, as if to signify that he was struck to see my

master harbor a suspicion that he himself had briefly harbored, for more comprehensible reasons.",1
1301,"besides,” atticus grinned, “i doubt if we’d ever get a complete case tried—the ladies’d be interrupting to ask questions.”

jem and i laughed.",1
4176,"i might even have forgiven you for ordering him scourged if i could be sure it was only to win sympathy from the people.”

“it was.”

“then why did you fail?”

“how fail?” a touch of ire was seeping into his voice.",0
8557,"it’s important.”

the waiter assured him that he would, also that he was holding the private dining room.",0
10717,"i have no doubt that when charles's and sarah's lips touched, very little amatory skill was shown on either side; but i would not deduce any lack of sexual excitement from that.",0
2258,tkach was not sure if he was expected to respond.,1
11205,rosie herself felt a complex mixture of apprehension and anticipation.,0
9846,"three minutes later, i slowed down to pick up angel at the corner where i'd left him.",0
4034,his uncle was certain to have spies searching for his whereabouts.,0
4195,each was devoted to the other; each admired different qualities of the same woman.,0
7225,the warmth of aletta’s body pressing up against his back and the reassuring pressure of her arms encircling his waist sent him into a frenzy of indescribable joy.,0
9302,"“another christmas,” she said, smiling and sighing, and in a tone that might have meant anything.",0
5770,"in any public disclosure of the plot, she will inevitably be implicated; and she is likely to be implicated so deeply that she will be found as guilty of treason as any of the conspirators.",0
11530,"“god has one people, steward.",0
216,"pain and uncertainty seemed to have seeped into the walls and the furniture, adding to the concern she already felt about the doctor’s summons.",1
4689,"i stood there looking down at that man, maybe my age—

who knew?—he had no face—for the last time convinced of something, that a sense of the chance by which a man happened to be born in a particular time and place should have spared us both; it was all that survival required, an acknowledgement of chance between thinking people.",0
5349,"you must forgive me, nicolaus; i know that you will disagree, and that you have no way to voice your disagreement; but i have in late years sometimes thought that it might be possible to construct a system of theology or even a religion around the idea of love, if that idea were extended somewhat beyond its usual application, and approached in a certain way.",0
11173,the old man put his journal aside with obvious reluctance.,0
6629,"“annie, honey,” rachel began hesitantly, when they were alone, “i wanna tell you what i remember about your father and brother.”

the parlor was quiet, though she could hear annie’s soft breathing.",0
10782,"she had not tried to sing with him–she had just sat there and from time to time had put her hand on his knee with curious hesitation, almost as though it were dark and she were trying to make sure he was still there.",0
3550,"but aren’t we being a bit introspective?”

			“certainly,” said john.",0
1645,"for an instant he caught his own reflection in it and he paused for a time and with a kind of cold unbelief he examined his own face—the face of the shrewd and courageous fighter, of that wellnigh infallible expert in the anticipation of and controlling of man and his doings, overlaid now with the baffled helplessness of a child.",1
9908,"‘tapes like that could hurt people.’

monk seemed to settle in his chair; something about him, mary thought, seemed more tired than before.",0
7990,"… and, well, here i am, and i am possessed with no more breath for message.”

his arms dropped to his sides, coming down from the animated, jerky, and sometimes strangely graceful gestures.",0
2564,"god, who would ever believe it?",1
12241,". . ”

“christ, he’ll kill her,” bill muttered.",0
7029,so this would almost certainly be asher’s last morning in this quiet kitchen.,0
7117,"this is just something new to me, and it’s going to take some time to get used to it.”

“i just want you to be happy.”

she rummaged through her purse, said quietly, “i’ll be happy when all this is over and we can go home.” catherine raised her head, her eyes hard, her chin set and determined.",0
3612,"they’ll name scott as their nominee, i’m sure.",0
11870,"why, for god's sake?""",0
3611,the few conversations she had had with her daughter over the past months had convinced her both were untrue.,0
6194,and the future will hold new pleasures and consolations again—just wait and see.,0
2991,she was too ashamed of her old prejudices and suspicions to refuse.,1
11158,"the great seaport founded by the greeks centuries before had heard not one word about the great battle fought four days earlier; cotta found the city—so sleek and greek, so white and bright — in a fever of apprehension at the coming of the germans.",0
1541,"she heard the sound of splashing and she stood up, uncertain which way to run.",1
10924,"father, as usual, was sleeping soundly—dreaming well, no doubt; dreaming on and on.",0
11241,"because ... because, i do not know, i live among people the world tells me are kind, pious, christian people.",0
6089,"“give me your hands.” susan planted herself in front of the car door and held hers out, a determined glint in her eyes.",0
7595,"he wanted, with god, to be free from the bondage of the ordinary and the finite.",0
7838,"for some reason, it felt as if it were too late to see los angeles now.",0
3749,"he is dead; i am certain of that!""",0
2259,"""he said he'd give me a signal if the guy came in, but he's not very sure he'd know him again.""",1
9608,"lucas sat in the night, staring at his patch of wall, and the sickly smell of stephanie’s funeral flowers came back, the quiet dampness of the private chapel, the drone of the minister, .",0
10831,and no doubt it will be exploited.,0
11222,a control was a bit like a priest must be to a catholic a man who received one’s confession whatever it might be without emotion.,0
6630,"“and if thine eye offends thee—”

“what?” faith said coolly.",0
8543,"""it prevents friction except where it's wanted,"" she assured me with a doe-eyed smile.",0
5730,she thought of the rich people who could afford to purchase such treasure.,0
4446,"i am, as you have doubtless noted, a cautious, careful man.",0
6660,"instructions posted on the door said, “pull blinds securely after dark.”

even that reminder that it was wartime seemed unreal in this charming place, niki thought.",0
5168,did you have faith in it?,0
7230,your blood pressure drops when you’re upright.,0
7729,"when she told me, as the moonlight arrived, that everyone had a row of vegetables on my grandfather’s land, and would continue to have one even after i named tia mafalda’s successor, i asked then why in god’s name were passions running so high.",0
12298,"the racketeer?”

“they kidnapped her.”

“god almighty, why?”

“they want me to bring down the clipper.”

“what for?”

eddie wiped his face with his sleeve and brought himself under control.",0
11140,they spun slowly and hesitantly before settling on the pavement like fluffy gray dust.,0
177,"“i might too.”

“why should you two be different?”

“because marotta’s a wise old humanist – and because i’m due to die of a carcinoma in twelve months.”

aurelio, bishop of valenta, leaned back in his chair and studied the pale, drawn face of his visitor.",1
1306,i doubted if it would do any good.,1
2882,"“i don’t know if brad will go, but i doubt it.” he hated funerals, and she knew that, unlike trygve, he was very vocal about blaming phillip for the accident.",1
8188,and certainly the worst suicide he had ever attended.,0
3044,"but, while it all happened, you forced the cost of nuclear plants so high, and made the outcome of any nuclear proposal so uncertain, that most utilities simply can't commit themselves anymore.",1
7301,"clareese told the congregation how she knelt on the cold tiled floor of university hospital’s corridor, right then and there, arms outstretched to glory.",0
121,"convinced of both mortal and spiritual death, he was 
never without the deepest and most terrible anger against god.",1
10157,they’re working today even though it’s sunday.,0
3569,"i had so far limited myself to daily inclusion in her focus, to give freest possible play to that uniqueness and individuality which was nearly always hers, and to sustain and feed that fascination which was certainly always mine.",0
11116,"maisie looked surprised, but after a moment's hesitation she took a seat.",0
1889,"a mormon spurned is a saint blasphemed, and trouble is almost sure to follow.",1
4284,"with a firm voice and eloquent reasoning, he convinced the elders that he, and not itopatin, was the only logical choice to become the powhatan.",0
6991,"yordanus meanwhile undertook a lengthy and pointless story for wazim's amusement - all to do with some poor farmers in the hills near paleapaphos who recently unearthed a treasure trove buried in a field they were ploughing; the find apparently consisted of several gold bands and an onyx chalice which they assumed was roman, but which, upon examination by the-bishop of paphos, turned out to be greek.",0
7502,i thanked god my mind had failed to provide.,0
2286,"“what you’ve been trying to sell me is that two intelligent grown men—well educated, well traveled, a couple of real been-arounds—let themselves get taken by a three-peso buy-and-sell hustler.” he gave his head two quick skeptical shakes.",1
6982,“it sure was nice of mr. wheatman to trade us back on the bmw.” he looked around.,0
7882,though i had to fling testament at him for an hour to get it!,0
1127,"loving absolutely seeps from you, like a spring that bubbles up in a meadow.”

“maybe you can convince me of that, but i doubt it.",1
8728,"our discussions of problems have always been in a soundproofed room, secure, no unwanted interruptions.",0
8677,"i saw the possibility, sure, i saw it there, that you’d get rid of me, but somehow i thought: ‘brian?",0
5718,"she said, “can i make some popcorn?”

i said, “sure.”

she said, “will you help me?” she knew one of the great family truths, that aunts always help, while moms always think it would be good for you if you did it yourself.",0
1194,it is without a doubt the most devastating indictment i have ever read of the kind of christianity that turns so many people away from christ.,1
4052,"“be assured, lady, that we are linked in life as well as in death.",0
12208,"i mean african men scare me because i’ve heard how like if you kiss them once and do the nasty besides they want to marry you and then expect you to stay in the kitchen and cook and clean and to be a passive obedient child like all those japanese and chinese and muslim women and they want you to have baby after baby (except for in china of course) but a lot of the women in africa don’t even have a clitoris thanks to the men who are the ones who get to enjoy sex with as many women as they can squeeze in and i’ll be glad when these women get hip and just say no you are not cutting off my daughter’s clitoris and if you touch her i’ll cut your penis off how about that for a change of pace or they should go get their bachelor’s and master’s and get a job—no, a career—and have a nanny and a housekeeper to clean the house and then they should rip off all those garments and those hot-ass veils and just let their hair down because what does all this really have to do with religion when you think about it?",0
10916,there was no doubt what should be done.,0
1955,"it’s very hard to accept the recommendations of someone you are beginning to have doubts about, jane clausen thought.",1
10706,"although nim failed to recognize the specific scene, he had no doubt where the second photo was taken.",0
5993,"and they said, yeah, yeah, sure they would.",0
4100,"at white’s suggestion, through the night the men sang familiar english songs to reassure the inhabitants that they were friendly, but no one answered.",0
727,"brad even smiled, even though he wasn’t sure why.",1
6263,"“risk,” she said, toying with the paperweight on his desk, “has a certain adrenaline, after all.”

			 				their lawyer would begin the title search immediately, and a full topo would be done by a surveyor from holding.",0
1532,he possessed nothing to assure himself that he had not invented its fury.,1
300,"she could even, perhaps someday, gain a toehold in my own fortress of affections—this, if i were honest with myself, i knew her to be already in the process of doing—but she could never begin to lift me from the chasm of faithlessness into which my grandfather had thrown me.",1
3409,and you are certain to stay that way in such a bloodless hunt.,0
10910,part of the lock was hanging loose where some force-undoubtedly a violent blow-had splintered it.,0
7338,"and lord, if it be thy will, that this sorrow must come upon my husband, then i most humbly beseech thee in thy mercy that through this tribulation thou openest my husband’s heart, and awake his dear soul, that he may find comfort in thee that the world cannot give, and see thee more clearly, and come to thee.",0
4989,"“there is certainly no point in going home now, to face an ugly concierge and then go to sleep in that room all by yourself and then wake up later, with a terrible stomach and a sour mouth, wanting to commit suicide.",0
5389,"but that many of these young victims were polish is another measure of the nazis’ frequent and cynical expediency in racial matters, since although poles were regarded as subhuman, and along with other slavic peoples, worthy successors to the jews of the policy of extermination, they did in many cases satisfy certain crude physical requirements—familiar enough in facial feature to resemble those of nordic blood and often of a luminiferous blondness that pleased the nazi aesthetic sense almost more than anything else.",0
8396,certainly it had not belonged to soft and easy john royal.,0
1465,"she doubted if she would ever go again to the library on the customary afternoons, for example.",1
6570,i thought we had money problems and that dave couldn’t deal with the pressure anymore.,0
2579,"and that, corrupted in your innermost spirit by the practices learned among the foul sect, you are guilty of the disorders against god and man perpetrated in this abbey, for reasons that still elude me but which need not even be totally clarified, once it has been luminously demonstrated (as we are doing) that the heresy of those who preached and preach poverty, against the teachings of the lord pope and his bulls, can only lead to criminal acts.",1
258,"it had been hard enough to convince someone to let him off a couple of hours, especially since he wasn’t sure himself why he felt the need to attend the funeral of a stranger.",1
5239,"st. paul was st. paul, to be sure, but charlie's birthday was charlie's birthday, and he was a jealous guardian of his own.",0
10908,"handsome women stood back of the intent card players, no doubt giving signals to their partners.",0
6886,"in my dream i had waited for her confidently, as i had all those years ago when she left us in the porch.",0
6579,"“bryan, have you ever said these things to your father—and grandfather?”

“sure.",0
3196,"normally, whatever pressures, worries and-more recently -doubts assailed the young car designer, he remained cheerful and good-natured.",1
7323,"let’s hope if he was he really loved being, god bless him always.",0
3744,"words surely have meanings, she thought, and there is my trouble.",0
2383,"but somebody—i’m not sure if it was webster—said they were wondering where you were in paris.” jeff added, “i think they’ve checked the paris hotels.”

“just now,” tom said, “you don’t know where i am, naturally, and you must say that derwatt seemed depressed.",1
2531,"i awoke once, some hours later, stiff and uncertain of my surroundings.",1
8100,the air was undoubtedly polluted; wasn’t everything?,0
4356,"“and with his bodyguard who’s built like a semi-truck.”

“it certainly seemed to improve our service.",0
6284,faithful repetition!,0
4080,"first we’ll take those tin-horn gamblers, then the ranch hands, and then the whores.”

if we did all that we sure as hell would clean out the town as we knew it.",0
4558,"this was the night that i discovered chaos, or perhaps it was the night that chaos discovered me; but it certainly began the most dreadful time of my life, a time i am astounded to have survived.",0
1918,sometimes he wasn’t even too certain about those.,1
7807,"except for two visits to russia, where he worked for short periods, he moved from the walls of the ministry of education to the national preparatory school in mexico city, and from thence to the national agricultural academy in chapingo.",0
6844,"“you're sure?”

crocker nodded.",0
4536,"come on.”

				“i want to make sure they don’t escape.”

				“you don’t want to be sittin’ up here when the sioux show up.”

				tiny pointed to a narrow trail along the base of the cliff.",0
8875,at the stairs maddie turned without hesitation and started up.,0
391,"he waited, unsure of what to do next.",1
487,"those who lack the faith are to be recommended particularly to mary as a means to finding christ, the son of god.",1
1048,"the dubuni lord was caught in his own indecision; he must remain unmoved and endure the scorn, or redeem himself.",1
11400,but a miracle is a miracle—and miracle is god.,0
12143,"the process itself was another measure of lord's achievement because nowadays, by some, it was regarded as outdated.",0
2144,"sometimes i’m not too sure.”

cornell said, “you the master, mr. stam.",1
2521,". . and, like in places where there’s no proof of a crime having been committed, but some suspicion, maybe i can find out if that suspicion is worth turning over to the police before somebody gets all involved and hurt without it being necessary.”

				they continued to nod.",1
4803,"dave gets a roll of paper toweling to blot the blood that seeps from the side of my hand, and insists on walking me to the hospital, though i tell him i’m sure it’s not serious.",0
1788,"he said he didn’t know, he doubted it.",1
2972,"first because the human spirit is more easily freed from error; it is obvious, in fact, that certain properties cannot be attributed to divine things, and become uncertain if portrayed by noble corporeal things.",1
3493,"we’ve set no exact date yet, but without you and your kind husband in attendance, i’m sure i’ll never be able to boast about our very first real social function.",0
4687,"and there was not room, she knew it with a certainty that froze her mind.",0
1905,it is not as if i were certain that human beings can be controlled at any level of complexity.,1
595,"in her world of reality, there should not be any sick and false faiths that corrupted and, in their own way, misled and destroyed people.",1
3594,the money certainly didn’t go into my pocket—i had nothing to gain by this aqueduct—it was built for the public good.,0
862,"and with the unbelievable mind speed that comes to men in situations of sure and certain death connor instantly swung the aim of the grenade launcher, centering ...

clawed foreleg on the stone.",1
2462,"mattilon stared at the surete officer in disbelief. he … what?’

it was a particularly vicious assault, monsieur. a man’s head was rammed into a wall; there are extensive cranial injuries and the prognosis is not good.",1
3016,"but i doubt if the state’s attorney, any more than we reporters, thought predominantly of an effect on elections.",1
4603,"on the far side of the goat enclosure stood the manse, a tiny hovel every bit as informal as the chapel.",0
10435,"trevaym                         397

""good morning, mr. goddard.",0
8788,". . .”

“were there postmortems on the kids?”

“sure.",0
12212,"""but, we have two large oceans protecting and isolating us, and again, thank god.""",0
10550,"...”

“but on the question of arms concessions to the americans, surely,” said mrs. carpenter.",0
4036,“certainly you have a duty to do.,0
3593,he decided against it because he was sure that the british army was thinking very serious thoughts about the one-woman nation he pledged to protect.,0
2992,"i doubt it,"" said leamas.",1
2430,"“sure.”

heslip doubted he would be chasing verna rounds anymore.",1
5962,there are certain mystical connections to these things.,0
76,"i therefore could not understand, and still cannot, my hesitance at this point to direct our attention back to the agenda inside the open folder before me.",1
5507,"and you find that all along you had held and wound in your hand through the maze an unbreakable cord on which one by one, hardly knowing it, you had strung your life’s treasures; it was as if they had come of themselves, while you were seeking and choosing and picking up and tossing away again, down all sorts of bypaths and up strange stairs and into queer corners; and there they were, things old and new, the things you loved first and those you loved last, all together and yours, and no longer old or new, but outside of time and beyond the reach of change, even your own; for that part of your life they belong to was in some sense made by them; if they went, all that part of your life would be mutilated, unrecognizable.",0
9447,"the screaming ceased abruptly as the gunman slumped across the bench in a kneeling posture, as though praying in fire.",0
6773,"when she’d drilled her first shot and placed the seven into a pocket off the bank and left the cue ball six inches away from a certain second shot, she’d got a look of surprise from him, but he’d said nothing, simply turned his full attention to the game.",0
7131,"“would you like to see the baby?”

“sure.” he followed me like a timid schoolboy over to where grace lay sleeping.",0
881,"“my hair is beautiful.” she whispered the words out loud, more a question than a belief.",1
7841,"she was all lansing—an angel of cerulean blue eye, of cornsilk hair, of inborn certitudes.",0
8681,"“were you aware that just over the hill the road drops straight down at a forty-five-degree angle?”

“surely—” i began.",0
5538,"like a flower of granite with cruel leaves it grows, when it grows at all, as if from fragile seed cast upon uncertain ground.",0
7860,"north of the station there were a freight house and a coalyard and an inlet where the butcher and the baker and the man who ran the service station moored the dinghies, from which they fished on sundays, sunk now to the gunwales with the rain.",0
2761,he returned to his first thought: the nagging doubt.,1
11428,"he would be chosen by god,

and then dolcino and all his people (who at this point were already four thousand) would receive together the grace of the holy spirit, and it would renew the church until the end of the world.",0
5828,"“sure,” she whispered.",0
4643,". . is you.’

at that moment, the camerlengo could feel the fire of faith dim in his heart.",0
9062,"over a stinger or a harvey wallbanger he would lean in close and say, quietly, “sweetheart, why don’t we finish these and go to a motel?” or, depending on the girl, “sweetheart, you wouldn’t want to go somewhere and screw, would you?” responses to the direct approach ranged from, “wow, you don’t waste time, do you?” to “no, but i wouldn’t mind fooling around.” once in a while he even got a straight “sure.” very seldom a flat “no.” ross was successful because he was a good salesman and never afraid to ask for the order.",0
10927,keftiu was cordial also and showed me marked respect—no doubt recalling the stick with which i had so often tested the toughness of her skin.,0
7368,"this gives us very little room for the salvation of the faithful—a characteristic, i should perhaps add, of our denomination.",0
4971,"the script for the occasion came out of several sessions where members of the mother committee were encouraged to free associate on the subject of the british empire—with nelson stirring the pot, interpolating considerably more than he should have, i’m sure, transcribing, and then editing the whole.",0
10433,"i’m beginning to think you’re not a very nice girl, after all.”

“to hell with what you think!",0
6127,"""i need instruction, faith.",0
3330,i was confident that adequate rest and the passage of time would restore his courage.,0
2008,though why he should want an advantage over grace seaingham he wasn’t sure.,1
1457,i mean it there's quite a few people who doubt me at first.,1
8935,"“oh, surely,” he apologized.",0
12006,"gilbert took perhaps a minute to bring a happy far-off shout from church, ""water!",0
3343,"i’ll have to ask mr. abernathy again.”

“you be sure and do that,” catherine said.",0
9633,"besides the first mennonite church on north elm street, there are the methodist and presbyterian churches, and even a tiny little congregation of devout worshippers out toward the turnpike who call themselves the first and only true church of the one and only living god of the tabernacle of supreme holiness and healing and keeper of the consecrated righteousness of the eternal flame of jehovah.",0
7434,"“who are you interested in?” he said, “saints, angels, christs or what?”

“god,” parker said.",0
11065,anne felt a lurch of apprehension until lyon laughed.,0
728,"mcrae was pulling back, losing faith in him.",1
4237,"she wasn't intimidated by any of it, soloman could see clearly, and her grim frown revealed that she'd caught a measure of his combat heat.",0
926,"today, i’m not so sure.” he looked up at her with a half-smile.",1
4311,"the right of succession goes to you.”



“true enough, but they appeal to a dusty old law, insisting upon proof

of the king’s death beyond reasonable doubt.",0
2974,he had a moment of doubt.,1
5081,"sure enough, about ten o’clock this fat fellow comes along with a wheelbarrow.",0
8593,she certainly doesn’t need you.” he smiled just enough to show his prominent front teeth.,0
7357,"that i can run my fingernail through moss above old peter stuyvesant, and think all sorts of grave and holy thoughts about the past?",0
8390,"after ramses had finally convinced his father he was capable of standing, emerson ran after the riders, cursing and demanding that they come back and fight like men.",0
5854,"why had we been excluded from these simple pleasures, this lighthearted gathering, the fading laughter and voices and slammed doors of which seemed to gleam in the darkness as they were withdrawn from my possession?",0
3583,"i’m certain we’ll be delayed, but as soon as we see john chivington, we’ll be freed and ready to leave for las vegas.”

“i hope you’re right,” she murmured into his shoulder.",0
12391,"""unfortunately, too goddam true,"" a travel-weary secretary of state snapped at washington reporters in an undiplomatic, unguarded moment.",0
4941,"his daughter wrote to him faithfully every fortnight, and harry would read her letters aloud to his nephew as soon as they arrived.",0
2299,"he’d like to talk to you.”

“what policeman?”

“that lieutenant from the state police.”

an image circulated in her mind, but she was not sure it was the right one.",1
7718,"they voted for the revelation; it had made their hearts faint, and they would assert it again.",0
4175,"fallon made sure that wart and edith were well-equipped to handle the hospital while he and brody were away, then they loaded the canoe and turned it into the james river.",0
12235,angela put her coffee cup down and grabbed david by the arm.,0
2754,"he sang a few bars, and for some reason timothy's bright skeptical eyes became a little dim.",1
4313,"sure enough, i come around this corner and there they are, both still running, forty feet between them.",0
8257,"barry loves to start fights in bars.”

“he does?”

“yes, but only when he’s sure somebody’ll stop it.",0
8567,"kept it simple, made sure it was right.”

“chicken pot pie?” aprile asked, laughing.",0
9108,donaldson—drasco—whatever he called himself was so confident.,0
2429,"you scared me.”

“you thought i’d actually clip you for them?”

“i wasn’t sure, but that didn’t really worry me.",1
4583,"“without any prodding, hunter said, ‘he’s lying, miss williams.’ well, i thought hunter had seen the theft, so i looked in tommy’s pockets and sure enough, i found a handful of cookie crumbs.",0
1619,"“well i don’t know for certain,” he said, “they’re supposed to change money or somethin‘, but that ain’t no cause to persecute ’em.",1
8303,"“but surely your japanese agents did not know they were going to be… what is your term for it?”

“maximally demoted?",0
1513,my stunned and disbelieving eyes noted that on that occasion she was wearing dark stockings and not leotards.,1
10454,"who paid for the gas, the electricity, for heaven’s sake?",0
8614,"why that is, i don’t know, but it certainly is good news.”

annabel looked around the table and noted that sam tankloff wasn’t present.",0
10146,"god only knows what we’re going to do with all of them.”

“same thing we’re doin’ now,” lynch said.",0
4503,"“so they have a staff of forty-plus at hope house, i’m sure they can come up with some kind of curtailment of her behavior.”

			 				“some kind of what?”

			 				he didn’t answer.",0
7514,"there was grass, but it was cropped down and eaten away because they said a caravan of mormons was up ahead, and they wouldn’t only consume the blades but generally took the roots along with them, and felt sorrowful if they had to leave the soil.",0
1416,"“if she stays well, i’m thinking of giving a little luncheon for her next week; i hope you’ll be able to come.”

“i’m not sure,” vinnie says.",1
11685,at the end he told the monks to hurry to compline.,0
1408,"“i won’t show the pictures.”

“all right,” she said, not sure.",1
10167,"you want to waste the taxpayers’ money with all that?”

“fuck the goddam taxpayers, i ain’t letting nobody—” his voice rose in a yelp as krug reached in swiftly, grabbing a handful of beard.",0
6398,"""-surely, never before, in the whole history of
mankind, had any woman conceived and carried a child whose fate she
knew from the first.",0
3952,"“see you in the funny papers.”

if there was anything j.c. loved, it was going around town telling half a story to make sure somebody bought his newspaper.",0
588,"if you don’t believe in the devil, then you can’t hate your enemy and that may be one of the most sinister things about belfast today.’

in his author’s note to black robe, brian moore mentioned a piece in graham greene’s collected essays about francis parkman who published his work the jesuits in north america in the seventeenth century in 1867. moore, who, like greene, was fascinated by unbelief, took a great interest in a french seventeenth century jesuit mentioned by greene who, although he detested native life in north america, vowed that he would live that life until he died.",1
820,his eyes glinted with musing displeasure and suspicion as he handed it to tancred.,1
5310,"—like a penis, better still the ornaments in those brothels in pompeii where they had wings but i wouldn’t worry about oscar, i’m sure lily’s got a really flourishing .",0
6413,then i experienced a terrible agony of pleasure.,0
1648,"when in doubt, move slowly.",1
10725,no doubt you have already seen the colonnaded hall of aton beside my palace here.,0
84,"perhaps your fatigue will pass, and these doubts with it.”

“they are not doubts, alas—they are certainties.",1
12166,"""of course,"" angela said.",0
43,"“i’m not sure,” he replied slowly.",1
11608,"they stared speechlessly at the priest and robert, and jenny took the shawl from her head and aimlessly shook it, and the men shook water from their hands and bare heads.",0
11675,sit around all these years and pray for your return?,0
7200,"the liaison for england's foreign office extended his hand and kertzman took it, aware of a steady pressure, soft on the surface, but distinctly solid beneath the measured and careful contact.",0
12383,"one for us,"" his wife explained patiently, ""then one each for the children, and after they're born we'll want live-in help, so that's one more.”

the fifth bedroom, she added, would be for guests.”my mother will be coming to us occasionally, and maybe yours.”

celia also envisaged ""a downstairs study-den which the two of us can share, and be together when we bring work home.”

though he had no intention of agreeing to such a wildly impractical idea, andrew laughed.”you certainly look ahead.”

""what neither of us will want,"" celia argued, ""is the interruption and nuisance of changing homes every few years just because we need more space and didn't plan for it.”

she looked around her, surveying the cobwebbed, dirt-encrusted lower floor of the house through which they had walked on a sunday afternoon in january, with pale sunshine glinting through grimy windows.”this place needs scouring, painting, organizing, but it can be beautiful-tbe kind of home we won't want to leave unless we have to.”

""i'm leaving right now,"" andrew said, ""because what this place needs most is a bulldozer.”

he added, with rare impatience, ""you've been right about a lot of things, but not this time.”

celia seemed undeterred.",0
7783,"bet knesset house of assembly; the hebrew term for synagogue

bimah the synagogue dais

brocha a blessing

challah; plural, challot braided loaves of bread eaten on the sabbath

daven to pray out loud or in an undertone

frum pious or devout, said of a ritually observant jew

gabbai the congregant member who assigns honors such as aliyot and the leading of different parts of the service

gan a preschool; short for gan yeladim, the hebrew translation of kindergarten

grina cusina the “greenhorn cousin”; a phrase given currency by a popular yiddish song of that title

haggadah the book used at the passover seder table; it narrates the exodus from egypt and embodies the prescribed ritual for commemorating the flight and redemption

haku lei a special woven lei worn on the head; the maker weaves in tiny orchids, rosebuds, and ferns, for example, binding the stems together with raffia into a circlet

halakhah; halakhic jewish law as elaborated in the talmud and legal codes founded ultimately on biblical law

hana short for hana okolele, a children’s taunt; in hawaiian hana means “work”; okolele is the diminutive of okole, which means tuchas.",0
9014,"he was the follower, and the idea of losing his leader terrified him.",0
3185,she decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.,1
6840,"“please—come into the light where i can see you.”

hesitantly, anika gave him her hand.",0
3893,how will we distinguish between the essentials of faith and the changeable traditions in which it is conveyed?,0
7112,“will the fräulein allow me the pleasure of introducing myself?,0
11623,"then the abbot gave a signal, and the precentor intoned, “tu autem domine miserere nobis.”

the abbot replied, “adiutorium nostrum in nomine domnni”; and all continued, in chorus, with

“qui fecit coelum et terram.” then the chanting of the psalms began: “when i call thee answer me o god of my justice”; “i shall thank thee lord with all my heart”; “come bless the lord, all ye servants of the lord.” we had not sat in the stalls, but had withdrawn into the main nave.",0
12272,"life, including elizabeth waterman, and god alone knew how many others.",0
10721,"i must get her away from her eminent father, who is doubtless the soul of nobility and therefore not to be trusted.""",0
9881,"“there, there’s an arrow.”

“jesus,” he said, “they painted that when mckinley was president.",0
6151,"jah, she was perty sure this night would be most exciting.",0
2563,"the city editor was a vintage type, lean, stringy and sixtyish—the type who never smiled on the job, or paid compliments, or believed in god or leisure time or press releases.",1
8253,"it produces a very small, but very intense fireball, and it’s built with a sweet little delay switch that usually ensures the victim is either looking into the envelope, or actually holding the bomb in his hand when it goes off.",0
3512,"“he gambles in port allen and sun rise.”

