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...ermitted rampant corruption among government-appointed reservation agents. As a lieutenant in the 5th Cavalry, King was a participant on the American western frontier, who personally fought in battles with Southwestern and Plains Indians and observed government policies first hand. Charles King is credited today with helping to establish the Western novel as a romantic and...

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...“Max Brand, the most used pseudonym of Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944), is best known today for his western fiction. Faust began in the early twentieth century selling his stories to the pulp magazines, writing in many genres under numerous pseudonyms. He is probably best known as the creator of the character Destry. His no...

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...Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944), is best known today for his western fiction. Faust was born in Seattle, Washington and at an early age moved with his parents to the San Joaquin Valley in California where he worked as a ranchhand. After a failed attempt to enlist in the Great War in 19...

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... Squire Allworthy. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbor's daughter, Sophia Western. On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre popular in 18th-century Britain. However, Tom's status as a bastard causes Sophia's father and Allworthy to oppose their love; this criticism of class fricti...

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...acter of a man in praise of her beauty and grace, in a world that takes love beyond heavenly and earthly bounds. This book will redefine the romantic genre forever....

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... You complete the circle in my life, the stars stays close to us, over the western sky. As they look down on us one by one from heaven with their beau...

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...the primary impetus in what we do. Even though many of us write in different genres, by the very act of using our gift as He has instructed us, gives ... ...ir true King. In modern days the various disciplines of science and the many genres of art have fallen out of God’s hands. But the promise above is a ... ...te fantasy, psychological horror, science fiction, romance. All of these are genres which belong to the kingdoms of this world. Few SF writers are rel... .... The Internet can lead you to associations that specialize in your favorite genre, or to generic groups that cater to fiction and non-fiction writers... ...edge him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) I ’m a genre fiction writer, mostly galaxies far, far away or future times. It’... ... South Dakota, told his wife, after he read Dakota Printer, “That’s the best Western I’ve read since Zane Grey died.” Who knew? I thought I was writin... ...was writing an inspirational historical romance? If God wants to use it as a Western (i.e., cowboy book), I’m more than willing to become “all things ...

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... eat another meal in the airport before departing. You'll get a high price western meal at the airport. I guarantee it." He left the taxi and sat do... ...ng and boldness could persevere to be someone accomplished in this musical genre. He could run to Noppawan Piggy's home. He had the address on the ... ...ansion (a couple of the dozen rooms that were only marginally spacious by western standards) they saw him in the living room in front of a big screen... ...e for anyone." "Yeah, okay." "There's a sign pointing out a Best Western," he told Nawin. "Can you take us to that hotel?" the boy asked th... ...e boy asked the taxi driver. "Excuse me. Is that the decision? Best Western?" asked the taxi driver. "Yes," said Nawin. Turning to Na... ...e is a full blooded American born in the states." "I don't see a Best Western. How far out on this road do you want to go?" Nawin looked at...

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...dley has a wonderful imagination. This is an incredible tale. I have been reading genre fiction since the 1970s and this is something new. Also, th... ... wife and his lineages. A proud ancestry that reached back to the beginning of the western civilization before the industrialization of the lands an... ...f science fiction, romance and fantasy since she was young, Rae enjoys merging the genres to create an adventurous reading experience in her own wor...

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...I can.” He paused, and then said more cheerfully, “Christopher is going to Western for his MBA and says he wants to go into the book business. I hope ... ...ll things bookish and his pride in her work – how he’d dubbed it the ‘love genre’. Although Lacey wanted her mind to stay in those happy times her tho...

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...arly be seen in franchises such as Star Trek and Farscape. While Burroughs no doubt borrowed liberally from the pulp fiction of his day, particularly westerns and swashbuckling tales, the pacing and themes set the tone for the soft science fiction genre. The protagonist, John Carter, with his proficiency in hand-to-hand combat and flirtations with beautiful alien women, co...

