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...chael become such good friends?” “It goes back ten years,” he said. “Do you remember the assassination of Pope Francis, and what was called ‘the mi... ... the assassination of Pope Francis, and what was called ‘the miracle in the sky’?” “The assassination was such a tragedy, but quite frankly, I neve... ...of your Godfather’s position. And he didn’t stop until Pope Francis went to Colombia. His assassination, and the ‘miracle in the sky’ changed everyth... ...tting rid of everyone that has, or might have any knowledge. There have been already two attempts on Susan’s life.” “She’ll be safe here,” Anna pat... ...ady been killed just because the enemy suspected they knew something. There have been two attempts on my fiancée’s life, which I was able to thwart.... ...ly. He could visualize the headlines, and the wall-to-wall TV coverage of the Director’s assassination, and, of course, he would start an investigat... ... had information as to their identity. I believe the Pentagon break-in and the Director’s assassination are related. Does anyone have any ideas that ... ...t points.” “Like what?” “The roles of Director Thames and General Ramsey, for one. The attempts by the FBI to have Susan Stone killed.” “Suppos... ..., or not, Mr. President, I would like nothing better than this was all a mistake, and the attempts on Susan’s life are completely unrelated.” “I don...

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...Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 147 sadly mentioned mawla's and his brother's attempts at having a child. "She lost one a few years ago. And another..." ... ...s not had so much fun in more than four centuries. Not since 1566 when his assassination attempt on the then-Mughal emperor, Akbar, failed. He had suc... ...n close, so close to ending them then, his appetite whetted by the kahin's assassination. Anticipation as palpable as mortality lingers in the air, te...

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...e from the major tribes and were known for their skills in fields such as assassination and clan takeovers. They were the Council’s strong arm and th... ...ate. ~***~ Laylah stayed quiet on the ride home, despite Jacques’ repeated attempts to start a conversation. He was being nosy and lately it had begu...

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...itch laughed. “I think we all need more sleep.” CHAPTER 25 THE ASSASSINATION, CIRCA 10,000 B.C. AXIANA had been very ... ...nd use brute force to remove the device they were ordered to steal. After several arduous attempts, there was a loud snap and the heavy metallic obe...

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...irst. "We figured it was time we got you into the loop." "You mean the Mafia assassinations. And, the fact that they’ve canceled all their drug ord... ...be President?" "Every past, and current, Administration has made only feeble attempts at stopping the drug trade into this country." "My figures ... ..."If I can," he nodded. "The Colombian Cartels have been strangely silent. No attempts to bring drugs into the country. No attempts at retaliation. ... ...ment, it slowly began to disappear, revealing a star-studded night sky. The assassination of the Pope, and the vision in the sky, which had been re... ...lieved such a thing was possible,” Marian said. “In the end it was the Pope’s assassination that completed the mission.” “I never thought I’d becom... ... had watched the televised funeral procession of Pope Francis, the First. His assassination had galvanized a world. The College of Cardinals was s... ...om, and knelt before the Tabernacle on the ancient altar. The horror of the assassination of Pope Francis, the seemingly, miraculous apparition th...

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...le they sought a high school degree or other certificate, and other futile attempts at empowerment, it appeared that what he had succeeded in doing fo... ...her indistinct and diminished memories he supposed that they were, but the attempts were the same as now: to evince a moment in time and despite its b... ...casual sex now as he did then, such extreme pleasures would interfere with attempts at extension, this adding of scaffolding and stories to the mature... ... into it from underneath. He knew that even if he had a telephone, all his attempts to reach his wife would be futile. There would be the same perenni... ...eathered and defaced countenance like a featureless rock or, at other poor attempts at recollection, merely the ersatz of that preserved female corpse... ...other than that first Chakri, Rama I and that Rama IX did not arise by the assassination of his brother, the Eighth, belief that father, the abuser, k...

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...lings, the cooked numbers he presented to willing bureaucrats, even setting up assassinations was no problem. He was immune to feelings of guilt an... ...illnesses surrounding Hanford and the Richland area. He also told him about the attempts on their lives in the forest, but al­ tered the story. Brent... ...rs. His hands shook as he poured himself a half glass of whiskey. After several attempts, he managed to guzzle it down. The whiskey and the horror h... ..." "Then you're a fool, Ryan," Taranto said. "Hawk has already thwarted several attempts we've made on key targets. Many of my best operatives have ...

