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  • Sometimes, just before sundown, just as the blue of the sky began darkening to violet, we had these wild, electric-lined, Maxfield Parrish clouds rolling out gold and white into the desert like Divine Revelation leading the Mormons west.†   (source)
  • HUS BEGAN THE great Mormon grade-grab.†   (source)
  • These youths are even duller than the ones from the all-Mormon Deseret Burbclave The boys are wearing tedious black suits.†   (source)
  • 00 P.M. Ought to've had a special rendition of 'Annie, Won't You Come by Here', sung by the Mormon Tabersnackle Choir, Paul thought, and did the Donkey some more.†   (source)
  • Let the Mormons quit smoking.†   (source)
  • Langdon often reminded his students that most modern religions included stories that did not hold up to scientific scrutiny: everything from Moses parting the Red Sea …. to Joseph Smith using magic eyeglasses to translate the Book of Mormon from a series of gold plates he found buried in upstate New York.†   (source)
  • I thought you would be listening to George Beverly Shea or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir—you know, something churchier.†   (source)
  • Kept seeing the kitchen cockroach, the one I tried to pretend was only a Mormon cricket, Los Alamos'grown.†   (source)
  • You're not a Catholic or a Mormon, are you?†   (source)
  • Here come the Mormons.†   (source)
  • It was that word Saints that had intrigued her; she didn't know it was a fancy word for Mormon.†   (source)
  • Consequently, he was expecting a crayon-scrawled message about evil psychic Martians living among us as Mormons—or the equivalent.†   (source)
  • The group I ate lunch with included a Jew, a Mormon, a Hindu, a Catholic, and a Lutheran.†   (source)
  • Thoren Smallwood looked more a lord than Mormons did, clad in Ser Jaremy Rykker's gleaming black mail and embossed breastplate.†   (source)
  • It was like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir began singing the "Hallelujah" chorus.†   (source)
  • "Well, these Mormon boys stopped by yesterday and I let them in," Misty continued.†   (source)
  • --I turned to Mormonism.†   (source)
  • If you can sell me, you can convert the Pope to Mormonism.†   (source)
  • I see the Mormon brought the queen her offering of coffee.†   (source)
  • The great Mormon grade-grab was being managed by Michael's tutor, Miss Sue.†   (source)
  • "It turns out, Holder doesn't have an issue with Mormons at all.†   (source)
  • "I thought Mormons weren't allowed to have caffeine."†   (source)
  • That concerns me a bit because, rumor has it …. he doesn't like Mormons."†   (source)
  • Turns out, Breckin was my saving grace today …. and he really is Mormon.†   (source)
  • "Does not-your-boyfriend realize I'm Mormon?"†   (source)
  • " "They're not the Mormons," Misty said, sighed.†   (source)
  • Of course, I wasn't exactly good, and maybe I wasn't Mormon.†   (source)
  • Yeah so you pick up your date at the pad she shares with six other Mormon chicks.†   (source)
  • I had not learned the secret codes to open that door, and I had no Mormon husband to let me in.†   (source)
  • This," she held out a bottle of Coke, "this is why I'm not a Mormon.†   (source)
  • I mean, he was anything but a good Mormon boy.†   (source)
  • "Maybe I misunderstood what the Mormons meant," Misty said.†   (source)
  • I didn't know Mormon girls were so pretty.†   (source)
  • Good Mormon girls kept their clothes on.†   (source)
  • Now Dad Believed A good Mormon woman should have to ask her husband for money.†   (source)
  • The questions ran deeper for me, struggling with Mormon doctrine.†   (source)
  • Expected: church, seminary, the Book of Mormon.†   (source)
  • I had a few friends, upstanding Mormon girls all.†   (source)
  • And I, allegedly being a good Mormon girl, was supposed to keep my feminine thoughts pure.†   (source)
  • Wonder what Aunt J thinks about his un-Mormon breath.†   (source)
  • My mom, who knew I'd been seeing someone, was shocked he wasn't Mormon.†   (source)
  • So what's a nice Mormon girl like you doing in a place like this?†   (source)
  • Afterward, I could walk to school with other good Mormon kids, the "right kind" to have as friends.†   (source)
  • He was a good Mormon boy, meaning goofy, churchgoing, and soon in the market for a good Mormon wife.†   (source)
  • Brother Prior, A true Mormon would rather bury a child than see her lose her chastity.†   (source)
  • Sleight, sixty-five years old, is a professional river guide and desert rat with a Mormon upbringing and a reputation for insolence.†   (source)
