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  • Max's exile produced something else entirely.†   (source)
  • We chatted about the difficult and maybe thankless job Karzai had in front of him, about the upcoming Loya jirga, and the king's imminent return to his homeland after twenty-eights years of exile.†   (source)
  • But then again, maybe it will come along: Maybe you'll realize that your one true Wish is to visit the brilliant Peter Van Houten in his Amsterdamian exile, and you will be glad indeed to have saved your Wish.†   (source)
  • The angularity of desert landforms imparts a monumental architecture to the clouds as well as to the land......To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles.†   (source)
  • He was told that it was believed that the former sergeant, hunted, exiled and in despair, had stabbed himself to death.†   (source)
  • Now, we understand the reasons for your self-imposed exile; and we even have some sympathy with the actions that prompted your flight.†   (source)
  • "Until the 1950s," writes Chad Berry in his book Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles, "the 'big four' employers of the Miami Valley region—Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati, Champion Paper and Fiber in Hamilton, Armco Steel in Middletown, and National Cash Register in Dayton—had had serene labor relations, partly because they ...[hired] family and friends of employees who were once migrants themselves.†   (source)
  • What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?†   (source)
  • The fourth night in ugly exile she took her board up into the greenbelt, staying at the edge of town.†   (source)
  • The four of you stand accused of capturing an Auror — Frank Longbottom — and subjecting him to the Cruciatus Curse, believing him to have knowledge of the present whereabouts of your exiled master, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named —†   (source)
  • It was the war, she persistently told herself, it was the prison of camp life, the pressures of the times, their exile from home, that explained his distance.†   (source)
  • For example, I quickly learned to prefer the positions stated by the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme to those more abrasive stances of the Union of American Exiles.†   (source)
  • Lifetimes ago, under a banyan tree in the village of Hasnapur, an astrologer cupped his ears—his satellite dish to the stars—and foretold my widowhood and exile.†   (source)
  • The exile had offered her brother his sword the night Dany had been sold to Khal Drogo; Viserys had accepted eagerly.†   (source)
  • Seems he's decided his boy is not fit for the business of managing his empire, and so he's been exiled aboard my ship.†   (source)
  • BOLOGNA EXILE.†   (source)
  • But today they suggested to him, not adventure and a fresh beginning, but exile.†   (source)
  • The woman, a doctor studying at Tulane, had been feeling the same way, like an exile in her own country, and they laughed at how delirious they were to see each other.†   (source)
  • Dad lets me read his favorite book, John Mitchel's Jail Journal, which is all about a great Irish rebel the English condemned to exile in Van Diemen's land in Australia.†   (source)
  • A few months after they began to go out together, he began to smuggle her into his rooms, where he lived like a helpless, exiled prince.†   (source)
  • Ford hunted excitedly through the technical specs of the ship, occasionally gasping with astonishment at what he read— clearly Galactic astrotechnology had moved ahead during the years of his exile.†   (source)
  • The upholstery was worn, and the subdued stripe was familiar to me — a former living-room chair exiled to the bedroom, the same chair I'd found my mother sitting in when she'd come to the Barbours' many years ago to pick me up after a sleepover.†   (source)
  • In any event, I will stay in exile until this matter is resolved ...one way or another.†   (source)
  • This cannot, will not, be a permanent exile.†   (source)
  • I feared the war, yes, but I also feared exile.†   (source)
  • What if he had gone slowly insane from his thirteen years of exile with its mysterious traumas and challenges?†   (source)
  • Prior to this I had been exiled to the garage for months.†   (source)
  • It had been so good seeing him again, loving him, knowing his exile was ended.†   (source)
  • From the Journal of Father Paul Duri Day 1 So begins my exile.†   (source)
  • We exiles should stick together.†   (source)
