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Only Cromwell, the giant boatswain, was mild-mannered and respectful.
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Only four regicides, Anthony Stapley, John Carew, Thomas Harrison, and Cromwell himself, were appointed.
Only a Condé or a Cromwell could have enforced discipline and soldierly spirit in such men, ill-clad and unpaid as they were, and the only military quality lacking to Waller was precisely this supreme personal magnetism.
Only Dr. Cromwell, a scientist and now an inmate in an asylum, reacts to their return with violent fits.
Only at the siege of Clonmel did Cromwell suffer significant casualties ( although disease also took a very heavy toll on his men ).
Only those men, such as Cromwell, who has set their hearts on fighting out the quarrel of conscience, kept steadfastly to their purpose.
Only 70000 " Britannia ", which was privately preserved, saw main line service during the preservation era – until 2008, when 70013 " Oliver Cromwell "' s restoration was completed, and she worked part of the " 15 Guinea Special " – a special train run to commemorate the final BR steam working in 1968.
Only and giant
Only minute traces of technetium occur naturally in the Earth's crust — as a spontaneous fission product of uranium-238 or by neutron capture in molybdenum ores — but technetium is present naturally in red giant stars.
Only in Alaska has the shark ’ s diet been studied-most sharks ' stomachs contain remains of giant Pacific octopus.
Only a few million years ago, IC 418 was probably a common red giant star.
Only giant space weapons ( such as the Solar System superweapon in 0083 ) or specialized mobile suit weapons ( such as the Twin Buster Rifle in Gundam Wing or the Satellite Cannon in Gundam X ) could ever hope to damage a falling colony significantly enough to prevent large-scale terrestrial damage.
Only THIS time, I'll break BOTH your legs, you giant mouse, you !").
Only Shockwave calling the giant away to combat the Fallen saved them.
Only Olentzero remained, a giant who appears at Christmas and is reproduced as straw dolls.
Only in using every resource available in town, from workers to the tanks and fighter jets of the national guard, will the player be able to take the fight to the giant ants.
Flattered by the idea of erecting a statue which would be as imposing as those commissioned by the rulers of antiquity, after deciding in favor of Klenze ’ s design Ludwig I wrote, “ Only Nero and I can produce such giant statues ....”
Only two other giant societies are ever seen, in the episodes " The Land of the Lost " and " Secret City of Limbo ".
Only one remained as it turned giant, but was destroyed by the Robo Racer.
Only the fourth monster to grow into a giant during this season.
Only and was
Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??
Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.
Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state.
Only two people in the state of Illinois knew that I was entering Hanover State Hospital under an assumed name, or why.
Only those actually with Payne when he was shot, or who had left the party within not more than five minutes ( make five arbitrary ) positively had none.
Only then, when his glance focused on the divan and saw that it was empty, did he remember his earlier problem.
`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.
Only 11 senators were on the floor and there was no record vote.
Only at this moment -- perhaps because it was before dawn and she was lying in Doaty's bed -- she found herself examining how others might regard her.
Only, this old man's connivance was even less to her taste than Selma Cotter's open censure.
Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.
Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.
Only one year of deficit was recorded, but the price paid was retrenchments and lean public spending.
Only a few weeks after his accession the Ottoman Empire sustained a crushing defeat at the Battle of Slankamen from the Austrians under Margrave Louis William of Baden and was driven from Hungary.
Only then in fact was payment for assembly attendance, the central event of democracy ( Similarly for the period before the Persian wars, but for the very early democracy the sources are very meagre and it can be thought of as being in an embryonic state ).
Only later was it given a different meaning, a process in which Augustine ( Bp of Hippo Regis, 395-430 ) played a part by emphasising the idea of " the link from consecrator to consecrated whereby the grace of order was handed on.
Only a few weeks after signing the agreement, Shuja was deposed by his predecessor, Mahmud.
Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.
Only then was it sent out to the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ), the intelligence chiefs in the relevant ministries, and later on to high-level commanders in the field.
Only one was ever built because Mrs. Beech did not like the aircraft.
Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.
Only and mild-mannered
Only Mullen, a shy, mild-mannered, short bookkeeper, is willing to make an attempt to take back control of the ship, which he does by exiting via the C-Chute ( normally used for launching corpses for burial in space ) and entering the control room via the navigational steam-tubes.
Only and .
Only, they carefully substituted old country folk dances for the Virginia Reels and square dances that were so popular among more worldly trains in the great westward migration.
Only one of the flight scored a direct hit and the rest blew up jungle.
`` Only when I do it ''.
Only the heavy bones of the oxen kept them anchored.
Only the hum of insects and the distant fluttering call of a bird.
Only Blue Throat and his gang stayed where they were.
Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.
Only the President is permitted to authorize the use of nuclear weapons.
Only there happened -- nothing.
Only Walter Lippman envisioned the possibility of our having `` outlived most of what we used to regard as the program of our national purposes ''.
Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.
Only infrequently did the situation color his thinking.
Only by means of an intensive preoccupation with the detailed considerations following from any decision can he ensure attention to the practical details to be dealt with if the implications of immorality in the major decision are effectively to be checked.
Only recently, and perhaps because a television debate can so effectively dramatize President Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have the abilities on which the capacity for making distinctions depend begun to be clearly discernible at the level of politics.
Only the strong look squarely at weakness.
Only imcomplete, imperfect things move towards what they lack.
Only those story tellers will remain who can `` imitate the style of the virtuous ''.
Only when a concert of nations rests on the positive foundations of shared goals and values is it likely to form a viable instrument of long-range policy.
Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.
Only ingenuity will uncover it.
`` Only a discontinuity can end it '', Professor Morrison writes.
Only this time around the conditions are different and the choice is far harder.
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