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nettled and .
He cupped his ear and shook his head at her repetition, announcing in a nettled way that he had heard her the first time.
He is at first nettled and infuriated by her forthright and outspoken manner, her ability to easily see through his reserve, and her refusal to be cowed or overawed by him.
As Time Magazine would later write, Brookhart's " pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators.
Too often Parkman could ignore evidence that was not in accord with his views, permit his bias to control his judgment, or sketch characterizations that are little better than hostile caricatures .... Modern sensibilities will be nettled by his casual stereotypes of national character and by the sharp distinction he draws between " civilization " and " savagery.
But they all required endless paperwork and demeaning, hours-long queues, at the end of which an exhausted, nettled social worker dealt with each person as a faceless number.

children and into
He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.
The children grudgingly stopped playing then and straggled into the schoolhouse.
Well, after everybody has followed the New England pattern of segregating one's children into private schools, only the poor folks are left.
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;
On their frequent hikes into the nearby mountains, the children carry whole grains to munch along the trail.
This means that such factors as the health of the parents, particularly the mother, their ability to provide their children with the necessities of life, the degree of population density of a country and the shortage of housing facilities may legitimately be taken into consideration in determining the number of offspring.
With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.
But when he called for his withered, wrinkled sister Rose to care for him and the children, had he guessed that all he would remember of his woman was the memory of her climbing into that streetcar??
The teacher plunged the children into a new portion, this time in Hebrew, rapping the stick incessantly.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.
The Heracleidae fell into disagreement about where to take Alcmene's body, with some wishing to take her corpse back to Argos, and others wishing to take it to Thebes to be buried with Amphitryon and Heracles ' children by Megara.
" As examples, he seized the Bank of Tennessee, shut down secessionist newspapers and levied an assessment against wealthy secessionists, ostensibly to provide funds for wives and children of soldiers " forced " into service by the Confederacy.
It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.
The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, arguing that there was no justification for the Israelite men to father children if they were just to be killed ; however, the text goes on to state that Miriam, his daughter, chided him for his lack of care for his wife's feelings, persuading him to recant and marry Jochebed again.
It arose from the intermingling of children of early settlers from a great variety of mutually intelligible dialectal regions of the British Isles and quickly developed into a distinct variety of English.
The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.
Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody.
Meanwhile his father died and his mother was cast into poverty in Corsica, still having four children to support.
Abdur Rahman could only succeed in subjugating Hazaras and conquering their land when he effectively utilized internal differences within the Hazara community, co-opting sold-out Hazara chiefs into his bureaucratic sales of the enslaved Hazara men, women and children in 1897, the Hazaras remained de facto slaves until King Amanullah Khan declared Afghanistan's independence in 1919.

