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brought and Winchester
The shipwrecked sailors were brought before Alfred at Winchester and were hanged.
In 1878, John Moses Browning patented arguably the greatest single-shot rifle ever produced: after Browning sold his design to Winchester it was brought out as the Model 1885 Winchester Single Shot Rifle.
The rifle Ruger brought out, named simply "# 1 ", ( Ruger No. 1 ) uses a falling block action, and is available in a wide selection of calibers from. 22 Hornet to. 458 Winchester Magnum.
Among other items, Roosevelt brought with him four tons of salt for preserving animal hides, a lucky rabbit's foot given to him by boxer John L. Sullivan, a Holland and Holland double rifle in. 500 / 450 donated by a group of 56 admiring Britons, a Winchester 1895 rifle in. 405 Winchester, an Army ( M1903 ) Springfield in. 30-06 caliber stocked and sighted for him, a Fox No. 12 shotgun, and the famous Pigskin Library, a collection of classics bound in pig leather and transported in a single reinforced trunk.
The houses ( School House, Wyke Lodge and Kelso ) brought in a welcome variety of boys from far-flung corners of the world ( outposts of Empire and Armed Forces bases ) to spice up the – largely insular – intake of 11 + pupils from Winchester.
Sheridan reveled in the fame that Read's poem brought him, renaming his horse Rienzi to " Winchester ," based on the poem's refrain, " Winchester, twenty miles away.
In 1876, in a bid to compete with the powerful single-shot rifles of the time, Winchester brought out the Model 1876 ( Centennial Model ).
In 1943, the workload was so great that a Royal Navy officer and 18 telegraphists were brought in from HMS Flowerdown, a Naval Shore Wireless Service station near Winchester.
In 902, while the new minster at Winchester was being built, there arrived some refugees from Saint-Josse who brought with them the relics of their founder.
Bede states: At length the king, who understood none but the language of the Saxons, grown weary of that bishop's barbarous tongue, brought into the province another bishop of his own nation, whose name was Wini, who had been ordained in France ; and dividing his province into two dioceses, appointed this last his episcopal see in the city of Winchester, by the Saxons called Wintancestir.
and was brought out as the standard chambering for the new Winchester Model 1873 rifle.
In March 2012, Winchester, Va City Council vetos new stadium plans brought before them, but Hagerstown, Md City Council is now announcing that they are close to signing an agreement with the Suns that would allow them to remain in the City.
:" Edith the Lady died seven nights before Christmas in Winchester, she was King Edward's wife, and the king had her brought to Westminster with great honour and laid her near King Edward, her lord.
The race to produce the first commercial self-loading rifle brought forth the. 22 rimfire Winchester Model 1903 and later centerfire Model 1905, Model 1907, and Model 1910 rifles.
Apparently educated in Bologna, he was brought to Canterbury, possibly by Thomas Becket, to serve as counsel to the Archbishop of Canterbury Theobald of Bec, in his struggle with Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester.
He brought word of the surrender of Winchester Castle on 7 October 1645.

brought and from
She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.
Aristide Devol, the sardonic manservant who had been brought in chains years before from his native Sierra Leone, smiled thinly and touched his well-brushed beaver hat.
The monk Savonarola, brought over from the Renaissance and placed against the background of Munich at the turn of the century, protests against the luxurious works displayed in the art-shop of M. Bluthenzweig ; ;
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.
In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.
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 ' ''.
The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.
He came to Fleischmanns directly from the boat that brought him to America from Russia.
Blackman had brought news from Kansas City.
What Krim ignores, in his contempt for history and for accuracy, is that these magazines, Partisan foremost, brought about a genuine revolution in the American mind from the mid-thirties to approximately 1950.
An occasional traveler from Italy brought news of Peter Robert, who was now distributing his Bible among the Waldensian peasants.
He improvised as he went along, completing a life-size clay figure, then bought yards of an inexpensive material from a draper, wet the lightweight cloth in a basin and covered it over with clay that Argiento brought from the bank of the Tiber, to the consistency of thick mud.
The week after Manassas the sound of horses in the yard brought Kate up in shock from an afternoon's rest when she saw the Federal soldiers from her upstairs window.
This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.
Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.
Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.
It stands in the middle of what was once the Forum of Constantine, who brought it from Rome.
Quite frequently class members brought questions from their mates at home.
To prevent the manager from deliberately controlling himself only during the sessions, they were rather lengthy ( about twenty minutes ), the situations were imperfectly described to the manager so that he would not know what to expect, new antagonists were brought on the scene unexpectedly, and the antagonists were instructed to deliberately behave in such ways as to upset the manager and get him to operate in a manner for which he had been previously criticized.
A few key skilled workers experienced in the company's type of work usually must be brought in with the plant manager, or hired away from a similar plant elsewhere.

