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... was probably what genie-man had been counting on, her defenselessness and isolation. Well, you've got another thing coming, Mr. Kane Genie- man. She ... ... if he was teasing her or just plain jealous but she couldn't get past the poker face. And oh how she wanted to, the idea of his jealousy inexplicably...

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... still normally required; circuits have to be laid out very carefully with as much separatiOD or isolation as possible between those which process pla... ...being applied, the main ones being the use of low-level keying, shielding, filtering, grounding, isolation, and physical protective measures. We have ... ...oqh execution: a multi-disciplinary team would be established to work in concert, rather tbaD in isolation; and its membersbip would iJK:lude experts ... ...ords and tiny pieces of text. Most WI': thumb-lize or smaller; but a few were mucb Jarser. Other pokers joined him and coDflrmed tbat the entire depos...

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...judged that the pampering of love more times than not meant ownership and isolation of its object, for although the human variable was seven billion ... ...] It always returns a few weeks after he confiscates it. In this state of isolation it would be a godsend even to have a Christian friend plastering... ...rospect at the end of one’s troubles, an objective analysis at the end of isolation when one sees such treatment as sadistic and wrong. But I was no... ...uckles the clown frowns at any unnecessary reprieve from his torture—total isolation redoubling the travail with one exacerbating the other in a down... ...door in her face, and locking it; of him hitting the boys with a fireplace poker; and of the house blowing up from that deliberate gas explosion righ... ... shake now-- from what? Physical pain--I've had worse. The loneliness and isolation is not as bad as it was when the first cat died and there was no...

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...become game. Was this what rape victims went through? The helplessness and isolation? The preemptive self-flagellation and doubt? The inability to tur... ...ver 144 The old Dagny couldn't make toast, would have preferred having hot pokers driven into her eyes than to have to "slave away"—as she had once pu...

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.... Morgan held her breath in the smoke-filled silence. “Dan’l, no, not the poker,” she heard someone yell. Camilla shrieked. The pounding began ag... ...Box cracked and splintered and burst at the seam. Daniel flung aside the poker and reached in to snatch her out of the flames. With smoke billow... ... could imagine Daniel succumbing to any of them. Why couldn’t he be playing poker with the stagehands or out drinking with boys from the band? What... ... or died, leaving only the fanatic remnants, zealous hermits who craved the isolation of this gray rock. The last of those died hundreds of years a...

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... solitary was a mare. He’d assumed it was a stallion, a bad actor that needed isolation. “Whip the bitch and you'll see how hurt she is. Listen, gir... ... doorway as their vehicles crunched away, leaving him with a renewed sense of isolation. And regret. He could no longer ignore the regret. He swallo... .... The guy kicked like a mule. His leg felt like it had been stabbed with a hot poker. He bridled Ace and led him outside to where Sandra waited on a...

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...imself, were stalkers. Without question, he was so desperate to disrupt his isolation like the pensive ruminations of a mute circus gypsy alone in th... .... For Gabriele, her intrusive presence often cut through the black gauze of isolation that could cover every aperture of one's senses prompting her ... ...ng her to feel an extreme numbness. But, apart from this mental sustenance, isolation was something that she thrived on like a light hating moss deep... ...on. Likewise, it was her choice to not seek employment. She had striven for isolation; but she hadn't done it with absolute perfection. She had given... ... to polite requests and smiles. For whatever chimerical ideas she had about isolation in Antarctica she knew that too little society, as too much of ... ...a little bit late for my two boys to be playing billiards like they are at a poker party?" "No, I donﾁOt Gabriele; and do you want me to tell you why?...

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...- it was power - absolute power that motivated him. Mon­ ey, to Pierce, was like poker chips to be gambled with. Power, on the other hand, was a rare... ...sement of­ fices in the White House, and pull out all the phones." "I know what isolation is, Chuck," Stanton interrupted. "How long do I keep him t...

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...ngerous man to fall foul of! See here.” He stepped swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with his huge brown hands. “See that yo... ...ee that you keep yourself out of my grip,” he snarled, and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the room. “He seems a very ami... ...rip was not much more feeble than his own.” As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again. “Fancy his ... ...t. An Eley’s No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth brush are, I think all that we need... .... I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.”...

