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was and rather
As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.
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.
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
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 ''.
The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.
The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.
What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.
Adele, like Amy, the youngest of the Marches, was the rebellious, mischievous, rather calculating and ambitious one.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
`` There was nothing else I could do '', the maid answered, satisfied with a rather vague explanation.
Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.
The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.
The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.
it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.
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.
But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.
Over all these fairly awkward problems Khrushchev was to skate rather lightly ; ;
the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.
Wilson was told that it was a sort of hotel for white people, which seemed to him rather queer.
The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

was and childish
Besides, there was something hysterical and silly, something almost childish about an attempt to frighten her.
Maude was neither hysterical nor silly and Sarah rather doubted if she had ever been childish.
As a self-described " confirmed scientific rationalist ", Tylor believed that this view was " childish " and typical of " cognitive underdevelopment ", and that it was therefore common in " primitive " peoples such as those living in hunter gatherer societies.
His parents ordered that his " brain was not to be taxed too much " and Babbage felt that " this great idleness may have led to some of my childish reasonings.
' Fond mamas have brought their sons to me to hear their childish voices lisp the poem, but Thayer's was the worst of all.
One of the most forceful critics of Carlyle's formulation of the Great Man theory was Herbert Spencer, who believed that attributing historical events to the decisions of individuals was a hopelessly primitive, childish, and unscientific position.
In the 17th century the term was used in a pejorative sense due to the childish origins of the term.
Their Fall was thus not a full-blown rebellion but rather a childish spat, a desire to grow up before their time and have everything with immediacy.
However, his mockery of the idea of a round earth was criticised by Copernicus as " childish ".
This seemingly childish song about different animals and people who attempted to punish others for their crimes and were in turn punished themselves, was interpreted by the Vilna Gaon as an allegory to the retribution God will levy over the enemies of the Jewish people at the end of days.
After the death of Owen in 1999, Compo was replaced at various times by his real-life son, Tom Owen, as equally unkempt Tom Simmonite, Keith Clifford as Billy Hardcastle, a man who fancied himself a descendant of Robin Hood, and Brian Murphy as the childish Alvin Smedley.
It was quite different from how we have come to know Tintin, the style being very naïve and simple, even childish, compared to the later stories.
The problem was solved by having Costello affect a high-pitched childish voice.
MGM executive Paul Bern said Bow was " the greatest emotional actress on the screen ", " sentimental, simple, childish and sweet ", and considered her " hard-boiled attitude " a " defense mechanism ".
In the 19th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the meaning was extended " in childish speech, applied to anything soft and furry ", as in Pussy Willow.
She was incontinent and childish.
Maximilian was considered to be rather peculiar ; he had a childish love of circuses and traveled the Bavarian countryside to escape his duties.
Satan had been very much perturbed when he saw that the prayers of the children reached God, who took more delight in the childish songs from their pure hearts than in the hymns of the Levites in the Temple in Jerusalem ; and it was for this reason that Satan tried to put a stop to Besht ’ s training the children in prayers and taking them to synagogue.
As well, Poggioli focused on the idea that Pastoral was a nostalgic and childish way of seeing the world.
In 1943 he was fired by the Federated Press for his anti-war position, which Managing Editor Carl Haessler criticized as " childish.
Nearing remained a regular contributor to the Federated Press ( controlled by the Communist Party for most of its existence ) until 1943, when he was fired for his anti-war position, which Federated Press editor Carl Haessler characterized as " childish.
Mrs. Pinchwife was Elizabeth Boutell or Bowtel, a young actress who had " a childish look.

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