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closes and letter
) He then closes the letter with the usual salutation.
Octavius cries out that it is unjust, and Henrietta triumphantly drives the final blow ; " In her letter to me Ba writes that she has taken Flush with her ..." The film closes with a brief scene of Elizabeth's and Robert's marriage, with Wilson as a witness and Flush waiting patiently by the church door.
The book closes with a letter written by a woman in Tennessee whose niece is developing telekinetic powers.
The following quote using 10, also closes out the small paragraph by the second example of the superlative, where the verb that ends the last sentence is spread across the letter in s-p-a-c-i-n-g, to accentuate the last sentence, and the verb itself ( i. e. the relational kingly topic of the paragraph ):
He comes down in Gaby's Marsh again, and vows in an insolent letter delivered to Uncle as the book closes that he will take a revenge " so fearful that anyone who speaks of it will develop lockjaw ".
Leo closes his letter with a desire that Maximus will restrain unordained persons, whether monks or laity, from public preaching and teaching.
Hashimoto closes this letter by writing: " An old proverb says ' Dripping water wears away the stone.
Washington closes his letter to the American people by asking them to forgive any of his failures during his service to the country, assuring them that they were due to his own weaknesses and by no means intentional.
The letter closes: " So many Americans who had felt pride in our country now feel anguish and shame, for the current regime of blood, wounds and fire.

closes and by
The book closes abruptly () with an epistolary warning based on the emblematic trope of a fast growing vine present in Persian narratives, and popularized in certain collections of Aesop's fables such as The Gourd and the Palm-tree during the Renaissance, for example by Andrea Alciato.
The process could then be repeated by dividing the resulting smaller interval into smaller and smaller parts until it closes down on the desired limit point.
This is achieved by adding a perfectly circular (" bull-nose " shaped ) extension to the door, which moves in and out of a cavity as the door opens and closes.
A pressure vessel containing air cushions the hydraulic pressure shock when the waste valve closes, and it also improves the pumping efficiency by allowing a more constant flow through the delivery pipe.
* The United States Army describes the mission of infantry: " The Infantry closes with the enemy by means of fire and maneuver in order to destroy or capture him or to repel his assault by fire, close combat, and counterattack.
Ion channels may be classified by gating, i. e. what opens and closes the channels.
The lettre de cachet belonged to the class of lettres closes, as opposed to lettres patentes, which contained the expression of the legal and permanent will of the king, and had to be furnished with the seal of state affixed by the chancellor.
The flow closes ( as it must ) by following the tail magnetopause — part over the northern lobe, part over the southern one.
A player who closes the betting round by calling or overcalling is entitled to greater freedom by doing so, since he does not face the threat of subsequent raises.
In steam engines the point in the piston cycle at which the steam inlet valve closes is called the cutoff and this can often be controlled to adjust the torque supplied by the engine and improve efficiency.
A calling party wishing to speak to another party will pick up the telephone's handset, thereby operating a lever which closes the switchhook ( A4 ), which powers the telephone by connecting the transmitter ( microphone ), receiver ( speaker ), and related audio components to the line.
Although the Doctor dismisses this as impossible, at the conclusion of the episode, he opens and closes the doors by doing just that, eschewing the need for a key.
* June 20 – The U. S. Congress recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7: 00 a. m. D. C. time ( to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948 ).
* February 27 – In Denver, Colorado, Stapleton Airport closes and is replaced by the new Denver International Airport, the largest in the United States.
* July 14 – Volkswagen closes its Westmoreland Assembly Plant after 10 years of operation ( the first factory built by a non-American automaker in the U. S .).
* October 6 – Southern California's Pacific Ocean Park closes down, known as the Disneyland by the sea.
* The Academy founded at Athens by Plato in about 387 BC closes down by order of Justinian I on charges of un-Christian activity.
Such redevelopment effectively closes the rent gap, leading to higher rents, mortgages, and lease rates affordable by the new tenants, but not by the original lower income tenants.
By contrast, the minimum aperture does not depend on the focal length – it is limited by how narrowly the aperture closes, not the lens design – and is instead generally chosen based on practicality: very small apertures have lower sharpness due to diffraction, while the added depth of field is not generally useful, and thus there is generally little benefit in using such apertures.
It is separated from the Little Sea by a cape which closes the gulf, leading to the artificial island.

closes and Dunkirk
* 1962: ALCO closes the former Brooks plant in Dunkirk, laying off the remaining 750 laborers at the facility.
* ALCO closes the ALCO Thermal Products Division ( formerly Brooks Locomotive Works ) plant in Dunkirk, New York.

closes and be
* 1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last " Big Tent " show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
Hoshanah Rabbah is traditionally taken to be the day of the " delivery " of the final judgment of Yom Kippur, and offers a last opportunity for pleas of repentance before the holiday season closes.
As the rotor turns, the part of the tube under compression closes ( or " occludes ") thus forcing the fluid to be pumped to move through the tube.
The movement of the teeth affects how they contact one another when the mouth closes, and the overall relationship between the teeth, muscles, and joints can be altered.
It can be seen that the spacing between two straight lines with slopes of 3 and 1 closes with slope 2.
The brake pads must usually be replaced regularly ( depending on pad material ), and some are equipped with a mechanism that alerts drivers that replacement is needed, such as a thin piece of soft metal that rubs against the disc when the pads are too thin causing the brakes to squeal, a soft metal tab embedded in the pad material that closes an electric circuit and lights a warning light when the brake pad gets thin, or an electronic sensor.
Similarly, to validate that each element has an acceptable sequence of child elements, information about what child elements have been seen for each parent, must be kept until the parent closes.
Symptoms of duodenal ulcers would initially be relieved by a meal, as the pyloric sphincter closes to concentrate the stomach contents, therefore acid is not reaching the duodenum.
Rather, Hook closes the stardust chest on his wrist in a fit of anger and severs his own hand, then asks Peter if they could be mortal enemies in exchange for Molly and the Lost Boys ' freedom, thus cementing his status as a fearsome pirate — since all fearsome pirates must have an arch-enemy.
They take more money from investors than they need and plan to abscond to Brazil as soon as the play closes, only to see the plan improbably go awry when the show turns out to be a hit.
Juliet overhears parts of it, takes it to be a double dating by Rigby and closes the case.
* In the first few years until the canopy closes, the saplings are looked after, and may be dusted or sprayed with fertilizers or pesticides until established.
The lock can thus only be used when the level below it is higher than the level above it, and as the tide falls, the intermediate gate closes to prevent its use.
In the end, with the inexorability of genuine tragedy, she can only stand by, stunned and unbelieving, as Jessie quietly closes and locks her bedroom door and ends her profound unhappiness in one fatal, stunning and deeply disturbing moment — a moment never to be forgotten by those who have witnessed, and come to understand, her plight.
By the state of pilgrimage is to be understood our earthly life ; death as a natural ( although not an essentially necessary ) limit, closes the time of meriting.
He closes his law practice, avoids his former colleagues in particular and people in general, and throws himself completely into uncompromising debauchery ; while humankind may be grossly hypocritical in the areas from which he has withdrawn, " no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures " ( Camus 311-a quotation from Samuel Johnson ).
* As the pressure in the train line and that of the reservoir equalize, the triple valve closes, causing the air pressure in the reservoir and brake cylinder to be maintained at the current level.
The station cannot be relied upon as a way of reaching Blackheath during November's traditional free firework show, as it normally closes early on that day for safety reasons.

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