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She convinced him that he ought to be a member of some of the small tea-drinking parties she held at her rooms and in the end he complied with her wishes, although it was only rarely that he added anything to the random conversations.
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She and convinced
She has studied and observed and she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting.
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She convinced Isaac to send Jacob away by telling him that she despaired of his marrying a local girl from the idol-worshipping families of Canaan ( as Esau had done ).
relation to her Witch-Cult theory, She behaved in fact rather like someone who was a fully convinced member of some unusual religious sect, or perhaps, of the Freemasons, but never on any account got into arguments about it in public.
She, nevertheless, hoped for a future where her son would still be able to rule, convinced that the violence would soon pass.
She became convinced that Elizabeth was " the one girl who could make Bertie happy ", but nevertheless refused to interfere.
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She approached the Patriarch John Xiphilinos and convinced him both to hand over the written oath she had signed to this effect, and to have him pronounce that he was in favour of a second marriage for the good of the state.
She was playing with a rose on the table, and Bogdanovich kept expecting the rose to keel over and collapse ; he recognised in that gesture the way Jacy Farrow plays with guys in the movie, and this convinced him that he had found Jacy.
She therefore was easily convinced to join in the Trojan War, fighting on the side of Troy's defenders.
She gave it to Thyestes, her lover and Atreus ' brother, who then convinced Atreus to agree that whoever had the lamb should be king.
She gave it to her lover, Thyestes, who then convinced Atreus to agree that whoever had the lamb should be king.
She also asked Louisa Adams in a letter dated January 3, 1818, " When will Mankind be convinced that true Religion is from the Heart, between Man and his creator, and not the imposition of Man or creeds and tests?
She becomes increasingly frightened of him, and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her.
" She became convinced that illness could be healed through an awakened thought brought about by a clearer perception of God and the explicit rejection of drugs, hygiene and medicine based upon the observation that Jesus did not use these methods for healing: It is plain that God does not employ drugs or hygiene, nor provide them for human use ; else Jesus would have recommended and employed them in his healing.
She and him
She set the dipper on the edge of the deck, leaving it for him to stretch after it while she looked on scornfully.
She has rarely been photographed with him and, except for Carl's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in Chicago in 1953, she has not attended the dozens of banquets, functions, public appearances, and dinners honoring him -- all of this upon her insistence.
She would hover over him and, looking like her brother, anxiously watch the progress of Scotty's fork or spoon.
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