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  • The novices moved to the wall, the competitive types rose immediately like sunflowers toward the noon sun.†   (source)
  • Feeling like the novice sous chef taking orders from Daniel Boulud, Langdon did as he was told, removing the pyramid from his bag and placing the gold capstone on top of it.†   (source)
  • With special dispensation from the Vatican, she took her vows and entered a convent in Madras as a trainee novice.†   (source)
  • It may be pointed out, of course, that as far as long-distance motoring is concerned, I am something of a novice, and such simple oversights are only to be expected.†   (source)
  • But he's the practical clinician who has seen it all, and I'm still the emotionally invested novice.†   (source)
  • She appeared one morning at nine o'clock in the company of a novice, and for half an hour the two of them had to amuse themselves with the birdcages while Fermina Daza finished her bath.†   (source)
  • Sometime look at a novice workman or a bad workman and compare his expression with that of a craftsman whose work you know is excellent and you'll see the difference.†   (source)
  • When it came to buying a purebred dog, we were pure novices, but we had read enough to know to steer clear of the so-called puppy mills, those commercial breeding operations that churn out purebreds like Ford churns out Tauruses.†   (source)
  • Those who came down it did so carefully, treading their way like novice ice-skaters—the only light was whatever passed through the windows of offices and from there through the translucent glass panels of doors.†   (source)
  • They moved slowly, laughed slowly, but flicked the ashes from their cigarettes too quickly, too often, and exposed themselves, to those who were interested, as novices to the habit.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I realized for the first time just how much courage she must've had to stand up to a goddess while protecting two complete novices.†   (source)
  • Remember the dwarf king Kaga, who was killed by a novice swordsman-swordsdwarf?†   (source)
  • She was a novice at fooling around, but Matt had coaxed her further and further each time they were alone.†   (source)
  • It would be a daunting task for a veteran general much less a military novice.†   (source)
  • One of them looked like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, all watery blue eyes, bad posture, and Adam's apple, and she seemed irritated by her situation; the other was like a young novice in a convent, with shorn hair and a perpetually surprised expression; then there was Alice, about five feet tall with the thickest Coke-bottle glasses I had seen in a long time.†   (source)
  • He'd judged me by my novice sword and my size.†   (source)
  • Much of the coverage was left to complete novices on loan from other beats.†   (source)
  • She told her father that if he ever mentioned marriage again, she would take the first train out of town and return to her convent as a novice.†   (source)
  • Henry Knox, a novice artilleryman no longer, and the steadfast John Glover, could be counted on no matter how tough the going.†   (source)
  • The letters were irregular and clumsy—obviously whoever wrote them was a novice tattoo artist—but the message could not have been clearer: I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • Felicia did everything she was supposed to as a novice sontem.†   (source)
  • Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.†   (source)
  • One night in the Quill and Tankard's common room, after his second tankard of fearsomely strong cider, Pate had boasted that he would not always be a novice.†   (source)
  • She set out to learn with the devotion, the discipline, the drive of a military cadet or a religious novice.†   (source)
  • Now, on top of a dazed desire, she felt the helplessness of a novice confronted by the master.†   (source)
  • I know where and how a story should go, for I have been educated and trained at the greatest expense; though even a novice could see that John Kwang was in a vulnerable position, the way Wen had been for Pete.†   (source)
  • It had happened in climbing, when he was suddenly transformed from a frightened novice into someone who could dance up the cliffs.†   (source)
  • On the street or even on foot in the arena, he might look like a novice, but once in the saddle his skill and experience couldn't be hidden.†   (source)
  • Then Govinda broke loose, embraced once again his childhood friend and left with the novices.†   (source)
  • He still raced the Ferrari with the three broad bands of tape across the back that indicated a novice driver; he was still very conscious that he did not know by instinct when he was about to spin.†   (source)
  • And years later, when Benton was asked by a novice whether he had known Jackson, he haughtily replied: "Yes, sir, I knew him, sir; General Jackson was a very great man, sir.†   (source)
  • The beginner played in a novice basketball league at the downtown YMCA.
