Raising her hand, she said, “Sure, he was about six feet tall, two hundred pounds, wearing a denim jacket with a hole near the pocket. He was wearing a ski cap, pulled down over his face. I couldn’t see the color of his skin.” +++ Within the hour, Detective Wallace and Detective Johnson arrived along with the CSI team. “What do we have?” Detective Wallace asked. Following Officer Jackson up the driveway, he led the way behind the garage. After checking the victim, Detective Wallace collected the
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from the eyes of admiring men. She spent most of her time in her room at the top of a tower. There she would sit on a bench by a moon-shaped window, reading or embroidering, chatting with her maid, and gazing out often at the garden and the river. One day as she sat there, a song floated to her from the distance, in a voice deep and sweet. She looked out and saw a fishing boat coming up the river. “Do you hear it?” she asked her maid. “How beautifully he sings!” She listened again as the voice drew
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needed to have an evening chat over dinner after work on Monday. As the front door creaked open, she was rubbing her clammy hands together. Sarah had poured two glasses of wine in hopes to ease the expected tension that was to come. It felt like reading the weather forecast with a chance of partly cloudy skies and waking up in a thunderstorm. This was going to be worse than anything she could predict. He hung up his black chiffon jacket, ran his finger through his dark black hair and unbuttoned
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In the book She Said/She Saw by Norah McClintock Tegan’s actions show in the book that she is dishonest. They are many pieces of evidence from the book that shows Tegan being dishonest. This character trait is very important in this particular book because Tegan needs to tell the truth because she is going threw a adversity where her 2 friends (Martin and Clark) got shot dead. My first example of this character trait is when Tegan and Anna (Martin’s sister) got in a fight on how Tegan lied about
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on his coat, getting ready to go home. On his way out, he passed Mr. Sam Carr, the little gray hair man who owned the store. Mr. Carr looked up at Alfred as he passed and said in a very soft voice, ''Just a moment, Alfred, one moment before you go.'' Mr. Carr spoke so quietly that he worried Alfred. ''What is it, Mr. Carr?'' ''Maybe you'd be good enough to take a few things out of your pockets and leave them here before you go.'' Said Mr. Carr. ''What things? What are you talking about
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Mary Alice said. "Oh I realize the post mentioning the possibility of you becoming the next bride was facetious, but since I'm here I see no reason why you and I can't get to know each other better," she said. "Mother, you are embarrassing me," Chris said, his voice censorious. Mary Alice reached out and touched Chris' arm. "It's all right. My mother and I are estranged. We haven't spoken in years. My father died when I was young." "Siblings? Other members of your family?" she asked. "No
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Second Coming" CHAPTER ONE Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. He was called the Cat because his back would never touch the earth. It was this man that Okonkwo threw in a fight which the old men agreed was one of the fiercest since the founder
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lunch boxs and said “have a terrific day at school sweaty” I gave her a half nod and went outside to wait for the buss. The houl town smelled like depression but I think I was the most discourage because this year I was in the same class as Arnold Feckin, which I believed his life long goal was to ruin my life, Are principal had just sent out an email explaining we will be having some new students this year in class. “Maybe one of them would
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feathers from heaven, a queen sat sewing at her window, which had a frame of black ebony wood. As she sewed she looked up at the snow and pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell into the snow. The red on the white looked so beautiful that she thought to herself, "If only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in this frame." Soon afterward she had a little daughter who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood, and therefore
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