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...the television cord, covered with shiny shards of glass, and checked the room— bathroom, closet, beneath the bed. Empty. He scooped up a leather s... ...een split, the hinges broken. He tossed the clothing aside and moved into the bathroom. Glass, remnants of the mirror above the sink, crunched bene... ...Julie. The old man was staring at him, so he flattened his mouth. “Must be an oil man that lives in that house,” he added. “No, Mr. Friedman owns a... ...nd he wanted more sleep. But his mouth felt like cotton, he needed to use the bathroom and as usual, he craved coffee. With an irritable grunt he h... ...feisty and refreshingly honest. “Just a minute,” she said. She swept into the bathroom and closed the door. The tap gurgled. Something clinked. Mayb... ...n’t look so smug now…honey.” She turned, carried the ice bucket back into the bathroom and tossed him a towel. He snagged it with one hand and blot... ... vet injected a shot of pain reliever and pushed a tube up her left nostril so oil could be pumped to her stomach. She was too distressed to argue. H...

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... down the bolted metal ladder of the sleeper with the idea of going to the bathroom. As he did so he heard the Laotian snoring as uproariously as a si... ...t filled him with stiffened, cold dread. Fortunately, with the walk to the bathroom, the attraction passed him entirely almost in the same moment it c... ...s once solitary bower. Even with passion waning with every step toward the bathroom in a salvation of movement, his mind was preoccupied by wanting to... ...an hour or two (whatever it took to get to the last stop) absconded in the bathroom, ostensibly hiding from him but really hiding from himself; still... ...of impulses in their respective order and for now the fetid metallic tiled bathroom with its metallic floor-based, urinal-shaped toilet was an oasis f... ... saut้ ้ ed dishes, as cultured French cuisine demonstrated: with a bit of oil, wine, and cheese any part of a given creature could be successfully co... ...undering inside himself in a melancholy that contaminated his bounty as an oil spill a lagoon. He loathed the inner vulnerabilities of the human creat...

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...Ao Rue raged, the glow in his eyes brightening. "That sack of rancid cod oil never had a thought in his slimy life. He connives, conspires; all he... ...what that thing could do to a dragon. Once the Demon was gone, Lei-kung bathed in his latest infusion of power. I am the superior being. Oh yes,... ... for her. Now he was dusted with gold. He was finally comfortable after bathing in the clear waters and washing the sand from his body and the rem... ...ted with subtle hints of saffron and ginger. It made a good excuse for a bath and a gold dusting. Which, of course, had led to more love play. I ... ... Just as it appeared he would crash into the chorten, he backed wind and bathed the entire dome and Lei-kung in silver- blue fire. It streamed from... ...u've got is nothing but a rude cat." "I am not just any cat, content to bathe in your smoke and ignore your stupidity. I am the First of the Firs...

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...at them. She turned all the little sisters out of the night nursery, covered Lucy up close, and ordered her not to stir, certainly not to go into her bath. Then there was a whispering and a running about, and Lucy was half alarmed, but more pleased at being so important, for she did not feel at all ill, and quite enjoyed the tea and toast that Nurse brought up to her. Just...

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...d Lucy up close, and ordered her not to stir, certainly not to go into her bath. Then there was a whispering and a running about, and Lucy was half al... ...as a kind of lamp burning in the hut; that is, a wick was floating in some oil, but there was no glass, such as Lucy had been apt to think the chief p... ...ittle boy, hoping to please her better, offered her some drink. Ah! it was oil, just like the oil that was burning in the lamp!—horrid oil from the wh... ...s well it may, for he is 19 Yo n g e rubbed from head to foot with castor-oil. There it grows on the bush, with broad, beautiful, folded leaves and r... ... NOT be a hot country next time,” said Lucy, “though, after all, the whale oil was not much worse than the castor oil.—Mother Bunch, did your whaler a... ...all our clothes wherever we like to lie down. We never undress but for the bath. Do you go to the bath?” “I have a bath every morning, when I get up, ... ... the bath?” “I have a bath every morning, when I get up, in my own room.” “Bathe at home! Then you never see your friends? We meet at the bath, and ta... ...see your friends? We meet at the bath, and talk and play and laugh.” “Meet bathing! No, indeed! We meet at home, and out of doors,” said Lucy; “my fri...

