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... around waiting for inspiration, or if I had given up when the words sounded silly, I would have nothing on the screen but a blinking cursor. Y es, ev... .... That’s when I asked, “God, is this a gift?” In retrospect, it seems like a silly question. The facts that (a) I love to write, (b) I have published ... ... but God knew who needed the message. I was just an instrument in His hands, putty in the potter’s hands. Will I write more cowboy stories? Well, anot...

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...ce that someone knows my mind since it appears I no longer do." "Do not be silly. You know your mind better than most. More than you think." Desert D... ... He's turned your life upside down. Therese took a seat in a corner of the putty cotton-twill sofa, Marsh stationing himself at her feet as Darius sat... ...acie C. McKeever 329 calm arched-brow expression that made her feel like a silly spoiled brat but did nothing to lessen the urge to hit him. Which she... ...watched Kane wince and wanted to take back her words and slap her own self silly. But she refused to be cowed by her own fear and tactlessness. "I wan... ...you'll have my ashes spread over this beautiful blue water?" "Stop talking silly." "Promise me." "Okay. Fine. I promise. Now can we go get our feet we...

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...ht… Ah… Yes well, ah, let me get you a towel.” Chuckling, Rick thought how silly Chris looked, bolting into the house like a naughty girl. “I’m sorry... ...pression. “If I go and see someone, then everyone will know.” “Don’t be so silly,” Bill replied. “These things are done in private.” His granddaughter... ...ll she should have read the can before she started,” Rick replied. “Ask a silly question…” “Get a stupid answer,” Sandy added. Rick chuckled, seeing ... ...“God, I’m kind of new at this stuff, so bear with me.” Rick felt a little silly, yet persisted. “I know it’s late and yes, I’ve had a bit of Dutch c... ...lt awkward asking certain questions, assuming the old man might think him silly. Bill heard the frustration in Rick’s sigh. “Speaking of timing, God... ...sed the twig. 89 “You’ll be okay son, play your cards right and she’ll be putty in your hands. Haven’t met a woman yet who doesn’t like a romantic d...

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... I can count on an intelligent conversation. I’ll talk to anything that’s silly enough to listen. I can’t help but wonder what happened to my enthusi... ... is your house! I wouldn’t be caught dead living here.” 20 “You are dead silly!” Ali moves closer to me. I intervene, not wanting an argument. “Ok... ... lounge. A second glance in his general direction and I find he’s playing silly buggers. My brother has put his arm through a wall; I’d say this is ... ...ill stay calm. “Do I now have to make an appointment to shower!” “Don’t be silly,” Veronica squeaks. Well that’s what she sounds like. “By the way, w... ...ith me already?” The words nervously came from Michael’s mouth. “Don’t be silly. Actually, I was going to ask you if you’d like to have dinner with ... ...atch. I’d like to tie a knot in his vocal chords then fill his mouth with putty and super glue his lips together. Ali places her hands on her hips, ...

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...not have to remember me at all and yet you did. I want--I know it may seem silly to you-- but I want to say thank you." "Okay," he laughed awkw... ...to have a Christian friend plastering my mind with all her platitudes, her silly putty impressions of that damned book. Cancer! Well, I don't h... ...e a Christian friend plastering my mind with all her platitudes, her silly putty impressions of that damned book. Cancer! Well, I don't have th...

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... First Time Slayer Award to think about. “I was looking for the killer, you silly twit. That’s my job!” Totally confused now. A Vampire Vampire Sl... ...ore. “Is it my name you find so amusing? Or my witty retort?” “The name, silly.” I couldn’t hold back the tears running down my face as my breat... ...ay and take him by surprise. I was sure if I’d show him my boobies, he’d be putty in my diabolical hands. While he scrambled to locate some snazzy...

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...culent skin whose scents, especially in their far from flowery holes, make silly male creatures repeat the delusion of intimacy time and time again li... ...e at best half-imagined impressions, half concocted indentions in the damp putty of his brain. In reality they were as behind him as the township of U... ...ersonally and as indelibly as one could onto the adventitious, impermanent putty of the human mind? It was not easy to be compassionate and extract on...

