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  • Returning to don Baithazar's teachings, I tried on the measured nobility of Milton's epic verse.†   (source)
  • This request, too, the lawyers refused, much to the regret of Milton Greeman, curator of Wistar's renowned collection of medical specimens.†   (source)
  • But when a poet chooses to write a sonnet rather than, say, John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, it's not because he's lazy.†   (source)
  • I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend… John Milton, Paradise Lost   .†   (source)
  • I borrowed it from Milton Security.†   (source)
  • ; head of marketing John Adamo, whose team designed such impressive materials; Linda Leonard, new media, for all her efforts with online marketing; Linda Palladino, Milton Wackerow, and Carol Naughton, production; Pam White, Jocelyn Lange, and the rest of the subsidiary rights team, who have done a truly extraordinary job of selling the Inheritance cycle in countries and languages throughout the world; Janet Renard, copyediting; and everyone else at Knopf who has supported me.†   (source)
  • Milton Frantig was fifty years old.†   (source)
  • That night, after we talked outside Milton's?†   (source)
  • For the first time in her long life Santa Sofia de la Piedad let a feeling show through, and it was a feeling of wonderment when Aureliano asked her to bring him the book that could be found betweenJerusalem Delivered and Milton's poems on the extreme right-hand side of the second shelf of the bookcases.†   (source)
  • One's Mister Milton and the other's a Virgil.†   (source)
  • In 2003, the high school division featured schools such as Milton Academy, the New England private school for high achievers, and Cambridge Rindge & Latin, another Boston-area school, with a 350-year history of excellence.†   (source)
  • She composed a letter to the Congressman from the Weslaco district, Milton H. West, signing herself "Mrs.†   (source)
  • As an additional precaution, he made a happy switch from Washington Irving to John Milton.†   (source)
  • One was The Making of the Modern Jew by Milton Steinberg, the other was The Thirteen Letters of Ben Uzziel by Samson Raphael Hirsch.†   (source)
  • Those who were already refugees—those who had earlier fled Cambridge, Roxbury, or Milton for the presumed safety of Boston—knew what it was to abandon everything and find themselves dependent on charity.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the Milton?†   (source)
  • Who knew Robo's parents—Milton and Pamela Boros—were rich enough to move to Millburn?†   (source)
  • …left out (on the ground that they're novel-istic and unphotogenic), and Anna Magnani daringly cast as Natasha (just to keep the production classy and Honest), and gorgeous incidental music by Dmitri Popkin, and all the male leads intermittently rippling their jaw muscles to show they're under great emotional stress, and a World Premiere at the Winter Garden, under floodlights, with Molotov and Milton Berle and Governor Dewey introducing the celebrities as they come into the theatre.†   (source)
  • Benjamin Mays, J. B. Blayton, L. D. Milton, A. T. Walden, John Wesley Dobbs, Norris Herndon of the Atlantic Life Insurance Company, banker-druggist C. R. Yates, W. J. Shaw, E. M. Martin, Rev. Samuel Williams, Rev. William Holmes Borders, Rev. H. I. Bearden, Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., and his son, Martin Luther King, Jr.—each has contributed and continues to contribute to the American dream in its best sense.†   (source)
  • "Lucky for me," said Bortz, "Wharfinger, like Milton, kept a commonplace book, where he jotted down quotes and things from his reading.†   (source)
  • Listen, all kidding aside Irma I've gotta get sucked, oh I've never flown this high, Jesus to get those sweet little gobbling lips to work right now, I mean somewhere under the blue sky and the burning maple leaves of autumn, fair autumn, and you'll suck my seed, suck my seed as thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks in Vallombrosa, that's John Milton …."†   (source)
  • To them, the REVEREND BROWN is a combination Milton Sills and Douglas Fairbanks.†   (source)
  • Milton Kaplan and Virginia Daiker of the Prints and Photos Division were most helpful in suggesting possible illustrations.†   (source)
  • In Africa I was promised support by such men as Julius Nyerere, now President of Tanganyika; Mr. Kawawa, then Prime Minister of Tanganyika; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; General Abboud, President of the Sudan; Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia; Ben Bella, now President of Algeria; Modibo Keita, President of Mali; Leopold Senghor, President of Senegal; Sekou Toure, President of Guinea; President Tubman of Liberia; and Milton Obote, Prime Minister of Uganda.†   (source)
