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...y woman in the joint was too young for him. “Not true,” Kitty compared him to fine wine, or better yet whiskey. He had gained subtleties from the barrel and had been gentled by experience. “Ah,” the Professor said. “And Skates?” “Boone's Farm.” They laughed and agreed that wasn’t a bad nickname either...

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...effectively prohibited. The plot centers around the adventures of Humphrey Pump and Captain Patrick Dalroy, who roam the country in their cart with a barrel of rum in an attempt to evade Prohibition, exploiting loopholes in the law to temporarily prevent the police taking action against them. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events associated with the agency after his death have tarnished the name, Pinkerton himself was ...

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...Shamati, Article no. 52 What does one do if he wishes to give his friend a barrel full of wine, But his friend has only a tiny cup? he pours wine into... ...h wine once more, and again returns to his home, Until he receives all the barrels of wine. i heard another tale. once there were two friends, one of ...

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... was severely impacted in 2008 when the price of oil rose to nearly $150 a barrel. Hawai‘i was similarly affected as it imports nearly 53 million b...

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... keep the wine from turning sour, or that we have taken a lot of flour in barrels. Instead, there is a conduct that the container of wine is barrels... ...ine is barrels and jars, and the container for the flour is sacks and not barrels, etc.. Thus, there is a question, what is the spiritual container, ... ...f Knowledge. It is similar to a person who wants to give his friend a big barrel filled with wine, but his friend has only a small cup. What does he... ...ine. Then, once more he goes to his house, until he receives all the wine-barrels. I had heard another parable that he had told of two friends, one ...

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...!” All of the men pointed their guns, and the fat man pulled out a double barrel shotgun. “Hey Lexi, I’m not up to anything dishonorable with you,” ... ...kup truck engine and the squeal of tires. In mere moments, a pickup truck barreled out of the side road, did a 180 degree turn nearly hiting the Hum... ...p the window and headed out before another crazy drunk driver could come barreling out of nowhere. Both Talbot and John were silent from sheer shock... ...uld be up against. He disabled both dark warriors’ weapons by bending the barrels with his bare hands. Using the cardkey, he unlocked the door again... ... realized he was standing in the middle of the road when he saw the truck barreling straight for him. He hur- ried out of the way and the truck kept ... ... man. The woman was carrying an AR-15 rife; the man was carrying a double barreled shotgun. “I’ve got time,” the man replied to Carl. “Jesse, what a... ...with his thoughts. This was not one of those times. Siting in the Bronco, barreling down the highway, his mind was drifing back, to the day that cha...

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...g on water and began to sink. Axiana seeing that they were about to go under, grabbed the barrel of drinking water she brought for their trip, and e... ...still for a moment!” she shouted through the lashing winds. She quickly tied Anjia to the barrel with the rope she was still holding – the same rope ... ...e she was still holding – the same rope that had once held the sails together. ‘The empty barrel should float,’ she thought, ‘it should help keep he... ... ‘The empty barrel should float,’ she thought, ‘it should help keep her above water.’ The barrel was too small to support an adult. With one big cra... ...iana and Anjia were thrown into the turbulent waters. At first, Axiana also held onto the barrel that Anjia was tied to, but she only ended up draggi... ... only saw a glimpse of her mother before the waves swept them apart. Anjia held onto the barrel, crying for her mother who had disappeared under the... ...hat was tied around the small form. He pulled and pulled. The child was loosely tied to a barrel. The rope, which still held the girl, was nearly fr... ... his powerful jaws and swam back to the riverbank. Once there, he pulled her ashore. The barrel got caught in the weeds and the last threads of the ... ...t the ends had strange marks that looked like burns on them. He looked up and noticed the barrel tangled in the weeds by the riverbank. He ran over...

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...I could get a clean shot off. As my eyes cleared the log I saw McVey’s rifle barrel pointing straight at me. I ducked. Crack! Another shot just mis... ... to do. Like with McVey, my next move wasn’t obvious. I was staring down the barrel of a loaded .45 as well as a strange guy with a sledge hammer. ...

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...rch." The mother was sedated with laudanum and placed on two planks set across two barrels. While at it, the good doctor removed his wife's ovaries...

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... ed the possibility of earning a return. I was scraping the bottom of the barrel and I had no further financial resources. So I braced my­ self, drew...

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...n or anyone else was up there and tried to stop him, he’d let them have it! Both barrels! James summoned up his energies, and the next second he fo...

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...her-in-law's life than if Kane had been a gun-wielding mugger pressing the barrel of a hair trigger automatic flush to Justice's temple. "I will turn ...

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... want anything, the first thing you must do is throw away—lock, stock and barrel, hook, line and sinker—all this stuff that you are hanging on to, o...

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...n wet; that one Sonkran where we were in the back of a pickup truck with a barrel of water for ammunition, aiming at every moving target. Father had ...

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...e accusers. Now we are remote from the Higher Root, like the yeast in the barrel. Who will protect us if not our study of this wisdom? –The Sage Yaa...

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... position was one which dove-tailed the offices of housekeeper and cook” to the day when she as exerts control over the hospital’s “medicinal whiskey barrel” is to watch a woman find herself. Besides describing “daily scenes of pathos,” Pember gives a horrifying account of the prisoner exchange of November 1864 (“living and dead . . . not distinguishable”), and also of the...

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...Old timer ‘root-cellars’ had water barrels that froze when it was too cold. Northern lights are similar, but in the sky. Flaring denotes both freezing and perhaps atmospheric friction. Northern lights combine uranium chalk (for green lights), water, and co...

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... all around, surrounding Muddler. The head guard strut to the back room and sniffed the air deeply. Looking to the cellar, he saw the rows of stacked barrels lined against the walls. “So you’re no more than a petty thief stealing from the great lord Chaf all these years. You’ve got some nerve robbing the sealed-off stores of his domain!” “You’ve got a lot of guts yours...

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...containers and goods that went along as cargo were secured and fixed safely and the passengers roamed around between them as they pleased. There were barrels huge and small, boxes of many different sized and shapes, standard containers and lots of other cargo and the passengers were all in between and all around. Most of the human freight was busy trying to cope with the h...