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...launted her, and others like her, wherever he went; but it was part of the game of being desired. Although he wasn't even conscious that such a game w... ...es were deflating like tires. He wanted to sit at one of the red metallic tables on a plastic stool among a group of saffron robed monks, with the sc... ...lastic bags sealed with rubber bands or put the plates of food on metallic tables. So many city residents (all of whom lived in apartments) did not po... ... he would not comprehend anything much before falling asleep at one of the tables. In sleep he would not exist. Cartoon images would run amuck. His... ...saw its eyes he suddenly knew the sadistic fun it was having with its mind games, and the cruel hunting games of cats and their dead mice. Deeper int... ... said Jatupon to curtail his vision. "Oh, let's not start the reality game. I'll make this simple so that even you can understand it. It foils ... ...ving around in the future. Ambition moves them around like the places on a board game of chess-or draughts played by motorcycle taxi drivers when they... ... Chapter 12 It was their third time playing the board game of Monopoly that week and Porn sensed that another ineluctable h... ...y tossed the dice directly into his token when it was near her side of the board but mostly her rolling was with a lethargic rattling in her palm and ...

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...The table games described in this book are based traditional tables games which have been modified to fit into a fantasy world where the inhabitants use a duodecimal numbering system (Base 12), and for whom the hexagon and numbers whic...

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...The games described in this book originally started life as part of a novel about the fantasy island of Tarron and the hominoid races (Elstron, Assen, Durns, and Jowr) that inhabited it. Within this fantasy novel The College of A...

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... make it past the farm leagues. I had a man’s arm but a boy’s head for the game. He said I was immature.” Cade seemed to think this was funny bec... ...n the other scouts stopped coming around. One by one, they either left the games early or talked to other players. I was pulled out of the game ea... ... 27 plates and champagne glasses littered the tables. Cade sat alone with his back to the wall. His parents danced ch... ...air, his voice raspy with urgency. “You’ve got strength and a head for the game.” Cade snorted but kept his gaze averted. “I just want to know why... ...eling. “Hey, you’re looking a little green there. Are you sure you’re on board for this?” “I’m fine.” She smiled weakly. “I hate the media, you ... ...onal relationship with Ms. Campbell. Naturally, we thought you would be on board with us, Cade. .” “What gave you that impression?” Even as he as...

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...ly did commit suicide, but she feels she has to do something.” “Senator, let’s not play games. What do you want from me?” “Since y... ...ook, the bullets never even penetrated the doors of my car.” “You’re playing a dangerous game, Miguel, be careful,” he said waving a finger at him.... ...his. Brand edged down the darkened hallway, listening for any movement. One of the aged board’s squeaked. Was it Susan, or the assailant? A shadow ... ...rs.” - J.Cross/Stone 117 Radcliff nodded. As Sherlock Holmes would have put it, “The games afoot,” Radcliff said to himself. “Good to see you, ... ...ly details. “You never met Michael before then?” Susan asked. “No. At that time I was in boarding school graduating Summa Cum Laude with a degree i... ...t, first confirming his ticket, buying a magazine, and then having a cup of coffee before boarding the plane. He had spotted at least four men he as... ...that we’re waiting for them. Remember, this is supposed to be a meeting. There are picnic tables on either side of us. They’ll probably have flashlig... ...down on the hill.” “How will you know where they are?” “They’ll be watching the picnic tables over there. They shouldn’t be too hard to find.” ... .... The man was dead almost instantly. One more he thought as he moved closer to the picnic tables. Sure enough, another soldier came into view. Only t...

