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The Negro composer Hall Johnson studied the American-Negro Suite and said of it, `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music, these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest.
`` Uhhu '', she said, hardly listening as she studied her left eyelid.
Anaxarchus is said to have studied under Diogenes of Smyrna, who in turn studied under Metrodorus of Chios, who used to declare that he knew nothing, not even the fact that he knew nothing.
Tanya Luhrmann has said that " all magicians know something about astrology ," and refers to a table of correspondences in Starhawk's The Spiral Dance, organized by planet, as an example of the astrological lore studied by magicians.
" Other methods of discounting, such as hyperbolic discounting, are studied in academia and said to reflect intuitive decision-making, but are not generally used in industry.
Soranus said that Hippocrates learned medicine from his father and grandfather, and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias.
Having said that, the literary sources of Priscus and Jordanes preserve only a few names, and three words, of the language of the Huns, which have been studied for more than a century and a half.
" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.
Ian Carmichael, who played the part of Wimsey in the BBC Television series adaptation and studied the character and the books thoroughly, said that the character was Sayers ' conception of the ' ideal man ', based in part on her earlier romantic misfortunes.
It is said that he may have studied at the Yoshioka-ryū dojo ( school ), which was also said to be a school Musashi defeated single-handedly during his later years, although this is very uncertain.
It is a highly studied herb that is said to be of some medical use and is common in curandera ( female shamanic practices ) in Mexico and the Southwestern United States.
He spent time at the University of Paris, and is said to have then studied law at Padua and Bologna.
He is then said to have worked as a manual laborer and to have studied Greek drama — particularly the New Comedy of Menander — in his leisure.
Massimo Introvigne, who studied the Unification Church and other new religious movements, said that this confirmed that full-time membership is no longer considered crucial to church members.
He is also said to have studied Platonist philosophy under the direction of Xenocrates, and Polemo.
Conservative commentator Bruce Anderson has claimed that the " Rivers of Blood " speech would have come as a complete surprise to anyone who had studied his record: he had been a West Midlands MP for 18 years but had said hardly anything about immigration.
As Tanenbaum said in Operating Systems ( 1987 ): " When AT & T released Version 7, it began to realize that UNIX was a valuable commercial product, so it issued Version 7 with a license that prohibited the source code from being studied in courses, in order to avoid endangering its status as a trade secret.
The authors are said to have studied Bolshevik documents extensively before creating a sensational document in an effort to undermine the Soviet regime's relations with Great Britain.
Prince Hamlet is said to have studied in Wittenberg and it was the supposed home of Dr Faustus.
Bartolomeo Carducci is said to have studied with him.
A talented child who studied dharma ( Buddhist teachings ) with his father from an early age and who sought out great teachers in his twenties and thirties, he is said to have attained enlightenment at the age of fifty while practicing dream yoga.
In a BBC Radio interview in January 2007, O ' Toole said that he had studied women for a very long time, had given it his best try, but knew " nothing.

said and voice
A woman's voice said, and then he heard a sort of wail from the man's wife.
She said, her voice rising.
`` I loused it '', Rob said, with a savage note in his voice.
she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.
`` Boy, you're stirrin early '', a sleepy voice said.
It's your decision '', said Juanita, holding her face very still, trying to contain the bitterness of her voice as she enunciated her words too distinctly.
You should hear the reverence in Fran's voice when she said `` Baccarat '' or `` Steuben '' or `` Madame Alexander ''.
When I answered it a voice too dignified and British to be real said, `` Is this Mr. Dale Nelson, the actor ''??
`` I told you, Mike '', said Rourke in an aggrieved voice.
He said in a low voice, `` I've got a date with a lady, Mister.
`` All right '', Calenda said, his voice still quiet.
He has said, `` Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me '' ( Revelation 3:20::
`` You missed it '', Buzz's voice said, `` You should have gone over to the Pagan Room with us.
When at last she could suffer the insult no longer, nor face the girl's scorn, she said in a voice overloud:
`` You shouldn't smoke so much '', he said, unconsciously imitating Victoria's holier-than-thou voice.
`` The high school kids have got everything sewed up '', he said, a whine in his voice.
`` I been spotting a little now and then '', she said quietly, no emotion in her voice.
`` Deegan '', the manager said, his voice pitched low, quivering.
`` My beloved ward, my perennial gadfly '', said the whining voice.
`` Why, what a lovely voice you have '', said one of the female visitors.
Speaking in his Kentucky accent, with a very powerful voice, he said the Kansas Act had a " declared indifference, but as I must think, a covert real zeal for the spread of slavery.
" A voice said back to him, " humility shall escape them without more.
A voice from The Kremlin said, " Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.
Stalin then said, in a mocking tone of voice: " I see, you just aren't able to stick up for a comrade ," and put down the receiver.

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