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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...ay of the fall, Zodiac declared himself the Lord and Master of the North American continent. The remnants of the government and military had fallen... .... “IDIOT! Always check all angles, especially when it comes to the former American government. Those fools were the greatest liars and hypocrites ev... ...cords, and other stuf. Looks like they were com- piling information on all Americans…Oh, sorry Vincent, didn’t mean to steal your thunder.” Vincent h... ...onnecticut. The town was named afer Samson Occom, who was a famous Native American clergyman from Connecticut. It was completely deserted, except fo... ...ctics would work well as they had in past wars like Vietnam and even the American Revolutionary War. But those wars were diferent. The enemy had de... ...ose the weaknesses that we expose in his forces today, but we’ll do what lawyers and accountants did when they closed loopholes in the law…we’ll fn...

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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

...Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.” “Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,... ...s trusted God to enlighten them about what plants created certain medicines. Lawyers, kings, and 40 all kingdoms believed law, power, and wisdom came... ...a writer of devotions, personal essays and Christian fiction, is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, past president of the local chapter, ... ...cluding the Middletown Journal and Journal News (daily newspapers), Bassics, American Songwriter, CCM Magazine, HM Magazine, Relevant Magazine, Living... ...vels from Howard Books/Simon & Schuster. Deb serves on the advisory board of American Christian Fiction Writers. She and her husband, Ken Raney, have ... ...er, novelist, and student in the Christian Writers Guild. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). Barbara lives in St. Cloud, Fl...

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Take Creditors and Collection Agents to Small Claims Court

By: Debtconsolidationcare. Com

...e site offers you a wide range of informative articles. Important synopsis on American State Laws & their proceedings are also helpful. “Do It You... ...selves in the court hearing. Each party puts forth its own side of the story. Lawyers or advocates are not allowed, although some of the small claims... ...But still small claims courts are less expensive than the rest because hiring lawyers is not mandatory. Small Claims Court deals with different k... ...he court. In Small Claims Court you can represent your case but in others, lawyers represent your case. Many lawyers are unfamiliar with the busi...

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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

...tents 1. Life! 2. The lesson 3. Burnt bridges 4. One more flute song 5. Bared souls 6. Swimming upstream 7. Lawyers in heaven? ... ...r. What happened to the wife?” “He sent her packing. The marriage is over.” Just like that, the marriage is over. No lawyers, no paperwor... ... no. 1 better be strong or else one day she’ll crack. Whether she knows or not, she’s also swimming upstream. 30 7. Lawyers in heaven? ... ...a lawyer and she couldn’t say why. Both her parents, who passed away when she was eight due to HIV/AIDS complications, were not lawyers. Her auntie,... ...isease they didn’t deserve go?” Somebody asked on our way back. “Probably to heaven,” he was answered. “Then there must be lawyers in heaven,” ... ...ians. Peter looks fourteen but he claims to be over twenty-one with three mouths to feed. Right now he’s trying to convince two American backpackers... ... a spliff of cannabis is lit and they are all laughing like old friends. I shake my head. Peter has finally convinced the two Americans. They head...

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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...s if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration quotas. The Jews merely abused our... ...Hitler made his Vice- Chancellor, von Papen, publish an open letter addressed to the American Chamber of Commerce and saying that Jews were safe in G... .... “Read” – she pointed at an official looking document – “It’s a report from the American Embassy in Berlin. See what it says about Hitler? ‘Hitle... ...ble minority of the Jews - from most anti-Jewish measures. Two thirds of all Jewish lawyers remained fully employed and very few Jewish children wer... ...eing said, we have tried everything. We sent couriers with peace offers to both the Americans and the British. We released prisoners from concentrat... ...ly: “You’d be surprised.” – he exclaims – “The problem is that we won’t give the Americans iron-clad guarantees regarding the fate of Hitler. If w...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...ed no steps; the peasant life was the same, there were already priests and lawyers and town craftsmen and territo- rial lords and rulers doctors, wise... ... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ...and the trusted servant, it was in the hands of the predomi- nant caste of lawyers, who had an enormous advantage in be- ing the only trained caste. T... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ...dy; the children in the streets knew them. And yet the world still, as the Americans used to phrase it, ‘fooled around’ with the paraphernalia and pre... ... touch with that gigantic childishness which was the characteristic of the American imagination. For the Americans also were among the simple peoples ... ...shall govern all right, Firmin. Government only becomes difficult when the lawyers get hold of it, and since 96 The World Set Free these troubles beg... ... get hold of it, and since 96 The World Set Free these troubles began the lawyers are shy. Indeed, come to think of it, I wonder where all the lawyer...

