Your troubles momentarily melt away as you become enveloped in the latest saga gripping some glossily imperfect American family. |
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Their story, told in an Icelandic saga, neatly sums up the English experience of the Norman Conquest. |
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The saga began two years ago when a swimmer died after hitting his head on a submerged post in the lake. |
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The Minister's gaffe came amidst a day of heightened pressure on all players involved in the saga. |
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Remember last year, and the whole saga of the Vicarage being saved from falling down? |
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The truth is that the Enron saga began in India many years ago, many years before I knew anything about it. |
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And because the Internet is so amazing you can see the whole saga here with just one click. |
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Indeed Mr Jones is right to acknowledge the impact the whole saga has had on staff morale. |
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History will not be on Blair's side, it will show that the whole saga is a great political scandal. |
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The saga begins in London with the American hostess Barbara Heinz inviting Dorrit to lunch. |
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It's fully revised, with a new chapter taking in the whole saga of his resignation and comeback. |
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At least one thing came out of the whole saga, and that was that I managed to write a post that brought people to my blog. |
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Instead, the whole saga was blown up by Microsoft's PR machine to help them avoid paying the huge fine. |
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Thirty seconds into the additional period came what would be the turning point of the whole saga. |
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And so began a saga that involved the Rail Regulator and the Rail Passenger Committee. |
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The whole sorry saga shows that the meaning of racism has become twisted beyond recognition. |
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We will have to wait until after the election for the next saga in the best political soap opera in history. |
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It's a revenge saga, set in 1730s China, with loads of biffo, unspoiled by trifles like a plot. |
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He knows when to sprinkle his company saga with telling anecdotes and when to lay off the technobabble. |
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The year-old murder case is pretty interesting, but it's not likely to become a full-blown, wall-to-wall media obsession like the Simpson saga. |
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The government and secret services don't appear to have learnt their lesson from that saga, but then are you surprised? |
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It is also a saga about the savagery that can result when the British and the Irish resort to their base instincts. |
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Its attempts to reduce the waiting list has become a seemingly endless saga. |
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The result is a sublime and surreal saga of self-discovery and personal growth, of existential doubt and doubtful existences. |
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Luckily, several of the speakers save the saga from wallowing in self-pity. |
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The saga literature of Ireland which has survived from earliest times owes its preservation to the monastic scriptoria. |
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Swimming Upstream is an interesting genre hybrid, part family melodrama, part sporting saga, part coming-of-age story. |
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There will be themed events each weekend and in the final week our Viking heritage will be celebrated with saga, dance and song. |
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The saga began when labor pains prematurely struck Lo's daughter, Teresa Lo, at her flat. |
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The Haldiram saga was also well mapped, but I did nod off towards the latter half. |
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Miller's round body and comeback saga make him a fan favorite, but he's neither quick nor shrewd enough to play quality defense. |
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The saga of tiny things abounds in children's rhymes, songs, storybooks and protected collections. |
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In the meantime there is nothing I can say on the whole saga until the ethics committee sits. |
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The ongoing saga of the proposed development outside my front door has reared its ugly head again. |
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Iona is a very plucky, determined, headstrong lady and is the unsung heroine in the whole of this saga. |
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The entire, sorry saga of managerial incompetence stems from that single decision. |
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This boy band saga series is the latest in an MTV cottage industry spawned by the net's first telepic of the same name. |
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But no saga of corporate back-stabbing could possibly match it, not least because in Rome, back-stabbing was more than a metaphor. |
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Over the last year he has been studiously researching the Viking saga upon which his character is based. |
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Against the background of all this shameless capitalism, a rather undignified saga rumbles on in the local press. |
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Star Wars mania hit London last night as film big guns headed to the premiere of the latest instalment in the space saga. |
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What never palls, however, is the revelation of lifestyle and the personal family saga. |
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Superficially it appears to be a conventional family saga, which opens with the familiar device of a mismarriage. |
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Over-zealous political patronage, greed and power are behind the latest saga, no doubt. |
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This is the fifth book in the series Earth's Children, a magnificent pre-historic saga set in the Ice Age. |
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Time will tell, in the meantime, this is an indispensable account of the most vital saga in modern music. |
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A new tale is being spun in the the never-ending saga of female victimology. |
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Few writers move so effortlessly from the gothic tale to the psychological thriller to the epic family saga to the lyrical novella. |
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From the moment of his death and canonization two years later, the saga of Francis of Assisi has been retold and reshaped. |
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It is half-way between a kind of intoned opera and the revenge, betrayal and interaction between men and gods of an Old Icelandic saga. |
