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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

...golfer as she was. Committed to my false assumptions, I struggled the entire season with poor results until the reason for my failings finally registe... ...y. No golf technique is designed as universally applicable. I spent the next season studying a variety of techniques and trying to develop a swing tha... ...owship Keep me planted by your stream of living water. Give me words in your season. Give me leaves in all seasons. Let Y our message prosper. 46 Thi... ...hat is refreshing, challenging and encouraging. Unfortunately, too often the epiphany will fade as I rescue the bacon from cremation and hearken to th... ...al with an Edge!” Website: http:// www.pamelathibodeaux.com Jan Tickner is a seasoned author, journalist, free-lance writer and recognized award winne...

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Desert Dreams

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...t as she beat the meat to within an inch of its beyond-tender life, before seasoning. She finally just gave up, angrier with herself for wasting her e... ...es, she had taken out and thawed a couple of minute steaks, tenderized and seasoned them before placing them in the broiler beside the pan of chops. J... ...at." Therese swiped at Justice's head before she left the counter with her seasoned and well-beaten eggs and joined Kane at the stove. She stood on he... ...n the sturdy branches, camouflaged behind the lush spring foliage when the season changed. Below, he could even see a tire suspended by a rope from a ... ...ompletely. Which should not be so hard to do, considering. "So, what great epiphany has caused you to grace me with your presence today, djinn?" "You ...

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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

... a grand efort. No, the two of you are merely contributing factors to my epiphany. You see, I’ve realized something extremely impor- tant. Humanity ... ... the books that we might have missed. Hell, it could have been a bunch of seasoned cops for all we know.” Callous began a slow walk toward the build... ...ments. Despite the fact that she was hardly dressed appropriately for the season, she felt warmth for the frst time in years from the dedication he ...

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Pink Lotus

By: Manfred Mitze

...staurant, before returning to Frankfurt, addicted to psychedelics. One summer, while living with Hilde at his parents’ home in Germany, Walter has an epiphany: “People he knew or heard of had gone to the East…and seemed different when they returned.” So he and Hilde bus through Budapest, Athens, Turkey and the Middle East to India, where Walter marvels over “how people su...

