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...verbal variety. “Is anything you know based on something other than popular fiction?” The vamp twisted in the chair to give me another dirty look.... ...ll my carefully ingrained delusions. If he didn’t stop soon, my faith in the Easter Bunny would be in serious jeopardy. He let out a laugh. “Yes, ... ... a vice grip. The newcomer had a heavily accented voice. He sounded middle-eastern from the lilt of the accent. Lucky me. I’d stumbled into the ... ...riding through the shadows right into the center of the quartet. The middle-eastern Vampire walked up to meet him. The Vampire’s lean frame matche...

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...4879-1-0 The first part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imagina... ...believe in God?” “Well, yes. I’m an Anglican. I go to church sometimes, at Easter and Christmas for sure. Except, of course, I didn’t go this year bec... ...ll those months of agony and embarrassment. If she could write a good non- fiction book it would honor Jake. I’m not viewing it objectively now! I’m t... ...th an eclectic assortment, in- cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publ...

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...gave the poor advice; By which he lost, he may affirm, A hundred fees last Easter term. While others of the learned robe Would break the patience of a...

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...L YEARS L YEARS LA A A A ATER TER TER TER TER IT IS a beautiful morning in Easter week. The sun is shining on the gilded weathercock, which flashes ev...

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...d patriotic cries, and then flew up very swiftly and easily into the south-eastern sky, rising and falling with long, easy undulations in an ex- traor... ...?” said Edna. “Oh!—manoeuvres,” stid Bert. “Oh! I thought they did them at Easter,” said Edna, and troubled no more. The last great British war, the B... ...ances—might have been observed wending his way across Franconia in a north-easterly direction, and at a height of about eleven thousand feet above the... ...univiorsal service in a defensive militia. Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knit coalescence of China and Japan, advancing with r... ...the new type. They had been built solely for reconnoitring purposes on the eastern fron- tier, they were mostly too small to carry more than a couple,... ... Red Indians, and comic, respect- ful niggers. This he had learnt from the fiction in his public library. Beyond that he had learnt very little. He wa...

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...iged vari- ous manufacturers; and there followed a series of the financial fictions by which neither notaries nor borrowers are deceived. Chesnel’s ey... ... the bench. The pretty maid-servant, now of ripe age, and wrinkled like an Easter pippin, looked after the house, and they lived accord- ing to the es...

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.......................................................... 132 Chapter 2.4.I. Easter at Saint-Cloud. ....................................................... ......................................................... 132 Chapter 2.4.II. Easter at Paris. ............................................................. ...while there is grain, on highways or the Rhone-waters, over all that South-Eastern region,—where also if Monseigneur d’Artois saw good to break in fro... ...ng, honneur de la seance. ’ A long- flowing Turk, for rejoinder, bows with Eastern solemnity, and utters articulate sounds: but owing to his imperfect... ...OK 2.II. NANCI Chapter 2.2.I. Bouille. Dimly visible, at Metz on the North-Eastern frontier, a cer- tain brave Bouille, last refuge of Royalty in all ... ... guidance of uncertain re- ports, and many a traveller answering with mere fictions to please them, and get off. ’ (De Bello Gallico, iv. 5.) Nineteen...

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..., I have been the less constrained by the inconvenient action of fact upon fiction. And for the Hospital of St. Katharine’s-by-the-T ower, its history... ...nce, after taking leave of him, they had set out to spend Passion-tide and Easter at Coldingham Abbey, after the frequent fashion of the devoutly incl... ...f the tide was heard. Then, standing heavy and dark against the clear pale eastern sky, there arose the dark mass of St. Ebba’s monastery, the parent ... ...him such a charm. A great sorrow awaited him, however, at Leicester, where Easter was to be spent. A messenger came from Durham, bringing letters from... ...ged Lion only wit enough to know a hawk from a heron-schaw.’ After a grave Easter-tide spent at Leicester, the Court moved to Westminster, where Henry... ... of anxiety were all effaced, his lustrous blue eyes shone and danced like Easter suns, his complexion rivalled the fresh delicate tints of the blosso... ...ined their comrades with the advanced guard of the escort. It was always a fiction maintained by Henry, that he was marching in a friendly country; pl...

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...as not far past the middle of September, the heavy clouds and strong north-easterly wind combined to render the day extremely cold and dreary; and the... ... on talking such intolerable stuff—her sister helping her with appropriate fiction coined for the oc- casion—that I thought it necessary to say someth... ...per a little.’ So said my mother, as we sat at work one morning during the Easter holidays. I assured her that my employments were not at all oppressi...

