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Galen
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  • Despite the beating and the molesting, Deborah felt closer to Galen than she ever had to Day.†   (source)
  • Then he passed the birds to Galen for gutting.†   (source)
  • When Deborah got to Galen's house, she found him lying naked on the bed.†   (source)
  • Through the mist I could make out the figures of the two interns, Galen and Peter.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Galen and I helped Joel compost chicken waste.†   (source)
  • Deborah told Bobbette that Galen had hit her, and that he sometimes talked dirty to her in the car.†   (source)
  • By the time I reached the pasture Galen and Peter had finished moving the pens.†   (source)
  • When Deborah refused, Galen raced up the street, tires screaming.†   (source)
  • Once the birds were bled out and dead, Daniel handed them, by their feet, to Galen.†   (source)
  • When he wasn't hitting her, Galen showered her with attention and gifts.†   (source)
  • Galen and I raked this into a broad rectangular mound about the size of a double bed.†   (source)
  • Soon, stories began spreading about Ethel sleeping with Day instead of Galen.†   (source)
  • From left to right: Peter, Daniel, Lucille, Galen, Teresa, and Joel.†   (source)
  • Galen jammed the car into park and yelled, "You get in this damn car girl!"†   (source)
  • Now, I know you love Galen like he your father, but you got to tell me what's goin on."†   (source)
  • "Ethel want a six-pack of soda," Galen told Deborah, then patted the mattress beside him.†   (source)
  • Ethel's husband, Galen, was Deborah's biggest problem, and he found her wherever she went.†   (source)
  • A mile, maybe, from Parth Galen in a little glade not far from the lake he found Boromir.†   (source)
  • Galen said it might be some time before he regained his strength.†   (source)
  • Galen raised the cup again, but Eugenides continued to turn his face away.†   (source)
  • "He's alive still," said Galen, after checking for a heartbeat.†   (source)
  • Galen had cut off most of the Thief's long hair, and he looked very different without it.†   (source)
  • Eugenides lay on his bed, and Galen, the palace physician, bent over him.†   (source)
  • Galen came to check on him every few days.†   (source)
  • Galen sat silently with the cup held in his hands and his hands resting in his lap.†   (source)
  • "If you had more time, Galen wouldn't let you in anyway."†   (source)
  • "Galen will throw me out if I upset you," she said, sitting down again.†   (source)
  • Galen looked up, meaning to send her away, but the struggling figure on the bed had frozen.†   (source)
  • Galen, however, was not one of Relius's informants.†   (source)
  • "Galen, I don't want to be blind when I die."†   (source)
  • No longer recognizing Galen or his assistants, he fought every dose as he'd fought the first.†   (source)
  • The third man, Eugenides saw, was one of Galen's assistants.†   (source)
  • Then I heard Galen telling you that if it was glower in my eyes, I'd be blind."†   (source)
  • Galen alone forced himself on Eugenides.†   (source)
  • Out in the library Galen bowed very formally, excusing himself before he stepped past her.†   (source)
  • Galen opened the door and gave her a warning look.†   (source)
  • "I am going to give up on wine as a soporific and take some of Galen's lethium."†   (source)
  • Galen could feel his body arching underneath him as he tried to throw the weight off his chest.†   (source)
  • That's their son, Galen, talking to Ellery West.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Galen and I hauled five-gallon buckets of blood and guts and feathers from the processing shed to the compost pile.†   (source)
  • "After you gut a few thousand chickens," Galen said dryly, "you'll either get really good at it, or you'll stop gutting chickens."†   (source)
  • But after he chased her through the house naked, it didn't seem worth it, and eventually she told Galen she didn't want any more gifts.†   (source)
  • So Deborah would just stare out the window, praying for Day to drive faster as she pushed Galen's hands away again and again.†   (source)
  • She'd try to walk home alone after work, but Galen would usually pick her up along the way and try to touch her in the car.†   (source)
  • She tried to tell Day when Galen touched her in ways she didn't think he was supposed to, but Day never believed her.†   (source)
  • But she didn't know about Galen hurting Deborah, because Deborah never told anyone—she was afraid she'd get in trouble.†   (source)
  • Everywhere she go, there go Galen—he tried to stay up at Hennie house all the time when Day gone to work.†   (source)
  • On November 10, 1966, Deborah gave birth to Alfred Jr., who she named after his father, Alfred "Cheetah" Carter, the boy Galen had once been jealous of.†   (source)
  • Bobbette stormed over to Galen and Ethel's house, and burst in their front door screaming that if either of them touched one of those Lacks children again, she'd kill them herself.†   (source)
  • In the car with Day driving and Ethel in the passenger seat, and everybody drinking except her, Deborah would sit in the back, pressed against the car door to get as far from Galen as she could.†   (source)
  • As Day drove with his arm around Ethel in front, Galen would grab Deborah in the backseat, forcing his hands under her shirt, in her pants, between her legs.†   (source)
  • A few weeks later, as Deborah walked home from work with a neighborhood boy named Alfred "Cheetah" Carter, Galen pulled up alongside them, yelling at her to get in the car.†   (source)
  • Deborah wasn't thinking about having babies anytime soon, but by the time she turned thirteen she was thinking about marrying that neighbor boy everyone called Cheetah, mainly because she thought Galen would have to stop touching her if she had a husband.†   (source)
  • They called her "that hateful woman," and when she and her husband, Galen, moved into the house, saying they were there to help with the children, Sadie and Margaret figured Ethel was trying to move in on Day.†   (source)
  • She said nothing about Galen touching her, because she was sure Bobbette would kill him and she worried that with Galen dead and Bobbette in jail for murdering him, she'd have lost the two people who cared for her most in the world.†   (source)
  • Wilderness photographer Galen Rowell spent years, before his 2002 death in a plane crash, trying to capture the transcendent beauty of these mountains that escort the Baltoro down to lower ground.†   (source)
  • At the water-side Aragorn remained, watching the bier. while Legolas and Gimli hastened back on foot to Parth Galen.†   (source)
  • He came to the edge of the lawn of Parth Galen by the shore, where the boats were drawn up out of the water.†   (source)
  • Then they turned their boat and drove it with all the speed they could against the stream back to Parth Galen.†   (source)
  • They rowed sadly along the shore, and turning into the swift-running channel they passed the green sward of Parth Galen.†   (source)
  • Seven companions we had: one we lost at Moria, the others we left at Parth Galen above Rauros: two of my kin; a Dwarf there was also, and an Elf, and two Men.†   (source)
  • Then they left Parth Galen.†   (source)
  • "Galen," he whispered, "do you think that if people are crippled in this life, they are crippled in the afterlife as well?"†   (source)
  • Eddis tried to imagine executing Galen.†   (source)
  • He slipped into the pit of his memories, and Galen repeatedly dosed him with the lethium to give him some rest.†   (source)
  • He had to be held down, and Galen, with most of his weight on Eugenides's chest, tipped the lethium into his mouth as Eugenides screamed.†   (source)
  • If it was there, it was hidden by the bowls and bandages and phials of different concoctions left by Galen and his assistants.†   (source)
  • "Thank you, Your Majesty," said Galen.†   (source)
  • She asked Galen about the bruises under his eyes, and he said that the black marks were old blood that had been trapped under the skin.†   (source)
  • On that count, Eugenides thought, and when Galen offered him another dose of lethium, he drank it and slept.†   (source)
  • Did Galen stop you from telling me?†   (source)
  • He was dozing there when Galen came by.†   (source)
  • To keep the lethium from spilling out again, Galen covered the boy's mouth with his hand, and covered his nose as well.†   (source)
  • Galen explained that the blood was from the blow to his forehead, and it had drained into his eye sockets.†   (source)
  • Despite Galen's unsympathetic words, one of his assistants showed up in the afternoon to collect the medicines, bowls, and the unused bandages.†   (source)
  • "We'll see what Galen says," the queen said, embarrassed, but she waited instead of returning to her meeting with her minister of trade.†   (source)
