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  • She looked like she'd been touched by King Midas.†   (source)
  • But when Jason mentioned King Midas, she cursed in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • In fact they looked like they'd been shopping at a King Midas clearance sale.†   (source)
  • Please tell me you're not related to King Midas.†   (source)
  • Weaving through the traffic, closing in on us rapidly, were three glittery, vaguely humanoid apparitions—like billowing plumes from smoke grenades touched by King Midas.†   (source)
  • King Midas looked at Lit incredulously.†   (source)
  • King Midas waved his hand dismissively.†   (source)
  • I am King Midas.†   (source)
  • "You think they're ancient demigods who came through the Doors of Death—like Medea, or Midas?†   (source)
  • She rode Midas; for me, she suggested a quarter horse named Pepper, which her dad usually rode.†   (source)
  • Midas pointed out another golden statue—a bald man in a toga, holding a pair of shears.†   (source)
  • Now she thought about the Cyclopes in Detroit, Medea in Chicago, Midas turning her to gold in Omaha.†   (source)
  • Midas hesitated, but there was a sly twinkle in his eyes.†   (source)
  • Medea, Midas—there'll be more, I'm sure.†   (source)
  • She dumped everything out of the pack and tossed it to Midas.†   (source)
  • All around them were flashes of light that reminded Leo of the tracer fire at Midas's compound.†   (source)
  • Midas raised his eyebrows, suddenly excited.†   (source)
  • Midas looked mildly disappointed, but he shrugged.†   (source)
  • The sleeping woman, the one Medea and Midas called their patron.†   (source)
  • Quicker than any old man should've been able to move, Midas lashed out and grabbed her wrist.†   (source)
  • Midas touched his hand, and Leo transformed into solid metal.†   (source)
  • They'd saved her when Midas had turned her to gold.†   (source)
  • The chandelier groaned and snapped off its chain, and Midas screamed as it pinned him to the floor.†   (source)
  • "As you see, I can still turn anything to gold," Midas said.†   (source)
  • Midas pulled off his oversize sleeping cap, and Jason didn't know whether to laugh or get sick.†   (source)
  • Midas must've felt it too, because he stumbled to his feet and grabbed his donkey ears.†   (source)
  • I think these guys will want some quality time with Midas.†   (source)
  • Midas cursed in Ancient Greek, thoroughly pinned under his chandelier.†   (source)
  • Do you remember Midas Mulligan of Chicago?†   (source)
  • These were the things Dagny had heard about Midas Mulligan; she had never met him.†   (source)
  • It had grown dark, when they left Midas Mulligan's.†   (source)
  • "Let it go till day after tomorrow, Miss Taggart," said Midas Mulligan.†   (source)
  • "Shut up," said Midas Mulligan, looking at her bowed head with anxious concern.†   (source)
  • Midas Mulligan sat at his desk, with a map and a column of figures before him.†   (source)
  • Akston quit on the principle of sound banking," said Midas Mulligan.†   (source)
  • "Gentlemen-Taggart Transcontinental," said Midas Mulligan.†   (source)
  • Wait till Midas sees the amount I have to deposit.†   (source)
  • "My business, Miss Taggart?" said Midas Mulligan.†   (source)
  • Midas Mulligan had once been the richest and, consequently, the most denounced man in the country.†   (source)
  • Midas called two doctors immediately-Hendricks for you, and me for your plane.†   (source)
  • It's the destruction of Colorado that started the growth of this valley," said Midas Mulligan.†   (source)
  • Who's the Company, besides Midas Mulligan?" she asked.†   (source)
  • "You have belonged here for a long time, Miss Taggart," said Midas Mulligan.†   (source)
  • Seven years ago, Midas Mulligan had vanished.†   (source)
  • I was the first man to whom Midas sold land in this valley.†   (source)
  • She sat by Galt's side as he drove, skirting the town, to Midas Mulligan's house.†   (source)
  • Why, Midas met us at the landing field, drove me to my house and took Daniels with him.†   (source)
  • Did you ever know Midas Mulligan to make a bad investment?†   (source)
  • "Miss Taggart, may I present Midas Mulligan?" said Galt.†   (source)
  • Three other horses, including Midas, were staring at Savannah, as if wondering whether she'd forgotten them.†   (source)
  • I have an Arabian named Midas, and it kills me sometimes that I'm here when I could be off riding him The truth comes out.†   (source)
  • A half dozen nibble on grass near the fence post, mainly quarter horses, and Midas, her white-socked black Arabian, stands off to one side.†   (source)
