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  • The pleasant interludes have become nightmarish, even more frightening to your son because he can't remember exactly what the nightmares are about.†   (source)
  • Ruth had sensed that the Kamens hoped she was only a brief interlude in Art's life.†   (source)
  • The Heaven's Gate Interlude is still rough," I said.†   (source)
  • Chapter 10B — Interlude — Does He Mean That?†   (source)
  • And yet, in the interludes, we forgot.†   (source)
  • Ed chose his music carefully, his dances having an opening act of excitement and greeting, a middle of pulsating, very danceable songs interspersed with romantic interludes, and then the inevitable ending.†   (source)
  • It is to Grace Marks' mistreatment at his hands that I attribute her interlude of insanity.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN — Interlude—Flesh with Blood Beneath†   (source)
  • An Anacortes swing band, Men About Town, played upbeat dance tunes exclusively; during an interlude the captain of the baseball team stood in front of the microphone on the bandstand and cheerfully handed out honorary letters to the seven team members departing Monday morning.†   (source)
  • After a brief interlude the family was picked up again by a second camera, traversing a hallway and pushing the horizontal bars that secured a heavy set of double fire-resistant doors, and as these doors opened the brightness of Dubai's desert sunlight overwhelmed the sensitivity of the image sensor and the four figures seemed to become thinner, insubstantial, lost in an aura of whiteness, but they were at that moment simultaneously captured on three exterior surveillance feeds, tiny…†   (source)
  • The next few weeks were one of those rare and wonderful interludes in which almost everything made Sophia believe nothing could be better.†   (source)
  • The days were so frantic that evenings at home with Moody were strange interludes requiring nearly superhuman strength.†   (source)
  • "It's my favorite program—fifteen minutes of silence—and after that there's a half hour of quiet and then an interlude of lull.†   (source)
  • The interlude war over.†   (source)
  • I started to feel as though there were no second shoe, and it had all been a crazy interlude.†   (source)
  • But did he enjoy these interludes or were they sad entertainments he inflicted on himself in the stark space of a convertible sofa turned open to span the room so that he had to walk upon the bedding to go and pee?†   (source)
  • Allan Rosenfield at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York City (Tanya Braganti) Allan had intended for his service in Nigeria to be an interlude, his own version of the Peace Corps.†   (source)
  • His whole interlude in America, the increasing awkwardness with Marina, his struggle to raise money for the school, his insomniacal shifts at the hospital, felt as insubstantial as a fading dream.†   (source)
  • During Easy's interlude in the Pacific surf, my father continued to wonder about Iggy.†   (source)
  • Then there was an interlude of silence while the priest and his attendants moved to the second station, Christ receiving the cross.†   (source)
  • Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals.†   (source)
  • Oh, it is the small talk interlude.†   (source)
  • The eventual recognition of the heroine's superior virtue, her loyalty through the most terrible trials, even uncontracted as she is, and the downfall of her rival, culminating in the longawaited clientage contract and ten minutes of triumphant singing and dancing, the last of eleven such interludes over four separate episodes.†   (source)
  • … Except for a brief and pretty rotten interlude, we never kept anything from each other, David.†   (source)
  • Erlander had a chat with Giannini in a brief interlude between one or the other or both of them talking on their mobiles.†   (source)
  • For a fleeting interlude the prospect of truly nonpartisan cooperation between them appeared attainable.†   (source)
  • Startlement and the interlude with Demi had left Joe slow on the uptake.†   (source)
  • A pause, and then another briefly-blinding interlude.†   (source)
  • And during that surreal interlude, Max had realized—with awful, numbing clarity—that the world was about to change.†   (source)
  • Apparently their little interlude in the Sanctuary hadn't softened her toward him as much as he had hoped.†   (source)
  • And speaking of doors cracking, the unexpected and thoroughly satisfying interlude in the stables gave both her ego and her mood a big, lofty boost.†   (source)
  • And though in near time we did sleep together (with a genuinely pleasing, if sober, conviviality), I came to think of that first interlude with a somewhat sorrowful fondness, for I saw that our days together were perhaps sullied from the very beginning and all the way through, right up to the last.†   (source)
  • After that cheerful interlude, she went back over every scrap of forensic evidence the sweepers had sucked up at the Moppett murder scene.†   (source)
