merle

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• Built by the four Patenaude brothers on 200 acres of mountain they bought from their father, Merle, the ski area had opened only 13 years before.

• This is just sheer fantasy or nightmare, I’m not sure which, but it would be Merle.

• The stars kept coming: Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon.

• Ultimately, that included Andrea, Milton, Merle, and all but one of the adult, able-bodied residents of Woodbury.

• And, perhaps most heartbreakingly, Merle died trying to take out the Governor on his own.

• I realize now that this story was a major influence on the Merle Zane character in the Niceville series.

• You hear it in Hank Williams Sr., Merle Haggard, early Dolly Parton, and you hear it in George Jones.

• Merle glanced up to see him despoiling a bush that embowered one of the brown headstones and an all but obliterated mound.

• It was Wilbur's, but Merle quite naturally took it from him and assumed charge of the ensuing operation.

• As Merle demonstrated the problem in hydraulics the girl studied him more attentively, then gleamed with a sudden new radiance.

• The Merle twin never smoked for two famous Puritan reasons—it was wrong for boys to smoke and it made him sick.

• The quick-thinking Merle twin had by now devised an exit from any complicity in whatever was meant.