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...sed on the knowledge of their inner children. Gabriele was so fortified that attempts at name-calling directed toward her personally did not even scat... ...king of limited time, the deaths of family members, its own gauche stumbling attempts at family as an auxiliary and then an outright replacement for t... ...t neurological connections, by comparison these had been wasted hours. Such attempts at staring at the ocean had never brought her as close to the en... ...tting up to fix some scrambled eggs in her bosky bath robe only to find her attempts at providing a substance of animal protein/vitamin B12 rejected ... ...range epidemic that they had manufactured and proliferated in East Asia, and assassination plans for George Bush. The face of Gabriele's head kept s... ...opic perspective of a personal life and love might be nothing in reality but attempts at cell replication in this organ of the Earth in this organism ...

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...ne he gave you.” “You must be mistaken.” “Oh, please. Of all your inept attempts at sinning, lying is the worst. Give me the letter.” Falkner... ... her. Listen With Your Heart 63 Each time she’d returned for her brief attempts at motherhood, Helene had a new bit of lacy fretwork or frilled... ...hing Booth’s career, and consequently in bringing about President Lincoln’s assassination. Daniel assured her that of all the wild conspiracy the...

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...w can we mortals understand the thinking of the Immortal? There have been attempts to answer. One is that we have free will and God sees how we will... ... the family pet to those used for fighting—like bulls, cocks and dogs. It attempts to find homes for stray animals and euthanizes those for whom no ... ... that refer to killing, such as pre-meditated murder, accidental killing, assassination, killing in war, sacrifice, killing those who worship anothe...

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.................................................. ......... 95 THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION................................................................. ...o hold the house together. What Is Man and Other Essays 108 THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION Note.—The assassination of the Empress of Austria at Geneva, ... ... for withholding its publication now. A. B. P . The more one thinks of the assassination, the more im posing and tremendous the event becomes. The de... ...great changes since the Roman days. The murder of an empress then—even the assassination of Caesar himself—could not electrify the world as this mur ... ... old as history—the burning of the temple of Ephesus. Among the inadequate attempts to account for the assas sination we must concede high rank to th... ...he one royal func tion—laying eggs. As regards the ethics of the judicial assassination of the queen, that is a matter of politics, and will be discu... ...ng to light on one foot or the other with considerable certainty. Six more attempts and six more falls make you perfect. You land in the saddle comfor...

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...ing, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed in- dispensable to attempts of this nature. Mr. Williams has ex- alted the ideal of murder to ... ...emainder to the female line, and settled a pension on him for three lives. Assassination is a branch of the art which demands a sepa- rate notice; and... ...d hardly say, that I allude espe- cially to those five splendid works,—the assassinations of William I, of Orange, of Henry IV., of France, of the Duk... ...useum,) 17 of Gustavus Adolphus, and of Wallenstein. The King of Sweden’s assassination, by the by, is doubted by many writ- ers, Harte amongst other... ...which occurs in no other work of art that I remember. Indeed, all of these assassinations may be studied with profit by the advanced connoisseur. They... ...say,— Nociurnâ versatâ manu, versate diurne; Especially nocturnâ. In these assassinations of princes and statesmen, there is nothing to excite our won...

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...that a body of incensed competitors might intercept his fi- nal triumph by assassination. For this danger, however, he had no leisure in his thoughts ... ...I THE SITUATION of the Second Cæsar, at the crisis of the great Dictator’s assassination, was so hazardous and delicate, as to confer interest upon a ... ...nt that the young heir and adopted son of the first Cæsar not only escaped assassination, but was enabled to postpone indefinitely the final and milit... ...ubt his friends and enemies alike thought of him, at the moment of Cæsar’s assassination, as we now think of a young man heir-elect to some person of ... ...ousehold virtues was polluted. And after that we need little wonder at the assassinations, poisonings, and forging of wills, which then laid waste the... ...xhibitions, upon a scale of grandeur absolutely unparalleled by all former attempts. Then were beheld, and familiarized to the eyes of the Ro- man mob... ...rmy, we are sure to find 137 Thomas de Quincey that he was cut off in his attempts by private assassination or by public rebellion. On the other hand... ...ght, from 161 Thomas de Quincey the Danube to the Neckar. He made various attempts also to effect a better distribution of barbarous tribes, by dislo...

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...e arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower.” “You have heard, perhaps,” said the Comte de ... ...e, “that death was not the result of suicide, as we first believed, but of assassination. General Quesnel, it appears, had just left a Bonapartist clu... ... dashed from me. No, I repeat again, that nothing shall induce me to renew attempts evi- dently at variance with the Almighty’s pleasure.” Dantes held... ...t despair at the blow which deprived her of Edmond. I have told you of her attempts to propiti- ate M. de Villefort, her devotion to the elder Dantes.... ...in the hopes it would give way. All was vain; and he lost two hours in his attempts, which were at last utterly useless. At the end of this time he ga... ...and all the voices of hell were whispering in his ears ideas of murder and assassination. Then fearing that his paroxysm might get the better of him, ... ...than this; as if there was not an- other house at Auteuil than that of the assassination!” “What, what!” cried Monte Cristo, stopping suddenly, “what ... ...onsible for his protege’s misconduct, and I shall soon know all about this assassination. Only I warn you, that when I reside in a country, I conform ... ... his age, and unnaturally pale. A mass of straight black hair, defying all attempts to train or curl it, fell over his projecting forehead, and hung d...

