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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.
I managed to do this by the time the great A.B. returned to the place where he last had seen the fierce nihilist.
I ask you to do me the last favour of reading them by 8 to-morrow evening, about which time I shall come to say my sad good-bye.
He suggested offering half to Sir Edward, fearing lest `` he shall thinke it to good for us and procure it for himselfe, as he served us the last time ''.
It was the last time in history anybody could do something gloriously like that ''.
He's hitting the ball hard, in the batting cage, and his whole attitude is improved over this time last year.
Two days later Mr. Rayburn left Washington for the last time.
`` Seems to me last time I was here the grate bellowed out smoke as it might have been preparing us for hell ''.
Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.
But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.
But at long last came a time when I broke away from Mother and her society `` chi-chi '' in order to spend a cosy evening with Viola and her chaperon at her home.
Typically, the young child's emotional reactions last for a relatively short time, as contrasted to those of an adult.
In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.
This last was probably not in Brumidi's palette, but was needed to take the chill, bluish look off the new work next to the old, where softening effects of time were seen, even after thorough cleaning.
The last time I saw Bird, at Jimbo's Bob City, he was so gone -- so blind to the world -- that he literally sat down on me before he realized I was there.
The last time I saw Dylan, his self-destruction had not just passed the limits of rationality.
Then comes the time when the last wire is removed and Susie walks out a healthier and more attractive girl than when she first went to the orthodontist.
`` Sounds exactly like last time ''.
Then on Monday morning -- or it might have to be Tuesday -- get up and leave just the usual time, and last thing, put the money in an envelope under the old woman's purse there in the drawer.
At last it was time to depart.
It's at the far end of the county and the last time I came here was for a hit and run manslaughter -- about seven months ago.
`` I'd like the room I had the last time ''.
Governor Notte said last night he plans to name a committee to make the study and come up with recommendations for possible changes in time for the next session of the General Assembly.
At the opening of the Dusseldorf show, Thompson himself scarcely glanced at the treasures that he was seeing together for the last time.
An amazing article in the Manchester Guardian of last November, entitled `` Fate Of Redundant Churches '', states than an Archbishops' Commission `` reported last month that in the Church of England alone there are 790 churches which are redundant now, or will be in 20 years' time.

last and Rutherford
After the last foreign troops had gone in 1876 and an international commission headed by Rutherford B. Hayes awarded Paraguay the area between the Río Verde and Río Pilcomayo, the era of party politics in Paraguay was free to begin in earnest.
After the election results became known in August, his departure to Texas was delayed by a court appearance in the last week of October as co-executor of his deceased father-in-law ’ s estate, and he finally left his home near Rutherford in West Tennessee on Nov. 1, 1835, with three other men to explore Texas.
Even up until the last minute, Members of the Legislative Assembly ( MLAs ) loyal to Charles Wilson Cross — the province's Attorney-General and a staunch Rutherford ally — threatened to scuttle the arrangement unless Cross was kept on as attorney-general, to which Sifton refused to agree.
It was in pursuit of this last objective that the Rutherford government found itself embroiled in scandal.
Rutherford was at last successful in the 1902 election, when he ran in the newly created riding of Strathcona.
It at first looked as though he would run unopposed ; however, at the last minute local lawyer Nelson D. Mills publicly accused Rutherford of being not a true independent, but a dyed-in-the-wool Haultain supporter, and announced that he would run against him.
The 1913 election was not the first time Rutherford had dissented from his own party during an election, nor would it be the last.
In 1912, with the University's first graduating class, Rutherford instituted a tradition of inviting convocating students to his house for tea ; this tradition would last for twenty-six years.
Rutherford served on the Loan Advisory Committee of the Soldier Settlement Board after the war, was President of the Alberta Historical Society ( which had been created by his government ) from 1919 until his death, was elected President of the McGill University Alumni Association of Alberta in 1922, and spent the last years of his life as honorary president of the Canadian Authors Association.
Russell's teaching that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built under God's direction was overturned in 1928, when Rutherford asserted that it had been built under the direction of Satan for the purpose of deceiving God's people in the last days.
Professor Hatton-Jones ( Margaret Rutherford ) authenticates it as a royal charter of Edward IV that ceded the house and its estates to Charles VII (" the Rash "), the last Duke of Burgundy, when he sought refuge there several centuries ago after being presumed dead at the Battle of Nancy.
Reconstruction ended at different times in each state, the last in 1877, when Republican Rutherford B. Hayes won the contentious presidential election of 1876 over his opponent, Samuel J. Tilden.
The Obion has four major forks, the North Fork, Middle Fork, South Fork and Rutherford Fork ( the last being named for the town of Rutherford ).
Piebald's last show was on April 19, 2008 at Cambridge, MA's Middle East Downstairs, though the band reunited for a set at The Bamboozle in East Rutherford, New Jersey on May 2, 2010.
Following the conclusion of the European tour 1998, Banks and Rutherford put Genesis on an extended hiatus, leaving Calling All Stations as the band's last studio release.
Rutherford was the last Canadian winner of the Victoria Cross from World War I to die, on June 11, 1989 at the age of 97 .< ref >
* With the Compromise of 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes withdraws federal troops from the South in exchange for being elected President of the United States, causing the collapse of the last three remaining Republican state governments.
Upon being dropped from the New Zealand team in 1995, Rutherford moved to South Africa, where he played first-class cricket for five seasons, first for Transvaal and then for Gauteng ( which replaced Transvaal in 1994 ), before finally retiring, scoring a duck in his very last game.
Samuel Rutherford attended Kenmure on his deathbed and later wrote a tract entitled The last and heavenly Speeches and glorious Departure of John, Viscount Kenmure, printed in Edinburgh in 1649, by Evan Tyler, His Majesty's Printer.
It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1879 to March 4, 1881, during the last two years of the administration of U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Newcastle were a dominant force at the time ; Rutherford picked up three First Division medals, and played in no fewer than five FA Cup finals ( 1905, 1906, 1908, 1910 and 1911 ), though Newcastle only won the 1910 final against Barnsley, winning 2 – 1 in a replay after a 1 – 1 draw ; Rutherford himself scored the equaliser in the first match, in the very last minute of normal time.

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