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  • En dat po 'boy dat you's be'n a-kickin' en a-cuffin 'today is Percy Driscoll's son en yo' _marster_ -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot - Percy helps Clarisse, when her half brothers, the demigods Phobos (fear) and Deimos (terror) take Ares chariot, which he had entrusted to Clarisse. Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » March
  • The newest member of the Royal family, and the novelist are 11th cousins, six times removed.They share a common 15th century ancestor: Henry Percy, who was the 2nd Earl of Northumberland.
  • Of course such a backset could not long deter Percy from flying. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck
  • Despite their inferiority, York could feel aggrieved about Percy Park's third try which followed a blatantly forward pass.
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  • Here endeth the fourteenth booke, which is of Syr Percyval. Chapter X. The Fourteenth Book. How Sir Percivale for Penance Rove Himself through the Thigh; and How She Was Known for the Devil
  • Soul meets soul on lovers lips. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • The chronicles state that the abbey established a large farmstead - known as a grange - 20 miles away near Wharram Percy, and that a water mill was soon added.
  • He helped Percy evade the Germans, and in no time had landed him a job as a slater, working near Calais.
  • RICHARD II. to THOMAS MOWBRAY, Earl Marshal, and now borne by the Duke of NORFOLK, is _a lion statant guardant, his tail extended or, and ducally gorged arg. _: the PERCY lion is _statant, his tail extended or_: each lion stands upon a chapeau. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • She met Percy while she was preparing to tour America with the play Love Letters, co-starring George Hamilton.
  • Now, Percy, get yourself up on the animal's back, sitting sideways or side-saddle. GOODBYE CURATE
  • And this season's contest, to be held on March 29 at Percy Road, should be no different with a feast of rugby set to be on offer.
  • Esclairmonde -- nay, after every glance towards her -- as though it were a blessed thing to have, like her, chosen the better part; he knew she would approve his resort to the home of piety and learning; he was aware that when with Ralf Percy and the other youths of the Court he was ashamed of his own scrupulousness, and tempted to neglect observances that they might call monkish and unmanly; and he was not at all sure that in face of the enemy a panic might not seize him and disgrace him for ever! The Caged Lion
  • Master P (aka Percy Miller) is a down south cat, born and raised in downtown New Orleans.
  • I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Percy was wearing a crisp new set of whites and swishing his racket experimentally at tiny insects.
  • Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • And finally, for the Brits, Percy Shaw -- this is a big British invention -- saw the cat's eyes at the side of the road, when he was driving home one night and from that came the Catseye. Paul Bennett finds design in the details
  • Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Percy the Peacock's luxuriantly highlighted and coiffured barnet is his pride and joy. Because You`re Worth It ...
  • I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India! Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • And when Percy came to the apartment at 10: 00 in the morning to work with me on his computer, I was in floods of tears.
  • ‘Hell no,’ Percy agreed as he passed out fresh flagons.
  • Poseidon is fighting the Titan Oceanus (underwater, of course) but tells Percy it is time for him to hear the prophecy. (more …) Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » May
  • The soaring song of the skylark, Percy Bysshe Shelley observed nearly 200 years ago, is like an unending ‘crystal stream’.
  • As he went back to where the Percys were, four men wearing rubber gauntlets came carrying large aluminum cans.
  • Fullback Percy Montgomery spearheaded the Stormers to a 40-13 thrashing of the Hurricanes in a Super 12 rugby match here last night.
  • Among the new exhibits is a footbridge that once stood at Percy Main and a segment of the Channel Tunnel.
  • If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India! Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Bennet Langton, George Stevens, Dr. Percy, celebrated for his ancient ballads, and sometimes Warburton in prelatic state. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • In the same year (1826), however, the death of Shelley's son by Harriet made little Percy a person of consequence as heir to the baronetcy, and her position improved. Biography in the DNB
  • Owain defeated an English and Gascon force at Soubise later that year, capturing Sir Thomas Percy and Jean de Grailly, the Captal de Buch. Kings and Princes
  • The Percy committee is busy fund raising all year long to come up with the money for their event.
  • Even so, the thought of life from a thundercloud thrilled Percy Shelley, who was a keen electrical experimenter, and was immortalised by his wife Mary in her novel Frankenstein.
  • She thought wryly that had Lady Percy's dress had a centimeter less of décolletage, her breasts would spill out into Lord Beaumont's hands.