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...ing from the first; they must have been feeble fellows – creatures made of putty and pack-thread, without steel or fire, anger or true joyfulness, in ... ... is the lesson: if it is for fame that men do brave actions, they are only silly fellows after all. It is at best but a pettifogging, pickthank busine... ...too common purple sunsets, and pea-green fields, and distances executed in putty and hog’s lard, he beheld, looking down upon him from the walls of ro... ... only considered us in the light of creatures brutally strong and brutally silly; among whom they condescended to dwell in obedience like a philoso- p...

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...the right to do, I wouldn’t know what to answer that wouldn’t make me look silly if no worse. I got very hot. There was no chance of slinking out of t... ...y relation, who quarrelled with poor father as long as he lived about some silly matter that had neither right nor wrong to it. She left her money to ... ...for themselves the usual palaces. For this abstention they were praised in silly public prints as illustrating in their management the principle of Th... ...f respectable governess for his daughter; or on a com- 74 Chance monplace silly adventuress who would have tried, say, to marry him or work some othe... ...ve him—and I shall hold him by throwing to him the money of that ordinary, silly, little girl of no account.” Well, it was a desperate expedient—but s... ...pare panes. Chips was there the whole afternoon on his knees, messing with putty and red- lead. It wasn’t a neat job when it was done, not by any mean...

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...o’ a steamboat layin’ at de bank, whah dey warn’t no town en no woodyard, en putty soon I ketched de shape o’ de chimbly tops ag’in’ de stars, en den ... ...you! “In ‘bout an hour I heard de ready bell jingle, en den de racket begin. Putty soon I hear de gong strike. ‘Set her back on de outside,’ I says to... ...antly fantastic little story with this freak of nature for hero— or heroes—a silly young miss for heroine, and two old ladies and two boys for the min...

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...pile HE ran away and was gone for a year. When he came home he told me the silly story Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan And kept in chai... ...and hooked at the wrecked machine— The wheels with blow-holes stopped with putty and painted; The rotten bolts, the broken rods; And only the hopper f...

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...men lay close among the shore-side bushes, expecting their arrival; when a silly lad, in mere lightness of heart, fired a shot in the air. My native f... ...bed that and the cartridges, and he won’t give them to me.” A dreadful and silly picture of barbaric war. The words of the German sailor must be regar... ...seems he should have been, when it was made. He had nothing to do with the silly proscription of the Mataafas; he has always disliked the mea- sure; a... ...i scheme, no dweller in Samoa will give weight, for they know him to be as putty in the hands of his advisers. It may be right, it may be wrong, but w...

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...for, that he has got; and may God have pity on his soul, for a great and a silly sinner’s!’ ‘He has broke his oath; then he is a perjurer. He takes th... ...ptic.’ ‘Sceptic? – coward!’ cried Otto. ‘Coward is the word. A springless, putty-hearted, cowering coward!’ And as the Prince rapped out the words in ... ... I must hear it from your lips. My wife is a poor girl misled, she is only silly, she is not cruel.” “Mon Prince,” said I, “a girl – and therefore cru...

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... the chapter of the High Woods that is written, a chapter and a bit, some sixteen pages, really very fetching, but what do you wish? the story is so w... ...?Lose this little gem—for I’ll be bold, and that’s what I think it—or go on with the rest, which I don’t believe in, and don’t like, and which can nev... ...aited on us with smiles. The excitement was delightful. Some very vio- lent squalls came as we sat there, and every one rejoiced; it was impossible to... ...s not bear to be discussed. Lloyd was so sickened that he returned the same night to Vailima, Belle and I held on, sat most of the evening on the hote... ...een him and Mataafa; and I do not deny this is a good riddance to me of a diffi- cult business, in which I might very well have failed. What else is t... ... be it said!Doubtless, when I go about and, as the Doctor says, ‘expose myself to malaria,’ I am in far better health; and I would do so more too—for ...

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...s waist, and away down the hill at a dancing step! He hung back a little at the start, but the impulse of the tune, the night, and my example, were no... ...sions have been selected with scrupulous accuracy,’ he replied. ‘How did I find you, sir, when I came to announce this catastrophe? You were sitting o... ...cipated: a tale of a schoolhouse, a walled garden, a fruit-tree that concealed a bench, an impudent raff posturing in church, an exchange of flowers a... ..., and the continuous and low sounds of my pleading voice, worked progressively and powerfully on her heart, and perhaps not less so on my own. For the... ... increased by late hours; I could not bear the slightest start. He seemed much concerned. ‘Y ou must be in a devil of a state!’ said he; ‘though of co...

