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...stayed when so many others left and who could only be parted by death. May he forgive me for turning him into a "she" to make the pronouns easier.... ...the adoration. He finally spoke. "Noble dragons, you know me. What you may not know is that I have been meeting in secret conclave with two of th... ...below. At the deepest levels, in a vacuous place called Hell, the Demons may still prowl in yet more dry caves. If they live, they lie beneath our ... ...eans 'Lord of Thunder.'" "'Lord of Thunder,' that little sponge?" "You may have reason to remember that once he gets his plan into action," Ao Ru... ...Confront What is to Come. Ever and Always You Will Remain in My Heart. May the Peace That Transcends All Understanding Be With You! He wished he ... ...ed magical insight. "Still what Lei-kung and company are preparing to do may doom us all." Her eyes are green, green flecked with gold. The green... ...to go. I wish I could avoid going," Nü-kua appealed. "That kaochang may be the bane of us all. Perhaps, we could take the time to get to know... ... eyes?" "Oh, those. He's the only one." "The only one with blue eyes; may the gods preserve us! Are you sure?" The cat sounded much less arrog... ...hrew strong mental images of Ao Rue's two friends at the thing. "Now you may go." It surged up the tunnel, burst away as if it had been straining ...

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...reeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or me... ...ot me not once — but twice — tends to make me a bit edgy.” The snide comment may have affected a lesser person, but I chose to rise above his snarki... ...my breath came in wracking gasps through the giggles bubbling through me. “May I ask why, or is this another form of torture?” “Because, that make... ...of helping catch the real killer, I’d just staked one of the good guys. This may be the craziest thing I’d ever done in my life, but Donatello and I... ...d. “Yeah, we’ve wasted enough time. If we don’t take off after this guy, we may lose the rest of the night and have to start looking again tomorrow... ... the first month of the assignment.” “See, that’s why you need my help. You may be an all powerful Vampire, but I’m an unstoppable Vampire killing ... ... they are as much a mystery to us as they are to you. We believe scientists may hold the keys to discovering the secret to where we come from with ... ...nothing to do with your stellar scholastic achievements, as deserved as they may be.” And here I thought I’d been a prodigy. The fact I’d let one l... ...your head. He sucked at his teeth, but didn’t call me on it. “Be that as it may, I expect a more detailed report on my desk before you leave this e...

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...the rights under the copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or tra... ...ady can wield." "She's been indoctrinated like the others. The assignment may not be to her liking, but the Lieutenant has never failed to carry out... ..." He straightened and mock saluted the other three. "Good day, gentlemen. May all our plans come to fruition and may mankind continue to prosper." "... ..." "Fascinating," Larry murmured while he made notes. "Liaison Larry, if I may be so bold. Are we allowed to meet more of your psionics?" Dex watched ... ...d with a smirk. Dimitri paced before answering. "I get the sense that they may have our young Lieutenant in mind. Larry would have told them that she... ...hat we need. You'd better put a rush on all related projects as well. And may destiny have mercy on us all.” He stomped from the room and slammed th... ...ettled into a chair, ready to get some answers. “King Renten, Prince Dex, may I present to you, Colonel Jeremy Lingley.” Larry moved aside and Jerem... ...ir just to savor it. “Ah, Jewels, you are so precious to me. Little Human, may I sample you? Let me drink of your sweetness, little one.” “You say th... ...nt base commander. Dex didn’t like the man standing that close to Jewels. “May I have your attention please? The first phase will begin in five minute...

