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...Dome of Death is a slightly shocking and occasionally thought provoking romantic thriller about two young men who’d love to be as cool as James Bond in the face of extreme danger, but discover reality is not like fiction. W...

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...acting the attention of the entire gallery, and cast his eyes heavenwards with a theatrical mopping of brow. All eyes followed to marvel again at the dome of crystalline carbon floating over the thirty-metre wide, octagonal central gallery. ‘It’s like being inside an enormous diamond,’ someone whispered. Max clapped his hands. ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, not only will Maxim...

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...Kubla Khan Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.   In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with...

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... could all too easily be the political future for us. So, Fidel is a prequel to NumbaCruncha, and a sequel to my other five novels—Rough Justice, Dome of Death, Sebastian, Jarek and Mortaumal. Fidel is fifteen when the story begins sometime in the near future. He’s running away from home to the big city where he falls into trouble, then miraculously falls out again...

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...one was bright and colourful. He looked up to see where the lights were, but there was none. The light came from what looked like a stained-glass dome, at least three hundred feet above ground. The colourful flow of light pouring into the lobby gave it a flamboyant and joyful atmosphere. It made him feel almost at home. He noticed there was no elevator. He thou...

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...ld have called “spiritual” had I been so inclined. Between wailing walls and golden domes, this metropolis played host to King David and to Jesus, t... ...ort.” – protested Dan – “Who says I failed?” Chapter the Fifteenth The Infected Domestic Even through the thick walls of the underground cell ...

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.... Prague rains itself on us, impaled on one hundreds towers, on a thousand immolated golden domes. We pretend not to see it bleeding to the river. W... ... of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder, the Verbal and Emotional Abuse, and the Spousal (Domestic) Abuse and Violence topics on Suite 101 and Bel...

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...le with intricately pierced marble screens, courts, fountains and exquisite gardens. Magnificent domes and minarets crowned its roof, Its pearl-pink... ...paddocks. At the far end, against the forested hillside, stood a strange, but beautiful, little, domed building, resembling a miniature Moghul palac...

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...and of smiles. "Thai" mumbled Nawin's voice from the back seat. "Domestic or international?" asked the taxi driver as if amnesia had wiped a... ...couldn't laugh at him for any reason. "Are you going international or domestic," asked the driver of the twenty-five year old. Again there was a... ...de of the Grand Palace in Sanam Luang. In front of the golden and pointed domes of the entrance there is an oval football field of dirt. The radio m... ... freshly cleaned floor. It belied the truth of this porcine creature whose domestic tendencies had surrendered to male nastiness early into marriage a... ...tation Cup Football Match, and advertisements for every international and domestic product imaginable thrust into the hands of consumers in the form ...

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... about the dishwasher." Justice shook his head, chuckling. "You two are so domesticated," he murmured as he left Kane in the vestibule. Kane waited un... ...y turned and admired the decorative architecture of the main hall's ribbed dome—a precise replica of the arch in front of the mihrab in the 10th centu...

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...tared at him through blank eyes. Dark gray clouds covered the city like an impenetrable dome. Brand swerved in and out of traffic to an unschedule... ...man, and he couldn’t have that, so he put a choker on you with a very short leash, and he domesticated you in no time. And now he’s using you to get...

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...tled “Night Viper Strikes Again.” The content of the article described a domestic terrorist group called Rebel XCIX that had launched numerous atac... ... I remem- ber that thing at Millstone. They said that it was atacked by a domestic terrorist group. Mater of fact, I remember hearing that some byst... ...nt had been hit by terrorists. They weren’t Islamic extremists. They were domestic terrorists, American citizens. They were the mysterious and highl... ...ype of restored older building, possi- bly a church judging by the smashed dome with the bent cross on it. They hid themselves amongst the large chun...

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... Bull-and-Mouth Street separates it from Butcher Lane, and the regions of Newgate. Over this little territory, thus bounded and designated, the great dome of St. Paul?s, swelling above the intervening houses of Paternoster Row, Amen Corner, and Ave Maria Lane, looks down with an air of motherly protection. This quarter derives its appellation from having been, in ancient t...

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... Newgate. Over this little territory, thus bounded and designated, the great dome of St. Paul’s, swelling above the intervening houses of Paternoster ...

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...re, And join the making of new eras’ lore. The House of the Future raise! But trample not the altars of the past! Although you shall much finer domes erect. The holy flames upon the stones still last, And human love lives there and guards them fast, And them you owe respect! Now with the world that vanishes from view, Dragging down the perfect rainbow of delig...

