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  • Belfast, Montevideo, Tangier, Marseille, Lima, Tehran.†   (source)
  • I was about to give up when I spotted something odd: a small brown lump, about the size of a lima bean.†   (source)
  • He'd discovered ceviche in Lima.†   (source)
  • He'd stocked three types: pinto, kidney, and lima, though only a single bag of each, and the next time she came in, he made a point of mentioning that they could be found on the bottom shelf in the corner, near the rice.†   (source)
  • I had lost ten pounds in a month, thanks to the prison diet—all the liver, lima beans, and iceberg lettuce you want!†   (source)
  • Human food filled her and it seemed compatible with her system, but she reacted to all varieties of solid food with the same martyred endurance I had once given cauliflower and lima beans.†   (source)
  • Ferula, five years his senior, washed and starched his only two shirts every other day so that he would always look fresh and properly dressed, and reminded him that on their mother's side they were heir to the noblest and most highborn surname of the viceroyalty of Lima.†   (source)
  • But imagine a hundred church ladies, all schooled in the culinary genius of generations, unloading trunkloads of potato salad, homemade pickles, barbecued pork chops, beans (butter, green, pole, lima, pinto, baked, navy and snap), deviled eggs dusted with cayenne pepper, pones of cornbread cooked with cracklin's, fried chicken, squash casserole, a million biscuits, a bathtub-sized vat of banana pudding, pies (lemon, cherry, apple, peach, fig, pecan, chocolate-walnut), cakes (you name…†   (source)
  • Somebody told me a plane left for Lima this morning.†   (source)
  • The last Potential disappeared three days ago in Lima.†   (source)
  • Redcliffe popped another lima bean.†   (source)
  • Just once, many years ago in Lima—a lovely city—I ventured to stroll on a fine day without such forethought …. and it got me transported.†   (source)
  • While these discussions go on you are to imagine me bowling along on some little road or pulled up behind a bridge, or cooking a big pot of lima beans and salt pork.†   (source)
  • Additional sites not yet completed appear to be designed for intermediate range ballistic missiles--capable of traveling more than twice as far--and thus capable of striking most of the major cities in the Western Hemisphere, ranging as far north as Hudson Bay, Canada, and as far south as Lima, Peru.†   (source)
  • They had halted the spread of mdr in the shantytowns of northern Lima.†   (source)
  • The Zeitouns were conflicted about what they heard about Lima and Gonzales.†   (source)
  • I was assigned to work with Lima Company, which was operating a few blocks away from Kilo.†   (source)
  • Later, Lima went to Greyhound, where he saw the men's property laid out on a table.†   (source)
  • No telling how many others they had been infecting as they'd traveled around Lima, coughing.†   (source)
  • I STAYED WITH LIMA FOR ROUGHLY A WEEK, THEN went back to Kilo.†   (source)
  • Socios was now treating more than one hundred people with mdr in the northern slums of Lima.†   (source)
  • When he couldn't find Guardsmen who had gas, Lima siphoned fuel from cars and trucks.†   (source)
  • Lima was not sure what goods he had seen the four men stealing.†   (source)
  • Lima is a vast coastal city, vast and dry.†   (source)
  • Kathy and Zeitoun decided to name Donald Lima, the officer on the arrest report, in the lawsuit.†   (source)
  • Since the start of the project in Lima, Jim and Paul had seen each other less and less frequently.†   (source)
  • Jaime had related the story to Farmer in the Lima airport just before Paul caught a flight to Miami.†   (source)
  • Lima was identified as a police officer from New Orleans.†   (source)
  • "Lima doesn't seem like the third world," I said.†   (source)
  • Lima considered the looting a necessary part of the mission.†   (source)
  • Almost as soon as he got to Lima, Jim started placing long-distance calls to Paul.†   (source)
  • Lima was more difficult to track down, but he had not gone far.†   (source)
  • Lima quit the NOPD in November 2005, and moved with his wife and daughter to Shreveport.†   (source)
  • Leo turned and found himself face-to-face with Lima Bean Man, who wasn't actually a man at all.†   (source)
  • They're sending another plane to Lima," I overhear a fleshy woman with a Mickey Mouse T-shirt say.†   (source)
  • Redcliffe was busy squeezing the skins off his lima beans, but Merrick said, "I can't wait.†   (source)
  • But she was turned in Redcliffe's direction now, wiping lima-bean skins off his fingers.†   (source)
  • Lee moved five dried lima beans in patterns on the table--a line, an angle, a circle.†   (source)
  • Tied to McCaffrey
    We might end up in Lima
    Harley is evil
    NOTE TO SELF: trying to reveal important information just before a three-legged death race is not a good idea.†   (source)
  • Her mother would serve it on plates she took out of a wooden china closet: ham, chicken, potatoes, corn, string beans, sliced tomatoes, lima beans, white bread, and hot biscuits with lots of butter-and I couldn't eat any of it.†   (source)
