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They immediately lowered their topsails, but it came up so fast upon them, that, before they could raise the main tack, they observed the ball rise almost perpendicularly, and not above forty or fifty yards from the main chains when it went off with an explosion, as great as if a hundred cannons had been discharged at the same time, leaving behind it a strong sulphurous smell.
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They followed immediately after the twelve voting members of the Signature in capella.
They are unaspirated for almost all speakers when immediately following word-initial s, as in spun, stun, skunk.
It is recorded about the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil: " They eat human flesh when they can get it, and if a woman miscarries devour the abortive immediately.
They were the most consistent team in the top flight of English football over the three seasons immediately before the Second World War.
They saw immediately that while vendor A might have a really nice analog simulation environment, vendor B had a much better PCB or silicon layout auto-router.
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They immediately start giving arguments, pro and con, on different sides of the issue.
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They immediately fall in love and get engaged.
They immediately burnt the ships " so that they should not think of retreating to them ; and the smoke and the mist that came from the vessels filled the neighboring land and air.
They might have thrived and become stable in the way that Europe recovered after World War II through the Marshall Plan ; however, their economic growth was slowed by the oil crisis but boomed immediately after.
They immediately return out of concern for their friends and families, buying up the luggage store owner's entire inventory before they leave.
They immediately turned and retraced their steps, going to a nearby coffee shop.
They are elongate ridges of mud and / or silt that form on the river floodplains immediately adjacent to the cut banks.
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They could be satisfied by the kernel itself immediately.
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They allowed weaving of beads by raising every other thread and inserting strung beads in the shed, the space between the lowered and raised threads.
They found that these diets lowered total body mass by 8 % in the short term, over 3 – 12 months.
A Gaulish man and a Gaulish woman and a Greek man and a Greek woman were buried alive under the Forum Boarium ... They were lowered into a stone vault, which had on a previous occasion also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings.
They can also hear well, but their tympanic membranes are concealed by flat flaps that may be raised or lowered by muscles.
They conducted their experiment with the bulb of a mercury thermometer as their object and with a bellows used to " quicken " the evaporation ; they lowered the temperature of the thermometer bulb down to, while the ambient temperature was.
They repeated the experiment in 2003 and lowered the limit further to 400 fb.
They rebuilt Barton Mills and Icklingham locks in the 1960s, but the bridge carrying the A11 road at Barton Mills was lowered soon afterwards, and the present head of navigation is at Jude's Ferry.
They will swoop down with their legs lowered to snatch small live prey, fish, household refuse and carrion, for which behaviour they are known in British military slang as the shite-hawk.
They lost power again and finally the band was lowered to the ground and performed without the riser.
They again lowered it to 5 %, effective January 1, 2008.
They were then lowered into place by steam crane.
They then lowered the bill and after pairing the male also provided food to the female in courtship feeding.
They occur with frequency during the apology, generally at about 45-50 degrees with the head lowered and lasting for at least the count of three, sometimes longer.
They abolished class representation ; created five new seats for the minorities in the Majles ; the Armenians got two seats, other religious minority groups such as Jews, Zoroastrians and Assyrians each got one seat in the new government ; the Majles also democratized the electoral system ; diminished the electoral dominance of Tehran and even lowered the voting age from twenty five to twenty.
They also lowered hoselines down one of the ventilation shafts to provide a water supply.
They were purportedly inspired by the wife of a Buick executive who always drove convertibles, but never lowered the top.
They also show lowered sleep propensity after total sleep deprivation.
They live together in small groups and mark their territory with scent glands, driving out intruders by shouting or by facial expressions ( lowered brows and guarded lips ).
They live together in small groups and mark their territory with scent glands, driving out intruders by shouting or by facial expressions ( lowered brows and guarded lips ).
They can be controlled individually to within and can be lowered incrementally depending on the flood conditions.
They are best known for the unique styling cues and wide array of gadgets including a " Breezeway " power rear window that could be lowered to improve ventilation, " twin jet " air intakes at upper corners of car's windshield, " seat-o-matic " automatically adjusting seat, and an average speed " computer ".
They were then positioned above where they were to sit and lowered into a trench packed with soft soil, mud and gravel for leveling along the bay's bottom.
They overhauled the soundboards, installed a new console with electropneumatic action, and lowered the pitch to ' standard ' C
They lowered a noose into the cell, and the Undertaker proceeded to hang The Big Boss Man from the top of the cage.
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