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...nd on her himself King Arthur begat you upon his own sister, therefore how may you wed your father’s wife? Sir, said the noble clerk, leave this opini... ...ustom and usage. Alas, this is a great default of us Englishmen, for there may no thing please us no term. And so fared the people at that time, they ... ... with him, and therefore, said Sir Gawaine, I pray you, fair uncle, that I may have paper, pen, and ink, that I may write to Sir Launcelot a cedle wit... ...hur, send thee greeting, and let thee have knowledge that the tenth day of May I was smitten upon the old wound that thou gavest me afore the city of ... ...ne had she not put herself in the Tower of London. And so the tenth day of May last past, my lord Arthur and we all landed upon them at Dover; and the... ... king let inter him in a chapel within Dover Castle; and there yet all men may see the skull of him, and the same wound is seen that Sir Launcelot gav... ...libur into the water, and how he was delivered to ladies in a barge B ut I may not stand, mine head works so. Ah Sir Launcelot, said King Arthur, this... ...fe, for I have taken cold. And but if thou do now as I bid thee, if ever I may see thee, I shall slay thee with mine own hands; for thou wouldst for m... ...od knight, and mine own friend Sir Gareth, that full noble knight. Alas, I may say I am unhappy, said Sir Launcelot, that ever I should do thus unhapp...

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...with a good will, said King Arthur, and do unto you all the worship that I may, for I must by reason ye are my nephew, my sister’s son. 6 Sir Thomas ... ...our, but this child will not labour for me, for anything that my wife or I may do, but always he will be shooting or casting darts, and glad for to se... ...aid King Arthur unto Aries the cowherd, fetch all thy sons afore me that I may see them. And so the poor man did, and all were shaped much like the po... ...ck with the sword, saying, Be ye a good knight, and so I pray to God so ye may be, and if ye be of prowess and of worthiness ye shall be a knight of t... ... the greyhound for my love. Ah, said the cowherd, I weened not this, but I may believe it well, for he had never no tatches of me. Sir, said Tor unto ... ...r your worship than hurt, for your father is a good man and a king, and he may right well advance you and your mother, for ye were begotten or ever sh... ...m, and therefore, brother, it is best ye suffer till another time, that we may have him out of the court, for an we did so we should trouble this high... ...to have this despite, for the brachet was mine that the knight led away. I may not do therewith, said the king. With this there came a knight riding a... ...as gone the king was glad, for she made such a noise. Nay, said Merlin, ye may not leave these adventures so lightly; for these adventures must be bro...

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...he, food comparatively varied, and the satisfaction of being still privately a gentle- man, may thus be had almost for the asking. Two of my fellow-pa... ...home to me or represented these distresses livingly to my imagination. A turn of the market may be a calamity as disastrous as the French retreat from... ...dly lends itself to lively treatment, and makes a trifling figure in the morning papers. We may struggle as we please, we are not born econo- mists. T... ...of life at so early an age, the contact is but slight, and the rela- tion more like what we may imagine to be the friendship of flies than that of men... ...over the food and the vileness of the steerage. One or two had been so near famine that you may say they had run into the ship with the devil at their... ... life, he said, had been one of unusual trouble and anxiety; so the legends of the steerage may have repre- sented at least some shadow of the truth. ... ...er, the reformed drunkard makes an interest out of abstaining from intoxicating drinks, and may live for that negation. There is something, at least, ... ...but little hope. He was almost tedious in the cynical disclosures of his despair. ‘The ship may go down for me,’ he would say, ‘now or to-morrow. I ha... ...as insidiously seeking to reduce the people’s annual bellyful of corn and steam-engines. It may be argued that these opinions spring from the de- fect...

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...ation from the Comando Supremo by anyone who from the perspective of Italy may seem to be a representative of British opinion. If Herbert Spencer had ... ...n duty of every man to give his life and all that he has if by so doing he may help to end it. I hate Germany, which has thrust this experience upon m... ... very centre of Europe, but this tremendous disaster? It is a disaster. It may be a necessary disaster; it may teach a lesson that could be learnt in ... ...ummer in making a tour of the waterways of France in a barge. So I hope it may be. One imagines him as sitting quietly on the crumpled remains of the ... ...ance of the species but upon the uncritical hero-worship of the crowd. You may see the monster drawn twenty times the size of common men upon the olde... ...an Alpine valley is the most vulnerable of things; its curves and viaducts may be practically demolished by shell fire or swept by shrapnel, al- thoug... ...me single moun- tain crest and the hoisting of one gun into position there may block the retreat of guns and material from a great se- ries of positio... ...positions. Mountain surfaces are extraordinarily vari- ous and subtle. You may understand Picardy on a map, but mountain warfare is three-dimensional.... ...nd Picardy on a map, but mountain warfare is three-dimensional. A struggle may go on for weeks or months consisting of apparently separate and inciden...

