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Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.
`` Well '', he announced, `` Guess I'll be going now, Ed, and thanks for the warmup ''.
`` Well, as a matter of fact, I've looked through back-issue files of New York papers for December, 1957, and haven't found a great deal '' --
He was told he displayed, for example, a sense of superiority -- and he answered: `` Well, I am supposed to know all the answers, aren't I ''??
Well, in the first place, it is not possible for anyone who has not endured both to know which is `` worse ''.
At last he said, `` Well, thank you for calling, Mr. Benson.
`` Well, for this week, but they wasn't due 'till Saturday.
Well -- in that case, I take off tomorrow morning for Frisco.
Well, you say, those are beautiful words all right, but it was easy for the psalmist to sing them in his day.
Well, Allied Arts has booked Lena Horne there for a week starting Dec. 4.
Well, Jerebohm and his wife Pinkie have reached the stage of affluence that stirs a longing for the more atrociously expensive rustic simplicities.
The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.
Well, now she can sleep in the street for all I care ''!!
One anecdote describes Thomas Hunt Morgan banning the Friden calculator from his department at Caltech, saying " Well, I am like a guy who is prospecting for gold along the banks of the Sacramento River in 1849.
Well regarded for their skills in horsemanship and swimming — for men and horses could cross the Rhine without losing formation, according to Tacitus.
Longjing tea, also known as Dragon Well tea, is a variety of roasted green tea from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, where it is produced mostly by hand and has been renowned for its high quality, earning the China Famous Tea title.
His most famous surviving work is the Well of Moses ( 1395 – 1403 ), created for the Carthusian monastery of Champmol built by Philip the Bold just outside Dijon ( at the time-now part of the city ).
The desire for wartime propaganda created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), Went the Day Well?
Well known algorithms for computing global illumination include path tracing, photon mapping and radiosity.
Foster further asserts 1928 was a " peak year " for lesbian-themed literature ; in addition to The Well of Loneliness, three other novels with lesbian themes were published in England: Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel, Woolf's Orlando, and Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women.
Director Terry Jones noted, " They were all very knowing because they'd all worked for Franco Zeffirelli on Jesus of Nazareth, so I had these elderly Tunisians telling me, ' Well, Mr Zeffirelli wouldn't have done it like that, you know.
* In the Not The Nine O ' Clock News sketch on the new film The Life of Christ ( itself a reference to Python's 1979 Life of Brian ), the Bishop ( Rowan Atkinson ) who is being harangued for this parody of Pythonism professes himself surprised at the furor, saying: " Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

Well and ten
* Tom Petty's " Let Yourself Go " mentions in lyrics " I got a 442 sittin ' in the sun, Well it's been ten years since she used to run, Man she was a beauty in ' 69 ..."
Well after the season's conclusion, the catch was named one of the Bears ' top ten plays in 2006.
In 1948, the group issued six singles ; after just three the following year, in 1950 Specialty released no less than ten Pilgrim Travelers sides, all of them to strong sales ( particularly " Jesus Met the Woman at the Well " and " Mother Bowed ").
To her query as to whether he would ever marry, Kierkegaard icily responded: " Well, yes, in ten years, when I have begun to simmer down and I need a lusty young miss to rejuvenate me.
Along with the promise of new material came an additional show announcement ; VOD are expected to play at least one show on Long Island in May 2009, as well as joining Poison the Well on select date of the 10 for 10 Tours, which features 10 bands for ten dollars as the name indicates.
Edward Abbott's 1864 cookery book, The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many as Well as the ' Upper Ten Thousand, suggests that the concept of an ' upper ten thousand ' pre-dates the official publication of Kelly's directory.

Well and years
Well before this, Avogadro had been recalled to the university in Turin in 1833, where he taught for another twenty years.
When this issue was raised in a 1982 interview, Foucault remarked " When people say, ' Well, you thought this a few years ago and now you say something else ,' my answer is … ' Well, do you think I have worked hard all those years to say the same thing and not to be changed?
The date of the wall at Coventina's Well is uncertain, but some have theorized that it was built sometime after the completion of the Roman fort ( dated between the years 128 and 133 ).
It was during this performance that Harris first publicly performed " Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well " ( a song recorded two years earlier by Doc Wheeler's Sunset Orchestra ).
" Well, basically, I've been wanting to work with David for a long time ; but at the same time, Milo has stuck with me for almost nine years now, so I wouldn't exactly feel right about just continuing to call us the Descendents.
* Elringo De ’ Angelino ( 1934 – 2009 ) Well known Nashville street musician for over 20 years, better known as Velvet Thunder.
Historical groups viewed as highly heterodox by most Muslims include the Kharijites, who took a third view on Ali's succession ( and are today succeeded by the Ibadi ), the Mu ' tazilites, who most famously asserted that the Qur ' an was created, a view which enjoyed Caliphal approval before the time of Mutawakkil, the Qarmatians, a branch of the Seveners within Ismaili Islam who took control of much of the Arabian peninsula in the 9th and 10th century, practiced vegetarianism, took control of the Well of Zamzam and the Ka ' bah, and the Hashashin or Assassins, another Ismaili group, famous for their reclusive lifestyle, manners of indoctrination and assassinations in the years after the First Crusade.
Wellington says, " Well, dear readers, it's taken almost fifty years for you to see the back of us.
Although ' Man, Time and Space ,' ' The Keystone Cops ' and '( Alice ) Down the Wishing Well ' ( among others ) never came to be, the Haunted Castle Across the Moat, which was added a few years later, took its cue from the rooms and monsters of the ' Transylvania Haunted Castle.
Well known for its windmills, which have been depicted by so many artists over the years, Pocklington has many ancient windmills which are still in working order, hence the town's nickname as " The Great Wind Factory ".
Cox is married to Cathy, and lived at Ashboro, Shanakiel in the Cork northside suburb of Sunday's Well for 16 years.
Virginia Tighe disliked being in the spotlight and was skeptical about reincarnation, although she said years later: " Well, the older I get the more I want to believe in it.
Martin in 2006 and 2007 establishes that Horemheb most likely died after a maximum reign of 14 years based on a massive hoard of 168 inscribed wine sherds and dockets recently discovered below densely compacted debris in a great shaft ( called Well Room E ) in this king's royal KV57 tomb.
These have been given at numerous DTES venues, including the Carnegie Centre, the Pantages Theatre, Jacob's Well, the Evelyne Saller Centre, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, the Interurban Gallery, Building Opportunities with Business, 319 Main, the Strathcona Community Centre, both years of the Fearless Festival at Pigeon Park, and both years of the Homeground Festival at Oppenheimer Park.
" Well ," he replied, " I have been for many years a card-carrying member of ... "— the executive went pale —"... the Mickey Mouse Fan Club.
Well, that was pretty bad, so then I spent the next thirty years trying to make it simple.
Humphries debuted the character off-Broadway in New York in the late 1970s, but the show received such a poor review from the New York Times that Humphries later joked that he thought " Well, I'll go back to Broadway but I'll wait till the critic's dead – and I had to wait 25 years.
Well, it's been delayed a little ... not for long, not for long ... we won't wait 15 years this time ... no, no ..."
It was the beginning of the town of Konin as a king's town Well known Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło ( 1351 ( 52 )-1434 ) was a frequent guest in Konin in years 1403, 1425 and 1433.
In the early years this was called, rather pretentiously, Well Hall Garden City, but it compares well with later groups of municipal housing in south London-which is surprising given the fact that it was constructed rapidly between February and December 1915 and its sub-division by the South Circular Road and, until about 1988, by the even busier A2 Trunk Road.

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