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was and safe
Sweeping a look around, he saw that he was safe for the moment.
It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.
The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.
His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.
The scaffolding, a confusion of heavy beams hanging from the gallery above, was strong and safe, but obscured visibility.
He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.
On one of his 1921 ventures he was actually come upon by a Detective Sergeant John J. Ryan down on his knees with a tool embedded in a labour office safe in the Postal Telegraph Building ; ;
Latin America was once an area as `` safe '' for the West as Nebraska was for Nixon.
a man in whose entourage none was ever safe ; ;
It was safe to assume that Papa, sighing heavily, had said many times to his remaining daughter, `` Thank God your poor mother was spared this '', and indeed it might be true that it had been easier for Henrietta to leave, with her hand in Charles' hand, just because her `` poor mother '' was gone already and would never know.
Here he was enclosed and safe.
Another study has demonstrated that daily use of an alum-containing mouthrinse was safe and produced a significant effect on plaque that supplemented the benefits of daily toothbrushing.
Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.
When it was clear that continuing the resistance was of little use, Hasan Ali Shah sent one of his brothers to Shiraz in order to speak to the governor of Fars to intervene on his behalf and arrange for safe passage out of Kerman.
The British also negotiated the safe return of Hasan Ali Shah to Persia, which was in accordance with his own wish.
Although some of his lands were restored to the control of his relatives, his safe return could not be arranged, and Hasan Ali Shah was forced to remain a permanent resident of India.
" Agrippina struck down a series of victims ; no man or woman was safe if she suspected rivalry or desired their wealth.
Let them lie safe in a vault in New Jersey, safe from the New York tax assessors, until he was ready to dispose of them ..."

was and Mama's
The Queen's daughters joked that Brown was " Mama's Lover, " while Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby wrote in his diary that Brown and Victoria slept in adjoining rooms " contrary to etiquette and even decency ".
During pre-production, the proposed series title was Mama's Man.
He achieved his greatest popularity in the U. S. in this role, becoming the subject of many parodies, including " Alistair Cookie " in Sesame Street & No. 39's " Monsterpiece Theater " (" Alistair Cookie " was also the name of a clay animated cookie-headed spoof character created by Will Vinton as the host of a video trailer for The Little Prince and Friends ); Alistair Quince, from The Carol Burnett Show, introducing the " The Family " sketches, which eventually became Mama's Family ; and, arguably, Leonard Pinth-Garnell, in Saturday Night Live & No. 39's " Bad Conceptual Theatre ".
However, the undisputed queen without a crown was the American-Puerto Rican singer Liz Torres, who released Spanish versions of her songs " Can't Get Enough ", " Mama's Boy " and " Payback Is A Bitch ".
" was left undubbed ( however, when this scene was featured in the subsequent episodes Mama's Review and The Creation of Venus, the original song remained intact ).
Tito also sang a part in other Jackson 5 hits such as " Mama's Pearl " and provided spoken vocal leads in the band's 1973 rendition of " Hum Along and Dance " and was the last of his brothers to sing a verse in the song before it faded.
( Ken Berry, who had played Jones, was forced to decline as he was busy playing Vinton Harper on Mama's Family.
Turner also had a television unit called Turner Program Services which had run until 1996 when it was rebranded as Telepictures Distribution which distributed Mama's Family and all TPS shows after 1996.
When Mama's Family was picked up in syndication after being canceled by NBC in 1985, White left the show ( with the exception of one final appearance in the show's syndicated version in 1986 ).
His first movie, a low-budget Hong Kong period comedy called Where is Mama's Boy ( 2004 ), was released in January 2005.
A more direct ancestor of Katrina and the Waves was the band Mama's Cookin ', a pop cover band hailing from Feltwell, England.
Cooper convinced Rew to join Mama's Cookin ', and the five-piece group ( Leskanich / Rew / Cooper / de la Cruz / Jakins ) was quickly renamed The Waves after the band Rew and Cooper had been in together in the mid-1970s.
After Mama's Family was cancelled by NBC in 1984, it moved to first-run syndication in 1986.
She is best known for her co-starring role on The Carol Burnett Show, alongside Carol Burnett, from 1967 to 1978, and as the volatile, abrasive, sharp-tongued matriarch, Thelma Harper ( the main character on Mama's Family, airing from 1983 to 1990, which was spun off from The Carol Burnett Show's The Family sketches ).
Her portrayal of the " Mama " character was so popular that NBC created a sitcom, Mama's Family, based on characters from the skit.
For example, when The Carol Burnett Show was canceled the central character of a popular recurring sketch called The Family, Thelma " Mama " Harper, went on to have her own show Mama's Family.
Karen seems to have had a background in acting ( including a performance in a soft core adult film as a naughty maid ); however she vowed never to act again after her part as a bank teller in the TV show Mama's Family was cut.
In 1993, Wild Life was remastered and reissued on CD as part of ' The Paul McCartney Collection ' series with singles " Give Ireland Back to the Irish " and " Mary Had a Little Lamb " as well as B-sides " Little Woman Love " and " Mama's Little Girl " — all recorded in 1972 except for " Little Woman Love ", which was a Ram outtake — as bonus tracks, and also two hidden tracks: " Bip Bop Link " ( an acoustic guitar piece ) between " I Am Your Singer " and " Tomorrow "; and " Mumbo Link " ( an instrumental jam ) after " Dear Friend ".
The play is loosely based on an earlier Romanian language play, Vlăduţu Mamei ( Mama's Boy ), transferred to a setting in a family of Hasidic Jews, a milieu that was a standard butt of humor among the " enlightened " Jews of the Haskalah.
It was believed that Gqozo was Mama's bodyguard, a job that he started after his finances took a nosedive.

