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had and turned
He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.
For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.
His four weeks in Italy had turned into nearer three months.
It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.
But he had turned a sickly green and appeared tongue-tied or panicked.
A time before the white lightning and the bumming had turned him inside out.
We had stopped before a shop window to assess its autumnal display, when you suddenly turned to me, looking up from beneath one of your wrong hats, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!
the weather had turned wet and cold.
The British, although suffering considerable losses, noted the defection of the Marylanders, made a stand, then turned and attacked Morgan who became greatly outnumbered and had to retire.
It would seem that the wheel had turned full circle.
Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.
He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.
Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.
The engineer turned works manager had a particular view of life -- and refused to change it.
For it had turned out, by a further paradox of Cubism, that the means to an illusion of depth and plasticity had now become widely divergent from the means of representation or imaging.
In 1602, George Waymouth, in the same little Discovery that Hudson now commanded, had sailed 300 miles up the strait before his frightened men turned the ship back.
On the second voyage, he had turned back at the frozen island of Novaya Zemlya and meekly given the crew a certificate stating that he did so of his own free will -- which was obviously not the case.
And Jarrodsville was more than three miles away, down an old dirt road that the rain had turned into a quagmire.
After he had proceeded a few feet, he paused and turned up the cuffs of his trousers, which were already damp and mud-caked.
The steady roll of the drums had sounded behind him as he walked between the endless ranks of the men he had commanded, and each man about-faced and turned his back as the officer approached.

had and ankle
This time was also in other ways taxing to him, as he had broken his ankle during the post-production period, and had had to give up his formerly active lifestyle.
Connolly had been incapacitated by a bullet wound to the ankle and had passed command on to Pearse.
Fifteen of those ( including all seven signatories of the Proclamation ) had their sentences confirmed by Maxwell and were executed by firing squad between 3 and 12 May ( among them the seriously-wounded Connolly, shot while tied to a chair due to a shattered ankle ).
Talos had one blood vessel which went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by only one bronze nail ( as in metal casting by the lost wax method ).
In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, " Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip ", which she continued to write until August.
His opponent had locked him in a chokehold and Arrhichion, desperate to loosen it, broke his opponent's toe ( some records say his ankle ).
Hermann restored the animal with wing membranes extending from the long fourth finger to the ankle and a covering of fur ( neither wing membranes nor fur had been preserved in the specimen ).
The standard assumptions were that pterosaurs were quadrupedal, clumsy on the ground, furred, warmblooded and had a wing membrane reaching the ankle.
The terms hold that a man must leave the warmth and safety of the hall and pass through the night to a gallows where two prisoners had been hanged the day before, tie a twig around one man's ankle, and return.
Ötzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had some 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle.
He was brought before Houston, who had been shot in the ankle and badly wounded.
Talos had one vein which went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by a single bronze nail.
As the Bullies had put intimidation to good use the past three years, the Flyers ' rugged style of play led the Soviets to leave the ice midway through the first period, protesting a hit on Valeri Kharlamov, whom Clarke had slashed on the ankle in the famous Summit Series ' 72, by Ed Van Impe.
X-rays showed that his ankle and femur as well as his wrists had broken and had not healed properly during junior hockey and he was therefore unfit for military action.
Marion was not captured with the rest of the garrison when Charleston fell on May 12, 1780, because he had broken an ankle in an accident and had left the city to recuperate.
Talos had one vein, which went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by only one bronze nail.
Earlier, on 24 September 1983, Goiko achieved notoriety for an infamous tackle on Diego Maradona in a league match at the Camp Nou, ferociously tackling the Argentine from behind and leaving him severely injured, and reportedly later keeping " the boot he had used to destroy ...( Maradona ’ s ) ankle ligaments " at home in a glass case.
Once when she had a sprained ankle, Veronica told both Archie and Jughead to visit her.

had and slightly
She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.
The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions.
Mr. Partlow could still feel a cold sweat on his slightly gray temples as he remembered what a near thing chemistry had been for him at Hanford.
Modern writers tend to be slightly more critical of Agesilaus ' reputation and achievements, reckoning him an excellent soldier, but one who had a poor understanding of sea power and siegecraft.
The ULA had an issue similar to those experienced by other socketed CPU's ; Over time, the thermal heating and cooling could cause the ULA to rise slightly out of it's socket just enough to cause the machine to start exhibiting ' hanging ' or other startup-failure issues, such as a continuous ' startup beep '.
The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.
Also a color handheld, in comparison to the Lynx it had a higher cost, slightly smaller bulk, and similar battery life.
Chapters 49 – 55 probably come from a slightly later period, after Babylon had fallen to Cyrus and the return to Jerusalem became a real possibility.
The 1987 election saw the Alliance's share of the votes drop slightly and it now had 22 MP's, and in the election's aftermath Liberal leader David Steel proposed a merged of the two parties.
By 1962, this had increased slightly to 46 %.
Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.
Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.
Based on what we know about its descendants, Prohesperocyon likely had slightly more elongated limbs than its predecessors, along with toes that were parallel and closely touching, rather than splayed as in bears.
He played around with it, came back with a bunch of designs that had the circle and slightly 3-D looking letters and he had ones with different patterns behind it.
Other substances offered slightly better performance, but galena was most widely used because it had the advantage of being cheap and easy to obtain.
One theory is that smooth Dachshunds would occasionally produce puppies which had slightly longer hair than their parents.
The new WIC had a capital that was slightly more than 6 million guilders around 1679, which was largely supplied by the Amsterdam Chamber.
The pattern of encephalization started with Homo habilis which at approximately 600 cc had a brain slightly larger than chimpanzees, and continued with Homo erectus ( 800-1100 cc ), and reached a maximum in Neanderthals with an average size of ( 1200-1900cc ), larger even than Homo sapiens.
The US had a slightly edited release on 24 August 2010.
In the 1950s ( see 1950s in film ) the industry began to retreat slightly from the prestige productions which had made British films successful worldwide, and began to concentrate on popular comedies and World War II dramas aimed more squarely at the domestic audience.
Then, not long before the finish, the Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( ACO ), organizers of the Le Mans event, informed Ford that the geographical difference in starting positions would be taken into account at a close finish – meaning that the McLaren / Amon vehicle, which had started perhaps behind the Hulme-Miles car, would have covered slightly more ground over the 24 hours and would therefore be the winner.

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