:" In 1811, the overland party of Mr. Astor's expedition, under the command of Mr. Wilson P. Hunt, of Trenton, New Jersey, although numbering sixty well armed men, found the Indians so very troublesome in the country of the Yellowstone River, that the party of seven persons who left Astoria toward the end of June, 1812, considering it dangerous to pass again by the route of 1811, turned toward the southeast as soon as they had crossed the main chain of the Rocky Mountains, and, after several days ' journey, came through the celebrated ' South Pass ' in the month of November, 1812.

:" During the morning of Monday April 17th 1995 whilst on passage from Jersey to Sark, the French catamaran " Saint-Malo " struck a rock known as La Frouquie, 900 metres north of La Corbière Lighthouse.

:" In its original form, Gee's work is intricate and tactile, and while the imagery is sometimes almost overwhelming, the primary concerns are those of a painter ; dealing with form and space.

French philosopher Jean Guitton said that Pope Paul VI's intention was to assimilate the Catholic liturgy to the Protestant :" The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy — but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord ’ s supper ... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, in the Mass and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.

Wichitas claim the name comes from their word " waks ' ahe: ts ' i " ( The apostrophe represents a glottal stop, like the middle sound in " oh oh "; " a " is schwah (" uh "); " e :" sounds almost like the " a " of " hat "; " ts " before " i " in this language often sounds like " ch " to English speaking ears ; " i " has the continental value, like the one in English " machine ").

:" Unlike the daily strips, which traced narratives that went on for many months, the Sunday pages almost always worked as discrete units ," Heer writes.

:" Having successfully negotiated almost its entire 118 minutes, The Edge shoots itself in the foot.

:" The Foss Dyke is almost certainly Roman.

:" it is almost indisputable that he accepted advancement in 523 as the immediate successor of Boethius, who was then falling from grace after less than a year as magister officiorum, and who was sent to prison and later executed.

:" Tried on more than 1, 400 patients for almost two years, it has proved effective for many kinds of pain in the muscles and around joints — charley horse, tennis elbow, stiff neck, torticollis (' wryneck '), whiplash injury, muscular rheumatism, and muscle pain resulting from slipped disks ".

:" Yet the truth is that the crowds are unlikely to return once they have been exhausted by the charade of inconvenient walkways that appear almost intentionally to confuse all but those with perfect map navigational skills.

:" On the afternoon of Sunday, May 25, 1986, almost seven million people joined hands to form a line that stretched – from New York City's Battery Park to the RMS Queen Mary pier in Long Beach, California.

Military historian Max Hastings :" In contrast to almost every other outstanding commander of the war, Slim was a disarmingly normal human being, possessed of notable self-knowledge.

One passes through the veil of the exterior world ( which, as in Yoga, but in another sense, becomes " unreal " by comparison as one passes beyond ) one creates a subtle body ( instrument is a better term ) called the body of Light ; this one develops and controls ; it gains new powers as one progresses, usually by means of what is called " initiation :" finally, one carries on almost one's whole life in this Body of Light, and achieves in its own way the mastery of the Universe.

:" It is almost inconceivable that any men calling themselves seamen, however frightened they might be, could spend twenty minutes bombarding a fleet of fishing boats without discovering the nature of their target.

:" the group lost almost all its supporters when it threw its weight behind people like Mr Milošević.

:" The island is roughly rectangular and nearly cut in two where the long voes of Whale Firth and Mid Yell almost meet.

:" In the last decade or so, after almost a century of saloon art and horse operas that romanticized Indian fighters and white settlers, Americans have been developing a reasonably acute sense of the injustices and humiliations suffered by the Indians.

:" Out of the trees came Forrester of the Buffs, clad in shorts, a long yellow army jersey reaching down almost to the bottom of the shorts, brass polished and gleaming, web belt in place and waving his revolver in his right hand [...] It was a most inspiring sight.

:" Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.

