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" So fast was the Jacobite charge that many Government troops had insufficient time to fix their bayonets, leaving them defenceless at close-quarters ( during this period, the plug bayonet was used, which fitted into the barrel of the musket and prevented further reloading or firing-this meant that fixing bayonets was delayed till the last possible moment ).
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So fast on it that he did more with one bass drum than most people could do with three, if they could manage them.
So Tandem needed to eventually move its NonStop product line yet again onto some other microprocessor architecture with competitive fast chips.
The song began " The pulse I was feeling was thready and fast / So I thought I'd come upon at last / The cause of hypertension of Harvard fame / My steel-trap mind recalled the name of Pheo ...".
* So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic.
So Lord Reay put them to work building a causeway of sand across the Pentland Firth where, of course, the fierce currents wash away the sand just as fast as the fairies can build.
So, I doubt not, it will continue to be for all time, if it remains true to its great heritage and holds fast to the principles of constitutional liberty.
So the choice of the constant C < sub > k </ sub > is especially important-taking too small value will lead to fast growth of the norm of b < sub > k </ sub > and to the overflow ; for too big C < sub > k </ sub > vector b < sub > k </ sub > will tend to zero.
So, even though a steady state, from a theoretical point of view, requires constant drivers ( e. g. constant inflow rate and constant concentrations in the inflow ), the error introduced by assuming steady state for a system with non-constant drivers may be negligible if the steady state is approached fast enough ( relatively speaking ).
So when searching is to be done, the index, which is a representation of the entire data suitable for fast searching, is used.
So and was
So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.
So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.
So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.
So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.
So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.
So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.
So, because he had received less than Tom, it was felt proper that Fred should receive the few hundred dollars that remained.
So choosing a good tree, he clambered up into it, found a comfortable notch, and curled up in it to sleep, like the tousled bear he was, with his hands across his chest, as though surfeited with honey.
So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.
But the greater part of semester time was actually centered around the attitudes: `` So we are married -- now how do we make the best of it ''??
So with all this experience, Bob Fogg was a natural choice to receive the first Emergency Air Mail Star Route contract.
So, after the sitting has been held, several readings at one time are mailed, and the distant sitter ( whose name or whose communicator's name was given to the medium ) must mark each little item as Correct ( Hit ), Incorrect ( Miss ), Doubtful, or Especially Significant ( applying to him and, he feels, not to anyone else ).
So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the regiment.
So strenuous it was physically, with its days of horseback riding over rough roads that it seems an amazing feat of endurance for both Miss Packard and Miss Upton.
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