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- I tried to distract myself by reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, which answered big questions such as how the universe began and whether time could run backward.† (source)
- Turns out Stephen Hawking has something called ALS, and he can't walk or talk, and he's probably the smartest man in the world, and everybody knows it!† (source)
- "Stephen Hawking," said Patrick.† (source)
- There were other people who suffered from ALS, Morrie knew, some of them famous, such as Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist and author of A Brief History of Time .† (source)
- When Stephen Hawking writes A Brief History of Time, what is he doing except telling us what home is like, describing the place where we live?† (source)
- Ray Charles, a blind man, had tremendous musical accomplishments, and Stephen Hawking, the physicist, is a genius despite motor neuron disease.† (source)
- For his regular column in Scientific American, he'd interviewed Nobel laureates, explained the theories of Stephen Hawking and Einstein in lay terms, and had once been credited with sparking the groundswell of public opinion that led the FDA to remove a dangerous antidepressant from the market.† (source)
- Radiation from black holes is sometimes called Hawking radiation because of him.
- You are Spaulding Street Elementary School's own personal Stephen Hawking.† (source)
- One afternoon after school, after a snack of ice cream with caramel sauce, she flipped through the cable channels and stopped at a documentary about some guy named Stephen Hawking.† (source)
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- The paper cost fifteen cents, and I sold it myself, going from class to class and standing in the hallways, hawking it like a newsboy.† (source)
- His celebrity drew people into his orbit, many of them hawking ventures in which he could invest his life insurance payoff, which he'd been allowed to keep.† (source)
- …off the rickshaw coolies clustered near the dock and walked all the way from the naval base, following the scant directions he'd been given, through the crowds in the Kweng Li market square, past the vendors selling roosters in crude rattan crates and pigs' heads and poisonous-looking fish lying blue and gutted and gaping on racks, past gray octopi in glass jars, past old women hawking kimchee and bulgoki, until he crossed the Tong Gang on the Bridge of Woes, the last landmark he knew.† (source)
- People hawking time-shares are the most insidious, luring their prospective victims with far more than the usual free T-shirt or can opener.† (source)
- Compared to us two theoreticians, Einstein and Hawking are mere applied engineers.† (source)
- There was a hawking sound, and something tepid and jellylike landed on the back of Turner's hand.† (source)
- They crossed the street and came to a corner crowded with smoky gwormmy-kabob grills and crystal smugglers hawking contraband.† (source)
- He wanted to hear Bran's laughter once more, to go hawking with Robb, to watch Rickon at play.† (source)
- If my cart was empty, I kept on hawking just to hear myself talk.† (source)
- Since then, I've been traveling around to different galleries, hawking my wares."† (source)
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- For months I traveled alone under Hawking drive.† (source)
- I watch the kids shooting marbles on sidewalks that melt into muddy gutters, the old women sitting in doorways, the street vendors in dhotis squatting on their mats, scraping coconuts, hawking marigold garlands.† (source)
- This boy looked like a complete ragamuffin, one of those urchins who stood on street corners hawking papers or picking pockets.† (source)
- Einstein, Bohr, and Hawking are modern geniuses.† (source)
- …for several parts of it; but I was well aware that if I said this I would be laughed to scorn, since Jefferson the butcher testified that he'd seen me and conversed with me, and said I'd told him we would not be needing any fresh meat; which they made a joke of later, because of the bodies in the cellar, in a broadsheet poem they were hawking about at the time of McDermott's hanging; and I thought it was very coarse and common, and disrespectful of a fellow-being's mortal struggle.† (source)
- Everybody got into the defense and we started doing some serious ball-hawking.† (source)
- The closer we got, the thicker the crowds of women and children hawking sodas and fruit and geegaws among the rubble by the side of the road.† (source)
