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... loves fill. She appears in sweet brightness where the famed keeper of the stars closes her eyes, and the moon shines a midnight course East. Teaching... ...h the night’s review. 7 Her spirit travels outward clothed in garments of stars which had with love turned itself. She descends me into her nature of... ...the terrestrial orb now glows more brilliant, the sun burns deeper and the stars sparkle more clear. The book of love unlocks before her on a straight... ...in her what the day has made and the closing hours have made the deep. The twinkle of her midnight shine never sleeps, I meditate on the light that mo... ...valley is eternal, the root of heaven which identifies every day star that twinkles in its unchanging light. 36 She lays the foundation of miracles a... ...urns. 57 GINO Like I need this, right? You figure these guys would have a little class at a function like this. KEVIN Do you know who that woman is i... ...hat is wonderful! 65 ISABELLA Thank you. SUDDENLY: It starts to drizzle a little. ISABELLA Just our luck, first that guy, now the rain. What’s next? ... ...eep dry. ISABELLA I spoke too soon, didn’t I? KEVIN (Playfully) Ah, just a little. They smile at one another. ISABELLA If we hurry we can make it acro...

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...nd slapped his bare feet on the wood-finish floor. "I don't believe you're starting this all over again." "You think because you apologized that I'm s... ..."Thank you, sir." Therese took it, salivating like Marsh. She knew she was starving enough to eat every scrap and still want seconds. Where was this m... ...l facing her. "Just thought you should get your day off to a good, healthy start is all." He shrugged, digging into his pancakes. She stared at him fo... ...ry much..." Therese cleared her throat, gathered herself enough to sound a little more clever and professional. "When do I start?" "Next week, bright ... ...on, he was laid up sick and in bed at home. Therese had given him a call a little after the exhibition hall had closed for the day, greeted with the s... ...s fingers atop the rich cherry veneer. Or better yet, maybe he was doing a little overtime himself. Not too outlandish a possibility knowing him. Mayb... ... a cute little bunny as she glanced over at this fellow with the wickedest twinkle. A twinkle full of shared secrets and pasts, a twinkle meant for mo... ... of shared secrets and pasts, a twinkle meant for more than a friend... My twinkle! "Actually, I guess you could call Darius my hero." The "hero" step...

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...Prague at Dusk In Moist Propinquity Prowling Getting Old Sally Ann Selfdream Snowflake Haiku Twinkle Star Synthetic Joy Tableaux (van Gogh) The Auth... ...t Dusk In Moist Propinquity Prowling Getting Old Sally Ann Selfdream Snowflake Haiku Twinkle Star Synthetic Joy Tableaux (van Gogh) The Author ... ...een trolley – a tall and stout and handsome man, fair-skinned and sapphire-eyed. "A movie star" – they gasped behind his back. Day in and day out, ... ...o his azure pushcart, day in and day out. She said nothing and he remained mute. They just stared with vacuous eyes, perhaps away, perhaps inside, p... ...is heart with the iron grip of festering love. He hugged her and showered her with panicky little kisses. She froze and fortified her berth with pi... ... its faded and lumpy stuffing. The wooden armrests are dark and bear the scratchy marks of little hands. I contemplate these blemishes, set bright ... ...ght, no shadows, just a black-singed mass of foliage and an incandescent, sallow horse. My little brother lies bleeding on the rug. Two gory rivulet... ...ozen sharp relief, the icy darts your voice in my inebriated veins in yours. Return Twinkle Star by Sam Vaknin Twinkle star of bar...

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... your brain,” Mitch said. “But it’s my favorite hat! Besides, I think it makes me look a little like Indiana Jones,” she said smiling and cracking ... ... he had found numerous ancient tombs, and where he was now focusing his own efforts. Very little had been found in the ancient cellar he left Mitch a... ...y competitive Egyptology program. “Professor Dustimaine, we weren’t expecting you…” Mitch started to say. “You two are falling further behind every ... ...mpering those workers.” He leaned closer to them, “If you don’t get your act together and start producing better results, I am going to have you bot... ...d off. Fessel, still trailing behind his boss, looked back at Mitch and Alex, sneering. “Little rat…” Alex whispered under her breath, glaring back ... ...Alex soldiered on. They were clearing away some dirt and sand to allow them to get a good start in the morning and move on to the finer, more detail... ... your wife would let you out of her sight so quickly,” he remarked with a sly smile and a twinkle in his eye. Traeus laughed, he enjoyed the more re...

