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...s “lesson” to my writing, and how to share my own favorite verses with other writers. Many writers keep a favorite quote or Bible verse taped to their... ...liefs, as do every writer’s choice selections. I have asked some of the best writers in the business to share their inspiration with us, their favorit... ...n life. Instead of fame, God has blessed me through my publishing houses and writers groups with some of the dearest friends I’ve ever known. Instead ... ...alms. 19:1 (KJV) I believe the first verse in Psalms 19 is a special one for writers to ponder as well as all those who are creative at heart just as ... ...ead to treasures in this lifetime. There’s a real pressure on new writers to polish their work, join critique groups and quickly submit, as if they ar... ...her side of the desk. As I sought good writers to fill my content quota, and polished their work so little would prevent readers from getting the info... ...acher, ever near, ever involved in my life. My Teacher/Paula Moldenhauer 91 Polishing Words By Rose McCauley “A word aptly spoken is like apples of g... ...word pictures. And, of course, lots of practice. I think of this practice as polishing my golden apples (words) in my silver bowls (stories). Silver t... ... in my silver bowls (stories). Silver turns dark if it is not kept clean and polished. To keep our stories from being tarnished we need to work on cle...

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...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ...pplied to the eyes. The head is smoked, dried, and cured. It is then washed and polished. http://www.guidebookwriters.com/authors/dominic/art... ...shtml Nobel Prizes The Nobel prizes are awarded on December 10. In 1911, the Polish-French scientist, Marie Curie, became the first person to...

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...hey are not actually writing about those higher worlds, but about how the writers perceived those worlds while being in the worlds BYA. And because ... ...awn The darkest time of night is right before the dawn. Similar- - ly, the writers of The Book of Zohar said, almost 2,000 years ago, that humanity’s... ... the near future, broadcasts will also be translated into French, greek, Polish, and Portuguese. As with everything else, the live broadcast is pro...

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...s bowed, he took his glasses off, withdrew a patterned flannel shirt from his trousers and polished them meticulously. His lake-blue eyesight flutte... ...ill. She was a recluse, living in a tiny, viewless flat which she compulsively scoured and polished. She spared her words and I was deterred by the... ... friends and recounted some futile anecdotes. The ceremony held by the municipality in the Writers Hall was open to the public. I said to Nomi: "... ...e" – Dani is soft-spoken even when his words are not. That evening, Nomi and I went to the Writers' Hall. A woman with anorectic eyes compared our ... ...oting down her address and her phone number. The night guard at the entrance, besieged by a polished wooden counter and facing banks of noiseless te... ...We peruse every aspect of this query. It is crystalline and glitters, you can't mistake its polish. It is untouchable, unreachable. Like a heavy sto...

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...ooks among us relating to the essence of Judaism, as there were almost no writers who could not stand behind their words, for the simple reason that... ... God demands. But ever since the printing of books has become popular, and writers are no longer in need of scribes, the price of books has been redu... ...price of books has been reduced. This has paved the way for irresponsible writers to publish whatever books they please, for money or for glory. But... ... even without knowledge of earlier books that dealt with this topic. Such writers fabricate theories of their own empty shells, and relate their wor... ... years in horrible torments. Our sages said, “As salt sweetens meat, agony polishes man’s sins.” This means that they bring to the body great purific... ...outside of us. For that, He has made for us there, in our brain, a kind of polished mirror that inverts everything seen there, so we will see it outs... ...eless, we should be so grateful to His Providence for having created that polished mirror in our brains, enabling us to see and perceive everything ... ...locking on the hall of wisdom is for fear of people in whom the spirit of writers’ envy is mixed with the force of lust and honor. Their envy is not...

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...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...n the social class which is primitively venatorial still, canine under its polish. She held a brief for her beloved Ireland. She closes a dis- cussion... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ... questions that clamoured for instant solution. By dint of read- ing solid writers, using the brains they possessed, it was re- vealed to them gradual... ...dividuals entertaining us.’ ‘Yet you admit that your railways are rapidly “polishing off” the individual.’ ‘They will spread the metropolitan idea of ... ...ew of a bowered source and of a pool under a chain of cascades, bounded by polished shelves and slabs. The very spot for him, he decided at the first ... ...State would have been improved had she retained the work to brood over it, polish, re-write passages, perfect it. Her musings embraced long dialogues ... ...ame; they did not stamp her mark on him. He was one of the order of highly polished men, igno- rant of women, who are impressed for long terms by temp...

