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[001] , naturally, kept his secret well, and the public at _____ knew only of a great excitement in musical and court
[002] anvas of the roof. Over the door was a board with _____ , inept lettering: HOME SWEET HOME. This was the hut
[003] ene was in his pajamas and dressing gown, and on his _____ feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned up
[004] told Argiento to take a bird out of the cage, cut a _____ vein under its wing, let the blood gush into Michela
[005] got to order the musicians". She stood there, a _____ old woman, smiling at the things she would say to hi
[006] , where he found her at five o'clock. She was a _____ woman with a frizzled gray poodle cut and a pencil c
[007] d to remember reading somewhere that Abyssinians had _____ litters, and suffered a dismaying vision of the apar
[008] awed by the tragedy. But in his dressing room was a _____ bouquet and a card that read, "We're with you all th
[009] port guards. Vecchio was nodding and pointing at the _____ suitcase he held. Andy felt his heart thud heavil
[010] self but Hub reported that the mob outside was still _____ despite the efforts of the police to disperse them.
[011] overalls. A man with a sketch pad in hand sat with a _____ pink woman in a small office at the end of a long, d
[012] Road, Ridgefield, Connecticut. The house was modern, _____ , on five acres. Must have cost plenty. The State cop
[013] un. She might, conceivably, have brought one in in a _____ -enough suitcase. (Check on the Payne luggage.) She m
[014] Shadow, on Pam's bed, appeared to be one cat- rather _____ , as Siamese cats go, and, to be sure, having two hea
[015] w it isn't dinnertime". But at this the one too- _____ cat suddenly became two cats, stretching. Shadow, th
[016] , and accepted a glass of champagne. He took several _____ swallows, recollected that Docherty had gone up anot
[017] ern barn in the rear, all of it standing between two _____ flat fields planted in early potatoes. Everything sh
[018] I'm hoping for. After all, the murderer is still at _____ . And the key to the suite is still missing". ##
[019] s habit of fingering, I might almost say, stroking a _____ mole with black hairs on it, by his right temple.) A
[020] I didn't mean what I said. The stranger's eyes were _____ and sad, as if Phil Haney had hurt his feelings. It
[021] various parts of her control panel. Her subject was _____ - a copy of the Last Supper- and her canvas, small- t
[022] cap'n? The men seem to think so". "Dirion found a _____ war party south of us. They'll probably attack at da
[023] s a trumpet he shouted, "Fort up! Fort up! There's a _____ war party on their way"! For a second, engages, c
[024] ned what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's _____ party of screeching warriors had overrun our company
[025] preliminary matters. It was dark and, I sensed, very _____ ; only the counter at one end was lighted by a long f
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[001] ad. Dr. Verdi had told him to deliver his package in _____ . Frederick Seward said his father was sleeping, a
[002] asy. He got caught up into it and became a different _____ . Only afterwards did an act like that become meaning
[003] d her as well as any other, and so she was the first _____ to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up
[004] the fourth century a controversy had raged over the _____ of Christ. Those who refused to believe that He was
[005] ame that is only put around the photograph of a dead _____ . Professor Cestre, could it be? With the metal sh
[006] lings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the _____ who has them is not quite the innocent party he beli
[007] the surprised stare of one who was watching another _____ 's hand. Sometimes he would grunt softly to some invi
[008] of hers. Then she fell asleep again as soddenly as a _____ with fever, and when she awoke it was dark outside a
[009] He had sold oil stock to Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in _____ ; he had helped fight an oil-well fire that raged six
[010] irl look. There were times it wasn't right to make a _____ happy, like the times she came in the kitchen and as
[011] me- that I was not the confused, sick, irresponsible _____ she believed me to be. "There are things about
[012] then in people passing by. After a while, however, a _____ 's mind gets fed up and that magnifies all of the dis
[013] o around her, felt him pull her to the safety of his _____ , she knew with the certainty of despair that somethi
[014] go and might have been poisoned. If there was such a _____ , I'm afraid she got away with it. Pity we don't know
[015] stirred in his mind. Unless he was stone-blind, the _____ who'd just left couldn't have missed seeing Hank thr
[016] told herself, think about it; Lucien is not the only _____ in this house who could have put opium in that coffe
[017] in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one _____ in the house who knew the terms of her marriage cont
[018] not beyond salvaging, not as a show but for him as a _____ . The worst was yet to come. As Andy reached
[019] certi of the Altairians. But "singing" for any shell _____ posed considerable technical difficulties to be over
[020] us that he wished himself different from the sort of _____ he thought he was. But it was not easy for him and h
[021] of authority he felt might still be clinging to his _____ . With distaste I saw him assume a pompous air. When