- From below came the sounds of cars honking and merchants hawking their wares in Arabic.† (source)
- She looked like a Mongolian peasant hawking flowers in a flea market.† (source)
- Stretching ahead of us for many city blocks and honey combing off to the sides were hundreds of vendors hawking their wares.† (source)
- Perhaps I think that by speaking the words, they will prove true, and I will turn to see Darin flirting with girls, Nan hawking her jams, and Pop dealing, ever gently, with overly worried patients.† (source)
- Walking to the window, she pushed the shutters farther open and gazed down upon Aberon, with its cries of quick-fingered merchants hawking their wares to unsuspecting customers, the clotted yellow dust blowing from the western road as a caravan approached the city gates, the air that shimmered over clay tile roofs and carried the scent of cardus weed and incense from the marble temples, and the fields that surrounded Aberon like the outstretched petals of a flower.† (source)
- Finally he reached the place where Melquiades used to set up his tent and he found a taciturn Armenian who in Spanish was hawking a syrup to make oneself invisible.† (source)
- Around them, a cacophony of hawking and spitting accompanied half a dozen distant calls to prayer.† (source)
- Water softeners, car dealerships, alarm systems …. after every other song, he heard the same litany of businesses hawking their wares.† (source)
- He looked like an impoverished old man, one of those sad wandering souls who travel the provinces hawking their wares from door to door.† (source)
- "Peh!" said the man, dismissing her with a noise halfway between laughing and hawking spit.† (source)
- What at first felt uncomfortable to Bethany soon turned to relief and by the end of the week, she'd grown so pleased with her ability to cope in this environment without her mother's hawking that she began to plot ways to return.† (source)
- "He's at the Senate building, hawking his Morals Bill."† (source)
- Pitchmen yelled above the din, nasally hawking their wares in monotonic harangues while erratic explosions in the sky lit up the darkness, sending sprays of myriad fireworks cascading over a small adjacent black lake.† (source)
- A jingling music starts up and the air around her surges with the ricocheting voices of vendors hawking toasted corn and toy rockets.† (source)
- Settling back in his own chair, he explained that he had driven a car only once before in his life, and that on a country road in America, when his companion, a French seaman, suggested that they buy a car someone was hawking on the dock at Le Havre and take it into Paris.† (source)
- Shade took his of sweating construction workers spreading tar on roofs, of laborers harvesting peaches and, surprisingly, of two ten-year-old businessmen hawking lemonade in their front yard.† (source)
- The wheels of wagons and carriages, the ladies and gentlemen, the liniment vendor hawking his miracle cure—they are like dreamy figures in a pantomime.† (source)
- Vendors were hawking engravings of Nathaniel Jocelyn's portrait of Joseph Cinque, as well as lithographs and sketches of the Africans and the infamous slave-ship.† (source)
- Then when the weather turned warm the two women hatched a plot to buy fruits and vegetables from the farmers who rolled into Hampden on their wagons, and they'd spend all day canning, blasting the kitchen with heat; and later Linnie would be the brave one who went around hawking their products to the neighbors.† (source)
- Or more like a hawking party.† (source)
- My mother let me get away with wasting the extras, on grounds that it was more important to spend time on schoolbooks than hawking newspapers.† (source)
- Beside the junk salesmen stood the peddlers of hot dogs and Popsicles hawking their wares and spotting easy prey in the wide-eyed Yamacraw contingent, who did not wish to insult anyone and therefore bought almost everything.† (source)
- Today, the list of modern "fellows" was no less impressive—Einstein, Hawking, Bohr, and Celsius.† (source)
- The Hawking effect can drive one mad… or worse.† (source)
- The Hawking effect caused nausea, vertigo, headache, and hallucinations.† (source)
- He knew that time had not stopped-any more than it stopped while a ship was under Hawking drive-it was merely a matter of varying rates.† (source)
- He had read about the psychological damage to travelers who had experienced the Hawking effect directly.† (source)
