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It was foggy that evening, but the path to my house was so well grooved that I could feel my way, accustomed as I was to the dense mists that rise from the sun-warmed palisades of the river and sometimes last for days.
To the celestial joys of the future he was accustomed to refer in the following poetic words: ( Berakhot 17a )
The hardest phase was the crossing of the Andes cordillera: at almost 4, 000 meters of altitude, the cold, hunger and tiredness meant the death of various Spaniards and natives, but mainly slaves who were not accustomed to such rigorous climate.
Rava states in the Babylonian Talmud that although Ezekiel describes the appearance of the throne of God ( Merkabah ), this is not because he had seen more than the prophet Isaiah, but rather because the latter was more accustomed to such visions ; for the relation of the two prophets is that of a courtier to a peasant, the latter of whom would always describe a royal court more floridly than the former, to whom such things would be familiar.
It was at Cambridge that he first met Queen Elizabeth, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to calling him " the young Lord Keeper ".
Reports of increasing friction in his marriage to Alice appeared, with speculation that some of this may have been due to financial resources not being as readily available to her as she was accustomed to having in the past.
The capacity of the Parliament to solve major social and economic problems was stymied by confrontations between the representatives of the largely uneducated common man and the representatives of the former estates, accustomed to meritocratic rule and attitudes.
The same scribe wrote both the Italian text and the Arabic notes, and was clearly " occidental " in being accustomed to write from left to right.
Since Merced was the first EPIC processor, the development effort encountered more unanticipated problems than the team was accustomed to.
He held many college offices, becoming successively lecturer in Greek ( 1651 ), mathematics ( 1653 ), and humanity ( 1655 ), praelector ( 1657 ), junior dean ( 1657 ), and college steward ( 1659 and 1660 ); and according to the habit of the time, he was accustomed to preach in his college chapel and also at Great St Mary's, long before he took holy orders on 23 December 1660.
Scientific investigation he insists upon as an absolute necessity for the true comprehension of religion, despite the fact that his contemporaries regarded all the hours which he was accustomed to spend with his father-in-law, Samuel ibn Tibbon, in mathematical and philosophic study as mere waste of time.
Julian's ascetic lifestyle was not popular either, since his subjects were accustomed to the idea of an all-powerful Emperor who placed himself well above them.
Rapid economic development was seen as necessary to make the railway pay, and since the African population was accustomed to subsistence rather than export agriculture, the government decided to encourage European settlement in the fertile highlands, which had small African populations.
For this reason, the rural European society to which the crusaders were accustomed was replaced by a more secure urban society in the pre-existing cities of the Levant.
It was the difficulty in using the longbow which led various monarchs of England to issue instructions encouraging their ownership and practice, including the Assize of Arms of 1252 and King Edward III's declaration of 1363: " Whereas the people of our realm, rich and poor alike, were accustomed formerly in their games to practise archery – whence by God's help, it is well known that high honour and profit came to our realm, and no small advantage to ourselves in our warlike enterprises ... that every man in the same country, if he be able-bodied, shall, upon holidays, make use, in his games, of bows and arrows ... and so learn and practise archery.
She disliked living in Sacramento, which lacked the excitement, social life, and mild climate to which she was accustomed in Los Angeles.
Herodotus mentions writing on skins as common in his time, the 5th century BCE ; and in his Histories ( v. 58 ) he states that the Ionians of Asia Minor had been accustomed to give the name of skins ( diphtherai ) to books ; this word was adapted by Hellenized Jews to describe scrolls.
The cause of death was said to be pneumonia ; accustomed to working in bed until noon, he may have suffered damage to his health from Christina's demands for early morning study ( the lack of sleep could have severely compromised his immune system ).
Nonetheless, Imad al-Din writes the raid was alarming to the Muslims because they were not accustomed to attacks on that sea and Ibn al-Athir adds that the inhabitants had no experience with the Crusaders either as fighters or traders.

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With the rise of new ideas after the ground break of Saussure's work, prestructuralist diachronic semantics was considerably criticized for the atomic study of words, the diachronic approach and the mingle of nonlinguistics spheres of investigation.
At the conference, he was able to " mingle freely with colleagues from the United States, France, England and Germany, and discovered that his intellectual brethren in the West were ' not monsters.
With his command of Arabic, Kitchener was able to mingle with the local people.
Though there was some criticism in the final evaluations of her performance as governor general, mostly for a perceived aloofness and sense of self-importance which her closing of the Rideau Hall estate to the public came to symbolise Sauvé was also described as having been elegant, charming, and a person who could mingle well with common Canadians especially children while also maintaining a sense of the dignity of state.
Greyfriars occupied a unique position in Oxford, in that its University Hall and Franciscan friary were part of the same institution and coexisted on the same site — however, the friars were not usually members of the academic hall ( though this was not without exception ), nor were the students actually affiliated to the friary ( the two groups did, however, mingle, most notably at mealtimes ).
What drew me to my craft was the desire to force the two worlds I occupied to mingle on the page as I was not brave enough, or mature enough, to allow in life.
She suffered from a painful muscular weakness in the legs that prevented her from walking, so that she was unable to mingle with other children until the age of six.
Insofar as the minstrels had authentic contact with black culture, it was via neighborhoods, taverns, theaters, and waterfronts where blacks and whites could mingle freely.
This was reflective of her country upbringing in Gaspésie, where the two languages mingle.
To allow the ensemble cast to mingle more, the set was expanded.
It was near that old and sunken grave, yet with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle.
He was known for his tendency to spoil his children who were allowed to mingle with the numerous public figures who came to dine at the Fox Household.
O ’ Dwyer supported his opinion by asserting that Beach became a " politician " who was " rarely missing an opportunity to mingle with the Wright tide that had turned against Whitehead, notably after Whitehead's death in 1927.
Gleason, in addition to his acting career, participated in many celebrity golf events each year, and was known by autograph hunting experts to mingle with fans and sign autographs during these golf tournaments.
This class was followed by her famous " at homes ", at which students could mingle with Boulanger's friends such as Stravinsky, Valéry, Fauré etc.
The two groups did not mingle for social occasions and the fort was opened to trading only 24 days during the winter.
It was here that he had the opportunity to meet and mingle with visiting entertainers such as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Hedy Lamarr, Gertrude Lawrence and many others.
When he was fourteen his father sent him to study at the Prague yeshivah, after exacting a promise from him " that he would not mingle with the Moderns " who were then gradually coming into prominence through the influence of Moses Mendelssohn.
It was hoped that in the event of a Soviet invasion these infected livestock would mingle with local herds to cause epidemics and to destroy food supplies.
* Howe was in a position to mingle with nearly all the public men of the day.
ABC Super Soap Weekend ( 1996 – 2008 ) was an event, organized in conjunction with Disney and ABC to bring soap opera actors from the various ABC shows to visit and mingle with their fans.
When Milhaud first heard an American jazz band, he was reportedly so captivated that he took off to New York City to spend time in clubs and bars, visit Harlem, and mingle with jazz musicians.

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