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1. Ken and Eileen Roach were a lovely couple
2. Even those close friends and relatives who knew about the hole were amazed at the couple’s loving resilience in the face of such deep shadow, and unlike so many people who find that their strength and union is built on sand rather than on firm foundations, Ken and Eileen simply wouldn’t let the darkness at the heart of their marriage tear their relationship apart, choosing instead to face their enemy in a committed search for the one thing that could complete the turn of the seasons in their lives
3. Ken and Eileen Roach lived on what had once been a decaying council housing estate in a small post-industrial town to the north-west of Birmingham, an estate that was by degrees being regenerated by a mixed bag of home owners, buy-to-let investors and housing trust managers
4. As Ken and Eileen grew steadily into the trunk stiffening years of their mid-thirties, Ken, moved by an unconscious desire to nurture and grow, turned the back garden of their modest home into a vegetable grower’s delight, with rows of broad beans, green beans, carrots and parsnips swelling with each alternate kiss of the sun and caress of summer rain
5. Ken and Eileen, both being able to work in full time jobs, saved and scrimped and carried each other all the way to the fertility clinic, where they found sympathy, helping hands, many months of pain and many dashed expectations
6. On her final visit to the clinic she was greeted by the beaming face of her consultant, all of which made her death nine and a half months later, shortly after the birth of her son, that much harder for Ken to bear
7. Following a polite if sparse cremation service held in the clean but anonymous halls of blonde wood and magnolia paint at the local crematorium, and with the memory of the pastor’s mistaken belief that his wife’s name was Aileen twitching behind his eyes, Ken carried out Eileen’s last wish, which was to have her ashes scattered on the garlic beds
8. Her posthumous instructions were quite specific and Ken dug her ashes deep into the soft brown loam while his infant son sat wrapped in soft, white baby wools in his buggy, gurgling at the sky and staring out at the vaguely muscled shape of his perspiring father
9. The boy was called Alan, being as close to Eileen as Ken could get in the memorial naming of his son, and Ken perspired a great deal over the next few years bringing him up single-handedly
10. Ken found company difficult, preferring the routines of parenthood, work and horticulture to the efforts and strains inherent in the pursuit of conviviality and social exchange with his peers
11. Ken still grieved for his wife, but the years made the tears taste less bitter and fall less frequently, and with his strapping son rapidly becoming his closest friend, he began to feel in his bones an old, familiar stirring
12. As young Alan blossomed, finding girls and music and the dreams of unchecked possibilities breasting the far hill scapes of his world view, so too Ken determined to be a part of his son’s emerging life
13. Ken loved his son and did his best to welcome his new step-daughter into their lives, treading carefully and methodically through the minefield laid out before him by a new wife with strange new ways, by his own teenage son and by a new teenage daughter, about whom he knew very little
14. In those last months before Alan was due to finish at school, Ken started to feel his age
15. At the end of a sullen afternoon of black clouds and driving rain, Ken stood by the back door dripping from head to toe and he turned to his wife and said, “You know, I don’t think I can keep this garden going anymore, not like I used to”
16. After a long hot bath and a stiff whisky Ken sat and pondered the garden
17. He fetched one of his gardening books from an alcove shelf in the living room and leafed through the sections that showed keen gardeners how to build walls and fill holes with hardcore, and as he read the hints, tips and instructions, Ken realised that his weary bones ached for a change
18. Ken started to sketch out plans for a patio
19. In making her offer, which seemed at face value to be a kindness, she knew perfectly well that Ken would go and that he would stay in the pub until closing time
20. Helen also knew that Ken would be uncomfortable with the idea of accompanying his son because of the inconvenience of age, for although the landlord sometimes turned a blind eye to underage drinking, he always kept Sunday evening as a child free haven for the exhausted parents of the parish
21. The family ate supper in tired silence, after which Helen washed up, Ken accompanied Lucy to the main road and Alan lay down on his bed with a motorbike magazine and the latest hard-ass bass lines thumping through his stereo headphones
22. Ken was nursing a dull head and an urgent desire for sugary drinks, but lacking the wherewithal to solve either problem he did his best to bury himself in the nutritional information on the back of the cereal packet
23. Eventually, however, Ken rose from the table, went out into the hallway and hollered up the stairs
24. “What do you mean, he’s gone off with his mates?” yelled Ken at the two women in his life
25. “This bloody family’s falling apart”, said Ken, giving his wife a look of sheer exasperation
26. Ken did just that, croaking down the phone to his boss to complain about a twenty-four hour bug
27. Ken worked like a Trojan all day long, driven on by the ingratitude of all those he loved, each one of whom left him when it suited them, all that is except the second Mrs
28. Ken Roach was indifferent to any outside stimuli, wrapped as he was in a blanket of personal suffering
29. Ken first became aware of the haunting but strangely comforting melody down at his local pub one evening a few weeks after Alan’s rude and abrupt departure
