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: "... crazy wooden galleries common to the backs of half a dozen houses, with holes from which to look upon the slime beneath ; windows, broken and patched, with poles thrust out, on which to dry the linen that is never there ; rooms so small, so filthy, so confined, that the air would seem to be too tainted even for the dirt and squalor which they shelter ; wooden chambers thrusting themselves out above the mud and threatening to fall into it — as some have done ; dirt-besmeared walls and decaying foundations, every repulsive lineament of poverty, every loathsome indication of filth, rot, and garbage: all these ornament the banks of Jacob's Island.
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It is claimed "... they sang him to make him crazy " and that his suicide was the end result of this.
"... he had written a crazy paper and did not dare to send it in for publication, and that Born should read it and advise him on it ..."
"... and wooden
"... now alone at a funeral home ... the questions ... the softly spoken suggestions ... repeated, and repeated ... because ... because during all the arrangements, through my mind there ran a constant rerun, a line she spoke on radio ... on the brotherhood of man ... in her casual, malapropian style ... " we are all cremated equal " ... they kept urging for an answer ... a wooden casket?
"... Ruthless men dragged another to his doom when by unheard-of arts they had contrived a wooden snare, a destroyer of Mice, which they call a trap " ( 11.
" As an example of what these keeps may have comprised, the early 12th-century chronicler Lambert of Ardres described the wooden keep on top of the motte at the castle of Ardres, where the "... first storey was on the surface of the ground, where were cellars and granaries, and great boxes, tuns, casks, and other domestic utensils.
"... that eternal scoundrel, that Captain John Allspice of Nahant, he used to trade to Charleston, and he carried a cargo once there of fifty barrels of nutmegs: well, he put half a bushel of good ones into each end of the barrel, and the rest he filled up with wooden ones, so like the real thing, no soul could tell the difference until HE BIT ONE WITH HIS TEETH, and that he never thought of doing, until he was first BIT HIMSELF.
Later, in 1495-1496, Y. K. Saburov, a clerk in the Novgorod Cadastre, mentioned the "... Tikhvin parish and in it, a wooden church ..."
"... and common
Johnson took to the Senate floor after the election demonstrated the schism in the country, giving a sensational speech headlined by the New York Times: "... I will not give up this government ... No ; I intend to stand by it ... and I invite every man who is a patriot to ... rally around the altar of our common country ... and swear by our God ... that the Constitution shall be saved, and the Union preserved.
Kant's description of the making of a concept has been paraphrased as "... to conceive is essentially to think in abstraction what is common to a plurality of possible instances ..." ( H. J.
But, Errico Malatesta put it: "... instead of running the risk of making a confusion in trying to distinguish what you and I each do, let us all work and put everything in common.
Cassette copies of his lectures fiercely denouncing the Shah as ( for example ) "... the Jewish agent, the American serpent whose head must be smashed with a stone ", became common items in the markets of Iran, helped to demythologize the power and dignity of the Shah and his reign.
These philosophers are responding, in part, to the common use of truth predicates ( e. g., that some particular thing "... is true ") which was particularly prevalent in philosophical discourse on truth in the first half of the 20th century.
A common mnemonic for this procedure is " right over left, left over right ", which is often appended with the rhyming suffix "... makes a knot both tidy and tight ".
Its 1771 edition offered the following as scientific evidence for the ark's size and capacity: "... Buteo and Kircher have proved geometrically, that, taking the common cubit as a foot and a half, the ark was abundantly sufficient for all the animals supposed to be lodged in it ... the number of species of animals will be found much less than is generally imagined, not amounting to a hundred species of quadrupeds ".
With a pretty New England common set atop an elevated tongue of land, the village has been noted since the 19th-century for its charm ; while in "... beauties of landscape, Wentworth has a more than ordinary share.
"... Yet in his preoccupations, the indulgent sage of the East Coast perhaps had more in common with Mortimer.
It is common for the storylines to begin with an air of realism, but rapidly descend via surrealism into complete insanity, often explained by use of the "... it was all a dream ..." device.
"... The distinction between οικονομια and θεολογια ... remains common to most of the Greek Fathers and to all of the Byzantine tradition.
The Court ruled: "... Congress intended to adopt the common law definition of conspiracy, which does not make the doing of any act other than the act of conspiring a condition of liability ..." This ruling indicated that conspiracy alone can be criminal.
"... our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connections they have found worth marking, in the lifetime of many generations: these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonable practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our armchair of an afternoon — the most favourite alternative method.
In 1853 George Tate read a paper to the Berwick Naturalists ' Club at which a Mr John Collingwood Bruce agreed that the carvings had "... a common origin, and indicate a symbolic meaning, representing some popular thought.
"... these three facsimiles of Egyptian documents in the ‘ Pearl of Great Price ’ depict the most common objects in the Mortuary religion of Egypt.
The articles required that "... the word of God shall be the only rule ..." and this was maintained even over English common law tradition.
The bill was controversial at the time, receiving strong opposition from both Houses of Parliament, and was passed on the assurance by Campbell in his capacity of Lord Chief Justice that it was "... intended to apply exclusively to works written for the single purpose of corrupting the morals of youth and of a nature calculated to shock the common feelings of decency in any well-regulated mind.
The Central Office of the PFDJ believes that they share "... a common guilt: at the minimum, abdication of responsibility during Eritrea's difficult hours, at the maximum, grave conspiracy.