...ugh to ask a true question at the proper moment. *** Tree leaves had already fallen to the ground after turning red and yellow. It was a melancholy season in Germany, with a certain smell ascending from the soil: putrid leaves on wet earth. A symbol for some that winter and death are close, the darkness in the Nordic hemisphere may cause sadness to rise in people and som...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...with corrugated plastic and some with corrugated metal roofs. The monsoon season would soon visit with the vengeance of Shiva and the solid roofs wou... ...n early demise? I don’t think I’ve ever experienced such an energized epiphany that we are indeed brothers. So many of us hapless, hopeless, roo... ...o irrigation facilities. ―Lower rainfall during the recent monsoon seasons cut drinking water supplies and significantly reduced the harvest ...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... with the purpose of taking possession of them also. The fleet set sail in due season, and the ambitions of Zichmni were fully realized, but what isla... ... fitted out a ship and proceeded at once to Friesland, which he reached in due season; and directly afterwards the two accompanied Zichmni in an exped... ...s of Southern Europe, the phantoms of vessels are often seen during the summer season a day or two before their arrival; in the North Sea, the spectre... ...sword and shield, a lad near the King held a golden cup into which, at fitting seasons, royalty expectorated; a priest of the highest dignity stood by... ...h; to Mecca his face is turned when he is laid in his narrow home. Only at one season is the pilgrimage made, and during that time all Arabia is in co... ...was called the Three Kings Island, because it was discovered on the day of the Epiphany. Having now sailed to the north point of New Zealand, the vess...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...appears that sex is also about recreation as it frequently occurs out of the mating season. And same-sex copulation and bonding are common in hundre... ...bies was the right thing to do and in conformity with valued teachings and her own epiphany. Her grasp of reality - the immediate and later consequ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... How does one communicate (let alone define) the emotions one experiences during an epiphany? On the contrary: dictionary definitions suffer from gr... ...bies was the right thing to do and in conformity with valued teachings and her own epiphany. Her grasp of reality - the immediate and later consequ... ...bies was the right thing to do and in conformity with valued teachings and her own epiphany. Her grasp of reality - the immediate and later consequ... ...appears that sex is also about recreation as it frequently occurs out of the mating season. And same-sex copulation and bonding are common in hundre... ...itannica, "taboos could include prohibitions on fishing or picking fruit at certain seasons; food taboos that restrict the diet of pregnant women; p... ...eel as though time goes by. They have functioning watches. The sun rises and sets. Seasons change. They grow old and die. This is not entirely an i...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... How does one communicate (let alone define) the emotions one experiences during an epiphany? On the contrary: dictionary definitions suffer from gr... ...bies was the right thing to do and in conformity with valued teachings and her own epiphany. Her grasp of reality - the immediate and later consequ... ...bies was the right thing to do and in conformity with valued teachings and her own epiphany. Her grasp of reality - the immediate and later consequ... ...appears that sex is also about recreation as it frequently occurs out of the mating season. And same-sex copulation and bonding are common in hundre... ...itannica, "taboos could include prohibitions on fishing or picking fruit at certain seasons; food taboos that restrict the diet of pregnant women; p... ...eel as though time goes by. They have functioning watches. The sun rises and sets. Seasons change. They grow old and die. This is not entirely an i...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ugh adobe hamlets, and cacti and past Mexican Indians. When he woke from his epiphany he wasn't sure what to do with it so he returned to the pool onl... ...e often took him to an outdoor pool or a heated indoor pool depending on the season. In earlier years, splashing in a baby pool large enough that he c... ...re conditioned to believe that marriage in a white dress is the portal to an epiphany? This ceremony of holy matrimony is ludicrous as if a god, if He... ...o oneself would lack some sexual exhilaration it would be a singular form of epiphany. The publicity would have been good for the sales of her art and... ...eapons of mass destruction to disprove the obvious: that Bush's hallucinated epiphany was similar to the sun stroked and deranged Akhenaten. As this "... ...d Gabriele's goal, and she wanted it to be ongoing unlike all other forms of epiphany. "I don't own you. Come, go, or stay for life. It's all the sam...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...illing her babies was the right thing to do and in conformity with valued teachings and her own epiphany. Her grasp of reality – the immediate and ... ... is his own repeated creator – hence his grandiosity. Moreover, the narcissist is a man for all seasons, forever adaptable, constantly imitating an...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...o both, the ruptures of language draw a tense attention to them. The inner seasons of man oscillate between hibernating and thawing in a long cycle o... ...t in his attraction for the lapidary and fixed form of haiku: a momentary epiphany of absence, steeled by evanescence. The title of the book itself ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...avenger with poor eyesight, smell and hearing, compete and survive during the seasonal drought of the African Veldt? The drying up of vegetation, wa... ...ir bodies were controlled and balanced by the natural circadian cycles of the seasons and eco-systems: but with fire, they could stay up longer, go ... ...ants were, and how fire resistant the vegetation was. But not during the dry season. Then, everything would have burned. However, the dust bowl of... ...ason. Then, everything would have burned. However, the dust bowl of the dry season wouldn’t have left much to burn except dry grass. How resistant... ...seeing the dirty yellow color of lions standing out grotesquely during the wet season when everything it green, and they are starving. What are t... ... revealed. But they cannot explain it to others who have not experienced this epiphany of being. What most people call mystical nonsense is only a ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...sketball game to watch. But I have to admit his question was something of an epiphany for me: Where do you click to get the actual book? The response ... ...ed. But the benefits of open data policies go further. Every year the monsoon season kills hundreds and causes massive property damage in Southeast Asi...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...red Coley; ‘I know you would have me out directly there.’ The next cricket season this champion was disabled by a severe sprain of the wrist, needing ... ...- tire Absolution of the Penitent,’ with which, on the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, 1846, Dr. Pusey broke his enforced silence of three years. The sa... ... as I am doing my duty, there is no cause for sorrow. ‘Still there will be seasons of loneliness and sadness, and it seems to me as if it always was s... ...l in mind ever since I left home—I mean cheerful on the whole, not without seasons of sadness, but so mercifully strengthened at all times—must, I thi... ...eerfully described, was rather a pull on the frame which had yet to become seasoned to the heat of the southern midsummer, and there was a languor abo... ...f the time. But all was settled in my absence; and now at the Feast of the Epiphany or of the Conversion of St. Paul (as suits the convenience of the ... ...e Bishops of Wellington and Nelson have been summoned for the Feast of the Epiphany, or of the conversion of St. Paul, and all was done in my absence.... ...ardly write down now. ‘Your loving Brother, ‘J. C. P . ‘P .S.—Feast of the Epiphany. Those dear children were bap- tized on Thursday. A most solemn in... ...shop of New Zealand by poor Basset. He had been christened on the previous Epiphany. No doubt this grief on coming home increased the effect of this y...

