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highroad and one
Thus, on the highroad, a troop of soldiers `` marched in their own dust and sang '', while on the footpath one man walks alone.
The difficult route from Cerfennia to the valley of the Aternus, a drop of nearly 300 m, involving too the crossing of the main ridge of the Apennines by the modern Forca Caruso was, however, probably not made into a highroad until Claudius ' reign: one of his milestones ( Corp. Inscr.

highroad and at
It was not on a highroad, but on a branch between the Via Appia at Minturnae and the Via Latina crater mentioned.
Via Caecilia, an ancient highroad of Italy, which diverged from the Via Salaria at the 35th mile ( 56 km ) from Rome, and ran by Amiternum to the Adriatic coast, passing probably by Hadria ( Atri ).

highroad and first
The first sentence, with its platitudinous irony, announces an emblematic intent: `` The way to the churchyard ran along beside the highroad, ran beside it all the way to the end ; ;
Considerable remains of the road exist in the neighborhood of Rome ; for the first 40 Roman miles, as far as Compitum Anagninum, it is not followed by any modern road ; while farther on in its course it is in the main identical with the modern highroad.

highroad and belongs
But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

highroad and .
This strange person quarrels with a cyclist because the latter is using the path rather than the highroad.
But he is more interesting than the others, the ones who come from the highroad to watch him, more interesting than Life considered as a cyclist.
In later times, however, there was in all probability a shortcut by Rufrae along the line taken by the modern highroad and railway.
Via Aurelia is an ancient highroad of Italy, the date of the construction of which is unknown.
Its line is in the main closely followed by the modern coast highroad.

one and might
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.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.
`` I might try it one of these days '', Jack said wonderingly, thinking of Miss Langford.
Just as present technology had to await the explanations of physics, so one might expect that social invention will follow growing sociological understanding.
Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.
When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.
`` Preferably '', said Carl, `` one battered and worn, such as might be found in a pawnshop ''.
It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.
One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.
In any case, she told Thompson that she saw no reason why he might not see Katie again, `` now that this frank explanation has been made & no one can misunderstand ''.
Finally he learned through the grapevine that the culprit might be one James W. Robinson in Pope County.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
It might be well to consider the literary evidence first because it can provide us with an answer to one important question ; ;
For the sad truth is that while one might write well without having read Bartleby The Scrivener, one is more likely, to write well if one has `` read it, and much else.
But, who knew, that might be coming one of these days.
In this letter, Mr. Kennedy made it clear that he limited his comment only to one consideration -- what effect the legislative proposals might have on future anti-trust judgments.
What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

one and say
No one had much to say.
Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.
As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.
At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;
if one bullies, they say it is because one is afraid ; ;
if one shuns, they say it is because one desires ; ;
The day passed eventfully enough, with a constant stream of visitors, some stopping only to say hello, others getting into serious conversations, such as one Andre Fuchs, a free-lance journalist from Strasbourg who wrote an article for the Nouvelle Alsatian in highly sympathetic terms.
To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.
`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.
`` They say that our steeple is one hundred and sixty-two feet high.
`` You're gonna get caught '', she heard Joel say to Uncle Randolph by the pump one morning.
Bobby Joe was trying to get Linda Kay to say she would cook one if he brought it home.
Some plants go overboard on one type of fringe -- say a liberal retirement plan -- and find themselves vulnerable elsewhere.
We couldn't be seen together, for the tongue of Scandal was ever ready to link our names, and the tongue of Scandal finds but one thing to say of the association of a man with a girl, no matter how innocent.
`` Oh, I forgot to say that if one is taken to the funny house in the funny wagon, he is removed to a mental institution in an ambulance.
However one looks at it, therefore, I'd say that your horoscope for this autumn is the reverse of rosy.
Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.
In that event, we can correctly say that we have received an authoritative interpretation of the matter, and one which we can follow statewide with confidence that the policy will not be overthrown in other Superior Courts.
One can make them say the same thing only by not listening to them very carefully and hearing only what one wants to hear.

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