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...doll. “Yes, she’s certainly gorgeous. Those jewels on her dress and her hair twinkle like diamonds,” said one sales assistant. “Yes, that must be why ... ...ant. “Yes, that must be why she’s named Twinklinka,” said another. “A pretty little princess would surely buy this beauty at any price.” “Yes, yes. I’... ...s and sparkles on my dress. Can those be diamonds in my hair, twinkling like stars?” “.....And they said that a ‘pretty little princess’ would buy me.... ...amonds in my hair, twinkling like stars?” “.....And they said that a ‘pretty little princess’ would buy me. It sounds like someone really special.” Of... ... in picture books. 6 She closed her eyes and imagined. “Some day, a ‘pretty little princess’ who has beautiful golden curls, rosy cheeks and blue eye... ...you have!” “Are these really diamonds on your hair and dress, twinkling like stars?” Twinklinka was showered with questions. 8 9 In the middle of al...

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...tion style homes with well-maintained gardens and ornamentation. The odd, little, brick veneer boxes stood out, young trees and neat lawns gave a se... ...ou! Enjoy your pie, you’ll be on bread and water after this, you stinking little coward.” She left the youth wide-eyed and defeated. Chris had succe... ... Lord’s name in vain. You know better than that girl, especially when the little ones are around.” “Sorry Pop.” Chris rolled her eyes, still mad wit... ...ke me for, stupid?” Bill smiled. The warm, summer night sky was a blaze of stars and the moon shone in its fullness. Bill liked this time of year; he... ...was no stranger to a paintbrush or hard work, she was just itching to get started; presuming all that stood in her way was male incompetence. The wo... ...ering she was hunched with a shovel in hand. “Bill?” Rick hadn’t meant to startle the person, who lost their balance in their zeal to see who’d spok... ... knew this. Bill had also informed that he use to call his granddaughter twinkle toes. 101 “Prove it.” Before his date could protest, Rick grasped ...

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... because he was the tallest man in the regiment. When the dance was fairly started the sentries were released, and Private Mulvaney went to curry favo... ... dhrinkin’ now. ’Tisn’t that I am set ag’in. ’Tis this quare stuff wid the little bits av black leather in it. I misdoubt I will be distressin’ly sick... ...im like a Comm’ssariat bul- lock looks at the Comp’ny cook. He’ d a dhirty little scrub av a black moustache, an’ he twisted an’ turned ivry wurrd he ... ...matthers which, in re- gard for your presince, Sorr, I will oblitherate. A little av fwhat I knew, the Colonel knew, for he wud have none av him, an’ ... ...s side, calling out, ‘Can you climb on board if we throw you a rope?’ That startled me, because I fancied we were going to be run down the next minute... ...was trespassin’ ovver a compound wall after one of them mongooses ‘at he’d started, an’ we was busy grubbin’ round a prickle-bush, an’ when we looks u... ...ou be seein’ him again? Y ou will. Thin tell him’—Mulvaney’s eyes began to twinkle— ’tell him wid Privit—’ ‘MISTER, T erence,’ interrupted Dinah Shadd... ... released the little Londoner, took back his pipe, filled it, and his eyes twinkled. He has the most eloquent eyes of any one that I know. 36 Soldier... ...u know. MRS. G. Did you ever want to help it? Speak the truth! CAPT. G. (A twinkle in his eye.) I did, darling, just at the first. But only at the ver...

