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He was very able as a Minister, but without a certain Elevation of mind ... He was both the ablest Parliament man, and the ablest manager of a Parliament, that I believe ever lived ... Money, not Prerogative, was the chief Engine of his administration, and he employed it with a success that in a manner disgraced humanity ... When he found any body proof, against pecuniary temptations, which alass!
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Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
Neither was he very powerful of build.
He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.
He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.
For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.
Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.
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.
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.
As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.
He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.
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.
he was very thirsty, but he must observe water discipline.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
He was over six feet tall and very thin.
The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.
`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.
It was very widely read, too ; ;
She was now enjoying the voyage very much.
Ann was very troubled.
Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.
Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.
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Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.
Visibility continued to be limited, and Greg was never able to get above a thousand feet.
She was just not able to break the spell.
Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.
In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.
He was not enthusiastic over the newly acquired Claude Lorrain, but reminisced with pleasure over a Poussin exhibit he had been able to see in Paris a year ago.
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.
It was nice to be able to isolate it.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.
He said that his information was so secret that he would not be able to confide in me the origin of his pipeline tip.
In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.
It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.
Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.
The promoter who wanted to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it.
He was able, now, to sit for hours in a chair in the living room and stare out at the bleak yard without moving.
Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.
He was able to discern the body lines of the Roman women under their robes.
No, Kayabashi was bringing his associates here for a specific purpose and Rector would not be able to fathom it until they arrived.
He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.
In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.
There was a time when, if a man wanted to purchase a boat, it was necessary for him to be able to produce a sizeable amount of cash before he could touch the tiller or wheel.
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