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..., crammed into a room no more than eighteen foot long by fourteen foot wide with two small barred windows, only twenty-three people survived, includ... ...n the gift he had bought for the Goanese woman. THE CURSE OF KALI 121 ‘Isabel has offered her services, but I have not yet had the need,’ replied... ... the Arab doctor were taken by the Chief Eunuch to Muna’s apartments. Bars had been fitted to the windows and armed eunuchs stood outside the door l... ... Rosita should rest in her bedroom, cooled continuously by the punkah and dampened blinds at the windows. However, her symptoms became more acute. ... ...ove again and when Helen finally awoke with the the pink dawn light creeping though the latticed windows, she saw the dark eyes of her husband study... ...especially for the children, by baking small cakes from their reserves of flour and holding carol services, but everyone was aware that time was not... ...ld Helen. She was entranced by the little, clay oil lamps used by the people to decorate niches, windows, trees and gardens and floated on the water...

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...ywhere, wall-hugging gigantic mirrors, and velvet brocade curtains drape man-sized windows. Tinkling chandeliers hang from the stucco-decorated ceil... ...olstered seat. He draws closed small, opaque curtains on rails on all the vehicle’s windows to obscure the view. “Where to, Herr Ubersturmbannfeuh... ... The Jewish question was tackled by numerous desks in ministries, agencies, secret services, the Party, the state, and various institutes and instit... ...name is Schellenberg, Walter Schellenberg. I am the head of the secret intelligence services, both Amt VI and the Military Office. I was ordered to ... ...th prodigious quantities of the scented weed, he proceeded: “Western intelligence services had no one inside the USSR and the fast forming Soviet ... ... discovered how deep the Commies penetrated everything we had: the army, the secret services, and the press. Having vanquished Nazi Germany, we were... ...in the war. We made preparations: the CIA and, later, NATO together with the secret services of the countries of Western Europe. We set up clandesti...

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...mple consisted of some cushioned seating places, and long, deep red draperies covered the windows on either side of the temple. From the outside, the... ...nlisting men to fight in his army. I think he was likely surprised at how many made their services available to him. The re- sources we have funneled... ...d unexpected show of force. Alaj and his army looked around and saw that the rooftops and windows of the surrounding buildings were manned by Royal ... ...ng was burning, but she could not tell from where. Slowly she opened the door. One of the windows had a massive hole blown through it, leaving the r...

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...nd helped her in. She had explained to him yesterday that she would need his services. She grinned as she recalled the timing of her instructions —... ...ccess as people entered and exited the castle without restraint. Hundreds of windows, all with drapes pulled to the sides to allow as much natural l... ... voice rose from within the crowd. “Yer Majesty, I wish ta also offer you me services.” Aislinn tried to see who spoke, but she was too short and t... ... building beyond the castle’s courtyard. Dark inside, as the building had no windows, Frederick lit several candles until the room was aflame with ... ...ady into the receiving room. The sunlight glittered through the stained glass windows but Aislinn didn’t notice her surroundings. Instead, she saw ... ...to her. Aislinn shook her head, refusing to say her thoughts. “I gave him my services. I gave him my life for two years. Two years! I can’t forg... ... she went to take a bite of food, Geoffrey blurted out “I think that eyes are windows.” “Windows?” Aislinn repeated, setting her spoon down. “That ... ... serious. Aislinn shook her head and went back to her food. “Eyes aren't the windows to the soul, Geoffrey. They're just eyes.” Geoffrey remain...

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... in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thou- sands of men who spend their lives in buildin... ...nd unrepaired. The floor was of worn brick, the walls were filthy, and the windows were nearly black with grime. It stood on a bypath largely used by ... ...t of the many that I had ever set foot in. There was no fireplace, and the windows would not open; so a brazier of charcoal would have been useless. T... ...sh—a peculiarity which made me remember him long after I had forgotten his services to me in his official capacity. It is seldom that a Hindu makes En... ...t on a gold mohur a month—a sum which I still think far too little for the services he has rendered. Nothing on earth will induce me to go near that d... ...there, while the type ticked and clicked, and the night-jars hooted at the windows, and the all but naked compositors wiped the sweat from their foreh... .... “No one knows any- thing about it really. Here’s the file of the ‘United Services’ Institute.’ Read what Bellew says.” “Blow Bellew!” said Carnehan....

