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...Notker's work consists of anecdotes relating chiefly to the Emperor Charlemagne and his family. It was written for Charles the Fat, great-grandson of Charlemagne, who visited Saint Gall in 883. Traditionally, it has been scorned by traditional historians, who refer to the Monk as one who took pleasure in amusing anecdotes and witty tales, but who was...

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...ng in British-held India brought about when rumors were spread to native soldiers that cartridges being issued by the British were coated with animal fat. The rebellion quickly spread throughout India and led to the massacre of the British Colony at Cawnpore.). Piper's novel is not a mere retelling of the Indian Mutiny, but rather an analysis of an historical event applied...

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...his Spirit some time. Where is he?” “He’s back at the Dodge livery, getting fat on oats while I’m out here pushing Zeke and Elmer!” I laughed. ... ...wear if I don’t get you out of Dodge fast and back on the trail, you’ll be so fat you won’t be able to chase cattle!” I found a grooming brush an...

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... I said as I got off Spirit and walked up to take a look. There it was – the fat hand was on the one and long hand was just Steel Dust Dawn 43 p... ...t, I envy ‘em. Might just buy me a ranch someday and be an owner myself.” “Fat chance of that, chasing cattle all over Texas with the likes of ou... ...ponded, continuing to not move. “Well, I’d like to stick around and chew the fat but I have to get some water on me, dry off, and dress all in abo...

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...―a proper gentleman, with a laced band.‖ Soon after this a little dog appeared, fat and short in the legs, in color white, with sandy spots, which w...

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...tor in which he, hopefully, acknowledges his misbehaviour and even tenders an apology. Fat chance." The Three Forms of Closure – Sam Vaknin http:/...

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...h he, hopefully, acknowledges his misbehaviour and even tenders an apology. Fat chance. Few abusers - especially if they are narcissistic - are ame...

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... having acquired:  A thick layer of blubber that we call subcutaneous fat not found on other apes but also found on aquatic mammals, such as wha...

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... casei pe strada c ătre Gurgaon. B ătrânul, plin de sânge, p ărea mort şi-o fat ă lâng ă el aruncat ă vreo doi metri, iar copilul pe care îl ţinea î...

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...her. Kurt’s background was blue blood—no backyard tracks in his pedigree. A fat gopher darted across the road and Kurt shifted the wheel. She leane... ...be around anyway,” Sandra called from across the table where she was stacking fat piles of bills. “Heard he sold his horse for meat and is pulling ou... ... policy. From now on, the only type of female allowed in his shedrow would be fat, forty and flatulent. Tears blurred Jessica’s vision as she ab... ...rips. Maybe he’d join her when she took Casey for a walk. The dog was eleven, fat and arthritic; she could keep pace with Casey. Later, if she had e...

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...alah to rise to a new level of eternal and complete existence. P E R S O N A L FAT E A N D C O L L E C T I V E FAT E Dr. Satinover: What is the Kabbal...

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...craping the small stone tjuringa [churinga] named Djuning andera (kangaroo fat tjuringa) and he sprinkled the powder about. We fatten the kangaroos no... ...ke cattle, but by sprinkling this powder. In this way the kangaroos become fat when the weather grows cooler. (Worms, p. 13) Blood may be let from the... ...nuing life essence. The red ochre is seen as blood, and the grease as body fat, thus emphasizing the human “life essence” shared by the Totemic Being,...

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...ic African American slang of our generation. I just wish that words such as fat and scared wouldn't be turned into phat and scurred. It's astounding ...

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...Big, fat, dumb, lazy, vain, headstrong and cheap, Jack Keefe is a journeyman pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in the rowdy days of the Deadball Era, circa 1915, ruled by the likes of Ty Cobb and John McGraw. In You Know Me Al, w...

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... in his artless childish way. “Who is that other woman?” he asked. “She is fat and round; she is more pretty than my Lady Castlewood.” “She is Madame ... ...One of reticence not to say to his young companion, “Church! priest- hood! fat living! My dear Tommy, do you call yours a church and a priesthood? Wha... ...ing! My dear Tommy, do you call yours a church and a priesthood? What is a fat living compared to converting a hundred thousand heathens by a single s... ...rince George, and the Princess Anne—didn’t you, Trix?” “They are both very fat, and smelt of brandy,” the child said. Papa roared with laughing. “Bran...

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... for he was the man to do it. The tile-beard of Jourdan is shaven off; his fat visage has got coppered and studded with black carbuncles; the Silenus ... ...bulk of them; not all; ah, no! Moreau de Saint-Mery for example, being too fat, could not fly fast; he got a stroke, flat-stroke only, over the should...

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...fulness. It was the eye of a man who has got hold of a situation. He was a fat, short, red-faced man clad in a tight-fitting tail coat of black and wh... ... books at last, old dusty books, books with torn covers and broken covers, fat books whose backs were naked string and glue, an inimical litter to Mir... ...free play. It accumulates useless and aimless lives as a man accu- mulates fat and morbid products in his blood, it declines in its collective efficie... ... slightest loss of dig- nity, asleep. Many people would have called her a fat woman, but Mr. Polly’s innate sense of epithet told him from the outset... ...Ferry? Garden? Wash bottles? Ceteris paribus?” “That’s about it,” said the fat woman. “Give me a trial.” “I’ve more than half a mind. Or I wouldn’t ha... ...iserable bank- rupt with whose dyspeptic portrait our novel opened. He was fat, but with a fatness more generally diffused, and the lower part of his ... ...Mr. Polly, after some secret irrita- tion, smiled and was content. And the fat woman’s omelettes were things to remember. (You will note I have change... ...e. So Long!” And he had gone. III III III III III MR. POLLY sat beside the fat woman at one of the little green tables at the back of the Potwell Inn,... ...again ever,” he said. “He got drowned five years ago.” “Where?” asked the fat woman, surprised. “Miles from here. In the Medway. Away in Kent.” “Lor!...

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...ant auburn, Hoggarty’s por- trait seemed to the fanciful view like a great fat red round of beef surrounded by thirteen carrots. These were dished up ... ...of Lady Jane. The Right Honourable Edmund was riding a grey cob, and was a fat pale-faced man, who looked as if he never went into the open air. “Who ... ...aches, looking like the cheeks of my dear Mary Smith. 2. A ditto of large, fat, luscious, heavy-looking grapes. 3. An enormous piece of raw mutton, as... ... them. “Mr. Titmarsh,” said Lady Fanny, laughing to me, “who is that great fat curious man, the master of the house? Do you know he asked me if you we... ...arked how Mrs. B., who insisted on helping it, gave all the green lumps of fat to her husband, and put several slices of the breast of the bird under ... ...ed chaise of 63 Thackeray Lieutenant Smith, R.N., who was driving his old fat pony with his lady by his side. I looked in the back seat of the chaise... ... make the slightest attempt at biting me this time) beat his pony till its fat sides lathered again; and thus in this, I may say, unexampled processio... ...reason of this quarrel, and of Mrs. H.’s sudden reappearance. The horrible fat coarse little Smithers told me the matter as a very good joke, only the... ... we used to call him in our lighter hours, knowing his propensity to green fat: but such a moment as this was no time for joking! He was insured by ou...