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then he took the other string, on the far side of the apron, and tied it securely around his neck.
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“know what it costs to hire a chopper?” “neither do i have any idea of how an urban slumlord could fly one.” “rusty!
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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.
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i made sure he had a chamber pot, a bottle of water, peanut butter and a box of crackers.
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you will enjoy your stay.” “i’m sure i will.” at that moment i would have enjoyed any room with a mattress in it.
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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.
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listen, i want to honor you with my prayer.
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and without the least hesitation, his mind moved to wyndham school and the fire.
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like christian dior, like johnny carson and the portable toilet—out!” “christ, you’re on a short fuse, philip.
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what difference does it make?” “i’m not sure it makes a difference,” i said, recalling her liquor cabinet.
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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.
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well, i knew what was coming and sure enough, i was right.
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the woman accepted the attendant's assurance.
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mckee wasn’t so sure.
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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.
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i suppose you have some heirlooms.” “yes.” moses was unprepared for this and he answered hesitantly.
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this is when i thought i understood what god intended for us to feel.
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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.
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let us hope to god the abscess is walled off!
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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.
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either way, though, you had to work at it, and they'd both fail you if you doubted them too much.
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many of jesus' followers and all his apostles were divided among a fleet of vessels.
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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.
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. . and i’m pretty sure we’ll bury him next to your parents.
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“maybe angels aren’t flying things with harps!” she cried.
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she apparently felt confident in the safety and sanctity of the yard.
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why didn't they get off the goddamn road?
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unlike me, aaron miller was a mennonite who lived by his pacifist faith.
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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.
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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.
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… 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 wif...
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he was worn out, dirty beyond belief, and home.
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"i don't know what has gone wrong, but something most certainly has.
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“i — i see,” said father tom, dubiously.
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can we be sure it was not hobab who looked back at him from the plate of brass?
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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.
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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.
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“this is the right place,” i assured them with a laugh.
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the hell with johnny doom’s parroted sing-song and the cia’s obvious attempts to put me on ice.
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in addition, he was unsure whether his daughter would be willing to leave with him.
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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.
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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.
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“let me take some blood, a urine sample, listen to your chest and back, take your blood pressure.
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the illustrations are certainly deceptive; they make you look considerably older.
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several lawsuits were filed against jennings, jon, and the rama staff for having undermined the faith of someone who subsequently committed suicide.
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"mr. francis, edmund, has expressed some : suspicions of our friend, whom he had not seen before."
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why magnify god, who cannot become less by subtraction through our atheism or greater by the addition of our praise?
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“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.
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but i can do it next sunday.” “that sounds fair to me.” hutton nodded.
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angela immediately recognized the voice: it was phil calhoun.
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“all those years i wondered why i could never measure up, why i wasn’t as good as max.
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“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 empero...
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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.
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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 t...
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murdo felt his once-solid certainty beginning to crumble.
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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 pi...
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we’ve had five killings on this island since sunday night, and nobody’s seen a thing.
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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.
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"i'm sorry you won't agree to appear in court, but we respect your beliefs.
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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?
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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.
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“it’s true,” faith said.
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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.
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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.
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i don’t want to pressure you in any way.
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bailie kept insisting that opechancanough had determined and planned an attack to wipe the english from virginia.
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one might even detach himself from where he was already meant to be secured.
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for many months she had borne hubert’s public flaunting of her and his private humiliations, and now she was sure she was dying.
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now carcharoth espied them from afar, and he was filled with doubt; for news had long been brought to angband that draugluin was dead.
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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.
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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, ...
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for four years there had been no doubt for him about what he had done.
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i may have seen her, i'm not sure.
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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.
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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.
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“what kind of pleasure?” he said.
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certainly not in public.” dave followed him.
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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.
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he’s white-livered for sure.
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“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.
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she was unsure where they would land.
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i’m not sure romey was afraid of anything.
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for christ's sake, who was it?'
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the captain stood uncertainly.
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he was sure it was the girl helena and that she had climbed up from the slave quarters by means of the garden latticework.
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“if you’re too tired from your trip to come to dinner, i’m sure meredith will understand.” “no, i’m fine.
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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.
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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!
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“we’re going to begin practice for our christmas pageant.” willy and alvirah slipped into seats near the staircase and watched affectionately.
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tonight’s small moments of connection, rosie’s pleasure in their company, filled elizabeth with quiet relief.
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'there's nothing like a dog,' peters assured her.
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a little doctoring would bring it out, i’m sure.” “we can talk about that.
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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.
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kunta couldn't be sure, but it seemed to him that omoro had slowed down a tiny bit.
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no … i think i’ll stay … sure you won’t change your mind?
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"hell, i'm not sure what i'm considering anymore," he retorted.
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she said, “i’m never anywhere but here.” “sure, baby,” uncle will said.
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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.
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if this was only lunch, she was certainly looking forward to dinner.
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“please,” she protested, not sure she wanted to hear this.
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