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  • Sometimes, just before sundown, just as the blue of the sky began darkening to violet, we had these wild, electric-lined, Maxfield Parrish clouds rolling out gold and white into the desert like Divine Revelation leading the Mormons west.†   (source)
  • I thought you would be listening to George Beverly Shea or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir—you know, something churchier.†   (source)
  • Langdon often reminded his students that most modern religions included stories that did not hold up to scientific scrutiny: everything from Moses parting the Red Sea ....to Joseph Smith using magic eyeglasses to translate the Book of Mormon from a series of gold plates he found buried in upstate New York.†   (source)
  • HUS BEGAN THE great Mormon grade-grab.†   (source)
  • You're not a Catholic or a Mormon, are you?†   (source)
  • These youths are even duller than the ones from the all-Mormon Deseret Burbclave The boys are wearing tedious black suits.†   (source)
  • Interment at Mary Cyr Cemetery on March 21st at 4.00 P.M. Ought to've had a special rendition of 'Annie, Won't You Come by Here', sung by the Mormon Tabersnackle Choir, Paul thought, and did the Donkey some more.†   (source)
  • Let the Mormons quit smoking.†   (source)
  • Kept seeing the kitchen cockroach, the one I tried to pretend was only a Mormon cricket, Los Alamos'grown.†   (source)
  • Here come the Mormons.†   (source)
  • It was like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir began singing the "Hallelujah" chorus.†   (source)
  • It was that word Saints that had intrigued her; she didn't know it was a fancy word for Mormon.†   (source)
  • Thoren Smallwood looked more a lord than Mormons did, clad in Ser Jaremy Rykker's gleaming black mail and embossed breastplate.†   (source)
  • The group I ate lunch with included a Jew, a Mormon, a Hindu, a Catholic, and a Lutheran.†   (source)
  • Consequently, he was expecting a crayon-scrawled message about evil psychic Martians living among us as Mormons—or the equivalent.†   (source)
  • "Well, these Mormon boys stopped by yesterday and I let them in," Misty continued.†   (source)
  • —I turned to Mormonism.†   (source)
  • If you can sell me, you can convert the Pope to Mormonism.†   (source)
  • The great Mormon grade-grab was being managed by Michael's tutor, Miss Sue.†   (source)
  • Turns out, Breckin was my saving grace today ...and he really is Mormon.†   (source)
  • It turns out, Holder doesn't have an issue with Mormons at all.†   (source)
  • That concerns me a bit because, rumor has it ...he doesn't like Mormons.†   (source)
  • I see the Mormon brought the queen her offering of coffee.†   (source)
  • Does not-your-boyfriend realize I'm Mormon?†   (source)
  • I thought Mormons weren't allowed to have caffeine.†   (source)
  • I mean, he was anything but a good Mormon boy.†   (source)
  • Yeah so you pick up your date at the pad she shares with six other Mormon chicks.†   (source)
  • This," she held out a bottle of Coke, "this is why I'm not a Mormon."†   (source)
  • "They're not the Mormons," Misty said, sighed.†   (source)
  • The questions ran deeper for me, struggling with Mormon doctrine.†   (source)
  • Brother Prior, A true Mormon would rather bury a child than see her lose her chastity.†   (source)
  • "Maybe I misunderstood what the Mormons meant," Misty said.†   (source)
  • Good Mormon girls kept their clothes on.†   (source)
  • And I, allegedly being a good Mormon girl, was supposed to keep my feminine thoughts pure.†   (source)
  • I had not learned the secret codes to open that door, and I had no Mormon husband to let me in.†   (source)
  • I had a few friends, upstanding Mormon girls all.†   (source)
  • So what's a nice Mormon girl like you doing in a place like this?†   (source)
  • Of course, I wasn't exactly good, and maybe I wasn't Mormon.†   (source)
  • Expected: church, seminary, the Book of Mormon.†   (source)
  • He was a good Mormon boy, meaning goofy, churchgoing, and soon in the market for a good Mormon wife.†   (source)
  • Wonder what Aunt J thinks about his un-Mormon breath.†   (source)
  • My mom, who knew I'd been seeing someone, was shocked he wasn't Mormon.†   (source)
  • I didn't know Mormon girls were so pretty.†   (source)
  • Afterward, I could walk to school with other good Mormon kids, the "right kind" to have as friends.†   (source)
  • Now Dad Believed A good Mormon woman should have to ask her husband for money.†   (source)
  • Wallace Stegner, Mormon Country   (source)
  • They were Buddhists or Mormons, Baptists or Muslims, Democrats, Republicans and many who don't vote or are not part of any Sunday morning or religious institutions.†   (source)
