Before Harry Lorrequer appeared in volume form ( 1839 ), Lever had settled on the strength of a slight diplomatic connection as a fashionable physician in Brussels ( Hertogstraat 16 ).

Before its American usages, the expression had been used to describe the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland by Edward du Bois under the pseudonym " A Knight Errant " in 1807, and in a poem describing the English county of Surrey in 1839.

Before the couple's next visit, in 1839, the Galilee earthquake of 1837 had heavily damaged the tomb.

Before 1837 the area was briefly considered for the site of the colony's capital ; a ' special survey ' was undertaken in 1839 – 40 with a sizeable township laid out at Currency Creek and land for a port with substantial warehousing on the river where Goolwa now stands ; however, the treacherous waters of the Murray Mouth for shipping made it unsuitable as a major port.

Before its naming in 1839, TB had been called " consumption " during much of its 4, 500-year history as a human disease dating from Babylonian writings and Egyptian mummies.

Before marrying at the start of 1839 Charles moved to Gower Street, London, astounding Erasmus with the amount of his luggage.

Before he left on a business trip, in December 1839, she made a will bequeathing to her husband her entire inheritance, with the proviso that he would do the same for her.

Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should be made.

Before the rise of the mendicant orders ( wandering friars ) in the thirteenth century, the daily services were usually contained in a number of large volumes.

Before a diver competes they must decide on a " list " this is a number of optional dives and compulsory dives.

Before D. W. Griffith started directing at Biograph in May 1908, he had seen the two Pathé films just mentioned, and a number of Vitagraph films as well.

Before Moseley's discovery, the atomic numbers ( or elemental number ) of an element had been thought of as a semi-arbitrary sequential number, based on the sequence of atomic masses, but modified somewhat where chemists found this to be desirable, such as by the great Russian chemist, Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev.

Before Moseley and his law, atomic numbers had been thought of as a semi-arbitrary ordering number, vaguely increasing with atomic weight but not strictly defined by it.

Before IBAN, differing national standards for bank account identification ( i. e., bank, branch, routing codes, and account number ) were confusing for some users.

Before the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, researchers who attempted to count the number of people killed under Stalin's regime produced estimates ranging from 3 to 60 million.

Before becoming a manga artist, Asamiya graduated from the Tokyo Designer School, then worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later Godzilla films ( 1980s ).

Before the 1987 – 88 season, Dalglish signed a number of new players: Peter Beardsley from Newcastle, John Aldridge from Oxford United ( who replaced Ian Rush ); winger John Barnes from Watford ; and Oxford United midfielder Ray Houghton.

Before it reaches the plains it receives a great number of small streams from impenetrable, saturated and much broken mountainous districts, where the dense and varied vegetation seems to fight for every piece of ground.

Before being read, the ballots are counted while still folded ; if the number of ballots does not match the number of electors, the ballots are burned unopened and a new vote is held.

Before taking any steps to meet the wishes of Michael, Louis asked the pope's permission for a number of his bishops to assemble and make a selection of passages from the Fathers to elucidate the question that the Greeks had put before them.

Before the introduction of postage stamps, mail in the UK was paid for by the recipient, a system that was associated with an irresolvable problem: the costs of delivering mail were not recoverable by the postal service when recipients were unable or unwilling to pay for delivered items, and senders had no incentive to restrict the number, size, or weight of items sent, whether or not they would ultimately be paid for.

Before he could move, however, there were a number of administrative details to be settled.

Before his time with ABBA, Anderson managed some of the biggest Swedish artists at that time, and had a huge number of hits on the Swedish charts.

Before the fourth edition, skill and ability checks worked as follows: all actions in the game, from the use of skills to making attacks in combat, are first given a target number that reflects the difficulty of the action which is then raised or lowered by various modifying factors, such as environmental conditions, the condition of the character, the use of mechanical aids, and so forth.

Before the invention of the self-propelled torpedo the term was applied to any number of different types of explosive devices, generally having the property of being secret or hidden, including devices which today would include booby traps, land mines and naval mines.

Before that, in 1408, the university had about 200 doctors and magisters, 500 bachelors, and 30, 000 students ; it now lost a large part of this number, accounts of the loss varying from 5000 to 20, 000 including 46 professors.

Before 1891 and the publication of Munros Tables there was considerable uncertainty about the number of peaks in Scotland over 3, 000 feet.

Before a vaccine was developed in World War II, typhus was a devastating disease for humans and has been responsible for a number of epidemics throughout history.

Before 1997, the incoming Labour Government promised to reduce the number and power of NDPBs.

Before 1780 there was no good method for making copies of letters or drawings.

Before his arrival, however, the pirates had been forced to surrender by a force of Bermudian privateers who had been issued letters of marque by the Governor of Bermuda.

Umberto Eco ’ s The Island of the Day Before, set in the 1640s, features a swashbuckling Cyrano-like character named Saint-Savin, who dictates the shy protagonist ’ s love letters.

Before he dies, he asks Danceny to visit Tourvel and assure her of his true love ; Valmont also hands him a collection of letters from Merteuil that detail her scheming.

Before 1 February 1833, in common with the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts, appeal from the Court was to the Crown in Chancery, with appeals being heard by Commissioners appointed by letters patent under the Great Seal in each case.

Before being launched, GOES satellites are designated by letters (- A ,-B ,-C ...).

Cavendish also published collections of letters, such as Sociable Letters and Philosophical Letters ( 1664 ), orations, as in her collection entitled Orations ( 1662 ), and plays, many of which are printed in Plays Never Before Published ( 1668 ).

Before his death, Franz Kafka wrote to his friend and literary executor Max Brod: " Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters ( my own and others '), sketches, and so on, to be burned unread.

" Before the design change, such cards in English versions of the game bear letters.

Before his execution, he thanked his gaolers, Private Soldiers Ortega and Melchor, in letters for their humane treatment.

Before Wukong could shrug it off, the Buddha sealed him there using a paper talisman on which was written the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum in gold letters, wherein Sun Wukong remained imprisoned for five centuries.

Before his departure, Park gave to Isaaco, a Mandingo guide who had been with him thus far, letters to take back to Gambia for transmission to Britain.

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Before July 1974 the two letters from the functional description were inserted after the first digit of the series.

Before entering the theater area, guests are placed in one of three preshow areas, called " Alpha Gate ", " Bravo Gate ", or " Charlie Gate ," ( named for the first three letters of the NATO phonetic alphabet ).

Before his execution, the Norwegian High Court had received letters from 668 priests who begged for mercy on Skancke's behalf.

Before the invention of the printing press and its distribution there was often a very thin line between a private office and a private library since books were read or written in the same space at the same desk or table, and general accounting and personal or private letters were also done there.

Before starting for the East she had met Alexander Pope, and during her absence he wrote her a series of extravagant letters, which appear to have been chiefly exercises in the art of writing gallant epistles.

Before 1772 there appeared at least twelve unauthorized republications of his letters, made by speculative printers.

Before all letters had read, the messenger from Pfirt delivered another eight, and before he had finished speaking, letters from the lords of Schaffhausen were brought in.

Before long, recruiting letters from various top colleges came pouring in.

Before leaving Paris, Orlov left 2 letters for the Soviet Ambassador, one for Stalin and one for his henchman Yezhov.