children and revelation
Under the LDS Church's doctrine of continuing revelation, Latter-day Saints believe literally in the principle of revelation from God to his children.
Upon the death of his stepfather, Neipperg, and the revelation that his mother had borne two illegitimate children to him prior to her marriage, Franz said to his friend, Prokesch von Osten, "' If Josephine had been my mother, my father would not have been buried at Saint Helena, and I should not be at Vienna.
Gary Myers's story, " What Rough Beast ," casts Shub-Niggurath as the mother of all the gods, and her children as the chapters of her ongoing revelation.
" Afterwards, Michael violently prevents Kay from leaving with their children ; she retaliates with the revelation that her miscarriage was actually an abortion.
Manitas de Plata and Jose Reyes were a 2-man group that started the entire revelation of Gypsy Rumba, but mostly Jose, who was a famous singer, when he departed Manitas and started a band of his own made up of his children which he called " Los Reyes ".
At the end of the book, she reveals that her birth name is " Sarah " to her husband, who takes the revelation as a promise from God that they will one day be able to have children.
The moment of revelation thus becomes clear for hearing audiences, but has been criticized for setting unrealistic expectations for deaf children to " be like Helen Keller " and speak, when even the most gifted deaf child realistically takes years to utter a comprehensible syllable and a lifetime of speech therapy to maintain the ability.
According to a revelation declared by Smith, Adam met his children at the site three years before his death to bestow his blessing.
They are in his revelation, taking on the roles he'd originally plotted for the children of Honor Harrington ( or family's children, if he meant her young five year old sister too ) in his greater scheme of the in-universe history to unfold in future works.
In March 2001, he was reading an Inuit tale to his children and had a revelation.
Dawkins has since discussed consciousness-raising with regards to religion by making comparisons to hypothetical seemingly absurd scenarios, such as geographical distributions of scientists ' beliefs about the extinction of the dinosaurs, scientists defending their hypotheses in terms of revelation and dogma, and young children having strong political views.
The Manchester Guardian noted that the frankness of the portrayal was a " terrible revelation long overdue ", and hoped that veterans would be able to show the monument to their wives and children as a way of explaining the events of the war.
The case drew national attention by focusing on the safety of children in casinos and on the revelation that Strohmeyer's friend, David Cash Jr., said he saw the crime in progress but did not stop it.
The biblical narrative of the revelation at Sinai begins in after the arrival of the children of Israel at mount Sinai, also called Horeb.

children and exact
The filter might also provide a false sense of security for parents, who might supervise children less while using the Internet, achieving the exact opposite effect.
He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.
The exact number of children removed is unknown, and disputed within a large range.
In Thailand, though the exact numbers are not known, it has been estimated that children make up 40 % of prostitutes in the country.
It is said that Emperor Meiji asked him how many children he had ; but Masayoshi was unable to give an exact answer.
Accounts vary as to the exact number of children they had.
In Thailand, the exact number of child-prostitutes is not known, but Thailand ’ s Health System Research Institute reports that children in prostitution make up 40 % of prostitutes in Thailand.
During her appearance on Big Brother, she stated that she does not want children, as she would be a poor mother, and would respond to an unplanned pregnancy by terminating it — her exact words were " Thank God for abortion!
It is difficult to give exact statistics, but we believe that the Tribes now number 400, 000 men, women and children.
Although the exact origins of hula hoops are unknown, children and adults around the world have played with hoops, twirling, rolling and throwing them throughout history.
As educational testing became more exact and subject to less class bias, an increasing proportion of middle class children were being sent to secondary moderns.
Alternatively the children whose upkeep is being funded by foreigners may be sent to work, not to school, the exact opposite of what the donor is expecting.
The exact cause is unknown and, while it has been associated with aspirin consumption by children with viral illness, it also occurs in the absence of aspirin use.
Similarly, in Greek mythology, the goddess Hera often became enraged when her husband, Zeus, would impregnate mortal women, and would exact divine retribution on the children born of such affairs.
St. Augustine was established in 1565, with 800 people founding it, including less than one hundred women ( the exact number is unknown ), 500 soldiers, 200 sailors, and some married men, children, and officials ; all were from Spain.
The incidence of idiopathic GHD in infants is about 1 in every 3800 live births, and rates in older children are rising as more children survive childhood cancers which are treated with radiotherapy, although exact rates are hard to obtain.
Though his exact birth date is unknown, Wild was born in Wolverhampton in either 1682 or 1683 as the first of five children in a poor family.
However, the exact number, names and the attribution of his children to their mothers is unclear.
: It is difficult to give exact statistics, but we believe that the Tribes now number 400, 000 men, women and children.
The exact number of child-prostitutes in Thailand is not known, but Thailand ’ s Health System Research Institute reports that children in prostitution make up 40 % of prostitutes in Thailand.
The exact identity and fate of all his children are not known ; nor is the connection to his niece Bridget Dobson.
Because all children develop at their own rate, the ages given are not an exact timeline.
Derickson was twice married and fathered ten children, but whatever the exact level of intimacy of the relationship, it was the subject of gossip.

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