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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.
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 simply turned to God filled with gratitude and faith.
They are struggling to meet the demand for camping space, but families are being turned away, especially on holiday weekends.
They all had the hard look of gamblers who had stopped dreaming, who automatically turned the cards, hardly caring what showed up.
They had turned numb and prickly in the classroom.
They had all turned down his son.
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.
They quarrelled with Michael IX, and eventually turned on their Byzantine employers after the murder of Roger de Flor in 1305, devastating Thrace, Macedonia, and Thessaly on their road to Latin Greece.
They also fought alongside Hannibal, killing ( in 216 BC ) the Roman general L. Postumius Albinus, whose skull was then turned into a sacrificial bowl.
They can be boiled, fried, roasted, crushed, grounded or turned into a paste.
They state he sent troops on illogical military exercises, turned the palace into a brothel, and most famously, planned or promised to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul,
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 at first only ideological constructs, but the tides of time turned them into reality in that same century.
They revolted and turned on the slave owners who controlled the sugar plantations.
They turned their eyes towards King Geirröth, who was reigning in the stead of his late father, King Hrauthung.
They turned to money rents, displaced farmers to raise sheep, and downplayed the traditional patriarchal relationship that had historically sustained the clans.
They offered to exchange him for Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who had surrendered after Stalingrad, but Stalin turned the offer down, stating " You have in your hands not only my son Yakov but millions of my sons.
They turned the city into their command centre during the 10-year conflict between the Soviet-allied government and the Mujahideen rebels.
They turned to Native women for sexual relationships.
They also made many appearances in major print media and on radio and TV, including multiple appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Late Show with David Letterman in the U. S. The Presidents turned down an offer to perform on Saturday Night Live in the fall of 1995 because the date conflicted with Ballew's wedding.
* They had 2 children ( islands ) which turned out badly and they cast them out.
They ’ d worked together before, it turned out.
They attempted to storm the building, but were turned away and dispersed by the sheriff and his deputies.

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They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.
They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
They stared at him.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They came upon cheetal deer at woodland pools.
They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;
They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.
They all swung at the same instant in the same direction.
They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.
They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.
They roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it.
They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
They seemed to be at the White House half the time.
They had watered their stock at immense profit, then had raised the price of coal fifty cents a ton, netting themselves another $20,000,000 in annual profit.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
They are enacted at the heart of the body politic.
They laughed and, true to national form and manners, never talked long or solemnly on any subject at all, but some of them worried out loud about short memories and ghosts.
They start on the East side of the Schuylkill, have to cross over to the West to use the expressway and cross over again to the East at their destination.
They ate the cafeteria food with its orange sauces and Scotty gazed without interest at his food, the teachers, the heroic baronial windows, and the bright ranks of college banners.
They lay on his lap, palms up, stiffly motionless, the tapered fingers a little thick at the joints.
They set bouncing betties to jump and explode at testicle level while we more mercifully had them go off at the head.

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