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  • And thereupon we saw Richard Wagner marching at the head of a host just as vast, and felt the pressure of those thousands as they clung and closed upon him.†   (source)
  • Professor Erlin classed him with Richard Wagner, but of him he spoke not with anger but with good-humoured laughter.†   (source)
  • He could imagine Richard Wagner sitting in his box and laughing till his sides ached at the sight of all the people who were taking it seriously.†   (source)
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  • My father was the eldest of three sons, each of whom was given Adelia's idea of a high-toned name: Norval and Edgar and Percival, Arthurian revival with a hint of Wagner.†   (source)
  • DIE OPERN VON RICHARD WAGNER "The operas of Wagner?"†   (source)
  • Judge Wagner was a nice guy, but with a face that looked like a pumpkin left to rot after Halloween.†   (source)
  • Ilse Wagner, Hanneli Goslar and Jacqueline van Maarsen came home with me after gym, since we're in the same class.†   (source)
  • I root for her, and I feel like that must help because someone pops on a Wagner CD, although I don't know that the rousing "Ride of the Valkyries" is what I had in mind.†   (source)
  • He listened as the fury of the storm blended with the violence of Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries.†   (source)
  • On one level, there's not much difference between Silko's project and Wagner's; he too is simply going back to the myths of his tribe.†   (source)
  • The music was familiar, Wagner's traditional march surrounded by a flood of embellishments.†   (source)
  • When she opened her briefcase, she let drop a pen from the Zimmertal Hotel, and Herr Wagner politely retrieved it for her.†   (source)
  • Complicating matters for me was the fact that I had injured my shoulder during the 2006 season, so during the winter workouts freshman Cam Newton and our other quarterback, Brian Wagner, worked out with our receivers, easing the load on my shoulder as it healed.†   (source)
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  • As If That Weren't Enough I sprinted off in search of my friends and (literally) bumped into Chase Wagner, Reno High's storied bad boy.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure I've ever heard any Wagner, but I don't want to sound uncultured.†   (source)
  • The assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina.†   (source)
  • Thaddeus Stefanov-Wagner, the student who had rebuilt MIT's electronics in a week, landed a job as a mechanical engineer at Bluefin Robotics.†   (source)
  • Mr. Doyle's voice, bragging to the police officer that Amanda and I are two of the smartest kids at Wagner, rings in my head.†   (source)
  • It said, variously: You are surreptitious B+ student of life, first thing hummer of Wagner and Strauss, illegal alien, emotional alien, genre bug, Yellow peril, neo-American, great in bed, overrated poppa's boy, sentimentalist, anti-romantic, _ _ _ _ _ analyst (you fill in), stranger, follower, traitor, spy.†   (source)
  • Hitler loved the heroic stories of Wagner, for instance.†   (source)
  • But there were these stories, better stories than Alan had or would ever have, stories that began with any injury, stories prompted by hearing Schubert, Wagner, by documentaries on the History Channel.†   (source)
  • Her voice Vas the voice of an old lady, but it was still beautiful, still thrilling as she summarized the attack on Wagner, summarized all battles by saying, "And then we saw the lightning, and that was the guns; and then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped."†   (source)
  • My friend Jack Wagner has often, in Mexico, assumed this state of being.†   (source)
  • If she were to come, he would take her to Bayreuth—does she like Wagner?†   (source)
  • Wagner was smacking his gavel, although nobody gave a damn.†   (source)
  • Herr Wagner pigeonholed her as the spoiled daughter, or possibly mistress, of some bigshot.†   (source)
  • Wagner is good only for thunderstorms, he thought.†   (source)
  • Jordan objected, as Diana had expected, and Judge Wagner overruled it, as she'd hoped.†   (source)
  • 'You need to call Judge Wagner,' Alex said.†   (source)
  • Girard, you're going to have to speak up,' Judge Wagner said.†   (source)
  • The screen beside Judge Wagner filled with an image of Sterling High School.†   (source)
  • Cormier's got to be a better judge for you than Wagner.'†   (source)
  • And Bree or no Bree, I wasn't about to do Chase Wagner.†   (source)
  • "Or ...or listening to Wagner, of course," I say casually.†   (source)
  • Officer, I'm carrying two of the smartest kids at Wagner High School.†   (source)
  • Chase Wagner could be hazardous to a person's health.†   (source)
  • Which is why I cannily stopped off at Waterstones on the way home and bought a book on Wagner.†   (source)
  • Then, suddenly, he says, "Do you like Wagner?"†   (source)
  • Chase flinched, then whispered in my ear: I prefer the sound of Kristina Wagner.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what else Tarquin is into, apart from Wagner.†   (source)
