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was and well

The wound in his scalp
was examined, pronounced healing, and
well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals
.

Leading his pony, he hurried that way, not remounting till he
was well below the level
of the surrounding range
.

I
was so scared
well, I just ran to my car and came here ''
.

I must say the figure
was well made up
.

If it were not that I knew who it
was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so
well did
her clothes fit him
.

Karipo
was something
of a politician as
well as a militarist
.

The Command post
was underground, and
well camouflaged
.

There
was a measure
of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were
well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along
.

It
was just as
well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room
was to become his prison cell
.

Social Darwinism
was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until
well into the present century
.

Soon he
was playing in the Cologne Municipal Orchestra, and during World War 1,, when musicians were scarce, he joined the opera orchestra as
well.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit ''
was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as
well as small, reflecting popular approval
of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land
.

In New York he
was well received by what
was then only a small brave band
of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others
.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number
of unrelated epicycles
was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served
well and with quantitative precision
.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man,
well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces
of important people, he
was bound to go far
.

Henrietta, however,
was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who
was just about
her own age and whom she had got to know
well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe
.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness,
her variations on the theme that the world
was not only
well lost for love but even
well lost for lost love,
her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that
of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I
was when I fell upon
her verses an overwhelming yea
.

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
.
was and rid

One
of Greg's bombs hung up, and he
was miles from the target before he could get
rid of it
.

It
was a relief to get
rid of the weight
.

Haney went to bed, happy that at least he
was rid of that lousy landlord
.

The atmosphere
was one
of optimism,
of confidence in human progress, and
of a determination to
rid the world
of its ills
.

When Owen
was finally
rid of him, there
was a timid rap at the door
.

But the process
of refusing to think about it
was an active reminder in itself and he couldn't
rid himself
of a consciousness
of it throughout the day
.

Marlborough ’ s horse tumbled and the Duke
was thrown – " Milord Marlborough
was rid over ," wrote Orkney some time later
.

It
was commonly used during the mid-1960s by Mexican-American activists, who, in attempt to reassert their civil rights, tried to
rid the word
of its polarizing negative connotation by reasserting a unique ethnic identity and political consciousness, proudly identifying themselves as Chicanos
.

The Earl
was offered government
of the port
of Harwich, but he thought it
was unworthy and declined the post ; Leicester
was glad to be
rid of him
.

When Heracles returned with the Erymanthian Boar, Eurystheus
was frightened and hid again in his jar and begged Heracles to get
rid of the beast ; Heracles obliged
.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid spoke to Reuters and
was quoted as saying ; " We are using all our strength to get
rid of him, either by killing or kidnapping ," and " We have informed our commanders in Helmand to do whatever they can to eliminate him
.

It has been proposed that Gille Coemgáin's death
was the doing
of Mac Bethad in revenge for his father's death, or
of Máel Coluim mac Cináed to
rid himself
of a rival
.

According to Herodotus, the first step
of mummification
was to " take a crooked piece
of iron, and with it draw out the brain through the nostrils, thus getting
rid of a portion, while the skull is cleared
of the rest by rinsing with drugs
.

The details
of his meeting with Kamenev, to whom he confided that Stalin
was “ Genghis Khan ” and changed policies to get
rid of rivals, were leaked by Trotskyist press and subjected him to accusation
of factionalism
.

Originally, plasma
was generated in the process chamber, but as the need to get
rid of free radicals has increased, many machines now use a downstream plasma configuration, where plasma is formed remotely and the desired particles are channeled to the wafer
.

From the beginning, Julius II set himself with a courage and determination rarely equaled, to
rid himself
of the various powers under which his temporal authority
was almost overwhelmed
.

The judges were independent and
rid themselves
of their nationality for the purposes
of hearing cases, owing allegiance to no individual member state, although it
was forbidden to have more than one judge from the same state
.

It
was designed with the rules
of the Fudge universal role-playing system in mind but added modifications necessary to get
rid of the need for a gamemaster, distributing the responsibility for the game and story equally among all players and undoing the equivalence between player and character
.

By the early 1960s, a campaign to
rid New York City
of gay bars
was in full effect by order
of Mayor Robert F
. Wagner, Jr., who
was concerned about the image
of the city in preparation for the 1964 World's Fair
.
was and her

Her blond hair
was frowzy,
her dress torn in several places, and
her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection
.

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 treats
her like she
was dirt
.
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.

She
was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from
her wrist
.

She said, and
her tone had softened until it
was almost friendly
.

She had picked up the quirt and
was twirling it around
her wrist and smiling at him
.
He grabbed
her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking
her weight so that some
of the wind
was driven out
of him
.
He got up slowly, and she
was already on
her feet, and he stood facing
her.

She brought up
her free hand to hit him, but this time he
was quicker
.

But
her prettiness
was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will
.

That girl last night, what
was her name??

It
was the only thing about
her that
was the least bit hard to remember
.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in
her new frame
of mind,
was careful not to pretend too much assurance
.

There
was only one place where the mountain might receive
her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom
.

It
was there that she would have to enact
her renunciation, beg forgiveness
.
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