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  • It ended with a story about what was happening "closer to home," how black people from Tiburon, Florence, and Orangeburg were marching today all the way to Columbia asking the governor to enforce the Civil Rights Act.†   (source)
  • Two years later, the Mona Lisa was discovered hidden in the false bottom of a trunk in a Florence hotel room.†   (source)
  • "He put a hex on me, Professor Dumbledore, and I was only teasing him, sir, I only said I'd seen him kissing Florence behind the greenhouses last Thursday…… " "But why.†   (source)
  • Eunice and Florence?†   (source)
  • They began at the time when Florence, Italy, was the most important city in the world.†   (source)
  • Miss Nightingale, who was never to be referred to as Florence, had been in the Crimea long enough to see the value of discipline, strong lines of command and well-trained troops.†   (source)
  • For some reason, the stretch of I-95 just south of Florence, South Carolina, is the place to drive a car on a Friday evening.†   (source)
  • Hudson tells us that Florence is a prodigy, with one of the highest IQs in his school.†   (source)
  • Quite a palace it was, furnished with sofas and wingback chairs and side tables and coffee tables and footstools; vases of fresh flowers bloomed all over the place, making it smell like the botanical gardens of Florence.†   (source)
  • In A Room with a View (1908), for instance, Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence, where she sheds much of her racially inherited stiffness while losing her heart to George Emerson, the freethinking son of an elderly radical.†   (source)
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  • When Carl heard that a hot dog cart was for sale — on Florence Avenue across from the Goodyear factory — he decided to buy it.†   (source)
  • When I returned to Los Angeles, I moved to Boyle Heights and later to neighborhoods such as White Fence, Florence, South Pasa, La Colonia Watts and Gerahty Loma.†   (source)
  • He recalled a recent visit to Florence.†   (source)
  • We could have circled over Miletus and Athens, Jerusalem and Alexandria, Rome and Florence, London and Paris, Jena and Heidelberg, Berlin and Copenhagen ….†   (source)
  • I climbed up on the examination table, thinking: "I am climbing to freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from marrying the wrong person, like Buddy Willard, just because of sex, freedom from the Florence Crittenden Homes where all the poor girls go who should have been fitted out like me, because what they did, they would do anyway, regardless…."†   (source)
  • After that, the next event was in Florence, South Carolina, and he wondered whether he'd be in better condition by then.†   (source)
  • A photograph of her father dominated the first page-a studio portrait taken in 1922, the year of his marriage to the young Indian rodeo rider Miss Florence Buckskin.†   (source)
  • Once, long ago, travelling among the marbles of Rome and Florence, he had seen women like this, kept in stone instead of Ice.†   (source)
  • On recess from the Treason Trial, Frances Baard and Florence Matomela organized women to refuse passes in Port Elizabeth, their hometown.†   (source)
  • He requested another pass after telling the doctor he had some friends at the Siuslaw Bay at Florence who would like to take eight or nine of the patients out deep-sea fishing if it was okay with the staff, and he wrote on the request list out in the hall that this time he would be accompanied by "two sweet old aunts from a little place outside of Oregon City."†   (source)
  • His warehouse at that time occupied almost a whole block and it was a hothouse of fantasy, with reproductions of the bell tower of Florence that told time with a concert of carillons, and music boxes from Sorrento and compacts from China that sang five-note melodies when they were opened, and all the musical instruments imaginable and all the mechanical toys that could be conceived.†   (source)
  • --CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, Florence of Arabia The red-light district in the town of Forbesgunge does not actually have any red lights.†   (source)
  • I went to Florence with three of my Houston Ballet friends.†   (source)
  • They'd pile us on the bus and we'd spend the summer with my grandmother's sister, Aunt Florence.†   (source)
  • I've been under this terrible deadline to complete the maps of Florence Below for the Magnificent—"†   (source)
  • Each time the fall of a city like Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major — de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.†   (source)
  • She said her name was Florence Campbell and that she had to talk to me as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • Then Florence cleared his throat and spit a nice wad that beat Horse's by five feet at least.†   (source)
  • The walls were papered with dated, now faded murals of Venice, Rome and Florence; the softly piped-in music was predominantly operatic arias and tarantellas, and the lighting indirect with pockets of shadows.†   (source)
  • Florence, was it?†   (source)