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Bureaucracy

By: Honoré de Balzac

...nniversaries of birth and marriage, Easter, Christmas, New Year’s day, and Epiphany. These festivals were preceded by great domestic sweepings and a u... ...lothes were ill-cut, his trousers bagged, he wore white stock- ings at all seasons of the year, a hat with a narrow brim and laced shoes. He was alway... ...s principal vice was a mania for proposing rural parties during the summer season, excursions to Montmorency, picnics on the grass, and visits to crea... ... application among the clerks, just as porters and servants become at that season more unctuously civil. They all came punctually, for one thing; more...

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Henrietta's Wish; Or, Domineering

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ng our gentle- men. You will be quite her phoenix; and how much ‘Thomson’s Seasons’ you will have to hear! I dare say you have had it already— ‘Now, s... ...en Mr. Langford shouted into his deaf ears some of the “compliments of the season.” Look- ing at the young lady, whom he evidently mistook for Beatric... ...versation. The two girls went to church with grandpapa on the feast of the Epiphany, and strange it was to them to see again the wreaths which their o... ...ally when Willy brought him a bottle of the first live sticklebacks of the season, accompanied by a message from Arthur that he hoped soon to send him...

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The Herd Boy and His Hermit

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... molest him, and these marshalled the little band in fair order. It was no season for roses, but a feather was also the cogni- sance of Henry VI., and... ...hich Henry would not be debarred. He would make the public offering on the Epiphany in Westminster Abbey. He had done so ever since he was old enough ... ...nctu- ary, and knelt before the chair appropriated to him, while the grand Epiphany Celebration was gone through, in all its glory and beauty of sound...

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Twilight in Italy

By: D. H. Lawrence

...he villagers do not really care for Ibsen. They let it go. On the feast of Epiphany, as a special treat, was given a po- etic drama by D’Annunzio, La ... ...‘Comic’, Il Brillante, Francesco, is unsatisfied. In three performances in Epiphany week, the company took two hundred and sixty-five francs, which wa... ...erstand. After the cyclamens the Christmas roses are in bud. It is at this season that the cacchi are ripe on the trees in the garden, whole naked tre...

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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...a pious and com- mendable wish, but that devotion had its proper times and seasons, and that judgment must be exercised as to the dura- tion of a retr... ... not have the poor forced to carry our crops on the only fine day in a wet season. ‘ Ah, bah!’ said Queen Anne; ‘that was an over-refinement, Madame. ... ...good part. She was much better than she chose to seem. Thus the eve of the Epiphany came, and there was a feast for the King and his little companions...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...en minutes he was asleep. He snored softly . It was the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany, and the collect began with the words: O God, whose blessed Son wa... ...hought of a Teutonic merry-making. It gave him goose-flesh to think of the season’s aggressive cheerfulness, and in his desire to avoid the obvious he... ...influence he had per- suaded himself that the festivities that attend this season were vulgar and barbaric, and he made up his mind that he would take... ...he spring. Hayward had announced his intention of coming to London for the season, and Philip had looked forward very much to seeing him again. He had... ... They came to the station, and he went to the booking-office. “I’ve got my season,” she said. “I thought I’d take you home as it’s rather late, if you... ... Philip, unwilling to be bothered, had refused. He was coming back for the season, and Philip made up his mind to write to him. 392 Of Human Bondage ...

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Two Penniless Princesses

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...n- dant for the ladies, the wife of Andrew of the Cleugh, an elderly, well-seasoned man-at-arms, to whom the banner was entrusted; Dandie their son, a... ...pular saint to have left his shrine without keeping his day. And after the Epiphany, though the party did reach Dover in a day’s ride, a stormy period... ...urn went upon their knees on Good Friday and kissed it. Last year, at this season, they had been shut up in their prison-castle, and had not shared in...

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Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ing Grange is far from church, and she would not disturb her Christmas and Epiphany. She is the most religious of them all, and puts me in mind of our... ...nt down under Field; but Macpherson is all there, and it has been a better season. I could sell it all to him, hers and mine both; but I have thought ...

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The Prince and the Page

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... Prince’ s camp at Drepanum, in the realm of Sicilia, on the octave of the Epiphany, in the year of grace MCCLXX.; and so our Lord have you heartily i... ...te of that age of exceeding beauty in which he lived. Thus, in this festal season, banquets were provided, and military shows took place, for the bene...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

......................................................................... 156 EPIPHANY ..................................................................... ...d. Afterward she placed before us a dish of strawberries, the first of the season. “As I wanted to wash and freshen these, I begged the servant to go ... ...rancs altogether, instead of the six which he owed her. 164 De Maupassant EPIPHANY “A H!” SAID CAPTAIN THE COUNT DE GARENS, “I should rather think th... ...APTAIN THE COUNT DE GARENS, “I should rather think that I do remember that Epiphany supper, during the war! “At the time I was quarter-master of caval... ... for I found the creature was funny, and he went on: ‘Fancy this being the Epiphany! I have had a bean put into the goose, but there is no queen; it i... ... in their name and my own, to do us the honor of supping with us. It is an Epiphany supper, Monsieur le Cure, 169 Selected Writings and we should lik... ...nk a mouthful of wine. She often brought them plums in her pocket, for the season of plums had come. Her presence sharpened the wits of the two little...