  • Lima was helping fill in holes—taking down pockets of insurgents who had crept in or been bypassed.†   (source)
  • Farmer also traveled to Lima, to conduct a health census in the slum, as Ophelia had helped him to do a decade ago in Cange.†   (source)
  • The arresting officer was named Donald Lima, and this name, Donald Lima, seared itself into her mind.†   (source)
  • And Farmer gave Jim advice and encouragement almost daily, often in phone calls between Lima and Cange.†   (source)
  • Farmer had promised to find the drugs to treat Señora Brigida, and he'd pondered her case, looking down at Lima from the airplane.†   (source)
  • Lima was sure that these were the same four men he had seen leaving the Walgreens, so they arrested them and brought them to the staging ground.†   (source)
  • On the plane to Lima for the memorial service, Farmer wondered aloud to Ophelia, over and over, what he should have done to save Jack.†   (source)
  • The Zeitouns' lawyer contacted the New Orleans Police Department and found that Lima was no longer employed there.†   (source)
  • Lima filled out paperwork about the arrest and gave it to the Guardsmen, and they drove the arrestees to Camp Greyhound.†   (source)
  • In the early 1990s, Jack left St. Mary's for a church in a place called Carabayllo, a slum on the outskirts of Lima, Peru.†   (source)
  • He'd catch the early flight to Miami, then fly on to Lima, arriving in Carabayllo late the same night.†   (source)
  • In exchange for gasoline, Lima and other New Orleans police officers broke into convenience stores and took cigarettes and chewing tobacco.†   (source)
  • While making his rounds on a motorboat one day, Lima observed four men leaving a Walgreens carrying stolen goods.†   (source)
  • One day, when it was clear that the project was succeeding, I followed Farmer to an appointment at the Children's Hospital in downtown Lima.†   (source)
  • A majority of the National Guardsmen, Lima said, chewed tobacco and smoked Marlboros, so this arrangement kept both sides well supplied.†   (source)
  • He was curing most of the cases that appeared sporadically in Cange when, in 1995, mdr claimed a close friend who had been living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, Peru.†   (source)
  • Lima had two rescuees with him, so he couldn't pursue the thieves at the time, but he made a mental note.†   (source)
  • Because of the falling prices of the second-line drugs, they could go on for a while treating patients in Lima, but in a year or two they'd have to stop.†   (source)
  • In Lima a few days later, Jaime Bayona heard a rumor that someone in the audience had called the director of Peru's national tb program and told him, "Paul Farmer says you're killing patients."†   (source)
  • In a normal situation, Lima said, they would have been arraigned properly, given a phone call and an attorney, and would have been out on bail within days.†   (source)
  • In almost every other place where he worked, in Siberia, in the central plateau of Haiti, in the northern slums of Lima, in Chiapas under siege, he could send and receive e-mail.†   (source)
  • Back before Father Jack's death, while helping Jim on the health census, Farmer had asked the project director of Socios en Salud if drug-resistant tuberculosis was a problem in the northern slums of Lima.†   (source)
  • They include priests and nuns and professors and secretaries and businessmen and church ladies and peasants like Ti Jean and also dozens of medical students and doctors, who have enlisted to work in places such as Cange and Siberia and the slums of Lima.†   (source)
  • For as long as he could manage the travel, I thought, he'd be leaving Haiti for places like Tomsk and Lima, to doctor individual patients and to do his part fighting plagues and inequities in health, practicing his own combination of wholesale and retail medicine.†   (source)
  • Farmer flew from Haiti to Lima, and Jaime Bayona took him straight from the airport to a small health clinic, run by the government, at the base of the Carabayllo hills next to Father Jack's former church, Cristo Luz del Mundo.†   (source)
  • The road from the airport, four lanes and divided, felt very smooth, even after the driver turned away from the old Spanish colonial center and the skyscrapers of downtown and headed into the settlements of Lima's northern outskirts.†   (source)
  • He preferred the black one anyway, because it allowed him, for example, to wipe the fuzz off the tip of his pen onto his pants leg while writing up orders at the Brigham, catch a night flight, say to Moscow or Lima, and still look presentable when he arrived.†   (source)
  • In the gloomy air of daytime Lima—the sun filtering down through thin fog from the Pacific, then through the perpetual ground-level strata of dust and hydrocarbons—I stood outside Socios headquarters and looked up toward Carabayllo's hills and realized that the lights I'd seen the night before were mounted on highway-style pylons, towering over one- and two-room shacks.†   (source)
