Jakes's

His story is set in a steak house (in the Jakes's, Victoria Station mould) and tells of three very different lives meeting here.

Archive 2005-05-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

His story is set in a steak house (in the Jakes's, Victoria Station mould) and tells of three very different lives meeting here.

A New Home for Words Sharon Bakar 2005

Still, "Woman Thou Art Loosed" made roughly $15 million in its onstage version -- not to mention the huge sales of Jakes's original book, and his popular church-based self-help program -- and black investors, generally frozen out of Hollywood, took notice when talk began about a film.

THE PLAY'S THE THING 2007

He slipped his arms around the boy, and as he did, Jakes's eyes fluttered open.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

Miss Jakes's defection had knocked him about badly.

Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

They were large, dark, and innocent; they lay far apart, heavily lidded and with wistful eyebrows above them; their expression varied easily from lucid serenity to a stricken, expectant look, like that of a threatened doe, and slight causes could make Miss Jakes's eyes look stricken.

Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

Miss Jakes's love of Mr. Kane, who, until a week ago, thought herself in love with you?

Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

Jakes's figure could not, even by a partisan, have been described as beautiful; she was short, and though immature in outline, her form was neither slender nor graceful.

Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

Why, she hadn't chick nor child of her own left to bless her, an 'see how she was looked up to, an' how every little tot in town thought he's made if he could be sent to gramma Jakes's to do an arrant, an 'she give him a pep'mint or a cooky.

Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902

It was a chance for South Africa, preparing to host the soccer World Cup in 2010, to show off its infrastructure to the world, an angle not lost on the South African government tourism and economic development officials and business leaders who have endorsed Jakes's efforts.

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