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  • I assumed that you had left New Bern to start a new life, one without me.†   (source)
  • It was something about Allie being in love one time with a young man from New Bern.†   (source)
  • If he's not in New Bern yet, he's close.†   (source)
  • For some reason Whitman always reminded him of New Bern, and he was glad he'd come back.†   (source)
  • Allie, New Bern… and…, and…, something at a party.†   (source)
  • New Bern, he thought again, and knew the name.†   (source)
  • New Bern's small, but it does teach you how to do the things that matter.†   (source)
  • Missy Ryan, like her husband, Miles, grew up in New Bern.†   (source)
  • Some big yachts from New Bern sometimes stop over for a couple of days.†   (source)
  • Lucerne was no more than an hour away, Bern two and a half or three.†   (source)
  • Once he landed in New Bern and picked up his rental car, he had another forty minutes on the road.†   (source)
  • She couldn't stay in New Bern the way things were.†   (source)
  • I know we can get him into Raleigh, but hopefully we can get a connection straight to New Bern.†   (source)
  • Though they could have returned to Oriental, they drove instead to New Bern.†   (source)
  • In the end, Allie broke off her engagement and stayed in New Bern.†   (source)
  • Dawson was on the dock behind the hotel in New Bern, boats in the slips on either side of him.†   (source)
  • New Bern wasn't quite so small, of course, but it had that small-town feel, you know?†   (source)
  • Now, walking the streets of New Bern, Sarah was doing her best to move on.†   (source)
  • His choices were to find a room around here or at a hotel in New Bern.†   (source)
  • You started teaching in New Bern, remember?†   (source)
  • In New Bern, everyone seemed to know everything about everyone.†   (source)
  • Things have changed, even in little New Bern.†   (source)
  • And since the hospital was located in New Bern, he decided it was better to remain farther away.†   (source)
  • I remembered; it was in between Wilmington and Southport, almost two hours from New Bern.†   (source)
  • Missy Ryan's funeral was held on a Wednesday morning at the Episcopal church in downtown New Bern.†   (source)
  • I didn't know then, of course, that I would eventually work in New Bern.†   (source)
  • Larry and Miles chatted about New Bern, Larry quizzing Miles about local history.†   (source)
  • New Bern, she'd learned almost right away, was not a town for singles.†   (source)
  • That was after you got the job in New Bern, right?†   (source)
  • As in most southern towns, August slows the pace of life in New Bern.†   (source)
  • Fifteen thousand pounds to be drawn on a Bern bank.†   (source)
  • Bern and Drinian took a step forward and each seized one end of the table.†   (source)
  • "My Lord Bern," said Caspian, "we must talk of the state of these Islands.†   (source)
  • Bern and his gracious wife and merry daughters made them good cheer.†   (source)
  • Caspian nodded to Bern and then stood aside.†   (source)
  • "This is what I sent word about last night," said Bern.†   (source)
  • He, with Bern and Drinian and four others, went into the hall.†   (source)
  • Spaight had also owned a farm outside of New Bern, which was about forty miles up the road, and that was where he was buried.†   (source)
  • He walked to the car he had parked directly across the street, got in, and began the drive to New Bern, his hands shaking.†   (source)
  • But when he thought about New Bern, he seemed to remember only the last summer, the summer they were together.†   (source)
  • She said that you had left New Bern.†   (source)
  • Noah talked about leaving New Bern, about working in the shipyard and at the scrap yard in New Jersey.†   (source)
  • Noah walked into his office the following month and informed Goldman of his intent to enlist, then returned to New Bern to say good-bye to his father.†   (source)
  • Traffic was light, and she had time to watch strangers going about their business as she drove through New Bern.†   (source)
  • Fin told him she was spending the summer in New Bern with her family because her father worked for R. J. Reynolds, and though he only nodded, the way she was looking at him made his silence seem okay.†   (source)
  • Eventually he decided to leave New Bern to help get her off his mind, but also because the Depression made earning a living in New Bern almost impossible.†   (source)
  • He had grown up in New Bern.†   (source)
  • Yes, New Bern.†   (source)
  • New Bern.†   (source)
  • New Bern was haunted now.†   (source)
  • New Bern may not have a university or research park, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in character.†   (source)
  • In New Bern, a quaint town situated at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent Rivers, he stopped for lunch.†   (source)
  • With enough people passing through, maybe they could eventually become a retirement mecca like Oriental or Washington or New Bern.†   (source)