  • The stories were set in the slums of Lima, Peru, in the prisons of post-Soviet Siberia, in the famished and deforested central plateau of Haiti.†   (source)
  • Leo remembered the last thing he'd seen before he passed out—the lima-bean-colored face of the bearded man with the dagger.†   (source)
  • After the liver-and-lima-beans dinner, served in a mess hall that brought back every dreadful school-age cafeteria memory, women of every shape, size, and complexion flooded back into the main hall of the building, shouting in English and Spanish.†   (source)
  • He had the same curly hair, shaggy beard, and intelligent eyes—a look somewhere between wild hippie and fatherly professor, except this man's skin was the color of a lima bean.†   (source)
  • Rubén moved to New York with his parents when he was two, like me… The difference is that at least he can go back to Lima anytime he wants.†   (source)
  • Civilization The Honorable Roderick L. Walker, Mayor of Cowpertown, Chief of State of the sovereign planet GO-7390 1-Il (Lima Catalog), Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Chief Justice, and Defender of Freedoms, was taking his ease in front of the Mayor's Palace.†   (source)
  • Camila decided to go to Lima and look at the Abbess from a distance.†   (source)
  • All Lima was interested in this separation of the brothers.†   (source)
  • Within four months he knew practically everyone in Lima.†   (source)
  • Camila, let me take Don Jaime for a year to live with me in Lima.†   (source)
  • Left alone in Lima the Marquesa's life grew more and more inward.†   (source)
  • The bookseller of the town reported that she was one of the three most cultivated persons in Lima.†   (source)
  • In Lima Pepita generally sat down at the table with her mistress.†   (source)
  • There were many admirable actresses in Lima during these years, but none better.†   (source)
  • He had come up from Lima on a strange sentimental impulse.†   (source)
  • You are only a cholo, and there are better matadors than you, even in Lima.†   (source)
  • They had supper together and it was arranged that they were to start for Lima the next morning.†   (source)
  • This being an ambassador couldn't be envisioned as in the old days--a Guicciardini arriving from Florence with his clever face, or a Russian coming to Venice, or an Adams--such grandeurs have sunk down as the imagination has been transferred from the bearer of his country's power walking on rugs to his blowing shellac through the waterpipes of Lima to stop the rust.†   (source)
  • There would also be warmed-over beef, pork or chicken, a dish full of cold lima beans, biscuits, slaw, and coffee.†   (source)
  • All Lima knew them well.†   (source)
  • This master was one day walking through the Cathedral of Lima and stopped to read the epitaph of a lady.†   (source)
  • At last he went back to Lima; he rilled in the time as best he could, but he longed to be by her as a boy of eighteen would long.†   (source)
  • You know Lima and Cuzco and the road.†   (source)
  • With one hand on the back of the chair she said haltingly: "My dear child, I am sending off a letter to Lima in the morning.†   (source)
  • Lima was a city of eccentrics, but even there she became its jest as she drove through the streets or shuffled up the steps of its churches.†   (source)
  • And by the heart of Saint Rose of Lima?†   (source)
  • Lima celebrated its feast days by hearing a Mass of Tomas Luis da Victoria in the morning and the glittering poetry of Calderon in the evening.†   (source)
  • She had never known any country but the environs of Lima and she assumed that all its corruption was the normal state of mankind.†   (source)
  • When the Archbishop returned from a short trip to Spain, all Lima kept asking: "What has he brought?"†   (source)
  • Two days later they started back to Lima, and while crossing the bridge of San Luis Rey the accident which we know befell them.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the news was all over Lima.†   (source)
  • All the world is alike, Madrid or Lima.†   (source)
  • Pepita was an orphan and had been brought up by that strange genius of Lima, the Abbess Madre Maria del Pilar.†   (source)
  • This bridge was on the highroad between Lima and Cuzco and hundreds of persons passed over it every day.†   (source)
  • She had travelled slowly from Lima and even now as she sat in the square a boy from her farm ran up and put into her hand a large packet wrapped in parchment and dangling some nuggets of sealing-wax.†   (source)
  • There was something in Lima that was wrapped up in yards of violet satin from which protruded a great dropsical head and two fat pearly hands; and that was its archbishop.†   (source)
  • The bodies of the victims were approximately collected and approximately separated from one another, and there was great searching of hearts in the beautiful city of Lima.†   (source)
  • At last at twenty-six she found herself penned into marriage with a supercilious and ruined nobleman and the Cathedral of Lima fairly buzzed with the sneers of her guests.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop of Lima, whom we shall know later in a more graceful connection, hated her with what he called a Vatinian hate and counted the cessation of her visits among the compensations for dying.†   (source)
