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With these and similar tales he was entertaining his English friends, all of whom he was seeing when he was not showing Blackman the sights of London and its environs.
Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.
Like he had with montages of landscapes and indigenous art, Marker created a film essay that contrasts and juxtaposes a variety of lives with his signature commentary ( spoken by Marker's friends, singer-actor Yves Montand in the French version and Simone Signoret in the English version ).
As in English, the Hebrew word for " love ", ahavah אהבה, is used to describe intimate or romantic feelings or relationships, such as the love between parent and child in Genesis 22: 2 ; 25: 28 ; 37: 3 ; the love between close friends in I Samuel 18: 2, 20: 17 ; or the love between a young man and young woman in Song of Songs.
Nobita's main human friends and / or rivals include Takeshi ( nicknamed ' Gian ', from the English word giant ), a consummate bully, and Suneo, a wealthy but cunning and arrogant brat.
" Hayek had hoped to receive a baronetcy, and after he was awarded the CH he sent a letter to his friends requesting that he be called the English version of Friedrich ( Frederick ) from now on.
Ernest Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls made deliberate use of false friends as one of the devices intended to convey to the reader that English conversations in the book in fact represent Spanish.
* German / English false friends
* Spanish / English false friends
* French / English false friends
* Italian / English false friends
* English / Russian false friends
* English / Dutch false friends
* 1656-In a letter to Councillor General Montagu ( afterwards Earl of Sandwich ), General-at-sea and one of the Protector's personal friends, Cromwell mentioned the necessity of securing a permanent base at the entry of the Mediterranean, preferably Gibraltar ( the first suggestion for the occupation of Gibraltar as a naval base had been made at an English Council of War held at sea on 20 October 1625 ).
The word is from Old English godsibb, from god and sibb, the term for the godparents of one's child or the parents of one's godchild, generally very close friends.
It consists of a group of heroic tales dealing with the lives of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, the great hero Cú Chulainn, the son of Lug, and of their friends, lovers, and enemies. These are the Ulaid, or people of the North-Eastern corner of Ireland and the action of the stories centres round the royal court at Emain Macha ( known in English as Navan Fort ), close to the modern town of Armagh.
Neither Thérèse nor Rousseau was able to learn English or make friends.
The dining room was decked in white and green, illuminated with numberless candles in silver candlelabras ... The bride's gift from her father was an elegant house and lot ... At 11 o ' clock Mrs. Mitchell donned a pretty going-away gown of green English cloth with its jaunty velvet hat to match and bid goodbye to her friends.
Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).
The young Nurmi and his friends were inspired by the English long-distance runner Alfred Shrubb.
Problems remain, mainly in dating those from Arles, although it is known that during that period, van Gogh wrote 200 letters to friends in Dutch, French and English.
Guthrie easily learned old ballads and traditional English & Scots songs from the parents of friends.
While attending Ealing Art College, Tim Staffell became friends with Farrokh Bulsara, a fellow student who had assumed the English name of Freddie.
He agreed to turn a blind eye to an invasion by sea, but made it clear that he would disavow them and confiscate all their English lands should Balliol and his friends fail.

English and said
`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.
`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.
As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.
The English lady said she had to go to Vienna for a while.
The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.
`` Excuse me '', he said in Berlitz English, and got up and left them, to bathe and dress.
One woman -- she could have been either English or American -- went up to him and said, ' But you are the foreigners ' ''.
Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!
`` A person with a master's degree in physics, chemistry, math or English, yet who has not taken Education courses, is not permitted to teach in the public schools '', said Grover.
Before 1933, individuals who opposed trade unions and collective bargaining said so in plain English.
She found this a marvel because, as she said, only six per cent of English people are churchgoers.
:“ When in the autumn the English Eleven went to Australia it was said that they had come to Australia to “ fetch ” the ashes.
:“ In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket “ whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia ”.
" The English Renaissance was, he said, " like the Italian Renaissance before it, a sort of rebirth of the spirit of man ".
It is said that the terms Whig and Tory were first applied to English political parties in consequence of this dispute.
The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton said of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler that " his inaccuracy is more than compensated by his preservation of the English title applied to these outstanding kings ".
Clipperton's name comes from John Clipperton, an English pirate and privateer who fought the Spanish during the early 18th century, and who is said to have passed by the island.
If the experiment were done in English, since Searle knows English, he would be able to take questions and give answers without any algorithms for English questions, and he would be affectively aware of what was being said and the purposes it might serve: Searle passes the Turing test of answering the questions in both languages, but he's only conscious of what he's doing when he speaks English.
Although he said English Canada had a negligible conservative influence, subsequent writers claimed that loyalists opposed to the American Revolution brought a Tory ideology into Canada.
Dryden, the English poet, used the word " clip " to describe the swift flight of a falcon in the 17th century when he said " And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.

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