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...ced around the room. “There,” he pointed, “she’s sitting over there in the middle of that group.” Barton walked over. “Excuse me,” he said, shuffli... ...looked around the guest room; it was bright and cheery with green leaves printed on white wallpaper, and a matching comforter on a four-poster bed. T... ...his half-gringo.” Garza and Brand walked gingerly through a field of broken glass, and a group of workers trying to clean up the mess. “Follow me,”... ...question of the day. Who’s giving the orders?” “If you had to guess?” “I would suspect a group that is sanctioned.” “By whom?” “Take your pick, co... ...ld suspect a group that is sanctioned.” “By whom?” “Take your pick, could be a black-ops group within the NSA, a fanatical group of Senators and Co... ...al group of Senators and Congress people who believe that might is right, even an extreme group of NASA scientist’s working for the CIA. Or all of t...

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... almost ended. And the stars she stares out at From the living room of the group home She remembers are other earths limping Half-free in the grips of... ... The Philosophy Of Rita And Herb Staring fixed at the rows Of flowered Wallpaper a pale gray In the dark efficiency-- The three walls still absent... ...ets again after tiring, Ready to go back and confront the curfew-conscious Group home, and the "zero" on her record full of Zeros. She worries about ...

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... crowd to the King and Queen. The crowd panicked. The Royal guards quickly surrounded the group of protesters, trying to restrain them, but their sh... ...Amsara monument so far?” Amoni asked as the two younger men lagged behind the rest of the group. “It is really starting to look like a lion now, wou... ... can hardly wait to see what it will look like!” “Amoni, please come join the rest of the group,” Traeus called out. “We should all listen to what V... ...hare with us about the project.” “Yes, brother!” Amoni ran to catch up to the rest of the group. Assan and Senarra were already talking to Victarius... ...ork. My own impa- tience was likely my true inspiration,” Traeus laughed. The rest of the group laughed along. Their laughter was cut short as they s... ...oesn’t answer how you all got in here.” Bob looked over at Jack, who began to examine the wallpaper. “I see. Jack, I think you and I need to have a ...

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...?” Jack asked, pointing toward the second story. “It’s right there in front. That group of three windows underneath the gable.” “I don’t suppose, ... ...ing around.” What was he fishing for? She faced him. “We’re a helping-hand group in this town.” “That doesn’t mean you have to believe her.... ... overlooked an evergreen garden that back-dropped the butterflies and posies in the wallpaper and draperies. Laura Kate sat opposite her mama. “I’... ...eir girl was marrying into proper society.” Miss Sister’s eyes narrowed in on the wallpaper. “Well, when I saw her, I knew.” “Pregnant?” ... ... to make Wallace angry.” “Their business dealings?” “Yes,” Miss Sister said to the wallpaper. “Your Uncle Wallace had a talk with Royce. I know h... ... her hand and they entered the bright room. The cool, crisp lime and lemon striped wallpaper were perfect for the white pine table and chairs. “Roy... ...folded against the back wall. Tonight was not an ordinary “meeting.” Only a select group would be attending tonight's contest. Already, five men a... ...e. “Didn't see Jaime's truck out back,” he said to Olin as they moved away from the group. Jaime was the referee. When Serpents Die 1... ...shut on Louisa’s leaving, Miss Sister straightened righteously and exclaimed to the wallpaper, “Hell and damnation to that vixen.” She made a gues...

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...a mokotong. He locked the locker and felt "Honja" ("alone). Even among large groups of people he was alone. When he went to restaurants he was usually... ...ts of planting flowers and trees no different than what she had or stripping wallpaper and putting up patterns that were nearly identical to the old o... ...sical grass-snacking cow right before slaughter time. She had been a former group-home girl at a home for schizophrenics and manic-depressives althou... ...uld decimate them if continual efforts were applied the way one wipes away a group of ants again and again. He hadn't even considered that it would wi... ...ly 10. You aren't supposed to have visitors after 10. Isn't that what those group home counselors of yours tell you?" "He wants me to go to the conve... ...as an eventless day without ceremony. It was a normal day of putting up new wallpaper in one bedroom and then cleaning up to help Hispanic Betty with... ... waves splashing against a wall. These bedroom walls had old pallid- yellow wallpaper that was bubbled and flaking off and patterned onto the strips ... ... wallpaper that was bubbled and flaking off and patterned onto the strips of wallpaper there were hexagon shapes. Cartoon versions of herself and her... ...gs in monads that were unable to connect to the bigger picture, but like the wallpaper they were fading away. In a last exasperated appeal for her to ...