  • When I returned to Florence, I began to model nude at my art school, something I'd vowed I'd never do.†   (source)
  • How far is it from Florence to Volterra?†   (source)
  • Some people think he was the genius behind the rise of the Medici in Florence.†   (source)
  • Just for this visit home Alessandro had ridden from Bologna by way of Florence and Sienna, and it had taken eight days.†   (source)
  • Tonight the legendary actress Laura Keene is celebrating her one thousandth performance in her signature role as Florence Trenchard.†   (source)
  • One year when I was young, the wild grapes were so abundant in the old Ruby Florence field that they filled all of our tubs and buckets with rich, purple-red fruit.†   (source)
  • During our last year at Harding University, we spent the summer in a study-abroad program in Florence, Italy.†   (source)
  • I entered Florence, Alabama, across the Tennessee River from Sheffield, and went right to a phone booth.†   (source)
  • It was true that Florence Wechek, the manager, gossiped.†   (source)
  • My mother had the colored cook—her name was Florence, I remember—fix me a big paper bag full of fried chicken and I had a thermos of cold milk—very gourmet travel cuisine, you understand, and I gobbled my lunch somewhere between Richmond and Washington, and then along about midafternoon the bus stopped in Havre de Grace—†   (source)
  • Go to the Ufizzi in Florence, the Louvre in Paris, and you are so crushed with the numbers, once the might of greatness, that you go away distressed, with a feeling like constipation.†   (source)
  • What, he wondered, did she say to Aunt Florence when they talked together?†   (source)
  • I wanted to see Abby and Bonnie and Clyde and Dexter and Eunice and Florence come into the world.†   (source)
  • Remember Florence and Edward, the wayward spouses with heart trouble?†   (source)
  • Well, actually, next month I'm lecturing at a conference in Florence.†   (source)
  • I would love nothing more than to meet you in Florence, Robert.†   (source)
  • Study-abroad programs tend to consist of herds of students visiting Oxford or Florence or Paris.†   (source)
  • I've been to this park in Florence," Pietro Crespi would say, going through the cards.†   (source)
  • But Florence is still a bit too near the actual fighting to suit me.†   (source)
  • I asked Florence a question that was bouncing around inside my own head.†   (source)
  • He leaned to look down at Florence's copy of the play and almost fell off the rafter.†   (source)
  • Ya know, I've ban hearin' about ya since ya got ta Florence and Sheffield.†   (source)
  • A golden cherub has been ordered, cast in Italy by artisans in Florence.†   (source)
  • — when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!†   (source)
  • I know only the Foas of Rome and Florence.†   (source)
  • I'm down at the Dairy Queen in Florence, by a big shopping center.†   (source)
  • Florence turned out to be a black woman in her early twenties.†   (source)
  • I asked, my question intermingled with a feeling of sadness for Florence.†   (source)
  • Don't go hurting him," Florence warned me.†   (source)
  • "Why did God make you?" he asked, and I saw him look down the aisle at Florence.†   (source)
  • "But we cannot change the weather," Florence said, "and we cannot ask God to return—"†   (source)
  • If he wasn't my distant cousin…," Florence said with a wink.†   (source)
  • He made the world peaceful— "Cico," I said, "let's tell Florence!"†   (source)
  • "Tell me what's going on around here, Florence.†   (source)
  • I thought of Florence holding his arms outstretched for eternity.†   (source)
  • "I am an ox," I told Florence Campbell, imparting a little secret of my own.†   (source)
  • He continued pushing down on Florence's back and the white froth continued to flow from his mouth.†   (source)
  • Florence was tall and gawky and somewhat mystifying at first.†   (source)
  • I had to smile at Florence's sneaky sense of humor.†   (source)
  • "A man and a woman, it takes a man and a woman," Florence nodded.†   (source)
  • Florence suddenly looked a little uncertain as she talked.†   (source)
  • "Florence," I heard June whimper, "don't say that—"†   (source)
  • Florence said he wouldn't eat God," Bones added.†   (source)
  • "Tell me one sin," I pleaded with Florence.†   (source)
  • I wondered if Andrew had known one of Florence's sisters when he went to Rosie's.†   (source)
  • "Come on, Tony," Florence pulled me, "we'll be late—"†   (source)
  • "Nah, Florence ain't goin' make it anyway," Lloyd argued.†   (source)
  • Really, the only one who ever asked any questions was Florence, and today he was doing penance.†   (source)
  • I wasn't looking at Florence anymore, I wasn't looking at anybody.†   (source)
  • It was not right, I thought, that Florence did not know.†   (source)
  • That and the pity I had for him made me feel close to Florence.†   (source)
  • I had listened to Florence's heresy, but the God of the church had not hurled his thunder at me.†   (source)
  • The priest was right in not passing Florence, because he doesn't believe!"†   (source)