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...nsion lay in ashes. It made gang violence look like a schoolyard kickball game. Afer the dust began to setle, a group of Connecticut residents got t... ...d hardly be rivaled by any other sound. Zodiac, who was not known to play games with people, was on a mission. He had no time to waste. Over the pr... ... what he was about to say. He had been content to just play the avoidance game with the Seekers. He asked himself why, afer only knowing these peopl... ...ing of the Apocalypse Dozer was geting louder and louder. Everyone got on board the shutle. Talbot looked at John and said, “Go, be with your wife. ... ...uld’ve become real obvious on May 7 th . Now, kindly have all of those on board step of, leave all of your stuf and have fun dodging the Seekers,” t... ... ‘forget everything you just did’,” Josh smiled. Vincent and Lexi came on board the shutle, “Ready to go and work your magic on this place Josh?” “S... ... stale smell. Plates of decayed food were still siting on the counter and tables. Various pastries that had been on display had grown moldy and atr... ...in military barracks. Instead of long, rectangular shaped institu- tional tables, there were wooden round tables with individual chairs. There were ... ...in is usable is because the equipment is atached to walls, counters, and tables,” Josh answered. “Got ya,” Amanda replied as she dialed the phone. S...

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...lities within which we exist, and within which we see a new reality. This game yields the impact of the light of correction upon us, and this new w... ...xth millennium—the Vav, Tifferet, is the middle bar that bolts inside the boards from one end to the other, hence its name, “the door-bolt,”—the god... ...e c reator gave the Torah to Israel. It is written, “Harut [carved] on the tables; do not pronounce it Harut, but rather Herut [freedom],” for then t... ...t of all—no guessing. The big revelation is that raising kids is all about games and play, relating to them as small grownups, and making all major ...

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... power. Suddenly I’m feeling sick. Sick with the plastic manners of the till lady, the scent of this Indian woman and this whole game called living.... ...he two bricks and made me a goalkeeper and he was a striker. He said when he’s big his father will take him to watch a football game. I wish my fath... ...father will take him to watch a football game. I wish my father was not in war so we could do a lot of stuff and watch football games. Joe ... ...sual unit, the periodicals room, the issue counter and some space containing computer terminals, the reference section, and some tables used by some... ...ca. Bared Souls: Mount Mulanje: The tallest mountain in Malawi, slightly over 3000m high. Lawyers in Heaven: Bawo: A board game common in...

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...gloat, he savours his unaccustomed fortune. For he deserves a break. To Eli, this is not a game or, as I regard it, merely another path to self-enri... ... I am here, not to be snubbed. "Let's play some baccarat" – he sneers – "I am tired of this game." We stretch our limbs and Eli surveys the killing ... ...." Eli, returning to our first roulette, is greeted with regal pomp. I wander to a further board with lower minimum wagers. I squash my way into a ... ...nds engulf the cards doled out from the "shoe". It's "21" or Blackjack, a pretty basic card game. On certain rounds, Eli presents his palm, two of i... ...s and tips the grateful worker. I can relax. My tiny gains accumulate. The hours pass, the tables empty, it's only I and the croupier. My capital i... ...air I find it hard to stoop and place the wagers on the fluctuating squares of the roulette board. Eli wobbles towards me, his loosened tie dangling... ...smile. "It's over" – he mumbles – "let's get out of here." I collect my winnings from the board and proudly display them. He snickers: "Less than... ...ecomes the predator, but only for a while. Admittedly, it's possible and you might turn the tables. But you don't want to. You crave so to be hunted... ...ly his toothy smile remains, then gone. The Seder was often celebrated at my grandparents. Tables colluded under shimmering white clothes, bleached...

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...nted in 1893 and 1889. During the first world war, in 1917, the US War Industries Board called on women to stop buying metal-rich corsets. Some 28... ...ion. The 007 trademark was merchandised and attached to everything, from toys and games to clothes and toiletries. But Fleming was also renowned ... ...in Vienna. http://www.math2.org/math/general/numnotation.htm http://www.math.com/tables/general/numnotation.htm O OK Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)... ...ador and Honduras in July 14, 1969. The former lost to the latter in a playoff game for the 1970 World Cup. El Salvador fans then proceeded to ... ...eld by eight smaller arms ("arm crown"). The squid proceeds to bite chunks off the game, using its sharp and powerful beaks (the parrot-like equiva... ...mples, and to notify the health department on changes of her address. She sued the Board of Health of the City of New York in 1909. Weekly stool sa... ...sease had only a 10% fatality rate. Mallon reneged on her promises to the Health Board and in 1915 - using the pseudonym Ms. Brown - infected mo...

