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Gunny and tried
For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.
Gunny got his name because he simply couldn't fire a gun, no matter how hard he tried.

Gunny and her
Gunny symbolized so much that was unpleasant -- Tolley, the indifference with which the Fairbrothers and indeed the whole neighborhood now treated her and which she would die rather than acknowledge to her husband, his lack of understanding and sympathy in her present condition, her disgusting swollen stomach.
Night after night he stayed with Gunny in the dead of winter, rubbing her with quarts of expensive liniment, fussing over her bran mash as the cook did over charlotte russe, tracking manure on the pretty new carpet when he did come to the house.

Gunny and .
He, with fifteen or twenty horses or mares or geldings or what-nots out there in the barn, was reverent only of `` the Mare '', `` the Racin' Mare '', the revolting Gunny.
" Gunny " Highway, reads Cosmopolitan to gain insights of the other sex's mind in order to win his ex-wife back.
The “ Gunny ” was a member and frequent visitor of the Toledo, Ohio Jewish Serviceman's USO Club sponsored by the National Jewish Welfare Board ( NJWB ) in 1943 as indicated by his registration card coded as a NON-JEW with a hole punched in the top left hand corner.
The Gunny was a practicing Episcopalian as noted in the notes of journalist Marc Parrott who was present at Gunny Diamond's Episcopalian funeral services.
Gunny Watrous a war veteran from Marine Raider.
He makes his way topside, putting out fires and aiding crewmen along the way, and, once topside, meets up with Gunnery Sergeant Jack " Gunny " Lauton, his commander, and Joe works to shoot planes and torpedoes.
Soon after, however, he is blown off the ship, but is rescued by a PT boat carrying Gunny, Pfc.
On January 1, 1942, Joe and Gunny are stationed in the Philippines, where they meet up with Joe's younger brother, Donnie, who is in a Marine demolition unit.
On August 7, 1942, Gunny, Joe and two other Marines are part of a midnight raid on Guadalcanal to take an airfield and destroy an ammo dump before the main assault at dawn.
Because of this, Gunny gives Joe two Marines and the mission to take out Pistol Pete.
The mission is successful, and Joe is recommended by Gunny, and is put in the Office of Strategic Services and promoted Sergeant.
Lastly, Gunny Crockett is a winner of The Wimbledon Cup.
** Louis Gossett, Jr. as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in 1982's An Officer and a Gentleman ( Gunny Foley's trainees were U. S. Navy aviation officer candidates )
Miles Arthur Rutherford or, as he is better known, " Gunny " Rutherford is one of Edmund's oldest friends, a fellow reenactor specializing at first in as a Roman Centurion, then later as a Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant, deciding that the latter learned from the former and improved upon it.
Born and raised in the lawless area known as Anarchia, and, after spending decades living as a Roman Centurion would have and at least hundred and fifty years as a Marine Gunny would live, he is tough as nails, about the hardest man introduced and the primary guiding force in Herzer's development as a Blood Lord.
Getting beyond the strong point despite heavy fire, " Gunny " Cukela captured one gun by bayoneting its crew.
In 1989, with the publication of his first novel, The Gunny Sack, he was invited to spend a season at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa.
The Gunny Sack won a regional Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1990.

invariably and tried
In a Radio Times interview to promote the second series of Yes, Prime Minister, producer Sydney Lotterby stated that he always tried to give Eddington and Hawthorne extra time to rehearse as their scenes invariably featured lengthy dialogue exchanges.
The series has a number of parallels with long-running BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses, with both being set in London and involving lovable dodgy dealers with endless get-rich-quick schemes that invariably backfire and get them into trouble ( and both of whom tried to make out to be of a higher status than they really were ), and both having a blend of comedy and drama.
He tried several professions — including being a farmer, a librarian, a baker, a airline steward for Jet2. com — without much success and invariably being let go at the end of the day.
But unless the monetary policy is changed back, the international markets will invariably continue until the government's foreign exchange reserves are exhausted, causing the currency to devalue, thus breaking one of the three goals and also enriching market players at the expense of the government that tried to break the impossible trinity.
* and, secondly, whenever this creature is off guard, ( and it has occasionally been seen in a neighbouring village ,) and the treasure has been attempted to be withdrawn from its tomb, no mortal rope has been able to sustain its weight, each that has been tried invariably breaking when the coffer was at the very mouth of the cave ; which, being endowed with the gift of locomotion, has immediately retrograded into its pristine situation!
But whenever English officials tried to control the actions of Irish lords, they were invariably met with resistance.

