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He lost, but settled for a cake in the shape of a fedora.
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lost and settled
Peace was settled in the Treaty of Pressburg ; the Austrian Empire lost the title of Holy Roman Emperor and the Confederation of the Rhine was created by Napoleon over former Austrian territories.
Fayed settled the dispute with a payment to his widow ; he also sued the Metropolitan Police for false arrest in 2002, but lost the case.
As a consequence of Harald's army having lost to the Germans at the Danevirke in 974, he no longer had control of Norway, and Germans settled back into the border area between Scandinavia and Germany.
When the Dutch lost Sint Maarten ( and Anguilla where they had built a fort shortly after arriving in Sint Maarten ) to the Spanish, they settled Curaçao and Sint Eustatius.
When things settled down, the Privy Council of Denmark had lost some of its influence, and that of Norway no longer existed.
The area had been a focus of the rebellion of Ruairí Óg Ó Mórdha, a local chieftain who had rebelled and had lost his lands, which the Crown wanted to be settled by reliable landowners.
Both sides of the river were reported to have had numerous mounds when Europeans first settled in the area, but most in St. Louis and on the east side were lost to development.
However, by December 1836, the boundary dispute between Ohio and Michigan had been settled, the Toledo Strip was awarded to Ohio, and Whiteford Township subseqeuntly lost all of its territory south of this newly agreed upon state boundary.
Having lost his first wife, Gershom married a widow named Bonna and settled at Mainz ( Mayence ), where he devoted himself to teaching the Talmud.
The family settled in Ottawa, though William had lost almost all of his substantial fortune, and the Poys lived in a cramped duplex.
If there was any doubt, the escheator would seize the land and refer the case to the king's court where it would be settled, ensuring that not one day's revenue would be lost.
However, RCA lost the Philadelphia Orchestra during this period ; when Columbia Records settled quickly with the union, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphians signed a new contract with Columbia and began making recordings in 1944.
A short experience convinced him that this was not for him the ideal Christian life (" amisi monachum, inveni Christianum " — " I have lost the monk ; I have found the Christian "), and in February 1522 he made his way to Ebernburg, near Creuznach, where he acted as chaplain to a little group of men holding the new opinions who had settled there under the leadership of Franz von Sickingen.
His father, William Dodwell, lost his property in Connacht during the Irish rebellion and settled at York in 1648.
The German rider, Walter Stolle, lost his home and living in the Sudetenland in the aftermath of World War II, settled in Britain and set off from Essex on 25 January 1959, to cycle round the world.
) rather than Colonial units of measurement, suggesting that it was settled by members of the lost Thirteenth Tribe.
Further Danish forces had settled on the land before Guthrum attacked Wessex: in East Anglia, and in Mercia between the treaty at Exeter and the attack on Chippenham ; many others were lost in a storm off Swanage in 876-7, with 120 ships wrecked Internal disunity was threatening to tear the Danes apart, and they needed time to reorganize.
While many of the farmers in the area are of German descent as can be seen in last names such as Kraus, Steenken, and Worm ; they settled later after the civil war filling the void of the men lost in the war.
Becker won this lawsuit when Copperfield settled at the eleventh hour and the publisher lost during the court trial.
lost and for
Yet though the Southern States lost the worst errors in their case, they did not lose the truth they fought for.
Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.
In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.
Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.
When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.
The doctor's wits had not left him, however, for all his sixty-eight years, and the wails were almost immediately lost in the sound of water rushing out from the showerhead.
As soon as the time came for re-sharpening, the precise form of the gear tooth was lost and a new cutter had to be made.
Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.
Stravinsky, nearing the age of eighty, is like a lost and frantic bird, flitting from one abandoned nest to another, searching for a home.
On that date the Musicians Emergency Fund, organized to furnish employment for musicians unable to obtain engagements during the depression and to provide relief for older musicians who lost their fortunes in the stock market crash, observed its 30th anniversary.
It lost sight of the individual almost entirely and confined itself to rules limiting the exercise of state power for reasons essentially unconnected with justice or morality save as these values might affect international relations.
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