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was and determined
Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.
The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.
He was determined to spend an industrious summer.
Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
He was a political maverick, a reformer with his own program, determined to bulldoze it through or to blazon the infamy of those who balked him.
To Pike, silence was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and he determined to get Robinson onto the dueling ground at all costs.
But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.
Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.
Whether this, or overt action, was the cause of the crash must be promptly determined.
Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose.
The lower limit was determined by the fact that for smaller flow rates the arc started to strike to the anode holder instead of to the porous graphite plug and that it became highly unstable.
The upper limit was determined by the difficulty of measuring the characteristic anode surface temperature ( see below ) since only a small region of the anode was struck by the arc.
By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.
The actual pressure was not determined because the pressure was beyond the upper limit of the apparatus on hand.
In the liquid phase runs the amount of carbon tetrachloride in each reaction tube was determined by weighing the tube before opening and weighing the fragments after emptying.
The fraction of exchange was determined as the ratio of the counts / minute observed in the carbon tetrachloride to the counts / minute calculated for the carbon tetrachloride fractions for equilibrium distribution of the activity between the chlorine and carbon tetrachloride, empirically determined correction being made for the difference in counting efficiency of Af in Af and Af.

was and hours
He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.
He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.
The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
A rope was found and, like children in school, the missionaries skipped for hours at a time.
S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for breakfast, he was off to the University Club, where he spent hours writing obituaries of living Americans for The Manchester Guardian or The Glasgow Herald.
It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.
He was able, now, to sit for hours in a chair in the living room and stare out at the bleak yard without moving.
It was only hours since I had last seen them, but they had changed and I had changed.
Forty-nine hours after an atomic burst the radiation intensity is only about 1 percent of what it was an hour after the explosion.
that he was `` devoting an average of 100 hours a month to actual preaching publicly '', in addition to 50 to 75 hours in other ministerial duties, and that he opposed war in any form.
Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.
It was recognized years ago that the transition from daytime to nighttime propagation conditions, and vice versa, is not an instantaneous process, but takes place over periods of time from roughly 2 hours before sunset until about 2 hours after sunset, and again from roughly 2 hours before sunrise until some 2 hours after sunrise.
In 1947, affidavits were filed with the Commission by various clear-channel stations alleging that extensive interference was being caused to the service areas of these stations during daylight hours, from class 2, stations whose signals were being reflected from the ionosphere so as to create skywave intereference.
Our building time was slightly over 400 hours -- but the total cost for the hull with Fiberglas bottom, sink, head and hardware was under $800.

was and sunrise
As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.
For these, asha was the course of everything observable, the motion of the planets and astral bodies, the progression of the seasons, the pattern of daily nomadic herdsman life, governed by regular metronomic events such as sunrise and sunset.
Edith Wharton described him as a man " to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the foundation of the Heavenly City ..."
The north-eastern entrance was widened at this time, with the result that it precisely matched the direction of the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset of the period.
And to Solomon ( We subjected ) the wind, its morning ( stride from sunrise till midnoon ) was a month's ( journey ), and its afternoon ( stride from the midday decline of the sun to sunset ) was a month's ( journey i. e. in one day he could travel two months ' journey ).
Upon the 5 a. m. sunrise, reportedly a train whistle was heard ( HIrsch said it was actually a siren ).
) Shortly after issuing orders for the attack, around sunrise, Longstreet was joined at his headquarters by Lee, who was dismayed at this turn of events.
The first one was a lunar eclipse, right above the Valley of Ajalon and the rugged western horizon, at the moon was still eclipsed when reaching the horizon, its middle about an hour before sunrise on December 22, 1471 BCE, with a magnitude of 1. 28 or 128 %.
The text says that he was called Zerah because when he had stuck his hand out before being born, the midwife tied a bright scarlet thread around his wrist ; although all other biblical uses of the word zerah translate as rise, here the name is implied to derive from the colour of the bright thread-scarlet-which is similar to the initial colour of sunrise.
It is speculated by some that she was possibly a goddess of the morning, or of man's waking sense, which causes him to wake up in the morning ; the Doric form of her name is akin to the Greek word for " rooster " ( Alectrona, the feminine genitive of Αλεκτορ, Alektor, the Greek word for " rooster "), while the Greek form Electryone is akin to the word for " amber " ( Ἠλέκτρα, Elektra ), as in the amber color of sunrise ( as opposed to sunset, implied by Helios being her father ); naturally, either of which would be an appropriate name for a solar goddess.
In Hávamál 160 it is said that the dwarf Thjódrørir sang before Delling's doors, which ( in view of the fact that Delling is the father of Dag ( Day ) in Vafþrúðnismál 25 ) may mean that he gave warning to his people that the sun was coming up, and they must return to their dark houses ; the phrase would then virtually mean ' at sunrise.
The deity was associated with thunder, lightning and the sunrise.
The organisms thought she was not returning and were sad, but then came the first sunrise and Yhi returned.
On sunrise there was a Carvel stand.
One of the challenges for the participants was to clock up 100 miles between sunrise and sunset on velocipedes built between 1818 and 1960.
This was quite different from Soviet practice, in which the NKVD would arrest counterrevolutionaries and then have them secretly executed and often buried before sunrise.
The theatre was also able to use new electrical lighting effects to create a powerful sunrise, and to depict the conflagration which ends the opera.
It is thought that the Bowdoin seal, created in 1798 by Joseph Callender, was a sun because it was the first college in the United States to see the sunrise.

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