It was `` Duty '' he said that his parents had given him as a rule -- beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense of humor with which he was largely supplied -- and it was duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty.

It is danced by some thirty-five men and no women, and it contains everything in the books -- lusty comedy, gregarious cavorting, and tricks that only madmen or Russians would attempt to make the human body perform.

An arithmetical unit ( the " mill ") would be able to perform all four arithmetic operations, plus comparisons and optionally square roots.

Stigand's position as archbishop was canonically suspect, and as earl Harold had not allowed Stigand to consecrate one of the earl's churches, it is unlikely that Harold would have allowed Stigand to perform the much more important royal coronation.

When Alexander was trying to show that he is divine so that the Greeks and Macedonians would perform proskynesis to him, Anaxarchus said that Alexander could " more justly be considered a god than Dionysus or Heracles " ( Arrian, 104 )

Individuals who survived to this, the latest and highest stage of evolutionary progress would be “ those in whom the power of self-preservation is the greatest — are the select of their generation .” Moreover, Spencer perceived governmental authority as borrowed from the people to perform the transitory aims of establishing social cohesion, insurance of rights, and security.

Occasionally, if a Censor was unable to carry out one of his tasks, an Aedile would perform the task instead.

Beta blockers are used in the prophylaxis of exertional angina by reducing the work the heart is allowed to perform below the level that would provoke an angina attack.

The work which black women have been forced to perform, either in slavery or in a discriminatory work place, that would be non-gender conforming for white women has been used against black women as a proof of their emasculating behaviour.

The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.

In Germany, the actress Hedwig Niemann-Raabe refused to perform the play as written, declaring that " I would never leave my children!

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

A member of NYMPC had seen Chaplin perform ( accounts of whom and where vary ) and felt that he would make a good replacement for Fred Mace, outgoing star of their Keystone Studios.

Without a significant amount of memory, a computer would merely be able to perform fixed operations and immediately output the result.

Never mind that brute-force might require 2 < sup > 128 </ sup > encryptions ; an attack requiring 2 < sup > 110 </ sup > encryptions would be considered a break ... simply put, a break can just be a certificational weakness: evidence that the cipher does not perform as advertised.

If one of these two Praetors was absent from Rome, the other would perform the duties of both.

He can perform agricultural miracles that would matter to the common people, such as when he casts a demon out of a milk pail and restores the spilt milk to the pail.

Most of the professional teams ' cheerleading squads would more accurately be described as dance teams by contemporary standards ; as they rarely, if ever, actively encourage crowd noise or perform modern cheerleading moves.

The record linking to perform an administrative census would not be possible without large databases being stored on computer systems.

The descriptions of the Bible suggest that she would be expected to perform tasks such as spinning, sewing, weaving, manufacture of clothing, fetching of water, baking of bread, and animal husbandry.

The band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album ( some of these early performances can be seen in the Live at DMPO's on Broadway video, originally released by Dirk Dirksen and later reissued on Rhino ).

These people would amalgamate and work under a society to perform such a project.

He later related that he had no idea of the familial connections when the Marquess of Milford Haven introduced himself after one of the shows and said he would like his cousins to see Kaye perform.

In concert, Devo would often perform in the guise of theatrical characters, such as Booji Boy, and The Chinaman.

Devo would perform off and on from 1997 on.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.

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.

Yet long before the scheduled time for return, Donovan would be watching for every speck in the sky.

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.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

A card to Walter would get him an introduction to this Meredith, and that might be good for something.

They thought it would be a chance for you to make a life out where nobody will be thought any better than the next except for just what's inside of them.

It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.

Now we peered anxiously for any speck of land in the Pacific, for this interminable bailing would have to stop soon.

We spoke of the need for advertising, and I agreed that the deep dive would be most useful for publicity.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

Once and for all he'd finish this marine who would not die.

When she would do these things, he would turn blind for an instant and become sick at his stomach.