  • The renowned Kato Yuki—a geisha who captured the heart of George Morgan, nephew of J. Pierpont, and became his bride-in-exile during the first decade of this century—may have lived a life even more unusual in some ways than Sayuri's.†   (source)
  • He came back from exile in '47 for a couple of years.†   (source)
  • It was to Forks that I now exiled myself— an action that I took with great horror.†   (source)
  • He feels free of expectation, of responsibility, in willing exile from his own life.†   (source)
  • John had been exiled to the island of Patmos, where an angel visited him and commanded him to write down a series of prophecies to various churches.†   (source)
  • Like my dad was going to come out of his self-imposed exile to answer the door for trick-or-treaters.†   (source)
  • The city, especially its frappe set, had focused its interest on another event unfolding in Jackson Park—the first visit by Spain's official emissary to the fair, the Infanta Eulalia, the youngest sister of Spain's dead King Alfonso XII and daughter of exiled Queen Isabel II.†   (source)
  • From a pocket came a small prayer cap, and then, from deep in this throat, half-sung, half-pleaded, came the words of the ancient prophet, so feelingly and achingly that we seemed to hear the cry of the Exile itself.†   (source)
  • He never saw how Adah chose her own exile; how Rachel was dying for the normal life of slumber parties and record albums she was missing.†   (source)
  • There have been rumors that they were part of some sort of a deal with Libya involving a payoff to take Saddam Hussein into exile, but I have no idea whether that's true or not.†   (source)
  • Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?†   (source)
  • Now I'm going to be exiled for the rest of the summer.†   (source)
  • In a footnote a doctor commented that the most wounding punishment for Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was exile.†   (source)
  • And I still consider myself the president of the government in exile.†   (source)
  • With his mocking, hostile attitude, Trueba managed to frighten off this man who had survived a concentration camp, overcome poverty and exile, and triumphed in the ruthless world of commerce.†   (source)
  • Baluchistan, its endless mountains a safe haven for so many fleeing al Qaeda recruits and exiled Taliban fighters, currently provides shelter for up to six thousand of these potential terrorists.†   (source)
  • He went into exile in Nigeria, was indicted for war crimes by the UN, and was eventually captured in an SUV stashed with cash and heroin on the Nigeria-Cameroon border.†   (source)
  • She had supposed that her husband held Jeremiah de Saint-Amour in esteem not for what he had once been but for what he began to be after he arrived here with only his exile's rucksack, and she could not understand why he was so distressed by the disclosure of his true identity at this late date.†   (source)
  • The bus stop for Hedestad was over the road from Konsum, and Blomkvist started off his exile by carrying out his plan to go shopping in town.†   (source)
  • This woman and exile from the Imperium, or the Duchy of Atreides on Arrakis to rule as you see fit in my name.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he would sneak down to the old Perkins place and find Prince Terrien crying on the porch, where Mr. Burke had exiled him.†   (source)
  • Or exile you.†   (source)
  • Now, from the fatuous vantage of her office in exile, Annie reflected on such deeds and on the losses within her that had prompted them.†   (source)
  • Exiled to my private mauve island where pretty pink butterflies fluttered on my wall in a lovely E-enhanced butterfly dance, I tried to be angry, but the ecstasy wouldn't let me.†   (source)
  • To accept it was to bring his European sojourn to an end; not to accept it was to transform his sojourn into exile.†   (source)
  • They were all now self-exiled prisoners at Missing—she and her Cherished Own.†   (source)
  • "Not threw as in exile," I said, and described with one hand the arc of someone falling a long distance.†   (source)
  • He sang, or rather he chanted, and the few snatches I caught here and there spoke of divine suffering, of the Shekhinah in Exile, where, according to Kabbalah, it awaits its redemption linked to that of man.†   (source)
  • In Willie-Jay his vanity had found support, his sensibility shelter, and the four-month exile from this high-carat appreciation had made it more alluring than any dream of buried gold.†   (source)
  • The remainder of his belongings were exiled to the rest of the house, which meant that Chris and I had to adjust to living with Don's decor.†   (source)
