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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

... back to his awaiting mates. “You humungous bag of shit! I’ll have you for Sunday dinner. If I owned a shot gun, you’d be sucking on mint sauce!” Sta... ...when I was little, but I have never believed in ghosts. We were taught at Sunday school, we go to Heaven when we die. I saw no white light, well, no... ...death stuff. You were right Sis, we are limited to the boundaries of your soul.” “What!” I hate it when he tries to be poetic. “We are joined forever... ...ppose it did make sense, I just never believed in such things and I’m not superstitious either, just thought I’d throw that one in. Anyhow, Steven c... ...mon and Jehovah’s Witness literature is doing wonders, something to do on Sundays. Now hear me out before you think I’m mad. I gave two spooks permi... ... woman is talking. I believe Kathleen and my brother would make excellent soul mates; I do hope he’s somewhere in the vicinity and spots her. I’m be... ...d my arms, showing off the most obedient bloody sheep on the planet! Okay super stud, let’s see how you react to that load of crap. Even with my hug... ..., a bulldozer?” My brother draws my sights. “Ghost have strengths that put superman to shame. That’s why you hear of people being saved from the most... ...s but…” Gary’s thinking and I urge him a little. “I promise I won’t tell a soul. I really need help with this.” I’m pushing the sincerity boundaries....

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The Bedfordrow Conspiracy

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...coin- cidences, sympathies, hidden gushes of feeling, mystic unions of the soul, and what not, in every single cir- cumstance that occurred from the r... ...,” and the discomfiture of the pelted Mayor and Corporation. The very next Sunday, Scully was reconciled to the church (or attended it in the morning,... ...lly was Perkins’s Napoleon—he yielded himself up to the attorney, body and soul. Whilst this scene was going on under one chandelier of the ballroom, ... ... place—too frightened at first, and then too angry. “Person!” said he: his soul swelled with a desperate republicanism: he went back to his patron mor... ...r to his apartments on the first floor of the same house. He lived here to super- intend his legal business: his London agents, Messrs. Higgs, Biggs, ... ... young persons had, in fact, be- come so close, that on a certain sunshiny Sunday in December, after having accompanied Aunt Biggs to church, they had...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...ompress several semesters. Money she earned working part-time at her local supermarket enabled her to buy clothes and cosmetics, and blend in with her... ...hen I get to say how it’s spent.” “I could try to get work on Saturday and Sunday, if you will mind the kids.” “Are you kidding? I put up with brats a... ...ith that, Lacey’s life began to change. Four days a week, from Thursday to Sunday, she worked at the bookstore. Money of her own released her from bon... ...r life became a distrac- tion. It was as if she were pouring her heart and soul into lives she was creating on the computer screen. Here, at last, she... ...ay they were happy for their friend. They could tell that Jake had found a soul mate. Some long-time business acquaintances of Jake were invited, as w... ... Hardest of all, I absolutely refuse to panic if things get behind. And on Sunday, I do noth- ing but pamper myself. Right now, I think of myself as c... ... and he had met Lacey at his support group. But he had thought of her as a superficial, negative person and a poor candidate for a successful prognosi... ... man and breathed into his face the breath of life and man became a living soul,” he said. “I am here out of the earth from which I was taken, for dus... ...’s my girl. You need not worry, Mother. Jana is a 205 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE super-organized whirlwind. It will surely be a perfect day.” Then, with goo...

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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

...de will startle you into laughter as you walk the streets in bitterness of soul over the treason of one who was your friend in the past. In some respe... ...operas, played in 1815 and 1816, and divers unpublished scores. The worthy soul was now ending his days as the con- ductor of an orchestra in a boulev... ...id years of travel Pons was as happy as was possible to a man with a great soul, a sensitive nature, and a face so ugly that any “success with the fai... ... hide his feelings, and learned to take sanctuary in his inmost self. Many superficial persons inter- pret this conduct by the short word “selfishness... ...so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. An angel could not have found a word to say to Schmu... ...r of nut- crackers,” a nickname which makes any portrait of Schmucke quite superfluous, for he was to Pons as the famous statue of the Nurse of Niobe ... ...urprising that people dispute for the honor of seeing you. Very well, next Sunday? Within a week, as we say at the courts?” “On Sunday we are to dine ... ...ou are right; it vould pe too much for me.” An hour later La Cibot, in her Sunday clothes, departed in great state, to the no small astonishment of th... ...ould not listen to me,” put in a neighbor; “I advised him to walk out of a Sunday and keep Saint Monday; two days in the week is not too much for amus...

