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Instead of the cheerful little village I once anticipated finding — a few half-ruined stone cottages ; some straggling huts built of turf ; two or three stove boats ; some broken ground where gardens had been, and where a few cabbages or potatoes still grew ; some sheep and goats ; a few long-legged pigs ; some horses and cows ; with here and there a miserable-looking human being ,— were scattered over the fore-ground of a view which had dark clouds, ragged-topped hills, and a wild waste of moorland to fill up the distance .</ br >
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Instead, on 3 May, they approved a formal reply to Charles, which assured him that the Commons was " as full of trust and confidence in your royal word as ever House of Commons reposed in any of their best kings " but that, because of the illegal acts publicly committed by his ministers, nothing except a public remedy would " raise the dejected hearts of your loving subjects to a cheerful supply of your Majesty ".
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Instead, the ratio of the speed of the wind and that of the cups, the anemometer factor, depends on the dimensions of the cups and arms, and may have a value between two and a little over three.
Instead, early 21st century papers on Chinese history tend to be empirical studies of a small part of China which aim to reach a deep understanding of the socio-economics, political dynamics, or cultural dynamics of a small region such as a province or a village with little effort made to create a master narrative which would be generalizable to all of China.
Instead, he would say something like, " we got a little tuning problem ... Everybody check and see what's going on.
One critic states of psychologists that " Instead of replacing ' metaphysical ' terms such as ' desire ' and ' purpose ', they used it to legitimize them by giving them operational definitions ... the initial, quite radical operationalist ideas eventually came to serve as little more than a ' reassurance fetish ' ( Koch 1992 ) for mainstream methodological practice.
Instead, he advocated that the “ little horn ” was the Antichrist:
" Instead of using a disk I designed a little machine using a cylinder provided with grooves around the surface.
Instead of admitting defeat, Robert-Houdin, irked at the friend's affrontery, used this insult to regain his courage, and persevered in giving the show a long run at his little theatre.
Instead of spending their spare earnings in saloons and dram shops, they carefully hoard them and in a few years a little home of their own is the result.
Instead of 22, 300 kg of fuel, they had 22, 300 pounds on board — only a little over 10, 000 kg, or less than half the amount required to reach their destination.
Instead he goes to her little sister ’ s grave, hung so often with his garlands and wet with his tears, to bemoan his fate.
Instead, their young are called nymphs, and resemble the adults to a large degree, the final transformation involving little more than the development of functional wings ( if they are present at all ) and functioning sexual organs, with no intervening pupal stage as in holometabolous insects.
Instead he was a believer in the efficacy of individualism and business enterprise, with a little coordination by the government, to cure all problems.
Instead of stretching the sample, which would change the sample's timbre and pitch, ReCycle slices the loop into little pieces so that each beat gets its own sample.
Instead of the latter, which was actually returned in 1967, after the 1961 visit of emperor Haile Selassie in Italy, little action was taken to return the stele for more than 50 years, also in consequence of the considerable technical difficulties related to such a transport.
Instead, they see themselves as an inconsequential part of a system over which they have little influence, leading them to limit themselves to the jobs they must perform at their own positions.
Instead, he bought a drilling rig and moved to Texas to drill wells with his little brother and best friend.
Instead of the cinema owner assembling a program of their own choice, the studios sold a package centered on a main and supporting feature, a cartoon and little else.
Instead, there are two different intake cam profiles per cylinder -- a very mild cam lobe with little lift and a normal cam lobe with moderate lift.
Instead, the guide described Castlerea: ' Altogether, Castlerea is a very neat, pleasant and agreeable little town, exhibiting less poverty than other towns in the county '.< Hunt, Roy, ' Painful progress: the slow evolution of County Roscommon society, 1850-1914.
Instead, a route needing little demolition was found by following the Bath Road and Great South West Road in a cut and cover tunnel in a trench alongside the road which passed the Traveller's Friend junction around 1971.
Instead, he switched in 1990 to the Subaru-powered Coloni team with little success.
Instead, she kept them in a shoebox on her desk because she thought they were " pretty little blue pieces of paper.
Instead, the little green alien image seems to have migrated mainly to the world of children's media where it can still be found in abundance ( for example, see Little Green Men in Toy Story ; Coloring Fun: Aliens in Space ; Hazel Nutt, Alien-Hunter and Aliens Don't Carve Jack-o-Lanterns ).
Instead, the Bank now credits the Maharaja of Travancore as the founder, though the Raja had little to do with the founding.
Instead he heads a little off the beaten track-not exactly to the jungle, but to lesser-travelled byways where his experience counts.
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Instead, many of the names seem to be derived from German names that were common in the village of Hamelin in the thirteenth century.
Instead of marching on Wehlau, as was expected, he ordered his forces to cross the Pregel River in safety, near the village of Gross-Jägersdorf ( Abandoned in 1945 and away 5 km southwest from Mezhdurechye ( Norkitten ) and placed on municipality of Svoboda ( Jänischken, Jänichen between 1938 – 1945 ) in Chernyakhovsky District ).
Instead, they built a wharf on the other side of Augusta Bay at the village of Union Bay.
Instead, he accepted seven women whom he had taught in the village school and in 1131 founded an order of nuns based on the Cistercian Rule.
Instead they named it after Preston, a small village also in Sussex, where the church members had happy annual outings Wood 24 / 04 / 08.
Instead school programmes were subdivided into " complex themes ", such as " the life and labour of the family in village and town " for the first year or " scientific organization of labour " for the 7th year of education.
Instead, he is charged with the duty of travelling to Kala, a remote village, to secure the return of a young woman who has fled her abusive, domineering husband.
Instead, it is likely that Fort was built either close to the village or if it was built upon the village, the village was relocated.
Instead of being “ the most light-hearted creature and the merriest in the village ” de Conte says that “ she had been mainly grave ”.
Instead of a country village it was now on the eastern edge of the city.
Instead, they marched from one village to the next, taking food and enslaving the native peoples to use as guides and porters.
Instead of staying at a cheap roadside motel, Allie convinces Eddie to stay the night at novelty hotel in a Bavarian village.
Instead of dismissing Ramprasad from work, he asked him to return to his village and compose songs to Kali, while continuing to pay his salary.
Instead, he channelled his enthusiasm for cricket through a team from the small village of Slindon, which bordered on his Goodwood estate.
Instead, it arrived in Lorciéres and attacked Marguerite Boney, eighteen, by the village of Marcillac, emerging from its hiding place in a juniper thicket and rending her clothes until she was naked from the waist up.
Instead, Earlham elected to retain the farmland and expand the museum, constructing an 1836 village, Prairietown, using funds that Lilly provided for this purpose.
Instead, the chieftain of the village demanded that he leave under pain of suffering the same fate as his father.
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