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...oyce, an American girl who has been sent abroad to France to study, and of her adventures in France, - the wonderful house with the gate of The Giant Scissors, Jules, her little playmate, Sister Denis, the cruel Brossard, and her dear Aunt Kate. (Summary from an original 1898 copy of book.)...

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...ers to the Valley by the score, asking Did Betty go blind? Did the two little Knights of Kentucky ever meet Joyce again or find the Gate of the Giant Scissors? Did the Little Colonel ever have any more good times at Locust, or did Eugenia ever forget that she too had started out to build a Road of the Loving Heart? It would be impossible to answer all these questions throu...

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...to and I blitzed through my homework on the school bus home. While Mum finished work in the front room, I cooked dinner for us both, listening to her scissors snip through her comfortable conversations with clients. I spent the rest of my evenings with one of the seven books the library let me borrow each week. The day they increased my weekly allowance to ten books was a ...

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...s neck. Gilbert’s air of trepidation was palpable, and grew more apparent as scissors flashed and hair fell to the floor. A shave and pomade, and th...

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...ers of alternating black and white. I proudly presented my paper loot. We used a ruler and scissors to divide them into squares. And all that protr...

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... upright manual typewriters surrounded by paste pots, ashtrays, oversized scissors, and stacks of copy paper cut from the waste ends of press rolls. ... ...yboys, messy paste pots, clattering teletypes, electric typewriters, long scissors, or swooshing pneumatic tubes were gone. Insert immediate...

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... upright manual typewriters surrounded by paste pots, ashtrays, oversized scissors, and stacks of copy paper cut from the waste ends of press rolls. ... ...yboys, messy paste pots, clattering teletypes, electric typewriters, long scissors, or swooshing pneumatic tubes were gone. Insert immediate...

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...ns and shaving brushes and other assorted paraphernalia until he found nail scissors. Grabbing his shaving mug he returned to her. “What are you ... ...at dress. Each of the holdouts yielded to one or two snips from his trusty scissors and plinked into the shaving mug. The creamy wedge of her skin ... ... behind the armoire doors. Snipping the knotted stings with Daniel’s nail scissors, Morgan folded back the tissue, layer upon layer, revealing the...

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...s good. Draped in sheet or towel, I sat on a chair while Marlowe snipped. Scissors and comb usually put him in a whistling mood. Gently puffing a tu... ... apart pieces of paper and fold them until they become his face, or, with scissors, cut out his silhouette. Damn the weak mind that makes such simpl... ...scription filled he must furnish his own bottle or packet. Needles, pins, scissors, knives are smuggled in and sold on the black market. Drugs have ...

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...er station.” She sighed again. Aislinn smirked to herself as she grabbed the scissors. Standing before her mother’s mirror, Aislinn held the tool ... ...e her mother’s mirror, Aislinn held the tool to her hair. She positioned the scissors and closed her eyes before the first lock fell. There goes a...

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...n find the pattern for the following superstitions: 1. Do not use knives or scissors on New Year's Day as this will cut off fortune. 2. Sweeping or d...

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...e Panchama exist? 256 Should the government not give the police a pair of scissors to cut the holy thread, whoever is wearing it? [Viduthalai, 1... ... Government really has the intention of annihilating caste it must have given scissors to the policemen and asked them to cut the holy thread and tu...

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... and over his chest before brandishing her electric clippers and a pair of scissors at him. "Ready baby?" Kelly loudly gulps, only half-joking. He tel...

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...tively a fairly poor knife—and an equally awkward magnifying glass, saw, and scissors. The Generative Pattern 73 As the examples and terms suggest, t...

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...air, as the back end of a horse and no; I wouldn’t let her attack it with scissors if my 53 life depended on it. My wardrobe had spewed its guts al...

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... could have sworn to that—with a red nose, held in one hand a huge pair of scissors, and in the other—the al- ready devoted goods of my most unfortuna... ...ere held up as though in wonder at that which the red- nosed holder of the scissors had dared to do. Opposite to this lady, and with her face fully ta... ... never know—aught of the comforts of married life. It was she who held the scissors and the black garments. It was she who had given that unkind cut. ... ...urpose should 10 The Relics of General Chasse I have leaped? The accursed scissors had already done their work; and the symmetry, nay, even the utili... ...you won’t go for to cut them up,” said the stout back. “Won’t I,” said the scissors; and she immediately made another incision. “Who’s for having a bi... ... have something to make me think of the poor general!” Snip, snip went the scissors with professional rapidity, and a round piece was extracted from t... ...m- proper!” And she got her finger and thumb well through the holes in the scissors’ handles. As she spoke resolu- tion was plainly marked on her brow... ... a periodical correspondence, a journal, and an album. Snip, snip went the scissors again, and the broad part of the upper right division afforded amp...

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...led it in and began to pick out the soft eyes of it with her little golden scissors. ‘Now,’ said the Magician, ‘make a Magic, Pau Amma, to show that y... ...ating. If you choose, I will make a Magic and I will give you this pair of scissors, very sharp and strong, so that you and your children can eat coco... ...om the Sea to the land; or you can dig a Pusat Tasek for yourself with the scissors that belong to you when there is no stone or hole near by; and whe... ... when the earth is 72 Just So Stories too hard, by the help of these same scissors you can run up a tree.’ And Pau Amma said, ‘I do not choose yet, f... ...oo bold; and if you can climb trees and crack nuts and dig holes with your scissors, you will grow too greedy, Pau Amma.’ Then Pau Amma thought a litt... ... the water alongside the canoe, crying in a very small voice, ‘Give me the scissors!’ And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of her little br... ...stone and bunch of weed on the sands; you can see them waving their little scissors; and in some parts of the world they truly live on the dry land an... ...ks and brought home in pickle-bottles. That is why they nip you with their scissors, and it serves you right! CHINA-GOING P’s and 0’s Pass Pau Amma’s ...

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... pair of gloves. They can tell whether the gown was cut by the intelligent scissors of a Victorine IV .; they know a modish gewgaw or a trinket from F...

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...aughter had sat down at our table. I could plainly hear the click of their scissors as they clipped the lamp shades, which no doubt required very deli... ... aside, while my anxi ety grew more and more intense. The clicking of the scissors was the only noise in the room, so I concluded that Marguerite had... ...ke a fainting fit in death. The last sound I heard was the clicking of the scissors handled by Mme Gabin and Dede. The funeral vigil had begun; no bo...

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...s exclaimed: “Regu- lus! yours this head! Prepare it first with the little scissors.” “Excuse me,” said Gazonal to the pupil, at a sign from Bixiou. “... ... the instant that the pupil was about to begin the operation of the little scissors. “I will take charge of monsieur. Look, monsieur,” he said to the ... ... dear fellow,” said Bixiou, “in going through this operation of the little scissors?” “No head ever comes to me uncleansed,” replied the illus- trious... ...tt, titt, titt.” “There, there! good heavens! that cut is not square; your scissors are hacking it. Here! see there! Regulus, you are not clipping poo... ... Marius, affronted, looked at Gazonal in the glass, and stopped short, the scissors in one hand, the comb in the other. “Monsieur, you speak like a—ch...