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The boy came on to the porch and sat down, his gaze on Morgan as if half expecting him to shoot and not really caring.
A Newfoundland sat solemnly beside a doghouse half his size.
I found a parking place half a block away, sat in the car and waited.
It must be that son who sat before her now, shriveled to half his size and half his senses.
For many months in half darkness, Theseus sat immovably fixed to the rock, mourning both for his friend and for himself.
After crossing Duck Creek the party entered South Prairie, to which they took quite a fancy, and after traveling over the land, examining the quality of the soil, locating the timber land and investigating the source of water supply, late in the afternoon they walked up to the highest point, which was about half a mile southwest of Zion's Church in Springvale, and there sat down on the green grass deliberating over the situation and comparing notes on the different localities through which they had passed during the week.
The cheering and waving of caps continued for over half an hour, while the Judges sat, turning white and red in turns, and spread thence to the masses in London and the suburbs.
Dorothy and I had spent a lovely summer evening walking over the Wolds, and on our way home sat in the sun for half an hour at a point looking across the plain of York.
... such was the power and wisdom and integrity in those that sat at the helm, and their diligence in chusing men only for their merit was blessed with such success, that in two years our fleets grew to be as famous as our land armies ; the reputation and power of our nation rose to a greater height, than when we possessed the better half of France, and the kings of France and Scotland were our prisoners.
( However, according to one report, spectators were initially confused: " A Soviet audience of 14, 000 sat almost silently, as if in awe, through the first half of the game.
By 1914 the left half of the legislature was composed of Unified Socialists, Republican Socialists and Socialist Radicals, while the parties that were called " left " now sat on the right side.
The new building is much larger ( approximately half the size of the entire lot upon which the earlier restaurant sat ), and is often filled to capacity.
And when now he beheld yawning before him the deep chaos whose end he could not see, and half dead from very fear, expected to be hurled into it, suddenly in a way that he could not have hoped he was cast upon a certain rock and sat him down.
The EQE consists of four papers sat over three days, each day lasting between 6 hours and seven and a half hours.
Guillén sat out the first half of 2011 after having microfracture surgery on his left knee in September.
Perkins appeared every day in the last half hour of Mark Radcliffe's afternoon radio show on BBC Radio 2, when he sat in for Steve Wright.
He eventually practiced on September 3, and played against the Colts in the season opener, though he sat out the second half.
However he still started against the Falcons, but aggravated his hamstring in the second quarter and sat out remainder of half before coming back for the second half as offense recorded 403 total yards.
He sat through fewer than half the meetings of an Oireachtas committee tasked with dealing with social welfare he received € 20, 000 a year to chair.
After a good second half start, Nancy sat in 3rd place on the final match day of the season.
One of them, Elling Villand, who also was sentenced to give away his farm, was freed less than half a year later, and sat on his farm until he died.
The station sat on 430 acres ( 1. 7 km² ) with about a half a mile ( 800 m ) separation between the domestic and the operations site ; both sites being divided by the county line between Halifax County ( domestic site ) and Hants County ( operations site ).

half and up
and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.
How in the world had he formerly found time to build up a business, raise a family, be on half a dozen boards, work actively on committees and either go out in the evening or plow through the contents of a bulging brief case??
My guess would be that interest rates will decline moderately into the spring of 1961 and during the second half of the year will turn up gradually to recover the ground lost during the downturn.
When the house was about half consumed, his comrade ran to the door and threw up his hands, declaring repeatedly that he did not know the whereabouts of Manuel.
Red lived at Lanesville, and from his house he could be up on the Common in a half hour's brisk walk ; ;
He expressed the opinion the city could hire a CD director for about $3,500 a year and would only have to put up half that amount on a matching fund basis to defray the salary costs.
A half hour later he got her up to go out for breakfast so the Ferraros, hearing them hurrying down the stairs, would think they were going to a late mass.
She retreated before the naked shame in the old man and the fury beyond it and sank into the darkness of her lodge where Walitzee stirred, mumbling, sitting up in a half stupor to say:
It lay half in the furrow and half out, and the front wheels had rolled nearly up to it when I put in the clutch.
The Man from Mars had interrupted him with his work half finished -- and that stupid jackass Short was certain to louse it up.
In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.
According to RFE / RL, comparable sums are believed to be transferred through non-bank systems, implying that cash remittances make up approximately 30 percent of Armenia's GDP in the first half of 2008.
Armenian exports to EU countries have skyrocketed by 65. 9 percent, making up more than half of all 2010 January to September exports.
Dinosaurs dominate the fauna, especially hadrosaurs, which make up half of all dinosaurs known, including the genera Edmontosaurus, Saurolophus and Hypacrosaurus.
During the second half of the day, John Young and Charlie Duke again entered the Lunar Module to power it up and check its systems, as well as perform housekeeping tasks in preparation for lunar landing.
Shortly after waking up on the morning of flight day six three and a half minutes early, Young and Duke discussed with mission control in Houston the day's timeline of events.
Thus initially the Level 2 cache ran at half of the CPU clock speed up to 700 MHz ( 350 MHz cache ).
In 2011 passenger traffic at Bulgaria's three major airports-Sofia, Varna and Bourgas-grew up to near 10 % on the year to 3. 89 million in the first half of 2011, due to rise of customers using international routes and launch of new destinations.
The player may add up to half the value of their original bet to the insurance and these extra chips are placed on a portion of the table usually marked " Insurance Pays 2 to 1 ".
Blue Steel required up to seven hours of launch preparation, and was highly unreliable ; the Royal Air Force estimated in 1963 that half the missiles would fail to fire and would have to be dropped over their targets, contradicting their purpose of serving as standoff weapons.
About half of the floor is taken up by the apartment of the Residence Life Coordinator.
When she was half a mile away, Baralong ran up a signal flag indicating that she was going to rescue Nicosians crew.
They grow to a size of only 13 to 28 cm, with a tail that is very long, sometimes up to one and a half times as long as the body.

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