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was and perhaps
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
it was perhaps 80 feet high and had been artfully constructed of logs.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.
Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.
They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.
Historical records indicate that Copernicus was unaware of the fundamental aspects of his so-called ' revolution ', unaware perhaps of its historical importance, he rested content with having produced a simpler scheme for prediction.
However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.
Yours, but not mine, was an age in which innocence was fostered and carefully -- if not perhaps altogether innocently -- preserved.
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
by now it was perhaps two days or longer after Papa had begun hemorrhaging.
perhaps he was a little more sympathetic to the sides of beef that hung silently from his hooks.
Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.
What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.
I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

was and Latini
Although the demography of ancient Rome was multi-ethnic, including, for example, Etruscans and other Italics besides the Latini, the latter were the dominant constituent.
Latini, not unsurprisingly, was chef to the Spanish viceroy of Naples, and one of his tomato recipes is for sauce alla spagnuola, " in the Spanish style.
See also Panegyrici Latini 10 ( 2 ) 11. 4 .</ ref > Barnes concludes that Theodora was born no later than c. 275 to an unnamed earlier wife of Maximian, possibly one of Hannibalianus ' daughters.
In the 16th century it was the birthplace of Latino Latini.
He also wrote a work on Latin composition, De emendata structura, Latini sermonis (" On the Pure and Correct Structure of Latin Prose "), which was published in London in 1524 and many times reprinted on the continent of Europe.
The area was inhabited by the Latini during the 5th to 3rd centuries BC.
See also Panegyrici Latini 10 ( 2 ) 11. 4 .</ ref > Barnes concludes that Theodora was born no later than c. 275 to an unnamed earlier wife of Maximian, possibly one of Hannibalianus ' daughters.
Brunetto Latini ( c. 1220 – 1294 ) ( who signed his name Burnectus Latinus in Latin and Burnecto Latino in Italian ) was an Italian philosopher, scholar and statesman.
Brunetto Latini was born in Florence in 1220 to a Tuscan noble family, the son of Buonaccorso Latini.
As a result, Latini was exiled from his native city.
Latini was Dante ’ s guardian after the death of his father.
Dante addresses him with the respectful pronoun voi ; Latini uses the informal tu, as was no doubt their custom when they spoke together in Florence.
According to John D. Sinclair, Dante respected Latini immensely but nonetheless felt it necessary to place him with the sodomites since, according to Sinclair, this sin of Latini's was well known in Florence at the time.
Neither objection rules out the possibility that he was guilty of the perceived sin himself ; and given the setting and context, it is difficult to see that there can be any doubt, particularly following the discovery of a love poem, " S ' eo son distertto inamoratamente " which Latini wrote to a man, Bondie Dietaiuti.
One of these is by Brunetto Latini, who was a close friend of Dante.
Eumenius ( born c. 260 at the latest, more probably between 230 and 240 ), was one of the Roman panegyrists and author of a speech transmitted in the collection of the Panegyrici Latini ( Pan.
Latin Rights ( Latin: ius Latii, Latinitas or ius latinum ) was a civic status given by the Romans, intermediate between full Roman citizenship and non-citizen status ( known as peregrinus ), and extended originally to the people of Latium ( the Latini ).
Flavius Mallius Theodorus ( floruit 376 circa-409 ) was consul of the Roman Empire in 399, and author of an extant treatise on metres, De metris, one of the best of its kind ( H. Keil, Grammatici Latini, vi .).
Dante studied under Florence's Chancellor Brunetto Latini, who was himself away from the battle scene, on embassy in Castile seeking help for Guelph Florence from Alfonso X el Sabio.

was and who
He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.
Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.
He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.
But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.
Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!
Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.
`` You know who the other man was ''??
Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.
I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

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