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  • Each child of his blood garners another fifty.†   (source)
  • I longed to get away from the theater altogether and stood listlessly, garnering information at last that was useless and infinitely dull.†   (source)
  • Combining a strongly negative event with a reorganisation was, in PR terms, such a clumsy error that it could not but astonish Blomkvist's detractors and garner optimum attention for Henrik Vanger's new role.†   (source)
  • By the time Fischer left for Nepal in the spring of 1996, he'd begun to garner more of the recognition that he thought was his due.†   (source)
  • I STEPPED off the bus in Bluefield to a sea of familiar faces accompanied by applause and cheers, brandishing the surprise medal I had garnered.†   (source)
  • While Hollywood garnered most of the headlines, defense spending remained the focus of the local economy for the next two decades, providing about one-third of its jobs.†   (source)
  • Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.†   (source)
  • ") No, he valued the letter merely because his prison friend, the "super-intelligent" Willie-Jay, had written for him a "very sensitive" analysis of it, occupying two single-spaced typewritten pages, with the title "Impressions I Garnered from the Letter" at the top: Impressions I Garnered from the Letter: 1.)†   (source)
  • Her outfits garnered more of my attention, maybe because they at least were always changing.†   (source)
  • For all his disposition to keep hands off the personal development of his friends, perhaps on account of it, Gray made an excellent teacher, and these writings—the garnered grain, the gist, of his own wide culture—were the very sinews for the race Johnnie was setting out on.†   (source)
  • He's probably able to garner some power from it already.†   (source)
  • If a painter is to have an exhibition, an ordinary citizen to receive a visa to a country with a sea coast, a soccer player to join the national team, then a vast array of recommendations and reports must be garnered (from the concierge, colleagues, the police, the local Party organization, the pertinent trade union) and added up, weighed, and summarized by special officials.†   (source)
  • When the white supremacist David Duke ran for the U.S. Senate in 1990, he garnered nearly 20 percent more of the vote than pre-election polls had projected, an indication that thousands of Louisiana voters did not want to admit their preference for a candidate with racist views.†   (source)
  • But are you the actress Jennifer Garner?†   (source)
  • The prosecution gave a recap of evidence presented during the criminal trial; and then the defense got a chance to garner sympathy for a murderer.†   (source)
  • Studying industrial management, I garnered a string of A's.†   (source)
  • He won the popular vote over Richard Nixon by a razor-thin margin, garnering just 49 percent of the tally.†   (source)
  • The history of shamans and the occult garnered our intense intellectual scrutiny.†   (source)
  • He dropped his voice then and looked all around, seeming to enjoy the attention his words were garnering.†   (source)
  • He needed to win or place as high as possible in order to garner enough points to move up to the major league tour by March.†   (source)
  • They do not garner the respect that the Athenaeum Club does.†   (source)
  • From Ethiopia, Mandela traveled to Morocco, Egypt, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and England, garnering in each place support for the goals of the ANC.†   (source)
  • Angel slipped through the front door, and holding the baseball behind his back, he tried not to garner his father's attention.†   (source)
  • She'd already garnered a strong reputation in the bureau as a motivated investigator who did not know how to quit.†   (source)
  • But turned out he got a better feeling for human life from stories than he had been able to garner from facts; fiction gave him a gestalt of life, one taken for granted by a human; he lives it.†   (source)
  • He'd been lucky, she decided, very lucky that the incident had occurred on such an obscure sector, in a hellhole that didn't garner much attention.†   (source)
  • He was traveling toward Garner and McCullers, according to bright white-on-green road signs.†   (source)
  • Her movies ranged from The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) to Airport (1970), both of which garnered her Academy Awards.†   (source)
  • You garnered nearly half that in six tours of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • "James Garner," I said, sitting forward and waiting for the rest of her story.†   (source)
  • Strangers could garner some glimpse of the plebe system's violent nature by sitting in the Armory and listening to the Corps's voice.†   (source)
  • What it really told black men was that we had better buckle down and garner the superior problem-solving abilities of white men to get this thing settled.†   (source)
