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In Madras, there was never a formal branch in the same sense as Bombay and Calcutta, as the management of the depot there seems to have rested in the hands of two local academics.
: And if a man who has been cut and scarred and is ashamed of his appearance, who loved you from the first time his eyes rested upon your face, could be a brutal fool, believing that if you could be made to love all of the things he really was, you would never again recoil from the things he seemed to be.
Experiments in all varieties of art work were practised ; whenever the professor saw a fine example in the museum, or when a process interested him in a workshop, he never rested until he had mastered the technique and his students were trying their apprentice hands at it.
He probably never became an actor, and John Payne Collier's conclusion to that effect rested on the two assumptions that the " Lodge " of Philip Henslowe's manuscript was a player and that his name was Thomas, neither of which is supported by the text ( see CM Ingleby, Was Thomas Lodge an Actor?
After the completion of the Paradise Tintoretto rested for a while, and he never undertook any other work of importance, though there is no reason to suppose that his energies were exhausted had his days been a little prolonged.
As with almost all early rebetika songs ( a style that originated with the Greek refugees from Asia Minor in Turkey ), the song's actual composer has never been identified, and its ownership rested with the band leader.
He had to sustain much opposition, especially from Syme, but he did not imitate his opponent's mode of controversy ; and if on any occasion he imagined he had said or done something to hurt another's feelings, he never rested till he had made reparation in some form.
The crime was never solved, but suspicion rested on Miss Money's brother, Robert Money.
It instantly became a regular to end the bands live sets, but has been occasionally rested from this position for a cover of " Breed " by Nirvana, while never used as one of the " Feeder covers " at Renegades gigs.
The men were quickly retired, and after that Mr. Campbell never rested until he had the workshops and the Locomotive offices removed from Howrah to Jamalpur .”

never and until
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
He never let me know that my visit was about to terminate until the actual morning I was to leave for Lymington.
I never had the courage to look at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, fearing they were poor, until now when I was obliged to do so.
If we wait until children are in junior high or high school, we will never manage it.
However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.
`` I've been after her for years '', Needham said, `` but I've never been able to get anywhere until the last few days ''.
I never dreamed of the logistical difficulties involved until, at long last, both of my boys got squeezed into high school.
I'd never even petted with a boy, and after I met Johnnie he never touched me for the longest while, not until I all but threw myself at him.
He never gets home until late, and he has to distance himself from the natural pity that he feels for the victims ; otherwise, he would not be able to go on.
We never learn anything about her husband, but we do know that she hates alcohol and public appearances, and has a great fondness for apples until she is put off them by the events of Hallowe ' en Party.
George ( his last name is never revealed ) is a stereotypical English valet who enters Poirot ’ s employment in 1923 and does not leave his side until the 1970s, shortly before Poirot ’ s death.
He was never financially secure until his daughter became a best-selling novelist.
He received the party's Blood Order in 1934 and was still occasionally used as a propaganda tool until about 1937, but he was never again allowed any real power.
Schub tells her that since Hapgood never said who is normal or not, they can arrest anyone at random until the quota is filled.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were, however, never appealed to the Supreme Court, whose right of judicial review was not established until Marbury v. Madison in 1803.
The score of the movie was never released as an album until Film Score Monthly released it in 2005.
They operated under a series of laws that were added from time to time, but Roman law was never reorganised into a single code until the Codex Theodosianus ( AD 438 ); later, in the Eastern Empire the Codex repetitæ prælectionis ( 534 ) was highly influential throughout Europe.
After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.
The advantages of paper currency were numerous: it reduced transport of gold and silver, and thus lowered the risks ; it made loaning gold or silver at interest easier, since the specie ( gold or silver ) never left the possession of the lender until someone else redeemed the note ; and it allowed for a division of currency into credit and specie backed forms.
While never reaching the level of accuracy of a modern timepiece, the water clock was the most accurate and commonly used timekeeping device for millennia, until it was replaced by the more accurate pendulum clock in 17th century Europe.
Catherine testified that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated, as also according to canon law, a marriage was not valid until consummated.
In China, the potential of the crank of converting circular motion into reciprocal one never seems to have been fully realized, and the crank was typically absent from such machines until the turn of the 20th century.
Throughout the series, Clark never officially adopted a costume until around the eighth season, but prior to this was seen wearing Superman's traditional colors of red and blue, more often as the series progresses ( more commonly a blue shirt underneath a red jacket, reflecting Superman's uniform and cape colors ).