was and arms
She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
His face was stiff with anger when they let go of his arms.
His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.
They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.
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.
It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.
It all seemed -- if one could have peeked in at him through one of his windows -- as though this broken-nosed man with the muscular arms and wrestler's neck was merely the caretaker trying his hand at the boss's work.
The purchase was effected and they made their way towards the hotel again, the hen, with whom some sort of communication had been set up, nestling in the doctor's arms.
Now he saw that the approaching car was painted white, and he began to wave his arms frantically.
Poet was the captured, arms pinioned to his side, and he twisted convulsively trying to escape.
Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.
She was so heavy that Maggie's arms shook from lifting her and taking care of her.
And when he was alone again in the cabin, Alexander lowered his head into his arms and wept, for he knew full well what must be done, what in the end would be done.
I was suddenly conscious of my bare arms.
Johnston's initial call upon the governors for more men did not result in many immediate recruits but Johnston had another, even bigger, problem since his force was seriously short of arms and ammunition even for the troops he had.
The treaty was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War.
With the death of the last Count, Nicholas of Abensberg, in 1485, the estates fell to the Duchy of Bavaria-Munich, meaning that henceforth only the Bavarian coat of arms was ever used.
Not on good terms with Caracalla, Geta had been invited to a family reconciliation, at which time he was ambushed by centurions in Caracalla's army and slain in his mother Julia's arms.
Alphonse's coat of arms was formed of those of France ( left ) and Castile ( right ), representing his father and mother respectively: Per pale azure semé-de-lis or dimidiating gules semé of castles or
In 1974, Acadia was granted a coat of arms designed by the College of Arms in London, England.
Up until World War I some armies made artillery responsible for all forward ammunition supply because the load of small arms ammunition was trivial compared to artillery.
At the durbar on July 22, 1880, Abdur Rahman was officially recognized as Amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he align his foreign policy with the British.
It was seen by many in the West as a key piece in nuclear arms control, being an implicit recognition of the need to protect the nuclear balance by ensuring neither side could hope to reduce the effects of retaliation to acceptable levels.

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