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older and wiser
Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.
The age limit, the same as that for office holders but ten years older than that required for participation in the assembly, gave the courts a certain standing in relation to the assembly ; for the Athenians of the court were not only older, but were wiser, too.
: Now I'm an older, wiser man
He appeared more paternal, older, and wiser, rather than the warrior-like images in the early stages of the French Revolution.
An older and wiser Luke Skywalker also appears in the Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy video games at the rank of Jedi Master.
Tying into this fact is an ancient Wing Tsun proverb: " Fear the younger, stronger opponent in fist-fighting, but fear the older, wiser opponent in pole-fighting.
In fact, on occasion Roo seems even wiser than many of the older characters.
After growing up at school and in the Scouts together, Bob and Terry are working in the same factory, Ellison's Electrical, alongside the older, wiser duo of Cloughie and Jack.
Superman returns, older and wiser, as does Superman X, a clone from the 41st century, to battle Imperiex.
The more tails a kitsune has — they may have as many as nine — the older, wiser, and more powerful it is.
The main character divorces her and moves back home " much wiser now and older ".
This older Static is wiser, but still jokes around a lot.
Proverbs in Calormene culture ( as in so many real cultures ) are the domain of adults, especially older, wiser adults.
" or " I feel sad .” This is because they have not yet rejoined the human collective experience, commonly reestablished in their older, wiser years, according to Jung.
She usually acts as a wiser older sister to Zeta, who is often clueless about how to properly blend in with humans.
The film was directed by Amy Heckerling and chronicles a school year in the lives of freshmen Stacy Hamilton ( Jennifer Jason Leigh ) and Mark Ratner ( Brian Backer ), and their respective older friends Linda Barrett ( Phoebe Cates ) and Mike Damone ( Robert Romanus ), both of whom believe themselves wiser in the ways of romance than their younger counterparts.
Ms. Mililani Minerva Mudd, Millie's mother, is a lawyer, who is as an older, wiser, more temperate version of Millie.
He must adjust to the life with older but not necessarily wiser high school teenagers — his brother Marcus ( Jason Weaver ) and Marcus's best friend Mo ( Omar Gooding ).
12 years later, an attempt to revive the series with an older, wiser Andy was made in 1958 with Andy Hardy Comes Home, but a new series failed to emerge.
It is not until she confers with ( the much older and wiser ) Ichigo that she realizes that Maiku cannot engage in any casual romantic relationship due to both his obligations to his new-found ' family ' and his own forcibly matured, responsible nature.
The show stars two agents, Myka Bering ( Joanne Kelly ) and Peter Lattimer ( Eddie McClintock ), led by older, wiser Arthur " Artie " Nielsen ( Saul Rubinek ) as they collect artifacts, powerful items which are " imbued with human energy " and have supernatural powers.
In the Epilogue, we learn that Rochefort, and an older and wiser d ' Artagnan, have fought on three occasions ( all duels being won by d ' Artagnan ), settle their differences and become friends.
At times she seems hopelessly lovesick, a prime candidate for any heartbreaker's ruse, but on " You Did It All Before ," " Clock ," and " Don't Fade Away " she sounds a lot older and wiser, no stranger to hurt and disillusionment.

older and heads
The older the constitution, the more constitutional leeway tends to exist for a head of state to exercise greater powers over government, as many older parliamentary system constitutions in fact give heads of state powers and functions akin to presidential or semi-presidential systems, in some cases without containing reference to modern democratic principles of accountability to parliament or even to modern governmental offices.
The first and third are " head couples " or " heads " ( or, in older parlance, the " first four "); the second and fourth are " side couples " or " sides " ( formerly " side four " or " second four ").
At no point in the novel does Boyle enter into a discussion of the political situation, but there are various hints hidden in the text which tell us that the social security system has crumbled and that many older Americans are left to their own devices, without a regular income, many of them seemingly even without a roof over their heads.
Five carved, medieval stone heads are set into the poorhouse, taken from the older medieval castle buildings.
* Castle Street heads north from The Plain to Thornbury Castle and St Mary's Church ; it passes several older buildings including ' the Chantry ' which is now used by the community association ( TDCA ).
Portions of the 1730 church survive, although fragments of this may, in fact, be older than that date, for there is a window, on the south side aisle ornamented with trefoiled heads and stone mullions with shields carved on them.
The simplest way to connect an older boombox to an MP3 player is to use a cassette adapter, which interfaces an MP3 player's output directly to the cassette player's heads.
The older writers had sixty heads, but he reduced them to fifty.
Dahmer preyed on young men and boys ( the youngest being eight years older than Adam ), and his modus operandi included severing his victims ' heads.
Their heads are bulbous and this can become more defined in older males.
The Freeman Lowell character in the original version was an older, more curmudgeonly man who simply did not want to return to Earth and be forced into retirement, so he steals the Valley Forge and heads off into deep space.
The music was adapted and arranged to Watts ' lyrics by Lowell Mason in 1839 from an older melody which was then believed to have originated from Handel, not least because the theme of the refrain ( And heaven and nature sing ...) appears in the orchestra opening and accompaniment of the recitative Comfort ye from Handel's Messiah, and the first four notes match the beginning of the choruses Lift up your heads and Glory to God from the same oratorio.
Unlike the flying heads of the 1301, the 353 used the older head design of the IBM 350 RAMAC.
The bolts that secured the intake manifold to the cylinder heads were installed at a different angle than those on the older LA engine ; they threaded in vertically, rather than at the 45-degree angle of the LA.
Missouri in 1945 ; angry French citizens shaving the heads of women accused of sleeping with Germans during the occupation in 1944 ; a roomful of excited royal youngsters and their staid older relatives in 1954 ; and a 1950 portrait of Douglas MacArthur smoking a pipe.
He immediately released some of the younger players ( most notably Dean Saunders ) to bring in some older heads.
These older media types are simply a raw medium which are overwritten with fresh new patterns, created by fixed-alignment read / write heads.
Men shave their heads, older men wear beards, women and girls braid their hair in strands and string it with beads.
In the Chinese city, now, we see that a large woman carries her four children, attached by their heads to suction cups, by a pole straddled across her shoulders ; Buddy turns a corner and sees an older gentleman expand and compress himself vertically in order to read a poster on the side of a building ; when the man has left, Buddy goes to read the message, which converts, for our benefit, into English: " Grand Celebration To-day: the 150th Birthday Anniversary of the Sacred Dragon: a beautiful girl will be sacrificed to the Dragon.
Occasionally, instead of a flashback, a far-fetched scenario ( showing an alternate reality, what Titus's life will be like when he is older, or a one-off gag similar to those found on The Simpsons and Family Guy ) will be presented, such as Titus and Erin as a bickering married couple in their old age, Titus and his father as rich men who use their butlers to beat each other up with Christopher and Ken read the newspaper, Titus trying to deal with Ken being married to a man, and Titus, Dave, and Ken as heads on a couch.
His older brother, Richard Clutterbuck, heads the Bristol Free School.
It is seen as an example of and possibly the pinnacle of Dwarven engineering although older and more traditional dwarfs view the idea of flying with a great deal of suspicion ; Dwarfs, as a general rule, being happiest when they have solid rock over their heads.
Upon gaining possession of the Bay Island the Honduran government made Guanaja the official name of the island but we maintained the old name for as long as we could and all the older heads throughout the islands still refer to our island as Bonacca.

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