  • I didn't want to give Him up like Florence had.†   (source)
  • In the dark aisle of the church Florence stood, his numbed arms outstretched, unafraid of eternity.†   (source)
  • "Tony could do it," Florence defended me, "if he wanted to."†   (source)
  • "Abel's right," Ernie said emphatically, "Florence needs the practice!†   (source)
  • They'd miss the bus, stupid," Florence said.†   (source)
  • When the rest of the lights were turned off the lightbulb behind Florence would be the only light.†   (source)
  • I don't have any," Florence said softly.†   (source)
  • She helped Ernie twist Florence's head back.†   (source)
  • I wanted to curse him, but I glanced up and saw Florence standing, waiting for my response.†   (source)
  • Florence tried to struggle but he was pinned by Horse and Bones and Abel.†   (source)
  • I questioned the hissing fires, Florence knows all the answers!†   (source)
  • "Yes," Cico said after a long pause, "I think Florence is ready.†   (source)
  • I glanced back at Florence, but he nodded that I go on.†   (source)
  • He pushed me aside and he and another high school boy turned Florence on his stomach.†   (source)
  • Florence nodded, his angular figure rocking back and forth.†   (source)
  • They wanted me to be their leader; they wanted me to punish Florence.†   (source)
  • Then with one powerful heave and a groan Florence shook off his tormentors.†   (source)
  • Florence left his seat to help me and together we dragged Horse outside.†   (source)
  • "Then we would be like the dumb animals of the fields," Florence replied.†   (source)
  • His wild eyes just stared at us as we pulled Florence on the sand.†   (source)
  • He began pushing down on Florence's back and a sickening white foam flowed from Florence's mouth.†   (source)
  • The three wise men were ready, Samuel, Florence, and the Kid.†   (source)
  • The questions Florence had posed were the same questions I wanted answered.†   (source)
  • Ernie shouted and pulled Florence's head back.†   (source)
  • When Florence was buried I did not go to the funeral.†   (source)
  • Come on Florence, let's wrestle," Horse said.†   (source)
  • "Florence is a good swimmer," Cico said.†   (source)
  • "Go in peace, my son," I said to Florence.†   (source)
  • Florence needed at least one god, and I was sure he would believe in the golden carp.†   (source)
  • "Remember, we tell only Florence," Cico cautioned.†   (source)
  • Florence stepped forward, bowed low and handed an empty cigar box to Horse.†   (source)
  • "Florence," I begged him that afternoon, "try to answer."†   (source)
  • Perhaps I didn't either, but my mind was seeking answers to Florence's questions.†   (source)
  • There ain't no such thing as virgin birth," Florence said looking down at the decapitated doll.†   (source)
  • "Florence said it's wine, and the priest drinks it because he's a wino," Lloyd said.†   (source)
  • They grabbed tall Florence before he could bolt away and made him kneel in front of me.†   (source)
  • And finally I saw the body of Florence, floating motionlessly in the dark water.†   (source)
  • "Florence," I heard June whimper, "don't say that—" Florence grinned.†   (source)
  • "He watched the candle too long," Florence said.†   (source)
  • Florence, who smoked the cigarette in the circus, had a hard cough.†   (source)
  • Florence ain't thinking about no husband," she said.†   (source)
  • And then, this evening— "Sir Percy," Florence interrupted, "a murderer!"†   (source)
  • This made Florence furious, and she barely murmured: "Thank you," before she turned away.†   (source)
  • Florence faced the bureau mirror, wondering how much he had seen.†   (source)
  • At the bend of River Road they caught up with Alice Cooksey riding Florence's Western Union bicycle.†   (source)
  • She need a woman, Florence, to help look after her.†   (source)
  • Florence and Alice passed the dead woman and pillaged wreck on the way to town.†   (source)
  • "Never mind, Florence,' his mother said, "it's all over and done with now."†   (source)
  • She picked up the telephone and called Florence.†   (source)
  • He raised the belt again, but Aunt Florence caught it from behind, and held it.†   (source)
  • This was the most fascinating news Florence had heard in weeks.†   (source)
  • "Folks," said Florence, "can change their ways much as they want to.†   (source)
  • She was very grateful for Florence's interest.†   (source)
  • I'll ask Florence Wechek and Alice Cooksey and Sam Hazzard too.†   (source)
  • Some folks smiled, but Florence and Deborah did not smile.†   (source)
  • If your sister was in trouble, and wired for money, the secret was safe with Florence Wechek.†   (source)
  • Florence Wechek owned a beautiful new sewing machine, electric and useless of course.†   (source)
  • "I done heard it said often enough," said Florence, "but I got yet to see it.†   (source)
  • She had a letter, too, from Florence, and it was perhaps this novelty that distracted her attention.†   (source)
  • Florence awoke at six-thirty, as always, on a Friday in early December.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Florence, moving to the window, "the menfolk, they die, all right.†   (source)
