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It was a fortunate time in which to build, for the seventeenth century was a great period in Persian art.
The result was fortunate.
To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.
He was fortunate, and proud.
There are, after all, fortunate souls who hear everything, but only know how to listen to what is good for them, and Stowey was, as things go, a fortunate man.
He was, however, fortunate in his contact with Prof. J. G. L. Manthey ( 1769-1842 ), teacher of chemistry, who, in addition to his academic chair, was also proprietor of the `` Lion Pharmacy '' in Copenhagen where Oersted assisted him.
This was fortunate, as the Vail plant burned in 1905.
Tommy Momoyama was one of these fortunate occasions.
Bates was more fortunate, as the song's popularity was well established by the time of her death in 1929.
Amasis reacted by cultivating closer ties with the Greek states to counter the future Persian invasion into Egypt but was fortunate to have died in 526 B. C. E.
This might have been fortunate timing for Abd al-Rahman, since he was still getting a solid foothold in al-Andalus.
" That was a fortunate coincidence, of course, that the name should pack a backwoods connotation.
Proving more fortunate was his choice to break with the French and seek friendly ties with Libyan president Qaddafi, taking away the rebels ' principal source of supplies.
" Euripides however was more fortunate than the other tragedians in the survival of a second edition of his work, compiled in alphabetical order as if from a set of his collect works, but without scholia attached.
Elizabeth was fortunate that many bishoprics were vacant at the time, including the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
" After listing the disasters of those 28 years, Bury concludes that Honorius " himself did nothing of note against the enemies who infested his realm, but personally he was extraordinarily fortunate in occupying the throne till he died a natural death and witnessing the destruction of the multitude of tyrants who rose up against him.
Bazille was generous with his wealth, and helped support his less fortunate associates by giving them space in his studio and materials to use.
Richard's younger brother John, who succeeded him, was not so fortunate ; he suffered the loss of Normandy and numerous other French territories following the disastrous Battle of Bouvines.
King Philip I, named by his Kievan mother with a typically Eastern European name, was no more fortunate than his predecessor although the kingdom did enjoy a modest recovery during his extraordinarily long reign ( 1060 – 1108 ).
Dr. Cardew, who, in a later letter to Davies Gilbert, said dryly: “ I could not discern the faculties by which he was afterwards so much distinguished .” Davy said himself: “ I consider it fortunate I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study ... What I am I made myself .”

was and enough
He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.
Mike debated it, trying to decide whether Fiske was strong enough to ride.
The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.
He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.
He had found Curt's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness, and was smart enough to take advantage of it.
The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
There was not enough room to make the usual vertical bomb run.
Again Steinberg was cautious and replied with a smile that he was not exposed to it enough to hazard comments.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
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.
Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.
Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.
But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.
That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.
I was in charge of the arrangements -- which were soon enough disarranged.
As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.
The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.
Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;

was and be
The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.
Evidently this was a precaution so that mounts would be available in an emergency.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
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.
she must be poised and proud and unafraid in order to prove to the mountain that she was in earnest.
There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.
The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.
It was to be nothing more than that.
There was to be no gunplay.
If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.
Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding.
Carmer himself was nowhere to be seen.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
Visibility continued to be limited, and Greg was never able to get above a thousand feet.
It was going to be dangerous.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.
Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

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