  • He tried to assure himself that if this video were to leak out, the public would be open-minded and tolerant, realizing that all spiritual rituals included aspects that would seem frightening if taken out of context—crucifixion reenactments, Jewish circumcision rites, Mormon baptisms of the dead, Catholic exorcisms, Islamic niqab, shamanic trance healing, the Jewish Kaparot ceremony, even the eating of the figurative body and blood of Christ.†   (source)
  • Tait was a Mormon, educated at Brigham Young University and Stanford Medical School, who had joined the navy because he had wanted to see more of the world than one could from an office at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains.†   (source)
  • Sleight, sixty-five years old, is a professional river guide and desert rat with a Mormon upbringing and a reputation for insolence.†   (source)
  • As a Mormon, Tait avoided everything with caffeine—coffee, tea, even cola drinks—and though this type of self-discipline was unusual for a physician, to say nothing of a uniformed officer, he scarcely thought about it except on rare occasions when he pointed out its longevity benefits to his brother practitioners.†   (source)
  • The last letters anyone received from Ruess were posted from the Mormon settlement of Escalante, fifty-seven miles north of Davis Gulch, on November 11, 1934.†   (source)
  • A logical route to Navajo country would have taken Ruess across the Colorado River at Hole-in-the-Rock, then along a rugged trail pioneered in 1880 by Mormon settlers across Wilson Mesa and the Clay Hills, and finally down Grand Gulch to the San Juan River, across which lay the reservation.†   (source)
  • The burros were confined in the upper canyon, just upstream from where the Mormon steps intersect the floor of the gulch; a short distance downstream the searchers found unmistakable evidence of Ruess's camp, and then, in the doorway of an Anasazi granary below a magnificent natural arch, they came across "NEMO 1934" carved into a stone slab.†   (source)
  • Six decades ago in this enchanting hideaway, less than a mile downstream from where the Mormon steps meet the floor of the gulch, twenty-year-old Everett Ruess carved his nom de plume into the canyon wall below a panel of Anasazi pictographs, and he did so again in the doorway of a small masonry structure built by the Anasazi for storing grain.†   (source)
  • It's the Mormon in me.†   (source)
  • There's no Mormons here.†   (source)
  • I shadowed her to Tolkien's Middle-earth and Rowling's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, places no upstanding Mormon should go.†   (source)
  • So they're not Mormons, I thought.†   (source)
  • A Mormon, active in his church.†   (source)
  • Devout Mormon.†   (source)
  • They said, "What kind of Mormon?†   (source)
  • Dry cleaner, post office, grocery store, pick up shoes, put cat to sleep, call mom back home in French Lick—yeah, I'm fine, how're you, yatta yatta yatta, got a big date tonight with a real nice girl, Raytheon, she's a Mormon, they don't drink tap water or play the saxophone.†   (source)
  • "And the Mormons think there are lots of different parts of heaven, like neighborhoods," Misty was saying.†   (source)
  • Mormons.†   (source)
  • My heart insisted it wasn't wrong that they weren't Mormon, either, though my head said it wasn't exactly right.†   (source)
  • Smallish houses sat in neat little rows, defending a little park, two churches, and the Mormon stake house—the fanciest building in town.†   (source)
  • Why does he have to be Mormon?†   (source)
  • But why punish an innocent, unless in the end everyone was guilty of unredeemable sin, programmed by somesibling, or so the Mormon Church claimed, of God above?†   (source)
  • But you're Mormon, aren't you?†   (source)
  • Any good Mormon guys on your line?†   (source)
  • What I mean is, I'm not a Mormon.†   (source)
  • As a stalwart Mormon high school junior, drilled ceaselessly about the dire catastrophe awaiting thosewho harbored impure thoughts, I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.†   (source)
  • He wasn't Mormon.†   (source)
  • She's a Mormon.†   (source)
  • And he wasn't Mormon.†   (source)
  • Rod had not appreciated it at first (he was not familiar with the history of the Mormon pioneers) and had regarded it as a nuisance which interfered with work.†   (source)
  • "6 Testaments "2 Peace of the Flame "1 Koran "1 Book of Mormon "1 Oxford Book of English Verse, Centennial Edition "1 steel bow and 3 hunting arrows "1 boiler made from a wave shield and quite a bit of metal and plastic junk (worth its weight in uranium, I admit) from the Thunderbolt Jackie salvaged.†   (source)
  • Mormons, Shakers, Spiritualists, and Millerites; Covenanters and Brotherhooders and the Monroe County Lambs.†   (source)