  • Florence carried their cage into the kitchen and shook fresh sunflower seed into their feeder.†   (source)
  • "I been listening many a nighttime long," said Florence, then, "and He ain't never spoke to me."†   (source)
  • I designate Miss Florence Wechek her deputy.†   (source)
  • Florence switched on her teleprinter and announced: "THIS IS FR RETURNING TO SERVICE."†   (source)
  • "Girl," said Florence, "don't you say a word about being sorry, or I'll show you to this door.†   (source)
  • You should eat more, Alice," Florence said, noticing how white and pinched her friend's face looked.†   (source)
  • "Hush now," said Florence, gently, "hush now.†   (source)
  • The Model-A was even more economical than Florence's old Chevy.†   (source)
  • They sat down at the table, John placed between herself and Florence and opposite Gabriel.†   (source)
  • "Deborah," Florence said, "was cut down? but she left word.†   (source)
  • It would be nice to visit with Florence, but she hated to accept favors she couldn't repay.†   (source)
  • Florence put down her fork, no longer interested in her chicken patty.†   (source)
  • His Aunt Florence came and took him in her arms.†   (source)
  • She hurried to Florence's table and said, "I'm sorry.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Florence, mildly, "you mark his words."†   (source)
  • "What he do," asked Florence, finally, "run ofFand leave you?"†   (source)
  • Florence gathered her pink flannel robe closer to her neck.†   (source)
  • She crumpled at once, hiding her face with one thin hand, and Aunt Florence moved to hold her up.†   (source)
  • Florence rose and walked to the counter with Edgar's message.†   (source)
  • She had expected him to be older than Florence, and bald, or gray.†   (source)
  • Florence really shouldn't blame Sir Percy.†   (source)
  • Hesitating, Florence took the message and said, "I'll see if they'll accept it, Mr. Quisenberry."†   (source)
  • She wondered immediately if Florence had told him about her.†   (source)
  • Before she closed the Western Union office, Florence Wechek had salvaged the messenger's bicycle.†   (source)
  • Florence stared at her with a pity so intense that it resembled anger.†   (source)
  • So Florence told about Randy and his binoculars and how he had stared at her that morning.†   (source)
  • "You ever hear from Florence?" she sometimes asked.†   (source)
  • The cutting and sewing was done by Florence Wechek and Missouri and Hannah Henry.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Lord," Aunt Florence said, "you was born wild, and you's going to die wild.†   (source)
  • Florence and Elizabeth were still on their knees; and John was on his knees.†   (source)
  • She would come out for the weekend, or even longer, if Florence was agreeable.†   (source)
  • As soon as she saw Dave's face, Florence could sense whether the news was going to be good or bad.†   (source)
  • "You always been saying," Florence said, "how the Lord would answer prayer."†   (source)
  • "Gabriel," cried Aunt Florence, "ain't you done playing the fool for tonight?"†   (source)
  • He'd talk to Florence and Alice in the morning, after Florence settled down.†   (source)
  • Nothing Florence had said had prepared her for him.†   (source)
  • Florence acknowledged and inquired of Jacksonville: "ANY INCOMERS?"†   (source)
  • You'll have to admit that those Bragg boys are a little peculiar," Florence said.†   (source)
  • "Well, I reckon," Florence said, "your soul is praising God this morning."†   (source)
  • Florence was wailing and Randy entered without bothering to knock.†   (source)
  • Florence moved to deposit John in the easy chair that was his Sunday throne.†   (source)
  • He's going around the side of the house," Florence said.†   (source)
  • Then she met Gabriel, two or three weeks later, at Florence's house on a Sunday.†   (source)
  • "Florence," said Gabriel, "please don't go.†   (source)
  • Florence said, and barricaded herself behind the protection of the counter.†   (source)
  • Florence had known Randolph's mother, Gertrude Bragg, well, and old Judge Bragg to speak to.†   (source)
  • "Then tell me," said Florence, "what He done said to you? that you didn't want to hear?"†   (source)
  • She heard weeping near her? was it Ella Mae? or Florence? or the echo, magnified, of her own tears?†   (source)
  • Even before you came here, Florence, I knew them.†   (source)
  • Florence and she had met at work in the middle of the summer, a year after Richard's death.†   (source)
  • I've just told you all I know," Florence said.†   (source)
  • They were all crying, Lib silently, Florence and Helen loudly.†   (source)
  • Florence rose and came over to Elizabeth, holding Elizabeth's head against her breast.†   (source)
  • "What Florence got to say?" he asked dully, crumpling this letter in his fist.†   (source)
  • She and Alice and Florence are cooking up some sort of a surprise for us.†   (source)
  • "He ain't," said Florence, briskly, "working no harder up here than he worked down home.†   (source)
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