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...Weaving international intrigue with a high-level murder case, The Mystery of Jamieson Stone will leave you on the edge of your seat. When the world’s most famous television news anchor, Jamieson Stone, apparently commits suicide on live international television, Stone’s widow hires detective Michael Brand to find the truth. The detective discover...

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...osition as the lights focused on where Jamieson Stone would do his nightly news; the same seat he had sat in for more than twenty years. Jane Simmo... ...urved marble reception counter that was at least forty feet long with a sole receptionist seated in the center that was handling the phones in a sta... ...eather bag that carried the gun.” “I didn’t punch up the camera until Stone was already seated.” “Why not?” “There was no reason to. This is th... ...umstances,” Brand said, stating the obvious. “Please sit, Mr. Brand,” she said, taking a seat across from him. He could see a tear welling up in t... ...turned her back and wobbled into the center of the room with a drink in her hand. “Have a seat, anywhere.” Brand presumed she was drunk, or close t... ...essor Zlatamir will be with you in a minute,” she said stoically to Brand. “Please have a seat.” - J.Cross/Stone 53 But before Brand could sit,... ...ke what?” Brand could imagine Garza’s face wince. “I want you to get Barton off the hot seat. His wife has an ulcer, and he’s about to get one. He ... ...ties. You hear things. General Radcliff introduced you to the most powerful people in the seats of our government. I need your help.” “And you shal... ....” “Call me that again and won’t live to see you retirement.” “Don’t be touchy. Have a seat.” “I’m at table six.” “Forget it, you’re sitting w...

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...hile waiting for a tram-car which he entered without troubling to stop it as was the custom with all young men. A few minutes later he expired on the seat he had taken, probably from heart failure. His one dread in life had been a long illness and from that he had been spared....

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...tree, Whose mortal taste brought Death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing heavenly muse, that on the secret top of Oreb, or of Sinai, Didst inspire that shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion hill delight...

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...f coffee for him, heard an unusual beep coming from his monitor. It was pulsating on the monitor repeatedly at regular intervals. He went back to his seat immediately; diverted his concentration fully on it and realized that may be the sign of SETI’s dream coming through. .... He said “As human beings, we should respect each other more than anything. Now I could visua...

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...ind him. Clara bit her lower lip suggestively, staring at his bum but he didn’t notice. Michael bent his head and quietly manoeuvred to locate his seat in the boardroom, the board stopped chatting, setting all their eyes on him until he sat down. The leather chair made an awkward squeaky sound but he sat down anyway, forcing the candy down his throat. ‘Well, the golden ...

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...nd built like a tank; it was the limousine of choice for all senior aides! ‘I had a robot driver, that is, a human looking dummy sat in the driver’s seat; there was a reason for this, as it looked as if I had a bodyguard with me. The car was actually guided by a set of sensors built around it. In an emergency, the doors locked, grills covered the windows, and metal plate ...

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...m the floor of the car and twisted to give unobstructed access to his memory chip. “How far are you going to go back?” Someone asked from the front seat. “Twenty years.” Arthur felt a code being punched into the memory chip on the side of his head, an instant later his vision was clouded by darkness and he sunk into unconsciousness. Time to start over again. ...

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...ding my hand.’ ‘Of course it is,’ Mort didn’t bother to conceal his grin. ‘It’s very fetching.’ ‘Then how about fetching my towel from behind the seat and using it.’ ‘Mort extracted a towel from the bag hanging on the back of the chair and after gently wiping his new acquaintance’s face he looked deep into his eyes. ‘Sexy doesn’t begin to describe you, Fystie. Perhap...

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...Having flown in a single-seat cockpit more than 14 hours deploying to Southwest Asia, I am familiar with the negative effects of long duration flights as well as the impact transmeridian sorties have on an aircrew’s circadian rhythm. Any attempt to m...

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...y-first century. If the French could possibly have been clever enough to create a time machine allowing Alexis de Tocqueville to assume the fourth seat at Jake's 'Chinese table', the historian might have wondered at the tendency of such seemingly-wholesome people to embrace moral totalitarianism as the litmus-test of rugged individualism. To reconcile this apparent cont...

