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...tcairn’s Criminal Trials, at large. – [R. L. S.] 6 Robert Louis Stevenson cheerless New Year’s present) his pension was expunged.* There need be no d... ...onnet of the same colour of cloth as the Boys’ Dress jackets, trimmed with blue satin ribbons; the hat or Bonnet, Mr. Spittal said, was a Parisian slo... ... her neck, corresponded in colour to her corpse-like complexion. Two light blue eyes that gleamed with a lustre like that of insan- ity, an utterance ... ...he Smeaton cleared the harbour, all on board united in giving three hearty cheers, which were returned by those on shore in such good earnest, that, i... ...e principal operations at the Bell Rock were ac- companied by three hearty cheers from all hands, and, on occasions like the present, the steward of t... ...ledge of the rock, to the great joy of all, under a salute of three hearty cheers. From an oversight on the part of the smith, who had neglected to br... ...s in a pe-jacket, cut after a particular fashion, and wears a large, flat, blue bonnet. A striking likeness of Spink in his pilot-dress, with the badg... ...ising the derrick, all hands on the rock sponta- neously gave three hearty cheers, as a favourable omen of our future exertions in pointing out more p...

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...Her published novels include, The Blue Flame, The Emerald Dagger, and The Silver Angel, the first three fantasy novels in her Daradawn series. She has also co-authored, Shadow Worlds, a science fiction suspense work with Darrell Bain, and Stargazer's Children...

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...ap Design: Barbara M. Hodges and Janet Musick Books by Barbara M. Hodges The Blue Flame The Emerald Dagger The Sword and the Flame THE BLUE FLAME F... ... Dressed in clothing more suited to a traveling troubadour, and with a small blue flame birthmark on his cheek – twin to the one she bears on her shou... ...rthmark and declares that, like him, she has been marked by the Power of the Blue Flame. He shows her Kelsey’s pendant. Seven days, he says, only seve... ...urned and stared at her reflection in the framed mirror on the kitchen wall. Blue eyes wide with uncer- tainty stared back. With a disgusted grimace, ... ...ow-cream walls and bright rag rugs on the oak hardwood floor never failed to cheer her up. She’d taken down Regan’s pastel prints and put up her own f... ... A young, coffee-skinned woman stood in the frosted sconce’s light. She wore blue jeans and a brown leather fur-trimmed jacket. Her corn-rolled hair g... ...again. Angus walked to a window and looked out. “They are going.” They heard cheers from outside. “Now tell me of Dirkk and the emerald dagger,” Tess... ... Kelsey pulled Patrick to her and gave him a long hug. The crowd behind them cheered, and again the lute and guitar began to play. “May I have this d...

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...d not believe her eyes. “What lovely rosy pink cheeks I have! And such deep blue eyes… and all those golden curls! Just look at my silk stockings and... ..., a ‘pretty little princess’ who has beautiful golden curls, rosy cheeks and blue eyes, will come into our shop with her mother. She will point at me ... ... still not as pretty as the little princess of her dream. And besides, their blue-and-white pinafore dresses had ice cream spilt all over them. They w... ... her face behind Robbie’s outstretched arm. He was the big honey bear in the blue waistcoat, who sat next to her. He was happy to help, as he certain... ...s very upset. Whenever she’d felt sad or lonely, he would always be there to cheer her up. “Twinky, don’t worry,” Robbie whispered to her, before he w... ...“Oh! The very same golden curls, the very same rosy cheeks and the very same blue eyes...” Her heart stopped for a moment. 19 The girl looked just li...

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...told stories about fairies, flowers, butterflies and birds, trying his best to cheer his sister. She felt even sadder for her little brother who looke... ...from the tree, screaming. Candleena ran to his side in fear. His finger became blue and he writhed in pain. Oh, my little brother, my sweet little br...