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...en and mustached counte- nance. I got up from the table and greeted him in Polish, with, I hope, the right shade of consideration demanded by his nobl... ...ot, sharing the exile of her husband and representing no- bly the ideal of Polish womanhood. Our uncle Nicholas was not a man very accessible to feeli... ...hal Marmont; afterward captain in the 2d Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom establishe... ... Nicholas B. was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and that he had also the Polish Cross for valour Virtuti Militari. The knowledge of these glorious f... ...distinctly understood that it is not I, but my granduncle Nicholas, of the Polish landed gentry, Cheva- lier de la Legion d’Honneur, etc., who in his ... ...ver to meet again in this world. V IN THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never entered the world of... ... else. It is M. Anatole France, the most eloquent and just of French prose-writers, who says that we must recognize at last that, “failing the resolut... ...tion, or simply 77 Joseph Conrad from weariness, induces, I suspect, some writers of criticism to conceal the adventurous side of their calling, and ...

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...n and moustachioed countenance. I got up from the table and greeted him in Polish, with, I hope, the right shade of consideration demanded by his nobl... ...riot, sharing the exile of her husband and representing nobly the ideal of Polish womanhood. Our Uncle Nicholas was not a man very accessible to feeli... ...l Marmont; afterwards Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish Army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom establishe... ... Nicholas B. was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and that he had also the Polish Cross for valour Virtuti Militari. The knowledge of these glo- rious... ...distinctly understood that it is not I but my grand-uncle Nicholas, of the Polish landed gentry, Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, &c. &c., who, in hi... ...et again in this world. Chapter V I N THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never en tered the world o... ...lse. It is M. Anatole France, the most elo- quent and just of French prose writers, who says that we must recognise at last that, “failing the resolu-...

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...eturned—doubtless with a due suffisance—”he’s quite the greatest of living writers.” “Of course I can’t judge. Of course he’s very clever,” she said w... ... book— which, though unfinished, he had indulged in the luxury, so dear to writers of deliberation, of having “set up,” from chapter to chapter, as he... ...wife as interpreted by his remarkable sister. “To sink your shaft deep and polish the plate through which people look into it—that’s what your work co... ...—that’s what your work consists of,” I remember ingeniously observing. “Ah polishing one’s plate—that’s the torment of execu- tion!” he exclaimed, jer...

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... Nay, Prime Ministers rehearse their jokes; Opposition leaders prepare and polish them: Tabernacle preachers must arrange them in their minds before t... ... not pleasing to me; I even thought it a little vulgar — well! well! other writers have been considered vulgar — and as a description of the sports an...

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...heerless, sunless room, with the shabby win- dow-curtains, the comfortless polished floor, the hideous furniture bought second-hand, or much the worse... ...ry easily acquire the tone of Parisian society. If Mme. de Bargeton needed polish, on the other hand she possessed the native haughtiness of good birt... ... as that nowadays. Mortifications and want only fall to the lot of unknown writers; as soon as a man’s name is known, he grows rich, and I will be ric... ... finally, paint Charles IX. for us as he really was, and not as Protestant writers have made him. Ten years of persistent work, and fame and for- tune... ...His friends were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a number of ear- nest students full of promise. D’Arth... ...nd off the porters.)— The newspaper, sir, is written in the street, at the writers’ houses, in the printing-office between eleven and twelve o’clock a... ...orthy little old soul, his father-in-law. All three of these city men were polishing their opera-glasses, and anxiously scanning the house; cer- tain ... ...harity I warn these persons to keep the lenses of their opera-glasses well polished. While Lucien was writing a column which was to set a new fashion ... ...sures of journalism; he knew what it was to forge the epigram, to whet and polish the cold blade to be sheathed in a victim’s heart, to make of the hi...

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...ich as the reader probably knows—was that of a blacksmith. As for external polish, or mere courtesy of manner, he never pos sessed more than a tolera... ...my death with a pair of wet slippers! And when the verses are written, and polished quite to your mind, I will favor you with my idea as to what the g... ...coarse, forth putting freedom of expression, which no de gree of external polish could have abated one single jot. Not that it was vulgar. But he had... ...or me, therefore, to go and hold a little talk with the conservatives, the writers of “The North Ameri can Review,” the merchants, the politicians, t... ...be. And still I could not but ac knowledge that, for personal beauty, for polish of manner, for all that externally befits a gentleman, there was har... ... seemed to rebound, however, from his courteous visage, like an arrow from polished steel. They all three descended the stairs; and when I likewise re...

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...sistant.” (T o be exact, he did not say blessed. The service of a shop may polish a man’s exterior ways, but the ‘prentices’ dormitory is an indiffere... ... the barmaid, taking up a glasscloth and a drying tumbler and beginning to polish the latter. “First off, I thought you might be asking for Beau- mont... ... The barmaid looked down, smiled and shook her head, put down the tumbler, polished, and took up another that had been draining, and shook the drops o... ...—and, well—a Ouida or so. They’re good stories, of course, and first-class writers, but they didn’t seem to have much to do with me. But there’s heaps...

