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    1. “I’ve never heard anything about pie sales in the neighborhood


    2. “Feh! If you weren’t you, it’d be hilarious! Isn’t that good pie?” he said


    3. Sarah wanted instead to shove the pie in the man’s face, but she still wanted to know how it tasted


    4. Thank you for the pie and it was lovely to meet you, Curtis


    5. I tried to rearrange the packages and parcels into a nest where I could lie with my discomfort but it soon became clear I should have skipped the cheese pie and lemonade because before long my stomach was trying to settle on whether or not to surprise me by throwing up over American parcels, Australian parcels or the fragrant cabbage


    6. The huge pie dish slid all the way down the table and spilled its contents all over poor little Ruby, who wailed and screeched and sobbed


    7. They had been served with the most delicious, the tenderest and the most juicy plum pie they had ever tasted


    8. However, Alastair very sensibly suggests that I warm up with something I already know so we have a run through the Pie Jesu from Faure’s Requiem


    9. there in the middle of the kitchen table was a beautiful meat pie


    10. While Kirk wiped the pie juices off Ruby’s clothes with the

    11. building of his new factory, the two men met for a pie and a pint in


    12. delicious, the tenderest and the most juicy plum pie they had ever


    13. Each floor offered a pie shaped landing and hallways leading in all directions


    14. ” They did as he bid them, and in a few minutes he brought out a tray laden with plates, glasses, a pie and a pitcher of milk


    15. He set it on the patio table in front of them and they proceeded to enjoy slices of pie with milk as if it were a formal high tea


    16. weapons, but the job was easy as a pie he told his family


    17. But she had no chance to mourn the loss of half her hair, as suddenly another imp appeared and threw a cream pie in her face


    18. McLocherty’s Apple Pie, and ate it in one big gulp


    19. That night, after pie for dessert, everyone made up their own rooms and slept in real beds


    20. The smell of shepherd’s pie was irresistible, so the introductions were short

    21. " Granny took another piece of pie and put on a clean plate as Rosecare entered the kitchen


    22. Some say Mesapit should have been rolled up as well but the Motorway stopped just short of the town, and there it stands today, a twin to Meat Pie Hill by Upper Swivel


    23. Dingle does like a tidy garden as much as you like apple and blackberry pie" said Granny as she packed the last of the plates and cups into her enormous hamper


    24. ‘Would you like fries/a drink/apple pie with that?’ One question that has made


    25. I wanted to rage at the touch, but turned towards the kitchen and forced myself to heat up a slice of apple pie


    26. She came close and speared a piece of the pie to eat


    27. Joey had one last lick of the chocolate pie when his


    28. His dessert most often consisted of big servings of cherry pie or chocolate cake, those being favorites of mine too, I’ll have you know


    29. He was momentarily distracted by the arrival of a large pie, borne aloft by Mrs Pilfer, who evidently feared that the banquet was not extensive enough already


    30. If Mr Pinscher was a betting man - and this history will go some distance towards establishing that he was - he would have laid a handsome wager on the pie coming to grief, upended on the floor

    31. As it turned out, he would have lost his stake, since Mrs Pilfer managed to land the pie safely on an uncluttered corner of the table


    32. This achievement came not only as a surprise to Mr Pinscher, but also to one other, for accompanying both pie and Pilfer into the room, and gazing at the former with a lustiness almost equal to Pinscher's, was a plump and sluggish brown and white terrier


    33. The disappointment on its chubby, tufted face at Mrs Pilfer's successful delivery of the foodstuff was very nearly heart-breaking, and it whimpered softly once it became apparent that the pie was not destined for the floor


    34. with seven slices of a pie and in each slice


    35. The pie is limited


    36. The pie is not limited by anything except human


    37. humans alive today than ever before to share in that pie


    38. The pie is actually constantly expanding because wealth


    39. When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:


    40. I felt sorry for the lads at the back of the queue as even early on the water had a film of scum on it that was as hard as a pie crust and was nearly black in colour

    41. We made and delivered the juicy apple pie she loved


    42. „What do you have there?" Said the pie salesman, „Pies, you idiot


    43. Fortunately, the edibles were nearly ready, and within seconds Esmond Pie and Mrs


    44. Thimble Downers also liked to talk while eating, causing the volume in the little shop to reach deafening levels as Rufus Lickspittle answered their many questions, all the while being peppered with flying bits of cake, pie, and cobbler from the yammering village folk


    45. Pie?” said Dorro, gently trying to keep the heat on


    46. Pie, you know that,” added Dorro


    47. Pie! You have company!”


    48. “You mean there’s more than one? That’s awful!” chirped Pie, “What can I do to help?”


