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What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
To go with that old grey widow-maker?
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Rudyard Kipling
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I was raised Catholic. Guilt is my resting state.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch, #7))
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The event was later depicted in the movie ‘K19: The Widowmaker’, starring Harrison Ford.52
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Andrew Leatherbarrow (Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster)
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Size me up and get goosebumps, boys. I’m the widowmaker and the slayer of jungles, the mean-eyed harbinger of desolation! I’ve ripped a catamount asunder and sprinkled his fragments in my stew; one screech from me makes vultures fly, one glance puts blisters on grizzly bears, devastation rides on my every breath! Where is that stately stag to stamp his hoof or rap his antlers to these proclamations! Where is the mangy lion what will lick the salt off my name!
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Ron Hansen (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
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It’s a trick. Get an axe.” - Ash, Army of Darkness
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Pete Kahle (Widowmakers: A Benefit Anthology of Dark Fiction)
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And with that he tossed another birch log into the stove and said good night.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7))
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No bed with a dog in it is ever cold or lonely.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7))
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To think that the ancient partnership between wolves and ravens, long gone from this part of the world, had re-formed here was nothing short of awe-inspiring.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7))
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Since he has been home, he has felt unusually tender about his wife and guilty over his long absences. But he can’t tell what she feels about him. Norma Jean has never complained about his traveling; she has never made hurt remarks, like calling his truck a “widow-maker.” He is reasonably certain she has been faithful to him, but he wishes she would celebrate his permanent homecoming more happily. Norma Jean is often startled to find Leroy at home, and he thinks she seems a little disappointed about it.
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Bobbie Ann Mason (Shiloh and Other Stories)
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A branch that falls from a tree can only be a widow-maker if you’re under it at the point that it falls, and you were married before it fell. Otherwise, it’s just a happenstance meeting with a branch.
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Out of fifty, five of them emerged as our leaders: the Wraith, who moved with stealth and secrecy while he ran interference with our guards; the Scot, who sacrificed himself for others so that they would not be punished; the Widowmaker, who watched over us and planned our escape; the Sorcerer, who was able to distract and steal whatever we needed; and the Abbot, whose scholarly ways and unending faith reminded us that we were still human even though we lived as animals in a filthy cage.
We named the five of them the Quinfortis, a latin term that means the strength of five.
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Kinley MacGregor (A Dark Champion (Brotherhood of the Sword, #5))
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is this the roleplay where you sit around a table pretending to be an elf, or the roleplay where you go to the woods and actually dress up like an elf?” Terry balked at the oversimplification. “Actually, it’s a lot more nuanced than that.” Nat swivelled in her chair to find him wearing cotton stockings, a suede harlequin patch tunic and a pair of pointy rubber ear tips poking from his mess of curly brown hair. “Jesus wept,” she responded, understandably. “What’s the matter? Is it my bow?” He unhooked a plastic shortbow from his shoulder and drew back the string. “It might not look like much but let me tell you, I’ve cut down armies with this bad boy.” “Is that right?” “Yeah, I call him Widowmaker.” “And how did your wife die exactly? From shame?” “That’s not why it’s called—” Terry started, then sagged his shoulders. “You’re mean.” Nat
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D.K. Bussell (Trolled)
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In my life, I had heard hundreds of coyotes and even more dogs, but never anything like this except in television shows. Wolves had been extirpated from the Northeast more than a century ago. Never in my life had I expected to hear them howling in the wild mountains of New England. ((c) 2016, p 239)
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch, #7))
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Through the array of wireless cameras, they watch this widow-maker widow as she quickly changes from yoga pants into slacks and pulls on a sport coat over her T-shirt and carries clothes from the closet to the suitcase on the bed.
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Dean Koontz (The Praying Mantis Bride (Nameless: Season One, #3))
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Orphanizers (Demilitarization Sonnet, 1303)
Show me a nation with a huge defense budget,
I'll show you a demented nation.
Show me a nation with a big education budget,
I'll show you a nation of the future.
Disband the soldiers, empower the teachers,
Thus you plant the paradigm of peace.
Abolish all pride in nation's military,
Thus you emerge as maker of peace.
The real warmongers of the world are,
Not the world leaders, but the civilians,
Who can't think past the strength of military,
Who take pride in a genocidal arsenal of weapons.
With such civilian primitiveness rampant in society,
No conference can ensure the promise of peace.
If you really want to ensure peace on planet earth,
Denounce all politics and democracy militarist.
Stop taking pride in your national military,
That very pride floods the world with orphans.
Amidst the herd of widowmakers and orphanizers,
Wake up alone, and slogan for demilitarization!
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Abhijit Naskar (Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets)
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Stop taking pride in your national military,
That very pride floods the world with orphans.
Amidst the herd of widowmakers and orphanizers,
Wake up alone, and slogan for demilitarization!
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Abhijit Naskar (Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets)
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US government is the number 1 widow-maker, orphan-maker and refugee-maker in the world, and as such, Washington DC is the ultimate war criminal of modern history.
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Abhijit Naskar (Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch)
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I’m sick as a dog. Sinuses packed with snot. My ears felt like they were going to explode on the chopper ride. But I’m going up again tomorrow, even if it kills me. I am having trouble forgiving you.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7))
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Pulsifer’s ill temper seemed to be rising from its cobra basket again.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7))
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explained Pulsifer. He waggled his thumb at me in typical mocking fashion. “Bowditch is always the slowest draw on the course.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7))
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It was a grand, welcoming gesture that made me think of the ticket taker at a haunted house.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7))
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I stormed out of the office when Graham said he didn’t want me coughing and sneezing on everyone again.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7))
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was grateful she’d dragged herself out of her sickbed to help me.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7))
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So I’m a deviant, am I?” Finished with the facecloth, he tossed it into the sink. “Those were his words, not mine.
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Paul Doiron (Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch #7))
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the artery supplying the front (anterior) wall of Cheney’s heart, the left anterior descending (LAD), did not have significant narrowing. Absent a significant blockage in that critical vessel, sometimes indelicately called “the widowmaker,” bypass surgery is usually no better than medical therapy in improving survival.
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Dick Cheney (Heart: An American Medical Odyssey)