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...ng and a queen who had only one daughter. Her name was Peony. She had pale blue eyes and the most beautiful red hair with curls. The people of the ... ...till very ill. Growing weaker, she lay down in her bed and closed her pale blue eyes. Then, the king sent for an expert on mysterious illnesses who... ...ng the house dark and dreary inside. Occasionally, the dinner table tried to cheer up the dishes. “Go on, plates, line up in a row,” it said. 1 “Wh... ...ld at night,” cried the hedgehogs. “Rabbits are never cold!” the rabbit said cheerfully. “All of us gather into one large rabbit hole, press up again... ... country full of paint, where she met the colors “red,” “yellow,” “green,” “blue,” and “white.” They had very simple names, but every color had its ... ... to be the first to do things and he was not afraid of anything. He was cheerful, brave, and sure of himself. He believed he could do anything!... ...ow went outside and watered the daisies with his big, yellow watering pot. Blue loved to daydream. He wrote poems and could spend hours staring at ... ...ck out the best paintbrush. Y ellow decided to have something to eat first. Blue, as always, spent a long time daydreaming about what his picture m... ...ary happy. And she was! T o Mary’s delight, the picture came out bright and cheerful and really beautiful. Mary thought it was delightful to look at...

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...e. Here he often felt like a handicapped moron. If he were an Anglo-Saxon, a blue-eyed Miguk sarem English teacher, spending 6 months in the host coun... ...laying Haydn and Boccherini. He wondered about the girl dressed in the dumpy blue skirt of her school uniform, and the boys in jeans. Were they conten... ...ng traumatized by the great chasm of the murder of a sibling and finding the blue dangling body of his father. At 24, any man's boyhood was buried und... ...h a desert and into Baghdad half-naked and exposed, waving her red white and blue brassiere from the opened hatch of the tank. Yes, she admitted, she... ...ing that he was. She wanted to speak to her former psychology professor as a cheerful therapist but such nascent words when she tried to formulate the... ... shacks along the river. She saw two young boys with Butch haircuts in dark blue shorts and light blue shirts embracing each other as they walked cl... ...d up with plastic eyes but there is nothing we can do about it. Anyhow, two cheers for Burger King. Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray!" She laughed, ... ... compassion and empathy, whose intellect saw the world and yet had to give a cheerful rendering of it as "life" because one did have to live in this w... ...onﾁOt care what these self-centered little beasts like or donﾁOt like. Three cheers for men not liking me and going their merry ways. Hip hip hurray!...

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...of glass scratched with various names and initials. The walls were painted blue, the skirting almost a third of the height, and so wide at the top as ... ...en fires were made to give as little heat as possible, was ornamented with blue and white Dutch tiles bearing marvellous representations of Scripture ... ... and there came out a young man, slight, and delicate-looking, with bright blue eyes, and thickly-curling light hair. “Acting nurse?” he said, smiling... ...priety!” Then depositing her little charge with the nurse, and try- ing to cheer up a solemn-looking boy of three, who evidently considered his deposi... ...ow complexion, and tall figure, but was much improved by his mother’s fine blue eyes, and was a very pleasant-looking boy, though not hand- some; litt... ... “Oh, yes!” cried Ethel, flying into vehement activity; “only I’ve lost my blue-edged handkerchief—Flora, have you seen it?” “No; but here is your red... ...all—I am glad you are come,” he knew he was of use, and was encouraged and cheered. That his father had full confidence and reliance in him, and that ... ...moment or two with Norman, Ethel said in a tone of resolution, and of some cheerfulness, “Well, we have to begin afresh.” “Yes,” said Flora, “it is a ... ... that he did, he would not answer. “I wish—” said Ethel, disappointed, but cheering up the next minute. “I do believe it is having nothing to do. You ...

