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Then Little Billy began shouting orders to round up the ponies and fill the water buckets and for the cooks to hurry up with the meal.
When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.
Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.
Through the Frankfurt Jewish Kulturbund he began to give sonata recitals in synagogues, with Cellist Emanuel Feuermann.
He began with masks to make the dancer identify himself with the creature he appeared to be.
After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.
A series of conferences with friends and bankers began about this time ; ;
In the final issues of the Englishman, which ended just as the new session of Parliament began, he provided his enemies with still more ammunition.
Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.
He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.
The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.
Woodrow Wilson, with whom he began his years in Washington, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, FDR, with whom he managed a social revolution.
After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.
Stranger, Uncle Randolph began riding home nights with a jug strapped to his saddle, drunkenly singing `` Old Dan Tucker '' at the top of his voice.
Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom.
David began to shave with great sweeping strokes.
At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.
In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.

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Because of continuous Turkish incursions, pestilence, and oppressive Spanish domination taxes, the power of Reggio began to decline during the 16th century.
Some of the soldiers, Daniel Shays among them, began to organize protests against these oppressive economic conditions.
But as Irish chiefs became increasingly alienated by the oppressive measures of the English government and began openly rebelling against the crown, the difficulties faced by the Angevin government mounted.
Despite being hailed as a wonderful venue in its infant years, articles in The Dallas Morning News began to suggest that the ballpark would have been better served by having a dome or retractable roof-much like Minute Maid Park, the home of the Houston Astros-due to the often oppressive heat that settles over Texas during baseball season, with temperatures on the field being in excess of 110 degrees.
Urban riots began by the out-of-doors rallies on the steps of an oppressive government official with speakers such as members of the Sons of Liberty holding forth in thepeople ’ s “ committees ” until some action was decided upon, including hanging his effigy outside a bedroom window, or looting and burning down the offending tyrant ’ s home.
Once landed, 2 / 4 Marines began moving west towards 3 / 4 Marines but their progress was hindered by high elephant grass and oppressive heat and humidity.
A native of Earth, Roj Blake was a leading voice against the corrupt, oppressive Terran Federation approximately four years before the series began.
The editors had initially chosen the appellation " homocore " to describe the movement they began, but later replaced the word ' homo ' with ' queer ' to create Queercore, to better reflect the diversity of the scene and to disassociate themselves completely from the oppressive confines of the gay and lesbian communities ' orthodoxy and agenda.
Public opinion was becoming a major force as people began to tire of oppressive authoritarianism in the 1860s.

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From the mid 1980s, Algerian cinema began to go through a long period of lethargy where major productions became rare.
The AMD / USD exchange rate depreciated by 6. 1 percent in the first three quarters of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009, before it began to show the expected end-of-the-year appreciation.
After further preparing the craft for the trans-lunar voyage, the crew began the first sleep period of the mission just under fifteen hours after launch.
The Assyrians began to convert to Christianity from Ashurism during the period between the early 1st and 3rd centuries AD.
With him began the long period of ascendancy of the great academies of Babylonia, around the year 220.
It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.
A number of previously unreleased Haley country-western recordings from the 1946-1950 period began to emerge near the end of Haley's life, some of which were released by the Arzee label, with titles such as " Yodel Your Blues Away " and " Rose of My Heart.
It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.
For some this marks the beginning of the " mature " Classical style, where the period of reaction against the complexity of the late Baroque began to be replaced with a period of integration of elements of both Baroque and Classical styles.
During the period of industrialization, food began to be mass produced, mass marketed, and standardized.
The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage in 1502.
The Zhou Dynasty began to bow to external and internal pressures in the 8th century BC, and the kingdom eventually broke apart into smaller states, beginning in the Spring and Autumn Period and reaching full expression in the Warring States period.
In this period, local military leaders used by the Zhou began to assert their power and vie for hegemony.
The final expansion in this period began during the reign of Ying Zheng, the king of Qin.
In around 500 BCE, after the Zhou state weakened and China moved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the classic period of Chinese philosophy began ( it is an interesting fact that this date nearly coincides with the emergence of the first Greek philosophers ).
In his commentary on Daniel 8: 14 published in 1831, he stated that the 2, 300-year period should be calculated from 334 BC, the year Alexander the Great began his conquest of the Persian Empire.
When the last period began, all hope of conciliating the Protestants was gone and the Jesuits had become a strong force.
They began to emerge from that dismal period into a new era of increased consistency, however, after the hiring of Marvin Lewis as head coach in 2003.
During this time period, Marker began to travel around the world as a journalist and photographer, a vocation he would continue the rest of his life.
Since the KMT had completed the first step of revolution through seizure of power in 1928, Chiang's rule thus began a period of what his party considered to be " political tutelage " in Sun Yat-sen's name.
During this period, Alston began to teach the 10-year old Jacob Lawrence, whom he strongly influenced.
During this period Pissarro began to understand and appreciate the importance of expressing on canvas the beauties of nature without adulteration.
Toward the end of the Impressionist period, she began to avoid Degas, against whose " wicked tongue " she was unable to defend herself.
However, during the same period, a group of ambitious producers began working outside the boundaries of DOC regulations to make what they believed would be a higher quality style of Chianti.

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