  • It was four o'clock in the afternoon, the busiest hour for flights to Paris, a time when privileged businessmen hurried back to the City of Light after dull company chores at the banks in Bern.†   (source)
  • I meet with a man in London to whom I deliver the information, and he releases an account in Bern, Switzerland, to a name and a number-any name, any number-that I give him.†   (source)
  • Bourne watched from a distance as Marie passed through customs and immigration in Bern's airport, looking for signs of interest or recognition from anyone in the crowd that stood around Air France's departure area.†   (source)
  • In those moments, he would pay a visit to a florist in New Bern, then later to the cemetery in Oriental where Dr. Bonner had been buried.†   (source)
  • Tired of traveling the forty minutes to New Bern, patients flocked to his office, but the doctor was under no illusion that he'd ever become rich.†   (source)
  • Dawson's flight landed in New Bern hours after the sun had begun its steady descent toward the western horizon.†   (source)
  • Tuck had ordered a set of tires for an Impala he was restoring, but for whatever reason, they ended up being delivered to a shop over in New Bern.†   (source)
  • "Harris Presser," Miss Harkins announced, "had been born in 1843 to owners of a small candle-making shop in downtown New Bern.†   (source)
  • New Bern was founded in 1710 by Swiss and Palatine settlers, making it the second oldest town in North Carolina.†   (source)
  • When Missy Ryan died, it was front-page news, and gasps were heard in kitchens throughout New Bern when newspapers were opened the following morning.†   (source)
  • He was in the hotel in New Bern, right on the river, and though he knew it had been only a dream, he felt a chill run through him.†   (source)
  • Even as he raced to New Bern, he pictured Candy with that cocky loser, taking off her halter top and moaning in his arms.†   (source)
  • Though New Bern didn't have a big problem with vagrants, even the ones who were around knew enough to avoid the place for the danger it presented.†   (source)
  • In the two weeks following our first date, Jane and I saw each other five more times before she returned to New Bern for the Christmas holidays.†   (source)
  • Though New Bern is a place where privacy seems all but impossible, it nonetheless has its advantages.†   (source)
  • But he was at the Gregory place, a teetering wood structure blanketed in kudzu on the outskirts of New Bern.†   (source)
  • Miles stayed in Raleigh until Missy completed her degree, and their wedding in New Bern filled the church.†   (source)
  • While they were separated, Noah worked in New Jersey, headed off to war, and finally returned to New Bern.†   (source)
  • The sense of community had lured her parents here four years earlier; she'd known nothing about New Bern until she'd moved to town last June.†   (source)
  • She'd graduated from Meredith in June, and after the ceremony, she rode in my car as we followed her parents back to New Bern.†   (source)
  • People do favors for one another because they never know when they might need one in return, and it's one of the reasons New Bern is so different from other places.†   (source)
  • New Bern, founded in 1710, was situated on the banks of the Neuse and Trent Rivers in eastern North Carolina.†   (source)
  • Located in downtown New Bern across the street from my office, the restaurant is housed in the building where Caleb Bradham once had his offices when he formulated a drink now known as Pepsi-Cola.†   (source)
  • Instead he drove around town, drifting from one turn to the next, making a haphazard circuit through New Bern.†   (source)
  • I remember marveling at her animated features as she recounted the details of her life growing up in New Bern, and it was the first time I sensed the attributes I would always cherish: her intelligence and passion, her charm, the carefree way she seemed to view the world.†   (source)
  • They didn't associate with the Pressers, but both families were among those that stayed in town after New Bern fell to Union forces in 1862.†   (source)
  • Originally from Pollocksville—a small hamlet twelve miles south of New Bern—he'd attended East Carolina University, and during my first year at the firm, he often asked me how I was adapting to life in a small town.†   (source)
  • As she walked, she reflected on how different New Bern was from Baltimore, Maryland, where she'd been born and raised, where she'd lived until just a few months earlier.†   (source)
  • The night before she was to meet with Miles Ryan, Sarah Andrews was walking through the historic district in New Bern, doing her best to keep a steady pace.†   (source)
  • For the past thirty years, I've worked with the law firm of Ambry, Saxon and Tundle in New Bern, North Carolina, and my income—while not extravagant—was enough to place us firmly in the upper middle class.†   (source)
