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  • Before he read the posthumous letter he had resolved to be first among them, but afterward he was not certain of anything.†   (source)
  • She had just finished reading The Diary of Anne Frank in sophomore English class, and like all the other girls, she was imbued with a sense that she too was different, an innocent on a path to tragedy that would make her posthumously admired.†   (source)
  • The no-risk bonus coupon below gives you guaranteed access to dozens of documented cases of life after death, everlasting life, previous-life experiences, posthumous life in outer space, transmigration of souls, and personalized resurrection through stream-of-consciousness computer techniques.†   (source)
  • The walls, covered by photos, certificates, insignias, and awards, including his bachelor's degree, the Bronze Star with valor, and the posthumously presented Silver Star for Chief Brown's actions as part of an assault force that executed a daring raid deep into mountainous enemy-occupied terrain in northeastern Afghanistan...while numerous enemy fighters simultaneously engaged the force from the surrounding mountains....Reacting immediately, and without regard for his own safety, Chief Brown... Says Kelley, "Adam would hate having all these awards on the wall.†   (source)
  • Mavity Bence was a widow, living at home with her father, Gideon Himes; she had one child left, a daughter; but the clothing for which she had sent was an outfit made for a son, the posthumous offspring of his father; and the babe had not lived long enough to wear it.†   (source)
  • When Henry Lavender called a third time, she was engrossed in a book of stories, repeatedly exclaiming that the author should be given a Posthumous Nobel.†   (source)
  • Climbing aboard he must have been thinking of those things, while Mama, nodoubt, was thinking of the mother at Manzanar who had already received a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor on behalf of her son who'd been killed in Italy.†   (source)
  • No, but it will destroy your case against him—posthumously on both parts.†   (source)
  • For his bravery, Don Ruhl received a posthumous Medal of Honor.†   (source)
  • She had his hand cut off posthumously to display for effect.†   (source)
  • I'm not about to recommend a posthumous medal.†   (source)
  • He was never going to be able to tell anyone about his triumphs, not even in posthumous memoirs.†   (source)
  • Then we buried them with full honors to the strains of "This Land Is Ours" and with the posthumous rank of PFC, the first of our boot regiment to go that high — because a cap trooper isn't necessarily expected to stay alive (dying is part of his trade) ....but they care a lot about how you die.†   (source)
  • It was the slave boy Artiste who had provided me with the wherewithal for much of this summer's sojourn in Brooklyn; by the posthumous sacrifice of his flesh and hide he had done a great deal to keep me afloat during the early stages of my book, so perhaps it was divine justice that Artiste would support me no longer.†   (source)
  • My mother is always giving out Posthumous Nobels.†   (source)
  • Fascinated by the discovery, Aureliano, read aloud without skipping the chanted encyclicals that Melquiades himself had made Arcadio listen to and that were in reality the prediction of his execution, and he found the announcement of the birth of the most beautiful woman in the world who was rising up to heaven in body and soul, and he found the origin of the posthumous twins who gave up deciphering the parchments, not simply through incapacity and lack of drive, but also because their attempts were premature.†   (source)
  • Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.†   (source)
  • But three weeks later he received a copy of the posthumous letter, and then he surrendered to the truth.†   (source)
  • His father's posthumous letter, more than the telegram with the bad news, hurled him headlong against the certainty of death.†   (source)
  • As soon as he was in his carriage, he again consulted the posthumous letter and told the coachman to take him to an obscure location in the old slave quarter.†   (source)
  • He stared at her openly, at her intense mourning, at the dignity of her grief, and then he understood that this was a useless visit because she knew more than he did about everything stated and explained in Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's posthumous letter.†   (source)
  • He was commissioned two weeks later and his pips came back with their eighteenth decoration — the Wounded Lion, posthumous.†   (source)
  • His bold and gallant action in the face of overwhelming odds enabled his teammates to escape without loss; he was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor.†   (source)
  • Keeping up the metaphor of the political guillotine, the whole may be considered as the POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A DECAPITATED SURVEYOR: and the sketch which I am now bringing to a close, if too autobiographical for a modest person to publish in his lifetime, will readily be excused in a gentleman who writes from beyond the grave.†   (source)
  • There was also 'Animal Hero, Second Class,' which was conferred posthumously on the dead sheep.†   (source)
  • Since martial law had been declared and the guards might, from a certain angle, be regarded as on active service, they were awarded posthumously the military medal.†   (source)
  • Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble.†   (source)
  • She had lowered the ceiling and the elaborate cornice which, in one form or another, graced every room was lost to view; the walls, one paneled in brocade, were stripped and washed blue and spotted with innumerable little water-colors of fond association; the air was sweet with the fresh scent of flowers and musty potpourri; her library in soft leather covers, well-read works of poetry and piety, filled a small rosewood bookcase; the chimneypiece was covered with small personal treasures—an ivory Madonna, a plaster St. Joseph, posthumous miniatures of her three soldier brothers.†   (source)
  • Everyone talked about how sweet it was that she had this posthumous token of her love and she naturally did not disabuse their minds.†   (source)
  • All her devotion was given to George who was like his father; and her care was for Gerald, born posthumously and very delicate.†   (source)
  • It is a virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor.†   (source)
  • "Yes, yes," said Caderousse; and his eyes glistened at the thought of this posthumous revenge.†   (source)
  • I did not begrudge him this triumph in articulo mortis, this almost posthumous illusion of having trampled all the earth under his feet.†   (source)
  • There were no legacies, no annuities, none of the posthumous bustle with which some of the dead prolong their activities.†   (source)
  • 'The sight of that watery-eyed old Jones mopping his bald head with a red cotton handkerchief, the sorrowing yelp of the dog, the squalor of that fly-blown cuddy which was the only shrine of his memory, threw a veil of inexpressibly mean pathos over Brierly's remembered figure, the posthumous revenge of fate for that belief in his own splendour which had almost cheated his life of its legitimate terrors.†   (source)
  • I was a posthumous child.†   (source)
  • As regarded Judge Pyncheon, it seemed probable, at first blush, that the mode of his final departure might give him a larger and longer posthumous vogue than ordinarily attends the memory of a distinguished man.†   (source)
  • She had the ransacking of the wardrobes of the two defunct ladies, and cut and hacked their posthumous finery so as to suit her own tastes and figure.†   (source)
  • Another report states that he was a very posthumous child.†   (source)
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