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was and because
He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.
It was dark early, because of the storm.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.
And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.
Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.
Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.
Sometimes I guessed it was because the rain squall had changed direction.
It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.
They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

was and fragrance
Some accounts place the youth of Midas in Macedonian Bermion ( See Bryges ) In Thracian Mygdonia, A wild rose garden at the foot of Mount Bermion was called by Herodotus " the garden of Midas son of Gordias, where roses grow of themselves, each bearing sixty blossoms and of surpassing fragrance ".
A second fragrance was released in September 2007, called " Shania Starlight ".
At Lancôme, in 1990, she was involved in product development for the fragrance Trésor.
The name of this wood is derived from the Greek word thuon, " fragrant wood " or thuein, “ to sacrifice ”, and it was so called because it was burnt in sacrifices, on account of its fragrance.
The course of the seasons was also symbolically described as the dance of the Horae, and they were accordingly given the attributes of spring flowers, fragrance and graceful freshness.
His ability to produce a constantly homogenous fragrance consisting of dozens of monoessences was seen as a sensation at the time.
Although this gender specific naming trend is common for assigning fragrance concentrations, it does not directly have anything to do with whether a fragrance was intended for men or women.
The method was created in 1983 by Michael Edwards, a consultant in the perfume industry, who designed his own scheme of fragrance classification.
The new scheme was created in order to simplify fragrance classification and naming scheme, as well as to show the relationships between each of the individual classes.
Steam distillation of dried root bark produces an essential oil consisting mostly of safrole that once was extensively used as a fragrance in perfumes and soaps, food and for aromatherapy.
The squares were shaded with tapestried canopies, the churches adorned with white curtains, the baptistery set in order, the aroma of incense spread, candles of fragrant odor burned brightly, and the whole shrine of the baptistery was filled with a divine fragrance: and the Lord gave such grace to those who stood by that they thought they were placed amid the odors of paradise.
When he was born, a fragrance allegedly filled the room.
It is, however, plausible that Ezekiel, writing in exile, re-evaluated P's portrayal of Israel's uniqueness, cynically inverting these images so that what was once a " pleasing fragrance to YHWH " symbolizes impiety and irreverance.
In October 2008, Cassel was signed to be the face of a new Yves Saint Laurent men's fragrance.
The new fragrance, La Nuit de l ' Homme, was launched worldwide in March 2009.
* Her third son, Rudolph d ' Ornano, was also an influential figure in the French society ; his descendants created the well known fragrance and cosmetics brand Sisley.
His first fragrance, the light aquatic-floral L ' eau d ' Issey for women, was launched in 1992.
A new Issey Miyake men's fragrance, L ' eau d ' Issey Pour Homme Intense, was introduced at Nordstrom in the United States in June 2007, with a larger worldwide rollout following in September 2007.
On 13 March 1931, Daché married French-born Jean Despres who was an executive at the large cosmetics and fragrance company, Coty, Inc. Their mutual love and successful supportive professional lives and collaboration endeared them to those around them.
When they arrived at the grave, her body was gone, leaving a sweet fragrance.
At these words, Matsyagandha was transformed ( by the powers of the sage ) into Yojanagandha (" she whose fragrance can be smelled from across a yojana ").

was and covered
Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.
The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.
But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.
Every path from back door to barn was covered by a grape-arbor, and every yard had its fruit trees.
The bombproof was a low-ceilinged structure of heavy timbers covered with earth.
I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.
They did not complain at the inhuman hour of starting ( seven in the morning ), nor of the tariff, which was reasonable since it covered everything but the tobacco.
It is hardly necessary to remind students of covered bridges that Timothy Palmer was born in 1751 in nearby Rowley ; ;
The Essex Merrimack Bridge when first built was not covered.
In addition, the inner surface of the carbon shield was covered with aluminum foil to reduce radiation.
The mean temperature of the surface was then computed according to the following relation: Af where x is the fraction of the plug area covered by the hot spot.
From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.
As can be seen from Figure 2, an extensive area was covered by this aerosol.
As can be seen from these dosage isopleths, approximately 100 square miles was covered within the area sampled.
It is quite likely that an even greater area was covered, particularly downwind.
The intimal surface of the aorta was covered with confluent, yellow-brown, hard, friable plaques along its entire course, and there was a marked narrowing of the orifices of the large major visceral arteries.
About 11 percent of the total population was covered in the new investigation, as compared with about 3 percent in the previous inquiries.
To the west of this road was another low bluff, forty or fifty feet high, covered with scrub oak and other brush.
Finding it true that he was not inside, the deputies returned to the first house and tore holes through the side and the roof until they could see a body on the bed covered by a blanket.
The blonde's nude body was in bed, a green sheet and a pink blanket covered her.
While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

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