  • First time he's barked since Bud Milton shot up that Chinese.†   (source)
  • Some say Milton was on the devil's side himself.†   (source)
  • This is not John Milton's "Lycidas" (1637), not a classical elegy in which all nature weeps.†   (source)
  • Milton's alleged affiliation with Galileo's Illuminati was one legend Langdon suspected was true.†   (source)
  • Milton's image was one of conservative stability.†   (source)
  • She had ridden her bike to a meeting at Milton Security and parked it behind a pillar in the garage.†   (source)
  • The answer she gave him was a description of her very first weeks at Milton.†   (source)
  • "I borrowed this stuff from Milton Security, and it's time we made use of it."†   (source)
  • She had borrowed the Toyota from Milton Security's motor pool.†   (source)
  • There will be a contract which states that Milton Security pledges confidentiality.†   (source)
  • It was at Milton Security's Christmas party one evening in December, and for once he was not sober.†   (source)
  • Here's the contract from Milton Security.†   (source)
  • This meant that Milton Security risked being drawn into a tangled web.†   (source)
  • He had transformed Milton Security into one of Sweden's most competent and trusted security firms.†   (source)
  • He asked Milton's technical director to give her a basic course in IT science.†   (source)
  • He questioned her closely about what kind of work assignments she was given at Milton Security.†   (source)
  • Head starter Jim Milton tried a new tack.†   (source)
  • One of those pictures,' drawled Mr Halloway, looks like Milton Blumquist.†   (source)
  • Milton Frantig remained the calmest person in the room.†   (source)
  • John Milton proved fruitful in still one more respect.†   (source)
  • I get on considerably better at Milton than on the force, although there's a drawback."†   (source)
  • I was working extra holiday shifts at Milton's and busy with Scarlett, too.†   (source)
  • That was the night he saw you at Milton's, right, and he said he had an appointment?†   (source)
  • But Milton, upon learning of Riddle's wishes, solved the problem for him.†   (source)
  • "I like to snatch a minute for Mr. Milton, and the morning's my only hope," Wilbarger added.†   (source)
  • Your principal assignment as far as Milton is concerned is to establish the truth.†   (source)
  • Then he turned and walked out of Milton's, just like that, leaving me speechless at my register.†   (source)
  • Milton Frantig was pale and shaky, and felt faint.†   (source)
  • He hated the way Milton's staff sprang to do her bidding.†   (source)
  • Major Major went back to Washington Irving when John Milton grew monotonous.†   (source)
  • War Admiral quieted down and Milton was finally able to break the field in good order.†   (source)
  • Is making coffee part of Milton's service agreement?"†   (source)
  • As he got closer, he recognized the man as someone who will be called Milton Frantig.†   (source)
  • Instead she called the duty officer at Milton Security and explained her situation.†   (source)
  • How am I going to support a whole other person scanning groceries at Milton's?†   (source)
  • She must have an insider at Milton who kept her updated.†   (source)
  • One signature of which he was especially proud read, 'Is anybody in the John, Milton?'†   (source)
  • Milton Frantig was doubled over, gasping and choking.†   (source)
  • Hedström had worked for Milton for five years.†   (source)
  • I used a hidden camera, standard equipment at Milton Security.†   (source)
  • She'd already told me she wouldn't quit for anything, not even to save Milton's embarrassment.†   (source)
  • We pulled into Milton's parking lot, already packed with Saturday shoppers.†   (source)
  • I discovered that I get along much better here at Milton than down at Kungsholmen.†   (source)
  • Do you have anything against a Milton employee staying here?†   (source)
  • Bublanski saw Faste coming out of the elevator with Bohman and Hedström from Milton.†   (source)
  • I was in the police for six years and I've worked at Milton for four.†   (source)
  • He put on a jacket and walked to Milton Security's offices in Slussen.†   (source)
  • Milton was a dump for has-beens—police officers who were too old and couldn't cut it anymore.†   (source)
  • Then she caught sight of a brass plate that read MILTON SECURITY.†   (source)
  • We broke off working with Milton, which unfortunately means that we've lost Sonny Bohman too.†   (source)
  • She could see for herself no future at Milton Security.†   (source)
  • I've already talked to Milton's chief lawyer and he's looking into it.†   (source)
  • And while we're on the subject, Milton could install a much better safe for you."†   (source)
  • She left the Milton Security building the same way she had come.†   (source)