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... agrees in calling “a respectable man.” And—nor so strange to report as it may appear to be—though a ploughman of the troubled waters, life-long conte... ...o philosopher, he was, without knowing it, practically a fatalist. And, it may be, that he rather liked this adventurous turn in his affairs, which pr... ...retopman, and no few of them must have known a hearth of some sort; others may have had wives and children left, too probably, in uncertain circumstan... ...elf-consciousness he seemed to have little or none, or about as much as we may reasonably impute to a dog of Saint Bernard’s breed. Habitually living ... ... the April of that year had occurred the commotion at Spithead followed in May by a second and yet more serious outbreak in the fleet at the Nore. The... ...ght amiss or calamitous in his family, a na- tion in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet. Though after parleyings between G... ...ty among influential sections of the crews. To some extent the Nore Mutiny may be regarded as analogous to the distempering irruption of contagious fe... ...nce our world began.” —Tennyson I n this matter of writing, resolve as one may to keep to the main road, some by-paths have an entice- ment not readil... ...hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Ports- mouth, N...

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...came Bradley Headstone, in rough water- side second-hand clothing. ‘Wish I may die,’ said Riderhood, smiting his right leg, and laughing, as he sat on... ...e,’ Bradley admitted. ‘But,’ with an- other anxious look up the river, ‘he may land.’ ‘Easy you! He won’t be lost if he does land,’ said Riderhood. ‘H... ...ost?’ was the sullen retort. ‘I mean to say, you’re quite wore out.’ ‘That may well be. I have had no rest since I left here. I don’t remember that I ... ...he’s that up to me and that noticing of me that my getting out of my chair may wake him, when a rattling peal won’ t; let alone my touching of him.’ H... ... reply, and sat defiantly beating one foot on the ground. ‘Again I think I may say, that’s not impossible. Is it, sir?’ asked Mr Boffin, turning to Al... ...ured voice, and with an empha- sis on her last word. ‘No,’ he returned. ‘I may try to give a hint at her home that she is in want of kind and careful ... ...h a threatening sneer. ‘Hah! I’ve been looking for you, sir, rather what I may call specially.’ ‘You don’t say so, Wegg?’ ‘Yes, I do say so, sir. And ... ...for the purposes of respiration. Mr V enus, sir, take a chair. Boffin, you may sit down.’ Mr Boffin, still with his hands ruefully stuck in his pock- ... ...aluables. You’ll produce your contract for the sale of the Mounds, that we may know to a penny what they’re worth, and you’ll make out likewise an exa...

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... well, said Arthur, that this matter pleaseth thee well, but these answers may not be answered, for the demand grieveth me sore, for truly I will neve... ...and holdeth the most noble court of the world, all other kings nor princes may not com- pare unto his noble maintenance. On New Year’s Day we saw him ... ... slain; and after let this head be bound to a barbican that all the people may see and behold it; and go ye two up to the mountain, and fetch me my sh... ...uccour, and that he hie him, for I am sore wounded, and that our prisoners may pay goods out of number. And the messenger came to the king and told hi... ...en they be overmatched. Nay, said Launcelot and the other, for once shamed may never be recovered. 16 Sir Thomas Malory CHAPTER VIII How a senator to... ...great multitude of knights of the Round Table, to whom none earthly prince may compare. 19 Le Morte Darthur – Book V CHAPTER IX How Arthur , after he... ...t thou shalt suffer teen and sorrow or we depart, but tell me in haste who may staunch my bleeding. That may I do, said the knight, if I will, and so ... ...e knight, if I will, and so will I if thou wilt succour and aid me, that I may be christened and believe on God, and thereof I require thee of thy man... ...t he have been we should never have returned, wherefore I pray you that he may be baptised, for there liveth not a nobler man nor better knight of his...

