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  • The narrator, a famed marine biologist named Pierre Aronnax, works at the same museum as her father!†   (source)
  • A male narrator with a deep, husky (almost evil) voice set the stage for the slaughter.†   (source)
  • As for the ultimate fate of our narrator, it remains obscure.†   (source)
  • The last image to appear on the screen was Henrietta's cousin Fred Garret, standing behind an old slave shack in Clover, his back to the family cemetery where the narrator said Henrietta lay buried in an unmarked grave.†   (source)
  • But the narrator did have a thick British accent.†   (source)
  • To do that, they have to touch, hold hands even, and there's no way the narrator would have been able to do that at the start of the story.†   (source)
  • I'd been pushed away from the narrator by people crowding in to listen, well over a hundred of them, dragging their shoulder bags and garment bags across the dusty floor.†   (source)
  • The narrator described legend after legend.†   (source)
  • It seems impossible that the two young narrators are telling the truth, but you, the reader, must decide for yourself.†   (source)
  • The narrator went on to say that Akiane's mother was an atheist and that the concept of God was never discussed in their home.†   (source)
  • The narrator, he found upon reading the first sentence, bore his own name— Ishmael.†   (source)
  • The extremity of Pecola's case stemmed largely from a crippled and crippling family—unlike the average black family and unlike the narrator's.†   (source)
  • I played the part of the enslaved Motherland, tied up during the whole performance until the very end when Liberty, Glory, and the narrator untied me.†   (source)
  • 'We had to write a story with a first-person narrator, and we could pick anyone,' the boy said.†   (source)
  • But Tourteau was an excellent narrator, and he made me laugh a lot.†   (source)
  • After I did, he smiled, then hit the volume button, the sound of the narrator rising as I walked out of the room.†   (source)
  • They would gather together to converse endlessly, to tell over and over for hours on end the same jokes, to complicate to the limits of exasperation the story about the capon, which was an endless game in which the narrator asked if they wanted him to tell them the story about the capon, and when they answered yes, the narrator would say that he had not asked them to say yes, but whether they wanted him to tell them the story about the capon, and when they answered no, the narrator…†   (source)
  • "The narrator doesn't respect the beauty of life and the world around her, so it crushes her into the ground, and once she's dead she realizes everything she took for granted and didn't see right in front of her while she was alive.†   (source)
  • The narrator was reflecting on his crimes from jail.†   (source)
  • She was a gifted narrator who knew exactly where to pause, how to measure her cadence, how to explain without too many gestures, painting a scene so true to life than her listener felt as if he were there.†   (source)
  • A narrator reading off a script started the hour-and-a-half-long brief on Operation Neptune Spear.†   (source)
  • "What's an unreliable narrator?" asked Topher.†   (source)
  • May flies, the narrator explained, know the answer.†   (source)
  • The style of the letter, I'm told, bears a considerably more than passing resemblance to the style, or written mannerisms, of this narrator, and the general reader will no doubt jump to the heady conclusion that the writer of the letter and I are one and the same person.†   (source)
  • It springs from the universe and is the property of God, and the words have been intercepted—on the wing, so to speak—by such mediators as Lao-tzu, Jesus, Gautama Buddha and thousands upon thousands of lesser prophets, including your narrator, who heard the terrible truth of their drumming somewhere between Baltimore and Wilmington and set them down with the fury of a madman sculpting in stone.†   (source)
  • You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick.   (source)
    narrator = storyteller
  • A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR:  I am haunted by humans.   (source)
    narrator = someone who tells a story
  • Her aunt was no very methodical narrator, but with the help of some letters to and from Sir Thomas, and what she already knew herself, and could reasonably combine, she was soon able to understand quite as much as she wished of the circumstances attending the story.   (source)
    narrator = storyteller
  • As a young sea demon matures, the narrator said, changes happen in the monster's body.†   (source)
  • To me, the narrator's voice was nothing more than background noise.†   (source)
  • Did our narrator reach the outside world safely and build a new life for herself?†   (source)
  • The way the narrators portray Egyptian magic is also supported by archaeological evidence.†   (source)
  • The very next comment by Marlow, the narrator, is that Jim was "inscrutable at heart."†   (source)
  • Well, the narrator's voice … and the whispers.†   (source)
  • The first line tells us that the street the young narrator lives on is "blind."†   (source)
  • Peter told them it was poetic license, and an unreliable narrator-which we'd been studying, also.†   (source)
  • As I watched a montage of Akiane's artwork play across my computer screen, the narrator said, "Akiane describes God as vividly as she paints him.†   (source)