- With the Hawking drive humankind had explored, colonized, and linked with farcaster worlds across many thousands of light-years.† (source)
- Nor was I a passenger on the single spinship with Hawking drive which put into Heaven's Gate each standard year.† (source)
- Barnard's had been the second extrasolar Earth colony, centuries before the Hawking drive and Hegira, and the seedships then had been huge.† (source)
- The thought that she was flying away from him faster than the speed of light, wrapped in the artificial quantum cocoon of the Hawking effect, seemed unnatural and ominous to him.† (source)
- The fleet movements were detectable as soon as the ships used their Hawking drives, and if the Consul were the spy, the CEO's revelation might be a way to scare him off.† (source)
- And only the poet can expand this universe, finding shortcuts to new realities the way the Hawking drive tunnels under the barriers of Einsteinian space/time.† (source)
- Nor had she remembered that the reason people had waited for the Hawking drive to see the spiral arm of the galaxy is that in long-term cryogenic sleep-as opposed to a few weeks or months of fugue-chances of terminal brain damage were one in six.† (source)
- Even after the Ousters acquired the Hawking drive, it remained official Hegemony policy to ignore them as long as their swarms stayed in the darkness between the stars and limited their in-system plunderings to scooping small amounts of hydrogen from gas giants and water ice from uninhabited moons.† (source)
- The Ouster Hawking wake had been noticed by Hegemony monitoring stations but was misinterpreted as merely another swarm migration which would pass no closer than half a light-year to the Bressian system.† (source)
- The Hegemony spinship was incongruously streamlined with its four sets of boom arms retracted in battle readiness, its sixty-meter command probe sharp as a Clovis point, and its Hawking drive and fusion blisters set far back along the launch shaft like feathers on an arrow.† (source)
- By the time he used his savings to ship out to Maul-Covenant on an ancient solar sail freighter with jury-rigged Hawking drives, Kassad was still lean and tall by Web standards, but what muscles there were worked wonderfully well by anyone's standards.† (source)
- I lay next to her and described the workings of the great Hawking-drive spinship which was catching the high sunlight against the drop of night above us, and all the while my hand was sliding lower along her smooth side, her skin seemed all velvet and electricity, and her breath came more quickly against my shoulder.† (source)
- The hawking mat has a primitive crash field.† (source)
- Good thing your hawking mat has a passive transponder.† (source)
- I jumped off the hawking mat, gathered up the other seven mats, and jumped aboard my own.† (source)
- The hawking mat banked right to keep us far out from the ships and lighthouse beam.† (source)
- The hawking mat lurched again, dipped once, and then fell steadily.† (source)
- I tap at the flight designs and the hawking mat speeds out over the cliff and above the harbor.† (source)
- Mike brought the hawking mat in from the east toward Firstsite.† (source)
- I set the box on the grass and remove the hawking mat.† (source)
- I leave the hawking mat there, disconnect the comlog, and lift it out.† (source)
- I asked as we secured the backpack and hawking mat under a large boulder.† (source)
- The hawking mat went rigid and lifted ten centimeters off the beach.† (source)
- I crawled on the hovering hawking mat behind Mike.† (source)
- We folded up the hawking mat and hurried to get into our Harlequin costumes.† (source)
- The crowd moves back as I tap the flight design and the hawking mat rises four meters into the air.† (source)
- Other times she would take her entourage across the river for an afternoon of hawking.† (source)
- Sounds like a marathon for hawking spitballs.† (source)
- On that first letter you have to sound like you're hawking spit."† (source)
- He managed to ride off a cliff whilst hawking.† (source)
- One peddler was hawking rats roasted on a skewer.† (source)
- Time and again I would take her hawking, but she never flew higher than the treetops.† (source)
- When she is not hawking or riding she is playing come-into-my-castle with little Alysanne Bulwer.† (source)
- Pycelle cleared his throat, which involved a deal of coughing and hawking.† (source)
- You'll take me hawking one day soon, won't you, Connor?"† (source)
- Patrek Mallister was not too ill a fellow; they shared a taste for wenches, wine, and hawking.† (source)