  • The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green from the highlands down to Anduin.†   (source)
  • On the morning of his death, President Kennedy called former Vice President John Nance Garner to pay his respects.†   (source)
  • Parr, Wyglif, Ged, Bardrick, Farold, Hale, Garner, Kelby, Melkolf, Albem, and Elmund: all slain.†   (source)
  • Yonder, not far, was a grape arbor Mr. Garner made.†   (source)
  • When I'm up there, I'd like Mr. Garner on one side and Mr. Jaakoppi on the other, please.†   (source)
  • He liked to forget he was Luke Garner, third child hidden in the attic.†   (source)
  • We'll garner a fortune to rival the dwarves'.†   (source)
  • The gold griffins gleamed with colored highlights garnered from scores of lanterns.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner, Mrs. Garner, thank you very much for reporting this boy's arrival immediately.†   (source)
  • Hale Garner, nineteen years old, Bel-court.†   (source)
  • The other Twin said, "The two of us have garnered much experience in magical matters.†   (source)
  • My plan was to ask Mrs. Garner to let me off at Minnowville whilst she went to meeting.†   (source)
  • "Luke Garner," she announced solemnly, "you have come to the right place.†   (source)
  • Before Janey could answer, the Bodwins came in to the kitchen with a grinning Mr. Garner behind.†   (source)
  • "Oh, just listen to this, Jenny," said Mr. Garner.†   (source)
  • They were mansions, as large as the Garners' house and barn put together.†   (source)
  • For years Paul D believed schoolteacher broke into children what Garner had raised into men.†   (source)
  • The house he could see best, right behind the Garners' backyard, was occupied by the Sports Family.†   (source)
  • Sixo said the doctor made Mrs. Garner sick.†   (source)
  • Not strong as Mr. Garner but smart enough.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Garner," she said, "why you all call me Jenny?"†   (source)
  • Why don't you spend the night, Mr. Garner?†   (source)
  • I said, But I mean is he like Mr. Garner?†   (source)
  • She's the best cobbler you ever see," said Mr. Garner.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner leaped out and tied his horse to a solid iron post.†   (source)
  • She and Mrs. Garner were the only women there, so she decided to ask her.†   (source)
  • That way, if Mrs. Garner needs Sethe in the night and calls her, Sethe will be there to answer.†   (source)
  • Suppose Garner woke up one morning and changed his mind?†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner came home bent over his mare's neck, sweating and blue-white.†   (source)
  • "This is a city of water," said Mr. Garner.†   (source)
  • Next day Mrs. Garner crooked her finger at me and took me upstairs to her bedroom.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner—that's him what brought me here—he say he arrange something for me.†   (source)
  • We don't hold with slavery, even Garner's kind.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner sent one a you all to get her for each and every one of my babies.†   (source)
  • Garner called and announced them men—but only on Sweet Home, and by his leave.†   (source)
  • She was a timely present for Mrs. Garner who had lost Baby Suggs to her husband's high principles.†   (source)
  • Allowed, encouraged to correct Garner, even defy him.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Garner let you buy out your mother," I said.†   (source)
  • But that very day I asked Mrs. Garner a part of it.†   (source)
  • Plucked from the broken stalks that Mr. Garner could not doubt was the fault of the raccoon.†   (source)
  • Including Mr. Garner's stroke, which he said was a shot in his ear put there by a jealous neighbor.†   (source)
  • What would he have been anyway—before Sweet Home—without Garner?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Garner's was light brown—while she was well.†   (source)
  • She trusted Mrs. Garner and her husband too.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Garner never had no children and we was the only women there.†   (source)
  • There was this piece of goods Mrs. Garner gave me.†   (source)
  • But I wasn't too nasty to cook their food or take care of Mrs. Garner.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Garner, restless at night, is sunk in sleep all morning.†   (source)
  • Halle and the Pauls spent the whole day covering Sixo's fatigue from Mr. Garner.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Mr. Garner, going pink again, "if I was you I'd stick to Jenny Whitlow.†   (source)
  • Anyhow, Mrs. Garner must have seen me in it.†   (source)
  • Everything rested on Garner being alive.†   (source)
  • I almost told Mrs. Garner, but she was so weak then and getting weaker.†   (source)
  • It was the reaction Garner loved and waited for.†   (source)
  • And so they were: Paul D Garner, Paul F Garner, Paul A Garner, Halle Suggs and Sixo, the wild man.†   (source)
