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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

...ray. Who has not been insulted into action? Who has not heard some atheistic pundit snipe at the Bible and didn’t want to write the cable station a ha...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...nt of the races that had already been written off by the so-called, political pundits. Over the next few years Michael Brand ran Congressional and...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...but the bottom line was that there was a health catastrophe in the making. The pundits predicted scenarios that only created more fear and con­ fusi...

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The Prime Minister

By: Anthony Trollope

... that were they discontinued the excitement necessary for the minds of the pundits might be lowered, and that activity might be lessened, and evil re-... ...walk there from morning to nigh without excit- ing special notice. But the pundits are very clever, and have much experience in men and women. A well-... ... are very clever, and have much experience in men and women. A well-taught pundit, who has exercised authority for a year or two at such a sta- tion a... ...ement and now watching the contortions of some amazed passenger, a certain pundit asked him his business. He was waiting, he said, for a train from Li... ... a train which went round the west of London. It was all feasible, and the pundit told him that the stopping train from Liverpool was due there in six... ...s, but that the express from the north would pass first. Lopez thanked the pundit and gave him sixpence,— which made the pundit suspicious. A pundit h... ... expectation 512 The Prime Minister when he merely gives information. The pundit still had his eye on our friend when the shriek and the whirr of the... ... heard. Lopez walked quickly up towards the edge of the platform, when the pundit followed him, telling him that this was not his train. Lopez then ra... ... who had followed him. ‘But you shouldn’t do it, sir,’ said the suspicious pundit. ‘No one isn’t allowed to stand near like that. The very hair of it ...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...honor to the life-long studies of some one of those great constitu- tional pundits whom we have among us; but, neverthe- less, the plain words of a ma... ... we have among us; but, neverthe- less, the plain words of a man who is no pundit need not disgrace the subject, if they be honestly written, and if h...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

... had reason to believe, was a particular friend of a smooth faced Kashmiri pundit who had waylaid his simple Balti in the matter of the telegrams. It ... ...he cushions, where the Flower of Delight, aided by a smooth faced Kashmiri pundit, searched him from head to foot most thoroughly. About the same hour... ...ag in Mahbub’s possession even more systematically than the Flower and the pundit were searching the owner. ‘And I think.’ said the Flower scornfully ... ...n a matter touching Five Kings it would be next his black heart,’ said the pundit. ‘Was there nothing?’ The Delhi man laughed and resettled his turban... .... I leave little unseen.’ ‘They did not say he was the very man,’ said the pundit thoughtfully. ‘They said, “Look if he be the man, since our counsels... ...s]–who deal there,’ said the Flower. ‘They have not yet come in,’ said the pundit. ‘Thou must ensnare them later.’ Phew!’ said the Flower with deep di...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...the Christian Buddhist and author of The Abode of Snow. Before these learned pundits, one member laid the following ingenious problem: “What would be ...

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Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White

By: Rudyard Kipling

...- ing southward on their way to the Central India fairs and other affairs; Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdo...

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Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope

...or the bar, took chambers, engaged himself to sit at the feet of a learned pundit, and spent a season in Lon- don. He there found that all his aptitud... ...truth must have been disagreeable to him. This teacher of men, this Oxford pundit, this double- distilled quintessence of university perfection, this ...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...l Condition and so forth, as his contemporaries are in- clined to suppose? Pundit assures me that the same ideas were put nearly in the same way, abou... ..., on account of his keeping a retail shop for cat peltries and other furs. Pundit knows, you know; there can be no mistake about it. How very wonder- ... ...ery day, the profound observation of the Hindoo Aries Tottle (as quoted by Pundit)—“Thus must we say that, not once or twice, or a few times, but with... ...r quoting the Etruscan. What would we do without the Atalantic telegraph? (Pundit says Atlantic was the ancient ad- jective.) We lay to a few minutes ... ...y millions of human voices. I have heard it asserted that when Y ellow or (Pundit will have it) Violet, who is supposed to have been the first aeronau... ...al. Who was the soundest of their logicians? Let me see! I will go and ask Pundit and be back in a minute.... Ah, here we have it! Here is a book writ... ...tch— which, by the way, appears to have been the rudiment of the Amriccan. Pundit says it is decidedly the cleverest ancient work on its topic, Logic.... ... open—and something like a distinct view of the country was attainable.... Pundit says that the route for the great Kanadaw railroad must have been in... ...doubt that a track of some sort must have existed in very remote times, as Pundit asserts; for nothing can be clearer, to my mind, than that, at some ...

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The Dukes Children

By: Anthony Trollope

... unfortunately, in this very year a stand was being made by the University pundits against a practice which they thought had be- come too general. For... ...ut of town to compensate him for the cruelty done to him by the University pundits. Tifto, with a cigar in his mouth, with a white hat and a blue veil... ...nce up to Brook Street. As it was he was so handed over from one political pundit to another, was so buttonholed by Sir Timothy, so chaffed as to the ...

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John Bull on the Guadalquivir

By: Anthony Trollope

... me! I know all about it now, and am content. But I wish that some learned pundit would give us a good definition of romance, would describe in words ...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...nfluence or corruption the thinker could crawl into the good graces of the pundits. These results are not foreseen by Social- ists, because they imagi...

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...ng. An eminent eye witness told me that he was one of a company of learned pundits who as sembled at the house of a very distinguished philosopher of...

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The Greshams of Greshamsbury

By: Anthony Trollope

...t it behoved the squire himself to go up that he might see certain learned pundits, and be bad- gered in his own person at various dingy, dismal chamb... ...ak, and, more espe- cially, as to how to hold his tongue among the learned pundits in and about Chancery Lane. ‘You must be very wide awake with Messr...

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