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The Last Chronicle of Barset

By: Anthony Trollope

...arisen chiefly from want of that higher ecclesiastical promotion which his soul had coveted, and for which the whole tenor of his life had espe- ciall... ...ve days, of which the worst, perhaps, had reference to the services of the Sunday which intervened between the day of her visit to Silverbridge and th... ...cessary that he should prepare his sermons, of which he preached two every Sunday, though his congregation consisted only of farmers, brickmakers, and... ...d at his task as though he had forgotten all else in the world. And on the Sunday morning he went into his school be- fore the hour of the church serv... ...hat Grace should stay. She had been invited to fill the place of an absent superintendent, first, for one month, then for another, and then for two mo... ...as they had a right to expect her to be, and in some respects a great deal superior to that type of womanhood with which they had been most generally ... ...elf submissive to him, and treated him with the courtesy which is due to a superior being. He therefore simply asked her whether he could be allowed t... ... to do? Here is Thursday, and something must be done before Sunday for the souls of those poor benighted creatures at Hogglestock.’ Mrs Proudie was re... ...ose they have let him out, is he to go about like a roaring lion—among the souls of the people?’ The bishop shook in his shoes. When Mrs Proudie began...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...ll as in manufac- tures; but they are commonly more distinguished by their superi- ority in the latter than in the former. Their lands are in general ... ... in proportion to the extent and natural fertility of the ground. But this superiority of produce is seldom much more than in proportion to the superi... ...ame degree of goodness, is as cheap as that of France, notwithstanding the superior opulence and improvement of the latter country. The corn of France... ...should be accounted only from the publication of such notice in writing on Sunday in the church, immediately after divine service. “After all,” says D... ...neumatology, comprehending the doctrine concerning the nature of the human soul and of the Deity, in the third; in the fourth followed a de- based sys... ...cted with the doctrines of pneumatology, with the immortality of the human soul, and with the rewards and punishments which, from the justice of the D... ...ople, before she will confer upon the presentee what is called the cure of souls, or the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the parish. She sometimes, at ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...d by the dictates of society and religion which gave us our laws, morals and customs. We might call this the conscience. Freud called it the ‗super ... ...urges were frustrated, the individual could become neurotic. The part of the mind that had to make the decisions as to whether the id or the super ... ...ion of this pleasure center. ―It can be readily seen why society had to repress the urges of the pleasure driven id by developing the super ... ...ay. ―Getting drunk can also be a power drive satisfaction. A college sophomore might brag that ‗I was drunk from Friday night through Sunday... ... or performing the arts. Painting, literature, singing, dancing, playing a musical instrument all give the classic satisfaction that stirs our souls.... ...tainly enough information available from the science of psychology to help people live effectively and happily. But the basic ingredient, the soul o...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...ages and slaughtered young and old, with pious fierceness, while the godly souls throughout the land were helping them with prayer. Several ministers ... ...verse, except with the dead of many years ago. But his voice stirred their souls. They confronted the soldiers, not wholly without arms, and ready to ... ...llenwood was announced soon after Mrs. Dabney’s return to her native city. Superfi- cial observers, and deeper ones, seemed to concur in suppos- ing t... ...timent, in those who felt aright, was solemnized the union of two immortal souls. The train of withered mourners, the hoary bridegroom in his shroud, ... ...heir parents, or mimicked a graver gait, in the conscious dignity of their Sunday clothes. Spruce bachelors looked sidelong at the pretty maidens, and... ...a careful wife had starched his band, and brushed the weekly dust from his Sunday’s garb. There was but one thing remarkable in his appearance. Swathe... ...le, where the good clergyman had been wont to bless the food, almost every Sunday since his settlement. He returned, therefore, to the parsonage, and,... ... and muslin cap, though the countenance retained the composure of death. A superstitious old woman was the only witness of this prodigy. From the coff... ...iscover the secret which it was supposed to hide. By persons who claimed a superiority to popular prejudice, it was reckoned merely an eccentric whim,...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... given good advice, and faithfully carried out our guidance.They have been superb. We thank the Congress and the President. Executive branch agencies ... ...ited from being carried onto a commercial flight. 7 None of the checkpoint supervisors recalled the hijackers or reported anything suspi- cious regard... ...he universal code for a hijack in progress. Controllers would notify their supervisors, who in turn would inform management all the way up to FAA head... ...croaching foreign powers eager to steal their land, wealth, and even their souls. Bin Ladin’s Worldview Despite his claims to universal leadership, Bi... ...lely with Afghanistan. 69 Rice said that when President Bush called her on Sunday, Sep- tember 16, he said the focus would be on Afghanistan, although... ...pecific U.S.-based options trading newsletter, faxed to its subscribers on Sunday, September 9, which recommended these trades.These examples typify t... ...nt the CIA had ever faced. 56. NSC memo, Clarke to Berger,“Post-Millennium Soul Searching,” Jan. 11, 2000. 57. NSC memo,“Review of T errorism Alert an...