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... turn away a party of which she was good enough to say that it had a grand genre; for, as she also remarked, she had her living to earn. She tried to ... ... I don’t like, as the 46 A Little Tour in France French say, to meler les genres. A gondola in a little flat French river? The image was not less irr... ...he eye of a solitary douanier, who strolled on the little quay beneath the western wall. “C’est bien plaisant, c’est bien paisible,” said this worthy ...

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...Island; and Pitt be declared and decreed, with effervescence, ‘L’ennemi du genre humain, The enemy of mankind;’ and, very singular to say, you make an... ...a National Representative become? And now the sun- light falls yellower on western windows, and the chimney- tops are flinging longer shadows; the ref... ... than General Custine did: let him look to it! Through the Eastern and the Western Pyrenees Spain has deployed it- self; spreads, rustling with Bourbo... ...France had, has given itself to these enemies of human nature, ‘ennemis du genre humain. ’ Beleaguer it, bombard it, ye Commissioners Barras, Freron,... ...nty days. (Deux Amis, xi. 80-143.) Or see, in these same weeks, far in the Western waters: breasting through the Bay of Biscay, a greasy dingy little ... ...icken Mint; of pewter, let them become bullets to shoot the ‘enemies of du genre humain.’ Dalmatics of plush make breeches for him who has none; line... ...en; and may again be. Charles Sec- ond sent out his Highland Host over the Western Scotch Whigs; Jamaica Planters got Dogs from the Spanish Main to hu... ... invades it by the Eastern Pyrenees; General Muller shall invade it by the Western. Shall, that is the word: Committee of Salut Public has said it; Re... ... plots, corruptibilities, neck-gins and baited falltraps of Pitt Ennemi du Genre Humain. Camille’s First Number begins with ‘O Pitt!’—his last is date...

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...e first natural instinct was to take him for a desperado; but although the features, to our Western eyes, had a barbaric and unhomely cast, the eye bo... ...re. Next day by afternoon, Lough Foyle being already far be- hind, and only the rough north-western hills of Ireland within view, Alick appeared on de... ...rom an open door. Into one such window I was rude enough to peep, and saw within a charming GENRE pic- ture. In a room, all white wainscot and crimson... ...ills half glorified already with the day and still half confounded with the greyness of the western heaven—these will seem to repay you for the discom...

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...ook body and perorated, what might not the effect be: Humankind namely, le Genre Humain itself! In what rapt creative moment the Thought rose in Anach... ...he ‘Dean of the Human Species,’ ceased now to be a miracle. Such ‘Doyen du Genre Humain, Eldest of Men, ’ had shewn himself there, in these weeks: Jea... ...t; yet has had his heart grieved to the quick many times, in the hot South-Western region and 71 Thomas Carlyle elsewhere; and has seen riot, civil b... ...in black, for what a cause are ye to spend and be spent! Look out from the western windows, ye may see King Louis placidly hold on his way; the poor l...

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...ance. His clothes were new and the indescribable smartness of their cut, a genre which had never been obtruded on her notice before, astonished Mrs. F... ...ttage (with all its con- sequences), Anthony had got an offer to go to the Western Islands, and bring home the cargo of some ship which, dam- aged in ... ...ffer of chartering his ship for the special purpose of proceed- ing to the Western Islands was put in his way by a firm of shipbrokers who had no doub... ... to her to have a mocking sound. And so this 272 Chance short trip—to the Western Islands only—came to an end. It was so short that when young Powell...

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...ested steeds whose necks on high Curve back, she drives to a remoter sky A western Crescent, borne impetuously. _15 Then... ...the crescent moon; Some shed a mild and silver beam Like Hesperus o’er the western sea; Some dashed athwart with trains of flame, ... ...e is a moment, When the sun’s highest point Peeps like a star o’er Ocean’s western edge, _15 When those far clouds of feathery... ..._185 Wakes the unholy song of war, Arose a stately city, Metropolis of the western continent: There, now, the mossy column-stone, Indented by Time’s u... ...f eve Reflect unmoved the lingering beam of day; And vesper’s image on the western main Is beautifully still. T o-morrow comes: ... ...n de l’existence d’un Dieu, que l’on dit neanmoins si necessaire a tout le genre humain? Mais trouvons-nous de l’harmonie entre les opinions theologiq... ...des etres intelligens; de ne chercher dans ses oeuvres que le bien-etre du genre humain: comment concilier ces vues et ces dispositions avec l’ignoran...