  • Eldest son of the earl of Northumberland, Percy was first appointed sole warden of the east march in 1385; Scottish borderers were soon calling him ‘Haatspore’.
  • 'I will not bear with interference, if not from Percy, certainly not from his deputy -- a mere spoilt child, a very good child, but spoilt by her position, by John's over-estimate of her, and by the deference exacted by her weakness and her engagingness. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife
  • When William Godwin found out, he was mightily annoyed (especially since the debt-paying-off never eventuated), and Mary and Percy ran away together to live in sin. Archive 2009-03-01
  • To recap: Percy, Grover, Annabeth, and Sally need a way to escape from the underworld. PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF Review – Collider.com
  • Thomas Percy, one of the conspirators, was a distant cousin, had been employed by Northumberland as constable of Alnwick castle, and had been made a gentleman pensioner.
  • Before we go a sentence further, I must tell you, I am truly a mild-mannered fella, benignly boisterous at times, but, a Peaceful Percy for the most part. Binky Philips: I Get Bounced From the Buzzcocks
  • Although he begged for his life, Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, a Knight of the Garter, a former steward of the royal household and a veteran of some of the fiercest battles of the French wars, was put to the axe.
  • W idly compared those divisions to the one that people had long used to make sense of Percy Shelley, the opposition between idealism and skepticism that received its own categorical shake-up with the 1980s stress on Percy's language, which did not so much sublate idealism and skepticism as reorient the discussion around a deconstructive figuring of tropes preceding either of those terms. The Sorrows of Young Wieboldt
  • The earliest citation of hotspur was in a chronicle a half-century later: “Herry Percy the yonger, whom the Scottis clepid Herry Hatspore.” No Uncertain Terms
  • Percy's remark has long resonated with me because he so pithily nails an essential issue: reality is too big, mysterious, strange, and surprising for a merely materialistic explanation. Science
  • A dream has power to poison sleep. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • En dat po 'boy dat you's be'n a-kickin' en a-cuffin 'today is Percy Driscoll's son en yo' marster -- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • At the very last of his life, while he was at work on his "Spectatorus," which foreran the American idea of a Hippodrome, and which might have, in years to come, happily housed his son Percy's "Caliban," he was at the same time attempting to combine with it an educational aspect which would lift it above the mere spectacular. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy
  • Alas, and alack, I was a few seconds too late and I will miss Percy a great deal.
  • Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Nellie, the eldest child and closest to John, married an aspiring theatrical agent and manager, Percy Rimmer.
  • Every dictionary worth its spurs notes that the word hotspur was the sobriquet of Sir Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, killed in 1403 in the rebellion against Henry IV. No Uncertain Terms
  • D.A.D.S. program at Percy Clark's personal direction, will face murder charges in the 1983 death of a prostitute whose partially-disrobed body was found dumped near an LA Times distribution center. This is an archive of a past election
  • Sir Percy, Ellen The Generous, Kara and Simon all find various ways -- "pitchy" "you went off" and "wasn't a perfect vocal" among them -- to note his off performance, but quickly add: Two Idolettes sing one last time
  • A special appositeness was given to these reflections by the discovery, in a neighbouring pew, of the serious profile and neatly-trimmed beard of Mr. Percy Gryce. The House of Mirth
  • However, Percy decided to fly off early on Saturday morning, and his whereabouts are currently unknown.
  • Douglas I. Pirus Garden Grove, California I. his letter [XI.,1] R. Antony Percy mentions the word marrowsky in lower case. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3
  • And Percy von Lipinski sent this video of his trip to Victoria Falls, which is located on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia. CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2009
  • The sort of scholarship which predominated was textual scholarship, as exemplified by Percy Simpson's monumental edition of Ben Jonson.
  • The Greek Echidna, the mother of monsters, identifies herself to the story's hero, Percy and he says, "Isn't that a kind of anteater? A Brief Sea Change
  • Percy is a rugged soldier, cholerick and quarrelsome, and has only the soldier's virtues, generosity and courage. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
  • The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley's heart refused to burn at his cremation, leading his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein, to keep it as a memento in her writing desk until the day she died.
  • Paul Richardson had assured Stephen that Percy Gittings was the best painter and decorator the island had to offer.