  • The narrator began recounting the story of a mysterious stone pyramid whose encrypted engraving promised to lead to lost wisdom and unfathomable power.†   (source)
  • The shambles this struggle became is most evident in the section on Pauline Breedlove, where I resorted to two voices, hers and the urging narrator's, both of which are extremely unsatisfactory to me.†   (source)
  • By the time the narrator reached this point in his account, many people were crowded around, not only people who'd just emerged from the tunnel but also those who'd been among the first to disembark.†   (source)
  • If we could establish an identity for the narrator, we felt, we might be well on the way to an explanation of how this document — let me call it that for the sake of brevity — came into being.†   (source)
  • AUTHOR'S NOTE Much of this story is based on fact, which makes me think that either the two narrators, Sadie and Carter, did a great deal of research …. or they are telling the truth.†   (source)
  • Sonny's trouble is interesting, of course, but it's merely the hook to draw us in; the real issues the story raises all concern the narrator/brother.†   (source)
  • We held out no hope of tracing the narrator herself directly. it was clear from internal evidence that she was among the first wave of women recruited for reproductive purposes and allotted to those who both required such services and could lay claim to them through their position in the elite.†   (source)
  • When the narrator watches the blind man eating—competent, busy, hungry, and, well, normal—he begins to gain a new respect for him.†   (source)
  • Now that Sonny is out of prison and not using heroin, the narrator has a chance to get to know his younger, troubled brother as he never has before.†   (source)
  • The narrator narrowly escapes before the house itself pulls apart and crashes into the "black and lurid tarn" at its base.†   (source)
  • AT THE BEGINNING of James Joyce's wonderful story "The Sisters" (1914), the unnamed young narrator mentions that his old friend and mentor, a priest, is dying.†   (source)
  • In her last novel, Wise Children, when the main character and narrator, Dora Chance, engagesin sex, the aim is usually self-expression or exertion of control over her life.†   (source)
  • The narrator, Sister, is outraged at having to cook two chickens to feed five people and a small child just because her "spoiled" sister has come home.†   (source)
  • The narrator feels her figurative horizons are also circumscribed by what seem like local certainties: early pregnancy and an unsatisfactory marriage to a man who will probably die young.†   (source)
  • In fact (such is the heartlessness of authors), for the question to really matter to us in terms of the narrator, Sonny's own future must be very cloudy.†   (source)
  • Being in early adolescence, the narrator has no way of dealing with the object of his desire, or even the wherewithal to recognize what he feels as desire.†   (source)
  • When the narrator's daughter dies and Sonny writes a caring letter of sympathy, he makes the narrator (I'm sorry he doesn't have a name) feel even greater guilt.†   (source)
  • Soon the deed is done and he lies spent beside her, at which point the narrator points out that "precisely ninety seconds" have elapsed since he walked from her to look into the bedroom.†   (source)
  • In Barbara Kingsolver's Bean Trees (1988), the main character and narrator reaches late adolescence in rural Kentucky and realizes she has no options in that world.†   (source)
  • His ostensible narrator, Diedrich Knickerbocker, is a jolly companion who spins out these tales of his Dutch ancestors without seeing all the implications.†   (source)
  • When our unnamed narrator reveals to us from the first moment that a blind man, a friend of his wife's, is coming to visit, we're not surprised that he doesn't like the prospect at all.†   (source)
  • In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," the narrator spends the opening pages describing a landscape and a day as bleak as any in literature.†   (source)
  • Its narrator is more fallible, more consistently clueless, than any narrator you're ever likely to meet in all of fiction; at the same time he's completely believable and therefore pathetic.†   (source)
  • In Eudora Welty's masterful story "Why I Live at the P.O. (1941), the narrator is engaged in a sibling rivalry with her younger sister, who has come home after leaving under suspicious if not actually disgraceful circumstances.†   (source)
  • In any case, the alcohol at supper and the marijuana after combine to relax the narrator so he can receive the full force of his insight, so he can share in the drawing of a cathedral (which, incidentally, is a place of communion).†   (source)
  • At the end of the story there's a scene we looked at in an earlier chapter, where the brother, Sonny, has returned to playing in a club and the math teacher, our narrator, goes to hear him for the first time ever.†   (source)
  • The three of them, husband, wife, and visitor, ravenously consume the meat loaf, potatoes, and vegetables, and in the course of that experience our narrator finds his antipathy toward the blind man beginning to break down.†   (source)
  • Our doubtson his behalf add to the urgency of the narrator's growth; anyone can love and understand a reformed junkie, but one who may not be reformed, who admits the perils are still there for him, offers real difficulties.†   (source)
  • When, in the course of Justine, the first novel of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the narrator's lover, Melissa, succumbs to tuberculosis, he means something very different from what Ibsen means.†   (source)
  • In Heart of Darkness (1899), the narrator, Marlow, travels up the Congo River and observes the near-total disintegration of the European psyche in Kurtz, who has been in-country so long that he has become unrecognizable.†   (source)
  • The point of view (the brother's), the depth of detail about the brother's life relative to Sonny's, the direct access to the brother's thoughts, all remind us this is about the narrator and not the jazzman.†   (source)
  • The late Ray-mond Carver wrote a story, "Cathedral" (1981), about a guy with real hang-ups: included among the many things the narrator is bigoted against are people with disabilities, minorities, those different from himself, and all parts of his wife's past in which he does not share.†   (source)
  • Darley, the narrator of the first and fourth volumes, tells us that there are at least five genders (although he leaves specifying them to our imaginations) in Alexandria, then shows them to us at full throttle.†   (source)
  • Poverty, neglect, abuse, exploitation have all combined to grind her down, and the grinding nature of her illness—and of Darley's (the narrator's) inability to save her or even to recognize his responsibilities to her—stands as the physical expression of the way life and men have quite literally used her up.†   (source)
  • At the end of James Baldwin's story "Sonny's Blues" (1957), the narrator sends a drink up to the bandstand as a gesture of solidarity and acceptance to his brilliantly talented but wayward brother, Sonny, who takes a sip and, as he launches into the next song, sets the drink on the piano, where it shimmers "like the very cup of trembling."†   (source)
  • It helps that I know that Baldwin was a preacher's son, that his most famous novel is called Go Tell It on the Mountain (1952), that the story already displays a strong Cain-and-Abel element when the narrator initially denies his responsibility toward Sonny, so my scriptural hunch was pretty strong.†   (source)
  • All the more dimensional, the rarer and sweeter when the narrator allows an element of foolery to attach itself to his sober persona, some hapless-ness or slippery shame.†   (source)
  • The voice simply floated overhead like a movie narrator's, as if a single mind controlled all the creatures.†   (source)
  • no, the narrator told them that he had not asked them to say no, but whether they wanted him to tell them the story about the capon, and when they remained silent the narrator told them that he had not asked them to remain silent but whether they wanted him to tell them the story about the capon, and no one could leave because the narrator would say that he had not asked them to leave but whether they wanted him to tell them the story about the capon, and so on and on in a vicious circle that lasted entire nights.†   (source)
  • Watched from a safe distance, says the narrator, this explosion is one of the most beautiful sights ever seen by man.†   (source)
  • Or so this narrator suggests.†   (source)
  • Even if it was a show I knew he'd seen before, he still acted interested, nodding and saying, "Hmm," and "You don't say," as if the narrator could not only hear him, but required this feedback to continue.†   (source)
  • Unreliable narrator?†   (source)
  • The narrator is an undisguised convention of the play.†   (source)
  • But, obviously, a narrator cannot take account of these differences of outlook.†   (source)
  • So far as the narrator can judge, it is fairly accurate.†   (source)
  • I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it.†   (source)
  • The narrator cannot help talking about these burials, and a word of excuse is here in place.†   (source)
  • This chronicle is drawing to an end, and this seems to be the moment for Dr. Bernard Rieux to confess that he is the narrator.†   (source)
  • However, it is not the narrator's intention to ascribe to these sanitary groups more importance than their due.†   (source)
  • The story re-creates as nearly as may be the curiously feverish atmosphere of this period, and that is why the narrator attaches importance to it.†   (source)
  • The narrator does not share that view.†   (source)
  • Under the heading "Cottard and his Relations with the Plague," we find a series of notes covering several pages and, in the narrator's opinion, these are well worth summarizing here.†   (source)
  • There were other camps of much the same kind in the town, but the narrator, for lack of firsthand information and in deference to veracity, has nothing to add about them.†   (source)
  • But once the town gates were shut, every one of us realized that all, the narrator included, were, so to speak, in the same boat, and each would have to adapt himself to the new conditions of life.†   (source)
  • And the narrator is convinced that he can set down here, as holding good for all, the feeling he personally had and to which many of his friends confessed.†   (source)
  • As it so happens, the narrator, being fully occupied elsewhere, had no occasion to visit any of them, and must fall back on Tarrou's diary for a description of the conditions in these places.†   (source)
  • And this is why the narrator declines to vaunt in overglowing terms a courage and a devotion to which he attributes only a relative and reasonable importance.†   (source)
  • However, before entering on a detailed account of the next phase, the narrator proposes to give the opinion of another witness on the period that has been described.†   (source)
  • But the narrator is inclined to think that by attributing overimportance to praiseworthy actions one may, by implication, be paying indirect but potent homage to the worse side of human nature.†   (source)
  • It only remains for the narrator to give what account he can of the rejoicings that followed, though he himself was one of those debarred from sharing in them wholeheartedly.†   (source)
  • From this angle, the narrator holds that, more than Rieux or Tarrou, Grand was the true embodiment of the quiet courage that inspired the sanitary groups.†   (source)
  • That, it may be said in passing, is why, so as not to play false to the facts, and, still more, so as not to play false to himself, the narrator has aimed at objectivity.†   (source)
  • To come at last, and more specifically, to the case of parted lovers, who present the greatest interest and of whom the narrator is, perhaps, better qualified to speak-their minds were the prey of different emotions, notably remorse.†   (source)
  • In any case the narrator (whose identity will be made known in due course) would have little claim to competence for a task like this, had not chance put him in the way of gathering much information, and had he not been, by the force of things, closely involved in all that he proposes to narrate.†   (source)
  • At this stage of the narrative, with Dr. Bernard Rieux standing at his window, the narrator may, perhaps, be allowed to justify the doctor's uncertainty and surprise-since, with very slight differences, his reaction was the same as that of the great majority of our townsfolk.†   (source)
  • That is why the narrator thinks this moment, registering the climax of the summer heat and the disease, the best for describing, on general lines and by way of illustration, the excesses of the living, burials of the dead, and the plight of parted lovers.†   (source)
  • They weren't one of those exemplary married couples of the Darby-and-Joan pattern; on the contrary, the narrator has grounds for saying that, in all probability, neither partner felt quite sure the marriage was all that could have been desired.†   (source)
  • This was their way of resisting the bondage closing in upon them, and while their resistance lacked the active virtues of the other, it had (to the narrator's thinking) its point, and moreover it bore witness, even in its futility and incoherences, to a salutary pride.†   (source)
  • In this connection the narrator is well aware how regrettable is his inability to record at this point something of a really spectacular order-some heroic feat or memorable deed like those that thrill us in the chronicles of the past.†   (source)
  • Yes, if it is a fact that people like to have examples given them, men of the type they call heroic, and if it is absolutely necessary that this narrative should include a "hero," the narrator commends to his readers, with, to his thinking, perfect justice, this insignificant and obscure hero who had to his credit only a little goodness of heart and a seemingly absurd ideal.†   (source)
  • Let us then say it was praiseworthy that Tarrou and so many others should have elected to prove that two and two make four rather than the contrary; but let us add that this good will of theirs was one that is shared by the schoolmaster and by all who have the same feelings as the schoolmaster, and, be it said to the credit of mankind, they are more numerous than one would think-such, anyhow, is the narrator's conviction.†   (source)
  • And though the narrator experienced only the common form of exile, he cannot forget the case of those who, like Rambert the journalist and a good many others, had to endure an aggravated deprivation, since, being travelers caught by the plague and forced to stay where they were, they were cut off both from the person with whom they wanted to be and from their homes as well.†   (source)
  • The present narrator has three kinds of data: first, what he saw himself; secondly, the accounts of other eyewitnesses (thanks to the part he played, he was enabled to learn their personal impressions from all those figuring in this chronicle); and, lastly, documents that subsequently came into his hands.†   (source)
  • On these occasions their auditory consists of the kinsmen, friends, and comrades of the narrator.†   (source)
  • "Why no, my dear fellow," said the astonished narrator, shrugging his shoulders.†   (source)
  • She is, on the whole, a very fair narrator, and I don't think I could improve her style.†   (source)
  • The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.†   (source)
  • "Yes," replied the narrator; "that was the name which the traveller gave to Vampa as his own."†   (source)
  • "It is said," the narrator continued, "that there is not a sound bone in the man's body.†   (source)
  • The remark, singular for a dairy-yard, was murmured by the voice behind the dun cow; but as nobody understood the reference, no notice was taken, except that the narrator seemed to think it might imply scepticism as to his tale.†   (source)
  • Over his features played an eager desire to state the amount of his valor in a similar crisis, but the narrator proceeded.†   (source)
