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...o life; also is instrumental in its' formation as well as the primary function in the Cosmos of stellar entities...so here is the paramountcy of this Mardi-gras of errors:...

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...o life; also is instrumental in its' formation as well as the primary function in the Cosmos of stellar entities...so here is the paramountcy of this Mardi Gras of errors:...

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...d from a squatted position in a drier expanse of trees and damp sprawling grass void of human presence including, it seemed, her own, flowed, turbid... ...the god of chance and was she not the same? She stared down at an area of grass near the tips of her feet; ants with their miniscule hungers of physi... ...yx sheen and a poignant body odor who took her under a bush in a patch of grass in the middle of a boulevard in dark shadow – there could be a baby ... ...bayou, splayed like a cadaver with face sometimes shrouded in the tips of grasses, unable to recall being in earlier postures and having no concept ... ...or half the size of a fully grown alligator scurried fearfully through the grass with a bird in its mouth and into the quietude of waters, visible to... ...o quietude to be had in the sullied images of dreams: a costumed cook in Mardi Gras removing each fish from a large plastic tub of water, dropping e...

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...o here thought I was a bimbo. He had no clue he had a trained Slayer in his grasp. I had mad skills and wasn’t afraid to use them. The great thing... ...Donnie pulled away the remains of my shirt and vest, letting them fall to the grass. He didn’t give me a chance to catch my breath. His nimble fing... ... feet, Donnie wrapped his jacket around me. Kris stood up, brushing the wet grass off his back. In the pale light of the setting moon, we faced eac... ...d try.” See everyone knew to check the parks first. Why couldn’t a Vampire grasp so simple a concept? “So, are you going to tell Sir Reginald abou... ...d be putty in my diabolical hands. While he scrambled to locate some snazzy Mardi Gras beads to toss my way, I’d boobify him to death before he kne... ...utty in my diabolical hands. While he scrambled to locate some snazzy Mardi Gras beads to toss my way, I’d boobify him to death before he knew what... ...what hit him. The idea might work if I’d actually show him my goodies and if Mardi Gras hadn’t been nine months away, though it was hard to tell by ...

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...hile the rest of us will be resting deep below---on the other side of the grass! But at least he says he‘s praying for us.‖ --―Wreck, I‘m jus... ... There is a growing gulf between many churchgoers who are joined by their grass-roots priests, and the ruling cardinals and the pope. Similarly, the... ...ne Katrina was the ―wrath of God‖ because of New Orleans‘ sinful past—its Mardi Gras and sensual high living. Evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robe... ...rina was the ―wrath of God‖ because of New Orleans‘ sinful past—its Mardi Gras and sensual high living. Evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson ... ... th . Century British philosopher said ‗There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, in... ... boxes to form stairs so he can reach a banana that is placed too high to grasp, this is certainly an example of reasoning. When dolphins get togeth...

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...he Rocky Mountains—a region of savannas and forests, sun cracked deserts and grassy prairies, watered by a thousand rivers, ranged by a thousand warli... ...man creatures had never intruded there before. The swinging grape vines, the grassy nooks and vistas glimpsed as we swept by, the flowering creep ers... ...rs, as the most memo rable events. His was not simply a pilot’s memory; its grasp was universal. If he were talking about a trifling letter he had re... ... tumble down cabins, populous with colored folk, and no whites visible; with grassless patches of dry ground here and there; a few felled trees, with ... ... Mark T wain 196 cabin or two, standing in small openings on the gray and grassless banks—cabins which had formerly stood a quarter or half mile fa... ...ENT IN N EW O RLEANS is a something which we arrived too late to sample—the Mardi Gras fes tivities. I saw the procession of the Mystic Crew of Comu... ... personality is merely for romance’s sake, and not on account of the police. Mardi Gras is of course a relic of the French and Spanish occupation; but... ...he grace line between the worldly sea son and the holy one is reached. This Mardi Gras pageant was the exclusive possession of New Orleans until rece... ...y the romantic mysteries, the kings and knights and big sounding titles, and Mardi Gras would die, down there in the South. The very feature that keep...

