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If the father was impressed and approved of the marriage, the man and woman would exchange gifts of horses and clothing and were considered married.
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When asked by other Cyclopes why he is screaming, Polyphemus replies that " Nobody " is hurting him, so the others assume that, " If alone as you are none uses violence on you, why, there is no avoiding the sickness sent by great Zeus ; so you had better pray to your father, the lord Poseidon ".
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If there has been a first man he must have been born without father or mother – which is repugnant to nature.
' James Harris MP, however, recorded that Lord Nugent had told him that Chatham's last words in the Lords were: ' If the Americans defend independence, they shall find me in their way ' and that his very last words ( spoken to his son ) were: ' Leave your dying father, and go to the defence of your country '.
If he was less effective than his father in containing the Norman lords ' propensity for rebellion and violence, through charisma, or political skills, he was forceful in overcoming the consequences.
If an adopted child rejected his foster parents, claiming they were not his mother and father, his tongue was torn out.
Upon the death of his stepfather, Neipperg, and the revelation that his mother had borne two illegitimate children to him prior to her marriage, Franz said to his friend, Prokesch von Osten, "' If Josephine had been my mother, my father would not have been buried at Saint Helena, and I should not be at Vienna.
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If it is true that the body of Cambyses II was brought home " to the Persians ", his burying-place must be somewhere beside that of his father.
After later confirming that he was indeed correct, Hay realized, " If my father could be wrong, then the teacher could be wrong.
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Angry at his father, who had long since retired to a contemplative life in southwestern Anatolia, Mehmed II wrote, " If you are the Sultan, come and lead your armies.
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If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
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.
If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.
`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.
If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.
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If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.
If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.
If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.
If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.
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