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He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.
Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.
Lubell offers his book as an explanation of why there was no clue.
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.
Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.
His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.
He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.
But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

book and fine
I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.
Lucius Beebe's book, `` Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car '', fills us with nostalgia, recalling days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery.
In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.
This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.
During a Quidditch training session in the third book, Madam Hooch mentioned that she learned to fly on a Silver Arrow and that it was a fine broom.
In Vincent Clark's novel Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, the protagonist ( a world-weary criminal lawyer ) has a drunken outburst of anger at Perry Mason: " It's all fine for Mister Perry Mason to go off and find the real culprit, in book after book after book.
He was an early modernist, and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.
He carried his enquiries so far into the occult sciences of abstruse and hidden nature, that, after having given most ample proofs, by his writings concerning physiognomy, geomancy, and chiromancy, he moved on to the study of philosophy, physics, and astrology ; which studies proved so advantageous to him, that, not to speak of the two first, which introduced him to all the popes of his time, and acquired him a reputation among learned men, it is certain that he was a great master in the latter, which appears not only by the astronomical figures he had painted in the great hall of the palace at Padua, and the translations he made of the books of the most learned rabbi Abraham Aben Ezra, added to those he himself composed on critical days, and the improvement of astronomy, but by the testimony of the renowned mathematician Regiomontanus, who made a fine panegyric on him, in quality of an astrologer, in the oration he delivered publicly at Padua when he explained there the book of Alfraganus.
His fine historical romance Vor dem Sturm ( 1878 ) was followed by a series of novels of modern life, notably L ' Adultera ( 1882 ), a book about adultery which was considered so risqué that it took Fontane two years to find a publisher.
a ) Kant's enormous influence on the concept of " fine art " ( the focus of Cheetham's book ), as it came into being in the mid to late 18th century, and
By some of Hogarth ’ s adherents the book was praised as a fine deliverance upon aesthetics ; by his enemies and rivals, its obscurities and minor errors were made the subject of endless ridicule and caricature.
His passion for fine wine and mushroom delicacies prompted Czarnecki to create a definitive cook book, " Joe's Book of Mushroom Cookery.
" His cook book transformed the Joe's Restaurant into a world renown institution of fine dining.
**" The Girl Who Heard Dragons ", by Anne McCaffrey ( 1986 fine press book ; cover story in The Girl Who Heard Dragons ( 1994 ))
" Bitsch read a Caution book, then wrote a 30-page treatment and brought it to Godard, who said " OK, fine " and took it without even looking at it.
He also had a keen interest and formed a fine collection of coins, medals and antiques, and this resulted in the book ( also in 1573, published by Philippe Galle of Antwerp ) Deorum dearumque capita ... ex Museo Ortelii ( reprinted in 1582, 1602, 1612, 1680, 1683 and finally in 1699 by Gronovius, Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum.
It was immortalised in the lines of G. K. Chesterton's poem The Rolling English Road from his book The Flying Inn: " For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen ; Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
The book further explains that this superstition arises from the habits of pairs of magpies to forage together only when the weather is fine.
In his famous book chronicling the expedition, Maximilian Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, the Prince wrote, " I had been indisposed, as well as my huntsman, since I left Louisville, and was not in a mood properly to appreciate the fine, lofty forests of Indiana, the road through which was very bad and rough.
It also gives much detail on O ' Reilly's parents ' situations and especially his father's family, detail which the author notes even O ' Reilly did not have until the book gathered it, and includes some fine detail about his residences.
Anthony Burgess called Sexual Personae " A fine, disturbing book.
In the 21st century, the late manner versions continue to be used in advertising, while the early manner versions are occasionally used for fine book printing.

book and historical
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
* Apollo 17 Characteristics-SP-4012 NASA historical data book
This order is based upon that found in the Septuagint and followed by the Vulgate, since the material is historical and the narrative flows seamlessly into the book of Ezra.
Almost all scholars agree that the book of Joshua holds little historical value for early Israel and most likely reflects a much later period.
The book contains several documents presented as historical inclusions.
Some modern scholars suggest the book of Esther to be a historical novella.
Berlin quotes a series of scholars who suggest that the author of Esther did not mean for the book to be considered as a historical writing, but intentionally wrote it to be a historical novella.
However, according to Coogan, considerable historical inaccuracies remain throughout the text, supporting the view that the book of Esther is to be read as a historical novella which tells a story describing historical events but is not necessarily historical fact.
As always, the historical context of the writer is key to understanding this book of the Bible.
There are very few historical details in the book of Malachi.
The events of the book, while not to be tied to particular historical events, still describe the sorts of things that will happen until Christ returns.
Cultural historians divide the career of the comic book in the U. S. into several ages or historical eras:
* He appears as both historical figure and vampire in the novel " A matter of taste " which is a book in The Dracula Sequence by Fred Saberhagen.
The term often refers to a book written by a chronicler in the Middle Ages describing historical events in a country, or the lives of a nobleman or a clergyman, although it is also applied to a record of public events.
Charles Taylor, in his 2007 book A Secular Age, showed the historical role of deism, leading to what he calls an exclusive humanism.
Coined by Karin Knorr-Cetina in her book Epistemic Cultures ; she defines epistemic cultures as an " amalgam of arrangements and mechanisms-bonded through affinity, necessity and historical coincidence-which in a given field, make up how we know what we know ".
Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.
A major work of research and synthesis, the book was also important in historiographical terms: with it, Thompson demonstrated the power of an historical Marxism rooted in the experience of real flesh-and-blood workers.
The book of Exodus is not historical narrative in any modern sense.
The purpose of the book is not to record what really happened, but to reflect the historical experience of the exile community in Babylon and later Jerusalem, facing foreign captivity and the need to come to terms with their understanding of God.

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