  • Oh, he did manly things, but was that Garner's gift or his own will?†   (source)
  • Lillian Garner called her Jenny for some reason but she never pushed, hit or called her mean names.†   (source)
  • Sethe says now that she heard shots, but did not look out the window of Mrs. Garner's bedroom.†   (source)
  • Halle and me want to be married, Mrs. Garner.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner never let her calve every other year.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner looked over his shoulder at her with wide brown eyes and smiled himself.†   (source)
  • Voices remind schoolteacher about the spoiling these particular slaves have had at Garner's hands.†   (source)
  • Then he looks at himself through Garner's eyes, he sees one thing.†   (source)
  • Without Mrs. Garner's help her work increases as do schoolteacher's demands.†   (source)
  • So far, I'd garnered quite a bit of information.†   (source)
  • Why is that child calling you Jennifer Garner?†   (source)
  • And then she'll realize I wasn't the REAL Jennifer Garner, and that I was lying the whole time.†   (source)
  • Marnie, my little friend from the plane, leans out the window to yell, "Good-bye, Jennifer Garner!"†   (source)
  • Let alone a skinny one like Jennifer Garner.†   (source)
  • I AM Jennifer Garner," because, whatever, I'm never going to see this kid again in my life.†   (source)
  • "Who in heaven," Mr. Marshall asks as he backs out, "is this Jennifer Garner?"†   (source)
  • When Mr. Garner first came to Washington the total federal budget was less than 500 million dollars.†   (source)
  • It was Mr. Garner's ninety-fifth birthday.†   (source)
  • A collective gasp came from the room, but before he could garner too much sympathy, two guards came and walked him to Celeste.†   (source)
  • Hale Garner, Your Highness.†   (source)
  • I remember standing upright, Claudia's hand slipping on my arm, and the vision of a host of black-dressed men and women moving through the rooms, their garments seeming to garner light from every gilt edge or lacquered surface, seeming to drain all light away.†   (source)
  • The V-suit was a very popular piece of equipment among garners, made up of a panoramic viewing helmet and a haptic feedback suit.†   (source)
  • Gertrude stood forth and recited the men's names: "Parr, Wyglif, Ged, Bardrick, Farold, Hale, Garner, Kelby, Melkolf, and Albem.†   (source)
  • Before this, no radio signal received by Red Coast ever garnered a recognizability rating above C. An A rating meant the likelihood that the transmission contained intelligent information was greater than 90 percent.†   (source)
  • Hale Garner.†   (source)
  • On the whole, the villagers were in better condition than when they arrived at Narda due to the rest they had garnered on the barges, but constant worry and exposure to the harsh elements had prevented them from recuperating as well as Roran hoped.†   (source)
  • Hale Garner.†   (source)
  • It showed just the corner of the Garners' barn, but when Jen turned it a bit, the entire Garner house came into view.†   (source)
  • It showed just the corner of the Garners' barn, but when Jen turned it a bit, the entire Garner house came into view.†   (source)
  • The first day, a Government inspector came out to examine the Garners' crop, so Luke stayed in his room the entire day.†   (source)
  • "Some shadow children do because they don't have food ration cards, and the rest of their family doesn't share," she said, opening a refrigerator that was bigger than every appliance in the Garners' kitchen put together.†   (source)
  • Usually the Garners' mail was just bills or thin envelopes carrying curt orders from the Government about how much corn to plant, which fertilizer to use, and where to take their crop when it was harvested.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Garner, crying like a baby, had sold his brother to pay off the debts that surfaced the minute she was widowed.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Garner put down her cooking spoon.†   (source)
  • No. In their relationship with Garner was true metal: they were believed and trusted, but most of all they were listened to.†   (source)
  • Roads wide as Garner's whole house.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner, Mrs. Garner, herself, Halle, and four boys, over half named Paul, made up the entire population.†   (source)
  • I took one journey and I paid for the ticket, but let me tell you something, Paul D Garner: it cost too much!†   (source)
  • Garner's boys, including Halle, did all of that—which was a blessing since she could not have managed it anyway.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Garner hummed when she worked; Mr. Garner acted like the world was a toy he was supposed to have fun with.†   (source)
  • And if Mrs. Garner didn't need me right there in the kitchen, I could get a chair and you and me could set out there while I did the vegetables.†   (source)
