As the author goes on the reader senses a tense mood between husband and wife. ... As if she were a robot, she went down into the basement and picked a leg of lamb to cook for supper. ... The theme begins to arise with Mary striking Patrick over the head with the leg of lamb. ... "Briefly, she told her story about going out to the grocer and coming back to find him on the floor." ... When he returned to the living room she urged him and the other detectives to eat the leg of lamb, "It"ll be cooked just right by now." ...

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As we see from conversation between saloon owner and one of the visitors, that Scratchy Wilson often goes on a shooting rampages when he is drunk, and the only person who can tame him is Jack Potter. What's interesting is that Jack never dealt with Scratchy in severe matter, as a matter of fact the worst it ever got, was when Scratchy got shot in the leg. ...

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The lottery enforces an unfair distinction in class status between men and women. Women are subordinate in the social power structure of the village, as shown when Mrs. Hutchinson's family is chosen in the first round. Objecting that her daughter and son-in-law "didn't take their chance," (562) Mr. ...

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When John Dunbar is waiting for the doctors to amputate his leg. ... It doesn't go quit as planned, however and he ends up being the hero the turned the battle around. ... John Dunbar's choice is to go west to the Indian frontier. ... Dances with Wolves tried to go back for his journal so that no one would track them, but ended up getting trapped. He eventually got to go back to the tribe once he was rescued by some of the Indians. ...

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Charles Bovary first met Emma Rouault when he was on a medical call to fix her father's broken leg. ... After frequent visits to her farm, even after her father's leg was healed, Charles gives a thought about if he would like to marry Emma but he is uncertain. ... As time goes on the plaster on the priest starts to flake off, showing the demoralization and fragileness of her religion (Turnell 103). ...

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This is reflected by the confidence afforded him by the inmates of the Weary Gentleman saloon, with the barkeeper commenting "He shot Wilson up once - in the leg - and he would said in and pull out the kinks in this thing" (255). ... In Yellow Sky, it is up to Jack Potter, the only resident not scared of Scratchy to go out and fight Scratchy. ...

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I was originally going to write about the families, or familias, of the ancient Romans. ... So I"m not going to write about that. ... I am going to talk about something completely different, yet on topic. ... My brother and I were both trying to stomp out the flames, except the rug would stick to our shoes and rip off the floor, causing us to have burning carpet trying to lick up our pant-legs. ... He asked me what was going on, but I just had a blank mind... ...

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There was no smirk of laughter when my sister got dressed to go see our relatives. ... I always hated that table; it was so old that parts of the legs were crumpling away so some of the food would literally slide off. ... She couldn't handle what was going on. ... They were very happy and eventually going to get married. ... Ten years of my parents being married were now going gone fast. ...

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Although I wasn't interest because I was afraid of heights, my cousins convinced me that it was going to be a great experience. ... Going up the elevators gave me the chills from my spine down to my legs, but it was worth it for the beautiful sight. ... My parent made us go to bed early that night and we were dragged out early that morning. ... The next morning, I was so tired as well as devastated after realizing that it was going to be the last day of our visit. ... I knew I was going to miss my cousin and all my relatives that I had bonded with during those few days of my visit. ...

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I didn't understand what was going on. He hesitated to tell me what was going on. ... My legs got weak, and I had to take a knee. ... Are you two going to get a divorce?". ... They are going on twenty-two years strong, and they couldn't be any happier. ...

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For instance, the other night I came home and our daughter Nicole had stayed up past her bedtime and I told her to go to sleep. ... I tried to be nice and go change the baby for him because I guess it was my fault that she had woken up. ... She wouldn't stop screaming, and I was tired and already frustrated with everything else that had went on so I lightly slapped Amanda's leg to let her know she was being bad. ... Jack came downstairs to make the baby a bottle and I asked him "When are you going to get a job?" ... I felt relieved that after all of our arguing that we were still ...

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In the passage of page 31, when Curley's wife makes her first appearance in a scene, she is described as wearing a dress that reveal her legs, red lipstick and nail polish: "..., rouged lips her fingernails were red wore a cotton house dress and red mules, " The way Steinbeck describes how Curley's wife is dressed suggests she is promiscuous, since her characteristics of clothing and cosmetics might be worn by a prostitute; some of her movements also reinforce the idea of her being promiscuous, such as "... leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown for...

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Henry's father insisted on keeping the alliance with Spain, so he summoned the pope to go against the scripture and grant his son to marry his brother's widow. ... Since he had already signed the foreign treaty, he had to go through with the marriage. ... After almost four years of marriage, King Henry VIII succumbed to syphilis and an abscessed leg. ...

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He injured his leg in a high-way accident and he will probably not be able to drive again. ... On the contrary, there are cases in which, as the times goes by, one of them may feel that there is nothing else to say. ...

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