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was and our
The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;
Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.
I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.
When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
Already our leaky lifeboat was filled with five inches of water.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
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 ''.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.
The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.
Its refrain was: `` let us return to the individualistic democracy of our forefathers for our salvation ''.
The biggest loss, of course, was the individual's lessened desire and ability to give his services to the growth of his company and our economy.
Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

was and hope
Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.
The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.
the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.
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.
There was a finality in the rhythm of the prayer -- it was the end of a life, the end of hope, and the wondering if there would ever be another beginning.
It was, the brief writers decided, `` man's best hope for a peaceful and law abiding world ''.
Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.
Their only hope of survival was to hold to the road and keep marching.
I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.
Since writing was practiced in the Aegean before the end of the century, we may hope that the details of tradition will now be occasionally useful.
An early hope that irradiation might be the ultimate answer to practically all food preservation problems was soon dispelled.
For Blanche, Kitti's death was a source of guilty, but nonetheless soaring, happy hope.
In Blanche's defense, it must be said she was unaware of the newborn hope.
Kitti was thirty years younger than Stanley, taller than Stanley, prettier than Stanley had any right to hope for, much less expect.
Even as the conviction of truth roared through him, shattering his last hope of safety, he was reaching to release the hand brake, to head up the road for home, doing her bidding.
What was that old sign, supposed to be painted over a door somewhere, Abandon hope, all ye who enter here??
There was, of course, no hope it really would be that simple.
`` Don't forget, there was the hope it would pass for a natural death '', Pauling reminded him.

was and educate
His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family, let alone educate them in a town without even a school.
The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.
Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.
It was Pissarro ’ s intention during this period to help “ educate the public ” by painting people at work or at home in realistic settings, without idealizing their lives.
As it was formulated to educate the public on how to counter doublespeak via education, its aim was to reach the widest possible audience of citizens.
Later, when she was 10 years old, a governess, Miss Edgeworth, a poor gentlewoman, was employed to educate Elizabeth and her sister.
A dramatist's role was not just to entertain but also to educate his fellow citizenshe was expected to have a message.
It was not necessary for the revolutionary government to educate the French people on the background of the symbol.
Though he had a happy childhood surrounded by his many siblings, his family knew Francis was likely to be a future Emperor ( his uncle Joseph had no surviving issue from either of his two marriages ), and so in 1784 the young Archduke was sent to the Imperial Court in Vienna to educate and prepare him for his future role.
His father, who was a lawyer, died while he was a child, and his mother was left with very small means ; but her sister, who was lady of the chamber to the Landgravine of Hesse, helped to support and educate her numerous family.
The role of the Marxist vanguard party was to politically educate the workers and peasants to dispel the societal false consciousness of religion and nationalism that constitute the cultural status quo taught by the bourgeoisie to the proletariat to facilitate their economic exploitation of peasant and worker.
The original purpose of the academy was to train novices and young sisters as teachers, but the Sisters also recognized a need to educate other young women.
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood's father, Chaudhry Sharif Khan, was a local village leader ( Numberdar ) and put all his income to educate his eldest son who stood first in his High school and stand in 3rd position in the Punjab Matric Board.
Despite this unenviable start, Huxley was determined to educate himself.
Thailand had insufficient time to educate its population in preparation for western political, industrial and economic changes, albeit female vote was granted since the first general election.

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