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place and was
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.
The place was quiet.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.
But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.
It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.
The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.
He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.
Mama swirled the train in place, and not a step was lost.
The Acropolis had been scheduled for the treatment too, but apparently it was to take place at the time of the full moon when the Athenians themselves, out of respect for the natural beauty of the occasion, were wont to forgo their own usual nocturnal illumination.
With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.
One can imagine that with her and Gorton there it was no place for anyone with weak nerves.
At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.
The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.
It would, however, reach the proctors and other officers in charge of the public-school performances of the incepting bachelors, and the place that any individual obtained in the lists depended greatly on how he comported himself in the public schools during his acts therein as he was incepting.
My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.
The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.
But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.
This was one place where Moonan could go for a drink in a back booth without anyone noticing him, or at least coming up and hanging around and wanting to know all the low-down.

place and evidently
He evidently earned the place assigned him.
The author of this entry was evidently alluding to the custom of celebrating Mass privately at the altars near or over the tombs of the martyrs in the crypts of the catacombs ( missa ad corpus ), while the solemn celebration always took place in the basilicas built over the catacombs.
As nothing is essential to the fable, but unity of action, and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety, I cannot think it much to be lamented, that they were not known by him, or not observed: Nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him, that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus.
The later part, taking place on the planet of the " centaurs "— intelligent, horselike carnivores who dominate all other fauna on the planet including deformed human-like creatures — is evidently intended as Heinlein's commentary on and antithesis to the fourth part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
However, local Indians had evidently looted the hiding place, and White found " about the place many of my things spoyled and broken, and my books torne from the covers, the frames of some of my pictures and mappes rotten and spoyled with rayne, and my armour almost eaten through with rust "
Richard was evidently well aware of the threat from this quarter since in the summer of 1485, when Stanley sought permission to leave the court and return to his northern fastness of Lathom, the king insisted that his son, George Stanley, Lord Strange, take his place at court as a token for his father ’ s good behaviour.
Another place of medieval pilgrimage in Norway is the island of Selja on the northwest coast, with its memories of Saint Sunniva and its three monastery churches with evidently Celtic tradition similar to Skellig Michael.
* Lepreus: A town in Elis, it is suggested by The Hoopoe as a good place to start a new life but it is rejected by Euelpides because it puns with leprosy, which reminds him of Melanthius, a poet whose skin was evidently as bad as his verse ( line 149 ).
the names Lucinus, Marinus, Martinus ), evidently the name of the estate's owner, according to a well-known pattern of late imperial and medieval place name formation.
One, represented in a minority of manuscripts, sometimes called the " Old Greek " version, seems to represent the Septuagint translation, evidently so unsatisfactory that the early Church opted to substitute Theodotion's version in its place, in the official copies of the LXX that have survived.
However, the mountain evidently continued to be the holy place of the Samaritans, as it is mentioned as such by the Gospel of John and coins produced by a Roman mint situated in Nablus included within their design a depiction of the temple ; surviving coins from this mint, dated to 138 – 161 CE, show a huge temple complex, statues, and a substantive staircase leading from Nablus to the temple itself.
At this time it was evidently a place of importance and a strong fortress, but it was so severely punished for its defection by Sulla after the final defeat of the Samnites in 84 BCE, that Strabo speaks of it as in his time utterly deserted.
This disproportionate production of some things, which is overproduction in relation to the production of other things, is the only kind of overproduction that can take place on any considerable scale, and the overproduction of which we hear so much is evidently of this character.
He published several pamphlets in the course of his principalship, all evidently inspired by the desire to place the education of the people in the hands of the church, though his view of the church itself and its doctrines was by no means a narrow one.
Bernard Cornwell in his 2003, The Heretic, has as a character, Genevieve, a condemned Beghard heretic rescued by the main character, Thomas of Hookton, an archer in the service of the Earl of Northampton campaigining in northern France, where the story takes place ... evidently far from the geographical origins of the beghards, however, Genevieve's character is well traveled.
" And if any person ... such books in the form aforesaid do not deliver, then the diocesan of the same place in his diocese such person or persons in this behalf defamed or evidently suspected and every of them may by the authority of the said ordinance and statute cause to be arrested ...".
In generally describing Tyre's empire from west to east, Tarshish is listed first ( Ezekiel 27. 12 – 14 ), and in Jonah 1. 3 it is the place to which Jonah sought to flee from the Lord ; evidently it represents the westernmost place to which one could sail.
The accumulated " fragrances " are evidently released by the males at their display sites in the forest understory, where matings are known to take place.
The story takes place in a world modeled after ( and evidently parodying ) that of a generic role-playing video game.

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