The Central Office of the PFDJ believes that they share, "... a common guilt: at the minimum, abdication of responsibility during Eritrea's difficult hours, at the maximum, grave conspiracy.
The bill was controversial at the time, receiving strong opposition from both Houses of Parliament, and was passed on the assurance by the Lord Chief Justice that it was "... intended to apply exclusively to works written for the single purpose of corrupting the morals of youth and of a nature calculated to shock the common feelings of decency in any well-regulated mind.
Karlin states, however, that Baloo's diet of "... only roots and nuts and honey " is a trait more common to the Asian black bear than to the sloth bear.
However, common complaints were still that "... wandering around the levels looking for the last enemy gets boring very quickly.
# Domain of common concern: "... discussion within such a public presupposed the problematization of areas that until then had not been questioned.
Instead of fighting for "... truth, justice, and the American Way ", Superman is described in Soviet radio broadcasts "... as the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.
"... and half
In the run up to the 2002 election the CSU / CDU held a huge lead in the opinion polls and Stoiber famously remarked that "... this election is like a football match where it's the second half and my team is ahead by 2 – 0.
During the interview, Lee was quoted as saying "... Just about a month and a half ago we had no songs.
Brin and Page note that: "... running a crawler which connects to more than half a million servers (...) generates a fair amount of e-mail and phone calls.
"... This evening Wilkes and a half dozen of his followers went to Father Szymanowski ’ s residence.
September 20, Cotton Mather wrote to Stephen Sewall, the clerk of the court: " That I may be the more capable to assist in lifting up a standard against the infernal enemy ..." requesting "... a narrative of the evidence given in at the trials of half a dozen, or if you please, a dozen, of the principal witches that have been condemned.
"... the new barracks ..... are little more than 300 yards horizontally from the beach ..... and about above high-water mark, but in order to communicate with them from the centre of town, on horseback the distance is nearly a mile and a half and to walk it about three-quarters of a mile, and all the roads unavoidably pass over ground more than above the barracks, besides the footpaths are so steep and chalky that a number of accidents will unavoidably happen during the wet weather and more especially after floods.
* On the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds double album, Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, Johnny Thunders is mentioned in the song " There She Goes my Beautiful World ", singing "... And Johnny Thunders was half alive when he wrote ' Chinese Rocks '"( although Johnny performed and recorded ' Chinese Rocks ' it was written by his friend and fellow punk rocker Dee Dee Ramone ).
This is believed to have originated from Ving, who told the Post that "... we caused $ 500, 000 worth of damage, a cool half a million dollars worth of damage, ‘ cause we ’ re professionals, and I counted the damage myself.
" The New York Times Janet Maslin, however, deemed Night Shift "... a halfway funny movie, one that's got loads of good gags in its first half and nothing but trouble in its second.
In its 1936 World Series cover story about Lou Gehrig and Carl Hubbell, Time magazine depicted the Fall Classic that year between crosstown rivals Giants and Yankees as " a personal struggle between Hubbell and Gehrig ", calling Hubbell "... currently baseball's No. 1 Pitcher and among the half dozen ablest in the game's annals.
His act always started with the line: "... I don't know what I've been drinking but I could walk half an hour ago!
Virtually all motion pictures produced in the United States adhered to the code, and similar censorship was common in other countries, for example an early version of the first lesbian vampire film Dracula's Daughter, a film described in The Celluloid Closet as presenting " homosexuality as a predatory weakness ", was rejected by the British Board of Film Censors in 1935, who said in part "... Dracula's Daughter would require half a dozen ... languages to adequately express its beastliness .".
" According to Thomas A. Tweed in the book Westward Dharma, "... Helen Tworkov, the editor of Tricycle, estimated that half of the publication's sixty thousand subscribers do not describe themselves as Buddhist.
Subsequent controversy focused on MLB Rule 6. 05 ( k ), which says that a batter shall be out — with the ball dead and the runners returned to their orignal bases — if "... In running the last half of the distance from home base to first base, while the ball is being fielded to first base, he runs outside ( to the right of ) the three-foot line, or inside ( to the left of ) the foul line, and in the umpire ’ s judgment in so doing interferes with the fielder taking the throw at first base .."
These were among other scripts that, "... in the great tradition of the movie business, about half a dozen that I got paid a fortune for but never got made.
Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars out of four, praising that "... Alejandro Amenabar, has the patience to create a languorous, dreamy atmosphere, and Nicole Kidman succeeds in convincing us that she is a normal person in a disturbing situation and not just a standard-issue horror movie hysteric.
"... but it is strange, the Muslim at the time of performing the morning prayer at half past four in the morning he still states ‘ Inna salaati wa nusuki wa mahyaya wa mamaati lillahi rabbil ‘ alamin ’ ( Verily, my prayer, my sacrifice, my living, and my dying are for Allāh, the Lord of the Worlds Al An ’ aam ( 6 ), ayāh 162 ).
Michael Medved gave Lady in the Water one and a half stars ( out of four ) calling it, "... a full-out, flamboyant cinematic disaster, a work of nearly unparalleled arrogance and vapidity ," adding that, "... Lady in the Water is all wet ...."
( An inquiry by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, conducted a decade and a half later, concluded that the FBI's "... overall investigation of the 544 Camp Street issue at the time of the assassination was not thorough.
When commenting on the young men trying to court her during her time in Kentucky, she said: "... do not imagine I am going to make myself a whole just at present ; the fact is I cannot find my other half here, but only about a sixth, which would not do.
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