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Years ago I bumped into one of them in the dark and said, in our language, "Why do you run away from me?What harm have I ever done you?" He was so startled that he went pale and said nothing.
She paused, her hands entwined beneath her belly, stared out the glass at the bluestem grasses bowed and bending toward her, the stunted blackjacks (those ugly trees) hunched close to earth like dwarves or gnomes, their gnarled fingers reaching earthward: dear God, how she despised them!Beyond the jacks the brooding Deep Fork River crawled west to east, its meandering path made plain by the paler bark of river trees, the cottonwoods and sycamores, within the arc of hickories.
Inside the house, her sisters' working hands fell still; twelve pale brown eyes stared wide across the parlor.
Oh, it's huge, you know, big white mound of flesh, purple popped veins running through it, been this huge pale naked mountain in them soaked sheets all this time.
She had the pale pallor of a three-day-old corpse on her cheek and, despite the dark on the unlit stair, was wearing Wayfarer Ray-Bans.
The offshore towers stand out in dark silhouette against it, rising improbably out of the pink and pale blue of the lagoon.
But he's seen pictures.) Opening up their sack, the children chorus, "Oh Snowman, what have we found?" They lift out the objects, hold them up as if offering them for sale: a hubcap, a piano key, a chunk of pale-green pop bottle smoothed by the ocean.
"Was it an order from the division?Who had arranged things that way?" The sky, a hot pale-blue, with a blazing sun, offered no answer, but it was clear that walking in daytime was impossible.
Cottage doors opened to the pale sun.
If the times possessed a particular theme it was undoubtedly the postwar decline of the British Empire, a decline spelled out in India and Palestine, apparent in Africa, and palely reflected in the Republic of Ireland Act, whereby the twenty-six counties of Ireland left the British Commonwealth.
Arranged in long ranks, ten-, twelve-, or thirteen-year-old girls, pale and hollow-eyed, their pinned-back hair sprouting tendrils limp with perspiration, operated the machinery with such alacrity that arms and hands were a flying blur.
It is deeply imprinted not only in the language of such intently religious poets as George Herbert and Emily Dickenson but also in writers beyond the pale of traditional belief as different from each other as Hemingway, Joyce, and D.
Most paleontologists now consider that modern birds are very closely related to the dinosaurs which, in this sense, did survive the end of the Cretaceous.
Retrieving these long-lost memories is the business of geologists and paleontologists, of people who have chosen to be the historians of the Earth.
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