    49. Fowl’s cold chicken ‘n’ chive pie for lunch, he recalled


    50. Fowl’s cold chicken ‘n’ chive pie and a draft of water










































    1. Pied Piper of Hamlin, n


    2. I followed him as if in a trance, like a child being led by the Pied Piper, running, sprinting behind him unable to close the gap between us no matter how hard I tried


    3. The philosophers of collective repression, comfortable and tenured, puffing on their pied pipes of illusion, may never intend to go out and do anything themselves to effect their barbaric theories


    4. The mother gives me a weird look like perhaps she’s jealous or she thinks I’m the pied piper


    5.  Hamelin, a town of Prussia where tradition says took place the incidentof the Pied Piper in the year 1284


    6. Harold and I followed like she was the pied piper and we


    7. pied chair before, and the chair that


    8. Angular planets are puppet masters, or Pied Pipers, who have everyone dancing to their tune


    9. pied so completely and capped off the sheer ruggedness and beauty


    10. pied by the white man, they segregate their own population

    11. The moment she stepped out to address rallies, she became the Pied Piper of Amethi


    12. pied to pay attention; true to his gender, he was naively hoping


    13. They went to Les Halles in the small hours of the morning and had onion soup at Pied de Cochon


    14. ' Rafferty headed purposefully for the lodge, feeling like the Pied Piper of Hamelin as Llewellyn, Smythe and most of the still-depleted hospital staff, fell in behind


    15. Dryva had told me that he was called the Pied Piper


    16. „How come they call you the Pied Piper?' I asked, remembering his nickname


    17. would be a great pied a terre” she suggested, “you're right, let's


    18. Tiens, quel petit pied! Staunch friend, a brother soul: Wilde's love that dare not speak its name


    19. The cycle of birth and death • cosmological analogy • business competitors and value investors eventually cause the death of the crowd • once the crowd disintegrates, a new crowd often starts to form in response to the extended movement of prices • crowd formation causes (and in turn is caused by) excessive price volatility • bearish crowds are different from bullish ones • the 1994-2000 stock market bubble • stock market valuation and Tobin’s q ratio • it’s different this time • the new information economy • shattered dreams • the bear crowd of 2000-2002 • the quest for certainty • the conflict between science and certainty • every opinion has its rationale • instinctual belief • the need for affirmation • pied pipers lead the crowd • mental unity of crowds • intolerance of contrary views • examples from the 1994-2000 bubble • Julian Robertson, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Gail Dudack • Allan Sloan and America Online (AOL) • social and financial pressure on unbelievers • price volatility and homogeneous thinking in crowds • price volatility is one sign that a crowd is mature


    20. THE PIED PIPERS OF INVESTMENT CROWDS

    21. I liken the rationalizations that emerge in these situations to the Pied Piper of Hamelin


    22. During the big move in crude oil prices from $40 in 2004 to $140 in 2008, the pied piper of peak oil played a very seductive tune


    23. Here were three pied pipers that enabled the bullish crude oil crowd to grow to enormous size by mid-2008


    24. The new economy bubble of 1994-2000 had its own pied pipers


    25. One interesting aspect of the bubble was that many of the pied pipers were actual people


    26. The bear crowd of 2001-2002 had its own pied pipers, but they were not as plainly visible as the ones that had enabled the preceding bubble


    27. The crowd searches for scapegoats, and those it finds become inverted pied pipers, repelling listeners with the dissonant music of their pipes


    28. Investors’ human aversion to ambiguity and uncertainty, coupled with their limited capacity for scientific thinking, leaves them vulnerable to pied piper explanations for the run-up or the drop in prices


    29. This is what makes them seductive tunes for the pied piper’s pipe


    30. The pied pipers of the financial world are the early advocates of these investment themes

    31. Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds


    32. If green woodpeckers alone had existed, and we did not know that there were many black and pied kinds, I dare say that we should have thought that the green colour was a beautiful adaptation to conceal this tree-frequenting bird from its enemies; and consequently that it was a character of importance, and had been acquired through natural selection; as it is, the colour is probably in chief part due to sexual selection


    33. 11 17 de pied en cap (Lat caput) 'from head to foot', of Engl


    34. --lui tenant pied: 'keeping up with it


    1. He of course did not want an actual answer to the question, because the answer was so immediately obvious; a whole bunch of wild imps were currently creating mischief all over Trouble Valley, stealing pies, breaking vases, and pulling Lucy’s hair


    2. Shortly after they were joined by Matt, who looked like he had been pelted with about fifty cream pies


    3. “Well, actually, the imps were just breaking vases and stealing pies


    4. “Stop eating the pies!


