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saw and smug
He saw Sweden as a country of smug and narrow provincialism, indifferent to the heroic spirit of its former glory.
This sweet Swan of Thames has so artfully diversified his strains and his rhymes that the same thought never occurs twice ,-- more justly, perhaps, as no thought ever occurs at all, there was a physical impossibility that the same thought should recur, It is long since I saw and read these inscriptions ; but I remember the impression was of a smug usher at his desk in the intervals of instruction, levelling his pen.

saw and eyes
When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.
Lester heard their muttering, saw their eyes reveal their desire.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.
John closed his eyes and saw once again the little niche in his mother's bedroom, where she had knelt to tell the good Virgin of her needs.
The creature in feathers looked around and David saw the mad eyes, glazed with an insane fear.
He saw the land with a stranger's eyes, all the old familiarness gone.
His eyes were old and they never saw well, but heated with whisky they'd glare at my noise, growing red and raising up his rage.
She smiled at Winston, and he saw the hateful hard glitter in her eyes.
I wasn't in the habit of batting my eyes at delivery men, but the moment I saw Johnnie, I knew he was different.
From those navy-blue eyes she saw things as clearly and honestly as David did.
Mercer saw the sun rise on occasion, closed his eyes briefly, and opened them to see stars shining.
" At first I thought, despite everything that I saw with my own eyes, that the Soviet state was a breakthrough into the future, a kind of prototype for all countries ".
But as time went on, what I clearly saw was a movement forming before my eyes.
Hadingus realizes that he is flying through the air: " and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea ; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed.
Price wrote: " We saw several sorts of dung of different animals, one of which Wilson called a Whom-batt, which is an animal about 20 inches high, with short legs and a thick body with a large head, round ears, and very small eyes ; is very fat, and has much the appearance of a badger.
He passionately tells her that he loves only her, and that from the first moment he saw her and forevermore, she is the only woman in his eyes.
The Venetian diarist Marino Sanuto, who saw Anne when Henry VIII met Francis I at Calais in October 1532, described her as " not one of the handsomest women in the world ; she is of middling stature, swarthy complexion, long neck, wide mouth, bosom not much raised ... eyes, which are black and beautiful ".
: When I saw her, I detected behind the well-mannered ' young wife ' front a desperate twinkle in her eyes ...
Callaghan was soon appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport in 1947 where, advised by the young chief constable of Hertfordshire Sir Arthur Young, his term saw important improvements in road safety, notably the introduction of zebra crossings, and an extension in the use of cat's eyes.
Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open ...

saw and Home
* Janeen Rae Heller played the saw in four television guest appearances: The Tracey Ullman Show ( 1989 ), Quantum Leap ( 1990 ), and Home Improvement ( 1992 and 1999 ).
On 22 November 1979 Jenkins delivered the annual Dimbleby Lecture which he called " Home Thoughts from Abroad ", detailing what he saw as the reasons for Britain's persistent underperformance as a failure of adaptability and problems associated with the two party system.
Attempts to replicate the success of daily teen-oriented serials Neighbours and Home and Away saw the creation of Echo Point ( 1995 ) and Breakers ( 1999 ) on Network Ten.
The 1880s saw the rise of Parnell and the Home rule movement ; the 1890s saw the momentum of nationalism, while the Catholics became prominent around the turn of the century.
This World Cup saw the entry and qualification of the Soviet Union for the first time, and the qualification of all the United Kingdom's Home Nations: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
The 1970s saw new business models from FedEx and Toys R Us ; the 1980s from Blockbuster, Home Depot, Intel, and Dell Computer ; the 1990s from Southwest Airlines, Netflix, eBay, Amazon. com, and Starbucks.
1986 saw the release of Way Back Home.
His tenure as police minister ( As Home Minister was called prior to 1950 ) saw successful curbing of communal riots in 1947, mass migration and resettlement of refugees and break-in and putting of idols in disputed Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi complex on 22 Dec 1949.
Chamberlain had briefly taken office in the Gladstone government which had been formed in 1886 but resigned when he saw the details of Gladstone's Home Rule plans.
In 1908-at the end of a long legal and media battle-Mirbeau saw his play Le Foyer ( Home ) performed by the Comédie-Française.
The 39 syndicated episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed using Electronicam ( as well as the daily five minute syndicated series Les Paul & Mary Ford At Home in 1954 – 55 ), but with the introduction of a practical videotape recorder only one year away, the Electronicam system never saw widespread use.
In the opinion of film critic Philip French, a film of 1958, Home Before Dark, saw her give " perhaps her finest performance as a housewife driven into a breakdown in Mervyn LeRoy's psychodrama.
This saw the beginning of a productive two years for the band and they recorded three albums: The Tourists, Reality Effect, and Luminous Basement, as well as half a dozen singles, including " Blind Among the Flower " ( 1979 ), " The Loneliest Man in the World " ( 1979 ), " Don't Say I Told You So " ( 1980 ), and two major hits, the Dusty Springfield cover " I Only Want to Be with You " ( 1979 ) and " So Good to Be Back Home Again " ( 1980 ), both of which reached the top 10 in the UK.
In the field of investigative journalism the station soon gained an international reputation for award-winning documentaries: 1975 saw the transmission of the BAFTA award-winning Johnny Go Home, a startling exposé of teenage male prostitution and homelessness in London.
The fourth season episode Home saw T ' Pol having to deal with the consequences of her decision, when she chooses to marry Koss in order to save the reputation of her mother.
The 1906 general election saw the Liberals back in power with 379 seats, an overwhelming majority of 88 over all other parties, after they had promised Home Rule.
During World War II, the area saw formation of many resistance units, most notably the Polish Home Army and, since 1943, the Soviet partisans.
2006 also saw a huge surge in ' Home Delivery ' promotion.
However as the war progressively got worse for the south, often Home Guard units would deal with desertion as they saw fit, whether that be by execution or imprisonment.
While Rocket saw disappointment with a string of short-lived series, including Tequila and Bonetti in 1992, The Home Court in 1995, and Normal, Ohio in 2000, he continued to make frequent guest appearances on such shows as Quantum Leap, Wings, and The King of Queens.
Home victories against all three Group F members saw the team progress to the final 16 of the Champions League for the first time since the competition was re-formatted in 1993.
Kitchener was certainly not inclined to, as he saw it, waste valuable officers and equipment on a force which, at best, would relieve Territorial units from garrison duties and, at worst, would provide Irish Nationalists with the ability to enforce Home Rule on their own terms.
At the time of Davis ' release former Home Office Minister Alex Lyon wrote at some length to explain the genuine difficulties he had faced in seeking to resolve the constitutional difficulties he saw as preventing Davis's release from a conviction that he had regarded as unsafe.

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