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looks and after
Monel shows improvement with each work-out and looks the makings of a good brood mare after winning her share of races.
Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.
The historic under-commitment by the US within France's sphere of interest in the Indian Ocean looks set to continue after a November 2009 meeting between heads of state.
* Dr. Meade: A doctor in Atlanta, he looks after injured soldiers during the siege, with assistance from Melanie and Scarlett.
It may sound ridiculous — after all, who looks to celebrities for political wisdom?
Reputedly his looks were patterned after those of academic Roy Ridley.
Loki looks over the gold that Andvari possesses, and after Andvari hands over all of his gold, Andvari holds on to but a single ring ; the ring Andvarinaut, which Loki also takes.
In 1950, he began his acting career after friends and family encouraged him to try it because of his unique looks.
Eight weeks after the Harvard speech, the State Department wrote in a confidential memorandum that " The Marshall Plan has been compared to a flying saucer — nobody knows what it looks like, how big it is, in what direction it is moving, or whether it really exists.
Few Jews visit the historic site, yet Jajouhana continues to keep the promise he made with his Jewish friends, and looks after the tomb.
For example, assume that a Texas hold ' em board looks like this after the third round: 5 ♠ < font color = red > K ♦ 7 ♦</ font > J ♠, and that a player is holding < font color = red > A ♦ 10 ♦</ font >.
Cook's chiselled looks and languid manner led Humphries to observe that whereas most people take after their father or mother, Cook seemed more like an aunt.
we know how the scene looks after one light bounce, after two passes, two bounces, and so forth.
Other research has shown that the detailed pattern of recall errors looks remarkably similar for recall of a list immediately after learning ( it is presumed, from short-term memory ) and recall after 24 hours ( necessarily from long-term memory ).
In Britain, the Ramblers is the biggest organization that looks after the interests of walkers.
Dressing himself in Posthumus's clothes, he determines to go to Wales and kill Posthumus while Imogen looks on, after which he will rape her on Posthumus's corpse before dragging her back to court for marriage.
O ' Toole's looks prompted a different reaction from Noël Coward, who after seeing the première of the film quipped " If you had been any prettier, the film would have been called Florence of Arabia ".
Symbolic of her detachment and loss of childhood, she cuts off all of her hair and no longer looks in mirrors after three days of working as a nurse.
* Marlowe ( MR ) ( 74 mixed pupils, day, 1936 ) is named after the poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe ( King's Scholar, 1580 ) and looks out over the Green Court.
US Senator Alben W. Barkley ( D-KY ) looks on after Buchenwald's liberation.
Modern western culture usually looks at Monday as the beginning of the workweek, as it is typically Monday when adults go back to work and children go back to school after the weekend.
An editor's note, however, denoutes that this is due to Plug's looks taking after his mother.
The next segment involves the head master's attempt to make Plug handsome after his hideous looks have become a major ridicule of the school.

looks and few
Fury has made a few mistakes but looks like a wonderful prospect, with his impressive gait and stride which certainly make him cover the ground.
"... when one looks at what's happened to television, there are so few shows that interest me.
Her father, King Philip, known as " le Bel " ( the Fair ) because of his good looks, was a strangely unemotional man ; contemporaries described him as " neither a man nor a beast, but a statue "; modern historians have noted that he " cultivated a reputation for Christian kingship and showed few weaknesses of the flesh ".
Very few people have been told about Alexei's illness or how Rasputin appears to be helping him, so it looks like the Tsarina is losing her mind, or perhaps having an affair with Rasputin.
Gormenghast Mountain is said to be so large that from the castle it looks at most a few miles distant, whereas in fact it is a day's ride away on horseback.
As of 2012, this target looks unlikely to be met ; over the last few years the number of people suffering from hunger has stopped falling, rising sharply in 2007 and 2008.
Given the commune's proximity and good transport links to the airport, to NATO and to the European Quarter, an increasing number of non-Belgians have settled in the commune and this trend looks set to continue as the few remaining greenfield sites are developed.
The animal is segmented, and looks somewhat like a bloated caterpillar with a few spines added on — including six finger-like projections around the mouth and two grasping legs on the " head.
A few prehistoric species from the Neogene period in North America placed in the genus Neophrontops ( the name meaning " looks like Neophron ") are believed to have been very similar to these vultures in lifestyle, but the genetic relationships are unclear.
For a few moments, George reflects on the dancers, who are weighed down to counteract their gracefulness and masked to cover up their good looks.
On January 24, 2011, to reverse a slide of revenue, the paper introduced a tweaked format, changing a few looks of the front pages of sections.
It looks ancient and infirm, but in 1900 was sending forth a few leaves on its two or three remaining branches and was, of course, cared for tenderly.
After you quit Ware ... the land grows by degrees poorer ; the chalk lies nearer and nearer to the surface, till you come to the open common-fields within a few miles of Royston is at the foot of this high poor land ; or, rather in a dell, the open side of which looks towards the North.
Another problem Parfit looks at is the mere addition paradox, which supposedly shows that it is better to have a lot of people who are slightly happy, than a few people who are very happy.
After a few words, Seijurō says " You're dead ," and Musashi looks down in surprise and horror to see that Seijurō's sword was at his neck.
And as a guy with a few days to live and a life to spend in a moment, he looks for your sympathy.
: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it
* Economist Irving Fisher said that " stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau " a few weeks before the Stock Market Crash of 1929, which was followed by the Great Depression.
A few types of wild Orchids also grow in the streams of Tai Mo Shan including the Chinese Pholidota Orchid, Hong Kong's most common orchid, and the Bamboo Orchid, so called because of a distinct stem that looks like bamboo, which also grows in the streams of Tai Mo Shan.
The eighth chapter, " Terrorism and Justice: Some Useful Truisms ", looks at what Chomsky calls " a few simple truths " regarding the criteria that is accepted for a conflict to be internationally recognized as a " just war ".
Lord Peter Wimsey's manservant Bunter is putting his Lordship's books away and looks with some curiosity at the chosen few left open on the table, including Housman's " A Shropshire Lad ".
A warm-voiced singer with stunning looks and an affecting stage presence, she made few commercial recordings, but many of her live performances exist as bootleg recordings and YouTube postings.

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