Will had been taken aback in his confrontation with Arisaka to discover that his name- Chocho- meant "Butterfly"... He was puzzled to know why they had selected it. His friends, of course, delighted in helping him guess the reason.
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'I think it might be more to do with the way he raced around the training ground, darting here and there to correct the way a man might be holding his shield, then dashing off to show someone how to put their body weight into their javelin cast,' said Horace, a little more sympathetically. Then he ruined the effect by adding thoughtlessly, 'I must say, your cloak did flutter around like a butterfly's wings.


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RICHARD FLANAGAN
I view this as putting smaller portfolios into incubators to wait for them to be hatched into higher...
MICHAEL FLANAGAN
The lion's share of those bookings have been taken off the sheets, ... It's only after Fed's move la...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
It swelled up pretty good. But we'll let her get treatment on it and see how it goes.
DON FLANAGAN
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
RICHARD FLANAGAN
We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German ...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the prec...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes ...
TOMMY FLANAGAN
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
We certainly would like that to be the case.
MIKE FLANAGAN
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would wan...
DENNIS FLANAGAN
We must focus on mathematics in the middle school so students not only will meet state standards, bu...
MIKE FLANAGAN
Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
That's a superior team. We played as hard as we could for 32 minutes, and we just got a little tired...
JON FLANAGAN
Considering the fact we have been thin or illiquid in some areas in the market it wouldn't surprise ...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes l...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
Requiring something people cannot afford is not a solution to solving the health care crisis.
JERRY FLANAGAN
He's definitely one of the top five we've ever had here. Bryce is a really good player. He's definit...
MIKE FLANAGAN
What the HMOs can't explain is why premiums are increasing twice as fast as hospital and physician c...
JERRY FLANAGAN
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that;...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contai...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
After a time he found and opened a book he had been reading that he had expected to end well, a roma...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
I know that Shannon (Miller) has mentioned that it's a good draw. It makes sense. We're the ones who...
PAUL FLANAGAN
We can 'borrow' unused capacity from areas where it isn't currently needed and direct it to other ar...
MIKE FLANAGAN
It has more to do with the fact that there could be a delayed vote because of possible military acti...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
There doesn't appear to be the same degree of necessity to move into safe and liquid investments suc...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
U.S. stocks are struggling again today, and that has just added more fuel to the fire. We need a fix...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
We're seeing stocks coming slightly off their highs here.
KEVIN FLANAGAN
Nevertheless, fourth-quarter growth was far more than anybody was looking for, and it is something t...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
We're seeing problems in dollar-yen, but I don't have a good explanation why the dollar is getting h...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
Investor psychology is so fragile that there would be a what-does-the-Fed-see that-we-don't mentalit...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
That's 372 with 15 zeros after it, correct?
KEVIN FLANAGAN
(The Wyskivers) have been very unresponsive to the consumers and we just don't want (them) taking an...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
Unfortunately we don’t have enough industry in Toowoomba (to warrant the huge cost),
KEVIN FLANAGAN
It's wonderful, ... I'm going to immediately send a fax to all the actors in the show. We done good....
FIONNULA FLANAGAN
We continue to see difficulties for the nation's factories. This is a figure that continues to argue...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
I think the last couple of months he did exceptionally well. I was very impressed with the way he ha...
MIKE FLANAGAN
Marcus can play anywhere on the floor. He is very, very athletic.
BILL FLANAGAN
We have a lot of brain power in those areas. We think we can build on that.
BILL FLANAGAN
They're not in Pittsburgh; they're not in southwest Pennsylvania. They're working for the competitio...
BILL FLANAGAN
At this point we're deeply into contract negotiations. It is going well. I think it's going to be so...
MIKE FLANAGAN
I think he's still figuring out what he's going to do. He kind of inherited somebody else's team.
MIKE FLANAGAN
I think you're seeing an enthusiastic response by the bond market because there appears to be a slig...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
The sentiment is not as enthusiastic as it was early this week. Investors are starting to realize th...
KEVIN FLANAGAN
I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
But what reality was ever made by realists?
RICHARD FLANAGAN
My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.
RICHARD FLANAGAN
We're smart enough and a veteran enough team to know we wouldn't get it all back in the second quart...
BRIAN FLANAGAN
It's a little bit of a gamble starting this early, but from what we've heard everyone is so excited....
BRIAN FLANAGAN
Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a moveme...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.
RICHARD FLANAGAN
I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing noth...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
It was probably a good thing for me to see that we weren't executing from bench to floor.
DON FLANAGAN
We have to be able to play the full game. We have to get over being a one-half team. I was really di...
DON FLANAGAN
The good thing about being a basketball team is that you play a lot of games. We have a game against...
DON FLANAGAN
That was a tough game for us.
DON FLANAGAN
Nobody that I talked to wanted to be part of this program.
DON FLANAGAN
They'll go right in there and run something completely different. But they're going to get over that...
DON FLANAGAN
That was a great defensive effort, because Wyoming is a very good team. They set so many screens and...
DON FLANAGAN
This was a tough game for us. I saw so many things I didn't like. They weren't carrying out some thi...
DON FLANAGAN
They believed they were going to be successful and for some reason we didn't believe we were going t...
DON FLANAGAN
They are a very well-coached team with a lot of movement on offense. They drive and dish a lot. They...
DON FLANAGAN
I've taken him to Chicago for the Cubs.
DENNIS FLANAGAN
She's got a really soft touch and is very accurate at getting the ball around the rim, so she gets s...
DON FLANAGAN
I think there is going to be a strong sentiment to run from this.
MIKE FLANAGAN
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all the...
DENNIS FLANAGAN
What we opposed was that federal aid should go to these virtual universities that disguise themselve...
SARAH FLANAGAN
I re-traced your footsteps to that miserable little Tibetan monastery. It was hard to get the monks ...
ANNE FLANAGAN
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a handful of insurance companies with a strangleh...
JERRY FLANAGAN
Vassals of an outdated ideology unrelated to the real world, they can, when questioned on this issue...
RICHARD FLANAGAN
These girls have played a lot of basketball, so they knew they could come back and win.
GLEN FLANAGAN
It was enough to get it done tonight. I wish we had played better, but we're going (to state) and th...
GLEN FLANAGAN
Our pressure got to them in the second quarter.
GLEN FLANAGAN
We've been waiting to play like this for a long time. Good time to do it.
GLEN FLANAGAN
We played basketball like it is supposed to be played. We moved the ball, we played good defense, we...
GLEN FLANAGAN
We'd keep pulling away and they'd reel us back in.
GLEN FLANAGAN
It was a physical game. The refs let a lot go, the teams were banging on each other.
GLEN FLANAGAN