  • Or maybe she'll accept both of you, and then you'll have to move to Utah, if the Mormons'll have you—which I doubt...All that bothers me is that some one of these days you're both going to get lickered up and jealous of each other about that two-faced, little, green-eyed baggage, and you'll shoot each other.†   (source)
  • Milt Dale, if any one ever corrals you it'll be Mormons.†   (source)
  • Our young men are drifting away, and the few who return come with ideas opposed to Mormonism.†   (source)
  • —Rebel soldiers looted many homes of Mormons near here yesterday.†   (source)
  • And now Shefford's keen mind saw something of Mormonism and found it wanting.†   (source)
  • Thet's shore no place for you-all...Beggin' your pawdin—you ain't Mormons?†   (source)
  • Is it vile—is it blind—is it only Mormonism to save human life?†   (source)
  • You've also forgotten that we're Mormons.†   (source)
  • All the Mormon families have fled to El Paso.†   (source)
  • Shefford divined the weight of Mormonism that burdened Joe Lake then.†   (source)
  • Mormons come for one of those mysterious night visits to sealed wives!†   (source)
  • He wanted to ask if she were a Mormon by religion, but the question seemed curious and unnecessary.†   (source)
  • He would have taught you something about Mormonism.†   (source)
  • I reckon I'll drop in some day.... Auntie, have you seen my friends, the Mormon boys?†   (source)
  • From the first her talk to him hinted of a leaning toward thought of making him a Mormon.†   (source)
  • Quick as a flash the Mormon replied: "Roy's been shot.†   (source)
  • You give names to things—bishops, elders, ministers, Mormonism, duty, faith, glory.†   (source)
  • Jack, will you come into the Mormon Church?†   (source)
  • Lassiter, I almost gave—all myself to soften you to Mormons.†   (source)
  • Why was the very mention of Mormons attended by something austere and secret?†   (source)
  • I like not the sign of the times, but I am a Mormon; I trust in God.†   (source)
  • There were no Mormons in her employ, for the good reason that Auchincloss would not hire them.†   (source)
  • "August Naab, I am a Mormon too," returned Cole, "but my hands are stained with blood.†   (source)
  • Toward sunset Dale located the camp of his four Mormon friends, and reached it in time for supper.†   (source)
  • Ho!" yelled the Mormon, again setting into motion the fiendish echoes.†   (source)
  • Some said he had shot up this and that Mormon village, and others denied it.†   (source)
  • When Dale ended, rather breathlessly, the Mormon boys sat without any show of surprise or feeling.†   (source)
  • And the Mormon gripped his arm as if he understood.†   (source)
  • Then the quaint Mormon congratulations were offered to Mescal.†   (source)
  • And I—heedless, mad to melt your heart toward Mormons.†   (source)
  • Mr. Dale isn't a Mormon," replied Helen.†   (source)
  • Withers says Shadd is friendly with the Mormons.†   (source)
  • This trail and crossing were unknown except to Indians before the Mormon exodus.†   (source)
  • I've heard Oldring's men tell about Mormons.†   (source)
  • With a groan the Mormon drew away from him and sank upon a log.†   (source)
  • Trouble between the Mormons and the Gentiles of the community would make her unhappy.†   (source)
  • He's had Mormons up here, and two men not of his Church, and they did nothing.†   (source)
  • "Roy, you're a Mormon an' you already got a wife," was Dale's reply.†   (source)
  • "Wal, Cheer up, you old Mormon!" he called.†   (source)
  • The Mormon strode off, and Shefford, catching up with him, kept at his side.†   (source)
  • But the Mormon rustler added wisdom to his cunning and stealth.†   (source)
  • But because you're a Mormon I never felt close to you till now.†   (source)
  • I'm sick of—of—I'll show you a Mormon who'll be true to you!†   (source)
  • This Mormon had a courtesy for women that spoke well for him.†   (source)
  • A Mormon custom, 'the laying on of hands.'†   (source)
  • I must marry him, accept the Mormon faith, and bring up my children as Mormons.†   (source)
  • But the boys had a couple of friends here—Mormons, too, who agreed to help us.†   (source)
  • The stony Mormons waited; the rustlers coughed and shifted their feet.†   (source)
  • The Mormon's changing face grew huge and indistinct and awful in his sight.†   (source)
  • Of course you mean to give her Mormon bringing-up?†   (source)
  • A close-fisted, tight-lipped Mormon—a skinflint if I ever saw one!†   (source)
  • But she passed as a Mormon, and certainly she had the Mormon woman's locked lips.†   (source)
  • The silent crowd of Mormons with lowered and averted eyes made passage for Hare and Caldwell.†   (source)