:" Many of the people there ( in India ), who are strict in their religion, drink no Wine at all ; but they use a Liquor more wholesome than pleasant, they call Coffee ; made by a black Seed boiled in water, which turns it almost into the same colour, but doth very little alter the taste of the water: notwithstanding it is very good to help digestion, to quicken the spirits, and to cleanse the blood.

:" Then walked to Whitehall, where saw nobody almost, but walked up and down with Hugh May, who is a very ingenious man.

:" The effect of his thorough knowledge of intelligence duties and of his hard work in training his subordinates became apparent almost at once.

:" closely interlacing in an almost impenetrable forest, they served to support others which, crumbling with age, fertilised the soil with their debris ;

:" Cole ’ s campaign is thinly veiled ideological propaganda, and it comes with myriad problems, not the least of which is the simple fact that almost nobody believes “ underperforming teachers ” should be protected.

:" Captain Roy Hoffmann was the commander of the Navy Coastal Surveillance Force, and it was Hoffmann ’ s decision to send Navy Swift boats up the narrow rivers in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam — almost always without support from helicopters or artillery — where they ran the risk of mines and were fired on almost at will by Viet Cong dug in along the river ’ s banks.

:" The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power.

:" Now they say that Penthesileia was the last of the Amazons to win distinction for bravery and that for the future the race diminished more and more and then lost all its strength ; consequently in later times, whenever any writers recount their prowess, men consider the ancient stories about the Amazons to be fictitious tales.

:" hree women, whose bodies were covered with tumours, and who seemed to have lost the strength of their back-bones, filled adjoining seats.

:" Op 1 april verloor Alva zijn bril " translating into " On April 1st, Alva lost his glasses ",

The rest of the RAM was used as a RAM disk ( exposed under the drive letter " M :" for " memory "), which was much faster than a floppy disk but lost all its data when the machine was powered off.

:" If mother Prague, the pearl of the Western Slav world, is to be lost in a German sea, what awaits my dear homeland, Slovakia, which looks to Prague for spiritual nourishment?

" Thalberg was impressed and began grooming the new starlet the following day :" the studio arranged to fix her teeth, made sure she lost weight, and gave her an English tutor.

:" Believe me, I who am speaking to you with full knowledge of the facts, and who tell you that nothing is lost for France.

:" Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel.

:" It's lost, but not by much.

:" Palestine refugees are persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

:" All this was lost on Alice, who was still looking intently along the road, shading her eyes with one hand.

:" In a world where all experience was based in the glorious lost past of Antiquity, he made a new beginning.

:" The Bactrians, involved in various wars, lost not only their rule but also their freedom, as, exhausted by their wars against the Sogdians, the Arachotes, the Dranges, the Arians and the Indians, they were finally crushed, as if drawn of all their blood, by an enemy weaker than them, the Parthians.

:" The Democratic administration has greatly lost the confidence of the American people by its complacency to the threat of communism and the leak of vital secrets to Russia through key officials of the Democratic administration.

:" Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?

:" In honour of the fishermen who lost their lives in the Escuminac disaster, June 20, 1959 .... Pour honorer la mémoire des pêcheurs qui ont perdu la vie dans le désastre d ' Escuminac, le 20 juin, 1959.

:" Antony was furious and employed the punishment known as ' decimation ' on those who had lost their nerve.

:" Knowing that the occupational art of calling was fast receding into the collective memories of railroad retirees, I was motivated to locate individuals and document what I could of their passive repertoire of work song lore, before it was lost.

:" We are lost!

:" A great opportunity was lost in 1867 when the Dominion was formed out of the several provinces.

:" I sat down and wept when I remembered the lost pubs of Burslem, the demolished Star that stood where the Moonglow Ballroom stands now, on the corner of the street of the Preacher and the Tote office ; it was a gaunt, dark building nicknamed the Star of Bethlehem, a grimey stuccoed star the colour of years of wet smoke.

:" Lucy Locket lost her pocket,