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He had eaten almost nothing on the crested, three-sectioned plate and had drunk about half the milk in its paper container.
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had and eaten
Then, as he doubled, gasping, vomiting the breakfast he had so lately eaten, Lord straightened him with an uppercut.
Running across the deck, which was empty now that the livestock had been killed and eaten, they sniffed the spice-laden breezes that came from the shore, each pointing out new and exciting wonders to the other.
If this woman had delayed until after 11:20 to start her shopping, she would have had little time in which to prepare the substantial meal that was eaten at dinner in those days.
It was as though the biwa had been eaten up by the wind.
I picked him up, and the length of him arched very carefully and gracefully and only a little wildly, and I could feel the coolness of that radiant, fire-colored body, like splendid ice, and I knew that he had eaten only recently because there were two whole and solid little lumps in the forepart of him, like fieldmice swallowed whole might make.
He remembered the last time he had eaten -- actual eggs from an actual pan.
Although several witnesses came to the conclusion that the attacks could not be the work of dogs or coyotes because they had not eaten the victim, this conclusion is incorrect.
Over the years Catherine had eaten less and less, claiming that she found no nourishment in earthly food.
The surplus, if any, had to be eaten quickly to prevent spoiling.
* Past perfect ( not progressive, perfect ): " I had eaten "
* Trapassato prossimo ( recent pluperfect ): io avevo mangiato (" I had eaten ")-tense, not ordinarily marked for aspect
* Trapassato remoto ( far pluperfect ): io ebbi mangiato (" I had eaten ")-tense
But the worms of corruption had eaten their way
After his return to Kentucky, he found that rats had eaten his entire collection of more than 200 drawings.
His use of routier mercenaries in the central regions had rapidly eaten away his remaining support in this area too, which set the stage for a sudden collapse of Angevin power.
forbidden Tree of Knowledge, Yahweh asks Adam if he had eaten the
Its popularity in the US began when soldiers returning from World War II brought back with them a taste for the “ pizza herb ”, which had probably been eaten in southern Italy for centuries.
The sacrifice could not be offered with anything leavened ,() and had to be roasted, without its head, feet, or inner organs being removed () and eaten together with unleavened bread ( matzo ) and bitter herbs ( maror ).
After the battle, it was reported that no one who had eaten a part of the sponges / baskets of bread had been killed or wounded.
In some versions, Ascalaphus informed the other deities that Persephone had eaten the pomegranate seeds.
Brandes had met with Meiwes to be willingly killed and eaten by him.
had and almost
He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.
A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.
He'd been in an angry mood: Conchita had thought his face almost ugly with the anger in him.
His maneuvering for the shot had placed him near the overcast, almost inverted and heading up into the clouds.
He left the house and almost certain death without even increasing his pace and wondered by what remarkable stroke of Providence he had been allowed to come out alive.
Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.
`` Don't forget, here was a man who had been accusing his colleagues for almost a year of willfully attempting to present an incorrect report.
Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.
Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.
To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.
Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.
The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.
He had learned to dispute devastatingly, both formally and informally in Latin, and according to the rules on any topic, pro or con, drawn from almost any subject, more especially from Aristotle's works.
In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.
After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.
He had not even thought about her much except once or twice at night in bed when his slowly ranging thoughts would abruptly, almost accidentally, encounter her.
had and nothing
His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
He could not grasp that Lord had withdrawn from the fight minutes ago, and that his leaden arms were flailing at nothing but the air.
For, with a single exception, nothing had happened to them.
She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness.
She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.
He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.
He lifts her, puts her down, and walks off, neither pleased nor disturbed, as if nothing had happened.
In prison he had been able to sketch nothing but figures from life, his guards, his companions in misery.
I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.
For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.
To attack Pike directly would gain Woodruff little, for as a penniless newcomer Pike had nothing to lose.
The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.
I felt very flattered to be included in the protection of their company even though I had nothing to be protected from.
It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.
We had assumed that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available to the public.
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