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  • The royal bloodline of Jesus Christ has been chronicled in exhaustive detail by scores of historians.†   (source)
  • Gossip columnists across the country breathlessly chronicled their whirlwind romance.†   (source)
  • I do observe and chronicle my mom and dad, but they will not let me do much diagnostic work on their behalf.†   (source)
  • But Patrick's first priority was taking care of the shooting victims, who lay sprawled on the floor from the cafeteria to the gymnasium, a bloody trail that chronicled the shooter's movements.†   (source)
  • For a few moments, the chroniclers wrote, the conquest was at an end ...but only for those few moments, before Aegon Targaryen and his sisters joined the battle.†   (source)
  • She ran a hand along the few feet of personal history, her brief chronicle of taste.†   (source)
  • He fries four cuts of bread and wraps them in pages of the Limerick Chronicle, two cuts in each coat pocket.†   (source)
  • As his subjects grew older, Terman issued updates on their progress, chronicling their extraordinary achievements.†   (source)
  • The Arriaga hospital chronicles a parade of misery.†   (source)
  • She'd made a grim figure on the Fiji beach during our two-week honeymoon, battling her way through a million mystical pages of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, casting pissy glances at me as I devoured thriller after thriller.†   (source)
  • Bibwit took down the first volume of the chronicle and set it with the other books and papers he'd collected for Alyss' lessons.†   (source)
  • Publications arose such as La Raza which chronicled through photos and prose the ongoing developments in the movement.†   (source)
  • I awoke in a lungpipe on Hcaven's Gate, covered with vomit and rebreatber mold, nursing the Wcb's biggest beadache and the sure knowledge that I soon would have to start on Volume X of The Chronicles of the Dying Earth.†   (source)
  • "She's not much of a horse, sir," Chronicler said.†   (source)
  • The poet Szlengel appeared daily with Leonid Fokczanski, the singer Andrzej Wlast, the popular comedian 'Wacus the Art-lover' and Pola Braunowna in the 'Live Newspaper' show, a witty chronicle of ghetto life full of sharp, risque allusions to the Germans.†   (source)
  • His writing was filled with allusions to Chronicles, Isaiah, the Book of fohn, and Philippians.†   (source)
  • I was helping to chronicle history and science for anyone who opened those encyclopedias in the future.†   (source)
  • The late twentieth century witnessed a great surge of Native American writing, much of which went back to tribal myth for material, for imagery, for theme, as in the case of Leslie Marmon Silko's "Yellow Woman," Louise Erdrich's Kashpaw/Nanapush novels, and Gerald Vizenor's peculiar Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles.†   (source)
  • I scoop up the Miracle Breakthrough Bible and open it to the ribbon marker, which is at Chronicles 2.†   (source)
  • Sonja and I were excited to see the first high-quality dramatization of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series, books we had both enjoyed as kids.†   (source)
  • Sol Bloom, back in California, took his quest for a concession for his Algerian Village to an influential San Franciscan, Mike De Young, publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle and one of the exposition's national commissioners.†   (source)
  • —A LETTER FROM NEW YORK IN THE MORNING CHRONICLE AND LONDON ADVERTISER NEWSPAPER†   (source)
  • Clary remembered plowing through the entirety of The Chronicles of Prydain here, curled up in Luke's window seat as the sun went down over the East River.†   (source)
  • "Walsh couldn't talk to us the day after," defensive back Eric Wright later told the San Francisco Chronicle.†   (source)
  • Two people in particular wanted to find out the truth: Anne Holmes and Carl Cunningham were dance critics for the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Post.†   (source)
  • 2 Chronicles 32:4.†   (source)
  • Annie had chronicled the whole story in her meticulous way.†   (source)
  • Don Colburn from the Washington Post interviewed me and wrote a lengthy and remarkably accurate major article, chronicling the surgery and following the family afterward.†   (source)
  • I would chronicle all the things she did during the day.†   (source)
  • Messages in bottles have been chronicled for centuries and include some of the most famous names in history.†   (source)
  • Years later, reviewing the chronicle of those days, Dr. Juvenal Urbino confirmed that his father's methodology had been more charitable than scientific and, in many ways, contrary to reason, so that in large measure it had fostered the voraciousness of the plague.†   (source)
  • Think of this as a small sample from the family chronicle I want you to write.†   (source)
  • Now, I must be Sayyadina and observe the rite that it may be reported truly in the Chronicles.†   (source)
  • Nothing I can think of, but someday some kid in a group home somewhere in Kansas—chronicled in Life magazine more than five years ago—may be touched by her courage, and I guarantee that will change his or her life forever.†   (source)
