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good and deal
They looked a good deal alike, Morgan thought.
An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.
He felt a good deal less shaky.
And if Howard Rutstein felt impelled thereafter to formulate the ethics of the medical profession, his article in the Atlantic Monthly accomplished a good deal more.
Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.
Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.
The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.
Undoubtedly, there was a good deal of gambling in both.
They hire a good deal of local labor, including two members of our Trustee Board.
The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.
I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.
But having lived with the disc for some time now, I find the performance less exciting than either Schnabel's or Fleisher's ( whose superb performance with the Budapest Quartet has still to be recorded ) and a good deal less filled with humor than Curzon's.
Of course, individual financing arrangements depend a good deal on the purchaser's earning power, credit rating and local bank policy.
Most recreation work calls for a good deal of pre-planning.
Certainly, America took Prokofieff and his Classical Symphony seriously, and with a good deal of pleasure.
A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.
We were forced, as they were, to work a good deal of tempera into background and dark areas.
Apparently this is not the time and the climate in which people will listen objectively, or at least dispassionately, to individual impressions of a subject which preoccupies a good deal of their waking moments.
Urethane foam as an insulator is also coming in for a good deal of attention.
Smith's first workout with stresses, pitches, and junctures was based on mother, which spells, in our culture, a good deal more than bread alone.
If you have a year-round, full-time job you can't expect to grow much more than your family uses -- unless other members of the family do a good deal of the work or you hire help.
At the same time, there is a good deal of self-congratulation at attending a good college -- they are even inclined to exaggerate its not inconsiderable virtues -- and they express pleasure at the cozy in-group feeling that the college generates.
All in all, though, there is a good deal of nonsense expended over the preparations thought necessary for ordinary wine drinking ; ;

good and English
But both were high-spirited and vivacious, both had tempers to control, both loved languages, especially English and German, both were good teachers and wrote for publication.
`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.
As it happens the English lady is a good Catholic herself, but of more liberal political persuasion.
From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.
I have found myself saying with other foreigners here that English Catholics are good Catholics.
In this connection, it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good.
stereo BGS 5031 ) is a good sample of the special, elegant art of English madrigal singing.
It also makes a fine introduction to the international art form with good examples of Italian and English madrigals plus several French `` chansons ''.
This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).
This can result either in some variations becoming extinct ( for instance, the wireless, being progressively superseded by the radio ) or in the acceptance of wide variations as " perfectly good English " everywhere.
The second part,, means " faith, word of honour ; religious faith, belief " ( archaic English troth " loyalty, honesty, good faith ").
One of the cookbooks that proliferated in the colonies was The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy written by Hannah Glasse, wrote of disdain for the French style of cookery, stating “ the blind folly of this age that would rather be imposed on by a French booby, than give encouragement to a good English cook !” Of the French recipes, she does add to the text she speaks out flagrantly against the dishes as she “… think it an odd jumble of trash .” Reinforcing the anti-French sentiment was the French and Indian War from 1754-1764.
Massoud spoke Persian, Pashto, Urdu and French and had good English reading skills.
The English translation renders this as " My dear old Getafix || How good to see you here ", with the reply " Aha, an Alexandrine ".
The Beano comic takes its name from the English word beano which can be loosely interpreted as a good time.
Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good.
The English noun commonwealth in the sense meaning " public welfare ; general good or advantage " dates from the 15th century.
" A commonwealth of good counsaile " was the title of the 1607 English translation of the work of Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki " De optimo senatore " that presented to English readers many of the ideas present in the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
A good example of such a metonymic shift in the singular-to-plural direction ( which, generally speaking, only occurs in British English ) is the following sentence: " The team have finished the project.
These experts demonstrate that education in the English language and a good command of it is vital to identify that doublespeak is employed.
" James's reading of The True Law of Free Monarchies allowed that "... a good king will frame all his actions to be according to the law, yet is he not bound thereto but of his good will ..." James also had printed his Defense of the Right of Kings in the face of English theories of inalienable popular and clerical rights.

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