  • Tax records show that she declared periodic income from Milton Security.†   (source)
  • Susanne Linder from Milton Security was dressed in jeans, a black leather jacket, and running shoes.†   (source)
  • But the point of hiring Milton Security is so that you have an alternative to doing that.†   (source)
  • On Tuesday morning Armansky called a meeting in his office at Milton Security.†   (source)
  • She immediately hired Milton Security to take over her personal protection.†   (source)
  • "Bubble," Ekström said, "the head of Milton Security is Dragan Armansky.†   (source)
  • The consultant from Milton Security was waiting for Berger when she got home at around 7:00.†   (source)
  • "Her previous guardian, Holger Palmgren, was old J. F. Milton's lawyer.†   (source)
  • "I work for Milton Security," Linder said.†   (source)
  • That was when she stopped working for Milton Security," Bohman said.†   (source)
  • She was out of a job for several months before she was hired by Milton Security.†   (source)
  • They'll probably accuse Milton of leaking it.†   (source)
  • The estate was owned by Milton Security, but Martina Sjögren lived there.†   (source)
  • Milton is joining the police investigation and trying to help catch Salander.†   (source)
  • And then you have Dragan Armansky and some of his staff at Milton Security.†   (source)
  • "Millennium and Milton Security," Clinton said pensively.†   (source)
  • Although it is newsworthy given that Salander worked at Milton.†   (source)
  • Then I discovered that you were tailing him using Susanne Linder at Milton Security.†   (source)
  • The fact that Salander was a wizard at computers was widely known at Milton Security.†   (source)
  • But most interesting was an exchange between Armansky and Milton Security's lawyer, Frank Alenius.†   (source)
  • It was David Rosin from Milton Security.†   (source)
  • It was well known that Salander was not a popular person at Milton Security.†   (source)
  • You mean that she is qualified to do personal investigations for Milton Security?†   (source)
  • And we have a burglar alarm that goes straight to Milton Security, three minutes away.†   (source)
  • Then he called Dragan Armansky, CEO of Milton Security, who was at his home in Lidingö.†   (source)
  • There were a few letters for her, mainly bank statements and tax forms from Milton Security.†   (source)
  • "I'd already decided that Milton ought to hire a lawyer for her—"†   (source)
  • He opened the report form that Milton Security used for personal investigations.†   (source)
  • That morning he and Bohman had had a brief meeting at Milton with Armansky and Fräklund.†   (source)
  • He was driven there by a uniformed guard from Milton Security.†   (source)
  • Instead of exacerbating the issue, he invited Milton Security's CEO to lunch.†   (source)
  • Hedström from Milton was as quiet as a mouse during the whole discussion.†   (source)
  • "They ran into Milton's security patrol in Morgongava last night."†   (source)
  • She stopped working for Milton and without warning, I understand, went overseas.†   (source)
  • It's cheap and far below what I would charge if I took the job for Milton.†   (source)
  • First, no mention of Milton Security in the article.†   (source)
  • Linder and Milton's bodyguards installed themselves in rooms on the ground floor.†   (source)
  • He wants to thank us for what Milton has done, and above all for what you have done.†   (source)
  • "We've been doing our own investigation at Milton.†   (source)
  • Would Milton Security be willing to contribute?†   (source)
  • Milton Security's role was discontinued when the parties reached a legal solution.†   (source)
  • They probably saw the car from Milton Security.†   (source)
  • Second, a car from Milton will come down from Nacka.†   (source)
  • Only Milton Cross and the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoon.†   (source)
  • It was not until Andros read John Milton's Paradise Lost that he saw his destiny materialize before him.†   (source)
  • The poem is signed John Milton.†   (source)
  • Forced to build engine blocks, American Milton McMullen crafted the exteriors well enough to pass inspection but fashioned the interiors so the engines would never run.†   (source)
  • As he talked on —from Milton, to Kent, to various boarding schools attended by children of friends and acquaintances—my dad scribbled a note; he threw it at me.†   (source)
  • "…. if I recall correctly," Valentine was saying, "you are in fact familiar with Milton's Paradise Lost?"†   (source)
  • John Milton took most of his subject matter and a great deal of material for his great works from you-knowwhere: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes.†   (source)