invariably and her
Clover further argues that the " Final Girl " in the psychosexual sub-genre of Exploitation Horror invariably triumphs through her own resourcefulness, and is not by any means a passive, or inevitable, victim.
She appears almost invariably with brown shorts, boots and small backpack, a dark green or blue sleeveless top, holsters on both sides of her hip for dual wielded pistols.
Another of Marsden's personas was Bea Clissold, Lady Counterblast, who starred in a series of sketches in the first series under the title The Clissold Saga, and who invariably managed to introduce her " many, many times " sexual innuendo.
In her comedy films, she invariably played shrewd and self-reliant women, but unlike many of her contemporaries, Colbert rarely engaged in physical comedy.
Thalberg would listen patiently, then invariably advise Norma to keep toeing the line, that MGM knew best, and that the movies she complained about had made her a popular actress.
In her book Noël Coward ( 1987 ), Frances Gray says that Brief Encounter is, after the major comedies, the one work of Coward's that almost everybody knows and has probably seen ; it has featured frequently on television and its viewing figures are invariably high.
In the picture, the wind, whether it is a breeze or a cyclone, invariably seems a sham, and Lillian Gish, the stellar light in this new film, frequently poses where the wind is strongest ; during one of the early episodes she does her bit to accentuate the artificiality of this tale by wearing the worst kind of hat for a wind.
Otherwise, in Rome and throughout Italy, as at her ancient sanctuaries of Henna and Catena, Ceres ' ritus graecus and her joint cult with Proserpina were invariably led by female sacerdotes, drawn from women of local and Roman elites: Cicero notes that once the new cult had been founded, its earliest priestesses " generally were either from Naples or Velia ", cities allied or federated to Rome.
In certain medieval European chivalric romances, such as Marie de France's Le Fresne, a woman cites a multiple birth ( often to a lower-class woman ) as proof of adultery on her part ; while this may reflect a widespread belief, it is invariably treated as malicious slander, to be justly punished by the accuser having a multiple birth of her own, and the events of the romance are triggered by her attempt to hide one or more of the children.
In James Gillray's Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis ( 1793 ), Britannia is shown without the weapons which would invariably characterise her in the 19th century
As Pinckney writes, " No matter what situation Larsen found herself in, racial irony of one kind or another invariably wrapped itself around her.
** Tyrone F. Horneigh ( pronounced " hor-NIGH ," presumably to satisfy the censors ) – A dirty old man coming on to Gladys Ormphby ( Ruth Buzzi ) seated on a park bench, who almost invariably clobbered him with her purse.
One notable exception involves judges: a judge of any court is almost invariably addressed as " Your Honor " while presiding over his or her court, and often at other times as well.
In Smuggler's Top it is suggested she is claustrophobic as she is frightened of enclosed spaces since it reminds her of bad dreams she has-however, this just shows how brave she really is as the adventures invariably lead the five into tunnels, down wells, into dungeons and other enclosed spaces.
Terrified of spilling drinks in house-proud Hyacinth's home, her nerves get the better of her and she invariably does.
The theoretic basis of alienation within the capitalist mode of production is that the worker invariably loses the ability to determine his or her life and destiny, when deprived of the right to think ( conceive ) of himself as the director of his actions ; to determine the character of said actions ; to define his relationship with other people ; and to own the things and use the value of the goods and services, produced with his labour.
His unique knowledge of foreign affairs made him indispensable to the empress and her counsellors, and even as to home affairs his advice was almost invariably followed.
Initially, the female invariably walks or flies a short distance away, and the male follows her.
To an easy and attractive style and an adequate if not very profound sense of character Mrs. Christie adds an extreme and astonishing ingenuity, nor does it very greatly matter that it is quite impossible to accept the groundwork of her tale or to suppose that any stalking-horse would behave so invariably so exactly as required.

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