.................................................................................................................................................... 156 EPIPHANY ................................................................................................................................................................ 164 SIMON?S PAPA .........................................

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

..., and universal nature, to the luxurious happiness of this most delightful season. Happiness do I say? Yes, happiness; happiness to me above all other... ... day and night, wherefore do you bring round con- tinually your signs, and seasons, and revolving hours, that still point and barb the anguish of loca... ...ng to them, express themselves by no features like those in which the same seasons are invested under our temperate climes: so that, if knowing, we ca... ...s insipid: the spirit of action droops: and it is oftentimes found at such seasons that slight annoyances and molestations, or even misfortunes in a l... ...ay, however, the remote distance was hazy and indistinct, and at any other season I should have been diverted with the various mistakes I made. From o... ...darkness, and upon the vision of man a third time it shall rise with a new epiphany.’ But, says the objector, there is no such world; there is no worl...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ly like a wave – like nothing else, and who yesterday was Queen out of the Epiphany cake and chose Robinet (the French Painter) as her favori with the... ...eaden sky and the wintry cold-looking hills. It was the oddest conflict of seasons. A wee rabbit – this year’s making, be- yond question – ran out fro... ... Xmas stories is true? I think one loves their friends more dearly at this season. – Ever your faithful friend, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Letter: TO SID... ... for you. An old godly woman pre- dicted the end of the world, because the seasons were be- coming indistinguishable; my cousin Dora objected that las... ...tist’s. It was a clear, sunny day, but the sun even at noon falls, at this season, only here and there into the Prattigau. I kept up as long as I coul... ...ith the greatest eagerness to have you here. It seems it is not to be this season; but I appoint you with an appointment for next season. You cannot s...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...ried neat’s tongues, plenty of links, chitterlings and pud- dings in their season; together with salt beef and mustard, a good deal of hard roes of po... ...ring of the spring they might have plenty of pow- dered beef, wherewith to season their mouths at the begin- ning of their meals, and to taste their w... ... that he rode on; how she destroyed the oxflies of the Beauce. In the same season Fayoles, the fourth King of Numidia, sent out of the country of Afri... ...ir up and rouse his vital spirits, and apparelled himself according to the season: but willingly he would wear a great long gown of thick frieze, furr... ...e for the ease of his kidneys. When that was done, he ate according to the season meat agreeable to his appetite, and then left off eating when his be... ...der of one of them. By cheromancy, as the bean is found in the cake at the Epiphany vigil. By anthropomancy , practised by the Roman Emperor Heliogaba... ...asts from the spring to the winter, to be celebrated between Christmas and Epiphany, 427 Rabelais so the mother of the three kings called it, allowin...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... all the better for him by-and-by.” “And the elder ones will take care the seasoning is not too severe,” said Caroline, with a resolution she could ha... ...fully expansive and genial state; “but we shall get back to London for the season, and know what it is to enjoy life and rational- ity again, and then... ...end the early spring in the country, but we must have the best part of the season in London now that we can get out of banishment, and en- joy rationa... ...to stay at home with no special diversion in view seemed unthought of. The season was spent in London, not dropping the artist society on the one hand... ...he aristocracy at a drum. Engagements of all kinds grew on them with every season, and in this one especially, Caroline had grown somewhat weary of th... ...Cecil knelt down and said the Lord’s Prayer and the collect for the Fourth Epiphany Sunday. “That’s nice,” was Jock’s comment. “How did you know it?” ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...rewell dinner, as he and Denisov were leaving to join their regiment after Epiphany. About twenty people were present, including Dolokhov and Denisov.... ...ht of the winter nights seemed to call for some special celebration of the season. On the third day of Christmas week, after the midday dinner, all th... ...e was, on the one hand, its advance into the heart of Rus- sia late in the season without any preparation for a win- ter campaign and, on the other, t... ...Moscow to the Oder the Russian army also suffered from the severity of the season; so that by the the time it reached Vilna it numbered only fifty tho...

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