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...ved with great kindness of manner that she must really make an effort, and cheer up. ‘Oh I dare say, Miss La Creevy,’ returned Mrs Nickleby, with a pe... ...tulance not unnatural in her unhappy circumstances, ‘it’s very easy to say cheer up, but if you had as many occa- sions to cheer up as I have had—and ... ...ttle of a bell, every tinkle of which is enough to throw a strong man into blue convul- 21 Charles Dickens sions, upon my life and soul, oh demmit,’—... ...ture, but I know that.’ ‘You are a foolish, silly creature,’ said Nicholas cheerfully. ‘If that is what you mean, I grant you that. Why, here’s a dism... ...serve the same more closely. He was a sturdy old fellow in a broad-skirted blue coat, made pretty large, to fit easily, and with no particular waist; ... ... in the square, he led the way. The only inscription on the door-post was ‘Cheeryble, Brothers;’ but from a hasty glance at the directions of some pac... ...delivered himself as follows—rubbing the palms of his hands very hard on a blue cotton handker- chief as he did so: ‘We’re allowed to take a liberty o... ... Christian, instead of stick- ing it upon the very top of your head like a blue-coat boy. Y ou needn’ t think it an unmanly or quizzical thing to be p... ... there, under a mass of crumpled beaver, and surrounded by a semicircle of blue curl-papers, were the delicate features of Miss Fanny Squeers. ‘Oh, ‘T...

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...nd noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about wit... ...ch said to himself, and getting up he put on a gray dressing gown lined with blue silk, tied the tassels in a know, and, drawing a deep breath of air ... ...“That means that she’s not slept again all night,” he thought. “Well, is she cheerful?” The little girl knew that there was a quarrel between her fath... ...as a quarrel between her father and mother, and that her mother could not be cheerful, and that her father must be aware of this, and that he was pret... ...h! what a happy time you are at,” pursued Anna. “I remember, and I know that blue haze like the mist on the mountains in Switzerland. That mist which ... ... mocking in her tone to her husband, while Stepan Arkadyevitch was happy and cheerful, but not so as to seem as though, having been forgiven, he had f... ...he really was. But even as he was, he was charming, with his fair curls, his blue eyes, and his plump, graceful little legs in tightly pulled up stock... ...and she fancied that his love gave him insight. When now her glance meet his blue kindly eyes looking intently at her, it seem to her that he saw righ... ...n saw noth ing but the bright flash of a match, followed by the red glow and blue smoke of a cigarette. “Tchk! tchk!” came the snapping sound of Stepa...

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...e of the Seven Gables, which—many such sunrises as it had witnessed—looked cheerfully at the present one. The reflected radiance served to show, prett... ..., and floor had all been scoured, and the latter was overstrewn with fresh blue sand. The brown scales, too, had evidently undergone rigid discipline,... ...e did, out of the morning light, he ap- peared to have brought some of its cheery influences into the shop along with him. It was a slender young man,... ..., more owing to his mother’s carelessness than his father’s poverty), in a blue apron, very wide and short trousers, shoes somewhat out at the toes, a... ... run on, how- ever, without many and serious interruptions of this mood of cheerful vigor. As a general rule, Providence seldom vouch- safes to mortal... ...ul better measure than if she had taken it. Shortly afterwards, a man in a blue cotton frock, much soiled, came in and bought a pipe, filling the whol... ...ch affection and sorrowful remembrance wrought together. Soft, mildly, and cheerfully contempla- tive, with full, red lips, just on the verge of a smi... ...d it. This patriarch now presented himself before Hepzibah, clad in an old blue coat, which had a fashionable air, and must have accrued to him from t... ...at yellow blossoms, he looked about him with a joyful sense of warmth, and blue sky, and green grass, and of God’s free air in the whole height from e...