“be sure you take him to hebert, not to pichot plantation,” derby said.",0
893,"“we will never know for sure what ‘appened in that church.”

calhoun reluctantly agreed and led his men away, leaving the blackened church behind.",1
5859,"sitting up there in absolute silence, it projected pressure through the walls.",0
6022,"standing side by side before the microphone, brows creased in concentration, expressions sincere, the brothers began to sing that romantic bolero “beautiful maría of my soul.” a song about love so far away it hurts; a song about lost pleasures, a song about youth, a song about love so elusive a man can never know where he stands; a song about wanting a woman so much death does not frighten you, a song about wanting that woman even when she has abandoned you.",0
11751,"tita always thanked god that her mother only bathed once a week, because otherwise her life would be a real cross to bear.",0
1914,"maybe,” he replied in a dead, unconvinced voice, frowning at the pigeons that had begun to gather.",1
7994,"i have an american boyfriend,” while the great goodman performances of the thirties transformed into the pavilion over the lareine avenue beach the room reeking of disinfectant that he had rented for six bucks in the name of goodman’s maniac trumpeter on “we three and the angels sing,” ziggy elman.",0
4275,tell them i’ll make sure he never returns to the mainland.,0
10976,no doubt it would be repossessed.,0
6187,"""they're trying to secure the area for their base, i guess.""",0
11079,"so everyone jumps to obey without questioning it, because they know me, and they trust me.",0
9254,"every morning since being assigned to duty on the island, it was mayes’s responsibility to cross to the opposite end of the causeway and unlock a padlock that secured a metal gate through which visitors would pass.",0
4087,"come on, whatever it is can certainly wait until morning.”

“wrong.",0
7562,"miss lizzie stark let her be in charge of raising money for the poor country people at christmas that year, and like that.",0
1231,"“it makes it easier.”

“i’m not sure that’s what jessica wants,” gordon said.",1
10480,"“i just want to make sure we’ve got the odds on our side.”

bugala laughed and stood up.",0
3201,"he was so sure you would find me that he left a message for you.""",0
4245,muriel certainly hadn’t had a good word to say about it.,0
7027,i’m pretty sure she was working at the bank when boyd was there.,0
8786,". .""

i pressed my fingertips to my temples, elbows akimbo—partly to soothe the pressure of my throbbing temples, but also to mimic a mystic's theatrical posing. """,0
7677,"i want to take it to my home!”

“oh, lord, here we go.” the mother gripped the child's arm with authority.",0
5989,"however, after a few aimless days sightseeing they leave, heading for the mountains or the museums and other pleasures that munich can provide.",0
12050,"without speaking, lord reached into his jacket for the envelope containing the money and handed it to redmond.",0
8404,"but we’d been playing for over a half hour now, and he hadn’t seen one from me, and he had undoubtedly decided i couldn’t do it at all.",0
5743,"he derived great pleasure from looking at it and would hold court from its front seat, playing its radio and chatting quietly with his friends until he decided to take someone for a ride up to the george washington bridge and back.",0
4172,"i had noticed that he was shaven and wore a clean, white shirt and tie—a tie which surely belonged to jacques.",0
6907,"a dreamy light played about his face, and his expression riveted me in its glow, for it was an inscrutable mixture of alertness and dreamy pleasure.",0
9922,"what i did with inspector monk, in my confusion and shock, was follow the habit of years.’

‘lying, you mean.’

mary flushed, faltered for a moment; paget could feel her trapped awareness that caroline masters knew of her perjury.",0
2215,"that was the last straw.”

“do you love doris?”

“she don’t believe i do.”

“maybe you should make sure she understands how you feel,” i said.",1
234,what if the prophet is wrong about which sins require such measures?,1
336,"dorothy read the letter uncertainly then called upstairs: “james, darling, i have received the most curious letter!",1
5348,"in these later poems, without exception tragic, a treasure of distilled tragic experience, the mysterious earthly rapture is mingled with a strain of pure, evangelical christianity, raised to the apocalyptic vision.",0
2658,""" martin shook his head.”i was beginning to lose faith too.”



-i do not believe that,"" sastri said.”like the gentleman you are, you are attempting to make your humbled colleagues feel better.”

""either way,"" martin said, delighted himself, ""i think we have something worth reporting to america.”



this report reached felding-roth in new jersey at the time when preparations for launching montayne were in high gear, and shortly before celia's doubts about the wisdom of proceeding with that drug, yet even while the report was being reviewed in new jersey, at harlow a new problem was having to be faced.",1
6502,"“he sure couldn’t fly any crazier than when his foot’s not busted.”

			 				“toast!” said velma, sliding two orders onto the table.",0
4667,ask arthur if his faith has stolen his manhood.,0
6751,"affectionate.”

she didn’t know what else to say but “thank you.”

hesitantly touching her hair, he told her, “and i hope you have come to see me as the father you never had.”

geli’s flesh tingled as she felt his fingertips graze her skull and then grip a sun-blond hank of hair inside his fist.",0
8718,"“just one thing,” i added hesitantly, and saw the anxiety come back to his corpulent face.",0
4691,"it was sure to be someone’s mother saying that ruby gave the son a bloody lip, or his teacher calling to say she was going to have to fail him for the fifth time.",0
10060,"“i’ll see you out….”

“pleasure meeting you, sir,” i told christie.",0
3805,"sure you don’t want more wine?”

“quite sure.”

“would you like to meet anybody?",0
464,"how can that have changed?”

“you’re still not convinced of the danger, are you?”

“your people are made up of families—children and couples and old folks—just as we are.",1
8546,"but i sure as hell hope that one of our big customers isn’t going to turn out to be jack the ripper.”

thatcher could not dismiss the possibility out of hand.",0
8922,‘do you find some pleasure in tormenting me?,0
10557,"'leaving us two old fogies here in paris,' he commented; and charles did not like the phrase, for he was sure palan was nearer sixty than fifty.",0
1130,she wasn’t even sure which one to try.,1
7974,"do all that after i’m gone.” she slipped from the high seat, leaned against it slightly, glanced at her face in her round mirror, rubbed rouge on her lips and decided that she was past praying for.",0
3402,"harley, be sure and get with me before you leave.",0
12182,"“cleanse your instruments, lord,” said kaptah gravely.",0
6936,how certain is our destiny?,0
6011,"she felt her illness coming back to her, unsullied again, and she sensed she had the final closure back, contained in her body, and she had no need for talk, explanations, or plans.",0
5887,"***



from the schopf, where she is carding wool with measured, twisting swipes of the combs, barbara watches klaus sprint away down the mountainside.",0
3946,"is that what you have secretly hoped for all of these years while professing chastity for the sake of your faith?”

it was claudius, not romana, who struck me.",0
2406,she was an automaton putting in her time; one could dictate the book of genesis and val doubted the woman would know what she was typing.,1
8899,"“yes.”

“go ahead, please.”

a second voice came on, male, elderly, hesitant.",0
8787,"with dignity, she pulled at its silvery strings to open its jaws and let it gulp proffered treasure.",0
10779,"no doubt she's breaking her neck""—he shivered—""to leave me.""",0
176,"she had trouble understanding how people could doubt god’s existence: he was so clearly there, next to her, interwoven with her, a palpable pressure, as vital as the sensations in her skin, as dependable as her reflection in the mirror.",1
9410,"the detectives snickered at the circumstances of these limerick sheenies, who prayed in a dunghill.",0
2359,"did he suffer?”

“i doubt it.",1
11716,"for example, there were people who believed absolutely in religious visions and predictions, believed themselves to be saints and messiahs.",0
8882,“and i have no intention of amending my own records by adding information that you consider confidential.,0
1717,"“the meter is uncertain,” he said.",1
127,"“if i ever have a career, which i doubt”—rosemarie began to distribute the spicy meat dish that, at the risk of my life, i had earlier called irish stew—“it would be doing something, not just posing for a camera.”

“gourmet cook,” i suggested, shoveling the tasty meat into my mouth.",1
6100,"in the meantime, before death, one lived an orderly and reasonably disciplined life seasoned with some legitimate pleasures and joy in mere existence, and did as little harm as possible to others.—it was the heritage of man which survived, the heritage of an historical being, his influence on his present.",0
2405,"“i’m not sure i understand,” she said into my pause, and she didn’t sound as if she cared to understand either.",1
11407,let’s just say i won’t see a christmas after this one.,0
7296,"old plez says, according, he just leaned himself against the presbyterian church gate and waited a while.",0
10139,". .""

hackett said angrily to the maid, ""go away, for god's sake!",0
5351,"it occurs to me that compared to the reptilian sodom into which it later evolved, times square that summer offered scarcely more in the way of carnal corruption than some dull beige plaza in a christly town like omaha or salt lake city; nonetheless, it had its share of sleazy hustlers and garish freaks strutting through the rainbows and whirlpools of neon, even then, and it helped a little in the way of distracting me from my deep gloom to hear his whispered expletives—he could still utter “jeru-salem!” with the rustic openness of a character out of sherwood anderson—and to watch his gaze, following the iridescent rayon undulations of some chichi mulatto whore, reflect in quick sequence glassy incredulity and a certain ineluctable itch.",0
1562,"so it was that harold’s accident and its aftermath got in everywhere, into the solidest relationships, the firmest beliefs, the strongest loyalties, the most deeply held convictions you had about the people you had known most of your life.",1
7865,"but when it does, it shits and pisses without stopping like all the latrines in heaven have lost their bottoms.”

manna looked at lin, who too seemed surprised by his roommate’s language.",0
2591,"it was like a mire that flowed over the paths of our world, and with them mingled preachers in good faith, heretics in search of new victims, agitators of discord.",1
6485,"this fact was not lost upon the guests, who as soon as the display was over, crowded about their host with flattering and complimentary speeches which he received graciously, though with little pleasure.",0
12310,"norman, don't ever tell henny, and let's not do a thing about it, for heaven's sake, but i do believe i fell in love with you, a little bit.",0
2307,but he couldn't be sure- he didn't know.,1
2079,"despite his strong new york accent, which rural southerners distrust instinctively, he had won them over completely during four years of contact.",1
9440,"merry christmas, you whispering mad dog son of a bitch.",0
8106,the one in which she'd forgotten that this particular grandiose delusion would without doubt cost her her job while racking up astronomical credit card charges.,0
555,"“most likely it was the britannica, which is composed mostly by british scholars, with no understanding of american subjects and attitudes.” but he had lost all faith in this sale; this doughty would-be nun was using him merely as a whetstone to sharpen her prejudices on.",1
5585,surely they wouldn't!,0
4899,"if that happened to ivan in the engine room?”

“of course,” replied rosenberg, “if i were sure he had been hit and in accordance with the version i wrote down, he was then dead—where is the scar?",0
8812,"i think i was making conversation, trying to relieve you of your apprehension.”

“forget it.",0
12407,"but one fighter base had apparently not heard the warning; or hearing it, had not heeded it; or

had been given a secret command from somewhere deep inside the defense ministry,

countermanding the kremlin’s orders.",0
4494,he taught me that faith in yahweh is beyond the comprehension of our minds and our senses.,0
11542,"i deduced that he had encountered patarines and waldensians, and perhaps catharists, arnoldists, and umiliati, and that, roaming about the world, he had passed from one group to another, gradually assuming as a mission his vagrant state, and doing for the lord what he had done till then for his belly.",0
8930,"am i right or wrong?”

there was a long hesitation before moke’s voice said, “how’d you pick that out?”

“i’m right, huh?",0
11132,the officer questioning grace gave a hopeless shrug.,0
3449,"“does he have a little girl?”

“no, harry hasn’t married yet, so he doesn’t have a family.”

“will he like me?”

“i’m sure he will think you are positively charming,” deirdre said, helping her daughter into the jacket.",0
11157,"""if i should, albeit with the greatest reluctance--""

she divined, and interrupted in a low voice.",0
12040,"and roman absentee landlords owning enormous properties, producing little, putting nothing back into the country, parsimonious about employing local men and women.",0
795,"i’m not convinced any longer that this god-in-a-box theology is without error.”

		a voice boomed out from the back: “but you’re supposed to know the mind of god!",1
977,"i thought i’d stop by the depot this morning on my way to the society office, just to see if you’d be on this train.”

“you came to meet me?” disbelief and hope warred in his eyes, and for an instant flanna floundered beneath a wave of guilt.",1
1060,"fragile and uncertain at the beginning, jenny martin’s smiles always ended in an explosion of white light and laughter, as on the day when our tricycles collided in front of the baptist church and i met jenny for the first time, a little girl who was amused, not offended, by a show-off little boy trying to bang up her tricycle.",1
2925,"“i’m such a heathen, i’d probably scare all the angels away.”

“i doubt that.",1
6218,"marie criner did not offer to make room for donnie huff upon her hummock but merely plucked further at the lawn and cast her pickings into the air, leaving donnie huff to shift for himself and squat after a fashion alongside her from where he reached out and laid his hand between the knobby points of marie criner's shoulder blades which opal criner soundly approved of and suggested to delmon her grandbaby how tenderness between two people was surely sometimes a lovely thing.",0
3258,"clayton has been telling me about the studies and volunteered to bring me along to see the telescope.”

“jenny!” surprise and excitement in his voice assured jenny of her welcome.",0
1263,joshua didn’t want to arouse suspicion by arriving in a large caravan.,1
9452,candle stubs by the dozen oozed beneath gaudy chromoliths of catholic saints curling on the bricks like ancient promo posters.,0
5873,“you better keep those kids away if you want any car left.” after a leisurely meal and a short rest on the porch the mechanic took his satchel into adam’s bedroom.,0
4262,"we were getting close to main street now--the tall buildings, the stores, the
hotels: the gaston (gone now) and the peabody (they have moved it since) and the
gayoso, to which all us mccaslins-edmondses-priests devoted our allegiance as to a
family shrine because our remote uncle and cousin, theophilus mccaslin, cousin ike's
father, had been a member of the party of horsemen which legend said (that is, legend to
some people maybe.",0
8356,"in all probability—or rather, in all assuredness—this archimedes was planning a three-day drunk with his inamorata, and in a way the manager envied him.",0
798,“i always had my doubts that the common believer would ever accept the ‘mature faith’ being urged by our christian left.,1
4634,"in essence, they’ll have to ask, ‘o, emperor, may we please dishonor you by removing trophies inscribed in your honor?’” pilate paused, then continued, “i repeat: these are harmless, secular mementos, which have nothing to do with religion, and they’re hanging in roman territory, in a roman praetorium, and away from any possible glimpse by the public.",0
4812,"she was sweet and valiant, faithful, wise and self-forgetful.",0
2234,"now, can you and i talk?”

once again, she glanced uncertainly back and forth between the other man and me.",1
9601,"""like pick her up, grab her hypodermic, sit her down in a corner until the skinful of dope she's carrying now evaporates, and in six or eight hours she'll tell you her sins back to her fifth birthday.""",0
10662,"something was seriously wrong, there was no doubt about it.",0
3755,"the certainty was like a
rock.",0
5233,"at times the red tide got to them, but enough of the seedlings always lived through so that a new crop was insured.",0
4949,"she opened her eyes again, determined to look squarely at the fantasy since she could not escape it.",0
635,"aletta stared at him, not believing.",1
12045,"the minister of the crown complained of a lack of potential leaders among the younger men in government, the motor manufacturer said coventry could not seriously compete in world markets with detroit, the soldier said the russians would reach the atlantic in three weeks if they set their army moving, and the historian offered comfort in the reminder that both greece and rome were much more powerful in the inheritance they left to succeeding ages than ever in their own actual heyday.",0
6213,"finally matilda spoke, and for moments jenny could only compare the strong, confident woman she knew with this trembling, weak creature who was clinging to the tree beside her.",0
6563,"you can have it again.”

faith looked away.",0
11981,"not the electric go-go pace of 1974. the teeth could have been done anywhere: kingston, jamaica, or pass christian, mississippi; addis ababa or warsaw.",0
9852,"he was amazed at how weak he felt—helpless, yet strangely peaceful, sprawled there in the street.",0
967,"i’m not sure he’s so understanding.”

“oh, i don’t know.",1
6477,"although he was tall and lanky and strong from his years aboard ship, he was rather homely with that long face, his only really fine physical attributes being nice hazel eyes with a certain intensity about them and rich, brown hair.",0
2691,"aaron neuberger, who was apple-cheeked, stocky and totally bald, had sometimes regarded nim with thinly veiled suspicion.",1
11694,"“o god,

whose most dear son did take little children into his arms and

bless them; give us grace, we beseech thee, to entrust the soul of

this child to thy never-failing care and love, and bring us all to the

heavenly kingdom; through the same thy son, jesus christ, our

lord.",0
7605,"he lived to be ninety, dying only last year, an eccentric, despotic, devout old man who, like so many of the old-time pastors, seemed to have won from his people something that was not love, exactly, but a peculiar kind of exasperated idolatry...

those famous sunday sermons!",0
7046,"what a sweet treasure she was, though.",0
5856,"she had concealed the bottle within an old clock (the clock did not run, it stood dusty on a high shelf, it was a good place to hide her thimble or any other treasure which might be coveted by zoral).",0
3874,they had called at a number of rectories on business that could have been handled over the phone but wasn’t because joe enjoyed being seen with his curate—a pleasure he’d had to deny himself until he learned his curate’s name.,0
9238,"hurrying towards the door to the hall, he heard outside certain stately footsteps which could belong only to one person.",0
6589,"“i think i’m the only one who has a black dress that fits.”

“alright carrie, why don’t you go and get it, and we’ll make sure it’s pressed and ready for tomorrow.”

“i have one of mama’s.”

carrie stopped on her way out of the room.",0
10904,he will have a drink--no doubt about that; he's an alcoholic.,0
11646,they would find the fifteen thousand dollars i had hidden in the house and take me away to jail.they would offer to let me spend christmas with my wife and kids if i confessed.,0
8569,"wayne gossett, thirty years old, energetic, was devoted to the principle that life is full of tragedy, which he intended to get on film for the world to see.",0
11276,"“angelus domini, child of god,” replied the unseen figure behind the black latticework.",0
1221,"their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions—affection, despair, and hope.",1
10716,"what the hospital, in the persons of leonard sweeting and his boss fergus mcnair, would undoubtedly like was for everything to be hushed up, and for young kurt wyrazik, the innocent victim, to be cremated and forgotten.",0
1281,yet of course i could not be sure.,1
3067,doubt fled.,1
6776,"roger stumbled over the gravel’s unsure footing and landed hard on his backside, his face contorted with pain.",0
11756,"“why, then, do they not stone the

dominicans, who preach precisely against this?”

“dominicans?",0
5048,"“i don’t doubt that it took place, but it was a freak, an aberration.",0
441,"the messiah—if he was the messiah—had been good to judas, but this was not a strong factor in the thinking of a man who had been brought up in a family of nonbelievers.",1
10922,"the ingenuous transposition of syllables removed any lingering doubt as to the accuracy of the information; and removed, after the first momentary shock, the implications of the married tide.",0
5839,"yes, he had read it and there was one accomplishment at least he could recall with pleasure.",0
2728,“i still doubt like hell that it will work.,1
7353,"for the past two years, ever since she came to town after being one among the first graduating class from lane college in jackson, tennessee, sister carrie white had been teaching out under the bush arbors, and this use of the church was a great occasion.",0
752,"probably if i assured creed that animals are immortal, i was going to be on shaky ground.",1
2955,"will you get him in to see the chairman and the others.”

""i don't know.”

his voice betrayed doubts.",1
4435,"there weren’t any, but i was determined to find her.",0
7547,the church had once been painted brown.,0
1917,"“no, i’m going to the bridge.”

the day wasn’t going her way, though she wasn’t sure what her way would be.",1
12282,"after nikki's respiratory treatment, angela listened carefully to her chest.",0
9540,like the two sides of the church choir singing at each other during the holy week services at st nicholas church down the road from his granddaddy’s tobacco farm.,0
11747,he's been buried in the monastery burial grounds.,0
10808,"there were in any case too many names— pseudonyms, noms de guerre, nicknames—and he had little doubt some of them were false.",0
1923,"i doubt if jesus, himself so patient on the cross, also born in a manger, would expect me to live like a nabob and sleep amidst silks and downs.”

then, seeing an untidy pile in the corner, he said, “what’s that yonder, doctor?”

my father looked shamefaced, and i was astonished to hear him tell the unvarnished truth for a change, without ornating it up any.",1
5082,but we surely are killing off a lot of damn yankees here.,0
8315,"i was sure i wouldn’t be able to get through that, and i rehearsed it over and over when i was running this morning.”

				as constance and charlie ate ham and eggs and biscuits, constance glanced over the list of items the police had taken for laboratory examination.",0
5276,"he had been slow to mature, and he had lost ground, and so he hadn't been able to get rid of his energy and he was convinced that this energy itself had done him the greatest harm.",0
6737,"want to hunt some with me?”

“sure.",0
751,"“but sister joaquina is so—so unsure of herself that it helps her to think that when you are gentle with me and a little harsh with her it is because i am of your blood and she is not.”

“yes.",1
2931,"(he could not remember the name of the horse now, and he was doubtful if he had known it then.",1
3871,"of course since mr. walter ramseur could not in the wake of his recent retirement and newfound aimlessness much tell anymore where one silly episode left off and another one took up, he

assured the reverend mr. worrell that the facts of the matter were growing for him rather murky already though, for the sake of clarity, he felt obliged to inquire if did the reverend mean for him to put from his mind entirely the prayerful squat and the stringy dollop of effluvia or just the willie nelson-aunt pittypat part of the thing like prompted the reverend to tell to him, ""just willie.",0
531,"what is done is done, as they say, and it is doubtful that anyone could be a better mother than your beloved kaatje.",1
6919,"a silence had fallen across the group, and vittoria couldn’t tell whether it was one of respect or apprehension.",0
9948,"a fat lady.”

“real fat?”

“she was a hell of a big woman.",0
953,"i want to yield to god’s will, but i’m not sure i can.",1
7094,"therefore, she was unafraid, confident in her aloneness.",0
340,even now you seek to plant the seeds of distrust within my heart so that they will blossom against mercia.,1
5145,"on these starry, handsome nights, her dreams were charming, although, to be sure, she sometimes woke from them to hear the shuffle of carpet slippers on the floor below her as her insomniac aunt or uncle paced.",0
4207,"'no doubt you have stopped for plunder in every town you passed,' replied the sailor named olvar with a smile.",0
8283,the matter of faith is clear-cut and fairly easy to judge.,0
2255,"despite what he’d told crystal about them still running, he doubted if they’d even begun.",1
4048,"""long overdue, i assure you.""",0
8234,"the taping had helped my side a lot in a day, but it sure as hell hadn’t by any means cured it.",0
10211,bothers the hell out of me.,0
4943,"for that was the uncomplicated fact of the matter, doubtless dating from the time when, correcting him, watching him haul up from the cellar a keg of molasses instead of the keg of oil he had been ordered to fetch, i had answered his haughty how you know?",0
9905,tomorrow miss rowan is having a crowd in for sunday lunch and dancing and i’ll stay afterwards to help empty ashtrays.,0
2065,that was one thing he had learned during the past week—you could never be sure of the finish.,1
1036,"“who do you think you are, you…” he sputtered, as if unsure what to say next.",1
1468,he had been caught in a moment of indecision between the possible safety behind the power carts and that at the edge of the line beyond the hang-glider.,1
1908,"i’m not sure whether to be glad or sorry for may, that she was so happy with willard, that she felt like a spring-fed cow pond.",1
11461,"she heard, as she passed, the whispers in the church, and she felt each comment like a stab in her back.",0
1894,"all the sheep were walking away and then he said “your mother’s in a dream world, a dream world all her own, and i don’t know what’s happening here.” you kissed him as he cried like kissing him good-bye and hello at the same time you’re not sure, push him away as hard as you can.",1
6937,"“i’ve got a situation i could use some research on.”

“sure.",0
2155,"no terrorist ever forgets how effective he’s been, he lives on it.”

“how would you know that?”

“i’m not sure i want to ask myself right now.”

“then don’t.”

“but i am sure about villiers.",1
9054,"finally, with obvious reluctance, he said, “i have—we have—two machine pistols.”

“you say ‘we.’ who else do you mean?”

“they belong to mr. dubois, really.",0
7792,"jesus, four weeks and i thought i was gonna be sanctified crazy.”

haze walked to the end of the block and enoch stayed all the time at his elbow, panting and talking.",0
6489,"still hesitant to go back into the forest, she frequently followed the smith children home.",0
7048,"“i never hoped to see these treasures again.”

aletta caught a disturbing tone in his voice, detected a dark shadow in his eye.",0
3830,if her grace should find—” when she talked of the abbess to noël she used the secular form of address.,0
4847,"and after a while, when he knew for sure he couldn’t stay around albany because the scab was surely dead, francis hopped a train going north, for he couldn’t get a westbound without going back down into that wild city.",0
6892,"""it is a treasured moment.""",0
2028,that’s how little faith she has in my ability to handle this thing.,1
11443,"poor child, i hope the good lord has taken him in all his glory, but we can't give in to sorrow; there's work to do.",0
10130,"(god, he could make me angry, and i, him.)",0
1787,"he saw the man in spectacles sitting at the plank table and he did not need to be told this was a justice of the peace; he sent one glare of fierce, exultant, partisan defiance at the man in collar and cravat now, whom he had seen but twice before in his life, and that on a galloping horse, who now wore on his face an expression not of rage but of amazed unbelief which the boy could not have known was at the incredible circumstance of being sued by one of his own tenants, and came and stood against his father and cried at the justice: “he ain’t done it!",1
10612,"""sure, it's no secret,"" cantor said.",0
11537,"with many rich illustrations.”

“heaven be praised.",0
3522,"there were times when i contemplated suicide, convinced that i would be better dead than inflicting so much unhappiness on myself and on my husband.",0
10229,he’s over there making our fucking license plates we got to put on our car for christ sake.” the narrator paused.,0
2656,". . for strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when got above common sense, and freed from all restraint of reason . . .”

yvonne concluded the passage, then stopped, those blue, innocent-appearing eyes fixed on martin, making clear she was still wondering about his reaction, doubtful of herself he said, his tone incredulous, ""i do recall that quotation now.",1
2625,"i would have distrusted any cushion that this place might produce, but i need not have worried; the seats were of unpadded marble.",1
9842,"leonard:i write every day when i’m writing; some saturdays and sundays, a few hours each day.",0
8642,"“but she was seen riding in a carriage with a couple who told a friend of mine, mr. weiss, they are from ohio.”

“is he sure they are amish?” nancy inquired.",0
6801,"""anyway, we may not be going to the singings too much longer, if a certain spunky girl i know will say yes to what i'm going to ask her.""",0
12211,he is looking at me very strangely.,0
5761,"an exposure of a different order, as if i were offering a private fact about my father or mother to a complete stranger in one of our stores.",0
11639,"it was only by the grace of god no shots were fired, and also owing to the fact that the soldiers preferred to use their guns as clubs rather than search for complicated mechanisms like triggers and safety catches.",0
5001,"“i am sure i cannot look like that,” he said.",0
9989,"but why the hell would anybody do that?”

“could this have anything to do with fort wingate?” leaphorn asked.",0
10989,"she would talk to papa privately before arriving back home, and he would, no doubt, explain to her exactly what joseph had meant and how she could overcome it.",0
9605,"he shouted, his eyes roving, stopping, staring at each member of his congregation.",0
8975,assured marty.,0
2775,he made an uncertain gesture at the sea.,1
2214,"“i dunno if i wanna eat at a place called wiff’s,” beth said dubiously.",1
5942,i take a pleasure in inquiring into things.,0
4771,"he was not sick or paralyzed or in any pain that he mentioned, but he was surely wearing out in the body, and no matter what nice hot thing livvie would bring him to taste, he would only look at it now, as if he were past seeing how he could add anything more to himself.",0
968,"a young israeli techie with street
smarts, he had been a skeptical agnostic his whole life.",1
5215,"in similar shades he had been francis marion, and surely his own boys had scuttled here in identical pursuits.",0
3375,"will came to bed two hours later marveling that “bruce seems to understand more about the organization than some of our managers.”

elisabeth became convinced that will was near exhaustion in december of 1933. twice he had to return to the office after pulling into the driveway at the end of the day, having forgotten his briefcase.",0
10069,"jesus, i have seen some fucked-up investigations in my time, but this one takes the cake.”

“what happened?” i said.",0
2311,"you should have seen his face when i told him i’d seen them pimps alive the day after ken was down there.”

“well…”

she was still sort of suspicious, still not quite convinced that i didn’t have some scheme for framing ken without getting myself in trouble.",1
6346,"he arched one eyebrow and appraised her with a cool, measured glance.",0
1184,"i sure ain’t asked him to shovel no snow for me.’ but he dropped his eyes, suspecting a flaw in his argument.",1
8738,"“as i understand the constitution,” said russo, “my client enjoys certain rights and privileges, one of which is the fifth amendment prohibition against compelled selfincrimination.",0
9869,what the hell did trevayne know?,0
10649,"then she sat down, folding her legs like an arab, and laughed again with pleasure.",0
5419,"now, three or four times a year and as though by fiendish concord and as soon as they were freed of the box car, the entire uproar—the dust cloud filled with shouts earnest, harried, and dismayed, with plunging demoniac shapes—would become translated in a single burst of perverse and uncontrollable violence, without any intervening contact with time, space, or earth, across the peaceful and astonished town and into mrs. hait’s yard, where, in a certain hapless despair which abrogated for the moment even physical fear, snopes ducked and dodged among the thundering shapes about the house (for whose very impervious paint the town believed that he felt he had paid and whose inmate lived within it a life of idle and queenlike ease on money which he considered at least partly his own) while gradually that section and neighborhood gathered to look on from behind adjacent window curtains and porches screened and not, and from the sidewalks and even from halted wagons and cars in the street—housewives in the wrappers and boudoir caps of morning, children on the way to school, casual negroes and casual whites in static and entertained repose.",0
3992,"“let’s make sure the house wasn’t hit.”

she gathered her trembling daughter into her arms and ventured cautiously into the hall.",0
10455,"yankee doodle came to town yankee doodle came to town—

“for the love of god,” said mendoza in horror, “you haven’t got a parrot?”

