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...hood. Weekends and after school saw the street like a playground. Excited kids hung from trees on the nature strip, cars dodged bikes and children s... ...Balls frequented neighbouring gardens and the residents often watched the kids kicking the football in the middle of the street. Her thirty-four yea... ...ood to watch the rickety old school bus draw near, packed with boisterous kids screaming obscenities from the windows. Her posture reflected her int... ... mother’s heroism and to let it be a warning not to mess with the O’Keith kids. His granddaughter didn’t mince words when talking to Mr. Jackson on ... ...ly little mum.” Mitchell defended his brother. “Little my foot! You bloody kids can’t even sit down for one meal without fighting or playing with you... ...ission home. She often pottered around in her garden, talking to her many gnomes and encouraged bird life by placing seed around the concrete birdba...

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...got the shock of his life when his fun turned to horror and two colourful gnomes attacked him. Reduced to slime, Snakelex was discarded into a ceram... ...starving vulture and made Sir Creepton, the boss’s secretary, look like a gnome. Snakelex cringed at the thought, but felt a little easier when the ... ... got past the planning stages, except one Sunday many years back when the kids got too rowdy to remain in the main hall. On that particular morning,... ...er church roll for that matter. Parents find it easier to grasp their own kids by the ankles, as they crawled under the pews seeking to sink their c... ...t of him, gesturing to his wife. “Tammy! Come on up here, yeah, bring the kids.” Within moments, his family had run the aisle as though having been ... ...ehind their car.” “I bet there’ll be gossip over this. Fancy leaving your kids behind.” Darcy thought the entire situation quite amusing. “I just hop... ...nursed crying children to sleep after a parent had told them that naughty kids go to Hell or they have the devil in them. “They are the longest nigh...

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...thing at a time. People eat, listen to the radio, do their hair, yell a their kids in the backseat, and drink coffee while driving. All because it ... ...and the best information will be bought. Then only the smartest computer whiz kids and the best musicians will make money. Then you have a complete... ...ge. Then you have a complete change of the status quo. How greedy are whiz kids who love making computer CD’s? How greedy are musicians who make ... ...ty. The Undead in Myth, Legend, Folklore and Books Vampire, ghouls, evil gnomes, brownies, evil spirits… are afraid of being caught and punished...

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...each in sequent birth, Blood and brain and spirit, three, (Say the deepest gnomes of Earth), Join for true felicity. Are they parted, then expect Some... ...the dance of the earth opened wide: The bees chose their flowers, the snub kids Upon hindlegs went sportive, or plied, Nosing, hard at the dugs to be ... ...e lusty animal, afield to roam, But peering in Earth’s entrails, where the gnome Strange themes propounds. VI By hunger sharply sped T o grasp at weap... ...far, yet distinct; As down the new shafting of mines, A cry of the metally gnome. When our Earth we have seen, and have linked With the home of the Sp... ...ar While pillared darkness hatched malicious life At either elbow, wolf or gnome or knife And wary slid the glance from ear to ear. IV In chillness, l...

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...e costs by notes on stamped paper. By trade a journeyman tool- maker, this gnome worked for the wheelwrights when work was plentiful, but he also hire... ...Well, well,” said Tonsard, “what is there in all that to frighten you like kids? What can they get out of my mother and daughters? Put ‘em in prison? ... ... set to work at the same destruction, with the mystery and clev- erness of gnomes; and their efforts were doubled by the rules 268 Sons of the Soil n...

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...t of it—he admitted—but no more chance in the world if put to it than fly. Kids. So Captain Harry Dunbar. Good sailor. Great name as a skipper. Big ma... ...et out of that pretty house of yours and pile in into a two-pair back—with kids perhaps, too… “George had no children. Married a couple of years; look... ...aste on board now,” said Byrne, then. “V aya usted con dios,” muttered the gnome. And this inter- view ended with a sarcastic low sweep of the hat whi... ...ame up in his mind with amazing vividness: the silent villagers, the angry gnome, the one-eyed wine-seller, Bernardino. Why! These two unspeak- able f...