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...ist was temporarily incapacitated, and the talk went on over his prostrate attempts to rally and protest. A second biologist seemed to Benham to come ... ...tely of capitals, and returned with Lionel, discoursing upon autocracy and assassination, Japan, the Russian destiny, and the government of Peter the ... ....” “Well, he has killed nearly thirty people.” “In duels?” “Good Lord! No! Assassinations. His shoemaker annoyed him by sending in a bill. He went to ... ...is personal situation. He contributed nothing to Benham’s thought ex- cept attempts at discouragement. He reiterated his declara- tion that all the va...

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...e calamity. Occasional poi- sonings from the kitchen, and open or stealthy assassinations in the field, and local revolts, extending to a score or so,... ...d not succeed. That affair, in its phi- losophy, corresponds with the many attempts related in his- tory at the assassination of kings and emperors. A... ...i- losophy, corresponds with the many attempts related in his- tory at the assassination of kings and emperors. An enthusiast broods over the oppressi... ...a few tests. You say that you think slavery is wrong, but you denounce all attempts to re- strain it. Is there anything else that you think wrong that...

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...erican press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these various attempts of the belligerents to get themselves and their proceedings explai... ...sh at- tempts to sow suspicion between the Allies, and still more childish attempts to induce neutrals and simple-minded paci- fists of allied nationa... ...y, would have made no such deep and enduring breach as these silly, futile assassinations have down between the Austro-Germans and the rest of the civ... ...d get with men close up to the front I found beyond this great boredom and attempts at distrac- tion only very specialised talk about changes in the f... ...it was the Germans who entrenched first. Since then I have made some other attempts. I did not prophesy at all in 1915, so far as I can remember. If I...

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...nglish Opium-Eater upon the spot, from the shock attending some suspicious attempts at intrusion upon the part of vagrants, meditating probably nothin... ...me limitation of the shop denied to them upon the other. Vain would be all attempts to convey the horror which thrilled the gathering spectators of th... ...nd really the justifiable fury, that arises upon recalling such abominable attempts at bucolic sentiments in such abominable language, sometimes trans... ... name, is presumably skulking from his creditors. A Timoleon, who hints at assassination in a news- paper, one may take it for granted, is a manufactu... ...t, that young ladies, when saving their youthful husbands at midnight from assassination, could not be capable of waltzing or quadrilling, how wide is... ...elieves that the pestilence had been sent as a secret ven- geance for this assassination, which is thus invested with a mysterious character of horror... ... ancient cities. And yet, from a great mistake in our London and Edinburgh attempts to imitate the stage of the Greek theatres, little use was made of... ...ign in that century, prior to the revolution, furnishes fewer instances of attempts to tamper with the laws—to over- rule them—to twist them to privat...

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...IV .; she never purged herself of the charge of having known of the king’s assassination; her inti- mate was d’Epernon, who did not ward off Ravaillac... ...from saving one, and allowed the other to accomplish his own doom by moral assassination. But the sudden death of Francois II., and that of Charles IX... ...es settled. The duke’s marriage with the Duchesse de Guise after Poltrot’s assassination of her hus- band in 1563, may explain the question which she ... ...playthings of her triple crowns. One foreboded great evils,—foreseeing the assassination of the Guises as the only means of suppressing enemies who we... ...quemart, Comte de Villemongis, guilty of the crime of lese-majeste, and of attempts against the person of the king!” called the clerk. The count dippe... ...elnau-Chalosse, accused and convicted of the crime of lese-majeste, and of attempts against the person of the king.” “No,” said Castelnau, proudly, “i... ...nce, “you know well that since the affair at Amboise you have made certain attempts both at Lyon and at Mouvans in Dauphine against the royal authorit... ...ather; but he trembled so much himself for the fate of his godson that his attempts at consolation only alarmed the old man still more. Lecamus roamed... ...nt by well-laid schemes. Though the queen-mother endeavored to check these attempts of her son by employing all the means of influence over his mind w...

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...y, and he said to himself that if his father were only alive and in reach of assassination his mother would soon find that he had a very clear notion ... ...shame and went on incoherently babbling self accusations mixed with pitiful attempts at explanation and The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson - Mark Twai... ... crime; a crime which was the basest known to the calendar of human misdeeds—assassination; that it was conceived by the blackest of hearts and consum...