  • Finally the woman called, 'Bree Wagner.'†   (source)
  • "Do you really like Wagner?" says Tarquin.†   (source)
  • The keywords with context were enough to remind him that Wagner's opera Parsifal was a tribute to Mary Magdalene and the bloodline of Jesus Christ, told through the story of a young knight on a quest for truth.†   (source)
  • The Wagner CD has repeated twice now.†   (source)
  • Ilse Wagner has a Ping-Pong set, and the Wagners let us play in their big dining room whenever we want.†   (source)
  • She left the Zimmertal Hotel and walked over to Bank Hauser General, across the street, where she had made an appointment to see Herr Wagner, the general manager, at 10:00.†   (source)
  • ...mythological knight named Parsifal who......metaphorical Grail quest that arguably......the London Philharmonic in 1855...Rebecca Pope's opera anthology "Diva's......Wagner's tomb in Bayreuth, Germany..."Wrong Pope," Langdon said, disappointed.†   (source)
  • Ilse Wagner is a nice girl with a cheerful disposition, but she's extremely finicky and can spend hours moaning and groaning about something.†   (source)
  • Was Wagner a knight?†   (source)
  • Herr Wagner saw that it was going to be a long morning, but for a 4 percent commission on the transactions, he was prepared to skip lunch, and he was going to have to revise his pigeonhole for Fräulein Sholes.†   (source)
  • 'I'll allow it,' Judge Wagner replied.†   (source)
  • 'Let's take a short recess,' Judge Wagner said, and Peter let his head sink down to the defense table, a weight too heavy to bear.†   (source)
  • To make matters worse, the air-conditioning in the courtroom was on the fritz, and Judge Wagner smelled like mothballs and feet when he sweated.†   (source)
  • Judge Wagner summoned a bailiff.†   (source)
  • Alstrop looked at Judge Wagner.†   (source)
  • In fact, she was the best judge Peter could have drawn for his case-the alternative superior court justice was Judge Wagner, who was a very old, prosecution-biased judge.†   (source)
  • He saw Josie on the stand, crying desperately; he saw Judge Wagner fighting for control-but most of all, he saw Alex single-mindedly trying to get to her daughter.†   (source)
  • This involved long days in the courtroom with Diana Leven and Judge Wagner, as the pool of jurors dribbled one by one into the witness seat to be asked a variety of questions by the defense and the prosecution.†   (source)
  • Judge Wagner asked.†   (source)
  • Judge Wagner asked.†   (source)
  • Judge Wagner glanced up.†   (source)
  • Judge Wagner asked.†   (source)
  • I also ran into Chase Wagner that day.†   (source)
  • Thaddeus Stefanov-Wagner, a team member who had competed in the 2003 MATE event as a high schooler, scrambled to rebuild the controls and managed to do it in a week.†   (source)
  • Chase Wagner, the most beautiful man in the whole wide world (despite what the rest of the world could see), showed me exactly how making love should be.†   (source)
  • Chase Wagner and Bill Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Luckily, at that moment, a waiter arrives with our garlic bread, and we can get off the subject of Wagner.†   (source)
  • And the way he believed me when I told him I liked dogs and Wagner and bloody violinists in Mozambique.†   (source)
  • Yes, I liked Chase Wagner.†   (source)
  • What I'll do is, tomorrow I'll send a nice chatty note to him, saying thanks again, and suggesting we go and see some Wagner together.†   (source)
  • Bree'Wagner.†   (source)
  • You can't beat Wagner, can you?†   (source)
  • "I adore Wagner," I insist.†   (source)
  • She told about how he led the attack on Wagner, how he stood on the parapet waving that sword which had been made in England, a field-officer's sword, with his initials worked in the handle, shouting, "Forward, Fifty-Fourth!" determined to prove the bravery of his regiment, to prove that black men would fight no matter what the odds, and then pitched forward, dead, his sergeant beside him.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was such mitigating qualities (permitting Sophie to perfect her French, which he considered a decadent language; allowing her mother to indulge her love for composers other than Wagner, triflers like Faure and Debussy and Scarlatti) that caused Sophie to accept without any conscious resentment his complete domination of her life even after she was married.†   (source)
  • Hadn't that happened to us with Liszt and Wagner, and, to many of us, even with Beethoven?†   (source)
  • A juke box played Wagner's "Song to the Evening Star," adapted, in swing time.†   (source)
  • Thick orchestration was in any case neither Wagner's nor Brahms' personal failing.†   (source)
  • I passed the Southern Fuel Co. yesterday and saw old Wagner at the window with a fiendish smile of gloatation on his face as he looked out on the sufferings of the widows and orphans.†   (source)