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...ld man administered and take the sacrament. It was all the same to me, you may suppose; but I said I thought Adams was the fellow to consult. He was j... ...ooed.” “O, fudge!” says he; “‘tain’t the practice in these islands.” “That may be, or it mayn’t,” said I. “It’s the practice where I was before. You c... ...ay to work and wore green wreaths, and it put me in thoughts of the 1st of May at 23 Island Nights’ Entertainments home. This crowd opened and buzzed... ...tell you?” she asked again. (Ese was the name the natives had for Case; it may mean foreign, or extraordinary; or it might mean a mummy apple; but mos... ...y: The country in Europe is a Popey country, and the devil of the Evil Eye may be a Catholic devil, or, at least, used to Catho- lic ways. So then I r... ...ut there was one unfortunate circumstance. It was nearing the time of our ‘May’ in the island, when the native contributions to the missions are recei... ... trouble,” says I. “And after all, what for?” “Why, how many tons of copra may they make in this district?” asked the missionary. “I daresay as much a... ...ons,” says I. “And what is the profit to the local trader?” he asked. “You may call it, three pounds,” said I. 41 Island Nights’ Entertainments “Then... ... on amiss when he is put upon his guard. At the same time, this precaution may fail, and then you must turn elsewhere. You have two people at hand to ...

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...ecious collection. My departure for France was fixed for the first days in May. Meanwhile I was occupying myself in classifying my mineralogical, bota... ...carcely con- jecture. However, the solution of the problem submitted to me may modify the form of the dilemma. Either we do know all the varieties of ... ...whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time. Thus may this puzzling phenomenon be explained, unless there be something over a... ...ent. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; and the unicorn may be amiable enough to hurry me to- wards the coast of France. This worth... ...iable enough to hurry me to- wards the coast of France. This worthy animal may allow itself to be caught in the seas of Europe (for my particu- 13 Ju... ...hirty years old, and his age to that of his mas- ter as fifteen to twenty. May I be excused for saying that I was forty years old? But Conseil had one... ...the seas. A glorious mission, but a dangerous one! We cannot tell where we may go; these animals can be very capricious. But we will go whether or no;... ...aordinary, supernatu- ral, and incredible expedition, the recital of which may well meet with some suspicion. But Commander Farragut would not lose a ... .... Ah, brave Ned! I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory. Now, what was Ned La...

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...d where I began must be left to the acute discrimination of the reader who may be interested in the problem. I don’t mean to say that the problem is w... ...rity and I suppose is to be found still in some libraries. The curious who may be mistrusting my imagination are referred to that printed document, Vo... ...through their vices and their virtues, or simply by their ac- tions, which may have a temporary importance; and then they become forgotten. The names ... ...xperience, and owing my rank only to the glorious patriotism of my father, may God rest his soul. I suffered immense humiliation, not so much from the... ...en the means to flee the country, as other Spaniards had managed to do. It may be that, wandering ruined and houseless, and burdened with nothing but ... ...th, then. When one is young, you understand… . She was a good patriot, you may believe. Caballeros, credit me or not, political feeling ran so high in... ...ent! The tale of a king who took a beggar-maid for a partner of his throne may be pretty enough as we men look upon ourselves and upon love. But that ... ...er is not in the loss of time, but in this— that the movement of the walls may prevent a door being opened at all. This was what had happened to us. W... ...n the heart of the Arauco country. Surely on 48 A Set of Six that day she may have smiled on her guasso hus- band with a less haughty reserve. “The s...

