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renaissance as in:  a renaissance

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  • He was accused, openly and behind his back, of taking more credit than was really due him for the renaissance of Savannah.   (source)
    renaissance = a revival or renewed interest in something
  • One feature of the downtown renaissance is the conversion of dilapidated buildings into swanky lofts, boutique shops and upscale restaurants.   (source)
  • Of all the people who have ever lived, in all the eras in history ....we are in that narrow window of time during which we will bear witness to our ultimate renaissance.   (source)
  • Didn't you tell me that the word 'renaissance' meant rebirth?   (source)
    renaissance = a revival of learning and culture
  • Caroline brought iced tea, and the four of them sat uneasily in the living room, talking awkwardly about the weather, about Pittsburgh's budding renaissance in the wake of the steel industry collapse.   (source)
    renaissance = a revival or renewed interest in something
  • As a UN Arab Human Development Report put it: "The rise of women is in fact a prerequisite for an Arab renaissance."   (source)
  • But the white hepcats drifted away, and Harlem became slum territory for decades after World War II, only beginning to enjoy a renaissance in the 1990s, when soaring Manhattan real-estate values made it desirable.   (source)
  • Relius had grown more cautious since the renaissance of the Thief of Eddis.   (source)
  • Yeah, well, I don't think we'll be hanging around to see if there's a renaissance in thieving going on.   (source)
  • A man driving by pulled his car over to the curb and looked in wonderment at the renaissance of a building that he had passed many times and known only as a crumbling ruin.   (source)
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  • An ad appeared in Lunaya Pravda announcing lecture by Dr. Adam Selene on Poetry and Arts in Luna: a New Renaissance.   (source)
  • A religious renaissance, some call it.   (source)
  • Therefore, indications were that one of the city-states was undergoing a renaissance.   (source)
  • A brilliant education she had—her youth passed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of the Older Roman Families; known by name as a fabulously wealthy American girl to Cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of.   (source)
  • Peru had passed within fifty years from a frontier state to a state in renaissance.   (source)
  • At the age of 36, he left behind his business and moved to Chicago, becoming one of the rebellious writers and cultural bohemians in the group that has since come to be called the "Chicago Renaissance."   (source)
  • So far as white men are concerned, this fact is to-day being recognized in the South, and a happy renaissance of university education seems imminent.   (source)
  • Then I took a childish pleasure in exploring the city; my uncle let me take him with me, but he took notice of nothing, neither the insignificant king's palace, nor the pretty seventeenth century bridge, which spans the canal before the museum, nor that immense cenotaph of Thorwaldsen's, adorned with horrible mural painting, and containing within it a collection of the sculptor's works, nor in a fine park the toylike chateau of Rosenberg, nor the beautiful renaissance edifice of the Exchange, nor its spire composed of the twisted tails of four bronze dragons, nor the great windmill on the ramparts, whose huge arms dilated in the sea breeze like the sails of a ship.   (source)
  • Pavel Petrovitch went back to his artistic study, with its walls covered with handsome bluish-grey hangings, with weapons hanging upon a variegated Persian rug nailed to the wall; with walnut furniture, upholstered in dark green velveteen, with a renaissance bookcase of old black oak, with bronze statuettes on the magnificent writing-table, with an open hearth.   (source)
  • I walk through the aisles, passing out a list of discussion questions on the poem "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Mil-lay.†   (source)
  • On that Saturday, Indian summer had descended over the eastern seaboard, bringing shirt-sleeve weather, flies, a renascence of Good Humor men, and to most people that absurdly deceptive feeling that the onset of winter is a wicked illusion.†   (source)
  • The improvement in Williams's fortunes paralleled the renaissance of Savannah's historic district.   (source)
  • It was said that Romanticism implied a renaissance of the old cosmic consciousness.   (source)
  • Savannah's renaissance had crested, and a decline had begun.   (source)
  • A modest renaissance is under way, with long-abandoned buildings coming to life, but much of the east side of downtown is still a job center by day and a shadowy memory by night.   (source)
  • The walls of his office were decorated with memorabilia of Adler's role in the remarkable renaissance of Savannah's historic district.   (source)
  • "I'm sure it's coming," he said, rising from the chair, adding within the space of a few minutes his prophecy of the long-playing record to that of the Jewish literary renaissance.   (source)
