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After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.
Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.
He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.
Gossip had it ( for gossip is the soul of Rome ) that a famous American dancer of the time had paid for both the planes.
The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.
It contained, for example, a number of curious admissions about the peasants, who enjoy no sickness benefits, no old-age pensions, no paid holidays ; ;
Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.
The only hope which good teachers have for being paid their due is to stop dragging the dead weight of poor teachers up the economic ladder with them.
In that ownership of all vehicles rests with the state motor pool, cars are paid for with funds appropriated to the agencies but transferred to the rotary fund mentioned earlier.
In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.
a special fund created for that purpose pursuant to subsection ( A ) of this section any amounts hereafter paid, in United States dollars, by a foreign government which has entered into a claims settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.
Nor would it be possible in many cases for them to live in health or any effectiveness on what their counterparts abroad are paid.
Its initial expenses will be paid from appropriations currently available for our foreign aid program.
Approximately 40 percent of the value of the work on roads for access to timber which are planned for this period will be constructed by purchasers of National Forest timber, but paid for by the Government through adjustment of stumpage prices.
Your application must include the following information: ( 1 ) your reasons for requesting an extension, ( 2 ) whether you filed timely income tax returns for the 3 preceding years, and ( 3 ) whether you were required to file an estimated return for the year, and if so whether you did file and have paid the estimated tax payments on or before the due dates.
Such interest must be paid even though an extension of time for filing is granted.
If your child works for you, you may deduct reasonable wages you paid to him for services he rendered in your business.
In addition to direct salaries and wages, the Company paid or accrued during the year the following amounts for the benefit of employees:

for and Hessians
The Hanoverians, Hessians and Danes, despite earlier undertakings, found, or invented, pressing reasons for withholding their support.
In the late 18th century, Hesse-Kassel became infamous for selling mercenaries ( Hessians ) to the British crown to help suppress the American Revolution and to finance the construction of palaces and the landgrave's opulent lifestyle.
Settlers in this area included Hessians who fought for the British against the American rebels, and Pennsylvania Dutch pacifists ( Mennonites ).
The 3rd Waldeck Regiment thus served during the American War of Independence, where they were known under the ' umbrella term ' used during that conflict for all Germans-' Hessians '.
American deserters told the Hessians that rations were being prepared for an advance across the river.
Following the surrender of the Hessians, Washington is reported to have grabbed the hand of a young officer and said " This is a glorious day for our country.
On the Rhine, a combined army of Prussians, Austrians, Hessians and émigrés under the Duke of Brunswick was formed for the invasion of France, flanked by two smaller armies on its right and left, all three being under the supreme command of King Frederick William II of Prussia.
In 1798 the Hessians were notorious in Ireland for their atrocities and brutality toward the population of Wexford.
Note that for positive semidefinite and negative semidefinite Hessians the test is inconclusive ( yet a conclusion can be made that f is locally convex or concave respectively ).
More generally, the second-order conditions that are sufficient for a local minimum or maximum can be expressed in terms of the sequence of principal ( upper-leftmost ) minors ( determinants of sub-matrices ) of the Hessian ; these conditions are a special case of those given in the next section for bordered Hessians for constrained optimization — the case in which the number of constraints is zero.
* Polarization identity, useful for rapid calculations involving Hessians.
He participated in a deception operation that left the Hessians in Trenton unprepared for Washington's attack across the Delaware River on December 26, 1776.
During the war, the Horseman was one of 51 Hessians killed in a battle for Chatterton Hill, wherein his head was severed by an American cannonball.
Tropez on the Quarry Pond ”, which is the nickname for the local bathing beach in the town ) or Erbarme, die Hesse komme (“ Have mercy, the Hessians are coming ”).
In the Battle of Trenton which followed the crossing, the American soldiers surprised the Hessians, capturing nearly 900 prisoners in 90 minutes and taking supplies that had been for the British army.

for and from
The guerrillas began a frantic search for pails in which to bring water from the spring.
A red-tailed hawk flew in behind them and stayed there, watching for any snakes or rabbits that they might stir up from the side of the road.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
Indeed, you wouldn't live long, for the females either drive the men they've seized from neighboring islands back to their boats after exploiting them for amatory purposes, or they destroy them by revolting but ingenious methods.
Now it did not occur to him even to wonder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: Rob was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets, the object of his pride.
The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.
A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.
The bridge itself rises up from the river, light-flared and enormous, like the outdoor set for an epic opera.
Franklin retired from editing and publishing at the age of 42, and for the next forty-two years devoted himself to public, scientific, and philanthropic interests.
Faulkner, for one, appears to be safe from the accusing fingers of all assailants in this regard.
Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.
hot-colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch, where we passed on our way to the pump with the half-gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it.
Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.
And although these insights into the nature of art may be in themselves insufficient for a thoroughgoing philosophy of art, their peculiar authenticity in this day and age requires that they be taken seriously and gives promise that from their very substance, new and valid chapters in the philosophy of art may be written.
Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).
It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.
They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.
It ignores the sordid financial aspects ( quite conveniently, too, for his audience, who could indulge in moral indignation without visible, or even conscious, discomfort, their money from the transaction having been put away long ago in a good antiseptic brokerage ).
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.

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