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Curds are mentioned in the Middle Irish parodic tale The Vision of Mac Conglinne, the relevant portion of which reads: Stately, pleasantly it sat, A compact house and strong. Then I went in: The door of it was dry meat, The threshold was bare bread, cheese-curds the sides. Smooth pillars of old cheese, And sappy bacon propsAlternate ranged ; Fine beams of mellow cream, White rafters-real curds, Kept up the house.
Numerous gaps in the text make this portion of the tale obscure.
In Finette Cendron, the fairy godmother is the heroine's, but after helping her in the early portion of the tale, she is offended when Finette Cendron does not take her advice, and Finette must work through the second part with little assistance from her.
Based on a portion of the book, it reduced the tale to an ' Ecology Strikes Back ' scenario, common in science fiction movies at the time.
Now begins a portion of the tale which involves intense industrial competition.
Literary critics believe that a large portion of the tale may have been written before the rest of the Canterbury Tales and the four most contemporaries added later.

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Who will deny that in a vast portion of the South the Federal action is incompatible with the Jeffersonian concept of `` the consent of the governed ''??
The deployment of a portion of these forces beyond our shores, on land and sea, is persuasive demonstration of our determination to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies for collective security.
yet here was a depth of sensibility which is lacking in a considerable portion of the beneficiaries of our civilization.
Intangible property is taxable wherever the owner has a place of abode the greater portion of the year.
There was one vote for location being the place where the property is situated for the greater portion of the twelve months preceding the assessment date.
At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.
Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.
The measured brightness temperature is a good approximation to the brightness temperature at the center of the lunar disk because of the narrow antenna beam and because the temperature distribution over the central portion of the moon's disk is nearly uniform.
The Maturity Chart for each sex demonstrates clearly that Onset is a phenomenon of infancy and early childhood whereas Completion is a phenomenon of the later portion of adolescence.
Mr. Alexander H. Wheelan's Study Helps In Point And Figure Technique tells the readers: `` We assure you that the total number of people using this method of market analysis is a very small portion of the sum total of those operating in the securities and commodities markets ''.
Because the rake angle Af at the tip of the knife is very much smaller ( or even negative ) when compared to the value of **yc for the major portion of the knife, a very rapid increase in cutting force with thickness will result.
Essentially, the stator or reference portion of the pickoff is established with respect to the true heading direction, and the platform is turned either manually or automatically until the angular electrical pickoff signal is reduced to zero.
Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.
And to " measure " is to place a shorter measuring length s successively ( q times ) along longer length l until the remaining portion r is less than the shorter length s. In modern words, remainder r = l − q * s, q being the quotient, or remainder r is the " modulus ", the integer-fractional part left over after the division.
The inner portion of the seed coat is usually completely collapsed.
The ovary is inferior with often a thin tubular portion at its apex formed by joined tepals or the tip of the ovary.
The most productive portion of arable land is that from sediments left by rivers and the sea in geological times.
Ware in the southern portion of the region, particularly after 1150 CE, is characterized by heavier black-line decoration and the use of carbon-based colorants.

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That's why the FDA, the American Medical Association ( AMA ), and the National Better Business Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $610 million or so paid to medical charlatans annually.
Speeding up the low portion of memory is particularly useful on 6502 derived machines because that processor has a faster addressing mode for the first 256 bytes and so it is common for software to put any variables involved in time critical sections of program into that region.
Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.
After we had done so, he shook his head in disbelief, still thinking that he had received the smaller portion.
By the 1890s, the portion from 23rd Street to 34th Street was so brightly illuminated by electrical advertising signs, that people began calling it " The Great White Way.
This took so much time that the monks began to spread it over a week, dividing each day into hours, and allotting to each hour its portion of the Psalter.
Colombia planned to finance US $ 4 billion of the estimated US $ 7. 5 billion overall cost, most of which would go towards the social portion of the project, but was ultimately unable to do so due to the state's 1997 – 1998 economic crisis.
Due to the large number of calculations, a work in progress is usually only rendered in detail appropriate to the portion of the work being developed at a given time, so in the initial stages of modeling, wireframe and ray casting may be used, even where the target output is ray tracing with radiosity.
The 16-bit slots were a superset of the 8-bit configuration, so most 8-bit cards were able to plug into a 16-bit slot ( some cards used a " skirt " design that interfered with the extended portion of the slot ) and continue to run in 8-bit mode.
* The amplifying element is biased so the device is always conducting to some extent, normally implying the quiescent ( small-signal ) collector current ( for transistors ; drain current for FETs or anode / plate current for vacuum tubes ) is close to the most linear portion of its transconductance curve.
In a typical F wave study, a strong electrical stimulus ( supramaximal stimulation ) is applied to the skin surface above the distal portion of a nerve so that the impulse travels both distally ( towards the muscle fiber ) and proximally ( back to the motor neurons of the spinal cord ).
He says that if a figure be any how divided and the compartments differently coloured so that figures with any portion of common boundary line are differently coloured — four colours may be wanted but not more — the following is his case in which four colours are wanted.
The cornerstone of the Maratha rule in Malwa rested on the 60 or so local tax collectors ( kamavisdars ) who advanced the Maratha ruler '( Peshwa )' a portion of their district revenues at interest.
An ISIS interface can run scanners at or above their rated speed by linking drivers together in a pipe so that data flows from a scanner driver to compression driver, to packaging driver, to a file, viewer, or printer in a continuous stream, usually without the need to buffer more than a small portion of the full image.
The entire state is vulnerable to a tornado strike, with the extreme southern portion of the state slightly less so than the rest of the state.
This was initially interpreted to mean that the medium drags the aether along, with a portion of the medium's velocity, but that understanding became very problematic after Wilhelm Veltmann demonstrated that the index n in Fresnel's formula depended upon the wavelength of light, so that the aether could not be moving at a wavelength-independent speed.
There are stringent restrictions on the uses of the area formally demarcated as the masjid ( which is often a small portion of the larger complex ), and, in the Sharia, after an area is formally designated as a masjid, it remains so until the Last Day.
The lush primeval forest which once covered the eastern coastal plain, where the Amerindians built their first settlements during the Aceramic period, is gone forever, and so is a large portion of the ecosystem surrounding the coral reef just offshore.
A portion of these neutrons may later be absorbed by other fissile atoms and trigger further fission events, which release more neutrons, and so on.
Asunción subsequently became the nucleus of a Spanish province that encompassed a large portion of southern South America — so large, in fact, that it was dubbed " La Provincia Gigante de Indias ".
A small but significant portion of this starch is resistant to digestion by enzymes in the stomach and small intestine, and so reaches the large intestine essentially intact.
His departure from Ireland was deeply lamented by the reflecting portion of the people, and was speedily followed by those disastrous results which he had anticipated, and which he so ardently desired and had so wisely endeavoured to prevent.
Briley Manufacturing, a maker of interchangeable shotgun chokes, uses a conical portion about 3 times the bore diameter in length, so the shot is gradually squeezed down with minimal deformation.

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