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They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.
They have pulled out all my teeth and now she will carve out my tongue with her hacksaw!!
They couldn't have much dough, but then none of the freight-bums Feathertop rolled had much.
They have also led the nation in the direction of a welfare state.
They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.
They, too, have fragments of the go code with them.
As Wisman put it, `` They have separate pieces of the pie, and we have the whole pie.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
They are in general those fears that once seemed to have been amenable to prayer or ritual.
They are presumed to have plunged to a common grave in this fatal embrace.
They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.
They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.
They all have this in common: the earth is situated near the center of the deferent.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
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 have remained on the opened page of my mind in all the years which since have passed.
They, in effect, have compromised the opposing positions of the nineteenth century.
They, too, have links with the city's ills.
They opposed the Forand bill, which would have placed the major burden of financial support upon the individual himself through compulsory payroll deduction ; ;

They and ancestry
They were of mostly English descent ; Roosevelt's great-grandfather, James Roosevelt, was of Dutch ancestry, and his mother's maiden name, Delano, originated with a French Huguenot immigrant of the 17th century .< ref >
They have quarreled with their respective fathers, they are proud to be Saxons, they display a highly-evolved sense of justice, they support the rightful king even though he is of Norman-French ancestry, they are adept with weapons, and they each fall in love with a " fair maid " ( Rowena and Marian, respectively ).
They were of mixed African and European ancestry and therefore generally lighter-skinned than the indigenous blacks.
They were judged not by ancestry or wealth but by military, scientific or artistic prowess.
They stated that 5 % of African Americans have at least 12. 5 % Native American ancestry.
They are called the " Punic Wars " because Rome's name for Carthaginians was Punici, due to their Phoenician ancestry.
They stressed the importance of patrilinear ancestry in which they tried to show their descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad ( the Shurfa ), his tribe ( the Quraysh ) or his companions ( Ansar ).
They were predominantly criollos ( local-born people of European ancestry, mostly Spanish or Portuguese ), bourgeois and influenced by liberalism and in most cases with military training in the mother country.
They are based rather on the principle that ' distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality ,' Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U. S. 81 ( 1943 ).
They trace their Lenape ancestry to speakers of the Munsee language, one of three major dialects of their language.
They were seven-eighths European in ancestry, and three of the four entered white society as adults.
They argued that groups sharing the same ( or similar ) language possessed a common identity and ancestry.
They claimed ancestry from the Magus king Balthazar and placed the Star of Bethlehem on their coat of arms.
They allotted 40 acres per household for Cherokee Freedmen, not having determined if they had Cherokee ancestry or identified as Cherokee, but classifying all persons of identifiably African descent as " Freedmen " on the Dawes Rolls.
They are mostly descended from British and to a lesser extent Irish settlers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although some Pākehā have Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Yugoslav or other ancestry.
They had diverse ethnic origins ; Eliza Stewart was mulatto, of African, Cherokee, Welsh and German ancestry ; and William Pinchback was of Scots-Irish, Welsh and German descent.
They encountered only " light resistance " from the villagers, whose core clan, the Ahdibs, claimed ancestry dating back to the Muslim conquest of Palestine in the seventh century.
They are not the same breed as American Bulldogs and not to be confused with them, although the pre-registry Alapaha stock included many dogs also found in the American Bulldog's breed ancestry.
They absorbed peoples of varying degrees of Tuscaroran, African, and Dutch and other European ancestry.
They are considered likely to have ancestry in the Balkans but nothing more specific is known.
They were largely bourgeois, criollos ( local-born people of European, mostly of Spanish or Portuguese, ancestry ) influenced by liberalism and in most cases with military training in the metropole ( mother country ).
They gathered to honor him and their African-American ancestry.
They were led by a Chieftain, whose ancestry could be traced back to Elendil and beyond, to the ancient Kings of Númenor.
* They may be beefalo, a bison – cattle crossbreed, and thus have inherited the white coloration from their cattle ancestry.

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