  • Even a novice investor will be successful if they keep costs low, diversify widely, and exercise patience.
  • The novice receiver did not know all of his routes yet.
  • I was to attend my first engagement as a novice geisha.†   (source)
  • , "…. you are, I believe, complete novices in the use of nonverbal spells.†   (source)
  • Tell me, little novice …. what is your name?†   (source)
  • Pumpkin was a full-fledged apprentice now; she'd been a novice six months earlier.†   (source)
  • And embarrass the poor novice who's just joined us?†   (source)
  • "Oh, no, thank you, sir," I replied, "for I'm only a novice …."†   (source)
  • "Really, I don't think there's anything more difficult than being a novice," Hatsumomo was saying.†   (source)
  • Well, let's call this novice in the story 'Mayuri.'†   (source)
  • Morzan was still a novice; his weakness was understandable.†   (source)
  • Worse, he was a novice; and there was no telling the damage such a man might do.†   (source)
  • To a novice, that incident would have gone by in a blur.†   (source)
  • There is an inn on an island in the Honeywine where I used to go when I was a young novice.†   (source)
  • Until she is, she'll do well on the jump course, even, I think, with novices."†   (source)
  • Behind them came the novice girls in white.†   (source)
  • Cersei found Margaery barefoot and shivering, clad in the roughspun shift of a novice sister.†   (source)
  • A freckled novice filled their cups with hot spiced wine.†   (source)
  • Sam hesitated a moment, then told his tale again as Marywn, Alleras, and the other novice listened.†   (source)
  • With them were four novices and two of the silent sisters.†   (source)
  • Outside the Seneschal's Court, the rectors were locking an older novice into the stocks.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she said, and from that moment she was a novice in the House of Black and White.†   (source)
  • "You'll be a former novice, herding swine."†   (source)
  • Smallfolk and novices alike parted as they passed.†   (source)
  • He hates novices, particularly novices of noble birth.†   (source)
  • If I had run off and taken a false name, I could have disappeared amongst the other novices.†   (source)
  • A stream of pink-cheeked novices hurried by him toward the septry.†   (source)
  • Perhaps his occurred when he was a novice ice most infamous tumble, though, ence, Fischer had decided to attempt the climber: despite his inexperi all' coveted first ascent of a difficult frozen cascade called Bridal Veil Falls, in Utah's Provo Canyon.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza, who had never lost the timidity of a novice even in comfortable circumstances, risked a superficial caress on her neck with the tips of his fingers, and she writhed and moaned like a spoiled child and did not stop crying.†   (source)
  • She ordered the novice to wait for her without getting too close to the crows, who in a careless moment might peck out her eyes, and she looked for a private spot where she could sit down and talk alone with Fermina, who invited her into the drawing room.†   (source)
  • The new barber had begun to demonstrate that in fact he had a fertile hand, when it was discovered that he was wanted by several Antillean police forces for raping novices, and he was taken away in chains.†   (source)
  • Just the sight of her from the bathroom door was enough to revive the torture of school, the unbearable boredom of daily Mass, the terror of examinations, the servile diligence of the novices, all of that life distorted by the prism of spiritual poverty.†   (source)
  • An apprentice geisha is expected to walk a man to the toilet and back, but no one expects a novice to do it.†   (source)
  • It isn't what you'd call an exciting affair; and as a novice, my role was less exciting even than Mameha's.†   (source)
  • I'm a novice and beg your indulgence.†   (source)
  • I was the novice geisha Sayuri.†   (source)
  • What is your name, little novice?†   (source)
  • Well, this novice I mentioned ….†   (source)
  • The girl was only a novice!†   (source)
  • Why, it's a novice!†   (source)
  • Then he had a glass of lemonade and a piece of biscuit that the novices were passing around and retired to a field tent which had been prepared for him in case he wished to rest.†   (source)
  • One brother, a young novice, was bold enough to tell the red priest not to pray to his false god so long as he was under their roof.†   (source)
  • A good size for a young girl, and the steady look in her eyes boded well for a novice on the jump course.†   (source)
  • Ugly old women, every one of them, but all that praying and scrubbing and beating novices with sticks had left them tough as roots.†   (source)