  • He tried to assure himself that if this video were to leak out, the public would be open-minded and tolerant, realizing that all spiritual rituals included aspects that would seem frightening if taken out of context—crucifixion reenactments, Jewish circumcision rites, Mormon baptisms of the dead, Catholic exorcisms, Islamic niqab, shamanic trance healing, the Jewish Kaparot ceremony, even the eating of the figurative body and blood of Christ.†   (source)
  • They were Buddhists or Mormons, Baptists or Muslims, Democrats, Republicans and many who don't vote or are not part of any Sunday morning or religious institutions.†   (source)
  • Wallace Stegner, Mormon Country   (source)
  • The last letters anyone received from Ruess were posted from the Mormon settlement of Escalante, fifty-seven miles north of Davis Gulch, on November 11, 1934.†   (source)
  • A logical route to Navajo country would have taken Ruess across the Colorado River at Hole-in-the-Rock, then along a rugged trail pioneered in 1880 by Mormon settlers across Wilson Mesa and the Clay Hills, and finally down Grand Gulch to the San Juan River, across which lay the reservation.†   (source)
  • The burros were confined in the upper canyon, just upstream from where the Mormon steps intersect the floor of the gulch; a short distance downstream the searchers found unmistakable evidence of Ruess's camp, and then, in the doorway of an Anasazi granary below a magnificent natural arch, they came across "NEMO 1934" carved into a stone slab.†   (source)
  • Six decades ago in this enchanting hideaway, less than a mile downstream from where the Mormon steps meet the floor of the gulch, twenty-year-old Everett Ruess carved his nom de plume into the canyon wall below a panel of Anasazi pictographs, and he did so again in the doorway of a small masonry structure built by the Anasazi for storing grain.†   (source)
  • "It's the Mormon in me.†   (source)
  • I shadowed her to Tolkien's Middle-earth and Rowling's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, places no upstanding Mormon should go.†   (source)
  • There's no Mormons here.†   (source)
  • So they're not Mormons, I thought.†   (source)
  • A Mormon, active in his church.†   (source)
  • Tait was a Mormon, educated at Brigham Young University and Stanford Medical School, who had joined the navy because he had wanted to see more of the world than one could from an office at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains.†   (source)
  • They said, "What kind of Mormon?†   (source)
  • As a Mormon, Tait avoided everything with caffeine—coffee, tea, even cola drinks—and though this type of self-discipline was unusual for a physician, to say nothing of a uniformed officer, he scarcely thought about it except on rare occasions when he pointed out its longevity benefits to his brother practitioners.†   (source)
  • Devout Mormon.†   (source)
  • Dry cleaner, post office, grocery store, pick up shoes, put cat to sleep, call mom back home in French Lick—yeah, I'm fine, how're you, yatta yatta yatta, got a big date tonight with a real nice girl, Raytheon, she's a Mormon, they don't drink tap water or play the saxophone.†   (source)
  • "And the Mormons think there are lots of different parts of heaven, like neighborhoods," Misty was saying.†   (source)
  • Mormons.†   (source)
  • Smallish houses sat in neat little rows, defending a little park, two churches, and the Mormon stake house—the fanciest building in town.†   (source)
  • My heart insisted it wasn't wrong that they weren't Mormon, either, though my head said it wasn't exactly right.†   (source)
  • Any good Mormon guys on your line?†   (source)
  • But why punish an innocent, unless in the end everyone was guilty of unredeemable sin, programmed by somesibling, or so the Mormon Church claimed, of God above?†   (source)
  • What I mean is, I'm not a Mormon.†   (source)
  • Why does he have to be Mormon?†   (source)
  • But you're Mormon, aren't you?†   (source)
  • As a stalwart Mormon high school junior, drilled ceaselessly about the dire catastrophe awaiting thosewho harbored impure thoughts, I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.†   (source)
  • He wasn't Mormon.†   (source)
  • She's a Mormon.†   (source)
  • And he wasn't Mormon.†   (source)
  • Rod had not appreciated it at first (he was not familiar with the history of the Mormon pioneers) and had regarded it as a nuisance which interfered with work.†   (source)
  • "6 Testaments "2 Peace of the Flame "1 Koran "1 Book of Mormon "1 Oxford Book of English Verse, Centennial Edition "1 steel bow and 3 hunting arrows "1 boiler made from a wave shield and quite a bit of metal and plastic junk (worth its weight in uranium, I admit) from the Thunderbolt Jackie salvaged.†   (source)
  • Mormons, Shakers, Spiritualists, and Millerites; Covenanters and Brotherhooders and the Monroe County Lambs.†   (source)
