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... by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. The Reader wishes to gratefully acknowledge the assistance, and patience, of Profes...

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...Ruth Levice, the daughter of a rich San Francisco Jewish merchant, meats Dr. Herbert Kemp, and they slowly fall in love. However, she is Jewish and he is not. Can love overcome such an obstacle? And what is more important, duty or love? (Summary by Stav Nisser)...

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...slaps a newly loaded magazine onto the Bulldog and walks toward the knoll. She does not see a particularly wicked-looking ZOMBIE DROVER stalking her, meat cleaver in hand....

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... social, romantic, and of course, financial and propertied (never far from the action in Trollope's works). Their resolution, of course, makes up the meat of the novel. One critic has remarked that in Doctor Thorne Trollope succeeds in one of the most difficult tasks an author of fiction can face: how to make genuinely good people genuinely interesting, so that they engage...

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...Masari village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increases when he shelters a teenage runaway sickened by fasting. Their worldview shatters when they harbor a Yata woman raised to be livestock instead of a ...

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...forest itself. She thought of home, remembered why she was here. Today was Meat Day and her family table was bare of flesh. It was her turn to dres... ... back to home and family. 4 Elissa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant On this Meat Day she was not the first Masari to return with prey, but neither w... ...icinal or sacramental need. His braid would be cut and also saved. Whatever meat remained from the family feast would be salt-cured and delivered to... ...e needy Masari of Crossroads. On her Day of Atonement, three sunrises after Meat Day, she would transfer Ulik's provisions into a different satchel,... ...Stone tried to live without Yata. She had excused herself from the table on Meat Day. She had eaten all the grain her stomach could hold, feasting i... ...s: Covenant She had told her body, over and over, that it did not need Yata meat or tinctures and poultices made of Yata blood and bone. She eschewe... ...became infected and her infections spread. Masari children who refused Yata meat were sedated and nursed back to health when they reached this stage... ...nt's sacred guilt. Choking on her sobs, TripStone had asked at last for the meat. Her father NightShout had taken his rifle out into the woodlands a... ... Under the dictates of the Covenant, Masari abstained from Yata flesh until Meat Day, beyond which a Masari family began to sicken. They then became...

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...CULTURAL NEWS1 (short prose poem) I queue up at the entry of art. queue for meat, queue for bread (Hurraaah Hurrah How fine is our life!) And I watch how someone builds their tomb in eternity. We beseech you to sit down each as far as possible in literature, we are announced by the hoarse interphon...

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...l of Pentecost, when all the fellowship of the Round Table were come unto Camelot and there heard their service, and the tables were set ready to the meat, right so entered into the hall a full fair gentlewoman on horseback, that had ridden full fast, for her horse was all besweated....

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...amelot and there heard their service, and the tables were set ready to the meat, right so entered into the hall a full fair gentle- woman on horseback... ...e haste unto dinner. Sir, said Sir Kay the Steward, if ye go now unto your meat ye shall break your old custom of your court, for ye have not used on ... ... old custom of your court, for ye have not used on this day to sit at your meat or that ye have seen some adventure. Y e say sooth, said the king, but... ...s father that him begat, I report me unto all the Table Round. So when the meat was done that the king and all were risen, the king yede unto the Sieg... ...ere was all the hall fulfilled with good odours, and every knight had such meats and drinks as he best loved in this world. And when the Holy Grail ha... ... of Pentecost. Now, said Sir Gawaine, we have been served this day of what meats and drinks we thought on; but one thing beguiled us, we 12 Thomas Ma... ...ought. Also there were cloths covered upon the earth, and many de- licious meats set thereon. Sir Melias beheld this adventure, and thought it marvell...

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...hed nigh Wales. So ever the king had a custom that at the feast of Pentecost in especial, afore other feasts in the year, he would not go that day to meat until he had heard or seen of a great marvel....

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...t in especial, afore other feasts in the year, he would not go that day to meat until he had heard or seen of a great marvel. And for that custom all ... ... Gawaine went unto the king and said, Sir, go to your 4 Sir Thomas Malory meat, for here at the hand come strange adventures. So Arthur went unto his... ...eat, for here at the hand come strange adventures. So Arthur went unto his meat with many other kings. And there were all the knights of the Round Tab... ...asking. Now, sir, this is my petition for this feast, that ye will give me meat and drink sufficiently for this twelvemonth, and at that day I will as... ...t be may, I have asked that I will ask. Well, said the king, ye shall have meat and drink enough; I never defended that none, neither my friend nor my... ... Kay the steward, and charged him that he should give him of all manner of meats and drinks of the best, and also that he had all manner of finding as... ...life he was fostered up in some abbey, and, howsomever it was, they failed meat and drink, and so hither he is come for his suste- nance. And so Sir K... ...for his suste- nance. And so Sir Kay bade get him a place, and sit down to meat; so Beaumains went to the hall door, and set him down among boys and l... ... and there he ate sadly. And then Sir Launcelot 6 Sir Thomas Malory after meat bade him come to his chamber, and there he should have meat and drink ...