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...we travel on- ward laughter sinks down and dies out, like the light of the oil-lit lamp. This signifies, that to laugh you must be inno- cent, and pur... ...oyal orders of the Golden Fleece, of the Holy Ghost, of the Garter, of the Bath, and by many notable things which have been taken therefrom, under she... ...hilippe de Mala spent his angels—acquired with so much labour—in perfumes, baths, fomentations, and other fooleries. He played the fop so well, one wo... ...there was only found of him a shapeless mass, crushed like a nut after the oil has been distilled from it. It was shocking to see 132 Balzac him squa... ...not then replaced by a sluice to discharge the mud into the Loire. In this bath the mechanician expected every moment to breathe his last, and cursed ... ...is that Tours has always had its feet in the Loire, like a pretty girl who bathes herself and plays with the water, making a flick-flack, by beating t... ...ome still more beautiful, like all those who are permanently youthful from bathing in the water of youth, which waters are naught less than the source...

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...ith voracious haste; Marshall’d in order due, to each a sewer Presents, to bathe his hands, a radiant ewer. Luxurious then they feast. Observant round... ...nt blazed; There polished chests embroider’d vestures graced; Here jars of oil breathed forth a rich perfume; There casks of wine in rows adorn’d the ... ...r branch of the Nestorean line, Sweet Polycaste, took the pleasing toil To bathe the prince, and pour the fragrant oil. O’er his fair limbs a flowery ... ...lycaste, took the pleasing toil To bathe the prince, and pour the fragrant oil. O’er his fair limbs a flowery vest he throw, And issued, like a god, t... ... midnight moon. From room to room their eager view they bend Thence to the bath, a beauteous pile, descend; Where a bright damsel train attends the gu... ...zes of deceit, Eludes my search; but when his form I view’d Fresh from the bath, with fragrant oils renew’d, His limbs in military purple dress’d, Eac... ... to shun; New from the corse, the scaly frands diffuse Unsavoury stench of oil, and brackish ooze; But the bright sea maid’s gentle power implored, Wi... ... a short repast relieve their toil, And o’er their limbs diffuse ambrosial oil; And while the robes imbibe the solar ray, O’er the green mead the spor... ...s the waves diffuse, And from his locks compress the weedy ooze; The balmy oil, a fragrant shower, be sheds; Then, dressed, in pomp magnificently trea...

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...off, and he became very sociable and funny, and they agreed to go into the bath to- gether. How T ennison could venture to gambol in the same water wi... ...emselves,” [i.e., diving,] “they discoursed of many things relating to the Baths of the Ancients, and the Origine of Springs. When they had in this ma... ... When they had in this manner passed away an hour, they stepped out of the bath; and, having dried and cloathed themselves, they sate down in expectat... ...the Gods.” Merely because it was supper time, and in the neighborhood of a bath, Mr. Hobbes must have the fate of Sextus Roscius. What logic was there... ...ban- dages. But, unhappily, the Romans wore woollen, on which account they bathed so often. Meantime, there was linen to be had in Rome; but it was mo... ...eans? And above all, if he were king without a coronation, and without the oil from the sacred ampulla, what advantage was yet open to him by celerity... ...s the steward of the public resources for main- taining the baths in fuel, oil, attendance, repairs. We are pre- pared to show, on a fitting occasion,...

