It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.

Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

On the one hand, he does not work for a large agency, but is almost always self-employed.

This is done for simplicity of commands and to bring the hidden redundancy up to where misunderstanding has almost zero possibility.

and almost the only `` cure '' is early detection and removal.

Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!

Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.

Men seem almost universally to want a sense of function, that is, a feeling that their existence makes a difference to someone, living or unborn, close and immediate or generalized.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

It is no longer possible to say that a sceptical attitude towards the received accounts of the invasions almost automatically produces a `` shore occupied by '' interpretation.

The chancellor of the Exchequer wrote on the petition: `` in myn opinion it is very resonable and conscionable for hir maiestie to graunt in relief of this towne twise afflicted and almost wasted by fire ''.

the prolusion in which the autobiographic statement about the epithet occurs is such a mass of intentionally buried allusions that almost nothing in it can be accepted as true -- or discarded as false.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

Many of these aspects will be seen as comparable to those of the ideal detective, but where the detective is active and militant, the jazz musician is passive, almost a victim of society.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

Admirably written, it is a perfect introduction to Swedish history for readers of other countries.

By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.

Now what is perfect motion??

Thus, circular motion is itself one of the essential characteristics of completely perfect celestial existence.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.

Yet you feel the orchestra is near at hand, and the individual instruments have the same firm presence associated with listening from a good seat in an acoustically perfect hall.

Probably no location for a pool is perfect on all counts.

The way in which it transports its pollen is not so perfect, either.

Second, if there is ever a perfect time to pull the rug out from under him, it's on maneuvers.

Its rotunda forms a perfect circle whose diameter is equal to the height from the floor to the ceiling.

It is hard, on the other hand, to blame the policeman, blank, good-natured, thoughtless, and insuperably innocent, for being such a perfect representative of the people he serves.

This acquisition is a matched, perfect set -- consisting of two sofas six feet long, plus six sidechairs and two armchairs.

Looking unto God, the Prophet Isaiah wrote these blessed words almost three thousand years ago: `` Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee ''.

Mr. Foy is a joy, having learned his dancing by practicing it until he is practically perfect.

Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.

Algerian music is a perfect reflection of the cultural diversity that characterizes the country, music directories are distinguished by a profusion of several styles.

Therefore the perfect of these verbs would be ich bin gesessen, ich bin gelegen and ich bin geschlafen respectively ( note: ich bin geschlafen is a very rare form, usually you will hear ich habe geschlafen ; but ich bin eingeschlafen fell asleep is quite normal ).

In the variant of German that is spoken in Germany, the words stehen ( to stand ) and gestehen ( to confess ) are identical in the present perfect: habe gestanden.