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And trumping everything has been the Sean Taylor saga, which will continue to haunt the club through the season. |
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None of us should forget the nation's beginnings, a saga to move the stony-hearted. |
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Of course, the whole sorry saga could have been avoided, if only we'd heeded the warnings. |
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This heroic, nationalist saga has been recapitulated in hundreds of books, articles, and school-texts ever since. |
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You come to important conclusions and finish an ongoing saga of conflict today. |
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Those unfamiliar with the saga are bound to be mystified by the more arcane plot twists. |
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She made her screen debut in 1990 as Verna, a two-bit floozy in the Coen Brothers' Prohibition gangster saga Miller's Crossing. |
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There's enough meaty material in this saga to turn out a television costume drama. |
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But unlike most of the conspiracies, plots and counterplots in the Lockerbie saga, this one has been solved in days, rather than years. |
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The saga has dragged on for years since the wool processing plant closed its doors for the last time. |
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The current saga over refugee influxes would pale in comparison to the thousands of Indonesians fleeing a balkanising archipelago. |
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Sadly, the implementation process has been a saga of one botch-up after another. |
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Before Freud or Jung, Wagner's five-hour-long saga depicted an archetypal journey to self-knowledge. |
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My own opinion is that the whole flabby saga belongs in the popular media arena for which it was clearly created. |
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While the film is still an enjoyable mindless romp, it is the weakest of the four films in the saga. |
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It will bring an end to the longest-running saga in the spirits sector but also fire the starting gun on another round of brand-swapping. |
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The owners of one of the most important period houses in Cork are to cut their losses after a bitter planning saga. |
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He believed the saga had run on because his rival had not spoken out, but then defended Mr Cameron's right to remain silent. |
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The saga begins as female wasps wriggle into an unripe fig through a small hole at the end and lay eggs in developing flowers inside. |
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O'Brian himself was always nettled by the inevitable comparison of his own works with CS Forester's Hornblower saga. |
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Now that we have some distance, it's worth considering why her emotional saga drew so much ink and air and what its impact was. |
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Now we knew him, or at least a thin slice of his bio, the short, sad saga of a sot preserved among the births, graduations, weddings, and deaths. |
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Bureaucratic foot-dragging is a big reason behind the lack of low-cost housing, many activists say, and the St-Malo saga is just another example. |
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As a third generation licensed victualler I have been following the saga of the Wheatley Hotel with a mixture of amusement and incredulity. |
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But she became exasperated by the saga and decided she wanted her cash back. |
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The long-running saga of whether quarrying is to be permitted at an historic Peak District beauty spot is set for a final showdown. |
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A portrayal of modern American history as one vast and unending reactionary saga would be caricature of reality. |
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The saga reminds us that there's no such thing as frictionless entrepreneurship. |
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The book has been a saga in itself, with its subject falling out with two previous ghostwriters. |
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Beyond the Nixon saga, the book consists mostly of disjointed ramblings about assassination plots. |
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Horatio Hornblower begins his saga as a young midshipman in the British navy, during the Napoleonic era. |
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Eighty years after its publication, the eipc saga of croft farmers and their struggles is still selling steadily. |
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But the economic impact of its legal saga extends far beyond its Stamford, Connecticut, headquarters. |
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The saga of the computing industry is rich with outsize characters and surprising plot turns, but there's one story that has risen over time to mythic proportions. |
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If there's a positive thing to come out of the saga, it's the forebearance and forgiveness our political leaders have shown towards the shortcomings of the spy chappies. |
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I've been following the unfolding saga of Streatham pool and ice rink in your pages for many months now, and it seems to me we may never get a new pool hall or ice rink. |
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The latest meander in this tortuous saga was the concern raised that when the road is finally in place that people would have to pay a toll to use it. |
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Once I'd thought that this would be the epic end of my saga, but now I knew that whatever epiphanies I'd been allotted had come at the edge of his sickbed. |
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Not only for its intellectual striving, but as a sheer love-of-cinema, delight-to-watch, moviegoing treat of a superhero saga. |
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She has come a long way from the Aga saga and the cathedral close. |
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They want the full, three-generation saga, the life story, with full-throttle melodrama and comic relief, with fights and beautiful sets and aching, soulful stares. |
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In the Bulger saga, culpability within the criminal-justice system spreads far and wide. |
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Later she was described as the only sane person in the whole saga. |
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Follow along as I now review the final installment to this thrilling saga! |
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So over the years, the saga of James Gatz has been appropriated by the victors into a celebration of the very excess it abhorred. |
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And now we apparently have another major air disaster requiring the familiar saga of pursuing the black box wherever it lies. |
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The Age have collected a number of interesting articles on the saga and made them available online here, but I think you might need to register to view them. |