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...t learned how to behave. THE Camel’s hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too lit... ...same situation. I’ve made him differ- ent from all other animals; but what may I have for my tea?’ Then said Nqong from his bath in the salt- pan, ‘Co... ...nto a ball and his prickles stick out every which way at once. By this you may know the Hedgehog.’ 38 Just So Stories ‘I don’t like this old lady one... ...ing her tail. ‘He only draws his head and legs into his shell. By this you may know the tortoise.’ ‘I don’t like this old lady at all—at all,’ said Sl... .... ‘Hold up my chin, Slow- and-Solid. I’m going to try to learn to swim. It may be useful.’ ‘Excellent!’ said Slow-and-Solid; and he held up Stickly-Pr... ... my back- plates a little, I’ll see what I can do towards curl- ing up. It may be useful.’ Stickly-Prickly helped to unlace Tortoise’s back-plates, so... ...nd-Solid. ‘A little more practice will make you a regular whale. Now, if I may trouble you to unlace my back and front plates two holes more, I’ll try... ...ore expression, please, and don’t grunt quite so much, or Painted Jag- uar may hear us. When you’ve finished, I want to try that long dive which you s... ...rtoise after breakfast, ‘I am not what I was yesterday; but I think that I may yet amuse Painted Jaguar. ‘That was the very thing I was thinking just ...

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...rise of the man and the solidity of the ship. Besides, as anyone who cares may see, the “General Directory,” vol. ii. p. 410, begins the description o... ...room. Let it be taken up on deck and tell the carpenter to look it over. I may want to use it before long.” The chief officer did not stir a limb till... ...ay there had no home either. A boarding-house is no sort of home though it may get you a living. His feelings were horribly rasped by the idea of the ... ...ental intoxica- tion the mere fact of getting hold of a large sum of money may produce—not till he got a ship of his own; but then he went off his bal... ... snigger walked off and put his head down the en- gine-room skylight. “You may expect some rare fooling with the en- gines, Jack,” he bellowed. The sp... ...f skill and wis- dom in astrology, because in the arrangement of the stars may be read the last word of human destiny. His destiny had been to thrive ... ...cting through the crust of the earth the secret nature of its heart, which may be fire or may be stone. But he had no doubt what- ever that the Sofala... ... chair. The character of his whine became again threatening. “Take care. I may yet dismiss you and freeze to your money for a year. I may …” But befor... ...n the mud.” “Pardon me, Mr. Massy. I beg to deny it. Of course a shipowner may say what he jolly well pleases on his own deck. That’s all right; but I...

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...,” said Aaron, with a quick smile. “Did you indeed? That’s news, I’m sure. May we ask what you bought?” 17 D. H. Lawrence This he did not like. But h... ... all at once, Doctor,” said the landlady in her slow, laconic voice. “Yes.—May I have another whiskey, please?” She rose at once, powerfully energetic... ...“ Ay, that’s it,” said Brewitt. “I’ve pulled at th’ short end, an’ my lads may do th’ same.” “A selfish policy,” put in the landlady. “Selfish or not,... ... th’ same.” “A selfish policy,” put in the landlady. “Selfish or not, they may do it.” “Till the crack o’ doom,” said Aaron, with a glistening smile. ... ...d odd individuals always come across odd individuals, no matter where they may be. So that to each kind society seems all of a piece. At one end of th... ...he finest coal was arranged to obtain a gigantic glow such as a coal-owner may well enjoy, a great, intense mass of pure red fire. At this fire Alfred... ...ng for years, in spite of all efforts to the contrary.” “How very curious! May we look at it?” Josephine now turned the handle of the French windows, ... ...m. I am,” she cried fiercely. “When I got that letter this morning, I said may evil befall you, you selfish demon. And I hope it may.” “Well-well, wel... ...l right, I think.” “But you’ve been back to them?” cried Josephine in dis- may. He looked at her, a slow, half smiling look, but did not speak. “Come ...