never and discovered
In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.
Let us put to ourselves the hypothesis that we had not come on the scene and that the rabbit never was discovered.
He was buried at the royal necropolis of Sais, and while his tomb was never discovered, Herodotus describes it for us:
Later it was discovered by an enterprising hacker that the required code was actually in the Applesoft ROM ( though it was never executed ) and could be called there instead: CALL-3288 or ( equivalent ) 62248.
Many aspiring comedians who dream of becoming the next Russell Peters and Jerry Seinfeld never see the inside of a movie or television studio, but rather spend most of their careers doing stand-up in comedy clubs and other small venues, hoping to be discovered.
Gauss also claimed to have discovered the possibility of non-Euclidean geometries but never published it.
djbdns has never been vulnerable to the cache poisoning vulnerability reported in July 2008, but it has been discovered that it is vulnerable to a related attack.
On 9 August 1592 a severe storm battered his ship, and Davis drifted under bare masts, taking refuge " among certain Isles never before discovered.
Brother Robert Fanovich, head of Presentation Brothers ' College ( PBC ) in St. George's tasked some of his senior students with conducting a research project into the era and specifically into the fact that Maurice Bishop's body was never discovered.
In 1812 they published the two ancient fragments of the Hildebrandslied and the Weißenbrunner Gebet, Jacob having discovered what till then had never been suspected — namely the alliteration in these poems.
However, before the showing, an Aberystwyth University student discovered that the film had never been banned in Aberystwyth, but was shown ( or was scheduled to be shown ) at a cinema in the town in 1981.
The conference accepted most of the League's recommendations, forcing Greece to pay fifty million lire to Italy, even though those who committed the crime were never discovered.
The LDS Church seeks to distance itself from all such polygamous groups, excommunicating their members if discovered, and a majority of Mormon fundamentalists have never been members of the LDS Church.
In the study, 34 new compounds were discovered in pure maple syrup, five of which have never before been seen in nature.
Again and again, with the Greek text in front of me and the NIV beside it, I discovered that the translators had another principle, considerably higher than the stated one: to make sure that Paul should say what the broadly Protestant and evangelical tradition said he said .... f a church only, or mainly, relies on the NIV it will, quite simply, never understand what Paul was talking about.
In 2004, a tooth from a red panda species never before recorded in North America was discovered at the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee.
Though most lost silent films will never be recovered, some have been discovered in film archives or private collections.
In 1888, during the construction of the new building, workers discovered the dismembered torso of a female ; the case, known as the " Whitehall Mystery ", has never been solved.
If one were to only take what was at face value observable, many scientific phenomena never would have been discovered.
However he only applied individual pulses of current to his transformer, and never discovered the relation between the turns ratio and EMF in the windings.
The ships left England in May 1846 and were never heard from again, although since then much has been discovered about the fate of the 129 officers and crew.
At Yale, an embarrassing situation occurred: he had been hired as a postdoctoral fellow, but it was discovered that he had never received a Ph. D.
Although it was not Franklin but Rae who in 1848 discovered the last link in the much-sought-after Northwest Passage, Rae was never awarded a knighthood and died in obscurity in London.
In addition, very large deposits of brown coal have been discovered in the vicinity of Kościan, these however are not currently being extracted and probably never will be extracted, due to the expense that would be incurred in adapting the site to build a coal mine and the need to resettle thousands of people.

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