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...ecalled their conversation. ‘I was tied to a tree by my friends who wanted to play our favourite game of Settlers and Red Indians. I was the younges... ...he youngest, so they decided I should be the “Settler” captured by the Indians.’ Rosita knew this game, which the children played: it had evolved fr... ...pe Dr. Forsythe, you will demonstrate some of that skill. I would always welcome another medic on board, particularly when we strike rough weather.’... ... her, she had no doubt, but the depth of his love was only revealed to her on their last night on board the Prince George. They had just dined for t... ... pariah dogs, which seemed to roam at will amidst the human throng. A fair-skinned Parsi came on board with John MacGregor to direct the passengers... ... alcove furnished with gold THE CURSE OF KALI 73 cushioned divans and low, black marble-topped tables. The marble above the arches was pierced li... ...nqueted in the large Audience Chamber and the women in the gardens of the harem, seated at little tables covered with lace cloths and lit by hundred... ...ark brown curls, damp with sweat, tumbling over his forehead and his grace as a rider playing the game with skill and daring, made him undeniably at...

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... with his crumbs. Sometimes, to occupy himself, he would continue the same game that he had pursued three hours earlier before the seat-and-window thi... ...train stations of all these small towns, he had listened to sounds. Then a game of exhilaration instead of a game of the mundane, it had been an inane... ...turistic daydreams, his mind tried to slow this weltering; it invented its games of distractions, its clutter. Numb in numb thoughts, even though he w... ...he area of the window below-- an area obtained with the aid of officers on board the train-- was experiencing the ablution of fading memory. Still, th... ...e (its tattered relationships, its solitary and jejune rides in coffins on board trains) a fiction to mark individual and collective progress. But the... ...thousands that at one time were pictured on posters dangling from bulletin boards, and pedestrian blockage rails near the Khao San Road police station... ...eing allowed to take periodic breaks from bringing bowls of noodles to the tables of his parents' customers. Those were still-life images of himself s...

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.... The side nearest to them was open grass, and fairly bristled with notice-boards. “Fee-rocious old cove, this,” said Stalky, reading the near- est. “... ...ame and number at once, sir. Ye want to speak to me—Eh? Y ou saw my notice-boards? Must have. Don’t attempt to deny it. Ye did! Damnable, oh damnable!... ...they were lawful Bug-hunters, their extended bounds ran up to his no- tice-boards in the combe and his Lodge-gates on the hill. They were amazed at th... ...ed alternately on the piano and his banjo. He was the moving spirit of the game, as befitted a senior who had passed his Army Preliminary and hoped to... ...m, King and Macrea, fellow house-masters, had borne it in upon him that by games, and games alone, was salvation wrought. Boys neglected were boys los... ... to laugh—laugh as only boys can. They laughed with their foreheads on the tables, or on the floor; laughed at length, curled over the backs of chairs... ...r bob—the one I lent you before.” “But you took my watch as security.” The game was devel- oping itself almost automatically. “Never mind. Pay me my i... ... study in half an hour. “Prefects’ meetin’! Prefects’ meetin’!” hissed the tables, and they imitated barbarically the actions and effects of the groun...

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...c discharge was jerked by chance at the usher and the governess—at the old game, it seemed; or why did they keep steering columns to meet? There was n... ...nti- cally similar situation, that forced a resemblance. T ouching the old game, Cuper’s fold was a healthy school, owing to the good lead of the head... ...ng to the good lead of the head boy, Matey Weyburn, a lad with a heart for games to bring renown, and no thought about girls. His emulation, the fello... ...g of girls, and the meeting on the Sunday was a pros- pect. One of the day-boarders had a sister in the seminary of Miss Vincent. He was plied to obta... ...e golden summer drought on a gorgeous mid-sea island, and had taken her on board to refresh her with voyages, al- ways bearing down full sail on a cou... ...nt of him, admirers would be welcome. Oh dear, no! that is not the way. On board the packet, on our voyage to Spain, my niece in her cabin, imploring ... ...atom she touched in a room, and would have heaped gold to have the chairs, tables, cups, carpets, mine. I have two short letters written with her 174... ...sense of a dissolving to a fountain quivered through her veins. ‘T urn the tables and examine me.’ ‘But have you thought—oh! I am not the girl you lov...