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...re the machinery is tied up with a string and the plates are rivetted with putty. The way he told his tale was this. The tramp had been creeping along... ... repartees changed and instead of saying light-heartedly: ‘I’ll knock your silly face in.’ men grew laboriously polite and hinted that the can- tonmen... ...l never forget this dance,’ and, of course, I said: ‘Oh! how can you be so silly!’ Do you think he meant anything, dear? MISS THREEGAN. (Extracting lo... .... In-variably. The Padre leads off with his boots. CAPT . G. Confound your silly soul! Don’t make fun of me. I can’t stand it, and I won’t! CAPT. M. (... ... know that? MRS. G. (Confusedly.) I don’t. I’m only guessing. I am—I was—a silly little girl; but I feel that I know so much, oh, so very much more th...

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...icer than Dick when he talks sen- sibly, she though, but I’m sure he’ll be silly and worry me, and I’m sure I can’t tell him anything he’d like to hea... ...r and grasping a handful of Dick gener- ally over the right ribs. ‘Soft as putty—pure tallow born of over-feeding. Train it off, Dickie.’ ‘We’re all e... ...d at last. ‘Do you suppose I want to shoot myself? Take the pistol in your silly shaking hand then. If you touch it, it will go off, because it’s load...

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...sband used. Then she shook her finger at him, and said, laughing: “Oh, you silly, silly boy!” Mrs. Hauksbee heard that, and—she owned as much—felt tha... ...ar vice in his char- acter; but he was “unsatisfactory” and as workable as putty. 28 Plain Tales from the Hills Agnes Laiter went about her duties at...

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..., ‘Around her splendid form, I weaved the magic circle,’ sounded bald, bleak, and pitifully silly. ‘We don’t want to fight, but, by Jingo, if we do,’ ... ...led him on, of the men also. The masters had been selfish and obstructive, the men selfish, silly, and light-headed. He rehearsed to me the course of ... ...vided chamber; here are set forth tables on which to model imaginary or actual countries in putty or plaster, with tools and hardy pigments; a carpent...

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...his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he still held in his trembli... ... got?” “A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though it were putty.” “It’s more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone.” “N... ...ou were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more with your silly talk I’ll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. Oakshott here and I’...

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...ing, and not about Jonathan. Then I shall never know the real truth now! How silly I am. That awful journal gets hold of my imagination and tinges eve... ...pkin. Next he took out a double handful of some whitish stuff, like dough or putty. He crumbled the wafer up fine and worked it into the mass between... ... sense of relief when we saw the Pro fessor calmly restoring the strings of putty to the edges of the door. When this was done, he lifted the child... ...ced. But to think that he keeps anything from me! And now I am crying like a silly fool, when I know it comes from my husband’s great love and from th...

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...’s over the hills we’ll bound, old hound, Over the hills and away. 98 Let silly lads in couples run T o pleasure, a wicked fay: ’Tis ours on the heat... ... Gold-like and warm: it’s the prime of May. Better than mortar, brick and putty, Is God’s house on a blowing day. Lean me more up the mound; now I fe... ...ey are not in the stream; Light as the flying seed-ball is their play, The silly maids! and happy souls they seem; Yet Grief would not change fates wi... ...s mastery wrought from hoops; Some serviceable, none credible on oath. The silly preference they nursed to die In beds he scorned, and led where they ... ...p to mark what things The world puts faith in, careless of the truth: What silly puppet-bodies danced on strings, Attached by credence, we appear in s...

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...ging out the mortar, broke countless squares of glass by scraping away the putty all round the frames, and tore up and swallowed, in splin ters, the ... ... men hurt, and only wink and sparkle all the night?’ ‘Now Heaven help this silly fellow,’ murmured the per plexed locksmith; ‘can he know this gentle... ...er, ‘He’s a merry fellow, that shadow, and keeps close to me, though I am silly. We have such pranks, such walks, such runs, such gambols on the gras... ... I have my eye on him sharp enough. Oh! he’s a merry fellow. Tell me—is he silly too? I think he is.’ ‘Why?’ asked Gabriel. ‘Because be never tires of... ...nto his face, and falling quickly back. ‘Ha ha! Why, how much better to be silly, than as wise as you! Y ou don’t see shadowy people there, like those... ... birthday) just as you do now. I have found that out, you see, though I am silly. So I say you’re wrong; and this must be my birthday—my birthday, Gri...