  • Galen was also used to seeing Eugenides's bruises and listening with no visible sympathy to his complaints.†   (source)
  • The voice paused, and Eugenides remembered begging Galen, the physician, to let him die before he was blind.†   (source)
  • "I had noticed that," said Galen.†   (source)
  • Galen had awakened him with a gentle touch on his arm, but even that gentle touch had worsened a hundred different pains, and the dull ache in his head, and the burning in his eye.†   (source)
  • If it had been a month before, one of Galen's assistants would have been sleeping in the library, ready with the lethium when Eugenides opened his eyes, and Eugenides would have been unconscious again before the visions of his nightmares had had time to clear from behind his eyelids.†   (source)
  • Galen watched with amusement.†   (source)
  • Galen told you?†   (source)
  • Galen asked.†   (source)
  • Galen sighed.†   (source)
  • Galen asked finally.†   (source)
  • Galen took his hand away.†   (source)
  • Galen's assistant asked.†   (source)
  • "Galen," Eugenides said.†   (source)
  • Galen snorted.†   (source)
  • He had only a light bundle, for he had lost his pack at Parth Galen, and all he had was a few useful things he had picked up among the wreckage of Isengard.†   (source)
  • There Frodo and Sam learned much of all that had happened to the Company after their fellowship was broken on the evil day at Parth Galen by Rauros Falls; and still there was always more to ask and more to tell.†   (source)
  • Young Galen Chervil indignantly started to point out that he'd just been classed 2nd and hadn't needed to use words in over a year.†   (source)
  • I'm Gally Chervil, I mean… Galen.†   (source)
  • Galen Chervil.†   (source)
  • "Oh," said Galen.†   (source)
  • Galen Chervil, sir.†   (source)
  • Galen Chervil, Mr. Reich.†   (source)
  • No wonder the medical fogies in Middlemarch are jealous, when some of the greatest doctors living were fierce upon Vesalius because they had believed in Galen, and he showed that Galen was wrong.†   (source)
  • The naturalists of antiquity made a special study of them, and these animals furnished many ribald figures of speech for soapbox orators in the Greek marketplace, as well as excellent dishes for the tables of rich citizens, if we're to believe Athenaeus, a Greek physician predating Galen.†   (source)
  • What says my Aesculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder?†   (source)
  • Against gluttony the remedy is abstinence, as saith Galen; but that I hold not meritorious, if he do it only for the health of his body.†   (source)
  • ]: Had old Hippocrates, or Galen, That to their books put med'cines all in, But known this secret, they had never (Of which they will be guilty ever) Been murderers of so much paper, Or wasted many a hurtless taper; No Indian drug had e'er been famed, Tabacco, sassafras not named; Ne yet, of guacum one small stick, sir, Nor Raymund Lully's great elixir.†   (source)
  • So I say; both of Galen and Paracelsus.†   (source)
  • One of my companions, Thricius Apinatus, happened to carry with him some of Hippocrates's works and Galen's Microtechne, which they hold in great estimation; for though there is no nation in the world that needs physic so little as they do, yet there is not any that honours it so much; they reckon the knowledge of it one of the pleasantest and most profitable parts of philosophy, by which, as they search into the secrets of nature, so they not only find this study highly agreeable, but…†   (source)
  • Here I saw both Socrates and Plato, who before the others stand nearest to him; Democritus, who ascribes the world to chance; Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales, Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Zeno; and I saw the good collector of the qualities, Dioscorides, I mean; and I saw Orpheus, Tully, and Linus, and moral Seneca, Euclid the geometer, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Galen, and Averrhoes, who made the great comment.†   (source)
  • It hath it original from much grief, from study and perturbation of the brain: I have read the cause of his effects in Galen: it is a kind of deafness.†   (source)
  • He has no more knowledge in Hibbocrates and Galen,—and he is a knave besides; a cowardly knave as you would desires to be acquainted withal.†   (source)
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