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- People often referred to it as "The Charles Addams House," because it had a mansard roof topped by a lacy ironwork cresting.† (source)
- One day he was walking along the Charles River, and a cold burst of wind left him choking for air.† (source)
- And Dan was the villain—he was the Charles Boyer character.† (source)
- For an instant the weight of the baby vanishes, replaced by the scene that passes before her eyes, only to be replaced once more by a blue strip of the Charles River, thick green treetops, cars gliding up and down Memorial Drive.† (source)
- There was only one main street in Bayonne, and it ran along the St. Charles River.† (source)
- So I tell her, 'Use the money in the Charles Schwab account.'† (source)
- SCENE I. The lights come up on the Charles household.† (source)
- One such instance was related to me by Mr David Charles, of the Charles and Redding Company, who visited Darlington Hall from time to time during Lord Darlington's days.† (source)
- The Odas leased their grocery to the Charles MacPhersons and sold Charles their car and two pickup trucks.† (source)
- Soon it would cross one of the brief bridges that arched the Charles, and I would, without thinking, open the door and plunge out through the stream of traffic to the rail of the bridge.† (source)
- Every pih-er visited, and so did many from Boston's Haitian community, and his room—it had a lofty view, out over the Charles River—was crammed full of toys.† (source)
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- The C.D.C. also temporarily revoked the licenses of three companies, Hazleton Research Products, the Charles River Primates Corporation, and Worldwide Primates, charging these companies with violations of quarantine rules.† (source)
- They had lunch at Faneuil Hall, watched the skullers gliding on the Charles River, and took a quick tour of the Harvard campus.† (source)
- I had it with me when I hit the Charles River.† (source)
- In 1924 he funneled $150,000 into the establishment of the Charles S. Howard Foundation and built a home for children suffering from tuberculosis and rheumatic fever.† (source)
- Kelly turns off the lights and everyone stands close as Boston's exuberant fireworks explode over the Charles River, lighting their astonished faces.† (source)
- On the Charles River at Cambridge, sixty flatboats stood ready.† (source)
- In December, I watched the Charles River freeze over.† (source)
- She had shown me the statue erected to commemorate the Union dead; she had shown me the apartment building where she was born, a five-floor brick building with bay windows and a view of the Charles River.† (source)
- "The Charles Forts of this place will doubtless quote this happening for many years," said my brother.† (source)
- He had been suffering sleepless nights in the big house by the Charles.† (source)
- A hundred feet below, the steaming hand mirrored my movements, clearing the surface of the Charles.† (source)
- The outer rim was mostly rolling pastures, with a river as wide as the Charles snaking through.† (source)
- I stared out over the Charles, its rippling gray lines etched with ice.† (source)
- Felton and his crew was moving to the St. Charles River and I followed him here.† (source)
- "I tell them me, you, we all time fish there in the St. Charles River," he said.† (source)
- Albert and Jane, side by side, fish there in the St. Charles River.† (source)
- No kin at all to the Nelsons on the St. Charles River.† (source)
- They made their living on seine boats running up and down St. Charles River.† (source)
- I used Mr. Findley's novel as an example of what I meant by a bold beginning—that shocking scene when the father takes his twelve-year-old son up on the roof of the Arlington Hotel to show him the view of Boston and Cambridge and Harvard and the Charles, and then leaps fifteen stories to his death in front of his son; imagine that.† (source)
- After two hours on a narrow ledge seven stories above a concrete parking lot and gathered crowds, Mr. George Pollucci let himself be helped to safety through a nearby window by Sgt. Will Kilmartin of the Charles Street police force.† (source)
- Driving along the St. Charles River, I could feel Miss Emma not looking at me, not looking at anything—just thinking.† (source)
- After leaving the quarter, I drove down a graveled road for about two» miles, then along a paved road beside the St. Charles River for another ten miles.† (source)
- Adams's youngest brother, Elihu, a captain of militia, camped beside the Charles River at Cambridge, was stricken and died, leaving a wife and three children.† (source)
- On a visit to Harvard, he had crossed a magnificent new bridge over the Charles River, said to be the finest bridge in America.† (source)
- The trip to Harvard Square is swift, just across the Charles River, and he and Donald make small talk.† (source)
- As the winter finally gave up and the Charles thawed, I realized that much of a year had passed and I had not written a single story.† (source)
- A moment later, he's being dragged by a posse, amid much laughter, across a walking bridge over the Charles River to the posh stores on Boston's Newbury Street.† (source)
- Three stories tall, with an unobstructed view of the Charles River, it belonged to a wealthy Loyalist, John Vassall, who, fearing for his life and the lives of his family, had abandoned the place, fine furnishings and all, to take refuge in Boston.† (source)
- WITH JOSEPH BASS AT HIS SIDE, Adams crossed Long Bridge over the frozen Charles River and rode into Cambridge in the early afternoon of January 24,1776, in time to dine with General Washington at the temporary quarters of Colonel Thomas Mifflin near Harvard Yard.† (source)
- Others were encamped a few miles farther inland, at the pretty little college town of Cambridge on the Charles River, and close to the Neck at Roxbury, where the white spire of the Roxbury meetinghouse rose from the top of still another prominent hill.† (source)
- It has already been a long, adrenaline-filled day of breathless travel, from a plane boarded in humid Washington, to a special MIT van at Boston's Logan Airport, to the top floors of a high-rise dorm overlooking the fabled Charles River, and, finally, into a genuine college dorm room, with clean sheets stacked neatly on a striped mattress.† (source)
- Through the haze of snow, the shoreline of Boston morphed into something primeval—the way it might have looked when Skirnir's descendant first sailed his longship up the Charles.† (source)
- If this sword is such a big deal, why did everybody let it sit on the bottom of the Charles River for a thousand years?† (source)
- And the Sword of Summer …. assuming that was the blade I had pulled from the Charles River, how had it ended up there?† (source)
- A hundred feet below us, the Charles River glistened steel gray, its surface mottled with patches of snow and ice like the skin of a massive python.† (source)
- He fought to free himself, bursting into flames, kicking and gouging, but I held on as we plummeted toward the Charles River, my sword still embedded in his stomach, my own organs burning away from the molten tar in my gut.† (source)
- He chose the name himself, Grandfather believed, just as he named them all—the Charles Goods and the Clytemnestras and Henry and Judith and all of them—that entire fecundity of dragons' teeth as Father called it.† (source)
- Have you seen my dear little children at the Charles Street settlement?† (source)
- "Yes," he replied, "the Charles has many dear associations for me."† (source)
- "Still?" said Margaret, who had not kept up with the Charles's.† (source)
- The Charles's were not well off, for Mr. Wilcox, having brought up his children with expensive tastes, believed in letting them shift for themselves.† (source)
- The final sentence displeased her greatly until she remembered that the Charles's had only one spare room, and so could not invite a third guest.† (source)
- "Not 'want,' " was Margaret's prompt reply; "but there is so much to be settled, and I do want to see the Charles's."† (source)
- No more tempting approach could be imagined for the lukewarm Christian, and if he still finds the walk too long, the devil is defeated all the same, Science having built Holy Trinity, a Chapel of Ease, near the Charles's and roofed it with tin.† (source)
- Further out it became the Charles /street-avenue-road/—probably a unique triplication.† (source)
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