  • Unlike Williamsburg, Virginia, which was restored largely through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, New Bern had appealed to its citizens and they had responded.†   (source)
  • At the time, she was still living in New Bern, but she had recently put down a deposit on an apartment in Raleigh and would be moving in a couple of weeks to join Keith for the first year of his residency at Duke Medical School.†   (source)
  • On that morning, the reverend had asked Bennie to drive the van to New Bern to pick up the donations of food and clothing that had been collected over the weekend, and Bennie had shown up promptly.†   (source)
  • I'm not alone in this pride in my town; the New Bern Historical Society is one of the most active in the country, and on nearly every corner, signs document the important role New Bern played in the early years of our country.†   (source)
  • New Bern, on the other hand, was a small southern town, relatively isolated and largely uninterested in keeping up with the ever quickening pace of life elsewhere.†   (source)
  • New Bern or Raleigh?†   (source)
  • Miles Ryan made his way down Madame Moore's Lane, a narrow, winding road that ran along both the Trent River and Brices Creek, from downtown New Bern to Pollocksville, a small hamlet twelve miles to the south.†   (source)
  • New Bern.†   (source)
  • New Bern.†   (source)
  • He, just like Caspian, wanted to lay the Dawn Treader alongside the slave-ship at once and board her, but Bern made the same objection.†   (source)
  • At first the only people who cheered were those who had been warned by Bern's messenger and knew what was happening and wanted it to happen.†   (source)
  • This was done; and then in three boatloads Caspian and his people, and Bern with a few of his, put out for Narrowhaven.†   (source)
  • Then the boat put off again and in a few moments Caspian and the Lord Bern were on deck explaining the situation to Drinian.†   (source)
  • Bern could only tell them that he had seen his six companions sail away eastward and that nothing had, ever been heard of them again.†   (source)
  • And Caspian said, "I think we have had enough of governors," and made Bern a Duke, the Duke of the Lone Islands.†   (source)
  • "Uncover before Narnia, you dog," thundered the Lord Bern, and dealt him a rap with his gauntleted hand which sent his hat flying from his head.†   (source)
  • "Steer straight down this channel, captain," said Bern, "and then round to Avra where my own estates are.†   (source)
  • But after dark Bern sent a messenger over by boat to Doorn to order some preparations (he did not say exactly what) for the following day.†   (source)
  • After a little more conversation Caspian and Bern walked down to the coast a little west of the village and there Caspian winded his horn.†   (source)
  • At the same moment — and this was also due to Bern's messengers — bells began ringing from many parts of the town.†   (source)
  • Bern's people, many of whom they saw working in the fields, were all freemen and it was a happy and prosperous fief.†   (source)
  • These were their names — the Lord Revilian, the Lord Bern, the Lord Argoz, the Lord Mavramorn, the Lord Octesian, the Lord Restimar, and — oh, that other one who's so hard to remember.†   (source)
  • "Bernstead," said the Lord Bern.†   (source)
  • "Not by my counsel," said Bern.†   (source)
  • "Short enough, Sire," said Bern.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER FOUR WHAT CASPIAN DID THERE Nert morning the Lord Bern called his guests early, and after breakfast he asked Caspian to order every man he had into full armour.†   (source)
  • The captain gaped but Bern immediately cried, "Three. cheers for the King," and the soldiers, who had understood about the cask of wine even if they understood nothing else, joined in.†   (source)
  • And before Gumpas quite realized what was happening, Bern was kneeling with his hands between the King's hands and taking the oath to govern the Lone Islands in accordance with the old customs, rights, usages and laws of Narnia.†   (source)
  • You are one of those seven lords of Narnia whom my Uncle Miraz sent to sea and whom I have come out to look for — Argoz, Bern, Octesian, Restimar, Mavramorn, or — or — I have forgotten the others.†   (source)
  • When all this had been pleasantly settled, Caspian ordered horses, of which there were a few in the castle, though very ill-groomed and he, with Bern and Drinian and a few others, rode out into the town and made for the slave market.†   (source)
  • Late in the afternoon (for they had to do all by oar), having turned to starboard round the northeast end of Doorn and port again round the point of Avra, they entered into a good harbour on Avra's southern shore where Bern's pleasant lands sloped down to the water's edge.†   (source)
  • My Lord Bern, come here.†   (source)
  • This is the sense in which watchmen, police officials and officers in dreams are in general to be interpreted" (Wilhelm Stekel, Fortschritte and Technik der Traumdeutung [Wien-Leipzig-Bern: Verlag fur Medizin, Weidmann and Cie.†   (source)
