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The two men are very different: Milo is from a working-class background, the son of an Italian immigrant, and has become wealthy through ownership of a fashionable London hairdressing salon ; Andrew, by contrast, is from an upper-class background, and has become wealthy as a successful writer of popular, though now old-fashioned, crime fiction novels, which feature an aristocratic amateur detective, St. John Lord Merridew, and is obsessed with playing games.
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They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
The two men whipped their horses into town and flung themselves up the steps of the saloon, crying their intelligence.
A company of cavalry couldn't come in there if two men were guarding that trail ''.
You reckon there's two men in this state can shoot like that ''??
Zing was the creation of two men, Louis Thor and Bill Blake, partners in zing!!
While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.
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.
Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.
It made only a tiny bump over the two men like a tire over a piece of gravel then moved on.
The two men in overalls stood just behind the blonde-headed man.
The Colt roared twice and two men dropped, writhing.
But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.
The two men resemble each other closely in their cunning, their egotism, their relentlessness.
The company grew out of efforts by two completely inexperienced men in their late twenties, neither having a formal education applicable to, or experience in, manufacturing or selling our type of articles.
Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.
It purported to be a reasonably serious attempt at a treatment of jazz musicians, their aims, their problems -- the tug-of-war between the `` pure '' and the `` commercial '' -- and seemed a promising vehicle, for the two men shared a common interest in jazz.
It is reasonable to affirm two propositions: Jews have been perceived by non-Jews as all things to all men ; ;
As summer cooled into fall and winter, even so the relationship between the two men continued to grow colder by the day, and by December of 1834 it was icy.
It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.
His letter of October 26 named two of the men about whom Quiney had written to Shakespeare the day before.
There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.
`` Sure, we met a barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're young, beautiful and the toast of two continents '' `` Remember Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road ''??
Prevot had briefed the two new men that afternoon.
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.
When finally the two bedraggled men reach their friend's home, Voltaire's fears are once again aroused.
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But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
( There are two receivers in case one should be dropped and damaged.
It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.
The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.
These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.
Here are the two Preambles: Federal Constitution, 1789
Whatever pole of this contrast one emphasizes and whatever the tension between these two approaches to understanding the artistic imagination, it will be readily seen that they are not mutually exclusive, that they belong together.
But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.
Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.
In the mystery story, as in The Wealth of Nations, individualism and the social good are two sides of the same benevolent coin.
So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.
These ways are absolutely irreconcilable because they offer two different recipes for man's redemption from chaos.
Within this context of spontaneous and unanalyzed responses to the experience of civilizational crisis, two basic organizations of response are observable: reaction and ideological progressivism.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
Here, in two nations alone, are almost five hundred million people, all working, and working hard, to raise their standards, and in doing so, to make of themselves a strong bulwark against the spread of an ideology that would destroy liberty.
`` the matters to be considered are obviously of a grave character, and I therefore respectfully request that the hearing be postponed for two weeks in order that I might make adequate preparation ''.
Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.
But there are at least two reasons for contemplating one's mind in even a cracked mirror.
Regardless of the decision two facts are clear.
Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.
The speed is controlled by pressing on the two brake buttons located where the index finger and thumb are placed when holding the motor.
The biggest nuclear device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, although our B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs apiece.
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