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...ntelli- gence. She had also her mother’s eyes, large and round, and almost blue, full of life and full of courage, eyes which never seemed to quail, a... ..., good-looking for those who like such good looks. He was light-haired and blue- eyed, with regular and yet not inexpressive features. But his eyes we... ...iversity pundits. Tifto, with a cigar in his mouth, with a white hat and a blue veil, and a new light-coloured coat, was by no means the least happy o... ...im were to him fortifications of which he knew how to use every stone. The cheers and jeers of the House had been so measured by him that he knew the ... ...e was a handsome youth, all but six feet high, with light hair, with round blue eyes, and with all that aristocratic look, which had belonged so pecul... ... of conscience among the—perhaps not ten thousand, but say one thousand of bluest blood,—that everybody should know who everybody is. Our Duke, though... ...n’t be a better fellow than Frank Tregear, and I ask you all to give three cheers for the new member. ’ Ten times three cheers were given, and the Car... ...s was taken as a stroke of the keenest wit, and was received with infinite cheering. Silverbridge was in the pride of his youth, and Carbottle was six...

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... majority of houses give one the impression they were built from the same blueprint and some hardware store once did a booming trade in whitewash. U... ...icable. He describes these humans as youthful, strong, having brown hair, blue eyes, extremely handsome, introverted, well mannered, trustworthy; th... ...is commonplace in the hotel, so naturally there is always a group of imps cheering or on their bellies in hysterics. It is the type of joke you can ... ...o throw the young man out into the street. The imps hissed, screeched and cheered Morris on. “Get stuck in with your boot!” One imp snorted. “Kick hi... ... Brown said. He was rather taken back when he received a warm response, a cheerful good morning from his congregation. One voice stood out above the... ...to the Masonic lodge’s secret handshake. This definition received a hardy cheer from the imps, but not something to write home to an ugly stepmother... ... comment from the window, Snakelex found himself shadowed by a shimmering blue-black figure. Its appearance was so like a larger than life goody two... ...was the same as the others, yet his armour was dark and his wings tainted blue-grey. The demon could hardly believe what he was seeing. With his att... ...ival, Snakelex thought the child had given new meaning to the term, ‘baby blues’. He would definitely have to write a paper on this one. The demon p...

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...ugh for her to bring her tightly-clenched fists up. Then distracted by the blue veins that traced a winding river between her whitening knuckles, sh... ...he rested her chin on her knuckles and studied the flickering flames. Such blue hearts the candle flames had. Why had she never noticed before? M... ...ready. But a little after four, he heard the door chimes and Cully’s too-cheery voice greeting York. Daniel stepped out of his study at the top ... ...ews been shared?” “Morgan is going to visit her mother.” “Oh?” The false cheer in Camilla’s voice faltered, and she blinked dumbly a few times, he... ... Finding a brush and a battered paint box, she set to work painting a fat, blue teardrop at the corner of her left eye. Tilting her head, she squi... ...ke I’ve escaped from Mother Goose. Who is your victim tonight? Little Boy Blue?” “I think you’ll be quite pleasantly surprised.” Camilla rearran... ...e important news to share with them.” A sudden vivid memory of bewildered blue eyes painted with a teardrop mocked the hope in his statement. Wha... ... to the task of putting out the lights that had made the kitchen bright and cheery while they cooked and ate. Her voice seemed another shadow co... ...nd stashed them in a drawer of the washstand. After poking the fire into a cheering blaze, she tugged a wing chair close to it. Pulling her icy fe...

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...ge as she, Alex was thought feminine, very pretty and petite in Air force blues. With her superior remaining silent, Roxanne lowered her tone and co... ...r response. "A.J’s death was hard on us all, but more so for you." Alex's blue eyes focused on the woman's agitated profile. "This is what it is all... ...Rider, rendering him again unconscious, or run for his life and get help. Blue eyes, partially covered by dirty long, brown hair fixed firmly on the... ...g abruptly drawn his attention, the Rider stared at the slender woman in a blue uniform. Unable to recall the last time he saw such long, dark, clean... ...ar ivory complexion stole his concentration. Her natural beauty and large blue eyes had him loosening his grip, yet only enough for his captive to d... ...on discharged. David fell backwards onto the tracks. "Good shot!" Roxanne cheered and now addressed a stunned David. "Lucky for you sport." She patt... ...ur. He watched intently as Alex closed her eyes and ran the program. In a cheerful disposition, Atlas wandered through the door to station nine. His... ...und them, obscuring his view. A voice of authority provoked the crowds to cheer as he spoke of entertainment. Feeling the pushing and shoving, he he...

