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Just a half-breed 'pache, never said much, never meant anythin to me, but he stuck with me.
He smiled and stuck a large finger with white hairs sprouting on it into his ear as though that might help.
He had gotten stuck with a job too big for his imagination ; ;
That first time was good and it stuck with me.
Although the manufacturer committed to re-do the broken parts, Gaudí liked the aesthetic of the broken masonry and asked that the pieces be stuck to the main structure with lime mortar and held in with a brass ring.
Philia weds Hero ; Pseudolus gets his freedom and the lovely slave girl Gymnasia ; Gloriosus receives twin courtesans to replace Philia ; Erronius gets his children, and a happy ending prevails for all — except for poor Senex, stuck with his shrewish wife Domina.
Universal, however, wanted a PG-13 rating, so Raimi made a few cuts and was still stuck with the MPAA's R rating.
The name has stuck with the work ever since.
After every few shots, the " ceiling " of the playing arena drops downwards slightly, along with all the bubbles stuck to it.
Johnson also described Teach in times of battle as wearing " a sling over his shoulders, with three brace of pistols, hanging in holsters like bandoliers ; and stuck lighted matches under his hat ", the latter apparently to emphasise the fearsome appearance he wished to present to his enemies.
Specifically, after acknowledging the various popular theories in vogue at the time, of how atoms were reasoned to attach to each other, i. e. " hooked atoms ", " glued together by rest ", or " stuck together by conspiring motions ", Newton states that he would rather infer from their cohesion, that " particles attract one another by some force, which in immediate contact is exceedingly strong, at small distances performs the chemical operations, and reaches not far from the particles with any sensible effect.
This style of drive had the popular nickname " Toaster Drive ", because it required the use of a knife or other thin object to pry out the stuck media just like a piece of toast stuck in a real toaster ( though this is inadvisable with real toasters ).
While Beaux stuck to her portraits of the elite, American art was advancing into urban and social subject matter, led by artists such as Robert Henri who espoused a totally different aesthetic, " Work with great speed .. Have your energies alert, up and active.
Despite the negative connotations associated with the term " Cabal ," the name has stuck with this particular team of " good-guy geeks.
Ford stuck with the orchestrated photo finish but Miles, deeply bitter over this decision after his dedication to the program, issued his own protest by suddenly slowing just yards from the finish and letting McLaren across the line first.
here ‘ s toasters !” bellows one with a Yarmouth bloater stuck on a toasting-fork.
" Greenberg did considerable soul-searching, and discussed the matter with his rabbi ; finally he relented and agreed to play on Rosh Hashanah, but stuck with his decision not to play on Yom Kippur.
Tracy aligned with the Crips, and began reading the novels of Iceberg Slim, which he memorized and recited to his friends, who enjoyed hearing the excerpts and told him, " Yo, kick some more of that by Ice, T ," and the handle stuck.
Infuriated with Jason for breaking his vow that he would be hers forever, Medea took her revenge by presenting to Creusa a cursed dress, as a wedding gift, that stuck to her body and burned her to death as soon as she put it on.
According to the liner notes of the 1995 compilation Love Story, Young stuck with the album project long enough to arrange the track " The Daily Planet.

