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had and visited
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.
When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.
`` The place had no sink or washbasin, only a bathtub '', his mother discovered when she visited him.
However, at eighty-five, he had still been busy writing articles, reviewing and speaking, and I had never before known an Englishman who had visited and lectured in three quarters of the United States.
They visited the shipyards at Brest and Pierre had to sign the register, vouching for the integrity of the visiting foreigner.
In fact, it was not until the King of Spain had visited at Pickfair that Mary and Doug were beckoned to cross the sacred barriers which separate Los Angeles and Pasadena from the hoi-polloi.
For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.
When she was nine years old, she wrote a description of a store she had visited.
Holmes was asked if he had ever visited a house of prostitution, or a `` beatnik parlor or teahouse ''.
The sensation he so overwhelmingly realized was one which told him he had been there before but he knew he had not, and could not recall any place he had visited to be likened to the limpid green water or the little fountain-falls or the green demon imprisoned beyond his reach.
In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:
Years before she died, Agrippina had visited astrologers to ask about her son ’ s future.
It is a striking fact that Ammianus, though a professional soldier, gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus ; his digressions on the various countries he had visited are particularly interesting.
Although previous Apollo expeditions, including Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 obtained samples of pre-mare lunar material, before lava began to upwell from the Moon's interior and flood the low areas and basins, none had actually visited the lunar highlands.
Apollo 14 had visited and sampled a ridge of material that had been ejected by the impact that created the Imbrium impact basin.
During the third and final lunar excursion of the mission, astronauts Young and Duke were to explore North Ray Crater, the largest of any of the craters any Apollo expedition had visited.
The passage in question has been represented in the modern literature either as claiming that Crantor actually visited Egypt, had conversations with priests, and saw hieroglyphs confirming the story or as claiming that he learned about them from other visitors to Egypt.

had and Williamsburg
William SmallThe nature of the group was to change significantly with the move to Birmingham in 1765 of the Scottish physician William Small, who had been Professor of Natural Philosophy at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Though their project, like others in the state, had to contend with the Great Depression and World War II, work continued as Colonial Williamsburg became a major tourist attraction.
After Washington had returned to Williamsburg, Dinwiddie ordered him to lead a larger force to assist Trent in his work.
He had a brother and two sisters, the youngest born in 1897 shortly after they settled in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Thomas Jefferson planted pomegranates at Monticello in 1771: he had them from George Wythe of Williamsburg.
Marion joined Major General Horatio Gates just before the Battle of Camden but Gates had no confidence in him and sent him ( mostly to get rid of him ) to take command of the Williamsburg Militia in the Pee Dee area.
Prior to this, the county seat had been set at Williamsburg ( now Bayou Cane ), approximately 4 miles northwest of present-day downtown Houma.
Williamsburg had originated as an 1830s canal town on another branch of the Juniata northeast of Hollidaysburg.
The 1900 census showed that Williamsburg had a population of 117, the smallest of all incorporated towns in the county.
While in Virginia, Latrobe worked on the Green Spring mansion near Williamsburg, which had been built by Governor Sir William Berkeley in the 17th century, but fell into disrepair after the American Revolutionary War.
They briefly lived in Jerusalem after the war, but, at the request of some of his followers who had emigrated to the United States, Teitelbaum settled instead in 1947 in Williamsburg located in northern Brooklyn in New York City.
They had two sons, Haskille Cherry ( 1940 – 2007 ) and Francis Cherry, Jr., and a daughter, Charlotte Cherry, then all of Washington, D. C. Margaret and older son, Haskille Cherry, were living in Williamsburg, Virginia, at the time of their deaths.
At a show at Williamsburg Park in Brooklyn, New York on July 19, 2012, Damian Kulash noted that they had been playing fewer shows lately because they had commenced work on a yet-unnamed studio album, and also announced that he was moving to New York, possibly reflecting a relocation of the band.
The crews met and completed the line 1. 25 miles west of Williamsburg on October 16, 1881 although temporary tracks had been installed in some areas to speed completion.
Williamsburg had Civil War commemorations every year, one on May 5, the anniversary of the Battle of Williamsburg.
After McClellan's troops had taken Yorktown on the York River, his army followed the retreating Confederates, and gained another victory over them on May 5, 1862, at Williamsburg, the old colonial capital, which was located on high ground between the York and James Rivers about ten miles ( 16 km ) below the mouth of the Chickahominy.
Local elected officials touted the rezoning as an economically beneficial way to address the decline of manufacturing along the North Brooklyn waterfront, which had resulted in a number of vacant and derelict warehouses in Williamsburg.
The community was small at first, but by 1996 Williamsburg had accumulated an artist population of about 3, 000.
By 1692 Banister had become a substantial figure in Virginia, one of the founders of William and Mary College in Williamsburg that yea ; Bishop Compton was on the college's board of overseers.
He graduated from the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia in 1770 where he had studied law.
By 1900, during the construction of the Williamsburg Bridge, the neighborhood had changed, and the Bank building was already seen as an icon of " old Williamsburg.

had and previous
Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.
In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
Wiley Lynn, a self-styled prohibition officer, had hit town the previous day and had been drinking ever since.
Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.
Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.
For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.
The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.
While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.
The previous night's horror -- the absolute failure, overcast with the intrusions of the press, had left them all with a wan sense of uselessness, of play-acting.
The previous scandals, gaily diverting as they were, had only served to increase his popularity.
The contributions were ahead of what she had got the previous year, and while the money, of course, was not hers, it excited her to stuff her kit with big checks.
No previous antitrust case, he said, had involved interests of such magnitude or presented such complex problems of relief.
Directions are written for those who have had previous experience in making pottery.
These conjugates Af had much less nonspecific staining than the previous conjugate ( with 50 mg FITC per gram of globulin ) while the specific staining was similar in both cases.
Her previous traumatic experiences flashed through her mind as if they had happened yesterday.
Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.
On previous voyages, it had been in precisely such dangerous situations that he had failed as a leader and captain.
He knew the house fairly well, he had been there on two previous visits during the past three or four months alone.
He had been to the farm the previous day and he could have said they needed the ax or hatchet at the farm.
The lavish use of presents had been effective in expanding the Indian trade of New France and Louisiana in the previous century, and the change in liberality aroused resentment in the minds of the red men.
By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.
The result had nothing of the polish, pace or cohesion of the previous night.

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