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Modeste Mignon

By: Honoré de Balzac

...the warp through which is shot a woof less brilliant than the poesy of thy soul, whose ex- pression, when it shines upon thy countenance, is, to those... ...ainst the evil day from your mysterious dwarf?” Modeste instantly sent the soul of her adorer to its humble mud-cabin with a terrible glance, such as ... ...ch seem to us dramatic are nothing more than 15 Balzac subjects which our souls convert into tragedy or comedy ac- cording to the bent of our charact... ...hed to be the friend and companion of a poet, an artist, a man in some way superior to the crowd of men. But she intended to choose him,—not to give h... ...t which is the only reward that should be looked for in an intimacy with a superior man,—a reward that contented Ali when Mohammed raised him to himse... ...ing to marry a great renown, remember also that you must soon dis- cover a superior man to be, in all that makes a man, like other men. He therefore p... ...spondence had led the two lovers. To Monsieur de Canalis,—Be at Havre next Sunday; go to church; after the morning service, walk once or twice round t... ...Dumay and Modeste had taken place. The happy girl was impatiently awaiting Sunday, when her eyes were to vindicate or condemn her heart and her action... ... flame against flame, mind to mind, an equation whose terms are mutual. On Sunday morning Butscha arrived at the Chalet before Madame Latournelle, who...

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Weir of Hermiston

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ds were lost. He pursued Rob T odd (if any one could have believed Robbie) for the space of half a mile with piti- ful entreaties. But the age is one ... ...; once a moorland Helen, and still comely as a blood horse and healthy as the hill wind. High in flesh and voice and colour, she ran the house with he... ...f the universe, which was all lighted up with a glow out of the doors of hell, good people must walk there in a kind of ecstasy of tenderness. The bea... ...gain – daurna say boo to a goose!” But the stranger retained the boy, talked to him, drew him out, found in him a taste for letters, and a fine, arden... ...tranger retained the boy, talked to him, drew him out, found in him a taste for letters, and a fine, ardent, mod- est, youthful soul; and encouraged h... ...his tankard. “And I think perhaps that we might permit ourselves a toast,” said he. “I should like to propose the health of a man very differ- ent fro... ...veyard, finds harbourage in a grove of row- ans, and is all the year round in a great silence broken only by the drone of the bees, the tinkle of the ... ...ather melancholy young gentleman of twenty came upon her with the shock of a new acquaintance. He was “Young Hermiston,” “the laird himsel’ “: he had ... ...ily gift of prayer of which Kirstie had boasted; and the baffled politician now turned his attention to religious matters – or, as others said, to her...