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...even miss me. The telephone lives on a wall held together by ten layers of wallpaper beside double windows that leak and don’t open. Below the window... ...ue assured me it’s a nice place and I’ll fit in considering the mixed age groups. Whilst walking down the hall towards a lounge area, I instruct to ... ... cat, a picture of a bible, a picture of an insurance man, a picture of a group of kids. Geezers, what were they teaching this mutt? Antisocialism? ...

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...d spoken to them about it, they began playing at “touch” in and out of the group of bystanders. Among these were a couple of cyclists, a jobbing garde... ... and gin- ger beer. Going to the edge of the pit, I found it occupied by a group of about half a dozen men—Henderson, Ogilvy, and a tall, fair-haired ... ...ENS ENS ENS WHEN I RETURNED to the common the sun was setting. Scat- tered groups were hurrying from the direction of Woking, and one or two persons w... ...the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atm... ...ep shadow of the aperture. I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stum... ..., and with a number of copper and tin 103 H G Wells vessels below it, the wallpaper imitating blue and white tiles, and a couple of coloured suppleme...

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...he sooty tinge of the later discolourations. On his right hand had stood a group of employers very richly dressed in the fashion of the fifteenth cent... ...e fashion of the fifteenth century, and on the left a rather more numerous group of less decorative ar- tisans. With them their wives and children had... ... you that is —is a disorganization of your tests of reality. It’s one of a group of states hitherto confused. Neurasthenia, that com- prehensive phras... ...very front were crowded with reserves and munitions. For a moment a little group of men indifferent to all this struggle, who were land- ing amidst th... ...e of race and caste and custom in India. “Or here.” The Angel pointed to a group of people who had gathered upon a little beach at the head of a Norwe... ...isit house after house, ill-lit, ill-planned, with dingy paint and peeling wallpaper, kitchens for the most part underground, and either without bathr... ...would certainly be “all right.” The drawing-room was papered with a morose wallpaper that the landlord, in view of the fact that Scrope in his optimis... ...ife had vanished. The room with its folding doors had fixed the scale. The wallpaper had smothered the Kingdom of God; he had been, he felt, domestic;...

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...airway, looking down into the hall below, where the last card-players were grouped about the tray of tall glasses and silver-collared decanters which ... ...d on col- umns of pale yellow marble. Tall clumps of flowering plants were grouped against a background of dark foliage in the angles of the walls. On... ...r, and if she 34 House of Mirth was by no means the richest of the family group, its other mem- bers nevertheless abounded in reasons why she was cle... ...balustrade above the sunken garden, at a little distance from the animated group about the tea-table, she might have been lost in the mazes of an inar... ...ter of the life, and the lustre conferred on him by being a member of this group of rich and conspicuous people. But he thought it a very materialisti... ...y’s task done, she dreaded to return to her narrow room, with its blotched wallpaper and shabby paint; and she hated every step of the walk thither, t...

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...urdock Drapery Bazaar at Port Burdock, one of the three townships that are grouped around the Port Bur- dock naval dockyards. There he remained six ye... ...The wife was a pretty woman in brown with a floriferous straw hat, and the group was altogether very Sundayfied and shiny and spick and span. The shop... ...here was an ailing musk plant in the window, and the tattered and blotched wallpaper was covered by 65 H G Wells bright-coloured grocers’ almanacs. F... ...” said Mr. V oules, “old birds in front and young ones behind.” An ominous group of ill-restrained rice-throwers followed them up as they mounted. “Ge... ...ur from life and con- tained the delight of words freshly and expressively grouped. But alas! there are not many such books, and for the news- papers ... ...he shop,” said Mrs. Rusper suddenly from the doorstep, piercing the little group of men and boys with the sharp horror of an unexpected woman’s voice.... ...om, one of the best in the T emperance Hotel, with a nice clean flow- ered wallpaper, and a very large looking-glass. Miriam appeared to be asleep, an...

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...tings took place here and there; a conversation was begun; others arrived; groups were formed; little impromptu receptions were held be- fore the chop... ...in high hats and young girls in furred opera cloaks. On the sidewalks were groups and couples—the plumbers’ apprentices, the girls of the ribbon count... ...idly from shop window to shop window, taking the air after the day’s work. Groups of girls collected on the corners, talking and laughing very loud, m... ...eath. On the strength of the occasion Marcus Schouler in- vited the entire group to drink with him. By the time the affair was over and the group disp... ...to go to Schuetzen Park, within walking distance of the station. They were grouped about four lunch baskets. One of the children, a little boy, held a... ...same room; for he, too, had made the discovery as to the similarity of the wallpaper. At long intervals he could hear a faint rustling as she moved ab...