  • If "Faust" is treated in this way, Faust, Mephistopheles, Wagner and the rest form a unity and a supreme individuality; and it is in this higher unity alone, not in the several characters, that something of the true nature of the soul is revealed.†   (source)
  • But when they give Wagner we have to rush dinner, and I pay up for it.†   (source)
  • I like Wagner's music better than anybody's.†   (source)
  • Wagner once drifted into Life Force worship, and invented a Superman called Siegfried.†   (source)
  • But, of course, the real villain is Wagner.†   (source)
  • Peter Walsh and Joseph Breitkopf went on about Wagner.†   (source)
  • , the brave coloured officer who was the colour-bearer at Fort Wagner and held the American flag.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately he met Wagner here, and had a quarrel with him.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    It may be that your eyes deceive you slightly;
    Naught but a plain black poodle do I see.†   (source)
  • —and to a concert where the band played all the evening: Beethoven and Wagner and so on.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    To stroll with you, Sir Doctor, flatters;
    'Tis honor, profit, unto me.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    Pardon, I heard your declamation;
    'Twas sure an old Greek tragedy you read?†   (source)
  • Indeed, it needed no Wagner to convince the public of this.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    Long since: yet deemed him not important in the least.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    The dog, when he's well educated,
    Is by the wisest tolerated.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    But then, the world—the human heart and brain!†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    Yet through delivery orators succeed;
    I feel that I am far behind, indeed.†   (source)
  • (Enter WAGNER, in dressing-gown and night-cap, a lamp in
    his hand.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    'Tis the absurdest, drollest beast.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    Why, therefore, yield to such depression?†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    Why, for a poodle who has lost his master,
    And scents about, his track to find.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    With what a feeling, thou great man, must thou
    Receive the people's honest veneration!†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    A dog thou seest, and not a phantom, here!†   (source)
  • Governor Wolcott had made his short, memorable speech, saying, "Fort Wagner marked an epoch in the history of a race, and called it into manhood."†   (source)
  • So when they met here, Nietzsche denounced him as a renegade; and Wagner wrote a pamphlet to prove that Nietzsche was a Jew; and it ended in Nietzsche's going to heaven in a huff.†   (source)
  • Every now and then in history there do come these terrible geniuses, like Wagner, who stir up all the wells of thought at once.†   (source)
  • It was the state of the world that interested him; Wagner, Pope's poetry, people's characters eternally, and the defects of her own soul.†   (source)
  • Then wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, he said: "I tell you young people that before the nineteenth century is out Wagner will be as dead as mutton.†   (source)
  • Think of listening to Wagner for a fortnight on end with her, who takes about as much interest in music as a fish does in little apples; it will be fun!†   (source)
  • Wagner!†   (source)
  • She wrote that the Verdurins and their friends had expressed a desire to be present at these performances of Wagner, and that, if he would be so good as to send her the money, she would be able at last, after going so often to their house, to have the pleasure of entertaining the Verdurins in hers.†   (source)
  • That's what Wagner's done.†   (source)
  • When the orator turned to the coloured soldiers on the platform, to the colour-bearer of Fort Wagner, who smilingly bore still the flag he had never lowered even when wounded, and said, "To you, to the scarred and scattered remnants of the Fifty-fourth, who, with empty sleeve and wanting leg, have honoured this occasion with your presence, to you, your commander is not dead.†   (source)
  • SWANN IN LOVE To admit you to the 'little nucleus,' the 'little group,' the 'little clan' at the Verdurins', one condition sufficed, but that one was indispensable; you must give tacit adherence to a Creed one of whose articles was that the young pianist, whom Mme. Verdurin had taken under her patronage that year, and of whom she said "Really, it oughtn't to be allowed, to play Wagner as well as that!" left both Plante and Rubinstein 'sitting'; while Dr. Cottard was a more brilliant diagnostician than Potain.†   (source)
  • Bunyan, Blake, Hogarth and Turner (these four apart and above all the English Classics), Goethe, Shelley, Schopenhaur, Wagner, Ibsen, Morris, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche are among the writers whose peculiar sense of the world I recognize as more or less akin to my own.†   (source)