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... Ryabovsky, a very handsome, fair young man of five-and-twenty who painted genre pieces, animal stud- ies, and landscapes, was successful at exhibitio... ...ovsky was prepar- ing for the exhibition, something striking, a mixture of genre and landscape, in the style of Polyenov, about which every one who ha... ...time of parting came, as Luganovitch was appointed president in one of the western provinces. They had to sell their furniture, their horses, their su... ...and that a little later Luganovitch and the children would set off for the western province. “We were a great crowd to see Anna Alexye vna off. When s...

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... zero, are they not great? Nay, best of all, some happy Continents (as the Western one, with its Savannahs, where whosoever has four willing limbs fin... ...k body and per- orated, what might not the effect be: Humankind namely, le Genre Humain itself! In what rapt creative moment the Thought rose in Anach... ...e ‘Dean of the Human Species, ’ ceased now to be a miracle. Such ‘Doyen du Genre Humain, Eldest of Men,’ had shewn himself there, in these weeks: Jean... ...Island; and Pitt be declared and decreed, with effervescence, ‘L’ennemi du genre humain, The enemy of mankind;’ and, very singular to say, you make an... ...a National Representative be- come? And now the sunlight falls yellower on western win- dows, and the chimney-tops are flinging longer shadows; the re... ... than General Custine did: let him look to it! Through the Eastern and the Western Pyrenees Spain has deployed itself; spreads, rustling with Bourbon ... ...France had, has given itself to these enemies of human nature, ‘ennemis du genre humain.’ Beleaguer it, bombard it, ye Commissioners Barras, Freron, ... ...nty days. (Deux Amis, xi. 80-143.) Or see, in these same weeks, far in the Western waters: breasting through the Bay of Biscay, a greasy dingy little ... ...been; and may again be. Charles Second sent out his Highland Host over the Western Scotch Whigs; Jamaica Planters got Dogs from the Spanish Main to hu...

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... on the 3d and 4th of January of Russian troops in the neighborhood of the Western Kalmucks, though really having no reference to them or their plans,... ...d into certain signs that all was discovered; and that the prudence of the Western chief- tains, who, from situation, had never been exposed to those ... ...their people from ruin. Be the cause what it might, it is certain that the Western Kalmucks were in some way prevented from form- ing the intended jun... ... too many circumstances by which she might discover the concurrence of the Western people in the gen- eral scheme of revolt, they justly feared that s... ...currence also in the bloody events which marked its outset. Little did the Western Kalmucks guess what reasons they also had for gratitude on account ... ...ni de quoi se vêtir. Je l’avais prévu; et j’avais ordonné de faire en tout genre les provisions nécessaires pour pouvoir les secourir promptement; c’e...

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...share of his mother’s fortune, and the last scandal, when he had gone to a western province in an official capacity, and there had got into trouble fo... ...’d show her to Vronsky—a marvel, exquisite, in the strict Oriental style, “genre of the slave Rebecca, don’t you know.” He’d had a row, too, with Berk...

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...f the Homeric voice: in a word, Homer had so completely exhausted the epic genre, that after him further efforts were doomed to be merely conventional... ... is the walled cities of all sea-set Cyprus. There the moist breath of the western wind wafted her over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam...

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...ard.” “Harvard … . Guess we haven’t got a chapter there … . I’m from North Western. Anyway you want to go to school in France here if you can. So do I... ...you mean?” “People are fighting to beat the cats everywhere except on the’ western front,” said Henslowe. “But that’s where I come in. The Red Cross s... ...hisper to the other: “Qu’il a l’air interessant.” “Farouche, n’est-ce pas? Genre revolutionnaire,” answered the other cousin, tittering. Then he notic...