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...out of its waistcoat pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never be... ...g through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) ‘And what an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do to ask: perha... ...dle, wondering how she was ever to get out again. Suddenly she came upon a little three legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on ... ... she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key i... ...near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, ‘If you please, sir—’ The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried... ...ish Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky. Alice went timidly up to the door, an... ...ncert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing “T winkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you’re at!” You know t... ...u fly, Like a tea tray in the sky. T winkle, twinkle—”’ Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep... ...”’ Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep ‘T winkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle—’ and went on so long that they had to pinch it...

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...k of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burn... ...must conclude was along the Time- Dimension.’ ‘But,’ said the Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, ‘if Time is really only a fourth dimens... ...ace, man had no freedom of verti- cal movement.’ ‘Still they could move a little up and down,’ said the Medical Man. ‘Easier, far easier down than up... ... Young Man thought. ‘In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The German scholars have improved Greek so much.’ ‘Then there is... ...d at us, and then at the mecha- nism. ‘Well?’ said the Psychologist. ‘This little affair,’ said the Time Traveller, resting his el- bows upon the tabl... ...acco jar on the mantel, and with his back to us began to fill his pipe. We stared at each other. ‘Look here,’ said the Medical Man, ‘are you in earnes... ...ce in which the machine had been. ‘You see?’ he said, laughing. We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so. Then the Time T raveller ask... ...ely a rock. The stars in the sky were intensely bright and seemed to me to twinkle very little. ‘Suddenly I noticed that the circular westward outline...

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...e, to be pondered; it is hoped, no doubt, they may instruct, or inform, or startle, or arouse, or reform, or provoke, or amuse us; but we read, if we ... ...plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle,—as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who labor... ... a source to draw gram- mar from, forcing the parts of speech to stand out stark and cold from the warm text; or a store of samples whence to draw rhe... ...figures of speech singly and without support of any neighbor phrase, to be stared at curiously and with intent to copy or dissect! Here is gram- mar d... ...tion; it permits no retirement to any who share its life. It is a place of little tasks, of narrowed functions, of aggre- gate and not of individual s... ...re- gate and not of individual strength. The great machine domi- nates its little parts, and its Society is as much of a machine as its business. “Th... ...intemperate and can never stop to smile, and are deeply reassured to see a twinkle in a reformer’s eye. We are glad to see earnest men laugh. It break...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?KASPAR! MAKAN!? The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an...

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...ER by Joseph Conrad CHAPTER I “KASPAR! MAKAN!” The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant real... ... dim light of the place, so delightful after the glare of the streets; the little railed- off spaces amongst piles of merchandise where the Chinese cl... ...the Master. In that clear space Almayer worked at his table not far from a little green painted door, by which always stood a Malay in a red sash and ... ...ld Hudig—the Master—sat enthroned, holding noisy receptions. Sometimes the little door would fly open disclos- ing to the outer world, through the blu... ...ural craving for change, was nothing loth, and packing his few belongings, started in the Flash on one of those long cruises when the old seaman was w... ...Millions I say! And all for her—and for you, if you do what you are told.” Startled by the unexpected proposal, Almayer hesitated, and remained silent... ... south- ward, and the great blaze of light got smaller and smaller till it twinkled only on the horizon like a setting star. It set: the heavy canopy ... ... branches, in the houses built on the banks and over the water, the lights twinkled already, reflected in the still waters below. The hum of voices, t... ...tse! tse!” clicked Babalatchi, trying to appear shocked, but with a joyous twinkle of his solitary eye. “There will be great trouble between those whi...

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...r two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours’ windo... ...eating people down? ay, ’tis so.’ ‘O no.’ ‘What, then?’ Gabriel, perhaps a little piqued by the comely traveller’s indifference, glanced back to where... ... more. The sky was clear — remarkably clear — and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. The Nor... ...rs seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. The North Star was directly in the wind’s eye, and since evening the Bear had swung r... ...earliest impressions — to pass as an approximate pattern. The hut stood on little wheels, which raised its floor about a foot from the ground. Such she... ...n, his special power, morally, physically, and mentally, was static, owing little or nothing to momentum as a rule. A close examination of the ground ... ...e the features and persons of Daisy, Whitefoot, Bonny lass, Jolly O, Spot, Twinkle eye, etc., etc. — the respectable dairy of Devon cows belonging to ... ...e — you have!’ ‘Indeed, I don’t think so,’ said the sergeant, with a merry twinkle. ‘I tell you you have!’ she exclaimed, in high temper. ‘I insist up... ...p his hands together, and make the holy gold rings on his fingers gleam and twinkle in yer eyes, that he’d earned by praying so excellent well! — Ah ye...