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... stared across the infield, numb to Archer's relentless voice and the crowd’s cheers. Grief churned with rage as he fought to regain his composure. A... ...ink positive. So she imagined Skippy powering down the stretch with the crowd cheering as they crossed the wire, alone and in front. By the time t... ...I have to rent a trailer while mine has some bodywork. Would the owner of the blue Sundowner consider renting?” “No way.” Her scowl was so fierce, ... ... just wait ten minutes.” Kurt smiled and glanced out the window, checking the blue patch of sky. The weather was fickle, affected by the nearby moun... ...a picture of obedience. The onlookers drifted away amid a chorus of jeers and cheers. It seemed the show was over. Kurt’s grip on the rail loosened... ... pulled Ace to a halt, staring in horror. A bird trilled from the infield, its cheery song discordant with a man prone on the ground. A loud fly buzz... ...! Join the celebration.” A grinning Sandra yanked a can of beer from a dented blue cooler and lobbed it in the air. “Did someone win a race?” He sna... ...shed his room. No, nothing was stolen. The flustered night clerk passed him a blue garbage bag and called the police. Kurt rushed back to his room,... ... at small tracks and local fairs, he wouldn’t want her. Kurt’s background was blue blood—no backyard tracks in his pedigree. A fat gopher darted ac...

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...ons. He’s thrown a couple of towels over the seats of his fandangle, nice blue, luxurious sedan. As expected, Michael is a gentleman, opening and cl... ...red suit. He smiles a greeting, his eyes bulge and he’s a pretty shade of blue. Perhaps his condition has something to do with his tie stuck in the ... ...gain. Malnutrition here I come. “Who are you calling a mongrel?” This grey-blue fluff-ball thing actually spoke to me in a toffee, London accent. It’... ...nd; we’re going outside, coffees and all. 127 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE “Hi!” I cheerfully greet the gentlemen, as they get out of their flash four-wheele... ... from embarrassment. I hear my brother’s voice coming from the bathroom. “Cheer up Sis! Ali and I will think of something to save the day! It’s not ... ...of the stereo looks a little strange. Not only can I see Bertram, turning bluer than he already is with dog thinking his leg a bone, but I can also ... ... face with; however, Steven gets to it first. “Listen here Sis, until he’s blue and on the floor, he’s not convinced.” “No more Steven,” I snap then t... ...the voice finds spook central entertained. “Go Michael!” Steven claps and cheers him on. “Oh no!” I shake my head. “Must be a relapse. We’ve already ...

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...ply of water, and it was first on the spot. Bang went the pumps—the people cheered—the beadle perspired pro- fusely; but it was unfortunately discover... ...ms inclined to flatness, and who occasionally testify in gilt letters on a blue ground, in some conspicuous part of the church, to the important fact ... ...ou exert yourself by talking. If you call in the evening you will find her cheerful, but rather more serious than usual, with an open Bible on the tab... ...h Mr. Robinson had arrived in a cab ten minutes before, dressed in a light-blue coat and double-milled kersey pantaloons, white neckerchief, pumps, an... ...ottom; and once when we called, we saw a long white roller, with a kind of blue margin down each side, the probable use of which, we were at a loss to... ...his feelings. His opponent appeared in a cast- off coat of the captain’s—a blue coat with bright but- 24 Sketches by Boz tons; white trousers, and th... ...ind, he had never met with. A man with a larger family he had never known (cheers). The parish required a man who could be depended on (‘Hear!’ from t... ...ould be depended on (‘Hear!’ from the Spruggins side, answered by ironical cheers from the Bung party). Such a man he now proposed (‘No, ’ ‘Yes’). He ... ...le fellow to her bosom, and cried over him, till even old Fixem put on his blue spectacles to hide the two tears, that was a- trickling down, one on e...