[022] rdon, he must express his astonishment over seeing a _____ of my background applying at the hall. He had looked
[023] n an impersonal aspect. It did not care what sort of _____ prowled its woods, plucked at its bark or stripped t
[024] ithout interference from anyone, even as spineless a _____ as the store owner. He studied the problem for a
[025] w someone lying in the dirt, Ramey wondered what the _____ had been thinking and he would try out thoughts in h
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[001] all the members of the highest aristocracy would be _____ , Grimm and the Abbe Raynal and others tried to stop
[002] w the Jews prepare a body for burial. Listed as _____ at the Descent were Mary, Mary's sister, Mary Magdal
[003] moment. In his concept there could be no one else _____ . His first desire was to create a mother and son
[004] chcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a _____ from John Hunter. He found tepid water in a pitcher
[005] nd then of his plans. "How many children do you have _____ today"? he said. She looked back toward the schoo
[006] never he thought of it. I always felt the memory was _____ in both of them, stirring in their chests like a lau
[007] it". "Well, that's over now. And it was his main _____ ! Leave that fool picture out", she added sharply.
[008] by that". "Really, Winston. It was meant to be my _____ ". But she went on down the list. Winston was re
[009] uld be pompous as well as happy. "You live in the _____ "? "In the
[010] "? "In the _____ ", Felix proclaimed. "For the future. Is there any ot
[011] t that much of where we stood. The killer, if in our _____ group, would certainly be interested in knowing that
[012] ministering the estate) he was to be retained in his _____ capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased
[013] Granny Day's swamp. What has this to do with the _____ ? Much, I assure you. You must know what gets into pe
[014] d her from conceiving Hal's child would no longer be _____ . Perhaps. Hal doubted if this happy event would occu
[015] though not by any easy road, eventually emerged the _____ world hegemony of the United Nations; suspicion betw
[016] I knew that three or four of them were almost always _____ in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly w
[017] rom Nate's head and clamped it on his own. "Here's a _____ for you", he said, shoving his bullet-riddled hat do
[018] aneuverability, American on speed and firepower. His _____ maximum altitude, up against the overcast, gave him
[019] two or three minutes after that- 10 minutes ago now. _____ at the scene- in addition to the dead man, who was i
[020] ING account. Neither of them, I understood, had been _____ at the filming session earlier. "What were they
[021] nd diffidence of manner that was submerged under his _____ agitation. He stared stonily at the floor. "I was do
[022] ng since happened. But the past was dead here as the _____ was dead. Once the Old Man had had a wife. And once
[023] sband, his lack of understanding and sympathy in her _____ condition, her disgusting swollen stomach. Huma
[024] riage- but mental health as a rule was very high. At _____ the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that J
[025] ake time to shop for the kimono her mother wanted to _____ to the young wife of a faculty member as a hostess g
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[001] e. He had no chance to say another word. At the very _____ , when the audience was silent and breathless, a coll
[002] ut accomplishing anything would mean practically the _____ of his career in the Methodist church, if not in all
[003] character, but he was not particularly funny. At the _____ of the monologue the audience would applaud. Meanwhi
[004] these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief _____ , which was his duty to God and his own salvation. Ho
[005] ysterious presence of God was all around him. At the _____ of a shaft of light, the pews appeared to be broad s
[006] self back in a fit of laughter and that would be the _____ of it. Through the open window they heard sounds
[007] y feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an _____ , Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole le
[008] the line that went to the Place Redoute. It was the _____ of the afternoon when he took the huge key out of hi
[009] ons from his rabbi kept him from bolting. But at the _____ of the sitting, when Michelangelo showed him the qui
[010] gh the forest is for each man's conscience. Where we _____ our journey is always the same. We all seek the same
[011] e all seek the same thing through different ways- an _____ to this long night of two thousand years of darkness
[012] age agent. If he wanted to know anything, he would _____ up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileles
[013] surprised to find Kayabashi's secretary on the other _____ of the line. He was even more startled when he heard
[014] lowly to the pull of the current. A soldier held the _____ of a frayed rope. Three Union guards appeared, ca
[015] anging his clothes upstairs? Taking a shower? At the _____ of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and
[016] ay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no _____ , stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden
[017] own a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the _____ like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.