  • And finally, now, to-day, when we are awakening to the fact that the perpetuity of republican institutions on this continent depends on the purification of the ballot, the civic training of voters, and the raising of voting to the plane of a solemn duty which a patriotic citizen neglects to his peril and to the peril of his children's children,—in this day, when we are striving for a renaissance of civic virtue, what are we going to say to the black voter of the South?   (source)
  • Steve went away with the German woman to Indiana, where, at first, came news of opulence, fatness, ease, and furs (with photographs), later of brawls with her honest brothers, and talk of divorce, reunion and renascence.†   (source)
  • I trust he will work that vein further, and recognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bearable after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen.†   (source)
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Renaissance as in:  The Renaissance

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  • The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution were some of the major signposts on Western civilization's road to modernity.   (source)
  • I wonder which Artemesia they have in mind... Probably the raped Renaissance painter: that's the only one of them that gets remembered now.   (source)
    Renaissance = a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
  • I remembered reading that some people thought that the Renaissance had partly been due to the introduction of coffee in Europe, to the invigorating effect that caffeine had on the psyche.   (source)
  • Squinting at his surroundings he saw a plush Renaissance bedroom with Louis XVI furniture, hand-frescoed walls, and a colossal mahogany four-poster bed.   (source)
  • One of them was Armstrong House, a monumental Italian Renaissance palazzo directly across Bull Street from the staid Oglethorpe Club.   (source)
  • Early in January, when we had all just returned from the Christmas holidays, a recruiter from the United States ski troops showed a film to the senior class in the Renaissance Room.   (source)
  • A second ventus blasted around the corner of the Renaissance Hotel and linked up with the first.   (source)
  • Mulch recognized it as his arresting officer from the Renaissance Masters smuggling case.   (source)
  • Here he had assembled all his treasures that had escaped being plundered by the Germans: a wide couch covered with a kelim, two valuable old chairs, a charming little Renaissance chest of drawers, a Persian rug, some old weapons, a few paintings and all kinds of small objects he had collected over the years in different parts of Europe, each of them a little work of art in itself and a feast for the eyes.   (source)
  • They read handouts written in English about the Bengali Renaissance, and the revolutionary exploits of Subhas Chandra Bose.   (source)
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  • The sonnet, on the other hand, is blessedly common, has been written in every era since the English Renaissance, and remains very popular with poets and readers today.   (source)
  • She had written reams on the Renaissance and the scientific breakthrough, the new view of nature and Francis Bacon, who had said that knowledge was power.   (source)
  • Which would, of course, lead to him pulling me inside the car and kissing me, which always made me somehow forget about studying the dates for the Italian Renaissance, or the periodic table, or Macbeth, entirely.   (source)
  • Miriam looked like one of those pages in Renaissance paintings.   (source)
  • In the Renaissance book of acting, this grimace of a smile might be captioned, The lady is caught in a smile she cannot escape.   (source)
  • As a bell from the clock tower joins the one from University Hall, 219 professors, in their gowns and caps of crimson, royal blue, and deep purple-like a sedate Renaissance festival-follow the incoming freshmen onto the main green.   (source)
  • That's what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza.   (source)
  • Klara did not want to give this striking scene a title out of some Renaissance gallery because that would be unkind.   (source)
  • In the dark, with her face lit in profile by the moon, she was as beautiful as any Renaissance Madonna.   (source)
  • Max sat down to take a breather, perusing some of the spines before him: Great Works of the Nineteenth Century, Art of the Baroque, Secret Techniques of the Old Masters, Dada and Surrealism, The Genius of Rembrandt, Hidden Symbols of Bernini, A Renaissance of Art and Man, Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, The Postmodern Dilemma ..."David," Max hissed, overwhelmed by the thick books and unfamiliar names.   (source)
  • Sophia made a skeptical face from her bed, where she was halfheartedly reviewing some Renaissance history notes.   (source)
  • The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus' discovery of a new world.   (source)
