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Then his father was shot, and Robbins spent much of his remaining childhood and teen years on a farm owned by an Old Mennonite great aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania Dutch country.
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Then she continued with energy, `` I myself did not see her until a week after she had run off to find the father.
Then in 1743 he further alienated his father by marrying Antoinette Champion ( 1710 – 1796 ), a devout Roman Catholic.
Then, after her return to Japanese islands, the boy was born, three years after the death of the father.
Then Lothair finally set out with a large Lombard army, but Louis had promised his sons Louis the German and Pepin of Aquitaine greater shares of the inheritance, prompting them to shift loyalties in favour of their father.
Then, disguised as a Taphian chieftain named Mentes ( otherwise known as “ Mentor ”), she visits Telemachus to urge him to search for news of his father.
Then, in 1920, his father hired tutors to teach him the four books, considered the basis of all Chinese culture.
Then came The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) as Norma Shearer's character's malevolent father ( although Laughton was only three years older than Shearer ); Les Misérables ( 1935 ) as Inspector Javert ; one of his most famous screen roles in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) as Captain William Bligh, co-starring with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian ; and Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 ) as the very English butler transported to early 1900s America.
Then America enters World War I. Jim informs his worried mother that he has no intention of enlisting, but when he runs into his patriotic friends, he is persuaded to do just that, making his father very proud.
Then, when Pike's suspicious minder / valet Muggsy ( William Demarest ) discovers the truth about her and her father, Pike dumps her.
Then, when he heard Jimmy Giuffre playing saxophone on " The Train and The River ", he talked his father into buying him a saxophone, and took lessons in tenor sax and music reading.
Then he successfully recruits Jimmie Sue Altfeld ( Lana Turner, from Johnny Eager ) and unsuccessfully attempts to make peace with her father ( Edward Arnold, from Johnny Eager ) by giving him a puppy.
Then he should ascend the high seat which his father had occupied ; and thus he came to the full heritage after his father.
Then they informed their father that the Vizier demanded that Benjamin be brought before him to demonstrate that they were honest men.
Then he commanded them to go and bring their father and his entire household into Egypt to live in the province of Goshen, because there were five more years of famine left.
Then Abraham defended what he had said as not being a lie at all: " And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Then Satan came again in human shape and told her that it was not true that Isaac had been sacrificed, but that he was living and would soon return with his father.
Then in November 1944 Guinness succeeded to the barony when his father, posted abroad as Resident Minister in the Middle East by his friend Winston Churchill, was assassinated in Cairo.
Then, his father having again married happily, the boys were brought home to Providence, where they stayed till, in around 1839, their father moved to New York.
Then Herodot and Diodor say that Khaefra ruled for 56 years and that the Egyptians had to suffer under him like under his father before.
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Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!
Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.
Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.
Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.
Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.
Then he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.
Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.
Then she fell asleep again as soddenly as a person with fever, and when she awoke it was dark outside and the clarity was back in her eyes.
Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.
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