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  • She hadn't seen him since Prague, when they'd left things as bad as they'd started them.†   (source)
  • She stayed with him a week, until she was well again, then went back to her town, some hundred and twenty-five miles from Prague.†   (source)
  • He was the conductor of the Prague Philharmonic at twentyfour, and now he's the artistic director for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and runs that very same program in Venezuela that gave him his start.†   (source)
  • No doubt through Prague.†   (source)
  • Celia hasn't spoken to her son since the Soviet tanks stormed Prague four years ago.†   (source)
  • "Prague," said Sebastian.†   (source)
  • During the eighteenth century, a group of Agents based in Prague argued that they existed in larger numbers than anyone imagined.†   (source)
  • It's all the same to me-Budapest, Bucharest, Munich, Prague, Barcelona.†   (source)
  • He said that he had no illusions about what Hitler think of the intellectuals but he said that in other places like Vienna and Prague many teachers in the universities was permitted to continue their work, and he thought that he and Casimir would too.†   (source)
  • A long time ago I was in the ancient city of Prague and at the same time Joseph Alsop, the justly famous critic of places and events, was there.†   (source)
  • I attended Catholic schools with mystical names like the Infant of Prague and the Annunciation, as Dad transferred from Marine base to desolate Marine base, or when we retired to my mother's family home in Atlanta when the nation called my father to war.†   (source)
  • I think George Brady's bunkmate used to live in Prague, but I have no idea where.†   (source)
  • Prague was the last stop before heading back.†   (source)
  • He arrived in Prague after a long, emotionally painful journey away from his family.†   (source)
  • She arrived at the Prague Jewish Museum just before closing time.†   (source)
  • The farewell at the train station as he left for Prague.†   (source)
  • The bus for Prague was due at any moment.†   (source)
  • That night she would have to go back to Prague.†   (source)
  • One day, George encountered a teenaged girl on the main street in Prague.†   (source)
  • From Prague it was just a two-hour drive to Terezin.†   (source)
  • As soon as she got off the bus in Prague, she hailed a taxi.†   (source)
  • From there, it would only be a short plane trip to Prague, capital of the Czech Republic.†   (source)
  • Immediate options are Prague, Venice, Budapest, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, and Berlin.†   (source)
  • In the old days-in Berlin, Prague, Vienna-they were called 'final payments.'†   (source)
  • They were no longer in Prague—that much was immediately clear.†   (source)
  • She had known his music from the time a string quartet from Prague had visited their town.†   (source)
  • Most are conquered; Brussels and Prague are still being difficult.†   (source)
  • She had said them herself, at the station in Prague.†   (source)
  • He had gone back to Prague because of her.†   (source)
  • It was the adamas from the junk shop in Prague.†   (source)
  • What are you doing in the ugliest part of Prague?†   (source)
  • There was a great demonic disturbance here in Prague tonight.†   (source)
  • The Two Thousand Words was the first glorious manifesto of the 1968 Prague Spring.†   (source)
  • She'll be much less of a difficulty there than she was in Prague.†   (source)
  • It was Sabina he turned to when he needed to find a job for Tereza in Prague.†   (source)
  • What's a beautiful girl like you doing in the ugliest part of Prague?†   (source)
  • This was strange, because at other times half of Prague seemed to be milling about.†   (source)
  • If ever you should happen to come to Prague… .†   (source)
  • There were Russian airplanes circling over Prague, and it was impossible to sleep for the noise.†   (source)
  • Why are Prague's park benches floating downstream?†   (source)
  • Leaving Zurich for Prague a few years earlier, Tomas had quietly said to himself,Es muss sein!†   (source)
  • But all actors the world over are similarin Paris, Prague, or the back of beyond.†   (source)
  • The people of Prague had an inferiority complex with respect to these other cities.†   (source)
  • She wanted to tell Tomas that they should leave Prague.†   (source)
  • One Sunday, she asked him to take her for a ride outside Prague.†   (source)
  • When Tomas came back to Prague from Zurich, he took up in his hospital where he had left off.†   (source)
  • Now he roamed the streets of Prague with brush and pole, feeling ten years younger.†   (source)
  • Three years after moving to Paris, she received a letter from Prague.†   (source)
  • The building had been constructed at the turn of the century in a workers' district of Prague.†   (source)
  • When Dubcek returned with them to Prague, he gave a speech over the radio.†   (source)
  • First he went to work in a country clinic about fifty miles from Prague.†   (source)
  • They got into the car and drove far beyond the limits of Prague.†   (source)
  • When she traveled to Prague a second time, it was with a heavy suitcase.†   (source)
