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Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.
Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.
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 stood on the porch and watched him struggling with the heavy harness, and finally went over to help him.
I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.
He went prone on his stomach, the better to pursue his examination.
Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.
She went on:
There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.
But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.
Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.
`` Anyway '', Waddell went on.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.
When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.
He went on to use objects -- hoops, poles, capes -- which he employed as extensions of the body of the dancer, who moved with them.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.
`` This is a horrible way to live '', Wright went on.
The parents compromised, however, on a convent school and Paula went to Ursuline Academy in London, Ontario.
`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.

went and command
The mild activity of his command during the sojourn of the troops at Valley Forge could be handled by a subordinate, he felt, so like Henry Knox, equally loyal to Washington, who went to Boston at this time, Morgan received permission to visit his home in Virginia for several weeks.
One modern scholar has written " It is almost certain not only that at no time in his life did he ever see, let alone command, a Roman army, but that, throughout the twenty-three years of his reign, he never went within five hundred miles of a legion ".
When Austria joined the ranks of the allies during the War of the Sixth Coalition, Charles was not given a command and the post of commander-in-chief of the allied Grand Army of Bohemia went to the Prince of Schwarzenberg.
D ' Abreu sailed through Ambon while his second in command Francisco Serrão went ahead towards the Maluku islands, was shipwrecked and ended up in Ternate.
A detachment of the boys under Seth Warner's command went to nearby Fort Crown Point and captured the small garrison there.
Exiled from the court of the Spanish Emperor Alfonso VI of León and Castile, El Cid went on to command a Moorish force consisting of Muladis, Berbers, Arabs and Malians, under Yusuf al-Mu ' taman ibn Hud, Moorish king of the northeast Al-Andalus city of Zaragoza, and his successor, Al-Mustein II.
In 1943 the USSR released the Revisionist Zionist leader, Menachem Begin from the Gulag and he went to Palestine, taking command of the Etzel organization with a policy of increased conflict against the British.
The first part of the campaign went well, with John outmanoeuvring the forces under the command of Prince Louis and retaking the county of Anjou by the end of June.
After the war, Mihdhar and Hazmi went to Afghanistan where they fought alongside the Taliban against the Northern Alliance, and al-Qaeda would later dub Nawaf his " second in command ".
After Charlemagne had defeated the Lombards under the command of Desiderius in 774, Pisa went through a crisis but soon recovered.
Themistocles himself took command of the Athenian contingent of the fleet, and went to Artemisium.
" Subsequently, Garibaldi went to France and assumed command of the Army of the Vosges.
Predictably, Burnside's purge went nowhere, and he offered President Abraham Lincoln his resignation from command of the Army of the Potomac.
In his absence, William Stanley and Rowland York, two Catholic officers whom Leicester had placed in command of Deventer and the fort of Zutphen, respectively, went over to Parma, along with their key fortresses — a disaster for the Anglo-Dutch coalition in every respect.
Sumner's command went west along the North Platte to Fort Laramie, then down along the Front Range to the South Platte.
He was a critical thinker who went as far as to question the authority of Old Testament quotations and the notion that the emperor's command was unwritten law.
But the anarchist CNT command refused this tactic and later went to Mallorca.
Roger never went himself on an expedition against Byzantium, handing over the command to the skillful George.
The first part of the campaign went well for the English, with John outmanoeuvring the forces under the command of Prince Louis and retaking the county of Anjou by the end of June.
He was part of Muslim's army that went for the campaign of Tabuk under Muhammad's command and he was reported to have given half of his wealth for the preparation of this expedition.
He then went to New York where he remained throughout the war, expecting a command, but none was given to him.
In August 480 BC, Leonidas went out to meet Xerxes ' army at Thermopylae with a small force of 300 men, where he was joined by forces from other Greek city-states, who put themselves under his command to form an army of 14, 000 strong.
As the Army went into winter quarters, Beauregard caused considerable friction with the Confederate high command.
When Beauregard went on medical leave without requesting permission in advance, President Davis relieved him of command and replaced him with Gen. Braxton Bragg.
In 237, Gordian went to the Africa Proconsularis as a legatus under his father's command as a proconsular governor.

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