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...ek further. The rest of my days will be spent in patching and painting and puttying and caulking my priceless possession and in looking the other way ... ...ing to laugh at; often, when a remark is unusually and poignantly flat and silly, he tries to deceive the reader by enlarging the stage direction and ... ... the serene bust, the emotionless bust, with the dandy mus tache, and the putty face, unseamed of care—that face which has looked passionlessly down ...

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...omes through that crack in the wainscot where there is a sham window. Some putty will put a stop to that.’ Then came a more decided wail and sob much ... ...‘By all accounts,’ said Martyn, ‘the poor creature must have been rather a silly woman.’ ‘For shame, Martyn,’ cried Emily, ‘how can you tell? They mig...

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...ad broken away and left behind it a number of yellow grooves (stuffed with putty), lay a pile of finely written manuscript, an overturned marble press... ...ross-examination was to convince the tchinovniks that she was a garrulous, silly old woman. With regard to Manilov, he replied that he would answer fo...

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...g up and down his ladder, smearing the barrack windows with a soapy rag. A silly phrase took the place of the welling of music in his mind: “Arbeit un... ...New York, had fallen in dust about him. He was ut- terly in the void. “How silly,” he thought; “this is the world as it has appeared to the majority o... ...ny strode along, its ninety-six legs splash- ing jauntily through the deep putty-colored puddles. The packs swayed merrily from side to side as if it ... ...e the ninety-six legs tramp jauntily in spite of the oozy mud and the deep putty-colored puddles. It was cold in the dark shed of the freight station ... ... that cut straight through the wood where there were many ruts through the putty-coloured mud puddles; Down the lane in a patch of sunlight he saw a f... ...: RUST UST UST UST UST I I I I I THERE WERE TINY GREEN FROGS in one of the putty-colored puddles by the roadside. John Andrews fell out of the slowly ... ...one hand sought a chord, which jangled in the badly-tuned piano. “God, how silly!” he muttered aloud, pulling his hands away. Suddenly he began to pla... ...tigress … . Etienne calls her Mme. Clemenceau.” “Who? The saint?” “No, you silly—my brother. He is a socialist. He’s a type- setter at l’Humanite.” “R... ... girl … . I have been brought up in the middle of music … . That shows how silly it is to be a woman. There is no music in my head. Of course I am sen...

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... boy, put yourself in my place; remember that I am not a free man, I am as putty in the hands of my wife, a slave—forgive me! IVANOFF . What does this... ... such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is. What a strange way you have, though, of ignoring a m... ...worn-out coat—without gloves! How many scornful glances I get for it! Such silly jokes and vulgar grins! Disgusting people. Enter BORKIN quickly. He i...

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...ogate your own heart; and you will have to ad- mit that this is not only a silly but an immoral position. All we believe, all we hope, all we honour i... ... a weariness to the flesh. That ex- travagance is truly sinful, and a very silly sin to boot, in which we impoverish mankind and ourselves. It is anot... ...e adventure of Mr. T atler’s brief existence; unless we consider as such a silly Chaldee manuscript in imitation of Blackwood, and a letter of reproof... ...pugnance which no man can conquer– towards the infirm and helpless mass of putty of the earlier stage. She had spent her best and happiest years in te... ... to begin. He pushed his plate away and drummed upon the table. ‘These are silly prayers,’ said he, ‘that they teach us. Eat and be thankful, that’s n... ... they go by your way or by the other I shall guide my life.’ ‘This is very silly,’ said Nance, with a movement of her shoulders. ‘I do not think it so...

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...dest kind of rage. Jealousy would have been incurable. But Florence’s mere silly jibes at the Irish and at the Catholics could be apologized out of ex... ...call to her mind all the safeguards against excitement with which the poor silly old gentleman had been hedged in during their trip round the world. T... ... that… . No, she cannot have liked that fellow long. He looked like sallow putty. I understand that he had been slim and dark and very grace- ful at t... ...ad offered to give him an old Irish cob upon which he was riding. It was a silly sort of thing to do really. The horse was worth from thirty to forty ... ... playing on the old piano. She did not know how she came to be doing it. A silly lilting wavering tune came from before her in the dusk—a tune in whic... ...dark waters melt and waver and disappear into black depths. Well, it was a silly old tune… . It goes with the words—they are about a willow tree, I th...

