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ate and what
She ate what she could and went out along the covered passageway, with the rain dripping from the vines.
They ate in silence, with hoods so drawn over their faces that they could see nothing but what was on the table before them.
When dealing with evidence about humans, archaeologists and palaeontologists may work together – for example palaeontologists might identify animal or plant fossils around an archaeological site, to discover what the people who lived there ate ; or they might analyze the climate at the time when the site was inhabited by humans.
Historical accounts of wolves in the southeast by early explorers such as William Hilton, who sailed along the Cape Fear River in what is now North Carolina in 1644, also note that they ate deer.
Essentially, much of what Aborigines ate depended on their environment – that is, whether they lived in coastal or mountainous areas.
McGoohan wrote a forty-page show Bible, which included a " history of the Village, the sort of telephones they used, the sewerage system, what they ate, the transport, the boundaries, a description of the Village, every aspect of it …".
This creature's eating habits can be modeled with a Markov chain since its choice tomorrow depends solely on what it ate today, not what it ate yesterday or even farther in the past.
They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their return ; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches.
Oden was originally what is now commonly called misodengaku or simply dengaku ; konnyaku or tofu was boiled and one ate them with miso.
Their teeth also indicate their age at death and what type of food they ate throughout their lifetime.
During the night they may also regurgitate, in the form of pellets, the undigested parts of what they ate during the day.
The only exception of for Savage Stone Age, which instead had a comparison of all the ancient forms of man and what they ate.
In English, most verbs can be used intransitively, but ordinarily this does not change the role of the subject ; consider, for example, " He ate the soup " ( transitive ) and " He ate " ( intransitive ), where the only difference is that the latter does not specify what was eaten.
Exactly what Iguanodon ate with its well-developed jaws is not known.
At " Don the Beachcomber ", customers ate what seemed like wonderfully exotic cuisines, but, in actuality, were mostly standard Cantonese dishes served with flair.
He ate only what was necessary and drank the cheapest wine on the market.
Once, Cicero and Pompey succeeded in inviting themselves to dinner with Lucullus, but, curious to see what sort of meal Lucullus ate when alone, forbade him to communicate with his slaves regarding any preparation of the meal for his guests.
The original European restaurants did not have menus in the modern sense ; these table d ' hôte establishments served dishes that were chosen by the chef or proprietors, and those who arrived ate what the house was serving that day, as in contemporary banquets or buffets.
His daily entries included minutiae like his weight, clothes into which he changed, what he ate and where, as well as serious matters of state.
She compared this period favourably with the time at which she wrote these comments ( 1950 ’ s to 1960 ’ s ) when she was plagued with income tax problems which lasted for some twenty years and ate up most of what people presumed was a large fortune.

ate and felt
I felt it and it ate on me all the time, but I didn't know how right I was till later.
He ate breakfast in a sullen mood, but afterwards, when he walked out onto Virginia Street, he felt braced.
She describes them as nomads who lived in felt tents, ate raw meat and drank fermented mare's milk.
He ate some of the grass, believing it to have magical properties, and felt an overwhelming desire to be in the sea.
The queen ate it and later felt ashamed for having such a demonic desire and she feared that the child might grow up and prove fatal for the family, thus after few months when the child was born, the queen had him thrown out of the palace.
They ate snacks or ices at the Deux Garcons or Glaciere. She never felt completely at home.
He ate his lunch and supper in turn, but felt it was too early to go to bed.
Whenever he felt like eating, he ate, and when he felt like sleeping in the daytime he slept.

ate and like
They only ate " aspiring vegetables " — those which grew upward — and refused those that grew downward like potatoes.
The pear was also cultivated by the Romans, who ate the fruits raw or cooked, just like apples.
In form, they were rather like today's chevrotains: small, short-legged creatures that ate leaves and the soft parts of plants.
While eating dessert, Donald accidentally ate his phony moustache, making him look like the Duke of Baloni, described by Scrooge as the World's Second-Richest Duck.
Later studies revealed, however, that the alleged monkey-eating eagle also ate other animals such as colugo, civets, large snakes, monitor lizards, and even large birds like hornbills.
The Babylonian Talmud states that the differences in description were due to the taste varying depending on who ate it, with it tasting like honey for small children, like bread for youths, and like oil for the elderly.
: and like the goats, ate rind ;
She ate inedible things like the script in the three-part " Ronald McDonald Makin ' Movies " commercial.
God, in pity to mankind, lest his burden should be insupportable and his nature an intolerable load, hath reduced our state of misery to an abbreviature ; and the greater our misery is, the less while it is like to last ; the sorrows of a man's spirit being like ponderous weights, which by the greatness of their burden make a swifter motion, and descend into the grave to rest and ease our wearied limbs ; for then only we shall sleep quietly, when those fetters are knocked off, which not only bound our souls in prison, but also ate the flesh till the very bones opened the secret garments of their cartilages, discovering their nakedness and sorrow.
After analyzing some clues like leftover bread crusts (" many people think bread crust is yucky " Sherlock says ), they come to the conclusion that Sherlock ate half of the sandwich, and he asks for the other half as his reward.
She growled, barked, walked on all fours and crouched like a wild dog, sniffed at her food before she ate it, and was found to have acquired extremely acute senses of hearing, smell and sight.
His diet consisted of fruit like plantains and wild figs, but also of live mice, scorpions, and plain raw meat, which he ate with relish.
She is also very gluttonous being described as being like a champion eater when she was trespassing and ate inside random peoples ' home.
Ungar's friends often said he " ate like a wild animal.
Other movements notable for their unconventional practices include the Grazers, holy men who ate only grass and chained themselves up ; the Holy Fool movement, in which acting like a fool was considered more divine than folly ; and the Stylites movement, where one practitioner lived atop a 50-foot pole for 40 years.
Sometimes wild animals like hyenas exhumed corpses from graves and ate them.
In a Chicago Tribune interview with McKuen in 2001 as he was " testing the waters " for a comeback tour, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic Julia Keller called his work " so schmaltzy and smarmy that it makes the pronouncements of Kathie Lee Gifford sound like Susan Sontag ", " silly and mawkish, the kind of gooey schmaltz that wouldn't pass muster in a freshman creative-writing class [...] The masses ate him up with a spoon, while highbrow literary critics roasted him on a spit.
Sometimes he stopped at a bar and ate his sandwiches as he waited for his ' colleagues ', to finish the day in their company, because he didn't like being alone.

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