    5. His long, splinter-like limbs never appeared to develop any meat on them, despite the dizzying number of pies and pastries that he consumed


    6. ” At that, the guests all clapped, knowing they’d each eaten enough sweets, cakes, and pies to stun a charging bull, yet being Halflings, wondered if there was room for a few more nibbles


    7. Memories like the time that we picked baskets full so that Grandma could try her hand at baking pies; or, how I would always end up there, one way or another, during those summer evenings, tucking my BB gun under my arm and nibbling on the fresh berries until I had my fill


    8. the place,' as she phrased it, and cakes, mince pies, and puddings were


    9. Rodger and Kiki joined Minister Lyle, Vera and me in the small restaurant at the station, their steak and kidney pies were scrumptious but perhaps not at five in the morning


    10. in the window read, HOMADE PIES

    11. On the menu were possum and venison pies


    12. LP and Ingrid didn't stay long after finishing their pies


    13. LP didn't want to say that they were destined for the next batch of possum pies


    14. ~s de berberechos small pies / turnovers filled with cockles (a bivalve mollusk)


    15. And I hope there'll be a celestial substitute for pies and doughnuts--something that has to be MADE


    16. Stir the mixture well, put it into clean jars, and tie down with parchment covers until needed for mince pies


    17. "How can I really be sure that you won't steal all my pumpkin and chocolate pies and eat them yourself?" she asked


    18. “I stopped by Ann’s house — you know my friend who sells those mouth-watering pies to café’s?”


    19. Again he wondered if it was scrambled but couldn't come up with anything better than SAY DIE PIES


    20. Had it been luck or had the magician had a hand in this as well? It appeared to Corvus that this Tamar fellow seemed to have his finger in too many pies for his liking

    21. Desserts can include pies, cakes, doughnuts, cookies, pastries, brownies, etc


    22. The aroma of strawberry and apple pies drifted from the chimney


    23. The aroma of baked chicken, ham, turkey, apple pies, buttered corn and breaded pork chops filled the house


    24. „We"re used to bread, cheese, pies and chips - so I hope it"s not what we"re used to


    25. She had a sudden thought of her mother, wondering what Mom was doing at that moment: baking pies, reading a book by the wood burning stove? Was she thinking of June as June so often thought of her? Waiting for the words to come out of Angela’s mouth, June wanted nothing more than to once again share g silence with her mother


    26. The snow had started to fall again, but heavier this time, they hoped that the weather would clear up a little as they were expecting to have many visitors that day and the many pies, sandwiches and desserts would be devoured by all


    27. This day had produced two pies and several hard thought-provoking discussions which felt like they had taken years off her already tumultuous life


    28. loaves or bread or pies are baking!


    29. Pies were his favorite and my mother had baking pie crusts with just the right amount of shortening, honed to a fine art


    30. Mother's most memorable pies were strawberry, coconut, chocolate, caramel, and Daddy's favorite, pecan

    31. She made great pies and because I loved lemon meringue pie, that’s what I got for my birthday instead of cake


    32. INVESTMENT OF THE HEART takes place in the Hill Country of Texas where barbecue is a meal staple and pies are a basic accompaniment


    33. The days would feature plenty of barbeque, steaks, chickens, ribs, sausage, cakes, pies and homemade ice cream


    34. filling, especially the coleslaw and the blueberry pies


    35. box, and homemade pies on racks above and behind the cashier,


    36. Also, please give us two pies,” I said


    37. announced that his pies and tarts were oven fresh


    38. pies are, or perhaps the way she keeps her house organized


    39. and these two cutie pies are Corey Jameson, and Jody Wilson


    40. With the pies it

    41. Developing the Income, Revenue, and Expenditure Pies


    42. Why not copyright recipes? Isn’t society beholden to the first person to bake a pumpkin pie, or any pie for that matter? Oh, the world of the intellectual property holder would be pretty bland if the inventor of pie had exclusive rights to development and distribution of pies


    43. Working mathematical equations is like baking pies


    44. It does no good to learn pie recipes years before baking pies


    45. Truthfully, Fred would rather have had a morning shift as a pizza delivery boy, when the orders were few and far between, and only the occasional lonely housewife would have him come by with one of Petey’s Perfect Pizza Pies to get her through the day


    46. Rather than cynically continuing to use those basics of our existence as a dramatic device, the author will simply let the reader in on the fact that Schnottblower easily survives the run in with the Petey’s Perfect Pizza Pies van


    47. Only afterwards, after the trolls were sated from a full meal of Petey’s Perfect Pizza Pies and snoozing with loud grumbly snores and snorts, after everyone had pretty much gone home, and after Fred had spent a sore weekend recovering from his long night of superhero endeavors, did he realize that he had delivered his last pizza


    48. ” I turn the oven off and sit the pies on the


    49. and baking pies in the kitchen, grandpa had gone to


    50. I explained that Gladys had her fingers in all sorts of pies, so I had no idea whether the deposit was expected or not, and couldn’t ask her because of her mental state












































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    Synonyms for "pie"

    pie proto-indo european tart pastry cake

    "pie" definitions

    dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top


    a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages