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was and able
Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.
Visibility continued to be limited, and Greg was never able to get above a thousand feet.
She was just not able to break the spell.
Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.
In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.
He was not enthusiastic over the newly acquired Claude Lorrain, but reminisced with pleasure over a Poussin exhibit he had been able to see in Paris a year ago.
If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.
It was nice to be able to isolate it.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.
He said that his information was so secret that he would not be able to confide in me the origin of his pipeline tip.
In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.
It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.
Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.
The promoter who wanted to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it.
He was able, now, to sit for hours in a chair in the living room and stare out at the bleak yard without moving.
Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.
He was able to discern the body lines of the Roman women under their robes.
No, Kayabashi was bringing his associates here for a specific purpose and Rector would not be able to fathom it until they arrived.
He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.
In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.
There was a time when, if a man wanted to purchase a boat, it was necessary for him to be able to produce a sizeable amount of cash before he could touch the tiller or wheel.

was and admit
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
It realized that to admit them was to jeopardize form.
One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.
Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.
Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.
But, admit or not, Bonner was helpless.
He was also, if Pam North was right, a closer acquaintance of Lauren Payne's than she, now, was inclined to admit.
It was terribly off key, and poorly done, and Tommy could never admit to herself that male companionship was a very natural and important thing, but all at once she felt lonesome and put-upon.
`` You've got to admit she was smart to scare up this fine government job over there -- she'll get a home for herself and Cathy in no time.
And, though at the time I blushed to admit it even to myself, there was in me a growing desire, a sexual awareness, that Johnnie had set in motion, an awareness that no other man had ever triggered.
Jerome's version of the Life of St Anthony the Great, the hermit monk of Egypt, written by Athanasius of Alexandria, was widely disseminated in the Middle Ages ; it relates Anthony's encounter with a centaur, who challenged the saint but was forced to admit that the old gods had been overthrown.
I told him if he was sneaking in he should at least admit he was doing it.
His school was the first of the ancient Greek philosophical schools to admit women as a rule rather than an exception.
Huntingford furnish evidence that points to Álvares death in Rome, and admit that he may have died before his work was published.
He did not admit the possibility of antipodes, which he took to mean people dwelling on the opposite side of the Earth, considering them to be legendary and noting that there was no evidence for their existence.
The FDP had promised to lower taxes in the electoral campaign but after being part of the coalition they had to admit that this was not possible regarding the economic crisis.

was and loved
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
And it was the House he loved.
Everyone is ambivalent about his profession, if he has practised it long enough, but there were still moments when he loved the stage and all those unseen people out there, who might cheer you or boo you, but that was largely, though not entirely, up to you.
Now Pat may have been a lecher and a plugugly, but he was a good churchgoing Catholic and he loved his little sister.
Diane loved to dance in the nude, something she was to demonstrate time and again.
Rev loved Honotassa, it was like a part of his breath and body ; ;
When she loved, it was with a passion that drove her along and carried along with her those things she loved.
He loved the son and was always glad to be sent back to him.
He had loved and lost Vivian Wayne to somebody else, had watched her marry the somebody else, and had caught a bear of a cold by kissing the bride good-by forever, which was really piling it on.
She would weep in private, he was sure, for she loved him in her frigid way, though in public she would be dry-eyed.
Marpessa was kidnapped by Idas but was loved by Apollo as well.
Castalia was a nymph whom Apollo loved.
Yet the public loved him, and Christie refused to kill him off, claiming that it was her duty to produce what the public liked, and what the public liked was Poirot.
His death was mourned in the country, by the people who loved the king, and by the nobles who were starting to fear his successor.
She was loved by Apollo and consorted with him in said grove.
According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.
As a young child, before the age of eight, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, including the much loved The Owl and the Pussycat, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland had made their impression, although she later said of Alice that she was more interested in Tenniel's illustrations than what they were about.
According to Gibson, he was inspired by the big screen epics he had loved as a child, such as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and William Wyler's The Big Country.

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