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  • —Shakespeare, Hamlet†   (source)
  • "Alex is a nut in my book," wrote a resident of Healy, the hamlet at the head of the Stampede Trail.†   (source)
  • "I want to share something Virginia Woolf wrote: 'English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache….†   (source)
  • In this tiny mountain hamlet deep in the Greater Khingan Mountains, something finally thawed in Ye Wenjie's heart.†   (source)
  • Like Hamlet's father roaming the ramparts of Elsinore after the midnight watch ….†   (source)
  • When the hamlet of Kulpin came into view, nestled peacefully by a lake, they set up camp in a thicket of trees.†   (source)
  • You grant your metropolises all the animals of Eden, but you deny my hamlet the merest Bengal tiger!†   (source)
  • They passed through the site of a roadside hamlet burned to nothing.†   (source)
  • Bill gave me Hamlet to read for the break.†   (source)
  • "Hamlet, I suppose, for starters—I give Hamlet to my Grade Thirteen girls, but they have to make do with reading it; they don't get to see it.†   (source)
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  • Like columns of dust, countless pillars of unexcavated earth rose up, supporting a dirt sky, which hung low over the penumbral hamlet.†   (source)
  • Hamlet.†   (source)
  • She'd spent the whole summer organizing committees, boning up on SAT words, and playing the lead in three different plays at Muesli, Rosewood's community theater—Miss Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Emily in Our Town, and Ophelia in Hamlet.†   (source)
  • She passed out a children's version of Hamlet, full of pictures and explanations, and let them read the play and act out the fight scenes.†   (source)
  • Maybe you'll remember that 'To be or not to be' is Hamlet, not Macbeth….†   (source)
  • But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumor of a title to you, Mrs. Montag), whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed: now at last you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbors.†   (source)
  • "Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."†   (source)
  • Residents of El Campesino El Mirador, a railside hamlet nestled at the foot of a mountain, tell this story: El Campesino El Mirador was policed by officers from nearby Nogales.†   (source)
  • In his faded tartan bathrobe and brown leather slippers with the rundown heels, his hair all in sleep corkscrews and Alfalfa cowlicks, he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.†   (source)
  • If we took over a house in a small hamlet, we would keep the family inside for safety.†   (source)
  • Having served enough time in Atlanta with her volunteer work, Mother has moved to the Georgia coast, to a hamlet of hoary little brick houses on Sanderling Island.†   (source)
  • That joke made it sound as if we lived in a pitiful little hamlet of twenty or thirty people.†   (source)
  • Adam was always very good as Hamlet giving his To Be or Not to Be soliloquy.†   (source)
  • If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.†   (source)
  • The company surrounded the hamlet.†   (source)
  • A while later, when we moved out of the hamlet, she was still dancing.†   (source)
  • Did I ever tell you the story of Hamlet?†   (source)
  • There's a line from Hamlet.†   (source)
  • Maybe you can do Hamlet and take the lead.†   (source)
  • He looked up from his digging, leaning on the handle of the shovel like the grave digger in Hamlet.†   (source)
  • He became aware of his new milieu only at dusk, as they were sailing past the hamlet of Calamar, when he went to the stern to urinate and saw, through the opening in the toilet, the gigantic paddle wheel turning under his feet with a volcanic display of foam and steam.†   (source)
  • Yes, spoken by Hamlet.†   (source)
  • Thus he chose to remember Hamlet's abuse of Ophelia, but not Christ's love of Mary Magdalene; Hamlet's frivolous politics, but not Christ's serious anarchy.†   (source)
  • My German-speaking father, dead since I was nine, came from some manic-depressive hamlet in the black heart of Prussia.†   (source)
  • The English teacher had helped him to create a sermon winging through Hamlet's soliloquy.†   (source)
  • We were halfway through our trip, and on a whim we drove out to Springs, a hamlet near East Hampton on Long Island.†   (source)
  • "He wanted my Hamlet notes," I said flatly.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Sadie Truitt, the hamlet's septuagenarian mail messenger, who is the mother of Postmistress Clare, is expert on this fabled affair: "August, it was.†   (source)
  • In March, after one particularly horrifying spasm of violence, I announced on my own that I would meet Chief Buthelezi at a mountain hamlet outside of Pietermaritzburg.†   (source)
  • Now sir, young Fortinbras,
    Of unimproved mettle hot and full,
    Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
    Sharked up a list of lawless resolutes
    For food and diet to some enterprise
    That hath a stomach in't.
    Shakespeare, Hamlet
    Fu Inle means "after moonrise."†   (source)
  • I was standing at the bookshelves with the ball in my hand and she thought it was like Hamlet gazing on Yorick's skull or maybe Aristotle, even better she said, contemplating the bust of Homer.†   (source)
  • For many years we have regularly trod the mud paths of the Taishan region to Shunshui, the hamlet in which Sheryl's paternal grandfather grew up.†   (source)
  • The good sheriff of this fine hamlet.†   (source)
  • At the rally point, a few hundred yards outside the mountain hamlet where the target resided, the sniper team radioed back its status.†   (source)
  • Squatting here with the putty knife in her hand, she is every old woman in every hamlet in the world.†   (source)
  • In one hamlet it was a woman, only dead for perhaps a few months; the villagers had glimpsed her and knew her by name.†   (source)
  • He combed the landscape for the town of San Lucas, but was only able to make out a faroff hamlet that was faded in the dampness of the morning.†   (source)
  • Never before had a reference of his to Shakespeare's hallowed Hamlet been ignored and trampled upon with such rude indifference.†   (source)
  • Her favorite scene was from Hamlet where it says "Enter Ophelia, distracted."†   (source)
  • It was Hamlet.†   (source)
  • I saw him in Hamlet.†   (source)
  • In New York later he attended the theater seven times and saw his first production of Hamlet.†   (source)
  • Drawing more, [ scrubbed the gritstone flags, and while they dried I drew my shawl around me and took my broth and bread out into the brightening garth, watching the sky's edge turn rosy and the mists rise from the two streams that bracket our hamlet.†   (source)
  • The envelope bore no return address, only the postmark of some hamlet in Colorado.†   (source)
  • But how can one deduce the cause of Hamlet?†   (source)
  • Originally there were plans for sixty or more shops, as well as a few large department stores like Macy's or Bloomingdales or Sears to anchor the bi-level wings, but the major chains weren't interested in a lower-middle-class hamlet forty miles from the city with no major highways running near its borders.†   (source)
  • You mean like Hamlet jumping into the grave?†   (source)
  • He was dressed in black and altogether looked a little bit like Hamlet.†   (source)
  • But as Booth himself would utter while performing Hamlet, there's the rub.†   (source)
  • "Easthaven could hardly be called even a hamlet when the agreement to divide the lake in half was signed," he explained, and not for the first time.†   (source)
  • Fragments of Hamlet flickered in his brain: If it be not now, yet it will come.†   (source)
  • One fink was convinced that he had talked to Adam between acts at revival of Hamlet by Civic Players; Alvarez noted description—and matched our picture all but wavy hair!†   (source)
  • Instantly, all that had come before seemed like stops along a journey to this place: the bombing in Vienna, the years of self-imposed exile, the long Hamlet-like struggle over whether it was proper for him to remarry and start another family.†   (source)
  • Hamlet's transformation.†   (source)
  • She verified this, when I inquired, by saying that she was indeed from the hamlet of South Mills—"smack dab," as she put it, in the middle of the Dismal Swamp.†   (source)
  • Lights went out in house and hamlet as they came, and doors were shut, and folk that were afield cried in terror and ran wild like hunted deer.†   (source)
  • The hamlet store, whether grocery, general, hardware, clothing, cannot compete with the supermarket and the chain organization.†   (source)
  • Why, I did not really know for a moment, until a grotesque vision of Hamlet filtered into my mind.†   (source)
  • Or does the one entitled "Hamlet" belong to this category?†   (source)
  • Although Senators were paid the munificent sum of $6 per day, and their privileges included the use of great silver snuffboxes on the Senate floor, the aristocratic manners which had characterized the first Senate were strangely out of place when the struggling hamlet of Washington became the capital city in 1800, for its rugged surroundings contrasted sharply with those enjoyed at the temporary capitals in New York and Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • I have spent the whole vacation reading Hamlet.†   (source)
  • "Well," she began, "there was once a prince of Denmark, named Hamlet…."†   (source)
  • Hamlet comes out as a new film every couple of years, it seems.†   (source)
  • I had chosen drama simply because I liked Hamlet's soliloquy beginning, "To be, or not to be."†   (source)
  • Eliot's poem does more, though, than merely draw from Hamlet.†   (source)
  • Think of the ghost of Hamlet's father when he takes to appearing on the castle ramparts at midnight.†   (source)
  • The only thing old Phoebe liked was when Hamlet patted this dog on the head.†   (source)
  • GUIL: We're on our way to England-we're taking Hamlet there. xos: What for?†   (source)
  • ROS: Well, we were bringing Hamlet-but then some piratesGUIL: I don't begin to understand.†   (source)
  • GUIL: Nothing-we're delivering Hamlet ROS: Who's he?†   (source)