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Meanwhile, Chris, one of his students, is blazing away at his own novel, a historical saga that plays fast and loose with the facts about Mary, Queen of Scots. |
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On 21st November, 1953, the final scene in the saga was played out. |
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Here began a saga which though now resolved may yet have a sequel. |
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The saga has caused outrage in Italy where the mother now lives and works as a caregiver for an elderly couple in Tuscany. |
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Having heard the whole saga, I would not lay that charge at their door. |
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The saga of the mayor's proposed East London house has stirred up far more controversy than a supposedly straightforward and above-board transaction deserves. |
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An account of the sorry saga appeared in a Think Secret scoop last week. |
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Tom ended his recount of the events leading up to the murder there but promised that more on the saga would be revealed on February 4 at the Boys' School. |
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The anguish among New York Times staffers over the paper's handling of the Judith Miller saga has mounted in recent days, much to the consternation of its top executives. |
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I have known Alliata for many years and have written of this saga twice before. |
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Ultimately, the big news in the saga of the cable bundle are the effects of the new lower priced tiers evolving. |
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Yes, there are several, arguably illuminating revelations in the Chander-dog saga, but the endgame is the same. |
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And who can forget that priceless moment from the enron saga, as documented in the book The Smartest Guys in the Room. |
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At a news conference, Lucas acknowledged the political allegories of the saga, which could have contemporary resonance although he wrote it at the time of the Nixon era. |
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Jill Kelley and Natalie Khawam have emerged as key players in the saga that ensnared two top American generals. |
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The Hunger Games franchise is already a deeply political saga, chronicling a growing rebellion against a tyrannical regime. |
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The series is more a continuation of the Ewing family saga 20 years later than it is a remake. |
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The clone saga Orphan Black is pulpy, adrenaline-fueled television at its finest. |
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In chronicling this saga, Mann, currently in his 20s, is a warrior-poet from another age. |
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The saga was played out all this week in the Spanish newspapers. |
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One thing that has been proved during the whole sorry saga is that playing England internationals at different venues around the country has been a big success. |
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The Roger Miller Story tells the behind-the-scenes saga of the real life songwriter, who wasn't anywhere near so carefree as the eponymous gallivanter in his most famous number. |
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At first glance, it feels like a distaff version of the same revenge saga, but gradually it reveals itself as even more baroque than its immediate predecessor. |
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Epic saga of Kikuyu life, starting in the 19th century before the arrival of the British. |
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It also refocuses attention on the film of the Holyrood saga, which is fast becoming as controversial as the new Scottish Parliament building itself. |
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It is an epic saga that weaves together the stories of three families over multiple generations and their crucial roles in the history of alien abductions. |
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But in this bitter race, the saga surely helped Schweikert galvanize his base, which will be critical to winning the primary. |
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For Mimi, her happy second marriage has brought closure to a very unhappy saga. |
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And now the latest character in the saga is Choupette, a 9-month-old Siamese kitten upon whom he fastidiously dotes. |
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He proves he's capable of stretching out a narrative in the extended tale of Susanna Little, a saga of prejudice and bigotry set to old-time piano and fiddle. |
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Francine Prose, in a testament to her talents, has managed to create a wartime saga that is both original and epic. |
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That comfortable illusion was dealt a severe blow by the Equitable saga. |
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The saga of juice tainted by a fungicide in Brazil reveals holes in the FDA screening process for imported foods. |
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Paul Beekman Taylor argued that the Ynglinga saga was proof that the Beowulf poet was likewise working from Germanic tradition. |
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According to the saga of Erik the Red, when Erik was exiled from Iceland he sailed west and pioneered Greenland. |
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She is an Aga saga all by herself, although probably one consigned to the top shelf. |
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It seems likely that this was taken by the scribe from existing saga material. |
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Author Muriel DeBuque continues Sara's family saga in the new book, Return to Gooseneck. |
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Yet at the age of 58, the woman who is world-famous for creating the Aga saga has begun showing off like a silly teenager. |
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The Orkneyinga saga reports that Malcolm married the widow of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Ingibiorg, a daughter of Finn Arnesson. |
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A classic example of this is the current saga regarding the number of pit stops. |
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The reason for rabbinic ambiguity toward the Maccabees is rooted in the post-Hanukkah saga of the Hasmoneans. |
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A CAUTIONARY TALE WITH AN UNCERTAIN ENDING, the Asian carp saga illustrates just how much can go wrong when man looses a species on a new world. |
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The long saga of Chicago's two best-known gay newsweeklies has entered its last chapter. |
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The real breakthrough in Pilcher's career came in 1987, when she wrote the family saga, The Shell Seekers. |
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And Tim McInnerny as Gerald Fedden in The Line Of Beauty, the saving grace of this irksome saga of shallow saddoes. |
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Part II uses the saga of the Canada lynx to explore the resource constraints of ESA practice today. |