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...ply of water, and it was first on the spot. Bang went the pumps—the people cheered—the beadle perspired pro- fusely; but it was unfortunately discover... ...ms inclined to flatness, and who occasionally testify in gilt letters on a blue ground, in some conspicuous part of the church, to the important fact ... ...ou exert yourself by talking. If you call in the evening you will find her cheerful, but rather more serious than usual, with an open Bible on the tab... ...h Mr. Robinson had arrived in a cab ten minutes before, dressed in a light-blue coat and double-milled kersey pantaloons, white neckerchief, pumps, an... ...ottom; and once when we called, we saw a long white roller, with a kind of blue margin down each side, the probable use of which, we were at a loss to... ...his feelings. His opponent appeared in a cast- off coat of the captain’s—a blue coat with bright but- 24 Sketches by Boz tons; white trousers, and th... ...ind, he had never met with. A man with a larger family he had never known (cheers). The parish required a man who could be depended on (‘Hear!’ from t... ...ould be depended on (‘Hear!’ from the Spruggins side, answered by ironical cheers from the Bung party). Such a man he now proposed (‘No, ’ ‘Yes’). He ... ...le fellow to her bosom, and cried over him, till even old Fixem put on his blue spectacles to hide the two tears, that was a- trickling down, one on e...

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...Through this life’s variegated scene In raging storms or calm serene Shall cheerful spend the hour. While steady Virtue guides his mind Heav’n-bor... ...esignation struggling with despair The Lord beholds with pitying eye; Sees cheerless Want unpitied pine, Disease on earth its head recline, And bi... ...sickly breath was spent; each gleam Of Hope had ceas’d the long long day to cheer; Or if delusive, in some flitting dream, It gave them to their fr... ... shall howling run) The tea-kettle is spoilt and Coleridge is undone! Your cheerful songs, ye unseen crickets, cease! Let songs of grief your alter... ...ight whirlwind die, He saw the sun-awaken’d Sky Resume its slowly-purpling Blue: And ah! he sigh’d — that I might find The cloudless Azure of the ... ...thóma: From the same 1793 How long will ye round me be swelling, O ye blue-tumbling waves of the sea? Not always in caves was my dwelling, No... ... With faery wand O bid the Maid arise, Chaste Joyance dancing in her bright-blue eyes; As erst when from the Muses’ calm abode I came, with Learnin... ... O dear Deceit! I see the Maiden rise, Chaste Joyance dancing in her bright-blue eyes! When first the lark high-soaring swells his throat, Mocks th... ...m Silver figures seem to swim, Like fleece-white clouds, that on the skiey Blue, Waked by no breeze, the self-same shapes retain; Or ocean-Nymphs ...

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..., and support, has been to me very pleasing—a path strewn with flowers and cheered with sunshine. I feel as if I stood amongst old friends, whom I had... ... humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerful ness. I felt that the world was not utterly to be despised; that ... ...er assurance that I was right, or where could I have stronger assurance to cheer me on than in your kindness on this to me memorable night? I am anxio... ...clear as the bright sky; he has filled our minds with memories pure as the blue waves which roll Charles Dickens 10 over him. Let us hope that she wh... ...myself, I am certain that the recol lection of their beautiful faces will cheer your lonely vigils upon the ocean for a long time to come. In all tim... ... will not penetrate into the mysteries of that secret chamber in which the Bluebeard of Party keeps his strangled public questions, and with regard to... ...re I express not only your feeling, and my feeling, and the feeling of the Blue, but also the feeling of the whole people of England, when I cordially... ...e whole metropolis; and if the secret were not at present locked up in the blue chamber, they would be all deeply obliged to the gentleman who would i... ...the day when a Poet Laureate sang— “Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heaven above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claim...