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...further over the counter, there were more impressions to be gathered and really—for it came to that—more life to be led. Definite at any rate it was t... ...through the bars, wholly ceased to be appreciable. It was a drawback only in superficial commerce. With Captain Everard she had simply the margin of t... ...s always—it was to be hoped—snug in bed; and at the hour of her final departure he was of course—she had such things all on her fingers’-ends—dressing... ...eting toward which a hundred impossibilities would have to conspire. But if nothing was more impossible than the fact, nothing was more intense than t... ... the result of the concentration that had caused her to make the stamps fly during the few min- utes occupied by the production of it. This concentra-... ...ice, had—with a glance at his own postal re- 50 In the Cage sources and alternatives—formed, up to this stage, the subject of their talk. “Well, here... ...k. “But I’ve walked so much out of my way with you only just to show you that—that”—with this she paused; it was not after all so easy to express— ”th... ...him I wouldn’t forsake him. He’s one of my customers.” “Then it’s for him not to forsake you.” “Well, he won’t. It’s all right. But I must just keep o... ...oing was just to treat herself to the middle way. “It was intercepted?” “It fell into the wrong hands. But there’s something in it,” he continued to b...

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...e, everybody says, and the best mannered. It A Horse’s Tale Mark Twain 4 may be so, it is not for me to say; modesty is the best policy, I think. ... ...d Potter, and Sour Mash, and — well, they’re all that, just angels, as you may say. The very first day I came, I don’t know how long ago it was, Buf... ...ubtle foreign flavor or fragrance about even her exactest English — and long may this abide! for it has for me a charm that is very pleasant. Sometime... ...certain.” “Well, it — it sounds fine, it surely does.” “And it is fine. You may be thankful you are one.” “I am. It seems wonderfully grand and eleg... ...ng has fallen out for the best, and we are all satisfied and comfortable. It may be that Dorcas and I will see America again some day; but also it is ... ...r went up. The next act closed the ceremonies, and was a moving surprise. It may be that you have discovered, before this, that the rigors of military...

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...ntable pain, of harshness and stupid unpremeditated cruelties, but yet, it may be even by virtue of the general darkness, there were moments of a rare... ...d I don’t think I can stand going on upon the old terms anymore. See? So I may have to clear out of Clayton for good and all.” 17 H. G . Wells S S S ... ... heroic note. “I’m tired,” I said, “of humdrum drudgery for other men. One may as well starve one’s body out of a place as to starve one’s soul in one... ... sympathy that is the fruit of incessant intimacy. Because he was myself I may be able to feel and write understandingly about motives that will put h... ...nnot disen- tangle this harangue of which I tell from many of the things I may have said in other talks to Parload. For example, I forget if it was th... ... to one business as they used to do. I can tell that much. Half the valley may be ‘playing’ before two months are out.” Parload delivered himself of t... ...ficulty in describing the quality of the old- world love-making so that it may be understandable now. We young people had practically no preparation a... ...nd most of what I said to her. At least, it seems I could, though indeed I may deceive myself. But I will not make the attempt. We were both too ill-e... ...to catch our intention. The effect would be inanity. But our first words I may give you, because though they conveyed nothing to me at the time, after...

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...ng herself in his life. Alone from the sea and the fishing came Tamatea the fair, Urging his boat to the beach, and the mother awaited him there, — “L... ...shes are thick as flies, Hungry like healthy men, and like pigs for savour and size: Crayfish crowding the river, sea-fish thronging the sea.” – “Well... ...and again from the fish to the fruits, * “Fish, the food of desire.” There is a special word in the Tahitian language to signify hungering after fish... ...ests upon no authority; it is in no sense, like “Rahero,” a native story; but a patchwork of details of manners and the impressions of a trav- eller. ...