A cold breeze, warm sunshine and the sound of tweeting bird, a comfort the sniper had missed greatly. ... How could he possibly tell his mother that he had killed his brother in cold blood? ... The sniper sat silent unable to cry, unable to move, the numbness had returned, his blood seemed to drain from his body. He became very pale and then his blood came quickly flushing back over him like hot lava the burning from the guilt overwhelming. ...

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The frequent references to blood refer to the past, where you come from, to your origins and your "descendants". ... He strikes his son "on the side of the head but without heat", like he had struck the two mules and at times he also speaks "without heat" These images of cold violence and indifference to inflicted pain convey the child's sense of his father emotional frigidity. Mr Snopes' s cold violence is not an expression of hatred or anger: violence is a tool, used upon his son (as upon the mules) to make him to do his bidding. ... In the same way, Sarty' s father is seen as...

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Cruelty and coldness consumed the family, but, as she had learned, blood is thicker than water; her blood relatives rate higher in her life than anyone else. ... Isn't it amazing how a family can consist of people who are not blood related? ... When it comes to blood relation, the nuclear family is not alone. ... A tight group of friends also falls into the category of families without blood relation. ... Though the quote is believed by many people, blood is indeed not thicker than water. ...

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From the onset of "Barn Burning" it is obvious that the boy, Colonel Sartoris Snopes, fears his father. When he is called up to testify, his father "did not even look at him" at which point Colonel knows that "He aims for me to lie, he thought, again with that frantic grief and despair. And I will...

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My mom's side of me is full blooded Irish. ... Among the most popular and most common are the Bratwurst, usually made of ground pork and spices, the Wiener (Viennese), which may be pork or beef and is smoked and fully cooked in a water bath, and Blutwurst (blood sausage) or Schwarzwurst (black sausage) made from blood (often of pigs or geese). Thousands of types of cold cuts also are available. ...

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Jesse James Have you ever heard of J.D. Howard? Think not, of course you have, his real name was Jesse Woodson James. Jesse changed his name to J.D. Howard so he could settle down with his wife, Zee, and children, Jesse Edwards and Mary, in Nashville, Tennessee. During his stay in and around...

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Most of them looked like as if they were sleeping in death's cold arms, with their robes covered in blood. ... A nurse walked in and decided to check on everybody and do a blood test. ... But my brain took longer than that; I can feel cold sweat dripping down my forehead, poisoning my mouth as I was panicking trying to find the missing pieces. ...

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In the monotonous killing of each of the hogs, "They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold blooded, impersonal way, without a pretense of apology without the homage of a tear."(Pg. 35) The key comparison is the condition of the workingmen; as cold, efficient machinery assimilates them, a blind fate swallows them up. ... On the killing beds you were apt to be covered with blood, and it would freeze solid; if you leaned against a pillar, you would freeze to that, and if you put your hand upon the blade of you...

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Cold. ... Blood was nothing new. ... Following his father's gaze he saw as his stepmother's body flopped back, hitting the floor, blood seeping from her nose, ears, and mouth. Her eyes were still wide open, as she lay motionless upon the blood stained floor. ... Kyle reached up and touched her face, his fingers cold and nervous, tracing the soft contours. ...

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Hero Standing on a blood-soaked carpet we look on. ... Dad said he was the best of the best - it was in his blood. Blood. ... His face looked pale and cold, there was no blood left in his body. ...

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It maybe a cliche, but it was too true for journalist at the turn of the century. A Muckraker is a brave organization exposing injustices; so grave they made the blood of the average America run cold. Publishing a series of articles had a much more immediate impact. America is still facing uncoverin...

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The scent of freshly cut wood and decaying leaves hung heavy around her nose, which was cold from the crisp fall air. As she walked down the winding, wandering dirt path, the leaves cried, crackled, and crunched under her feet, reminding her of all the happy falls spent with her grandparents in the ...

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Lenny: Cold? ... Lenny: Cold? ... A blood-related father and an adopting status father. ... It explodes in a ball of blood and bones. ... The pause after this leads to the question of the legitimacy of blood relation of one of the brothers to Max, mainly that of Lenny's. ...