“don’t be silly,” said alison crossly.",0
2148,“i doubt that very much.,1
3910,"chapter sixteen

a sure reward

the rector nodded to the police chief, who hitched up his holster belt and took a deep breath.",0
6298,he’s got a certain look in his eye.,0
9530,"they promise that the poor and the meek and the downtrodden will reign in heaven, while the rest of us will suffer all the torments of dis.",0
9729,"do not be deceived, neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of god.""",0
9954,"we wait until super bowl sunday they could have the

second fence built and we have to dig another nine ten days.",0
5058,"surely a man would console, if he could.",0
2640,"but his gloom (and a self-suspicion i have concealed, that his decision was really based more on the old sheepstealer's adage, on a dangerous despair, than on the nobler movings of his conscience) had an even poorer time of it there; the quick walking sent a flood of warmth through him, a warmth from inside complemented by the warmth from without brought by the sun's rays.",1
1602,you can’t be certain.,1
9255,“sure thing.,0
2610,"but later, after his father had crumpled in a wine-soaked heap and his unhappy sister had tidied things up as decently as she could, sulla sat in his corner of the room in which the three of them lived at the time, and pondered his unexpected treasure trove in aching disbelief.",1
2950,"""or maybe you still have some doubts left, chris?""",1
7840,cao dai—the evening prayers.” she pointed toward a crowd of monks gathered at the center of the park.,0
1797,the children were never sure what bessie might be able to hear or divine.,1
8011,"28


where alfred the sacred river ran




very few people know that hazel had given the palace flop house its name years ago when the boys had first moved in.",0
348,"there were rumors of war, and life didn’t seem so certain.",1
1933,"god is not here, hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.",1
212,"he was half convinced that the physicians were correct, and that 
his wife had not truly died but had been unconscious.",1
396,"when he still looked doubtful, lenora spoke up.",1
2075,"“they say you’re the expert,” crites said, not bothering to keep the disbelief out of his tone.",1
4119,"but if he saw inside her, he would surely see he was wrong.",0
2508,"he pushed the door open and went inside, not sure what he would do other than collect his thoughts.",1
2971,"he saw that mr. montrose was regarding him with a closed and strange expression, partly skeptical, partly affronted, and partly cold.",1
8328,"he was absolutely sincere in his belief.”

a sudden cold prickle skating down his spine warned adam, too late, what she was about to suggest.",0
8994,there were now two killers in a speeding enclosure that was in itself a trap.,0
9355,"‘how did he get you to do his killing for him, preacher?’

no answer.",0
1785,men seemed to do it when they were unsure of themselves.,1
3195,for me it was simple; i stayed off the doubtful ground and waited to see if he would tread on it.,1
1019,"he scrambled to his feet and stared, unbelieving, at the blaze.",1
9305,"praise be to god, we made it!""",0
8205,"“i certainly agree that the evidence that the boy and matthew birch were killed by the same car is a noteworthy complication, but actually that should make it simpler for you.",0
10128,now what the hell am i supposed to do with that?” blanche’s throat tightened as she spoke.,0
6149,"jeff was totally oblivious to the turmoil he was causing in faith, and the fact that he was so indifferent to her suffering made it all the more acute.",0
6321,"i never knew when this would happen, but when i was reminded they would just all of a sudden appear to me as they had been on a certain day—uncle othy rowing the boat, aunt cordie walking down to the garden, using her hoe as a walking stick—and then i would see them plain.",0
7839,"i stayed with the carmodys and their story from the first from that sunday in june when old charlie carmody, saluting the one day of the year that could be counted on to move him deeply, gave himself a birthday party...

the story begins, really, some days before that sunday: it begins with an early morning telephone call.",0
10979,"undoubtedly he'll consult the full senate, seeking a directive to cover his arse.",0
4627,"surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. . . .





author’s note




i am grateful for the patience and wisdom of many people during the writing of this book.",0
11947,"there he lay upon his face before the feet of manwл and sued for pardon; but his prayer was denied, and he was cast into prison in the fastness of mandos, whence none can escape, neither vala, nor elf, nor mortal man.",0
7531,"it wasn’t only women who could have their intuitions, and mckee realized, when he saw boyd that christmas, that he would probably never turn up with a family of his own.",0
10855,"some old man from burgenland hadn’t left his room all night, and some british bicycle enthusiasts had come in drunk, double-checked their bicycles in the basement, attempted to be sportive with susie the bear (until she growled), and were now, no doubt, passed out in their rooms.",0
8478,"i’m sure millions of people are the same.”

“i’m sure they are.",0
5063,"she could not help feeling that it was strange he had not been invited anywhere, for surely a man of his position, whatever it was, would have friends in the town.",0
4383,"wouldn’t have made it without ebenezer church, that’s for sure.",0
10546,"it was certainly not as dangerous as the bulls, but close enough, and mary stuart was outraged.",0
7931,"the icing went from flat oyster white to heavenly white, as if not blue but the absence of blue had been added.",0
8284,she said she guessed she'd better get back to fixing the tire; and i said i was sure it was the valve rather than the tire and i could fix it in a minute.,0
2358,"samuels squinted uncertainly at the small metallic box in his hand, found what he appeared to hope was the correct button, and switched off the recorder.",1
2021,it was the only thing to do; i'd be even more conspicuous lurking in doubtful concealment.,1
4582,"if you’re not around to pick me up when my crutches slip, i’m sure someone else will do it for me.”

“miriam, you’re being stubborn—”

“does that surprise you?",0
7675,"that’s how come angelo’s such a sweet, considerate man today.”

“the sisters loved ignatius.",0
4248,"“the julianas have stocked my apothecary till it groans,” aletta assured him.",0
2220,"i’m in business for myself, not mrs. diggert.”

she stood in the doorway appraising me in indecision for seconds.",1
4920,"larry said it would be all right.”

“do you mind asking him again, just to make sure?”

“i wouldn’t dream of disturbing him,” said ada.",0
12376,"he looked like hell the last few days.”

gronevelt nodded.",0
8820,"i tried to put the bad foot down, but it wouldn’t stand any pressure.",0
1200,"and believe me or not, brother, but my wife has been delivered of the curse that has lain on her these many years, and she and i just yesterday submitted ourselves for believer’s baptism.”

“och!",1
6126,"unless you meet a boy who's determined to wait, he's going to have expectations of you.",0
1879,"suddenly, like the first truth of illness, the certainty left him.",1
1479,"“jamal, what do you think you’d like for lunch?”

jamal looked at mary with such uncertainty, such naked absence of recognition, that she wondered, as she did periodically, if he was in fact of normal intelligence.",1
5505,"yetta zimmerman, teetering on prostration, arrived with morris fink and the fat rabbinical student moishe muskatblit, who was helping to support yetta but who from his drained, wheylike face and uncertain gait looked in need of support himself.",0
1067,"i doubt if she’s been with other children very much.”

			 				“she came home cryin’ her heart out yesterday, sayin’ she didn’t want to go back.",1
7973,". .

—would have made a great movie now wouldn’t it, errol flynn playing lord byron don’t worry about it, they’re not just about to put your name up there in lights, see we’re just putting them on notice here under section 502 where once we start this action we get an injunction pulling it out of the theatres all over the country, impound their prints, masters, negatives any time while the action is pending, you see where they sold thirty one million dollars in tickets over the weekend?",0
9595,"she looked up, blinked, shook herself out of her reverie, and then seemed surprised to see a white man in a black man’s church.",0
6101,"by the time he reached her, he appeared to have regained his composure.",0
4860,he was sure they were bound for the knoxville market.,0
1496,"if only we had married twenty years earlier.” he gave thought to her words, but was unsure what they meant exactly.",1
10579,"he had endured, so that they might have leisure, hope, education, freedom from the terror that had haunted his whole young life.",0
5293,"more than once she thought how wrong those women in san francisco had been, convinced that their old homes did not welcome them on their return.",0
7309,"whore!” like the clerk used to cuss old job, and so maybe the church can go just so far and maybe the folks that are in it are the ones that know the best or are entitled to say when to disconnect religion for a minute or two.",0
7034,"“is the nuke secure?”

“yes.”

it was the last thought joe gave to the mission.",0
7622,"but the sound was nearer than that, and after a moment we saw the priest.",0
3175,"it’s what i’ve been given a chance to do and it seems okay.”

“it’s okay to be uncertain, winston.",1
2446,"""i really don't know, but i strongly doubt it.",1
11562,"indeed, i would say their presence is precious to us, it is inscribed in the plan of god, because their sin prompts our virtue, their cursing encourages our hymn of praise, their undisciplined penance regulates our taste for sacrifice, their impiety makes our piety shine, just as the prince of darkness was necessary, with his rebellion and his desperation, to make the glory of god shine more radiantly, the beginning and end of all hope.",0
10458,but right now he was good and goddamned sick of them.,0
9039,probably with a good deal of pleasure.,0
4525,"to insure privacy, giovanni had obscured the window panes with a heavy, white cleaning polish.",0
6390,"“you show me the times you were flying the plane, will you, jerry?”

“sure i will.",0
3740,"he certainly wasn’t making his feelings a secret, either.",0
8974,"you knew that might be dangerous.”

“sure i did.”

“tack would pay you, if that’s what you’re worried about.”

“i’m not talking about money.”

“you can be a real bastard sometimes, tru.”

i smiled.",0
9985,"i therefore make my last will and testament as follows: to josephine kempton, my former housekeeper, i leave my heartfelt apologies and the sum of fifty thousand dollars.",0
8443,"and to make sure you know why it happened.”

“are you finished with us?”

“no.",0
9785,"banks claims she was kidnapped by the reorganized church of the redemption.""",0
12034,"the prime minister wants to have a word with you before you go, so we’ll go over to his office in a minute.",0
3359,"""well,"" he said when we pulled up in front of saint elizabeth's, ""i guess i'll see you tomorrow, dinner for sure.""",0
10118,"about the author





			 			 barbara neely’s short fiction has appeared in various anthologies, including breaking ice, things that divide us, angels of power, speaking for ourselves, and test tube women.",0
2821,all of them maintained an icy suspicion of outsiders.,1
5131,"she gripped the microphone with a sureness that postponed her disaster, at least until the end of this tune, and sang then “he’s me pal,” a ditty really, short and snappy, sang it with exuberance and wit, with a tilt of the head, a roll of the eyes, a twist of the wrist that suggested the proud virtues.",0
7938,"—god it’s harry, i knew it!",0
8601,"“we’ll certainly look into it, miss fogarty,” i said briskly.",0
5729,the steady repetition of his backward steps—the flash of the hoe and the sure advance of the brown water after it—had been a small reality from which his mind must venture and return.,0
11973,but right now i have to speak to the lord of the gates.,0
440,"“i doubt if mary will be truly happy until she has done the things upon which her heart is set.”

				“you have a wise head upon such young shoulders,” demetrius said approvingly.",1
1024,"“i admire you for your faith, but it’s just not for me.",1
3918,"‘if a minister, otherwise in good standing, shall make application to be released from the office of the ministry, he may, at the discretion of the presbytery, be put on probation, for one year at least, in such a manner as the presbytery may direct, in order to ascertain his motives and reasons for such a relinquishment.’ ”

clarence interrupted.",0
9994,"and how the hell any woman—a man like twelvetrees, another one all front, the too—handsome collar ad— but look at it objectively: people didn't show much common sense about these things.",0
2832,"'i doubt he flew from new york to richmond,' i said.",1
962,"flanna walked toward them with long, purposeful strides, not certain what she should say to roger.",1
3329,he was sure he detected liquor on the man's breath.,0
1810,"a few jonquils are in bloom, and the lingering light and the new ferns enjoin the stranded children to look ahead, ahead, but at the back of their minds there is a suspicion that the jonquils and the robins and the evening star imperfectly conceal the fact that this hour is horror, naked horror.",1
2897,"she’ll be furious.”

“i doubt if the ledger will find its way to chislehurst.”

“but it will.",1
4895,"i am certainly glad that you have given me this valuable new insight.”

“oh, what a fun day this has been.",0
2067,"how come the suspicions, paul?”

“i just have a feeling it’s not working out.",1
3798,"""i'm sure we'll get along fine.",0
9358,"he had nowhere to go for christmas, anyway, except to his cousin’s miserable house in the potteries, to be pulled about by her two kids.",0
8789,"she wanted to see england again, and happened to die there.”

			“you didn’t attend your nephew’s wedding?”

			“certainly not.",0
10341,"“jesus christ, you, too?",0
7191,"there’s no way i can do all the unpacking myself.”

“i know, louise.” dad seemed to be struggling for composure.",0
6341,"“has nothin’ to do with us bein’ old order,” caleb had assured her.",0
3488,"he was sure there was a traitor.”

“any information ben carried was never found.",0
7733,after drinking from it he had all but reeled into a flock of dresses stretched wide-sleeved across the porch of that house like a child’s drawing of angels.,0
2966,"driving away, nancy was unsure whether she had handled the situation well or badly.",1
681,"and if anything happens to her in your care, he will have cause to break faith with you.",1
6811,surely gloria would be fine.,0
11452,the librarian introduced us to many of the monks who were working at that moment.,0
7979,"well, jesus fucking h. christ…i don’t believe it…i can’t understand…” he stopped and stuck his hands back into his pockets.",0
7646,"‘you were speaking of lord jim, a book i happen to know.",0
1191,"but if you still hold unbelief in your heart, then stay out of this temple.",1
6059,"she got off the streetcar on seventh avenue and strolled leisurely, looking at the displays in the department store windows.",0
8600,"for thirty minutes i was motionless before i was certain i was alone, then i picked my way into the stream of pedestrian traffic, got off the main street and walked until i spotted a cab disgorging its passengers and waved it down.",0
4043,the jews have belief in a band of spirits they call angels.,0
7625,"“where’s margaret?”

“been gone.”

“where?”

“new church.”

my children were chasing the big grey cat around the yard.",0
4076,"nevertheless, at the beginning, each man, aware of the other’s strengths and his own weaknesses, entered the partnership determined to make it work.",0
6600,surely the press wouldn’t have printed those details.,0
2346,"but i can’t be sure of it, and i certainly can’t prove it, and—”

“tell me anyway, bernie.”

“i sort of hate to say anything at this stage.”

“why?",1
6221,"faith closed her eyes, steeling herself to be brave all over again.",0
4957,but i can say with assurance that he would not exist without his atomistic chains.,0
223,sir simon would have been happy to fight the prince so long as he could have been assured that his victory would bring no reprisals.,1
4801,"dressing like this made not a scrap of difference to anything, transformed nothing, abated nothing, neither merged him with what was gone nor separated him from what was here, and yet he was determined never again to dress otherwise.",0
1330,she regarded me as if she were seeing me for the thousandth time but was still unconvinced.,1
9489,"christians are mocked, persecuted, small: the powerful so-called christian empires are the real perversion of the gospel, not the holy fool.",0
8465,"he was tried and convicted of the hit and run.”

			blanche was sure the article had to have something to do with someone at amber cove.",0
5600,"peace of mind is not a simple matter of pursuing one’s own pleasure; rather, it is inextricably linked to the attitudes of other human beings, to what they want, to what they expect.",0
9943,"“oh, my dear lord—oh, my god.",0
1096,"until she knew for certain, she decided to trust no one.",1
7822,"kunta gawked upward to see toubob springing about on the poles like monkeys, pulling at the many ropes among the great white cloths.",0
10680,"though no doubt you would have, had it been necessary.""",0
262,"he knew why the doubts came, realized there were weeks when he wouldn’t make love to her.",1
8854,"we have three possible birthplaces for him.”

“shanghai.”

“you’re sure of that, sir?”

“yes!” then, after a moment’s pause, “reasonably sure, that is.”





shanghai: 193?",0
5147,“sure i’m sure.,0
778,"in my youthful idealism, i decided then and there that i’d now devote my life to the great task of liberating the world from all religious superstition.",1
1680,"claire, staring at the three of them, an initial stage of disbelief on her face, said, “now, that’s enough!”

brian was cackling, unrestrained.",1
8654,'are you sure about that?',0
7449,aunt elinor taught us that god is life.,0
1980,"she had a suspicion what a policeman at manhattan depot would mean: questions for her, perhaps surliness, perhaps serious trouble if the gun was found, or even if it was not found.",1
1059,"uncertain how to reply, i glanced at padraig, who merely shrugged unhelpfully.",1
2725,"""i very much doubt it.",1
6431,"she was perty sure, ’cause aunt sarah had that same expectant look on her face that mamma often got.",0
1156,"but he wasn’t certain where the cemetery was; he recalled that it was west of the zona turística and far into the barrio, but when he got onto el camino he knew that was wrong, and he gave up on avenida de la independencia after a few blocks.",1
1631,"“for you, or for jessie when she’s big enough.”

“it’s beautiful,” she said, unsure, as if that might give him some advantage.",1
9301,"i swear to god i wouldn' steal a saint.""",0
10372,there was a hell of a lot of demand for the stock.,0
1503,i’ve always found myself with some—not less uncertain but less able to take care of uncertainty.,1
4058,"“i’m sure.”

they walked back to the house in silence.",0
12163,"downstairs, angela found nikki in the family room busily reading from one of her schoolbooks.",0
6891,"""yes... yes,"" marcelle responded, grimacing painfully as he collected a measure of composure.",0
9707,“maybe he serves god with fear.,0
2776,"""i doubt it.",1
8079,something which i’m certain would have explained angela scali’s murder.,0
460,"luke stared at him unbelievingly, and a feeling akin to terror began to surge up within him, a sense of fear and respect for something, a will or a purpose, which transcended his own.",1
345,"to fear was to doubt god, for were not all things in his hand?",1
11040,"she was cautious about where she went, and hesitant about making friends.",0
7287,"think of them—the men and women, the grandfathers and grandmothers of christ.",0
7956,"when gregory the great first saw british slaves in the market place of rome, he exclaimed, “not angles but angels.” the fourmaster gdynia continued its journey around the world, but another gdynia floated, white sails furling, through the imaginations of the island women, a ship manned by incorruptible knights of rose and gold, with cerulean eyes.",0
2331,"i’ve seen how you look at her.”

“i only want to be with you,” i promised her, though i wasn’t completely sure at times that this was true, and whined that there was no passion in our relationship anymore.",1
7613,"as a matter of fact, my father was a catholic once.",0
8627,"i’m sorry.”

“they kill her next, i expect.”

“no, they won’t.”

“they will if she keeps on.”

“we’ll make sure she’s safe, malavina.”

“can’t keep white folks from doin’ what they’ve a mind to.” she looked past the house toward the trees that swayed in the breeze like a line of oafish dancers.",0
11872,once outside the harbor the men shipped their oars; the captain made sacrifice in his cabin to the sea god and others and gave orders for the hoisting of the sail.,0
11083,"there was a threatening edge to

leamas' voice, and for a moment, just for a moment, a look of apprehension seemed

to pass across kiever's smooth face.",0
5327,"when he ventured out certain persons drew aside from him; at least once a small mob gathered and threatened to stone him; a group of friars also threatened to come and beat him in his own house, and he advised them defiantly to come well prepared.",0
7916,christa may be a wayward child but she still requires a lot of attention.,0
544,"“i don’t know what i’m going to do if your daed doesn’t make it, but i’m sure god will see me through, just as he will minister to all my children.”

“ ‘god is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble,’ ” jonas quoted from psalm 46.",1
2444,"monterey was no longer a believer, and sam had been a dedicated agnostic.",1
3616,grandma em and luke felt sure they knew why.,0
1264,"“let me see what is on my schedule.”

james saw the uncertainty in her eyes as she pulled on her jacket, glanced at him.",1
11167,"he found, by closer questioning, that this was true--she had visited hardly any of london's famous sights; all she really knew of the city was the daily route by bus or tube from the station to the office, plus a few jaunts to cinemas and theatres.",0
695,"did faith, prayer, commitment, obedience count for anything?",1
8682,"i was just checking.”

“are you sure?”

mccaleb got a call-waiting beep.",0
10646,"a bunch of girls ran over—you were one of them, i’m pretty sure—wanting to know what happened, and we wouldn’t tell you.",0
12124,"i bet they cool the beer with the goddamn trade winds.""",0
5449,"the babies had to be fed every three or four hours; because it took at least a month to secure the daily delivery of fresh milk, for the time being lin had to get powdered milk for them, which was in short supply.",0
7284,"from the moment word reached him that the six were condemned to death, the priest burned with ardor.",0
3567,“my grandfather wants you to feel free to come to him if you have complaints to make and to be sure that you will not be punished in any way if you do come.,0
6080,the ship’s officer was quite certain she had checked in—quite.,0
9499,manda added that they were church amish from ohio and spoke pennsylvania dutch very well.,0
5338,"but after four or five years of this diet, he wished to read only certain religious writers of the thirteenth century--suso, tauler, and meister eckhart.",0
6308,"until you and my new brother-in-law, mark, move to zion, i remain faithfully,

thomas timmons

jenny slowly folded the letter.",0
3423,south america was certainly much closer to the united states than iran.,0
4990,so you and extra are determined to go.,0
11559,"""it is a mortal sin even to speak of that!""",0
7017,"he needed the reassurance more than she, he thought.",0
4008,the choice [is] either russia or france or the triple alliance.... he [chamberlain] was convinced that a combination with germany and an association with the triple alliance was preferable.... his advice was that matters should be taken up as soon as lord salisbury left for the south and that the details should be negotiated with lord lansdowne and himself.,0
1349,“a heathen like dat?,1
858,"it had been over three years since fulk had seen margate, and he was not sure he wanted to take up residence in such a civilized and courtly castle.",1
7306,“christmas is a sad season if you’re poor.,0
7302,"he had been taught, as a child, to think of the clouds as disguising the city of god, and the low clouds still excited in him the curiosity of a child who thought that he was looking off to where the saints and the prophets lived.",0
3651,"hundreds, if not thousands, would no doubt turn out for the event.",0
6227,". . .”

“arnnn—?” faith caught her breath—flashing into the reflection of tippis’s glasses was a demon; a burned hairless head half destroyed but, through some act of ultimate evil, allowed to persist, its left eye a discolored globe, its right eye closed forever.",0
6979,"suddenly the hush gave way to the sound of slow measured steps and voices, moving as if in procession across the square.",0
11597,"the minister spoke very movingly about the mysteries of god’s love, and the terrible pain we feel at the loss of a loved one.",0
10093,"whatever the truth might be, and whatever the likelihood that i was capable of unearthing it, i had to admit that in charleston, south carolina, on a sunny sunday in a middle day of june, james baldwin’s fires of racial armageddon seemed an unlikely prospect.",0
11690,"“i know what you mean.” and for a moment cully, look-ing at that angelic face, felt a tiny arrow of guilt.",0
4246,"they would fight to the death for him, believing that by fighting political wars they were extending the shores of his earthly kingdom.",0
8767,"others say the risk is larger—more on the order of one in eight thousand—because the average transfusion uses blood from more than one source, and thus the possibility of exposure is increased.",0
7725,"jinx said today, ‘nuts and bolts,’ and i thought, ‘oh god, it isn’t “nuts and bulbs.”’ matthew was right—it is ‘nuts and bolts.’”

“it is?",0
4264,“but i am sure you will find it dull.,0
1832,"“but they’d know anyway, wouldn’t they?” we always said they, and i was never sure who really listened to the taped transcriptions of our conversations.",1
8140,"there was no question, no uncertainty about whether he would make up the bed.",0
559,"it can’t be.”

“no, madam,” maggie said doubtfully.",1
4776,"certainly the janitress had taken the purse, and certainly it would be impossible to get it back without a great deal of ridiculous excitement.",0
7206,“are you sure you have everything you’ll need?,0
10994,"and he called secular clerics—preachers and minorites—ministers of the devil, and he absolved everyone from the duty of obeying them.",0
3452,"he thought of the child, arieh, who he was 
convinced was dead, murdered in malice and hatred, and now, for the first time, 
lucanus revolted against the evil in men, against their cruelty and 
mercilessness, against their greed and envy, against their bloodthirstiness and 
boundless hardness of heart and their crimes against their fellows.",0
1718,i’m not sure what mickey’s actual job was—something to do with antiques he claimed.,1
6720,"his old basketball coach,

marty tothero, who before scandal had ousted him from the high

school had a certain grip on local affairs, lived in this building



supposedly and still, they said, manipulated.",0
56,"the practical west, having lost faith in the incarnation, has begun to believe that man does everything and god does nothing.",1
7240,"all women knew—and this too was what gave them a certain serenity, detachment and power over the more impassioned men.",0
5206,"we propped him up, coulter with a hand behind his back, and he undertook the incredible labor of saying goodbye to a wife and two children to whom he was apparently devoted.",0
11592,"she looked forward to the warmth and festivity of christmas--to the children being home from their schools, to the family being together.",0
8513,an unannounced noise might’ve given him—and certainly ted neighbors—the screaming meemies.,0
1805,"she held the suspicion, though, that there was more of stobrod in odysseus than old homer was willing to let on, and she found his alibis for stretching out his trip to be suspect in the extreme, an opinion only confirmed by the current passage in which the characters were denned up in a swineherd's hut drinking and telling tales.",1
6310,"resolutely she got out her keys, opened the locks, and lifted the lid.",0
5115,"he was protecting her interests, she could be sure of that.",0
12183,"""how the hell did he find you?""",0
11156,"thrown to the heathen.""",0
8903,"“certainly, mr. heller,” he said, and lifted the gun gingerly from his pocket and held it out to me by its barrel.",0
7207,"one of my treasured runes, for it portends death, enlivening the deepest of human fears.""",0
5606,"“this is business.”

“sure,” the roommate said.",0
7656,"when they could better be watched in living colour and much wilder variety spawning and feeding, fin ripping and vacant staring glassy eyed from far grander submarine vistas and exotic plant and coral strewn habitats right here on his nature program, spared those custodial concerns for wind and wave, temperature and salinity, aeration, ph balance, light and filtration and the daily toll of all those mouths to feed confined, best of all, where they could be summoned and banished in an instant like those hordes of his own species crowding the channels elsewhere rather than actually having them all over the house here firing guns, spouting news events, telling jokes, doing pushups, deep knee bends, shuddering with diarrhea, howling half dressed and full of passionate intensity humping guitars like the monkey with the greased football loosing mere anarchy upon the world where three’s a crowd even in a house as large as this one, how long did he think she expected to stay?",0
9541,"‘i’m in paris,’ mary went on, ‘at the church of st germain-des-prés.’

her voice echoed in the room.",0
1439,"he felt that those three would have been the quickest to leave, but he seriously doubted if any of them would survive the risks and rigors of such a desperate gamble.",1
1283,"it certainly is nice of you to let us meet you here.”

“i’m not sure—”

“we could set up right here in your study, and be through in less than an hour,” she said, her pretty eyes pleading.",1
3949,his policies are sure to be a boon to embryo and genetic germ cell line research.,0
5307,"you certainly don't seem to have been wasting your time.”

and jacques threw a delighted look in the direction of giovanni, rather as though giovanni were a valuable racehorse or a rare bit of china.",0
7420,"anyhow, before this service at the bowery, they had the nauvoo brass band out, and it played anthems, marches, and waltzes, preparing the minds for the sermon to follow.",0
11960,"“jesus god,” my father said.",0
4698,"certainly the causes for which he fought have been never altogether defeated, but they have won no victory, either: a lukewarm, halfway sort of process, the kind of thing that exasperated him most, that might well end by disheartening the best and bravest of men.",0
1801,"you done work for me before and i always paid!”

the artist looked at him another moment as if he were not altogether sure.",1
5870,"he was a hippopotamus, big, black, and smelly; his short sleeves squeezed tight around his monstrous arms as though they were taking his own blood pressure—which at that moment was sky-bound: “what’s the answer!” menaced, i flipped back three pages in my question booklet and reread number twenty-six.",0
9567,"they had been married in ralph’s family church somewhere in upstate new york, robert remembered, and he had thought it rather unusual that a man like ralph jurgen, in the advertising business, should make such a sentimental choice of a place to be married in.",0
4707,"if they pooh-poohed that, and some people surely would, take the boy that mckee himself had fathered, but was no more like him than if he had been the son of the moon.",0
4391,"'no doubt,' he said, tie finds more fascinating topics when you are together than why he hides from old friends.'",0
5456,"“sure you are,” said boyd, “you’re the old frontiersman,” and leaned over the rail at the front and got hold of him.",0
10018,"police are under minint.”

arkady nodded; in russia the militia was under the same ministry.",0
11625,he was quite content with teaching the young boy all the gospel songs and making a handsome living touring the bible belt.,0
10261,none of them had to work on sundays.,0
7345,"“god will be your judge,” she said at the door, “but i know my rights and i can bring you into court and blacken ˇyour name.” then she went down the hall and when she got to the door leander called after her, “wait, wait, wait, please,” and went down the hall.",0
13,clay-boy would imagine the disbelief and then the sorrow that would cross his mother’s face when she realized that it had indeed happened.,1
11630,"now it looked like a hayrick blazing

off to one side from heaven and god;

like the reflection of an arsonous fire,

like a farmstead in flames on a threshing floor burning.",0
10516,"""no doubt you've memorized it, bill,"" snapped odell.",0
11057,"all at once the poor existing flesh which had been his daughter for years vanished from his memory, and it was the healthy shy ann marie he remembered now, with her soft little touches on his arm, her uplifted gentle face, her questioning dark amber eyes.",0
2123,"“just how the killer got her to wear the cape and go outside, i’m not sure.",1
2393,sheehan said he and opelt had shown the mug shot of bremmer to the manager of the storage facility at bing's and the man said bremmer might have been one of the renters of the storage rooms two years earlier but he couldn't be sure.,1
5787,"property’s a good investment.”

“it sure is,” santa said, rolling her eyes wildly at mrs. reilly.",0
8879,"then, after a moment of hesitation, she blurted out, ""nel , it's very important that i talk to you.",0
2669,"""how much have we spent to get to this dubious crossroad?""",1
8260,“i have reason to be sure of this.,0
5710,"“sure it did,” anita said.",0
964,"i have done my best to ensure that the surrogate will not cause trouble, but she lost her husband a few months ago, and lately i have begun to worry that grief might .",1
6988,"“i was strung too high for much pleasure.”

jesse seemed to think that was an appropriate remark and something in the boy’s manner of speaking inspired jesse to ask, “do you like tea?” and when bob said he did (though he didn’t), jesse invited him up to the bungalow without saying goodbye to the others.",0
10311,"she was upset, honest to god.",0
5467,he watched with pleasure as stink and eddie and oscar devoured the food.,0
5455,"when i came back to edwards mills, depleted by the dark and heavy heat of boston, dirty from the train, i found minnie and theron sitting in the garden in the perishing day like a watteau summer idyll, already so advanced in their lore (infatuation acquires its history and literature in minutes) that they were beyond tile need of language and were listening, as they drank mint juleps from my silver goblets, to the phonograph playing in the living room, playing scarlatti sonatas, my favorites, which theron theretofore had barely tolerated, preferring the music of beethoven, which, he said, showing off, was “impeccably flatulent—all bawdy hoydens and horny knaves,” adding, “he’s the bruegel of music.”

i did not at that moment apprehend the reason for their blissful circumstance; i saw only that they were blissful, and i envied their simple pleasure in the cool air and the light waning to violet and the smell of the flowers and the feeling of the icy dew on the goblets they held, all bespangled with the wit of the harpsichord.",0
7767,"“negro man”?—he looks more asiatic, monkey, jewish, babylonian, peruvian, fanatic, devil.",0
11876,"what if he wakes up this morning thinking, oh my god what did i do last night with that old woman?",0
10597,"though he had made himself sound confident enough to rutilius rufus, young gaius caesar walked home in less hopeful mood.",0
9677,"ran the registration drive in south carolina.”

“does morrison have political enemies?”

“all politicians have enemies.”

“are any of them white christian patriots?”