  • For two successive nights she has been with Mrs. Garner and he can't chance it that she will not know that this night she cannot be.†   (source)
  • It was Sixo who brought it up, finally, after Paul F. Mrs. Garner sold him, trying to keep things up.†   (source)
  • That was the wonder of Sixo, and even Halle; it was always clear to Paul D that those two were men whether Garner said so or not.†   (source)
  • He beat Paul A. Not hard and not long, but it was the first time anyone had, because Mr. Garner disallowed it.†   (source)
  • What did Mrs. Garner get for Paul F?†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner told the Bodwins that she was a right fine cook as well as a fine cobbler and showed his belly and the sample on his feet.†   (source)
  • That made her feel good that her husband's sister's husband had book learning and was willing to come farm Sweet Home after Mr. Garner passed.†   (source)
  • Neighbors discouraged by Garner when he was alive now feel free to visit Sweet Home and might appear in the right place at the wrong time.†   (source)
  • I never saw a wedding, but I saw Mrs. Garner's wedding gown in the press, and heard her go on about what it was like.†   (source)
  • The pupils must have taken her to the barn for sport right afterward, and when she told Mrs. Garner, they took down the cowhide.†   (source)
  • He thinks he hears sobbing that seems to come from Mrs. Garner's window, but it could be anything, anyone, even a she-cat making her yearning known.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Garner agreed to the arrangements with Halle, and when Halle looked like it meant more to him that she go free than anything in the world, she let herself be taken 'cross the river.†   (source)
  • The restraint they had exercised possible only because they were Sweet Home men—the ones Mr. Garner bragged about while other farmers shook their heads in warning at the phrase.†   (source)
  • After Mr. Garner died with a hole in his ear that Mrs. Garner said was an exploded ear drum brought on by stroke and Sixo said was gunpowder, everything they touched was looked on as stealing.†   (source)
  • That for every schoolteacher there would be an Amy; that for every pupil there was a Garner, or Bodwin, or even a sheriff, whose touch at her elbow was gentle and who looked away when she nursed.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner went red with laughter.†   (source)
  • He talked to Mr. Garner about it.†   (source)
  • When she hurt her hip in Carolina she was a real bargain (costing less than Halle, who was ten then) for Mr. Garner, who took them both to Kentucky to a farm he called Sweet Home.†   (source)
  • Good morning, Mr. D. Garner, baby.†   (source)
  • He was the youngest of three half-brothers (same mother—different fathers) sold to Garner and kept there, forbidden to leave the farm, for twenty years.†   (source)
  • Sethe's work is the most uncertain because she is on call for Mrs. Garner anytime, including nighttime when the pain or the weakness or the downright loneliness is too much for her.†   (source)
  • Nobody counted on Garner dying.†   (source)
  • Only Halle, who had watched her movements closely for the last four years, knew that to get in and out of bed she had to lift her thigh with both hands, which was why he spoke to Mr. Garner about buying her out of there so she could sit down for a change.†   (source)
  • What she did was stand beside the humming Lillian Garner while the two of them cooked, preserved, washed, ironed, made candles, clothes, soap and cider; fed chickens, pigs, dogs and geese; milked cows, churned butter, rendered fat, laid fires.... Nothing to it.†   (source)
  • A few yellow flowers on the table, some myrtle tied around the handle of the flatiron holding the door open for a breeze calmed her, and when Mrs. Garner and she sat down to sort bristle, or make ink, she felt fine.†   (source)
  • And there on top of a mattress on top of the dirt floor of the cabin they coupled for the third time, the first two having been in the tiny cornfield Mr. Garner kept because it was a crop animals could use as well as humans.†   (source)
  • Garner's smile was wide.†   (source)
  • Well, ah, this is not the, a man can't, see, but aw listen here, it ain't that, it really ain't, Ole Garner, what I mean is, it ain't a weak —ness, the kind of weakness I can fight 'cause 'cause something is happening to me, that girl is doing it, I know you think I never liked her nohow, but she is doing it to me.†   (source)
  • Beg to differ, Garner.†   (source)
  • Paul D Garner.†   (source)
  • In Lillian Garner's house, exempted from the field work that broke her hip and the exhaustion that drugged her mind; in Lillian Garner's house where nobody knocked her down (or up), she listened to the whitewoman humming at her work; watched her face light up when Mr. Garner came in and thought, It's better here, but I'm not.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garner laughed.†   (source)
