"Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was……" — Gail Carriger
"Miss Tarabotti was not certain if he was objecting to the kick or the scream, so she issued both again— with interest. He seemed to be having a difficult time negotiating Alexia's multiple layers of skirts and ruffles, which formed a particularly efficacious barrier in the tight confines of the hackney."
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170 Quotes by Gail Carriger
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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing…
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
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Josh wanted to be the one to break the color barrier. When the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson he knew it…
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words,…
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When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire…
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We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as…
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