stuck and me
It's got a shot that's always stuck with me, when Buzz Lightyear discovers he's a toy.
Well, you're stuck with me, so you might as well make the most of it.
' It took me a little while to allow myself to claim it, but then like a prospector I finally staked my claim ; stuck a little sign on it and said, ' Okay, it's mine!
" Well, basically, I've been wanting to work with David for a long time ; but at the same time, Milo has stuck with me for almost nine years now, so I wouldn't exactly feel right about just continuing to call us the Descendents.
And it was forced on me with such passion that I thought: ' If I don't fight it I'm gonna be stuck with it for the rest of my life '".
Unbeknownst to me, however, the BBC were experiencing a broadcasting fault and so had stuck in a tape of last year's final, when McEnroe also beat Connors.
I think people stuck me with something.
One of the most horrendous memories for me was seeing a head stuck to the wall.
Johnson & Johnson changed the lyrics of their Band-Aid television commercial jingle from, " I am stuck on Band-Aids, ' cause Band-Aid's stuck on me " to " I am stuck on Band-Aid brand, ' cause Band-Aid's stuck on me.
" These words stuck with me and last year I tried to think about blogs and emergent democracy outside of the Japanese context.
She never questions or explains why she finds herself in the predicament she is in most of us never understand how we wind up in a rut, or stuck in the mud to use similar earthy metaphors but her dream is that she will “ simply float up into the blue … And that perhaps some day the earth will yield and let me go, the pull is so great, yes, crack all round me and let me out .”
To avoid it, I've stuck with doing things I know how to do, and it's made me a good living.

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Knife symbols can be found in various cultures to symbolize all stages of life ; for example, a knife placed under the bed while giving birth is said to ease the pain, or, stuck into the headboard of a cradle, to protect the baby ; knives were included in some Anglo-Saxon burial rites, so the dead would not be defenseless in the next world.
Over time, the term stuck in popularizations of quantum physics to describe a theory that would unify or explain through a single model the theories of all fundamental interactions and of all particles of nature: general relativity for gravitation, and the standard model of elementary particle physics — which includes quantum mechanics — for electromagnetism, the two nuclear interactions, and the known elementary particles.
In a way their lives are similar — he is stuck in the same place all day and he doesn't have an important place in the world.
Over time, the term stuck in popularizations of quantum physics to describe a theory that would unify or explain through a single model the theories of all fundamental interactions and of all particles of nature: general relativity for gravitation, and the standard model of elementary particle physics – which includes quantum mechanics – for electromagnetism, the two nuclear interactions, and the known elementary particles.
Haddock manages to outmaneuver a number of torpedoes, but all appears lost when the engines of the ship get stuck in half reverse.
The text says that he was called Zerah because when he had stuck his hand out before being born, the midwife tied a bright scarlet thread around his wrist ; although all other biblical uses of the word zerah translate as rise, here the name is implied to derive from the colour of the bright thread-scarlet-which is similar to the initial colour of sunrise.
The don is covered with Velcro, and all the charges stuck.
With all airports east of Chicago unusable due to bad weather, the plane returns to Lincoln International for an emergency landing, even though another airliner stuck in snow has closed the primary runway.
The mill was soon rebuilt over a nearby creek which flowed all year, but the name stuck.
Folks will remember Forrest Gump and that was a great movie, but they don't remember all the really poor movies that Fantasy Records stuck Creedence music into: car commercials, tire commercials.
They arrived on July 6, 1640 ; and on August 9, all of them were decapitated and their heads were stuck on poles.
Learning that he is stuck working the store all day, Dante convinces his friends to play hockey on the store roof.
A player who lands on such a space is stuck ( all cards are ignored ) until a card is drawn of the same color as the square.
The dashboard, instruments and controls were revised, for a the second time, having already been reworked in October 1963 when round instruments replaced the strip speedometer with which the car had been launched: twelve years later, however, the painted steel dashboard, its " knobs scattered all over the place and its heater controls stuck underneath as a very obvious afterthought " on the 1964 Mark I Cortina was felt to have aged much less well than the car's ventilation system.
Firenza SLs had a two round dial pack, though all other Vivas and Firenzas stuck with the original presentation.
In 1975, Sutter Home's White Zinfandel experienced a " stuck fermentation ", a problem that occurs when the yeast dies out before consuming all of the sugar.
The remaining rocks are all short and squat and not at all needle-like, but the name has stuck.
The various floating-matter particulates had all ended up getting stuck to the walls or settling on the sticky floor.
In all these points he was hopelessly beaten, and in the last of them he was in a " minority of one "— a sobriquet which stuck to him throughout life — whereupon he seceded from parliamentary life for five years.

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