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...u must be working against friction.” “Friction! I’m like a machine without oil. I’m grinding to death…. And it’s so damned important I shouldn’t break... ...ke nationalization look silly, and the rest mine owners, railway managers, oil profiteers, financial adventurers…. “ He was fairly launched. “It’s the... ...on the beach and across the sands to the water. She was dressed in a tight bath- 33 H G Wells ing dress and not in the clumsy skirts and frills that ... ...en’t it in hand. There may be some impasse. All we have surely is coal and oil,—there is no surplus of wood now—only an annual growth. And water- powe... ... is income also, doled out day by day. We cannot an- ticipate it. Coal and oil are our only capital. They are all we have for great important efforts.... ...supreme end or to waste in trivialities. Coal is the key to metallurgy and oil to transit. When they are done we shall either have built up such a fab... ...in maps which he had taken out of the pockets of the little Charmeuse. The Bath Road lay before them, he explained, Reading, Newbury, Hungerford, Marl... ...ds already disused when the Romans made their highway past Silbury Hill to Bath, can still be traced for scores of miles through the land, running to ... ...Saint Peter’s and that fright- ful Monument are just the same stuff as the Baths of Caracalla and the palaces of the Caesars. Just the same. They will...

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...hile the organism had to mark time. He com- pared his unknown substance to oil in machinery. A grow- ing animal was rather like an engine, he suggeste... ...ce and must then be oiled before it can run again. (“But why shouldn’t one oil the engine from with- out?” said Mr. Bensington, when he read the paper... ..., the receiver of the lamp smashed, and suddenly poured a flare of blazing oil, a thud of white flame, into the struggle. That was the first thing the... ...gging the seven dead rats to the funeral pyre by the nettle grove left him bathed in perspiration, and Cossar pointed out the obvious physical reactio... ...s him in clubs, a great clumsy presence with the evidences of his midnight oil burning manifest upon his large unwhole- some face, explaining to every... ...ly a little overwrought. It’s that cheap perambulator. I’ve arranged for a bath-chair man to come round with something stouter to-morrow—” Mrs. Redwoo... ...ood looked at him tearfully over the top of her handkerchief. “A baby in a bath-chair?” she sobbed. “Well, why not?” “It’s like a cripple.” “It’s like... ...drothera- peutic Hotel, where there are quite extraordinary facilities for baths, Carbonated Baths, Creosote Baths, Galvanic and Faradic Treatment, Ma... ...r. “We live in an atmo- sphere of simple and permanent things, Birth and T oil, simple seed-time and simple harvest. The Uproar passes us by.” He was ...

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...he deep he hung, That kindred deep from whence his mother sprung: 21 There bathed in tears of anger and disdain, Thus loud lamented to the stormy main... ...l death, shall cover all: Let the war bleed, and let the mighty fall; Till bathed in sweat be every manly breast, With the huge shield each brawny arm... ...a fires, Pale flight around, and dreadful terror reign; And discord raging bathes the purple plain; Discord! dire sister of the slaughtering power, Sm... ...res the autumnal skies, When fresh he rears his radiant orb to sight, And, bathed in ocean, shoots a keener light. Such glories Pallas on the chief be... ...d this speech address’d: “Stern power of war! by whom the mighty fall, Who bathe in blood, and shake the lofty wall! Let the brave chiefs their glorio... ...lished bath, refresh’d from toil, Their joints they supple with dissolving oil, In due repast indulge the genial hour, And first to Pallas the libatio... ... then they bathe with pious toil, Embalm the wounds, anoint the limbs with oil, High on a bed of state extended aid, And decent cover’d with a linen s... ...e piled victims round the body spread; Then jars of honey, and of fragrant oil, Suspends around, low-bending o’er the pile. Four sprightly coursers, w... ...n call the handmaids, with assistant toil To wash the body and anoint with oil, Apart from Priam: lest the unhappy sire, Provoked to passion, once mor...

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...urprising how much ruin they will bear. We have an excellent hotel—capital baths, warm, cold, and shower—first rate bathing machines—and as good butch... ...see no end of salt and sandy little boots drying on upper window sills. At bathing time in the morning, the little bay re echoes with every shrill var... ... or it would not be French. They are very popular, and very cheap. The sea bathing—which may rank as the most favoured daylight entertainment, inasmuc... ... the most favoured daylight entertainment, inasmuch as the French visitors bathe all day long, and seldom appear to think of remaining less than an ho... ... an avenging spirit to that man is Profes sor Holloway! Have I sinned in oil? Cabburn pursues me. Have I a dark remembrance associated with any gen... ...any analogy between Augustus George Meek and Jack Sheppard? Analyse Castor Oil at any Institution of Chemistry that may be agreed upon, and inform me ... ...odgit (aided and abetted by Mrs. Bigby) with systematically forcing Castor Oil on my innocent son, from the first hour of his birth. When that medicin... ...about lighting up, he lived in peace; but that, if he made the best of the oil lamps in the steep and narrow streets, he usually fell over the cliff a... ... a long mildewed table cloth, set forth with jovial bottles of vinegar and oil, and with a Siamese arrangement of pepper and salt, was never wanting? ...