brought and front
The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.
later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.
Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.
His work during the flood brought Herbert Hoover to the front page of newspapers almost everywhere, and he gained new accolades as a humanitarian.
The Young Turk revolution brought these movements to the front, hoping that the reform of Ottoman Empire would lead to broader reforms.
The Soviet Union was brought into World War II and joined the Western Allies in a common front against the Axis Powers.
When brought to Samuel, David is anointed by him in front of his other brothers.
The usual method is called " present arms "; the rifle is brought to the vertical, muzzle up, in front of center of the chest with the trigger away from the body.
In Polish, a word / phrase can be brought to the front or, less commonly, put to the back of a sentence or clause to add emphasis e. g. " Roweru ci nie kupię " ( I won't buy you a bicycle ), " Od piątej czekam " ( I've been waiting since five ).
As the American divisions took casualties, inexperienced recruits were brought up to the front as replacements.
The Germans had reinforced their front line to delay the British capture of their forward positions until the Eingreif divisions could intervene, which brought more German troops into the area most vulnerable to the British artillery.
All of the German divisions holding front zones were relieved and an extra division brought forward as the British advances had lengthened the front line.
The heavy rain and mud again made movement difficult and little artillery could be brought closer to the front.
By 1928, a manager of one of these locations brought back a totem pole from and placed it in front of his store.
They are generally filmed with nonprofessional actors -- although, in a number of cases, well known actors were cast in leading roles, playing strongly against their normal character types in front of a background populated by local people rather than extras brought in for the film.
The revolts in Zanjan and Nayriz were in progress when in 1850 the Báb, with one of his disciples, was brought from his prison at Chihriq to Tabriz and publicly shot in front of the citadel.
The Nazi flag they carried, which in the course of events had been stained with blood, came to be known as the Blutfahne ( blood flag ) and was brought out for the swearing-in of new recruits in front of the Feldherrnhalle when Hitler was in power.
The Allied battle plan prior to the war had been based on France and the United Kingdom halting the German armies in the West while the huge Russian armies could be organized and brought to the Eastern front.
A tree in front of Hatshepsut's temple, claimed to have been brought from Land of Punt | Punt by Hatshepsut's Expedition which is depicted on the Temple walls
That same year, in accord with the newly enacted US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108, the clear glass headlamp covers were deleted ; the headlamps were brought forward to the leading edge of the front fenders, and the sealed-beam units were exposed and surrounded by chrome bezels.
The account goes as follows: " The cardinals dallied with their duty until March 1314, ( exact day is disputed by scholars ) when, on a scaffold in front of Notre Dame, Jacques de Molay, Templar Grand Master, Geoffroi de Charney, Master of Normandy, Ilugues de Peraud, Visitor of France, and Godefroi de Gonneville, Master of Aquitaine, were brought forth from the jail in which for nearly seven years they had lain, to receive the sentence agreed upon by the cardinals, in conjunction with the Archbishop of Sens and some other prelates whom they had called in.
In front of the 2009 season Hamrén brought several new players to Rosenborg, one of them being Rade Prica, who Hamrén knew well from Aalborg.
In 1540, the body of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond and father of Henry VII, was brought to be entombed in front of the High Altar from the dissolved Greyfriars ’ Priory in Carmarthen.

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