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Beechcroft at Rockstone

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...o you go to church there!’ ‘I do—always. I could not undertake the hill on Sundays; but Jane takes the school-children to the St. Andrew’s ser- vice i... ...d schools, so we only have an infant school for the Rockstone children. On Sunday, Jane assembles the older children there and takes them to church; b... ...in the midst of their kisses. ‘Sudden friendships,’ said Gillian, from the superiority of her age. ‘I do not think you are given that way,’ said Aunt ... ...un made known that she in- tended Gillian to take a class at the afternoon Sunday-school, while the two children went to Mrs. Hablot’s drawing-room cl... ...dine. ‘The child is not badly off,’ explained Miss Mohun. ‘Her father is a superior workman. She does not exactly want com- forts, but she is sadly de... ...epartment, just as a compliment to her relation, Mr. White. Quite genteel, superior work, though I must say he does not do as much for us as he might.... ...ably for Christmas, or for her mother’s return; but as secrecy is the very soul of such things, I shut my eyes.’ ‘Somehow, Jane, I think you have beco... ...I must find out from him whether this is only a foreboding of my prophetic soul!’ ‘Curious cattle,’ observed Lord Rotherwood. ‘Well,’ put in his wife,... ...aw him yesterday,’ and as she gazed as if the news were water to a thirsty soul—’he sent his love, and begged his mother and you to forgive the distre...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...too susceptible T upman, who to the wisdom and experience of maturer years superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy in the most interesting and p... ...he capacious chin encroached upon the borders of the white cravat: but the soul of Tupman had known no change— admiration of the fair sex was still it... ...na Christina—splendid creature—loved me to distraction—jealous father—high souled daughter— handsome Englishman—Donna Christina in despair—prus sic a... ...ust be exceedingly delicious to those who are extremely fond of smoking. A superficial traveller might object to the dirt, which is their leading char... ... tive of the animal in the chaise—ready saddled for Mr. Winkle. ‘Bless my soul!’ said Mr. Pickwick, as they stood upon the pavement while the coats w... ...ceal, she was a constant at tendant at our little church. Regularly every Sunday, morn ing and afternoon, she occupied the same seat with the boy at... ...rable difficulties, and returned, on foot, to his native place. ‘On a fine Sunday evening, in the month of August, John Edmunds set foot in the villag... ...favour of the sale of livings in the Church, and eighty six for abolishing Sunday trading in the street. Mr. Pickwick stood in the principal street of... ...n early period of the winning game Dingley Dell gave in, and al lowed the superior prowess of All Muggleton. The stranger, meanwhile, had been eating...

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...ose name is but another for voracity. Why, to be alive, to be quick in the soul, there should be diversity in the com- panion throbs of your pulses. I... ...his mistress; a rapier, is she obdurate. In sooth a leg with brains in it, soul. And its shadows are an ambush, its lights a surprise. It blushes, it ... ...ard and may he reported. “It makes the business of choosing a wife for him superhu- manly difficult!” Mrs. Mountstuart observed, after listening to th... ... was pretty; her eyelashes were long and dark, her eyes dark-blue, and her soul was ready to shoot like a rocket out of them at a look from Willoughby... ...ing termination of an enchanting romance, when Sir Willoughby met her on a Sunday morning, as she crossed his park solitarily to church. They were wit... ...s invita- tion, and sometimes on these occasions Willoughby was there too, superintending the filling up of his laboratory, though he was not at home ... ...have a longer stride; she reviews you in competition, and selects you. The superlative is magnetic to her. She may be looking elsewhere, and you will ...

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Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

...lowed into the song writing process, they fail to offer anything more than superficial ear candy .” The band does not write their own material, Max Ma... ...ped rock’n’roll. David Binning remarks on the band’s sixth release, Rubber Soul, “The song writing is solid all the way through and the lyrics are get... ... step forward, and one of their best albums- just half a year after Rubber Soul their lyrics had suddenly gotten about as good as they would ever be, ... ...dstown Wild Things. We practiced three times a week, and the games were on Sundays. At practice, playing soccer was the only thing I wanted to do. My ... ... the ball and score. The day of the last game of the season was on a sunny Sunday afternoon. We had to win the game in order to go to the playoffs. Th... ...hool everyday since my mom works until seven? How would I get to church on Sundays without my dad driving? At age eight, one thing came clear to me—th... ...ore. At Burger King, fries can be “Big Size” for $.39. McDonald’s offer a “Super Size” order of fries for $1.79. Again, these prices come from Hazleto... ...ice cream bar is where individuals can sit and enjoy ice cream sundaes and super thick malts while talking about the latest football game. Baby’s atmo...

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