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They could even marry and remain clerics, the status of belonging to the clergy being at that time conferred through clerical tonsure, provided that they married only once and that to a virgin ; but by the early 20th century a cleric who married was considered to have forfeited his clerical status.
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They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.
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 were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
They could no longer afford the luxury of the canvas sweat bag that cooled it by evaporation.
They could come on him now without difficulty.
They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.
They allotted $500,000 three years ago to support Interama until its own financing could be arranged.
They were poems in a strange language, of which he could barely touch a meaning -- enough to make his being ache with the desire for the fullness he sensed there.
They could have been perfectly happy here for ten whole days.
They could not guess that from their concepts of liberty and freedom would some day be born a new nation that for years would be the symbol of hope to the oppressed countries of the world.
They could be sent to U.S. ports for rulings whether cargo should be confiscated.
They could be used to attack a nation's people ( which would inevitably mean the loss of the attacker's own people ), or they could be used with discrimination to destroy the enemy's military force.
They should know simple exercises that could prepare less fortunate children for the sports we will demand be taught.
They supplemented their income by small government assistance, by tutoring and economizing wherever they could.
They could be done or left undone and nobody really gave a damn.
They then point out that with our present lack of knowledge of all the factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics, it is unlikely that a planned episode could be initiated.
They felt that they too could counteract the upward arm movement by a voluntary effort after they had once experienced the reaction.
They felt that they were relaxing as much as they could and that any control factors which might be present to prevent response must be on an unconscious level.
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They suggested several new foods, and usually I found them good, except the sweets, which I think I could learn to like.
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They were both breathing heavily, out cold, and Shayne didn't think either of them had recognized him or could describe him.
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`` They ain't even in sight ''!!
They saw it before I did, even with my binoculars.
They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.
They were not diplomats or jazz musicians, or even organizers of reading-rooms and photo-montage displays, but rugged capitalist entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, Hugh Cooper, Thomas Campbell, the International Harvester Co., and David W. Griffith.
They even accept the `` double standard '' of sex morality in a double sense, i.e., both sexes agree that standards for men differ from standards for women, and women apply to both sexes a standard different from that held by men.
They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.
They looked, even so.
They also deduct transportation expenses incurred in connection with the performance of services as employees even though they are not away from home.
They plot the open interest curves, rainfall curves, and they even divide Democratic congressmen by Republican congressmen.
They initiate campaigns, so to speak, even if this initiation is diffused among them, and their concerted action only psychologically organized.
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They were even better than those of Tokyo -- more spectacular and more imaginative.
They even pay me six dollars a month.
They won't even let you in the front door.
They find dead winos every day, maybe they won't even autopsy him for the cause of death ''.
They would like to convey the notion something is being done, even though it is something they know to be ineffectual.
They were even, Anne and George, probably thinking themselves very considerate in not hinting that she really should cut out `` one or two countries '' and come home in August to get Cousin Emma's house ready before the teachers came to Tuxapoka in September.
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 still needed to return to water to lay their shell-less eggs, and even modern amphibia have a fully aquatic larval stage with gills like their ancestral fish.
They say – a foreigner – he can't even speak English properly.
They appear even when using monochromatic light, hence the name.
They have no misgivings about the death penalty ; their position is that evil-doers who deserve death should be killed, and that a king in particular is obliged to punish criminals and should not hesitate to kill them, even if they happen to be his own brothers and sons.
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