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...ur-traders, built in 1835, with plaster of river mud, and ropes of twisted grass for laths. It has an air of centuries. In its solid rooms Carol and K... ... the mound of a muskrat house, reeds in thin black lines, arches of frosty grasses. It was an impression of cool clear vigor. “How’d it be to skate th... ...ople she tried to forget problems, to look at the prairie objectively. The grass beside the railroad had been burnt over; it was a smudge prickly with... ...ens. The expanse was relieved by clumps of oaks with patches of short wild grass; and every mile or two was a chain of cobalt slews, with the flicker ... ...l parched lawn. 32 Main Street IV A concrete sidewalk with a “parking” of grass and mud. A square smug brown house, rather damp. A narrow con- crete ... ...f; declared that Gopher Prairie had the color of Algiers and the gaiety of Mardi Gras. Yet the next afternoon she was pouncing on Mrs. Lyman Cass, the...

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...e about such trifles as saddle and bridle, and off they went through green grassy balks dividing the fields, or across the stubble, till, about three ... ...in singing one of Marot’s psalms; and the boy, eager to lose not a moment, grasped the skirt of the outermost of the crowd. The man, an absorbed- look... ...‘And you, good sir?’ said the Baron. ‘I will see to him,’ said the farmer, grasping him as a sort of prop- erty. ‘M. le Baron had best keep up the bec... ...ust have looked just like this, and skipped like this, just as he became a grasshopper; then he recollected that this must be the Chevalier de Ribaumo... ...rded spouse, though he quite believed that, now her captive was beyond her grasp, she was disposed to catch at him again, and try to retain him, or, a... ...ending down a counter- part of her own wedding-dress for your bride of the Mardi-Gras.’ ‘And who may that bride be?’ said Eustacie, endeavouring to sp...

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... Babylonish brick-kiln of New York, I came back to the country to feel the grass, and end the book reclining on it, if I may.’ Mr. Hawthorne, who was ... ...nt article contributed to the Scottish Art Review. In a prefatory note to ‘Mardi’ (1849), Melville declares that, as his former books have been receiv... ... as romance instead of reality, he will now try his hand at pure fiction. ‘Mardi’ may be called a splendid failure. It must have been soon after the c... ...r author’s style was rough in places, but marvellously simple and direct. ‘Mardi’ is burdened with an over-rich dic- tion, which Melville never entire... ...es itself in a mystical allegory. ‘Redburn,’ already mentioned, succeeded ‘Mardi’ in the same year, and was a partial return to the author’s earlier s... ...anced reputation it brought him. He did not, how- ever, take warning from ‘Mardi,’ but allowed himself to plunge more deeply into the sea of philosoph... ... months out of sight of land? Oh! for a refreshing glimpse of one blade of grass—for a snuff at the fragrance of a handful of the loamy earth! Is ther... ...y- wooded valleys, separated by the spurs of mountains clothed with tufted grass, and sweeping down towards the sea from an elevated and furrowed inte... ...d feet; while across the vale—in striking contrast to the scenery opposite—grass-grown elevations rise one above an- other in blooming terraces. Hemme...

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...life and manners. T o pass a true judg- ment upon Knox and Burns implies a grasp upon the very deepest strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far ... ... Familiar Studies of Men & Books herding cattle, to teach her the names of grasses and wild flowers, or to sit by her side when it thundered. Distance... ...y the intermediate degrees between the distant formal bow and the familiar grasp round the waist, I ven- tured, in my careless way, to talk of friends... ... with life, and must pay the penalty. He had chosen to be Don Juan, he had grasped at temporary pleasures, and substantial happiness and solid industr... ...adictory. And yet there are two passages from the preface to the Leaves of Grass which do pretty well condense his teaching on all es- sential points,... ...ermaise, also with sword and cloak, and accompanied by one Master Jehan le Mardi. Sermaise, according to Villon’s account, which is all we have to go ... ...he name of Fouquet. In one ver- sion, he says that Gilles, Isabeau, and Le Mardi ran away at the first high words, and that he and Sermaise had it out... ...irst high words, and that he and Sermaise had it out alone; in another, Le Mardi is represented as returning and wresting Villon’s sword from him: the...