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.... The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. “Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” was written as two collections, presented here as two volumes in a single work. There is a short author’s preface before the first story in each volume. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)...

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... her translucent skin, high-arching cheeks, and sleep-fluttery eyelashes. He fended off the intrusions of the world as he smoothed the covers and tu...

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...hey were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men?s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-p...

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...eil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to ...

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...rplexed traditional child that calls about his modernists parents. The lyrical intrusions into the paradoxism’s big postmodernist web, prove the deli...

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...choice and an explicit trade-off. Local lords defended their vassals against nomad intrusions in return for perpetual service bordering on slavery....

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... receptacle at the train station) they at least meant well by their errant intrusions on such bitter sweet memories. If only mandates to turn off memo...

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...Marie 1987. Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences. Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton. Rubin, Herbert J. 1974. Th...

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...and to probe the endless fathoms of her probity and intelligence without the intrusions of the outside world. Even in childhood, Gabriele thought, sh...

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...choice and an explicit trade-off. Local lords defended their vassals against nomad intrusions in return for perpetual service bordering on slavery....

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...choice and an explicit trade-off. Local lords defended their vassals against nomad intrusions in return for perpetual service bordering on slavery....

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...o his house, in Baker Street, where she will be more safe from impertinent intrusions than she has been in Mucklebury Square. “Mrs. Biggs, “Caroline P...

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...some quaint turn, not without its satirical edge, wherewith to divert such intrusions, and deter you from the like. Wits spoke of him secretly as if h...

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...deavored to explain in the note, the apology is so much the readier as his intrusions into this province of philosophy are slighter, more careless, an...

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... how nicely he showed that his civilities were to be no excuse for further intrusions. None of her little party had been out of England before, and th...

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...time, begging drink, fingering our goods, hard to be dislodged, awkward to quarrel with. Queen Victoria’s friend (who was soon pro- moted to be her so...

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...urs and a strident laugh; and this Sunday she had outdone all her previous intrusions by bringing in a fellow with her, a chap as showy as herself. An... ... how nicely he showed that his civilities were to be no excuse for further intrusions. None of her little party had been out of England before, and th...

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...ution;—on which account, all persons were warned carefully to forbear from intrusions of simple curiosity, since in the hurry of the moment it might b... ...ations in the night-time; but at present, when she was liable to continual intrusions, to give no occasion for those suspicions, which, once aroused, ...

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...re fast cap- ping the candle. Instead, therefore, of objurgating the timid intrusions of Philosophy, invoke her presence, I pray you. History without ...

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...ith her while she worked. At first Trina had been inclined to resent these intrusions of the Mexican woman, but of late she had begun to tolerate them...

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...e measures to secure his house and its inmates from any such unwarrantable intrusions!’ ‘In that case I’ll take measures to secure you, woman!’ ex- cl...

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... Kennicott. The conversation was at last relieved of the plague of Carol’s intrusions and they settled down to the question of whether the justice of ...

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...r some quaint turn, not without its satirical edge, wherewith to divert such intrusions, and deter you from the like. Wits spoke of him secretly as if...

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... of his foregone drilling in the ceremony. ‘We are safe nowhere from these intrusions,’ Mrs. Adister 165 George Meredith said; ‘not on these hills!—a...

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.... Where the south pole now shuts her frozen gates inhospitably against the intrusions of flesh, once were probably accumulated the ribs of empires; ma...

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...taxes. These, covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domicili ary vexation whic...

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...e licentiousness of the strong, and the oppression of the weak; of foreign intrusions, and foreign intrigues; of requisitions of men and money disrega...

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...y had been with regard to other par- ishes, and sometimes connived at such intrusions, receiving the notice, and taking no proper steps in consequence...