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had and enough
The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.
`` I've had enough of that.
I've had enough of you.
It sprang from a type of mentality I'd encountered often enough but certainly had not expected to find here.
The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.
He had found Curt's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness, and was smart enough to take advantage of it.
Jess had had enough.
I've had enough.
In other words, nationalism worked well enough when it had limited application, both as to geography and as to population ; ;
Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.
While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.
He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.
Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.
Graceful as his fencing and dancing lessons had taught him to be in addition to the natural grace of his slight, wiry frame, he cut enough of a figure to have evoked a nickname in the college, to which he himself referred in Prolusion 6::
My `` touchstones, had, been strictly '' literature and, humanly enough, American literature ( because that was what I wanted to write ).
He said he had No. 2's enough to last two weeks more.
and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.
It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.

had and brains
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
He had the same bullet head of curly reddish hair but he didn't have Jim's pokerfaced humor or his brains or his charm.
Homo habilis had smaller molars and larger brains than the Australopithecines, and made tools from stone and perhaps animal bones.
They argued that existing neural models had failed to produce intelligent behaviour because they were too small, and that in order to create " artificial brains " it was necessary to manually assemble tens of thousands of evolved neural modules together, with the billion neuron " CAM-Brain " requiring around 10 million modules ; this idea was rejected by Igor Aleksander, who said " The point is that these puzzles are not puzzles because our neural models are not large enough.
This view was generally accepted until the Roman physician Galen, a follower of Hippocrates and physician to Roman gladiators, observed that his patients lost their mental faculties when they had sustained damage to their brains.
Jean Pierre Flourens experiments on the brains of pigeons indicated that the loss of parts of the brain either caused no loss of function, or the loss of a completely different function than what had been attributed to it by phrenology.
, 16 blind people worldwide have had sight partially restored in a procedure where electrodes implanted in their brains take impulses from a camera to allow patients to see lights and outlines of objects.
One of the grenades wounded Linder, and as he lay there a contra came up and blew his brains out ...’ son Ben was killed by somebody paid by somebody paid by somebody paid by President Reagan .’” Linder ’ s father has a valid point since Reagan himself had stated “ I ’ m a contra too ”, compared the contras with the founding fathers and the people in the French resistance, and then spent the money, $ 100 million in military aid issued just in 1986 to the contras.
" Master Mold had plans to kidnap world leaders from around the world and replace their brains with computers so that the world would fall under his control.
Orde Wingate, also involved in planning that operation, had taken such a dislike to Powell that he asked a colleague to restrain him if he was tempted to " beat his brains in ".
Moniz developed a theory that people with mental illnesses, particularly " obsessive and melancholic cases " had a disorder of the synapses which allowed unhealthy thoughts to circulate continuously in their brains.
Reduced expression of reelin and its mRNA levels in the brains of schizophrenia sufferers had been reported in 1998 and 2000 and independently confirmed in the postmortem studies of hippocampus, cerebellum, basal ganglia, and in the cortex studies.
Their results soon sparked interest from the entire neuroscience community in these psychological studies, which had until then focused on monkey brains.
The brains of the " outfit " is Hal Kines, who has had plastic surgery so that he looks much younger than he really is, this being how he gets hold of the young women whom he then turns into prostitutes.
As a guest observed: One met all the best in Society there — the people with brains, and those who had enough to appreciate them.
However, she withdrew the intended privilege in apparent disgust when Tydeus gobbled down the brains of the hated enemy who had wounded him.
The goddess Athena had planned to make him immortal but refused after Tydeus in a rage devoured the brains of the defeated Melanippus.
In 2003 two women from Iran, Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who were joined at the head but had separate brains ( craniopagus ) were surgically separated in Singapore, despite surgeons ' warnings that the operation could be fatal to one or both.
They have a seemingly simple brain, not the large complex brains of octopuses and squid, and had long been assumed to lack intelligence.
* Frederik Pohl's novel Black Star Rising ( 1985 ) features a character who has had parts of multiple brains grafted onto his, each conveying a separate personality.
Early in 1916 Curzon visited Douglas Haig ( newly appointed CinC of British forces in France ) at his headquarters in France-Haig was impressed by Curzon's brains and decisiveness – he had mellowed since his days as Viceroy ( the then Major-General Haig had been Inspector-General of Cavalry, India, at the time ) and had lost " his old pompous ways ".
The Ferengi also colloquially use the word lobes much as the words brains or balls are used in modern English ( as in, " I didn't think you had the lobes for that!

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