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Pumblechook's `` signature '' is the perpetually extended glad hand.

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* Kleiwerks-International organization recognized for their unique contribution to modern earthen and natural building techniques throughout the world, their focus is on education through hands on experience.
After the Padres ' defeat at the hands of the Milwaukee Brewers on September 29, the Diamondbacks secured both the NL West title and home field advantage throughout the NL playoffs.
Attacks on remote Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) barracks continued throughout 1919 and 1920, forcing the police to consolidate defensively in the larger towns, effectively placing large areas of the countryside in the hands of the Republicans.
The sultanate held onto the Makran coast throughout the period of British colonial rule, but eventually only Gwadar was left in the hands of the sultan.
Tremor can be a symptom associated with disorders in those parts of the brain that control muscles throughout the body or in particular areas, such as the hands.
After the fall of the Western Empire Cagliari fell, together with the rest of Sardinia, into the hands of the Vandals, but appears to have retained its importance throughout the Middle Ages.
Developed throughout the mid to late 20th century, The Standard Model is truly “ a tapestry woven by many hands ”, sometimes driven forward by new experimental discoveries, sometimes by theoretical advances.
For the scene where Aaron tricks Titus into cutting off one of his hands, the primary source was probably an unnamed popular tale about a Moor's vengeance, published in various languages throughout the sixteenth century ( an English version entered into the Stationers ' Register in 1569 has not survived ).
The Italian Vice-President of FIFA, Dr. Ottorino Barassi, hid the trophy in a shoe-box under his bed throughout the Second World War and thus saved it from falling into the hands of occupying troops.
* Washing one's hands after using the toilet, after contact with an infected person, and regularly throughout the day.
The Emperor left the court of Buda with empty hands and continued his trip throughout Europe searching for assistance against the Ottomans.
Buffy guards and cares for Spike throughout his recovery, telling Spike she believes in him, a statement which later sustains him throughout his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the First.
The blinds stay the same throughout the entire sit and go, causing much more skillful play to be rewarded over the long run, as players aren't as forced to play mediocre hands because of big blinds and antes.
She chose to remain still throughout the entire performance, moving only her hands and face, much of the time with tears streaming down her cheeks.
The hoop is cut in intermittently throughout the rest of the film, rolling as if propelled by unseen hands through the variations in the landscape.
This was a devastating insult to Judah and his family, and was a source of bitterness throughout Judah's life and the topic of his writings years later ; especially since this was not the first time the Abravanel Family was subjected to such embarrassment at the hands of the Catholic Church.
The scourge, or flail, and the crook, are the two symbols of power and domination depicted in the hands of Osiris in Egyptian monuments and they are the unchanging form of the instrument throughout the ages ; though, the flail depicted in Egyptian mythology was an agricultural instrument used to thresh wheat, and not for corporal punishment.
Even the trade with English colonies ( partly still in the hands of the royalists, as the English Civil War was in its final stages and the Commonwealth of England had not yet imposed its authority throughout the English colonies ) was " engrossed " by Dutch merchants.
He argued that throughout this history the Masorites did not invent the vowel points and accents, but that they were delivered to Moses by God at Sinai, citing Karaite authorities Mordechai ben Nisan Kukizov ( 1699 ) and his associates, who stated that " all our wise men with one mouth affirm and profess that the whole law was pointed and accented, as it came out of the hands of Moses, the man of God ," The argument of the Karaites shows that some copies have always been pointed and some copies were not pointed with the vowels, especially those copies in Synagogues which Gill talks about.
In economics, dispersed knowledge, also known as partial knowledge, is information that is dispersed throughout the marketplace, and is not in the hands of any single agent.
In contrast, Rutherford claimed, " It was my duty to use the power the Lord had put into my hands to support the interests of the shareholders and all others interested in the Truth throughout the world ... to be unfaithful to them would be unfaithful to the Lord.
Stencil paintings of hands were common throughout the prehistoric period.
By way of explanation – the native reeds used in this form of basketry are soaked in water and the weavers create their handiwork with their hands and raw materials completely submerged in water throughout the process of manufacture ".

