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I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.
The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.
On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.
Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.
This contribution of the neural crest to the great artery smooth muscle is unusual as most smooth muscle is derived from mesoderm.
One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.
He was one of the most successful early etchers, and was unusual for his generation of German printmakers in doing no book illustrations.
One of the most unusual buses ever built was a prop for Paramount Productions in 1935 for a movie set.
Canada is unusual among developed countries in the importance of the primary sector, with the logging and oil industries being two of Canada's most important.
In a fish out of water comedy film, the main character or character finds himself in an unusual environment, which drives most of the humour.
McCarry's most unusual book in the series, also concerning the Christopher family, is Bride of the Wilderness.
This unusual side-effect is usually not noticed by most people, and quickly disappears after the person stops taking carbamazepine.
Linebarger's stories are unusual, sometimes being written in narrative styles closer to traditional Chinese stories than to most English-language fiction.
Stephen Baxter has imagined perhaps some of the most unusual exotic life-forms in his Xeelee series of novels and stories, including supersymmetric photino-based life that congregate in the gravity wells of stars, entities composed of quantum wave functions, and the Qax, who thrive in any form of convection cells, from swamp gas to the atmospheres of gas giants.
It is most unusual for a medium to have more than one primary channel " open " and under control.
One of the most unusual peripherals produced for the PDP-10 was the DECtape.
In Defoe's early life he experienced first-hand some of the most unusual occurrences in English history: in 1665, 70, 000 were killed by the Great Plague of London.
The w-circumflex and the y-circumflex are among the most commonly accented characters in Welsh, but unusual in languages generally, and were until recently very hard to obtain in word-processed and HTML documents.
Among the various Hachijō-daiko rhythms, perhaps the most unusual is the intoxicating honbataki rhythm which is most often sung to by one of the two drummers.
Along with many other members of a group of unusual species collectively called the " Australian megafauna ", it existed from approximately 1. 6 million years ago until extinction some 46, 000 years ago ( through most of the Pleistocene epoch ).
This behavior is unusual to most lanthanides, which almost exclusively form compounds with an oxidation state of + 3.
Authorities disagree on the exact definition of fractal, but most usually elaborate on the basic ideas of self-similarity and an unusual relationship with the space a fractal is embedded in.
A most unusual use of granite was in the construction of the rails for the Haytor Granite Tramway, Devon, England, in 1820.

most and them
By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.
The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.
For a time the President received hundreds of them every day, most of them worthless.
In the Stalag, Helion came to know and love his comrades, most of them plain folk, who, in their extremity, showed true courage and ran great risks to help each other.
These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.
nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.
`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.
Morgan complained to Washington about the men detailed to him for scouting duty, most of them he said being useless.
The league workers search out the pros and cons of the most complex issues and make them available to the public.
It is through them that we have become aware of the divine humanity in man, and therefore, that most people are noble, helpful and good.
Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.
Although they are forbidden to sit with the customers, the dancers are sometimes proffered drinks, and most of them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy.
But while the two men are riding into the country, where they are going to dinner, they are attacked in the dark of the forest by a band of thieves, who strip them of everything, including most of their clothes.
The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries, the secretary said, businessmen from Tokyo for the most part, and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission.
Mrs. Pastern had telephoned most of her neighbors in advance, and most of them were ready for her.
The extent to which we can persuade the less developed countries to appraise their own resources, to set targets toward which they should be working, to establish in the light of this forward perspective the most urgent priorities for their immediate attention, and to do the other things which they must do to help themselves, all on a realistic long-term basis, will depend importantly on the incentives we place before them.
Perhaps the most important incentive for them will be clear evidence that where other countries have done this kind of home work we have responded with long-term commitments.
The solutions were not arrived at by any theoreticians of the Karl Marx stripe but by men of government -- lawyers, most of them -- and men of business.
This colt is behind most of the other 2-year-olds in the Simpson stable but can show about as much pace as any of them.
His patronage on this stretch was made up largely of San Franciscans -- regulars, most of them, and trenchermen like himself.
One or two of the schools have a five year curriculum, but the usual pattern of American education has limited most of them to the four-year plan which seems to be the minimum in acceptable institutions.

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