  • Really Pre-Renaissance-and that game has been analyzed, put down in books.   (source)
  • Deo stopped on the steps of Low Library and pointed across the quadrangle at another monumental building, a product of the Italian Renaissance Revival, one of many all around us.   (source)
  • Ellis Wyatt, who had wanted to tap an unlimited source of shale oil and who spoke of a Second Renaissance...   (source)
    Renaissance = referencing, as the first renaissance, a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
  • Mr. Levin, we are rather busy studying the Italian Renaissance.   (source)
    Renaissance = a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
  • With his bright hair and the way he carried himself, he could have been some Renaissance prince.   (source)
  • And two Goyas, a Matisse and some Italian guy from the Renaissance.   (source)
  • Because they don't have to study un-Islamic subjects like English literature or Italian Renaissance painting.   (source)
  • He did not own the paintings either, he owned only the statuary, inexpensive plaster imitations of Renaissance masterpieces.   (source)
  • He was dressed in something like a Renaissance costume of orange, red and brown.   (source)
  • I was a man of the Renaissance that evening—of Browning's renaissance.   (source)
  • Then when I was in college I caught an extreme desire to be—or to have been—a Renaissance cardinal.   (source)
  • I found by looking at his chapter headings that it meant— 'The Manor Court and the Methods of Open-field Agriculture ....The Cistercians and Sheep-farming ....The Crusades ....The University ....The House of Commons ....The Hundred Years' War ....The Wars of the Roses ....The Renaissance Scholars ....The Dissolution of the Monasteries ....Agrarian and Religious Strife ....The Origin of English Sea-power....The Armada....' and so on.   (source)
  • And they will all be here, my son, hidden behind the mountains in the valley of Blue Moon, preserved as by miracle for a new Renaissance...   (source)
  • I am more or less aware that the Renaissance gave birth to what is known as liberalism, individualism, humanistic citizenship, and all that.   (source)
  • And the Finchley residence in Wykeagy Avenue, near that of the Griffiths, was one of the most impressive among that distinguished row of houses which had come with the latest and most discriminating architectural taste here—Italian Renaissance—cream hued marble and Dutchess County sandstone combined.   (source)
  • Only with the Renaissance do the inflections of the personal become legitimate, still to be kept, however, within the limits of the simply and universally recognizable.   (source)
  • One of them, of a particularly ferocious aspect, and not unlike the headsman in certain Renaissance pictures which represent executions, tortures, and the like, advanced upon him with an implacable air to take his 'things.'   (source)
  • I found Florence some days before, reading books like Ranke's History of the Popes, Symonds' Renaissance, Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic and Luther's Table Talk.   (source)
  • The Renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning—poisoning by a helmet and a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and a jewelled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amber chain.   (source)
  • "Remember," he was saying, "the facts about this church of Santa Croce; how it was built by faith in the full fervour of medievalism, before any taint of the Renaissance had appeared."   (source)
  • During the Renaissance America began.   (source)
  • To poor Dorothea these severe classical nudities and smirking Renaissance-Correggiosities were painfully inexplicable, staring into the midst of her Puritanic conceptions: she had never been taught how she could bring them into any sort of relevance with her life.   (source)
  • By daylight, the bower of Oak's new-found mistress, Bathsheba Everdene, presented itself as a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so frequently the case, it had once been the memorial hall upon a small estate around it, now altogether effaced as a distinct property, and merged in the vast tract of a non-resident landlord, which comprised several such modest demesnes.   (source)
  • There is the cathedral of Rouen, which would be entirely Gothic if it did not bathe the tip of its central spire in the zone of the Renaissance.   (source)
  • Latin epic kept the hexameter right through the Renaissance.   (source)
  • Pink marble walls and white marble floors were enclosed by arched and vaulted ceilings; an assembly room had been done in the manner of the High Italian Renaissance, another was illuminated by chandeliers flashing with crystal teardrops; there was a wall of fragile French windows overlooking an Italian garden of marble bric-a-brac; the library was Provencal on the first floor, rococo on the second.   (source)
    Renaissance = the period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
  • Thank goodness for the Renaissance, when our Classical greatness was remembered.   (source)
    Renaissance = a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