  • Ever since you came back to Prague for me, I've forbidden myself to be jealous.†   (source)
  • Yes, it was unbearable for him to stay in Zurich imagining Tereza living on her own in Prague.†   (source)
  • A wooden bench on iron legs, the kind Prague's parks abound in.†   (source)
  • Should he call her back to Prague for good?†   (source)
  • Only two days ago, he had feared that if he invited her to Prague she would offer him up her life.†   (source)
  • They would never find a way back to Prague: no one would give them work.†   (source)
  • Yes, I'm in Prague, but that woman, does she live here too?†   (source)
  • In April we are sending the ballet to New York; in May we are sending a dramatic ensemble to London; and in June we are sending the orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory to Minsk, Prague, and Paris—where Sofia will be performing Rachmaninov at the Palais Gamier.†   (source)
  • The hair was dark as the night, a little longer than he usually wore it, a little shaggy. as he hadn't trusted the barbers in Prague.†   (source)
  • "I think I'd like to see Prague."†   (source)
  • It reminds him of the gymnasium at the school in Prague where he slept for five days before beginning his journey here.†   (source)
  • Cal said you were in Prague.†   (source)
  • Lale was told to make his way to Prague, report to the appropriate authorities, and await further instructions.†   (source)
  • George and Hana's grandmother had been a refined woman who lived a cultured, comfortable life in the capital city of Prague.†   (source)
  • Try the Jewish Museum in Prague.†   (source)
  • Prague, July 2000†   (source)
  • He had gone alone to Prague, where he had discovered that the war, as he had thought, was close to its end.†   (source)
  • Javier wrote her a long letter after his father died three years ago, and said he'd finally become a professor of biochemistry at the University of Prague, lecturing in Russian, German, and Czech.†   (source)
  • She remembered the fight in the junk shop in Prague, how she had disappeared into her own world where each movement was as precise as the movement of a watch.†   (source)
  • Images tumbled through her mind like shaken confetti: the junk shop in Prague, her gold leaf-ring falling away into darkness, Jace holding her in the alcove in the club, the glass tanks of dead bodies.†   (source)
  • The streets of Prague were cold and dark, and though Clary kept her ichor-burned coat wrapped around her shoulders, she found the icy air cutting into the buzzing hum in her veins, muting the leftover high from the battle.†   (source)
  • The Wild Hunt; the antiques store in Prague; fountains full of blood; the tunnels of Sebastian's eyes; Jace's body against hers; Sebastian jamming the Infernal Cup against her lips, trying to pry them apart; the bitter stench of demon ichor.†   (source)
  • In Prague?†   (source)
  • We're in Prague now.†   (source)
  • In Prague they're allies.†   (source)
  • The club in Prague.†   (source)
  • Walking home with Karenin through nocturnal Prague, she thought of the days she had spent photographing tanks.†   (source)
  • After completing school, she went off to Prague with the euphoric feeling that now at last she could betray her home.†   (source)
  • He lived with her until he was eighteen and had finished secondary school; then he went off to Prague and the university.†   (source)
  • During the five years that had passed since the Russian army invaded Tomas's country, Prague had undergone considerable changes.†   (source)
  • From the very beginning of the occupation, Russian military airplanes had flown over Prague all night long.†   (source)
  • Driving home, Tomas pondered the catastrophic mistake he had made by returning to Prague from Zurich.†   (source)
  • She had suddenly recalled that the house where they had lived in Prague before her parents were divorced was number six.†   (source)
  • She invited Tomas to come and see her new studio, and assured him it did not differ greatly from the one he had known in Prague.†   (source)
  • In Prague, when Tomas and Tereza bought a new chair or moved a flower pot, Karenin would look on in displeasure.†   (source)
  • When she felt low, she would get into the car, leave Prague far behind, and walk through one or another of the country cemeteries she loved so well.†   (source)
  • They had been in Zurich for six or seven months when he came home late one evening to find a letter on the table telling him she had left for Prague.†   (source)
  • Coming out at the foot of Petrin Hill, that great green mound rising up in the middle of Prague, she was surprised to find it devoid of people.†   (source)
  • The elan with which Tereza flung herself into her new Prague existence was both frenzied and precarious.†   (source)
  • She tried to talk herself into settling outside of Prague and giving up her profession as a photographer.†   (source)
  • At that moment an image of the senator standing on a reviewing stand in a Prague square flashed through Sabina's mind.†   (source)
  • He then became one of the best-loved figures of the Prague Spring, that dizzying liberalization of Communism which ended with the Russian invasion.†   (source)
