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was and brought
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.
Barton was relieved to see that Carl Dill and Emmett Foster had brought extra mounts.
Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.
The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.
After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.
His revolutionary pamphlets, published when he was only 19, quickly brought him to the attention of the patriot leaders.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.
The confused rambling of guerrilla warfare, such as most of Garibaldi's campaigns were, was brought to life by Trevelyan's pen in some of the best passages in the books.
It was not merely a hunger for `` money, gold and precious objects '' that delayed the papal pronouncement that could have brought the war to an end ; ;
An occasional traveler from Italy brought news of Peter Robert, who was now distributing his Bible among the Waldensian peasants.
The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.
The boy was becoming acquainted with the contadini families that brought produce into Rome.
He would have to work without questioning the motives which made him work and content himself with the thought that the eventual victory, however it was brought about, would be sweet indeed.
Now, under the impact of his wife's disclosures, he was brought suddenly to the realization that there was a limit to tolerance, however brilliant, however far-famed the offender might be.
This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.
She was going to tell Bobby Joe about how mistaken she had been, but he brought one of the cousins home for supper, and all they did was talk about antelope.

was and before
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
He was dead before he hit the ground.
It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.
Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.
It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.
One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
The keys were still in it, and I was miles away before I remembered that my clothes and purse and everything were still in the little cabana where I'd changed ''.
Now, he was just in the late poems of Holderlin and therefore had most of the nineteenth century before him -- plus next semester's class preparation.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.
I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.
He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

was and Inquisition
John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.
He was a descendant of Protestant refugees escaping the Italian Inquisition.
He was suspected and denounced, but nothing ensued until the establishment of the Inquisition in Rome in June 1542, at the instigation of Cardinal Giovanni Pietro Carafa, the first Grand Inquisitor, and later Pope Paul IV.
The movement was extinguished in the early decades of the thirteenth century by the Albigensian Crusade, when the Cathars were persecuted and massacred and the Inquisition was set up to finish the job.
The Inquisition was established in 1229 to uproot the remaining Cathars.
The order was appointed by Pope Gregory IX the duty to carry out the Inquisition.
He was burned at the stake by the Roman Inquisition in 1600, though his views on astronomy were not the main reason for his condemnation.
In 1808 all Godoy's property was seized by Ferdinand VII after his fall from power and exile, and in 1813 the Inquisition confiscated both works as ' obscene ', returning them in 1836 to the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
After the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy for his pantheism, he was burned at the stake.
The Inquisition was established and Jews and Muslims who refused to convert were expelled from the country.
The Inquisition ( Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis ; Inquiry on Heretical Perversity ), was a group of decentralized institutions within the justice system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to " fight against heretics ".
Generally, the Inquisition movement was concerned only with the heretical behaviour of Catholic adherents or converts, and did not concern itself with those outside its jurisdiction, such as Jews or Muslims.
However, since Servetus was also condemned and wanted by the Inquisition, outside pressure from all over Europe forced the trial to continue.
The Medieval Inquisition was in response to large popular movements throughout Europe considered apostate or heretical to Christianity, in particular Catharism and Waldensians in southern France and northern Italy.
This article covers only these early inquisitions, not the Roman Inquisition of the 16th century onwards, or the somewhat different phenomenon of the Spanish Inquisition, which was under the control of the Spanish monarchy, though using local clergy.
In northern Europe the Inquisition was somewhat more benign: in the Scandinavian countries it had hardly any impact.
It is not clear if the process against the Templars was initiated by the Inquisition on the basis of suspected heresy or if the Inquisition itself was exploited by the king of France, Philip the Fair, who wanted the knights ' wealth.
Another aspect of the medieval Inquisition is that little attention was paid to sorcery.
In fact several Popes were suspected of having a strong interest or practicing alchemy and it was only with Pope John XXII, who was himself suspected of being a magician, that sorcery became another form of heresy and thus liable of persecution by the Inquisition.

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