Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Rainhill Trials" ¶ 26
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

last and drop-out
Over the last few years, British universities have been subjected to the increasing popularity of national university league tables, which rank universities based on criteria such as their student-staff ratio, drop-out rates and spending on services and facilities.
The film chronicles two Chicago police officers that decide to retire from the force in order to drop-out of life and open a bar in Key West after nearly being killed on the job only to get caught up in making one last arrest before they go.

last and was
That girl last night, what was her name??
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.
It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.
My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.
Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.
At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.
The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.
It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.
Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.
He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.
`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

last and Novelty
* Novelty rounds – themed round a specific word or name ( e. g. all the questions relate to a famous Norman ); ' connections ', where the last answer in the round provides a link to all the previous answers ; true or false ; and various others to break up the general stream of questions.
Other established characters in the TV series included The Man with the Stick, who wore a paper helmet daubed with drawings of what he had witnessed during the last week, and carried a stick with a mystery item attached to the end ; Graham Lister, Reeves ' nemesis who regularly entered the talent show, " Novelty Island ", with a series of dreadful acts ; Donald and Davey Stott, two brothers from the North East with high-pitched voices, who would recreate popular television game shows ; Tinker's Rucksack, a pair of ramblers, one of whom was conducting an affair with the other's wife ; and ' Judge Lionel Nutmeg ', a judge who presided over the " That's Justice " segment of the show.

last and .
When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
Then at last the darkness began to dissolve.
A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.
Purvis and Silas Pettigrew were the last to leave.
The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.
At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.
The Aricaras made one last desperate charge.
Some gracefully soared from the backs of their wounded, screaming mounts to make one last defiant charge before the lead split their hearts or tore their guts.
In the last analysis, though, Wilson had little cause to complain.
He broke out of Folsom last night.
He looked at each of them in turn, Brannon last of all.
`` Every last one of you.
He tramped out of the Miners Rest with his hopes plummeting, and headed doggedly for the Palace Saloon, the last place of any consequence on this side of the street.
Cursing himself for having ridden out the last few days without a rifle in his saddle boot, Russ drew his Colt and examined it briefly.
`` That's the last one we did.
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.
But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

0.750 seconds.