  • Then, after a satisfactory interlude of silence, she relaxed again.†   (source)
  • It had been a strenuous interlude, but I could congratulate myself that I had, at last, established contact — no matter how briefly — with the study species.†   (source)
  • Afterwards came that bloodless interlude.†   (source)
  • The naval interlude became a somewhat boring chore to be lived through, a waste of time that now was growing precious, till he could get back to Melbourne and put in three months of road racing before the end.†   (source)
  • The depressive interludes are coming back.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT — Interlude—A Silence of a Different Kind†   (source)
  • Chapter 20B — Interlude — One Story.†   (source)
  • But above all he must put this disastrous interlude firmly behind him.†   (source)
  • This stuff has got stream-of-consciousness interludes!†   (source)
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE — Interlude—Eagerfor Reasons†   (source)
  • CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN — Interlude—The Parts that Form Us†   (source)
  • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN — Interlude—Autumn†   (source)
  • CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE — Interlude—Obedience†   (source)
  • CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE — Interlude—Some Tavern Tale†   (source)
  • There didn't seemCHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT — Interlude—Looking†   (source)
  • In her brief interlude of sight, she had managed to gather three small pieces of information.†   (source)
  • Even these brief interludes are almost too strenuous for me.†   (source)
  • He judged that his interlude at the bar had taken between eight and twelve minutes.†   (source)
  • Throughout this chilling interlude, Max betrayed no emotion.†   (source)
  • Last night's interlude with Hale made me sure of several things.†   (source)
  • Her parents' deaths, her marriage to Rasheed, the killings, the rockets, the Taliban, the beatings, the hunger, even her children, all of it seemed like a dream, a bizarre detour, a mere interlude between that last afternoon together and this moment.†   (source)
  • Except for the quick interlude last night, we hadn't spoken since our argument, and there were things that needed to be said.†   (source)
  • "Especially since your guardianship would be uncontested—of course," he said to Hobie, "we could seek a temporary guardianship for the upcoming interlude, but I don't think that will be necessary.†   (source)
  • Shoulder to shoulder, half standing, half sitting, they faced their childhood home whose architecturally confused medieval references seemed now to be whimsically lighthearted; their mother's migraine was a comic interlude in a light opera, the sadness of the twins a sentimental extravagance, the incident in the kitchen no more than the merry jostling of lively spirits.†   (source)
  • BORIS WAS RIGHT ABOUT his dope, how pure it was—pure white, a normal sized bump knocked me cockeyed, so that for an indeterminate interlude I drifted in and out pleasantly on the verge of death.†   (source)
  • The memory of that pain-racked, endless interlude with the phantom voice of the sportscaster doing the play-by-play was too strong still.†   (source)
  • FOR SOME REASON, DURING this strained interlude (possibly because Platt's mysterious trouble reminded me of my own) it occurred to me that maybe I ought to tell Hobie about the painting, or —at the very least—broach the subject in some oblique manner, to see what his reaction would be.†   (source)
  • This was embarrassing, especially since my dreams weren't even full-blown nightmares but only troubled interludes where my mother was working late and stranded without a ride—sometimes upstate, in some burned-out area with junked cars and chained dogs barking in the yards.†   (source)
  • — for there was no flim-flam, no excuse, no pre-emptive line with which to meet such a catastrophe; and when I got on my knees and reached under the bed to put my hands on the pillowcase (as I did, blindly and at erratic interludes, to make sure it was still there) it was a quick feint and drop like grabbing at a too-hot microwave dinner.†   (source)
  • I did have that spectacular interlude with Leron at that Christmas party, and Jamison Akers fed me a strawberry lip-to-lip hidden behind a tree at a picnic.†   (source)
  • It was after one of these interludes that Max spied David sitting alone, looking oddly shrunken in a borrowed sweater.†   (source)
  • It was also our first trip together, our first time together; I thought it might be only an interlude.†   (source)
  • FOR ABIGAIL AND JOHN it was the long-dreamed-of chance to enjoy life together again, as husband and wife in a world at peace, and removed from the contentiousness and stress of politics at home, that made the time in France an interlude such as they had never known.†   (source)
  • They had assembled in a little group on the forward slope and were having a social interlude, with much nose smelling and tail wagging.†   (source)
