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What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
`` It was foolish of him to keep them, whatever they were.
He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.
When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
The impression was unmistakable that, whatever one may choose to call it, natural law is a functioning generality with a certain objective existence.
He was not going to lose the mission by default, and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission, he was going to be in for a surprise.
Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.
But Stravinsky was swayed by the attitudes of whatever culture he was reflecting.
Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.
Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.
In the only sense in which badness is involved at all, whatever was bad in the first case is still present in its entirety, since all that is expressed in either case is a state of feeling, and that feeling is still there.
If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.
His saloon was a meetin' place for influential Wyoming cattlemen, and one year durin' a severe blizzard, when his herd-owner customers were wearin' long faces, he said, `` Cheer up, boys, whatever happens, the books won't freeze ''.
He had retained his hat and his horn, and, whatever fun might still be going, he was ready to join it.
I tried to believe that what must have happened was that, restless, disturbed by this telephone call or whatever, she walked out in the night, as she had a habit of doing.
I was desperate to hold him, to give him whatever in this world he wanted or needed, and to keep him from the clutches of Lucille Warren.
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But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.
As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.
The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.
Among others, John Heath has observed, " The unalterable kernel of the tale was a hunter's transformation into a deer and his death in the jaws of his hunting dogs.
The tale is treated with scepticism by Walter Goffart, who observes that it conflicts with the Origo Gentis Langobardorum, where she was captured only after the death of her father.
According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.
Many artists, including Martin Schongauer, Hieronymus Bosch, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí, have depicted these incidents from the life of Anthony ; in prose, the tale was retold and embellished by Gustave Flaubert in The Temptation of Saint Anthony.
However, although this approach — the " shift ... from the quasi-historical or legendary materials ... to the folktale line of inquiry ," was seen as a step in the right direction, " The Bear's Son " tale was seen as too universal.
Cervantes was a gambler, and the main characters of his tale Rinconete y Cortadillo, from Novelas Ejemplares, are a couple of cheats working in Seville.
The band's debut single, " Smalltown Boy ", the tale of a boy who was cast away by his family for being homosexual, was a hit, peaking at No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.
The legend was a popular motif in art during Greek and Roman antiquity and served as an antithetical cautionary tale.
One of these, " Surrender into the Roses " ( also known as " Carmilla " and " Coming Up ") was inspired by the tale.
The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale (" The Dainty Daredevil ") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 ( Nov. 1968 ).
In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces.
In a well-known but probably apocryphal tale, Archimedes was given the task of determining whether King Hiero's goldsmith was embezzling gold during the manufacture of a golden wreath dedicated to the gods and replacing it with another, cheaper alloy.
Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.
In it, the assassin's sword was seen hanging by a single strand of horsehair above Le Peletier's body, a concept inspired by the proverbial ancient tale of the sword of Damocles, which illustrated the insecurity of power and position.
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There was more to this than Jones had told him.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.
Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.
I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.
He commented -- thoughtfully, a reporter told us -- that it was `` not too important for the individual how he ends up ''.
He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
You know Bang-Jensen was told the Committee was ' to convey its views, suggestions and recommendations to the Secretary General.
Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.
Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.
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