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...ll, only the comfort and luxury of Issoudun,—colored tiles, rather elegant wallpapers, mahogany furniture, mirrors in gilt frames, muslin curtains wit... ...nning to descend. When they reached the bottom and met the first hilarious group, Max took Fario by the button of his jacket and said to him,— “Y es, ... ...n was in a fair way to die. The news brought nearly two hundred persons in groups about the place Saint-Jean and the two Narettes. “I sha’n’t be a mon... ...ouilleron. The crowd increased; and the tumult became threatening. Excited groups filled up the whole of the Grande- Narette. Others stationed themsel... ...role intending to get home in time for breakfast, was spied by the various groups of people, as soon as he reached the place Misere. Happily for him, ... ... you prefer to see him guillotined?” said one of the gendarmes to an angry group. “Yes, yes, they shall guillotine him!” shouted one madman. “They are...

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...her end of the same steps; six or eight waiters, gloved, bareheaded, and wearing their whitest linen, their whitest cravats, and their finest swallow-... ... leaving the carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immed... ... army on his head. Last came the Empress of Germany and the Grand Duch- Mark Twain 8 ess of Baden in a closed carriage; these passed through the low-... ... tables some fifty or seventy-five students [1. See Appendix C] were sitting. Some of them were sipping wine, others were playing cards, others chess,... ...iven him the right to retire *FROM MY DIARY.—Dined in a hotel a few miles up the Neckar, in a room whose walls were hung all over with framed por-... ...econd story, for in Europe the houses are so high that they do not count the first story, else they would get tired climbing before they got to the to...

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...any other man of the num- ber. Singly they betrayed their inferiority; but grouped together they represented “New Y ork,” and the habit of masculine s... ...glass. For a moment he silently scrutinised the attentive 9 Edith Wharton group out of his filmy blue eyes overhung by old veined lids; then he gave ... ...uet), her face a little pale, her eyes burning with a candid excitement. A group of young men and girls were gathered about her, and there was much ha... ...resented by some ideal reason, and not sim- ply by poor Ellen Olenska. The group about Miss Welland made way for him with significant smiles, and afte... ... mind of man could travel, had been divided into the two great fundamental groups of the Mingotts and Mansons and all their clan, who cared about eati... ...n the chimney-piece, and a stretch of red damask nailed on the discoloured wallpaper behind a couple of Italian-looking pictures in old frames. Newlan...

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...n evolved, if not designed, to that end, he had instinctively kept the two groups apart in his mind, avoiding that intermediate society which attempts... ...as a centre of “University Life”, a “Salon of the Faubourg St. Germain”, a group of Parisian “Intellectuals” or a “Cross- section of Montmartre”; but ... ...a microscopic minuteness of loathing he hated it all: the grimy carpet and wallpaper, the black marble mantel-piece, the clock with a gilt allegory un... ...r just mea- surable pause before Anna said, looking gaily about the little group: “Has Owen introduced you? This is Effie’s friend, Miss Viner.” Effie... ... XVI IN THE OAK ROOM he found Mrs. Leath, her mother-in-law and Effie. The group, as he came toward it down the long draw- ing-rooms, composed itself ... ...ght where he sat a lonely music, borne on fantastic chords, floated to the group about the tea-table. Un- der its influence Madame de Chantelle’s medi...

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...There, in the lowest bend of the road, low under the trees, stood a little group of expectant people, waiting to see the wedding. The daughter 9 of t... ...,’ said Ursula, going forward. And together the two sisters approached the group of un- easy, watchful common people. They were chiefly women, collier... ...aidservant came and went hurriedly. Meanwhile the men stood in calm little groups, chatting, smoking, pretending to pay no heed to the rustling anima-... ...tiful,’ said the Russian. They all drew near to look. Gerald looked at the group of men, the Russian golden and like a water-plant, Halliday tall and ... ...oked aside, feeling she was being belittled. People were standing about in groups, some women were sitting in the shade of the walnut tree, with cups ... ... border of dark polish went round the tract of pale boarding. In the faded wallpaper were dark patches where furniture had stood, where pictures had h...

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... Miss Heydinger taking a reas- suring pat at her hair. Near the door was a group of four girls, which group Miss Heydinger joined, holding the brown-c... ...h a hiss. Lewisham, standing, saw a circle of blinking faces turned to the group of two this sizzling light revealed. Smithers was the chief figure of... ... of two this sizzling light revealed. Smithers was the chief figure of the group; he stood triumphant, one hand on the gas tap, the other gripping the... ...er Sanctum was only too evidently an intellectualised bedroom, and a cheap wallpaper of silvery roses peeped coquettishly from among her draped furnit...

