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The days when the mundus was open are identified in the oldest Roman calendar as C ( omitiales ) ( days when the Comitia met ) but by later authors as dies religiosus, when it would be irreligious to perform any official work: this apparent contradiction has led to the suggestion that the whole mundus ritual was not contemporary with Rome's early calendar or early Cerean cult, but was a later Greek import.
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Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
Here, in the old days -- when they had come to see the moon or displays of fireworks -- sat the king and his court while priests, soldiers, and other members of the party lounged in the smaller alcoves between.
There were fences in the old days when we were children.
It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.
Gone are the days when, in the nineteenth century, scientists thought that they were close to the attainment of complete knowledge of the physical universe.
Lucius Beebe's book, `` Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car '', fills us with nostalgia, recalling days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery.
This is the period during the melancholy days of autumn when universities and colleges schedule what they call `` Homecoming Day ''.
More often than not, as the Old Grad wanders along the old paths, his memory of happy days when he strolled one of the paths with a coed beside him becomes an ache and a pain.
Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.
It was one with the desolate rocks and the alien water on those days when she hated the sea.
Hans' student days were at a time when Europe was in a new intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France, Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent.
Green lumber was all very well back in the days of wet plaster, when the framing lumber was bound to swell and then shrink as tons of water dried out the gypsum.
The disadvantages to this method are that you may not have as great a choice of models readily available or you may have to wait a few days or, during the busy tourist season, when cars are in great demand, you might find it fairly difficult to get a car at all.
and frightening, as when a wife tells the police that it is funny, but her husband hasn't been home for two days and nights ''.
Cook had discovered a beef in his possession a few days earlier and, when he could not show the hide, arrested him.
Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.
The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.
This damage had been done in the battle of Vientiane, fought less than three months earlier when four successive governments had ruled here in three days ( December 9-11, 1960 ).
Since the days when their two thousand pairs of skis outnumbered those assembled anywhere else in the United States, the students have stopped regarding the Olympic Ski Team as another name for their own.
This became a common byword durin' the boom days when Eastern and foreign capital were so eager to buy cattle interests.
Later, the word became almost exclusively applied to a cow thief, startin' from the days of the maverick when cowhands were paid by their employers to `` get out and rustle a few mavericks ''.
There were mornings when Stanley came in late, afternoons when he left early, days when he didn't come in at all.
days and mundus
Nevertheless, the days when the mundus was open were connected to the official festivals of the agricultural cycle ; the mundus rite of August 24 follows Consualia ( an agricultural festival ) and precedes Opiconsivia ( another such ).
* 24: sacrifices to Luna on the Graecostasis ; and the first of three days when the mysterious ritual pit called the mundus was opened
* 5: second of the three days when the mundus was opened
days and was
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!
In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.
His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.
`` How about your press conference three days later -- what was the reason for that??
It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.
Land was near, and on June 12, one hundred and fourteen days after leaving America, they actually saw, twenty miles away, the coast of Orissa.
Sometimes ships waited for days for such a man, but Captain Heard was lucky.
A few days after this Englishman appeared, Defoe reported to Oxford that Steele was expected to move in Parliament that the Duke be called over ; ;
But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.
It was a somewhat unusual thing for a reporter to have a contract in those days before the epidemic of syndicated columnists.
The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.
Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.
Gorton appeared for her, however, and what he told the magistrates must have been plenty, for he was charged with deluding the court, fined, and told to leave the colony within fourteen days.
But a few days after Fred's return he began hemorrhaging and that was the beginning of early and complete disintegration.
That was in the days before blood banks, of course, and transfusions had to be given directly from donor to patient.
by now it was perhaps two days or longer after Papa had begun hemorrhaging.
A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.
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