  • AND NOT we have a new phenomenon—about which the narrator would do well to express his own amazement, if only to prevent his readers from being all too amazed on their own.†   (source)
  • …dollars a vote to the Democrats' three; and "Buck" Halloran sat one night playing cards with Jurgis and another man, who told how Halloran had been charged with the job voting a "bunch" of thirty-seven newly landed Italians, and how he, the narrator, had met the Republican worker who was after the very same gang, and how the three had effected a bargain, whereby the Italians were to vote half and half, for a glass of beer apiece, while the balance of the fund went to the conspirators!†   (source)
  • She had failed to observe the colour of Mrs. Van Osburgh's gown, and could not even say whether the old Van Osburgh Sevres had been used at the bride's table: Mrs. Peniston, in short, found that she was of more service as a listener than as a narrator.†   (source)
  • The narrator turned, saw a woman near and, not being a common person nor a coarse workman but a clever salesman and a householder, lowered his voice for the rest of the tale.†   (source)
  • Besides—though I have kept strictly all such insignificant details out of the tale—we may presume that there must have been refreshments on that night, a glass of mineral water of some sort to help the narrator on.†   (source)
  • The return of this asymmetrical Saturday was one of those petty occurrences, intra-mural, localised, almost civic, which, in uneventful lives and stable orders of society, create a kind of national unity, and become the favourite theme for conversation, for pleasantries, for anecdotes which can be embroidered as the narrator pleases; it would have provided a nucleus, ready-made, for a legendary cycle, if any of us had had the epic mind.†   (source)
  • The narrator went on— "Well, how the old woman should have had the wit to guess it I could never tell, but she found out that he was inside that there churn.†   (source)
  • It will be said that the narrator is laying it on too thick, being too romantic in associating stupor with demonic forces, even ascribing to it some sort of mystic horror.†   (source)
  • And if we look around for Hans Castorp in this setting, we will find him in the reading room, the same room where once (though this "once" is vague, since neither narrator, reader, nor hero is quite clear anymore as to the degree of pastness involved) he had been party to important disclosures concerning the organization of human progress.†   (source)
  • "To do justice to any subject, sir, the narrator must he suffered to proceed in his own way," continued the sheriff.†   (source)
  • The chief objection to them is, that the diligent narrator may lack space, or (what is often the same thing) may not be able to think of them with any degree of particularity, though he may have a philosophical confidence that if known they would be illustrative.†   (source)
  • The Puritan—if not belied by some singular stories, murmured, even at this day, under the narrator's breath—had fallen into certain transgressions to which men of his great animal development, whatever their faith or principles, must continue liable, until they put off impurity, along with the gross earthly substance that involves it.†   (source)
  • He cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a battle.†   (source)
  • But despite our narrator's fine accent and stylish turns of phrase, the German language met with no success.†   (source)
  • And Simon Ockley's[324] History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor with admiration, all the more evident on the part of the narrator, that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford[325] requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.†   (source)
  • They had the air of a rough tribunal; Jacques One and Two sitting on the old pallet-bed, each with his chin resting on his hand, and his eyes intent on the road-mender; Jacques Three, equally intent, on one knee behind them, with his agitated hand always gliding over the network of fine nerves about his mouth and nose; Defarge standing between them and the narrator, whom he had stationed in the light of the window, by turns looking from him to them, and from them to him.†   (source)
  • What the story was the reader can arrive at with sufficient certainty when told that the narrator was one of the men who had held torches for the commandant of the Tower of Antonia when, down in cell VI.†   (source)
  • But ere parting with the reader, let me say, that if this little narrative has sufficiently interested him, to awaken curiosity as to who Bartleby was, and what manner of life he led prior to the present narrator's making his acquaintance, I can only reply, that in such curiosity I fully share, but am wholly unable to gratify it.†   (source)
  • A general murmur of approbation showed that the narrator had faithfully detailed their misfortunes and sufferings.†   (source)
  • The gentleman appeared to be enumerating all his qualities to his auditors; and, as I have said, the auditors seeming to have great deference for the narrator, they every moment burst into fits of laughter.†   (source)
  • But as this is a subject which belongs rather to the politician and historian than to the humble narrator of the homebred incidents we are about to reveal, we must confine our reflections to such matters as have an immediate relation to the subject of the tale.†   (source)
