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  • "I thought Constantine was a Christian," Sophie said.†   (source)
  • "Where's Constantine?"†   (source)
  • And then I witnessed the most extraordinary thing, something I thought I'd no sooner see than King Constantine himself turning up at our door dressed in a clown suit: a single tear, swelling at the edge of my mother's right eye.†   (source)
  • That was in the reign of the Emperor Constantine.†   (source)
  • He was the last one who worshipped the Olympian gods, before Constantine came along and adopted Christianity.†   (source)
  • The Colosseum was a dilapidated shell, and the Arch of Constantine had fallen.†   (source)
  • I looked at the Constantine wire running along the top of the prison fence: a crown of thorns for a man who wanted to be a savior.†   (source)
  • Years were to pass before its translation into English (done excellently by Constantine FitzGibbon).†   (source)
  • On Sunday mornings Victor Ippolitovich, accompanied by his bulldog, usually took a leisurely walk down the Petrovka and along Kuznetsky Most, and at one of the street corners they were joined by the actor and gambler Constantine Illarionovich Satanidi.†   (source)
  • Constantine's underhanded political maneuvers don't diminish the majesty of Christ's life.†   (source)
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  • "I asked Constantine, just as plain as day, 'Is that what you told her?†   (source)
  • To rewrite the history books, Constantine knew he would need a bold stroke.†   (source)
  • That's when Constantine walks in the kitchen and she looks as shocked as I am.†   (source)
  • Anyone who chose the forbidden gospels over Constantine's version was deemed a heretic.†   (source)
  • That's where Constantine always slept when she spent the night.†   (source)
  • Constantine was a very good businessman.†   (source)
  • Constantine always said giving her child away was the worst mistake she'd ever made in her life.†   (source)
  • Constantine's Bible has been their truth for ages.†   (source)
  • "I reckon Constantine would a been real proud a you.†   (source)
  • "Don't tell your mama I gave Constantine a little extra, now.†   (source)
  • Constantine decided something had to be done.†   (source)
  • "Remember, I told you Constantine had a daughter.†   (source)
  • She ask me what happen with her old maid Constantine and her mama, and I go cold.†   (source)
  • I'll tell you ever thing that happened to Constantine.†   (source)
  • " I lean a minute against the counter, wishing Constantine was here like it used to be.†   (source)
  • Constantine was so scared she wouldn't like her, that's why she told her those things.†   (source)
  • If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing.†   (source)
  • CONSTANTINE CAME TO WORK in our house at six in the morning, and at harvest time, she came at five.†   (source)
  • She's like Constantine that way, never forgetting things for us.†   (source)
  • "Mother," I say, clutching my notebook to my chest, "did you fire Constantine?"†   (source)
  • "Bout two years ago, Constantine get a letter from Lulabelle.†   (source)
  • I finally stopped asking people why Constantine had left.†   (source)
  • Constantine sat down next to me, at the kitchen table.†   (source)
  • Constantine wasn't just tall, she was stout.†   (source)
  • I don't remember how Constantine used to do it.†   (source)
  • "I never thought Constantine would go to Illinois with her, Eugenia.†   (source)
  • "We was all surprised Constantine would go and...get herself in the family way.†   (source)
  • I knew he wasn't married to Constantine's mother, because that was against the law.†   (source)
  • " This is the first time she's mentioned Constantine since our terrible discussion.†   (source)
  • "Yes ma'am," Constantine and I would say at the same time and then pass each other a little smile.†   (source)
  • "And Constantine, she thought she could get me to change my mind.†   (source)
  • " Constantine was so close, I could see the blackness of her gums.†   (source)
  • "I don't think it's fair, you not knowing what happen to Constantine.†   (source)
  • Aibileen reminds me of Constantine in a way.†   (source)
  • Not once did Constantine invite him inside.†   (source)
  • When we were kids, Mother told us she'd spank us if we went in Constantine's bathroom.†   (source)
  • " Constantine's the only woman I've ever had to look up to, to look her straight in the eye.†   (source)
  • A little farther on, we'd get to Constantine's house.†   (source)
  • I feel bad for wishing Constantine was here instead.†   (source)
  • Constantine snatched the burning roll of parchment paper, quickly dipped it in the bucket of water.†   (source)
  • In fact, the shades of brown on Constantine were endless.†   (source)
  • Constantine worked for our family for twenty-nine years.†   (source)
  • Constantine, Law, she so nervous she couldn't walk straight.†   (source)
  • But the hardest part is, I have to ask Aibileen, again, about what happened to Constantine.†   (source)
