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The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.
The Aricaras made one last desperate charge.
Some gracefully soared from the backs of their wounded, screaming mounts to make one last defiant charge before the lead split their hearts or tore their guts.
`` Every last one of you.
`` That's the last one we did.
Till one day the last freight had been jumped, the last pint had been killed, the last beat had been rapped.
The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.
There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.
They made it, killed every last one of the Krauts, took the village on schedule.
According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.
Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.
But one cannot escape the suspicion that all this non-stop harping on the misdeeds of the long liquidated `` anti-party '' group would be totally unnecessary if there were not, inside the party, some secret but genuine opposition to Khrushchev on vital doctrinal grounds, on the actual methods to be employed in the `` transition to communism '' and, last but not least, on foreign policy.
He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.
And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.
Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.
The controversy of the last few years over whether architects or interior designers should plan the interiors of modern buildings has brought clearly into focus one important difference of opinion.
( I watched it on television late one night last week and it `` stands up '' remarkably well, even twenty years later.
Another woman, addressing Christmas cards, said to her husband: `` We sent them one last year but they didn't send us one, so they probably won't send us one this year because they'll think we won't send them one because they didn't last year, don't you think, or shall we ''??

one and witch
* 1612 – The " Samlesbury witches ", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.
* 1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
* 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.
From 1633 until 1675, he was assistant to the governor of the Plymouth Colony, frequently serving as acting governor and also on many juries, including one witch trial.
He was also descended from Mary Bradbury, who was tried at one of the Salem witch trials in 1692.
The monk stalks the witch into the cave and she hides in dark corner near one of the underground rivers.
* Willow Rosenberg — Willow's abilities as a witch make her one of the most powerful members of the Scooby Gang.
On CNN's " Out in the Open ," Rick Sanchez characterized the word without using it by saying, " Last night, we showed you a clip of one of his supporters calling Hillary Clinton the b-word that rhymes with witch.
The Bideford witch trial in 1682 involved three women, Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards, accused of witchcraft and resulted in one of the last hangings for witchcraft in England.
He plays minor antagonistic and supporting roles in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, where he aides Mario and Luigi in battling the witch Cackletta, losing his memory at one point and being possessed by Cackletta's spirit at another.
Snorri Sturluson states that this giantess and witch bears many giants for sons, all in the form of wolves including one named Mánagarm (" Moon Hound ") who shall swallow the Moon and is thus identified with Hati.
In modern rural Mexico, nagual is sometimes synonymous with brujo (" witch "): one who is able to shapeshift into an animal at night, ( normally into an owl, bat, or turkey ) drink blood from human victims, steal property, cause disease, and the like.
Historians cite his reluctance to participate in the trials as one of the reasons that the witch hysteria did not take as deep a root in Haverhill as it did in the neighboring town of Andover, which had among the most victims of the trials.
He sent one of his servants to tie a branch from a rowan tree over the doorway of the witch ’ s house in Crawick, which ended the curse.
Parris, Mary Sibly ( aunt of the afflicted Mary Walcott ), instructed John Indian, one of the minister's slaves, to make a witch cake, using traditional English white magic to discover the identity of the witch who was afflicting the girls.
Any witch who had committed a minor witchcraft offence ( punishable by one year in prison ) and was accused and found guilty a second time was sentenced to death.
Some fans also cite a comedy curse-breaking ceremony performed by musician Jimmy Buffett and his warm-up team ( one dressed as Ruth and one dressed as a witch doctor ) at a Fenway concert in September 2004.
According to The Lesser Key of Solomon and the acts of some witch trials, there are demons that have more than one seal or signature.
In 1934, Vélez was one of the victims of the " witch hunt " for " reds " in Hollywood.
In this work, Guazzo was greatly influenced by Duke Charles III of Lorraine ’ s leading lawyer and demonologist, Nicholas Remy ( Remy produced one of the most important early works on demonology and witchcraft in 1595, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, and claimed to have sentenced to death over 900 people during witch trials between 1582 – 1592 ).
Perhaps " moon's taker " and " moon hound " or alternately as " the one to steal the sun from the sky " as earlier mentioned was in reference to Hati or Skoll, Fenrir's own children, since similar poems read that Skoll and Hati were birthed by " the witch of the Ironwood ".
He asserted that not even one witch could be erroneously condemned if the correct procedures were followed, because rumours concerning sorcerors were almost always true.
So, when names of demons are spoken, one must consider that they were incorporated to Christian demonology, as were Jewish demons, Pagan deities, folkloric supernatural beings, and sometimes imaginary names given by people interrogated under torture during the witch trials, by mentally ill persons ( energumens ) that were considered possessed, imaginative priests, etc.

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