  • In the star class, Iain Percy and Steve Mitchell came in sixth in the fifth race to move to ninth in the overall standings.
  • The honour of wearing number 2, and therefore being first out of the gate, fell to John Douglas of Saskatchewan who also got to carry the commemorative mailbag celebrating Percy's 40 years in harness.
  • The film will show Marsha leaving the cinema, getting on the bus, alighting at Percy Road,, walking towards her home, then being discovered by neighbours.
  • Fr Percy officiated at the service at which everyone wept.
  • The vet, old Percy, was an islander, a Volunteer.
  • Among the new exhibits is a footbridge that once stood at Percy Main and a segment of the Channel Tunnel.
  • However, it was abundant only at the Percy Chester mine, where it occurred as coatings and fillings in solution channels.
  • Yes, and banged up some too; but mighty glad he didn't go kerflummick down to them rocks when Percy foozled," grumbled another voice. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck
  • George Percy Badger; and, finally, by submitting my proofs to the corrections and additions of the lexicologist Dr. Steingass. Arabian nights. English
  • The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • This morning's ruling cleared the way for the convicted child rapist, locally-registered sex offender, fugitive sex murder suspect, and buddy of PUSD supe Percy Clark to be remanded to the custody of the Orange County Sheriff for transportation back to This is an archive of a past election
  • Horace Walpole was as enthusiastic as either of them; good eighteenth century prelates like Hurd and Percy, found in what they called the Gothic an inexhaustible source of delight. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
  • In the Seattle Times, meanwhile, sportswriter Percy Allen paints a different money picture.
  • Sunday: I opened last week with Percy B. Shelley's Ozymandias, a poem about Louis B. Mayer, to try and get across the point that Rachel's, or Boobiac's, megalomaniacal power-crazedness last week was short-sighted, as her queendom would not endure. Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Sorrows of Boobiac.
  • An intro chapter from The Last Olympian is included, showing the Percy is going to get into trouble not only with Titans but with girls (Rachael and Annabeth). Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » March
  • In the past, Percy served as comic relief, a stuffed shirt whose obsequiousness toward authority figures was matched only by his imperiousness toward younger students.
  • Our higher ground position and the ridge wall gave us the advantage over Percy and his friend.
  • The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Those two little words formed the basis of an 80-year marriage, or so centenarians Percy and Florence Arrowsmith would have us believe.
  • Although Bartlett finds some irony in Cantor's "memorable," even "remarkable" portrait of Kantorowicz ” which occupies half of a long chapter entitled "The Nazi Twins" (Percy Ernst Schramm being the intellectual jugate) ” he accepts without question things Cantor sets down as self-evident truths. Defending Kantorowicz
  • Percy has written a long ballad in many fits: it is pretty enough.
  • Occasionally, she might add a little chicken salad that Percy had made, himself, that very morning.
  • Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Percy sings a Spanish seguidilla, or a German lied, or a French romance, or a Neapolitan canzonet, which, I am bound to say, excites very little attention. The Newcomes
  • I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • His writings state the abbey founded a large farmstead, or grange, and a water mill 20 miles away near Wharram Percy, south of Malton.
  • And here was this dead-and-alive Percy Lunt, saying she never thought! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
  • The massive margin of victory recorded by Bridlington over Bolton Percy in no way reflected their close proximity in the league table where the coastal outfit leapfrogged their opponents after winning by 215 runs.
  • The Pocklington tyros which inspired the Percy Roaders to a 54-5 win over Hull Ionians Hawks last week will miss out for the club's final Yorkshire Two clash of the season against West Leeds.
  • The sort of scholarship which predominated was textual scholarship, as exemplified by Percy Simpson's monumental edition of Ben Jonson.
  • With Percy Montgomery at fullback and Fourie and De Villiers on the wings, the Boks don't lack for height at the back.
  • Toby was always humming, 'Lillibullero bullen-a-lah,' but which Percy attributes to the Marquis of Wharton, another member of the Kit-kat, was said to have been written by Buckhurst. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
  • All love is sweet, given or received. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • In the Intermediate Cup, York and Scarborough will renew hostilities at Clifton Park, Pocklington and York RI will clash at Percy Road and Selby play hosts to Northallerton.
  • Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Her prolonged absence had affected his concentration, and he'd made a hash of the signature of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
  • As for Terry Maher, I insist that he shout me a red wine at Percy's.