  • The day following her return to Prague from the funeral, she received a telegram saying that her father had taken his life out of grief.†   (source)
  • In Prague she was dependent on Tomas only when it came to the heart; here she was dependent on him for everything.†   (source)
  • I suppose it doesn't, she said in a tight voice, as she walked out into the Prague night with Karenin.†   (source)
  • Wandering the streets of Prague, she had no trouble finding her house, the house where she had lived with Mama and Papa as a small girl.†   (source)
  • She had no desire to go through in Zurich what she'd been through in Prague: battles over job and career, over every picture published.†   (source)
  • The days she walked through the streets of Prague taking pictures of Russian soldiers and looking danger in the face were the best of her life.†   (source)
  • A year later, he managed to find a more advantageous but much inferior position at a clinic on the outskirts of Prague.†   (source)
  • I can't help thinking about the editor in Prague who organized the petition for the amnesty of political prisoners.†   (source)
  • But once in Prague, she found she had to spend some time taking care of various practical matters, and began putting off her departure.†   (source)
  • He tried to imagine what Tereza would do in Prague during the thirty-six long hours before they were to meet, and had half a mind to jump into his car and drive through the streets looking for her.†   (source)
  • When Tereza unexpectedly came to visit Tomas in Prague, he made love to her, as I pointed out in Part One, that very day, or rather, that very hour, but suddenly thereafter she became feverish.†   (source)
  • Because she was a painter, she had an eye for detail and a memory for the physical characteristics of the people in Prague who had a passion for assessing others.†   (source)
  • The bathroom in the old working-class flat on the outskirts of Prague was less hypocritical: the floor was covered with gray tile and the toilet rising up from it was broad, squat, and pitiful.†   (source)
  • Thanks to Sabina, she came to understand the ties between photography and painting, and she made Tomas take her to every exhibit that opened in Prague.†   (source)
  • The salesgirls all called him doctor (the Prague bush telegraph was working better than ever) and asked his advice about their colds, aching backs, and irregular periods.†   (source)
  • But a secret police that broadcasts its tapes over the radiothere's something that could happen only in Prague, something absolutely without precedent!†   (source)
  • After Tomas had returned to Prague from Zurich, he began to feel uneasy at the thought that his acquaintance with Tereza was the result of six improbable fortuities.†   (source)
  • Tomas wanted the name to be a clear indication that the dog was Tereza's, and he thought of the book she was clutching under her arm when she arrived unannounced in Prague.†   (source)
  • Impelled by the birds of fortuity fluttering down on her shoulders, she took a week's leave and, without a word to her mother, boarded the train to Prague.†   (source)
  • It took him quite some time to get it into his head that he didn't know the woman, that she wasn't from Prague or Switzerland, that she inhabited his dream and nowhere else.†   (source)
  • But he also knew that underneath it all hid still another, more fundamental truth, the reason why she wanted to leave Prague: she had never really been happy before.†   (source)
  • He told her about the funeral, about the editor's refusal to talk to him, and about his encounter with S. Prague has grown so ugly lately, said Tereza.†   (source)
  • In 1618, the Czech estates took courage and vented their ire on the emperor reigning in Vienna by pitching two of his high officials out of a window in the Prague Castle.†   (source)
  • He must have kept up with a woman in Prague who meant so much to him that he thought of her even if she could no longer leave the smell of her groin in his hair.†   (source)
  • As in Prague, he would jump up on their bed and welcome them to the day, accompany Tereza on her morning shopping jaunt, and make certain he got the other walks coming to him as well.†   (source)
  • In the morning, she carried her heavy suitcase to the station, left it there, and roamed the streets of Prague the whole day withAnna Karenina under her arm.†   (source)
  • And another and another, and only then did Tereza realize that all the park benches of Prague were floating downstream, away from the city, many, many benches, more and more, drifting by like the autumn leaves that the water carries off from the woodsred, yellow, blue.†   (source)
  • They started back to Prague.†   (source)
  • In front of the glorious ruins, a reminder for now and eternity of the evils perpetrated by war, stood a steel-bar reviewing stand for some demonstration or other that the Communist Party had herded the people of Prague to the day before or would be herding them to the day after.†   (source)
  • They called in the chief surgeon of Tomas's hospital in Prague for consultation, but the chief surgeon of Tomas's hospitalhappened to be suffering from sciatica, and because he could not move he sent Tomas to the provincial hospital in his place.†   (source)