  • ROS: Hamlet is not himself, outside or in.†   (source)
  • ROS: We take Hamlet to the English king, we hand over the letter-what then?†   (source)
  • PLAYER: Hamlet, in love with the old man's daughter, the old man thinks.†   (source)
  • PLAYER: There … I GUIL: We need Hamlet for our release!†   (source)
  • While tenbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear.†   (source)
  • Hamlet, act one, scene five.†   (source)
  • He would no sooner have crouched behind a balustrade to watch Cicero debating Catiline, or Hamlet debating himself.†   (source)
  • He steps up, stands at the edge of the sidewalk like an actor at center stage, and recites Hamlet in a Shakespearean accent.†   (source)
  • I gave Sam To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Walden, and The Fountainhead.†   (source)
  • The secretary and I were like Hamlet and Laertes in the final scene, where, because of harm done by one ancestor to another, we were bound to duel to the death.†   (source)
  • Tom Stoppard considers the role and fate of minor characters from Hamlet in his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.†   (source)
  • Her performance is every bit as heartbreaking as that of Ophelia, Prince Hamlet's love interest who goes mad and drowns in the most famous play in English.†   (source)
  • When Hamlet lies dead at the play's end, his friend Horatio mourns him, saying, "Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!†   (source)
  • Norse sagas, Samoan creation stories, Gravity's Rainbow, The Tale of Genji, Hamlet, last year's graduation speech, last week's Dave Barry column, On the Road and Road to Rio and "The Road Not Taken."†   (source)
  • While we may not know quite what to think about Hamlet's treatment of Ophelia or the fate of Laertes, we're pretty darned sure what we think about the evil stepmother or Rumpelstiltskin.†   (source)
  • Yes, but we recall that Hamlet is himself a hapless ditherer, and it's only circumstance that saves him from his own haplessness and confers on him something noble and tragic.†   (source)
  • The most poor Prufrock could aspire to would be Bernardo and Marcellus, the guards who first see the ghost of Hamlet's father, or possibly Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the hapless courtiersused by both sides and ultimately sent unknowing to their own executions.†   (source)
  • T S. Eliot, in "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917), has his neurotic, timorous main character say he was never cut out to be Prince Hamlet, that the most he could be is an extra, someone who could come on to fill out the numbers onstage or possibly be sacrificed to plot exigency.†   (source)
  • When Claudius, Hamlet's villainous uncle, tries to pray, he fails, saying, "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below" The spirit cannot rise up, Shakespeare suggests, when weighed down by the guilt of an unconfessed murder.†   (source)
  • This brief interplay between texts happens in only a couple of lines of verse, yet it illuminates both Eliot's poem and Shakespeare's play in ways that may surprise us, just a little, and that never would have been called into existence had Eliot not caused Prufrock to invoke Hamlet as a way of addressing his own inadequacy.†   (source)
  • By invoking not a generic figure—"I am just not cut out to be a tragic hero," for instance—but the most famous tragic hero, Hamlet, Eliot provides an instantly recognizable situation for his protagonist and adds an element of characterization that says more about his self-image than would a whole page of description.†   (source)
  • And that bastion of high culture, Gilligan's Island, had an episode where Phil Silvers, famous as TV's Sergeant Bilko and therefore adding to the highbrow content, was putting together a musical Hamlet, the highlight of which was Polonius's "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" speech set to the tune of "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen.†   (source)
  • Hamlet.†   (source)
  • The imperishable answer was, "I find it easier to believe in God than to believe that Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.†   (source)
  • I had a dog-eared copy of Hamlet in my lap, a pen tucked behind my ear, and an empty mug of hot chocolate at my feet.†   (source)
  • The spy wondered at it, and then the rain began again, bringing more lightning but at least some cooler air, and he tucked himself in under his hat and went back to Hamlet.†   (source)
  • I sometimes think of myself as Fortinbras — ha, ha — in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, who just keeps circling and circling around the action until everything else falls apart, and then strolls in at the end to pick up all the pieces for himself.†   (source)
  • He has a terrific voice, and he's a helluva handsome guy, and he's very nice to watch when he's walking or dueling or something, but he wasn't at all the way D.B. said Hamlet was.†   (source)
  • During one two-month span in the winter of 1864, he saw Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and, of course, Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • The best part in the whole picture was when old Ophelia's brother—the one that gets in the duel with Hamlet at the very end— was going away and his father was giving him a lot of advice.†   (source)
