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was and dressed
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Alfred was dressed for his trip to the hospital.
To people who didn't know her she was a gawky, badly dressed kid whose arms were too long, whose legs were a little too bony.
The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.
It was the doctor, dressed and ready for the expedition to the market, and Alex was obliged to prepare himself in haste.
Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.
The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion.
Then he said, `` Never noticed it before I mean, when she was dressed but for a woman her age, Julia had a real fine figure ''.
His chelas were required to assume the matsyendra posture dressed in hand-woven diapers while he read aloud from Rig-Veda and an assistant guru examined their purses in another room -- nothing was stolen ; ;
* The Halloween special, titled " Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest ( Butt-O-Ween )," involved them attempting to trick-or-treat in ridiculous costumes -- i. e. Beavis dressed up as a giant "' nad " by wearing underpants on his head and Butt-Head becoming nachos by pouring hot cheese-sauce over his head, although at one point he said he was dressed up as a dumb-ass.
He was dressed in a costly suit made of Frankish cloth with golden threads, and he wore a belt with a costly buckle.
Wearing a light colored suit and a bright tie, he was dressed more for some gala occasion than for a funeral.
In 1917, Chaplin imitators were widespread enough for the star to take legal action, and it was reported that nine out of ten men attended costume parties dressed as Chaplin.
Because the surface of laterite is uneven, it was not suitable for decorative carvings, unless first dressed with stucco.
The funky street scene still holds some urban flair, but was dressed up recently with Victorian streetlights, benches and bus stops.
Aged women, priestesses, dressed in white sacrificed the prisoners of war and sprinkled their blood, the nature of which allowed them to see what was to come.
The soldiers were amused that Gaius was dressed in a miniature soldier's uniform, including boots and armor.
Chiang was popular among many people and dressed in plain, simple clothes, unlike contemporary Chinese warlords who dressed extravagantly.
the ' good ' Superman, ultimately triumphant, ( is ) dressed as Clark, thus implying that he is the more valid personality ( as well as the one Lana loves )" and expresses annoyance that " Something could have been made of this, but sadly nothing was ".

was and manner
He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.
He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.
And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.
He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.
I had known him for some years, when I was a delegate and before, and this manner had never been his ''.
The door was answered by a slender man in his sixties -- straight-backed, somewhat clerical in manner, wearing rimless glasses.
He was smooth and civil spoken but it seemed to me there was something tough under his selfeffacing manner.
Twenty years ago, she would have been known as a golf widow, and the sum of her manner was perhaps one of bereavement.
This conjugate was passed twice through Dowex-2-chloride and treated with various tissue powders in the same manner as described for the indirect method.
This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.
For exactly one week, she was able to continue in this manner.
The whole thing, his manner conveyed, was so far outside the normal routine of Hohlbein and Garth that it practically demanded being swept under the rug.
The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.
Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.
She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.
Sparrow-size Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real aunt, was positively monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner.
Another weakness -- far more irritating than his manner of speaking, which he made only token effort to change -- was his devotion to that old horse of Tolley's.
Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.

was and Esquire
After it was rejected by Esquire magazine in 1955, Hefner agreed to publish in Playboy the Charles Beaumont science fiction short story, " The Crooked Man ", about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm.
For example, an Esquire article of the period was titled " John Rennon's Excrusive Gloupie " and featured an unflattering David Levine cartoon.
A frequent visitor to the set, she was photographed there by Esquire magazine and the resulting photographs generated considerable publicity for both Tate and the film.
After being featured, under his pseudonym of Captain Crunch, in an article in the October 1971 issue of Esquire Magazine titled " Secrets of the Little Blue Box ", he was sentenced in 1972 to five years ’ probation for toll fraud.
Johnson was turned into a national celebrity by the writer Tom Wolfe in a classic 1965 article for Esquire magazine.
Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker ( etymologically, " young gentleman ," derivation of old German jung and Herr ; in effect, " Esquire "), a word from which the name " Yonkers " is directly derived.
Sometime in this period, Buck also obtained the office of Esquire of the Body ( likely an honorary distinction for him ); it was an office he held when Elizabeth died in 1603.
Prior to his creation as a Knight Bachelor, Owen, though excused from duty, was appointed an Esquire to the King's Person.
* 1853: the first lodge in America of the ancient Welsh fraternal order of Ivorites was opened in Carbondale in the fall of 1853 ; the first public Ivorite celebration in America took place in Carbondale in August 1855, when a procession and other public exercises took place, under the direction of Thomas Voyle, Esquire, chief marshal, and Edward Roberts, Esquire.
While the title of the song is often rendered with a comma (" Louie, Louie "), in 1988 Berry told Esquire magazine that the correct title of the song was " Louie Louie ", with no comma.
His story was profiled in an edition of Esquire magazine in 2008.
The margarita cocktail was the " Drink of the Month " in Esquire magazine, December 1953, pg.
Blue boxing hit the mainstream media when an article by Ron Rosenbaum titled Secrets of the Little Blue Box was published in the October 1971 issue of Esquire magazine.
As a jazz artist he won the 1944 Esquire magazine Gold Award, was highly rated in the Metronome polls of 1937-42 and 1945, and was selected for the Playboy magazine All Star Band, 1957-60.
In 1715 Hearne was elected Architypographus and Esquire Bedell in civil law in the university, but objection having been made to his holding this office together with that of second librarian, he resigned it in the same year.
For reasons that are still unclear, the book was republished, with certain additions and deletions, two years later under the alternative title, The Posies of George Gascoigne, Esquire.
In February 1979, Kristol was featured on the cover of Esquire.
Another popular collection was John Newbery's Fables in Verse for the Improvement of the Young and the Old, facetiously attributed to Abraham Aesop Esquire, which was to see ten editions after its first publication in 1757.
Design of this basic conversion process was first described by Adam Kissiah, Jr., and was first exposed to the public when it was revealed to James O. Harrell, Esquire, Patent Counsel to NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, in July, 1974.

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