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brought and with
She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.
In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.
The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.
Mercer's Whiteman association brought him into contact with Hoagy Carmichael, whose `` Snowball '' Mercer relyriced as `` Lazybones '', in which form it became a hit and marked the real beginning of Mercer's song-writing career.
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.
The three volumes brought to the fore a characteristic of Trevelyan's prose which remained conspicuous through his later works -- a genius for describing military action with clarity and with authority.
It cannot become the source of a real Atlantic community if it remains organized to deal only with the military threat which first brought it into being ''.
In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.
It has not been any great mental effort on my part to keep up with this mechanization which has brought about new ways of dialing.
But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.
He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.
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 boy was becoming acquainted with the contadini families that brought produce into Rome.
He would have to work without questioning the motives which made him work and content himself with the thought that the eventual victory, however it was brought about, would be sweet indeed.
Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.
So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.
A plan must therefore be brought up to date periodically, possibly with the assistance of a permanent planning officer.
Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.
It is this subject matter that has brought Mason a large and enthusiastic following among sportsmen, but it is his exceptional performance with this motif that commends him to artists and discerning collectors.
The differences between onset age and completion age with respect to the corresponding mean age have been brought into juxtaposition by means of a series of arrows.
The unifying effect of religion is also brought out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more or less cohesive cultural units, with religion as the dominant bond, even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized.

brought and him
He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.
`` You brought him back to this valley thinkin he would help you find your boy.
But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.
His revolutionary pamphlets, published when he was only 19, quickly brought him to the attention of the patriot leaders.
Each failed catastrophically in an invasion of Russia and each brought ruin on the country that worshipped him.
He ascribes to the mercy of God the peace which this personal matter -- the assurance that he can physically sustain the burden of the office longer than any individual in the history of our nation has been able to do -- has brought him.
It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.
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.
Argiento made him lie down on the bed, brought a pan of hot water, dipped some clean white linen cloth and applied it to extract the splinter.
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.
They tasted good to him, so he brought some to breakfast to eat in his cereal bowl with milk and honey.
Instead he brought with him the names of some people he had never met and of whom the medium knew nothing.
The police credited him with twenty-five murders but he was never brought to trial for one of them.
The knifelike pain in his groin nearly brought him down again.

brought and mixture
This coincides with the appearance of the characteristic Beaker culture ; again it is unknown whether this was brought about primarily by folk movement or by cultural assimilation, and again it may be a mixture of both.
John recorded that Joseph was assisted in the burial process by Nicodemus, who brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes and included these spices in the burial cloth as per Jewish customs.
He was probably brought up in a mixture of the Anglo-French culture of northern England and south-eastern Scotland, and the Gaelic culture of Carrick and the Irish Sea, French being his paternal-tongue and Gaelic his maternal-tongue.
His interest in golf brought him into intimate contact with one of his biographers Bernard Darwin, who said that Grace played golf " with a mixture of keen seriousness and cheerful noisiness ".
Another secret follower of Jesus and member of the Sanhedrin named Nicodemus brought about a hundred pound weight mixture of spices and helped wrap the body of Christ ().
In his doctrine of syllogisms he brought forward the proof for the conversion of universal affirmative judgments, differed from Aristotle here and there in the laying down and arranging the modi of the syllogisms, partly in the proof of them, partly in the doctrine of mixture, i. e. of the influence of the modality of the premises upon the modality of the conclusion.
They brought a western flavor to Japanese music and helped to turn rap music mainstream, with a mixture of reggae, rap, metal, punk, Spanish, and R & B influences.
At the end of the century, the French Revolution brought its mixture of religious intolerance and modern administration to the city.
In Kabbalah, the sin of the Tree of Knowledge ( called Cheit Eitz HaDa ' at ) brought about the great task of beirurim, sifting through the mixture of good and evil in the world to extract and liberate the sparks of holiness trapped therein.
Notwithstanding what is here said, of the colour of the copper being owing to no mixture, it is certain the Chinese white copper as brought to us, is a mixt mixed metal ; so that the ore from which it was extracted must consist of various metallic substances ; and from such ore that the natural orichalcum if it ever existed, was made ".
Johann Georg Lahner, a 18th / 19th century butcher from the Franconian city of Coburg, is said to have brought the Frankfurter Würstchen to Vienna, where he added beef to the mixture and simply called it Frankfurter.
When Visual Solutions dissolved in 1992, Lumb brought the " touch interactive software: concept to Microvitec where Pearce evolved the application into a Windows based version using a mixture of the programming languages Visual Basic and C. This software became the product known as Creator.
The mixture is brought to a boil and left to simmer for 20 to 60 minutes, depending on the recipe, with infrequent stirring.
Lastly, the mixture is brought to a boil and rice is added to the pot.
He was brought to life using an actual python but the bulk of his appearances were made using a mixture of CGI and animatronics.
He wrote that it was " a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it.
The mixture is brought to a boil and 1 teaspoon of loose black tea is added.
Sugar and rum production which in colonial times demanded slave labor and an immigrant workforce after independence has brought forth this mixture of cultures.
The bricks used for the construction of the fortress were brought over from Java, and the mortar used consisted of a mixture of sugar, sand, ground seashells and glutinous rice.
This annoyed both the local Sudanese authorities ( which feared a dangerous mixture between a foreign religion and the local rites and ceremonies of a downcast people ), and senior prelates in Rome who were finding it hard to accept the reforms brought on by the Second Vatican Council.
Snuka brought in his former manager from the Mid-Atlantic territory, " Nature Boy " Buddy Rogers and embarked on a mixture of tag and singles matches against Stevens and Albano across the region.
Related genres are Bulgarian chalga ( manele brought by Romanian visitors to Bulgaria is referred to as " Romanian chalga "), Greek modern laïko and Serbian turbo-folk, all being a mixture of local folk, Turkish and Romani influences over a pop tune.
The immigrants brought with them their culture resulting into the mixture of beliefs and practices.
Her performances in Cantonese opera were quite different ; she brought in a mixture of Peking Opera, in which she performed a lot of footwork, as in Suet Ting Shan and Fan Lai Hua-Meeting on the Weedy River ( 蘆花河會母 ) in 1961, Giving birth on the bridge – the White serpent ( 斷橋產子 ) in 1962 and How Zhong Wuyan Conquered the West ( 鍾無艷掛帥征西 ) in 1962.

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