  • After making one last call from his final job of the day and starting back to the office at four to hand in his signed order slips, he was stopped in the center of Prague by a woman he failed to recognize.†   (source)
  • People talked about him inside and outside the hospital (it was a time when news about who betrayed, who denounced, and who collaborated spread through nervous Prague with the uncanny speed of a bush telegraph); although he knew about it, he could do nothing to stop it.†   (source)
  • It was a program about the Czech emigration, a montage of private conversations recorded with the latest bugging devices by a Czech spy who had infiltrated the emigre community and then returned in great glory to Prague.†   (source)
  • While the families of Russian officers settled in throughout the land and radios intoned ominous reports of police functionaries who had replaced cashiered broadcasters, Tomas reeled through the streets of Prague from one glass of wine to the next like someone going from party to party.†   (source)
  • She seemed in a good mood, even a little boisterous, and tried to make him think she had just happened to drop in, things had just worked out that way: she was in Prague on business, perhaps (at this point she became rather vague) to find a job.†   (source)
  • Compassion knew it was being presumptuous, yet it quietly stood its ground, and on the fifth day after her departure Tomas informed the director of his hospital (the man who had phoned him daily in Prague after the Russian invasion) that he had to return at once.†   (source)
  • Standing there observing him, she suffered a bout of self-recrimination: It was her fault that he had come back to Prague from Zurich, her fault that he had left Prague, and even here she could not leave him in peace, torturing him with her secret suspicions while Karenin lay dying.†   (source)
  • She was on the outskirts of Prague, and the Vltava had already flowed through the city, leaving behind the glory of the Castle and churches; like an actress after a performance, it was tired and contemplative; it flowed on between its dirty banks, bounded by walls and fences that themselves bounded factories and abandoned playgrounds.†   (source)
  • The day he reported to the good-natured woman responsible for the cleanliness of all shop windows and display cases in Prague, and was confronted with the result of his decision in all its concrete and inescapable reality, he went into a state of shock, a state that kept him in its thrall during the first few days of his new job.†   (source)
  • Tereza forced her way into his thoughts: he imagined her sitting there writing her farewell letter; he felt her hands trembling; he saw her lugging her heavy suitcase in one hand and leading Karenin on his leash with the other; he pictured her unlocking their Prague flat, and suffered the utter abandonment breathing her in the face as she opened the door.†   (source)
  • But it's not over yet in Prague! she protested, and tried to explain to him in her bad German that at this very moment, even with the country occupied, with everything against them, workers' councils were forming in the factories, the students were going out on strike demanding the departure of the Russians, and the whole country was saying aloud what it thought.†   (source)
  • Joe and I flew home to America on the same plane, and on the way he told me about Prague, and his Prague had no relation to the city I had seen and heard.†   (source)
  • Once when passing by the room she had noticed the radio ondreamy, modern ersatz-Strauss waltzes strained through a voice which identified the source as a Wehrmacht station, possibly Vienna, perhaps Prague.†   (source)
  • Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.†   (source)
  • Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.†   (source)
  • I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting you.†   (source)
  • Their master had received his death-wound on the battlefield of Prague far away over the sea.†   (source)
  • The sisters began to play the Battle of Prague.†   (source)
  • Sing something, anything but the Battle of Prague.†   (source)
  • This was Miss Maria's return for George's rudeness about the Battle of Prague.†   (source)
  • At that moment Seneca Doane, the radical lawyer, and Dr. Kurt Yavitch, the histologist (whose report on the destruction of epithelial cells under radium had made the name of Zenith known in Munich, Prague, and Rome), were talking in Doane's library.†   (source)
  • There was a little old piano, too, that had tin pans in it, I reckon, and nothing was ever so lovely as to hear the young ladies sing "The Last Link is Broken" and play "The Battle of Prague" on it.†   (source)
  • Once when I was abroad I went into Bohemia, and from Prague I sent Antonia some photographs of her native village.†   (source)
  • What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider.†   (source)
  • She came from his part of Prague.†   (source)
  • Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for as the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that is, is'; so I, being master parson, am master parson: for what is that but that? and is but is?†   (source)
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