- The day before last she'd taken Sansa hawking.† (source)
- She brushed hair back from her eyes and squinted out over the street, with its peddlers hawking wares and women buying food and children squeezing in one last moment of playtime before they went home to do their chores.† (source)
- The sight of villagers hawking cheap plastic pails, beach balls, and shell necklaces along the road meant one thing: we were almost at the sea.† (source)
- The hawking mat was gone.† (source)
- Once, in the city of San Cristóbal, in Chiapas, I stood with Ophelia and watched him from a little distance as he strode down a narrow sidewalk, a thin, long-legged white man in a black suit, weaving his way past brown-faced women in colorful Indian shawls hawking trinkets.† (source)
- When he emerged from the noisy, smoky traffic jam in front of the hospital, a small entourage of Peruvian medical people rushed out to claim him, then hurried him past the men hawking toilet paper and balloons and newspapers, then past the armed guard at the front door.† (source)
- "Jesus, Mike, this can't be legal," I'd said when my friend unrolled the hawking mat from his backpack.† (source)
- There, rolled carefully, power lead correctly attached, lies the hawking mat Mike Osho bought in Carvnel Marketplace for thirty marks.† (source)
- I was to the first hawking mat in three strides, trying to remember from my own ride two decades earlier how the flight threads were activated.† (source)
- If Queue reached one of those… I broke into a full sprint, catching the other Lusian a few meters short of the hawking mat area and tackling him just below the knees.† (source)
- Poking along at two hundred meters on a three-century-old hawking mat with who knows how many… or how few! … hours of charge in its flight threads, possibly a thousand klicks or more from land of any sort.† (source)
- The hawking mats were illegal on most Web worlds but still a tradition on Maui-Covenant because of the Siri legend; less than two meters long and a meter wide, the ancient playthings lay waiting to carry tourists out over the sea and back again to the wandering isle.† (source)
- It had been more than a century since old Vladimir Sholokov, Old Earth emigrant, master lepidopterist, and EM systems engineer, had handcrafted the first hawking mat for his beautiful young niece on New Earth.† (source)
- Dangerous to handle, a waste of shielded monofilaments, almost impossible to deal with in controlled airspace, hawking mats had become curiosities reserved for bedtime stories, museums, and a few colony worlds.† (source)
- Mike dumped out some flowfoam cubes and then removed some jewelry of the type I'd seen handcrafted on Renaissance Vector, an inertial compass, a laser pen which might or might not be labeled a concealed weapon by ShipSecurity, another Harlequin costume-this one tailored to his more rotund form "and a hawking mat.† (source)
- After Ynys had come the Drinlcwater twins, a pair of tawny young maidens who loved hawking, hunting, climbing rocks, and making Quentyn blush.† (source)
- You'll want to go hawking with Connor."† (source)
- "True enough, but that handy fact won't get an indictment on the lessers—not when the jury's going to feel sorry for him, and the counsel starts hawking diminished capacity."† (source)
- Of course there were a lot of people working, too, in hair-braiding salons, pawnshops, small grocery stores and liquor stores, and there seemed to be at least as many people working at tables on the sidewalks, hawking music tapes, pocketbooks, wristwatches, clothes.† (source)
- He sold his organ to a blind man and left the parrot to Clara, but Nana secretly poisoned it with an overdose of cod-liver oil, because no one could stand its lusty glance, its fleas, and its harsh, tuneless hawking of paper fortunes, sawdust balls, and powders for impotence.† (source)
- The Wyls kept him hunting and hawking for eight days on the Boneway, and Lord Yronwood feasted him for a fortnight when he emerged from the mountains.† (source)
- …pants; an uproar of workers drilling holes in the pavement, knocking down trees to make room for telephone poles, knocking down telephone poles to make room for buildings, knocking down buildings to plant trees; a blockade of itinerant vendors hawking the wonders of this grindstone, that toasted peanut, this little doll that dances by itself without a single wire or thread, look for yourself, run your hand over it; a whirlwind of garbage dumps, food stands, factories, cars hurtling…† (source)