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...nance cannot be clearly proved to me, on account of his want of speech, my services here would be quite useless, and cannot be legally exercised.” The... .... Our holy father, the pope, has made him a knight of Jesus Christ for the services he rendered to the Christians in the East; he has five or six ring... ...ast; he has five or six rings as testimonials from Eastern monarchs of his services.” “Does he wear them?” “No, but he is proud of them; he is better ... ...o- cated, and asked why the Venetian blinds were not opened as well as the windows.” “In a word,” said Mercedes, “it was a way of assuring me that his... ...he moon’s feeble light. A light moved rapidly from time to time past three windows of the second floor. These three windows were in Madame de Saint- M... ... thus, he looked alternately at the window with red curtains and the three windows with white curtains. The light had almost disappeared from the form... ... the extremity of the building, on the con- trary, he saw one of the three windows open. A wax-light placed on the mantle-piece threw some of its pale... ...r a key. Then his eye was fixed on the drawer of a small chest between the windows. She opened the drawer, and found a key; and, understanding that wa... ...ws!” and he convulsively grasped the hand of d’Avrigny. “Do you require my services now?” asked d’Avrigny. “No,” said Villefort; “only return again at...

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...d always hoping to get better, he had sent different gentlemen to take the services, first one and then another, or had asked the masters at Ragglesfo... ... stamping, such ‘hip, hip, hurrah!’ bursting out again and again, that the windows clattered, and the room seemed fuller of noise than it could possib... ...from the chimney; then he hastened on to gain the first sight at the upper windows, feeling almost as he could have done had it been a brother who lay...

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..., Barrie ON; www.davids-books.com / www.rnupress.com and Ardith Publishing Services, London, ON; www.ardith.ca Printed and bound in Canada 3 A COURAG... ...during the winter so I have to close off the water and put shutters on the windows. When I got the place, people only came to the lake during the summ... ... at them- selves in mirrors. All day long Julian could be seen through the windows as he peddled up and down the street, happy now that they did not h... ...rks of art hung on walls. Every CHAPTER 31 176 SUSAN BRACKEN room had big windows revealing the spectacular scenery out- side. When he saw the small ... ...nto her body. She could see the people on the streets outside the hospital windows, and remembered the sense of exclu- sion she had felt the last time... ... BATTLE When he got home he poured a scotch and paced in front of his huge windows, looking out over the city, trying to make sense of the argument. H... ...ity Act, is legal) comprised all annual and cumulative Department of Human Services reports 1998-2006 and three independent studies; the data from the...

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...t complete collection of electronic books on-line as well as offer a variety of services and resources that support and strengthen the instructional... ...and I guarantee you it beats anything in Seat­ tle." The floor to ceiling glass windows created a post card view of the city and the ocean. "You're ... ...opard doesn't change his spots," Richard asserted as he stared out ofthe arched windows at the reddening skyline. Normally, Alana would have taken o... ...lamp that left the rest of the room in relative darkness. As he faced the glass windows that overlooked the city, he caught sight of his own dim ref... ...d, don't you?" Pierce said, making his opening gambit. "That's up to the Armed Services Committee and the Nation­ al Security Council, not us," Jone... ...n to save the planet." The Soul Bearer 105 Matloch stared out of the library windows, rays of moonlight swayed across the majestic gardens. He tu... ...rent awake. He could see only blackness as he tried to peer through the watery windows. The door jarred open. Brent slid out into the moist night c...

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...n the midst of a new scene. Suppose it a hot summer’s day, and the lattice windows of a chamber in Mr. Endicott’s house thrown wide open. The Lady Arb... ...eplied Grandfather, “was now some what the worse for its long and arduous services. It was con sidered hardly magnificent enough to be allowed to ke... ... sometimes with gusts of snow, that rattled like small pebbles against the windows. When the weather began to grow cool, Grandfather’s chair had been ... ...ol room. It is a large, dingy room, with a sanded floor, and is lighted by windows that turn on hinges and have little diamond shaped panes of glass. ... ...ck with its noble and stately aspect, but was of opinion that age and hard services had made it scarcely so fit for courtly company as when it stood i... ...hem surrounded the council chamber and threw stones and brickbats into the windows. The governor attempted to pacify them; but not succeeding, he thou... ...m nearly three hundred buildings, all in flames at once, shone through the windows of the Province House, and threw a fierce lustre upon the gilded fo...

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...e stone piers, great staircases, and thick walls pierced with small sunken windows—fortifications against the moun- tain storms, as if they had been h... ...lined her head. ‘I cannot, therefore, 22 Charles Dickens put a price upon services which it is a pleasure to me to render if I can render them sponta... ...ks of our attendants by appearing to have at any time dispensed with their services and performed them for yourself, is—ha—highly important.’ 28 Char... ...ll changed into barracks: troops of idle soldiers leaning out of the state windows, where their accoutrements hung drying on the marble architecture, ... ...en who were handing the dishes round, as a courteous intimation that their services could be temporarily dispensed with. Those menials having obeyed t... ... into fantastic shapes and full of mites; and a fever- ish bewilderment of windows, with their lattice-blinds all hanging askew, and something draggle... ...ranc pieces. Below the Bank was a suite of three or four rooms with barred windows, which had the ap- pearance of a jail for criminal rats. Above the ... ...ey might have claimed kindred with the waifs of seaweed drifting under the windows, or clinging to the walls and weeping for their imprisoned relation... ...med by Lord Decimus on Mr Merdle, or by Mr Merdle on Lord Decimus, and his services might at any moment be required as Dresser. In fact, within a quar...