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...lanetarium, was perched in the middle of the 75 foot diameter white plaster dome. Then the lights dimmed to the strains of Beethoven and the blacken... ... dome. Then the lights dimmed to the strains of Beethoven and the blackened dome metamorphed into a crystal Sahara sky as the Zeiss shot the images ... ...tal Sahara sky as the Zeiss shot the images of 9000 stars on the blackened dome. Then came the planets and the moon. The clear celestial fantasy, a... ...basic to my liberal views.” —‘I agree, Lee. I think that particularly in domestic issues we conservatives lean to liberty while you liberals lean... ... Arnold Toynbee said ‘We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unp... ...pews and outside the holy walls. How much food and medicine would the golden domes, the art collections, the real estate holdings and the gilded idol...

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...s reflection from the salt flats and gave back nothing but dullness. The dome that bulged from the center of the flat roof stole the sun's rays. A... ...en he saw Ao Rue approaching, he jumped to the walkway at the base of the dome and laced his claws across his belly. Ao Rue came straight in. Jus... ...red he would crash into the chorten, he backed wind and bathed the entire dome and Lei-kung in silver- blue fire. It streamed from his snout and cur... ...t the web at the tip of Ao Rue's right wing. He began to walk around the dome, towing the wing behind him. When Ao Rue thought he was going to pul... ...of its socket, Lei-kung reached up and slapped it against the side of the dome. It stuck. Lei-kung sauntered back. "Now the other wing." Ao Rue... ...e stone. Ao Rue's muscles cried out as Lei-kung stretched him across the dome. "Now the hind legs. I'll leave your head free. It's important tha... ...e lines seemed endless. They all gazed up at Ao Rue spread-eagled on the dome. Lei-kung hopped back up on top of the dome. As he raised his fore ... ... arcane, the special! I've made a bad job of everything! Pinned to the dome like a prize butterfly, he exercised his cramped muscles against the ... ...rom where Wen Ch'ang had set her down. Lei-kung appeared from around the dome. "Well, well, well, you have a visitor Ao Rue." He walked by the he...

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...orks for me.” What a maroon. “While you’re at, why not have it in the Super Dome and televise the whole thing?” “I like the way you think. The Su... ...r Dome and televise the whole thing?” “I like the way you think. The Super Dome it is.” Damn! Gotta remember to keep any further stupid thoughts... ...ay, but don’t spaz out on me. He wants the two of us to show up at the Super Dome tomorrow for a big showdown, where he plans to kill us on live TV.... .... “I am, but not you. You’re not going within a hundred yards of the Super Dome and that’s final.” Why did men think getting repetitive when the... ...ps to the Academy hours later, I wished we’d just gone straight to the Super Dome. Before Marci left the ice cream shop to get back to her afternoon... ...ntil the end of the world. Donnie and I arranged to meet up across from the Dome two hours before Show Time. When we set it up, I hadn’t planned t... ...think it was. Love at First Stake 99 Chapter Twenty-Seven The Super Dome was flippin’ huge! Sure when you see it on TV, you say to yourself...

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...urned irregular holes in the metal's embossed scripture. Inside, the great dome's symmetry was broken by a small, distant room set to the side off ... ...m arced in circle upon circle from the tiled mosaic floor up the buttressed dome, almost up to the zenith. Narrow staircases spiraled like ivy up th... ...e to her left and rushed past an elaborate archway into the Rotunda's outer dome. There the scribes sat, cinched between the inner and outer walls, ... ... TripStone walked quickly, listing to the right to follow the curve of the dome until she was sure one leg was truly shorter than the other. She sto... ...e a single star through its window. Lanterns flickered in the center of the dome, far from paper. The books filling coffered granite threw long shad... ...y, her eyes dry and bloodshot. The pit smoldered beside her, mounded into a dome of earth over layers of leaves. The air above it buckled with inten...

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...itants walked around the dark city lit from small sparks of light within the small dome houses. He breathed in and felt a peace surround him in the ...

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...to dog weed which blew against her face reassuringly as though she were a domestic animal being petted by nature. There was feeling in this num... ...andeered her impressions: an alloyed structure topped with an effervescent dome which would flood in rains; one of pure effervescence and the whole t... ...e toppled and crushed as it was given a material roof; walls, pillars, and dome of another, an ethereal rotunda seconds from vanishing entirely as ha... ...laya among other dishes, potting plants, straightening the nest, the usual domesticity, with the memory of her mother's obdurate and insensitive neut...

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...en and a When Serpents Die 9 large household was no trot in the ring. Domestic organization wasn’t part of a foreign correspondent’s c... ...nk in need of a haircut.” Reaching up to smooth hair that fringed his bald dome, Mather snapped, “My barber died.” Jack patted his pocket... ...and strands of skin. He tore his eyes away from the gore and fastened on the skull dome lying upside down on the desk, silver-black hair cushioning ... ...he floor. The remains of a clay pot lay at her feet. She looked into the cupola’s dome. The ceiling was latticed. But no one was up there. So...