  • It's considered the seminal work of the Northern European Renaissance.   (source)
  • Langdon pointed to a Renaissance art poster on the wall.   (source)
  • That gives you some background on the Renaissance.   (source)
  • It was one of the most horrific tragedies in Renaissance art.   (source)
  • We ought to cover the Renaissance and the seventeenth century as well.   (source)
  • The Renaissance resulted in a new religiosity.   (source)
  • The hole was then covered with the Renaissance equivalent of a manhole cover.   (source)
  • But you could say that a process started in the Renaissance finally brought people to the moon.   (source)
  • Half of the sculpting done in Renaissance and Baroque Rome was for the funeraries.   (source)
  • There were many similarities between the Renaissance and Romanticism.   (source)
  • Most Renaissance cathedrals were designed as makeshift fortresses in the event a city was stormed.   (source)
  • In the Renaissance the world began to explode, so to speak.   (source)
  • "Santi," Langdon said, "is the last name of the great Renaissance master, Raphael."   (source)
  • Above all else, the Renaissance resulted in a new view of mankind.   (source)
  • Today I shall tell you about the Renaissance.   (source)
  • During the Renaissance, what we call anti-humanism flourished as well.   (source)
  • Then the Renaissance arrived with its new view of man.   (source)
  • If she was not much mistaken, this was a typical Renaissance costume.   (source)
  • And now we see the beginning of the Renaissance, the 'rebirth' of antique culture.   (source)
  • Printing played an important part in spreading the Renaissance humanists' new ideas.   (source)
  • Previously we spoke of the Renaissance, the Baroque period, and the Enlightenment.   (source)
  • Ever since the Renaissance, mankind has been more than just part of creation.   (source)
  • And the Renaissance humanists lost their restraint?   (source)
  • I shall summon you to a meeting on the Renaissance.   (source)
  • It was also significant that the Renaissance brought with it a new view of nature.   (source)
  • We could say that the Renaissance is Europe's fifteenth birthday!   (source)
  • But during the Renaissance, the Bible was translated from Hebrew and Greek into national languages.   (source)
  • The expression arose during the Renaissance.   (source)
  • You said the Renaissance humanists were individualists too.   (source)
  • By the Renaissance we mean the rich cultural development that began in the late fourteenth century.   (source)
  • But at last comes the Renaissance; the long school-day is over.   (source)
  • The humanists of the Renaissance took as their point of departure man himself.   (source)
  • But Renaissance humanism was to an even greater extent characterized by individualism.   (source)
  • Many great artists of the Renaissance took part in this building project, the greatest in the world.   (source)
  • He's the sort of elf who goes to Renaissance festivals.   (source)
  • The year before, we did a whole Renaissance thing.   (source)
  • Since the Renaissance these modes have worked.   (source)
  • But there's to be a Second Renaissance in the world.   (source)
    Renaissance = referencing, as the first renaissance, a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
  • There was something Renaissance about the pose, but it was princes I thought of, not coiffed and ringleted maidens.   (source)
    Renaissance = a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
  • Their house this time was in the style of the Italian Renaissance, with an arched portico and a lot of glazed earth-tone tiles, and the indoor pool was bigger.   (source)
  • He was amazed how few people knew Santi, the last name of one of the most famous Renaissance artists ever to live.   (source)
  • He was the ultimate Renaissance mind—artist, philosopher, alchemist, and a lifelong student of the Ancient Mysteries.   (source)
  • Afterward they walk together through the Center for British Art; there is an exhibit of Renaissance works on paper, which they've both been meaning to see.   (source)
  • But it was straight ahead, to the east, through the archway, that Langdon could now see the monolithic Renaissance palace that had become the most famous art museum in the world.   (source)
  • This occurred during the Renaissance in Europe, but when Western and Oriental art encountered each other in the1700s, Japanese artists and their audiences were serenely untroubled by the lack of perspective in their painting.   (source)
  • Aringarosa grumbled his hello and followed his host into the castle's foyer—a wideopen space whose decor was a graceless blend of Renaissance art and astronomy images.   (source)
  • The breakthroughs Katherine Solomon had made within the SMSC would risk opening floodgates of new thinking, starting a new Renaissance.   (source)
  • He puts away the course guide and opens up a library book that might be helpful for his senior thesis project, a comparison between Renaissance Italian and Mughal palace design.   (source)
