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  1. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    For weeks in advance of the date he would storm and rage and fulminate about the inequity of it all, and the old contumacious fire-breathing spirit arose like a phoenix from the ashes of his contentment.
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  2. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    In de Pekel Zitten
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  3. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    And music. What would a wedding be without it?
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  4. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    At that, Jeremias idly swung the war club to his shoulder, where the weight of the ball bowed it like the arm of a catapult. The door stood open still and the elemental scent of the land rose to his nostrils, a scent of vitality and decay, of birth and death. He looked the Jongheer full in the face. "Come and get me," he said.
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  5. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    For some strange reason, probably having to do with the moon shot, UFOs and the accoustic quality of the snow-laden air, her voice seemed to boom out across the water as if she were leading cheers through a megaphone. Someone handed her the joint. She inhaled, and was quiet.
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  6. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    The first time they'd docked at Peterskill there'd been a bunch of jerks waiting for them with signs that read WAKE UP, AMERICA: PETERSKILL DID!, and at Cold Spring a troop of big-armed women in what looked like nurses' uniforms had showed up to wave flags as if they had a patent on them.
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  7. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    She was wearing some sort of fur hat pulled down to her eyes and a raccoon coat over a flesh-colored body stocking. And boots. Red, blue, yellow and orange frilled and spangled high-heeled cowgirl boots.
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  8. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    But for now-for this thumping, glorious, wind-scoured moment-he was sailing.
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  9. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    You can't be serious," he said. "You mean this is the big secret, this is why you screwed us all over-because of some forgotten shit that went down hundreds of years ago?
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  10. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    they were convicted of high treason and armed rebellion against the authority of the Crown {the brick constituting, for Stephanus' purposes, a potentially lethal weapon-lethal, in any case, to manorial windows}.
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  11. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    To complete the ensemble, he wore a jeweled rapier at his side, a floppy hat surmounted by a three-foot yellow plume, and so many silver and brass buckles he actually jingled like a sack of coins as his mount picked its way up the road.
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  12. T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End

    The jukebox started up with the sound of shattering glass and rocks against the flanks of buses.
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