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next and thing
He had his chance the very next morning, for exactly the same thing happened again.
What awful thing had she to face in the next few hours??
As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.
The technique got to Europe almost immediately, and Segundo de Chomon and others at Pathé took it further, adding clay animation, in which sculptures were deformed from one thing into another thing frame by frame in Sculpture moderne ( 1908 ), and then Pathé made the next step to the animation of silhouette shapes.
With Bauhaus flying in on similar wings could it be the next big thing ?".
In the Doctor Who serial The Green Death ( 1973 ), The Doctor temporarily stumps BOSS by asking it " If I were to tell you that the next thing I say would be true, but the last thing I said was a lie, would you believe me?
The most important of these commands was the space character, which means " go on to the next thing ", where the next thing could be the next page, the next article, or the next newsgroup, depending on where the user was in the process of reading news.
The conditions in Sicilian sulfur mines were horrific, prompting Booker T. Washington to write " I am not prepared just now to say to what extent I believe in a physical hell in the next world, but a sulphur mine in Sicily is about the nearest thing to hell that I expect to see in this life .".
The Miami Dolphins would do the same thing the next year.
The next day, Homer is dirty and disheveled, and begs Marge to take him back, saying the one thing he can offer her that nobody else can is " complete and utter dependence.
A January 2005 Newsweek article suggested that Internet telephony may be " the next big thing.
As he surveys the desolate battlefield — which has already attracted looters — he laments, in voice over, that " next to a battle lost, the saddest thing is a battle won ".
He has four close friends: Claude Funston, a hapless working man ; Griffy, a stand-in for Bill Griffith, who often appears in the strip to complain about various aspects of modern life ; Shelf-Life, a fast-talking schemer always looking for " the next big thing "; and Vizeen Nurney, a 20-something lounge singer who, despite her rebellious image, has an optimistic and sympathetic nature.

next and knew
Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.
and, when you took a walk you never knew what adventure or pair of sparkling eyes were waiting around the next corner.
He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.
The wastebasket stood near the wall next to the divan, and the instant Casey picked it up he knew what had happened.
Only paved alleyways tunneled through the walls of those fortresses into the mysterious core of intimacy behind the houses where backyards owned no fences, where one man's property blended with the next to form courtyards in which no one knew privacy.
And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.
Unbeknownst to General Baratieri, Emperor Menelik knew his troops had exhausted the ability of the local peasants to support them and had planned to break camp the next day ( 2 March ).
After Nicolae Ceauşescu ( the communist leader of Romania ) was executed in a revolution, Alia knew that he would be next if changes were not made.
His esteem for Maimonides knew no bounds: he placed him next to the Prophets, and he exhibited little patience with Maimonides ' critics and detractors.
Rashi had no sons and taught the Mishnah and Talmud to his daughters, until they knew it by heart as Jewish tradition teaches, they then transferred their knowledge of original Mishnah commentary to the Ashkenazi men of the next generation.
Davidson notes that there is no mention of a sacred tree at Þingvellir in Iceland yet that Adam of Bremen describes a huge tree standing next to the Temple at Uppsala in Sweden, which Adam describes as remaining green throughout summer and winter, and that no one knew what type of tree it was.
" I knew not what it meant, then: I know not what it means, now ; but I wrote it down: and, sometime afterwards, the rest of the stanza occurred to me, that being its last line: and so by degrees, at odd moments during the next year or two, the rest of the poem pieced itself together, that being its last stanza.
And while he was well aware of the Caliphate's strengths and weaknesses ; they knew next to nothing about the Franks.
Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia or " Alix " ( as her immediate family knew her ) was born at the Yellow Palace, an 18th-century town house at 18 Amaliegade, right next to the Amalienborg Palace complex in Copenhagen.
I was burrowing ahead trying to get to the park as quickly as possible and then the next thing I knew, I turned around and I saw he'd gone white, gray really, and he fell and his hand brushed me as he fell and he hit the pavement with the most terrible crack and I thought he'd fractured his skull.
Over the next two years, both Shearer and Irving would see other people, but Hollywood insiders knew it was something of a charade – she was just waiting for him to propose.
His next works were similar: sombre, realistic and filled with detailed evocations of Paris, a city Huysmans knew intimately.
Learning about their actions, Magnus knew that their next target would be Norway.
d ) they could not be certain that the two halves of the map, held together by a binding strip glued on the back, had ever been a single sheet — unlike any other known medieval double-page map ; looking at the map, it is clear that the artist knew exactly, to the nearest millimeter, where it was going to be folded, because several place-names start or finish right next to it while none are written straight across it, and the rivers of eastern Europe run parallel to it ;
If one knew, for example, that the character ought to start with " kt ", but was unsure what the next component should be, typing " ktz " would produce a list of all characters starting with " kt ".
" Audra Dibert Himes, in an essay entitled " Knew shame, and knew desire ", notes a more subtle reference to Myrrha: Mathilda spends the last night before her father ’ s arrival in the woods, but as she returns home the next morning the trees seemingly attempt to encompass her.
By the next week, Kricfalusi had hired animators he knew who had been working at other studios.
Hearns, however, knew he needed the next few rounds to secure another world title, and he outboxed Benitez in round twelve using his jab.
The next day he told Elizabeth everything he knew regarding Catherine and her pregnancy.

next and was
He stood watching the girl, wondering what was coming next.
Now, he was just in the late poems of Holderlin and therefore had most of the nineteenth century before him -- plus next semester's class preparation.
The next day he was gone.
Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.
His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
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.
He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.
Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.
Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.
Blackman was to be in New York by February 2, because they were sailing at 12:01 next morning.
But when former Gov. Marvin Griffin and Lt. Gov. Byrd accepted the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join the tour next November, the situation was aggravated.
It was next day that Sojourner came and sat beside him and took his hand.
There was always a pause here, before the next line.
If there was a fire or a flood he would save Mama first and Violet next.
I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.
The next morning, as the clock struck nine, he appeared at the Council meeting in the Town Hall and insisted that the couple would have to be punished if the Church was to be respected.
In the room next to theirs was a huge cradle, of mahogany, ornately carved and decorated with gold leaf.
Rector's next stop was at the schoolroom, where Mavis was monitoring a test.
Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.
Winston had heard because he was setting up the liquor tray in the next room.

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