  • The controversial, neomodern glass pyramid designed by Chinese-born American architect I. M. Pei still evoked scorn from traditionalists who felt it destroyed the dignity of the Renaissance courtyard.   (source)
  • Admittedly, history's list of famous Rosicrucians was a who's who of European Renaissance luminaries: Paracelsus, Bacon, Fludd, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Newton, Leibniz.   (source)
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  • He sent out three notices about the event, none of which Mae, of the Renaissance, Team Six, answered.   (source)
    renaissance = the name of a building in this novel
  • We'd worked out the timing ahead of time and I was waiting for him on Renaissance V, standing back in the shadows of the colonnade.   (source)
    renaissance = the name of a place in this novel
  • She knew he was referring to Mr. Renaissance, and her first instinct was to tell him that he was wrong.   (source)
    renaissance = a name in this novel
  • I'm going to expand the mills-and if she can give me three-day freight service to Colorado, I'll give you a race for who's going to be the capital of the Renaissance!   (source)
    renaissance = the name of a town in this novel
  • His boyhood had been saturated with Ruskin, and he had read all the latest books: John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee's "Euphorion," the essays of P. G. Hamerton, and a wonderful new volume called "The Renaissance" by Walter Pater.   (source)
    renaissance = part of a book title
  • At the same time, Homeric epic attests to a sudden rise in cultural ambition that is so rapid and widespread that the eighth century is sometimes called the Greek Renaissance.   (source)
    renaissance = referring to a period in Greek history similar to a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement
  • Plus your research material's at the library on Renaissance V. Why here?   (source)
    renaissance = the name of a place in this novel
  • Names like Garden and the Ousters, Renaissance and Lusus meant little to her.   (source)
  • A woman in gaudy Renaissance Minor garb pointed my way.   (source)
  • "These?" asked Mike as he dangled a Renaissance necklace from his fingers.   (source)
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  • She looked young but not noticeably younger than when they had waved goodbye on Renaissance Vector.   (source)
  • Hanging out in a Renaissance Vector library can't pay much.   (source)
  • You're in a hospital on Renaissance, baby.   (source)
  • Johnny also ordered a beer, a dark, German brew bottled on Renaissance Vector.   (source)
  • What would a Templar be doing in a Renaissance V bar?   (source)
  • Avery had never bothered to come after her, nor had Mr. Renaissance.   (source)
    renaissance = a name in this novel
  • Mr. Renaissance was charming and exotic, and she'd fallen for him quickly.   (source)
  • Quickly and calmly, she told him about Mr. Renaissance.   (source)
  • "You'll be in the Renaissance, over here," Renata said, pointing across the lawn, to a building of glass and oxidized copper.   (source)
    renaissance = the name of a building in this novel
  • She feels very bad about causing worry and emotional distress to Alistair—not to mention threatening the delicate ecology of the Renaissance.   (source)
  • Mae searched her calendar and realized there had been a party on Friday, open to everyone in the Renaissance.   (source)
  • Mae hurried down to the lobby of the Renaissance, where a few hundred Circlers were watching the wallscreen.   (source)
  • They stood before the Renaissance, another building with a forty-foot atrium, a Calder mobile turning slowly above.   (source)
  • At 1:44 Mae entered the Renaissance, felt, above her, the greeting of the slowly turning Calder, and took the elevator to the fourth floor.   (source)
  • In the Renaissance, as you know, we're in charge of the customer experience, CE, and some people might think that's the least sexy part of this whole enterprise.   (source)
  • LET'S Do ALL OF THIS, until Renata arrived and brought her to the second floor of the Renaissance, into a large room, the size of a basketball court, where there were about twenty desks, all different, all shaped from blond wood into desktops of organic shapes.   (source)
  • 5 616ARN/MRH/RK2 Day: Tuesday, June 11 Participants: Mae Holland, Alistair Knight Story: Alistair of the Renaissance, Team Nine, held a brunch for all staffers who had demonstrated an interest in Portugal.   (source)
  • Mae left the Renaissance and was greeted, just outside the door, by a group of young Circlers, all of whom wanted to tell her—all of them on their tiptoes, bursting—that they had never voted before, that they had been utterly uninterested in politics, had felt disconnected entirely from their government, feeling they had no real voice.   (source)
  • Sol farcast to New Earth and Renaissance Vector, to Fuji and TC2, to Deneb Drei and Deneb Vier, but everywhere the Shrike temples were closed to him.   (source)
    renaissance = the name of a place in this novel
