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Few and orders
In How Few Remain, the orders are instead recovered by a trailing Confederate soldier.
Few cities lacked both a St Giles house for lepers outside the walls and a Magdalene house for prostitutes and other women of notoriety within the walls, and some orders were favored by monarchs and rich families to keep and educate their maiden daughters before arranged marriage.
Few in the North realized that Morgan's adventure was a violation of his orders and had nothing to do with Robert E. Lee's simultaneous movement into Pennsylvania.

Few and did
" Few puritans more loudly decried the bosom serpent of egotism than did Cotton Mather ; none more clearly exemplified it.
Few philosophers are as associated with induction as David Hume ; but Hume himself rarely used the term and when he did, he used it to support a point he was arguing.
Few had succeeded as Bowie did now.
" Few dared mention that by his own standards, Himmler did not meet his own ideals.
Few dared venture inland from the coast ; those that did, like the Portuguese, often met defeats and had to retreat to the coast.
Few syllabaries have glyphs for syllables that are not monomoraic, and those that once did have simplified over time to eliminate that complexity.
" Few places on the British coast did not claim to be the haunts of wreckers or mooncussers.
George Walton, the Virginia-born statesman who signed the Declaration of Independence, resided in what would become Columbia County, as did William Few and Abraham Baldwin.
Few people did more than Robert Wozniak, Professor of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College for the rediscovery of the significance of James Mark Baldwin in the History of ideas.
Few, if any, made a living from playing in the years 1970 – 73, nor did they expect to.
Few of the power pop albums which followed Get the Knack charted at all, and those that did attained only middling positions on the Billboard 200.
Few expected him to become Prime Minister when he did, and some believed him unsuitable, but he nevertheless remained in that office for five years.
Few indeed were the early homes into which the cards, the spinning-wheel, the flag-wheel, the quill-wheel, the swifts, the warping-bars, and loom did not find an early entrance.
Few poets have celebrated a woman's beauty to the extent Yeats did in his lyric verse about Gonne.
Few people bought the boxes, so there was little incentive for companies to post content, which in turn did nothing to further box sales.
When asked by his son Boromir how much time must pass before a Steward could become a King, if the King did not return, Denethor II replied: " Few years, maybe, in other places of less royalty ...
Few if any of the nostrums were actually patented ; chemical patents did not come into use in the United States until 1925.
Few batsmen, or writers, announce themselves as Dexter did when batting for Sussex against Surrey at The Oval last summer.
Few stayed in Buy, and some that did were deported during the Great Purge two decades later.
Few observers have shown more sympathy … with the religious and social practices of the Hindus than Geddes did ; yet no one could have written more scathingly of Mahatma Gandhi ’ s attempt to conserve the past by reverting to the spinning wheel, at a moment when the fundamental poverty of the masses in India called for the most resourceful application of the machine both to agricultural and industrial life .’
Few people outside of Colorado ever saw the film since Troma did not distribute it widely.
Few women composers became more popular in the early 20th century than did d ' Hardelot, and her success was won on merit alone.
Few modern scholars consider it anything but an outright invention of Teudt, who did not provide evidence to back his claims.
Few soaps had ever made attempts to aggressively focus on attractive young people, and those that did had not fared well with the traditional daytime audience, which at the time mainly consisted of stay-at-home mothers / housewives.

Few and fact
Few of the top people, not even all the Politburo members, learned of the fact on the same day.
However, despite the fact that her 1982 recording " There's Still a Few Good Love Songs Left in Me " brought Francis her last notation on the country charts, several songs never made it beyond the status of being recorded.
Little is known about the Metaphysics of Cishaurim sorcery, or the Psûkhe as the Cishaurim refer to it, beyond the fact that it cannot be perceived by the Few and that it is in many ways as formidable as the Anagogic sorcery of the Schools.

Few and come
Few business groups in recent years have come under heavier pressure to face these realities than real estate brokers and home builders.
Leone's next two films – For a Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 ) – completed what has come to be known as the Man with No Name trilogy ( a. k. a. the Dollars Trilogy ), with each film being more financially successful and more technically accomplished than its predecessor.
Few men have come so close to the throne as York, who died not knowing that in only a few months his son Edward would become king.
Few clear facts about Simonides ' life have come down to modern times in spite of his fame and influence.
Few of its residents stay year-round, and most come from major west coast cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and more distantly Chicago and New York.
Few of Plato's writings were studied in the Latin West at that time, and he essentially reintroduced much of Plato to the Western world, shaking the domination which Aristotle had come to exercise over Western European thought in the high and later middle ages.
Few allies among the southern tribes could come to the assistance of Deborah and Barak.
Few formidable wicket-taker spinner had been known to come from the English side for the past many years.
Though they've come since to be viewed as " Best Ofs " ( featuring new versions of " One Leg Too Few ", " Shirt Shop ", " Colonel Bogey " and possibly " Pseudolene / Job Offer " ( see episode guide )), at least half of the material was new.
Says Zhang: " Few of the artists come to seriously practice art.
Few artists had as much influence in the formation and growth of what has come to be known as " contemporary Christian music " as did Petra.
The speech is also well remembered for his use of the phrase " the few " to describe the Allied aircrew of Fighter Command of the RAF, whose desperate struggle gained the victory ; " The Few " has come to be their nickname.
Few LGBT Iranians come out to family for fear of being rejected, abused or turned over to the authorities.
: Kansas City Confidential, an imaginative little noir from 1952, exemplifies the bread-and-butter UA film of the ’ 50s .... Mr. Karlson, interestingly, concentrates on the story within the story: The leader of the gang is an embittered former police captain ... who dons a mask when he interviews prospective collaborators whose names he has drawn from police files .... The recruits are three young actors who would come to define menace in the ’ 50s and beyond: Neville Brand, Jack Elam and Lee Van Cleef, who here has his best role before For a Few Dollars More.

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