  • She said he would exile any subject who ate blancmange from a soup bowl.†   (source)
  • His exile is, in large measure, self-induced and enforced.†   (source)
  • Some news that had moved through the prison but bypassed him in his exile.†   (source)
  • Sent into exile, on a ship bound for the West Indies, he disappeared at sea.†   (source)
  • At times I would try to befriend the exile, at other times I would try to ignore him, but they were treacherous.†   (source)
  • We can look around us," she whispered, "and see the business executives, the fashion photographers, the government officials, the industrialists, the writers, the bankers, the academics, the pig-faced aristocrats in exile, and we can know the soul of one by the bitter wrinkled body of the other and then know all by the soul of the one.†   (source)
  • For Farmer, the worst kind of exile wouldn't be geographical.†   (source)
  • Sounds of revelry traveled to him at night from the officers' club and kept him awake often as he turned and tossed on his cot in passive, half-voluntary exile.†   (source)
  • It would be years before I realized the main reason she exiled herself to the little house, going out only to buy groceries.†   (source)
  • Each new thing I learned about the world was a stone in that wall, until one day I understood I'd exiled myself from a place I could never go back to.†   (source)
  • How many more were there like Hormoz and Moody, I wondered, to whom the exile and disgrace of the shah was a siren call to reclaim the past?†   (source)
  • If Max reported the hags, the entire Shrope family might be exiled from Rowan.†   (source)
  • Kennedy has authorized a covert invasion of the island nation, sending fourteen hundred anti-Castro exiles to do a job that the U.S. military, by rule of international law, cannot do itself.†   (source)
  • We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long ago departed and we too are now only tarrying here a while, ere we return over the Great Sea.†   (source)
  • He exiled himself, like a leper, and he drank.†   (source)
  • I had been in exile myself for many years in his world," he said, flicking his hook at John, "and had only recently returned after discovering the secret of passage to the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • When he had ascertained I was not by any means of a Puritan bent, he shared with me some tales of the bawdiness and carousing he had witnessed in the city after the king sailed home from exile.†   (source)
  • All three usurpers had lost and been exiled to the desert.†   (source)
  • After complaining to his Taliban hosts about the standard of quarters they found for him, he aimed his gathering fury at the people he considered responsible for his exile—Americans.†   (source)
  • He could be trying to trap me here, hoping I'll stay a Mask long enough to decide that a soldier's life is better than an exile's.†   (source)
  • The exiled prince who stole medicine to give to the orphans?†   (source)
  • From Paris, where he had long exiled himself to escape racial friction, James Baldwin wrote to the Mew York Times: "A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.†   (source)
  • "I know what exile means," he said softly.†   (source)
  • Perhaps my exile would end suddenly and I would be given a scholarship to return to the campus.†   (source)
  • Father rescues me from exile in my room, asking me to join him in the small study on the second floor.†   (source)
  • Having anticipated a crackdown on the organization, the ANC had ordered Oliver Tambo to leave South Africa so that he could continue to run the organization in exile.†   (source)
  • Nor would he have spoken to Mike; Warden was political lawyer before exile, knew nothing about computers.†   (source)
  • Celia wrote her first letter to Gustavo Sierra de Armas upon the insistence of Jorge del Pino, who came courting during her housebound exile.†   (source)
  • 'New skies the exile finds, but the heart is still the same.'†   (source)
  • After over ten years of exile, Russell's letter was the only form of contact I had with my family.†   (source)
  • She had had no time to feel that she was back in her own office at Taggart Transcontinental; there had been so much to do that she forgot it was a return from exile.†   (source)
  • I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he wanted to see into that golden room from the outside, delighting in the fact that soon he would be inside it, no longer exiled.†   (source)