  • But he always returned to Lima.†   (source)
  • Horses and coaches and chairs had to go down hundreds of feet below and pass over the narrow torrent on rafts, but no one, not even the Viceroy, not even the Archbishop of Lima, had descended with the baggage rather than cross by the famous bridge of San Luis Rey.†   (source)
  • In the courtyard she came upon a company of girls at work over the linen and her eyes fell at once upon a girl of twelve who was directing the others at the trough and at the same time recounting to them with great dramatic fire the less probable miracles in the life of Saint Rose of Lima.†   (source)
  • The Archbishop of Lima was something of a philologist; he dabbled in dialects; he had even evolved quite a brilliant table for the vowel and consonant changes from Latin into Spanish and from Spanish into Indian-Spanish.†   (source)
  • Not the audiences of Lima.†   (source)
  • Here Manuel cast himself upon the Spanish language and exclaimed with unnecessary vigor: "I swear by the Virgin Mary and the heart of Saint Rose of Lima that all that has to do with the letter will be secret."†   (source)
  • Among her protégés was the cartographer De Blasiis (whose Maps of the New World was dedicated to the Marquesa de Montemayor amid the roars of the courtiers at Lima who read that she was the "admiration of her city and a rising sun in the West"); another was the scientist Azuarius whose treatise on the laws of hydraulics was suppressed by the Inquisition as being too exciting.†   (source)
  • It prompted him to busy himself for six years, knocking at all the doors in Lima, asking thousands of questions, filling scores of notebooks, in his effort at establishing the fact that each of the five lost lives was a perfect whole, livery-one knew that he was working on some sort of memorial of the accident and everyone was very helpful and misleading.†   (source)
  • They started for Lima.†   (source)
  • For Lima has taken the white veil; and there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe.†   (source)
  • Oh! do not bow and look surprised; you know the proverb all along this coast—"Corrupt as Lima."†   (source)
  • " 'Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabella's Inquisition wanes in Lima,' laughed Don Sebastian.†   (source)
  • Maud Dyer telephoned to Carol and, after a rather improbable question about cooking lima beans with bacon, demanded, "Have you heard the scandal about this Miss Mullins and Cy Bogart?"†   (source)
  • The world's one Lima.†   (source)
  • " 'Though there are no Auto-da-Fe's in Lima now,' said one of the company to another; 'I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy.†   (source)
  • It but bears out your saying, too; churches more plentiful than billiard-tables, and for ever open—and "Corrupt as Lima."†   (source)
  • 'In the name of all us Limeese, I but desire to express to you, sir sailor, that we have by no means overlooked your delicacy in not substituting present Lima for distant Venice in your corrupt comparison.†   (source)
  • For my humor's sake, I shall preserve the style in which I once narrated it at Lima, to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends, one saint's eve, smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled piazza of the Golden Inn.†   (source)
  • …altogether, the remembrance of her cathedral-toppling earthquakes; nor the stampedoes of her frantic seas; nor the tearlessness of arid skies that never rain; nor the sight of her wide field of leaning spires, wrenched cope-stones, and crosses all adroop (like canted yards of anchored fleets); and her suburban avenues of house-walls lying over upon each other, as a tossed pack of cards;—it is not these things alone which make tearless Lima, the strangest, saddest city thou can'st see.†   (source)
  • No use sterning all, then; but as I was groping at midday, with a blinding sun, all crown-jewels; as I was groping, I say, after the second iron, to toss it overboard—down comes the tail like a Lima tower, cutting my boat in two, leaving each half in splinters; and, flukes first, the white hump backed through the wreck, as though it was all chips.†   (source)
  • …saints Gervasius, Servasius and Bonifacius and S. Bride and S. Kieran and S. Canice of Kilkenny and S. Jarlath of Tuam and S. Finbarr and S. Pappin of Ballymun and Brother Aloysius Pacificus and Brother Louis Bellicosus and the saints Rose of Lima and of Viterbo and S. Martha of Bethany and S. Mary of Egypt and S. Lucy and S. Brigid and S. Attracta and S. Dympna and S. Ita and S. Marion Calpensis and the Blessed Sister Teresa of the Child Jesus and S. Barbara and S. Scholastica and S.…†   (source)
  • The city of Lima, in America, experienced the same convulsions last year; the same cause, the same effects; there is certainly a train of sulphur under ground from Lima to Lisbon.†   (source)
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