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...as pumps, and a short-order menu scribbled on a chalkboard, Jake's had a Lake Wobegon vibe that could only be called Fly-over Gothic. James Abbott Whistler, himself, couldn't have asked for a more rustic cast of characters to paint. Grizzled, weather-worn men sat hunched around a long row of four-place tables pulled together on the west side of the main dining area to f...

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..., there’s where you found Vampires. It said so right on page forty-seven of Whistler’s Guide to Vampire Hunting Grounds. Nowhere did it say ‘look ... ... to Vampire Hunting Grounds. Nowhere did it say ‘look in smelly alleys’ and Whistler was the ultimate authority on Vampires. “Donnie!” I shouted, ... ...e I puked all over her. “Sure, I do too. I’ve got a thesis due tomorrow on Whistler’s Fifth Law of Slaying.” I walked away after dumping my tray, ... ...ething! You just don’t expect that sort of thing. It wasn’t even covered in Whistler’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, the definitive text on the subjec... ...where that is.” I knew a park would come into this search sooner or later. Whistler was never wrong. Okay, I take that back. He’d been wrong seve... ...u’ve obviously been brainwashed. There are no such things as good Vampires. Whistler has taught us nothing if not that Vampires are inherently evil ...

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...during a calm to raise a breeze, and when the breeze is blowing will curse the whistlers, lest by their musical efforts a storm should, be provoked. H...

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...s patients, family and staff talked about the fantastic Winter Olympics at Whistler and the debt it was leaving in its wake, and then about the newest...

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... artists, Jongkind, Ziloken and Gravesande; besides work by the Americans, Whistler, Piatt and Palmer. The subjects of the pic- tures are in most oase...

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...ing fear. He the seven birds hath seen that never part, Seen the SEVEN WHISTLERS in their nightly rounds, And counted them: and oftentimes will ... ...OTE IV TE IV TE IV TE IV TE IV . . . . . PAGE 41; line 10.—“Seen the Seven Whistlers, &c.” Both these superstitions are prevalent in the midland Count...

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...e of rebaptism, a clean bill and a fresh start, will comfort many staggering professors. There is yet another sect, or what is called a sect—no doubt ... ...another sect, or what is called a sect—no doubt improperly—that of the Whistlers. Duncan Cameron, so clear in favour of the Mormons, was no less loud ... ...owed. Here at least are some doings in the house of an Israelite clergyman (or prophet) in the island of Anaa, of which I am equally sure that Duncan ... ...home in these degenerate days, it was rudely ignorant, at first could only buzz, and had only learned of late to bear a part correctly in the music. T... ...ms to possess no kernel of possible sense, like some that I shall describe among the Gilbert islanders. Y et I was told that many hardy, intelligent n...

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...g and remarkable case, take the onslaught made by Ruskin upon the works of Whistler. You will remember that a libel action ensued and that these pictu... ...a child scribbles on a slate. Mr. Ruskin, if I re- member rightly, accused Whistler of throwing a pot of paint in the face of the public,—that was the...

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...ways wrong the same way. Yet he seemed proud of his song, delivered it with execution and a manner of his own, and was charming to his mate. A very in...

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... dayes enimy, The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy, The hellish Harpies, pro...

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...ing expressive, suggestive, and desolate, a sym- phony in grey and black—a Whistler. But the next thing said by the voice behind me made me turn round...

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... was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames. The green curtains with their peacock design...

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...st Manet, Monet, and Degas. To appreciate these was still a sign of grace. Whistler was an influence strong with the English and his compatriots, and ... ...can take it from me that it’s the best thing in the gallery except perhaps Whistler’s portrait of his mother. ” She gave him a certain time to contemp... ... lives in the little red brick house in Kensington, with Morris papers and Whistler’s etchings on the walls, and gives the same nice little dinner par...

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...entific man. The range of discovery may be narrowed as it is in the art of Whistler or the science of a cytologist, or it may embrace a wide extent of...

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...es- tive of a diamond necklace and bottles with silver tops. “It’s so like Whistler!” she exclaimed, with a wave to- wards the shore, as she shook Rac...

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...ce, and then she hung fire on a rhyme for the dead person’s name, which was Whistler. She warn’t ever the same after that; she never complained, but...

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...xalted above both, ex- tolled his horse, his hawks, and a greyhound called Whistler. In the middle of this din, the Baron repeatedly implored si- lenc...

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...ys thought tren- chantly; and sometimes wrote brilliantly, as the worst of whistlers may sometimes stumble on a perfect intonation. But it was all for... ...ould write that he was ‘much revived by having an opportunity of abus- ing Whistler to a knot of his special admirers,’ is a spirit apt to be misconst... ...s,’ is a spirit apt to be misconstrued. He was not a dogmatist, even about Whistler. ‘The house is full of pretty things,’ he wrote, when on a visit; ...

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... Fool! this is all wrong, here is the true name:– Penny Whistles for Small Whistlers. The second title is queried, it is perhaps better, as simply Pen... ... queried, it is perhaps better, as simply Penny Whistles. Nor you, O Penny Whistler, grudge That I your instrument debase: By worse performers still w...

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...itions in the Grosvenor Gallery thirty years ago (the Burne Jones, not the Whistler side of them) are on the walls. The only landscape is a Cecil Laws...

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...alf cock, and they shall see teal, blue winged, green winged, shelldrakes, whistlers, black ducks, ospreys, and many other wild and noble sights befor...

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... — always a rocky and rippling stream. The roar of the rapids, the note of a whistler duck on the river, of the jay and chickadee around us, and of th...