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was and trail
He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.
The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).
`` On the hoof '' was a reference to live cattle and was also used in referrin' to cattle travelin' by trail under their own power as against goin' by rail.
He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.
But it was fun those first days, kidding about the trail of garments he left littered across the rug.
Some worried that as an ex-president, he was too active on the trail, too negative to Clinton rival Barack Obama, and alienating his supporters at home and abroad.
Ufsilåm was a trail with one obstacle ( ufse ) like a jump, a fence, a difficult turn, a gorge, a cliff ( often more than 10 meters high ) and more.
Uvyrdslåm was a trail with several obstacles .< ref >
The site was created by Garmin, but owning a Garmin device is not required for the full use of the site, as there are several Android and iPhone apps that let users access the site while on the trail.
When the Choctaw reached Little Rock, a Choctaw chief ( thought to be Thomas Harkins or Nitikechi ) stated to the Arkansas Gazette that the removal was a " trail of tears and death ".
He stated on that trail that New York City had become a much safer city in the 1990s, once remarking, " God sent an angel ; his name was Rudy Giuliani.
When Superman followed the time trail of a piece of red rock that weakened him, he was able to trace his origin back to Krypton for the first time.
On the campaign trail, St-Laurent's image was developed into somewhat of a ' character ' and what is considered to be the first ' media image ' to be used in Canadian politics.
However, whether a specific meteoroid trail will be primarily composed of small or large particles, and thus the relative brightness of the meteors, was not understood.
The 1833 storm was not due to the recent passage of the comet, but from a direct impact with the previous 1800 dust trail.
Johnston was puzzled by the okapi tracks the natives showed him ; while he had expected to be on the trail of some sort of forest-dwelling horse, the tracks were of some cloven-hoofed beast.
Around 1980, the long-distance trail Grande Traversata delle Alpi ( GTA ) was created to draw more attention to the manyfold of remote, sparsely inhabited valleys.
King steadfastly denied any connection to Bachman and, to throw fans off the trail, dedicated Bachman's 1984 novel Thinner to " Claudia Inez Bachman ," who was, supposedly, Bachman's wife.
His famous Peacock Throne, with its trail blazing in the shifting natural colors of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds, was valued by the jeweller Tavernier at 6½ million pounds sterling.

was and used
It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.
There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.
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.
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.
The governor was not used to having his integrity questioned, and he promptly passed the charges on to Woodruff, demanding that Woodruff answer them.
His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.
It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.
Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.
This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.
It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.
He had ridden hard from Boston, and he was not used to horseback.
It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.
Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.
A wall-stabilized high-current arc source was constructed and used to study transition probabilities of atomic hydrogen and oxygen.
It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.
When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

was and Telemark
The technique was first introduced by ski makers in Telemark, Norway, and remained largely unchanged through the 20th century.
The Telemark ski was the first ski with a significant side cut, and evolved in the Telemark region of southern Norway early in the 19th century.
It was popularized by Sondre Norheim of Morgedal in Telemark, when he demonstrated the ski and the Telemark style of skiing to the public at Christiana, Norway beginning in 1868.
Aurora club members introduced in the 1880s, what became known as “ Red Wing Style ” ski techniques, which was patterned after the Telemark skiing form.
He was born in Skien, Telemark.
Sondre Auverson was born at Øverbø, a little cotter ’ s farm and raised in Morgedal in the municipality of Kviteseid in Telemark.
The technique is named after the Telemark region of Norway, just as the stem Christie turn was named after Christiania ( now Oslo ), Norway.
Telemark skiing was a back-to-basics reaction to the high-tech equipment developments of alpine skiing, and the increasing reliance on crowded groomed pistes served by ever larger and faster mechanical ski lifts.
The Vermont revival was led by Telemark enthusiast Dickie Hall.
At the same time, in southern Vermont, Filippo Pagano ( aka Telemarkfil ) was leading the revival with the opening of the first Telemark Ski School in the Eastern USA at Bromley Mountain.
The Telemark racing series was also started.
The idea for a telemark festival was originally started by NATO ( North American Telemark Organization ) at Mad River Glen in Vermont and organizations such as NET ( New England Telemark ) and others now run festivals all around the U. S. and Canada.
This happened in 1947, and the school's name was Telemark Offentlige Landsgymnas.
The city was then a meeting place for inland farmers and sailing traders, and also as a shipping harbour for whetstones from Eidsborg ( inland Telemark ).
On 1 January 1962, the Espestølsgrenda area ( pop: 7 ) was transferred from Åmli ( and Aust-Agder county ) to neighboring Nissedal municipality ( in Telemark county ).
The Byklestigen pass was the line of divisions between dialects ; in Valle to the south the classic Setesdal tongue was spoken while in Bykle the dialect includes a significant mixture from Telemark.
The CV90 was later used extensively by ISAF-forces of the Norwegian Army's Telemark Battalion in May 2008, when the battalion, during Operation Karez in the Badghis Province, came under heavy machine gun and RPG fire from Taliban fighters.
The Stuart Warburton song " La Jilguera " from his album ' Telemark ' was inspired by his trip through this region and by the tragic stories of the young women involved and the families still praying for news about loved ones.
The turn was named after Kristiania ( now Oslo ), Norway, where the name Kristianiasving was used for the parallel turn, differentiating it from the Telemark turn.

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