[018] t ultimately comes to some women who are born at the _____ of an ancestral line long since divorced from mone
[019] r way. There are ice cubes in a container at the far _____ and in another by the office. There are three soft-d
[020] ld yawn and stretch and shout, "All out. This is the _____ of the line". And what would her mother be doin
[021] ing at his feet with each step, until he reached the _____ of the drainage ditch and the beginning of the fence
[022] to the open restaurant. He was standing at the _____ of the bar enjoying a slug of cognac when Rourke cam
[023] head striking the solid wood was an ultimate, sudden- _____ sound. He fell on his side across the lowest step,
[024] irty minutes, Stanley Gilborn stood there. At the _____ of the half-hour, racking his brains, thinking over
[025] sat with a large pink woman in a small office at the _____ of a long, dim corridor and made pencil lines on pap
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[001] ight, and if he tells them to go out and piss in the _____ square, that's what they do. He's telling them now
[002] here and arguing that he could not possibly permit a _____ performance. The ladies especially couldn't understa
[003] seau had to admit that though he couldn't agree to a _____ performance, he would indeed, just for his own priva
[004] But they, naturally, kept his secret well, and the _____ at large knew only of a great excitement in musical
[005] Burial had taken place at night in the ground at the _____ crossroads under the gibbet, so that his enemies cou
[006] hn sighed. "If William agrees, we should insist on a _____ debate", he said at length. "There is more to the
[007] er, smiling. "And in the future, since I write for a _____ of one, I can save the poor publishers from wasting
[008] e poor publishers from wasting their money". "A _____ of one", Mary echoed reprovingly. "how can you say s
[009] nciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the _____ felt assured by its sense of recognition after a tim
[010] friends and tenants. You find your house a focus of _____ and police attention. Can you imagine yourself forge
[011] ay songs, patter and dancing with a view of the best _____ relations. What remained lacked the original verve b
[012] low. Thornburg knew, better than any of them, that a _____ image was as fragile as Humpty Dumpty. All the king'
[013] eeker Park, Medfield Hospital, the civic center, the _____ Health Nursing Association, the library, and so on,
[014] nd what he expected- the mingled cooking aromas of a _____ vestibule. On one wall was the brass front of a row
[015] on the pavement he saw the filling station and the _____ telephone booth and knew instantly how he had been s
[016] granite quarry there, and granite's coming back for _____ buildings. Both men knew it was in the Norberg famil
[017] on in, the less Charlie and I were seen together in _____ , or visited one another's rooms, the better. I wa
[018] sure, for she loved him in her frigid way, though in _____ she would be dry-eyed. Her friends and professional
[019] ot be cremated and their ashes flung to the winds in _____ ceremony. No, the fish could eat their bodies for al
[020] id not come out of the doorway. He spoke through the _____ address box built into the cabin, and his gigantic v
[021] little boxed-in place because you couldn't keep the _____ out- entirely. She could not count the times Herman
[022] h I had built in the hope of keeping Letch away from _____ beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed u
[023] e built around me. But in order to keep Letch in the _____ eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially
[024] million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the _____ apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini. T
[025] a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the _____ square". Such items recall the California journal
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[001] uld consign sinners to hellfire. To know God he must _____ in Papa's footsteps. He was fortunate, and proud.
[002] and the sight of the beloved bishop. But he had to _____ the light. Unless God expected a man to believe the
[003] ne; Mahzeer would stand up, the prime minister would _____ . Mahzeer would direct the prime minister's attention
[004] or her now. Tim come with the migratory workers that _____ the crops up from the South last year, but Tim and h
[005] omozoa struck them. Finally, Mercer did manage to _____ B'dikkat to the door of the cabin. He had to fight t
[006] ich they could believe. They did not have the wit to _____ the stars in their courses, to exchange names with
[007] a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed _____ words. I was shown, instead, a batch of white ticket
[008] he valley. You're the only man the Night Riders will _____ . We've been starving and I don't like to starve".