  • Percy Chapman & Son was established in 1886 by Percy Chapman when he was 16, selling corn and seed to local smallholdings.
  • Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Thatcher's personal adviser Sir Percy Cradock also made a secret visit in December, with as little success.
  • Ken and Percy Muller used to harmonise the song about the municipal nightcart way back in the '50s and '60s.
  • When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Eric contacted traffic control and made arrangements to dock the the boat in one of Percy's private moorings.
  • Percy was lying prostrate, his arms outstretched and his eyes closed.
  • O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Mátyás Seiber's hilarious tangos and foxtrots will put a spring in your step, while you can melt over Percy Grainger's (yes!) arrangement of Gershwin's "Embraceable You". Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow: The Jazz Age for Piano Duo – review
  • Behind the scenes, Wharton arranged to have Percy Lubbock, a James acolyte and the author of the very Jamesian "Craft of Fiction," given the job. The Afterlife of the Lion
  • Percy, meet my cousin, Meg Patrick.
  • There was only one side trying to play rugby from the outset at Percy Road.
  • I think Percy Smith was strongest at coon songs, and Trail sang all sorts, and G. and Kirke played accompaniments, whilst the writer picked out his own to a chantie respecting the procedure to be taken with an inebriated mariner -- such a merry evening! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
  • Perhaps... Yes, it can only be because she thinks Percy has some new villainy in mind, and that she is helping to protect you. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • A Robert Hunter song, not to be confused with the better-known song of the same title recorded by Percy Sledge and others. When A Man Loves A Woman
  • My mother was appalled that we had even contemplated taking Percy to the vet to be put down.
  • The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India! Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • In Percy's 1990 novel "Love in the Ruins," a faction of Southern white men called itself the "Christian Conservative Constitutional Party," until some New York smart aleck noticed that the acronym CCCP also appeared on Soviet cosmonauts 'uniforms. The Daily News Tribune Homepage RSS
  • La, Sir Percy, your chivalry misguides you," said Marguerite, coquettishly, "you forget that you yourself have imported one bundle of goods from France. The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • My mother was appalled that we had even contemplated taking Percy to the vet to be put down.
  • On the old motte a great keep or tower house was raised, emblazoned with an imposing heraldic panel carrying the Percy Lion.
  • She met Percy while she was preparing to tour America with the play Love Letters, co-starring George Hamilton.
  • Lord Percy returned several days later to find his wife laid in state and his son grievously ill.
  • REP: Canon Dr Martyn Percy is a historian of the Anglican Church.
  • Msuwa, a village situated in a populous district, having in its vicinity no less than five other villages, each fortified by stakes and thorny abattis, with as much fierce independence as if their petty lords were so many Percys and Douglasses. How I Found Livingstone
  • It's the star here at Percy, available traditional (part "moist" - aka deliciously fatty - and part lean, with burnt ends) or extra lean, for those averse to the fat. The Clog
  • Percy, who disapproved of what he termed their childish behavior, didn't spend much time in the Gryffindor common room. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • I found the scene in which Percy proposed to Olive tremendously poignant.
  • Percy, determined to evade capture once more, somehow escaped to Marseilles.
  • After washing with a staining buffer, cells were incubated with anti-mouse CD16/32 (Fc block, e-Bioscience) for 30 min on ice to block the FcR non-specific binding and subsequently stained for surface markers with PE-anti-CD4, FITC-anti-CD3ε, PerCy-anti-CD8 or isotype controls for PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • A form of pragmatism, it was expounded by an American physicist, Percy Bridgman.
  • A literary tour through the state evokes the voices of Percy, Welty, Williams, and more
  • That would have to be his audaciousness," said a family friend of Percy Sutton. Michael Henry Adams: "Black Royalty"?
  • The atmosphere was as energized and unalienated as the pre-hurricane parties that used to amuse Walker Percy. American Sketches
  • American Author Walker Percy's novel, Lost in the Cosmos, calls the reader into a morass of social irony and introspection.
  • O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • Like the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poe was a rebellious adolescent, wild in the fashion of Romantic poets and young southern gentlemen.
  • The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  • The implications of the work at Wharram Percy are of enormous interest for our understanding of how settlements and the landscape developed.
  • That's Mr. Waymark," cried out Master Percy Tootle, when his overquick eyes perceived that the two had seen each other. The Unclassed

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