hands and novel
Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.
The novel opens with a fugitive convict frantically trying to avoid the nemesis of being `` laid hands on '' -- a mysterious figure who looks into Pip's frightened eyes in the churchyard `` as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in ''.
Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.
She is assumed to have been the inspiration for his novel about a nun, La Religieuse, in which he depicts a woman who is forced to enter a monastery where she suffers at the hands of the other nuns in the community.
She posits that Ender Wiggin is an intentional reference by Card to Adolf Hitler and criticizes the violence in the novel, particularly at the hands of the protagonist.
It is a reconstruction by a team of leading scholars to represent the novel before it was edited by hands other than Dreiser's.
There was a fair amount of negative response to the novel as well, arising largely from the book ’ s sexual content, which made Sister Carrie, in the words of the Omaha Daily Bee in 1900, “ not a book to be put into the hands of every reader indiscriminately ”.
A reconstruction by leading scholars to represent the novel before it was edited by hands other than Dreiser's.
A reconstruction by leading scholars to represent the novel before it was edited by hands other than Dreiser's.
See, then, how the Bulletin of the battle came at the hands Tudela del Corso, red in the blood of the first messenger, who can forgive their fantasies in favor of this exciting story, worthy of an adventure novel.
Her death at Chan's hands later prompts him to rebel against the Federation in Quess ' name, which is detailed in the novel Hathaway's Flash.
When Silver escapes at the end of the novel, he takes " three or four hundred guineas " of the treasure with him, thus becoming one of only two former members of Captain Flint's crew to get his hands on a portion of the recovered treasure ; a separate cache of bar silver is apparently left on the island.
In the author's hands this is adequate material for an absolutely first class novel of moral bewilderments and responsibilities nearest the heart of our decade.
He hands out the second halves of the £ 5 notes and asks their opinion of the novel, in which a robbery is committed by experts.
Fowles explained in his follow-up book The Aristos, that the main point behind the novel was to show what he felt to be the danger of class and intellectual divisions in a society where prosperity for the majority was becoming more widespread, particularly power ( whether by wealth or position ) getting into the hands of those intellectually unsuited to handle it.
Ricci has tattoos of a lion on her right shoulder blade ( a reference to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a favorite novel of hers as a child ), a fairy on the inside of her right wrist, praying hands on her left hip ( this tattoo was originally a bat ), the name " Jack " on her right thigh for a dead pet, a sparrow on her right breast, and a mermaid on her left ankle.
In Chariton ’ s ancient Greek novel Callirhoe, Chaereas finds his wife ’ s tomb empty and " All kinds of explanations were offered by the crowd, Chaereas, looking up to heaven and stretching up his hands said ' Which of the gods has become my rival and carried off Callirhoe and now has her instead of me, against her will but constrained by a better fate?
In the 1850 novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, school master Dr. Strong quotes from Watts ' " Against Idleness and Mischief ": " Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do.
* In George Moore's novel Esther Waters, the eponymous heroine works as a wet nurse after the birth of her son while leaving him in the hands of a baby farmer.
In 1950 Loos began writing A Mouse is Born, another novel, and when it was safely in the hands of the publisher she left for the continent, her first trip to Europe in twenty years.
Although the novel is set in the present, it revolves around a plot initiated in 1917 by Britain's King George V and the nefarious Sir Basil Zaharoff to rescue Czar Nicholas from the hands of the Bolsheviks.
* In the film The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1949 ), based on Oscar Wilde's novel, the inscription " Little Boy Blue Come Blow Your Horn " appears embroidered on a towel on which Dorian Gray wipes his bloody hands after having killed Basil Hallward
At the end of the novel, Young Peter calls Hegemon " that book of lies " for cleaning the blood on his hands, for " as long as I was alive, I wanted blood there ".

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