  • black Americans remained in slavery; rehearsed the conduct of the Negroes with Jackson at New Orleans; drew a vivid and pathetic picture of the Southern slaves protecting and supporting the families of their masters while the latter were fighting to perpetuate black slavery; recounted the bravery of coloured troops at Port Hudson and Forts Wagner and Pillow, and praised the heroism of the black regiments that stormed El Caney and Santiago to give freedom to the enslaved people of Cuba, forgetting, for the time being, the unjust discrimination that law and custom make against them in their own country.†   (source)
  • Bunyan's perception that righteousness is filthy rags, his scorn for Mr Legality in the village of Morality, his defiance of the Church as the supplanter of religion, his insistence on courage as the virtue of virtues, his estimate of the career of the conventionally respectable and sensible Worldly Wiseman as no better at bottom than the life and death of Mr Badman: all this, expressed by Bunyan in the terms of a tinker's theology, is what Nietzsche has expressed in terms of post-Darwinian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy.†   (source)
  • But on my way I went first to Madame Kobilatnikov's to take them the 'General Treatise on the Positive Method' and especially to recommend Piderit's article (and also Wagner's); then I come on here and what a state of things I find!†   (source)
  • I said, pointing to sheet music by Weber, Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Meyerbeer, Hérold, Wagner, Auber, Gounod, Victor Massé, and a number of others scattered over a full size piano-organ, which occupied one of the wall panels in this lounge.†   (source)
  • Romeo and Juliet with the loveliest Juliet is dry, tedious, and rhetorical in comparison with Wagner's Tristan, even though Isolde be both fourteen stone and forty, as she often is in Germany.†   (source)
  • In the entr'acte Levin and Pestsov fell into an argument upon the merits and defects of music of the Wagner school.†   (source)
  • Levin maintained that the mistake of Wagner and all his followers lay in their trying to take music into the sphere of another art, just as poetry goes wrong when it tries to paint a face as the art of painting ought to do, and as an instance of this mistake he cited the sculptor who carved in marble certain poetic phantasms flitting round the figure of the poet on the pedestal.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    I would have shared your watches with delight,
    That so our learned talk might be extended.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    I see him timidly, in doubt, around us running,
    Since, in his master's stead, two strangers doth he find.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    I've had, myself, at times, some odd caprices,
    But never yet such impulse felt, as this is.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    Invoke not thus the well-known throng,
    Which through the firmament diffused is faring,
    And danger thousand-fold, our race to wrong.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    Ah, when one studies thus, a prisoned creature,
    That scarce the world on holidays can see,—
    Scarce through a glass, by rare occasion,
    How shall one lead it by persuasion?†   (source)
  • He goes on with WAGNER.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    Ah, God!†   (source)
  • FAUST AND WAGNER
    FAUST
    Released from ice are brook and river
    By the quickening glance of the gracious Spring;
    The colors of hope to the valley cling,
    And weak old Winter himself must shiver,
    Withdrawn to the mountains, a crownless king:
    Whence, ever retreating, he sends again
    Impotent showers of sleet that darkle
    In belts across the green o' the plain.†   (source)
  • WAGNER
    Pardon!†   (source)
  • And then Mr. Wagner, one of the caretakers from the school, comes and chases them away.†   (source)
  • Before you moved in, the two little old Wagner sisters wouldn't even say good morning to me.†   (source)
  • WILLY: If old man Wagner was alive I'd a been in charge of New York now!†   (source)
  • When I went north the first time, the Wagner Company didn't know where New England was!†   (source)
  • [In the middle of her speech, HOWARD WAGNER, thirty-six, wheels on a small typewriter table on which is a wire-recording machine and proceeds to plug it in†   (source)
  • You're well liked, and the boys love you, and someday—[to BEN]—why, old man Wagner told him just the other day that if he keeps it up he'll be a member of the firm, didn't he, Willy?†   (source)
  • /Roth/, in American, quickly becomes /Rawth/; /Frémont/, losing both accent and the French /e/, become /Freemont/; /Blum/ begins to rhyme with /dumb/; /Mann/ rhymes with /van/, and /Lang/ with /hang/; /Krantz/, /Lantz/ and their cognates with /chance/; /Kurtz/ with /shirts/; the first syllable of /Gutmann/ with /but/; the first of /Kahler/ with /bay/; the first of /Werner/ with /turn/; the first of /Wagner/ with /nag/.†   (source)
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