  • Or maybe she'll accept both of you, and then you'll have to move to Utah, if the Mormons'll have you—which I doubt…… All that bothers me is that some one of these days you're both going to get lickered up and jealous of each other about that two-faced, little, green-eyed baggage, and you'll shoot each other.†   (source)
  • Milt Dale, if any one ever corrals you it'll be Mormons.†   (source)
  • Our young men are drifting away, and the few who return come with ideas opposed to Mormonism.†   (source)
  • —Rebel soldiers looted many homes of Mormons near here yesterday.†   (source)
  • And now Shefford's keen mind saw something of Mormonism and found it wanting.†   (source)
  • You give names to things—bishops, elders, ministers, Mormonism, duty, faith, glory.†   (source)
  • The Mormons have risen against the rustlers.†   (source)
  • All the Mormon families have fled to El Paso.†   (source)
  • When Dale ended, rather breathlessly, the Mormon boys sat without any show of surprise or feeling.†   (source)
  • Shefford divined the weight of Mormonism that burdened Joe Lake then.†   (source)
  • "Who is the Mormon who visits you?" he thundered, relentlessly.†   (source)
  • He would have taught you something about Mormonism.†   (source)
  • Quick as a flash the Mormon replied: "Roy's been shot.†   (source)
  • Hare wondered about it, and decided it was not so much Mormon teaching as isolation from the world.†   (source)
  • You've also forgotten that we're Mormons.†   (source)
  • Anything concerning the Sago Lily the droll Mormon took to heart.†   (source)
  • Is it vile—is it blind—is it only Mormonism to save human life?†   (source)
  • Thet's shore no place for you-all… Beggin' your pawdin—you ain't Mormons?†   (source)
  • He feared the rustlers—he feared the riders—he feared the Mormons.†   (source)
  • Nobody can help her, unless it's you," went on the Mormon.†   (source)
  • My lad, the Mormons crossed here by the hundreds.†   (source)
  • Toward sunset Dale located the camp of his four Mormon friends, and reached it in time for supper.†   (source)
  • "Wal, Cheer up, you old Mormon!" he called.†   (source)
  • What will the Mormons in White Sage say about Snap's killing Snood?†   (source)
  • I understand he's worked for Mormon interests, someway or other.†   (source)
  • And perhaps making him my rider may turn out best in the end for the Mormons of Cottonwoods.†   (source)
  • There were no Mormons in her employ, for the good reason that Auchincloss would not hire them.†   (source)
  • For, Mormons, August Naab has the gift of revelation!†   (source)
  • Mormon women are absolutely good, but they're human, and want and need a little life.†   (source)
  • You know who handles the reins of your Mormon riders.†   (source)
  • I meant to turn that over to a Mormon cowboy—Joe Lake.†   (source)
  • Evidently the Mormon restrictions had limited her opportunities to learn.†   (source)
  • This Mormon had a courtesy for women that spoke well for him.†   (source)
  • I'll keep little Fay and bring her up—without Mormon teaching.†   (source)
  • Mr. Dale isn't a Mormon," replied Helen.†   (source)
  • But strangely it came to him that he had taken a liking to a Mormon.†   (source)
  • … Lassiter, do you think Mormon women wicked?†   (source)
  • But Mormons teach duty to church first, and say such love comes—to the wives—afterward.†   (source)
  • But the boys had a couple of friends here—Mormons, too, who agreed to help us.†   (source)
  • And now no Mormon man are protect her, for fear of prosecution.†   (source)
  • Thet's all, an' d—n if I care whether you are a Mormon or not.†   (source)
  • Of all her Mormon employees about the great ranch only Jerd remained.†   (source)
  • I know enough—all, perhaps, except the name of the Mormon who brought her here.†   (source)
  • "Roy, you're a Mormon an' you already got a wife," was Dale's reply.†   (source)
  • Won't he come down here now to lead us Mormons against the rustlers?†   (source)
  • He was not young, and looked a man suited to the prosecution of these secret Mormons.†   (source)
  • "Get up!" he ordered, and Shefford heard the ruthless Mormon in him then.†   (source)
  • At its close the Mormon lifted his face and arms in characteristic invocation.†   (source)
  • Auntie, have you seen my friends, the Mormon boys?†   (source)
  • I saw the incomin' of most of the Mormons.†   (source)
  • She was a Mormon; very likely, almost surely, she was a sealed wife.†   (source)
  • "Mormon love-making!" exclaimed the Bishop, rubbing his hands.†   (source)
  • I talked to several of them, Mormons, good fellows, they used to be.†   (source)
  • Was this his kind Mormon benefactor, this man with the awful eyes?†   (source)
  • Some said he had shot up this and that Mormon village, and others denied it.†   (source)
