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it came more as a feeble wish than an expression of faith.
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he circled the church and entered the ark on the west side of st nicholas avenue and approached the building from across the street.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“the truth is that my brother’s quite mad.” “oh christ,” i murmured.
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with a devoted husband and a lovable little son both pouring out affection on her, no wonder her face shone with joy.
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the chilly silence from spike’s side of the bed made me pretty sure this was one of those times.
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in the grass.” “you all massacred those women?
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slaves quickly measured out equal portions of wine and water into a large mixing bowl, and stirred the blend.
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but, god, you couldn’t remember everything.
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then i paused before a representation of princess tadukhipa of mitanni making sacrifice to the gods of egypt.
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pete did everything that way, always seeming sure that if she did it, whatever it was, it would work out just fine.
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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.
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the rev said lazarus was lucky to have such a good friend in jesus.
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“but certainly, m’sieur.
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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.
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she felt the insult keenly; she would never think of comparing herself to jesus.
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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 th...
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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.
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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, inflat...
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and they sure as god didn’t walk alone.
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a believer, he never blamed god for her death, rather asked his forgiveness, prayed he would not end up the same way.
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mackenzie smiled at her but still said, "i'm not sure if i'll see you next week or not."
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‘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.
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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!
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“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.
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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.
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i thought all he wanted was to have nothing unusual sully his days, that what he disliked or feared most was uncertainty.
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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.
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"you certainly sound professional.
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“they’re all screwed up.” “i bet somewhere there are some who are footloose and fancy free,” i say, not believing it.
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yet, there are sixty-three carmelite monasteries sprinkled throughout the united states, and one of them is located in the outskirts of detroit.
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it was a very close thing … but it was enough.” he raised his eyes to heaven.
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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.
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he realized he had taken a positive shine to their white bread, and even the processed cheese seemed to possess a certain delicacy.
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each christmas he remained in the employ of the "major legatee" he would receive an additional five hundred dollars.
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it puts dangerous ideas into the mind of the goddess of fortune.
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pontoon boats, for god's sake."
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surely you won’t let her sit with decent folk.
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la femme!” in short, i am full of doubts.
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“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.
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but now they begin to doubt.
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since the preacher said that the point of the parables is mysterious and needs explaining, they have no choice but to believe him.
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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.
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—jo coppedge used to say, when i get growed i’m going to get to be a mason, sure enough.
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in the semidarkness i couldn't be sure, but it felt like solid oak.
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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.
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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 certai...
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he had heard it everywhere, in prayer and in daily speech, and wherever the saints were gathered, and in the unbelieving streets.
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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.
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all this is strange new pleasure.
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if it is so very important, no doubt 'he' will tell you.
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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, t...
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“we have a way of being sure.” ivey shook his head.
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“the reason a guy puts a gun in his mouth instead of against his temple is that it’s the only sure way.
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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.
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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.
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"i understand, mrs. lacy, that you're soon to be a woman of leisure."
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that would account for his reluctance to have her join him in europe.
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i ain't no criminal, i'm a church lady -- " she was becoming hysterical from her load of junk.
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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.
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he noticed his flashlight, which he surely didn't want to leave behind.
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they didn't do construction and they didn't do bible study.
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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.
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they had a clergyman of a different faith at every lunch.
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the look on her face evolved from challenging to doubtful to speculative to careful.
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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.
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strength returned more surely with each bite.
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or,” he added, again with the flicker of a wink, “more suspicion than is her normal lot.” kate sighed.
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somehow one didn’t doubt stan.
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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.
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one day before the christmas holidays joseph strolled into the con- was a gloomy day gray snow falling outside, conservatories.
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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 me...
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. . but you surely must know all this.
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but he’d never been able to find the words either, had never heard them or read them anywhere, and so distrusted language.
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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.
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angela echoed.
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"oh liz," he said desperately, "for god's sake believe me.
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but in that atmosphere, i saw them not as my work but as objects that did have a certain appeal.
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early-early sunday morning.
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you should be home cooking and cleaning.” at this remark, bess and george told the amish couple about nancy’s fine accomplishments.
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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.
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it had given me faithful service, and it got fifty kilometers to the gallon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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once our abbeys ruled the world.
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twould be good for christmas greens as well. . . . you zoral!
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he seemed dazed and not quite sure where he was.
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but surely mccullough was too sound to involve himself with owen abercrombie.
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his misandry turned out to be a genuine if sporadic thing and continued, although accompanied by hagiographical asides re certain obviously countertypical men.
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she had slept, she realized, and felt disoriented, unsure where she was.
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‘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.
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“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.
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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.
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but she was almost certainly in trouble.
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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.
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isaiah surely knew all of these mysteries, too.
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