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...it was a mere deceptio visus; for what resembled hares were, in fact, hill-kids, and those partaking of the appearance of moor- fowl, were truly wood ... ...ain from such intrusion in future, at last succeeded in pacifying him. The gnome now became more communicative, and spoke of himself as belonging to a... ...might well have seemed the demon of the storm which was gathering, or some gnome summoned forth from the recesses of the earth by the subterranean sig...

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...h life.” “What’s better than making a comfy home and bringing up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to th... ... And prosperous, too. Helga Rustad, she’s still scared of America, but her kids will be doctors and lawyers and governors of the state and any darn th... ...ollar be enough?” “No, it won’t! I’ve got to get some underclothes for the kids.” “Why, good Lord, they got enough now to fill the closet so I couldn’... ...Earl Haydock. “Gosh, these cigarettes are dandy. ‘Member when we were just kids, and used to smoke corn-silk and hayseed?” “Yup. Gosh!” Spit. Silence.... ... sick of her nagging. The old building was good enough for us when we were kids! I hate these would-be women politicians, don’t you?” IV The first wee... ...ing of pressing-irons, the reek of scorched cloth, and Erik among giggling gnomes. His fingertip crept through the opening of her glove and smoothed h...

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... beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. They have peopled all that regio... ... creatures. At the time I am writing of, I had been reading so much of this literature that some- times I was not sure but I was beginning to believe ... ...d stockings, very low-quarter patent-leather shoes, tied with black rib- bon; blue ribbon around his neck, wide-open collar; tiny diamond studs; wrink...

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...re. “Rummy lot we are!” said Roddy. “ Alice—Alice gone dotty, and all over kids. Gwen—I saw Gwen the other day, and the paint’s thicker than ever. Jim... ... watch how she took her scolding. One with the appearance of a bald little gnome yawned ago- nizingly. They had got all this down already—they heard t...

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... the part of the sender of the message. I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the minis- ters of the occult sciences, until I la... ...nly a comb and hair-grease, he’d take the shine off the gentlemen in white kids.” “His coat looks almost new, and his boots shine like a nigger’s face...

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...with surprising strength by the owner of the child’s voice—a fluffy little gnome-shaped man with a sensitive face which had suffered much—and indignan... ...ted beside B.’s bed in a space mysteriously cleared for its reception. The gnome immediately kneeled upon it and fell to carefully smoothing certain c... ...sly inquired if I had a cigarette?—and upon receiving one apiece (also the gnome, and the clean-shaven man, who accepted his with some dignity) sat do... ... appeared to have been com- pletely won over by his smoke), and the fluffy gnome, who had completed the arrangement of my paillasse, now entered into ... ...myself and B.; the clean-shaven one seating himself in Harree’s stead, the gnome declining (on the grounds that the bed was already sufficiently loade... ...e not interested. Someone said: “Be of good cheer, Demestre, your wife and kids are well enough.” “Yes—they are not cold; they have a bed like that” (... ... course. O yes of course. Poilus en permission. Very old some. Others mere kids. Once saw a planton who never saw a razor. Yet he was reformé. C’est l...

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...h Road; And till the ‘sociation has footed my buryin’ bill, I work for the kids an’ the missus. Pull up? I be damned if I will!” And over the German... ...pring Made the piled Biscayan ice-pack split and shove; And the troll and gnome and dwerg, and the Gods of Cliff and Berg Were about me and beneath ...

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...to promise, give him a reward for his song; if they prove false, malignant gnomes are invoked to wreck the kiln and hurt the potters. 29 Hesiod, The ... ... And when the season of frost comes on, stitch together skins of firstling kids with ox-sinew, to put over your back and to keep off the rain. On your... ...h of an heifer fed in the woods, that has never calved, and of first- ling kids; then also let me drink bright wine, sitting in the shade, when my hea... ... the first sixth a fit day for a girl to be born, but a kindly for gelding kids and sheep and for fenc- ing in a sheep-cote. It is favourable for the ...