He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier.

Here, in two nations alone, are almost five hundred million people, all working, and working hard, to raise their standards, and in doing so, to make of themselves a strong bulwark against the spread of an ideology that would destroy liberty.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

The almost six million persons without jobs and the two million working part-time do not consider themselves and their plight as statistical.

Much progress has been made in the last two decades in developing techniques for understanding children, yet in almost any classroom today can be found children whose needs are not being met by the school program.

For almost two months, the defendant and the world heard from individuals escaped from the grave about fathers and mothers, graybeards, adolescents, babies, starved, beaten to death, strangled, machine-gunned, gassed, burned.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

Your first impression of this elongated square with its three elegant fountains, its two churches that almost face each other, and its russet-colored buildings, is a sense of restful spaciousness -- particularly welcome after wandering around the narrow and dark streets that you have followed since starting this walk.

The proclamation of the churches is almost totally confined to pastoral contacts by the clergy ( 17.3 per cent of new members ) and friendly contacts by members ( over two thirds if organizational activities are included ).

Nick recalled stories that the two best fishing spots in Southern California were over the La Jolla Deep and the Redondo Deep, two spots where the ocean dropped off to fantastic depths almost from the shoreline.

Divided almost equally into two parts, it consisted of `` The Evolution Of The Blues '', narrated by Jon Hendricks, who had presented it last year at the Monterey, Calif., Jazz Festival, and an hour-long session of Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra, a blasting big band.

Hope wouldn't hear of it, and she took the heater back to Grandma's room, and Grandma took it back to Hope's room, and the two of them dragged it back and forth until Grandma tipped it over and almost set her bedspread on fire.

In 1835, Johnson made a bid for election to the " floater " seat for his district in the Tennessee House of Representatives ; he " demolished " the opposition in debate and won the election with almost a two to one margin.

These colonnades were almost finished in 432 BC and had two wings, the northern one serving as picture gallery.

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The populations are especially vulnerable during the years when the prey population crashes, and uncontrolled trapping has almost eradicated two subpopulations.

Although clubs from other states were at times invited, the final was almost always between the premiers from the two strongest state competitions of the time — South Australia and Victoria — and the majority of matches were played in Adelaide at the request of the SAFA / SAFL.

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

Situated at the confluence of a tributary stream, the Gavenny, and the River Usk, it is almost surrounded by two mountains – the Blorenge ( 559 m ) and the Sugar Loaf ( 596 m ) – and five hills: Ysgyryd Fawr ( The Skirrid ), Ysgyryd Fach ( Skirrid Fach ), Deri, Rholben and Mynydd Llanwenarth, known locally as " Llanwenarth Breast ".

Alternation of generations occurs in almost all multicellular red and green algae, both freshwater forms ( such as Cladophora ) and seaweeds ( such as Ulva ).

Archeologists know almost nothing about the first inhabitants of the county, but the Kuzedika had been there many generations by the time the first anglophones arrived.

If the population remains at this size for several generations, such an event becomes almost inevitable.

Arundel Castle and the earldom have passed through generations almost directly since 1138, with only the occasional reversion to the crown and other nobles for a brief time.

For many generations past, accident, geographic and political, had, until the coming of the European, preserved the Agikuyu from the access of almost any external influence or rule, and hence had never been subdued.

Pinot noir is almost certainly a very ancient variety that may be only one or two generations removed from wild, Vitis sylvestris, vines.

Unfortunately, this bertsolari tradition has come almost to a halt, while some efforts are being made to restore it on new generations along the lines of the " southern " tradition, i. e. of the Spanish Basque Country.

His aid was readily accepted by the reforming party, and by their use of his work he shared with their leaders throughout many generations a reputation which is almost exclusively political and ecclesiastical.

The third and fourth generations of leaders came almost exclusively from technical backgrounds.

By 1900, different branches and generations of the family owned thousands of acres, so the Vale of Aylesbury almost became a Rothschild enclave.

As a result of the longevity of its Australian production, the Falcon is one of the biggest selling names in world automotive history, selling over 3, 000, 000 in six generations to 2003, almost exclusively in Australia and New Zealand.

And here we are, I am completely indignant ... that some suggested to rename the metro station after Lionel Groulx, who was the spiritual father of two generations of Quebecers and is almost a Quebec idol.

As he grew older, he simply became a more familiar, almost comforting film figure whose performances continued to endear him to new generations of fans.

* Spirit Mountain Ranch donated the herd of white buffalo to Sacred World Peace Church and Alliance, and has successfully bred five generations of white buffalo starting from a single white female, almost all with brown fathers.

Daily News publisher Joseph Medill Patterson wanted an adventure strip set in the mysterious Orient, what Patterson described as " the last outpost for adventure ," Knowing almost nothing about China, Caniff researched the nation's history and learned about families for whom piracy was a way of life passed down over the generations.

The hula was the means by which the culture, history, stories and almost every aspect of Hawaiian life was expressed and passed down through generations.

People from almost all provinces of Pakistan and even from neighboring Afghanistan have made Punjab their home in recent times and now their consecutive generations identify themselves as Punjabis.

P. scalare is relatively easy to breed in the aquarium, although one of the results of generations of inbreeding is that many breeds have almost completely lost their rearing instincts resulting in the tendency of the parents to eat their young.

However, although Outremer ( Jerusalem's name under the crusaders ) was lost to the Saracens, the claim to the title of King of Jerusalem continued to be passed down through several generations, until almost every monarch in Europe used the title.

Monte Irvin, who played both in the Negro leagues and the major leagues and saw every great fielding third baseman of two generations, said that Dandridge was the greatest of them all, adding that Dandridge almost never committed more than two errors in a season.

Summing up, if governments can borrow without check, then they are more likely to wage war without check, and the costs of the war spending will burden future generations, since war debts are almost never repaid by the generations that incurred them.

The trust, which was established in 1964, aims to safeguard the county's wildlife and wild places for this and future generations and manages almost 80 nature reserves.

And here we are, I am completely indignant ... that some suggested to rename the metro station after historian and nationalist Lionel Groulx, who was the spiritual father of two generations of Quebecers and is almost a Quebec idol.