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Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??
It was embarrassing to see strapping, blonde Brassnose comport himself like a child who talks about bogeymen.
His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??
She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.
She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.
On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.
She was a child too much a part of her environment, too eager to grow and learn and experience.
When Juanita awoke, Kate was still rocking the dead child, still crooning in disbelief, `` No, no, oh, no!!
The bodice beneath was buttoned and, withdrawing his lips from hers, he set her upright on his knee and started to undo it, unhurriedly as if she were a child.
At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.
He was no heavier than a child.
Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.
The child of this problem was Mr. Brown's famous Serial No. 1 Universal Milling Machine, the archtype from which is descended today's universal knee-type milling machine used throughout the world.
Of startling significance, too, is the assertion that it was possible to carry out this program with only a 6 percent attrition rate as compared with a rate of 59 percent reported for a comparable group of families who were receiving help in traditionally operated child guidance services.
The low compulsive child was one who appeared relatively unconcerned about such matters.
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children was administered to each sample third-grade child by a clinical worker.
It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).
Ever since I was a child, I have always had a yen to try my hand at writing.

child and gone
Joan was the only surviving child and heiress of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, and Marquis of Provence, so under Provençal and French law, the lands should have gone to her nearest male relative.
The climax of the Enkōmia comes during the third stásis, with the antiphon " Ō glyký mou Éar ", a lamentation of the Virgin for her dead Child (" O, my sweet spring, my sweetest child, where has your beauty gone ?").
In other other countries, child actors have gone on to become very successful in other careers.
Sister Parish wrote of her design philosophy, " As a child, I discovered the happy feelings that familiar things can bring -- an old apple tree, a favorite garden, the smell of a fresh-clipped hedge, simply knowing that when you round the corner, nothing will be changed, nothing will be gone.
He is still fondly remembered in Scottsboro for having gone to his namesake Caldwell School in Scottsboro and giving every child in the school a shiny new quarter, at a time when that was a lot of money for a child to receive.
Occasionally, characters he would have known as a teenager are brought in and whilst they have all gone on in life and had some success, Granville has remained his uncle's errand boy — the ageing Granville is still treated like a child, in particular by Arkwright, but also by customers in the shop, even those sympathetic towards his predicament.
" His mother tried to silence him by crying, " Have you gone mad, child ?".
He may have gone there partly because of a scandal involving his receptionist in Harlesden, Merene French ( Mrs. French ), who became pregnant with his child.
Kindergarten is considered the first year of formal education, although the child may have gone to preschool or Pre-K ( formerly nursery school ).
Osborne, ill and convinced that he will die soon, begs Molly to remember his wife and child when he is gone.
Each child in England at the first school term after their third birthday, is entitled to five three hour sessions per week-in some counties this has gone up to 15 hours.
A fortnight later, Victoria reported in her journal, " I was amply rewarded and forgot all I had gone through when I heard dearest Albert say ' It's a fine child, and a girl!
Young brother, young brother, be quiet You are crying, but our father has left us He has gone to the place of the dead To protect the living, to protect the orphan child
They did however have one known child, a stillborn child born April 1529 at the home of the earl of Shrewsbury where Mary had gone to escape her husband.
David Cronenberg recalled how, when he was a child, he used to pick up television signals from Buffalo, New York, late at night after Canadian stations had gone off the air, and how he used to worry he might see something disturbing not meant for public consumption.
NME wrote: " Jackson has gone a long way in shaking off the experience of being a shadow Jackson child.
On 20 November 2007 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that two discs that held the personal details of all families in the United Kingdom claiming child benefit had gone missing.
# Princess ( Omumbejja ) Diana Balizza Muggale Teyeggala, the youngest child of the late Kabaka, was born in Kampala in October 1966, after her father had gone into exile.
However, the researchers argued that the surveillance saved the lives of many of the children involved, and Southall himself said that " y doing covert video surveillance we are betraying the trust of parents ... ut if a parent has been abusing his or her child in this way then the trust between child and parent has already gone.
He kills any child who is too sick or weak to travel and tells the other children that they have gone to ' Leg-by-Lee '.
Wayne and Diane return home with the shrink ray, only to find the boys gone and facing legal action from Hendrickson, who wants them arrested on the charges of theft, malicious mischief, and child endangerment.

child and .
Clayton lifted him gently into the saddle, like a child.
I understand how you feel about the child.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
He'd come alone, without his wife and child.
Soon the child, the dog, the cat and even the cheese, all joined them out there in the circle.
and yet like a child among adults.
She said, with the solicitude of a middle-aged woman for her only child.
Ever since the hooch, and the trouble with the Quartet, and Midge and the child.
He remembered Midge, and the child.
The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.
Hamm's world is death and Clov may or may not get out of it to join the living child outside.
If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.
And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.
If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.
Again, the sufferings and disasters produced by any transgression against the commandment not to love are almost invariably associated in one way or another with childhood, with the figure of a child.
Professionally a lawyer, that is to say associated with dignity, reserve, discipline, with much that is essentially middle-class, he is compelled by an impossible love to exhibit himself dressed up, disguised -- that is, paradoxically, revealed -- as a child, and, worse, as a whore masquerading as a child.
A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.
If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.
In time she presents her aristocratic husband with a coal-black child.
The child grows rich on his winnings and conspires with his uncle to make secret gifts of his money to his mother.
The child dies with his mourning mother at his bedside.
we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.
And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

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