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...lf, is Bond- street. From this lonely spot I make pilgrimages into the surrounding wilderness, and traverse extensive tracts of the Great Desert. The ... ...Member, with his right hand buttoned up in the breast of his coat, and his back characteristically turned on bales of petitions from his constituents,... ...ement for him, and, when he had brought him down, would look severely out of his study window and ask him how he enjoyed the fun. I thought how Mr. Ba...

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...t him go about alone. T rust them. You’re a queer fellow. One of these fun pokers. I see now why you have been clipping your words so oddly, but—” He ... ... the thing he meant to say was already in his mind. But this silence, this isolation, the sudden with- drawal from that contagious crowd, this silent ... ...implements, Graham felt isolated, strangely inac- tive, inoperative. Their isolation seemed at times the strangest, the most un- expected of all the t...

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...l in their view of earthly things, for simplicity is a good counsellor and isolation not a bad educator. A turn of mind composed of innocence and scep... ...ost palpable. Y oung Powell felt it. He felt it in the sudden sense of his isolation; the trustworthy, powerful ship of his first acquaintance reduced... ...oken-down old man, either. Y ou can see yourself what he is. Straight as a poker, and life enough in him yet. But he made no move, and I began to feel... ...horoughness so far from all temptations, in the peace of the sea and in an isolation so complete that if it had not been the jealous devotion of the s... ...given me the impression of absolute rigidity, as though he had swallowed a poker. But it seems that he could collapse. I can hardly picture this to my... ... his rigidity now. He was bent. Nothing more deplorably futile than a bent poker. He said noth- ing. She added gently, suppressing an uneasy remorsefu... ...out an unbearable sight, he was stiffen- ing up in his corner to his usual poker-like consistency. She regarded him in silence. His thin obstinate lip... ...oo, shadowy and alive. Y ou know he always car- ried himself as stiff as a poker. We stood by the cot as though waiting for him to make us a sign that...

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...r, broke through chinks of cottage shutters, throwing stripes like red hot pokers upon cupboards, chests of drawers, and other furniture within; and a... ...ueous light which pervaded the open mead, impressed them with a feeling of isolation, as if they were Adam and Eve. At this dim inceptive stage of the... ... chastisement, wrestlings, communings, schemes to lead a future of austere isolation, love’s counsel would prevail. The afternoon advanced, and still ... ...ort of trance, with a heap of coals by his side: it was the engineman. The isolation of his manner and colour lent him the appearance of a creature fr... ... distance was too long for a walk, but Clare felt such a strong desire for isolation that at first he would neither hire a conveyance nor go to a circu...

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... “they’re a dream.” And Ann Veronica found herself being carried off to an isolation even remoter and more conspicuous than the corner of the lawn, wi... ...hat have you been doing with yourself? …” She raked into the fire with the poker. “All of which doesn’t help me in the slightest degree to pay back th... ... a passionate gesture flung them into the fire. In- stantly she seized the poker and made a desperate effort to get them out again. But she was only a... ...urned with avidity. She remained for some seconds crouching at the fender, poker in hand. “By Jove!” she said, standing up at last, “that about fin- i... ...res for most people?” she said, not looking at him. “I do. It means social isolation—struggle.” “If you dare—I dare,” said Ann Veronica. “I was never ...

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... and parrying off the larger combatants as effectually as I could with the poker, I was constrained to demand, aloud, assistance from some of the hous... ...ed. ‘W retched inmates!’ I ejaculated, mentally , ‘you deserve per- petual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospi- tality. At least, I ... ...ghts, resolved to avoid a struggle against three underlings: he seized the poker, smashed the lock from the inner door, and made his escape as they tr... ...mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and hu... ...t, I was not going to sympathise with him—the brute beast! Oh, give me the poker! This is the last thing of his I have about me:’ she slipped the gold... ..., do, do!’ 193 Emily Brontë But when I proceeded to open a place with the poker the sacrifice was too painful to be borne. She earnestly suppli- cate... ...est; though she thrust the hearth-brush into the grates in mistake for the poker, and malappropriated several other articles of her craft: but I re- t...