- She'll cook like my aunt Fiona, who can't be equaled in the kitchen, match me pint for pint at the pub, and like little better than to go hawking with me."† (source)
- When she's not off hawking with Janna Fossoway and Merry Crane, she's playing come-into-my-castle with that little Bulwer girl.† (source)
- Hawking, as James the First pointed out, is an extreme stirrer up of passions.† (source)
- "Hotze," said Golz grinning, making the sound deep in his throat as though hawking with a bad cold.† (source)
- I've hawked and spit all my life, and I'll be hawking and spitting in the hereafter.† (source)
- He had a new tough manner of pulling down breath and hawking into the street.† (source)
- Kay insisted on carrying the goshawk and flying her, when they went hawking together.† (source)
- We must have tournaments, and hawking, and plenty of things to do.† (source)
- Aye, and the spring hawking.† (source)
- There was a shortage of assistants in Camelot for the hawking, because there were so many people at it.† (source)
- "Kay is a splendid chap," said the Wart/ "Only I was not happy because he did not seem to want to go hawking or anything, with me, any more."† (source)
- Just as in modern shooting, you must never offer criticism to the man in command, so in hawking it was important that no outside advice should be allowed to disturb the judgment of the austringer.† (source)
- He was already deep in the hawking atmosphere, which was only partly an affair for females, and he seldom thought of her more than that He had grown into a beautifully polite youth, in spite of his ugliness, and he was too self-conscious to allow himself to have petty thoughts for long.† (source)
- It was well enough for Kay, who was not really keen on hawking except in so far as it was the proper occupation for a boy in his station of life, but the Wart had some of the falconer's feelings and knew that a lost hawk was the greatest possible calamity.† (source)
- In the afternoons the programme was: Mondays and Fridays, tilting and horsemanship; Tuesdays, hawking; Wednesdays, fencing; Thursdays, archery; Saturdays, the theory of chivalry, with the proper measures to be blown on all occasions, terminology of the chase and hunting etiquette.† (source)
- But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking—just hawking and sp—Sh!† (source)
- I shall be obliged to give up hunting, as I have given up hawking.† (source)
- He could not picture May Welland, in whatever conceivable emergency, hawking about her private difficulties and lavishing her confidences on strange men; and she had never seemed to him finer or fairer than in the week that followed.† (source)
- In the next cell was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without license; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.† (source)
- Kitty felt that in her, in her manner of life, she would find an example of what she was now so painfully seeking: interest in life, a dignity in life—apart from the worldly relations of girls with men, which so revolted Kitty, and appeared to her now as a shameful hawking about of goods in search of a purchaser.† (source)
- Boys are now hawking white ribbons along the streets; tomorrow every Arab and Jew in the city will wear them.† (source)
- But now, at hunting and hawking, and each idle sport of wood and river, who so prompt as the Templars in all these fond vanities?† (source)
- On their arrival at the castle they learned that Buckingham and the king were hawking in the marshes two or three leagues away.† (source)
- The walls were covered with embroidered hangings, on which different-coloured silks, interwoven with gold and silver threads, had been employed with all the art of which the age was capable, to represent the sports of hunting and hawking.† (source)
- And therefore the book of venery, of hawking, and hunting, is called the book of Sir Tristram.† (source)
- And after, as he grew in might and strength, he laboured ever in hunting and in hawking, so that never gentleman more, that ever we heard read of.† (source)
- And as the book saith, he began good measures of blowing of beasts of venery, and beasts of chase, and all manner of vermin, and all these terms we have yet of hawking and hunting.† (source)
- So this passed on all that winter, with all manner of hunting and hawking, and jousts and tourneys were many betwixt many great lords, and ever in all places Sir Lavaine gat great worship, so that he was nobly renowned among many knights of the Table Round.† (source)