  • These techniques are so potent and dangerous, they were never shared with novice Riders such as yourself, but circumstances demand that I divulge them and trust that you won't abuse them.†   (source)
  • For all they knew, he was a novice on a runaway horse, a lunatic, or a retarded boy who worked in a stable.†   (source)
  • The last time that Fernanda saw her, trying to keep up with the novice, the iron grating of the cloister had just closed behind her.†   (source)
  • "A novice and a heretic," he said.†   (source)
  • There is no time to instruct someone in the ways of command, nor can we afford the mistakes of a novice.†   (source)
  • She was an immense mountain of a woman endowed with a majestic triple chin and tiny Oriental eyes sunk in folds congealed with grease; she wore rings on all her fingers, and used the affected gestures of a novice.†   (source)
  • She was standing in the center of the parlor thinking about Mauricio Babilonia under the yellow stream of light from the stained glass windows when a very beautiful novice came out of the office carrying her suitcase with the three changes of clothing.†   (source)
  • You're novices, aren't you?†   (source)
  • Colonel Aureliano Buendia saw himself surrounded by charitable novices who intoned desperate psalms for the repose of his soul and then he was sorry that he had not shot himself in the roof of the mouth as he had considered doing if only to mock the prediction of Pilar Ternera.†   (source)
  • The delegates from the government and the party and the commission of the rebels who were laying down their arms were served by a noisy group of novices in white habits who looked like a flock of doves that had been frightened by the rain.†   (source)
  • He might have said more, but the dark-haired novice with the round cheeks returned to say, "My lord, my lady, I am sorry to intrude, but there is a boy below.†   (source)
  • The novices who attended her reported that she spent a third of her waking hours with her son, another third in prayer, and the rest in her tub.†   (source)
  • In place of her former ladies-in-waiting, she will henceforth be attended by a septa and three novices selected by the High Septon.†   (source)
  • Septa Unella beckoned to the novices.†   (source)
  • The meal was served by three novices, well-scrubbed girls of good birth between the ages of twelve and sixteen.†   (source)
  • When her locks and curls were piled up around her feet, one of the novices soaped her head and the silent sister scraped away the stubble with a razor.†   (source)
  • One of the novices had brought a robe for her, a soft white septa's robe to cover her as she made her way down the tower steps and through the sept, so any worshipers they met along the way might be spared the sight of naked flesh.†   (source)
  • A new novice, come to see the Mage.†   (source)
  • "I am no thief," he had told the man who called himself the alchemist, "I am a novice of the Citadel."†   (source)
  • He turned to the pasty-faced novice.†   (source)
  • They stood about in small clumps, gazing sullenly at the doors of the Great Sept, where a line of novice septons had been drawn up with quarterstaffs in their hands.†   (source)
  • "A novice," explained Narbert.†   (source)
  • Are you a novice?†   (source)
  • You smell of novice.†   (source)
  • Roone and Mollander remained pink-necked novices, but Roone was very young and Mollander preferred drinking to reading.†   (source)
  • If he did, though, he would need to hide her somehow; the Citadel did not permit its novices to keep wives or paramours, at least not openly.†   (source)
  • By the time the readings were completed, the last of the food had been cleared away by the novices whose task it . was to serve.†   (source)
  • It was pleasant to think of him spending whatever time remained him bathed by the warm breezes of Oldtown, conversing with his fellow maesters and sharing his wisdom with acolytes and novices.†   (source)
  • They sang their songs and prayed their prayers and wrinkled up their noses, and one of the Most Devout grew so faint he had to be helped from the sept. Shortly after, a flock of novices came swinging censers, and the air grew so thick with incense that the bier seemed cloaked in smoke.†   (source)
  • Armen wore a leather thong about his neck, strung with links of pewter, tin, lead, and copper, and like most acolytes he seemed to believe that novices had turnips growing from their shoulders in place of heads.†   (source)
