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They lapsed into silence, and the freight wallowed up a hill, scooted down the other side, shaking and clanking to itself.
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They had been considered cities historically, but this status had lapsed.
" They were deemed excessively authoritarian by his former students ' union, which in 2000 banned him from the building — a policy which lapsed in 2003.
They eventually lapsed into a quasi-novelty status with the remaining handful catering to a generally nostalgic audience, though many drive-ins continue to successfully operate in some areas.
They are also colloquially known as Cultural Mormons, the LDS equivalent of a lapsed Catholic, a " Christmas and Easter Christian " ( or based on an adage " Once a Baptist, Always a Baptist ") and a " Yom Kippur Jew " ( or sometimes " ethnic Jew ").
They failed in this duty, and the powers of the first act lapsed, as it imposed time limits during which the work had to be completed.
They again lapsed into inactivity at the end of the following year.
He writes, " They, who have departed from the Church, do not allow the Church to recall and bring back the lapsed.
They and into
They all flew into action.
They filed out through the guard-room door, into the paved square.
They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear.
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
They rode around and around to trample the figure into the sand.
They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.
They were climbing the hill in the night when the headlights abruptly probed solid blackness, became two parallel luminous tubes which broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended.
They were pushed gently into the room by Arlene -- whose only part appearing were hands that crept quickly back around to the kitchen side of the door.
They will give suggestions that can be worked up into field procedures.
They may be unaware of the existence of lower-class values and consequently fail to take them into account.
They usually range from 20 to 60 feet in height, but when they pour into a V-shaped inlet or harbor they may rise to mountainous proportions.
They charged into the enemy like wild men.
They do not escape the pitfall into which Charles Dickens pictured Mrs. Jellyby as falling.
They adopted a program by which Louisiana was divided into five districts.
They piled into the waiting cars, motors roared, the cars sped off.
They went up onto a front porch and into a small hallway where a dim bulb burned high in the ceiling.
They had divided the Congo into six provinces -- Leopoldville, Kasai, Kivu, Katanga, Equator and Eastern -- unfortunately with little regard for ethnic groupings.
They say it helps them bring back into schools the spiritual and moral values on which this country was built.
They know from their researches into television and the movies that knights in the middle ages had beautiful flowing haircuts like Little Lord Fauntleroy, and only the villains had beards.
They went into the sun together and paraded grandly in their war clothes, painting their faces with the sacred attis dug far off in the cave of skeletons.
They mounted their horses and rode off into the hills.
They leaned into the wind and seemed like one thousand-legged monster hurtling and plunging until suddenly they rose straight in their saddles and in one terrifying voice shouted, ejaculated their grotesque cry of war.
They and silence
They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.
They had suffered, in sulky silence, the sight of his sharp practice in Cicero.
They ate in silence, with hoods so drawn over their faces that they could see nothing but what was on the table before them.
He also explains how brutal and unscrupulous these Romans must have been: " They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force "-After some silence, Marlow abruptly starts up again saying, in a hesitating voice, " I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit.
They would often display no interest in promoting themselves, and many journalists were confused, and sometimes angered, when their questions were met with complete silence from the four Stone Roses.
They dated for the next 20 years, and in 1983 Washington proposed to Smith in an attempt to silence questions about Washington's sexual orientation.
They won't silence the outskirts of Parliament House, even if the inside has been silenced for a few weeks ...
They accused the government of human rights abuses and political intimidation, which forced the country, especially the press, into a " culture of silence.
They are loquacious yet capable of silence ; gregarious yet so close to the earth that single families or even men alone might live and travel for long periods away from other human beings ; proud, yet capable of a gentle self-ridicule.
They sat in silence unable to gauge time.
They eventually find themselves slowly walking, mostly in silence, through a desert.
They are not certain if this is true, but none of them dares find out ; and so for years they have lived in complicit silence.
They, too, were naked, and each one carried his offering .... when the raft reached the centre of the lagoon, they raised a banner as a signal for silence.
They were used as Human Shields in an attempt to silence the Confederate artillery at Fort Sumter and soon became known in the South as the Immortal Six Hundred.
They also endured a daily regime that included long periods of prayer and enforced silence.
They argue that such a portrayal was often used as a means to silence voices critical of elite interests.
They are then made to go slowly out of sync by adding silence to one of the tapes.
They use graphical symbols representing durations in sound and silence, along with symbols for dynamics, articulations and tempo.
They were glad to take over, in perfect silence.
They move throughout the battlefield in utter silence, accompanied only by the beat of a solemn drum.
They resemble musk oxen, and have three different sub-species — surface rothé, deep rothé ( that communicate with magical flashing lights in their Underdark home ), and ghost rothé ( large white rothé with magical abilities that grant them transportation and silence ).
They sing of the silence that greets their search for signs of mourning, the evidence of Alcestis ' death.
They were also forbidden from communicating with other prisoners, which was strictly enforced by the usage of a silence mask, or calico hood, when outside their cells.
They stop coherent speech, but do little to silence a person.
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