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... became a vice-admiral, and redeemed the follies of his youth by brilliant services. The Marquis de Simeuse, son of this naval worthy, perished with h... ...n appointed on the Council of State by the First Consul, in return for his services on the 18th Brumaire. The shrewd heads of the little town of Arcis... ... Gondreville the exemption of his son from the draft; in fact, he had done services to many. Consequently, the sale met with no opposition in the neig... ...f the Comtesse de Cinq-Cygne, barricaded the doors, and stood guard at the windows, after 23 Balzac closing the wooden blinds, with the five men-serv... ...dish towers at either end, connected by a long main building with casement windows, the stone mullions of which, being roughly carved, bear some resem... ...d the whole building is surmounted by an immense roof bro- ken by casement windows with carved triangular pediments. Before the castle lies a vast gre... ...te brocade with green flow- ers, from the hotel de Simeuse, draped the six windows of the salon, in which the family were now assembled. The walls of ... ...he bed, Gothard was closing the blinds, when Marthe Michu coming under the windows flung a pebble on the glass and was seen at once. “Mademoiselle, he... ...dames, you can go to bed, and the servants also. Mon- sieur le maire, your services are no longer needed. The stern- ness of our orders does not permi...

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...com- panions ate and drank immoderately, looking at the situa- tion of the windows, waiting the moment to decamp, but not getting the opportunity. Cur... ...ater when leaving, followed them afar off, and endeavoured by these little services to encounter some adventure, in which at the peril of his life he ... ...son of your steward, who has fallen into disgrace in spite of his faithful services.” “ Ah, well!” replied the lady, “lay yourself on the table again.... ...e like a princely creature, gayly decked with pavilions and lace curtained windows, with fine weather-beaten sol- diers on her vanes, turning whicheve... ...t number of people were in the house. And he has sworn to have seen by the windows of the said dwellings, green buds of all kinds in the winter, grow-... ...she gaze upon the leaves of the trees and grass of the meadows through the windows of the church during the offices and times of prayer; and persisted... ...e of her steps, without breaking the door, forcing of locks, or opening of windows, nor any sign whatever of the manner of her passage; a frightful ad... ...mple canon. Now there I should be able better than any- where else to find services to render to certain lords, and thus to find a master or gain patr...

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...hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained glass windows lose their colour and admit no light of day into the place; well ma... ...kes a background for the falling rain. The view from my Lady Dedlock’s own windows is alternately a lead coloured view and a view in Indian ink. The v... ...ked to that degree, in short, that we all sat coughing and crying with the windows open for half an hour, during which Mrs. Jellyby, with the same swe... ...G WAS RAW, and although the fog still seemed heavy—I say seemed, for the windows were so en crusted with dirt that they would have made midsummer s... ...assing and repassing, the busy prepa rations in the setting forth of shop windows and the sweep ing out of shops, and the extraordinary creatures in... ...sons I thought it best to be as useful as I could, and to render what kind services I could to those immediately about me, and to try to let that circ... ... soul is devoted to the great or whether he yields them nothing beyond the services he sells is his personal secret. He keeps it, as he keeps the secr... ...our of gentlemen in the pursuit of knowledge to recompense the inestimable services of the best years of their lives, their long study, and their expe... ... one time, and were his attendant in illness, and rendered him many little services, and were rather in his confidence, I am told. That is so, is it n...

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...d house that was before them, with many gray towers and vanes on them, and windows flaming in the sun- shine; and a great army of rooks, wheeling over... ... in the manner of Queen Elizabeth’s time, with great 29 Thackeray stained windows at either end, and hangings of tapestry, which the sun shining thro... ...rn end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the painted windows surviving Edward the Sixth had been broke by the Commonwealthmen. I... ...arty of people came from the town, who would have broken Castlewood Chapel windows, but the village people turned out, and even old Sieveright, the re... ...et more? I know you will never betray me.” In the Chaplain’s room were two windows; the one looking into the court facing westwards to the fountain; t... ...illiam’s government had 54 Henry Esmond – Book One basely treated him for services done in that cause. And here he may relate, though he was then too... ...isit her ladyship in prison, offering to his uncle’s daughter any friendly services which lay in his power. And he brought his lady and little daughte... ... on your way to London, and have your acquaintances in Covent Gar- den. My services to you, sir, to principal and ambassador, to master and—and lackey...