  • I am a friend of Bern Venters—of his wife Bess.†   (source)
  • You will come in, Bern, and Lassiter will come in.†   (source)
  • An', Jane, didn't I always say Bern would come back to get us out?†   (source)
  • "Bern, people have lived here," she said, with wide, thoughtful eyes.†   (source)
  • "Bern—look!" called Bess, pointing up the long slope.†   (source)
  • Bern, will we ever find any place like our beautiful valley?†   (source)
  • Well—tell me all about Bern and his valley.†   (source)
  • Mad, now, Bern, I'm glad to hear some of your old self in your voice.†   (source)
  • An', Bern, I've been wonderin' if you know—"†   (source)
  • "Bern, you're weak—trembling—you talk wildly," cried Bess.†   (source)
  • … But, Bern, after you got the hosses why'd you want to bolt right in Tull's face?†   (source)
  • Bern, it's divine to forgive your enemies.†   (source)
  • Bern, you're bitter; but that's only natural.†   (source)
  • Bern, don't risk it now—when the rustlers are in such shooting mood.†   (source)
  • I never asked so much of any man—except Bern Venters.†   (source)
  • Bern—Bess—riders of the purple sage—good-by!†   (source)
  • "Bern!" cried Jane, when they were out of hearing.†   (source)
  • "Bern," said Jane, "go first to the riders' quarters and get yourself a complete outfit.†   (source)
  • "Bern, if in my misery I accused you unjustly, I crave forgiveness," she said.†   (source)
  • Bern, you'd be right to die rather than not take Elizabeth out of Utah—out of this wild country.†   (source)
  • Bern, they've been set upon—killed by Oldring's men!†   (source)
  • Oh, Bern, look, so you will never forget!†   (source)
  • Jane an' Bern here—they both recognize Milly.†   (source)
  • But—but, Bern, this is what troubles me," she said.†   (source)
  • But, Bern, do you want me to turn into a rabbit?†   (source)
  • Bern, can't you think of another new way to cook rabbit?" went on Bess, with earnestness.†   (source)
  • The cousins learned about it from Alfreda Schildknecht, or Sister Bern as she was known, who tended poor Fritz Rotbein and stopped them in the corridor to inform them of the discreet event.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Bern, isn't it good that Black Star remembered her—that she'll have him—something left of her old home?" asked Bess, wistfully.†   (source)
  • How's Bern an' Bess?†   (source)
  • Bern, you want a hoss thet can run.†   (source)
  • I remember only that he saved Bern.†   (source)
  • Bern, what do you know of Lassiter?†   (source)
  • Bern, whatever kind of a pack's this, anyhow?" questioned Bess, rising from her work with reddened face.†   (source)
  • Bern, I'm sure—oh, I'm sure of it!†   (source)
  • "Tell Bern to come for the pack I want to give him—and—and to say good-by," called Jane, as Lassiter went out.†   (source)
  • But, Bern, take Wrangle if you will go.†   (source)
  • Bern, Black Star has great eyesight.†   (source)
  • "Bern, the trip's as good as made.†   (source)
  • Bern, it's too late," said Jane.†   (source)
  • Bern, what do you make of that?†   (source)
  • Lord—Bern, don't ask me thet!†   (source)
  • … Poor Bern, how long he's gone!†   (source)
  • Bern, can he run as fast as ever?†   (source)
  • Bern—you'll not draw on Tull?†   (source)
  • Oh no, Bern, you'll not come.†   (source)
  • "Why, Bern!" she exclaimed.†   (source)
  • Bern, I wish you wouldn't.†   (source)
  • Wal, hev it your way, Bern.†   (source)
  • "Bern!" she cried.†   (source)
  • Bern, what do you mean?†   (source)
  • Bern!†   (source)
  • My name's Bern Venters.†   (source)
  • Look, Bern!†   (source)
  • Bern, let me kneel.†   (source)
  • But to-morrow, Bern?†   (source)
  • Bern, who is Lassiter?†   (source)
  • Oh, Bern!†   (source)
  • Bern!†   (source)
  • Oh, Bern!†   (source)
  • Oh, Bern!†   (source)
  • Oh, Bern!†   (source)
  • Did—did Bern meet Tull?†   (source)
  • "I do not know," replied the Rémoise, " 'twas just at that time that my husband bought the office of notary, at Bern, two leagues from the town, and we were no longer occupied with that story; besides, in front of Bern, stand the two hills of Cernay, which hide the towers of the cathedral in Reims from view."†   (source)
  • *a gold coin <9> But of her song, it was as loud and yern*, *lively <10> As any swallow chittering on a bern*.†   (source)
  • *jests, deceits Then pain I me to stretche forth my neck, And east and west upon the people I beck, As doth a dove, sitting on a bern;* *barn My handes and my tongue go so yern,* *briskly That it is joy to see my business.†   (source)
  • But take keep* of the death of Holofern; *notice Amid his host he drunken lay at night Within his tente, large as is a bern;* *barn And yet, for all his pomp and all his might, Judith, a woman, as he lay upright Sleeping, his head off smote, and from his tent Full privily she stole from every wight, And with his head unto her town she went.†   (source)
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