McBride gave him his opportunity when he showed up in town with a pistol on his hip.

His present maximum altitude, up against the overcast, gave him the opportunity to exploit his advantages.

Hamilton, poorest of the seven, gave up a brilliant law practice to enter Washington's Cabinet.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

Esther jumped up, ran to him and gave him a little hug.

Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

Finally, after years, I gave up.

The day Alfred left his home and Fleischmanns he gave up the convictions of a lifetime.

She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.

So Linda Kay gave up asking, and accepted her reprieve.

Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.

gave up verse for prose, 1868 - 70 ; ;

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

The northern cowboy called all the red Mexican cattle which went up the trail `` Sonora reds '', while they called all cattle drove up from Mexico `` yaks '', because they came from the Yaqui Injun country, or gave 'em the name of `` Mexican buckskins ''.

Each time he got the same answer and in the end he gave up.

Rookie southpaw George Stepanovich relieved Hyde at the start of the ninth and gave up the A's fifth tally on a walk to second baseman Dick Howser, a wild pitch, and Frank Cipriani's single under Shortstop Jerry Adair's glove into center.

Keegan, a 6-foot-3-inch 158-pounder, gave up the Orioles' last two safeties over the final three frames, escaping a load of trouble in the ninth when the Birds threatened but failed to tally.

Whee the People: Lovely Thrush Annamorena gave up a promising show biz career to apply glamor touches to her hubby, Ray Lenobel's fur firm here.

Everywhere he went in town, people sidled up, gave him the guttural bit or broke into a frightening Tarzan yodel.

He planned at one time to enter the legal profession, but gave up the plan in favor of the entertainment field.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

It gets so frustrating, but then again I don't know what I could do if I gave up racing ''.

`` If it gave me pleasure to say hard things '', he wrote, `` I would shut up forever ''.

By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.

Scarcity of paper caused many Southerners to adopt the practice of cross-writing, i.e., after writing from left to right of the page in the usual manner, they gave the sheet a half turn and wrote from end to end across the lines previously written.

Lincoln adhered to the Whig theory of the presidency, which gave Congress primary responsibility for writing the laws while the Executive enforced them.

Phoenician gave way to a number of new writing systems, including the Greek alphabet and Aramaic, a widely used abjad.

Alongside writing and reading, he gave lessons in " spiritual culture ", which included interpretation of the Gospels, and advocated object teaching in writing instruction.

Walafrid Strabo, a monk of the Abbey of St. Gall writing in the 9th century, remarked, in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions, that only foreigners called them the Alemanni, but that they gave themselves the name of Suevi.

The band performed mostly covers of international hits, but Andersson soon started writing his own material, and gave the band the classic hits " No Response ", " Sunny Girl ", " Wedding ", " Consolation ", " It's Nice To Be Back " and " She Will Love You " amongst others.

He soon gave up writing fiction for other pursuits, including learning English and Italian.

Robinson gave the novella in rough form to Ursula K. Le Guin to read and edit while he was enrolled in her writing workshop at UCSD in the spring of 1977.

Steve Jones, writing in USA Today, gave the re-mastered edition of " Forever Changes " four stars out of four in a 2001 review.

Having discovered his talent, at the age of 46, he turned over his parishes to a curate, and gave himself up to the exercise and delight of humor writing for the rest of his life.

This work gave him much time to devote to his writing.

Mona Dickson, writing in MIT's The Tech ( May 13, 1964 ) gave Almost Grown a favorable review.

By the 1st century BC, the use of hieroglyphs gave way to a Meroitic script that adapted the Egyptian writing system to an indigenous, Nubian-related language spoken by the region's people.

While replacing Marcel Mauss at his Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes chair, Lévi-Strauss ' writing became widely popular in the 1960s and 1970s and gave rise to the term " structuralism " itself.

Although the DfT advised that the Eco-Link was not permissible on public roads, Denby Transport gave the Police prior warning of the timing and route of the test drive on the public highway, as well as outlining their position in writing to the Eastern Traffic Area Office.

The Village Voice gave the production a savage review, writing:

He contacted Friedrich Knappe-Ratey, a German Intelligence agent in Madrid codenamed " Frederico ", and German Intelligence accepted him and gave him a crash course in espionage, including secret writing, a bottle of invisible ink, a codebook and 600 pounds for expenses.

" Mike Clark, of USA Today, gave the film three out of four stars, writing, " Crystal is funny enough to keep Ryan from all-out stealing the film.

In a January 2007 interview, O ' Rourke gave an example of his view of computers and writing by referencing novelist Stephen King, whom he paraphrased – saying had he a computer, he could have written three times as much in his early days.

The union was happy, with biographer Peter Clarke writing that the marriage gave Keynes " a new focus, a new emotional stability and a sheer delight of which he never wearied ".

When first released, the staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, writing, " Crossfire is a frank spotlight on anti-Semitism.

American critic Samuel Rogers, however, notes that " without the training they gave Balzac, as he groped his way to his mature conception of the novel, and without the habit he formed as a young man of writing under pressure, one can hardly imagine his producing La Comédie Humaine.

NME reviewer Steve Sutherland gave the album a nine out of ten rating, writing, " These freaks shall inherit the earth.