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...middle aged, solid man in a cream linen suit and full black beard who took off with such speed the tyres screeched and Fidel was thrust back into his seat without time to attach the seatbelt. In mounting panic he clung to the dashboard as the car zipped out into the traffic, zigzagging between other cars at top speed, the driver’s elbow on the windowsill, his fingers barel...

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...to take his spaceship for its first flight. He put on an old diving suit, it if keeps water out it will keep air in, he then climbed into the driving seat pressed the button. Silently slowly the craft lifted into the air....

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...Anthony Trollope sets the scene for his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire with this short novel about Septimus Harding's challenged ecclesiastical seat as the warden of Hiram's Hospital. To make things more interesting, the man doing the challenging - John Bold - also happens to be courting Mr. Harding's daughter, Eleanor. (Summary by JessicaLouise)...

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...The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that the castle seat and estate of his friend Lord Lovel have been usurped. A series of revelations, horrors and betrayals climax in a scene of single combat in which good battles evil for the return of the prize. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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... with her shopping walks out to the car. Putting the milk down onto the pavement Suzy unlocks the car and puts the coffee and sugar onto the back seat. As she picks up the milk a Volkswagen Polo pulls up close to her car and parks. Suzy looks up in irritation as the driver, parking so close has made it difficult for her to drive away as a car is also parked in front of...

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...ad according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and the business of making money go hand in hand. A Senate seat suddenly opens up due to the current junior senator’s unexpected death, and the political machinations to fill the seat begin. Senatorial candidate John Harrington is a young idealist who thinks that fighting for truth a...

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...lations Of Sextus Empiricus-Introductory paragraph.—The name of Sextus Empiricus. His profession.—The time when he lived.—The place of his birth.—The seat of the Sceptical School while Sextus was at its head.—The character of the writings of Sextus Empiricus.. 1 -- The Position And Aim Of Pyrrhonic Scepticism-The subject-matter of the Hypotyposes.—The origin of Pyrrhonism....

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...iricus. His profession.— The time when he lived.—The place of his birth.—The seat of the Sceptical School while Sextus was at its head.—The character... ...r present purpose of making a critical study of his teaching, is to fix the seat of the Sceptical School during the time that he was in charge of it... ...n intimate one, not only because Alexandria had been for so long a time the seat of Pyrrhonism, but also from internal evidence from his writings an... ... the most probable for selection for such a purpose. For whatever reason the seat of the school was removed from Alexandria by the master of Sextus, ... ...heim on this subject, we find that he takes very decided ground against the seat of the Sceptical School having been in Rome, even for a short time, ... ...athers of the Eastern Church. [4] Pappenheim accordingly concludes that the seat of Pyrrhonism after the school was removed from Alexandria, was in ... ...e literature of the East. All historical relations tend to fix the permanent seat of Pyrrhonism, after its separation from the Academy, in Alexandria... ...ns are out of the question, all testimony points to Rome as having been the seat of the Pyrrhonean School, for at least a part of the time that Sextu... ...able historical proof that the Sceptical School could not long have had its seat at Rome. From the two passages given above from Sextus' work agains...

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...oem117 Art Poem118 Pregnant Breakfast Poem119 A Piece of Peace Poem120 The Seat of Power Poem121 Show Love To The World Poem122 Hope Through Absurdity End of Book 1...

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...walk right out of his jeans. And that lovely ass. Small, taut, and delicious. I began to hose down the bike, and slather some soap along the seat and gas tank. I heard the lawn mower stop. Tom was rolling the mower into the garage, apparently done for the night. Well, it was a good show while it lasted, at least. I returned to my duties, slopping soap onto the...

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...ives to uncover the truth before it's too late. Panic is the first novel in the Leopold Blake series of thrillers. "Panic had me on the edge of my seat the whole time with its fast pace and nonstop action. A real page-turner, it leaps from crisis to crisis and never slows down, twisting all the way to its gripping conclusion." - David VanDyke, author of The Eden Plague....