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To get away from her home town, Valenda, and its ugly memories she sets out on a religious pilgrimage with the dy Gura brothers ( also minor characters from the earlier story ) for protection ; Liss, a feisty and clever courier girl ; and dy Cabon, a plump priest of the Bastard ( one of the five gods ) as her ' spiritual guide '.
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I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.
Blood gushed from his nose, and he backed off as rapidly as he could, stumbling over his own feet in his frantic haste to get away from Curt's fists.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
`` Let's get away fast '', said Brassnose, shaking water from his mop of bleached hair.
Up to now, Gorton had been looking for trouble, and now that he was trying to get away from it, trouble started looking for him.
Long weekends enable many to get away from home for three or four days several times a year.
a lovely Epiphany party at Errol Flynn's, on which sacred occasion Letch stole away with an unknown `` starlet '', leaving me `` high and dry '' to get home as best I could.
He couldn't get away from her in this kind of ground.
In the tool crib she can't get away ''.
Maybe it's taking longer to get things squared away than the bankers expected.
Actually, the officers on the ground had no intention of letting the hijackers get away with any kind of an airplane ; ;
Like the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were loath to let a good song get away from them.
But when Miss Jen went over right away to return the call, Miss Kiz couldn't have been very cordial, for she'd come back before she hardly had time to get there.
A plane up in the sky, above the clouds, and this freakish wreck of a man desperately trying to get away.
I'll get it hauled away.
She's not going to get away with it.
Angrily Martin wished they had delayed the wedding and gone on a trip -- preferably one that lasted months -- instead of deciding not to postpone the date until he could get away.
Religion was stripped of ornament and ceremony, and made as plain and simple as possible ; sermons and songs often used repetition to get across to a rural population of poor and mostly uneducated people the necessity of turning away from sin.
" Maybe with the giving away of his money ," commented biographer Joseph Wall, " he would justify what he had done to get that money.
(“ See What it Gets You ”) As Cora and the police force begin rounding up Cookies, Fay tries to get the key away from the guards in an extended ballet sequence.
Once the tip penetrates the animal the upper sub head broke off from the rest of the shaft, however, since it was still connected with the braided loop it rotated the head into a horizontal position inside the animal ’ s body so that it could not get away from the hunter.
By extension, the term is also used to refer to any system administrator who displays ( or wishes he could get away with ) the qualities of the original.
" The grand old days of pranking have gone away at Caltech, and that's what we are trying to bring back ," reported the Boston Globe, which noted that " security has orders not to intervene in a prank unless officers get Mannion's approval beforehand.
Harvard, who was trying to get away from the soccer like game that many schools played, set out to find another school who played a game similar to them.
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Curt wanted to get Jess alone, without interference from anyone, even as spineless a person as the store owner.
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.
Plus flawless skin, smooth brow and cheeks, lips that looked as if you could get a shock from them.
Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.
We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.
We use terms from our personal experience with individuals such as `` trust '', `` cheat '', and `` get tough ''.
It is something which most of us try to get out from under.
The impression you get from Carl Sandburg's home is one of laughter and happiness ; ;
`` Mr. Hearst '', Lane replied as he left, `` if you ever get a telegram from me asking you to do anything, you can put the telegram down as a forgery ''.
He might get votes from his constituents, but he would never get a helping hand in Congress.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.
Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.
Writers of ads must get their inspiration from the attitude of `` modern '' parents they have observed.
Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.
Beyond that misty gray of the rain, he saw the stretching hutment, low diminutive log cabins, chinked with mud, with doorways a man would have to crouch to get through, with roofs of tenting laid over boughs or boards from hardtack boxes, or fence rails, with cranky chimneys of sticks and dried mud.
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