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Madame Armfeldt tells the child that the summer night " smiles " three times: first on the young, second on fools, and third on the old.
The book of Job tells the story of an extremely righteous man named Job, who was very prosperous and had seven sons and three daughters.
Over 350, 000 objects spanning two million years tells the story of the history of man, from three major continents and many rich and diverse cultures.
( Bernard ) Berenson, Mrs. Coates tells me, stood in front of the portraits – Miss Beaux's three – and wagged his head.
An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle three years previously, tells how " after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him.
A common introductory example is a woman who tells a policeman that she lost her basket of eggs, and that if she took three at a time out of it, she was left with 2, if she took five at a time out of it she was left with 3, and if she took seven at a time out of it she was left with 2.
Pressured into finding Dulcinea, Sancho brings back three dirty and ragged peasant girls, and tells Don Quixote that they are Dulcinea and her ladies-in-waiting.
After more than three years of drought and famine, God tells Elijah to return to Ahab and announce the end of the drought: not occasioned by repentance in Israel but by the command of the Lord, who had determined to reveal himself again to his people.
She tells her servant Ninshubur ( Lady Evening ), a reference to Inanna's role as the evening star, that if she does not return in three days, to get help from her father Anu, Enlil, king of the gods, or Enki.
As Montag leaves for work, he finally tells Mildred ( who is watching an interactive soap opera on the " parlor walls " -- three enormous, floor-to-ceiling television screens ) that she overdosed on sleeping pills.
They release Nights, who tells them about dreams, and Wizeman and his plans, and the three begin a journey to stop Wizeman and restore peace to Nightopia.
Alice now has complete knowledge of the state of the three particles ; the result of her Bell measurement tells her which of the four states the system is in.
The Anonymous Valesianus tells an account about his choosing of a successor: Anastasius could not decide which of his three nephews should succeed him, so he put a message under a couch and had his nephews take seats in the room, which also had two other seats ; he believed that the nephew to sit on the special couch would be his proper heir.
Just after sunrise on the day after the Sabbath three women, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, come to anoint Jesus ' body, wondering how they can roll the rock away from the tomb ; but they find the rock already rolled aside and a young man in white inside ; he tells them that Jesus is risen, and that they should tell Peter and the disciples that he will meet them in Galilee, " just as he told you.
High tells a story set " right at the beginning of the gods ' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall " about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods in three seasons that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.
* British Prime Minister Blair tells the House of Commons they will be given incontrovertible evidence of Osama bin Laden's involvement, which includes direct ties with three of the hijackers over the past year, though some evidence will remain concealed.
William Dalrymple reviewing the literature in 1999 tells us that J. E. Hanauer in his 1907 book Folklore of the Holy Land: Muslim, Christian and Jewish " mentioned a shrine in the village of Beit Jala, beside Bethlehem, which at the time was frequented by all three of Palestine's religious communities.
When you have gone three steps in a straight line, you will reach a square with a number on it, which indicates the second day's journey, as many steps as it tells, in a straight line in any of the eight directions.
A Taoist story tells of a tree that produces a peach every three thousand years.
Just like the previous three novellas, Lauretta's tale tells of one person censuring another in a clever way.
The three Virtues then appear to Christine, and each lady tells Christine what her role will be in helping her build the City of Ladies.
* Van Diemen's Land is the setting of the novel English Passengers by Matthew Kneale ( 2000 ), which tells the story of three eccentric Englishmen who in 1857 set sail for the island in search of the Garden of Eden.
The show tells the story of Earth and is divided into three movements titled " Chaos ," " Order ," and " Meaning.
Suzuki tells him that, for the last three years, Butterfly has studied every ship that entered the port.

tells and men
A report of Sr. Edw Grevyles minaces to the Baileefe Aldermen & Burgesses of Stratforde '' tells how Quiney was injured by Greville's men: `` in the tyme Mr. Ryc' Quyney was bayleefe ther came some of them whoe beinge druncke fell to braweling in ther hosts howse wher thei druncke & drewe ther dagers uppon the hoste: att a faier tyme the Baileefe being late abroade to see the towne in order & comminge by in hurley burley came into the howse & commawnded the peace to be kept butt colde nott prevayle & in hys endevor to sticle the brawle had his heade grevouselye brooken by one of hys ( Greville's ) men whom nether hymselfe ( Greville ) punnished nor wolde suffer to be punnished but with a shewe to turne them awaye & enterteyned agayne ''.
Clifford D. Simak's `` How-2 '' ( 1954 ) tells of a future when robots have taken over, leaving men nothing to do ; ;
Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, and the two men go swimming together in the sea.
Beowulf and his warriors come to fight the dragon, but Beowulf tells his men that he will fight the dragon alone and that they should wait on the barrow.
Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".
Don Quixote tells Sancho and the goatherds about the " Golden Age " of man, reminiscent of both Ovid and the later Rousseau in which property does not exist, and men live in peace.
One of the men produces a double-edged butcher knife, and as the two men pass it back and forth between them, the narrator tells us that " K. knew then precisely, that it would have been his duty to take the knife ... and thrust it into himself.
The Gylfaginning tells the story of Gylfi, a king of " the land that men now call Sweden ", who after being tricked by one of the goddesses of the Æsir, wonders if all Æsir use magic and tricks for their will to be done.
Yankee officers outside the home question Rhett and he tells them he and the other men had been at Belle Watling's brothel that evening, a story Belle later confirms to the officers.
Hengist tells these chosen men not to be afraid of Aurelius, for Aurelius must only have had a few Armorican Britons, as their numbers did not exceed ten thousand, and the native Britons he did not mention, " since they had been so often defeated by him.
Loki tells him to be silent, that Byggvir does not know how to apportion food among men, and that he hides among the straw and dais when men go to battle.
Surprised, Q brings the Enterprise home and tells Picard that other men would rather have died than ask for help.
Samoan folklore tells of the arrival of two maidens from Fiji who brought the art of tatau, or tattoo, to Samoa, whence came the traditional Samoan malofie ( malofie is also known as pe ' a for men and as malu for women ).
Better by far to lose six men and keep your ship than lose your entire crew " she warns, and tells Odysseus to bid Scylla's mother, the river nymph Crataeis, to prevent her from pouncing more than once.
Two Sienese men love a lady, one of them being her child's godfather: the godfather dies, having promised his comrade to return to him from the other world ; which he does, and tells him what sort of life is led there.
... Frigg is his wife, and she knows the fate of men, although she tells not thereof.
" Confessions of a Republican ", another Johnson ad, features a monologue from a man who tells us that he had previously voted for Eisenhower and Nixon, but now worries about the " men with strange ideas ", " weird groups " and " the head of the Ku Klux Klan " who were supporting Goldwater: he concludes that " either they're not Republicans, or I'm not ".
Nevertheless, with no other option, he lies to the men and tells them the chemical suits will protect them.
Stanley appears as a character in Simon Gray's 1978 play The Rear Column, which tells the story of the men left behind to wait for Tippu Tib while Stanley went on to relieve Emin Pasha.
Bacchylides then tells of the greatness of these men ’ s sons, Achilles and Ajax, alluding to a second myth, the tale of Ajax repelling Hector on the beaches of Troy, keeping the Trojans from burning the Greek ships.
The story tells of a visit to a tunnel on the surface of the moon which goes awry when a pressure seal fails, trapping three men ( a supervisor, a reporter, and a tunnel worker ).

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