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The day before the journey, Pyne passes the time talking to General Poli about items in the newspaper, mainly the search for a crooked financier called Samuel Long who is on the run and is rumoured to be in South America.
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The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.
Unlike so many of the power-starved intellectuals in underdeveloped nations of our own day, they commanded both prestige and influence before the Revolution started.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
His letter of October 26 named two of the men about whom Quiney had written to Shakespeare the day before.
But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.
The day before Election Day, to which we are entitled as a legal holiday, we were informed to report to our respective polls to work as `` workers of the party ''.
Couldn't take them near a river, though, or they'd squawk like a turkey cock the day before Thanksgiving ''.
If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.
If A taxpayer dies, the executor, administrator, or legal representative must file the final return for the decedent on or before the 15th day of the 4th month following the close of the deceased taxpayer's normal tax year.
Returns of estates or trusts are due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of the tax year.
Do buy meat the day or the day before you intend to cook it.
One day over a year before, there had been a cocktail party in an apartment of a downtown hotel.
Lizzie stated during the inquest that while her father and uncle were in the sitting room the afternoon before the murders, she had been disturbed by their voices and had closed her door, even though it was a very hot day.
Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular disturbance in the gallery, were both touched off by the death, in Katanga, the day before, of Patrice Lumumba.
`` Come on, let's hurry down before they lock up for the day ''.
She had assumed before then that one day he would ask her to marry him.
These included, as one, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Payne, who had checked in a little after noon the day before, and had not checked out together.
The next day, Sunday, the hangover reminded Haney where he had been the night before.
This deprived him of liberty in Hong Kong, but he told Boats McCafferty that Hong Kong was a book he had read before, and the Navy would always bring him there again, some day.
I, who until that day before had been Mrs. Salter's friend, her equal, was the servant now.
Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.
day and journey
Like journey, the distance that could be travelled in a day, the title ' journeyman ' derives from the French words for ' day ' ( jour and journée ) from which came the middle English word journei.
Once ready and underway, the journey up-river to the Inner Station, Kurtz's station, takes two months-to the day.
Later that day, Hamlet tells Horatio how he escaped death on his journey, disclosing that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been sent to their deaths instead.
After a journey along the coast, Ibn Battuta next arrived in the island town of Kilwa in present day Tanzania, which had become an important transit centre of the gold trade.
By the end of the second day, December 7, the Americans were nearly out of food and water, low on ammunition and weak from the journey along the Gila River.
Conceived as a sort of Japanese playwright's version of an American musical about American influences on Japan, Pacific Overtures begins its journey to the present day in July 1853.
" I'm afraid the return journey is going to be dreadfully tiring and monotonous ", wrote Scott on the next day.
And to Solomon ( We subjected ) the wind, its morning ( stride from sunrise till midnoon ) was a month's ( journey ), and its afternoon ( stride from the midday decline of the sun to sunset ) was a month's ( journey i. e. in one day he could travel two months ' journey ).
If a pair of twins are born on the day the ship leaves, and one goes on the journey while the other stays on Earth, they will meet again when the traveler is 6 years old and the stay-at-home twin is 10 years old.
One day his son – now eighteen and having never before left the mountain – accompanies him because Filipo is too infirm to make the journey alone.
The California leaves New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounds Cape Horn at the tip of South America, and arrives at San Francisco, California after the 4 month 21 day journey.
After he was wounded in the lung by an artillery strike, he endured a five day train journey amid squalor and unchanged bandages.
Stagecoaches were operating: one description stated that the journey took all day to reach London, from 4am to being “ in time for supper ”.
Hurtigruta visits Molde every day, on its journey between Bergen and Kirkenes.
On that day many servants were allowed to visit their mothers and were often served frumenty to celebrate and give them a wholesome meal to prepare them for their return journey.
He needed to find significant water sources – enough for up to 800 head of cattle, a day ’ s walk apart – where wells could be dug, and enough good grazing land to sustain this number of cattle during the journey south.
The delay was caused by a four day journey Bering had embarked upon directly eastwards in search of North America, to no avail.
The next day, Napoleon and Marie Louise made the journey to Paris in the coronation coach.
We conceive the abstract idea of life in terms of our experiences of a journey, a year, or a day.
He arrived in Memphis in the second week of November with a much-diminished company, and ferried over the Mississippi River the next day and continued his journey on horseback through Arkansas.
According to Skáldskaparmál, the gods Odin, Loki and Hœnir set out one day on a journey, traveling through mountains and wilderness until they were in need of food.
The firm of Canson Mongolfier continues making paper to this day and on the anniversary every year on the first weekend in June a large hot air balloon gathering celebrates the event of the first journey.
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