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... day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of ...

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...s’ coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of sue... ... ward to nothing better than a badly-cooked supper at the coffee-joint—hot meat on a cold plate, half done suet pudding, muddy coffee, and bad bread, ... ... and bacon and mashed potatoes. Go over to the market and get some kind of meat for breakfast. Get a steak, or chops, or something. “Why, Mac, that’s ... ...e put that money away against a rainy day. You’re just as well off without meat for breakfast.” “You do as I tell you. Get some steak, or chops, or so...

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...both normal and natural. Our meal was a simple affair of bread, cheese, cold meats, wine and fruit. Erik had no means of preparing a hot meal in his... ...ken wind. Her knees were scabbed and obviously pained her. “You’re for dog meat, you miserable beast,” Giraud laughed mirthlessly as he reached for ... ...uch more pleasant than the oil lamp. I also brought a hamper of cheese and meats from the market stalls so that we could have a quiet, cold supper. ... ...market stalls. One never knew what one would find. Fruits and vegetables, meats and cheeses: the finest foods in season. There were booksellers, ...

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...disagreement, so each held his feast separately. one provided flour, fish, meat, and herring, and the other held a feast with all of the spices. Which... ... garlic, onions, Black pepper or spicy greens alone? Likewise, who can eat meat, fish or the like with no salt? Thus, they had no choice But to make p...

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...ry, nearing her. "Terre!" The mist turns—entity distracted, sensing fresh meat, a new target—and deserts her. It eddies in a giant sinuous cloud, eve... ...g her chops, tried to figure out who she was really mad at as she beat the meat to within an inch of its beyond-tender life, before seasoning. She fin... ...ol. "I am glad I am not on the other end of your mallet." Therese whirled, meat pounder held overhead as she pinned him with a glare. She'd somehow kn... ...g in a pan of Kikkoman's sauce and actually dipped a finger in to test the meat before lowering his face to take a whiff. He raised his head and frown... ... waving my hands at him ... Nah-nah, take that! "There are three pieces of meat. I just assumed..." "Maybe I have a big appetite." He gave her the onc... ... pure maleness. "Why can't you eat that?" Therese blurted, pointing at the meat in the pan and noticed her hand shaking. She slammed her arm against h... ...ed low in her belly. She stood to follow him into the kitchen, smelled her meat on the verge of burning and broke into a run and burst through the swi... ...she reminded him, put the pans on the sink counter and poked each piece of meat with two different forks in turn. No sense contaminating him any furth... ... brother-in-law. "I may not eat pork, Justice, but Teh-reese prepares this meat temptingly enough to make me think about trying it." She thought he mi...

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... the sexual aggression of making love among mankind. He felt like walking meat; and he knew that all animals felt the same of their own lives ceasele... ...imals that have insight into the fact that they are nothing but ambulatory meat; only you are the meat of the richer classes. Your life will be consu... ... vegetable shelves, carts, oil, noodles, cabbages, bean sprouts, tomatoes, meat, cucumbers, and rice). It was one of the world's largest outdoor mar... ... sitting, combing his hair, where he parted his hair, the food he ate, the meat he abhorred, and the clothes he put on. He couldn't do anything. He ... ...y. The use of his brain in the mundane tasks of thinking about the size of meat he wanted to cut with the butcher knife had perhaps cut his corpus cal... ...as preparing salad, toasting hamburger buns on a barbeque, and microwaving meatless tofu hamburgers in a culture that was all his own. As the two wom...

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...elp being scared. Why, the dog's scared of them: he won't take a scrap of meat out of their R. U. R. II-34 (MORE) hands. He draws in his tail and h...

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...carbs, how many calories, how to get the stains off the carpets, how much meat cost at the supermarket, how I looked and how much I was worth. I was...

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...d this meal, which I always like to share with my special passengers before our supplies of fresh meat and vegetables are exhausted. Then we will be... ... her back to the inquisitive old woman, lifted her heavy Burka sufficiently to feed herself. The meat was very strong and stringy despite the spicy ... ...der. Rationing of food was now tighter, most meals consisting only of dhal and rice and a little meat for the fighting men. In the first few days of...

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...inked with the arts. First I saw life-lessons leading to the development of meaty story lines and full-bodied characters. No paper dolls. Yet, I oft... ...en to the call of hungry kids 129 wanting extra servings of the now crunchy meat combined with requests for Saturday morning cartoons. In an effort t...

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... how does a horse race help that?” “It doesn’t… directly. I don’t sell horse meat, but the Steel Dust horses I’m breeding here could be the fastes...

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... can. John E. Richman 96 Could we water up and maybe buy some flour and meat from you?" "No problem. You and your men water your horses over ...