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Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.
During the 1920's the Abstractionists, the German Bauhaus group of industrial designers, and the new architects all had the dream of some well ordered utopia, or welfare state, in which their neat and logical constructions might find their proper place.
If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??
Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.
The Frenchman had been ordered to approach the enemy's lines, harass them and get intelligence of their movements.
Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.
The board of suspension of the Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a group of railroads not to reduce their freight rates on grain, as they had planned to do this month.
Hillman had ordered him not to leave the far bank.
But it is crucial that here, unlike Burford, the trial court was ordered to retain the case until the state courts had had a reasonable opportunity to settle the state-law question.
The sheriff and District Attorney Mills hastily swore out a number of warrants against men who had been riding about armed, according to signed statements by Chavez and Dr. I. P. George, and ordered Deputy Barney Clark of Raton to rescue the posseman.
Once, after the Discovery lay for a week in rough weather, Hudson ordered the anchor raised before the sea had calmed.
Accordingly Selkirk's agents ordered the settlers to move north, and by October, John Halkett had torn down both posts, floating the timber to `` the Forks '' in rafts.
Soon after Loper leaked the news that Frankie had ordered `` two of everything '' just `` in case he spills anything '', Frankie got so mad at the chic designer that he vowed he would not wear a stitch of Loper clothing.
but, as he had a special fondness for magic and divination, he ordered that books on these subjects should be spared.
If 500 Japanese were ordered to hold a position, we had to kill 495 before it was ours -- and then the last five killed themselves ''.
The coffin stood on trestles in a corner of the long low dimly lit funeral parlor, on its dark shining surface the sheaf of white roses I had ordered.
The sommelier brought the wine first, a magnum instead of the bottle I had ordered.
It was a vivid, sharp February morning that Johnnie first made his appearance in my back yard, bringing some stuff Dad had ordered.

had and ponies
Custer had his men shoot most of the 875 Indian ponies they had captured.
All the boys had ponies and belonged to the Langata Pony Club.
There were also male ponies called ' Big Brother Ponies ', which had slightly larger bodies and feathered hooves resembling those of Clydesdale horses.
Many different sets of Little Ponies were produced, the first of which were the Rainbow Ponies in 1983 ; other variations included the So-Soft Ponies ( covered in flocking ), Twinkle-Eyed Ponies, which had small rhinestones in their eyes, Twice-As-Fancy Ponies with patterns covering most of the body, Brush ' n ' Grow Ponies, which had a longer-than-usual mane and tail stored inside the body, Pony Friends, other animals designed in the same style as the ponies, such as a lion, giraffe, kangaroo and zebra, among others, and Baby Ponies, some of which were smaller versions of previously-released ponies ( their mothers ).
The majority of US domestic mail-order ponies never appeared overseas, although many countries had their own mail-order systems.
Most of these smaller ponies had no official name, and many had the same symbols.
The ponies have had cameo appearances in movies and TV shows, including two Robot Chicken shorts, several appearances in the Cartoon Network show Dexter's Laboratory and Veronica Mars.
The home had on an average from 800 to 1000 animals a year-cows, bullocks, buffaloes, horses, ponies, donkeys, deer, goats, pigs, dogs, monkeys, cats and hares ; and of birds, parrots, fowls, geese, duck, pigeons, crows and peacocks.
Long galleries were a feature of large sixteenth and seventeenth century houses and had many purposes from entertaining to exercise during inclement weather ; the Phelips children would lead their ponies up these stairs to ride here.
Originally, the breed had a fairly large population, and until the mid-19th century the Eriskay and similar ponies were found throughout the western islands of Scotland.
In 2006, there were believed to have been around 300 mares and 4 purebred stallions, and by 2009 this number had risen to around 420 ponies worldwide.
It soon became an opportunity to show and sell other livestock-particularly locally-bred sheep and Dartmoor ponies, and by the 1920s it had also become a sports day for local schoolchildren.
As she had no groom nor footman, he sat in the phaeton to hold the ponies ..."
The census of stock of 1875 reported just under three thousand ponies grazing the Forest, and by 1884 the number had dropped to 2, 250.
By 1956 the number of ponies of all breeds on the Forest had more than doubled to 1, 341.
For a variety of reasons, including normal trade in the area and attempts to improve the breed, Arabian, Thoroughbred, Welsh pony and Hackney blood had been added to ponies in the New Forest.
The deed was supposed to have been committed by a portion of Armstrong's band in retaliation for the injuries they had suffered and it was also supposed they had a grudge against the Zimmer family, as members of that family had, on different occasions, tied clapboards to the tails of their ponies.

had and brought
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.
But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.
Barton was relieved to see that Carl Dill and Emmett Foster had brought extra mounts.
Foster had brought extra clothing also.
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.
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.
In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.
And after all this, Shann went over all that Bang-Jensen had brought up ''.
He had brought it along to continue during the voyage.
Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.
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 ' ''.
Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.
Blackman had brought news from Kansas City.
The excesses of nationalism had brought down upon Europe a generation of tyranny and war, and a return to the old order of things seemed unthinkable.
The commotion had brought her into the wings.
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.
She was going to tell Bobby Joe about how mistaken she had been, but he brought one of the cousins home for supper, and all they did was talk about antelope.
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.

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