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...again heard. “Mos feerd for to ventur pon dis limb berry far—tis dead limb putty much all de way.” “Did you say it was a dead limb, Jupiter?” cried Le... ..., he exclaimed, as if in a soliloquy, “And dis all cum ob de goole-bug! de putty goole bug! de poor little goole-bug, what I boosed in dat sabage kind... ... was rather a desire than an actual belief;—but do you know that Jupiter’s silly words, about the bug being of solid gold, had a remark- able effect u... ... noticed by the historians of his time than the impious, dastardly, cruel, silly, and whimsical achievements which make up the sum total of his privat... ...ed within them. The conclusion here is ab- surd. It is a mere guess—a very silly one—and no more. How are we to know that the articles found in the dr...

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...t, of course.” “Bravo! And what is cement?” “Oh, some sort of paste ...no, putty,” said Veslovsky, raising a general laugh. The company at dinner, wit... ... form of one.” “It’s because I consider that the justice of the peace is a silly institution,” Levin answered gloomily. He had been all the time looki...

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...sides they have not completed the picture- gallery, and my place smells of putty. Y ou wouldn’t have a man, mon cher, bury himself in his chateau in N... ...able to make Angelina un- derstand the embarrassments of her family. These silly crea- tures prate about love and a cottage, and despise advantages wh... ...; “Gagy, my boy, it is nonsense! Julia, love, retire with your mamma; this silly young gentleman will remain and smoke a pipe with me.” I took one; it... ... through the room, and then up the twenty steps which led to his maidaun—a silly, painful, and disgusting ceremony, which can only be considered as a ... ...bohay tay or souchong tay that you’d like, ladies?” says I. “Nonsense, you silly man; any tea you like,” said fat Mrs. V an. “What do you say, then, t... ...their way. Fool! fool! thrice besotted fool that I was, to think of my own silly person when I should have been occupied solely with my public duty. F...

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...mself inter de water. Every man at de end of his lines is mad or loaded or silly, an’ de cop’s madder an’ loadeder an’ sillier than de rest. Dey all t... ...‘Ye’ll not take her oot wi’ a solution o’ continuity that like.’ “‘They’ll putty it up this evening,’ he said. ‘I’m a married man, an’—ye used to know... ...head.” “Oh! Now you aren’t going to frighten the child into fits with your silly tales, and the master know nothing about it. If ever I catch you agai...

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...s his plasticity. This is something quite different from the plasticity of putty or wax. It is not a capacity to take on change of form in accord with... ...ience which is called thinking is experience. This remark may sound like a silly truism. It ought to be one; but unfortunately it is not. On the contr... ...v- ery, every great invention, every admirable artistic pro- duction. Only silly folk identify creative originality with the extraordinary and fancifu... ...at they might attract and hold the mind. In numberless cases, more or less silly personifications were resorted to. The method was silly, but it expre...

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... Did not his white breast enough be Walden 214 tray him? He was indeed a silly loon, I thought. I could commonly hear the splash of the water when h... ... Give me a hammer, and let me feel for the fur ring. Do not depend on the putty. Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up i...

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...that loud laugh? Did not his white breast enough betray him? He was indeed a silly loon, I thought. I could commonly hear the plash of the water when ... ...s. Give me a hammer, and let me feel for the furrowing. Do not depend on the putty. Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up...

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...f falling in love with you in a single day.” “Oh, heavens, that would be too silly!” said Anna, and again a deep flush of pleasure came out on her face... ... I care for you more than ever,” said Anna, with tears in her eyes. “Ah, how silly I am today!” She passed her handkerchief over her face and began dr... ...e of mind on the previous day. “What was it? Nothing. Vronsky said something silly, which it was easy to put a stop to, and I answered as I ought to h... ...olemnly, moving his forefinger upwards from his nose. “Come, tell me; this is silly!” said Vronsky smiling. “I have not lighted the fire. Here somewhere... ...loughs, but would let them come off and then say that the new ploughs were a silly invention, and there was nothing like the old Andreevna plough, and... ...t, of course.” “Bravo! And what is cement?” “Oh, some sort of paste. . . no, putty,” said Veslovsky, raising a general laugh. The company at dinner, w...