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... known advantages. And first, to pass by the miraculous cures of our known baths, how advantageous is the sea for our daily traf fick, without which ... ...which he put those worms was anointed with a drop, or two or three, of the oil of ivy berries, made by expression or infusion; and told, that by the w... ...t in a learned language, lest it should be made common. “Take the stinking oil drawn out of polypody of the oak by a retort, mixed with turpentine and... ...you that that was told me for a secret: it is this: Dissolve gum of ivy in oil of spike, and therewith anoint your dead bait for a Pike; and then cast... ...l piece of scarlet about this bigness, it being soaked in or anointed with oil of petre, called by some, oil of the rock: and if your gentles be put, ... ... stay Begging themselves they may betray. When thou wilt swim in that live bath, Each fish, which every channel hash, Most amorously to thee will swim... ...is for colouring your hair. And as for painting your Rod, which must be in oil, you must first make a size with glue and water, boiled together until ...

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...one, I painted my great picture, “Heidel- berg Castle Illuminated”—my first really important work in oils—and had it hung up in the midst of a wildern... ...ile this picture was thought to be Bindi Altoviti’s portrait; now somebody will again have it to be the self-portrait of Raphael.” 73 A Tramp Abroad ... ... existence. A good many of these people are there for a real purpose, however; they are racked with rheumatism, and they are there to stew it out in t... ...mp stone houses, is the home of rheumatism. If that is so, Providence must have foreseen that it would be so, and therefore filled the land with the h... ...o, and therefore filled the land with the healing baths. Perhaps no other country is so generously supplied with medicinal springs as Germany. Some of... ...se baths are good for one ailment, some for an- other; and again, peculiar ailments are conquered by com- bining the individual virtues of several dif... ... month before, this mountain had been only a name to us, but latterly we had been moving through a steadily thickening double row of pictures of it, d...

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...he valley, and across the meadows, through the blushing crowds of flowers, baths of freshest scents, cool breezes that awoke in the nostrils of the ma... ... women in it to wait on Bhanavar, and stuffs and goods, and scents for the bath,—all luxuries whatsoever that tradesmen and merchants there could give... ...in this dress and that dress, and was satisfied with none. The dews of the bath stood cold upon her, and she trembled, and fled from mirror to mirror,... ...ing. And Shahpesh praised him, and said, ‘This is an apt contrivance for a bath, Khipil O my builder! well con- ceived; one that taketh by surprise; a... ...h patience rare I listen, I have thoughts of Khipil’s chair: His bath, his nosegay, and his fount I see,— Himself stretch’d out as a po... ... pleasant will be the time with him!’ And one smoothed his head and poured oil upon it; one brought him garments of gold and silk inwoven; one fetched... ...ger than we without the Sword, but it seemed he was distilling drops of an oil from certain substances, large thickened drops that dropped into a phia... ...hy calculations? I know of a surety what this Sword will do, and I wot the oil he distilleth strengtheneth Shagpat but against common blades. Yet shal...

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...yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. 10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers... ...n, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingd... ...tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense be fore them. Ezekiel 16:7 – 16:18 29 19 My meat als... ...zekiel 16:7 – 16:18 29 19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for... ... a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. 42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the... ...the Lord GOD. 10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may ... ...of an ephah of an homer of barley: 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which ... ...ll offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: 15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of...