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...ked rather stealthily at Rodney, who was tapping the coal nervously with a poker, and quivering almost physically, so Denham thought, with desire to t... ...ely appeased, but, neverthe- less, he sat silent for a moment, holding the poker per- fectly upright in the air, regarding it with his rather promi- n... ...ham remarked. “Well, I’ll lend it you,” Rodney announced, putting down the poker. As he moved to fetch the play, Denham stretched a hand to the bookca... ...orrent, Mary was no more in love with Denham than she was in love with her poker or her tongs. But probably these extreme passions are very rare, and ... ...Mary bent low over the fire and stirred the coal be- tween the bars with a poker. Katharine’s mention of Ralph had roused within her an almost irresis... ...e. Mary had no wish to speak. In the si- lence she seemed to have lost her isolation; she was at once the sufferer and the pitiful spectator of suffer... ...otion. Six months of torture, and after that the silence of the grave, the isolation of the insane, the exile of the damned; at best, a life from whic...

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... 173 Sinclair Lewis let a pneumonia patient choke rather than interrupt a poker game.” “Oh no. I can’t believe—” “Well now, I’m telling you!” “Does h... ... “Oh no. I can’t believe—” “Well now, I’m telling you!” “Does he play much poker? Dr. Dillon told me that Dr. Gould wanted him to play—” “Dillon told ... ... toothache,” or “Guess can’t make it tonight; Dave wants me to sit in on a poker game.” When, after a month of labor, as many as nine-elevenths of the... ...et quite as much as in Wyoming or Indiana these timidities are inherent in isolation. But a village in a country which is taking pains to be- come alt... ...p— He blurted, “Oh. Forgot tell you. Some of the fellows coming in to play poker this evening. Suppose we could have some crackers and cheese and beer... ...n Street “He might have mentioned it before. Oh well, it’s his house.” The poker-party straggled in: Sam Clark, Jack Elder, Dave Dyer, Jim Howland. To... ...ke- shifts of the little brown cottages; she pitied their shab- biness and isolation; had compassion for their assertion of culture, even as expressed...

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...dy suddenly laughed—it sounded so remote and absurd. “What, play bridge or poker or something conventional of that sort?” said Josephine in her distin... ...” “I do, though. You learn to be quite alone, and possess your own soul in isolation—and at the same time, to be per- fectly WITH someone else—that’s ... ...t was: the people seemed little, upright brisk figures moving in a certain isolation, like tiny figures on a big stage. And he felt himself moving in ... ...hich, from his profoundest soul, he did not intend to do. By the innermost isolation and singleness of his own soul he would abide though the skies fe... ... which connected him with the woman, and gave the two of them this strange isolation, beyond the bounds of life, as it seemed. He caught it again. And... ... alone—as far as he, Aaron, was concerned. Lilly was alone— and out of his isolation came his words, indifferent as to whether they came or not. And h...

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...st look at the bitter sea-water. These harsh fruits of indigence, and this isolation in the midst of Paris, Lisbeth relished with delight. And besides... ... a Government office, the visitor felt oppressed, conscious at once of the isolation in which the mistress lived. Grief, like pleasure, infects the at... ...ound sum of money.” “They have fine appetites, have the goody sort! By the poker! they sell their sermons dearer than we sell the rarest and realest t... ...n, and you will find that generosity to me is not unrewarded.—Come, by the Poker! welcome your stepmother and come to the wed- ding.” “But you have no... ... ever, more Musketeer, Abbe Dubois, and Marechal de Richelieu! By the Holy Poker!—My wife, who is wandering in her head, has just sent me a man in a g...

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...atible disposi- tions and habits of thought and action, and our danger and isolation only accentuated the incompatibility. At Halliford I had already ... ...ard, and play- ing the “joker” with vivid delight. Afterwards he taught me poker, and I beat him at three tough chess games. When dark came we decided...