  • (To ROS:) You go to seek Lord Hamlet?†   (source)
  • ROS and GUIL, cued by Hamlet, also bow deeply-a sweeping ceremonial bow with their cloaks swept round them.†   (source)
  • They are in some desperation. cLAUDIUS: Friends both, go join you with some further aid: Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, and from his mother's closet hath he dragged him.†   (source)
  • Immediately the whole stage is lit up, revealing, upstage, arranged in the approximate positions last held by the dead TRAGEDIANS, the tableau of court and corpses which is the last scene of Hamlet.†   (source)
  • ROS (shouts) : Lord Hamlet!†   (source)
  • ROS (shouts) : Hamlet!†   (source)
  • That's west unless we're off course, in which case it's night; the King gave me the same as you, the King gave you the same as me; the King never gave me the letter, the King gave you the letter, we don't know what's in the letter; we take Hamlet to the English king, it depending on when we get there who he is, and we hand over the letter, which may or may not have something in it to keep us going, and if not, we are finished and at a loose end, if they have loose ends.†   (source)
  • …days brought up with him, awakened by a man standing on his saddle, are summoned, and arrive, and are instructed to glean what afflicts him and draw him on to pleasures, such as a play, which unfortunately, as it turns out, is abandoned in some confusion owing to certain nuances outside our appreciation —which, among other causes, results in, among other effects, a high, not to say, homicidal, excitement in Hamlet, whom we, in consequence, are escorting, for his own good, to England.†   (source)
  • ROS (efficiently): I see … I see … well, this seems to support your story such as it is-it is an exact command from the king of Denmark, for several different reasons, importing Denmark's health and England's too, that on the reading of this letter, without delay, I should have Hamlet's head cut off !†   (source)
  • GUIL: His play offended the King ROS: —offended the King GUIL: —who orders his arrest ROS: —orders his arrest GUIL: —so he escapes to England ROS: On the boat to which he meetsGUIL: Guildenstern and Rosencrantz taking Hamlet ROS: —who also offended the King GUIL: —and killed PoloniusROS: —offended the King in a variety of waysGUIL: —to England.†   (source)
  • ROS: And about Hamlet?†   (source)
  • Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact-that we, Rosencrantz and Guildenstem, bearing a letter from one king to another, are taking Hamlet to England.†   (source)
  • Is there any city or hamlet or river in the world that tells us what we're told by "Pilate"?†   (source)
  • By the time they reached the hamlet, it was late afternoon.†   (source)
  • "What we got to do," Sergeant Simpson went on, "is to lay an ambush outside the hamlet.†   (source)
  • The hamlet consisted of a cluster of little huts.†   (source)
  • A hill was taken, or a hamlet, and the only body counts that were given were for the Congs.†   (source)
  • Brunner told Carroll that he thought that one of the older girls in the hamlet was a VC.†   (source)
  • It didn't take us long to get to the hamlet.†   (source)
  • We cut through some dense underbrush for a half hour before we got near the hamlet.†   (source)
  • The reports had it that the VC came past the cemetery into the hamlet at night.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Simpson laid out a new route to the hamlet.†   (source)
  • We took trucks to the hamlet we were going to.†   (source)
  • Then we heard one of their officers yelling and motioning for us to move back toward the hamlet.†   (source)
  • It was a hamlet, the same thatched roofs, the same smell of burnt bamboo.†   (source)
  • Then we were told we had to go to the hamlet again.†   (source)
  • We were supposed to surprise them, to make them pay for coming to the hamlet.†   (source)
  • For a time I lived with friends in a hamlet outside Hanoi.†   (source)
  • Vandemere was less a town than a hamlet, home to only a few hundred people.†   (source)
  • The tiny hamlet of Rice's Station is a crossroads.†   (source)
  • "He's not happy that his peaceful hamlet is now the scene of murders and bombings."†   (source)
  • The next afternoon they stopped at a hamlet, resting and taking on water, then continued on.†   (source)
  • On July 13, in a hamlet called Nuoc Ti, they were rained out.†   (source)
  • THE POEMS OF YURII ZHIVAGO HAMLET The stir is over.†   (source)
  • HAMLET clears his throat noisily and spits into the audience.†   (source)
  • The King is a thing GUIL: A thing, my HAMLET: Of nothing.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: That I can keep your counsel and not mine own.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore.†   (source)
  • And OPHELIA runs on in some alarm, holding up her skirtsf ollowed by HAMLET.†   (source)
  • HAMLET enters, backwards, talking, followed by POLONIUS, upstage.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: Good sir, whose powers are these?†   (source)
  • HAMLET comes down to footlights and regards the audience.†   (source)