  • "No Mormon ever pretended that unless he was a rustler," declared Venters.†   (source)
  • Nas Ta Bega, you mean the Mormons are a great and good people blindly following a leader?†   (source)
  • "Friends, Mormons, friends," was the answer.†   (source)
  • No Mormon would refuse you or your horse a drink, or even a reasonable supply for your stock.†   (source)
  • Are you for the Mormons or against them?†   (source)
  • I'll keep little Fay and bring her up—without Mormon teaching.†   (source)
  • "Joe Lake, you Mormons are impossible," said Shefford, deliberately.†   (source)
  • Evidently the Mormon restrictions had limited her opportunities to learn.†   (source)
  • Venters, take this from me, these Mormons ain't just right in their minds.†   (source)
  • An' there was women who said right out that she was pinin' after the Mormon.†   (source)
  • The Mormon's grip straightened his frame and braced him.†   (source)
  • The Mormon nodded his head as if pleased.†   (source)
  • But, Elder, I don't love the Mormon children any less because I love a Gentile child.†   (source)
  • Flinty-faced Mormons, ruthless now as they had once been mild, surrounded the rustlers.†   (source)
  • Somehow this missionary had learned his secret—most likely from the Mormons in Stonebridge.†   (source)
  • My lad, the Mormons crossed here by the hundreds.†   (source)
  • She was a Mormon, and the Bishop regained ascendance.†   (source)
  • It's a mystery—to all the younger Mormons, anyway.†   (source)
  • I feel—differently from Mormons about—about women.†   (source)
  • I know enough—all, perhaps, except the name of the Mormon who brought her here.†   (source)
  • She was a Mormon; very likely, almost surely, she was a sealed wife.†   (source)
  • Unutterable pain darkened the flame in the Mormon's gaze.†   (source)
  • For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives.†   (source)
  • We'll get out on the south side of the river, thus avoiding any Mormons at the ferry.†   (source)
  • "Mormon love-making!" exclaimed the Bishop, rubbing his hands.†   (source)
  • But Mormons teach duty to church first, and say such love comes—to the wives—afterward.†   (source)
  • And his position, apparently as a Gentile, among these Mormons was one open to criticism.†   (source)
  • If Hare had not had many proofs of this Mormon's feeling he would have thought him callous.†   (source)
  • I saw the incomin' of most of the Mormons.†   (source)
  • But that masked Mormon who forced her to sacrifice herself to save us!†   (source)
  • It jest takes one of them God-fearin' Mormons to think of devilish tricks.†   (source)
  • Won't he come down here now to lead us Mormons against the rustlers?†   (source)
  • And this was the Mormon who had made Fay Larkin a murderess.†   (source)
  • For, Mormons, August Naab has the gift of revelation!†   (source)
  • Mebbe it wasn't much in your Mormon thinkin', for you to play that game.†   (source)
  • The Mormon had been amiable and friendly.†   (source)
  • This even-break business goes all right among gun-fighters, but the Mormons call killing murder.†   (source)
  • Now once over in Stonebridge I overheard some Mormons talking about a girl who was named Fay Larkin.†   (source)
  • "Mormon, the young man stays," said the rider.†   (source)
  • No. Did you ever hear of a Mormon woman named—Jane Withersteen?†   (source)
  • There have been Mormons who turned heretic—damn their souls!†   (source)
  • Some of Holderness's men are Mormons, and others are square fellows.†   (source)
  • The Mormons have risen against the rustlers.†   (source)
  • After all, Jane, mebbe you're only blind—Mormon blind.†   (source)
  • "Were your parents Mormons?" he went on.†   (source)
  • Any of these Mormon women may fall in love with you.†   (source)
  • Was this his kind Mormon benefactor, this man with the awful eyes?†   (source)
  • —unless by your noble blindness to incite me to greater hatred of Mormon men.†   (source)
  • Over here in the wild canyon country there's a village of Mormons' sealed wives.†   (source)
  • The Mormon loved his fellows and forgave.†   (source)
  • Is it true what I hear—that he's a gun-man, a Mormon-hater, steeped in blood?†   (source)
  • But SOME ONE besides an Indian and a Mormon guided you out!†   (source)
  • We've let you have your fling, which is more than I ever saw granted to a Mormon woman.†   (source)
  • The Mormon hesitated while his strong brown face flashed with daring inspiration.†   (source)
  • Withers introduced these Mormons merely as Smith and Henninger.†   (source)
  • Does August Naab think he'll make a Mormon of me?†   (source)
  • I am my father's daughter—a Mormon, yet I can't see!†   (source)
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