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The Secret Places of the Heart

By: H. G. Wells

...t the most difficult part of it. But my beastly own- ers and their beastly lawyers won’t relinquish a scrap of what they call their freedom of action.... ... that rising in- tonation of humorous conclusion which is so distinctively American, “those Druids have got him.” “He’s hiding,” said the automobilist... ...he cheek bones, that faint flavour of the Amerindian, one sees at times in American women. Her voice was a very soft and pleasing voice, and she spoke... ... pleasing voice, and she spoke persuasively and not assertively as so many American women do. Her de- termination to make the dry bones of Stonehenge ... ... Stone Age. The shorter, less attractive lady, whose accent was distinctly American, came now and stood at the doctor’s elbow. She seemed moved to pla... ... here right now instead of being shopping in Paris or London like de- cent American women.” The younger lady looked down on her companion with somethi... ...up against the machinations of adventurers by means of trustees, partners, lawyers, advisers, agreements and suchlike complications, or for acquiring ...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...with clean, upright, unornamented lines. It was filled with the offices of lawyers, doctors, agents for ma- chinery, for emery wheels, for wire fencin... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...or. He was a ner- vous speculator. Before he gambled he consulted bankers, lawyers, architects, contracting builders, and all of their clerks and sten... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...vertisements of those home-study courses which the energy and foresight of American commerce have con- tributed to the science of education. The first... ...e these correspondence-courses might prove to be one of the most important American inventions. “Trouble with a lot of folks is: they’re so blame mate... ... dinges don’t want to be porters or cotton-pickers. Oh, no! They got to be lawyers and professors and Lord knows what all! I tell you, it’s becoming a... ... through with it, Babbitt had Ted a United States Senator. Among the great lawyers whom he mentioned was Secena Doane. “But, gee whiz,” Ted marveled, ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ...poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going ... ... other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. Don’t fail to check the stampede at once. Trumbull, I think, wil... ...,” etc. Was not this the origin of popular sover- eignty as applied to the American people? Here we are told that governments are instituted among men... ...vided the Methodist and Presbyterian churches, and has sown discord in the American Tract Soci- ety. The churches have split and the society will foll... ...ngs they have already decided, except that there is a little quibble among lawyers between the words “dicta” and “decision.” They have 56 The Writing... ...that court. Now, as to this indirect mode by “unfriendly legislation,” all lawyers here will readily understand that such a proposition cannot be tole... ...h virtually excluded it,— and that upon a very well known principle to all lawyers, that what a Legislature cannot directly do, it cannot do by indire... ...ere disposed to do so, and we could take up some one of the issues, as the lawyers call them, and I were called upon to make an argument about it to t...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ... in slant for- age caps and rattling sabers. It suggested to them a common American past, and it was memorable because they had discovered it together... ...essed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American peasantry, and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagin... ...ga Rustad, she’s still scared of America, but her kids will be doctors and lawyers and governors of the state and any darn thing they want to.” 60 Ma... ...s people who stay too long in the provinces. You’ll find it epidemic among lawyers and doctors and ministers and college-bred mer- chants—all these pe... ... doesn’t deal with him is robbing him. What hurts me is that it applies to lawyers and doctors (and decidedly to their wives!) as much as to grocers. ... ...nant farmers. The Dauntless lies to us about the Nonpar- tisan League, the lawyers sting us, the machinery-dealers hate to carry us over bad years, an...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...uke and his cousin, being Pennsylvanians by birth, were not Yankees in the American sense of the word. 48 The Pioneers CHAPTER V “Nathaniel’s coat, s... ... nation as their grandfather The former was generally called, by the Anglo-Americans Iroquois, or the Six Nations, and sometimes Mingoes. Their appell... ...r, and Mr. Jones down the night, without reckoning Benjamin Poomp, and the lawyers; so yell be fixing the room tidy; and put both flip irons in the co... ...- der of the hour. The physician and his companion, who was one of the two lawyers of the village, being considered the best qualified to maintain a p... ... V an der School. The village of T empleton at that time supported but two lawyers, one of whom was introduced to our readers in the bar-room of the “... ...ncongruity excited neither notice nor comment. Three or four clean- shaved lawyers followed, as meek as if they were lambs going to the slaughter. One...