“that goes without saying, doesn’t it?",0
4159,"the bridge is so high, and the river is so strong, and the place where they jumped is so far from shore—man, they’re dead for sure.”

the van pulled away.",0
10652,a sure pile cure.,0
5431,"""i got insurest,"" he said.",0
2942,"sir henry sat behind the desk and glanced in partial shock at the lawyer, one jonathan lemuel, who raised his head and eyes to the ceiling, not to have the benefit of the tropic fan that stirred the humid air but to show disbelief.",1
7478,"he had already begun a formidable and clinical sexual career, and seemed unacquainted in any way with sentiment, although i recall that he liked to watch children saying their prayers.",0
6656,"surely somewhere in the records of mankind another young woman—strong, intelligent, comely—has been despoiled as rapaciously and unremittingly as was i, has subsequently found herself with child and, friendless, has made her own way of escape, subsisting by her wits, earnest toil, and subterfuge.",0
3024,"we were waiting for the hero in him to take shape, and perhaps doubting its final form—for with freud as a model, one had to doubt my father’s vision.",1
7525,"he showed up at this dismal little dance in a church basement wearing a red sport coat.”

“snappy.”

“i’d just seen a picture of a boy in a magazine wearing a red sport coat like that.",0
10642,"he had woken her from a sound sleep, and he reeked of rum, but his hands were gentle and sure as he tied the knots, and then hurried back on deck to the others.",0
5919,but the thought of charlie clung to dick’s mind; dick’s actual pleasure—accomplished not ten feet from where he now sat—seemed pale by comparison with charlie’s dreams.,0
9271,"when he asked his congregation for contributions they were forthcoming, and to his pleasant surprise, the sanburnes, the hamiltons, and blair bainbridge made up the balance.",0
1599,my mother is not convinced and for several more minutes she questions the woman about why i cannot attend seaton.,1
3031,"the meeting with ubertino, the muttering

about the past of salvatore and his cellarer, the more and more frequent references to the fraticelli and the heretic minorites i had heard in those days, my master’s reluctance to speak to me about fra dolcino ... a series of images began to return to my mind.",1
11338,"then the abbot gave his benediction, the hebdomadary said the prayers, all bowed toward the altar in a moment of

meditation whose sweetness no-one can comprehend who has not experienced those hours of

mystic ardor and intense inner peace.",0
10983,"no doubt one of his employees would have given him an alibi, too.",0
11816,"to remind you of this i give each one of you a silver piece.”

prancing with delight they shouted, “truly we have served an illustrious lord, but our ears are deaf, and our eyes are blind, and we have seen and heard nothing this night.”

i let them go, well knowing that they would get drunk without delay, as has been the way of porters in all ages, and that in their cups they would babble of all they had seen.",0
9333,"i knew he was about to explode, his face as red as christmas.",0
11529,munro retreated into the darkness of the main arch above the church’s recessed side door.,0
4332,"he had lost an appreciable number of prospective settlers when grenville’s virginia expedition was cancelled by royal decree, but seven men and the four wives of men waiting in the colony—mistress sampson, mistress prat, mistress cooper, and mistress stevens—were still determined to make the journey.",0
11464,"the abbot, his face purple, shouted for silence and threatened terrible punishments for all, commanding the monks to clear the hall.",0
6106,but i did not regard her with extreme pleasure that morning.,0
619,"he is tolerated, perhaps, and obeyed, certainly — he is king, after all.",1
9535,"her pastor never got to the pulpit before one, and often didn’t leave it until three, when they broke for lunch, which they ate on the grounds if the weather was nice, then trooped back inside for another dose.",0
1627,i never saw one that completely believed it the first time or ever doubted it the second.,1
11098,"but looking back now, she realized that what she'd wanted from him was actually what she'd lost in her father: stability, security and unquestioning love.",0
8981,"“sure, i do.",0
4554,"i might have despaired ever succeeding, but from the beginning i determined that i stood a far better chance of rescuing my friends, and taking revenge on nikos, if i

could speak arabic.",0
11536,"they had looked inconsolable as they left the church, and page’s heart had gone out to them.",0
6268,surely he’d realize what she had been through these days.,0
9340,"i’m on a busy street, or i’m in a church . . .”

“yes?”

“and i don’t have any clothes on.",0
8597,"how did he zero in so quickly on mere implications, convinced beyond doubt that his instincts were right?",0
8637,"i’m sure anything irrelevant will be disregarded.”

“odder still,” commented thatcher.",0
10156,"it’s right out of lydia’s landlord.”

“olivia’s landlord,” she said, “lydia’s doctor.”

“whichever.",0
3916,"the company discussed the approaching eucharistic congress in chicago, the grave troubles of the church in mexico, and the overemphasis on football in certain catholic colleges.",0
7001,"ms. henderson’s gift with words makes this book impossible to put down.”

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“i served in the u.s. navy during desert storm, and your book is one of the best books i have read in a long time!",0
5648,"their faces were pink, puffy squares cut off at the brows, their pores enlarged from the pressure of their tightly bound habits.",0
6921,"“i sure know how to pick ’em, don’t i?”



lukas lay on his stomach across the car seat.",0
4397,"he saw amy’s interest in, and her grudging respect of, the woman who was determined to be her mother, and he saw her need to be alone with the book.",0
10719,"as far as sulla was concerned, however, the one soon turned out to be no better than the other, for there was absolutely no doubt that fear and dread added an element of spice—and a great deal more largesse.",0
998,"i watched as both the gold-bound box containing the embalmed head of prince bohemond, and the black rood, were duly recorded and borne away with the rest of the treasure - where, i could not say.",1
12416,"""god forbid, yurochka.",0
5747,he was slower and more hesitant than i had ever been at my worst.,0
3027,why do men always doubt that you love them?,1
10162,"say i made the offer not only to her, but also to mrs. horan, angela wright, and vincent lips-comb, and would have gone on if mr. wolfe hadn’t called me in because paul kuffner was at the office accusing me of putting the bee on miss wright.",0
513,"phyllis had been furious when the second girl left, and demanded to know what she was doing to “drive them away.” brenda had told her she wasn’t doing anything to drive anyone away, but phyllis had been less than convinced.",1
10552,"now i do need him to know i come here, you see he thinks i get the money somewhere else.”

“yes, but surely he won’t come and ask me?” frances looked fearful.",0
7637,"the next time she asked him if he wanted to play a game of parcheesi, he’d say, hell no, goddammit, didn’t she know any good games?",0
6028,"“but, then, we have certain problems about going in.”

dick said, “i’d like to get in.",0
1932,"it is a memoir, an apology, an accusation against god, the devil, life and death alike; a show-off temper tantrum with a vocabulary of self-hatred and abuse of others that often goes far beyond the merely outrageous.",1
12342,"with an amazed shake of his head, he lurched to ashton's private bar and 674

heaven and hell

sloppily poured himself a drink.",0
12400,"""what a view,"" angela said.",0
1953,"run along, now, and dress your doll.”

“she is dressed,” said the little girl, who apparently took his comment as an invitation to join him and slid herself up on the bench, adding, inscrutably, “or he is.” her look at the doll was doubtful.",1
3703,i'm determined to save up for that translator's school.,0
8145,that certainty was one of the pleasures indealing with johnny reb.,0
4858,"he must have seemed too good to be true: certainly, he would have been one of the great victims.",0
1656,"it was hard to tell what he was wearing, not golf togs surely, but his posture was very erect and formal, and he seemed not to be in anyway involved in the proceedings.",1
4329,"""i'm sure of it, although i did not see him this time.",0
10666,"he found her in her sitting room, and was left in no doubt at all that his suit was welcome, for she jumped to her feet the moment he filled the doorway, and cast herself upon his chest, much to his discomfort.",0
8201,"i'm sure you got something to do too, don't you buster?""",0
75,james gave his younger brother a disbelieving chuckle.,1
803,"if she was to do an honest job, she would be forced to think through what she was trying so hard to avoid—to face the suspicion that had been growing steadily in her mind all week.",1
10200,"""she's out trick-or-treating with friends,"" angela said.",0
7519,"in the main, the members of our company are honest, stable, god-fearing men—only one of us, the youth i referred to, provides real anxiety.",0
12003,where in hell was anne?,0
1304,"the interior and the exterior of helmuth’s house, the nearby farms, the railroad station, the disused railroad tracks, the approach to the station, the signs at the station, the angry and impatient egon, and the annoyed helmuth, and the sullen woman in the kitchen, and obbie’s curious walk as well as the uncertain infantile smile on his idiot face, and the sly calculating look on the face of obbie’s friend willy …

egon, on the phone to his wife: but darling, of course i want you to come here.",1
11125,"will you remember that?”

“yes.”

“are you sure?”

“yes.”

“and if he does show up, what will you do?”

“slam the door in his face and lock it.”

“and then?”

“call 911.”

“with no hesitation?”

“none at all,” she said, and that was the truth, but she would be afraid.",0
11889,"then turning to me, he went on in a pleading tone, “lord, the matter came out too suddenly.",0
5371,"the fat gholson lounged there while leisurely he cut a chew from his tobacco plug, put the plug and pocketknife away, and began to roll the fresh chew about in his mouth.",0
8805,i mean physical pleasure.,0
3553,"you have noticed, no doubt, that i came dressed for it.”





3


adam ben asher was standing at the entrance when luke reached the dining hall of the servants.",0
9895,"she handled correspondence for the remainder of the morning, showered and dressed, met her friends, constance and phyllis, for lunch, then returned to the house to await the arrival of laughton starkgrave, a member of the house of lords and briefly a british ambassador to the united states during the nixon administration.",0
596,"you never could be sure, with her, who you had to be nice to and who you didn’t.",1
9027,"or might he be still alive, and might quick action prevent his dying of exposure?",0
4471,"to him, politics was a kind of warfare; beliefs must always be passionate; there must be “no fraternizing24 in the trenches and no wandering about in no-man’s land.”

chamberlain was out of office for almost ten years, 1885–1895.",0
4009,"“i was sure i'd never see the sky again,” said yarden softly.",0
8572,"i mean, he certainly wasn't a woman.'",0
4013,in the deep water below him was a little botch of pink that was sure to be angleworms with one hook running through all their guts.,0
758,"marrying her to brody was better than having her return to a heathen warrior, and as surely as the sun would rise on the morrow, she would never consent to marry fallon.",1
1922,"“i hate this type of—and here i thought she used a lovely gem of a phrase—“unearned unhappiness!” although i saw exactly what she meant, i was surprised at the fervor of her hostility and i wondered—even as i climbed the steps to take her out on our picnic—if it might not be due only to some irreconcilable discord left over from that stern religion which i knew she had abandoned.",1
4655,"she’d been deceitful by returning to the attic, hoping to indulge in one more moment of sinful pleasure.",0
6536,"“oh, um, sure, that’s him.",0
11442,"“they hate you otherwise.”

“i know, but when we have our baby will you feel the same?” he laid his hand on her stomach and thought about the son or daughter who would be in their home, a real person by christmas.",0
7217,"lord rosebery, the most recent liberal prime minister, declared at epsom that “great britain has been treated rather too much as what the french call a quantité négligeable in recent periods.... if the nations of the world are under the impression that the ancient spirit of great britain is dead or that her resources are weakened, or her population less determined than ever it was to maintain the rights and honor of its flag, they make a mistake which can only end in a disastrous conflagration.” the admiralty mobilized a strong reserve squadron in the channel.",0
4049,"well, when my little girl dies, just remember it was you who killed her, just as surely as if you gave her a loaded gun and helped her pull the trigger!”

“you—”

“i’m not finished, ms. beal.",0
7328,"“he said i was the youngest person in five counties to ever be saved, to ever find the lord,” she was saying.",0
9365,"“the verse changes from 'go to jesus' to 'go with christ,' ” she said.",0
535,"she won’t marry out of pity like poor

hassy and then have all the world jump on him for trying to get

out.”

“i’m not so sure the world has jumped on him.",1
2682,"please try to understand, though i doubt you ever understood anyone in your life, even me, who loves you.",1
11726,"he even sends them money at christmas for orphanages and such.""",0
749,"for a moment, before eric’s unbelieving eyes, there was nothing in the yard but noise and flame.",1
12154,"they've deliberately tampered with the will of the gods!""",0
8444,"the driver was certainly injured, but we can’t tell how seriously.”

mcleod’s frown had become more forbidding with every word.",0
1710,"“or how would the porcupine look with the head and dress of a doll?”

the boy wasn’t totally convinced uncle was kidding.",1
2133,"but he was not yet sure what either of them would say, and this was not the place to say it; part of him was simply glad that johnny could get carlo away from this.",1
3032,"when kevin appeared his presence was not just the presence of another very young man, awkward, uncertain, gawky or defensive.",1
11909,"then mоm in great fear besought hъrin to take what he would, but to spare his life; but hъrin gave no heed to his prayer, and slew him there before the doors of nargothrond.",0
7521,"airy baptist church, just across north capitol street.",0
2924,"since he seemed increasingly unable to handle a difficult case without this sort of thing, solicitors came to regard him as a doubtful asset; after one sensational court 'scene' he narrowly escaped disbarment.",1
3659,"309
i nemo assured lucanus that he was as ""radiant as a god"" after the | bath and 
anointing, from which nema was banished, and the garbing in the white and gold 
garments.",0
11532,now armed men search rooms where macramé baskets float next to flemish candelabra; where christ and his mother glow in niches trimmed in grapevines.,0
181,he had looked at her with some suspicion after karl had left in such a hurry.,1
2899,"you don't want to talk to john because you're starting to have doubts about whether to stay with me or marry him, right?",1
9212,"the plane approached on the wind, preceded by its sound; he watched it descend, wingtips teetering in the uncertain air currents above the mild surf.",0
3557,"with the commission you bear you could no doubt force someone out, but it would cause a considerable commotion.""",0
7766,"and some of your white wine here, and boiled potatoes served up, after the last shot was heard round the world on the evening news, on white china plates in the sepulchral silence of the kitchen left there in the sink when she switched off the lights behind them leading back up the hall to interrupt a famous actress done up as a nun in the midst of her orisons with —you’re not going to watch this thing are you?",0
7748,"who in god’s name would, give me the note on it will you?",0
9290,"he’d been a pillar of local catholic society, a man known for his great rectitude and high moral standards.",0
7682,"one took nitrate photographs of his noses before and after and had bequeathed them to the los angeles county museum of art, where his wife served on the board of directors, active in volunteer fund raising.",0
8539,"certainly no trust officer had ever been carried from the building, kicking and screaming.",0
3994,"she heard him discuss what was undoubtedly breakfast, but she paid no attention to the words.",0
2277,john asked in a disbelieving way.,1
4373,"the leader is a general kerhi, and he’s already confident he can take control of the government.",0
8484,"if the maddog had driven down the alley behind the house, the cop would have seen him for sure-would have heard the car going by-and might have caught him or identified him right there.",0
9859,"“jesus, we’re playing blindfolded here.” then, frowning: “i read somewhere that, carat for carat, a good ruby’s worth more than a good diamond.”

“then take the ruby.” as he said it, bernhardt saw louise and angela emerging from the vault.",0
658,"""one copy is sealed in the los angeles museum of natural history,"" marcelle answered, eyes narrowing with what appeared to be a sudden suspicion.",1
1557,"sometime in the last months, sometime in there between the time his boat had been in doubt and now, he’d changed, been breached as wide as the cut from the sea to the salt pond, and been washed of the worst of his bitterness.",1
10572,we have to be quite sure he’s our man.,0
1730,"the maid cooked lunch, and i doubted that she would poison me.",1
5195,"a woman could let her husband call her a pig and could let the pig ride in her seat and she could let him tell jokes about her, but, by god, if he got her pregnant, or pignant, whichever it would be under the circumstances, she sure as heck couldn’t be happy about it.",0
2457,suspended belief.,1
6320,"“ ‘and who you down ther uprootin’ my collards with yo’ eyes?”

“ ‘meridian hill,’ i said, starting to laugh, because i liked her and because i sure was eyeball deep in her greens.",0
4970,"i was convinced that under mugabe accommodations would be democratized and establishments like the vic falls hotel would cease to exist, which of course was only one of a number of things that didn’t happen under mugabe.",0
3975,her father certainly behaved as if he did not.,0
6287,"the child is not dead but sleeping.’”

				“are you sure those were his exact words?” joseph asked quickly.",0
12025,"replacing the receiver for the third time, angela wondered if david had decided to play sleuth after all.",0
12335,"spanish moss caressed her 576 heaven and hell

face like threatening hands.",0
7948,"when he did, i asked jane what the hell was going on.",0
4532,"rachel, lisa, and jennifer had ganged up on her to celebrate her last promotion and had convinced her to spend almost a month’s pay on one single dress.",0
5960,"and so, with no time for argument or even reassurance, and indeed with very little talent for either, i made no moves in this direction; instead, i talked to him directly and with no evasion about the only thing that mattered.",0
654,"where he is now, i do not know other than he remains here in constantinople.” he added ruefully, “no doubt trying to hatch a plan for your escape as well.",1
6161,"surely, levi had mentioned something in passing at mealtime ’bout lydia’s hope to teach.",0
12028,"on first reading the memo, sam burned with anger and, leaving his office, sought out vincent lord on the research director's own ground.",0
9343,"all he’d have to do, he figured, was throw a little scare into pastor.",0
4563,"no doubt about it, he was her boy.",0
3206,"""let me use my spear and you can be sure i will need no second
stroke.""",0
4566,i am certain they will kill the boy.,0
11995,"""you just got here,"" angela said, giving nikki's hair a tousle.",0
6323,"""let us defer that pleasure for the moment,"" carnu said soberly.",0
1572,the problem kept him in an alert state of indecision.,1
10364,"good god, the woman could cook.",0
5121,they said it would get there for sure.,0
7885,"it was getting dark, and the lights of broadway answered all their simple prayers.",0
434,"but different races age differently, and it was hard to judge with any sureness.",1
8449,"“but old enough, i’m sure.”

“how sure?",0
10905,"i imagine he thought—and no doubt correctly—that he'd manage to have his governorship prorogued, and so retain his imperium and his tenure of gaul-across-the-alps for long enough to let the stench dissipate.",0
5173,"he also said he was sure he’d implied that he’d read middlemarch, but the truth was he’d only read two thirds of it, or a half.",0
1098,“you just haven’t convinced me.,1
3507,he must run forward into that immense heartbeat secure in the knowledge that it would not destroy him so long as he subordinated himself to it with every particle of his being.,0
12311,"are you putting it in the orion.”

god damn that irvin!",0
8603,he’d raised most of the money by showing photographs of lydia in which he’d convinced her to pose in the nude.,0
1691,but i have my doubts.,1
4344,"“were you and your wife able to get away over the weekend?”

bryan dropped his hands to his side and gazed at jesse warmly, obviously enjoying the temporary respite from the pressures of office this friendly exchange provided.",0
9838,"this one is a bas-relief, on the side panel of the altar of the virgin, which he did for the church at creglingen, not far from rothenburg.",0
8500,"‘you sure as hell scared me.’

			stryker looked at him out of the corner of his eye.",0
4372,my mother was determined that neither one of us would go downhill and lose all thought of appearance.,0
2047,"the record might have been the signal for a contact.”

“what kind of contact?”

“i’m not sure yet.",1
11591,"and take advantage of the darkness and the fog to leave at once.”

“but are the archers not still guarding the gates?”

“the abbey has other exits, and the abbot knows them.",0
2158,"at first unconvinced, nathaniel listened and shook his head.",1
6354,"the radio on the sundeck just above the beach was playing “you must’ve been a beautiful baby,” while mike and two of his business associates, ed connaire and marty hoffman, discussed the possibility of purchasing land where they were certain real-estate development would shortly begin.",0
11060,now the questioning of judd became a little harder.,0
11679,"""yes,"" said joseph and shook hands with the priest.",0
877,i’m not yet sure what they mean.,1
3020,". . no, it's hard to give a reason, except one's general suspicion of those fellows.",1
8617,"""i'm sure kaznakov doesn't know you're alive,"" tal said when the nurse had gone.",0
5738,"in a rambling and hesitant manner, marie began to give directions to the homestead.",0
2601,"rory sat back noisily in his chair and stared at his father in smiling disbelief, his eyes inverted crescents of laughing incredulity.",1
3041,"now, after the recent events at the abbey, the abbot was uneasy, and he revealed his doubts to william.",1
5604,"rape her!”

“they sure got some funny people at matinees,” a lady with a shopping bag said to her companion.",0
8781,"jaime dodson’s room had a seaside exposure and, had he been aware of it, a spectacular view.",0
9942,"the cowboy hat—god, you can’t miss him.”

he saw the hat—pale straw with a high crown, scooped brim—and recognized it right away.",0
3530,"but how could he contend with a group in collusion, all determined to kill him, many of them even now lying wait for him in ambush?",0
4301,"‘you are the only one eager for word of arthur, i suppose?’

‘if it is a fight you are wanting,’ cai answered gruffly, ‘go argue with rhys - no doubt he will oblige.",0
1256,clarence considered admitting to manny he’d been right to doubt mookie’s story about the hispanics.,1
6032,"upon appeal this judgment was struck down thus granting the village the right of removal in the course of which it might be presumed the animal would gain its freedom; in the event, however, before these measures were carried out, cyclone seven was struck by a bolt of lightning, and its reluctant tenant found to have been released forever from the travails of earthly existence

james b, infant, acting through his curator bonis and guardian ad litem, filed an action as owner and bailor of the chattel, a dog of tender years named spot, alleging negligence on the part of the village.",0
3282,"all of these years i had thought of myself as not very smart, maybe even a little lazy, and certainly not talented.",0
2549,"twice in that week he thought he was being followed as he drove to the airfield, but he could not be sure.",1
6534,"diana had left her place at the emperor's table and was walking proudly, confidently, down the steps of the dais, to take her stand beside marcellus.",0
8399,but there’s a sure enough melba owns melba’s place.” he poured some usher’s into a glass.,0
10152,"even so, angelo tried the door.",0
11861,"“what are my lord’s commands?”

ptahor gave him his orders, and he went off to look for the chair.",0
994,"and we have no men living amongst us of the sort who would give them aid, have we?” why did he sense a seed of doubt in his own mind?",1
2692,"he reasoned further: the police might well assume be had had a parked car waiting and changed vehicles, or he had boarded a late night bus or taxi, any of which assumptions would leave his general whereabouts in doubt.",1
8228,"i do not doubt his name will be revered as ""the father of scientific excavation"" as long as civilization endures upon this troubled globe.",0
189,"his illness had changed that, shown me a man filled with doubts and unsteady emotions.",1
2675,micky said skeptically.,1
12387,"“jesus god, frank!” i said.",0
10238,"“i was in a bind.”

“you’re supposed to be the big broadway angel.",0
3118,"without thinking, grace had stopped to touch a hand, and the woman had looked at her in suspicion.",1
7844,"here it was thursday, and i should have called her sunday night, that was suddenly clear.",0
921,"not only did this ritual contradict everything the priests had taught him about adultery and fornication, but it raised a very disturbing question that he wasn’t certain he wanted answered.",1
6724,beyond belief!,0
11742,"he would become a preacher against every bill of goods anyone ever sold: from politics to morality, frank was always for the opposition.",0
3189,"if suspicions were aroused, as sometimes happened, both doors remained closed and locked until reinforcements, or proof of identity, arrived.",1
2217,"but then, slowly, her stance became unsure.",1
6482,"sixtus turned, a look of displeasure on his face, but seeing the cause of the disturbance, he hesitated to order the son of his distinguished colleague ejected from the room.",0
3097,"he was even more amused when he saw that joseph's fingers were faintly tremulous and his look uncertain, as if he were embarrassed or had been humiliated or had indulged himself in an unspeakable manner.",1
2997,"and even as i asked that last question, a dark suspicion stirred.",1
11073,"he met my slave girl, whom i called keftiu after the islands in the sea, being unable to pronounce her heathenish name, and he found delight in her.",0
3689,jeanne says she’s sure they can make it.,0
3013,"the old priest, whom doubt had begun to plague, was stupefied when mr. spaulding gave him a sheaf of money totaling fifteen hundred dollars.",1
3750,"""and you certainly don't seem to have many answers.""",0
3900,"thinking of mathematics, i see curves moving in space according to certain aloof and inevitable laws, generating the beauty of trajectories, expanding, carrying truth upon the backs of their arches, like cherubs on dolphinback, farther and farther out, plunging and rising.",0
2745,"doubtfully, she said, ""yes, sir,"" and tiptoed out.",1
847,"“i can explain everything.”

“i doubt it.” she stood hugging herself.",1
3846,"during the devotion, sister luke planned what she would do to make the private room safe from night inspection.",0
8198,"“you’ll all forgive me, i’m sure,” he declared, “if i remind you of the time.",0
7176,you’re the kind of guy who really raises my dad’s blood pressure.,0
11477,"“ouuuuuu!” harry doolin cried, reverting to his former scripture.",0
2665,"""yes, it does.”

a note of doubt crept in.”would it mean giving up my job?""",1
2473,he had never been sure he could find the woman.,1
3453,"i’m sure your place reminds her of her loss, and she—”

“it does me too, ben, but i’m not leaving.”

he stood and asked if he could open the drapes and blinds.",0
2949,"so it is in a return

of security that he asks, voicing like a loved child a teasing doubt,

“were you really a hooer?”

to his surprise she turns hard under his arm and twists away and

stands beside the railing menacingly.",1
12117,"heedless of the priests, horemheb pardoned all who had shared in the foundation of aton’s kingdom and freed the prisoners from the quarries so as to press them into his service.",0
1841,and how could i make sure?,1
943,why do i need to put my faith in god?,1
7344,an angel ordering me about?,0
6897,"if you feel you must take a wife or treasure hunting, don’t wait for me.",0
7182,"past a certain hour of the darkness, a certain tick of the clock, the strands of habit, expectation, common sense, and small pleasures that had held me through the day slowly broke apart.",0
1129,the uncertainty of that gesture argued eloquently for him.,1
7030,"“and you don’t have a problem with that?”

“sure i do.",0
9924,"christ, i said worse duringthe force-tonkin conferences and my co did meten times better.",0
1309,"“nothing.”

“who are you going to bring home thanksgiving—linda?” i said, “or me?”

“who can i bring home, neil?”

“i don’t know, who can you?”

“can i bring you home?”

“i don’t know,” i said, “can you?”

“stop repeating the question!”

“i sure as hell can’t give you the answer.”

“neil, be realistic.",1
10181,"“you must excuse me now, mr. angel.",0
5123,i know for sure that there was no talking right then or calling out.,0
794,"are you pleased with it?”

“i don’t know.” he shook his head doubtfully.",1
4743,i surely will.,0
7652,"he was an arsonist, and he once exposed himself at an upstairs window while lovell was playing the “waldstein.” in spite of all this, percy was never bitter or melancholy, and continued to worship uncle abbott.",0
6045,"after the fall of sejanus, most romans had confidently expected the party of agrippina to stage a major comeback, beginning with her return from exile.",0
4841,"ira had heard rumors of stabbings, rapes, robberies; he believed that such crimes were an inevitable result of war’s upheaval, but was determined to protect his own household and community insofar as he was able.",0
677,"helena climbed the remaining steps, her doubtful gaze spurning his words of assurance.",1
3561,"i’m not doubtful of final victory, but i grieve at the boys and girls who are lost as the battle goes on.",0
951,"she’d even considered herself an agnostic until lukas bower exploded into her life last spring with his gentle humor, strong compassion for others and his vibrant faith.",1
8816,speak up!” fillmore was sure of himself again.,0
4888,and so the melancholy which had taken hold of me when i left yetta zimmerman’s and journeyed by subway to stay with my father in manhattan had been as close to creating an excruciating physical malaise as any i had ever known—most surely since my mother’s death.,0
4042,"surely ‘tis so, reverend colman, for i see things—”

“things, madam, that you ought not to see.",0
10968,“i am not the theoretician that comrade vishnayev undoubtedly is.,0
3302,"north of this cramped huddle of houses and on slightly higher ground the red-tile roofs of a quite imposing villa shone through the trees surrounding it, doubtless the home of the big man who owned the melon business.",0
3544,"i’ll laugh when they both fry.”

“you think you can fry them, artie, really?”

“him for sure.",0
1564,"“you didn’t expect to hear from me again?”

“i wasn’t even sure i heard you the first time,” lourdes says tentatively.",1
10228,"i’ll meet you there in about an hour.”

“but—but i don’t understand.”

“something very vital has cropped up in the angela scali case,” i said.",0
9887,"'oh, my god,' she whispered.",0
4635,"malachi froze, unable to run, unable to shout, and struggled to meet death as he had always intended, with dignity, his faith defiant to whatever painful end was forced upon him.",0
8046,she was certain she’d closed it before going down to the classroom.,0
1447,"i seriously doubt whether i can survive more than a day or two in this fetal position.”

“hey, where are you two beatniks going?” miss annie’s voice called faintly from behind her shutters.",1
11504,"if he’s short of the ready, it ought to be manna from heaven.",0
2267,“i don’t like the words i’m not sure.,1
4361,"surely, buried here were treasures beyond material wealth.",0
11439,"the speaker was a monk bent under the weight of his years, an old man white as

snow, not only his skin, but also his face and his pupils.",0
8698,"nate watched the pool join the usual contingent of cops and agents; among them, kerry kilcannon moved like a magnet that drew a swarm of followers toward the steps of the airplane.",0
12329,"easterhouse's swindle was just a variation of the fourth cash register scam, and could only be uncovered by the full annual ministry audit the following spring.",0
6702,“but we can take you in for questioning.,0
591,he is our doubtful and determined hero.,1
5424,"i waved; after only the briefest of hesitations he called out, ""well well, father!",0
362,it seemed like such a long time since he had spoken to a child that he was not sure his vocal cords would work for the occasion.,1
4832,certainly active.,0
1284,"within seconds, the veins in his neck were bulging, either from his anger or her audacity, norah wasn’t sure which.",1
8647,"they laughed and talked until blanche was caught up with the antics of ardell’s grown son, maurice—a studio back-up singer in atlanta; the latest outrage from ardell’s supervisor at the electrical parts factory—her regular daytime job; ardell’s latest encounter with blanche’s sharp-tongued mother; and the news about shirley’s pregnancy, velma’s divorce; and miz carter, whose duties as church organist had apparently been broadened to include certain private services for reverend brown.",0
9536,“taking the lord’s communion with blood on our hands.,0
10176,"my god—i never knew—before—why the victorian poets—called it dying.”

“you forgive me for staying out all night, huh?”

“right now—i’ll forgive you—for anything—whewww—if you’ll close—the front door.” then she giggled happily.",0
2670,"they engaged halls, were interviewed by reporters as skeptical as themselves, bought full pages of advertisements in newspapers, had brochures printed and posters.",1
918,"“though why you’d want such a heathen, i’m not sure.”

norah’s features relaxed into the hint of a grin.",1
770,"""yes-"" spence's mind raced to think of a way to escape without arousing suspicion.",1
3475,"that’s not easy to do.” he gazed up to make sure i hadn’t fainted, i suppose.",0
1740,"""out dere travelin' wid massa, or sometime me and uncle mingo up all night wid some dem sick chickens, i he's jes' thinkin' 'bout you an' de young' un matilda bit her tongue, choosing not to voice her doubts, even her suspicions about some of the things he said.",1
6090,"so vast an exposure needed new words, new levels of thought, new analogies, and a new boldness in speculation.",0
10467,"the rumor about the gold of tolosa had tipped the balance against caepio and the senate, there could be no doubt of it; from head count clear to first class, the whole city shrieked imprecations at caepio the thief, caepio the traitor, caepio the self-seeker.",0
10365,who the hell would forge your old man’s signature?,0
4781,"let me make sure i'm understanding this, he said.",0
10627,"that measure alone will eventually suck a million palestinians south from the west bank and gaza, jordan, and lebanon, to reside in their new homeland south of the nefud, bringing peace to the northern middle east.""",0
1103,"dani remembered having once thought of mathematics as a distinctly secular subject, without spiritual dimension.",1
8294,i’m sure he’s there; he’s most always there.” she consulted a chart on a clipboard.,0
322,"i know you.’