  • I miss Constantine more than anything I've ever missed in my life.†   (source)
  • Once she lapses into talking about Constantine without my even asking.†   (source)
  • Constantine got to where she didn't want to bring Lula...out much.†   (source)
  • When I was ten, Daddy tried to install one in the tin kitchen ceiling without asking Constantine.†   (source)
  • "When Lulabelle was four years old, Constantine..."†   (source)
  • After an hour or so, Daddy would pull up, get out, hand Constantine a dollar.†   (source)
  • And that was the last letter I ever got from Constantine.†   (source)
  • "She changed her last name back to Constantine's.†   (source)
  • I wrote Constantine a letter once a week, telling her about my room, the classes, the sorority.†   (source)
  • I think about how surprised Constantine must've been to hold a white baby and know it was hers.†   (source)
  • Not to mention her asking me the whereabouts a Constantine, her maid growing up.†   (source)
  • "Now you look, I was good to Constantine.†   (source)
  • " I tried to picture Constantine's face, Aibileen's.†   (source)
  • "She...wants me to write about Constantine.†   (source)
  • "It's for you, Constantine, so you don't get so hot being up in the kitchen all the time.†   (source)
  • I felt like Constantine had given me a gift.†   (source)
  • " I hold still, remembering what Constantine told me, years ago.†   (source)
  • I cannot do a just job on Constantine's story if I don't know what's happened to her.†   (source)
  • All I can think while I'm typing is, What would Constantine think of me?†   (source)
  • "You tell Constantine Aibileen say hello.†   (source)
  • And every week, I ask Aibileen about Constantine.†   (source)
  • Even with me being up at school, Constantine would've written to me about them.†   (source)
  • "I told Constantine she wasn't to write to you about leaving.†   (source)
  • Why didn't Constantine tell me in her letters what was going on?†   (source)
  • "Will you tell me what happened to Constantine?"†   (source)
  • And when Constantine left her at the place up in Chicago...four is...pretty old to get given up.†   (source)
  • "I looked at Constantine and I felt so much shame for her.†   (source)
  • "I'm taking a check to my maid...Constantine.†   (source)
  • "Not after what happen with Constantine.†   (source)
  • The closer we got to Constantine's house, the more she'd smile.†   (source)
  • Constantine put the box top down and looked over the pieces again.†   (source)
  • What you noticed first about Constantine, besides her tallness, were her eyes.†   (source)
  • "I want to talk about Constantine," I say.†   (source)
  • And like she was delivering the weather, Mother said, "Constantine is no longer employed here.†   (source)
  • Constantine asked, studying the puzzle box through her black-rimmed glasses.†   (source)
  • Constantine must a said a thousand times, she couldn't wait for the day when she got her back.†   (source)
  • But Constantine, even with that sound in her ears...she left her there.†   (source)
  • Constantine never told me she had a daughter.†   (source)
  • " I remember my last letter from Constantine, that she had a surprise for me.†   (source)
  • I look over at Constantine's bathroom, now Pascagoula's.†   (source)
  • "You really think Constantine was fired?"†   (source)
  • "Why couldn't you let her believe what Constantine told her?†   (source)
  • Because I am thinking, I am hoping, maybe Constantine just wanted a better life for her child.†   (source)
  • Constantine smiled at me and I smiled back.†   (source)
  • " I sit quietly, my heart aching for Constantine.†   (source)
  • "I told Constantine that girl better not show her face here again.†   (source)
  • As much as Constantine loved me, I can only imagine how much she must've loved her own child.†   (source)
  • I can't help but think about Constantine.†   (source)
  • Truth is, I'm hoping she'll tell me something, anything, about Constantine.†   (source)
  • "Constantine's father was white," I say.†   (source)
  • That's what Constantine told somebody at our church.†   (source)
  • Twice a month, Constantine wrote me back on parchment paper that folded into an envelope.†   (source)
  • Constantine's man, Connor, he was colored.†   (source)
  • But since Constantine had her daddy's blood in her, her baby come out a high yellow.†   (source)
  • " This is the first time she's mentioned Constantine since our terrible discussion.†   (source)
  • "You said the daughter, she had something to do with Constantine getting fired?†   (source)
  • " I knew Constantine for twenty-three years.†   (source)
  • Since the days of Constantine, the Church has successfully hidden the truth about Mary Magdalene and Jesus.†   (source)
  • Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity.†   (source)
  • "Fortunately for historians," Teabing said, "some of the gospels that Constantine attempted to eradicate managed to survive.†   (source)
  • All we are saying is that Constantine took advantage of Christ's substantial influence and importance.†   (source)
