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says and muses
On finding himself his own master, Drummond naturally abandoned law for the muses ; " for ," says his biographer in 1711, " the delicacy of his wit always run on the pleasantness and usefulness of history, and on the fame and softness of poetry.
Invoking the muses of poetic inspiration, the shepherd-poet takes up the task, partly, he says, in hope that his own death will not go unlamented .” The speaker continues by recalling the life of the young shepherds together “ in the ‘ pastures ’ of Cambridge .” This evokes Milton ’ s relationship with the perished King as well as their schooling together.

says and once
He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant.
It has been said that twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules ( 1947 ) must refer to a different retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories also take place before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his agency once he had completed them.
" a Christian ( Minaah ) once asked Abbahu in a tone of mockery, whereupon he replied: " When you will be wrapped in darkness, for it says, ' Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the nations ; then shall the Lord rise upon thee and His glory shall be seen on thee ' lx. 2 ," ( Sanhedrin 99a ).
In verse eighteen, it says that once judgment has been carried out, “ There will be no survivors from the house of Esau ” ( NIV ).
Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.
" Similarly, the Catholic Encyclopedia says, " the subjects treated of in the Epistle are many and various ; moreover, St. James not infrequently, whilst elucidating a certain point, passes abruptly to another, and presently resumes once more his former argument.
" In addition, Grimm says that a wagon was once ascribed to Hel, with which Hel made journeys.
The idea stage says that products should be flat packed so more can be shipped at once, and that products should be easy to dismantle and recycle.
Many Christian protesters said that it was mocking Jesus ' suffering by turning it into a " Jolly Boys Outing " ( such as when Mr Cheeky turns to Brian and says: " See, not so bad once you're up!
Loki says that Skaði was once gentler in speech to him ( referring to himself as the " son of Laufey ") when Skaði once invited him to her bed ( an event that is unattested elsewhere ), and that such events must be mentioned if they are to recall " shameful deeds.
Loki says he intends to live for a long while yet despite Thor's threats, and taunts Thor about an encounter Thor once had with the jötnar Skrýmir ( Útgarða-Loki in disguise ).
Perhaps its most important and prominent usage in scientific literature was Nobel laureate Theodor W. Hänsch's reference in a 1979 Scientific American article on spectroscopy where he says that " the spectrum of the hydrogen atoms has proved to be the Rosetta stone of modern physics: once this pattern of lines had been deciphered much else could also be understood ".
In Bringing Up Baby we find a rare statement on that, when the leading woman says, once speaking to someone other than her future husband: " He's the man I ’ m going to marry, he doesn ’ t know it, but I am.
Although Holmes appears to show initial interest in some female clients ( in particular, Violet Hunter in " The Adventure of the Copper Beeches "), Watson says he inevitably " manifested no further interest in the client when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems ".
Sojourner admits to the audience that she had once hated white people, but she says once she met her final master, Jesus, she was filled with love for everyone.
" Worldly historians " had been used by him, he says, to make clear the dates and the connexion of events and for supplementing the sacred sources, and with the intent at once to instruct the unlearned and to " convince " the learned.
For example, he says that once one dismisses the false idea of Moses being the author of Genesis, " The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian tales, without the merit of being entertaining.
It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings wereonce as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.
The Kyoto Protocol's fine print says it can come into force only once it is ratified by 55 countries, including wealthy nations responsible for 55 per cent of the developed world's 1990 carbon dioxide emissions.
Ono has said that she and her family were forced to beg for food while pulling their belongings in a wheelbarrow ; and it was during this period in her life that Ono says she developed her " aggressive " attitude and understanding of " outsider " status when children taunted her and her brother, who were once well-to-do.
* In his autobiography, Malcolm X says that during his burglary career he once played Russian roulette, pulling the trigger three times in a row to convince his partners in crime that he was not afraid to die.
Because the first letter in a vowel digraph sometimes says its long vowel sound, as in sail, some phonics programs once taught that " when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.
" As to his " short-sightedness ", Engels admitted as much in a letter written to Joseph Weyedemeyer on June 19, 1851 in which he says he was not worried about being selected for the Prussian military because of " my eye trouble, as I have now found out once and for all which renders me completely unfit for active service of any sort.

says and were
Speaking of his work with Johnny Mercer, Arlen says, `` Our working habits were strange.
`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.
Suppose, he says, that the tables were turned, and we were in the Soviets' position: `` There would be more than 2,000 modern Soviet fighters, all better than ours, stationed at 250 bases in Mexico and the Caribbean.
`` In the same five year period that the United States says they ( the detectives ) were engaged in this conspiracy '', Sokol continued, `` these three young men received a total of 26 creditable mentions and many special compensations, and were nominated for the Lambert Tree award and the mayor's medal ''.
`` In August our dealers sold 13% more farm machinery than a year earlier and in September retail sales were 14% higher than last year '', says Mark V. Keeler, farm equipment vice president of International Harvester Co..
The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.
Sartori says that people who went through out-of-body experiences felt as if they floated above themselves and were able to accurately recount what had happened in the room even though their bodily eyes were closed.
Some details were changed slightly to allow more player choice-for example, players can be full Trump Artists without having walked the Pattern or the Logrus, which Merlin says is impossible ; and players ' psychic abilities are far greater than those shown in the books.
Traditional Calvinists believe in the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which says that because God chose some unto salvation and actually paid for their particular sins, he keeps them from apostasy and that those who do apostatize were never truly regenerated ( that is, born again ) or saved.
According to Benjamin Thorpe " Grimm says the word embla, emla, signifies a busy woman, from amr, ambr, aml, ambl, assiduous labour ; the same relation as Meshia and Meshiane, the ancient Persian names of the first man and woman, who were also formed from trees.
The völva says that the two were capable of very little, lacking in ørlög and says that they were given three gifts by the three gods:
Walter Bower says the attackers were from Moray and Mearns.
This is perhaps a generation before the battle that Gildas says were commanded by Ambrosius Aurelianus.
In his autobiography, he says that the only religious ideas that appealed to him were those to be found in Hindu philosophical thought.
Christine says that she and Krogstad were in love before she married, and promises that she will try to convince him to relent.
William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.
" The ninth century Sanas Cormaic ( or " Cormac's Glossary ") says the "... Druids used to make fires with great incantations ," and were lit to safeguard against diseases.
Dio says that, even if they were lined up one deep, they would not have extended the length of Boudica's line.

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