  • Though the tall, timbered building leaned toward the south the way novices sometimes leaned after a tankard, Pate expected that the inn would go on standing for another six hundred years, selling wine and ale and fearsomely strong cider to rivermen and seamen, smiths and singers, priests and princes, and the novices and acolytes of the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Very early in the morning, a follower of Buddha, one of his oldest monks, went through the garden and called all those to him who had as novices taken their refuge in the teachings, to dress them up in the yellow robe and to instruct them in the first teachings and duties of their position.†   (source)
  • It's the sort of thing a novice would do.†   (source)
  • It is always the novice who exaggerates.†   (source)
  • He said he had decided to become a novice and be trained.†   (source)
  • He'll be a great favorite with the old fathers, something of a joke to the novices.†   (source)
  • In this new circle your patient is a novice.†   (source)
  • 59 "In formertimes," writes another observer, "this blood (drunk ceremonially by the novices) was obtained from a man who was killed for the purpose, and portions of his body were eaten."†   (source)
  • She walked in the castle garden with her companions, dressed in the white clothes of a novice, and there was a clumsy action in her walk.†   (source)
  • There she got to talking with a young man, a Korean Catholic novice who was tending a group of Sunday-school children.†   (source)
  • A convent of Helpers of Holy Souls was attached to the church, and besides his priestly duties of conducting Mass, hearing confessions, and teaching Bible classes he ran eight-day retreats for novices and Sisters of the convent, during which the women, given Communion and instructed by him from day to day, would maintain silence.†   (source)
  • The twenty-fourth of March was known as the Day of Blood: the high priest drew blood from his arms, which he presented as an offering; the lesser clergy whirled in a dervish-dance, to the sound of drums, horns, flutes, and cymbals, until, rapt in ecstasy, they gashed their bodies with knives to bespatter the altar and tree with their blood; and the novices, in imitation of the god whose death and resurrection they were celebrating, castrated themselves and swooned.†   (source)
  • The plump novice in the white clothes who tiptoed over to Lancelot, the homely girl going composedly towards him with a round face which had stubbornly refused to accept the noble traces of grief, the young matron who had been thinking about Galahad's mending—this person was not conscious of vulnerability or needs.†   (source)
  • He would not have done it with an older, wiser woman, but in Carrie he saw only the novice.†   (source)
  • Sondelius made the novices as merry as he could for half an hour.†   (source)
  • She realized that she was a novice, and felt as if a rebuff were certain.†   (source)
  • Director Behrens personally showed the novice how he was to sit and hold his body.†   (source)
  • Do you think you have to do with galley-slaves, or novices in the world?†   (source)
  • The robe was a white one with a white veil,—the garb of a novice of the Hôtel-Dien.†   (source)
  • An armed novice cannot mount his horse without help and plenty of it.†   (source)
  • I am awfully fond of such professions de foi from such—novices.†   (source)
  • The animal is the novice and probationer of a more advanced order.†   (source)
  • 'As it were a novice?' said the lama, nodding his head.†   (source)
  • Because only peasants, or the most inexperienced novices deny everything flatly at examinations.†   (source)
  • But this was used for the initiation of a novice.†   (source)
  • Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth.†   (source)
  • Who was this novice in war with the effrontery of a luminary?†   (source)
  • "Hear me," said the novice; "we must trust in heaven.†   (source)
  • The divinity student, the novice, and Alyosha remained standing.†   (source)
  • One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for four.†   (source)
  • "Well, yes, madame," said the novice, "Are we rivals?"†   (source)
  • 'As a novice is beaten when he misplaces the cups, so am I beaten, who was Abbot of Such-zen.†   (source)
  • Only the novices were permitted to lend.†   (source)
  • The black high seats in the monastery, and novices all in order!'†   (source)
  • "You deceive me, madame," said the novice; "you have been his mistress!"†   (source)
  • Do you hear this, Porfiry?" he turned to the novice who waited on him.†   (source)
  • The novices wear the same habit, but all in white.†   (source)
  • "Monsieur de Treville!" exclaimed the novice, "do you know Monsieur de Treville?"†   (source)
  • Alyosha and the novice flew to escort him down the steps.†   (source)
  • In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, and the novices.†   (source)
  • "Why, then, only see!" cried the novice; "we shall soon be well acquainted, almost friends.†   (source)
