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Whereupon the Tartars, worn out by this pestilential disease, and falling on all sides as if thunderstruck, and seeing that they were perishing hopelessly, ordered the corpses to be placed upon their engines and thrown into the city of Kaffa.
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" Whereupon I replied, " You see, Doctor, such a suffering has been spared her, and it is you who have spared her this suffering ; but now, you have to pay for it by surviving and mourning her.
Whereupon all the commonalty were called together by the Director to consider this affair, who all appeared and presently twelve men delegated from among them answered the propositions, and resolved at once on war should the murderer be refused ; that the attack should be made on Indians in the autumn when they were hunting ; meanwhile an effort should be again made by kindness to obtain justice, which was accordingly several times sought for but in vain.

Whereupon and Wimsey
Whereupon Wimsey remarks: " Bunter likes me to know my place "

Whereupon and for
Whereupon Henry Vane the Younger was discharged from being a member of the Long Parliament ; and Major Saloway was reproved for his role and committed to the Tower during the pleasure of the house.
Whereupon the lover jumps out, and causes the husband to scour the barrel for him while he has his way with the wife, and afterwards has the husband carry it to his house.
" Whereupon the scholar replies, " Sir, I do thank you much for this reason, -- and I trust that I do perceive the thing.
" Whereupon the Spanish ambassador replied " Now then, if that is so, Your Majesty would surely make it to Sicily in time for Vespers ".
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" Whereupon White at once replied: " It is a mock trial, and I am ready to give the gentleman, if he is offended, satisfaction at any time or place.

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Whereupon, Alexander Woollcott wrote, " the one really prolonged pandemonium was evoked ....
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Whereupon the audience laughed uncontrollably, and Skelton resorted to the use of the ad-lib, saying " Boy, she's a great cow!

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" Whereupon French officials-not British-tore out telephones, air-conditioners and all equipment and furnishings from administrative offices so as to burden the new public service and its budget.

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Whereupon the monks called the place Doberan.
Whereupon Boileau diplomatically selected as his " least bad " some still unprinted lines in honour of the grand monarch and proceeded to recite them.
Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she would ask of him.
Whereupon Zhang Liao hung his head and made no reply.
Addressing the kadi and the kaid, I said ” ‘ Know that I am an Italian protected subject .’ Whereupon the kadi said to his guard: ‘ Remove the kerchief covering his head and strike him strongly ; he can then go and complain wherever he wants .’ The guards hastily obeyed and struck me once again more violently.
I think a little of your dinner cannot hurt me and may help me .” Whereupon he drew up his chair, and eat a very hearty dinner with his importunate guests.
Whereupon, the chief justice got up abruptly, thanked Zafar and adjourned the hearing.
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" Whereupon he would go through all his own steps and specialties, with never a resemblance in any of them to those he had just imitated.
Whereupon, the planet settled into orbit around both stars.
" Whereupon, a gentleman stepped forward and tendered him an invitation, which he willingly accepted.
Whereupon the investigation against Hua-t ' o was concluded with the announcement of the death penalty.

Miss and Murchison
Wimsey's friend, Detective Inspector Charles Parker, conclusively disproves this notion, but Wimsey has planted a spy, Miss Joan Murchison, in Urquhart ’ s office and discovers the real culprit is Urquhart.
Not only does the will name Boyes as the principal heir, but in Urquhart's office, Miss Murchison finds evidence that, misusing his position as his own family's solicitor, Urquhart embezzled the majority of the great aunt's holdings and subsequently lost them on the stock market.
Miss Murchison also discovers a packet of arsenic hidden in Urquhart's office.
* Miss Murchison – typist and employee of Miss Climpson

Miss and investigator
In 1991, arson investigator Rick Davey ( along with co-writer Don Massey ) published " A Matter of Degree: The Hartford Circus Fire and Mystery of Little Miss 1565 ", in which he claims the girl's name was Eleanor Emily Cook and that she was from Massachusetts.
The end scene shows everyone afterwards: Link and Bobbie are now together ; Chic, who was actually gay, dances at a club with his partner ; Miss Mitzi finds a new partner, and they are happy together ; John and Beverly are back to normal and dance in the kitchen ; Vern, newly married to his fiancée, dances with her at their wedding ; the private investigator that Beverly hired, Devine ( Richard Jenkins ), starts up dance lessons ; and Paulina, with a new partner, competes at Blackpool, the competition that she had lost years before.
He enlisted in the Air Force in January 1953 and completed basic training at Sampson Air Force Base, N. Y. His first assignment was to Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., in April 1953, where he began 12 years as an air policeman, including eight years as an investigator.

Miss and employed
Later, when she was 10 years old, a governess, Miss Edgeworth, a poor gentlewoman, was employed to educate Elizabeth and her sister.
Her 1945 scat recording of " Flying Home " arranged by Vic Schoen would later be described by The New York Times as " one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade .... Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness.
; Miss Derek: An Englishwoman employed by a Hindu royal family.
In the spring of 1841 a crude log cabin was built for use as a school not far from Henry Downings home and Miss Esther Hathaway employed as teacher.
Later on, Miss Jean Home, who was to inherit the house and the paintings, hired or employed the Master of the Kings Works, architect Robert Reid ( 1776 – 1856 ), to build what is now the East Wing of Paxton House to accommodate a library and a gallery.
* Miss Alexandra Katherine Climpson – a gossipy, harmless-seeming spinster employed by Wimsey to make clandestine enquiries
Throughout the film, Miss Kabak, the social worker, visits Claudine at her home and asks her if she is employed and if she is dating anyone.
Mrs. Levy thinks she's doing a good deed by keeping Miss Trixie employed, although Miss Trixie would rather retire.
Born in Razkavia, Becky is employed by a man called Herr Strauss to teach Miss Bevan German.
Her real name is Leonora and she is the youngest of four girls who have all been employed by Miss Lavendar.
Louise Oxley is employed to work on the diaries and begins work at Miss Greenshaw's house.
* Miss Sparky recorded a vocal track ( credited under the pseudonym " Sharkie Barker ") on the song " Disco Boy " on Frank Zappa's album Zoot Allures ( 1976 ), and was once employed by the Walt Disney Corporation.
His father sold racecards and, when he was 12, Harry himself was employed as a boot polisher by Miss Fritton, headmistress of St Trinian's.
As luck would have it, Miss Marple is a guest at the very same spa where Rudi Scherz was employed.
Just as Clotilde advances toward her, Miss Marple blows on a whistle, which brings Miss Cooke and Miss Barrow — they are bodyguards employed by Mr. Rafiel to protect Miss Marple.
According to Poirot, Miss Marsh has proven her superior intelligence – she employed him on the case!

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