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They and tried
They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.
They both tried to keep smiling and winking for a long time, but it made their lips and eyelids tremble.
They were, in a sense, `` tried out '' in realistic situations.
They learn to like these so well that it isn't surprising to hear that one boy tried the oats he was feeding his horse at chore time.
They tried to sell 'em on economy and simple merit.
They were tried and executed one after the other until, when only one was still alive, the accounting error was discovered and that last surviving treasurer was acquitted.
They also tried to obtain a fee from him for leaving.
They note that the discoverers of the two planets around HW Virginis tried to circumvent the naming problem by calling them " HW Vir 3 " and " HW Vir 4 ", i. e. the latter is the 4th object – stellar or planetary – discovered in the system.
They tried to do this in a very secret manner.
They next string up a barrier of power lines around the city filled with a 1, 000, 000 volts of electricity ( 300, 000 volts had been tried in the first film, but failed to turn the monster back ).
They were nonviolent pacifists who refused to serve in the military and tried to live by George Rapp's philosophy and literal interpretations of the New Testament.
They were tried in an oyer and terminer court without the benefit of a jury, and four were convicted.
They tried to rescue him in a boat, but were able only to drag up his corpse.
They also claim to have tried filming the being, but said their motion picture film was ruined by the heat and humidity.
They later tried infecting people with " direct inoculations made from syphilis bacteria poured into the men's penises and on forearms and faces that were slightly abraded ... or in a few cases through spinal punctures ".
They made us want to make our music more interesting and more complex and we tried to blend that with our own personalities to see what we could come up with that was indisputably us.
" They tried everyone else singing it except me " Lemmy later said.
They were tried and sentenced to prison in December, 1996.
They slew 7, 000 Irish but, as the knights tried to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed.
They first tried going to the Court of Chancery and applying for injunctions prohibiting other publishers from printing their works, and this was initially successful.
They secretly tried and convicted collaborators during the Cylon Occupation and executed them.
They killed the Minister, who tried to shoot them, during the takeover.
They were actively supported by the missionaries who tried to destroy all signs of indigenous beliefs, notably by razing the ' mahoka ' huts where the local population worshiped their ancestors ' spirits and by ridiculing their rites, dances and other ceremonies.
They demanded that he be tried by the ' Congress of Greeks ', rather than in Athens, although it seems that in the end he was actually summoned to Athens to stand trial.
They also maintained the traditional ( i. e. nominal ) claims to the Kingdom of France, but none of them tried to make substance of it, though Henry VIII fought wars with France to try to reclaim that title.

They and vain
They decided to make him a totally different character ; instead of the wacky, comic relief character he had been, they turned Daffy into a vain, egomaniacal prima donna wanting to steal the spotlight from Bugs Bunny.
They were produced to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life.
They were quite startled in the morning when they had found out that their efforts were not in vain – Frossard had abandoned his position on the heights.
They were removed four months later by a Catholic Wallon regiment, after which they tried several times between 1581 and 1582 to take the city of Lille, all in vain.
They desired to be mustered out of Federal service rather than continue campaigning, resented imposition of discipline ( particularly from an Eastern Theater general ), and considered Custer nothing more than a vain dandy.
They ’ re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors, too, yes ; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play Cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.
They tried in vain to fix the problem, but discovered it was too late-the Source would soon destroy the planet.
They labour in vain that build it
They were now established as the ghosts of angry, vain, or heretical priests who had fallen on the " tengu-road " ( 天狗道, tengudō ).
They filed a complaint with the Texas state athletic commission, but in vain, as the officials reviewed a tape of the fight and decided the result should stand.
They frequently looked, but in vain, for traces of their fallen companions.
They tried to take him the RPR lead in 1990, in vain.
# They labor for nonconformity to the world in its vain and wicked customs ( Rom.
They tried to remove him from the RPR leadership in 1990, in vain.
* Children at the Boarding House – They are repulsed by Grenouille and even try, in vain, to suffocate him with rags and blankets while Grenouille is asleep.
They consume little more than the poor, and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their own conveniency, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands whom they employ, be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements.
They discover that Cooper burned the money in a vain attempt to keep warm.
They were vain people who took great pride in their fertile farmland and grand architecture.
" They will say: " We were not of those who prayed ; " Nor were we of those who fed the indigent ; " But we used to talk vanities with vain talkers ; " And we used to deny the Day of Judgment, " Until there came to us ( the Hour ) that is certain.
They all will be in vain:
They were soon extinguished by the Mughal's under the leadership of Aurangzeb, who spent nearly the whole of his long life attempting in vain to add the Deccan and South India to his empire.
They sent letters of protest to the studio, and to contemporary science-fiction magazines such as Starlog and GDW's Challenge magazine, in vain.
They encounter Devastator, in which Mudflap is sucked in by Devastator's vortex grinder while attempting in vain to hang on for dear life.

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