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...d under her own eye, and presented, on the side towards the shop, a little fiction in which Mrs Plornish unspeakably rejoiced. This po- etical heighte... ...ks’s works in a highly effective manner; so that when Clennam produced his Eastern pipe, and handed Mr Pancks another Eastern pipe, the latter gentlem... ...ot to this, Mr Pancks took as long a pull as his lungs would permit at his Eastern pipe, and looked sagaciously and steadily at Clennam while inhaling... ...Pancks listened with such interest that, re- gardless of the charms of the Eastern pipe, he put it in the grate among the fire-irons, and occupied his... ...at woman,’ she spoke of Mrs Merdle, of course, ‘re- mains here until after Easter; so, in the case of my being mar- ried here and going to London with...

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...tains; for certainly he is a lord to be doubted. Well, said Lucius, before Easter I suppose to pass the mountains, and so forth into France, and there...

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...oured tiles, and the tall stove in one corner decorated with the same. The eastern end of the apartment was adorned with an exquisite small group carv... ... at the Blessed Friedmund’s hermitage chapel. The time was slow in coming. Easter had passed with Ermentrude far too ill for Christina to make the eff... ...rmur, but at that moment a sudden glow and glare of light broke out on the eastern rock, illuminating the fast darkening little church with a flickeri... ...ty, as she desired Heinz to saddle her mule, and escort her to join in the Easter mass at the Blessed Friedmund’s Chapel. Ursel heaped up objections; ... ...nd took the alternative of accompanying her. It was a glori- ous sparkling Easter Day, lovely blue sky above, herbage and flowers glistening below, sn...

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...e is likened to summer. A nd thus it passed on from Candlemass until after Easter, that the month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to...

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...e is likened to summer. A nd thus it passed on from Candlemass until after Easter, that the month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to...

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... is tear- ful-boastful leave-taking; irregular marching on the Great North-Eastern Road. Marseillese sing their wild To Arms, in chorus; which now all... ...rtain with its own eyes whether it is free or not. Lo, therefore, from the Eastern Gate of the Tuileries, a distressed Convention issuing; hand- some ... ... no better there than General Custine did: let him look to it! Through the Eastern and the Western Pyrenees Spain has deployed it- self; spreads, rust... ...n, drive Spain back; he invades Spain. General Dugommier invades it by the Eastern Pyrenees; General Dugommier invades it by the Eastern Pyrenees; Gen... ... fresher and fresher, as from the sweet South-West; your devastating North-Easters, and wild tornado-gusts of Terror, blown utterly out! All Sansculot...

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...ity than the organist of a cathedral runs up the gamut of the “O Filii” at Easter. Porbus and Poussin stood motionless on either side of the easel, pl...

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... inside you lies your own very self, like a germinating egg, your precious Easter egg of your own soul. There it is, developing bit by bit, from one s...

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...er for days in their syl- van recesses. The mountains of the Vosges on the eastern frontier of France, have never attracted much notice from Europe, e... ...ause than martyrdom, man and woman should leave both father and mother. On Easter Sunday, when the trial had been long proceed- ing, the poor girl fel... ...t sight to which we ever treat them? St. Peter’s at Rome, do you fancy, on Easter Sunday, or Luxor, or perhaps the Himalayas? Pooh! pooh! my friend: s... ...Domrémy, saw the pomp of forests in which her childhood had wandered. That Easter festival, which man had denied to her languishing heart— that resurr... ...hat are called “short terms;” that is, the four terms of Michaelmas, Lent, Easter, and Act, were kept severally by a residence, in the aggregate, of n... ...ry eyes of the high table, or dais, it then became possible to assume as a fiction of law—that the three delf fellows, after all, were not present. Th... ...Rome; one which belonged to Rome republican, as well as Rome imperial. The fiction in our modern practice is—that we wait upon the levé, or ris- ing o... ...wait upon the levé, or ris- ing of the prince. In France, at one era, this fiction was real- ized: the courtiers did really attend the king’s dressing... ...vitable. Both professed the same basis Both came in the morning. Both were fictions. Hence they were confounded. 151 That fact speaks for itself,—bre...

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...nity the Christmas log. He loved to send presents at New Year, and eggs at Easter; he believed in the duties of a godfather, and never deserted the cu... ...you guardedly of Parisian civilization, when I told you in the disguise of fiction some of the actual adven- tures of my youth, you regarded them as m...

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...Mysie. Dolores had looked for- ward to his coming, for, by all the laws of fiction, he was bound to be the champion of the orphan niece, and finally t... ...that, on the whole, it is the few who are palpably affected by the mass of fiction in the world; but that it is needful to take good care that those f... ...clung to everything, even to the guinea-pigs, and she was the first in the Easter holidays to beg for the ‘Thorn Fortress.’ Indeed, Mysie was a little...