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Woodruff said nothing, and Pike, frustrated, stormed throughout Little Rock in an unsuccessful search for `` Vale '', asking his friends to keep their ears open.
At the Southern Commercial Convention of 1854, Pike said the South should remain in the Union and seek equality with the North, but if the South " were forced into an inferior status, she would be better out of the Union than in it.
The Act of Legislature of Alabama of December 18, 1821 provided that until the Commissioners of the County of Pike should select a site for the seat of justice, the temporary seat was established at the house of Andrew Townsend in said county.
Thunder Road ( 1958 ) was loosely based on an incident in which a driver transporting moonshine was said to have crashed to his death on Kingston Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee somewhere between Bearden Hill and Morrell Road.
Pike County is said to be the home of Momo ( The Missouri Monster ), with the first reported sightings in the 1970s dating back to various locations throughout the county.
The film was based loosely on an incident in which a driver transporting moonshine was said to have crashed to his death on Kingston Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee between Bearden Hill and Morrell Road.
Pike has said that she would be happy to do at least one play every year.
Aidman said the producers had promised him script rewrites, but these simply amounted to changing the name " Artemus Gordon " to " Jeremy Pike " ( his character's name ).
Jim Pike said, "..
Jimmy Perry said that the triumvirate of Captain Mainwaring, Corporal Jones and Private Pike in Dad's Army was inspired by watching Oh, Mr Porter.
Historian John Hope Franklin said " James S. Pike, the Maine journalist, wrote an account of misrule in South Carolina, appropriately called The Prostrate State, and painted a lurid picture of the conduct of Negro legislators and the general lack of decorum in the management of public affairs.
Durden said Pike despaired of living alongside arrogant slaveholders and their repulsive human property, and that he urged peaceful secession during the 1860-61 crisis partly because he had one eye cocked on the chance of getting rid of " mass of barbarism " and that during some of the Civil War's darker days he would have settled for a compromise peace if it meant only that a Gulf coast or Deep South " negro pen " would be lost to the Federal Union.
Dad's Army character, mummy's boy Private Pike, was based upon teenage Jimmy Perry, who said, " She didn't go so far as making me wear a scarf, but she came pretty near ".

said and had
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.
`` You're Gavin's son '', Joe Purvis had said.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
Six hundred and forty acres, the old man back in St. Louis had said ; ;
I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.
`` It's Curtiss '', he said, naming the man Rankin had hit.
Even as he said it, Greg knew they had found the enemy.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.
Mary Jane had smilingly said.
There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.
The pretty little twittering WACS said he had the look of eagles -- and Penny, hating the cliche, had to admit that in this case it applied.
`` Hi there, Schaffner '', he had said.
Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.
Aloud he had said, making conversation:
`` Yes '', Herr Schaffner had said.
`` Thank you '', the German had said courteously.
His superiors had said that all marines were depraved.
He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.
Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.
At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

said and stolen
He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??
In other legal cases, Pissarro's " Le Quai Malaquais, Printemps ," is said to have been similarly stolen, along with the estimated 650, 000 lost works of art, including those by other French Impressionists.
If a geocache has been vandalized or stolen it is said to have been " muggled " or " plundered.
It was usually attributed in Antiquity to Cinaethon of Sparta, but in one source was said to have been stolen from Musaeus by Eugamon or Eugammon of Cyrene ( see Cyclic poets ).
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo is an association with the aim of finding the babies stolen that was originally founded by the Grandmothers and other relatives of said children.
When the Sampo was stolen, it is said that Ilmarinen's homeland fell upon hard times and sent an expedition to retrieve it, but in the ensuing battle it was smashed and lost at sea.
The Doctor's TARDIS was for most of the franchise's history said to have been stolen from the Time Lords ' home planet, Gallifrey, where it was old, decommissioned and derelict ( and, in fact, in a museum ).
There he is said to have misbehaved and stolen ambrosia and nectar to bring it back to his people, and revealed the secrets of the gods.
Behan said he broke his promise to appoint Earp because Wyatt Earp used Behan's name to threaten Ike Clanton when Wyatt recovered his stolen horse from Clanton.
Polyxenus, king of Elis, was also said to have been entrusted with the stolen cattle by the Taphians under Pterelaus ; the cattle was ransomed from him by Amphitryon.
and Stiggs, the line is said by a Mexican souvenir salesman, upon the arrival of the titular characters in Mexico, after improbably floating downstream from Phoenix, Arizona, on car tires stolen from a rich and much hated local insurance salesmen ( Schwab ), en route to seeing King Sunny Ade-a musician one of the characters ( Stiggs ) holds in very high regard.
A legendary maverick by reputation, Boyd was said to have stolen the computer time to do the millions of calculations necessary to prove the theory, but it became the world standard for the design of fighter planes.
Jackson also wrote many original tunes, a number of which he sold rights to for a few dollars or were simply stolen from him ; some of the old time New Orleans musicians said that some well known Tin Pan Alley pop tunes of the era were actually written by Jackson.
If this answer was present, the other family won the round and was said to have " stolen " the money ; if not, the family who had given the three incorrect answers win however much money their other answers had accumulated.
It was said that she had been stolen away by Kur and taken to the underworld, where she was made queen unwillingly.
Newspapers at the time gave a variety of stories of how Bud was acquired, including that he was stolen ; in a letter to his wife, Nelson said a man sold him the dog for $ 15 ($ 383 in 2010 dollars ).
On February 13 Hawass said that eighteen artifacts, including statues of King Tutankhamun, were stolen from the Egyptian Museum in January.
He and Brandt are said to have buried their many stolen treasures in the hills surrounding Goshen, and that Claudius is himself buried somewhere on the grounds of the old Presbyterian Church – with his skull having been embedded in the wall.
And because, I know not when, some one is said to have bitten off and stolen a portion of the sacred wood, it is thus guarded by the deacons who stand around, lest any one approaching should venture to do so again.
Clark also said Gwynn was " 50 pounds overweight ", attributing to his lower stolen base total.
Her breakthrough film was I Wanted Wings in 1941, a major hit in which Lake played the second female lead and was said to have stolen scene after scene from the rest of the cast.
He said that Cobb had not been a very good fielder, “ so he blamed me .” Crawford denied intentionally trying to deprive Cobb of stolen bases, insisting that Cobb had “ dreamed that up .”
It has been said that there was originally an arrow here to complement Eric Aumonier's Archer statue at station, and that this was stolen shortly after the station opened ; however, East Finchley was not served by the Underground until 1939 and the statue was not erected until 1940.
In a 2006 letter requesting that a judge give his son a light sentence for assault with a deadly weapon, battery of a police officer, and possession of a stolen vehicle, Nichols admitted his participation in the Oklahoma City bombing but said that McVeigh had forced and intimidated him into cooperating.

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