  • Getting to the top, proclaimed Gunther O. Dyrenfurth, an influential alpinist and chronicler of early Himalayan mountaineering, was "a matter of universal human endeavor, a cause from which there is no withdrawal, whatever losses it may demand."†   (source)
  • The district would never have sought advertising, its deputy superintendent told the Houston Chronicle, "if it weren't for the acute need for funds."†   (source)
  • At the time, Rick was producing a documentary about a Special Forces A-team of Green Berets, ODA 574, based on my book The Only Thing Worth Dying For, which chronicles 574's mission into southern Afghanistan in the weeks after 9/11.†   (source)
  • We've been chronicling the world of impoverished women, but let's break for a billionaire.†   (source)
  • The observer, that old record keeper, the chronicler of events, made his appearance in that taxi.†   (source)
  • At my interview for Successful Saving, I went in holding copies of the Financial Times and the Investor's Chronicle—and I didn't get asked about finance once.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, the Duchess's grumpiness became legendary, as Voltaire has so ably chronicled.†   (source)
  • When the chronicles of this age are written, shall they say we fought alongside the humans and the elves, as the heroes of old, or that we sat cowering in our halls like frightened peasants while a battle raged outside our doors?†   (source)
  • The St. James's Chronicle wrote contemptuously of "a foolish, obstinate, and unrelenting King."†   (source)
  • He'd earned a brief feverish fame in the chronicles of the time, part of the strolling band of tambourine girls and bomb makers, levitators and acid droppers and lost children.†   (source)
  • I am applying for the job listed in this morning's Chronicle and I'd like to be presented to your personnel manager.†   (source)
  • Some splendid nonfiction chronicle about sharing a three-bedroom house with six younger sisters, most of whom I'd been required to diaper?†   (source)
  • Practical considerations limited his letters to chronicling his academic struggles and assuring his father he was making new friends.†   (source)
  • After two years spent covering local interest on the Metro desk of the Chronicle, Cindy could feel a story that might jump-start her career.†   (source)
  • After chronicling the last days of Abraham Lincoln, the progression to John Kennedy was a natural.†   (source)
  • In the rec hall one night they showed a movie on insects, The Something Chronicle.†   (source)
  • The San Francisco Chronicle offered "Color Versions Hand-Painted by Trained Artists," and sold out in a day.†   (source)
  • On the cover was inscribed The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod.†   (source)
  • But when he'd look up, after chronicling Etienne's rescue, or his lost days on the Baltoro, or his time in Korphe under the care of Haji Ali, Marina's eyes would be shining.†   (source)
  • Edith, you better phone the reporter on the Weekly Chronicle and tell him what has happened.†   (source)
  • My mother's diary chronicles it.†   (source)
  • I have also tried to retain the tension and excitement of events in these five days, for there is an inherent drama in the story of Andromeda, and if it is a chronicle of stupid, deadly blunders, it is also a chronicle of heroism and intelligence.†   (source)
  • It was written by Herman Masin, the legendary sports chronicler.†   (source)
  • Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Oscar Otis was one of the few truly knowledgeable turf scribes and dean of the western racing writers.†   (source)
  • A chronicle assembled by a Western scholar named Roger Botte contains many entries like this one, from the time of German rule: 1908.†   (source)
  • The novel chronicled missions in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.†   (source)
  • JOHN UPDIKE won two Pulitzer Prizes for his series of novels chronicling the life and death of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.†   (source)
  • I have chronicled the miserable lives of the poorly fated.†   (source)
  • It was now the most respected such institution in France, and Hannah Weinberg was regarded as the foremost chronicler of the country's new wave of anti—†   (source)
  • To walk in the spire-proud shade of Church Street is to experience the chronicle of a mythology that is particular to this city and this city alone, a trinitarian mythology with equal parts of the sublime, the mysterious, and the grotesque.†   (source)
  • But in addition to local news and chronicles, some foreign advertising creeps in.†   (source)
  • Sophie had not spoken for very long, but her diction was rapidly decomposing into French, she felt unaccountably and deeply fatigued beyond the fatigue of her illness—whatever it was—and decided to make her chronicle even more brief than she had intended.†   (source)
  • Then, pompously: "Human consciousness—an overwhelming joy, a monstrous torture, the most fantastic achievement of the whole fantastic chronicle of time and space: you have it in you but you haven't opened up to it yet, and suddenly it will be too late!†   (source)
  • We have no idea of the value posterity will place on the events we attempt to chronicle.†   (source)
