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And their arrival caught John Clayton and Charles Ansley off guard.
Just then Charles Lever yelled, `` Hey, Jack '', from the quarry road which ran behind the Carter house, and Jack grabbed the lunch from the table and darted out the kitchen door, yelling `` Good-bye, Mom '' over his shoulder.
Charles said, grinning, showing his huge yellow teeth.
Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.
Charles said as they picked their way over the rocky road which led up the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn field and a patch of woods to the school.
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.
Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.
At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.
He asked Charles suspiciously as they sat in the well-house shade, watching the girls congregate in front of the schoolhouse.
`` I'd druther stay here and watch the girls '', Charles grinned.
`` O.K. '' Charles rose also, and the two of them moved over to join the girls.
The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.
An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.
With the first of a group of historical novels, The Charles Men ( Karolinerna ), published in 1897-8, he achieved the masterpiece of his career.
Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.
The Charles Men consists not of a connected narrative but of a group of short stories, each depicting a special phase of the general subject.
The Charles Men has a tremendous range of characters, of common folk even more than of major figures.
The career of Charles 12, is obviously very similar to that of Napoleon.
The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.
In `` The King's Ride '', Charles breaks out of a long period of petulance and inertia, regains his old self, escapes from Turkey, and finally reaches his own land after an absence of eighteen years.
The guns are fired, the hymns are sung, and the body of Charles is carried down to the vault and laid beside the tombs of his ancestors.
Excellent in their way, they lack the wide appeal of The Charles Men, and need not detain us here.
Gustaf Vasa is a superb example, and Charles 10,, the conqueror of Denmark, hardly less so.
Of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles 12, it is unnecessary to speak.

Charles and Dana
" He quotes Charles Lyell as saying " Continents, therefore, although permanent for whole geological epochs, shift their positions entirely in the course of ages " and claims that the first to throw doubt on this was James D. Dana in 1849.
Nevertheless, he was influential among some of the American individualists ; in the 1840s and 1850s, Charles A. Dana, and William B. Greene introduced Proudhon's works to the United States.
* 1867 – Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator ( d. 1944 )
President Lincoln again sent Charles Dana to keep a watchful eye on Grant's alleged intemperance ; Dana eventually became Grant's devoted ally, and made light of the drinking.
Stanton, through Charles Dana, notified Grant of the President's death and summoned him to Washington.
Charles Dana, editor of the New York Sun, attacked The World and said Pulitzer was " deficient in judgment and in staying power.
In later years, Charles Dana of the New York Sun allegedly had sources indicating that Garfield had publicly stated that Rosecrans had fled the battlefield during the Battle of Chickamauga.
Some argue that Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun coined the term related to the hype of the city's promoters.
* Uri Treisman, professor of math and of public affairs at University of Texas at Austin, founder and executive director of the Charles A. Dana Center
All of the sisters were known for their beauty ; her sister Irene later married the artist Charles Dana Gibson and became a model for the Gibson girl.
Riis rushed there to enlist, but the editor ( whom he later realized was Charles Anderson Dana ) claimed or affected ignorance but offered the famished Riis a dollar for breakfast ; Riis indignantly refused.
* Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation founded by Charles A. Dana
His scratchy pen-and-ink style is influenced by the impressionists, illustrators of the age of " liberated penmanship " such as Phil May, Charles Dana Gibson, John Leech and George du Maurier, and cartoonists Milton Caniff and Frank Frazetta ( particularly his Johnny Comet strip ).
The town was laid out in 1874 and was named for Charles Dana who was a local railroad stockholder and famous newspaper editor.
In literacy, the district is working with the Hasbro Center for Teaching Excellence / Highlander-Dunn Institute and the HILL for Literacy and, in mathematics, the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
* Charles Dana Gibson ( 1998 ), " Gibson Girl "
He was born Carver Dana Andrews on a farmstead outside Collins, Covington County, Mississippi, the third of nine children of Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister, and his wife Annis ( née Speed ).
* Charles and Mambo Duckman ( voiced by: Dana Hill then Pat Musick, and E. G.
Similar measures, from Frederic the Great's camp at Bunzelwitz, to Arthur Wellesley's with his defense lines at Torres Vedras, to the French lines of Weissenburg, were frequently used .< ref > George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, D. Appleton & Company, 1859, p. 622, ( a work in the public domain ) More than 80, 000 of the best shooters received the semi-automatic RSC 1917 rifle, allowing them to rapid fire at waves of attacking soldiers.
Charles A. Dana, the editor of the rival New York Sun attacked Pulitzer in print, often using anti-Semitic terms like " Judas Pulitzer ".
It featured some of the greatest writers, editors and cartoonists of its era, including Charles Dana Gibson, Norman Rockwell, and Harry Oliver.

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