30. For the last few weeks he had shut out the sounds of life, preferring the solitude of personal contemplation to the banality of human contact, but here in the soft tawny light of the lounge bar at the Red Lion those trivial voices broke through on the back of an ethereal sub tone that slowly built up throughout the evening until, towards closing time, Ken realised that he was listening to the same song being played over and over again on the jukebox
31. This song, a song that he had never heard before but seemed to know instinctively, filled him with warmth and life, and quite to the barman’s shock and pleasant surprise, Ken ordered his last pint with a smile
32. For Ken and Lucy the wall to wall air play of the song was a great boon, providing them with many moments of peace and calm in their otherwise tormented lives
33. For Ken the song let him know in his soul that Alan loved him and that they would meet up soon enough, while for Lucy the lyrics and the bass hooks seemed to tell her that the singer knew she was innocent and that she had not killed her step-brother
34. Ken smiled and nodded his approval, believing in some uncharted way that Lucy was entirely correct in her assumption
35. Ken, shocked and concerned about the strange way in which his wife had been behaving lately, carried her back up to the bedroom, where he made sure that the curtains were drawn and that the windows were safely closed and locked, taking the key with him to ensure Helen’s safety
36. Ken came in from the garden some twenty minutes after Lucy had given up the ghost and prostrated herself on the living room floor
37. Ken held her head in his arms and gently wiped her hot and sweaty fringe away from her fevered forehead, stroking her hair to try and soothe the poor young thing as she lay like a rag doll in his lap
38. Ken and Lucy rocked back and forth in time to the gentle, spiritual beat, mouthing silent words as the boy’s perfect voice soared in over the bass lines, the guitars and the unearthly breath of synthesised melody
39. built on sand rather than on firm foundations, Ken and Eileen
40. Ken and Eileen Roach lived on what had once been a decaying
41. As Ken and Eileen grew steadily into the trunk stiffening years
42. of their mid-thirties, Ken, moved by an unconscious desire to
43. of her son, that much harder for Ken to bear
44. twitching behind his eyes, Ken carried out Eileen’s last wish, which
45. Alan, being as close to Eileen as Ken could get in the memorial
46. Ken loved his son and did his best to welcome his new step-
47. Ken started to feel his age
48. After a few moments, during which Ken struggled to
49. tips and instructions, Ken realised that his weary bones ached for a
50. Ken started to sketch out plans for a
1. He uses the basement as a kennel the day of the fight
2. I remember my dog barking long before I could see him in his kennel because he smelled me
3. Same with his kennel
4. Vera assured her son that their dog was almost as happy to be in a kennel for the weekend
5. Regulations regarding the keeping of the dogs, size of the kennel, minimum
6. Blossom had settled down for the evening, and lay sprawled in front of his wooden kennel
7. Blossom strained at his leash, which Edwin noted was now only a few feet long and tethered to a post inside the kennel
8. I had placed one of my used tee-shirts in each kennel so
9. example, there will be numerous veterinary associations and kennel club associations
10. The black plague stalked through the streets of Belverus, striking down the merchant in his stall, the serf in his kennel, the knight at his banquet board
11. Apparently they never heard the two dogs being sent to the big kennel in the sky
12. He was sharing a kennel with a Great Dane and eating whatever insects he could catch
13. The American Kennel Club recognizes the following categories of
14. of the top dogs registered in the American Kennel Club listing
15. A good kennel club should offer the following
16. I think one of the best method you can use is to use a large portable dog kennel
17. Set the cat up in the kennel with litter and water and give her meals in the kennel too
18. It was Victoria Moon King’s Poodle Emporium, a kennel of sorts that housed only poodles of pure breeding
19. immediately, the animals were roused from their sleep, and were animated into a raucous bouncing chorus of yelps and yips and yaps and the skittering of claws upon the boards of their kennel
20. They’d reached the kennel by this point in their conversation, and as they neared it, Joel’s eyes widened in amazement, for she had quite a menagerie of animals
21. “This time it was my three year old niece, Kendall, who had the honor of Christening the kennel
22. As she spoke, she unlatched, but left unopened, the gate to the kennel
23. Highly entertained by the stories surrounding her animals’ names, Joel laughed and pointed to the calico cat up on the shelf in the kennel
24. Kathy was busy opening the gate on the kennel, as she said this
25. As he did so the others laughingly gave the fallen men a hand up, while a couple of other agents shooed the miscreant animals towards the kennel in Kathy’s garage, and corralled them there
26. He will be dependent on you for everything from feeding and watering him, to taking him for walks and cleaning up his kennel run after he does his business there
27. Is there an association of people who might help? In our Healthcare for Pets example, there will be numerous veterinary associations and kennel club associations of people who could provide valuable information
28. I, however, would sooner live in a kennel facing south than in a palace where the sun never came; but then, as you know, my endencies are incurably kennelwards
29. I seized Mou-Mou by the collar, and ran him along to his kennel
30. 'Ah,' said the elder eyeing Mou-Mou sideways, who, from his kennel, eyed her, 'I used to say that to people about _my_ dog
31. It was open; and outside was the yard, the rain, and Mou-Mou's kennel looming through the mist
