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There was no limit to his drinking powers, but he could abstain from drink altogether; he sometimes went too far in his pranks; but he could do without pranks altogether.
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And right as Alain, in his Plaint of Kind, <23>Deviseth* Nature of such array and face; *describeth In such array men mighte her there find.
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But during the Crusade Louis and his wife Eleanor, the daughter and heiress of William X of Aquitaine, had quarrelled bitterly.
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:black art: n. A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area (compare {black magic}).
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* * * * * ARRAIGN (page 56).
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In short, he spoke in such a way that he cast suspicion on the governor, and made his relations appear covetous and heartless, and himself so rational that the chaplain determined to take him away with him that the Archbishop might see him, and ascertain for himself the truth of the matter.
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Synonyms: achieve, attain, gain, procure, secure, acquire, earn, obtain, receive, win.
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"'Ooh ah in aven,'" repeated the child.
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Bahamas, The $4.78 million (2004) Bahrain $103.9 million (2004) Bangladesh $1.321 billion (2005) Barbados $2.07 million (2005) Belarus $53.76 million (2005) Belize $12.91 million (2005) Benin $374.7 million (2006) Bermuda $90,000 (2004) Bhutan $941.2 million; note - substantial aid from India (2006) Bolivia $582.9 million (2005 est.)
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Brentano, "Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte," p. 268 (criticizing Bain, "The Emotions and the Will").
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'"My evil companions," I said, "have been my bane.
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My brain answers, 'No.'
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She fished in her handbag again and came out with a disposable butane lighter, which she lit, applying the flame to a little twist of white vinyl or shiny paper protruding like a pull-tab from an unobtrusive seam in the panel.
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said Cain, beginning to cry. "
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Hall Caine is of the mental type.
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For it must be premised that while the Major was lying ill at Madras, having made such prodigious haste to go thither, the gallant --th, which had passed many years abroad, which after its return from the West Indies had been baulked of its stay at home by the Waterloo campaign, and had been ordered from Flanders to India, had received orders home; and the Major might have accompanied his comrades, had he chosen to wait for their arrival at Madras.
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He twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane, then wedges it tight in his oxter.
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His gold watch-chain was so massive, that a fancy came across me, that he ought to have a sinewy golden arm, to draw it out with, like those which are put up over the goldbeaters’ shops.
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The French made costly but glorious thrusts at Arras and in Champagne in 1915, the British at Loos.
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I am refreshed and expanded when the freight train rattles past me, and I smell the stores which go dispensing their odors all the way from Long Wharf to Lake Champlain, reminding me of foreign parts, of coral reefs, and Indian oceans, and tropical climes, and the extent of the globe.
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James Salter, a former servant of Hans Sloane, lived in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. "
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I asked,--"morphine or cocaine?"
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Sinbad had himself heard the porter complain through the window, and this it was that induced him to have him brought in.
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And besides, should he hesitate to do her this service, she would know well enough how to constrain him to it by re-waking, in a single moment, their lost love.
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It had been decided that they would establish at the foot of Mount Franklin, near the sources of Red Creek, the corral destined to contain the animals whose presence would have been unpleasant near Granite House, and more particularly the moufflons, which were to furnish wool for winter clothing.
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ch is Julie Crain’s story.
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Stephen Crane's “The Red Badge of Courage” is written almost wholly in this style.
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Similarly, intentional spoonerisms are often made of phrases relating to confusion or things that are confusing; `dain bramage' for `brain damage' is perhaps the most common (similarly, a hacker would be likely to write "Excuse me, I'm cixelsyd today", rather than "I'm dyslexic today").
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And, what though murdered and betrayed, bewept by all frail tender hearts for, Dane or Dubliner, sorrow for the dead is the only husband from whom they refuse to be divorced.
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Now let us return to the mission with which you wish to charge me; and as I desire to continue to merit the confidence of your Eminence, deign to unfold it to me in terms clear and precise, that I may not commit an error.”
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Why not all of us--just for a minute or two--it will not detain us long?"
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But how would he disdain to be copied by such hands!
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According tothe Christian doctrine, that man is living in the truth who hastransported his life to the domain in which it is free—the domainof causes, that is, the knowledge and recognition, the professionand realization in life of revealed truth.
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In France, the greater part of the actual revenue of the crown is derived from eight different sources; the taille, the capitation, the two vingtiemes, the gabelles, the aides, the traites, the domaine, and the farm of tobacco.
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A considerable but necessary drain on the Nautilus’s reserves.
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The staff at the University Bookstorehave clearly benefited from Duane's tutelage, as the shelf reviews atthe University Bookstore are second to none.
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After taking Fort Duquesne," says he, "I am to proceed to Niagara; and, having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and then I see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara."
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It’s silly for Elaine to be talking when she’s dead.”
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* * * * * It is a grave mistake for a business man to feel that he must entertain another to the standard to which the second is accustomed.
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As he found himself in the quarter in which Aramis lived, he took it into his head to pay his friend a visit in order to explain the motives which had led him to send Planchet with a request that he would come instantly to the mousetrap.
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And saintly men, who walk with God on earth, would fain be away, to walk with him on the golden pavements of the New Jerusalem."
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E’en thus the Romans, when the year returns Of Jubilee, with better speed to rid The thronging multitudes, their means devise For such as pass the bridge; that on one side All front toward the castle, and approach Saint Peter’s fane, on th’ other towards the mount.
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Moreover it was necessary to be cautious, and, if need were, to feign ignorance.
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I cannot remember what they all were, or in what order I read them; but I know that among them were “Greek Heroes,” La Fontaine’s “Fables,” Hawthorne’s “Wonder Book,” “Bible Stories,” Lamb’s “Tales from Shakespeare,”“A Child’s History of England” by Dickens, “The Arabian Nights,”“The Swiss Family Robinson,” “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” “Robinson Crusoe,” “Little Women,” and “Heidi,” a beautiful little story which I afterward read in German.
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Perhaps the matter may gain in clearness if we wait for two or three days—just the two or three days which I must spend in Petersburg.”
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Instead of shutting yourself up here as if you were under arrest, get on horseback and come and take a ride with me to St. Germain.”
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Such a person gives his favorable attention to fact and, usually, only to facts germane to the proposition in hand.
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Tsze-lu said, 'There are (there) common people and officers; there are the altars of the spirits of the land and grain.