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I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. - Norman Mailer, An American Dream [1965] (ch. 1) Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. - Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings [1983] Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assault craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on the beach at Anopopei. All over the ship, all through the convoy, there was a knowledge that in a few hours some of them were going to be dead. - Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead [1948] Since I play no mean part in the events of this chronicle, a few words concerning my own history previous to the opening of the story I am about to tell you will surely not be amiss, and they may help you to a better understanding of my narrative. - Charles Major, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall [1902] We Caskodens take great pride in our ancestry. Some persons, I know, hold all that to be totally un-Solomonlike and the height of vanity, but, they, usually, have no ancestors of whom to be proud. - Charles Major, When Knighthood Was in Flower [1898] They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow. - Bernard Malamud, Dubin's Lives [1979] The early November street was dark though night had ended, but the wind, to the grocer's surprise, already clawed. It flung his apron into his face as he bent for the two milk cases at the curb. Morris Bober dragged the heavy boxes to the door, panting. A large brown bag of hard rolls stood in the doorway along with the sour-faced, gray-haired Poilisheh huddled there, who wanted one. - Bernard Malamud, The Assistant [1957] From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running somewhere early that morning, everybody in the same direction. - Bernard Malamud, The Fixer [1966] Feld, the shoemaker, was annoyed that his helper, Sobol, was so insensitive to his reverie that he wouldn't for a minute cease his fanatic pounding at the other bench. - Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel [1958], "The First Seven Years" In that fortunate hour of English history, when the cruel sights and haunting insecurities of the Middle Ages had passed away, and while, as yet, the fanatic zeal of Puritanism had not cast its blighting shadow over all merry and pleasant things, it seemed good to one Denzil Calmady, esquire, to build himself a stately red-brick and freestone house upon the southern verge of the great plateau of moorland which ranges northward to the confines of Windsor Forest and eastward to the Surrey Hills. - Lucas Malet (pseudonym of Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harrison), The History of Sir Richard Calmady [1901] (book I, ch. I) In May when every lusty heart flourisheth and burgeoneth, for as the season is lusty to behold and comfortable, so man and woman rejoice and gladden of summer coming with his fresh flowers: for winter with his rough winds and blasts causeth a lusty man and woman to cower, and sit fast by the fire. So in this season, as in the month of May, it befell a great anger and unhap that stinted not till the flower of chivalry of all the world was destroyed and slain; and all was long upon two unhappy knights, the which were named Agravaine and Sir Mordred, that were brethren unto Sir Gawiane. - Sir Thomas Malory (used pseudonym Morte d'Arthur), Le Morte d’Arthur (final romance) It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil. - Sir Thomas Malory (used pseudonym Morte d'Arthur), Le Morte d’Arthur (first romance) "What does this mean.--What--does this mean. . . ." "Well, now deuce take it, c'est la question, ma tres chere demoiselle!" - Thomas Mann, Buddenbooks [1901] (ch. 1), (John E. Woods translation) "And--and--what comes next?" "Oh, yes, yes, what the dickens does come next? C'est la question, ma tres chere demoiselle!" - Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks [1902] (pt. 1, ch. 1), (H.T. Lowe-Porter translation) With utmost emphasis I wish to attest that it is not out of any desire to thrust my own person into the foreground that I offer a few words about myself and my circumstances in preface to this account of the life of the last Adrian Leverkuhn, to this first and certainly very provisional biography of a musical genius, a revered man sorely tried by fate, which both raised him up and cast him down. - Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus [1947] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It was beyond the hills north of Hebron, a little east of the Jerusalem road, in the month of Adah; a spring evening, so brightly moonlit that one could have seen to read, and the leaves of the single tree there standing, an ancient and mighty terebinth, short-trunked, with strong and spreading branches, stood out find and sharp against the light, beside their clusters of blossom--highly distinct, yet shimmering in a web of moonlight. - Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers [1933] (ch. 1), (H.T. Lowe-Porter translation) Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? - Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers [1933] (prelude), (H.T. Lowe-Porter translation) The atmosphere of Torre di Venere remains unpleasant in the memory. From the first moment the air of the place made us uneasy, we felt irritable, on edge; then at the end came the shocking business of Cipolla, that dreadful being who seemed to incorporate, in so fateful and so humanly impressive a way, all the peculiar evilness of the situation as a whole. - Thomas Mann, Mario the Magician [1929], a novella, (H.T. Lowe-Porter translation) An ordinary young man was on his way from his hometown of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the canton of Graubunden. It was the height of summer, and he planned to stay for three weeks. - Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain [1924] (ch. 1) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. - Kamala Markandaya (pseudonym of Kamala Taylor), Nectar in a Sieve [1954] How is it possible to bring order out of memory? I should like to begin at the beginning, patiently, like a weaver at his loom. - Beryl Markham, West with the Night [1942], possibly written by her husband Raoul Schumacher When an American sets out to found a college, he hunts first for a hill. John Harvard was an Englishman and indifferent to high places. The result is that Harvard has become a university of vast proportions and no color. - Percy Marks, The Plastic Age [1924] (ch. 1) One noon in mid-December when Tom had been called suddenly to Washington, Polly took the train from New York to spend the night at their country place in Pyefield. - John Phillips Marquand, B.F.'s Daughter [1946] Ever since Bo-jo Brown and I had gone to one of those country day schools for little boys, Bo-jo had possessed what are known as "qualities of leadership"; that is to say, he had what it takes to be the Head Boy of the School. - John Phillips Marquand, H.M. Pulham, Esquire [1941] I knew nothing about what General Melville A. Goodwin had done in Berlin until I read of his feat in my own script shortly before going on the air one evening in October 1949. - John Phillips Marquand, Melville Goodwin, USA [1951] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Displaying page 55 of 95 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 [55] 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
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