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There and are
There are plenty of fresh horses halfway at my place.
There are of course many Souths ; ;
There is unceasing pressure, but its sources are immediate.
( There are two receivers in case one should be dropped and damaged.
There are thousands of square miles of salt pan which are hideous.
There are almost no fictional treatments of the industrialized south ''.
There are certainly large areas of understanding in the human sciences which in themselves and even without political invention can help to dispel our present fears.
There are many domains in which understanding has brought about widespread and quite appropriate reduction in ritual and fear.
There are, however, some wonderful chapters at the beginning of the second part, concerning the reactions of the Swedes in adversity.
There are ghostly scenes in which the little boy on his rocking horse rocks madly toward the climax that will magically give him the name of the winning horse.
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.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
There is essential pleasantness in reading the writing of men who are not angry, who can contend without quarreling.
There are in The Almagest no rules for determining in advance whether a new epicycle will be required for dealing with abberations in lunar, solar, or planetary behavior.
Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.
There is plenty more to recommend Gorton, the facts of whose life are given in The Life And Times Of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton.
There are millions who accept this doctrine, but few indeed are those who accept it so truly that the fate of humanity lies as a weight on their souls night and day.
There are some people, intelligent people, who seem to be untouched by the sea of wonder in which we are immersed and in which we spend our lives.
There are few things of which I am prouder than of that unblemished record.
There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.
There are many causes for this change.

There and tales
There have always been tales of disillusionment -- the competent technician who became an administrator, willingly or not, and found he didn't like it ; ;
There were exceptions to this rule however, such as the full-sized elves who appear in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter as well as Northern English and Scottish Lowlands folklore ( as seen in such tales as The Queen of Elfan's Nourice and other local variants ).
This use of unu plays the role of " there was " in the introduction of fairy tales ( There was an old woman who ...) and in introducing new participants ( A man came up to me and said ...).
There is not any religious element in these tales unless it is one of hero-worship.
There is clear evidence for a knowledge of Arthur and Arthurian tales on the Continent before Geoffrey's work became widely known ( see for example, the Modena Archivolt ), as well as for the use of " Celtic " names and stories not found in Geoffrey's Historia in the Arthurian romances.
There are various tales of people becoming sharks in various South Pacific islands.
There are varying tales as to how Bellerophon found Pegasus ; the most common says that the hero was told by Polyeidos to sleep in the temple of Athena, where the goddess visited him in the night and presented him with a golden bridle.
There is at present little scholarly support for the view that tales of Robin Hood have stemmed from mythology or folklore, from fairies or other mythological origins, any such associations being regarded as later development.
There are many forms of chain email that threaten death or the taking of one's soul by telling tales of other's deaths, such as the Katu Lata Kulu chain email, stating that if it is not forwarded, the receivers of the message will be killed by the spirit.
There are many writers who write in English now, mostly short stories and collection of folk tales of Bhutan ; a popular author is Kunzang Choeden.
* There are other tales from the mid-6th century about groups of Anglo-Saxons leaving Britain to settle across the English Channel.
There are, as they say, many tales of Olórin ’ s deeds – though, as they also say, it is not judicious to discuss his endeavours when he is not present.
There were anecdotal tales of unusual rocks found on the ground after fireballs had been seen in the sky, but such stories were often dismissed as fantasy.
There are no known Mesopotamian tales about the end of the world, although it has been speculated that they believed that this would eventually occur.
There are at least four separate tales about what happened to strand Philoctetes on his journey to Troy, but all indicate that he received a wound on his foot that festered and had a terrible smell.
There are also substantial cultural similarities between the various groups, especially in terms of social organisation, childrearing, as well as horticulture, building and textile technologies ; their mythologies in particular demonstrate local reworkings of commonly shared tales.
There are no tales of long sea voyages in Samoan tradition.
There are many later tales about the infamous Cynic Diogenes of Sinope dogging Antisthenes ' footsteps and becoming his faithful hound, but it is no means certain that the two men ever met.
There are various tales connected with Lord Ayyappa: the discovery of the child at Pampa, Manikantan's youthful days in the Pandalam palace, bestowing the power of hearing and speaking upon the deaf and dumb son of His teacher as Guru-dakshina, His friendship with Vavar, bringing the tigress's milk, accomplishing His divinely destined mission of annihilation of the demoness Mahishi, eliminating the forest-thug Udayanan, bestowing moksha on Sabari, blessing His foster-father with moksha and so on.
There are several tales of how Little Silver received its name.
There is ample geographic and geological evidence that floods have occurred throughout the valley since prehistoric times, and there is historic evidence in diaries, anecdotes, folk tales, letters, official records, post cards, and the like that major flooding occurred with some regularity 1828, 1832, 1847, 1866, 1883, 1897, 1898, 1907.
There are some tales told about the will-o '- the-wisp being guardians of treasure, much like the Irish leprechaun leading those brave enough to follow them to sure riches.
There are therefore a number of recurring figures, such as a man who, in the early tales, enjoys pricking women's breasts with pins and, at his reappearance in the tales in the ' murderous passions ' category, delights in killing women by raping them atop a bed of nails.

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