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On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.
Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.
It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.
In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.
He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.
Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.
It is really the funeral day of scholastic science.
F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.
I suppose the day will inevitably come when the area will be encrusted with developments, but at present it is deserted and seductive.
`` The reason for this '', the orders said, `` is that the enemy may think to take advantage of the celebration of this day.
Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.
Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.
Across the way from the apartment building is a ruined house, shot to hell that day in 1849, and left that way as a memorial.
Prince Sihanouk's powers of prognostication some day may be confirmed but history is not likely to praise the courage of his convictions.
It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;
Our only obligation for this day is to vote, free of persuasion, for the person we feel is capable in directing the public.
Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.
`` Our objective '', the colonel had said that day of the briefing, `` is Papa-san ''.
One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.
`` This is moving day '', Winston reminded her, `` and I bet you left things every which way upstairs, your clothes all over the floor and the bed not made.
The day is now appropriately set aside to honor the American men and women who have contributed to the success of our merchant marine fleet in peace and war.

day and perhaps
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
One day the dogs of Ireland will do that too and perhaps also the pigs ''.
And then perhaps one day we get to Athens.
Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.
the days seemed short, perhaps because his routine was, each day, almost the same.
In the late medieval period, Ælfheah's feast day was celebrated in Scandinavia, perhaps because of the saint's connection with Cnut.
Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture.
With his next venture, Bowie, in the words of biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture ".
Footage of the performance survives ; photographs taken that day show Sullivan looking angry and Holly smirking and perhaps ignoring Sullivan.
In April 1983, in coordination with the IMF, the PNDC launched an economic recovery program, perhaps the most stringent and consistent of its day in Africa, aimed at reopening infrastructural bottlenecks and reviving moribund productive sectors — agriculture, mining, and timber.
Setting each page would take, perhaps, half a day, and considering all the work in loading the press, inking the type, pulling the impressions, hanging up the sheets, distributing the type, etc., it is thought that the Gutenberg – Fust shop might have employed as many as 25 craftsmen.
After several attempts and hardships, ACS representatives in December 1821 succeeded, perhaps with some threat of force ( see American Colonization Society ), to buy Cape Mesurado, a 36-mile long strip of land near current day Monrovia, from the indigenous ruler King Peter.
Angier also notes that swearing is a widespread but perhaps underappreciated anger management technique ; that " men generally curse more than women, unless said women are in a sorority, and that university provosts swear more than librarians or the staff members of the university day care center "; and that linguistic research has shown that the physiological reactions of individuals who are proud of their education are similar between exposure to obscene words and exposure to bad grammar.
It started in Egypt, and reached Constantinople the following spring, killing ( according to the Byzantine chronicler Procopius ) 10, 000 a day at its height, and perhaps 40 % of the city's inhabitants.
Once an unknown local charity event, the day has recently become controversial, perhaps since a description was published.
Most modern Christian churches continue to uphold the belief that there will be a final Resurrection of the Dead and World to Come, perhaps as prophesied by the Apostle Paul when he said: "... he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world ..." ( Acts 17: 31 KJV ) and "... there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
The beasts and fowl of their own accord entered the kitchen of Solomon's palace, so that they might be used as food for him, and extravagant meals for him were prepared daily by each of his 700 wives and 300 concubines, with the thought that perhaps the king would feast that day in her house.
Swedish traditional dishes, some of which are many hundreds of years old, others perhaps a century or less, are still a very important part of Swedish everyday meals, in spite of the fact that modern day Swedish cuisine adopts many international dishes.
" The rectorate was an attempt to see something in the movement that had come to power, beyond all its failings and crudeness, that was much more far-reaching and that could perhaps one day bring a concentration on the Germans ' Western historical essence.
Development of the egg starts only when incubation begins, so they all hatch within a day or two of each other, despite perhaps being laid over a period of two weeks or so.
The day after, Verdi wrote to his friend Muzio in what has now become perhaps his most famous letter: " La traviata last night a failure.
Her feast day on July 15 is perhaps the biggest social event in the city.
In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service will still consider income tax returns as filed on time though it receives them late if they are postmarked on time, and this date ( with, perhaps, other proofs of mailing ), may have significance as regards legal filings and proofs of service ( though in this case the date may viewed as " on time " if the date of the postmark is no more than one day after the date service is supposed to have been made ).
In Thackeray's own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels.

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