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The grateful way she looked at Morgan made him ashamed of himself.
The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
`` So it wasn't the earthquake that made him return to his village ''!!
they somehow made me expect to see him launch into a vaudeville tapdance routine any moment.
William Lewis made the rounds of all who lived near him again, that August morning after a bullet landed at his feet, and once more he accused and threatened everyone.
The wailing, guitar-strumming minstrels of the cattle kingdom made up songs about him.
If we have to we'll take him apart and see what he's made of ''!!
But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.
`` Tell him I made a pass at you ''.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
And Keith's record of kills made him a man to listen to -- a man paradoxically, who might even survive.
Some odor made him lean over the man.
And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.
His investigations made him the Paul Revere of accidental war, and safety procedures were enormously increased.
Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:
The extreme limitations he sensed in all current abstract art made that seem to him increasingly arid and cold.
It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.
Such speech differences made him acutely aware of the richness and expressivness of language.

made and little
He carried it in a little wallet made of fish skin ''.
Mary Jane had made very little effort.
Slocum made his reconnaissanace the next morning, found the town empty, accepted the surrender of the mayor and occupied the city a little before noon.
Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
As he pulled the fringed sides up and made himself into a cocoon, Mr. Podger saw that thin, attractive, freckled little face again, and hoped that the boy, too, was lying in a cool, fringed-wrapped quiet.
What it is trying to do is to protect the little man, too, as well as trying to maintain a flow of fresh meat to all stores, with choice of cut being made by the consumer, not the store.
I shook him a little harder and made some noise.
She had made curtains for all the windows of her little house, and she had kept it spotless and neat, shabby as it was, and cooked good meals for Bobby Joe.
There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.
We should say that we made our point with feeling the first time and little or no feeling the second time, but that it was the same point we were making.
Since the mid 1950s, when urethane foam first made its appearance in the American market, growth has been little short of fantastic.
how little we know of what there is to be known is made humiliatingly clear by Mr. White in `` The Making Of The President 1960 ''.
He passed two brides, both wearing orchids, and they made him feel a little sad.
the many little tricks she knew made her embrace the ultimate one -- the ever more fantastic pressures deeper in her body squeezed not me but the air I breathed into a nitrogen anesthetic.
The next morning a little cognac made me feel better -- but what can you do in Paris on Sunday morning??
The secret little corner of his mind, which stayed sane through happiness and pain, made him wonder about B'dikkat.
:" To this day Harold is not quite sure what made him suddenly pour out the whole story to a little man to whom he had only spoken a few minutes before.
Very little mention is made in Christie's work about this part of his life, but in " The Nemean Lion " ( 1939 ) Poirot himself refers to a Belgian case of his in which " a wealthy soap manufacturer poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry his secretary ".
As it was believed that in a colony of free settlers there would be little crime, no provision was made for a gaol in Colonel Light's 1837 plan.
They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.
They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

made and sick
The book proclaimed that the concentration of absolute power in the hands of one man – Porfirio Díaz – for so long had made Mexico sick.
Faith Healing claims have been made by many religions and the sick have visited their shrines in hopes of recovery.
During Jesus ' ministry and after his Resurrection, the apostles healed the sick and cast out demons, made lame men walk, raised the dead and did many other miraculous things.
Returning to Britain, he found that the climate made him sick, leading him to register with a doctor, Edward A. Gregg, who recommended that he try nudism.
The foul air from this mass of human beings at first made me giddy and sick, but I soon got over it.
He loved the sea ; it made her sick.
In 1664, a second attempt was made, but this one also ended badly as the men chosen for the job abandoned their sick commander, Van Niewland, without proper treatment, and the latter eventually died.
Eos tells Parker that an antidote for the Plague has been made and it is being given to any sick miners.
McFadden considered Star Trek women finally on par with the men: " We've come a long way since Majel Barrett was stuck in the sick bay as Nurse Chapel in the and made to dye her hair blond.
They made a living by taking care of and nursing the sick and by doing housework.
We ordain that there shall be no difference or distinction made in respect to the said religion, in receiving pupils to be instructed in universities, colleges, and schools ; nor in receiving the sick and poor into hospitals, retreats, and public charities.
Caroline fell sick with worry, and fainted during a secret visit to her children made without the King's approval.
An attendance allowance was introduced for those needing care at home, together with an invalidity benefit for the long-term sick, while a higher child allowance was made available where invalidity allowance was paid.
Smythe said that it made him sick to think of Jackson alongside such Toronto Maple Leafs players as " Apps, Primeau, Conacher, Clancy and Kennedy.
Women made quilts, wove wool and flax into cloth, made the family clothes, carried water from a well or stream, cooked food in open fireplaces, raised the children, and nursed them when they were sick.
At first when Avis got sick, I thought she just had a cold, but when time passed and she didn ’ t get better, I made her go to a doctor and we found out she had TB … I suppose I knew from when we found out she had the TB, I understood that it was just a matter of time.
He was granted sick leave to visit England for a second time in 1864, where he was entertained by Sir Richard Owen of the British Museum and Sir Roderick Murchison of the Royal Geographical Society, and was made an honorary member of the Athenaeum Club.
Grave of Samuel Dashiell Hammett in Arlington National Cemetery, ( Section 12, Site 508 ) A lifetime's heavy consumption of alcohol and cigarettes worsened Hammett's tuberculosis contracted in World War I, and then according to Hellman " jail had made a thin man thinner, a sick man sicker.
) He is also based on a real person with a greenish skin color that made him look eternally sick.
Some have made claim that sludge in itself, especially the Class B variety, is already weapons of mass destruction as the use of sludge near rural homes has brought claim that people have gotten sick or died due to the presence of sludge on farm land.
He made his acting debut at the age of five, playing a sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound ( 1970 ), and then at age seven appeared in the surrealist Greaser's Palace ( 1972 ).
Trials in the US most notably Denver Colorado showed that Dutch Trig had no effect on saving Elms and that the treated trees were made sick by the treatment.
Most of these children made these trips back and forth many times to get food for their sick mothers or siblings.

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