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One day, I placed a painting against the fence and stood away and had a look.
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One day the dogs of Ireland will do that too and perhaps also the pigs ''.
One of the most distressing of these scenes occurred at Spring Green toward the end of the open warfare, on a beautiful day in June.
One day he followed the Irish Jasper Greens, the town band, to a picnic and spent the entire day listening, while his family spent the day looking.
One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.
One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.
One day I tired of following the Hetman's advice of `` shadowing '' and of the `` ring-around-the-rosie '' approach to a report that Enrico Caruso had pinched a lady's hip while visiting the Central Park monkey house.
F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.
One day Alfred told him that he had decided to leave everything to me.
One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.
Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.
One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.
One day over a year before, there had been a cocktail party in an apartment of a downtown hotel.
`` One day our species promises co-existence, and the next day it threatens co-extinction ''.
One day, the children had wanted to get up onto General Burnside's horse.
One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.
One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.
One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.
One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.
`` One, modern equipment -- much of it supplied under the Marshall Plan -- enables Fiat to turn out 2,100 cars a day.
One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase.
A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").
One now leads to Aberdour railway station, a beautifully kept and cared for example of a traditional station, in keeping with its role of transporting at least a quarter of the village's working population to their work each day.
One and I
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
One Monday morning I saw him approach the store with a woman and introduce me to her as my new Aunt.
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.
One of the uniformed officers stepped in my way, demanding to know whether I had permission to enter Germany.
One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.
`` One thing I notice which I have seldom heard mentioned.
If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.
The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.
One year I simply set the plants in the remains of a compost pile, to which a little sand had been added, and I had the most beautiful pansies in my, or any of my neighbors' experience.
One said, `` When I get a cold I buy a bottle of whiskey for it, and within a few hours it's gone ''.
One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??
One hebephrenic woman often became submerged in what felt to me like a somehow phony experience of pseudo-emotion, during which, despite her wracking sobs and streaming cheeks, I felt only a cold annoyance with her.
One hebephrenic women confided to me, `` I live in a world of words '', as if, to her, words were fully concrete objects ; ;
One thing, I am sure of, you must get an interest in life.
One wrote: `` ( I am so hungry ) I could eat a rider off his horse & snap at the stirups ''.
One has to talk confidentially with some of the directors of vocational high schools to realize that a boy cannot just say, `` I want to be a plumber '', and then, by doing good work, find a job.
One manufacturer who held an allegedly basic patent said: `` I would readily put over $50,000 into the manufacture of the device, but it is so easy to make that we would enter immediately into a prolonged ordeal of patent litigation which would eat up all our profits ''.
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One wife, described by a New York psychologist, so dominated her husband that she actually placed their sexual relationship on a schedule, writing it down right between the weekly PTA meetings and the Thursday-night neighborhood card parties.
One condition placed on the Bauhaus in this new political environment was the exhibition of work undertaken at the school.
One system employed in these devices was the use of pegs and cams placed into a wooden drum at specific locations, which would sequentially trigger levers that in turn operated percussion instruments.
One problem with some cable systems is the older amplifiers placed along the cable routes are unidirectional thus in order to allow for uploading of data the customer would need to use an analog telephone modem to provide for the upstream connection.
One final, amusing example that comments on the importance Roman poets placed on their verse rules comes from the Ars Poetica of Horace, line 263:
One could appease the elves by offering them a treat ( preferably butter ) placed into an elven mill – perhaps a custom with roots in the Old Norse álfablót.
One custom that persists in modern-day Ireland is the baking ( or more often nowadays, the purchase ) of a barmbrack (), which is a light fruitcake, into which a plain ring, a coin and other charms are placed before baking.
One of the first written laws in the world, the Code of Hammurabi was inscribed on a stele and placed in a public place so that all could see it, although it is thought that few were literate.
In 1975 the Asian elephant was placed on Appendix One of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) which prevents international trade between member countries.
The African elephant was placed on Appendix One in January 1990.
One person has placed his head at Jesus ' feet, and an old man is conversing with Jesus and four others are standing by.
One of the best examples in the late century orchestral music is Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gruppen, for three orchestras placed around the audience.
He says that “ the plays themselves contain occasional references to the fact that the state is at arms ...” One good example is a piece of verse from the Miles Gloriosus, the composition date of which is not clear but which is often placed in the last decade of the 3rd century BC.
One variation on sweet tea is known as sun tea, which is brewed by leaving loose tea or tea bags in water in a jar or pitcher placed in a sunny area for several hours.
One of the major changes in the university came during the 1870s when a greater emphasis became placed upon research.
One of the most important events in those times was the foundation of the Diocese of Wrocław by the Polish Duke ( from 1025 king ) Bolesław the Brave in 1000, which, together with the Bishoprics of Kraków and Kołobrzeg, was placed under the Archbishopric of Gniezno in Greater Poland, founded by Otto III in 1000.
One coupling is placed on each shaft so the two flanges line up face to face.
One theory suggests that certain products are placed together or near one another that are of a similar or complementary nature to increase the average customer spend.
One such field modification was made to Kennedy's PT-109 which was equipped with a single-shot Army M3 37mm anti-tank gun that her crew had commandeered ; they removed the wheels and lashed it to 2x8 timbers placed on the bow only one night before she was lost.
One school of thought, held by John Terraine and recently by William Philpott, holds that the Battle of the Somme placed unprecedented stresses on the German Army's manpower, so that after the battle it was unable to replace casualties like-for-like ; this had the strategic effect that by the end of the battle the Allied and German armies ' effectiveness was closer.
One portion of a true bound salad will hold its shape when placed on a plate with an ice-cream scoop.
One Stone, called Elendil's Stone, was placed in the tower of Elostirion in the Tower Hills, just west of the Shire.
One Stone was placed at Minas Ithil in the mountains that came to be known as the Ephel Dúath.
One Stone was placed at Angrenost ( Isengard ) in Orthanc, the great tower built by the Dúnedain in the Second Age at the southern end of the Misty Mountains.
One Stone, the " palantír of Anárion ", was placed at Minas Anor, which eventually became the capital of Gondor and was renamed Minas Tirith.
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