But you could ( as from yourself ) tell her that you had friends who, being with the army, don't know what to do with their money and would willingly let her have one or many thousand dollars ''.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

It is extremely doubtful that the handful of Albanians who call themselves Communists could have done this without the direct approval of their Chinese friends.

Nor could he call up memory-pictures of close friends or relatives.

I could not bring myself to answer that `` some of my best friends are non-propagating mules ''.

He could be lavishly generous with friends, cab drivers and bellboys, but with dealers he was tough.

He had attained local popularity and could draw crowds as a natural raconteur in New Salem, though he lacked an education, powerful friends, and money, which may be why he lost.

Suetonius states that Domitius was congratulated by friends on the birth of his son, whereupon he replied " I don't think anything produced by me and Agrippina could possibly be good for the state or the people ".

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.

There were long-running claims of corruption and administrative decay within Labour at local level ( the North-East of England was to become a cause célèbre ), and concerns that experienced and able Labour MPs could be deselected ( i. e., lose the Labour Party nomination ) by those wanting to put into a safe seat their friends, family or members of their own Labour faction.

He wanted to learn what stars were, since none of his friends or their parents could give him a clear answer:

She wrote to a number of Goya's friends to complain of her exclusion but many of her friends were Goya's also and by then old men and had died, or died before they could reply.

Whether the corpse of such a gladiator could be redeemed from further ignominy by friends or familia is not known.

Groucho was not allowed to join an informal symphonietta of friends, organized by Ben Hecht, that included Harpo because he could only play the mandolin.

Former friends such as Jacob Vernes of Geneva could not accept his views, and wrote violent rebuttals.

Washington still suggested to the Navajo that in spite of the hostile situation, they and the whites could “ still be friends if the Navajo came with their chiefs the next day and signed a treaty ”.

West Germans could also visit, making Balaton a common meeting place for families and friends separated by the Berlin Wall until 1989.

While not addressing the allegations directly, Clemens stated: " I could care less about the rules " and " I've talked to some friends of his and I've teased them that when you're under house arrest and have ankle bracelets on, you have a lot of time to write a book.

There is an anecdote that Shaka joked with one of his friends, Magaye, that he could not kill Magaye because he would be laughed at.

In the second edition, Darwin added an epigraph from Joseph Butler affirming that God could work through scientific laws as much as through miracles, in a nod to the religious concerns of his oldest friends.

In the end God states that the three friends were incorrect, and that Job was incorrect for assuming he could question God.

" ... " I'm truly friends with everybody but, hey — it could happen to Levon, too.

Americans are a nation of joiners, a quality which our friends find endearing and sometimes amusing.

Unable to find a buyer for the work, she published it for family and friends at her own expense in December 1901.

Friends and colleagues describe him as shy and self-effacing with a contrarian streak that his friends find refreshing but his intellectual opponents find exasperating.

When Cannon supporters proved difficult to find ( many of the staunchest were Irish and spent the day at various St. Patrick's Day celebrations ), the filibuster continued for 26 hours, with Cannon's present friends making repeated motions for recess and adjournment.

Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses ( said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) wherein Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs ; the Walking Bed, in which Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed ( see illustration ); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, wherein Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux-Arts interior turned topsy-turvy.

Many years later, Ken and Tanaka return to Otakuland in a post-apocalyptic submerged Japan and find its central structure, a giant robot, converted into a functional spaceship piloted by their old otaku friends.

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Some people are looking for romantic interests, while others just want to find friends.

Twain's friends encourage him to go find a man called Jim Blaine when Blaine is properly drunk, and get Blaine to tell " the stirring story about his grandfather's old ram " ( Chapter 53 ).

With both hands in casts for three months, he said " When I go to the bathroom, that's when I find out who my real friends are.

Margalo flees when she is warned that one of Snowbell's friends intends to eat her, and Stuart strikes out to find her and bring her home.

With darkness falling, Sally and Franklin set out to find their friends.

Willow's powers grow stronger ; she uses telepathy which her friends find intrusive, and she begins to cast spells to manipulate Tara.

When the burghers couldn't find the scholar, they hanged three of his friends in retaliation for his crime.

After a boy from a neighbouring town named Ray Brower went missing and is presumed dead, Gordie Lachance and his three friends, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp and Vern Tessio set out to find his body after telling their parents they will be camping out.

The four friends decide that they will find it so as to be famous.

China and India have also emerged as friends of Iran ; these three countries face similar challenges in the global economy as they industrialize, and consequently find themselves aligned on a number of issues.

Akhmatova wrote that by 1935 every time she went to see someone off at the train station as they went into exile, she'd find herself greeting friends at every step as so many of St Petersburg's intellectual and cultural figures would be leaving on the same train.

When Jim is seen trying to go to the police by some of Buzz's friends, they decide to hunt him down, and harass Plato and Jim's family to try to find him.

Barbie's friends find her in a coma-like state from which she will not wake.

Sophie has also drifted to the French capital, where her friends find her reduced to alcohol, opium, and promiscuity — empty and dangerous liaisons that seem to help her to bury her pain.

Research suggests that Internet communication brings friends closer and is beneficial for socially anxious teens, who find it easier to interact socially online.

After seeing that nothing is being done to find her father and friends killer, China runs for sheriff against Lickner to see who take John's place while, at the same time, she starts cleaning up the town with the help of her former high school sweetheart Matt Conroy ( Richard Norton ).