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...d ascent to a fortress on the cliffs commanding the Indian reservation. My games upon the floor must have spread over several years and developed from... ...tion of the inside of an old alarum clock. My mother did not understand my games, but my father did. He wore bright-coloured socks and carpet slippers... ...ce and staff and spirit survive, more or less completely digested into the Board of Education. The world does move on, even in its government. It is w... ...mstead, which is now a borough, was ruled by a strange body called a Local Board—it was the Age of Boards—and I still remember indistinctly my father ... ...ation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of Works. Then there were also School Boards; I was already practical... ...There isn’t a neighbour in Bromstead won’t be able to skin you at suchlike games. You and I are the brainy unstable kind, topside or nothing. And if e... ...hieved it, and he declared he began the replace- ment of the hacked wooden tables, at which the boys had worked since T udor days, by sloping desks wi... ... and saucer and looked away from us into the fire, and we all sat about on tables and chair-arms and windowsills and boxes and anywhere except upon ch... ...ne encountered in the tracks, in the chance fellow travellers at the hotel tables. “Confound it!” said I, and talked all the more zealously of that gr...

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...chicken-infested gardens and shanties patched together from discarded sign-boards, sheets of corrugated iron, and planks fished out of the river. Caro... ...hat she saw was the side of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church—a plain clap- board wall of a sour liver color; the ash-pile back of the church; an unpai... ...Library open daily free. A touching fumble at beauty. A one-room shanty of boards recently covered with rough stucco. A show-window delicately rich in... ...t all?” “I used to be rather good at bezique.” She knew that bezique was a game of cards—or a game of something else. Roulette, possibly. But her lie ... ... nose and said humbly, 48 Main Street “Bezique? Used to be great gambling game, wasn’t it?” While others drifted to her group, Carol snatched up the ... ... of the many charms of the bride, formerly Miss Carol Milford of St. Paul. Games and stunts were the order of the day, with merry talk and conversatio... ... two-room shanties, with a seepage of broken-down chairs, peeling veneered tables, chromos pasted on wooden walls, and inefficient kerosene stoves. Th... ...me carry him in on the kitchen table. No, first go out and shove those two tables together, and put a blanket on them and a clean sheet.” It was salva... ...t a blanket on them and a clean sheet.” It was salvation to push the heavy tables, to scrub them, to be exact in placing the sheet. Her head cleared; ...

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...o glittering and so ingenious that they resembled an electrical instrument-board. But the Babbitt whose god was Modern Appliances was not pleased. The... ...lliard room where one could take a cue and show a prowess at still another game than that sponsored by Cupid and Terpsichore. There was more, a great ... ...th this millionaire outfit. Oh, Lord, sometimes I’d like to quit the whole game. And the office worry and detail just as bad. And I act cranky and—I d... ...Street Traction Company. He could, on ten hours’ notice, appear before the board of aldermen or the state legislature and prove, absolutely, with figu... ...nin’!” Littlefield lumbered over and stood with one foot up on the running-board. “Fine morning,” said Babbitt, lighting—illegally early— his second c... ..., no wit, and Babbitt fell into a great silence and devoted himself to the game of beating trolley cars to the corner: a spurt, a tail-chase, nervous ... ...t was also much cleaner, as no fire had ever been built in it. Half of the tables were mammoth slabs which seated twenty or thirty men. Babbitt usuall... ...ned by being seen with you tightwads!” and guided Paul to one of the small tables beneath the musicians’- 54 Babbitt gallery. He felt guilty. At the ... ...ly satisfied!” It was drawled out, broken by shouts from the neigh- boring tables, by mechanical love-making to the waitress, by stertorous grunts as ...

