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...nk’ is a collection of eight short tales about how to cope with such things as unwelcome evangelists, visitors, praise, sexual attention, living in a nursing home, relations, genetic modification and sexual urges....

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...noch in his heart determined all: Then moving homeward came on Annie pale, Nursing the sickly babe, her latest-born. Forward she started with a happy ... ... passport to that easy realm, Where once with Leolin at her side the girl, Nursing a child, and turning to the warmth The tender pink five-beaded baby...

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...I should say there was a bench against the Master’s house, where custom- ers might sit to parley with the shopman; and here I found my lord seated, nu...

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...emy at the mess hall. She scanned the crowded room and saw him in a corner nursing a beer. This wasn't an ideal place to speak, but time was of the e...

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...prised! Let’s go and find him.’ By and by they found Painted Jaguar, still nursing his paddy-paw that had been hurt the night before. He was so astoni...

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... unhappily married, and away in India weeping herself thinner; another was nursing her babies in Streatham. Jim, the hope of the house, and Julia, now... ... away like some restless, hunted soul. The Colonel still sat in his chair, nursing his last drop of creme de menthe resentfully. He did not care for t... ...ten- tion was diverted sideways, towards his wife. Aaron, who was tired of nursing a tea-cup, placed in on a table and re- sumed his seat in silence. ...

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...ck eyes and dishevelled black hair sat upon the steps of one of the houses nursing a baby, but at the sight of Bert she got up and went inside, and he... ...cultivated fields policed by armed men, the pestilence under control, even nursing going on, a store of food husbanded, the cattle and sheep well guar...

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...er and I got him upstairs somehow, and mother pretty nearly killed herself nursing him through a brain fever.” The man in tweeds nodded at me signific... ... geon go off without further parley. Lieut. D’Hubert regained his quarters nursing a hot and uneasy in- dignation. He dreaded the chaff of his comrade...

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...the serene qual- ity of its tone, like the perfection of manly gentleness. Nursing one small foot, in a silk sock and a patent leather shoe, on his kn...

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... Mr Boffin kissed Mrs Boffin after a five o’clock dinner, and trotted out, nursing his big stick in both arms, so that, as of old, it seemed to be whi...

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... my feel- ings accordingly. “It’s true,” said Carnehan, with a dry cackle, nursing his feet, which were wrapped in rags—”true as gospel. Kings we were...

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...of other men; but his instinct acted as though he were the last of mankind nursing that law like the only spark of a sacred fire. I don’t mean to say ... ...nds she had extended to him with a womanly swiftness. Lena, a little pale, nursing her beloved lump of dirty rags, ran towards her big friend; and the...

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... told the story of the family reunion. He was dying: his two children were nursing him to the end. Decidedly Cecilia was a more beautiful woman than R... ...s own, he was not unrejoiced to hear that she was engaged day and night in nursing her husband. Pursuing his vision of the morrow of an unreproachful ... ...h my snake at my heart, and 356 Beauchamp’s Career a husband grateful for nursing and whimpering to me for his youth like a beggar on the road, I tho... ... charge it on neglect, Nevil! Neglect is very endurable. He rewards me for nursing him . . . he rewards me with a little persecution: wives should be ... ...is very much concerned about your health; he fears you have overdone it in nursing Captain Beauchamp! ‘I must be off after him,’ said Beauchamp, and b...

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... becomes a frozen and motionless ocean. But the other, crafty and unmoved, nursing his shaven chin between the thumb and forefinger of his slim and tr...

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...ation. A flurry of fast questions was in the air. One of the prisoners was nursing a superficial wound in the foot. He cuddled it, baby-wise, but he l...

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...fare or in the manufacture of munitions or in employments such as transit, nursing, and so forth, directly subserving these main ends. At least five- ...

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...h- ing her day and night, Madame de Craylierre becoming ready to leave the nursing to her when it became severe. The King came to see his daughter-in-...

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...or the business of life, the park-keeper gos- siping with a nursemaid, the nursing mother, the young couple intent upon each other as they passed me, ...

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...three daughters besides a son for whom she had longed and whom she was now nursing. She had grown stouter and broader, so that it was difficult to rec... ...n thought that she did not—but with her pregnancies, her confinements, the nursing of her children, and sharing every moment of her husband’s life, sh... ...s, and even of her husband himself— who were all vigorously opposed to her nursing her baby her- self, a thing then unheard of and considered injuriou... ...tending to him she bore the anxiety about her husband more easily. She was nursing her boy when the sound of Pierre’s sleigh was heard at the front do... ...ut me? Y ou might at least have shown consideration for the children. I am nursing and my milk was spoiled…. Petya was at death’s door. But you were e...

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...tical, but the doctor said there was now more hope. Sonya and Natasha were nursing him. Next day Nicholas took his mother’s letter and went to see Pri... ...t to see Princess Mary. Neither he nor she said a word about what “Natasha nursing him” might mean, but thanks to this letter Nicholas suddenly became...

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...nd that till then they were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be give... ...es were in a state of the greatest poverty. He did not know that since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they did still har...

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... sobbing over a novel, of reciting all Nekrasoff’s poetry by heart, and of nursing the sick like an angel of heaven, you should see what happens if an...