  • Slave laborers snuck them in, and each day, at his work site, Milton McMullen gave a Korean truck driver a bag of stolen rice in exchange for a small English-language paper, which McMullen smuggled into camp in his boot.†   (source)
  • John Milton was an Illuminatus.†   (source)
  • John Milton?†   (source)
  • Those harmonies may come from the Bible, from Shakespeare, from Dante or Milton, but also from humbler, more familiar texts.†   (source)
  • We'd lose most of Shakespeare without it, and Homer and Ovid and Marlowe (both Christopher and Philip), much of Milton, Lawrence, Twain, Dickens, Frost, Tolkien, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Saul Bellow, and on and on.†   (source)
  • Milton knew Galileo, didn't he?†   (source)
  • Not only had Milton made a well-documented 1638 pilgrimage to Rome to "commune with enlightened men," but he had held meetings with Galileo during the scientist's house arrest, meetings portrayed in many Renaissance paintings, including Annibale Gatti's famous Galileo and Milton, which hung even now in the IMSS Museum in Florence.†   (source)
  • He opened a new account in her name, and she was supposed to report it to Milton's personnel office and use it from now on.†   (source)
  • She had to go back with him to Hedestad to get her motorcycle and the equipment she had borrowed from Milton Security.†   (source)
  • Her attitude encouraged neither trust nor friendship, and she quickly became an outsider wandering the corridors of Milton like a stray cat.†   (source)
  • Under his leadership the firm was now the internationally recognised Milton Security and had invested in cutting-edge technology.†   (source)
  • She had not exactly asked permission, but Armansky had never expressly forbidden her from using Milton's cars.†   (source)
  • When Salander returned the Corolla to the garage under Milton Security, she made sure to go to the toilet upstairs in the office.†   (source)
  • He had been at Milton Security, only a few streets away, and he had decided on sheer impulse to come in.†   (source)
  • In my computer and in the girl's, on the server at Millennium, and on the server at Milton Security, where the girl works."†   (source)
  • In addition, Milton Security had a cooperative arrangement with similar firms of good repute in Europe and the United States.†   (source)
  • The last dealing she had had with the police was in May of the previous year when she was walking past Götgatan on her way to Milton Security.†   (source)
  • What Frode was asking was for Milton Security to poke around in a case that had already been concluded.†   (source)
  • Hidden in all such inquiries were traps that could lead to scandal and create legal problems for Milton Security.†   (source)
  • After she turned twenty and started working at Milton Security, she had calmed down appreciably and—she thought—had got a grip on her life.†   (source)
  • But despite development discussions, offers of in-house training, and other forms of enticement, it was evident that Salander had no intention of adapting to Milton's office routines.†   (source)
  • Then she used a set of picklocks that she had "borrowed" from Milton's locksmith to open a locked door to what seemed to be a meeting room for the condominium association.†   (source)
  • A case in which there may have been some sort of threat to the man Blomkvist, and if they took this on, Milton would risk colliding with Wennerström's regiment of lawyers.†   (source)
  • Holger Palmgren, a semi-retired lawyer who looked after old J. F. Milton's personal affairs, had told Armansky that this Lisbeth Salander was a quick-witted girl with "a rather trying attitude."†   (source)
  • There was a security camera which she glanced at and ignored; it was a model that Milton Security carried and was activated only if an alarm for a break-in or an attack was sounded on the property.†   (source)
  • When Armansky first joined, the company was called Johan Fredrik Milton's General Security AB, and it had a client list consisting of shopping centres that needed floorwalkers and muscular guards.†   (source)
  • He could not imagine that anyone else at Milton Security would have lifted excerpts from the confidential journal of a doctor at a women's crisis centre.†   (source)
  • She could work the way she wanted to; in return she pledged never to do anything that might embarrass him or risk subjecting Milton Security to scandal.†   (source)
  • All complicated or tricky assignments he turned over to Salander and a few other freelancers who—in the last resort—were independent contractors for whom Milton Security had actually no responsibility.†   (source)
  • He looked a little like the stereotypical local boss in an American gangster movie, but in fact he was a talented financial director who had begun his career as a junior accountant at Milton Security in the early seventies.†   (source)