‘i’m not sure whose it is, mother.",1
10473,he showed no sign of resentment: no doubt he had too much on his mind to think about past slights.,0
7355,you weren’t trying to fool me down there praying to jesus.,0
11482,"you can come christmas night and we’ll get you ready.”

“ok,” i said.",0
4567,"now this devotion between them was intensified
by the fact of the child, whom timna was always
to believe her own blood.",0
2088,"i suppose it must have been him, but i’ll never know for sure.",1
2264,she wasn't sure.,1
9018,"you’re a treasure.”

“it’s my role to be a treasure.”

“true.",0
8778,zhenya had taken pleasure in staying far enough in front of rostnikov to make the inspector limp in embarrassment after him.,0
7874,"—well we’re all hungry christina, we couldn’t go shopping without a car could we?",0
5394,"in this manner he escaped from its walls and roamed in freedom along san piedro’s wood paths, along the verges of its autumn pastures crusted over with skins of hoarfrost; he followed in his mind certain remnants of trail that gave out suddenly in blackberry riots or in fields of unexpected scotch broom.",0
11385,"it does not seem to me that they were preaching things contrary to the gospel, but when the session of earthly things is in question, it is difficult for men to reason justly.",0
5731,"they died of strangulation, waggling their corded legs, gesticulating with their corded hands and arms in a strange leisure.",0
4947,"of course, i can assure you, i haf respek, de great respek your real fader.",0
3226,"mr. merrill, who assured owen that he only wanted to know the particulars so that he could make every effort to steer the headmaster away from owen, who was randy white's prime suspect.",0
12053,angela snuggled up to her husband.,0
1672,"rosemary could have managed that maybe, if she’d wanted…

and now a smog of suspicion and jealousy descends on fred, as if the saturated smoky-purple clouds that hang over the parking lot had suddenly descended, blotting out london.",1
7590,"the speed of god’s justice was only what he expected for himself, but he could not stand to think that his sins would be visited upon nelson and that even now, he was leading the boy to his doom.",0
7464,"ask him if we can’t have the service in the little chapel and tell him about the speech.”

the boys drove over to christ church and were let into an office where the rector was trying to work an adding machine.",0
5025,"a board creaks, a pipe bangs, a streak of wind whishes through a vulnerable chink: competition to devotions.",0
4193,"they enflame crowds, make lightning-quick rationalizations of indefensible actions, and truly believe, in their paucity of belief, that ‘anything is possible,’ ‘everything can be improved,’ so why not smash it all and rebuild from the ground up?",0
8393,"kate hardly knew what she had expected, but certainly not an authoritative freudian who had a moment between meetings of a conference or committee and clearly considered kate of insufficient importance to occupy one of her few free moments.",0
10884,"the mink, which undoubtedly would be worn in his car, was for barbara.",0
10350,"christ, sonny, i thought everybody did.”

“leave them.”

“no, help me.”

she washed, he wiped.",0
11920,"her ordeal was interrupted by a lunch recess, senator donahue informing her, ""mrs. jordan, you may stand down, but please be available for more questions later.”

the senator then announced, ""the next witness after lunch will be dr. vincent lord.”



12

quentin and celia ate a sandwich lunch and drank coffee from a thermos in the rear of a limousine which had been waiting for them outside the old senate office building.”it's faster and more private than we'd get elsewhere,"" quentin had said when announcing the arrangement.",0
12249,"david started to say something, but angela shushed him.",0
2947,"he studied me carefully, indecision in his eyes.",1
1898,"all the way from boston on the east wind, steeling myself with drink (and, as i steeled, softening my headlong nerves), i had planned how i would tell theron of dr. lowebridge’s recommendation, one that i knew he would greet with an admixture of contempt and complacence, for while he despised psychiatry—he despised medicine in general—he had many times ended our vicious quarrels with the reminder that if what i had told him about my father (whom he had never met) was the truth, my mental heritage was doubtless suspect and i was immoral not to be examined by someone competent to navigate the eccentric meanders of my mind.",1
10423,"“my god, are you a glutton!",0
5634,and i guess a man’s importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories.,0
8757,"“i’d better get back and spell jim,” martini said with genuine reluctance.",0
10420,"""but it's a hell of a story, isn't it?",0
11708,"mr. spaulding put his hand on the document as if about to swear an oath, and as if the document were the bible.",0
3790,i’m convinced it would be a tragedy for my brother and his wife to adopt her.”,0
7619,"zeebo lined on jordan’s stormy banks, and church was over.",0
3859,"“maybe the children,” she said, “we’ve taught them to read, but aside from their school books there’s nothing in their homes to read except an occasional bible.”

“but are you sure there are enough people who can afford to rent books?”

“no,” said laura, “the renting was clay-boy’s idea.",0
6861,wolf and the three seals with him had secured berth three.,0
97,"“‘help thou my unbelief.’ i know you talked to me, because i never had thoughts like those before.",1
1983,"he had had ample opportunity to talk with his associates beforehand.”

“he might have wanted to throw suspicion on someone.”

“then for an intelligent man he was remarkably clumsy about it.",1
5826,"he seldom laughs, he takes almost no wine, and he seems to disdain even the harmless, distracting pleasures that we took with the girls once.",0
7455,"she repeated this in the form of a rhetorical question to the crowd, asking for the name of any church of which this was not true.",0
11624,"miss forster, as the daughter of a minister and a member of the ladies aid, had been accustomed to taking orders all her life and so, though she had had plans for a picnic lunch with her sister's family, it never occurred to her to mention that she had a previous engagement.",0
281,"“but … emmett,” ian said, “how can i be certain i’m cut out for this?",1
10190,"dora is like a — heavens, i was going to say like a mother to her.",0
6120,"""you will stay in the palace,"" jethro told him sternly, quite out of
patience with his questioning.",0
11924,"“good books are for consideration after, too.”

“okay.”

“lord of the flies wasn’t much like the hardy boys, was it?”

bobby had a momentary image, very clear, of frank and joe hardy running through the jungle with homemade spears, chanting that they’d kill the pig and stick their spears up her arse.",0
10633,"he was angry, of course; so much that it dimmed his pleasure in the extravagant black and white running shoes.",0
6488,"the doctors knew the situation was grave and attempted to treat him with anticoagulants, but his blood pressure dropped and they were unable to control the infection.",0
10493,"sure enough, the little yellow plane was flying low over the hamlet.",0
3807,"it would happen, he was sure.",0
2097,"but frank nodded his head and said in a reasonable, gentle voice, without irony, “children must suffer for the sins of their fathers.”



he spoke like a churchgoer, a christian, and, in confirmation of her suspicion, he took a red-edged holy book from the pocket of his jacket.",1
12364,"in the end, the meeting produced nothing but an increase of frustration for vincent lord.",0
2057,"during all those months, while i had been suspecting it and watching, i had often wondered if i would actually go through with it if i ever found the proof and knew, but the moment i opened that briefcase and saw the money there was no longer any doubt or hesitation.",1
10315,"take their money, for god’s sake, but don’t touch the hand that gives it to you.",0
7959,my sunday suit.,0
308,"they felt unsure just how to proceed now, and whether they
wished to admit it or not, they were deeply fearful.",1
10442,"ethel schwarz served tea and cookies as they sat around the dining-room table and held a general post-mortem on the high holy day ser­vices: on the rabbi’s sermons, on the cantor’s singing, on the faulty public-address system, on the disorder during the reading.",0
9799,"then, matter-of-factly, she said, “hit came from high above, like god did it.”

“you offering me a job?”

“no,” she said, “but it’s something for us to think about.”

“i don’t shovel.”

“maybe you wouldn’t have to.”

he pulled himself to his feet, his legs tired where least expected, in the back of the calves, as if he had been running.",0
9282,"it was more like calling a friend, or a priest.’

‘a priest?’

‘someone who would feel sympathy,’ paget said coolly, ‘as she has every right to expect.’

‘she will certainly get sympathy.",0
6953,surely he must be nearly here!,0
7252,her hesitation to be out in the open water had been overcome before she looked around and realized where she was.,0
7075,"“sure, sure.",0
5983,she wished she could find more americans his age with his blood pressure.,0
3356,"the concierge will not likely be surprised at your disappearance, and she undoubtedly will rent your room in a day.” he grinned, winked, and left.",0
6718,his eyes searched the determined face before him.,0
5120,"a sheet of glass protects her, or she would be literally wiped away by the touches of her devotees.",0
2898,the chairman seemed uncertain whether to intervene or not.,1
2239,somehow he doubted it.,1
7105,"on the other hand, there’s probably nobody else in the world i’d ever take a bullet for but you.”

“sure there is,” she said sadly.",0
10212,"i do ask: during the three days that mr. brodell was here alive had there been any noticeable conflict between him and anyone else?”

“no.”

“oh for god’s sake, bill.” joseph colihan’s high-pitched voice didn’t go with his broad shoulders and square jaw.",0
6610,"now, that william is sure bucking counsel.” he sighed gustily, with a wistful look in his eyes.",0
10796,"ushered in, sulla saw at a glance that his slaves had seized their opportunity and taken the night off, no doubt expecting that when their master came in, he would be in no state to take a head count.",0
5485,a wag of a newspaper columnist had written that the syntax reflected the temperament of the people: their reluctance to take action until the last moment.,0
9070,"are you sure we’re ringing 203-565-1313?”

“i’ll dial it again, sir.”

steve stared at the receiver in his hand.",0
9471,"she said she was interested in the washington family.”

“well, i doubt that, you know.” the priest buttered another scone and munched it thoughtfully.",0
9332,"him and the minister got in a theological discussion, the paper said.",0
7901,"it was jinny love, they realized, who had capered down, and now stood strangely signaling from shore.",0
4816,"and sure enough, there on the split page of the morning’s paper flamed the black robed effigy of the craggy federal judge who, like the sharp edges and jagged peaks of the controversial steel sculpture cyclone seven, had become a lightning rod for the passions of this once sleepy community, erupting last night in a virtual replay of an earlier melee which left seventy-two injured and extensive property damage in its wake.",0
11665,"during her funeral mass the church had been invaded by street vandals--inflamed by their masters--and her very poor wooden coffin had been befouled, as well as the host.",0
4206,he wanted to be dead sure.,0
7539,"“the house in the early afternoon,” vivian said, “then holy tabernacle in the evening.”

diane’s husband said, “that house got that reverend saunders, ain’t it?",0
221,"those who are estranged from truth by passion and pleasure in sinning, and who are overcome by weakness and ignorance, must surrender their passion to regret, their pleasure to sorrow, and conquer the infirmities of the flesh with the fire of justice, and meet ignorance with liberality.",1
5420,"maybe something good’ll come out of all this shit.”

“you mean it, sir?”

“sure.",0
11821,"why can’t he just say, ‘now i’m going to show you sorrow,’ and carry the damn thing into a room—when we’re all ready for it, for christ’s sake!”

“sorrow?” said egg, peering from under his bedclothes.",0
7223,"that’s precisely the problem—and with canning doing all possible to block the amelioration measures we are to consider this session, all we’ve gained so far might be lost.",0
602,bob wasn’t sure what woke him.,1
5357,"surely it's a question of vision, for as we are, we can see, but only to the corner; we cannot begin to see the whole design....

but this is not a theological treatise or a piece of apologetic.",0
7720,"mama said, “he’s an angel and i’ll never get used to having him.”

“we’d be better off if we never had had him,” said papa.",0
9122,"it’ll just take a minute; i won’t linger.”

“sure,” he said, “come ahead.”

when i arrived at the gillsworth home, his gray bentley was parked on the bricked driveway.",0
7713,god knows what’s to become of us.,0
11087,"today and yesterday there had been a steady, happy stream of talk as the four of them filled in, with descriptions, experiences, and animated questioning, the six-month gap during which they had been apart.",0
2617,"it stays with you forever.”

i doubted it; i hoped not.",1
5519,"i ask her where she’s from and she answers with practice a certain fancy neighborhood in seoul, and then offers other facts i might want to hear: she’s twenty-two, a college graduate, a good cook.",0
3318,"he frowned at jeanette, seeing a girl who looked at first glance like a peasant, but despite her tanned face she was undoubtedly beautiful and the remnants of her dress suggested she had once known elegance.",0
12367,"after the voice had ceased, i remained lying before the statue of ammon until the priest came in and kicked me aside.",0
1498,"a postal strike delayed the letter but still he kept standing there three days in the rain—which impressed her enough that she went out to him, told him directly that he was a heathen and there must be no mingling of the heathen and the saved.",1
5324,"torn from the womb of faithless coronis slain, he too had known an unmothered childhood and the distant protection of a divine father; chiron treated him less as a pupil than as a colleague, and while the others romped at recess the two of them, old at heart, side by side delved deeper into the arcana of research.",0
11219,"rosaura had to limit her appearance to the church, since she felt too sick.",0
3384,"and i suppose my grandmother noticed that dan needham was tall, and that he had a sizable

bottom, and this no doubt meant to her that an even fewer-than-usual number of seats were available to him-while lydia, not yet deft with her wheelchair, blocked the way here, and the way there, and neither my mother nor my grandmother had yet developed that necessary reflex to simply wheel her out of the way.",0
8365,"‘adrian, dear, you know that i—’

			‘i don’t know anything, tess, but i will know more tomorrow, that is certain.",0
249,the apostles looked at one another in disbelief.,1
365,"“i wish to plead, your highness,” francis said, “for men who have befriended and assisted our efforts in thonon by their courtesy and fairness but who have not themselves received of god the gift of faith.",1
4785,"her son was doubtless the biggest bastard that ever went to pencey, in the whole crumby history of the school.",0
4661,"jesus had been
explaining why he was late, and lazarus was questioning him further.",0
706,she doubted if she ever would.,1
4732,"they were certain she had done it, and yet they could not accuse her.",0
3931,"she will surely die without the operation; she 
may live if i perform it.""",0
11393,"the powers-that-be just aren't going to let you live here like a monk, telling them nothing.""",0
2881,"the caller, still whispering, sounded doubtful.",1
2643,it was the kind of smile he had when he was showing somebody a doubtful property.,1
11147,"provisionally, i take this reluctance to be a form of embarrassment at what they—i can no longer write we—have become.",0
11294,i pray for your happiness.,0
8634,"""that's certainly mutual,"" tibbs replied.",0
4545,nothing would come clear except that it seemed certain this day held some events of especial importance.,0
3126,"this time wally replenished the drinks and the four of them sat, uneasily at first, uncertain of what to say.",1
1244,"“hello?” she said, her voice uncertain.",1
6182,"""you sure?""",0
10708,"lester atlas was in the olivier party, without a doubt in the world.",0
3147,"“fehlgeburt was full of doubt,” ernst said.",1
3101,"charles added, with extra conviction to mask his growing uncertainty: 'they'll catch their trains, don't worry.'",1
4983,"certainly, for your own.",0
4122,"if it had not been for fulk, calhoun was sure he would have gone mad.",0
8977,"“good morning, darling,” she said, and saw the quick effect of reassurance.",0
3829,"and i grieve now, for i am leaving it.’

at the centre of black robe, however, is the jesuit laforgue himself, a towering and haunting presence in his mixture of will and weakness, faith and fear.",0
6423,"“this food sure looks good, doesn’t it?",0
1360,"this seemed to me doubtful, but my father said that he always respected another man’s beliefs.",1
11409,"her husband was not in the least eccentric, generally speaking, but it was odd for a hardheaded methodist businessman to collect something so frivolous and exquisite, and the whole family found it amusing.",0
10524,"i will speak through these to all my people and reveal to them my purpose.”

they did as he commanded and bade the people assemble the next day, eie in the belief that he would be reconciled with ammon, horemheb in the hope that he would declare war on aziru and the hittites.",0
4753,"besides, she was sure he would not do it.",0
10257,"but when he saw his own blood, my god, he seemed to go crazy.",0
5390,"i need to be able to type out my bills and stuff.”

“sure.",0
609,but a doubt crept in.,1
1146,"addison stroked jason’s neck, not sure what to do to comfort the child.",1
6420,"you would probably find my beliefs very unorthodox.”

“i’d love to hear about them.”

he stared down at his tattered sandals, suddenly shy.",0
10569,"certainly they were much too big for the size she was

when she died.",0
8050,"he went off to his car, sure that he would see her again.",0
2209,"i doubt if he went.""",1
11692,"i've never met a christian except, perhaps, for one or two.",0
8289,"surely he was sent on both errands by the same master.""",0
7485,"i knew you would be the minute i saw you in church.”

“what’s your usual routine?”

“i read the announcements in the paper.",0
3403,you’re certainly not sorry that you misjudged me!,0
4324,‘how do you know?’ i little doubted the emrys would have sound reason for his judgment; i merely wished to hear it.,0
4614,"papa had talked about the breach between our two faiths, but patrick was willing to step into that abyss for me.",0
10219,"what the hell kind of lawyer are you?”

“good question, mr. scorvelli!” wager was enjoying this.",0
10992,"and he ordered the archers to have someone

show them the way and to take the two prisoners to separate cells; and the men were to tie the monk well to some rings set in the wall, so that bernard could go down shortly and, questioning him, look him in the face.",0
1490,"so the students danced slow, and fahyi rhallon was asking how the war went, what the strategies were, and doc said it went very well on the good days and very badly on the bad days, but that in general it was hard to say, hard to know for sure, and the captain agreed with this, it was always hard to know how a war went.",1
2987,"if you do not have superb self- esteem others will have no esteem for you, and therefore they will doubt you and your word and your actions, and will hesitate when you give them orders or be mutinous.",1
2786,"but once she assured him how easily everything would run, his doubts vanished and he joined in her enthusiasm.",1
2680,"he ought to check out his suspicions by sending for the foreman concerned, and afterward make a written report to the plant manager, mckernon, who would have no choice except to act on it.",1
11561,"emily said: ""the church has no objection to an annulment if the grounds are genuine.""",0
1288,"as for his belonging to her, i had my doubts, and i was not the only one.",1
1575,i can’t say for sure.,1
10206,"“well, what the hell do you want me to do?”

he half heard a shifting behind him, and he managed not to glance back in his sudden panic.",0
1593,"he cares, you know.”

			“i’m not sure that he does,” i said.",1
10527,"i'm sure you deserve it.""",0
9173,the thing which irritated him was the other line of questioning.,0
10934,"sashenka, though doubtless frightened and repelled, let the unshaven stranger get quite close and bend over him, then he jerked himself upright, clutching the front of his mother's dress with one hand, and angrily swung the other arm and slapped him in the face.",0
2532,"black and rubbery, maybe, with one of those blades i associate with cutting through hard things like wood.”

“i’m not sure i understand,” i said, even though i had a good idea what she meant.",1
5306,"now and then, and that was quite understandable, helmuth would throw nervous glances at rita, to make sure that she did not have any last-minute pangs of guilt.",0
5246,"without doubt, our doctor was superior.",0
5192,"surely, she thinks, the people would remark on her if they could see her; they would certainly realize that in her reside memories of this square and this neighborhood older than some of the plane trees.",0
11929,"oh, god, don’t let that happen!",0
5407,"this is what celia learns: that her son returned home from the university to find a note on the kitchen table, that the envelope was a buttery yellow and the handwriting tall, loopy, and confident, that his two pairs of trousers hung pressed with sharp creases in the closet, that his wife had made love to him the night before so he wouldn’t get suspicious, that she’d left him for the visiting mathematics professor from minsk, that the professor was a spindly crane of a man with a shaved head and goatee who liked to impersonate lenin, that javier’s daughter, his beloved daughter, to whom spanish was the language of lullabies, had left with her mother for good.",0
3759,"but they have been used, just as surely as they are using us.”

amy tried to puzzle out the strange words.",0
4723,"and yet we root him on, paradoxically: though his is an impossible magic that cannot last, we persist in believing that it should last and should have lasted in us.",0
5686,"“she has a cute suit on.” she turned to me and said, “if she comes over here, aunt ginny, may i go lie with them?”

“sure.",0
11841,i’m glad you liked lord of the flies.,0
12230,"look at me, my lord sinuhe!",0
10208,“she was hard as hell to hold a friendly conversation with.,0
553,"frankly, i doubt very much that a complete democratization of the church would either strengthen it or stem the tide of defections by priests and religious.",1
12151,"drink, therefore, from the cup i now offer you, so that upon my return to egypt i shall be able to say that the lord of the four quarters of the world was my friend.",0
7965,"“i took a look in the front door and i smelled the best goddamned smell i ever smelled in my life, just possibly barring the smell of roasting duck.",0
10368,"what are you after?”

“goddammit,” cecil demanded, “what are you after?",0
3320,"john couper even wrote that “plainly, there is a shortage of courage at the

north, and they would never dare attack more than one southern state at a time.” this belief was growing so strong in the southern states, anne was afraid to broach the subject even to pete or to eve.",0
4035,"“i can’t go.”

like the faithful guardian he is, barkley lifted his head and woofed a warning bark at whatever had dared disturb his mistress.",0
6530,"can i talk to you in private?”

john looked around as if to say that they were in private, then said, “sure.",0
11015,"it hesitates, and rabbit thinks it will die, but

he’s fooled, for the ball makes its hesitation the ground of a final

leap; with a kind of visible sob takes a last bite of space before

vanishing in falling.",0
5193,"he kept his eyes in her eyes as he moved his head, making sure that she was watching, only releasing them when his head was almost fully turned.",0
6192,the thought of meeting other children in the playroom filled him with apprehension.,0
8865,"i’d hire a good lawyer, and i’d follow his advice.”

“yes …” irresolutely, she nodded.",0
3718,"some of them had raised chickens and pigs, too, spending grueling hours in the field while they spread manure to insure bountiful crops.",0
6271,there will be leaders and there will be followers.,0
6425,"i know that three months of courtship didn’t give you much time to get to know me, and i realize that i was a virtual stranger to you when we married, and i recognize that i have certain peculiarities that don’t always make me easy to live with, especially considering that i lived here alone before we were married and—”

“fritz . . .” i covered his lips with my fingers.",0
11720,"after, she told me she was going down to the church, where the ladies’ aid was preparing thanksgiving meals for shut-ins.",0
6769,"“the teal is still my favorite.”

“are you sure?",0
5155,but adam made very sure that he didn’t win again—at anything.,0
10329,he hoped this didn't spell trouble for angela.,0
4830,"for that i would willingly be called that hateful epithet “nigger lover,” which i am sure i am called already in private by many, including frank hobbs.",0
2844,he seemed for a moment fazed by such prompt capitulation and pawed the dust uncertainly around tom's head.,1
8918,calhoun heard a series of locks secured.,0
4540,no doubt.,0
4255,"given time, i have no doubt he will regain his former strength and well-being.""",0
209,"and though i do not think he expected an answer, i said, “i believe it was an english playwright after the time of shakespeare, and the phrase is ‘savage breast,’ not beast.”

“couldn’t prove it by me,” he said, then added, “but whoever it was, he didn’t tell the whole story, ’cause music can sure rile up a body, too.” he mindlessly ran a finger around the steering wheel for a few moments, and presently he stopped, then looked at me and asked, “do you ever wish you could wipe things out of your mind, rosie?”

",1
6347,"isn’t that a good story?’ ‘oh, sure,’ the cellmate answered, ‘but he don’t tell it right.’”

she put down her cigarette and burst into tears.",0
5928,"there she was, as she saw it, living her whole life up to her elbows in a copper washtub, her face hag-lined from steam and exposure, as though it bore the punishment directly for what it had brought her, when her entire prospect changed and she, like the goose girl, was acknowledged as the true princess.",0
5414,so ronnie give me the little cigarette and i smoked it deeply and very soon i could understood why people used it for pleasure—it was wonderful!,0
2870,"lie knew, without any doubt at all, that he must keep this new and frightening awareness to himself, and from his father, who, he suspected, had his own dark places.",1
10144,“it might have been harold christie or some crazed native or god knows who.,0
7967,"but, by god, i don’t understand you guys.",0
8171,"they were outlawed a month after the foundation for this one was poured.”

“the construction is certainly first-rate,” stuart said.",0
6868,"i mean, i’m sure she’s ... i think her married name is reynolds.”

tony stared at the man’s starched white shirt.",0
11293,"it’s always the same foolishness and i suppose there’s comfort in that, but i’d guess most of us knew about rodchenko’s death.… but you didn’t, priest, and when our television lady told you, you weren’t astonished, you weren’t shocked—as i say, you weren’t even surprised.”

“certainly i was!” shouted the jackal.",0
2884,augusta shook her head dubiously.,1
296,"such precautions were second nature to him; he felt no fear; only a
burning interest in the men who looked so hardy, who gave such cautious
answers; and a maddening frustration because he could only communicate
with them through melchior and balthazar how could he be certain that
the questions were rightly put and the answers rightly returned?",1
7201,"“buck, shouldn't you try to edit it or shape it into some sort of book
form first?”
“i'll take a look at it, chloe, but there's a certain beauty in simply reproducing it in
the form it's in.",0
1266,"such things might happen among heathen, but never among the decent women of galilee.",1
9505,"“well, it’s always good to get away from all this, to have a chance to straighten yourself out with god,” bernstein the convert said quietly at his elbow.",0
11985,"""in god's name what were you thinking of to get us into this mess?",0
4669,"with their strong and confident voices, the ladies on the platform were one of the favorite singing groups in the church, and the crowd enjoyed the music.",0
7161,"lost in pain, pain, too much pain, thor howled, brutally bringing the ax down, slashing, slashing, striking again and again with the full measure of a colossal strength that he had never used and never imagined and chunks of black flesh and black armor sailed through the air, blood...

leviathan's evil green eyes glared down at him, hating and enraged, and in a moment of rage and madness, thor whirled and twisted to swing the battle-ax upward to hurl a vicious blow that struck harder still, slashing beneath a glowing eye.",0
1732,"when we entered all the noise ceased, like a string cut in two, the end raveling back into a sort of shocked consternation of pivoting faces, and the waiter—an old man in a dirty apron—falling back before us, slack-jawed, with an expression of outraged unbelief, like an atheist confronted with either christ or the devil.",1
297,"“ ‘but the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.’ ”

jesse looked up and told his frightened flock, “those murderers and idolators, those whoremongers and liars will soon be at our gates.",1
11831,"i’ve had it fixed up and cleaned, should keep perfect time.” then he would add deprecatingly, “they told me it was made in 1870, but who the hell knows?",0
5425,or it has a certain motor inside.,0
6621,"he stepped around the table behind faith, floorboards groaning against his weight, and placed both his hands on her shoulders.",0
3176,again the mix of doubt and fear.,1
11300,"he’s not even in your church.”

“any christian is in my church.”

“christian!",0
9839,"you give me a ticket, and i’ll kill myself.’”

“what the hell did he mean?”

“that’s just what i said.",0
5705,"my old man was mexican.”

“can you talk that spick talk?”

“sure.”

“polly-voo?”

“that ain’t the same kind,” said the patrón.",0
5999,a whole profession called rural animation exists devoted to making villagers want more and work harder to get it.,0
3806,i’m sure she will be pleased to see me married off.,0
4786,"i was sure, then, no one would be home.",0
9460,"“when i heard that this thing that claims to be my brother had become a priest, i got a book and read about it.",0
11759,"...”

“and you no doubt promised him you would come here and put an end to your life as you had

put an end to the lives of the others, in such a way that the abbey’s honor would be saved and no one would know anything.",0
9831,"before he stuck a gun barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger, julian jefferson told me exactly what happened the night your fellow church member was killed.",0
5480,4. total surprise essential & therefore must not reveal plans to followers until last possible moment.,0
9463,"the frightened little man, in turn, saw the angel of death that had broken down his door, and he turned and leaped out of the window.",0
1226,"i’m not quite certain how i can help you, for i will be leaving batavia in a few weeks, but i am certain god wants me to lend you my attention.",1
2147,"then we started again early this morning.”

“and?”

“and benbow’s got—or at least had—one on the side.”

“a mistress?” tully wasn’t sure koesler understood what moore meant, and he wanted to make sure there was no communication breakdown.",1
9995,"he said you’d know what to do.” when bernhardt made no response, angela turned to paula, one woman to another.",0
6001,those two would talk comfortably and confidentially while waiting for celia to appear.,0
1600,now she wasn’t so sure she would catch up with him before he took off on his mission.,1
10247,"wadley paused in his tirade, suddenly aware that angela's door to the hall was ajar.",0
1317,"just a few minutes before, gran'mammy kizzy had told her of chicken george's uncertainty about how massa lea had reacted to his proposal.",1
5291,"finally alone in his shack that night, after enduring uncle mingo's frostiness through the rest of the day, free at last to vent his outrage at charity, george cursed her--and vowed that he would turn his attentions, which she obviously didn't deserve, to the surely more faithful, if less hotly passionate, beulah.",0
8267,jack and i sure didn’t have any jokes that night.,0
11522,"why the hell should i have been in the vestry?""",0
366,"people got so upset at josephine baker over in paris, but at least she wore a bunch of bananas.” her voice was slurred; she slid her slivery blue eyes across their faces, uncertain of who her audience was.",1
12176,every few months angela had to call to tell them about nikki's need for respiratory therapy.,0
10956,"doubtless the people of smyrna were incensed over the new taxes, and tumult such as this was apt to subside quickly since syria had as much profit from egypt as egypt from syria.",0
9635,"and i hope to god i never feel it again.”

“do you still feel it?”

“yeah.",0
11187,"and perhaps during those years he had been distracted from his

beloved studies by secular duties.",0
6514,equity goes beyond equality by claiming superiority in certain aspects of life.,0
7175,"“i assure you that dr. o’connor—”

“i heard about that one!",0
25,"as if reading her thoughts, miriam said, “they are godless, like all foreigners.”

",1
7722,if you just had a goddam operation on your goddam wuddayacallit.,0
3847,"at caesarea philippi, was it peter who finally sold jesus on the idea that he was the messiah, and why did the followers of jesus decrease in number as time went on?",0
2246,"“she said she saw a large shadow on all fours.”

“yeah, who else is it going to be but that nutcase?”

“we weren’t sure,” said the handler, a trooper named rocco durante.",1
4974,"his voice was full of a dowager’s conviction, a drawling and leisurely grandness.",0
2932,"there was wonder in her voice, as though she doubted anyone in thongs, wrinkled slacks and a child’s dirty sweatshirt could have a car.",1
7997,"you certainly did not tell me no, my god we drive a hundred miles just to, harry?",0
9042,"go upstairs, the men’s room is right next door to the refreshment stand.”