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... lots of time to parallel us up above.” They strolled towards the swimming-baths, and presently overtook King. “Oh, don’t let me interrupt you,” he sa... ...ecret. He’s followin’ to cut off our line of re- treat. He’ll wait at the baths till Heffy comes along. They’ve tried every blessed place except alon... ... never do.” McTurk adjusted Beetle’s collar with a savage tug. “Don’t drop oil all over my ‘Fors’ or I’ll scrag you!” “Shut up, you—you Irish Biddy! ’... ...on all the taps, filled the place with steam, and dropped weeping into the baths, where they pieced out the war. “Moi! Je! Ich! Ego!” gasped Stalky. “... ... little beast’s head all over the Latin proses for Monday . Golly, how the oil stunk! And Rabbits-Eggs told King to poultice his nose! Did you hit Rab... ...to tell lies. “What a low mind you’ve got, Pussy! We’ve been down having a bath. Did Rab- bits-Eggs rock King? Strong, perseverin’ man King? Shockin’!... ...idn’t come here to mix up in their rows,” McT urk said wrathfully. “Who’ll bathe after call-over? King’s takin’ it in the cricket-field. Come on.” Tur... ...ometer, and the grimy gas-man in change bade them desist. They watched him oil a turncock sunk in the ground between two furze-bushes. “Cokey, what’s ...

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...Awayward, away Awke, sideways Bachelors, probationers for knighthood Bain, bath Barbican, gate-tower Barget, little ship Battle, division of an army B... ...cart Cheer, countenance, entertainment Chierte, dearness Chrism, anointing oil Clatter, talk confusedly Cleight, clutched 6 Thomas Malory Cleped, cal... ...e, courtyard Covert, sheltered Covetise, covetousness Covin, deceit Cream, oil Credence, faith Croup, crupper Curteist, most courteous Daffish, foolis...

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...ring. It is recorded that the friends ‘spent most of the time in the barn, bathing in the early spring sunshine, which streamed through the open doors... ...ship’s side, where they clung dripping with the brine and glowing from the bath, their jet-black tresses streaming over their shoul- ders, and half en... ...little round shell that passed from hand to hand, anointed with a fragrant oil: their adornments were com- 33 Melville pleted by passing a few loose ... .... Not he. He has registered a vow: he will fill his vessel with good sperm oil, or failing to do so, never again strike Yankee soundings. I heard of o... ...ople may say what they will about the refreshing influences of a coldwater bath, but commend me when in a perspiration to the shade baths of Tior, ben... ...doubt that 98 Typee the greater part of the inhabitants of the valley had bathed themselves in the light of our benignant countenances. At last, when... ...with the most jealous attention—would anoint my whole body with a fragrant oil, squeezed from a yellow root, previously pounded between a couple of st... ... of T ypee; and every day bathed their glowing limbs in rivers of cocoanut oil. In that happy land there were plenty of plumes and feathers, and boars... ...emselves; the women preferring the ‘aker’ to ‘papa’, and the men using the oil of the cocoanut. Mehevi was remark- able fond of mollifying his entire ...

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...d poetry ‘cept a beadle on boxin’ day, or W arren’s blackin’, or Rowland’s oil, or some of them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetr... ...a alleybi!’ CHAPTER XXXV IN WHICH Mr. PICKWICK THINKS HE HAD BETTER GO TO BATH; AND GOES ACCORDINGLY ‘BUT SURELY, MY DEAR SIR,’ said little Perke... ...,’ said that gentleman, ‘if you leave me to suggest our destination, I say Bath. I think none of us have ever been there.’ Nobody had; and as the prop... ...nder his arms, looked at his boots and ruminated. ‘I wonder whereabouts in Bath this coach puts up,’ said Mr. Pickwick, mildly addressing Mr. Winkle. ... ..., always ready to enter into conversation. ‘I won dered at what house the Bath coach put up. Perhaps you can inform me.’ ‘Are you going to Bath?’ sai... ... abrupt, jerking sentences, that his name was Dowler; that he was going to Bath on pleasure; that he was formerly in the army; that he had now set up ... ...ows over the roughly paved road, and mak ing the dark night darker. A few oil lamps were scattered at long distances, but they only served to mark th...