Disagreeable Tales (French: Histoires désobligeantes) is an 1894 short story collection by the French writer Léon Bloy. It consists of thirty tales set...

Press, ISBN 978-1-93966-317-7, 2016) Histoires désobligeantes (1894) (Disagreeable tales) Le Mendiant ingrat (1898) ("The Ungrateful Beggar") Mon Journal (1904)...

In folklore, a crone is an old woman who may be characterized as disagreeable, malicious, or sinister in manner, often with magical or supernatural associations...

Often they serve as cautionary tales. Some urban legends are morality tales that depict someone acting in a disagreeable manner, only to wind up in trouble...

story, one of his weird tales, and several romantic Art Nouveau stories, concluding with two more weird tales. These two tales were subsequently incorporated...

1842); Léon Bloy, French writer, author of The Woman Who Was Poor and Disagreeable Tales (b. 1846); Albert Carman, Canadian religious leader, head of the Methodist...

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pity that a writer as good as Grann chose to study this unimportant, disagreeable and ultimately pathetic man. It is an even greater pity that he decided...

page 57) "Anything You Want!..." from Histoires Désobligeantes ("Disagreeable tales"), 1894, Léon Bloy; translated by Moira Banks, (begins page 58) "Tlön...

(The Triumph of Death) Clementina Black – The Agitator Léon Bloy – Disagreeable Tales Mary Elizabeth Braddon – The Christmas Hirelings Walter Browne – 2894...

fox, and Tommy Brock, a badger, are both troublesome neighbours and "disagreeable people." Mr. Tod owns a number of homes around the wood. Whenever he...

Aimée. A bad-tempered widow has two daughters; her older daughter is disagreeable and proud, but looks and behaves like her mother, and is therefore her...

resembling a leprechaun. Crone – Old woman who may be characterized as disagreeable, malicious, or sinister, often magical or supernatural, making her either...

repairs. Ledyard writes on 13 February: Our return to this bay was as disagreeable to us as it was to the inhabitants, for we were reciprocally tired of...

Goody Glover. Glover, of Irish Catholic descent, was characterized as a disagreeable old woman and described by her husband as a witch; this may have been...

as the coast of Glamorganshire. The noise is said to be "doleful and disagreeable", like the groans and sighs of someone deathly ill, and to sound three...

corncrake ... a small woman with a thick nose, henna red hair and a disagreeable voice". To contrast with the more stereotyped descriptions, Christie...

one case to another by midwives and doctors. Gordon wrote, "It is a disagreeable declaration for me to mention, that I myself was the means of carrying...

a poem at Longfellow's death in 1882. His last novel for adults, The Disagreeable Woman, was published under the pseudonym Julian Starr. He took pleasure...

(Avestan: 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 daēuua) is a Zoroastrian supernatural entity with disagreeable characteristics. In the Gathas, the oldest texts of the Zoroastrian canon...

Insatiable dancer flop 1.  Go to bed; fall asleep 2.   Grown-up who is disagreeable, socially awkward, and unsuccessful; 1920s 3.   Intentionally lose a...

day before the assassination and protested that the surveillance was disagreeable, so Virieux had no choice but to withdraw them. It is also possible that...

honourable; but as he advanced in years his detestation of anything disagreeable made him simply avoid whatever fretted him, laughing off all sorts of...

argues that because Laura is turning 55, she is past the danger of "disagreeable lovers" and "obstinate fathers" (Austen 516). This initial letter sets...

building a culture of harmony, which meant "weeding out people with disagreeable personalities—people Jobs tolerated and even held close, like Forstall...

away to a far-off land where she lives out the rest of her life. While disagreeable and a witch, she was not the one who had killed the girl. The prince...

degree chattel is attached to 'land' and to 'what' " forum non conveniens disagreeable forum A concept wherein a court refuses to hear a particular matter,...

apples gets their heart's desire, but in a form that renders it extremely disagreeable. In the Witch's case, she has achieved immortality, but it only means...

often seen joking and fooling around may be promiscuous. Also listed as disagreeable traits are revealing their husband's secrets, delighting in other's misfortune...

fought Greg Gagne and Jerry Blackwell. Despite his reputation as being disagreeable with promoters he would aid any who needed a boost in ticket sales as...