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Risdon also stated that the original tomb bore an inscription: " They fyrste that fyndes and bringes mee to my grave, The priorie of Plimstoke they shall have ", but no sign of this has ever been found.
They consist of two cylinders perpendicular to the bore and below it which are used to mount the cannon on its carriage.
They advocated a lifestyle that bore many similarities to later understandings of communism, with communal ownership of land, and absolute equality for males and females in law and education.
They were subsequently rescued by shepherds, who later gave them to Theano, wife of King Metapontus of Icaria, as she was looking for a baby to present to her husband as her own, fearing that he would expel her if she bore him no children.
They are normally realised as Usermaatre-meryamun Ramesse-hekaiunu, meaning " Powerful one of Ma ' at and Ra, Beloved of Amun, Ra bore him, Ruler of Heliopolis ".
They took their name from a photo of W. C. Fields which bore the caption " W. C. Fields with gin blossoms ", referring to what appeared to be the actor's gin-ravaged nose, but was actually a skin condition known as rosacea.
They also were used as dedicatory offerings to the deities, and in the dramatic contests at the Dionysia the victorious choregus ( a wealthy citizen who bore the expense of equipping and training the chorus ) received a crown and a tripod.
They repudiated the cult of the past and all imitation, praised originality, " however daring, however violent ", bore proudly " the smear of madness ", dismissed art critics as useless, rebelled against harmony and good taste, swept away all the themes and subjects of all previous art, and gloried in science.
They enjoyed great success in early voiturette races with rules which limited cylinder bore but did not specify stroke length.
Its issues bore a sonnet by William Wordsworth as epigraph, beginning " They called thee ' merry England ' in old time " and characterizing Merry England " a responsive chime to the heart's fond belief ":
To his friends, Arthur ’ s death came as ' a loud and terrible stroke from the reality of things upon the faery building of our youth ' They remembered him in vivid elegy: he had been ' the most charming and the most promising ' of his contemporaries ; ' his mind was more original & powerful than the minds of us his contemporaries '; ' he had a genius for metaphysical analysis ', ' a peculiar clearness of perception ', and an ' always active mind '; an ' angelic spirit ', ' he seemed to tread the earth as a spirit from some better world ; ' his mighty spirit ( beautiful and powerful as it had already grown ), yet bore all the marks of youth, and growth, and ripening promise.
They had started adding the suffix ' girl ' to everything habitually after the release of the Supergirl movie, but " Rocket Girl " was a student at college who Bond had a crush on and apparently bore a striking resemblance to a Love and Rockets character.
They discovered, before it was ground into powder, that it bore strange glyphs, which they, having studied the ancient bronze inscriptions, recognized as ancient writing.
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They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
They lapsed into silence, and the freight wallowed up a hill, scooted down the other side, shaking and clanking to itself.
They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
They insist they are ashamed of such violence and intimidation as occurred in Alabama when the Freedom Riders sought to break down racial discrimination in local bus depots.
They cantered down the peninsula, not slackening until the coach reached Woodside where the Santa Cruz uplands begin.
They are laid a minimum of 24'' '' deep and in some areas four feet down, particularly under roads, to stay clear of all other piping such as water and sewers and to minimize shocks from heavy trucking.
They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.
They hurled a cement barge against a freighter in Honolulu Harbor, knocked down telephone lines, marooned automobiles, flooded lawns, killed six cows.
They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.
They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.
They breakfasted together, but Martin did not refer to his triumph, and Dolores found a great deal to do in the kitchen, bobbing up and down from the table so that talk was impossible.
They took nearly a month to investigate, marshal statistics, and put their arguments down in black and white.
They ignored the ladder down to the planet surface and, with only a glance at the seismological gauge to judge surface resistance, dropped to the ground.
They have more slender muzzles, sharper ears that they use in the hunt for termites, black vertical stripes on a coat of yellowish fur, and a long, distinct manes down the midlines of their necks and backs.
They would have traveled overland down through the Appalachian Mountains to the Scots-Irish community in the Waxhaws region, straddling the border between North and South Carolina.
They also had a flag carrier at the front who guided the forces behind him ; when the flag was upright the combatants behind would stand and when turned down, they would sit.
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