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She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.
`` I'll get around to it a little later '', he mumbled desperately.
For those who `` like poetry but never get around to reading it '', the Library of Congress makes it possible for poets to be heard reading their own work.
Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.
And of course the news of who the composer was did finally begin to get around among his closest friends.
Nothing could be seen from the floor, but by moving around the gallery one could get glimpses ; ;
The one way to get around them -- short of knowing exactly what one wants and sticking to it -- is to frequent a single establishment until its wine waiter is persuaded that one is at least as interested in wine as in spending money.
`` I wouldn't even want it to get around ''.
Never had no trouble with him before, thought he was a hard worker, hustling around to get a full week's work.
Now as you step inside, instead of seeing particles orbiting around like planets, you see waves and ripples very much like the ripples that you get on the surface of a pond when you drop a stone into it.
Would he have to clean up after her every day, clean the kitchen, the bathroom, and get down on his knees and scrub the kitchen floor, then hang up her dresses, pick up her stockings, make the bed while she lay around??
This so infuriated Deegan that he spun around and said: `` I'll get that little bastard.
`` I think we'd better let it lay until we get a clearer picture of the ecological setup around here.
The use of anagrams and fabricated personal names may be to circumvent restrictions on the use of real names, as happened in the 18th century when Edward Cave wanted to get around restrictions imposed on the reporting of the House of Commons.
It has the capacity to get to large heights and can outcompete native plant species around it.
( As a side effect, this provision means that MPs seeking to resign from parliament can get around the age-old prohibition on resignation by obtaining a low-salary sinecure in the pay of the Crown ; while several offices have been used for this purpose, two are currently in use.
The country has only of coastline, around the town of Neum in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, although surrounded by Croatian peninsulas it is possible to get to the middle of the Adriatic from Neum.
Equipping the army with tanks, submarines, bombers and heavy artillery was strictly prohibited, although Bulgaria managed to get around some of these prohibitions.
" Since no one in the raiding party is carrying any change, nor do they realize that there is nothing stopping them from simply riding around the tollbooth, Taggart sends someone back to town to " get a shitload of dimes ".
Swapping among three parties often helps satisfy tastes when trying to get around the rule that money is not allowed.
All these women fancy him and they all wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to get to him.
The first snowmobiles were large, multipassenger vehicles designed to help people get around during the long winter months.
This was compounded by transportation problems-the coffee-growing areas were mainly on the Central Valley and only had access to the port in Puntarenas on the Pacific Coast, and before the Panama Canal was opened, ships from Europe had to sail around Cape Horn in order to get to the Pacific Coast.
Some evidence indicates that during armoured combat the intention was to actually get around the armour rather than through it — according to a study of skeletons found in Visby, Sweden, a majority of the skeletons showed wounds on less well protected legs.

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It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.
If you've travelled in Europe a time or two, it is quite certain that you've had that wanting-to-be-alone feeling or that you will get it on your next visit across the Atlantic.
In the comic, minor characters like Earl, Billy Bob, Clark Cobb, and Mistress Cora Anthrax would get repeated appearances ; Earl was quite regular, and Anthrax was in two issues and got to answer a letter's page.
Tactics can get quite complex when players have sufficient control over the ball to throw or roll it accurately.
Very soon after this he formed a group of equally enthusiastic youngsters and managed to get quite a few local bookings for his band.
The technique of discus throwing is quite difficult to master and needs lots of experience to get right, thus most top throwers are 30 years old or more.
Housing on campus is usually quite difficult to get.
Since the box is very unlikely to be stolen, go missing, or be damaged, creators of PLBs tend to get quite creative.
" Marge has a good relationship with Lisa and the two are shown to get along quite well.
Traditional defined benefit plan designs ( because of their typically flat accrual rate and the decreasing time for interest discounting as people get closer to retirement age ) tend to exhibit a J-shaped accrual pattern of benefits, where the present value of benefits grows quite slowly early in an employee's career and accelerates significantly in mid-career: in other words it costs more to fund the pension for older employees than for younger ones ( an " age bias ").
Socrates says he met the father of the idea, Parmenides, when he was quite young, but does not want to get into another digression over it.
Characteristic of inland California, summers can get quite hot.
In particular, conservatives were thought to better understand the metaphorical connection between the family, morality, and politics, and, especially around 1994, were able to get quite a number of votes through using persuasive metaphors while liberals tried to use logic and reason.
Maybach rose to become technical director of the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, or DMG, ( and never known by the English name of the quite separate English business, The Daimler Motor Company ) but he did not get on well with its chairmen.
The man entering the room would commit the Inverse Gambler's Fallacy if he said, " You've probably been rolling the dice for quite a while, since it's unlikely you would get a double-six on your first attempt.
He is using coarseness quite deliberately in order to get across a view of social hypocrisy.
Hal tries to show Millie a dance he learned in Los Angeles, but Millie can not quite get the beat.
In summer it can be extremely hot walking along the fire roads, and at camp sites is far too hot to get inside a tent until quite late.
Boulder, quite isolated until the Civilian Conservation Corps built a road from Escalante, did not get electric power until 1947.
( Even creating " do it yourself " benchmarks to get at least some appreciation of the relative performance of different programming languages, using a variety of user specified criteria, is quite simple to produce as this " Nine language Performance roundup " by Christopher W. Cowell-Shah demonstrates by example )
Hana is quite petite and despite Adam's rather tall and fit figure, they get along very well.
[...] I don't quite agree with using too much of that sort of thing, but once you get Plummer, suddenly it's working.
" He works mainly with older people from whom he gains inspiration, saying: " You get quite inspired and uplifted by the elderly folk who see this as quite a practical approach ".

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