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He had dreamed of his father the night before, and the Norwegians swore that before the battle they could hear the bell that Saint Olaf had given to the church at Kaupang-a sign that the saint was watching over his son and the army.
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That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
Ever since he had first begun to study music and to teach it, Rousseau had dreamed of piercing through to fame as the result of a successful opera.
Geneva, instead of becoming the City of God, as John had dreamed, had in the two years since he had been there, continued to be a godless place where all manner of vice flourished.
But if true, it was the case of which he had dreamed, the case which would throw him into headlines all over America as the hero of a great murder trial.
If Mr. Skyros had dreamed of all the trouble that young man would eventually cause --
'' Then it was no bogey she had dreamed up ; ;
Linda Evans felt more wretched than she had ever dreamed Bobbie's death could move her to feeling.
From here on out, the Ariadne was going to be hotter than any space cruiser man had ever dreamed of.
It does not rule out other possibilities, such as waking up to find oneself to be a butterfly who had dreamed of having lived a human life.
In it, the poet dreamed he had been transported after death to some place of heavenly enlightenment.
Zamenhof would later say that he had dreamed of a world language since he was a child.
Much of the poem could have been influenced by Coleridge's opium dream or, as his friend and fellow poet Robert Southey joked, " Coleridge had dreamed he had written a poem in a dream ".
She did say, however, that she had never dreamed that he would run for office.
Friends such as Bram Stoker defended his " psychological " reading, based on the supposition that Macbeth had dreamed of killing Duncan before the start of the play.
In one of history's greatest experiments in communal living, the Jesuits had soon organized about 100, 000 Guaraní in about 20 reducciones ( reductions or townships ), and they dreamed of a Jesuit empire that would stretch from the Paraguay-Paraná confluence to the coast and back to the Paraná headwaters.
She had dreamed of becoming a missionary prior to her marriage.
Tennessee Williams commented that Leigh brought to the role " everything that I intended, and much that I had never dreamed of "; but, in later years, Leigh would say playing Blanche DuBois " tipped me over into madness.
But at no period would he have dreamed of putting the two powers on an equal footing ; the superiority of church to state was to him a fact which admitted of no discussion and which he had never doubted.
This speech made Brandt, as well as the Social Democratic Party, popular among most of the students and other young West German baby-boomers who dreamed of a country that would be more open and more colorful than the frugal and still somewhat-authoritarian Bundesrepublik that had been built after World War II.
Working in the late 19th century, Cézanne had a palette of colors that earlier generations of artists could only have dreamed of.
had and father
Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.
The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
My father had none.
He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.
By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.
In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.
His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.
The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.
There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).
My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.
Edward Greville, born about 1565, had inherited Milcote on the execution of his father Lodowick for murder in 1589.
`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.
Scotty murmured, `` No, thanks '', so softly his father had to bend his gaunt height across the table and turn a round brown ear to him.
The infant, in white terry-cloth bathrobe, her face intense and purposeful, had essayed a few wobbly steps toward her father.
With a pardonable irony Shelley wrote to the father who had publicly disowned his daughter:
Suppose her father had changed his mind and had refused to let her leave??
Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.
A Mexican justice of the peace had issue a writ against Chavez for taking part in the `` murder '' of Manuel Gonzales so he and his father were anxious to be taken out of danger.
had and night
It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.
They had chosen this night purposely.
For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.
( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??
And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.
He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.
That long night with Nicolas and marijuana in Venice had opened her eyes.
He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.
Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.
In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
wept day and night for the sins and blindness of the world had a long walk through the trees and woods by his house, where he constantly walked morning and evening, and even in the depths of the night, alone by himself, for contemplation and the enjoyment of the dispensation of light.
Papa had left us about the same hour of the night that Ben had passed on.
Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.
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