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nor and was
Carl Dill was neither a rancher nor a valley man.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.
Neither the vibrant enthusiasm which bespeaks a people's intuitive sense of the fitness of things at climactic moments nor the vital argumentation betraying its sense that something significant has transpired was in evidence.
Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.
Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.
A report of Sr. Edw Grevyles minaces to the Baileefe Aldermen & Burgesses of Stratforde '' tells how Quiney was injured by Greville's men: `` in the tyme Mr. Ryc' Quyney was bayleefe ther came some of them whoe beinge druncke fell to braweling in ther hosts howse wher thei druncke & drewe ther dagers uppon the hoste: att a faier tyme the Baileefe being late abroade to see the towne in order & comminge by in hurley burley came into the howse & commawnded the peace to be kept butt colde nott prevayle & in hys endevor to sticle the brawle had his heade grevouselye brooken by one of hys ( Greville's ) men whom nether hymselfe ( Greville ) punnished nor wolde suffer to be punnished but with a shewe to turne them awaye & enterteyned agayne ''.
Not a thought nor a cadence was missed in her summary of appreciation.
Now there was no work in the fields, nor would there be till it rained, and she did not know where he went.
She felt the look and looked back because she could not help it, seeing that he was neither as old nor as thick as she had at first believed.
They did not complain at the inhuman hour of starting ( seven in the morning ), nor of the tariff, which was reasonable since it covered everything but the tobacco.
No epidemic was initiated nor was one expected because the population in City A was not lousy.
This is to say that this was not a course in wise buying or money spending methods, nor a course in how to raise children.

nor and she
Maude was neither hysterical nor silly and Sarah rather doubted if she had ever been childish.
When at last she could suffer the insult no longer, nor face the girl's scorn, she said in a voice overloud:
Although she looks sweet, frail, and old, she fears neither dead nor living.
She does not receive a mitre nor is given a crosier as part of the ceremony ; however, by ancient tradition, she may carry a crosier when leading her community.
She also alienated the army by extreme parsimony, and neither she nor her son were strong enough to impose military discipline.
If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.
She had maintained throughout the show's run that she was never diagnosed with either anorexia or bulimia, nor was she a user of illegal drugs.
Kaye said in a 1954 interview, " Whatever she wants to be she will be without interference from her mother nor from me.
" Esther 2: 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful ; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
* Prove he / she is not a danger to himself nor to the general public by passing a psychological evaluation ;
But when it became known that she was neither a virgin at the wedding, nor a faithful wife afterwards, she ended up on the scaffold and the marriage declared invalid.
" In concluding about the poem, she argued, " In truth, there are other ' Fears in Solitude ' than that written by Coleridge and there are other ' Frosts at Midnight '; but there are no other ' Ancient Mariners ' or ' Kubla Khans ,' nor are there likely to be.
Most accounts agree that she found the barren floating island of Delos, still bearing its archaic name of Asterios, which was neither mainland nor a real island, and gave birth there, promising the island wealth from the worshippers who would flock to the obscure birthplace of the splendid god who was to come.
Now in her late thirties, Pickford was unable to play the children, teenage spitfires and feisty young women so adored by her fans, nor could she play the sleekly elegant heroines of early sound.
The uniform position amongst the states is that neither the judge nor the jury is permitted to draw any adverse inference about the defendant's culpability, where he / she does not answer police questions