  • By officially endorsing Jesus as the Son of God, Constantine turned Jesus into a deity who existed beyond the scope of the human world, an entity whose power was unchallengeable.†   (source)
  • In Constantine's day, Rome's official religion was sun worship—the cult of Sol Invictus, or the Invincible Sun—and Constantine was its head priest.†   (source)
  • "Originally," Langdon said, "Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan's veneration day of the sun."†   (source)
  • During this fusion of religions, Constantine needed to strengthen the new Christian tradition, and held a famous ecumenical gathering known as the Council of Nicaea.†   (source)
  • Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ's human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike.†   (source)
  • Because Constantine upgraded Jesus' status almost four centuries after Jesus' death, thousands of documents already existed chronicling His life as a mortal man.†   (source)
  • The Priory believes that Constantine and his male successors successfully converted the world from matriarchal paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern religion forever.†   (source)
  • Mother wouldn't want me to know this, that Constantine's father was white, that he'd apologized to her for the way things were.†   (source)
  • I remember that Constantine always used to come by on January first and fix our good-luck peas for us, even though it was her day off.†   (source)
  • " I look down, wondering if Constantine couldn't take care of her child because she had to take care of us.†   (source)
  • "A few years later, Constantine wrote the orphanage, told em she made a mistake, she wanted her girl back.†   (source)
  • If I begged and practiced my catechism, Mother would sometimes let me go home with Constantine on Friday afternoons.†   (source)
  • About her growing up with Constantine.†   (source)
  • Our previous maid, Constantine, used to stare those forward-sloping stairs down every day, like it was a battle between them.†   (source)
  • Nor would I tolerate her keeping terms with Lulabelle, not as long as your daddy was paying Constantine's rent on that house back there.†   (source)
  • In April of my senior year, a letter came from Constantine that said, I have a surprise for you, Skeeter.†   (source)
  • Constantine knew immediately, though.†   (source)
  • I want to see Constantine, her grave.†   (source)
  • Was there a big to-do, because I just can't imagine Constantine saying yes ma'am and walking out the back door.†   (source)
  • "Yes ma'am," I say, even though I have no idea how I'll finish two maids in time, much less write stories about Constantine.†   (source)
  • I've wondered this ever since Aibileen told me about Constantine's child, way back in Elizabeth's kitchen.†   (source)
  • I was pretty sure I knew everything about Constantine——she had one sister and grew up on a sharecropping farm in Corinth, Mississippi.†   (source)
  • I took Constantine for granted at times, but I think I knew, for the most part, how lucky I was to have her there.†   (source)
  • If Mother headed to the back porch while I was behind the tree, Constantine would rush out and bang her broom handle on the iron stair rail.†   (source)
  • Ever time Miss Skeeter finish asking me about how to clean the-this or fix the-that or where Constantine, we get to talking about other things too.†   (source)
  • Constantine filled a pot with water.†   (source)
  • Even back then, I understood we were on Constantine's turf and she didn't have to be nice to anybody at her own house.†   (source)
  • I don't put in that Constantine's daughter was high yellow; I just want to show that Constantine's love for me began with missing her own child.†   (source)
  • I thought if I told her a little, a few weeks ago, about Constantine having a daughter, she'd leave me alone about it after that.†   (source)
  • Says up in Chicago, she's part of some under the ground group so I tell Constantine, I say, You get your daughter out of my house right now.†   (source)
  • " She reaches over and squeezes my hand, presses her thumb and fingers down as hard as Constantine ever did.†   (source)
  • I had to accept that Constantine, my one true ally, had left me to fend for myself with these people.†   (source)
  • "Now you look a here, Eugenia"——because Constantine was the only one who'd occasionally follow Mama's rule.†   (source)
  • If Aibileen will give me Constantine's story by early next week, I just might be able to pull this off.†   (source)
  • Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.†   (source)
  • When we were kids, Constantine used to sleep out here with Carlton and me in the summer, when Mama and Daddy went to out-of-town weddings.†   (source)
  • I know what happen between Constantine and Miss Skeeter's mama and ain't no way I'm on tell her that story.†   (source)
  • I think about Constantine, after living fifty years in the country, sitting in a tiny apartment in Chicago.†   (source)
  • Mama'd get cross with her about a tarnished spoon and Constantine would serve her toast burned up for a week.†   (source)
