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journey and little
She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.
After the slaughter of D ' sparil, Corvus ends up on a perilous journey with little hope to return home.
There is just as little against such an acceptation in the later account in Acts of St. Paul's third missionary journey.
As a relatively minor kingdom there was little financial and military support from Europe ; despite numerous small expeditions, Europeans were generally unwilling to undertake an expensive journey to the east for what appeared to be a losing cause.
During the journey to Australia, some players reported that Jardine told them to hate the Australians in order to defeat them, while instructing them to refer to Bradman as " the little bastard.
As evidence of these movements, bull sharks tagged inside the lake have later been caught in the open ocean ( and vice versa ), with some taking as little as 7 – 11 days to complete the journey.
The reasons for this journey are fundamentally unclear, since Truso was at the time little more than a trading center, and Alfred the Great, the West Saxon ruler, already kept in close contact with the continental Saxons and the Franks.
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, providing faster, safer, and usually cheaper travel east and west ( the journey took seven days and cost as little as $ 65 ).
The journey took five days, during which they received very little food or water.
From there, they sailed to the Kamchatka peninsula, preparing new ships there and sailing north ( repeating a little documented journey of Semyon Dezhnyov eighty years previously ).
Mamiya Rinzō's journey of 1808 was little known to Europeans.
In August he made an extended journey south to Naples and Pompeii, where he was unimpressed with the former but delighted with the latter: " Here you live with the ancients ; you see their temples, their theatres, their houses in which you find their furniture, their kitchen utensils ..." Bizet began sketching a symphony based on his Italian experiences, but made little immediate headway ; the project, which became his Roma symphony, was not finished until 1868.
:" Today I had to answer a letter from your brother which cost me a lot of writing, so I can write very little to you ... You'll readily understand that I had to write a very emphatic letter, because he made no lesser suggestion than that I should take his 2 children into my care, since he would like to make a journey through Germany to England ...
And in the end, each little god and goddess takes its last journey back into dreams ... and what comes after, not even we know.
For example: a hero proposes a journey to a dangerous place / he disguises himself / his disguise fools everybody / except for a common person of little account ( a crone, a tavern maid or a woodcutter ) / who immediately recognizes him / the commoner becomes the hero's ally, showing unexpected resources of skill or initiative.
The journey time to London via this route has been reduced to under 1 hour ; some trains from Folkestone West take as little as 52 minutes to reach the capital by High Speed Train.
Trains are often non-stop between Victoria and East Croydon, and between East Croydon and Gatwick Airport, and with each leg taking as little as 15 minutes, a total journey time of under 40 minutes is entirely possible.
Such a line would have been longer and more expensive, shortening the journey to London by very little, but extending that to Birmingham excessively.
The ostensible purpose of his journey was to collate the texts of Simplicius of Cilicia, which, however, engaged but little of his time.
Some distinguished writers have combined cycling with travel writing including Dervla Murphy, whose made her first documented journey in 1963 from London to India on a single speed bicycle with little more than a revolver and a change of underwear.
Because any amount of money on a valid permit to travel will ensure that a passenger cannot be charged a penalty fare, it is entirely possible ( if the passenger is not encountered by an inspector, who will sell a full ticket ) to make a two hour train journey for as little five pence ( the lowest denomination coin the machine will accept ) without breaching any fare regulations.
Ishmael provides little about his personal background before his decision at the beginning of the novel to journey to Nantucket, Massachusetts to enlist as a sailor on a whaler.
Having spent most of the little money she earned on a new wardrobe, Alice is forced to delay their journey to the West Coast and accept a job as a waitress in Tucson so she can accumulate more cash.
Thus some congestion charging schemes have been claimed a " success " because they have achieved a significant reduction in traffic volumes, even though there was little effect on actual journey times.

journey and white
He promised to his father, Aegeus, that he would put up a white sail on his journey back home if he was successful and would have the crew put up black sails if he was killed.
Lawson said the natives on Hatteras island claimed to be descendants of " white people " and had physical traits that no other tribe of natives encountered on his journey shared:
The land on which Fort Defiance was eventually established was first noted by white military men when Colonel John Washington stopped there on his return journey from an expedition to Canyon de Chelly.
During this journey, usually referred to as the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition, Escalante and his companions passed by the Grand Canyon and were among the first white men to enter Utah.
alt = A blue and white map showing Rupert's journey from Ireland, across the Atlantic into the Mediterranean, then down the African coastline, across to the West Indies and back to France.
After a month's journey through wastes so harsh that even some of the camels died, on 2 February 1932 Philby arrived at a patch of ground about a half a square kilometer in size, littered with chunks of white sandstone, black glass, and chunks of iron meteorite.
On her journey, she is hit by the car of a rich white woman.
Laurens Van der Post's two novels, A Story Like The Wind ( 1972 ) and its sequel, A Far-Off Place ( 1974 ), are about a white boy encountering a wandering Bushman and his wife, and how the Bushmen's life and survival skills save the white teenagers ' lives in a journey across the desert.
The program documented the journey of students at Westfield High, a predominantly white school in Virginia that is staging The Wiz – the black musical version of The Wizard of Oz.
There a " river " of white gravel represents a metaphorical journey through life ; beginning with a dry waterfall in the mountains, passing through rapids and rocks, and ending in a tranquil sea of white gravel, with two gravel mountains.
During this journey, usually referred to as the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition, Escalante and his companions passed by the Grand Canyon and were the first white men to enter Utah.
Now known as Simon Snowlock, because of the white tuft of hair on his forehead, the former kitchen boy continues his arduous journey in the service of the rebel Prince Josua, brother to the ( human ) High King, and enters the last great citadel of the Sithi.
Accompanied by her fellow activist Dora Tamana, and as an official delegate of FEDSAW, she embarked on a journey that would see an attempt to stow away on a boat leaving Cape Town under " white names ", defy ( with the help of a sympathetic pilot ) segregated seating on a plane bound for London and gain entry to Britain under the pretext of completing her course in bible studies.
With Bayard Rustin, another FOR staffer, Houser, a white Methodist minister, co-led the Journey of Reconciliation, a form of non-violent direct action, a two-week interracial bus journey challenging segregation.
In 1947, after the Supreme Court's finding ( in Morgan v. Commonwealth ) that segregation in interstate travel was unconstitutional, Houser helped organize the Journey of Reconciliation, a plan to send eight white and eight black men on a journey through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky to test the ruling.
However at the station's opening Eurostar did not wish to stop its trains at the station due to low demand and increased journey time, and critics hailed the station as a white elephant.
Zavarzin's companions on his journey include the doctor Shelako, the nurse Katya and a mysterious white guard officer Beklemishev, disguised as a veterinary surgeon.
Their journey may take place in a boat of glass, in a chariot or on horseback ( usually upon a white horse, as in the case of the goddess Niamh of the Golden Hair ).
Apart from the main lines 4. Bf4, 4. Nf3 and 4. e4, the only significant other fourth move is 4. e3 to continue by 4 ... Nxe5 5. Nh3 ( or the other move-order 4. Nh3 and 5. e3 ) so that the white knight starts the journey Ng1 – h3 – f4 – d5 reach its ideal d5-square.
He meets a white man named Gilbert and starts a whole new journey into the unknown.
After a journey of 24 days crossing the Andes to a region where white women had never before travelled, the nuns arrived in Puerto Maldonado, a small village in the Amazon basin, situated between two large rivers, the Madre de Dios and the Tambopata, along which all communication took place.
He convinced the production company to pay Will Corry $ 100, 000 for his original story about two men, one black and one white, who drove across the country followed by a young girl which was inspired by his own cross-country journey in 1968.

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