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It was a very bitter war, a total war, and that is something that I am afraid has been lost to history .... he presence of the Loyalists ( colonists who did not want to join the fight for independence from Britain ) meant that the War of Independence was a conflict of complex loyalties.
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Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
Neither was he very powerful of build.
He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.
He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.
For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.
Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.
As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.
He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.
He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.
he was very thirsty, but he must observe water discipline.
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.
He was over six feet tall and very thin.
The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.
`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.
It was very widely read, too ; ;
She was now enjoying the voyage very much.
Ann was very troubled.
Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.
Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.
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Reverend Jason was understandably bitter.
And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.
This was a doubly bitter blow to the king.
William, he was called, in honor of the man who was at once Shelley's pensioner and his most bitter detractor.
He was bitter when he missed.
He was bitter and resentful toward her, personally resentful.
Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.
There followed a long and sometimes bitter discussion of the feasibility of elections for the fall of 1957, in which it appears that the Minister of the Interior took the most pessimistic view and that the Istiqlal was something less than enthusiastic.
The mate, Robert Juet, who had kept the journal on the Half Moon, was experienced -- but he was a bitter old man, ready to complain or desert at any opportunity.
This was the bitter end, and Hudson seemed to know he was destined to failure.
Mrs. Tim Williams was about 21, with skin the color of bitter chocolate, and if you discounted the plain dress and worn slippers, she was startlingly pretty.
Initially the White House reaction was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting.
Actually, the dispute between Parker and the society of his time, both ecclesiastical and social, was a real one, a bitter one.
The cynicism was back in her eyes, a bitter wisdom, and I wondered if forty were not so far wrong after all.
I hadn't liked it at first -- it was bitter and burning.
`` There was that fellow out there in the bitter cold '' --
Conflict between the two was constant and bitter in the following years.
Their unhappy marriage and bitter divorce was a great strain for the star.
The document was drawn up with the explicit concern of bringing to an end the bitter inter tribal fighting between the clans of the Aws ( Aus ) and Khazraj within Medina.
The period from the 15th to the 17th centuries was marked by bitter struggles with the Ottoman Empire.
In 1757, he engaged in a bitter dispute with playwright Carlo Gozzi, which left him utterly disgusted with the tastes of his countrymen ; so much so that in 1761 he moved to Paris, where he received a position at court and was put in charge of the Theatre Italien.
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