This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

There was also a dog, a dingo dog.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

There was also a boomerang, elaborately carved.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.

The Eisenhower budget was simultaneously inadequate in its provisions and yet extravagant in its projections of revenue to be received.

It was an elaborate production that included location shooting in the Truckee mountains with 600 extras, extravagant sets, and special effects.

Constantine's rule, however, validated Diocletian's achievements and the autocratic principle he represented: the borders remained secure, in spite of Constantine's large expenditure of forces during his civil wars ; the bureaucratic transformation of Roman government was completed ; and Constantine took Diocletian's court ceremonies and made them even more extravagant.

News that Anne was pregnant had reached him in Paris, and he sent her many extravagant presents in the coming months.

Another extravagant scheme of Alberoni's was the plotted restoration of the Stuarts to the British throne in two Jacobite expeditions to Scotland in the spring of 1719.

For many years, Brown's touring show was one of the most extravagant productions in American popular music.

La Voix humaine was written, in effect, as an extravagant aria for Madame Berthe Bovy.

In addition to Roman citizenship, he was granted accommodation in conquered Judaea, and a decent, if not extravagant, pension.

According to Brothwell, it is one of the most complex examples of " overkill " in a bog body, and possibly has ritual meaning as it was " extravagant " for a straightforward murder.

Eberhard II von Truchsees, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, in 1241 at the Council of Regensburg declared that Gregory IX was " that man of perdition, whom they call Antichrist, who in his extravagant boasting says, ' I am God, I cannot err '.

King Saud ( 1953 – 1964 ) was considered incompetent and extravagant and his rule led to an economic and political crisis that resulted in his forced abdication.

Gladstone believed that government was extravagant and wasteful with taxpayers ' money and so sought to let money " fructify in the pockets of the people " by keeping taxation levels down through " peace and retrenchment ".

He executed many ministers and imperial princes, continued massive building projects ( one of his most extravagant projects was lacquering the city walls ), enlarged the army, increased taxes, and arrested messengers who brought him bad news.

The Court, like most Imperial Courts, was considered a reflection of the ruler at its center and Elizabeth was said to be “ the laziest, most extravagant and most amorous of sovereigns .” Elizabeth was intelligent but lacked the discipline and early education necessary to flourish as an intellectual ; she found the reading of secular literature to be “ injurious to health .” She kind and warm-hearted for the emotions sake alone, once going so far as to offer to finance the reconstruction of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake destroyed the Portuguese city despite having and wanting no diplomatic relationship with the nation.

The film contained lavish sets and extravagant costumes, though Photoplay magazine said the film was " a little unreal and hectic.

Her extravagant lifestyle amused journalists, particularly when it was revealed she had a multi-million pound overdraft with Coutts Bank.

" Though she was not always extravagant ( she had her old stockings darned for re-use and her old dresses were recycled as furniture covers ), she would dismiss protests about her heavy spending with a wave of a hand or by claiming that she had not heard.

In its heyday ( c. 1550 – 1650 ) the treble cornett was used more than other wind instruments for virtuoso display, resulting in spectacular divisions ( or diminutions ) as extravagant as those produced on the violin or bass viol, or by the voice.

The model of articulation on the cornett was the human voice, especially the extravagant vocal ornaments known as gorgie, and thus the lingua riversa was sometimes known as the lingua di gorgia.

Because of the extravagant promises made by Tirpitz before 1914 that sea power equalled world power, and because of the equally extravagant sums that were spent on the Navy during the Anglo-German naval race ( by 1913-14, the Anglo-German naval race was costing so much money as the Reich government continued to pour vast sums of money into the Navy that concerns started to be expressed about Germany's creditworthiness.

This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.

King Sisyphus promoted navigation and commerce but was avaricious and deceitful.

" and whose theme " was the renewal of America as a dominant, avaricious bully ".

The author of the Gesta Stephani claimed that William was avaricious and hoarded money.

” The son of a nun and a priest ... more occupied with his lusts and debauchery than with the affairs of Christendom ... he was ambitious, avaricious, an apostate, destitute of shame, faith and honour, and sacrificed everything to his passions ; he held the Holy See about sixteen years, to the disgrace of humanity .”

He was an unmotivated and avaricious ruler whose reign was plagued with fiscal woes, military pressures, and angry bureaucrats.

This may have been open to abuse, either by avaricious monarchs or by parliament when little ( if any ) evidence was available to secure a conviction.

Demades was avaricious and unscrupulous ; but he was a highly gifted and practised orator.

Thus, while the common portrayal during this period, of Jews as avaricious, blood-thirsty, and greedy was certainly a wholly inaccurate stereotype ; the casting of Shylock as a moneylender reflects an occupation among sixteenth century European Jews that was certainly common enough.

Seen as extremely avaricious, he was distrusted even by most of his cabinet colleagues.

Invasion of Iraq was militaristic, untimely, " avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked war " ( xvi-xvii ).

It was the scene of his winning of his war horse, Pommers, and his youthful embarrassment of the avaricious abbey authorities.

Montagu was no less avaricious than unscrupulous.

In Greek legend, a princess Arne was bribed with gold by King Minos of Crete, and was punished for her avarice by being transformed into an equally avaricious jackdaw, who still seeks shiny things.

Contemporary writers give no pleasant account of him, describing him as fat, irascible, pretentious and very avaricious ; but his ability was undoubted, and in the theological controversies of the time he soon took a foremost place.

Matthew was especially bitter against Frankish settlers, whose avaricious and imperious rule and ingratitude he condemns in his work.

She was avaricious and brutal but not imaginative.

He was mean, cruel, vindictive, avaricious but surprisingly well-read and shrewd in financial dealings.