- …day Sir Tristram would go ride a-hunting, for Sir Tristram was that time called the best chaser of the world, and the noblest blower of an horn of all manner of measures; for as books report, of Sir Tristram came all the good terms of venery and hunting, and all the sizes and measures of blowing of an horn; and of him we had first all the terms of hawking, and which were beasts of chase and beasts of venery, and which were vermins, and all the blasts that long to all manner of games.† (source)
- Welcome, said Arthur, for one of the best knights, and the gentlest of the world, and the man of most worship; for of all manner of hunting thou bearest the prize, and of all measures of blowing thou art the beginning, and of all the terms of hunting and hawking ye are the beginner, of all instruments of music ye are the best; therefore, gentle knight, said Arthur, ye are welcome to this court.† (source)
- …all those prizes for whatever he won them in the intermediate imagine climbing over the railings if anybody saw him that knew us I wonder he didnt tear a big hole in his grand funeral trousers as if the one nature gave wasnt enough for anybody hawking him down into the dirty old kitchen now is he right in his head I ask pity it wasnt washing day my old pair of drawers might have been hanging up too on the line on exhibition for all hed ever care with the ironmould mark the stupid old…† (source)
- And therefore the book of venery, of hawking, and hunting, is called the book of Sir Tristram.† (source)
- Dost thou love hawking?† (source)
- <7> He coulde hunt at the wild deer, And ride on hawking *for rivere* *by the river* With gray goshawk on hand: <8> Thereto he was a good archere, Of wrestling was there none his peer, Where any ram <9> should stand.† (source)
- Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking, or spitting, or saying we are hoarse, which are the only prologues to a bad voice?† (source)
- 'twas pretty, though a plague, To see him every hour; to sit and draw His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, In our heart's table,—heart too capable Of every line and trick of his sweet favour: But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy Must sanctify his relics.† (source)
- So this passed on all that winter, with all manner of hunting and hawking, and jousts and tourneys were many betwixt many great lords, and ever in all places Sir Lavaine gat great worship, so that he was nobly renowned among many knights of the Table Round.† (source)
- It so happened that the next day towards sunset, on coming out of a wood, Don Quixote cast his eyes over a green meadow, and at the far end of it observed some people, and as he drew nearer saw that it was a hawking party.† (source)
- And after, as he grew in might and strength, he laboured ever in hunting and in hawking, so that never gentleman more, that ever we heard read of.† (source)
- Welcome, said Arthur, for one of the best knights, and the gentlest of the world, and the man of most worship; for of all manner of hunting thou bearest the prize, and of all measures of blowing thou art the beginning, and of all the terms of hunting and hawking ye are the beginner, of all instruments of music ye are the best; therefore, gentle knight, said Arthur, ye are welcome to this court.† (source)
- …and crafty devices for overcoming the enemy in safety; in it extreme cold and intolerable heat have to be borne, indolence and sleep are despised, the bodily powers are invigorated, the limbs of him who engages in it are made supple, and, in a word, it is a pursuit which may be followed without injury to anyone and with enjoyment to many; and the best of it is, it is not for everybody, as field-sports of other sorts are, except hawking, which also is only for kings and great lords.† (source)
- And as the book saith, he began good measures of blowing of beasts of venery, and beasts of chase, and all manner of vermin, and all these terms we have yet of hawking and hunting.† (source)
- …day Sir Tristram would go ride a-hunting, for Sir Tristram was that time called the best chaser of the world, and the noblest blower of an horn of all manner of measures; for as books report, of Sir Tristram came all the good terms of venery and hunting, and all the sizes and measures of blowing of an horn; and of him we had first all the terms of hawking, and which were beasts of chase and beasts of venery, and which were vermins, and all the blasts that long to all manner of games.† (source)
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