“oh, sure,” i said.",0
3299,"""no,"" answered andy, ""it certainly wasn't.",0
74,"man’s hunger for god, i might tell them, the curious greedy disbelieving ones, cannot be satisfied by earthly food.",1
116,"he squeaked out his calls for help, but doubted anyone could hear.",1
2120,"i doubt it.""",1
5972,"my wife was a certain pressure, a warmth against me, but there was also a buzz in the electric alarm clock that i was just as conscious of.",0
5822,"“could we have a grand marnier?”

“sure.”

“that’s what we had the night i took the bath with that guy.”

“do you still hate people?”

“not now.",0
11758,"ubertino and clare of montefalco (who was, however, surrounded by sinners) had remained saints precisely because they knew how to discriminate.",0
5427,why certainly.,0
11227,"the casket was brought to the church from the island's only funeral parlor on union street, where it had rested during the time between its arrival by military c-130--the small airfield could not take the boeing 747--and the start of the service.",0
4386,"i had never worn such costumes, surely, beads, robes, sandals, and earrings, or walked quite so slowly, or dared to embrace another in the sight of all the world, or been so oblivious to the presence of the cops, who patrolled the streets in twos, or stood in doorways, holding their clubs motionless, with their eyes fixed on something straight ahead, and their lips recollecting a sour taste.",0
2389,"i can’t be certain,” i said.",1
3391,"it was like having a wonderful lamp turned on around the place, and he certainly did not want the light to go out.",0
10635,"james's voice sounded strange, quite unlike his usual assured manner.",0
8242,he was sure that someday she would go for good.,0
2980,"he wondered if there had been liaison between the two groups, though he doubted it.",1
1587,"disbelief, or even astonishment, on harold’s back porch had turned with marvelous suddenness into intentions and plans.",1
8189,he measured off the cleared floor space and made sure the barn door could be closed without obstruction.,0
10953,"banditti 259

pulaski citizen

f. o. mccord, local editor

pulaski, tenn.

friday morning, march 29,1867

what does it mean?--the following mysterious

""take notice"" was found under our door early yesterday morning, having doubtless been slipped there

the night previous.",0
2586,if he’s a christian thank god i’m not one.,1
7408,they wanted to live long and toil determinedly and reap what they were fond of hearing the preacher describe as a bounteous harvest.,0
949,"“none of her family knew about us, i suppose.”

“not even jessica?”

“i’m not sure.",1
7715,"had he, oh god, at last met his fate?",0
6711,"when i come home and look at christi, my perspective changes.”

“you’re sure this is what you want to do?”

“it’s time.",0
1982,"“the last time she came in was when?”

“i’m not sure of the exact date,” hunt answered.",1
3527,"still, through his scope he could plainly see a woman roaming the deck, and there was little doubt that elsa would appreciate some female companionship.",0
2129,"""we're
born with doubts; at least, we grow to recognize them.",1
963,that this irreligious layman had guessed her inner struggle nearly brought tears.,1
1327,"she wanted her child—and what she was going to do about having her child—to come out of what was good in her, and she wasn’t sure what that was.",1
10378,"the words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets called the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of god, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.",0
8545,"you still believe in lost treasure, as old as you is?”

“i know how it sound, but that's what it is all right,” he maintained stubbornly.",0
11658,"she finally reached the minister of the church whose softball team

they were playing and he told her the game had been over for an

hour.",0
9807,"she remembered herself as a lumbering adolescent with kneecaps red from kneeling and a head sore from praying, an explosive time of her life, waking as if from a drugged sleep inside a fundamentalist farm family with too many members to love, all demanding more than their share, the print of her father’s leather-skinned hand scored into her bottom.",0
8352,"why should burckhardt hide his own property and kill his faithful retainer?”

“remember what was supposed to happen to the shrine?",0
9311,"and i don’t see any saints sitting in front of me this sunday morning at st. robert bel-larmine’s...”

			roger touhy nodded vigorously.",0
1764,this inability to persevere in doubting his luck showed some weakening of character.,1
9648,"now he was gaunt, graying, growing older in the service of the church as he watched his parish dwindle.",0
7297,"the week before christmas ira claffey always went to americus to buy christmas for the black people; always he needed at least two people to help him, and they went with a four-mule team when the roads were bad, for the wagon swayed heavily on its return trip.",0
6661,give me some reassurance.,0
3169,"only congress can declare war, and americans are a very recalcitrant people and have suspicion of government, and look on the state with a watchful eye.""",1
5655,someone touched ira’s sleeve hesitantly.,0
8846,trying to creep in at every fissure.,0
2734,"she must be isolated after her return from the operating room—if she survives the operation, which i doubt.",1
7643,"god knows they went down early in time, but don’t forget this, they had a great national culture when the british were still painting themselves blue, and the old french used to exchange scholars with them!’”

tadeusz translated this to hans and otto, and hans laughed so suddenly he put his hand to his cheek with a grimace.",0
10298,"‘spilled tea wreaks havoc with a key pad.’

when at last the telephone did ring, angelo answered hopefully, but the caller was adrian boiling.",0
6571,"“i can give you one certainty, nora.",0
10814,no doubt she did.,0
10861,"i do not blame horemheb for his decision, for no doubt i would have treated him and his family thus had he fallen into my hands.",0
12251,"why the hell did he do it?”

“he never looked lucky,” i said.",0
10613,"finally, after some hesitation, the officer telephoned the captain in command of the shore base.",0
838,maybe he had made a mistake mentioning the bible and his faith to a client.,1
8392,"“i daresay inspector jury is thinking of this pattern in a somewhat less literal way, vicar.”

“well, i certainly don’t think matchett or scroggs had anything to do with these awful deaths .",0
4230,surely it was!,0
3060,he had inflamed that doubt with his mockery and derision.,1
1766,it certainly wasn't anything terribly dramatic: nobody died or lost his faith or fell in love or disappeared.,1
12274,"there was a cat mother and two cat children …!”

and there were other voices.… “dear god, keep it quiet!",0
3625,"i did not reply, for i was certain he knew the answer i would give.",0
6053,"marie criner and delmon were waiting already in the coronet, and donnie huff had deposited his wife's mother in the backseat and was preparing to climb under the wheel himself and endure the displeasure of his marie when the reverend mr. dunbar called to him, ""huff,"" the reverend mr. dunbar over by his babyblue sedan with his hairpart and his string tie and his dainty moustache and his black immaculate broad- brimmed hat that donnie huff watched him situate with care and deliberation upon his head.",0
10012,"“for christ sake,” i said.",0
10817,"he had no doubt he could break the door down if he had to, he’d broken down a shitload of them in his years as a cop, some of them pretty tough old babies, but time was becoming a factor here.",0
2657,"she sounded dubious, but not really anxious.",1
7453,the second assistant pastor and a deacon at holy tabernacle greeted the gospelteers just outside one of the dressing rooms in the basement just off 14th street.,0
4056,"she don’t mean what she’s saying, and she sure can’t kick nobody out.”

“get out,” alena hissed.",0
2611,"but now that the death of venantius arouses other suspicions, perhaps the abbot has sensed that the key to the mystery lies in the library, and there he does not wish any investigating.",1
2053,"who has the clothing?”

“i’m not sure.",1
3914,"the calm reassurance of the canon never left them, except for a short passage in which the violin and piano engaged in a divine questioning.",0
450,"there’s a cure for one, but the other . . .” he paused a moment, frowning dubiously.",1
11449,"and if there is justice in heaven--your punishment shall outlast eternity!""",0
9870,"it won't do a hell of a lot of good, but give it the old college try if you want to. '",0
9281,"""it would say that all earning of the capital funding of this trust would be paid to the reorganized church of the redemption, in the person of sherry spellman, or her designee, and successors in perpetuity.",0
4896,"in the animal kingdom, it was generally the male that displayed its markings or arrayed its brilliant feathers to arouse the female’s admiration, but this was just the behavior he was sure the woman was exhibiting, with one other significant distinction: she was not courting anyone, certainly not himself, not eubanks, who’d returned to california, and, if her schedule, which took her out by day but required that she pace the house at night, was any indication, no new man or old friend in town.",0
8804,"drasco doesn’t mix business with pleasure.”

“everybody gets overconfident sometimes,” clifford suggested.",0
8995,"when she disagreed with him it was usually on methods for handling people, and he found her to be a shrewd judge of people and greatly experienced in the behavior of frightened men under pressure.",0
376,"“lately i’ve been having my doubts,” phillip said.",1
3233,"many claimed that rome never had a more selfless and public-minded official, certainly never a more efficient one.",0
1458,"aren’t they going to wonder where you went?”

“i doubt it,” he says.",1
2086,"“summons?”

“no,” i said, and then realized i couldn’t be sure.",1
6701,"this would be a positive column, right?”

“oh, sure.",0
339,i’m not sure anybody much remembers now what the fighting was about.,1
12152,"move!-you goddam jailbird.”

as rollie knight turned, the white cop told his negro partner, ""frisk the bastard.”

the young, shabbily dressed black man whom the policeman had stopped, had been ambling aimlessly on third when the cruiser pulled alongside and its occupants jumped out, guns drawn.",0
9674,"“of course, there are those college presidents and ministers,” sims said roundly.",0
7061,"i said, “but first we have to do one thing.”

“what?”

the next day sylvia had darcy hazelton brought in for -questioning.",0
9857,"no sex even, for god’s sake.”

she said, “i didn’t expect it to be boring.”

“you ought to see it in a few hours,” he said, “when everybody’s getting home.”

she shifted around, leaned to him, took his hands in hers.",0
4097,"when that did not work, he did resign, confident that the party would turn to him.",0
10901,"""we have trusted him for nearly three years and have had no occasion to doubt him.""",0
2068,there was uncertainty in his eyes.,1
7288,"it was a little shock for john donner to find himself again in his father’s and mother’s church, as if coming back to a bit of the stone age, the grim ancestral unionville faces, the rigid backs of church worthies up front, the unmistakable ira h. smather family seated in their family pew like boulders embedded in their glacial hill.",0
6984,"hatzfeldt understood this strategy and assured berlin that he would impress on chamberlain that before an anglo-german rapprochement could be contemplated, the colonial secretary “would have to show himself responsive on certain colonial questions.”

chamberlain and the german ambassador met on march 29. chamberlain emphasized, and hatzfeldt agreed, that their conversation must be strictly unofficial.",0
125,"he would search around with his tongue until he convinced himself that he could feel them starting to poke through somewhere and then he would know that even if jesus was only a spaceman, at least mother was home and maybe babe had his weaknesses but who hadn’t.",1
12114,"but thingol looked in silence upon lÑŠthien; and he thought in his heart: 'unhappy men, children of little lords and brief kings, shall such as these lay hands on you, and yet live?'",0
10394,to dorothy it seemed strangely bleak and dreary as it loomed against the shrouded embankment.,0
4050,we had many talks and she was always certain that you would be restored to your rights.,0
1831,"it was suddenly a strange face, strange and small and very old, anxious, and with a peculiar kind of frightened tightness about it, as if it were waiting, and waiting eagerly, for what was to come, but at the same time were not at all sure that what was to come would not turn out to be a savage blow.",1
4652,"patrick, are you willing to walk away from your family and your faith for emma?",0
8445,"but someone out for recreation, if he has any sense, finds a safe anchorage and waits for the fog to lift.” annamarie’s assurance lasted only as long as it took to reach stefan zabriski’s suite, where wanda and the assistant were crouched over a computer monitor.",0
12229,"good luck.”





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jean-baptiste langarotti was alive, in part, at least, because of his ability to sense danger before it came looking for him.",0
7513,"father— priest— tell them, tell them!",0
8252,"slowly, to make sure that i followed him.",0
3257,"“are there really men out there who understand the real meaning of love?” i asked, certain that there couldn’t be.",0
1549,"i am always thrown off by arm-waving and shouting, i am never convinced by breast-beating or huge shapeless statements of generalized emotion.",1
11370,he knew these people took religion very seriously.,0
9748,"‘beware, beware, god sees?’ i mean, come on.",0
3586,"i shall undoubtedly appear there in course of time; though for what purpose i cannot say.”

luke had taken off his outer garment of brown wool and had stripped his tunic down to his waist in preparation for the work ahead.",0
9934,i must have looked like some crazy native making a sacrifice to the gods.,0
11394,"then i understood that the brunellus hypothesis was the only right one, and i tried to prove it true, addressing the monks as i did.",0
9443,a priest in jinotega opened the trunk of his car and was blown to bits.,0
1907,for three hours—until six o’clock—he persisted in the same inexorable vein: that judge fielding’s admonitions should be heeded with the utmost seriousness and that reasonable doubt existed.,1
3757,"nope, uncle ralph said, that was a fact; time sure did fly, didn’t it; seemed like before you knew it, this year was last year.",0
1742,i doubt it.,1
1571,"“i don’t believe i know you.”

“i’m with peg.”

“yes?” kathy said, still questioning.",1
9854,"in a solemn circle they stood staring down at the mortal remains of lord stephen astwick, all except daisy, who watched the men.",0
3840,"why did you ask for roman priests as postulator and promoter of the faith?”

his lordship toyed with his wineglass, twirling the stem between his long, sensitive fingers, watching the light refract through the red liquid on to the snowy tablecloth.",0
8255,"“in fact, i think it was those goddamn sweet peas she kept talking about that completely convinced tony you were on the level.” mr. kiefer mimicked tony.",0
6853,that was the day shelly cut her memories in half and stored them deep in the treasure chest of her heart.,0
699,"if she filled jette’s mind with suspicions now, there would be no undoing them later.",1
1608,but i'm not sure a sack of flour will set your foot on it.,1
5815,there are certain quagmires to be avoided with people.,0
12155,"you’re afraid to risk a god-damn thing!”

“thanks for the character reference,” he said.",0
4438,"virginia had seemed a logical choice for a willing adventurer, but there was no doubt that he and trouble could not be separated for long.",0
11996,"our opponent's view of the constitution and the attendant political process epitomizes all that we reject--most especially



177

178 heaven and hell

a leniency toward the very people who nearly destroyed this republic.""",0
11265,"'i pray we have already seen it,' i said.",0
282,"alec wasn’t certain that anything had really been accomplished that night, and his belief was confirmed when peg rose slowly, went to the bedroom, and closed the door behind her.",1
10488,"as andrew had been confident, it was a boy.",0
1504,"he nodded, looking across the room unbelievingly.",1
6735,“that sure was one quick turnaround.,0
8495,"it is necessary that i convey the latest intelligence of this situation to your minister and assure him of our diligence.”

“i rather enjoy calling on ministers these days,” the commissioner confessed later.",0
237,"but
what if the godless were right, what if it all started back ions
ago with fish crawling out of the sea to become men and
women?",1
1651,"and when he left, that suspicion of guilt whispered back to the one time she hadn’t been spying at all, when she’d stumbled on the strange movie scene, and she waited, then went through the edge of the woods and the overgrown field toward mcdonald’s, leaving the lesson till tomorrow.",1
2839,"turn your back, if you know what’s good for you.”

“rosie?” bill said uncertainly.",1
6583,"but olivia will visit every day and i’ll check on them faithfully, plus the local delivers, and there’s a mail slot in their front door, so ...”

“so, all’s well that ends well,” he said.",0
6872,"“you won't be sorry,” he said, attempting reassurance.",0
2138,"max shifted restlessly from his desk to the dust-filmed window, where he stood watching the construction outside as if he, too, wasn’t quite sure where to point his nose now.",1
934,"he was a friend, is all.”

“a friend,” said zenobia with mild disbelief.",1
10367,"“sorry to get you out on a sunday night,” i said.",0
2396,sally was uncertain.,1
1212,"“not sure what it is about this place,” he whispered into blesje’s ear.",1
2862,"""well, sir,"" casey said hesitantly, ""i'm not really sure.",1
7661,"bring forth the royal diadem,

and crown him lord of all.",0
7150,a solemn certainty creased the lines of his face.,0
744,"“take two rich westerners on a tour of the old town, look for something they’re not too sure about, drive anywhere you like.",1
7248,"""sure, your quick thinking saved an old man a worse injury,"" lord aengus put in.",0
361,". . uh, mrs. . . .”

rachel thought he was waiting for her to say her name, to introduce herself, but surely she must be mistaken.",1
8224,i'm convinced i'm on the right track—the psychic trauma.,0
9866,"aside from the working clutter, sam goddard had been a tidy craftsman.",0
4138,"we can start making plans over coffee.”

“all right.” it certainly sounded better to claire than staying in this empty office where their voices echoed and she could see how much there was to be done.",0
4189,bülow quickly assured the british ambassador that he was glad to see england and france liquidating their colonial differences.,0
6559,"“they’re sure nice people, aren’t they?” thomas said a few minutes later as he stood at the front door watching the freemans back out of our driveway.",0
7982,"“oh, my god!” he bellowed.",0
11618,"self-pity was as repulsive to him as sentimentality, and a compassionate glance-which he received only from the nuns and the priest of st. agnes's church-filled him with a bitter rage as at a monstrous insult.",0
2193,there was no way of being sure.,1
10525,"""look,"" traynor said, ""whatever is on your mind, it can surely wait until tomorrow.",0
6715,"she held out her arms toward him and
he stepped hesitantly toward her.",0
3621,what made all this bearable for joseph and catherine was their faith that it was only temporary.,0
12082,"“i don’t know how it happened, or when,” she smiled then, “you annoyed the hell out of me when you wouldn’t talk to me on monday.",0
9060,"you sure are a mean son of a bitch, webb.” tulip shook his head.",0
3930,"this was the messias, whom he was about to persecute, and 
whose followers he was about to destroy!",0
10023,"“what the hell you know about duty?”

“not much,” i said, taking the bottle back without his offering it, “but i did what i thought was my duty…”

“but you never led men, never faced the insidious political problems…”

“that’s true, sir,” i answered, then had another hit of the brandy.",0
3620,"“as you know, i’m sure,” continued sejanus, “your salary will be adequate—100,00 sesterces*—not to mention the perquisites.",0
10013,"“hey, i’m glad you’re going to c.u.—i know you’re not.—thank god, i don’t have to worry about french anymore, majoring in agriculture.",0
3315,"“you’re doing nothing but building up the hopes of these poor village children so they can be destroyed.”

“i most certainly am not the one intent on destruction,” miss charles replied, her voice tight.",0
5673,"it was in her face as she gathered us into her arms, welcomed us into the enclosure of the full-flowing black coat with its downy cuffs and collar of ermine.",0
4382,"whoever it was, she knew with pulse-pounding certainty that she would be dead now if her unknown assailant had wanted to kill her.",0
7447,"a white form glowed over him, and all he knew was that he was tired, that he was ready, even if he didn’t believe, to go with this angel.",0
8165,there’s no doubt that you’ve stirred up attention with your dogged efforts to find your brother’s murderer.,0
1814,"having doubted him through the picturesque hour of departure, she now saw him go with a quick, strong rush of love and pride.",1
7797,"“upon one of your strange gods?”

he laughed.",0
2463,"“you knew i wasn’t dead.”

“i was… almost sure.”

the catch in my voice was slight — and, i assure you, unpremeditated — but john caught it.",1
7907,"“well, what about him, for christ’s sake?” i groaned, and pulled myself upward out of his grasp.",0
5636,a rocket attack planned on the air base at dawn from a certain place in the woods.,0
7746,the poor thing ends up in court like me and god only knows who the father is.,0
8040,"earlier in the year, she had enjoyed a brief but doubtlessly torrid fling with a man named georgie poole, reputedly the richest man in all calusa, a bachelor in his mid-forties who, it was rumored, had a penchant for television cuties in situation comedies, hence his frequent “business” trips to los angeles.",0
11942,the bills for the work were sent to my godfather.,0
2576,"and so the ideas, which i was using earlier to imagine a horse i had not yet seen, were pure signs, as the hoofprints in the snow were signs of the idea of ‘horse’; and sins and the signs of signs are used only when we are lacing things.”

on other occasions i had heard him speak with great skepticism about universal ideas and with great respect about individual things; and afterward, too, i thought this tendency came to him from his being both a briton and a franciscan.",1
10357,"why me, for god's sake?",0
8540,"is that unreasonable?”

“senator, do you agree that if we could come up with new, never-before-revealed information, if we could bring this menace out into the open, these hearings would be worthwhile?”

“i think—no, i’m sure—i’m being led down the primrose path, but yes,” senator maggiacomo smiled.",0
346,"no one was ever sure—”

“my god,” nora said in dismay.",1
12198,"it amounted to seventy-two dollars, after nearly six months of sunday work, and sacrifice and the payment of three dollars a week to the orphanage.",0
7664,"“does she seem well?”

good god, joel said to himself.",0
2041,"“if i have to, i’ll subpoena her to washington.”

his voice shook with disbelief.",1
8103,"no, you call it in to make sure he gets it right away.",0
7260,"englishmen preferred understatement; the german emperor seemed flashy, operatic, unreliable, or—the englishman’s ultimate word of censure—tiresome.",0
12062,"here's your meat, by jesus, eight packages, ice cold and hard as rock.",0
10540,"i am going to devote my whole life to her!""",0
5541,"walking slowly to his room in the hotel splendour, the mambo king remembered how, toward the end of the year in cuba, during december and into january, the white men used to form lines into the houses of prostitution so that they might sleep with a black woman, the blacker her skin the better the pleasure.",0
6889,surely that was not the reasoning behind charles eberley’s urgency.,0
11254,"he was a youth of sharp mind and he was educated in letters, but he stole from the priest who housed him and fled eastward, to the city of trent.",0
7134,"give him one more liter of this and then get some real 19

harry kraus, md

blood in him if his pressure stays below 100.” he squeezed the pliable iv bag to accelerate the flow-rate of the fluid.",0
8258,no doubt amory shaw had reason on his side.,0
621,"“‘therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the lord: as surely as i live, declares the sovereign lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock, therefore, o shepherds, hear the word of the lord.",1
11415,they simply remarked on the mystery of god’s justice and decided to take the young twins and go on a second tour to see for themselves.,0
411,"“cataplasms may be necessary, but i am not yet sure.",1
11162,"the feeling of apprehension was deepening in him, but he couldn’t find it in himself to utter the real question.",0
1033,"the latter plan seemed to
offer more promise since he doubted he would be able to climb
back up along those tunnels with any success: the walls were too
smooth and slippery and steep.",1
1560,he was uncertain about how to take the statement.,1
9999,mr. christopher.,0
9359,a cantor sang the wedding prayers.,0
3411,"but she determined, then and there, to go to the medicine show, and by the end of the week, she had cajoled zeke into acquiescing.",0
1815,"i did this and i did that and don’t think you can tell me this and you haven’t the foggiest idea about that, and then he impresses us by blows with the weight of his “i” and the feathery nonexistence of ourselves, our questions, our doubts, our differences of opinion.",1
6706,"ari’s hair and beard were darker than jake’s, his eyes a deep chocolate brown, instead of green, but his height and build were nearly the same, and he carried himself with the same confident self-assurance.",0
2698,"i'm having doubts.”

someone asked, ""what kind of doubts?""",1
9832,"in fact, i’d settle for that, and become a buddhist if heaven was a sushi bar.",0
11335,"he picked one up, and opened it, wondering if the books had come from a church somewhere, or to whom they had belonged.",0
710,she even charted orders i never gave and had other docs questioning my judgment.,1
10332,"nobody—i mean nobody!—gets past the sensors if there’s a click of radiation on them.”

stribling added, “we’ve drastically upgraded our personnel security procedures to guard against any inventory discrepancy.”

“goddamn right!”

mallory asked, “what happens to the plutonium after it’s cleaned?”

stribling answered that one.",0
1800,"i say ""frail milanese"" not advisedly but explicitly:
having noticed in my time how quite often the advocates and even the practitioners of
virtue evidently have grave doubts of their own regarding the impregnability of virtue as a
shield, putting their faith and trust not in virtue but rather in the god or goddess whose
charge virtue is; by-passing virtue as it were in allegiance to the over-goddess herself, in
return for which the goddess will either divert temptation away or anyhow intercede
between them.",1
8785,the six men they brought in for questioning that afternoon didn’t take them any further.,0
9553,"the girls wore matching red sweaters, white blouses, and plaid skirts, uniforms of a catholic girls’ school.",0
2573,"“oh god, i don’t believe it.”

“what is it?” now her alarm was very real.",1
7992,he had no idea where he had got his picture of academic life—perhaps from the doré illustrations of dante’s inferno with its massed and radiant angels.,0
11069,jolly was momentarily hesitant about putting a bullet in a white woman.,0
11952,"the idea of putting a thunderflash down the trousers of a dozen



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ministerial departments as an exercise had not occurred to him.",0
11453,"with the bonfire blazing and the mules braying and the teamsters shouting and the cheyenne women wailing and the children crying and the angry indians again sniping from horseback, charles began to think he was in some grotto in hell reserved for the damned of the u.s. cavalry.",0
10780,no doubt he had got worse since.,0
7209,"“will you make money with all this reading?”

“dear frau raubal,” adolf said with an insincere smile, “who knows for certain what will or will not be of use to him in life?”

geli was fiddling with a shoelace, and afraid to look at her uncle.",0
9679,"leaving you to quiet contemplation within the secure walls of your monastery.”

“he’s already mentioned that.”

“i was right then.",0
12266,"i’ll bring jean-baptiste up here to help, and we’ll change to a french-registered truck at paris.",0
3574,"then we could all go to bithynia later on.”

			“we certainly can’t leave the baby until theophilus comes,” luke agreed.",0
11632,"the vision that appeared when the bus drove away, standing on the road shoulder between the schoolhouse and holy redeemer, riveted the attention of everybody lounging at the oven.",0
8701,"“i'll bag them when we're through.” care?fully, overriding the automatic camera to bracket her exposures, starling photographed the body.",0
6533,"and as antonius droned on — and on — he seemed to recede farther and farther; his features became dimmer and dimmer; and the measured noise he was making sounded fainter and fainter, as my tortured eyes grew hotter and heavier — '

'marcellus!'",0
2525,"and such a businesslike, ambitious fellow, apparently he hadn't got an eye for a pretty girl, it could be argued that he couldn't be sure.",1
1389,“i was not sure of the circumstances.,1
8326,"my face stung, just as surely as if i'd been slapped.",0
1617,"the prayer ended, “whoever believes and lives in jesus shall never die.” i said, right in his face, “sure, yeah, leave me alone, go to hell, you big old fart.”

when he left me, dazzled by my words, flapping fish rose before me, and i recognized them as my hands, and up from the floor sailed a bag of pecan balls, each one the size of an orange, and then a pair of yellow cat eyes, blind, and i cried out and thrashed.",1
11724,vasia was an attractive boy with regular features who looked like a royal page or an angel of god in a picture.,0
9671,"he was thinking how he had played god that very day, how he had sat in judgment.",0
10256,"god, i know about you gals.",0
8379,"assuming, that is, that the waiter remembers the precise status of each individual window shade in each of the many rooms he no doubt visited that day – a question you might care to ask him before making too much of this.’

behind sharpe, elizabeth shelton smiled faintly.",0
118,"there was no reason for the president of the school board to be critical, but chris beth doubted if this scene fit his “lick ’em and larn ’em” philosophy.",1
2615,"""sometimes it helps.”

she came close, leaned down, and put her arms around him.”sam,"" she whispered, ""let yourself go.”



for a moment he eased away, peering into her face, uncertain, wavering.",1
9720,i could go and look over one of the branch churches in salisbury or west boylston or lakeville.,0
2677,"above al he could silence suspicion in a moment by turning

against the people the very weapon""--fiedler's voice was trembling with

fury--""which was designed for their protection.""",1
9245,"it had come down to one determined killer, whose luck had begun to run low, against just about every law enforcement agency in the detroit area.",0
9800,“and the killer’s name is robert jamison… remember the nun who wrote ‘r-o-b’ with her own blood before she died?,0
7777,"a ferocious thud propelled him into the air, and he heard himself yelling in an unbelievably loud voice, “god above!”

he landed on his back while the tractor crashed upside down into the tree and burst into flame.",0
2332,"now, for the first time uncertain, the dog blinked, then seemed to frown.",1
9602,she brushed back a wisp of graying hair and tucked it into her prayer cap.,0
5393,"he wants the dark to come inside him, to be him, and there are no words even now, no sounds of pleasure, no soft murmurs, no names, no gods, only their skin — hot, blurred — their damp skin and the place where his becomes hers no longer clear, only her hair in his mouth, her eyes, her nose, her mouth in his mouth, her nipple, her fingers, her tongue in his mouth, brittle roxanne going soft now, skinny roxanne huge in the heat of them, swollen around him, her body big enough for all of him and he’s down in her, all the way down in the dark and she has no edges, no outline, no place where her dark becomes the other dark, the thinning, separate air, and he doesn’t know his own arms, his own legs, and still he keeps moving into her, deeper and deeper, feeling too late what she is, what she’s become, softer and softer under him, the ground, the black mud, the swamp swallowing him — he’s there, in that place, trying to pull himself out of it, but his boots are full of mud — he’s thigh-deep, falling face down in the swamp, and then he feels fingernails digging into his back, a bony hand clutching his balls.",0
11267,when i found out about tony i got religion.,0
2893,"it seems uncertain whether the contractor, who must be paris-based, is the one who placed it, or whether he is acting for someone behind the scenes.",1
3591,"here was certainly a schoolboy 
prattler, a fresh-bearded amateur philosopher.",0
6524,"we’ll let you know how she’s doing as soon as we can.”

“sure, doc,” the man said.",0
3125,augusta suffered it moment of doubt.,1
11250,"209

frederick forsyth – the devil’s alternative

“blowing her apart by shellfire,” said sir nigel irvine.",0
1345,"still, for the inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.",1
10838,"from the doorway.”

the officer knew without a doubt that her father had been shot at close range, maybe no more than an inch or two, by a person right in front of him, obviously his daughter.",0
10216,"of which variety our friend christopher is undubitably one.’

‘and so was mark ransom.’ terri paused, intent on showing johnny that at least they had thought this through.",0
4281,"if it was a password, it certainly fit dr. braun—after all, he did oversee the freezers in the cryogenics lab.",0
10617,"the rest lay in the way she held herself, the assurance in the tilt of her head, the straight glance of her eyes, the controlled, sharp moves of her hands.",0
2001,"i think they're hustlers, but i'm not sure.",1
991,"she's carrying a child, and she's not a believer yet.",1
3995,"her mother’s song, which she, doubtless, still hummed each evening as she walked the old streets homeward, began with the question, how did you feel when you come out the wilderness?",0
3205,"he’d say, “the country’s gone to the dogs, for sure.",0
9339,"what she’d had was what they call one of them-there ‘mental reservations whatsoever’ that the fellow with the bible always asks you if you’re hiding, when you take an oath to serve, so help you god, and you’re not supposed to be.",0
5664,"surely not just to visit the historical museum housing a small collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drawings, including two diffidently painted landscapes allegedly by dürer, or to see the alperger castle, which houses a recently restored segment of a large tintoretto, depicting a seated, docile-looking greyhound and a footstool as well as part of an ornate wine goblet, and the cranach charcoal study for his painting the judgment of paris, or to tour the ludowitz abbey or the recently reconstructed meronthal cathedral library or the baron mintz miniature porcelain collection or the gussl waterfall.",0
9770,"you saw the priest?”