32. Herr Pastor Dremmel might be fiery in the pulpit, but he was quite quiet out of it; he was like a good watchdog, savage in its kennel and indifferent when loose
33. The transaction made her feel more like Frosty at the kennel than Petra at the Marriot
34. Of course, Frosty had to stay in a kennel surrounded by a choir of barking, whining dogs
35. And when Stu enquired as to whether his bungalow was behind the dog’s kennel, Inga looked indignant and went to speak with other customers
36. After a while they change over, and the tired ones retire to the kennel for a rest and to prepare for their next tour of duty
37. It was a kennel of dogs, with each animal trying out-bark the others, all struggling to raise the cackle of their own jargon above the general cacophony
38. The bitter eighteenth-century rain rushed down the kennel
39. Hareton, recovering from his disgust at being taken for a servant, seemed moved by her distress; and, having fetched the pony round to the door, he took, to propitiate her, a fine crooked-legged terrier-whelp from the kennel, and putting it into her hand bid her wisht! for he meant nought
40. "If it should rain tonight," he then said to him, "you can go and lie down in the kennel; the straw that has served as a bed for my poor dog for the last four years is still there
41. Putting the point of his nose out of the kennel, he saw four little beasts with dark fur, that looked like cats, standing consulting together
42. One of the polecats, leaving his companions, came to the opening of the kennel and said in a low voice:
43. Sleep quietly, and rest assured that before we go we will leave by the kennel a beautiful chicken ready plucked for your breakfast tomorrow
44. The four polecats, thinking themselves safe, repaired to the poultry-yard, which was close to the kennel, and, having opened the wooden gate with their teeth and claws, they slipped in one by one
45. with their chatter and one of them came to the kennel and said to
46. Steve opened the kennel; reaching in, he picked up the dog and offered it to Felix
47. Have they seen her? She thinks of the stone kennel Crazy Harold Bazin led her to: the snails gathered in their multitudes
48. The beaches have been closed for several months, studded with mines and walled off with razor wire, but here in the old kennel, out of sight of everyone, Marie-Laure can sit among her snails and dream herself into the mind of the great marine biologist Aronnax, both guest of honor and prisoner on Captain Nemo’s great machine of curiosity, free of nations and politics, cruising through the kaleidoscopic wonders of the sea
49. She thinks of the whelks in Harold Bazin’s kennel, ten thousand of them; how they cling; how they draw themselves up into the spirals of their shells; how, when they’re tucked into that grotto, the gulls cannot come in to carry them up into the sky and drop them on the rocks to break them
50. They saw no cat, but near the house stood a flat-roofed dog kennel
1. Forty kennels lined the
2. Being left alone at home whilst the owner is at work or being left at boarding kennels during vacations can result in separation anxiety in dogs
3. In the rear were two kennels for police dogs, and space for other equipment
4. Lorna collected one of the wolfhounds from the kennels to accompany her
5. The troll found respite in patrolling the kennels in the cellar of his Tower
6. The howls of his wolves rose from the kennels in the dungeons below the Gothic structure
7. My father has a boarding kennels just on the outskirts of the village, called Escalles
8. It wasn’t until nearly noon that she met Gerard, he said that he had been busy working at the kennels and had just started to take the dogs for their walks
9. “I could put them in kennels? Lock them up and feed them when they get hungry,” he said, smiling
10. He saw the little terrier and it reminded him of Terry, not a very original name for a terrier, but he and Lucy had decided on it the first time they saw the little fellow at the kennels
11. The dogs - there are about fifty of them - are housed in individual kennels, little plastic bunkers
12. would not have even made it to the kennels of a respectable
13. Steve eagerly led them into the back, toward the kennels
14. Ahead of them, Serena and Steve stopped at one of the smaller kennels
15. Tea was brought and, soon after it, Sebastian returned; he had lost the hunt early, he said, and hacked home; the others were not long after him, having been fetched by car at the end of the day; Brideshead was absent; he had business at the kennels and Cordelia had gone with him
16. He found himself outside the kennels, where the hounds caught scent of him and began to bark and howl
17. In the Kennels which ran down the mucky Centres of the Streets, one saw Fish Heads, Orange Rinds, Human Wastes—e’en dead Cats! The Air above was as smoky here as it had been fresh and clear upon the River; and one hardly dar’d look up o’erhead at the Profusion of creaking Sign Boards, hung upon ornamental iron Brackets, which sway’d in the Wind like hang’d Men, and obstructed whate’er Light and Air there might be, especially upon the narrowest Streets
18. Indeed, there were two, one seal’d quite unmistakably with Bellars’ Seal, the other scrawl’d upon a dirty Piece of Foolscap that had known the Mud of the Kennels and bore no Seal at all
19. Dogs wet mops in their kennels
20. After that we inspected the barn across the way, the kennels in which there were three pointers, one of them not feeling so well
21. He has kennels of hundreds of hounds and nearly a hundred dog-boys—all mounted, and in uniform
22. I strolled along the path that wound round the base of the hill toward the kennels
23. He was, I believe, about to make some impulsive, generous speech, when we heard the quick strokes of iron-shod hoofs on the path from the kennels and the stables—is there any sound more arresting? Past us at a gallop swept a horse, on his back—Anita