  • The song sparrow, who knows how brief and lovely life is, says, "Sweet, sweet, sweet interlude; sweet, sweet, sweet interlude."†   (source)
  • Time slipped past, the river of deer continued to flow, and I expected to observe nothing more exciting than this brief interlude between the doe and the wolves, for I guessed that the wolves had already fed, and that this was the usual after-dinner siesta.†   (source)
  • I'm suspended, as in airports or dentists' waiting rooms, expecting yet another interlude that will be textureless and without desire, like a painkiller or the interiors of planes.†   (source)
  • In fact, the agreement was reached during a private interlude in Shamron's kitchen, on the night of the party.†   (source)
  • Delia and Sykes fought all the time now with no peaceful interludes.†   (source)
  • And, except for her brief honeymoon interlude, she had not had fun in so long.†   (source)
  • INTERLUDE THE ARCHBISHOP preaches in the Cathedral on Christmas Morning, 1170 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'†   (source)
  • By no means a cheerless prospect, and I can hardly expect you to see it as I do--as a slender, breathless, and far too frantic interlude.†   (source)
  • Your grandfather saw it; that was the year Judith sold the store and your grandfather attended to it for her and he had ridden out to see her about the matter and he witnessed it: the interlude, the ceremonial widowhood's bright dramatic pageantry.†   (source)
  • He had not as a child ridden with Rupert's horse or sat among the camp fires at Xanthus-side; at the age when my eyes were dry to all save poetry—that stoic, red-skin interlude which our schools introduce between the fast-flowing tears of the child and the man— Hooper had wept often, but never for Henry's speech on St. Crispin's day, nor for the epitaph at Thermopylae.†   (source)
  • Home lay like a picture postcard on a pile of other postcards: shuffle the pack and you had Nottingham, a Metroland birthplace, an interlude in Southend.†   (source)
  • Hardly a day passed without the pleasant interlude of sitting across the desk from Guy Francon, in a respectful, growing intimacy, listening to Francon's sighs about the necessity of being surrounded by men who understood him.†   (source)
  • Except in the Maximilian interlude in Mexico, no foreign power sought to establish itself in this hemisphere.†   (source)
  • …entering upon the stage—the magnolia-faced woman a little plumper now, a woman created of by and for darkness whom the artist Beardsley might have dressed, in a soft flowing gown designed not to infer bereavement or widowhood but to dress some interlude of slumbrous and fatal insatiation, of passionate and inexorable hunger of the flesh, walking beneath a lace parasol and followed by a bright gigantic negress carrying a silk cushion and leading by the hand the little boy whom Beardsley…†   (source)
  • The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.†   (source)
  • A DAMP SYMBOLIC INTERLUDE The night mist fell.†   (source)
  • It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.†   (source)
  • 'Oh!' said the manager, 'the little ballet interlude.†   (source)
  • During the interlude of music which succeeded the TABLEAUX, the actors had seated themselves here and there in the audience, diversifying its conventional appearance by the varied picturesqueness of their dress.†   (source)
  • During this interlude my two officers never raised their eyes off their respective plates; but the lip of that confounded cub, the second mate, quivered visibly.†   (source)
  • Presently the moon rose—the exhausted crescent that precedes the sun—and shortly after men and oxen began their interminable labour, and the gracious interlude, which he had tried to curtail, came to its natural conclusion.†   (source)
  • He chuckled with immense, moist-eyed sentimentality at interludes portraying puppies, kittens, and chubby babies; and he wept at deathbeds and old mothers being patient in mortgaged cottages.†   (source)
  • After the interlude of elephants dancing, they returned and made the observation for the second time.†   (source)
  • Mademoiselle played a soft interlude.†   (source)
  • To be sure, this refreshment of our sense of time extends beyond the interlude; its effect is noticeable again when we return to our daily routine.†   (source)
  • A cousin had happened upon her all mad and gone and after an unsatisfactory interlude at one of the whoopee cures that fringed the city, dedicated largely to tourist victims of drug and drink, he had managed to get her to Switzerland.†   (source)
  • The interlude closes.†   (source)
  • INTERLUDE May, 1917-February, 1919 A letter dated January, 1918, written by Monsignor Darcy to Amory, who is a second lieutenant in the 171st Infantry, Port of Embarkation, Camp Mills, Long Island.†   (source)
  • We insert that sort of thing into the mainstream of our lives as a kind of interruption or interlude, for the purpose of "recreation," which is to say: a refreshing, revitalizing exercise of the organism, because it was in immediate danger of overindulging itself in the uninterrupted monotony of daily life, of languishing and growing indifferent.†   (source)