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...w face; and above it a cocked hat, that shone so, I thought it was made of polished tin (it may have been that or oilskin), hand- somely laced with bl... ...s glittering and pure as the Temple of Victory; or a discourse of Plato as polished and calm as yonder mystical portico of the Erechtheum:what treasur... ...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ...had been battling, and which had charmed all—from our great statesman, our polished lawyer, our young Oxonian, who sighed over certain passages that h... ...ley of Jehoshaphat at the cheap- est rate. We saw the tall form of the old Polish Patriarch, ven- erable in filth, stalking among the stinking ruins o... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen... ...n more black and durable than that with which Psammetichus’s base has been polished. Every one of these jolly faces was on the broad 128 Notes on a J... ...I would urge, humbly, however, is this—Do not let us be led away by German writers and aes- thetics, Semilassoisms, Hahnhahnisms, and the like. The l...

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...sight the lead- ing characters of a class too long unheeded by the pens of writers who seek novelty as their chief object. Perhaps this forgetfulness ... ...n the midst of the present demo- cratic ferment, into which so many of our writers blindly rush, it becomes an urgent duty to exhibit the peasant who ... ...f battles should be something more than the dry particulars of tech- nical writers, who for the last three thousand years have told us about left and ... ... nomenclature and natural history of land-stew- ards as defined by a great Polish noble. “There are,” he said, “two kinds of stewards: he who thinks o... ...r men then they, seated 99 Balzac beside them, are fed, as the Opposition writers say, on the sweat of the people, every time the sieve dips down int... ...ht almost believe those little bones had souls, so brilliant were they, so polished, so transparent, so exquis- itely shaped, disclosed as they were b... ...ecolletee, showed a bo- som and a pair of shoulders that were whitened and polished by the same process employed upon her face; happily, for the sake ... ...r these events, during the year 1837, one of the most remarkable political writers of the day, Emile Blondet, reached the last stages of a poverty whi...

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...ad still to reckon with stupidity. He believed in the statecraft of leader-writers and the sincerity of political programmes. And so regarded, what an... ...ming merely an 105 H G Wells intellectual like those wordy Fabians, those writers, poseurs, and sham publicists whose wrangles he had attended? And, ... ...gainst nature and society, and distracted Benham in his contem- plation of Polish agriculture from the windows of the train with turgid sexual liberal... ... going through a mill of steely education, kept close, severely exercised, polished by discussion, she had but the weak training of a not very good sc... ... they are the realities. I want to go now to some quiet corner where I can polish what I have learnt, sort out my accumulations, be undisturbed by the...

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...e velvet stripe down the side, and get my spurs lacquered up, and a French polish to my boot; and if I don’t do for the Captain, and the tailor too, m... ...r, and to remember that it has been modelled on the style of the very best writers of the sporting papers. 124 Men’s Wives * * * 4th round. C...

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... of enterprise. The written portions of this book were already in a highly polished state. They combined a limitless freedom of pro- posal with a smoo... ...utomobile, produced an en-tout- cas pocket-handkerchief and set himself to polish the lamps with great assiduity. The two gentlemen lingered at the tu... ...esting men, rising politicians, university men of distinction, artists and writers even, men of science, men—there are still such men— active in the c...

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...rful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individual reve... ...ipiagin’s house was a very diffi- cult one. Her father, a brilliant man of Polish extraction, who had attained the rank of general, was discovered to ... ...and whose bright green leaves sparkled as if they had just been washed and polished. The grass shot up in sharp tongues through the even layers of las... ...ples set by men such as Quintin Johnson, Karrelius, Sverlitskov, and other writers and statisticians. Then he went on to talk of himself again, of his... ...y conscience, I beg you not to trouble about that, my dear sir. “It’s been polished,” Markelov put in again; “there is a coat of St. Petersburg varnis...

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...en and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into the glare. In one of the skyscrapers the wires o... ...ect ballroom, its hardwood floor reflecting the charming pageant above its polished surface. Even the delights of dancing paled before the alluring op... ...g traffic, the crammed trolleys unloading, and high doorways of marble and polished granite. It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in ... ...uickly his car picked up. He felt superior and powerful, like a shuttle of polished steel darting in a vast machine. As always he ignored the next two... ... by downy ashes or by sooty brick; the brass fire-irons were of immaculate polish; and the grenadier andirons were like samples in a shop, desolate, u... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...