nor and moved
It much rather indicates that the Boii neither destroyed nor depopulated Felsinum, but simply moved in and became part of the population by intermarriage.
The Royals started in 1969 and are the only major league KC team that has neither moved nor changed its name.
An arrangement was effected, however, whereby that summons was cancelled, and Luther went instead to Augsburg in October 1518 to meet the papal legate, Cardinal Cajetan ; but neither the arguments of the cardinal, nor Leo's dogmatic papal bull of 9 November requiring all Christians to believe in the pope's power to grant indulgences, moved Luther to retract.
Castling is allowed only when neither the king nor the castling rook has previously moved, when no squares between them are occupied, when the king is not in check, and when the king will not move across or end its movement on a square that is under enemy attack.
Le Pen is ( supposedly, even though no actual proof nor confirmation exist ) the godfather of the third daughter of Dieudonné M ' bala M ' bala, a comedian, political activist, and anti-zionist of French-African descent who moved from fighting against the Front National to being very close to most of its senior members and defending their freedom of speech in French media.
Chamberlain had begun negotiations to settle colonial differences with the French Ambassador, Paul Cambon, in March 1901, although neither Lansdowne nor Cambon had moved as quickly as Chamberlain would have liked.
In accordance with the concept of independent communities in the Rule of St Benedict, the Benedictines have autonomous Abbeys ( so-called " independent Houses "); and their members profess " stability " to the Abbey where they make their vow, hence cannot move – nor be moved by their Abbot or Abbess – to another Abbey.
He promised that the new foundation's canons would not be allowed to vote in archiepiscopal elections nor would the body of Saint Thomas Becket ever be moved to the new church, but the monks of his cathedral chapter were suspicious and appealed to the papacy.
" Later tests established that neither the force of the explosion, nor the impact with the ocean could have moved them, indicating that Smith made the switch changes, presumably in a futile attempt to restore electrical power to the cockpit after the crew cabin detached from the rest of the orbiter.
: Mr. Wilson & Mr. Sherman moved to insert after the words " coin money " the words " nor emit bills of credit, nor make any thing but gold & silver coin a tender in payment of debts " making these prohibitions absolute, instead of making the measures allowable ( as in the XIII art :) with the consent of the Legislature of the U. S. ... Mr. Sherman thought this a favorable crisis for crushing paper money.
When he returns to Ayodhya, he finds that the hijras, being neither men nor women, have not moved from the place where he gave his speech.
On June 17, Römer informed the president of the parliament that the Württemberg government was no longer in a position to tolerate the meetings of the National Assembly that had moved to its territory, nor the activities of the regency elected on the 6th, anywhere in Stuttgart or Württemberg ".
Neither Sumner nor Marr has gone on record with any formal dissolution of the band despite both having moved onto other projects.
It appears neither the Rozwi nor the Portuguese could maintain control of the Mutapa state for very long, and it moved back and forth between the two throughout the 17th century.
The crowd then moved on to the Quaker meeting-house, until someone yelled that the Quakers " never trouble themselves with anything, neither on one side nor the other " and convinced them instead to attack the New Meeting chapel, where Priestley presided as minister.
Unlike the United States, there were no veterans organizations nor any help for them from the government, and many of them moved permanently to the United States.
Article 49 ( 1 ) of the Convention specifically covers " ndividual or mass forcible transfers " whereas the Israelis who live in the settlements have moved there voluntarily, and argue that settlements are not intended to, nor have ever resulted in, the displacement of Palestinians from the area.
Also, many Greeks who moved to Vancouver during that time period had neither connection to nor immediate knowledge of Greektown.
He continued to operate the school through the 1997 session, and then closed Clown College because the needs of the show had changed ; the school was no longer profitable, nor necessary, as clowning had moved back into the mainstream of performing arts.
While filling in, he would say he was on the Dan Ingram show, but did not identify himself, nor would he claim to be Dan either ) moved from overnights to afternoons, and Sturgis Griffin joined for overnights, while Howard Hoffman did evenings.
After living for some years in a small flat in London and being obliged, during the war, neither to travel nor to take part in the hostilities, on account of being classed as an ' alien ', he moved to the United States in 1955, where he became a lecturer ( and ultimately Emeritus Professor of Chinese ) at Columbia University from 1955 to 1977, with an interlude in 1958 and 1959 during which he was Emerson Fellow in Poetry at Harvard University.
And the exalted Deity commanded the two mountains and they moved and approached each other to a distance of twelve ells, and there I made ... copper gates 12 ells broad, and 60 ells high, and smeared them over within and without with copper ... so that neither fire nor iron, nor any other means should be able to loosen the copper ; ...

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