Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frantically, Mendes men paged Noel to get him to restore his amendment. Noel had gone home. A government minister telephoned him. Would he come back to the Assembly? Said Noel, who does not like Mendes-France and hates Germany: "Certainly not. I am in bed and I intend to stay here...
This artfully written French historical novel plunges its readers into the violence of an epoch when knighthood was in flower but life was no bed of roses. Three generations of the House of Linnierès play out their lives against a background of medieval manners and 13th; century skulduggery...
...reform Oblomov. He tramps the hills with her, reads poetry to her, and resolves to salvage his wasted life. But Oblomov's only school has been the nursery of self-indulgence, and he cannot bring himself to graduate. He decides, elegantly, that he should have stood in bed. The responsibilities of marriage petrify him. He pleads lack of funds and postpones the date. He develops Victorian scruples about being seen unchaperoned with Olga...
...hate you. If you were the wife of any other man, I own you might have charms.' " He told her he had "plotted to avenge her [first] refusal of him." He asked her, "with every appearance of aversion," if "she meant to sleep in the same bed with him": and during their wedding night, observing a candle "casting a ruddy glare through the crimson curtains of the bed," he cried in a loud voice: "Good God, I am surely in hell...
...fessor out for "practical experience," who is too trusting to know what Barney's left ist hand is doing. The courtroom play-by play takes up most of David's time, and far too much of the reader's. But after hours, David climbs into bed with Bar ney's erstwhile mistress and they reach "unbearable ecstasy" together. Though David does his best in court, community prejudice and Communist tactics manage to do their worst. Politically primitive, rigged for a predictable outcome, and larded with cliches that fight for inattention, Trial must have...