  • Oscar's exile from the United States had drawn national media coverage and brought him to the attention of Bard, an S&P 500 company with twenty-one thousand employees that designs and manufactures health-care equipment.†   (source)
  • Alas for the greed of humans," Regis would say whenever the Pasha's men showed up in another town that the halfling had made his home, forcing him to extend his exile to an even more remote land.†   (source)
  • Rose encourages her to come all the way back from her self-imposed exile by speaking to her every day about the good that she can do and the hope that she can bring to others.†   (source)
  • "Reuven," my father said quietly, "the fanaticism of men like Reb Saunders kept us alive for two thousand years of exile.†   (source)
  • The revolt sent many of Athen's leading democratic citizens (including Anytus, later the driving force behind the prosecution of Socrates) into exile, where they organized a resistance movement.†   (source)
  • The way Americans in general like to move around, the Chinese love to hold still; removal is a fall and an exile.†   (source)
  • Roughly that same number of people were driven into exile during al-Nakba, the catastrophe of Israel's founding in 1948.†   (source)
  • Of course they exiled La Fayette to Canada, where he could do little harm.†   (source)
  • Distrusting the approval of the chosen, I would take the applause of exiles anytime.†   (source)
  • It is for the few to know that in the great old days of Virginia there were three punishments for high crimes—death, exile to Texas, and imprisonment, in that order.†   (source)
  • and so never had to go into exile.†   (source)
  • A week later this foolhardy youth was on his way to the northernmost tip of Ellesmere Island, there to spend his exile living in an igloo while studying the life history of the ninespined stickleback.†   (source)
  • They belonged to the great and small hegiras of the self-exiles of this earth, clinging fiercely to a way that is almost gone, as the last leaves fall at last gently and with great pride.†   (source)
  • These moments of night when the swamp and darkness surrounded them evoked an immense loneliness, a dread, a sense of exile from the rest of humanity.†   (source)
  • Much later, others among the gods were exiled into the world, in the days of the Heavenly Purges.†   (source)
  • To make matters worse, I was out of a job and had very little money and was self-exiled to Flatbush—like others of my countrymen, another lean and lonesome young Southerner wandering amid the Kingdom of the Jews.†   (source)
  • What a wrench this unexplainable—exile must be to her, can you say it's not?†   (source)
  • Mankind had grown to trust them, and to accept without question the superhuman altruism that had kept Karellen and his companions so long exiled from their homes.†   (source)
  • In aid of our exiles?†   (source)
  • His mind and spirit shattered, Houston had abandoned civilization for the Cherokees, drunken debauchery and political and personal exile.†   (source)
  • You think I want permanent exile?†   (source)
  • Long before the murder marked them out, people spoke of the Turners in the hard, careless voices reserved for misfits, outlaws and the self-exiled.†   (source)
  • And for that offence
    Immediately we do exile him hence.   (source)
    exile = expel (force to live elsewhere)
  • My father, Zeus, has exiled me from Olympus.†   (source)
  • From my father I had learned that books were to be either adored or exiled.†   (source)
  • And then, sadly, just remembering, the exiled princess added, "It's my birthday.†   (source)
  • Grover Underwood, I will have you exiled for speaking thus!†   (source)
  • Two Shadowhunters, exiled from their own kind, you can see why we might have banded together.†   (source)
  • The child was like the return of a shame that she had thought exiled by her from the house forever.†   (source)
  • She felt exiled, shut out from the one thing that really mattered.†   (source)
  • I, however, was exiled to the back room to organize mildewed magazines.†   (source)
  • I'd seen how wisely they judged when they exiled Sam.†   (source)
  • Exiled from their homeland, unappreciated in their adopted country, most Loyalists had a hard life.†   (source)
  • Her father the king had me blinded and exiled.†   (source)
  • I am exiled to the sky, while my beloved Geb cannot leave the ground.†   (source)
  • Some exiled lord has hired the Golden Company to win back his lands for him.†   (source)
  • After dancing griffins lost the Battle of the Bells, Aerys exiled him.†   (source)