  • While Midas eats, she readies him for her ride, and a few minutes later she's leading him from the pasture, toward the trails in the forest, looking exactly as she did six years ago.†   (source)
  • Midas had long fuzzy gray ears sticking up from his white hair—like Bugs Bunny's, but they weren't rabbit ears.†   (source)
  • His close-cropped blond hair caught the afternoon light so it looked like it was turning to gold, Midas style.†   (source)
  • Midas put his hand on his son's shoulder, and suddenly a very angry-looking gold statue was sitting on Midas's throne.†   (source)
  • Hopefully that would keep the Reaper of Men from turning back to flesh—at least until after Midas's victims did.†   (source)
  • Jason spun on one heel, smacked Lit in the chest with the butt of his javelin, and sent him toppling into Midas's throne.†   (source)
  • Jason kicked the coffee table into the old man's legs and knocked him over, but Midas wouldn't stay down for long.†   (source)
  • Midas scratched his donkey ears.†   (source)
  • Midas smiled apologetically.†   (source)
  • Midas said.†   (source)
  • "Oh, dear," Midas said.†   (source)
  • Midas wailed.†   (source)
  • Midas sighed.†   (source)
  • Midas said.†   (source)
  • Midas pointed.†   (source)
  • Midas raced forward.†   (source)
  • Midas said.†   (source)
  • Midas?†   (source)
  • Midas laughed.†   (source)
  • Midas chuckled.†   (source)
  • "There," Midas said.†   (source)
  • How did you beat Midas?†   (source)
  • Midas wailed.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she was thinking about Midas.†   (source)
  • After a while, she asked, in the tone of a dryly statistical inquiry, "How much of a fortune has Midas Mulligan amassed in this valley?"†   (source)
  • "Why yes, I can," said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity.†   (source)
  • Midas Mulligan met them at the door.†   (source)
  • Midas Mulligan said that you work here.†   (source)
  • On the royalties Midas Mulligan pays me for his powerhouse, for the ray screen, for the radio transmitter and a few other jobs of that kind.†   (source)
  • "Midas told me that Miss Taggart has to be treated for shock," he said, "not for the one sustained, but for the ones to come."†   (source)
  • Isn't he great-Midas Mulligan?†   (source)
  • It's minted by Midas Mulligan.†   (source)
  • "You're leaving as our friend," said Midas Mulligan, "and we'll be fighting everything you'll do, because we know you're wrong, but it's not you that we'll be damning."†   (source)
  • No-thought Dagny-no, apart from the sickening feeling it gave her, this case was not much worse than any of the other things that Midas Mulligan had borne for years.†   (source)
  • "If you change your mind," said Francisco, "I'll hire you on the spot—or Midas will give you a loan in five minutes to finance that railroad, if you want to own it yourself."†   (source)
  • It was rumored that one had to observe a certain unwritten rule when dealing with Midas Mulligan: if an applicant for a loan ever mentioned his personal need or any personal feeling whatever, the interview ended and he was never given another chance to speak to Mr. Mulligan.†   (source)
  • His first name had been Michael; when a newspaper columnist of the humanitarian clique nicknamed him Midas Mulligan and the tag stuck to him as an insult, Mulligan appeared in court and petitioned for a legal change of his first name to "Midas."†   (source)
  • They parted at the bottom of the trail; he went to keep an appointment with Midas Mulligan, while she went to Hammond's Market with a list of items for the evening's dinner as the sole concern of her world.†   (source)
  • He just sat there all through the trial like a marble statue-like one of those blindfolded marble statues, At the end, he instructed the jury to bring in a verdict in favor of Midas Mulligan-and he said some very harsh things about me and my partners.†   (source)
  • At odd moments, with a sudden sense of uneasiness, she had wondered-as she wondered about the stories of deserted ships found floating at sea or of sourceless lights flashing in the sky-about the disappearance of Midas Mulligan.†   (source)
  • I got off and spent the night hitchhiking my way to Colorado, bumming rides on trucks, on buggies, on horse carts, to get there on time-to get to our meeting place, I mean, where we gather for Midas' ferry plane to pick us up and bring us here.†   (source)
  • Did you know Midas Mulligan?†   (source)
