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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.
He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.
Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.
The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.
The sun was noon high and Matsuo perspired until his body was dripping.
He didn't look back and he ran until he was out of sight of the schoolhouse and out of breath ; ;
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.
Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.
Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

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The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.
Brought up at Douai as a Roman Catholic by Jesuit priests, he was converted to Protestantism in 1682 and came to abjure popery, and published Protestancy proved Safer than Popery ( 1686 ).
On 30 November 1682 he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Haddo, Methlic, Tarves and Kellie, Viscount of Formartine and Earl of Aberdeen.
), 1611 – 1682 ) ( Ottoman Turkish: اوليا چلبى ) was an Ottoman Turkish traveler who journeyed through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years.
He died sometime after 1682 ; it is unclear whether he was in Constantinople or Cairo at the time.
In 1682 he was made Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and was created, on 13 November, Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Formartine, and Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves and Kellie, in the Scottish peerage, being appointed also Sheriff Principal of Aberdeenshire and Midlothian.
Scottish politics in the late 18th century was dominated by the Whigs, with the benign management of Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll ( 1682 – 1761 ), who was in effect the " viceroy of Scotland " from the 1720s until his death in 1761.
Henry Purcell Senior, whose older brother Thomas Purcell ( d. 1682 ) was also a musician, was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King Charles II of England.
Soon after Purcell's marriage, in 1682, on the death of Edward Lowe, he was appointed organist of the Chapel Royal, an office which he was able to hold simultaneously with his position at Westminster Abbey.
Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.
An early recorded lucid dreamer was the philosopher and physician Sir Thomas Browne ( 1605 – 1682 ).
John Hadley ( 1682 – 1744 ) was mathematician inventor of the octant, the precursor to the sextant.
The name " transcendental " comes from Leibniz in his 1682 paper where he proved sin x is not an algebraic function of x. Euler was probably the first person to define transcendental numbers in the modern sense.
Arguably his greatest accomplishment was Methodus Plantarum Nova ( 1682 ), where he published over 18, 000 plant species.
New town, founded by the will of King Louis XIV, it was the de facto capital of the kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789, before becoming the cradle of the French Revolution.
From May 1682, when Louis XIV moved the court and government permanently to Versailles, until his death in September 1715, Versailles was the unofficial capital of the kingdom of France.
The status continued unofficially until the area was included in William Penn's charter for Pennsylvania, on August 24, 1682.
Year 1682 ( MDCLXXXII ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
The first recorded use of red-brown as a color name in English was in 1682.

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I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.
As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.
Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.
With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.
So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.
Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.
Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.
Actually, of course, that label `` controversial '' applied only because he was carrying out the mandate given him by the world organization he headed rather than following the dictates of the Soviet Union.
Hans' student days were at a time when Europe was in a new intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France, Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent.
I was, it seemed, persona non grata in every quarter, but not entirely without a staunch following of noted political thinkers and students of jurisprudence.
The mean temperature of the surface was then computed according to the following relation: Af where x is the fraction of the plug area covered by the hot spot.
The mixture was then extracted with alkali and with water following which the carbon tetrachloride was distilled on a Vigreux column, a 25% center cut being retained which was then degassed under vacuum in the presence of Af.
This chlorine-carbon tetrachloride solution was illuminated for a day following which the flask was resealed onto a vacuum system and the excess chlorine distilled off.
The desired amounts of inactive chlorine and radioactive chlorine were likewise condensed in these cells on the vacuum line following which they were frozen down and the manifold as a whole was sealed off.
This was accounted for primarily by the presence of a bronchial artery closely following the pulmonary artery.
While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.
For instance, the following statement was rated low in compulsivity, `` She's naturally quite neat about things, but it doesn't bother her at all if her room gets messy.
and there was ample evidence of the following sort to corroborate him.
When the patient was not allowed to move his body in any way at all, the following striking results occurred.
The storms of the past had died away, and the great upheaval which was to mark the following century had not yet begun to disturb men's minds.

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