What makes music … magic?
A mother‘s lullaby sings a child to sleep; the rat-a-tat-tat of a snare drum lifts knees higher, inspires courage. A love song pulls one into deeper endearment. A song is played, and people sing. It was almost expected.
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When I was seven winters of age, my mother caught me in the hearth stacking red-hot coals with my bare hands.
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It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet.
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Sunrise, but no sun.
The merchant ship Marie tied up at the Liverpool docks hours ago, beneath an overcast sufficient to obliterate the moon and the stars—and now that dawn has arrived conditions have not improved.
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You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you‘d wanted it for a long time.
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The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided.
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“Unsolved mysteries.”
Raymond West blew out a cloud of smoke and repeated the words with a kind of deliberate self-conscious pleasure.
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Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quayside.
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Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window. The window looked over her garden, once a source of pride to her.
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Mrs. Bantry was dreaming. Her sweet peas had just taken a First at the flower show. The vicar, dressed in cassock and surplice, was giving out the prizes in church.
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