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was and extended
The marine was sprawled some thirty yards away, one arm extended.
The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
In addition, Blue Cross coverage for all employees and their dependents was extended to provide the full cost of semi-private hospital accommodations.
Such legislation was clarified and extended from time to time thereafter.
This was extended the following year to include the railroad station agent's office and Thayer's Hotel at Factory Point.
In November 1887 a line connecting several dwelling houses in Dorset was extended to Manchester Depot.
In 1932 Dorset received its own exchange, which made business easier for the Manchester office, but it was not until February 1953 that area service was extended to include Manchester and Dorset.
Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.
An extended cold spell caused ice to build up on the aerator which was mounted on a floating platform and caused the entire platform to sink lower in the water.
In 1894, the Westport-Newport railway line was extended to Achill Sound.
After Bligh's victory, there was an extended period of English dominance.
In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.
In the following century the term was extended to European settlers and their descendants in the Americas.
It was a provocative and controversial road comedy about two sexually obsessed teenagers who take an extended road trip with an attractive married woman in her late twenties.
The sense was extended to fossil resin circa 1400, and this became the main sense, as the use of ambergris waned.
The cathedral was extended several times in later ages, turning it into a curious and unique mixture of building styles.
It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.
As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.
Thus Alexios Angelos was a member of the extended imperial family.
This approval of slavery was reaffirmed and extended in the Romanus Pontifex bull of 1455 ( also by Nicholas V ).
The boom that extended the mass spectrometer out from the Command / Service Module's Scientific Instruments Bay was stuck in a semi-deployed position.

was and quartering
Keyes did not wait for the hangman's command and jumped from the gallows, but he survived the drop and was led to the quartering block.
For that reason, the quartering of troops was cited as a grievance in the United States Declaration of Independence: < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: ... For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
At the 1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention, when debating the ratification of the new United States Constitution, Patrick Henry stated, " One of our first complaints, under the former government, was the quartering of troops among us.
Several revisions were proposed before its adoption, which chiefly differed in the way in which peace and war were distinguished ( including the possibility of a situation, such as unrest, which was neither peace nor war ), and whether the executive or the legislature would have the authority to authorize quartering.
Through the next few years Farnham was an important centre of Parliamentary operations and the garrison cost Farnham people dearly in terms of local taxes, provisioning and quartering ; even the lead from the Town Hall roof had been requisitioned to make bullets.
Other changes reflected the humanitarian influence :- In 1814 the sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering for treason was modified to remove the cutting down and disembowelling.
Only in 1870 was quartering formally abolished ; in 1815 the pillory was abolished for some offences and, finally, altogether in 1837 ; in 1820 the whipping of females was abolished ; in 1822 the practice of dissecting the bodies of murderers was done away with ; in 1857 transportation was abolished ; in 1872 the last offender was placed in the stocks.
The commission appointed to try his case condemned him ( April 11, 1741 ) to death by quartering, but this sentence was commuted by the clemency of the new regent, Anna Leopoldovna, the mother of Ivan VI, to banishment for life at Pelym in Siberia.
The company asserted that the " wyvern was the standard of the Kingdom of Mercia ", and that it was " a quartering in the town arms of Leicester ".
The quartering in chief, with the fleurs-de-lis of France and lion passant guardant of England, was granted by King Henry VIII to Thomas Manners at the time of his creation as Earl of Rutland, in recognition of his descent in the maternal line from King Edward IV.
During his time in Spain he developed early gasoline and oil bombs, suggested the quartering of personnel on trains to aid in relocation, and following the Nationalist victory was awarded the Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords and Diamonds for his contributions.
Wang's armies defeated Zhai and Liu's armies in winter 7, and Zhai was captured and executed by drawing and quartering.
This quartering was adjusted, abandoned and restored intermittently throughout the Middle Ages as the relationship between England and France changed.
The Province of New York was their headquarters, because the assembly had passed an Act to provide for the quartering of British regulars, but it expired on January 2, 1764, The result was the Quartering Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested.
With its great impact on the city, a skirmish occurred in which one colonist was wounded following the Assembly's refusal to provide quartering.
Wang's armies defeated Zhai and Liu's armies in the winter of 7 AD, and Zhai was captured and executed by drawing and quartering.
In cases of drawing and quartering, the body of the criminal was cut into four or five portions, with each part often gibbeted in different places.

was and lion
The promise that the lion and the lamb will lie down together was given in the future tense.
It was John who found the lion tracks.
He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.
Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.
Very slowly he maneuvered his rawboned bay gelding, edging closer, watching for a chance to throw, but ready to spin and run, rope whining about his head, horse edging tensely under him, but the gelding was obedient and responded and was not paralyzed by the close proximity of the lion.
However nothing on four legs was supposed to be faster than a lion over a short distance, unless it was a cheetah.
The fact that the name occurs on these gems in connection with representations of figures with the head of a cock, a lion, or an ass, and the tail of a serpent was formerly taken in the light of what Irenaeus says about the followers of Basilides:
It has been related by an Italian writer and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a trivial circumstance – the moulding of a lion in butter – for the warm interest which Falier took in his welfare.
Sea lion whiskers worn in male ’ s ears represented a trophy, which meant he was a good hunter.
The baidarka ( small skin boat ) was a small boat covered in sea lion skin that was used for hunting because of its sturdiness and maneuverability.
Such was the case with Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah, when Mature refused to wrestle the lion, though the lion was tame and toothless.
The province's original coat of arms ( 1560 ) was of a crossbow alone, the lion being added later.
The word dandelion ( literally, tooth of lion, referring to the shape of the leaves ) is another example, being a substitute for pissenlit, meaning " wet the bed ", a possible reference to the fact that dandelion was used as a diuretic.
Despite being a place where " the raven uttered no cries " and " the lion killed not, the wolf snatched not the lamb, unknown was the kid-killing dog, unknown was the grain devouring boar ".
" Hubert " was a stuffed lion representing the Harris bank logo.
" As he Emperor Alexios I knew that the Pisans were skilled in sea warfare and dreaded a battle with them, on the prow of each ship he had a head fixed of a lion or other land-animal, made in brass or iron with the mouth open and then gilded over, so that their mere aspect was terrifying.
Philip of Swabia, elected German king in 1198, changed the coat of arms, and the lion was replaced by three leopards, probably derived from the arms of his Welf rival Otto IV.

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