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...ic penny dreadful newspaper accounts, with the occasional courtroom visit for extra laughs. He narrates all this information (while tying complicated knots in a piece of string) to a Lady Journalist who frequents the same tea-shop. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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... everything would be all right after all. Taking a deep breath to ease the knots in her stomach, she went out, caught the bus to the mall, and bought ... ... loved her mother. The thought of life without her turned her stomach into knots. Jana dug out her cell phone, even though she knew she 103 A COURAGE...

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..., as we said, hologramic and of fractal nature). There are also inter- experiential knots: emotions, meanings and / or memories which interlink. A c... ...fore, applied. Strings collapse (are resolved) and "stabilize" as folds, wrinkles, knots, or flaps of spacetime. The vibrations of strings in stri...

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..., as we said, hologramic and of fractal nature). There are also inter- experiential knots: emotions, meanings and / or memories which interlink. A c... ...fore, applied. Strings collapse (are resolved) and "stabilize" as folds, wrinkles, knots, or flaps of spacetime. The vibrations of strings in stri...

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...is was improvised.” At ten o’clock the party began to break up, and little knots of guests went home together. David Sechard heard the un- wonted musi...

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...ok could only see the old lady’s head-dress, a huge black silk bonnet with knots of violet ribbon round it, but he looked at his wife as if to say, “D...

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... from the theme by a lively anecdote. After breakfast the party broke into knots, and canvassed Laxley’s behaviour to Evan, which was generally condem... ... sparkle of the twisting water, and you might dream things half-fulfilled. Knots of fern were about, but the tops of the mounds were firm grass, evide...

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...risons they went to debts. It was midnight. They had broken up into little knots round the table and before the fire, and gave themselves up to the bu...

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.... She was dressed in white muslin, with a hundred frills and flounces, and knots of pale-colored ribbon. She was bare- headed, but she balanced in her...

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...state of the case.’ She girded herself with a white apron, and busily with knots and pins contrived a bib to it, coming close and tight under her chin... ...nt for afterwards. ‘I won’t take one of the others,’ said Bella, tying the knots of the bundle very tight, in the severity of her resolution. ‘I’ll le...

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...io, would you please get Angelo." Antonio's stomach immediately twisted into knots. He forced a slight nod and exited through a curtain. A moment l...

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...t and future iPods.”) Mean- while the competitors would race to untangle the knots as fast as the platform manufacturer could tie them. If the consume...

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...e you have seen examples of the nests of the weaver birds in Africa. These small finches build a large tear drop shaped nest with complicated knots ... ...tion Marais allowed the new birds access to the traditional nest building materials. To his surprise they built identical nests with identical knots ...

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...ome with sil- very leaves, fastened by ribbons that fluttered in fantastic knots of twenty different colors, but no sad ones. Garden flowers, and blos... ...urge is knotted for him, even the whip of nine cords, and every cord three knots!” These insults irritated Pearson’s temper for the moment; they enter... ...nd will set all the windows aglowing as if there were a great fire of pine knots in the chimney. And then how pleas- ant, when we awake in the night, ...

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... genius, any more than money out of a Jew, or the best nutmegs out of pine-knots. The creatures are always going off at a tangent into some fantastic ...

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...in some, overhanging the narrow beach below in rude and heavy masses. Huge knots of seaweed The Pickwick Papers 58 hung upon the jagged and pointed s... ... preliminaries to arrange, the com pany straggled into the town in little knots of twos and threes; and within a quarter of an hour were all seated i...

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...ce. They wore grey cloth coats and trousers, broad hats, white sashes with knots of different colours to mark the rank of the officers, and red woolen...

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...is affi- anced, the beautiful and dashing Constantia Durham, fol- lowed by knots of ladies and gentlemen vowed to fresh air before dinner, while it wa... ...hment to the Court of his Merrie Son, where the leg was ribanded with love-knots and reigned. Oh! it was a naughty Court. Y et have we dreamed of it a... ...fore the falcon eye of Colonel De Craye spied her away on one of the beech-knots. Vernon stood irresolute. It was decidedly not a moment for disturbin...

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... mighty ark—a humble cock-boat. When it pauses, we pause; when it runs ten knots an hour, we run with the same celerity; and as, in order to carry the...

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... kept off with crossings, signs of the zodiac, papers tied up with so many knots, and certain words or figures written on them, as particularly the wo...

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...his food, he loathes his breath, and with a magnani- mous emotion cuts the knots of his existence and frees him- self at a blow from the web of pains ... ...du- als, whose inherent attraction is allowed to condense them into little knots and coteries. Our last snowball riot read us a plain lesson on our co...

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... flowers: they wore bags, their hair slightly powdered, brilliant shoulder-knots, and cocked- hats laced with gold. They wore the tight knee-pantaloon...

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...nd against the mischief of the envier when he envieth. 1 Lit. who blow on knots. According to some commentators an allusion to a species of charm. Co...

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...ler in the fleet. The captain said she had once gone at the rate of thirteen knots, which is accounted thirteen miles per hour. We had on board, as a ... ...the paquet, Lutwidge, said he believ’d she then went at the rate of thirteen knots, Kennedy made the experiment, and own’d his wager lost. The above f...