[009] o focus upon a direction in which to turn, a path to _____ , a clue to guide her. She was standing in a thick
[010] mother behind is not good". "In my place, you'd _____ such advice as you give me"? Hernandez looked s
[011] rain now. Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to _____ with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fa
[012] s trembling. He wouldn't look Tilghman in the face. " _____ the river for five miles", he said hoarsely. "Jed's
[013] g other people. She was most strange woman. Ready to _____ her impulse. It was an impulse when she was here in
[014] seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must _____ now in August- yes, with eyes predicting the drought
[015] Clouds say in his high, quavering voice: "Did you _____ me to see my shame? Move from the line or I will set
[016] and George's fault that one family crisis seemed to _____ another, and weren't they always emphasizing that
[017] s, nobody else is going to have the courage. If they _____ anyone, it'll have to be you". He paused. "I should
[018] ent for his workshop. Thus committed, action might _____ . He went down to Mills and Bradley's Hardware Store
[019] repares for the two weeks of festivities that are to _____ . Suddenly, a messenger arrives and, just before coll
[020] In many ways, then, parents teach their children to _____ in their footsteps. Schooling 6 Schooling stretche
[021] are squeezed and the policies which they are told to _____ are continually being reversed. 2 Where is the way
[022] ganic agriculture stem from this, and the practices _____ on naturally. An organic approach to farming is the
[023] not really intuitive either. Learn this procedure and _____ it carefully. These are serious legal documents and a
[024] ionally winds up touring East Orange while trying to _____ a road sign to Maplewood, I do not believe there is
[025] ke River - prompting surprised Virginia officials to _____ suit on their part of the river - even as he insisted
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[001] eld the mortgage on the old church declared that the _____ was considerably in arrears, and the real estate peo
[002] ing off now, but the light was grayer. With enormous _____ , Adam watched his hands as they touched and shifted
[003] ped blindly. His lack of success steadily eroded his _____ . He stopped pacing, leaned against the dank, timbere
[004] son watched the creeping figure. He felt a spectator _____ . Would the man make it or not? If only there was a c
[005] sseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent _____ in that which he does not fully understand. The spec
[006] There hadn't been anything really personal in her _____ in me. I knew that. It was just that she felt deeply
[007] here the two knife-men jumped you", said Rourke with _____ , "that sounds like it was set up with malice aforeth
[008] people would no longer be having any sort of active _____ in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.
[009] too much to assume that you will have a more lasting _____ in paper hats than will Mr. Average Citizen. Yo
[010] ggesting, and dictating until the cops got up enough _____ in him to go back to their old neighborhood and ask
[011] d worked at this and that, though some said his main _____ was gambling. All this went through Casey's mind
[012] Casey's mind in the first instant, but what held his _____ was the fact that these two should be together at al
[013] ct for ten minutes or so when he noticed the renewed _____ in his listener- it showed in the alert face and the
[014] ich demanded instant attention but Helva had been of _____ to several department heads in Central for some time
[015] nothing. He watched his own body with remote, casual _____ . The Lady Da and the hand-covered woman stayed near
[016] had probably something to do with sex or some other _____ , Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.
[017] be dirty, because girls were Charles' only apparent _____ . But Jack always derived vicarious sensual thrills f
[018] a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our _____ . After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought h
[019] stared at him for a long time. He did not return my _____ . My eyes traveled over the bare walls and up to the
[020] aid, "Reuveni wanted your mother to give up her deep _____ in this refugee. He said she would only hurt herself
[021] ed for her to turn, to ask a question. She showed no _____ at all in the life he had led back home, and it hurt
[022] ragingly, asked Sam about Canada, having a special _____ . Carla translated. The old woman had a nephew from N
[023] d meet us there. There wasn't anything of special _____ that morning, no one sicker than they should have be
[024] ndered. The lady with the alligator bag registered _____ , doubt, then indignation; at last, alarm. She cast a
[025] o say"? "Nothing", Phil said. Richard's next _____ seemed the product of his insularity. His broad read
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[001] let me know. I can do business with that kind". _____ , Lawrence thought a little sadly, these were the fee
[002] but there was no hurry, no hurry at all. Wilson _____ went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent
[003] ve to find out about it on your own. Hope to see you _____ ". And he dismissed the colored pastor. It was n
[004] butt down on Frederick Seward's head, over and over _____ . It was the first blow that was always difficult.
