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They looked down on anyone who wasn't " Lace Curtain ," even the Irish from the Back of the Yards and Bridgeport neighborhoods ( referred to as " Pig Shit " Irish ), and also non-Irish ethnics.
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They looked a good deal alike, Morgan thought.
They looked up in surprise as Powers came in.
They were far off and looked tiny.
They looked, even so.
They looked so formidable, however, so demanding, that I found myself staring at them in dismay and starting to woolgather again, this time about Francesca and her husband.
They were increasingly looked upon as a means of establishing the new rural communes as the focus of a new, constructive national effort.
They looked as if they had been fed on vinegar and shavings.
They have insisted, rather, on living fully and completely within modern culture and, so far from considering this treason to God, have looked upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him.
They bent over yellowed prayerbooks and looked up only to watch the teacher.
They looked at the ruins of the old Roman wall on the lower Via Veneto, then they went to the Farnese Gardens.
They wore shoes with pointed toes, odd to American eyes, and narrow trousers, and their hair looked unnaturally black and slick.
They picnicked by the pool, then lay back on the grass and looked at stars.
They looked at various sites in Cardiff, but they all proved to be unsatisfactory.
They looked at the effects of redevelopment in the Islamic Cairo old quarter which the government wanted to develop for tourism.
They were not itinerant opportunists who had looked on their work at Rüsselsheim as just another job.
They also looked to the Marxist dialectic and the work of such theorists as Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse.
They were called up and relieved through public-houses and therefore a man could not get this job unless he possessed the favourable opinion of the publican, who looked upon most favourably those who drank.
They have virtually disappeared at the college or high school levels, being looked down upon by many players.
They say " that Christ visited this part of Asia and ascended this summit, whence he looked down on all the region around.
They looked to a past in which the future was " rotting ".
They picked up momentum and looked like a possible playoff contender, but things collapsed in February, and the Rockies finished the 1976 – 77 season with a record of 20 – 46 – 14 ; good for 54 points.
They looked to and adopted some of the evangelizing techniques of Jews for Jesus.
They had lacked consistent outside shooting, which is what they looked for in the trade.
They looked, and terrified by the two serpents Athena had set within to guard the child, they fled in terror and lept from the Acropolis to their deaths.
They and down
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 escorted him down from the porch and through the rain to his office.
They lapsed into silence, and the freight wallowed up a hill, scooted down the other side, shaking and clanking to itself.
They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.
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 don't expect to stop him, just slow him down some with the bat.
They crept down the muddy slope toward the waiting boats.
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 bore down on him.
They would be coming for him next, bearing down on him from both directions.
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 had all turned down his son.
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 settled down near Kurile Lake, which was inhabited by the Kamchatka Ainu and North Kuril Ainu.
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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