  • Let him free all who have been imprisoned, banished or exiled for their opposition to apartheid.†   (source)
  • They say you exiled Janos Slynt because you found him too bluff and honest for your liking.†   (source)
  • You did your duty even when you were reviled and exiled.†   (source)
  • As I recall, he did so well that Aerys exiled him and seized his lands.†   (source)
  • He had exiled two of his Hands and burned a third.†   (source)
  • Osiris will be exiled so deep into the Duat he may never rise again.†   (source)
  • Twice exiled, and small wonder Tyrion thought.†   (source)
  • I return to the city of memory, to the city of exiled poets.†   (source)
  • That we suffered so friendlessly, exiled among complete strangers.†   (source)
  • "They exiled you?" says Tobias.†   (source)
  • I was exiled.†   (source)
  • But if for any reason the thanes decided Alex wasn't a worthy choice for Valhalla, Sam could get kicked out of the Valkyries and exiled to Midgard.†   (source)
  • I hope that you meant every promise you gave that girl, because if you didn't, I'll call an assembly and have you exiled within a week.†   (source)
  • Even if they didn't die, they could be reduced to nearly nothing, exiled, imprisoned in the depths of Tartarus like Kronos had been.†   (source)
  • They exiled her.†   (source)
  • He had been exiled in the county jail for seventy-seven days—the last part of September, all of October and all of November, the first week of December in jail.†   (source)
  • We abandoned it during our war with the dragons, and then, centuries later, humans adopted it as their capital after King Palancar was exiled.†   (source)
  • Much like me, she did nothing wrong, and yet she was exiled forever simply because she was Atlas's daughter.†   (source)
  • She wanted to rage, to hurt him as he'd hurt her, to warn him that when she was queen she would have him exiled if he ever dared strike her again ...but she remembered what the Hound had told her, so all she said was, "I shall do whatever His Grace commands."†   (source)
  • There was someone to mourn for in every family, and the middle class could no longer say, as they had in the beginning, that if he was imprisoned, dead, or exiled it was because he deserved it.†   (source)
  • "As I recall," Desjardins said, "you were exiled to the Three-Hundredth Nome in North Korea for murdering a fellow magician.†   (source)
  • The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society, a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed.†   (source)
  • Because they had determined that to exile a man from Russia as God had exiled Adam from Eden was insufficient as a punishment; for in another country, a man might immerse himself in his labors, build a house, raise a family.†   (source)
  • —'after nine years" absence from Pacem because of the quantum-leap time-debt-just an old man returning with the same lies he was exiled for-Oh, dear God, if they destroy the data let them destroy me as well.†   (source)
  • He gathered together many of those who had been exiled, freed some who had been imprisoned, and with them he formed the Varden.†   (source)
  • Taken among them were Jose Arcadio Segundo and Lorenzo Gavilan, a colonel in the Mexican revolution, exiled in Macondo, who said that he had been witness to the heroism of his comrade Artemio Cruz.†   (source)
  • I traveled a good deal, but more and more I found myself thinking of New York, and the exiled Shadowhunters there.†   (source)
  • He thought of Hatsue and of his children, and it seemed to him he must be exiled from them—because he felt for them so much love—in order to pay his debts to the dead he had left on the ground in Italy.†   (source)
  • It was an operation that was so timely, drastic, and effective that two months after the armistice, when Colonel Aureliano Buendia had recovered, his most dedicated conspirators were dead or exiled or had been assimilated forever into public administration.†   (source)
  • Before he read Fernanda's will, which was nothing but a detailed and tardy recapitulation of her misfortunes, the broken-down furniture and the weeds on the porch had indicated that he had fallen into a trap from which he would never escape, exiled forever from the diamond light and timeless air of the Roman spring.†   (source)
  • Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.†   (source)
  • The horn-of-plenty Hand and the dancing griffins Hand had both been exiled, the maceand-dagger Hand dipped in wildfire and burned alive.†   (source)
  • Roscoe, who'd been exiled here for his own mental well-being, immediately hopped up from his bed and came over to join me.†   (source)