  • Those were the first pages of the chronicle of mankind, it was only just beginning.†   (source)
  • History was his passion, and he spent his months of recuperation reading the chronicles of his legendary predecessors.†   (source)
  • And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house.   (source)
    chronicle = record of events
  • Bast and Chronicler stared at each other, neither moved.†   (source)
  • A horrified look spread over Chronicler's face.†   (source)
  • Chronicler gave a small, tight sigh and continued, "But what's done is done.†   (source)
  • Chronicler's smile grew sour, and he swallowed the first words that came to his lips.†   (source)
  • Jake took a long drink before noticing Chronicler sitting at the far end of the room.†   (source)
  • Chronicler reached out to take hold of the cord, his hand trembling slightly.†   (source)
  • Chronicler's chin lifted a bit, his expression hardening.†   (source)
  • Bast held Chronicler easily in front of him.†   (source)
  • The flat certainty in the man's voice sent a chill down Chronicler's back.†   (source)
  • Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath.†   (source)
  • He motioned Chronicler closer, and the scribe saw he was wearing thick leather gloves.†   (source)
  • Chronicler's serious expression returned.†   (source)
  • Chronicler gave a laugh that sounded slightly hysterical.†   (source)
  • The moment I stretched out until Chronicler looked up from his page.†   (source)
  • He gestured for Chronicler to pick his pen up again.†   (source)
  • Chronicler took a long moment to digest this piece of information.†   (source)
  • As soon as Bast entered the room, Chronicler began to watch him curiously.†   (source)
  • It was looking," Chronicler said abruptly.†   (source)
  • Chronicler swallowed against the dryness in his throat.†   (source)
  • It was pitch black in the room when Chronicler woke with something soft pressing against his face.†   (source)
  • As soon as he was out of sight, Bast leaned close to Chronicler's ear.†   (source)
  • He'd come looking for revenge against Chronicler, who'd deflowered his sister off in Abbott's Ford.†   (source)
  • Chronicler watched the conversation incredulously.†   (source)
  • "I am behind schedule," Chronicler admitted.†   (source)
  • Chronicler opened his eyes to a confusing mass of dark shapes and firelight.†   (source)
  • "Not even two years," Chronicler protested.†   (source)
  • For a moment it was all Chronicler could do to not draw back from the table.†   (source)
  • Chronicler gave a choked scream and jerked away as if he had been jabbed with a hot poker.†   (source)
  • Chronicler accounted for a sizable, though more modest amount.†   (source)
  • Chronicler relaxed slightly, obviously pleased to have his reputation precede him.†   (source)
  • Chronicler's curiosity was almost palpable.†   (source)
  • Chronicler began more softly, then stopped.†   (source)
  • Chronicler found himself thinking of a story he had heard.†   (source)
  • Drawing the curtains, Chronicler undressed for bed, laying his clothes over the back of a chair.†   (source)
  • "An appointment with the Earl of Baedn-Bryt," Chronicler said, puffing himself up slightly.†   (source)
  • "It's really not my place to be steering him one way or another," Chronicler said stiffly.†   (source)
  • Chronicler stared at the red-haired man behind the bar.†   (source)
  • Chronicler gave his words a minute to sink in.†   (source)
  • "They're still telling them at the University," Chronicler said.†   (source)
  • Kote turned around and shrugged Chronicler's limp body into Bast's arms.†   (source)
  • Chronicler, I would like you to meet Bastas, son of Remmen, Prince of Twilight and the Telwyth Mael.†   (source)
  • Chronicler laughed again, seeming to find it easier the second time.†   (source)
  • "I can't tell what you're saying," Chronicler said.†   (source)
  • Bast flailed his hands franticly at Chronicler's head.†   (source)
  • The mercenary stared vaguely at Chronicler, but made no attempt to stop him.†   (source)
  • Bast gave an embarrassed smile as Chronicler picked up the glasses and moved back to the table.†   (source)
  • Chronicler picked up his pen, and Kvothe began to speak before he had the chance to dip it.†   (source)
  • Chronicler swallowed hard and seemed to regain some of his composure.†   (source)
  • He picked up a clean linen cloth and turned to Chronicler.†   (source)
  • Kvothe stood and pointed at the paper that lay in front of Chronicler.†   (source)
  • Chronicler laughed, then looked slightly taken aback, as if he'd surprised himself.†   (source)
  • Chronicler managed a sickly smile that was heartfelt in spite of the circumstances.†   (source)
  • Chronicler shook his head, knowing a polite dismissal when he heard one.†   (source)
  • Kvothe put on a gentle smile and gestured to Bast and Chronicler.†   (source)
  • Chronicler glanced over his shoulder into the dark of the forest.†   (source)
  • He motioned for Chronicler to pick up his pen.†   (source)
  • Chronicler stared at the red-haired man behind the bar.†   (source)
  • AT A GESTURE FROM Kvothe, Chronicler wiped off the nib of his pen and shook out his hand.†   (source)
  • Chronicler closed his eyes and ran his hand over his face.†   (source)
