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In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.
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.
In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.
The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.
I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.
Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.
`` Billions of American dollars, not only from capital investors but also from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers '', this author states, `` are being poured into South Africa to support a system dedicated to the oppression, the persecution, and the almost diabolical exploitation of 12 million people the color of whose skins happens not to be white ''.
This fiery swath was actually only a belt of minor planets, almost like the asteroid belt in the original Solar System.
He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but he showed his party loyalty by participating in almost all votes and making speeches that echoed the party line.
Aristotle not only studied almost every subject possible at the time, but made significant contributions to most of them.
One modern scholar has written " It is almost certain not only that at no time in his life did he ever see, let alone command, a Roman army, but that, throughout the twenty-three years of his reign, he never went within five hundred miles of a legion ".
Coarse cloth is almost the only manufacture.
This was almost inevitable since, with the notable exception of the generals ( strategoi ), each office could be held by the same person only once.
In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.
Most professional astrologers are paid to predict the future or describe a person's personality and life, but most horoscopes only make vague untestable statements that can almost apply to any individual.
The army report that day contains only one phrase: “ All quiet on the Western Front .” As Paul dies, his face is calm, “ as though almost glad the end had come .”
Teaching and preaching are " the main, almost the only, activities of ministry.
Although it has only 6. 14 percent of Alaska's land area, it is larger than the state of Maine, and almost as large as the state of Indiana.
The only survivors of the vicinal / buurtspoor system are the Kusttram ( covering almost the entire coast from France to the Netherlands, being the longest tram line in the world ) and some sections of the Charleroi Pre-metro.
As one biographer wrote, " found himself almost the only figure on his side capable of putting up the oratorical display essential for a parliamentary leader.
The year 1705 proved almost entirely barren for the Duke whose military disappointments were only partly compensated by efforts on the diplomatic front where, at the courts of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna, Berlin and Hanover, Marlborough sought to bolster support for the Grand Alliance and extract promises of prompt assistance for the following year ’ s campaign.
Tacitus reports that " according to one report almost eighty thousand Britons fell " compared with only four hundred Romans.
Nothing, however, can be more absurd than this whole doctrine of the balance of trade, upon which, not only these restraints, but almost all the other regulations of commerce are founded.
He also often employed inanimate objects in his films, often transforming them into other objects in an almost surreal way, such as in The Pawnshop ( 1916 ) and One A. M. ( 1916 ), where Chaplin is the only actor aside Chester Conklin's brief appearance in the very first scene.

almost and cure
Seeing them both almost kiss prompts Rogue to seek out " the cure " so she can finally touch Bobby without fear of hurting him.
This breakthrough is almost as fundamental to the development of the rubber industry as Goodyear's sulfur cure.
Albert Abrams ( 1863 – 1924 ) was an American doctor, well known during his life for inventing machines which he claimed could diagnose and cure almost any disease.
We have also come to understand Harvey's somewhat unorthodox method of dealing with his gout, here cited completely: "... his ( Harvey's ) cure was thus: he would sit with his legs bare ... put them into a pail of water till he was almost dead with cold, then betake himself to his stove, and so ' twas gone ".
In February almost the entire company were affected by the disease and as many as 25 of them died before the survivors learned from the Indians that the bark of a white spruce tree boiled in water would afford a cure.
Whenever her weight threatened to exceed fifty kilos, a " fasting cure " or " hunger cure " would follow, which involved almost complete fasting.
A fresh rest cure was advised, this time on Corfu, where she improved almost immediately.
" The product has been promoted from almost the beginning of the mass media era as a cure for " iron-poor tired blood ".
As she becomes infatuated with Dick, Dick is almost driven to marry her as part of the cure.
This Kendra ( center ) offers effective treatment for snake bites with almost 100 % cure.
His many patients included John Adams's daughter, Dolley Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall ( from whom he removed almost 1, 000 bladder stones, effecting a complete cure ), and Dr. Benjamin Rush.
Despite the lack of a direct prescribable cure for the effect of astasia on the motor system of the legs, in almost all documented cases physical rehabilitation and relief from mental stressors have led to a full recovery.
Type 2 diabetics have had a 98 % " cure " ( i. e. became euglycemic ) almost immediately following surgery which is due to the metabolic effect from the intestine switch.
The Doctor is almost immediately suspicious of " Rose "' s actions, such as kissing him passionately or having knowledge of the advanced computer systems, but is more concerned on how the hospital can cure the incurable.

almost and is
It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.
It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.
Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.
It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;
The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.
The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.
On the one hand, he does not work for a large agency, but is almost always self-employed.
This is done for simplicity of commands and to bring the hidden redundancy up to where misunderstanding has almost zero possibility.
Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!
Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.
Men seem almost universally to want a sense of function, that is, a feeling that their existence makes a difference to someone, living or unborn, close and immediate or generalized.
Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.
Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.
It is no longer possible to say that a sceptical attitude towards the received accounts of the invasions almost automatically produces a `` shore occupied by '' interpretation.
The chancellor of the Exchequer wrote on the petition: `` in myn opinion it is very resonable and conscionable for hir maiestie to graunt in relief of this towne twise afflicted and almost wasted by fire ''.
the prolusion in which the autobiographic statement about the epithet occurs is such a mass of intentionally buried allusions that almost nothing in it can be accepted as true -- or discarded as false.
His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.
Many of these aspects will be seen as comparable to those of the ideal detective, but where the detective is active and militant, the jazz musician is passive, almost a victim of society.

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