“i saw him.”

“what did he say, al?",0
1134,"at times, to be blunt, i wasn’t sure about his heart.",1
5109,"yet, at first at any rate, he was determined to remain in love with marie-jean, to have that love efface his somewhat dubious conduct in würtenburg, where he, by merely telling the truth, helped incriminate eight of his former friends, former fellow activists.",0
822,"“the damnthing’s reinstating!”

there was a moment of tentative disbelief, as if at any instant,everything would fall apart.",1
3034,and it’s doubtful that donizetti’s lucia was at the vienna staatsoper the night father and i said auf wiedersehen to the sacher.,1
4710,". .

—it’s my privilege i assure you mrs lutz.",0
2096,"possible sure, but not bloody likely.",1
4695,"not that they knew that at the time; they knew nothing, and by the time they got to lone tree, a four-hour drive, she was sure that dozens of curious sightseers would be there.",0
3473,"this stroke served two crucial purposes: first, it convinced the mob to let grayson alone address the westerners; and second, it created some genuine antipathy toward the person most likely to see through the con—i.e., peter.",0
4675,“the deceiver will use the pesach as the time to raise his followers against us.,0
2391,"are you absolutely sure?”

“no, i’m not absolutely sure.",1
5466,"and if she broke down in front of any of those cool assured women she’d be little more than an immigrant, full of an immigrant’s hysterical, bottomless trouble—gesticulating, babbling, keening at the white ship as it sailed away.",0
3432,"it’s called the palace of the governors, and i’m certain it was of palace proportions when it was built.",0
8005,"my time belongs to the company.”

“even sundays?",0
7504,"there could be a foundation to distribute it to everyone, on the order of the gideon bibles, internationally though.",0
2633,"""oh, i doubt that!""",1
9742,he didn't remember her but he knew she was a member of his church.,0
9752,"so, relax, and give us a big smile for jesus.”

generally, that was enough to elicit at least the kind of smile found on drivers’ licenses.",0
9517,i quoted to her a few passages from the scriptures which i intend to quote this morning.” he bent over his rostrum.,0
4616,"they contain over 20,000 volumes and are rumored to hold such treasures as leonardo da vinci’s missing diaries and even unpublished books of the holy bible.",0
3177,"so when you see her next, don't go all icy and proud and refuse to justify yourself—spin her a story about sticky stichy even better than the one he' s spinning about you

half-intrigued, half-skeptical, he stared at her.",1
11526,"grant took it, bent to kiss the bible, then delivered a brief address.",0
11361,"i learned then how, in march of 1307, on holy saturday, dolcino, margaret, and longinus,

captured at last, were taken into the city of biella and handed over to the bishop, who was awaiting the decision of the pope.",0
9229,"“was it?”

“sure.”

“it’s a bad kind of joke, wizard.” she took one of my hands in both of hers.",0
8505,"“since you are no doubt aware of my past, perhaps you really are interested in my present.”

“very much since it has sabin in it.”

she got up then, walked to the couch and sat down again, her crossed legs showing the same contempt for clothing.",0
4870,"we determined out loud the details of our futures—our children, our husbands, our careers.",0
1910,"i'm not so sure....

in any case, i could never again not think about it, or not admit it, after this afternoon.",1
7995,his father stands staring at the tops of pines that hover like dark angels high above them in the storm.,0
11437,"gone to church?""",0
6222,"i’m sure you’ve looked and know already this is from john couper, so stay with me.",0
8300,“was it determined that waddell was psychotic?” i asked.,0
1737,"at least for him it was a difficult thing, difficult to be sure of.",1
6560,"during the saturday and sunday i devoted to his entertainment, i was alternately delighted by his mind and repelled by his mannerisms.",0
6791,"do you have a minute?”

“sure.” the bank president leaned back, crossed his legs, and propped his chin on a hand.",0
10942,the petals left no room for doubt.,0
5352,"and it always seemed that the moment he had penetrated estela—she was a trembling, tense woman who worked in the principal’s office of the local catholic school—the hounds would begin to weep and whine so sadly that their squeals of displeasure always brought out estela’s maternal nature, and she would disengage herself from him and, naked, attend to the poor little things, while the mambo king would lie back and daydream about throwing the beasts out the window.",0
5781,"he said, “later, it was more than suspicions, right?",0
3107,i also hated myself for being weak and timid and uncertain of my own desires.,1
8424,what they want is to be convinced that the person on trial either deserves to go free or deserves to go to prison.’ ” she spoke in a biting imitation of the good-old-southern-boy drawl williams used; she had caught his inflection and pace perfectly.,0
7292,"you didn’t have to waste a big sermon like that.”

“the church isn’t for just a conversation,” said shelby.",0
8160,"“it is of the utmost importance that this investigation be brought to a rapid conclusion.”

“you may rest assured that we will bend every effort to do so.",0
11109,but i promise you right now that i'll lie about this one without the slightest hesitation if i have to.,0
11749,i’d look like a christmas tree with you dressed like that.,0
9969,"and on line 9, which required the name and address of the disposal site, the facility listed was a refinery in los angeles where shelby and abel had often hauled ordinary waste.",0
8949,"if you’re worried about my pots and pans, i can cook on aluminum foil like i did when my uncle stayed with us a couple of days, he was as bad as you, and i got enough glassware, pie plates, custard cups, you could eat from them and not have to go hungry, or go to the grocery and get something to eat from a paper bag like an animal.”

“sure.",0
2940,"i think in the long run that someone—some body like the pilgrim trust, or even the department of the environment—would step in to preserve the house, but i doubt if they'd ever bother with the gardens and the land.",1
3033,"he was surprised to see that his watch marked eight five-the inner clock had never failed him before, and he doubted his watch, but by the time he reached his room the important news was over there were only the little scraps of parochial interest which the reader used to fill the slot: a bad accident on the m4, a brief interview with mrs whitehouse welcoming some new campaign against pornographic books, and perhaps as an illustration of her talk, a trivial fact, that an obscure bookseller called holliday-i’m sorry, halliday-had appeared before a magistrate in newington butts for selling a pornographic film to a boy of fourteen.",1
9612,"you could do that work in the afternoon.”

				“i’m trying to earn some money and save it.” arthur was a little amused, because sitting on your rear end in church was easier than doing yard work, and lately he was tackling the yard of a neighbor of mrs. dewitt’s, which was nearly as messy as mrs. dewitt’s had been.",0
5454,"sure, and willie rolled puffy blood-traced eyes at delaney and munn in stocks beyond him.",0
10848,"the opium-eater loses none of his moral sensibilities, or aspirations: he wishes and longs, as earnestly as ever, to realize what he believes possible, and feels to be exacted by duty; but his intellectual apprehension of what is possible infinitely outruns his power, not of execution only, but even of power to attempt.",0
5921,"“sure, right there on that nice concrete slab we call the backyard.",0
3820,they are abusing the catholic faith terribly by conducting such operations in its name.,0
2935,"'i doubt the bar is open this late,' wesley said to me as brass doors shut

and marino invisibly rose to his floor.",1
12023,"with a sheepish smile, church showed oils and water colors: palms and the sea, tumble-down houses, dancing natives: mere bright vapid posters.",0
11330,"apart from that, he could only pray that shannon had been telling the truth about the keith brown business and that julie manson would not tell her father about her new boyfriend.",0
5713,"q that the dialogue does not just advance the action of the play, but in large measure actually defines the characters?",0
6996,"“difficult?”



“surely you must realize i have strong feelings for you.”



don’t say it.",0
983,"she says without certainty, “done,” and only then does sister agnès peer at her.",1
9510,"not taken by themselves, but as a collection, there was neither rhyme nor reason: some articles of clothing, including the beaded velvet evening cloak (with a slit near the hem), a drab and disreputable man’s bathrobe or dressing gown, and a breathtaking gossamer wool-and-silk embroidered kashmiri shawl; a cracked magnifying lens; two bits of tinted glass that could only be a pair of peculiarly thick and horribly uncomfortable contact lenses; a length of fabric that a friend later identified as an unwrapped turban; a magnificent emerald necklace, a weight of gold and sparkle that rode my throat like wealth personified until i unhooked it and carried it inside to thrust beneath my pillow; a man’s emerald stick-pin; an empty matchbox; one carved ivory chopstick; one of those english railway timetable books called abc for the year 1923; three odd stones; a thick two-inch bolt rusted onto its nut; a small wooden box, ornate with carving and inlay depicting palm trees and jungle animals; a slim, gold-leaf, red-letter king james new testament, bound in white leather that had gone limp with use; a monacle on a black silk ribbon; a box of newspaper clippings, some of which seemed to deal with crimes committed; and an assortment of other odds and ends that had been pushed in around the edges of the trunk.",0
1339,"i thereupon resolved upon a sturdy confrontal of the defendant with my strictures and doubts, only to discover that he was adamant in his refusal to admit a greater involvement in the actual slayings.",1
2663,"and in their unbridled violence they have done such deeds as cause the crosses to doubt and to turn horn so as to restore order.”

“you spoke of grain, kaptah,” i said.",1
2137,"do you think we’d have survived if we’d stayed together, marsh?”

“i doubt it.”

“why not?”

“because most people don’t.",1
4023,"one thing was for certain, he wouldn’t donate those mildewed loafers from the back of his closet . . . .

			 				“you know the good stuff always comes in,” he said, trying to sound upbeat.",0
1778,he was exhausted with that multiplication of fatigue that follows exertions spent—above a ground bass of self-doubt and despair—in search of pleasure.,1
11701,"“perhaps it is only a lamp,” william said, “set here to convince the monks that the library is inhabited by the souls of the dead.",0
3149,"if marjorie had had any doubts before, she did not have them now and she almost laughed with joy.",1
785,"“i want to help you, but i’m not sure i can believe your story yet—there are too many unanswered questions.",1
7754,"""it's all the trouble,"" angelika said, leaning against the door as she watched johanna try to calm the child.",0
891,"“i remembered another when anita was leading gavin off and he looked so—so beaten.” she closed her eyes, whether to shut out the image or to focus on it, even she wasn’t sure.",1
8958,"twenty minutes later i saw a car drive up infront of the hotel with two of my would-beexecutioners.”

“you’re sure of that?”

joel nodded.",0
9616,the other nun and the student chewed pizza.,0
1580,"the storm began so suddenly, with so little warning from the skies, that for a moment cora doubted its existence, whirling there in the cottonwood, and thought that her eyes had invented it out of a need to vary their view.",1
1097,faith converts that realization into a big angry shove against the facts.,1
2507,he looked at her in disbelief.,1
8613,"“the woman told me,” said zinn, “that if i looked in your car i would no doubt find something from my shop.",0
7843,"i’m sorry, jesus, he thought, pulling out onto the highway.",0
4472,he was so sure of what was to be said that there was no need to even speak loudly.,0
2771,"“tell them they have to call me at the last stop, shediac, and confirm that they’ve made the arrangements.”

a look of anger passed briefly across luther’s face, and eddie knew his suspicion had been correct.",1
1165,it was a wound so deep he honestly doubted if it would ever heal.,1
11838,"the ancient celt, the druid tree-worshiper, the celt who had known mysteries and occult darknesses, stirred in joseph again like a man awakening from centuries of sleep.",0
11959,"at that time civilian units were being formed, christina was being trained as a parachutist, the first german bombers were spotted from the rooftops of moscow and driven back.",0
7799,"there’s plenty of good camping space hereabouts.”

we had a good dinner, eating our best meal at noon on a sunday, and had compone, fat bacon, boiled beef, pickled pork, and salad that jennie and po-povi picked in the woods.",0
7385,"""did you give the nuns a ride up from ackenau?""",0
11107,for such a man the discreet and unquestioning jungles of vietnam were an aladdin's cave of pleasure.,0
1044,"gage stood a step away and his face softened in a strange and exhausted amazement, eyes narrowing in disbelief.",1
8174,"he came at her from still another direction, determined to prove his hypothesis of the traumatic incident, the psychic wound that had generated lucy's deviance.",0
10715,"no doubt you will appreciate a bath, a shave, and some food.",0
9273,"it’s almost as good as being in a church, because your father has said so many comforting things to me here.”

				arthur moved willingly toward the front door.",0
10489,what was certain was that tom could have walked away.,0
287,"""i'm not sure,"" janice says.",1
5788,"she seemed to understand everything that was said to her, and in the quiet with which she absorbed the words of adults was a sort of composure which leonard found appealing.",0
7025,"you have the most interesting newspaper in the whole state of pennsylvania.”



the thursday morning mail brought eight letters addressed to kenneth wallace, publisher, all marked confidential.",0
3327,"nothing had changed since the days when she had run toddling in, unmindful of position and authority, to scramble with unhesitating assurance into her aunt’s lap.",0
1530,“you’re skeptical.,1
3823,"“it is like faith, magonus.",0
4788,as sure as finding fish when all the signs were right.,0
3028,"it didn't explain a whole lot but it did the trick, for the prospect of a task seemed to drive all lingering doubt from smoky's face.",1
2720,"it was definitely true, pedro had turned into a monster of selfishness and suspicion.",1
5949,he sure fixed me.,0
5954,"the white man leaned and struck, back and forth, with only the mute malice of the act itself, careless, undetermined, almost composed in some final, preeminent sense.",0
1536,"he liked both ways very much and best of all when they sang together and he was there with them, touching them on both sides, and even better, from when they sang “i look over jordan what do i see,”for then it was good to look up into the stars, and then they sang “a band of angels comin after me” and it seemed as if all the stars came at him like a great shining brass band so far away you weren’t quite sure you could even hear the music but so near he could almost see their faces and they all but leaned down deep enough to pick him up in their arms.",1
925,"he wasn’t a long-faced ascetic, and she doubted he would want her to be one either.",1
2341,"gangsters—something—i don’t know for sure.”

“what did you do?”

“nothing.",1
12345,"but the dominion of men was preparing and all things were changing, until at last the dark lord arose in mirkwood again.",0
11137,"at other times, when identity was established, a bill followed in the same way; also, the scare of being detained, plus hostile questioning, were often enough to deter further shoplifting for a lifetime.",0
9537,"‘he asked me to describe heaven, and then a few days later we got fluffy the second.’

mary smiled.",0
316,"""how can you be sure?""",1
11133,"back at the nurses' station david went over the laboratory and diagnostic results that he had available, most of which were normal.",0
7490,"right here we found that any other member of the congregation, hearing this kind of uproar, was legally entitled to get up and claim that god had made him that person’s “interpreter,” and sure enough, a fellow did just so.",0
2016,lynn doubted that the management needed to reduce prices at happy hour.,1
3380,"she cocked her head, sure that a question so easy must be some kind of a trick.",0
7608,"in the merriment of that day, she kissed and hugged her sister ana maría and wished to god that her father were alive to see her so happy again.",0
5871,"“i know it’s a little strange, but i’ve thought about it a lot and i can’t make myself be any way but just wildly happy about it.”

“well, sure,” edgar said.",0
11342,"“god don’t make mistakes,” lone had shouted at her.",0
9786,"foley said to chino that christmas day, ""if i caught on, how come none

of the hacks have?""",0
5257,"it is an extension and enlargement of his thought, a record of the life and feelings of an artist who has been in himself an example of all he has defended from the first: the arts as a civilizing force, civilization itself as the true right aim of the human spirit, no matter what its failures may have been, above all, his unalterable belief in the first importance of the individual relationships between human beings founded on the reality of love—not in the mass, not between nations, nonsense!—but between one person and another.",0
11363,"nor during christmas at beeching, nor during previous weeks in berlin, where he had been fraternising pleasantly with the german language and with the family of professor stapff.",0
10324,your honor can plainly see that it is a scarf showing the traditional three monkeys.,0
6781,through a haze i saw miss alice looking at me questioningly.,0
6428,"it's not that i don't care, and sure i've wondered about her, but i guess i figured you'd tell me about it when you were ready.""",0
11516,"he opens his eyes to the day and says, “that’s a pretty big

congregation.”

“sunday morning,” she says.",0
7989,"the hell he did, the bastard.",0
10936,"on the other hand, there is no doubt that, in translating adso’s latin into his own neo-gothic french, vallet took some liberties, and not only stylistic liberties.",0
3800,her goals in life were all achieved; she had no doubts about anything.,0
11664,"the praying was done; clergy, parade marshals, drum majorettes, bands, and other nonessentials had removed themselves.",0
5461,"there was an elephant grass enclosure to one side of the house, from which lustral sounds were issuing.",0
3211,'i am sure that is true.',0
3290,it was as if her long convalescence were over and she could take her place confidently in the normal commerce of the world.,0
1597,"the room is dark but for the night lamp shining at the side of the sickbed where he lies gaunt, silent, greenishly pale, so miserable he is not even sure any longer whether he is conscious or comatose, whether the three nurses are seated in a row at the foot of his bed saying what he thinks he hears them saying or it is all a deathbed delirium and the three are tending him in the final awful moments of his life.",1
6376,"deborah might deplore his phoenician 
nose, and hint of wantonings in hillel's impeccable family in the far past-which 
was probable, hillel would admit-but hillel found that nose comfortingly manly 
and assured and positive,
23
2,3
and he did not know why that should comfort him.",0
9285,not the people at church either.,0
6736,for strange clear moments the pain eroded and bright waves of pleasure flooded him.,0
11145,"there was no time to reckon the odds, no room for hesitation and forethought.",0
3559,"if mrs. richmond possesses the sweet and generous nature you describe, i’m sure she also has the common sense, once her grief has abated, to consider all circumstances surrounding her mother’s death.",0
2177,"“what has rollins told you?”

“his suspicions … and yours.”

“i didn’t tell him mine.”

“maybe he guessed,” rita said flatly.",1
7388,"no one answered the door at the priest’s house, but i found him in the church, sweeping the floor with a broom made of twigs.",0
11961,"“christ, people are always throwing crap out of trains.”

still, artie had agreed to another delay, for another test.",0
8737,it would sure speed things up if you'd write a medical recommendation for asl training. . .” she batted her eyes and stifled a grin.,0
2604,"if only they’d listened.”



155

frederick forsyth – the devil’s alternative





chapter thirteen


1300 to 1900


if the reaction of the media to the 0900 transmission had been muted and speculative, due to

the uncertainty of the reliability of their informants, the reaction to the 1200 broadcast was frantic.",1
5635,then she took his pressure.,0
2731,"james, led into something by emory, loyal to his twin but knowing all the time that whatever they had done was, to say the least of it, dubious.",1
4395,"nathan never felt threatened in any way, and certainly not like he was in any danger when brian was around him.",0
159,lost to men by fear of men in the land of universal suspicion.,1
7165,the three of you prepare the treasure as you would a body.,0
1274,"his death from an assassin’s bullet was so violent, so unexpected, that she could only cradle his lifeless body in disbelief and hope she would awaken soon from this nightmare.",1
7714,"remember their sign no food at any price and those vile hamburgers at four in the morning the night bim stole the hearse and we all went out to jones beach god, those were the good times weren’t they teen, how could we know it would all turn into such a . . .

—harry, could you .",0
2273,but it wasn’t certain.,1
4836,"for one thing, now that all those years had passed since i’d been of service to him, he might possibly be more forthcoming about the several key factors still mystifying me, particularly the question of pipik’s identity and his role in all of this, which i remained convinced was more fully documented in smilesburger’s files than in mine.",0
10080,"“my god, bernard,” tom said.",0
10297,"guppy stover lifted her old gray head from her folded arms and greeted him with, ""hey, i saw yo u o n t . v . goddamn killer!""",0
915,"here, where good men had sanctified a heathen land with their prayers and, later, with the blood of their veins, that special joy could be found.",1
3368,"when we reach a harbor, we will be able to use them as barter to assure our passage home.”

“it is miles … days to the nearest port!” amorgin reminded.",0
9732,"“this villain, this bandit, to bring such disgrace on the family—i swear before god to you, never would i have him in my house if i knew what he is guilty of!",0
7192,there had been some debate as to whether these hearings should be declared confidential and the press left outside.,0
7557,"at last i knelt on the carpet by the window for a while, praying, giving thanks to god for this revelation; finally i arose and unlocked the door and left.",0
3608,"deniau, as host, exuded the same confident watchfulness as the first chamberlain at compiègne and when at last, amid a hushed murmur of anticipation, the marabout and his daughter entered the room, deniau went to them, spoke some arabic words of welcome, then, turning to lambert, presented him to bou-aziz.",0
469,"but with the passing days, the words had grown less confident,
the spirit of the man less assuring.",1
8519,"he didn’t tell you all that.”

it was a damned lie, all right, but i certainly wasn’t going to admit it.",0
6483,but apparently the romans always put their faith in the legions manoeuvring on foot.,0
8442,"""the woman is to be pitied,"" i assured her.",0
7909,the syndicate are quarreling among themselves and accusing general tompkins and oliver of heaven knows what.,0
2529,"i told them that if any one of them had the slightest suspicion about another one, he was to speak up, then and there.”

he released the chair arms and turned his hands over.",1
10284,“the prime minister damn near told the president to take our stations out of nova scotia.,0
9704,it was a simple letter thanking joseph for the kindness he had extended from the time joseph had first heard him preaching at the temple in jerusalem when he was only twelve years old.,0
9670,"the menacing figure spun back to join its fellows, and the bizarre procession passed on, to the open space in front of the church, where it was surrounded and menaced by the runners.",0
5000,"i get nervous in parks, all these branches could snatch the wig right off your head.”

jamal had run along the concrete path, checking back over his shoulder to be sure cassandra and mary were following.",0
2371,"now i find that hard to believe, and i am sure that mr. linscott must have misunderstood.”

“no, it’s quite true, mrs. linscott.",1
7256,"i sure didn’t,” clarence said.",0
2645,"not, of course, that i doubted your word, ye understand.",1
9793,ushers and priests instinctively tried to restore calm and order.,0
6374,"you will be the one caught without her nightie and toothbrush.”

the afternoon and early evening lolled away with dreaming indifference, as passengers and crew took their leisure in the shade of the main deck.",0
2337,"“i doubt they’ll be back.”

parker said, “watch.",1
7070,"she wanted to hold him, to find the source of his apprehension and smooth it away, but he was too hot to be comforted by her touch and too restless to relax.",0
745,his faith in god had died with abba.,1
2205,"i'm not certain what she thought was so wrong, dr. scarpetta.",1
6694,“he was always filing pointless motions over foreclosures and getting in the way.,0
2774,"""i'd be no better than that randy old goat cato the censor,"" said scaurus, just enough doubt in his voice to signal metellus numidicus that he might be won round if the offer was really a serious one.",1
9749,"""if it's the same place, it's what they call the area above the cal campus, where there's a bunch of seminaries and church schools.""",0
10616,"stepping over to the wall, he ran his hand over its smooth surface to reassure himself it had been a fleeting visual hallucination.",0
7688,"then from the sidewalk we--ned
and otis and me--watched boon and sam in polyandrous... maybe not amity but at least
armistice, miss corrie between them, leading the horse down the middle of the street
from arc light to arc light through the sunday evening quiet of second and third streets,
toward the union depot.",0
9171,"the books concentrated on sexual pleasure and helping a husband through a business crisis and then dreaded male menopause, but, oh, they were years and years away from that.",0
3113,"marius brought on his battle; the date was the last day of quinctilis by the calendar, and it had been formally fixed at a conference between marius and boiorix, for marius was not the only one fed up with years of indecision.",1
12374,. . dr. vincent lord at times made dean harris feel uneasy.,0
2070,"“you aren’t unsure, are you?”

lodge now answered in a voice loud enough to be heard in the outer hall.",1
7039,it was no longer a place you could see anybody’s pride or pleasure in.,0
8238,"certainly, he couldn't have had any more whiskey.",0
11989,"in god's name, why?""",0
11055,"""are you questioning mine, brinkerman?""",0
6322,"seeing his hesitation, mary added, “i am rich.",0
12160,"""oh, good heavens,"" madeline exclaimed, clutching his shoulder while he righted himself.",0
7577,it was 1967. nancy was astonished by the minister’s white robe and his beard and by the fact that he chain-smoked.,0
1561,"your doubt ain’t reasonable.”

“it’d be unreasonable for me to move to another chair,” alex van ness pointed out.",1
7184,"but when i look back over my life, i see a string of bucklings under pressure, a tendency to hunt escape routes for myself instead of standing and fighting.",0
890,"suddenly she was talking, not sure what she was saying, not caring whether or not it made sense, just telling richard everything she had seen and heard and thought and worried about in the past days.",1
1397,“but what i meant by ‘the unsureness of everything’ was the message of your work.,1
6064,"he was as partial to other people’s food as to their whiskey, but it was an article of belief generally sworn to that he could drink way more than he could eat.",0
7752,"how is it?”

“it’s not broken,” she replied, “just a bad bruise.”

“thank god,” i said, then added, “where is he?”

“i don’t know,“ she murmured, shaking her head, “i just don’t know.”

“we’ve got to do something,” i said, “we’ve got to get him in some kind of custody where he won’t harm you.” i paused, a sense of futility overpowering me, along with ugly guilt.",0
4162,"you didn’t agree to such a thing?”

“certainly not.",0
12103,"""oh, god,"" lyman said.",0
5953,"""assurance ran it up to thousand twenty-seven.""",0
10539,"that was enough to assure enmity, and dismissal.",0
7816,she is a filipina convert and takes her new religion very seriously.,0
3528,"she would never know, but paul bauer had certainly given her a few clues.",0
9666,"had a pile of bottles and other trash on top and a cartload of stolen christmas presents beneath.""",0
8955,"sure, she’s disturbed; so are you; so is gray.",0
10699,"he had no doubt that brinkerman would enjoy murdering him, and he returned the compliment.",0
8354,"awful funny.’ and i said something like, well, just be sure you’re not encouraging him, and that was that—she left, her consultation time was up.”

			“god favor me with patience!” said mendoza violently.",0
9231,he sure had peter venables’ number.,0
9533,the moderator-priest grabbed a couple of overexuberant boys by their ears to calm them down.,0
6211,"“perhaps i’ve time yet.”

			they were nearly at the vicarage gate and he strode along so fast that michael decided that the pleasure of his company, though great, was not worth the effort entailed in keeping up with him.",0
1528,"she then felt sudden, unspeakable doubt.",1
7551,"then cain was driven out for murder?”
“that’s right—for murder.” “and god branded him?”
  “did you listen?",0
11208,the last sentence came with perceptible hesitation.,0
10366,she pointed at angelo.,0
2495,"i’m the new boy on the block and i don’t know too much about this kind of business, but it seems to be built on mutual distrust and unless each side has its own leverage, then the whole deal’s likely to go up in smoke.",1
7599,“is it far to the priest’s?” don said.,0
11364,"so mr. healey, though he had died unshriven, was given christian burial, even if the old priest sincerely doubted that he had died in a state of grace, and certainly he had not received extreme unction and was probably laden with sins which would take him an eternity to expiate.",0
7914,"her uncle said, “sixteen, thirty, sixty, it makes no difference, it’s true i wouldn’t like it if you were wearing your heart on your sleeve, but, my lord, dear, i don’t see the semblance of a light in your eye.",0
3256,"if he went often enough, he was sure one day—one shining day—that she would be a guest there again and he would see her, maybe even have a brief conversation with her.",0
6698,"a certain gentleman on crutches who just might be sitting on the porch.”

“i do not,” i said, angrily turning on the dishwasher.",0
3394,"no, in answer to an earnest question of essie’s, he had no doubts, having seen her now in the flesh.",0
6463,"silent, questioning faces were turned toward them.",0
550,francis considered the invitation uncertainly.,1
4800,"i’m sure he’s many cuts above the average here.”

“i never doubted it,” oliver said drily.",0
9552,marie mumbled the act of contrition while the priest mumbled an absolution in latin.,0
280,"she fought them, not even sure why they had come welling up, making her want to cry out.",1
11049,he was accustomed to violence--there had been no hesitation or qualm in his voice when he mentioned the severing of simon cormack's fingers.,0
10791,"you are now an officer of the household and no doubt the light of all women’s eyes.”

his face darkened.",0
324,"“we ain’t missed the rapture,” daddy said, but in his voice, i could tell that he wasn’t quite sure himself.",1
6464,"“you sure you all right, phillip?”

“i’m all right.",0
4595,"you gots to be sure that be good, ’cause you can’t run away from yourself.’”

libby stared at him.",0
2524,"willy watched her expression change to disbelief and concern and then heard her say, ""of course we'll talk to her.",1
10291,"now come on—he was your goddamned brother!”

“i told you, wager—i told you, i don’t know!",0
4811,"when she accused him of nothing, of no carelessness or disregard of her feelings, he was fairly sure she had not heard about the assault in his car.",0
8724,"“you sure it's over, one?",0
7930,certainly not in los angeles.,0
5273,"in his car, his hands were steady and his heart was light, and he drove off without even thinking of his earthly lover, who no doubt was weeping now in another part of the city.",0
9205,"there was no criminal pedigree on him anywhere in this country, but a certain amount of other data.",0
9915,"he was quiet, but not without emotions, not
without loyalty; that had been proven to goddard.",0
8517,"but i sure as hell won’t let the bastard get away!”

something took the bait on the second line and ran with it.",0
1858,"they wouldn’t like that at all.”

“really.” edwin raises his eyebrows, somehow expressing doubt not of the english department’s annoyance but of its very existence, and even of the existence of hopkins county, new york.",1
5312,"for certainly here is a genius who simply will not cater to our tastes for drama, who refuses to play the role in any way we have been accustomed to seeing it played.",0
5609,"there was between these two such preternatural rapport, such an impressive conjugation of suspicion, that he, sensing the approach of a policeman, could convey instantly to her the immediate necessity of clapping his nose cage on.",0
2411,"anything that you can tell me about his business here would help.”

her eyes clouded with doubt, then tears.",1
2037,"i doubt your susie would find him attractive.”

we paused while the waitress brought the next round.",1
7964,"i wouldn't abuse your goddam hospitality.""",0
1776,an uncertain face looked in the doorway.,1
12410,"before angela and nikki left, david asked angela about lunch.",0
8966,"“sure, tv is essential,” the kanelos philosophy ran.",0
5737,"with their hailing hands and faces last seen in the instant of expecting more, extended to stop him, so that he felt like the second, attendant half of a cheered procession of two, joey, as far as he could tell from her confident pace and wandering gaze, oblivious to the fact that she led him, even as she seemed to observe the party person by person, pair by pair, cluster by cluster.",0
2308,"14


he wasn’t sure if he should sneak aboard the docked cruiser or make noise.",1
1803,i doubt doubt it.,1
3269,but one thing i can say for certain.,0
10268,"“thank god that’s over,” somebody near him said with feeling.",0
6443,"“sure, why not?” he said, and he turned to janey.",0
4636,"we passed through many settlements along the way: some large, with fine stone churches; most small - a scattering of huts on a muddy track beside the river, tiny fields, and a cattle enclosure or two.",0
11044,"now, if you could ask condor to have

a look ...”