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...sant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?” My father told him no, very little company, the more was the pity. “Well, then,” said he, “this is the ... ... applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through his nose at me and stare me down, but before the week was out he was sure to think better of i... ... captain blew through his nose so loudly that you might say he roared, and stared my poor father out of the room. I have seen him wringing his hands a... ...s and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring. He sank daily, and my mother and I had all... ...ck into the parlour, sonny, and get behind the door, and we’ll give Bill a little surprise—bless his ‘art, I say again. So saying, the stranger backed... ...er the edge of the hill in half a minute. The captain, for his part, stood staring at the signboard like a bewildered man. Then he passed his hand ove... ...an con- vinced. “Slow, lad, slow,” he said. “They might round upon us in a twinkle of an eye if we was seen to hurry.” Very deliberately, then, did we...

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...Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for awhile. Five years later, she and her troubadour meet again, AND fate hands her the...

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... “It wasn’t his fault, Mr. Faraday.” Her voice came out so strangled, it startled her and must have surprised Faraday as well. He stared at his ... ...ismissed?” she asked, forgetting her desolate act too quickly. She saw the start of a smile tickle at the corners of Daniel Connolly’s sternly-set m... ...organ snatched the envelope from the mirror and crushed it in her hand. She stared at her fist for a moment as the applause quieted, and in the expe... ...he could shake her off, she bit him behind the knee. “Arrrgh! Why, you little bitch!” Jack hollered as he dropped Rupert and grabbed her by the ... ...r moaned. “Let me go!” she squeaked against Jack’s salty palm with what little air she managed to gulp. “I’ll dress him and we’ll leave. Just ... ...Would it be any worse if I told you I’ve decided not to participate in your little charade tonight?” Camilla heaved a great sigh. “Oh, how tiresom... ...an took a deep, shuddering breath. “I guess so.” She glanced up to catch a twinkle of amusement in Daniel’s eyes. “Relax,” he said. “It’s my f... ...aller man was regaling his companions with a bawdy story. One woman’s eyes twinkled with guilty delight while she tried to hide erupting giggles by... ...r on it. Not many obstacles can stand in the way of what Daniel wants.” A twinkle returned to her eye. “But it’s not his career I was referring t...

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...I love writing romantic tales of heroism and adventure in other worlds. My novel 'STARQUEST is published by The Wild Rose Press as an Ebook and will be available in paperback on December 5th 2008. I am working on edits for the sequel 'Children Of The Mist''. Watch this space for further details... I am thr...

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...n golden horse, Sally, who was the inspiration for Sal. Also in memory of Flikka, Star, Mr Fifty, and the dogs, Hans, Blaze, Bonnie and Bob, who ... ...n others, had a mesmerising quality. His masculine physique was sheer perfection. Little wonder every goddess he looked upon with desire, instantly... ... 4 I need you to return and inspire them to dance again.” Terpsichore sighed, a little, soft sigh that echoed through the hall like the singing o... ...be disappointed.” A wave of his hand indicated the discussion was closed. With a little sigh, Terpsichore left her seat by his throne. When would ... ...ed up a nearby oak. Myrddin walked over to his horse, a sturdy beast, black as a starless, moonless night; its long mane reached nearly to its kne... ...ater below. Hywela Lyn 12 It was not that, however, which made him stop and stare in amazement. **** How long had it been since she was las... ...irai, until it was too late to stop you.” He pursed his lips, but his eyes held a twinkle. “We’d originally intended you to be merely a distraction...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very...

