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Orlick and with
Orlick shakes his hand at Pip, bangs the table with his fist, draws his unclenched hand `` across his mouth as if his mouth watered '' for his victim, lets his hands hang `` loose and heavy at his sides '', and Pip observes him so intensely that he knows `` of the slightest action of his fingers ''.

Orlick and .
Orlick might almost be Magwitch's bogy man come alive, a figure of nemesis from Pip's phantasy of guilt.
He is also senior counsel to Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, Pachios, Orlick & Haley in Portland, Maine.
On March 1, 1989, David Braley, president of Orlick Industries in Hamilton, purchased the Tiger-Cat franchise from Harold E. Ballard and Maple Leaf Gardens Limited.

slouches and with
Dobie Gillis, Life magazine, Charles Kuralt, and a host of other entertainers and journalists reduced Beatness to a set of superficial, silly externals which have stayed with us ever since: goatees, sunglasses, poetry readings, coffeehouses, slouches and " cool, man, cool " jargon.

slouches and .
Some comics note, in the words of Barry Allen, that " Clark slouches, wears clothes two sizes too big and raises his voice an octave ," making him appear shorter and overweight instead of muscular.
The Patrol's ground forces, while receiving less attention than the fleet, were no slouches either.

about and forge
later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.
Nora admits that she did forge the signature, so as to spare her dying father further worry about her ( she was pregnant, poor, and had a seriously ill husband ).
A forge of this type is essentially a hearth or fireplace designed to allow a fire to be controlled such that metal introduced to the fire may be brought to a malleable state or to bring about other metallurgical effects ( hardening, annealing, and tempering as examples ).
The ancient Greek horse trainer Xenophon mentioned nothing about horseshoes in his treatise on the care of military cavalry, nor did the Digesta Artis Mulomedicinae by Vegetius Renatus, written in the 4th or 5th century AD, mention nailed-on shoes, though he accurately enumerated everything connected with an army forge in the time.
In about 1780, a French settler set up a forge for working brass and the industrial era arrived in North Attleborough.
Birdsboro was named for ironmaker William Bird, who established a forge on Hay Creek about 1740.
The furnace and forge were abandoned about 1858.
However, at the decisive moment when the new executive was about to sign a five-year contract, he keeled over and died, forcing Alan to forge the dead man's signature.
From observing the behavior of iron that stuck to the walls of his grandfather's forge, he had developed a theory about the heat treatment of iron.
In later years, he helped to forge greater links with archaeological departments in the People's Republic of China, and in 2006 travelled to ten different Chinese cities to interview academics about how they taught archaeology-he had a plan to write a book about this, but this never materialised.
Its issue became a strategic turnover as both sides wanted to emerge as the victor and forge a favorable position for the planned negotiations aboutthe Indochinese problem ”.
The importance of the site is emphasised by the fact that a book has been written about the forge by Richard A. Postman.
Among his works it is worth highlighting " Boal y su concejo " (" Boal and its municipality "), a very clarifying picture about the way of life and the customs in the municipality at the end of the 19th century, which also shows the importance the industry of iron forge ( at present disappeared ) had by that time.
When Academy members complained about the anachronisms in the letters, Lucas had to forge more letters to explain away his earlier mistakes.
The adult children, now in mid-career with families of their own, speak poignantly about their experience of dislocation. They each longed to be re-united as a family and had to struggle to forge a new identity in a foreign land.
Indeed, there is nothing absurd about the core ideology of generic fascism namely the quest to forge a holistic nation and create a radical syncretic Third Way state.
" The modern proletarian class does not carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory ; the modern workers ' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight ... That's exactly what is laudable about it, that's exactly why this colossal piece of culture, within the modern workers ' movement, is epoch-defining: that the great masses of the working people first forge from their own consciousness, from their own belief, and even from their own understanding the weapons of their own liberation.
In the 1890s and the first two decades of the twentieth century, increasing efforts were made to bring about amalgamations of small, local trade unions and to forge links between different organizations, with a view to securing united action.

about and like
`` Everyone knew it, but he sort of acted like he didn't care who knew it -- even after them notes came, even after he'd heard about Lewis, even after he'd been shot at a couple o' times hisself ''!!
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
It was embarrassing to see strapping, blonde Brassnose comport himself like a child who talks about bogeymen.
I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.
We experience a vague uneasiness about events, a suspicion that our political and economic institutions, like the genie in the bottle, have escaped confinement and that we have lost the power to recall them.
She wrote gay plays about the girls for family entertainments, like `` Oh, What Fun!!
`` You know '', the lawyer said, `` it's difficult to talk like this about a man who can't answer back ''.
I would like to straighten out a misconception about the dress Mrs. Coolidge is wearing in this painting.
Something indirect, mixed, reconciling, tensional might well be the stratagem, the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like `` expressions '' of these emotions, without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement ''.
Alfred began to put his affairs in order, and he went about it like a man putting his things into storage.
While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.
their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).
Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments.
Khrushchev, for all his bombastic prophecies about the inevitable decay of capitalism, is genuinely favorable to `` peaceful coexistence '' and would like, above all, the Berlin and German problems to be settled peacefully ; ;
He ate what he felt like, slept as much or as little as he pleased, and moved about the draughty rooms of the house, when he was not in bed, with slow, dubious steps, like an elderly tourist in a cathedral.
It always came on, faithfully, just like a radio or juke box, whenever he started to worry too much about something, when the bad things tried to push their way into him.
He thought of Simms Purdew, who once had risen at the edge of a cornfield, a maniacal scream on his lips, and swung a clubbed musket like a flail to beat down the swirl of Rebel bayonets about him.
Until I was transferred into the Seventh Ulanys I was like every other Pole in my feeling about Jews.
`` I would like to enact a little tableau this afternoon '', Rector said, He explained about the visit and the effect he wished to create, the picture of a very busy mission.
Oh, he was being queer and careful, pawing about in the drawer and holding the bottle like a snake at the length of his arm.
He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.
All about me there was a hectic interplay of meetings taking place, like abrupt, jerky scenes in old silent movies, joyous greetings and beginnings, huggings and kissings, enthusiastic forays into the festive night.
It is roughly shaped like a large pear, and when properly ripened, its dark green skin covers a meaty, melon-like pulp that has about the consistency of a ripe Bartlett pear, but oily.
It's the Valmet ( about $170 ), a 12-gauge over/under very much like the old Remington 32 -- which was so fine a gun that today a used one still brings high prices.

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