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One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
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One and thing
`` One thing, Summers '', Brenner said.
One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.
One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.
`` One thing I notice which I have seldom heard mentioned.
One species is restricted to statements which are neither explicit nor precise regarding a particular person, place, time or thing.
One can make them say the same thing only by not listening to them very carefully and hearing only what one wants to hear.
One thing, I am sure of, you must get an interest in life.
One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.
One thing, he thought, nobody knows about it yet.
`` One thing we haven't discussed, expense money.
One thing is certain, however, and that is that he is far more slavish to the detailed accents, phrasings and contours of the music he deals with than a confident dance creator need be.
One thing was becoming increasingly sure.
( One good thing about a suit of armor, his leg wouldn't show.
One thing that is consistent about Poirot's retirement is that his fame declines during it, so that in the later novels he is often disappointed when characters ( especially younger characters ) recognize neither him nor his name:
The Count of Mérode-Westerloo, commander of the Flemish troops in Tallard's army wrote – " One thing is certain: we delayed our march from Alsace for far too long and quite inexplicably.
One thing alone I ask of you, holy Fathers, permit me to live in silence in these forests, near the bones of 17 of my brethren now dead.
A scholar later stated that " One thing you almost never find in a science fiction fanzine is science fiction.
Richardson was suspended from duty for a month, and in the One Rule for One episode of Frontline, fictional reporter Martin di Stasio is suspended for a month for doing exactly the same thing.
One difference between false cognates and false friends is that while false cognates mean roughly the same thing in two languages, false friends bear two distinct ( sometimes even opposite ) meanings.
:" One thing I believe I can assure you: that of my works will certainly endure the second act of Guglielmo Tell, the third act of Otello, and all of il Barbiere di Seviglia.
One thing I will say is we will not reveal him to be a serial killer.
One of the slogans of the television advertisements stated that Intellivision was " the closest thing to the real thing "; one example in an advertisement compared golf games.
One and was
One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.
One swallow was all he would have ; ;
One girl expressed what was obviously in their minds.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.
One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.
One of the pictures was of a man with hat drawn over his face ceremoniously lighting a cigarette ; ;
One cause of Schopenhauer's pessimism was the fact that he failed to learn the guitar.
One was an article on the U.N. by Alice Widener from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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 shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.
One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.
One person she helped was my brother.
One of Sherman's most serious shortcomings, however, was his mistrust of his cavalry.
One can imagine that with her and Gorton there it was no place for anyone with weak nerves.
One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.
One of the people who was afraid of Alfred was his own brother, Lew.
One example of this was his assertion that `` all servile revolts must be dealt with by physical force ''.
One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.
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