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Then, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their true guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch up on the news.
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.
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
only -- it did not.
Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.
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 ''.
Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.
This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.
Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.
He could only watch with a sort of gentle dismay while his body did these quick, appalling, and efficient things.
She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.
The window looked out on the Place Redoute -- it was the only window of the apartment that did.
He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.
Unstained sections mounted in buffered glycerine or sections treated only with NS or Af did not show such green fluorescence.
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.
He did not really listen to others, had little interest in their ideas, and wanted to have his own way -- which was the only right way.
There is only one sense in which it is valid to talk about Hardy's development: he did develop toward a more consistent and more effective control of that tone which we recognize as uniquely his.
Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.
wetting a wart with this saliva on wakening the first thing in the morning was supposed to cause it to disappear after only a few treatments, and strangely enough many warts did just that.
The actions of Bridget should be examined, since she was there and opportunity did exist, if only to establish her innocence.
Since the A.L.A.M. holdings embraced only about twenty-five per cent of motor vehicle patents, the denial of rights to independent companies did not retard technical progress in unlicensed sectors of the industry.
The moment the sea closed over Nick, some atavistic sense warned him that he would survive in this alien element only if he did not panic.

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While Aristotle censors literature only for the young, Plato would banish all poets from his ideal state.
In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.
In the ideal state, for instance, he argues that the young citizens should hear only the most carefully selected tales and stories.
But the only ideal he can think of is `` Sales ''!!
The internal energy of an ideal gas depends on temperature only and is independent of pressure or volume.
The concept of the Middle Kingdom at peace, strong and united under a forceful ruler, which had been only a longed-for ideal in the time of the Warring States, was finally realized by the establishment of a Chinese Empire under the Ch'in dynasty ( 221-207 B.C. ).
Antoninus in many ways was the ideal of the landed gentleman praised not only by ancient Romans, but also by later scholars of classical history, such as Edward Gibbon or the author of the article on Antoninus Pius in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:
Note that the above formula is only applicable to classical ideal gases and not Bose – Einstein or Fermi gases.
For an ideal gas, the temperature remains constant because the internal energy only depends on temperature in that case.
Consequently the Gaussian theory only supplies a convenient method of approximating to reality ; and no constructor would attempt to realize this unattainable ideal.
An ideal amplifier would be a totally linear device, but real amplifiers are only linear within limits.
An ideal I of A is called maximal if I ≠ A and if the only ideal properly containing I is A itself.
Theravadin bhikku and scholar Walpola Rahula ( Sri Rahula Maha Thera ) has stated that the bodhisattva ideal has traditionally been held to be higher than the state of a śrāvaka not only in Mahāyāna, but also in Theravāda Buddhism.
As noted in the introduction, Bézout's identity works not only in the ring of integers, but also in any other principal ideal domain ( PID ).
On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to “ wickedness ” do they “ sink to the level of being an animal .” On justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor and criminal.
Congregationalism expressed the viewpoint that ( 1 ) every local church is a full realization in miniature of the entire Church of Jesus Christ ; and ( 2 ) the Church, while on earth, besides the local church, can only be invisible and ideal.
On the other hand, to the extent that our society is out of sync with the actualizing tendency, and we are forced to live with conditions of worth that are out of step with organismic valuing, and receive only conditional positive regard and self-regard, we develop instead an " ideal self ".
This formula only gives the ideal thermal efficiency.
The main concept, however, common to all idealist epistemologies is the centrality of Reason: ( i. e.: ' Reason ' with a capital ' R '): a priori Reason: Knowledge can only be, ultimately, a product of the mind and is therefore, by definition, ' ideal '.
A resistive circuit is a circuit containing only resistors and ideal current and voltage sources.
In contrast, ideal fluids can only be subjected to normal, compressive stress which is called pressure.
In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.
Hilbert produced an innovative proof by contradiction using mathematical induction ; his method does not give an algorithm to produce the finitely many basis polynomials for a given ideal: it only shows that they must exist.

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