  • The king had Orion blinded and exiled.†   (source)
  • I make one little mistake, supporting the Titans in their war, and I'm exiled from the ocean—to Atlanta, of all places.†   (source)
  • He was exiled, I suppose you would say.†   (source)
  • Despite the late hour, the exiled Workshop leader was still dressed in rumpled work clothes, thumbing the handle of a pipe.†   (source)
  • But Smith, though he was the true murderer, aroused another response, for Perry possessed a quality, the aura of an exiled animal, a creature walking wounded, that the detective could not disregard.†   (source)
  • The winter was gone, earth's breast was fair, and the exiled Hengest was eager to go, unwilling guest from the dwelling.†   (source)
  • If our folk had been exiled long and far from Lothlorien, who of the Galadhrim, even Celeborn the Wise, would pass nigh and would not wish to look upon their ancient home, though it had become an abode of dragons?†   (source)
  • While offering in return (for she knew the rules) revelations intended to pacify and also intended to frustrate him; to frustrate, that is, any attempt on his part to strike deeper into that incredible country in which, like the princess of fairy tales, sealed in a high tower and guarded by beasts, bewitched and exiled, she paced her secret round of secret days.†   (source)
  • Here's what he did say): Prof waited through several seconds of silence, then said, "Honorable Chairman, who is to be exiled this time?†   (source)
  • Broke up our families, told us who we could see, where we could live, what we could do, what time we could leave our houses, censored our letters, exiled us for no crime.†   (source)
  • It might not have happened at all if Alex Goldfarb hadn't involved himself in some mysterious relationship with the exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky.†   (source)
  • He allied himself with the Scholars' ancient enemy, the Martials, a cruel people exiled to the northern reaches of the continent.†   (source)
  • At eighty-nine, Zahir Shah looked far older than his official portrait as he stared out the window of the PIA 737 at the country he'd been exiled from for nearly thirty years.†   (source)
  • Lights came on in a makeshift cinderblock house built into one corner of the prison wall where a prisoner of means lived like an exiled satrap complete with cook and bodyguard.†   (source)
  • The exiled goblin clans—the Sourbogs, Blackbacks, and Greenteeth—had all taken refuge over the mountain.†   (source)
  • So long as conscionable and caring people are around, so long as they are not muted or exiled, so long as they remain alert in thought and action, there is a chance for contagions of the right stuff, whereby democracy becomes no longer a choice of lesser evils, whereby the right to vote is not betrayed by staying away from the polls, whereby the freedoms of speech, assembly, religion, and dissent are never forsaken.†   (source)
  • Gaea opened the earth, and I was consumed, exiled here in the belly of my father Tartarus, where all the useless flotsam collects—all the bits of creation he does not care for.†   (source)
  • And then it became clear that men like him wouldn't ever be allowed to return home, that they'd be exiled.†   (source)
  • Loss was part of being a Shadowhunter, you expected it, but that didn't help the way Alec had felt when he'd seen Helen's expression in the Council Hall as she'd been exiled to Wrangel Island.†   (source)
  • When suddenly we found ourselves committed— 13 Her name was Marie Lyons; she was eighteen years old and born in Luna, mother having been exiled via Peace Corps in '56.†   (source)
  • It's not bad enough I am exiled?†   (source)
  • At the time, the PAC members on the island refused to believe our claims that the exiled PAC had opened its doors to whites and Indians as members.†   (source)
  • He jingled and jangled his way everywhere he went; small wonder that Pylos had exiled him from Shireen's lessons.†   (source)
  • A hag what gave over forty years of service shouldn't be exiled just 'cause some drunk outsider gets the creeps from 'scary old hags.'†   (source)
  • To complete the spell, I only had to speak one more line: "Deserving no mercy, an enemy of Ma'at, you are exiled beyond the earth.†   (source)
  • Annabeth gazed around the hut, trying to imagine how many eons Damasen had been exiled here—slaying the drakon, collecting its bones and hide and meat, knowing it would attack again the next day.†   (source)
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