  • …testified about the bad breaks we'd all had in the past, and I quoted Mulligan saying that I couldn't even own a vegetable pushcart, and we proved that all the members of the Amalgamated Service corporation had no prestige, no credit, no way to make a living —and, therefore, the purchase of the motor factory was our only chance of livelihood-and, therefore, Midas Mulligan had no right to discriminate against us-and, therefore, we were entitled to demand a loan from him under the law.†   (source)
  • …to point across the valley, moved like a royal scepter; her eyes followed it and she saw the terraced green of hanging gardens on a distant mountainside-"the chicken and dairy farm of Judge Narragansett"-his arm moved slowly to a long, flat stretch of greenish gold at the foot of a canyon, then to a band of violent green-"in the wheat fields and tobacco patch of Midas Mulligan"-his arm rose to a granite flank striped by glistening tiers of leaves-"in the orchards of Richard Halley."†   (source)
  • She looked at the faces of the four men in the soft twilight of Mulligan's living room: Galt, whose face had the serene, impersonal attentiveness of a scientist-Francisco, whose face was made expressionless by the hint of a smile, the kind of smile that would fit either answerHugh Akston who looked compassionately gentle-Midas Mulligan, who had asked the question with no touch of rancor in his voice.†   (source)
  • Then Midas Mulligan.†   (source)
  • Hello, Midas?†   (source)
  • He had the Midas touch, whatever he touched turned to gold!†   (source)
  • The Greeks tell of King Midas, who had the luck to win from Bacchus the offer of whatsoever boon he might desire.†   (source)
  • We must not have King Midas represented as an example of success; he was a failure of an unusually painful kind.†   (source)
  • It was his barber (if I remember right) who had to be treated on a confidential footing with regard to this peculiarity; and his barber, instead of behaving like a go-ahead person of the Succeed-at-all-costs school and trying to blackmail King Midas, went away and whispered this splendid piece of society scandal to the reeds, who enjoyed it enormously.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, however, Midas could fail; he did.†   (source)
  • The Greeks enshrined it in the story of Midas, of the 'Golden Touch.'†   (source)
  • Our dragnet was filled with Midas abalone, harp shells, obelisk snails, and especially the finest hammer shells I had seen to that day.†   (source)
  • Phoebe's Indian cakes were the sweetest offering of all,—in their hue befitting the rustic altars of the innocent and golden age,—or, so brightly yellow were they, resembling some of the bread which was changed to glistening gold when Midas tried to eat it.†   (source)
  • Mr Merdle was immensely rich; a man of prodigious enterprise; a Midas without the ears, who turned all he touched to gold.†   (source)
  • O my Midas!†   (source)
  • One perceived him to be a personage of marked influence and authority; and, especially, you could feel just as certain that he was opulent as if he had exhibited his bank account, or as if you had seen him touching the twigs of the Pyncheon Elm, and, Midas-like, transmuting them to gold.†   (source)
  • And inasmuch, O my Midas! as the action had the approval of our Caesar, who was as just as he was wise—be there flowers upon his altars forever!†   (source)
  • The son and heir of whom I speak is he whom thou didst send to the galleys—the very Ben-Hur who should have died at his oar five years ago—returned now with fortune and rank, and possibly as a Roman citizen, to— Well, thou art too firmly seated to be alarmed, but I, O my Midas!†   (source)
  • This should be convincing, to say least; but lest thou say tut-tut again, I tell thee, O my Midas! that yesterday, by good chance—I have a vow to Fortune in consequence—I met the mysterious son of Arrius face to face; and I declare now that, though I did not then recognize him, he is the very Ben-Hur who was for years my playmate; the very Ben-Hur who, if he be a man, though of the commonest grade, must this very moment of my writing be thinking of vengeance—for so would I were I…†   (source)
  • O my Midas!†   (source)
  • Therefore, thou gaudy gold, Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee; Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge 'Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead, Which rather threaten'st than dost promise aught, Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence, And here choose I: joy be the consequence!†   (source)
  • * *rake-handle Pardie, we women canne nothing hele,* *hide <9> Witness on Midas; will ye hear the tale?†   (source)
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