  • For all this, Sad King Billy has an insightful mind and a passion for the arts and literature which has not been equaled since the true Renaissance days on old Old Earth.   (source)
  • Those five months were agony for Sol and his wife, and by the time the medical ship put in at the Renaissance farcaster nexus, they had imagined the worst a thousand times.   (source)
  • I farcast to Renaissance Vector and then to Parsimony, where I boarded a spinship for the three-week voyage to Asquith and the crowded kingdom of Sad King Billy.   (source)
  • In the morning Johnny farcast to Renaissance Vector at about the usual time, waited a moment in the plaza, and then "cast to the Old Settlers" Museum on Sol Draconi Septera.   (source)
  • Crew clones swept away the dishes and brought dessert trays showcasing sherbets, coffees, treeship fruit, draums, tortes, and concoctions made of Renaissance chocolate.   (source)
  • This place was tucked on a second floor of a decaying building in a run-down neighborhood two blocks from the Renaissance library where Johnny spent his days.   (source)
  • Eight standard weeks after she arrived on Renaissance, Sol and Sarai waved goodbye to Rachel and Melio at the Da Vinci farcaster multiport and then farcast home to Barnard's World.   (source)
  • A week before word came that the Hegemony would allow the Yggdrasill to sail with pilgrims for the war zone near Hyperion, I used a Temple farcaster to "cast to Renaissance Vector" where I spent an hour alone in the archives there.   (source)
  • Kassad volunteered and discovered that he enjoyed the discipline and cleanliness of military life, even though the John Carter Brigade saw only garrison duty within the Web and was dissolved shortly after Glennon-Height's cloned grandson died on Renaissance.   (source)
  • On the same day I was being decanted in the Company Hospital, Helenda farcast to Renaissance where she showed my Cantos to her sister Felia, who had a friend whose lover knew an editor at Transline Publishing.   (source)
  • But in its day the City of Poets was fair indeed, a bit of Socrates's Athens with the intellectual excitement of Renaissance Venice, the artistic fervor of Paris in the days of the Impressionists, the true democracy of the first decade of Orbit City, and the unlimited future of Tau Ceti Center.   (source)
  • I was wearing my best clothes-a suit of black whipcord, a blouse woven of Renaissance silk with a Carvnel blood-stone at the throat, a cocked Eulin Br6 tricorne-when Johnny and I farcast to TC2 the next day.   (source)
  • The credit flimsies confirmed that he had held to the agenda on the week he was murdered, with the addition of a few extra purchases-shoes one day, groceries the next-and one stop at a bar on Renaissance V on the day of his "murder."   (source)
  • The last charge on Johnny's credit flimsy had been the bar on Renaissance V. I'd checked it out the first day, of course, talked to several of the regulars since there was no human bartender, but had come up with no one who remembered Johnny.   (source)
  • In the morning he had breakfast at a local cafe and then farcast to Renaissance Vector where he worked for about five hours, evidently gathering research of some sort in the print archives, followed by a light lunch at a courtyard vendor's stand, another hour or two in the library, and then cast home to Lusus or to some favorite eating spot on another world.   (source)
  • Renaissance.   (source)
  • On Renaissance Vector.   (source)
  • From the grand dining hall on Renaissance Vector, I can see the bronze skies and the verdigris towers of Keep Enable in the valley below my volcanic peak, and by turning my head I can look through the farcaster portal and across the expense of white carpet in the formal living area to see the Edgar Allan Sea crash against the spires of Point Prospero on Nevermore.   (source)
  • So the first Sol and Sarai heard of their daughter's accident was when the Hegemony consulate on Parvati fatlined the college that Rachel had been injured, that she was stable but unconscious, and that she was being transferred from Parvati to the Web world of Renaissance Vector via medical torchship.   (source)
  • Mike dumped out some flowfoam cubes and then removed some jewelry of the type I'd seen handcrafted on Renaissance Vector, an inertial compass, a laser pen which might or might not be labeled a concealed weapon by ShipSecurity, another Harlequin costume-this one tailored to his more rotund form-and a hawking mat.   (source)
  • General Index told him that Mamet Spedling had been a minor explorer affiliated with the Shackleton Institute on Renaissance Minor who, almost a standard century and a half earlier, had filed a short report with the Institute in which he told of hacking his way inland from the then newly settled Port Romance, through swamplands which had since been reclaimed for fiberplastic plantations, passing through the flame forests during a period of rare quietude, and climbing high enough on the Pinion Plateau to encounter the Cleft and a small tribe of humans who fit the profile of the legendary Bikura.   (source)
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