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...ntimation whatever that the blinds would ever 6 Ann Veronica go up or the windows or doors be opened, or the chande- liers, that seemed to promise su... ...y received them in the pretty chintz drawing- room, which opened by French windows on the trim gar- den, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in the ... ... disused greenhouse that had the double advantage of being hidden from the windows of the house and secure from the sudden appearance of any one, she ... ...res that did but insist coarsely upon the roundness of women’s bodies. The windows of these rooms were obscured with draperies, their floors a carpet ... ...emed to lift, the moral atmosphere to change; clean blinds appeared in the windows, clean doorsteps before the doors, a different appeal in the neatly... ... other under a Harley Street doctor, and both men de- clined her proffered services with the utmost civility and admiration and terror. There was also... ...y and savage once more, and returned sud- denly to gibe and insult. Men do services for the love of women, and the woman who takes must pay. Such was ... ...asperating habit of interrupting her work with demands for small household services, but now Ann Veronica rendered them with a queer readiness of an- ...

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...r Thor’s Hammer in my hand? Her head is fixed on a pike; paraded under the windows of the Temple; that a still more hated, a Marie-Antoinette, may see... ... on which lay the moonlight, check- ered with the triple stancheons of our windows. ‘Three in the morning: They were breaking-in one of the prison-doo... ...d to the teeth; as we, lying flat to escape being seen, could see from our windows: “Up stairs!” said they: “Let not one remain.” I took out my penkni... ...aid we were the King of Prussia’s Brother! ‘But now, from the ground-floor windows, looking over the whole market-place, we had the endless tumult lyi... ...flow on in its bounded channel. Down the long street, all visible from our windows, there swelled continu- ally the strangest tide: a high double-seat... ...ed manner, shot Robespierre. 249 Thomas Carlyle Meda got promoted for his services of this night; and died General and Baron. Few credited Meda in wh...

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...d, like Hobden, hardly dropped a crumb. The sun flashed on Little Lindens’ windows, and the cloudless sky grew stiller and hot- ter in the valley. ‘ A... ... splen- did on arches of moonshine, with maidens waving their hands at the windows, which all turned into roaring rivers; and then would come the dark... ...’s Indians, and he slept in friends’ farmhouses, but he would shut all the windows; so Red Jacket and me slept outside. There’s nothing to hurt except... .... A gipsy-van—not the show-man’s sort, but the old black kind, with little windows high up and a baby-gate across the door—was getting ready to leave.... ...guest invited, And stared at the guttering flame. The storm beat on at the windows, The water splashed on the floor, And a wet yoke-weary bullock Push... ...re blooms by the light of Una’s lamp. ‘Does Master Middenboro need my poor services, then?’ ‘Save him, no!’ said Puck. ‘He is but a horse—next door to...

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...stry hangings to the wall, and cushions both to the carved chairs and deep windows, which looked out into the street, the whole storey projecting into... ...for her sudden journey. Many a tear was shed over the tokens of the little services she was wont to render, her half-done works, and pleasant studies ... ...g at the far distance. Know you if it be indeed Ulm that we see from these windows?” “Ulm? That is where thou comest from?” said Ermentrude languidly.... ... gave way to attachment, and there was little more murmuring at the menial services that were needed by the two maidens, even when Ermentrude’s feeble... ...ats and sausages of the household. In spite of all endeavours to guard the windows and keep up the fire, the cold withered the poor child like a fadin... ...many a priest might envy thee.” Eberhard was not excluded during the final services by which the soul was to be dismissed from its earthly dwell- ing-... ...as disappointing to find this profane mummery going on instead of the holy services to which Christina had looked forward for strength and comfort; sh... ...card. It was a festival of brilliant joy. Wreaths of flowers hung from the windows; rich tapestries decked the Dome Kirk, and the relics were displaye... ... but to overcome evil with good. A temporary altar was erected between the windows, and hung with the silk and embroidery belonging to that in the cha...

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...e saw the wax-candles lighted in the houses and suddenly the doors and the windows closed. Then he heard the blessed abbots or others jumping about, ... ... a conquest of the young priest who all day long had been in her head. The windows had been closed; Madame was decked out in a manner fit to do honour... ...outh. When quite little, he squeezed young ladies, turned the house out of windows, and played the devil with everything, when he was called upon to p... ...is is how. On entering the Rue des Marmouzets he saw several lights at the windows and night-capped heads thrust out, and good wenches, gay girls, hou... ...o entertain, even when to do so it were necessary to turn the house out of windows. We shall get back everything tomorrow in the cellars. Come, fall t... ...uit him. The old steward, who had gained three hundred pounds by different services about the house, desired to live quietly without opening the front...