[005] brandy if one were a man. Mrs. lincoln screamed _____ . In the Presidential box someone leaned over the
[006] bled to her feet, Stevie agilely retaining his seat. _____ Katie reared, and now, wickedly, he compelled her to
[007] wickedly, he compelled her to bring her hooves down _____ and
[008] and _____ upon the sprawled figure of the stranger. He could
[009] tly that his knuckles hurt. Then Katie stumbled, and _____ he was falling, falling! "Stevie! Stevie"! H
[010] er. It would summon him once; if he missed it, never _____ . What if it came when he was playing, or was asleep
[011] ee- sus, We Fixed him! Yooee, we fixed him! The snow _____ . If only the fucken weather wasn't so lousy! Goddamn
[012] n he wanted to get his squad on the ball. It came up _____ and
[013] and _____ in the discussion sessions ... Lousy Reactionary bas
[014] eme effort, he broke it off. He turned to the window _____ . A gnawing and gnashing within him. The snow was tum
[015] it to be nailed. Maybe they already got them. He was _____ tingling with pleasure, seeing himself clearly in Sl
[016] remely on top of things ... He watched the snow once _____ . It infuriated him. It made no sense to him ... He w
[017] reach their friend's home, Voltaire's fears are once _____ aroused. For it is such a distinguished place, with
[018] cques and between the Duke d'Aumont and Jean Jacques _____ , as his little operetta, The Village Soothsayer, tho
[019] espected. "I have told you before, and I tell you _____ ", Monsieur Favre said rudely. "Stick to the preachin
[020] allowed ground. John closed his eyes and saw once _____ the little niche in his mother's bedroom, where she
[021] Honor for gallantry at Antietam. The street was _____ empty. The drizzle was slacking off now, but the lig
[022] ing down the street after her, Adam saw that she had _____ stopped and
[023] stopped and _____ removed one hand from the basket. He could not make
[024] the basket. He could not make out, but he knew that _____ she was scratching her nose. Mollie the Mutton was s
[025] in the rain". The pattern would not stop. It came _____ and
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[001] go or he must go. And for him to leave this job now _____ accomplishing anything would mean practically the en
[002] d would be up there. He explained his errand, but _____ bothering much to make it plausible, for he felt som
[003] ago I would have worn a beard with pride. And those _____ beards would have stood out as not dressed for the o
[004] rles had died two weeks before, in early November, _____ being reconciled to the Church. The canons, in a bod
[005] nation forced images on her too awful to contemplate _____ the prop of illusion. Gazing at her husband's drugge
[006] to be life size, how was Mary to hold him on her lap _____ the relationship seeming ungainly? His Mary would be
[007] posite design from his meticulously accurate memory, _____ need to consult his sketches. Soon he was ready
[008] let this black hole of death in Warsaw's heart exist _____ a cry of protest. Once there had been big glitter
[009] ored fedora. Brown eyes, eyebrow mustache. Oval face _____ an expression in the world. We didn't have time
[010] here only faith would suffice. He would have to work _____ questioning the motives which made him work and cont
[011] ted farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat. _____ exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or bo
[012] They've never met, you know. But Myra wouldn't budge _____ an express invitation. I feel kind of bad about it".
[013] They came unexpectedly upon the sea. Meeting it _____ preparation as they did, robbed of anticipation, a c
[014] uring whisky in the kid's mouth but his mouth filled _____ any getting down his throat and in a second it was d
[015] ce in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, _____ it being obvious that he had done it, and while here
[016] Year's wearing a mackinaw and sheepskin mittens and _____ a hat. He would wear this same costume in Florida, d
[017] t of life. Now she could let out the three parakeets _____ fear they would be stepped on or that Stowey would l
[018] hat she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future _____ him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her
[019] Linda Kay gave up asking, and accepted her reprieve. _____ saying so, she was really grateful; for to attend th
[020] at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her _____ ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor'
[021] ntly satisfied with the outcome of their adventures. _____ comment he opened the closet and from its shelves co
[022] ed her knee. "If I catch you one more time down here _____ stockings"- She twitched her leg away. "Fuss, f
[023] has to". After that they had sat for five minutes _____ saying a word. Then Miss Ada had stood up, rustling
[024] ical studies. She knew also that I was unmarried and _____ a single known relative. She wasn't quite sure that
[025] "I'm sorry", she said. "I don't know what I'd do _____ my family. We've always been so close". "Tell me