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both and were
Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.
They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were going to town, and they were both excited.
They were in a fight, outweighed in both numbers and money.
She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
The Australian and I both were wearing insect repellent and were not badly bothered by insects, but my eyes watered as we stood watching the aborigine.
He understood that both sides were at fault, and he reached the height of saying so explicitly in his Second Inaugural.
But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.
But both were high-spirited and vivacious, both had tempers to control, both loved languages, especially English and German, both were good teachers and wrote for publication.
but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.
but the years that immediately followed were to be extraordinarily trying, both for Wright and his Montenegrin lady.
Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.
There were times that he worked with both lyricists simultaneously.
The reporters were questioning the Interior man and the French officer, both of whom remained noncommittal as to what action, if any, would be taken in my regard.

both and obviously
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.
To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.
For the figure of Vincent Berger Malraux has obviously drawn on his studies of T. E. Lawrence ( though Berger fights on the side of the Turks instead of against them ), and like both Lawrence and Malraux himself he is a fervent admirer of Nietzsche.
It was understood that both ICBMs and SLBMs are obviously " strategic ".
On the other hand, French lait and Spanish leche ( both meaning " milk ") are less obviously cognates of Ancient Greek gálaktos ( genitive singular of gála, " milk "), a relationship more evidently seen through the intermediate Latin lac " milk ", as well as the English word lactic and other terms borrowed from Latin.
'" " Also, he's obviously incredibly brave both in terms of facing external, physical danger as well as facing up to unpleasant situations and admitting his own mistakes.
It looks like there is an older form of the High German word " Sieg " ( victory ): sigis, obviously Gothic and an inferred Germanic form, and there is a younger form: sigi, which is Old Saxon or Old High German sigu ( both from about 9th century ).
However, he is also known for lies and self-promotion, and criticized on these grounds — Martin Gardner's assessment continues " but also obviously a hustler ", Canadian puzzler Mel Stover called Loyd " an old reprobate ", and Matthew Costello calls him both " puzzledom's greatest celebrity ... popularizer, genius ," but also " huckster ... and fast-talking snake oil salesman.
Without at least one of these two pieces of information, we are not obviously justified in seeing design in such cases … he problem for the fine-tuning argument is that we lack both of the pieces that are needed to justify an inference of design.
This section features letters both written by the editors and sent in by readers often with ridiculous names, usually in the form of obviously fictitious anecdotes ( one reader claimed that by defecating on the high seas, he was able to expel a single unbroken " monster " turd ; however, nobody wanted to grant him research funds for further attempts ) or various observations, such as the " children say the funniest things " type ( one issue featured numerous variations of a reader's young son making a reference to masturbation during bathtime, such as " playing with pork sword "; in this case, when the reader entered the bathroom, she discovered her son had indeed fashioned a sword out of pork sausages ).
The true reasons were obviously very complex and certainly consisted of both " push " factors ( including the general dissatisfaction of life under British rule ) and " pull " factors ( including the desire for a better life in better country.
Words such as " milk " or " rice " are not so obviously countable entities, but they can be counted with an appropriate unit of measure in both English and Mandarin ( e. g., " glasses of milk " or " spoonfuls of rice ").
Since ZPP = RP ∩ coRP, ZPP is obviously contained in both RP and coRP.
The concept is obviously present in xiangqi ( Chinese chess ), where an " X " is drawn on the game board, in front of both players ' general and advisors.
A solution was proposed by Andreas Hinz, and is based on the observation that in a shortest sequence of moves, the largest disk that needs to be moved ( obviously one may ignore all of the largest disks that will occupy the same peg in both the initial and final configurations ) will move either exactly once or exactly twice.
This was obviously in the interest of the Federal Republic of Germany but — because the Soviet Union also maintained diplomatic relations with the German Democratic Republic — it was apparently inconsistent with the exclusive mandate policy, which insisted that other states should not maintain diplomatic relations with both German " states ".
From live performances and both live and studio recordings, the new material was obviously a further progression ; the group was experimenting with various time signatures, such as 7 / 4, and was using more melody and a greater variation in song structure.
After a brusque hearing before a military tribunal, he and the Count are both sentenced to the firing squad the next morning, by an officer who obviously regrets the task.
As far as man is concerned it is obviously of the greatest importance, even though both Augustine and some modern scholars see it as minor.
Swann was obviously based on Flynn, while Benjy Stone is loosely based on both Brooks and Woody Allen, who also wrote for Caesar.
Austin writes that he was both delighted and disturbed by the Alternative 3 controversy, and adds that the reasons " a clever hoax, openly admitted to be such by its creators, should continue to exercise the fascination it so obviously does the best part of a generation after its first appearance is beyond my feeble powers of analysis and explanation.
It was Olcott who most eloquently articulated and most obviously embodied the diverse religious and cultural traditions that shaped Protestant Buddhism, who gave the revival movement both its organizational shape and its emphasis on education-as-character-building.
In 2006, David Hare wrote that " Pinter regularly offers actors what will become the opportunities of a lifetime: to Meryl Streep, obviously, in The French Lieutenant's Woman ; to Peter Finch and Anne Bancroft in one of the most overlooked of all British films, The Pumpkin Eater ; and, unforgettably, to Dirk Bogarde, both in Accident and The Servant.
Even so, they are both obviously very close, sharing the same school song, school flag and the same motto.

both and on
`` I'll shore be needing ye both on the pull out o' the canyon ''.
I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.
Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.
Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.
Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.
It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.
Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.
Through most of 1787 operations on both sides had been lackadaisical ; ;
During a sojourn of slightly more than three months Chamberlain Littlepage could see action on both elements.
To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.
With the knowledge that the kingdom comes by obedience to the moral law in our relations with all people, we have a firm intellectual grasp on both the means and the ends of our lives.
He had learned to dispute devastatingly, both formally and informally in Latin, and according to the rules on any topic, pro or con, drawn from almost any subject, more especially from Aristotle's works.
And this means, I suppose, that almost invariably age reveals itself by easily recognizable signs engraved on both the body and the mind.
The framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.

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