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When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.
When the hay wagon had gone, and an interval passed, a huckster's cart might turn the corner.
When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.
When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.
When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.
When I speculated on one such occasion that the new growth, like other mutations, might be unable to propagate, I was immediately accused of preaching racial prejudice.
When surplus land is not expensive to buy or to keep up, it is usually better to buy it than to buy so small an acreage that the development of adjoining properties might impair the residential value of the farm.
When a second quake came, they dashed back to the beach, fearing that they might be buried under landslides.
When he had closed the suitcase he found a rag and moved about the room, wiping carefully everything he might have touched.
( When you see him, you'll notice his habit of fingering, I might almost say, stroking a large mole with black hairs on it, by his right temple.
When the ambassadors of the Senate, entreating for peace, tried to intimidate him with hints of what the despairing citizens might accomplish, he laughed and gave his celebrated answer: " The thicker the hay, the easier mowed!
When the work was finished, the river was turned back into its usual channel and the captives by whose hands the labor had been accomplished were put to death that none might learn their secret.
When non-native speakers speak Hindi-Urdu, they might pronounce / व / in ' व ् रत ' as, i. e. as wrat instead of the correct vrat.
When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.
The first mention of an arcological structure might be in H. G. Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes, published in 1899.
When the Governor saw that he was confessing his Christianity publicly, not caring what might happen to him, he ordered him not to show up in the city.
When the term is used in this sense, the brick might be made from clay, lime-and-sand, concrete, or shaped stone.
:" When the day for the assembly which was held in the town of Birka drew near, in accordance with their national custom the king caused a proclamation to be made to the people by the voice of a herald, in order that they might be informed concerning the object of their mission.
When g oscillates near a, then it might happen that no matter how close one gets to a, there is always an even closer x such that g ( x ) equals g ( a ).
" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.
When computer files contain information that is extremely important, a back-up process is used to protect against disasters that might destroy the files.
Egypt is identified in the Bible as the place of refuge that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea: " When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod the Great, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt I called My Son " ( Matthew 2: 12 – 23 ).
When asked by reporters at the end of a televised press conference to list one of Nixon's policy ideas he had adopted, Eisenhower joked, " If you give me a week, I might think of one.

When and Mary
When it became clear that Mary was not pregnant, no one believed any longer that she could have a child.
When his wife Queen Mary fell ill in 1558, King Philip sent the Count of Feria to consult with Elizabeth.
When Mary returned to Scotland in 1561 to take up the reins of power, the country had an established Protestant church and was run by a council of Protestant nobles supported by Elizabeth.
When William of Orange, ruler of the Dutch Republic, occupied the British throne with his wife Mary in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution, gin became vastly more popular, particularly in crude, inferior forms, where it was more likely to be flavoured with turpentine as an alternative to juniper.
When Mary Pickford visited Hawks at basic training, his superior officers were so impressed that they promoted him to flight instructor and sent him to Texas to teach new recruits.
When Francis himself died, Mary, now nineteen, elected to return to Scotland to take up the government in a hostile environment.
When defining the dogma in Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX explicitly affirmed that Mary was redeemed in a manner more sublime.
When Louis died in 1382, the Hungarian throne was inherited by his eldest surviving daughter Mary, under the regency of their Bosnian mother.
When the Tzu-Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese Buddhist organisation, noticed the similarity between this form of Guanyin and the Virgin Mary, the organisation commissioned a portrait of Guanyin and a baby that resembles the typical Roman Catholic Madonna and Child painting.
When this compiler was ported to the VAX platform, a common backend for Mary and CHILL was implemented.
When King Sigismund took Dobor in Bosnia in July 1394, Queen Mary ordered the captured John Horvat to be tortured to death.
When James told Mary that she was to marry her cousin, " she wept all that afternoon and all the following day.
When Mary travelled to England after the New Year, she wrote of her " secret joy " at returning to her homeland, " but that was soon checked with the consideration of my father's misfortunes ".
When Edward became mortally ill in 1553, he attempted to remove Mary from the line of succession because of religious differences.
When Catherine died in 1536, Mary was " inconsolable ".
When Mary was in her thirties, she attended a reunion with Edward and Elizabeth for Christmas 1550, where 13-year-old Edward embarrassed Mary, and reduced both her and himself to tears in front of the court, by publicly reproving her for ignoring his laws regarding worship.
When Mary insisted on marrying Philip, insurrections broke out.
When Mary ascended the throne, she was proclaimed under the same official style as Henry VIII and Edward VI: " Mary, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England and of Ireland on Earth Supreme Head ".
When Mary had said these things, she fell silent, since it was up to this point that the Savior had spoken to her.
" When Mary meets Jesus, she falls at his feet.
" But where Jesus ' response to Martha is one of teaching calling her to hope and faith, his response to Mary is more emotional: " When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying.

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