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...With a peal of laughter, Felicity spurred her horse and tried to catch up to The Stable Boy. The ripe sun beat down on them as they galloped. Felicity could feel the sweat trickling down into her decolletage as she rode, and the wind tumbled her hair into glorious disarray. The half-tamed stallion coursed beneath her. “Onward, Zalathal!” she urged, striking the crop against the Spanish steed’s rippling rump...
...while that sense created an atmosphere ripe for pranks—Worth remembers sneaking into Moses’ office to set all his furniture facing the wrong way—Moses did not shy away from the gravitas that sometimes came with the disciplinary part...
...were healthy, moistened with the previous Thursday’s rains. The leaves of the tall oaks brushed against one another caressingly, and when the wind came in short breezes the leaves gasped like the ocean. Out in the small orchard, the plum trees sagged, their branches laden with ripe fruit. Frederick thought it was the loveliest pastoral tableau that he had ever seen.Slowly, inevitably, his attention was drawn back to the terrace, back to Felicity, back to the table laden with porcelain which sat between them. There was nothing more to say of the garden, though they would probably...
...seeking peace with Spain's large Muslim minority, Heston gave heroic heft to a pacifist warrior. At the end, the Cid, close to death, orders that his body be strapped to his horse and carried out to battle so that his presence will put fear into the enemy--a ripe metaphor for the enduring power of star quality...
...especially tough time, it is also something of a barometer for the biggest players in the business. Universal Music, the world's largest record company, saw its revenues dip slightly last year. Low margins at Sony BMG, the industry's No. 2, have left its own music business ripe for a private-equity buyout this year, says Gerd Leonhard, a music-industry consultant in Switzerland. And shares at No. 3 Warner Music have been in freefall for months; a $16 million first-quarter loss was announced in February...