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... of the flat, and exploded into the green- plush living-room. The familiar group were trying to be conversational. She saw Mr. Marbury, a woman teache... ...dy to love them. But she was embarrassed by the heartiness of the cheering group. From the vestibule she waved to them, but she clung a second to the ... ...e? Used to be great gambling game, wasn’t it?” While others drifted to her group, Carol snatched up the conversation. She laughed and was frivolous an... ...d been tending to do all evening. Carol was deserted by the men, left to a group of matrons who steadily pattered of children, sickness, and cooks—the... ... felt triumphant 71 Sinclair Lewis and rather literary. She already had a Group. It would be only a while now before she provided the town with fan- ... ...The church was half barn and half Gopher Prairie parlor. The streaky brown wallpaper was broken in its dismal sweep only by framed texts, “Come unto M... ... to find the way. She hunted along the stale-smelling corridors with their wallpaper of cerise daisies and poison-green rosettes, streaked in white sp...

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...med and to make new ones. His friends met to give him a send off; they had a group photograph taken and presented him with a silver cigarette case, an... ...built for them. Ivan Ilych himself superintended the arrangements, chose the wallpapers, supplemented the furniture (preferably with antiques which he...

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...hrilled with the excitement of a death, and of a rapid death, and stood in groups or moved be- tween the graves, like drops of ink. The son of one of ... ...ad seen round, through, over, and be- yond Mr. Vyse, had weighed Mr. Vyse, grouped him, and finally dismissed him as having no pos- sible bearing on t... ...and drawing-room—right and left—were guessed only 195 EM Forster by their wallpapers. They were just rooms where one could shelter from the rain. Acr... ...eir rooms. She assumed the airs of a hostess; not for long. For one of the group was Helen—Helen in her oldest clothes, and dominated by that tense, w... ...t so sub- missive—he would have kept himself worthier of her. Incapable of grouping the past, he confused the episode of Jacky with another episode th... ... English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vi- sion its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect— co...

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... scrolls containing corn and grapes, presided over by angels, and with two groups of kneeling figures; on one side, apparently an Emperor with his cro... ...d down, and the collar of the Golden Fleece around his neck, followed by a group of male figures, one with a beautiful face. On the other side kneels ... ...on that side the grounds have the air of cresting the hill, and there is a group of exceedingly tall pine-trees which are a land-mark of the country o... ...s introduced which spoil the simplicity. The helmets are generally made of wallpaper, in a shape like auto-da-fe caps, with long strips hanging over s... ...ckoo bushes. Standon, and in Hursley. Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris).—This group of purple doves, or of Turkish slippers, does not here merit the term...

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...go, becoming one of the rebellious writ- ers and cultural bohemians in the group that has since come to be called the “Chicago Renais- sance.” Anderso... ...e. Listlessly she went about the disorderly old hotel looking at the faded wallpaper and the ragged carpets and, when she was able to be about, doing ... ... of my refusal will be whispered about. Presently men will get together in groups and talk of it. They will come here. We will quarrel and there will ... ... facts of life, Enoch went about a good deal with young men. He got into a group of other young artists, both men and women, and in the evenings they ... ...m to the store or to the post office and he did not come back but joined a group of men and boys and spent the whole afternoon with them, stand- ing a... ...o Wesley Moy- er’s livery barn and stopped in the shadows to lis- ten to a group of men who talked of a race Wesley’s stallion, Tony Tip, had won at t...

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...ding amid the green corn, soon lengthened out, and broke up into different groups that loitered to talk. The fiddler walked in front with his violin, ... ...ut changes in the house. She took the shades off the candlesticks, had new wallpaper put up, the staircase repainted, and seats made in the garden rou... ...y her that he had had framed in very large frames, and hung up against the wallpaper by long green cords. People returning from mass saw him at his do... ... the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arb... ...own on a form near the door. The quadrille over, the floor was occupied by groups of men standing up and talking and servants in livery bearing large ... ...e custom, by Jove!” And to share his observations with others he went from group to group. They were deploring Emma’s death, espe- cially Lheureux, wh...

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...mand.” And Korsunsky began waltzing with measured steps straight towards the group in the left corner, continually saying, “Pardon, mesdames, pardon, ... ...tanding holding herself, as always, very erect, and when Kitty drew near the group she was speaking to the master of the house, her head slightly turn... ...ost imperceptibly about the room; the party settled itself, divided into two groups: one round the samovar near the hostess, the other at the opposite... ... an ambassador, in black velvet, with sharply defined black eyebrows. In both groups conversation wavered, as it always does, for the first few minutes,... ...tress; one can see she’s studied Kaulbach,” said a diplomatic attache in the group round the ambassador’s wife. “Did you notice how she fell down?. . ... ...duality in them, no soul. These clocks, and curtains, and, worst of all, the wallpapers—they’re a nightmare. I think of V ozdvizhenskoe as the promise...