  • …of French and English maids giving warning amid a chaos of hurriedly-ransacked wardrobes and dress-closets; an equally changing dynasty of nurses and footmen; quarrels in the pantry, the kitchen and the drawing-room; precipitate trips to Europe, and returns with gorged trunks and days of interminable unpacking; semi-annual discussions as to where the summer should be spent, grey interludes of economy and brilliant reactions of expense—such was the setting of Lily Bart's first memories.†   (source)
  • Gradually and imperceptibly the interlude melted into the soft opening minor chords of the Chopin Impromptu.†   (source)
  • I can imagine the stream of hysterical women fluttering at your doors, beseeching you to be simpatico"—then after an interlude filled by the clergyman—"but my mood—is—oddly dissimilar."†   (source)
  • A LITTLE INTERLUDE Amory wandered slowly up the avenue and thought of the night as inevitably his—the pageantry and carnival of rich dusk and dim streets …. it seemed that he had closed the book of fading harmonies at last and stepped into the sensuous vibrant walks of life.†   (source)
  • We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an austere interlude in a mournful drama.†   (source)
  • It was a mere interlude.†   (source)
  • This was not his choosing, but the crime of this happy-go-lucky nation which goes blundering along with its Reconstruction tragedies, its Spanish war interludes and Philippine matinees, just as though God really were dead.†   (source)
  • It affected her moreover as a peaceful interlude, as a hush of the drum and fife in a career which she had little warrant as yet for regarding as agitated, but which nevertheless she was constantly picturing to herself by the light of her hopes, her fears, her fancies, her ambitions, her predilections, and which reflected these subjective accidents in a manner sufficiently dramatic.†   (source)
  • In the matter of love, as in all other affairs, he willingly assented to temporizing and adjusting terms; and a good supper, and an amiable tête-a-tête appeared to him, especially when he was hungry, an excellent interlude between the prologue and the catastrophe of a love adventure.†   (source)
  • A frequent interlude of these performances was the enactment of the part of Eutychus by some half-dozen of little girls, who, overpowered with sleep, would fall down, if not out of the third loft, yet off the fourth form, and be taken up half dead.†   (source)
  • 'Heigho!' sighed Nicholas, as he threw himself back in the prompter's chair, after telegraphing the needful directions to Smike, who had been playing a meagre tailor in the interlude, with one skirt to his coat, and a little pocket-handkerchief with a large hole in it, and a woollen nightcap, and a red nose, and other distinctive marks peculiar to tailors on the stage.†   (source)
  • As, after this interlude, the seamen resumed their work upon the jacket of the whale, many strange things were hinted in reference to this wild affair.†   (source)
  • When this interlude was over, Captain Mayhew began a dark story concerning Moby Dick; not, however, without frequent interruptions from Gabriel, whenever his name was mentioned, and the crazy sea that seemed leagued with him.†   (source)
  • Often, in mild, pleasant weather, for twelve, fifteen, eighteen, and twenty hours on the stretch, they were engaged in the boats, steadily pulling, or sailing, or paddling after the whales, or for an interlude of sixty or seventy minutes calmly awaiting their uprising; though with but small success for their pains.†   (source)
  • Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put, and which are duly answered at the time.†   (source)
  • BOOK SIX Interludes in Field and City No gods, but only Trojans and Akhaians, were left now in the great fight on the plain.†   (source)
  • / the chapter, Interlude: On Jargon, in Quiller-Couch's On the Art of Writing; New York, 1916.†   (source)
  • Tell him, too, that I do not care a farthing for the threat he holds out to me of depriving me of my profit by means of his book; for, to borrow from the famous interlude of "The Perendenga," I say in answer to him, "Long life to my lord the Veintiquatro, and Christ be with us all."†   (source)
  • QUINCE Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our interlude before the duke and duchess on his wedding-day at night.†   (source)
  • I was one, sir, in this interlude;:—one Sir Topas, sir; but that's all one:—'By the Lord, fool, I am not mad;'—But do you remember?†   (source)
  • An interlude!†   (source)
  • WALL In this same interlude it doth befall That I, one Snout by name, present a wall: And such a wall as I would have you think That had in it a crannied hole or chink, Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby, Did whisper often very secretly.†   (source)
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