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...url away at a bound after one roll over, there sat a youth dusty and torn, nursing a bruised leg, not in the easiest of postures, on a sharp tooth of ... ...ent hoary Goat- Satan might be perceived, with skew-eyes and pucker-mouth, nursing a hoof on a knee. Our mediaeval Enemy sat symbolical in his deformi... ...We took the bruised man into our carriage and drove him to camp, Carinthia nursing him on the way.’ ‘Carinthia! She’s well fitted with her name. What ... ...boy he met: went to sea—ran away. He returned a pugilist. The girl will be nursing him now. I have spoken to her of him; and I trust to her; but I mou... ...rotestant; dull con- sciences can! But this is incomprehensible, that she, nursing her injury, should be perfectly civil. She is a woman without emoti... ...cturesque and romantic, as she herself is! Lady Arpington found her there, nursing one of the wounded, and her uncle on his death-bed; obdurate all ro...

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...uthfully saying that the beast was mangy, undersized—a ti- gress worn with nursing, or a broken-toothed old male—and Bukta would curb young Chinn’s im... ...means a goat.) “What a lark! I’d have given a month’s pay to have seen him nursing famine babies. I fed some with conjee [rice-water], but that was al... ...air rennin”s just my Shekinah, ye’ll understand. I daurna tamper wi’ that. Nursing weak engines is fair craftsmanship; but what the Board ask is cheat...

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...s obey; and as this led to discomfort and an irritated spirit, I preferred nursing the conductor on the hard bar in the rear. And here if I seem to sa... ... been settled both for them and for us men by a higher power. They are the nursing mothers of mankind, and in that law their fate is written with all ...

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... far to the entreaties of his friends as to allow of a very small one. All nursing or self-indulgence found no quarter with Kant. In fact, five minute...

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...cliff into the loop before things get completely out of control," Brand said, nursing a bourbon. "And, what do we say to him? Heaven sent us on a m...

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...ny things ere they returned across the fields in a fly one Saturday night, nursing a two by two-and-a-half box of deeds and maps—lawful owners of Fria... ... time to waste! Go up the frame and preen yourself!” she said. “Report for nursing-duty in my ward to-morrow evening at six. Stop a minute. What’s the...

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...had been completely worn out, a few days of comfort, entire rest, and good nursing restored her. Noemi dressed her much like herself, in a black gown,... ...ed, called him ‘le pauvre’ and had afterwards disappeared, led away by the nursing lady. It seemed to Berenger a mere delusion of fever- ish weakness;... ...ll depended on her, suited her; and, using her lessons in domestic arts of nursing and medicine for the benefit of her father’s flock, she had found, ...

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... My friend became ill with fever, and had to betake himself to the care of nursing friends; so that I parted company with him at Cincinnati. I did not...

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...nowned soe’er, Agenor slew Far from Peneius’ river. Crushed by fate, Love’s nursing debt to parents ne’er he paid. Lamus and stalwart Lyncus Thoas sm... ...nd chafing he Tarried long time hard by that rift, but she Abode in covert. Nursing still his wrath, He hid him in a bush. Forth darted she, In foll...

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...e had not expected from a young girl either such firmness or such skill in nursing a wounded man. Dreadful as the countess imagined it would be should...

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...s they had done so, young societies could not have subsisted. Without such nursing fathers, without this care of the governors, all governments would ...

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...nd that till then they were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be give... ...s were in a state of the greatest poverty . He did not know that since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they did still har... ...e had not expected from a young girl either such firmness or such skill in nursing a wounded man. Dreadful as the countess imagined it would be should... ...tical, but the doctor said there was now more hope. Sonya and Natasha were nursing him. Next day Nicholas took his mother’s letter and went to see Pri... ...t to see Princess Mary. Neither he nor she said a word about what “Natasha nursing him” might mean, but thanks to this letter Nicholas suddenly became... ...three daughters besides a son for whom she had longed and whom she was now nursing. She had grown stouter and broader, so that it was diffi- cult to r... ...n thought that she did not—but with her pregnancies, her confinements, the nursing of her children, and sharing every moment of her husband’s life, sh... ..., and even of her husband himself—who were all vigor- ously opposed to her nursing her baby herself, a thing then unheard of and considered injurious-... ...tending to him she bore the anxiety about her husband more easily. She was nursing her boy when the sound of Pierre’s sleigh was heard at the front do...

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...k, glide across the room, and disappear. There were two of these noiseless nursing nuns. Their voices were sel- dom heard. For, indeed, what could the...

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...reaker. Taught that he really was a poor creature for the work, Dandy, his nursing over, begged to be allowed to 62 Evan Harrington stop and wait on ... ... place, O Amadis! I never said she was young. You’re on the scent, I see.’ Nursing the fresh image of his darling in his heart’s recesses, Evan, as th... ...ng which, Evan began: ‘May I tell you that I think it is I who ought to be nursing you, not you me?’ Miss Bonner replied by lifting her eyes and dropp...

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...felon strook. There Tityus was to see, who took his birth From heav’n, his nursing from the foodful earth. Here his gigantic limbs, with large embrace...

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...s than three successive nights in London in the next year. Here, as he lay nursing himself, ubiquitous Mr. Holt reap- peared, and stopped a whole mont...