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The Early Short Fiction

By: Edith Wharton

...gar necessities—were exactly those pleading in its favor with two romantic Americans per- versely in search of the economic drawbacks which were as- s... ... His wife felt a sting of compunction. Theoretically, she dep- recated the American wife’s detachment from her husband’s professional interests, but i... ...r. Boyne,” he replied. His intonation, rather than his accent, was faintly American, and Mary, at the famil- iar note, looked at him more closely. The... ...ent, implacable emissary of some dark, form- less power. “But Mr. Elwell’s lawyers apparently did not take your view, since I suppose the suit was wit... ... Part 2 may wish to make could have been made through our law- yers.” “Our lawyers!” She burst into a little laugh. “I don’t think they could help me—...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...gn; on the march to Rome he had lassoed his beef in the Campagna after the American manner; he had been wounded in the de- fence of the Roman Republic... ...the quadrangle below, whose paved space is the true hearthstone of a South American house, where the quiet hours of domestic life are marked by the sh... ...was generally the speciality of half-educated negroes and wholly penniless lawyers. Then, confronting with a sort of urbane effrontery Mrs. Gould’s ga...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...ake me. Short of muffing my fellowship I’m with you always…. Will it be an American trotter?” “It will be the rawest, gauntest, ungainliest brute that... ...duchies and liberties, so now the world. Things as they are may be fun for lawyers and politicians and court people and—douaniers; they may suit the l... ...f en- noblement—and neglecting the Frenchman, the Russian, the German, the American, the Indian, the Chinaman, and, in- deed, the greater part of mank...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ... Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sen... ...rst of endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of American girl. When some years ago I paid my first and only visit to Americ... ... the teeming uproars of reality. There was not a dozen people all told, no Americans and scarcely any English, to dine in the big cavern of a dining- ... ...m either zeal or shirking, they mingle with permanent officials, prominent lawyers, even a few of the soberer type of business men, and relax their mi... ...there were the financial peers, men accus- tomed to reserve, and their big lawyers, accustomed to— well, qualified statement. And below the giant pers...

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

...I am very glad,’ said her maid. ‘You must be prepared for the questions of lawyers, Danvers.’ ‘Oh, ma’am! they’ll get nothing out of me, and their wig... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ...rge Meredith of it no longer. I have sent a note, with an enclosure, to my lawyers. I sell The Crossways, if I have the married woman’s right to any s... ...ate; and the sight of the prim-visaged maid she had been driving among the lawyers kindled Diana’s comic imagination to such a pitch that she ran riot... ...s repulsive. But I am taken with a passion for reality.’ They spoke of the lawyers, and the calculated period of the trial; of the husband too, in his... ...ly annoyed but that one of the clerks-”articled,” he called himself—of our lawyers happened to be by. He of- fered to guard me, and was amusing with h... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

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The Trial or More Links of the Daisy Chain

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...he court—seeing him hear our talk by the river-side sifted by those horrid lawyers?’ The Doctor looked even graver, and his eye fixed as on a thought ... ...e could not have proved it.’ ‘What Quixotry moved my father not to put the lawyers on the scent?’ Ethel explained; and for her pains Tom fell upon her... ...ow could he suppose that any man could be crazed enough to prefer to be an American citizen, when he might remain a British subject? Repugnance to Ame... ...hate to see it, and to hear people say my roses will surprise the delicate Americans. Fancy, in a shop in London I met an old school-fellow, who was d... ... owns she does not know half so much as Cora!’ This regular declaration of American independence con- founded the two sisters, and made Averil recall ... ... at home in our great country.’ It was so exactly the ordinary second-rate American style, that Averil, who had expected something more in accordance ... ...e that her new friends might be induced to settle near their future abode. American meals were too serious affairs for conversation; but such as there...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...id running of bluish legal anecdotes which is so common an affliction with lawyers, and theology sinks and dies in that turbid stream. But as he lay i... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur...

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Lord Ormont and His Aminta

By: George Meredith

...n require.” “Can he possibly think it? And I have to warn you, child, that lawyers are not so absolving as the world is with some of the ladies Lord O... ...your friends. I have been hearing—it is not mere airy tales one hears from lawyers about cases in Courts of Law. Tighten your lips as you like; I say ... ...pulousness, or it soon becomes a whirl and scandal flying about, and those lawyers picking up and putting together. I have had a diffi- culty to persu... ...ristocracy. And they tell me she is coarse in her conversation—like a man. Lawyers tell me she is never happy but in litigation. Years back, I am give... ...I am given to understand, she did not set so particularly good an example. Lawyers hear next to everything. I am told she lifted her horsewhip on a ge... ...he work, doesn’t dispirit. Otherwise, one may say that an African or South American traveller has a more exciting time. I shall manage to keep my head... ...is boys: English, French, Germans, Italians, a Spaniard in my time—a South American I have sent him— two from Boston, Massachusetts—and clever!—all em...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...o simple, to have or to leave, as she justly ob- served, that she made the lawyers of the creditors themselves do the business. And Mr. Lewis represen... ...ngs where she dwelt, while conducting the busi- ness, to treat the enemy’s lawyers: shook hands with them at parting, in excellent good humour, and re... ...London, when he stopped for a few days at the house, did business with his lawyers there, and sold off all Miss Crawley’s French novels to a bookselle... ...y letter. His days were passed in con- ducting his own correspondence; the lawyers and farm-bailiffs who had to do business with him could not reach h... ...; quarrels with all his tenants, and lawsuits with them; lawsuits with the lawyers; lawsuits with the Mining and Dock Companies in which he was propri... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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