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He was grateful for the services they provided to him, in the areas of astronomy, diplomacy and artillery manufacture.
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This was accordingly done, and the plight of the grateful Mrs. Morris was much relieved as a result of the generous loan, the amount of which is not known.
The concern they felt for me was such as I shall never forget and for which I will always be grateful.
When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.
`` Their house '', writes Albert S. Flint, `` was always a haven of hospitality and good cheer, especially grateful to one like myself far from home ''.
Someone on his staff -- he suspected it was Ed Thornburg -- intercepted them and for this Andy was grateful.
The secretary's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful.
It was erected by subscription from grateful matadors, as penicillin greatly reduced the number of deaths in the bullring.
It was supposed by Euripides ( Ion, 995 ) that the Gorgon was the original possessor of this goatskin, yet the usual understanding is that the Gorgoneion was added to the Aegis, a votive gift from a grateful Perseus.
Lloyd-George, then minister for munitions, was grateful to Weizmann and so supported his Zionist aspirations.
A Discourse of Sallets: " Sellery, apium Italicum, ( and of the Petroseline Family ) was formerly a stranger with us ( nor very long since in Italy ) is an hot and more generous sort of Macedonian Persley or Smallage ... and for its high and grateful Taste is ever plac'd in the middle of the Grand Sallet, at our Great Men's tables, and Praetors feasts, as the Grace of the whole Board ".
21: 80 It was We Who taught him the making of coats of mail for your benefit, to guard you from each other's violence: will ye then be grateful?
In grateful recognition of that fact, on the fiftieth anniversary ( May 16, 1866 ) of the date of Windischmann's preface to that work, a fund called Die Bopp-Stiftung, for the promotion of the study of Sanskrit and comparative grammar, was established at Berlin, to which liberal contributions were made by his numerous pupils and admirers in all parts of the globe.
The influence of the grateful new queen being actively exerted on Alberoni's behalf — the princesse des Ursins having been chased out — within not much more than a year Alberoni was made a duke and grandee of Spain, a member of the king's council, appointed bishop of Málaga, and in 1715 prime minister, and was made cardinal by Pope Clement XI, under pressure from the court of Spain, in July 1717.
Mystique cried and realized she actually did care about Bobby and threw herself off a bridge seemingly killing herself, Bobby realized what she meant with " kill or cure " and was grateful.
Paul Newman was grateful to Lemmon for his support and offered him the role of the Sundance Kid, later played by Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but Lemmon turned it down.
The emperor was grateful for his conduct in this affair, ordered the elector to rescind his ban, and made Werth a count.
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It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.
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