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...oom in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, care- fully disposed on a low settee immediately in... ...tching as they go—while the countenance of Son was crossed with a thousand little creases, which the same deceitful Time would take delight in smoothi... ...d phos- phorescently in the feeble rays of the distant fire. Son, with his little fists curled up and clenched, seemed, in his feeble way , to be squa... ...em promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against their enter- prises; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve in- violate a system... ...stice. He was not a man of whom it could properly be said that he was ever startled, or shocked; but he certainly had a sense within him, that if his ... ...e in their senses would believe.’ ‘One mass of babies!’ repeated Mr Chick, staring with an alarmed expression about him. ‘It would have occurred to mo... ... youth,’ said Mr Dombey, quickly answering what he mistrusted was a shrewd twinkle of the frosty eye, ‘his youth is a more appropriate expression. Now...

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...n some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull? On this head of exaggeration I have a positive experience, mor... ...t only in historical prose but in imaginative poetry, by the exercise of a little ingenious labour on the part of a commentator. It has been said that... ...hrough the mist which had obscured it all day, looked brightly down upon a little Wiltshire village, within an easy journey of the fair old town of Sa... ... imaginary general il- lumination of very bright short-sixes, lay placidly staring at his own street door. And it would seem to have been more suggest... ...d!’ returned the other. ‘Why didn’t you observe that the tears were almost starting out of his eyes!’ cried Pinch. ‘Bless my soul, John, is it nothing... ...d sleep; they were plainly apoplectic and disposed to snore. There were no staring portraits to remonstrate with you for being lazy; no round-eyed bir... ...lily hand, and gave the same, with mantling cheeks, to Martin! How did you twinkle, as if fluttering with sympathy, when Mercy, reminded of the bonnet... ...to meeting, Mrs Brick?’ asked Martin’s friend, with something of a roguish twinkle in his eye. ‘To lecture, sir.’ ‘I beg your pardon. I forgot. You do... ..., peering brightly from behind the crisp lemon-peel, looked up at him, and twinkled like a star. Deep in the City, and within the ward of Cheap, stood...

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....................................................... 58 LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE .................................................................. .............................................................. 64 BEFORE THIS LITTLE GIFT WAS COME ......................................................... ...................................................................... 65 GO, LITTLE BOOK – THE ANCIENT PHRASE ............................................. ......................................... 82 LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START ........................................................................ ...ed long without My last of loves to see. Alas! the moon-white window-panes Stared blindly back on me. To-day I hold her very hand, Her very waist embr... ...e would fit a hat! Full many a marsh-fire lured me on, I reached at many a star, I reached and grasped them and behold – The stump of a cigar! All thr... ...rkness falls. In the house the lights are lighted. See, in the valley they twinkle, The lights of home. Late, O lovers, The night is at hand; Silence ... ...n, The passion of the gale. NE SIT ANCILLAE TIBI AMOR PUDOR There’s just a twinkle in your eye That seems to say I might, if I Were only bold enough t... ...ls in the trees, 28 The wind may blaw the lee-gang way 33 There’s just a twinkle in your eye 84 They tell me, lady, that to-day 56 This girl was s...

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...........................................................................32 STARGAZERS.................................................................... ..., 10 And She will dance and sing with thee! Nay! start not at that Figure—there! Him who is rooted to his chair! Look at... ... The strife of happiness and pain, Utterly dead! yet, in the guise Of little Infants, when their eyes Begin to follow to and fro The persons ... ...This fall of water, that doth make A murmur near the silent Lake; This little Bay, a quiet Road That holds in shelter thy Abode; ... ...ERFL TERFL TERFL TERFLY Y Y Y Y Stay near me—do not take thy flight! A little longer stay in sight! Much converse do I find in Thee, Historian... ...h The dust from off its wings. 19 2. The Sun has long been set: The Stars are out by twos and threes; The little Birds are piping yet Among... ... Thyself thy own enjoyment. Upon yon tuft of hazel trees, That twinkle to the gusty breeze, Behold him perch’d in ecstasies, Yet...