  • "Hi-do, Carl Bird," Constantine'd holler at the root-selling man sitting in his rocking chair on the back of his pickup.†   (source)
  • But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.†   (source)
  • By September, not only had I given up hope of ever hearing back from Harper & Row, I gave up on ever finding Constantine.†   (source)
  • I feel what Constantine felt when Mother brought me home from the hospital and handed me over to her.†   (source)
  • Constantine slept in an old-fashioned white nightgown up to her chin and down to her toes even though it'd be hot as Hades.†   (source)
  • " I GET OFF THE PHONE, stunned by the news of the deadline and Missus Stein's insistence to get Constantine in the book.†   (source)
  • That was the only part I didn't like about having the top floor of the house, that it separated me from my Constantine.†   (source)
  • "Why didn't Constantine ever tell me?"†   (source)
  • I wish I could hear everything she knows about Constantine, but I'll wait until we've finished her interviews.†   (source)
  • She takes a deep breath, moves the white bowl a little closer to her, says, "Constantine sent her up to Chicago to live.†   (source)
  • Constantine asked me in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • I hang up and sit for a while in the pantry, staring at the jars of fig preserves Constantine put up before the fig tree died.†   (source)
  • I think about Constantine, the time my family took her to Memphis with us and the highway had mostly washed out, but we had to drive straight on through because we knew the hotels wouldn't let her in.†   (source)
  • "Law, that Constantine could sing.†   (source)
  • "Constantine, what are you doing?"†   (source)
  • "How tall are you, Constantine?"†   (source)
  • Afterward, I stare at the eight pages I've already written about walking to Hotstack with Constantine, the puzzles we worked on together, her pressing her thumb in my hand.†   (source)
  • It was a thrill to be in such a different world and I'd feel a prickly awareness of how good my shoes were, how clean my white pinafore dress that Constantine had ironed for me.†   (source)
  • "About Mother and Constantine.†   (source)
  • You idolize Constantine too much.†   (source)
  • I write about what Aibileen told me, that Constantine had a daughter and had to give her up so she could work for our family——the Millers I call us, after Henry, my favorite banned author.†   (source)
  • "When Constantine went to the train station with Lulabelle to take her up there, I heard white folks was staring on the platform, wanting to know why a little white girl was going in the colored car.†   (source)
  • I wish I could slip in, as the last question, "By the way, did you know Constantine Bates?" but I'm pretty sure Aibileen would tell me it's a bad idea.†   (source)
  • "So Constantine, she tells Lulabelle to go on back to their house, and Lulabelle says, Fine, I was leaving anyway, and heads for the dining room and of course I stop her.†   (source)
  • You were up at school and the doorbell was ringing nonstop and Constantine was in the kitchen, making all that coffee over since the old percolator burned the first two pots right up.†   (source)
  • Bags of sassafras and licorice root and birdeye vine sat open for bargaining, and by the time we poked around those a minute, Constantine's whole body'd be rambling and loose in the joints.†   (source)
  • " "Oh I knew Constantine," I say.†   (source)
  • "How did you know Constantine?†   (source)
  • "Constantine's gone, Skeeter.†   (source)
  • When Minny lapses into news about Miss Celia——"She sneaking upstairs, think I don't see her, but I know, that crazy lady up to something"——she always stops herself, the way Aibileen does when she speaks of Constantine.†   (source)
  • Darlin', Constantine quit.†   (source)
  • " "Constantine…"†   (source)
  • Not Constantine.†   (source)
  • In A.D. 312, Constantine, the Roman emperor, saw a crucifix in the sky and converted to Christianity.†   (source)
  • Dr. Constantine-I forgot, I have not introduced you.†   (source)
  • In this coach Dr. Constantine and I are the only travellers.†   (source)
  • "Certainly I agree," said Dr. Constantine.†   (source)
  • "As for me, I plump for the American," said Dr. Constantine.†   (source)
  • M. Bouc. and Dr. Constantine were talking together when Poirot entered the dining-car.†   (source)
  • Poirot went on to relate the joint conclusions of himself and Dr. Constantine.†   (source)
  • "What," asked Dr. Constantine with interest, "does a pukka sahib mean?"†   (source)
  • "It must be one of those four," said Dr. Constantine.†   (source)
  • What the Americans call 'the hunch'?" asked Dr. Constantine.†   (source)
  • Then everyone jumped as Dr. Constantine suddenly hit the table a blow with his fist.†   (source)
  • "It is really a most extraordinary case," said Constantine.†   (source)
  • "This," said Dr. Constantine, "is more wildly improbable than any roman policier I have ever read."†   (source)
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