  • There was no one else in the cell but Father Paissy, Father Iosif, and the novice Porfiry.†   (source)
  • Father Zossima was accompanied by a novice, and by Alyosha.†   (source)
  • Of course I am just such a little boy as you are, only not a novice.†   (source)
  • Do you understand that, friend and brother, you pious and humble novice?†   (source)
  • As Mr. Holohan was a novice in such delicate matters as the wording of bills and the disposing of items for a programme, Mrs. Kearney helped him.†   (source)
  • That he was but a novice at dairy work she had realized in a moment, from the time he had spent upon the milking of one cow.†   (source)
  • That done, he backed away, wearing an expression of fiendish satisfaction that made Duane think he was only a common thief, a novice at this kind of game.†   (source)
  • I feel like a novice lumbering through a bog in a midst, jumping from one tussock to another in the mere blind effort to move on without knowing where I am going.†   (source)
  • In the sunset the Emperor Maximilian knelt in prayer above his bronze mourners; a quartet of Jesuit novices paced and read in the university garden.†   (source)
  • These novices had never smoked anything before but cigars made of grape-vine, and they "bit" the tongue, and were not considered manly anyway.†   (source)
  • Joachim, as the expert, gave him lessons in the art of wrapping oneself the way they all did it up here, something every novice had to learn right off.†   (source)
  • Shefford had managed some rather spirited horses back in Illinois; and though he was willing and eager to learn all over again, he did not enjoy the prospect of Lake and Withers seeing this black mustang make a novice of him.†   (source)
  • Having taught for some two years in London, though she had abandoned that vocation of late, Miss Bridehead was not exactly a novice, and Phillotson thought there would be no difficulty in retaining her services, which he already wished to do, though she had only been with him three or four weeks.†   (source)
  • Then he passed it to one of his satellites, a novice and timid, who was expressing the panic that overpowered him by casting furious glances in every direction, and displayed all the dumb agitation of a wild animal in the first hours of its captivity.†   (source)
  • This strange piercing pain must be what Glenn had called a "stitch" in the side, something common to novices on horseback.†   (source)
  • Such reiteration along with the manner of it, incomprehensible to a novice, disturbed Billy almost as much as the mystery for which he had sought explanation.†   (source)
  • Also one might freely take on as many girls as were needed to meet any such situation, and then, once the rush was over, as freely drop them—unless, occasionally, a very speedy worker was found among the novices.†   (source)
  • And, probably, had such a step been suggested to him, he would have been deterred from taking it by the thought, one of novice-magnanimity, that it would savor overmuch of the dirty work of a telltale.†   (source)
  • , "since you are more or less a guest or novice in our midst this evening, I would like to single you out for a special honor.†   (source)
  • It was no gossip, however, but fact, that though, as before hinted, Claggart upon his entrance into the navy was, as a novice, assigned to the least honourable section of a man-of-war's crew, embracing the drudgery, he did not long remain there.†   (source)
  • It had been incurred by a little fellow, young, a novice, an afterguardsman absent from his assigned post when the ship was being put about; a dereliction resulting in a rather serious hitch to that manoeuvre, one demanding instantaneous promptitude in letting go and making fast.†   (source)
  • This, however, did not prevent the visitor, a frail novice at all this, from catching a very bad cold while outside in his rest cure—if that was where he caught it.†   (source)
  • Well then, compared to her you're a mere novice with your five months, and still will be with a whole year to your credit," Hans Castorp said to his cousin; to which Joachim merely gave his new, uncharacteristic shrug and reached for the menu.†   (source)
  • To one essentially such a novice in the complexities of factitious life, the abrupt transition from his former and simpler sphere to the ampler and more knowing world of a great war-ship; this might well have abashed him had there been any conceit or vanity in his composition.†   (source)
  • They know next to nothing of the religious awe with which the novice approaches her, eyebrows raised, his whole being tuned to its depths to receive her, his soul in a state of constant, thrilled, timid excitement.†   (source)
