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| 0fd9c0c | We marched him to the turfy shack where he lived with his parents and while the youth sulked Petronius Longus put the whole moral issue in succinct terms to them: Ollia's father was a legionary veteran who had served in Egypt and Syria for over twenty years until he left with double pay, three medals, and a diploma that made Ollia legitimate; he now ran a boxers' training school where he was famous for his high-minded attitude and his fight.. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| ae4a906 | In Paris (though he had just come four thousand miles from the river where it was born, though Bessie Smith herself had sung at a Negro dance ten miles from Briartree while they were packing for their trip abroad, and though Duff Conway, the greatest horn man of his time--for whose scratched and worn recordings Jeff was to pay as high as fifty and sixty dollars apiece--had been born and raised in Bristol, son of the cook in the Barcroft hou.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| c8333fa | Back home the election was over; the country had a new president: 'Mr Roosevelt' he was called at first, then 'Roosevelt,' then 'that Roosevelt,' and finally just 'he' or 'him' by mouths that twisted bitterly on the pronoun, for the westering boats were crowded with expatriates--"A traitor to his class," they said." | Shelby Foote | ||
| 88dc757 | So their relationship entered a new phase, characterized by enmity round the clock. True, they had fought all along--there had been the gladiatorial contests in which she would snatch up any handy weapon to even the odds. But that sort of combat was almost a sporting thing: it seemed the natural way to close their arguments, just as war is said to be an extension of politics, statecraft. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 17c42fc | We're each two different people, is why, and we live in two different worlds. Just as we carry our waking bodies and some of our waking thoughts into the world of dreams, so we bring the thoughts and happenings of the world of dreams back with us when we return to the world of daylight. They mingle, they explain each other: we look forward and backward, trying to find a reason for what is happening in this world by remembering something mor.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 5384c58 | Saturday and Sunday nights the long gray car would be parked among Fords and Chevrolets, as if it had littered or spawned on the gravel quay beside the club. Inside, the five-man Negro band pumped jazz--Button Up Your Overcoat and I'll Get By and That's My Weakness Now, interspersed with numbers that had been living before and would be living after: San and Tiger Rag and High Society--while the planters and bankers, the doctors and lawyers,.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| ad63d9c | Jeff and Amy were part of this, though never in the sense that the natives were. They were not indigenous: they were outlanders, 'foreigners,' distinguished by a sort of upcountry cosmopolitan glaze which permitted them to mingle but not merge. Even their drinking habits set them apart. Deltans drank only corn and Coca-Cola; gin was perfume, scotch had a burnt-stick taste. They would watch with wry expressions while Amy blended her weird co.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 38b15b5 | They were Amy and Jeff Carruthers and they rode south out of Bristol, gravel chattering under the upswept fenders. After a while the man said suddenly, "Whats it like?" Amy glanced out at the fields. "Cotton. Everywhere nothing but cotton." | Shelby Foote | ||
| 414718c | The money was tobacco money, not from the growing end but the manufacturing; they were from Winston-Salem, and there was plenty of it. Even Jeff who was a younger son (as Amy's father had been, in the days before the increased popularity of cigarettes boosted the fortune) could look forward to something over a million in his own name after three brothers by his father's first wife had got theirs. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 0e83129 | The woman was in her middle twenties and she wore a sort of tennis dress that shouted Money almost as loudly as the car did, sleeveless and V neck, of a semi-transparent material, chiffon or crepe-de-Chine or maybe georgette, which allowed the pink of her nipples to show through. She not only wore no brassiere, she obviously wore no undergarment of any description. There was nothing of modesty about her. Not that she was flaunting herself; .. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 97b9abe | That was what bothered him most: the fact that she seemed to encourage his advances, and even granted him certain liberties, up to the point at which she turned on him with violence or laughter. He did not know which was worse, the chuckling or the blows; there was something terribly unmanly about being on the receiving end of either. But he looked forward to a time when he could repay her, could laugh at her or strike her as he saw fit. Th.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 2971783 | This was mainly a brown country, cluttered with dead leaves from the year before, but the oaks had tasseled and the redbud limbs were like flames in the wind. Fruit trees in cabin yards, peach and pear and occasional quince, were sheathed with bloom, white and pink, twinkling against broken fields and random cuts of new grass washed clean by the rain. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 2d1cb7c | There is no chance for surprise," he said, shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders with that French way he had. "Theyll be intrenched to the eyes." | Shelby Foote | ||
| 3b289fb | But as they walked home together through the leaf-plastered streets, under that eerie refulgence, her father seemed to have divined her plans. This was in his manner, not his words: they were halfway home before he spoke. "Amanda," he said. He paused. "I want you to realize the consequences before you do something youll be sorry for." He did not look at her, and she too kept her eyes to the front. "You know that when I say a thing I mean it.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 18bdc95 | I wonder how many people in the Washington metropolitan area know just how terrific Senator MacGregor looks in his underwear." "A select few." "You must have thought about image projection, Senator." She ran a fingertip down the top of his foot. "You should consider doing some of those ads,you know,like the ball players...I never meet with foreign dignitaries without my B.V.D.'s." "One can only be grateful you're not the Media Adviser." "St.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 02032e7 | for the people sat in their Sunday clothes, soberly nodding agreement with all the preachers said about impending doom on earth and searing flame hereafter, and came out Monday morning as before; they gave the Lord His day, and kept the other six for their own uses. | Shelby Foote | ||
| 09224c0 | With such incentives to brave deeds, and with the trust that God is with us, your generals will lead you confidently to the combat - assured of success. ________ General commanding | Shelby Foote | ||
| 39bb954 | But they were all thinking the selfsame thing: I might be a disgrace to my country. I might be a coward, even. But I'm not up there in those woods getting shot at | Shelby Foote | ||