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His head was turned to the side and there was blood pouring from his mouth, encircling his head like a halo. The man's ice cold eyes stared into the distance, probably locked on his last view of life. ... I have really thick blood, which runs in my family. A blood clot has shot to my lungs twice in my life, which put me in the hospital for two weeks each time. I am now on blood thinners and will have to take them for the rest of my life. ...

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She began, To see that there were three women and myself, all of us on some kind of 3 journey out from that narrowed circle to our history Only a month earlier I knew none of these women, or even that they existed, and now our lives were bound together by blood and history. (93) There are references to the Bible throughout Solar Storms, so it is evident that Hogan knows the Bible and chose the name Adam's Rib to intentionally, and yet gently, hint at the character of the land. ... She is bitter and cold and scarred, not exactly what one thinks of when they think of a...

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She slept in the tub with the cold water running the night before he left, still waking up to a puddle of blood. ... Finally, in the operating room because of some complications with the birth, she lay flat on the table cold, scared, and helpless. ...

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When it comes to breaking the law, a criminal may have many different reasons for doing so. Some may feel as if a loss of sense of attachment isn't a legitimate reason for murdering someone. That same someone may feel like it is an understandable reason for someone to kidnap an innocent child. Well, in that criminals head, anything he/she does is legit just for them to feel like they have closure. That loss of sense of attachment from their family the criminal has can cause them to go downhill a lot of different ways, all of which can explain a limited number of crimes. ...

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When she learned readers were identifying with Hazel Motes' rejection of Christ, O'Connor added a preface to the second edition of Wise Blood claiming Motes' integrity lay in his inability to shake the ragged figure of Christ from his mind. ... She keeps insisting he is a good man, from good people: "You don't look a bit like you have common blood. ...

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"Put on some sun screen. Don't go out too deep. And for goodness sake, don't play 'Shark' anymore!" Mom was shouting her warning as we were already splashing in the water. The day started much the same as many others on the beautiful island of Oahu. The sky was the brightest blue, not a cloud ...

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He exploits the traditional obligation toward blood relatives to prey upon Wang. ... Setting Wang Lung's farmland is in the northern area of the province of Anhwei, which is a cold and dry country. ... His house has three tiny rooms, a thatched roof, and walls made of earthen bricks, with small window holes covered over with paper to keep out the winter cold. ...

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When I woke up from my nap I felt good and my cold was all gone. ... I thought maybe she had a cold and needed to take some cod liver oil, with a bowl of homemade soup. ... It is a pump in your body that keeps the blood flowing throughout the body. ...

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You don't look a bit like you have common blood. ... How can she tell, simply by looking at him, that he doesn't have "common blood"? ... "She said she thought it was going to be a good day for driving, neither too hot nor too cold, and she cautioned Bailey that the speed limit was fifty-five miles an hour and that the patrolmen hid themselves behind billboards and small clumps of trees and sped out after you before you had a chance to slow down. ...

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"Haven't spoken in five years" (Aiello,D. 1987) as he looks at his left and cringes; "there is some bad blood.... Instead of the moon, promoting 'amore' it could turn into a blood moon. ... As quoted by Roger Ebert, "The cinematography by David Watkin often bathes the characters in the cold light of the full moon, when they are for a second seized with sublimity; otherwise he uses warm domestic colors, and creates an unusual sense of place" (Ebert, R. 2003). ...

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I woke up Saturday morning and he was gone. I heard loud stomping in the hallway going towards my grandparents room. Then the stomping stopped and the screaming began. "No! Dad! Wake up!" I already knew what had happened. My grandpa was dead. I threw off my blanket and opened my door. I couldn't bea...

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A father's affection and ideals are the bedrock upon which their children's ideas are constructed. This idea is especially prevalent for Baba and Rahim Khan throughout Khaled Hosseini's novel, "The Kite Runner," where they demonstrate their vastly different approaches to raising Amir. First, Rahim a...

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