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also and had
The mudwagon had caught fire also.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
Foster had brought extra clothing also.
Dill had come up also.
He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.
She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.
His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.
Wet also were the marine's fatigues and the face had an oily film.
Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.
Helion, however, clung to the belief that `` in escaping from the Stalag I had also escaped from Abstraction ''.
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
It also implied that Paul Bang-Jensen had been irresponsible.
The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.
From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.
This 1930 edition also had songs in it by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin, by E. Y. Harburg and Duke, and by Harry Myers.
He had also mastered the Cossack tongue.
It had been whispered privately that she had smiled in the congregation, and the Governor Prence sent to knoe her business, and command, after punishment as the bench see fit, her departure and also anyone who brought her to the place from which she came ' ''.
That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.
The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.
Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.
He had also sampled various special fields of learning, being unable to miss some study of divinity, Justinian ( law ), and Galen ( medicine ).
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

also and pompous
He typically avoided contractions such as " don't " in the example above, which also contributes significantly to the humorously pompous effect.
However, the misalliance so enrages Miss Crawley that she disinherits her nephew in favour of his pompous and pedantic elder brother, who also bears the name Pitt Crawley.
Dittmer and Chen argue that the emphasis on politics made language a very effective form of propaganda, but “ also transformed it into a jargon of stereotypes — pompous, repetitive, and boring .” To distance itself from the era, Deng Xiaoping's government cut back heavily on the use of political slogans.
He also has many eccentric relatives including slightly-addled Uncle Herman, or " Doc Jones ", a daffy and slightly pompous inventor whose creations usually wreak havoc on Jughead and / or his friends and his lookalike younger cousin, Souphead.
The pompous matriarch of the elephants was voiced by Verna Felton, who also played the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, and Flora of the Three Good Fairies in Sleeping Beauty.
The show stars Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket, the pompous and self-serving central woman obsessed by perfection, image and etiquette, and also includes performances from Clive Swift as her calm, tolerant and long-suffering husband, Richard Bucket, and Josephine Tewson as her neighbour Elizabeth, a friendly pushover who is continually fearful of Hyacinth's presence.
But regardless of his pompous nature he still cares about his daughter and also came to her aid when she had developed a power addiction and helped her get over it, though he almost got his wish of getting his daughter back in this instance had Buzz not saved her career through a cover story.
CJ is much given to Dundrearyisms and pompous statements beginning " I didn't get where I am today by ..." – except when Reggie becomes his boss, whereupon he says " I didn't get where you are today by ..."; also " Neither Mrs CJ nor I have ever ..." and " We're not one of those dreadful firms that ..."
Shanks has also starred in the Fox comedy The Good Guys as the pompous leader of the Strike Force.
Coincidentally, Gordon also portrayed Wistful Vista's Mayor La Trivia on Fibber McGee and Molly, filling the role of " pompous neighbor " which had previously been Gildersleeve's.
He is upright and well-meaning, although also pompous and self-important.
" The Post also stated that Hall is a " pompous purveyor of social concern " who believes she " has the ability to judge which speech should be free and which not.
Humor is also derived from his rather pompous nature and the great pride he takes in his technological abilities.
He also sent up his somewhat pompous image with a single appearance as a " contestant " on The Gong Show in 1977.
If Petronius pointed out excess of rhetoric and the pompous, unnatural techniques of the schools of eloquence as the causes of decay, Tacitus was nearer to Longinus in thinking that the root of this decadence was the establishment of Princedom, or Empire, which, though it brought stability and peace, also gave rise to censorship and brought an end to freedom of speech.
His later roles were more of pompous intellectuals and shady con men, although he also played straight roles.
" The Post also stated that Hall is a " pompous purveyor of social concern " who believes she " has the ability to judge which speech should be free and which not.
David, who also plays piano and keyboards, shows a particular liking for pompous and melodic arrangements, while Jack goes for a harder and more immediate assault.
Sherman also appeared on an episode of The Monkees entitled " Monkees at the Movies ", playing a pompous surfer / singer named Frankie Catalina in the vein of Frankie Avalon, performing the song " The New Girl in School " ( the flip of " Dead Man's Curve ", co-written by The Beach Boys ' Brian Wilson, Jan Berry of Jan and Dean, songwriter Roger Christian and Bob Norberg, who was a room mate of Wilson's at the time ).
It is powerful and pompous ( masculine ) but also fragile and helpless ( feminine ).
He is also quite pompous and thinks highly of himself.
Vicky also became important as family peacemaker, not to mention a stabilizing influence on Elizabeth's daughter, the rebellious Carolyn Stoddard ( Nancy Barrett ) and on the troubled David ( David Henesy ), son of Elizabeth's pompous and rather emotionally-cold younger brother, Roger ( Louis Edmonds ).
Sir Pitt has two sons, the pompous and pedantic elder son ( Douglas Hodge ), who also bears the name Pitt Crawley, and the dashing younger son, Captain Rawdon Crawley ( James Purefoy ).
It is also used to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare.

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