  • Who had not even escaped slavery—had, in fact, been bought out of it by a doting son and driven to the Ohio River in a wagon—free papers folded between her breasts (driven by the very man who had been her master, who also paid her resettlement fee—name of Garner), and rented a house with two floors and a well from the Bodwins— the white brother and sister who gave Stamp Paid, Ella and John clothes, goods and gear for runaways because they hated slavery worse than they hated slaves.†   (source)
  • I told Mrs. Garner on em.†   (source)
  • She who had never had one but this one; she who left a dirt floor to come to this one; she who had to bring a fistful of salsify into Mrs. Garner's kitchen every day just to be able to work in it, feel like some part of it was hers, because she wanted to love the work she did, to take the ugly out of it, and the only way she could feel at home on Sweet Home was if she picked some pretty growing thing and took it with her.†   (source)
  • The Garners, it seemed to her, ran a special kind of slavery, treating them like paid labor, listening to what they said, teaching what they wanted known.†   (source)
  • Having received the permission he sought, Gannel rested his knuckles upon the table and was silent for a span, garnering the attention of everyone in the room.†   (source)
  • As a writer, Davis has garnered an NEA Poetry Fellowship and two Connecticut Commission on the Arts poetry grants.†   (source)
  • HERE ARE ENSHRINED THE LONGING OF GREAT HEARTS AND NOBLE THINGS THAT TOWER ABOVE THE TIDE, THE MAGIC WORD THAT WINGED WONDER STARTS, THE GARNERED WISDOM THAT HAS NEVER DIED.†   (source)
  • Although her clientele was nondenominational, she'd garnered a word-of-mouth reputation among temple sisterhoods, and patrons came from as far away as New York and Connecticut and even Maryland to relax and rejuvenate.†   (source)
  • Was that the James Garner guy?†   (source)
  • So where, exactly, in the design of the world, did I believe that matters tilted the scale sufficient to garner God's notice?†   (source)
  • Wherever we went on business, I took an envelope with me, garnering receipts for everything, documenting the business nature of each activity.†   (source)
  • His comment garnered a few sounds of agreement, but neither he nor the boys believed what he just said.†   (source)
  • Being vice president, noted John Nance Garner, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first VP, is like being "a pitcher of warm spit."†   (source)
  • If we educate and feed those girls and give them employment opportunities, then the world as a whole will gain a new infusion of human intelligence—and poor countries will garner citizens and leaders who are better equipped to address those countries' challenges.†   (source)
  • However, there are many who stand between me and the crown; it will not be easy to garner enough votes to become king.†   (source)
  • It had been in that very restaurant where the James Garner-man had told her that he was going back to his wife; if only he'd met Angela two years earlier, their lives would have been so different.†   (source)
  • Poor souls have tried to add on to their dwellings and garner space as they can, so that misshapen parts of buildings lean out across the alleyways and teeter high atop decaying roofs that you wonder can hold the weight.†   (source)
  • And even if he had done nothing but lie in bed and pour the fire from his limbs into the gems, he would not have been able to garner as much force as he did then from the multitude of animals.†   (source)
  • Based upon Orik's explanation, it was Eragon's understanding that before the clan chiefs could elect a ruler, they had to vote on whether they wereprepared to choose a new king or queen and that the preliminary election had to garner at least nine votes in its favor if it was to pass.†   (source)
  • When you have been raised in a bare croft, eating with wooden spoons from crude platters, there are a hundred small and subtle pleasures to be garnered in the smooth slipperiness of a fine porcelain cup under your hands in a tub of soapsuds or the leathery scent of a book as you work the beeswax into its binding.†   (source)
  • But I manage to keep my mouth shut for once, because I don't want Andrew to feel inadequate, knowing he's dating a Jennifer Garner look-alike.†   (source)
  • Because what if one of Marnie's friends has an autograph from the REAL Jennifer Garner and they compare the handwriting?†   (source)
  • I guess it never occurred to the kid that Jennifer Garner would hardly be flying coach, by herself, to England.†   (source)
  • This kid thoughtI was Jennifer Garner!†   (source)
  • And the thing is, with my makeup on and my hair done, I guess Ido look a bit like Jennifer Garner...you know, if she hadn't quite lost all the baby fat.†   (source)
  • Love, Jennifer Garner on it.†   (source)
  • Jennifer Garner!†   (source)
  • Jennifer Garner!†   (source)
  • Jennifer Garner!†   (source)
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