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...clothing, and slowly reclined onto the bed. Roxanna uttered a small whimper of disapproval. She looked up at Frederick, then down at Felicity, then up at Frederick again. She could tell it was too late.“I will not abandon you in your time of sin,” she told Frederick huskily, and lay down next to Felicity.Frederick stood above them, his legs spread wide like a colossus, and began to unbuckle his trousers. He heard the drumbeat of anticipation in his ears. Too late, he realized what the drumbeat was: the sound of hoofbeats...
...Three Blew It Of all Detroit's failures - the failure to master small cars, failure to cut costs, failure to get tough with the UAW, failure to improve fuel efficiency - the failure to learn, says MacDuffie, is perhaps its worst sin...
...going to break when the first strong wind comes along." Several past participants have joined new churches; others say they've come to a deeper understanding of God. In some way, most are still searching, a process their leaders hope continues. As Rhonda puts it, "Maybe the greatest sin of my generation is certitude...
...days when clergy were princes, Quakers believed in a "priesthood of all believers." In an economy that relied on slavery, Quakers preached mercy, to the point of using schools as command posts for the Underground Railroad. In a Puritan culture that viewed children as evil miniatures corrupted by original sin, Quakers treated them with respect, as Children of Light: no whips, no paddles, no coerced belief. Long before the days of women's suffrage and equal rights crusades, Quakers were unique in integrating women fully into the ministry; the schools were not only coeducational, but they focused on equipping girls...
...essential to daily life that one can connect the act to almost every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright homo sapiens. And while Nicholson commits that all-too-common sin of conflating his subject with his life - the book is as much memoir as history - he does so with the kind of wit capable of charming readers into glossing over his missteps...