  • I must marry him, accept the Mormon faith, and bring up my children as Mormons.†   (source)
  • This man, thief, traitor, false Mormon—whatever he is—he saved Mescal.†   (source)
  • Uncle Jim said they were Mormons, and some among them had been born in Cottonwoods.†   (source)
  • But, Elder, I don't love the Mormon children any less because I love a Gentile child.†   (source)
  • Shefford saw Withers talking to Bishop Kane and two other Mormons, both strangers to Shefford.†   (source)
  • He's had Mormons up here, and two men not of his Church, and they did nothing.†   (source)
  • … You'll be offendin' Mormons worse than by breakin' bread with me.†   (source)
  • Else could a Mormon marry one woman when he already has a wife, an' call it duty?†   (source)
  • I know there's not enough money in Utah to get a girl away from a Mormon….†   (source)
  • Down there in the gray valley carne the Mormons.†   (source)
  • I'm of the younger generation of Mormons, and faith is harder for me.†   (source)
  • It got to the ears of Mormons—gossip of your love for Fay and your wanting her.†   (source)
  • Here, Shefford thought, was the real Mormon, different in a way he could not define from Ruth.†   (source)
  • This even-break business goes all right among gun-fighters, but the Mormons call killing murder.†   (source)
  • I'll say here, if I'd known Mormons then as I do now I'd left Milly to her fate.†   (source)
  • The Mormon studied her with dark, speculative eyes.†   (source)
  • "August Naab, I am a Mormon too," returned Cole, "but my hands are stained with blood.†   (source)
  • And she did not share his cool assumption that his death would never come at the hands of a Mormon.†   (source)
  • In some ways you Mormon women here resemble nuns.†   (source)
  • I feel—differently from Mormons about—about women.†   (source)
  • I want to keep you from killing more men—Mormons.†   (source)
  • The Indian and the Mormon, grim, hard, worn, stood silent at the oar.†   (source)
  • Sight of his face then made Jane oblivious for the time to his character as a hater of Mormons.†   (source)
  • The old Navajo answered in speech which, when translated, was as stately as the Mormon's.†   (source)
  • A close-fisted, tight-lipped Mormon—a skinflint if I ever saw one!†   (source)
  • I like not the sign of the times, but I am a Mormon; I trust in God.†   (source)
  • But she passed as a Mormon, and certainly she had the Mormon woman's locked lips.†   (source)
  • There was an Indian with the Mormons who found us.†   (source)
  • My father was a Mormon master, close to the leaders of the church.†   (source)
  • Oblivious of the Mormons he swung her up and held her in his arms.†   (source)
  • Authority of religion and cruelty of will—these Mormon attributes constituted that power.†   (source)
  • The Grand Canyon seems to us Mormons to mark the line.†   (source)
  • In the gaunt, wiry figure and the lean, brown face Jane recognized one of her Mormon riders, Blake.†   (source)
  • I've been so interested in all you Mormon women.†   (source)
  • … Well, he was a Mormon missionary among the Navajos.†   (source)
  • Don't you know Mormons better than that?†   (source)
  • "No Mormon ever pretended that unless he was a rustler," declared Venters.†   (source)
  • With a groan the Mormon drew away from him and sank upon a log.†   (source)
  • The Mormon hesitated while his strong brown face flashed with daring inspiration.†   (source)
  • I am my father's daughter—a Mormon, yet I can't see!†   (source)
  • Venters, take this from me, these Mormons ain't just right in their minds.†   (source)
  • "Well, so's Shefford's," said the Mormon, huskily.†   (source)
  • Of all of us Mormons I have lost most, suffered most.†   (source)
  • The idea of the Mormons must have been to escape prosecution.†   (source)
  • No Mormon would refuse you or your horse a drink, or even a reasonable supply for your stock.†   (source)
  • That's a Mormon's godly way of bringin' a woman to her knees.†   (source)
  • So did the others, especially Hurley, who shrank in panic from the dark Mormon.†   (source)
  • These serious Mormons and silent Navajos were capable of mirth.†   (source)
  • I've heard Oldring's men tell about Mormons.†   (source)
  • Withers introduced these Mormons merely as Smith and Henninger.†   (source)
  • And I—heedless, mad to melt your heart toward Mormons.†   (source)
  • "Who says no?" hissed the Mormon, with snapping teeth.†   (source)
  • The master Mormon—he visited me often—at night—till lately.†   (source)
  • After all, Jane, mebbe you're only blind—Mormon blind.†   (source)
  • "Friends, Mormons, friends," was the answer.†   (source)
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