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He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.
Howard, who had been sitting against the wall, said he needed more fresh air, and took the spot on the edge of the porch where Bobby Joe had been sitting.
`` I'll leave the air conditioner on for you, Mr. Ferrell '', said Hirey.
Mr. Hawksley said he was not critical of city residents for not knowing what to do or where to assemble in case of an air attack.
Or you could wish your daddy would really do it -- kill Gratt Shafer like he said when you all the time, all along, could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night.
For Lamprias had said that the first articulate sound made is " alpha ", because it is very plain and simple — the air coming off the mouth does not require any motion of the tongue — and therefore this is the first sound that children make.
Air felted to create the flat disk of the earth, which he said was table-like and behaved like a leaf floating on air.
Disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer jokingly said that Love would often " stalk him " at a Denny's restaurant, insisting that he should give " Retard Girl " air time on his station, KROQ.
God reverses the covenant made with Noah in which he said, " The fear and the dread of you will be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea.
He also said of air that its minuscule components are so smooth that one can barely feel them.
At the air base near Tapa, site of the worst damage, officials estimated that six square kilometers of land were covered by a layer of fuel ; 11 square kilometers of underground water were said to be contaminated.
Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.
Israel responded with airstrikes and artillery fire on targets in Lebanon that damaged Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport ( which Israel said that Hezbollah used to import weapons and supplies ), an air and naval blockade, and a ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
In that case these famous words are said to have been uttered " The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it ".
" Major later said that he had picked the number three from the air and that he was referring to " former ministers who had left the government and begun to create havoc with their anti-European activities ", but many journalists suggested that the three were Peter Lilley, Michael Portillo and Michael Howard, three of the more prominent " Eurosceptics " within his Cabinet.
On day 3, Jasmuheen was moved to a mountainside retreat about 15 miles from the city, where she was filmed enjoying the fresh air she said she could now live on happily.
The valuation of the Koh-i-Noor is given in the legend that one of Nader Shah's consorts supposedly said, " If a strong man should take five stones, and throw one north, one south, one east, and one west, and the last straight up into the air, and the space between filled with gold and gems, that would equal the value of the Koh-i-noor.
Although it replaced whale oil, the 1873 edition of Elements of Chemistry said, " The vapor of this substance mixed with air is as explosive as gunpowder.
He once said he felt as though he were writing for people who would think in a different way, breathe a different air of life, from that of present-day men.
The witches ' lines in the first act: " Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air " are often said to set the tone for the rest of the play by establishing a sense of confusion.
In that year IISS said the army included six infantry battalions, one anti-tank regiment, one combat support brigade ( one artillery regiment ), a Presidential Guard of one battalion, and one air defence regiment.
* 1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe ( that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC ) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
Pytheas also speaks of the waters around Thule and of those places where land properly speaking no longer exists, nor sea nor air, but a mixture of these things, like a " marine lung ", in which it is said that earth and water and all things are in suspension as if this something was a link between all these elements, on which one can neither walk nor sail.
" Phlogisticated " substances are those that contain phlogiston and are " dephlogisticated " when burned ; " in general, substances that burned in air were said to be rich in phlogiston ; the fact that combustion soon ceased in an enclosed space was taken as clear-cut evidence that air had the capacity to absorb only a definite amount of phlogiston.

air and was
The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.
He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.
Every plane that could fly was sent into the air.
When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
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.
This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.
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 pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.
Recently the secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation was interviewed on the air.
She was so beautiful with her rosy mouth and haughty air that she had to be wicked.
The music drove them off, or away, and he was free to walk on air in a very few moments, humming and jiving within, beating the rhythm within.
The air was cooler here, and the lacy pattern of the trees threw a dappled shadow on the grass, an effect which he found pleasant.
The boundless blue air was stretched over the zenith like the skin of a drum.
There was the smell of the coast, like a primeval memory, composed of equal parts salt water, clams, seaweed and northern air.
a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.
There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.
But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.
There was the suggestion of ice water, and -- in spite of the protest `` We're not really thirsty '' -- Linda Kay, to escape the stuffy air and the smothering soft voices, hurried to the kitchen.
The doctor, he noticed, was attempting a transverse movement towards the stairs, but before the movement could be completed a distinct and audible cluck ruffled the air in the hollow of the stair-well.
Another strategy -- bolder and tougher -- was also attracting notice in Washington: a naval and air blockade to cut Cuba off from the world, destroy Castro.
When air travel was in its infancy, the sky was considered big enough and high enough for all.

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