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...Kirk must turn up her lobster eyes forsooth at the idea of an honest round game (wherein me fawther, as pious a man as ever went to church, me uncle D... ...of great assistance to him; and on the day finally when they em- barked on board the Lovely Rose, which was to carry them to their destination, he mad... ... smart gold band. Having his carriage with him, and informing everybody on board confidentially that he was going to join the Duke of Wellington’s arm... ...ation they af- forded. So prodigiously good was the eating and drinking on board these sluggish but most comfortable vessels, that there are legends e... ...ng loudly and wild with spirits, Dobbin found him. He had been to the card-tables to look there for his friend. Dobbin looked as pale and grave as his... ...their billets; his pulse was throb- bing and his cheeks flushed: the great game of war was going to be played, and he one of the players. What a fierc... ..., and pleasure! What tremendous hazards of loss or gain! What were all the games of chance he had ever played compared to this one? Into all contests ... ...ties with long faces, having dropped more or less money at her fatal card- tables. Her house began to have an unfortunate reputation. The old hands wa... ...on for rancorous old harridans and pretending to preside over their dreary tables—but Mrs. Sedley, we say, had not spirit enough to bustle about for “...

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...e Mr. Cressler, was not opposed to speculation. Though not a member of the Board of T rade, he nevertheless at very long intervals took part in a “dea... ...nanciers consulted him, pro- moters sought his friendship, his name on the board of directors of a company was an all-sufficing endorsement; in a word... ...h man. Giving up farming, he came to live in Chicago, bought a seat on the Board of Trade, and in a few years was a millionaire. At the time of the 1... ...to keep out of speculation since my last little deal. A man gets into this game, and into it, and into it, and before you know he can’t pull out—and h... ... not a baby at this business, am I? You’ll let me know some- thing of this game, won’t you? And I tell you, J., it’s found money. The man that sells w... ...d I’d keep out of it. It isn’t so much the money as the fun of playing the game. With half a show, I would get in a little more and a little more, til... ...raph was installed. T o the right, on the other side of the room, a row of tables, laden with neatly arranged pa- per bags half full of samples of gra... ...ts, or in their shirt-sleeves, went to their seats, or, sitting upon their tables, called back and forth to each other, joshing, cracking jokes. Some ... ...lding. His pocket was full of wheat, taken from a bag on one of the sample tables. Opening the window, he scattered the grain upon the sill, and stood...

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...-ruin in the park, Huge Ammonites, and the first bones of Time; And on the tables every clime and age Jumbled together; celts and calumets, Claymore a... ... here at Christmas.’ She remembered that: A pleasant game, she thought: she liked it more Than magic music, forfeits, all the r... ...; but hastily we past, And up a flight of stairs into the hall. There at a board by tome and paper sat, With two tame leopards couched beside her thro... ...k with any men; And many more, which hastily subscribed, We entered on the boards: and ‘Now,’ she cried, ‘Y e are green wood, see ye warp not. Look,... ....’ ‘Poor boy,’ she said, ‘can he not read—no books? Quoit, tennis, ball—no games? nor deals in that Which men delight in, martial exercise? To nurse a... ...hat idiot legend credible. Look you, Sir! Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the be...

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...boy, he was now, and for many years longer, intensely fond of all kinds of games and sports, in which his light active form, great agility, and high s... .... Hawtrey that Patteson became, in schoolboy phrase, an Eton fellow, being boarded in the house of his uncle, the Rev. Edward Coleridge, one of the mo... ...e weight of his character, backed by his popularity and proficiency in all games and exercises, began to be a telling influence. On November 2, 1843, ... ... certainty for Eton; but Kidding, the Winchester captain, played an uphill game so fiercely that the bowling had to be repeatedly changed. Our eleven ... ...ith the sport to the last, and came home with clothes frozen as stiff as a board. He was not gone when his father and brother came home on the twenty-... ... great effort. It spared me a great one.’ On the 27th the brothers went on board the ‘Duke of Port- land,’ and surveyed the cabins, looking in at the ... ...or mathematics, yet this kind of thing is rendered so easy nowadays by the tables that are constructed 131 Yo n g e for nautical purposes, that I do ... ...e floor was only occupied by the four boxes, which did the further part of tables, desks, and chairs in turn. As to beds, was not the whole floor befo... ...laced at this table because they are girls; Melanesians at the other three tables indis- criminately. There are four windows, one at the north, three ...