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The president claims his brother's rags-to-riches saga inspired him to run for office. |
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Having choreographed the High School Musical saga, he's perfect at sorting the best dancers from the weakest hoofers. |
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A lot of what I write into the books is bleak and challenging, but I will be the Queen of the Aga saga to my dying day. |
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The spine-chilling saga of a young divorcee struggling to raise her daughter in a rancidly damp flat oozes atmosphere. |
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Yes, I know he was the one that was married blah blah blah and she still sees herself a victim in that whole unhappy saga. |
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Emily's poems were probably written to be inserted in the saga of Gondal, several of whose characters she identified with right into adulthood. |
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Jackie French has successfully combined a saga of survival with a centuries old coming of age bildungsroman. |
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For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egil's saga. |
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On 1 October 2010, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Rowling stated a new book on the saga might happen. |
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However this also occurs in the saga of Deidre of the Sorrows making the link more tenuous. |
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And the saga of rust Cohle and Marty Hart had, sadly, come to a close. |
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Many of these kings are only mentioned in various saga and blend with Norse mythology. |
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The sordid saga calls to mind the Mel Gibson episode from a few months ago. |
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Kangkala, a calypsonian, is the narrator of Earl Lovelace's Caribbean saga. |
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Once begun, the general strike of black and white went madly and relentlessly on like some great saga. |
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It was also observed in other works of Germanic origin, Middle English poetry, and even an Icelandic prose saga. |
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The Hervarar saga is believed to contain such traditions handed down from the 4th century. |
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The result is a fascinating saga of power politics, murder, betrayal, rulership, instability, violence, statesmanship, and empire. |
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Lettish saclt means 'to say' and saka is an expression for the narrative form saga. |
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She followed him down the stairs, mouthing the saga of her husband's ailsome career. |
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Cast and Kristin Cast weave the suspenseful saga of Kalona's fall from grace in the Otherworld. |
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In Ynglinga saga, the first section of Heimskringla, an euhemerized account of the origin of the gods is provided. |
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If you were following this saga, online, it felt like a seismic rumble. |
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This week Yentob introduces us to the next chapter in the saga of Brian Pern, the former lead singer of prog rock band Thotch. |
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The saga of Newt Gingrich's ethics suddenly resembles a brawl between blindfolded boxers who flail away so wildly that each lands a haymaker on his own jaw. |
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Within the Homerian saga, the suitors are constantly likened to cattle because, in the end, on Odysseus' return they will all be slaughtered by him. |
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The event in which Theoderic kills Odoacer with his own hands is mirrored in the saga in the episode in which Dietrich kills the Dwarf King Laurin. |
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And if his love affair with Old Trafford was strained by the saga of his demand to leave earlier this season, the bond was rekindled as United claimed a vital victory. |
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They're currently in the UK touring new album Stand Up And Fight, which continues the saga of 2007's The Varangian Way but, according to frontman Mathias Nyg. |
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The following account is mainly based on the late saga sources. |
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A SCRUBBED, oversized pine table in a kitchen is the epitome of rustic but that doesn't mean that the rest of the room has to look like something out of an Aga saga. |
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Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United. |
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A scrubbed, oversized pine table in a kitchen is the epitome of rustic, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the room has to look like something out of an Aga saga. |
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The saga shows how one would typically become an earl in medieval Orkney, and the problems that would ensue if more than one person shared the earldom. |
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The following text is from Alexanders saga, an Alexander romance. |
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No, it's the Pteranodon, a fearsome flying reptile which together with its chum the Spinosaurus cause a whole lot of trouble in the latest episode of the Jurassic Park saga. |
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Settlements from that era have been found in southwest Greenland and eastern Canada, and sagas such as Saga of Erik the Red and Greenland saga speak of the settlers' exploits. |
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According to the saga, many Norsemen objected to the Norwegian king's unification politics and thus fled to other countries, including the newfound places in the west. |
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The saga began two years ago, after a meerkat population boom hit the zoo. |
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But if I can say something distinguishes Rumanian film it is the idea that something very small that happens to you is as good a subject as a saga. |
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Westray constituted a major family estate during the saga period. |
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The film version of that corrosively dysfunctional family saga, starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, is just now making its way into movie theaters around the country. |
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Set towards the end of the 19th century, this lavish saga tells the story of her rags-to-riches transformation following her employment at The Paradise department store. |
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Emily's poems were probably written to be inserted in the saga of Gondal, with which she identified herself with several of the characters right into her adulthood. |
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Icelandic saga accounts of life in Greenland were composed in the 13th century and later, and do not constitute primary sources for the history of early Norse Greenland. |
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