| 4af48fc | You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot | shiloh | Shelby Foote | |
| 55fdf04 | alone producing over sixty percent more manufactured goods than the whole Confederacy, | Shelby Foote | ||
| 9005508 | He could do little. Brandy might help, he thought, but when he poured some into the hurt man's mouth it ran back out again. Presently a colonel, Johnston's chief of staff, came hurrying into the ravine. But he could do nothing either. He knelt down facing the general. "Johnston, do you know me? Johnston, do you know me?" he kept asking, over and over, nudging the general's shoulder as he spoke. But Johnston did not know him. Johnston was de.. | army-of-tennessee battle-of-shiloh civil-war-western-theater | Shelby Foote | |
| ba59e80 | Trying to make sense of other people's responses to us is a basic human activity. Accepting a mother's [or anyone's] anger by concluding that i is justified is a way of making sense of a difficult relationship. But this acceptance comes at a great cost, for it means that we see their cruelty as our shame. | abusive-relationships anger-management emotional-abuse physical-abuse anger shame | Terri Apter | |
| 41cb92f | somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out the higher excellencies in another, and so they re-acted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmony and peace. | familial-love faults human-failing harmony peace | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| ff89878 | There have been such strange unexpected changes in my life during these last two years, that I feel more than ever that it is not worth while to calculate too closely what I should do if any future event took place. I try to think only upon the present. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 2e1b885 | Well, now, sir, I put it to yo', being a parson, and having been in th' preaching line, and having had to try and bring folk o'er to what yo' thought was a right way o' thinking--did yo' begin by calling 'em fools and such like, or didn't yo' rayther give 'em some kind words at first, to make 'em ready for to listen and be convinced, if they could; | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 984f880 | By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from th.. | reading learning wisdom knowledge teaching | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 13b1223 | Many a one is not well for a time; and with good advice gets better and stronger than ever. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 21a11f1 | begin to understand now what heaven must be--and, oh! the grandeur and repose of the words--"The same yesterday, to-day, and for ever." Everlasting! "From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God." That" | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 63da918 | He went away as if weights were tied to every limb that bore him from her. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| bb54395 | everything may be done in a right way or a wrong; the right way is to do it as well as we can, as in God's sight; the wrong is to do it in a self-seeking spirit, which either leads us to neglect it to follow out some device of our own before and after the doing. | wrong diligence right-spirit right | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 1cc9134 | if she would not like to see Master Frederick and his new wife very much indeed? 'She's a Papist, Miss, isn't she?' 'I believe--oh yes, certainly!' said Margaret, a little damped for an instant at this recollection. 'And they live in a Popish country?' 'Yes.' 'Then I'm afraid I must say, that my soul is dearer to me than even Master Frederick, his own dear self. I should be in a perpetual terror, Miss, lest I should be converted. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 3483372 | She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, that into a region so lovely no bale or woe could enter, but would be charmed away and disappear before the sight of the glorious guardian mountains. Now she knew the truth, that earth has no barrier which avails against agony. | earth pain nature sorrow mountains | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| b51d7f5 | It was a stinging pleasure to be in the room with her, and feel her presence. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| b51cf34 | It is to God you answer, not to men. The shame of having your sin known to the world, should be as nothing to the shame you felt at having sinned. We have dreaded men too much, and God too little, in the course we have taken. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 709b383 | If a wish could have transported her, she would have gone off; just for one day. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 4fc575c | By and by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 38cfca2 | There was no need to struggle for their respect. He had it, and he knew it; and the security of this gave a fine grand quietness to his voice and ways, which Margaret had missed before. He | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| b553922 | Correspondence, which bears much the same relation to personal intercourse that the books of dried plats I sometimes see do to the living and fresh flowers in the lanes and meadows. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| d635d78 | Happy and fortunate in all a man cares for, he does not understand what it is to find oneself no longer young--yet thrown back to the starting-point which requires the hopeful energy of youth--to feel one half of life gone, and nothing done--nothing remaining of wasted opportunity, but the bitter recollection that it has been. Miss Hale, I would rather not hear Mr. Lennox's opinion of my affairs. Those who are happy and successful themselve.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 1039ff4 | I'm sure it was not wrong in morals, whatever it might be in judgement. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| ee53f47 | All this gladness in life, all honest pride in doing my work in the world, all this keen sense of being, I owe to her!" And it doubles the gladness, it makes the pride glow, it sharpens the sense of existence till I hardly know if it is pain or pleasure, to think that I owe it to one - to one whom I love, as I do not believe man ever loved woman before." | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 6364263 | Margaret la Anglicana, su padre el Disidente y Higgins el Infiel se arrodillaron juntos. No les hizo dano. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 1eb316f | But you don't think her fit to go to Liverpool?" asked Mary, still in the anxious tone of one who wishes earnestly for some particular decision. "To Liverpool-yes," replied he. "A short journey like that couldn't fatigue, and might distract her thoughts. Let her go by all means,-it would be the very thing for her." "Oh, sir!" burst out Mary, almost sobbing; "I did so hope you would say she was too ill to go." "Whew-" said he, with a prol.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| a09aefa | But, east or west wind, I suppose this man comes.' 'Oh, mamma, that shows you never saw Mr. Thornton. He looks like a person who would enjoy battling with every adverse thing he could meet with--enemies, winds, or circumstances. The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him. | Elizabeth Gaskell |