  • By the start of the nineties, Milton Security was equipped to offer a new level of security to an exclusive group of clients, primarily medium-sized corporations and well-to-do private individuals—nouveau-riche rock stars, stock-market speculators, and dot-com high flyers.†   (source)
  • Welcome to Milton's!†   (source)
  • To this day I couldn't stomach cherry brandy, not even in the torts my mother loved from Milton's Market.†   (source)
  • The inscription on the back is Milton.†   (source)
  • Milton Security?†   (source)
  • Salander worked for Milton Security.†   (source)
  • —John Milton, Paradise Lost.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, he was reading Milton, Virgil, Voltaire, Viscount Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study and Use of History, and copying long extracts in a literary commonplace book.†   (source)
  • Now, if you will excuse me, I have, as you will appreciate, a great many other choices to make in consequence, such as, for instance, whether to pack the Dryden or the Milton.†   (source)
  • Long afterward, writing of this time in his boyhood, John Quincy Adams would recall secreting himself in a closet to smoke tobacco and read Milton's Paradise Lost, trying without success to determine what "recondite charm" in them gave his father so much pleasure.†   (source)
  • But the tension was felt everywhere; it spilled over into pur studies, and arguments over Milton, Talleyrand or deductive procedures in logic were often clear substitutes for the outlawed fistfights over Zionism.†   (source)
  • So says Milton, anyway.†   (source)
  • "At night I'm apt to be in a stampede, and you can't read Mr. Milton during a stampede--not and take his sense.†   (source)
  • She, too, was an avid reader and attributed her "taste for letters" to Richard Cranch, who, she later wrote, "taught me to love the poets and put into my hands, Milton, Pope, and Thompson, and Shakespeare."†   (source)
  • "What," he asked me one day, as we walked through Milton's Market looking for paper towels, "is the grossest thing that's ever happened to you?"†   (source)
  • IN THE HISTORY of the Adams family there was probably no more joyous homecoming than took place in the heat of midmorning on August 18, 1817, when John Quincy, Louisa Catherine, and their three sons came over the hill from Milton in a coach-and-four trailing a cloud of dust.†   (source)
  • Riddle didn't want Milton going anywhere near his horse again, and vowed never to run another horse at Pimlico.†   (source)
  • When the light changed, he pulled into the lot in front of Milton's Market while I turned around and doubled back to meet him.†   (source)
  • John Milton threw open whole new vistas filled with charming, inexhaustible possibilities that promised to ward off monotony forever.†   (source)
  • He wanted starter Jim Milton booted out in favor of George Cassidy, thestarter for War Admiral's home track, Belmont.†   (source)
  • There were frequent citations in Latin, Greek, and French, extended use of Swift, Franklin, Dr. Price, Machiavelli, Guicciardini's Historia d'Italia, Mon-tesquieu, Plato, Milton, and Hume, in addition to scattered mentions of Aristotle, Thucydides, Hobbes, La Rochefoucauld, and Rousseau, as well as Joseph Priestley, whom Adams had lately come to know in London.†   (source)
  • He was still angry over Pimlico starter Jim Milton's use of tongs on War Admiral the year before, and he was sticking to his vow never to run a horse at the track again.†   (source)
  • He tested urine and blood samples from Milton Frantig, the man who had vomited on the lawn and who was now in an isolation room at Fairfax Hospital.†   (source)
  • John Milton was supple and concise.†   (source)
  • Milton Frantig, the man who had thrown up on the lawn, had now been kept in isolation at Fairfax Hospital for several days.†   (source)
  • He mowed their lawn after Arthur's coronary and always got her the best bananas at Milton's, even if he had to sneak some from the back.†   (source)
  • Thus, typical endorsements on the official documents might read, 'John Milton is a sadist' or 'Have you seen Milton, John?'†   (source)
  • Vanderbilt didn't want to be strong-armed into dismissing Milton, whom he and virtually all observers agreed had done nothing wrong in his effort to load War Admiral in the gate the year before.†   (source)
  • The door of the monkey house swung open and Milton Frantig stumbled out, still wearing his Tyvek suit, looking embarrassed.†   (source)
  • We were at Milton's, sitting on the loading dock for our break, surrounded by packs upon packs of tomato juice.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, he enabled Major Major to double his output, for John Milton was so much shorter than either his own name or Washington Irving's and took so much less time to write.†   (source)
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