  • The apprentice, the novice hungry to be admitted to such knowledge, must remain undaunted by the grave's horrors; the rules of the lodge demand that he be tested by being led down into the crypt and that he remain there until he is brought forth by the hand of an unknown brother.†   (source)
  • They had not yet covered the initial steep rise of the reddish path and were only at about the point where the novice had first encountered the pneu-mothoracic crew, when they caught sight of Frau Chauchat climbing very slowly some distance ahead—Frau Chauchat in white, in a white sweater, white flannel skirt, and even white shoes, her reddish hair glistening in the morning sunlight.†   (source)
  • He graduated with honors and, true to his resolve, exchanged the life of a boarding-school pupil for that of a novice in nearby Tisis—a life of service and humility, of silent subordination and religious training, from which he wrested intellectual pleasures congruent with his earlier wild fantasies.†   (source)
  • …I need not spell it out, since it cannot have escaped you that the degrees in the Scottish Rite are but a surrogate for another hierarchy, that the alchemistic knowledge of the Master Mason is fulfilled in the mystery of transubstantiation, and that the mystic tour with which the lodge favors its novices clearly corresponds to the means of grace, just as the metaphoric games of its ceremonies are reflections of the liturgical and architectural symbols of our Holy Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • Then, seemingly content with his examination, he returned to his comfortable post and disposed of his weary limbs, with the deliberation and care of one who was no novice in the art of self-preservation.†   (source)
  • …startled are more in appearance than reality, if, by reading aloud to him, or by reducing the ordinary words to the modern orthography, he satisfies his proselyte that only about one-tenth part of the words employed are in fact obsolete, the novice may be easily persuaded to approach the "well of English undefiled," with the certainty that a slender degree of patience will enable him to to enjoy both the humour and the pathos with which old Geoffrey delighted the age of Cressy and of…†   (source)
  • A novice in the game generally seeks to embarrass his opponents by giving them the most minutely lettered names; but the adept selects such words as stretch, in large characters, from one end of the chart to the other.†   (source)
  • The first movement in his new progress was the lambing of his ewes, and sheep having been his speciality from his youth, he wisely refrained from deputing the task of tending them at this season to a hireling or a novice.†   (source)
  • This novice of an infantry had dash.†   (source)
  • The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference; and the mind, even in the obscurity of night, finds a parallel to that grandeur, which seems inseparable from images that the senses cannot compass.†   (source)
  • 'T was a trying moment for a novice, nor was there the encouragement which even the timid sometimes feel, when conscious of being observed and commended.†   (source)
  • "Not a first attempt, I take it?" observing that the pages were numbered, covered only on one side, and not tied up with a ribbon—sure sign of a novice.†   (source)
  • The head clerk looked at him with a condescending smile of compassion, and at the same time with a certain triumph, as at a novice under fire for the first time—as though he would say: "Well, how do you feel now?"†   (source)
  • The "man of great merit," who was still a novice in court circles, wishing to flatter Anna Pavlovna by defending her former position on this question, observed: "It is said that the Emperor was reluctant to give Kutuzov those powers.†   (source)
  • It gave me no manner of concern that Steerforth should find me a novice in these sciences, but I never could bear to show my want of skill before the respectable Littimer.†   (source)
  • Pretty, mysterious, initiated in almost all the secrets of the court, which reflected such a charming gravity over her pleasing features, it might be surmised that she was not wholly unmoved; and this is an irresistible charm to novices in love.†   (source)
  • The scouts departed; strong guards preceded and followed the lumbering vehicles that bore the baggage; and before the gray light of the morning was mellowed by the rays of the sun, the main body of the combatants wheeled into column, and left the encampment with a show of high military bearing, that served to drown the slumbering apprehensions of many a novice, who was now about to make his first essay in arms.†   (source)
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