  • HAMLET draws his sword and rushes downstage.†   (source)
  • HAMLET enters behind them, talking with a soldier in arms.†   (source)
  • The lid of the other barrel (HAMLET'S) is raised.†   (source)
  • HAMLET (t0 ROS): Mark you, Guildenstern (uncertainly to GUIL) and you too; at each ear a hearer.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: S'blood, there is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.†   (source)
  • He positions ROS with his back to one wing, facing HAMLET's entrance.†   (source)
  • That is: The KING, QUEEN, LAERTES and HAMLET all dead.†   (source)
  • HAMLET (releasing ROS and mimicking) : My lord, I have news to tell you….†   (source)
  • The situation is saved: HAMLET, escorted, is marched in just as CLAUDIUS leaves.†   (source)
  • He has moved towards HAMLET but his nerve fails.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered.†   (source)
  • The black resolves itself to moonlight, by which HAMLET approaches the sleeping ROS and GUIL.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: My good friends, I'll leave you till tonight.†   (source)
  • POLONIUS breaks that up by entering upstage followed by the TRAGEDIANS and HAMLET.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body.†   (source)
  • HAMLET and his ESCORT cross the stage and go out, following CLAUDIUS.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: Ay, sir, that soaks up the King's countenance, his rewards, his authorities.†   (source)
  • HAMLET, however, continues the movement into an about-turn and walks off in the opposite direction.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.†   (source)
  • Behind them HAMLET appears from behind the umbrella.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: I am but mad north north-west; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.†   (source)
  • HAMLET crossing downstage addresses them without pause.†   (source)
  • GUIL (calls upstage to HAMLET) : My honoured lord!†   (source)
  • A lantern is lit upstage—tn fact by HAMLET.†   (source)
  • HAMLET enters opposite, slowly, dragging POLONIUS's body.†   (source)
  • HAMLET:… for you yourself, sir, should be as old as I am if like a crab you could go backward.†   (source)
  • They all meet midstage, turn upstage to walk, HAMLET in the middle, arm over each shoulder.†   (source)
  • ROS (worriedly-he walks a few paces towards HAMLET's exit) : He was dead.†   (source)
  • HAMLET, ROS and GUIL talking, the continuation of the previous scene.†   (source)
  • HAMLET moves resolutely towards one wing.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad!†   (source)
  • POLONIUS (as he follows HAMLET out): The actors are come hither my lord.†   (source)
  • HAMLET enters upstage, and pauses, weighing up the pros and cons of making his quietus.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.†   (source)
  • HAMLET: I humbly thank you-well, well, well.†   (source)
  • Roscoe, New York, is a hamlet in New York State, which according to a recent census contains 261 households.†   (source)
  • Seeking Mercy The day's work is done at Las Anonas, a railside hamlet of thirty-six families in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, when a field hand, Sirenio Gomez Fuentes, sees a startling sight: a battered and bleeding boy, naked except for his undershorts.†   (source)
  • We spent the first night of our trek in the hamlet of Phakding, a collection of a half dozen homes and lodges crowded onto a shelf of level ground on a slope above the river.†   (source)
  • What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise?†   (source)
  • Most of the hamlet had burned down, including her house, which was now smoke, and the girl danced with her eyes half closed, her feet bare.†   (source)
  • He was from Lincolnshire, England—the hamlet of Saleby—and nobody knows why he named our town Gravesend.†   (source)
  • They said they had driven all the way to a hamlet near Arras in their flatbed farm truck to look for a young cousin and her children.†   (source)
  • And in the run the medical clinic fall of 1994 he spent four months helping Fiona in Pheriche, a gloomy, wind-battered hamlet 14,000 feet above sea level, where we stayed the nights of April 4 and 5.†   (source)
  • The bottleneck, Rob explained, was due to the unusually late and heavy snowpack, which until just yesterday had kept any yaks at all from reaching Base Camp, The hamlet's half dozen lodges were completely full.†   (source)
  • World War II was well along before there was a noticeable change in the economy of that near-forgotten hamlet.†   (source)
  • We got the word that the first hamlet we had worked on the pacification patrol was being harassed by the VC.†   (source)
  • A patrol from Echo Company went out on a pacification thing to the same hamlet we went to, and two guys got hit.†   (source)
  • They terrorized the people in the hamlet, taking what they called a "tax" and killing anybody they thought might have been informing on them.†   (source)
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  • She plodded through deep sand or black mud for four miles until the bay glistened ahead, the hamlet on its shore.   (source)
    hamlet = small village
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