  • "We have agreed that this is a dinner for recreation, with not a word about business!" and turning again to the narrator he began to laugh afresh.†   (source)
  • Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his impressions.†   (source)
  • He was in the habit of pausing for a cautious, vaguely designing chat with every hedger or ditcher on his way, and was especially willing to listen even to news which he had heard before, feeling himself at an advantage over all narrators in partially disbelieving them.†   (source)
  • "Half-an-hour ago," he pursued, "I spoke of my impatience to hear the sequel of a tale: on reflection, I find the matter will be better managed by my assuming the narrator's part, and converting you into a listener.†   (source)
  • "To prove how great and rich the men were," the narrator continued, "they sat under awnings of silk; the buckles of their saddles were of gold, as was the fringe of their bridles; the bells were of silver, and made real music.†   (source)
  • When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this[39] a thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.†   (source)
  • Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator.†   (source)
  • "And do you not remember the Frenchman's name?" said Morcerf, quite ready to aid the memory of the narrator.†   (source)
  • If he had told the truth to his hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still worse, would have thought that Rostov was himself to blame since what generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened to him.†   (source)
  • …love absorbing everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be neither narrator nor witness without being an accuser.†   (source)
  • He removed his seat into a corner of the room, where he himself would be in deep shadow, while the light would be fully thrown on the narrator; then, with head bent down and hands clasped, or rather clinched together, he prepared to give his whole attention to Caderousse, who seated himself on the little stool, exactly opposite to him.†   (source)
  • You will find me a very awkward narrator, Miss Dashwood; I hardly know where to begin.†   (source)
  • I am like the Joseph Stalin of narrators.†   (source)
  • With what modifications did the narrator reply to this interrogation?†   (source)
  • What idiosyncracies of the narrator were concomitant products of amnesia?†   (source)
  • What moved visibly above the listener's and the narrator's invisible thoughts?†   (source)
  • In what directions did listener and narrator lie?†   (source)
  • Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to him, described by the narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The Parable of the Plums?†   (source)
  • Had time equally but differently obliterated the memory of these migrations in narrator and listener?†   (source)
  • Listener, S. E. by E.: Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of latitude, N., and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45 degrees to the terrestrial equator.†   (source)
  • —I seen a Chinese one time, related the doughty narrator, that had little pills like putty and he put them in the water and they opened and every pill was something different.†   (source)
  • In narrator by the access of years and in consequence of the use of narcotic toxin: in listener by the access of years and in consequence of the action of distraction upon vicarious experiences.†   (source)
  • What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?†   (source)
  • Narrator: reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the index finger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude depicted in a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the childman weary, the manchild in the womb.†   (source)
  • …SWEETS OF SIN, anonymous author a gentleman of fashion, a temporary concussion caused by a falsely calculated movement in the course of a postcenal gymnastic display, the victim (since completely recovered) being Stephen Dedalus, professor and author, eldest surviving son of Simon Dedalus, of no fixed occupation, an aeronautical feat executed by him (narrator) in the presence of a witness, the professor and author aforesaid, with promptitude of decision and gymnastic flexibility.†   (source)
  • …fashion with the young gentleman and, interrupting the narrative at a salient point, having desired his visavis with a polite beck to have the obligingness to pass him a flagon of cordial waters at the same time by a questioning poise of the head (a whole century of polite breeding had not achieved so nice a gesture) to which was united an equivalent but contrary balance of the bottle asked the narrator as plainly as was ever done in words if he might treat him with a cup of it.†   (source)
  • By the narrator a limitation of activity, mental and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental intercourse between himself and the listener had not taken place since the consummation of puberty, indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, of the female issue of narrator and listener, 15 September 1903, there remained a period of 9 months and 1 day during which, in consequence of a preestablished natural comprehension in incomprehension between the consummated females (listener and issue), complete…†   (source)
  • [1] Because the narrator is falsely taxed with falsehood.†   (source)
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