“you’ve got it,” said benson without hesitation.",0
6174,". . .”

faith pushed him away and stood back, bitter, her voice husky and broken.",0
1124,then twin eruptions—or one; chaney couldn't be sure—blazed from behind it to hurl it from the surface of the slope.,1
5720,"but i had my morning car and my thermos of coffee, and there was an easy sort of swinging progression through the years, from holiday to holiday, and the kids were often interested and articulate, and there were lots of good mornings when they were thinking and their hands were raised, or i'd have a sweet kid in a certain period who always understood my jokes, or pretended to.",0
2480,"with purley’s deep suspicion that wolfe, not to mention me, would rather be caught dead than with nothing up his sleeve, he sure wasn’t going to bow out.",1
816,"* * *

david becker wasn’t sure how long he’d been lying there before he became aware of the hum of fluorescent bulbs over head.",1
6551,the servants who had died in the attack had evidently chosen to remain behind in order to hastily gather together their few most treasured possessions.,0
10304,"but we have moved beyond those halcyon, or agatha christie, days.",0
11826,in a controlled voice angela began to tell david about the attempted assault.,0
1729,i doubt you ever saw that.,1
2535,"roy might know who james joyce is, i’m not sure, but it wouldn’t matter.",1
3504,surely this rough jar would waken him.,0
5584,then he would remember a certain day the previous spring.,0
7173,"“i already knew that.”

“sure, western lady.",0
7374,“didn’t you hear that the holy pope in rome went up to his golden chair and said to the whole world that that was a very wrong thought?,0
9086,"tess screamed at the half-seen expression on his face – greed and anger and lust combined to twist his handsome features into a demonic mask – and then her scream was cut off by the pressure of his cold, wet mouth over hers.",0
3962,"i assured her, however, that i would be happy to do that for her.",0
8462,"i want to make sure i’ve got the drill down pat.”

he beamed.",0
3867,"these grace church on-the-hill anglicans were conservative; ""conservative""-



about certain matters of propriety, especially-is perfectly all right with us wheelwrights.",0
11013,"i saw him wince as if its fierce light worried him, as he approached slowly and with apparent reluctance over the broken pavement.",0
11228,"it was now, he thought, in god's hands, as they say.",0
1068,"“you think they’d want to stay there?”

“i’m not sure, but we could offer.",1
6598,"surely he can help you out.”

“what?",0
2726,"dean robert harris was a small man, wizened and wise, though his wisdom included doubts of his own ability to make the socratic decisions frequently required of him.",1
2567,“i don’t believe they’ve ever met.”,1
7899,"“and do you imagine,” she went on, “that i would like it, too?”

“i don’t know,” he answered, “but i imagine you would.”

angela caught her breath, and after a long moment she came to him.",0
11813,angela found calhoun reading in a quiet alcove overlooking the town green.,0
8361,they would have checked it and found him by now for sure.,0
691,"“if the dam broke once,” i asked, “how can you be sure it’s safe now?”

“it’s inspected twice a month.” he looked at his watch.",1
6942,a high-speed verdict like this one almost certainly meant unanimous consent from the beginning of deliberations.,0
3468,he certainly hoped no one would try to hug him this morning.,0
768,"particularly since leviathan is still asleep in the containment cavern, and we have no means whatsoever of knowing with any certainty that it is in this so-called hunter-killer mode!” he placed his knuckles on the desk, leaning into it.",1
4842,his belief is that a renascence of the older aztec arts and handicrafts among these people will aid immeasurably in their redemption.,0
6292,"""you will,"" shay reassured her.",0
218,"in fact he was up for excommunication, following a renaissance of his doubt stimulated by a reading of the atheistic pamphlets of robert ingersoll.",1
10653,"he also received sundry little treasures he had admired in mr. healey's house, ""notably a sanger portrait of george washington.""",0
446,"as she wondered, she found herself questioning her violent disapproval of the man.",1
4846,mother was certain a big game manufacturer could be interested in the set and that technology would discover a way to mass-produce it.,0
11304,it was the biggest thing that had happened in watseka since the minister’s son had taken lsd and committed suicide ten years before.,0
10251,"i said, ‘great, the guy’s gonna get laid and i’m gonna wait around all night for christ sake.’ jackie says, no, he don’t stay out late.",0
2334,"it seems a lot for one guy.”

“clouston could have helped him, but i doubt carl can be blamed for any of it.",1
6260,"folks called dowsers did this sort of thing all the time, deciding where to drill for water or locating minerals, hidden treasures, and lost objects like keys and other things.",0
5504,"n: here is a man with advanced ideas, left, left wing pals, a humanist, and all he could think of to do with his life was see how much some limited woman from a tradition he was part of and hated and had gotten over could be made to suffer.",0
8367,"it’s my only chance to save the ranch!”

“i’m sure you’ll be on your feet in no time and can start training again,” nancy said encouragingly as she shut the door behind her.",0
7103,'you should have heard their shrieking when i suggested we had need of the golden trinkets gathering dust in their treasure chests.',0
889,"without you, i’m not sure.”

		“you’re going to make it, daytona,” jason said, trying to bolster her.",1
5803,"the rest of the picture seeks simply to lend dramatic credibility to randal’s eventual self destruction with his discovery of certain letters drawn by defendants from the public domain but which, finding no parallel in plaintiff’s play, is of no consequence here.",0
9206,"come inside.”

that certain rapport between two people who worked closely together was going for them.",0
5992,"i’ve never seen it.”

“you feel fairly certain that you will not be caught?”

“no.",0
6206,"she had wanted to see the effects of bonita’s death on dottie, yes, but she sure hadn’t counted on this.",0
931,"not at all certain whether he was more excited or sad, he headed toward annastraat for a rendezvous with the memories and trinkets that haunted the deserted place he had once known as home.",1
1644,"you want to tell your children and grandchildren about the lucky day you had in the spring of ’49.”

for my part, i doubted if that gatekeeper would go much farther than he’d gone, his tongue was too loose.",1
8638,"“isn’t this place an inspiration, desmond?”

ronnie was pointing with the spade at the nearest gravestones, mark, a faithful spaniel, 1910—1921.",0
9789,"go with god, fräulein.",0
1849,"well, you said, you didn’t know for sure.",1
6438,"driving back from arbordale, he could remember little of their conversation other than that he had assured her he would be available should she need anything.",0
10830,"no doubt

about it.",0
700,"come on in.”

he wanted to learn all about akira, too, he realized, and he wasn’t sure that was a good thing.",1
9909,"“you give your notice?”

“yeah, but i can change my mind,” roy said, “depending on the numbers, how much the guy’s put in the bank.”

“how about crispin reyna and franklin of god?”

“who?”

“franklin de dios.",0
9784,"well, up till now it has been the kids from your congregation and meyer paff, another of your people.",0
4686,"he was getting ready to say that they could surely manage somehow when she turned on him and said, if he told her they could manage somehow she would certainly slap his face.",0
12281,"and as for me, i'll be glad to be the one to close her eyes and wish her godspeed.",0
3120,"a copper would think it was just the thing to make him look like a playboy.”

“perhaps he’s helping to guard frankie gordino.”

harry looked dubious.",1
4712,"“what?”

“paint them black on the inside, and shut up.”

there was a gasp from mrs. wrightson, and francis looked down at her to be sure that she knew he meant to be rude.",0
976,"truly, soloman didn't know what to believe, but the certainty in the priest's tone intimated that there could be something substantial to the theory.",1
6790,“are you sure you want to see all three in one day?” james asked.,0
4061,"do you still think it ominous?”

“most ominous, to be sure.",0
11207,"i like the fact that you’re not worried about everything, that you’re still unsure of yourself but not plagued by insecurity.",0
1069,"is there anything i need to know?”

hugh breathed out slowly and said, “i don’t remember.”

jessica wasn’t sure if he was tired and really couldn’t remember or if he could only tell her in private so he held back since teri and ida were standing beside her.",1
8871,and there was sure a lot of skin showing -- even male.,0
9053,"“for ventilation?” then, reading her hesitation, he said, “there’re stops, so it’s impossible to open the window more than six inches at the top and bottom.",0
12246,andy lived in los angeles in an apartment.,0
5161,"""why shouldn't i be sure?",0
11130,"she explained with reluctance, ‘sarah is my daughter-in-law.’

mr. bottomley’s blush increased.",0
6614,"ach, i’m ever so happy!”

“well, what do you know ’bout that!” there was no hesitation.",0
10893,"the music was louder now and still country so that, led by the most streetwise among them, the kids could keep up their groaning, no doubt secretly relieved at not having to dance themselves.",0
3590,sexual union with her was believed to assure victory in battle.,0
10289,after angela hung up she turned to david.,0
7443,"“we can't do nothing with e.l.”

“well, if we can't, maybe the lord can,” dovey said shortly.",0
1255,i am not sure whether she had read their books or even seen their movies.,1
7915,"“she’s always dressed up in one of them sunday-go-to-meetin’ outfits in case she might come across a man to marry.”

uncle boone called her thick lipstick “man bait.”

—

the buses remained on strike, and i spent the days in the house.",0
9289,"of course, he had always had her to christmas dinner.",0
12084,"christ what a mess!”

carol looked at her a moment longer, then turned and went into the bathroom.",0
7762,"—stood the wigwam of nokomis, my god no i didn’t mean that, where she stood now looking out over the pond, looking out where dark beyond it rose the black and gloomy pine trees and the firs with cones upon them —it was all just too heartbreaking, by the shining big-sea-water where a tall and stately birch tree once had rustled in the breezes, where he’d cleft its bark asunder just beneath the lowest branches, just above the roots he’d cut it down the trunk from top to bottom, stripped away the bark unbroken for the birch canoe he’d made there puffed with pride at his achievement turning turtle when he’d launched it, filled with terror when his father saw the great birch torn and naked till its sap came oozing outward and the swift cheemaun for sailing floating upside down and sideways through the reeds and tangled beach grass come to rest there in the mud —and it should have been a warning that you could never please father.",0
9501,"it is common for a shepherd with a fruitful flock to complain long and bitterly, not only because god hates a braggart, or to prevent relatives from asking to borrow money, but also because the posture of poverty gives one moral leverage when selling one's cheese to the traveling wholesalers.",0
103,atheists for democratic action chant god is dead to block-that-kick cadence from balcony while westminster choir belts out when the saints.,1
7012,what is needed is more sweeping measures.,0
8353,"something was seriously wrong, there was no doubt about it.",0
6498,"but regaining a measure of
dignity he said calmly, ""of what do you speak?""",0
9497,can alvirah reach the truth in time for christmas?,0
10283,"“jesus, i’m standing there—marlys told him.",0
12126,"he said, 'i

sure as hell couldn't do what you do when it's this late at night and there's

nobody around except the people in the refrigerator.'",0
4602,"the actual fort enclosed about an acre of land, and within the enclosure stood a chapel, various storehouses, an armory, and a barracks for the men of king james’ militia.",0
5250,"you can be sure i made no attempt to find her again, and for months i avoided going anywhere near arapahoe creek or north hill.)",0
11378,"i've always thought that lucifer, above all else, must be a most charming angel.""",0
4234,"“and he sure knows who you are with your red hair.”

“my auburn hair.” as libby tossed her head, her long hair swung around her shoulders.",0
5914,"sure i will.”






chapter 11


1
charles had more respect for adam after he knew about the prison.",0
7155,"besides, there were certain expectations of the chairman of the department, and the hosting of professional parties and visiting professors couldn't be fashionably accomplished just anywhere.",0
9546,"“the body o’ christ,” the priest said.",0
11045,she smiled hesitantly at him.,0
3922,we cannot feel ourselves helped by the fraternity of the church if a cloud of censure hangs over everything we plan or propose.” he swung around angrily and flung out a challenge to the italians.,0
2095,i never saw any money exchanging hands—and i doubt that the girls ever did.,1
7751,"tom’s already there.”

dick said, “jesus, elsie.",0
368,"in the woods, or on the river, or out in the fields, birdshot was right at home, but he wasn’t too sure how to act inside a house.",1
3244,"in him, croaking was a sure sign of depression, anger, or fear, and she knew it.",0
8280,"but i just thought i would ask.”

“i’m not harboring the slightest suspicion,” kate said.",0
4508,"the lovely room, no doubt, had offered her a respite from the cancerous storm.",0
5714,"this deceptive resemblance pleased him, and his pleasure in what he could see was heightened by the woman he was with.",0
10619,"and i wish we were on the same side.’

‘we?’

‘you and i.’

‘surely we are?’

‘yes, in this case… for the time being.",0
123,"""ever since the accident... i've 
had a hard time believing god really exists.""",1
8033,"""there's really no doubt in my mind it's the same killer.""",0
3046,"now she began to laugh uncertainly as she helped robert anchor the checked tablecloth on the grass, for here it was breezy under the tree.",1
6137,"""sure you won't change your mind about taking me tonight?""",0
9406,"on the dark rug in front of the door and partly underneath it was a piece of peppermint candy, just a small piece such as might have been broken off a candy cane, the kind they hang on christmas trees.",0
5687,"she told me about their trips, all the beautiful islands, and living in the memories made her cry for the lost pleasures.",0
2125,but there is one underlying doubt that if proved justified cannot be tolerated.,1
12277,the prime minister rose to his feet.,0
12265,"but do not hurl yourself to destruction with vain talk—for i love you dearly, my lord sinuhe, and i desire no harm to come to you.”

he said also, “nothing in the world is perfect.",0
1626,"except maybe a severe mental problem.”

“how can we be sure?” the woman said.",1
8998,"does it give you pleasure?""",0
7951,"he was in fact a most glorious example in proof of his father’s favorite theories of the uses and virtues of waste as education, and at the end felt he had “mastered the particular history of just that waste.” his father was not considered a good swedenborgian by those followers of swedenborg who had, against his expressed principles, organized themselves into a church.",0
10444,jesus.,0
7293,the table was set with some napkins left over from christmas.,0
11287,"the priest had visions of a roast of beef and a statue of the blessed mother which would truly honor her and the poor box, not to mention two more pews and a new cassock for himself and a month of good meals for the two sisters of charity who taught in the tiny church school on the outskirts of titusville, and something for the missions.",0
2575,"but, then, why does it happen that the same city magistrates rebel against the heretics and lend the church a hand in having them burned?”

“because they realize the heretics’ growth could jeopardize also the privileges of the laity who speak in the vernacular.",1
4774,but that would be wrong; she was surely just as embarrassed by her own relative state of undress as by his.,0
2208,"''i'm not sure i can,"" scott said slowly.",1
9104,and a con man plays the game with certain rules operating inside of his head.,0
2247,"arthur doubted that, for some reason, but it was of no importance.",1
11807,"""good heavens, so it is!",0
11769,"but god had given her the task, bless his holy heart, and at thirty miles an hour on a hot july night, she knew she was traveling in his time, not outside it.",0
10945,"i caught hamid's eye, and saw in it the same bright anticipation as was no doubt in my own.",0
10202,"“you’ve had plenty of time to think it over.”

“what the hell can i give you?” asked lewis.",0
5981,"the front hall was dim and smelled peculiar, like burned meat, with a flattish damp smell like old newspapers, and andie felt a clutch of apprehension.",0
9121,"chicago, maybe, sure.",0
5667,"i said something like this to the man walking near me, whose name or face i never knew, but i remember his words—“what are you talking about?” he asked bitterly, and answered himself: “there’s no such thing as disgrace anymore.”

i don’t remember where we left lola ridge, nor how it came about that a certain number of us gathered in one of the hotel rooms, among them, grace lumpkin, willie gropper the cartoonist, helen o’lochlainn crowe, michael gold, a man or two whose names i never knew—yet i recall that one of them said, “damn it, i’m through.",0
6972,"life will shrink or expand in direct proportion to the measure of your courage.”

i want to succeed.",0
11706,no wonder preachers think us loose and dangerous people.,0
2327,"after a moment of indecision, jane jean started after her.",1
11423,each congregation had people who were among or related to the fifteen families to leave haven and start over.,0
8431,"you can't use my place until it's cleared up, that's for sure.",0
6408,"sure... whatever you say"" she shook her head
dramatically.",0
1387,"as for the rest, you’ll figure out how to play it.”

“thanks,” emmet said, unsurely.",1
3704,"he certainly did not look as though he had been back with his gang, slashing tires.",0
6789,"i almost convinced myself that as soon as i’d left, she had taken an interest in joe.” chet looked at his halo-haired fiancée, and a tender smile warmed his face.",0
876,"“sire,” began musaeus of mykenea, “aside from the banner, which appears genuine, i too am inclined to doubt certain details of nestor’s story.” there was general agreement among the assembly.",1
5868,"from time to time he passed the slowly rocking streetcars that seemed to be leisurely moving toward no special destination, following their route through the old mansions on either side of the avenue.",0
6128,"i think they'd stay and wouldn't demand higher wages.”

“if you're sure, then i've no objections.”

“we'll talk to them.”

the conversation with the two nubians did not turn out as mary had expected.",0
4890,doubtless something will befall her too.,0
7376,"some things remained: whitney’s, myers’, the old first church, which rose over clinton square, the pruyn library.",0
5146,for i had certainly never said a word to her about my father.,0
2510,"you men were especially abusive to them.”

it crossed lanigan’s mind idly that his own pastor, father o’shaughnessy, would have referred to them as “colored boys” but doubted dodge would understand no offense was intended.",1
3026,"a doctor with a barrel chest and

skinned-looking hands held curled in front of the pouch of his

smock comes into the anteroom uncertainly.",1
9016,"""was and is, aunt gert, surecome on over.""",0
9280,this was not the first sermon on self-improvement that had been preached to palmer.,0
4946,de jedge say he feel mass as got de right in de wills to free of' faithful niggers.,0
10566,if any part of it were true-and surely it could not all be petty official bullying-esm‚ suddenly loomed as the greatest hazard he had yet encountered in kinja.,0
5270,if you don’t it’s my fault; i sure as hell mean for you to see it.,0
632,"‘what cup would that be?’

‘the holy cup.’ rhys paused and regarded us dubiously.",1
9647,he is the worst kid god ever put on earth.,0
11648,"god, if you have ever favored me as a member of your chosen race, spare me another few moments--""

the white sizzled and fused, consuming the dark in his mind.",0
6799,"tell me now, who in your glorious age holds a belief so strong?",0
12356,"i’ve been working all day.”

“what the hell do you think i’ve been doing?” helen’s tone was that of a child who has been left out of a game.",0
8027,"“i have, i hope, convinced her that danger and even death are not to be hidden from.",0
9907,"but he said you—”

“let’s not talk about it on the phone, angela.",0
4424,“now i’m thinking that it’s possible to be an ordinary woman with an extraordinary impact just by being faithful and unashamed.,0
10510,"and you only sent me to switzerland for that year to break me up with harry.”

“because i was determined you weren’t going to wind up as poor little jeannette johnson, marrying a garage mechanic!”

“harry was not just a garage mechanic.",0
11253,"he thought of the pleasure of waking up on just such a morning, cold, gray, with a powder of snow on the ground, and seeing that demure, sweetly dry little face asleep beside him--and by heavens (this fact struck charles with a sort of amazement) legitimately in the eyes of both god and man beside him.",0
1225,lying to the world about a deed so traitorous at its core that the camerlengo doubted even god could forgive it.,1
8143,he parked the datsun at the beach so vincent would be sure to see him.,0
1867,"“bibles,” the young man said and his eye raced around the room before he added, “i see you have no family bible in your parlor, i see that is the one lack you got!”

mrs. hopewell could not say, “my daughter is an atheist and won’t let me keep the bible in the parlor.” she said, stiffening slightly, “i keep my bible by my bedside.” this was not the truth.",1
3272,"she thought about uncle howard then―so full of peace and joy, so certain of his life.",0
4495,"“folly for us, certainly.â€",0
11810,"countrymen fly to the cities, and town dwellers fly to the land, and all say that this is the curse of ammon and that it is pharaoh’s new god that has brought them this suffering.",0
1093,"“i don’t know for sure the answer to that question, julie,” he said at last.",1
970,"according to the author, the bust had been sculpted between 1501 and 1505. some art experts claimed michelangelo himself had carved the sculpture, but others doubted it, since his marble david was created at the same time.",1
9191,"some people get a touch nervous when a
01an insists that he's got to be a ... free agent; that he
won't tolerate pressures.",0
7939,"when the landlord was not looking, ignace crept up after him.",0
3537,"it was a face, we were sure, that would have registered some expression-upon witnessing the results of owen meany making contact with that ball.",0
4315,"this whole area has been geologically surveyed, and i want to make sure i have my facts right.",0
9706,"“priests can’t marry.”

“what brought him here?”

“oh, he got a letter from his grandfather, and then, as you know, his grandfather got killed.",0
9004,“certainly not.,0
2719,the suspicion that she was bad luck and the comforts of the demby hospital combined to deprive her of the work for which she was trained.,1
6809,"you can touch the insulated section of the cable, but there's a thousand-pound pressure bolt holding the cable in the box so we're gonna have to find some way to—”

thor snarled through clenched teeth as his hand locked around the wire, and with a superhuman effort he violently tore it out of the box, shattering bolts and ceramic brackets.",0
4426,"“we ought to be able to find the lost tribes in forty days, eh?” it certainly seemed like a long enough time to be wandering around in the wilderness.",0
7244,"the beast secured its hold on me and began jerking its hideous head back and forth, shaking me hard to break my bones one against the other before swallowing me whole.",0
5629,"what happened to me?”

“you suffered certain burns.”

“will i feel anything later?”

“you’ll notice it more later.”

when my father got up and saw me, he steered me out to the hall and said, “go on back to the tent.",0
7398,"god forgive me, she thought, amazed; i almost wished for his death!",0
6,she doubted it.,1
7417,"aunt sid said that jesus was an example to people and we should try to behave like him, but in her opinion he wasn’t divine.",0
9429,"""i do it the way god intended.""",0
10990,"no doubt she is a priestess who is collecting stones with which to build a new temple to bast, and we shall perform a deed acceptable to the gods if we do as she bids us.”

they followed her to the reed swamps by the riverbank, where she led them to be out of the sight of men.",0
11762,"if a monk succumbed to drowsiness, as penance he would take the lamp and continue the round.",0
3539,"she locked the front door, made sure the tracts were still in her purse, and was about to leave through the kitchen door when the phone rang.",0
11150,birdsong resumed his questioning.,0
3821,". . nathan looked down to the far end of the table where his friend was deep in conversation with the professor of philosophy and a rotund, merry person of indeterminate sex, and he perceived that japheth was behaving out of vanity, that beneath his artless boyish talk of the renewal of faith and the “warm, generous, exhilarating” atmosphere at the college there was the ugliness of egotism: and an unclean inclination to boast of nathan’s success as if this success were somehow his own.",0
98,"“i can’t promise you for sure, but i’ll try at least.”

“that’s wonderful-gut.",1
1789,she was not sure whether she had had a dream just now or whether there was something she had meant to remember or to think about that was troubling her aged mind like a rat in a wall.,1
11546,"from the

aedificium were emerging more monks, who belonged in the scriptorium, and they were

immediately followed by benno, who came toward us, more worried than ever.",0
11401,"it had been a rainy night, and she was returning from a duplicate bridge game at church.",0
11568,"she dropped to her knees in the water, hands clasped, head down, mumbling a prayer.",0
2278,"a way of getting even with each of us.”

			falicon might consider that it evened matters between him and commissaire juy—but i doubted that he’d feel it finished settling his score with me.",1
2343,"she did very well financially, i’m sure, but i doubt if sophomores ever scotch-taped her photo to dormitory walls.",1
9160,"“do i?”

“sure you do.",0
9082,"“sure,” he said.",0
273,"she was not very sure how it had worked out; not very happy, she thought, but better than she had expected.",1
4728,"a kind of beetle, to be sure.",0
717,"i'm not even sure i'll
let them pull me over.”
“how will you know what they want?”
“if it's the man who searched the bus, we'll know what they want, won't we?”
“i suppose we will.”
“i will holler at him from the window and urge him to deal with us at the airport.",1
5368,"baggott’s reply to her outburst was to turn half around, rising in his stirrups, and in a quick, sure motion strike her across the mouth with the back of his hand.",0
5129,"she used to think that the loveseat and rocking chair from bloomingdale's, the right foods in her kitchen, the perfectly cut coats and silk shirts, the museums and movies and shows, the apartment—damn it, rent control!—were fortifications, her life's bulwarks, giving her the assurance of well-chosen boundaries the void couldn't cross, boundaries she would never step over herself.",0
563,he had to tolerate his doubts even as he despised them.,1
5197,and it was no doubt true that no new acquaintance could do more than disturb or bore him.,0
7665,i used to visit her every sunday.,0
1445,"but, even seen skeptically, the hold that hatherly had on him was complete.",1
1770,"the blinds were down, but there was a faint light coming from somewhere and they was hopping over the backs of them seats like monkeys.”

the mystery of the performance baffled the finest intelligences—from colonel stotz in springfield, the newspapermen from the cities, the sheriff playing cards with his deputies, the ladies sewing garments for the heathen in africa, the nightly circle of great thinkers in the illinois tavern’s saloon, down to the loungers chewing their tobacco in mr. kinch’s livery stable and blacksmith shop.",1
10632,despite severe nausea i related lurid stories of egyptian customs to divert the prince and his followers.,0
1354,lili laid out the spoon and measured medication and folded the towel while marie eyed her suspiciously.,1
6940,"our elders tell how we are descended from the narts, a tribe from before the measure of time, half giant and half human.",0
8092,"shaft was certain the police thought that’s what it was, anyhow.",0
2818,i doubt if my daughter and your cousin will be here much before one o'clock.,1
5874,"when, for the third time, he dismounted to walk beside her she showed her displeasure and it came to him suddenly that hounds might have been put upon his scent.",0
10919,"and then, when she brought bertie to school, she was always accompanied by hugh pilaster, the handsome banker who paid her son's fees: no doubt the more sophisticated among the other parents suspected that hugh was bertie's real father.",0
10151,"asked, “what is that?”

“silicone,” he said, spraying back the other way.",0
7133,"there was no censure in her voice, just raw pain.",0
9686,"kathy shot me a furtive look, wondering if i’d tell about our angelic visitation last night outside of gino’s.",0
11753,"it was pope john—always fearing movements of the simple who might preach and practice poverty—who inveighed against the

mendicant preachers, for, he said, they attracted the curious by raising banners with painted figures, preaching, and extorting money.",0
12284,"it was said that the king had grown wroth with the egyptian gods and that he had sent swift messengers to his father-in-law, the king of mitanni in nahara, desiring that the miracle-working ishtar of niniveh be sent to heal him.",0
9584,he believed in god like in a father.,0
8192,"whatever his faults, he was a chivalrous youth and no doubt hoped a pretence of her ignorance might make matters easier for her.",0
6399,she was unable to regain her composure.,0
9366,"rostnikov did not turn back, did not acknowledge the shouting man in the square standing next to the ruins of the old church.",0
8295,"oh, hell, she thought, and looked at marie, who certainly was on mary’s wavelength.",0
11772,". . enthusiasm, which, though founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rising from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain .",0
11874,we entered the plundered temples to cut away the names of the gods and there met other adherents of pharaoh engaged in the same task.,0
11036,"“comrades,” he began hesitantly.",0
4844,"everyone would know exactly what i was talking about.”

“i’m sure they would, alice,” livia said.",0
3509,"i can’t give you peace, but i certainly can point you to the one who can.",0
3184,"""with any drug, there has to be one first human being to use it.”

""if you don't mind,"" andrew said, ""i prefer not to be the pioneering doctor.”

the saleswoman raised an eyebrow skeptically; her voice sharpened.”not even if your patient is dying and there isn't anything else?",1
10344,“what the hell are all these names?,0
10429,"""what a coincidence,"" angela said.",0
482,"she kept a phone in, in case sister evangeline needed something in the night, but i doubt she ever called anyone.",1
5493,"""sure,"" i said.",0
5930,"sometimes we left when we smelled the hoboes’ supper—a little like fish, a little like rubber, a little like rust—but it was not the pleasures of home at suppertime that lured us back to sylvie’s house.",0
4117,"i’m sure it would be fine with kyle.”

teri shook her head, laughing at jessica’s suggestion.",0
6403,"surely, they would welcome american aid.",0
1086,"i say ‘almost’ because there were others, like myself, who regarded the absurd euphoria with increasing suspicion.",1
5903,"why was he, a cocksure and arrogant macho in his youth, now relegated to fearful thoughts of lifelong loneliness?",0
428,"although dr. harris hopes that it is not cancerous, nothing will be known for certain until the operation is completed.",1
8147,"she switched on her recorder and turned her chair toward elyse, then in a voice that was sure to carry, said: ""that's not the whole story.",0
2891,"had they known, it’s doubtful we’d be sitting at this table!”

“signor defazio,” interrupted the contessa, glancing at her husband, her look telling him to calm down.",1
5361,"i opened the drawers that once had held her white gloves for church, her garter belts and girdles and stockings, her full slips and half slips, her brassieres, her long nightgowns, her pink bedjacket with three silvery frog closures that she always wore if she was sick in bed and wore day after day before she died.",0
458,"he had had few qualms about stealing before, but now, when it was simply a matter of taking, he felt a totally unprecedented hesitation.",1
1996,"even without the picture test i would have passed her—her small slender figure with its honest angles, her hair with its honest gray, her eyes with their honest doubt.",1
1681,"“i think i see, but i’m not sure.”

“she doesn’t want me owing anything,” dick said.",1
4618,faith sees daniel’s angel.,0
72,"if you are questioning my judgment, perhaps you should discuss it with the qa committee.” lukas pivoted and stalked from the room.",1
2789,but i warn you that a doubt must remain.,1
11007,"""the concorde out of dulles in three hours,"" said weintraub without hesitation.",0
202,she had left her secure world at the miller farm and joined his inner-city ministry.,1
2185,"i was confident i could eventually smooth things over, nurture that shrunken belief she had in my devotion.",1
10414,"grabbing her coat, angela left the hospital.",0
1901,"i’m not as sure as mary, but it did seem like him.”

“what’s ‘it’?”

“the thing, papa, whatever it was.",1
7917,as god’s my witness!,0
10694,at his news conference the president will undoubtedly be asked .,0
4363,"he
felt certain the scream had been real, that it was not merely part of his dream.",0
8340,"i assured him that i knew nothing of the strange disappearance and that he should ask thurston the magician, who was also on the bill.”

fields took a sip and looked out the window thoughtfully.",0
2530,"“the point that makes me most doubtful,” devry said, “is the matter of an outsider striking at the united states with an atomic device.",1
9195,"arthur felt extremely secure at that moment, maybe not because of his savings account in which there was just a little over two hundred, but money wasn’t the only basis of security, was it?",0
7091,"despite my assurances that this was not in any way necessary, he hastened away - only to reappear a short while later accompanied by a man carrying a large bundle in one hand, and two good-sized jars in the other.",0
8437,"certainly, she was intelligent.",0
9893,it will just be a lot of propaganda about social justice and the rights of the underprivileged and lord knows what all.,0
1148,"half doubting, half in
desperation, his sons had brought him today.",1