  • Chronicler shook his head as if to clear it, set out a new sheet of paper, and nodded.†   (source)
  • He spoke so softly that Chronicler had to hold his breath to hear.†   (source)
  • Kvothe nodded to himself and pressed the pen back into Chronicler's hand.†   (source)
  • Kvothe stared at Chronicler and Bast in turn; neither could meet his eye for very long.†   (source)
  • Chronicler felt a pang of loss as he stared at the innkeeper with one hand hidden in a linen rag.†   (source)
  • Bast pushed himself away from Chronicler and took several steps back from the bed.†   (source)
  • "There's no sense worrying, I suppose," Kvothe said at last, looking up and motioning to Chronicler.†   (source)
  • "Like some silly faerie story," Chronicler finished, his voice thin and pale as paper.†   (source)
  • Chronicler's pen danced and scratched down the page as Kvothe watched it.†   (source)
  • KVOTHE HELD OUT A hand to Chronicler, then turned to his student, frowning.†   (source)
  • "I know you're going to deny it," Chronicler said.†   (source)
  • "THAT SHOULD DO FOR now, I imagine," Kvothe said, gesturing for Chronicler to lay down his pen.†   (source)
  • Chronicler shook his head and Bast gave a frustrated sigh.†   (source)
  • "You needn't take it that way," Chronicler said quickly.†   (source)
  • Chronicler stood impassively throughout the introduction, watching Bast as if he were a snake.†   (source)
  • Taking a step back, Chronicler regained his composure and leveled the sword at the mercenary.†   (source)
  • "I'll try" Chronicler drew a deep breath and began to write a line of symbols as he spoke.†   (source)
  • Chronicler hurried to unpack his satchel without so much as a glance in Bast's direction.†   (source)
  • He set the glasses down as Bast and Chronicler eyed each other uneasily.†   (source)
  • "I never spoil pages," Chronicler said haughtily Kvothe nodded without looking up.†   (source)
  • Chronicler took an eager step forward, sensing victory.†   (source)
  • Chronicler blanched, his expression as stricken as if he'd been stabbed.†   (source)
  • "I ...I don't follow you," Chronicler said, disconcerted.†   (source)
  • Chronicler felt himself go cold as he suddenly realized what a dangerous game he was playing.†   (source)
  • Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand.†   (source)
  • Chronicler let slip a small laugh, though he did not look up from his page or pause in his writing.†   (source)
  • Chronicler quietly copied to where Kvothe's finger pinned the paper to the table.†   (source)
  • Chronicler lay his pen down and massaged his hand.†   (source)
  • Bast, let me introduce you to Devan Lochees, also known as Chronicler.†   (source)
  • This sparked a chorus of familiar complaints, and Chronicler relaxed.†   (source)
  • He paused with one leg over the sill and looked back at Chronicler.†   (source)
  • "I can understand you feeling a little stifled around here," Chronicler said.†   (source)
  • Chronicler nodded and quickly shuffled the paper, pens, and ink into his flat leather satchel.†   (source)
  • Chronicler sat at a nearby table, making a pretense of finishing a bowl of stew.†   (source)
  • Bast slumped onto the stool without taking his eyes from Chronicler.†   (source)
  • Chronicler went pale at Bast's outburst.†   (source)
  • He tapped Chronicler's pale cheek lightly.†   (source)
  • Chronicler smiled again and wiped his pen on a piece of cloth.†   (source)
  • "I suppose you know best," Chronicler said dubiously.†   (source)
  • Chronicler remained where he was, pale and sweating.†   (source)
  • I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking.†   (source)
  • For a moment Kvothe tensed as if he would leap up and tear this sheet away from Chronicler as well.†   (source)
  • Chronicler's face was calm as he pressed the metal disk firmly onto the table with two fingers.†   (source)
  • Chronicler frowned nervously and ran his hands through his hair.†   (source)
  • They were the same dark eyes that Chronicler had seen before.†   (source)
  • Chronicler spoke quickly, "If you're certain you'll need—"†   (source)
  • Frowning, Chronicler opened his mouth, but Bast held up a hand to stop him.†   (source)
  • Chronicler penned them down numbly, reciting the sounds as he wrote.†   (source)
  • "They say you never existed," Chronicler corrected gently.†   (source)
  • Chronicler looked puzzled, but before he could say anything the innkeeper continued.†   (source)
  • He sought me out," Chronicler said with particular emphasis.†   (source)
  • "I have," Chronicler said with a thin smile.†   (source)
  • He smiled wide at Chronicler, all the vagueness gone from his expression.†   (source)
  • But even as Chronicler looked up, another flood of words burst out of Kvothe.†   (source)
  • Chronicler reached inside his shirt and tugged something from around his neck.†   (source)
  • Chronicler froze, then made his way slowly toward the bar.†   (source)
  • "No chance at—" A drop of blood spotted Chronicler's forehead, followed quickly by another.†   (source)
  • "I don't know who you're waiting for," Chronicler said, taking a step backward.†   (source)
  • Chronicler watched and listened as Kvothe completed the list.†   (source)
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