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well-fed and have
The next morning, the cats have returned to their owners well-fed, but the cotter and his wife have vanished.
Larvae do have a nutrient-rich egg, which keeps them well-fed during the developmental period.
Oscar Wilde, upon visiting the club in 1882, is reported to have said " I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
The effects of melting ice sheets would have diminished the food supply and probably impoverished the previously well-fed Magdalenian manufacturers.

well-fed and past
Folk used often to be warned against this very unhappiness in times past, when for every well-fed, contented person you saw a thousand miserable starvelings.

well-fed and .
And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.
She looked well-fed and prosperous, but he didn't get the impression he was being propositioned the way he'd been hoping.
In Western cultures, personifications of autumn are usually pretty, well-fed females adorned with fruits, vegetables and grains that ripen at this time.
It has been observed that well-fed predator animals in a lax captivity ( for instance, pet or farm animals ) will usually differentiate between putative prey animals who are familiar co-inhabitants in the same human area from wild ones outside the area.
The iconography of these banners included mines, mills, factories, but also visions of the future, showing a land where children and adults were well-fed and living in tidy brick-built houses, where the old and sick were cared for, where the burden of work was lessened by new technology, and where leisure time was increasing.
Nevertheless, once they realise the dogs are well-fed the hunters realise the " spirit " has guided them to find food after all.
Hardrada's army invaded York, taking hostages after a peaceful surrender, and likely agreed with the local inhabitants to gather commandeered supplies at Stamford Bridge, near York, a conveniently central spot, well-fed by streams and roads.
Escorted by friendly Indians and well-fed on salmon, they reached the sea on the second of July.
Observations of five well-fed birds suggest that they maintain normal body temperatures during cold nights by metabolising fat laid down during the day, and that they actually use behavioural thermoregulation strategies, such as collective roosting in dense foliage or snow holes to survive winter nights.
Reaching the " best care " outcome requires the pet to maintain a healthy weight, as well as being well-fed and happy.
The authors argue that feral cats are exotic and do not fill an existing niche and that even well-fed cats significantly impact on wildlife.
Kirk agrees and returns it — along with several well-fed ( and huge ) tribbles that scare it away.
In the 1850s they kept about 500 head of well-fed cattle, and bred imported cows to improve their herd's milk production.
The exact number of shriekers that emerge could possibly depend on how well-fed the graboid is.
He was a Deist around 1693-1698, and Daniel Defoe attacked him as a rake who had six well-fed whores and a starving wife.
His parents and friends wondered if he might instead be more effective in youth ministry in the United States, but considering the home church " well-fed ", he felt that international missions should take precedence.
The Manciple digresses to say that one cannot tame a creature to remove its essential nature ; no matter how well-fed a tame cat may be, it will still attack mice instinctively.
Effete figures are often presented standing in a curved posture which accentuates their well-fed waists.
While Gene Lockhart's performance as Bob Cratchit is admired, he is often criticized for looking too " well-fed " for the role.

U.S. and have
We have concluded that petitioner's claims are controlled by the rationale of Gonzales v. United States, 348 U.S. 407 ( 1955 ), and United States v. Nugent, 346 U.S. 1 ( 1953 ), and therefore affirm the judgment.
God knows what the African nations, who hold 25 per cent of the voting stock in the U.N. were thinking -- they may, for example, have been thinking of the U.S. abstention when the vote on Algerian freedom was before the Assembly -- but I think I have a fairly accurate notion of what the Negroes in the gallery were thinking.
Our leadership in a wide economic boycott of South Africa would be not only in accord, it seems, with the moral conscience of America, not to be denied because we also as a people have widespread injustice in the relations of the races in our own country, but also in accord with our law, U.S. Code Title 19, Section 1307, which forbids the importation of goods made by forced or convict labor.
`` It is not necessary that a defendant actually have conpired to use the U.S. mails to defraud as long as there is evidence of a conspiracy, and the mails were then used to carry it out ''.
Apart from the personal equation, another reason advanced in favor of the meeting was that too often in the past the U.S. appeared to have been dragged reluctantly to the summit.
The Japanese want to increase exports to the U.S. While they have been curbing shipments, they have watched Hong Kong step in and capture an expanding share of the big U.S. market.
The British Government will have to decide whether to let U.S. coal in.
It also brought home proof of something a casual observer might have missed: that more than half of the U.S. Negroes live outside the southeastern states.

U.S. and 20
He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America ( see the hemisphere ).

U.S. and years
For ten years a small group of European and U.S. critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28.
In six years, U.S. aid had amounted to more than $1.60 for each American -- a total of three hundred million dollars.
For three years he was connected with the U.S. Naval Observatory and with the U.S. Signal Corps ; ;
The U.S. will try to get agreement among the industrialized countries to take more textile imports from the less-developed countries over the years.

U.S. and .
He saw the most action, beat up more badmen with his bare fists, broke up the most gangs and sent more murderers to the gallows than any other U.S. marshal who lived before or after him.
He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.
The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.
'' Partisan has failed, Krim says, for being `` snob-clannish, overcerebral, Europeanish, aristocratically alienated '' from the U.S..
He knew all about it and had put it down in journal form in The War In A Black Shirt, a wonderful book not, for some strange reason, published in the U.S..
Touring Africa, the new U.S. Assistant Secretary of State observed `` Africa should be for the Africans '' and the British promptly denounced him.
If the Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U.S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship.
Had U.S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war.
More, the U.S. action was hailed by a principal opposition leader, Dr. Juan Bosch, as having saved `` many lives and many troubles in the near future ''.
Washington apparently decided to use an old formula, by injecting large military appropriations to speed the slow revival of the U.S. economy after a prolonged slump ''.
`` The U.S. President has shown once again that the United States needs the fanning of the West Berlin crisis to justify the armaments race.
`` U.S. pressure on Britain to foster war hysteria over the status of West Berlin has reached its apogee.
`` Chairman Khrushchev received the U.S. President's disarmament adviser, John McCloy.
But in the moment of truth everyone could see that the U.S. was in reality the principal.
This prime element of the truth may be stated as follows: Under prevailing policy, the U.S. can take the initiative against the Right, but cannot take the initiative against the Left.
The U.S. cannot take the initiative against the Left.
There is even some question whether the U.S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left.
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.
The real trouble seems to be the failing imagination of U.S. playwrights.
Sometimes they get their initial experience in church haflis, conducted by Lebanese and Syrians in the U.S., where they dance with just as few veils across their bodies as in nightclubs.
Of the handful of painters that Austria has produced in the 20th century, only one, Oskar Kokoschka, is widely known in the U.S..
The critics' campaign finally inspired the first major U.S. exhibit of Schiele's works.
The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U.S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed.
`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

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