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very and old
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.
It's the Valmet ( about $170 ), a 12-gauge over/under very much like the old Remington 32 -- which was so fine a gun that today a used one still brings high prices.
For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).
But although the idea of communism is very old even in More's day and did not spring full-clad from his imagination in 1515, it is not communism as such that we are concerned with.
Another school frowns on such a shortcut, and insists that after leaving the bin an old red wine should first stand on end for several days to allow the sediment to roll to the very bottom, after which the bottle may be gently eased to a tilted position on its side in the cradle.
The wine waiter will see to it that the bottles are taken from the bin and opened at least in time to warm and aerate, preferably allowed to stand on end for as long as possible and, perhaps in the case of very old wines, be decanted.
There was a very old man and a young woman and a brood of children ranging from toddlers to teen-agers.
She put a strong hand under the old man's arm and lifted him up, patiently, with the gentle cruelty and necessary tyranny that the young show toward the very old.
A very great Pope, this one, the old woman explained, her black eyes sparkling.
There have also been found very old Nepōhualtzintzin attributed to the Olmeca culture, and even some bracelets of Mayan origin, as well as a diversity of forms and materials in other cultures.
Before this, many of its families were assigned to the old order Liliales: a very large order containing almost all monocots with colourful tepals and without starch in their endosperm.
The death itself occurs in at an old cave site and offers some very descriptive details of sites which Christie herself would have visited in order to write the book.
They later emigrate to Argentina, leaving Poirot behind as a " very unhappy old man.
For a wicked person, a very old, ugly, naked hag appears.
Most such peerages pass to heirs-male, but the ancient baronies created by writ, as well as some very old earldoms, pass instead to heirs-general ( by cognatic primogeniture ).
This cult was a survival of very old totemic and shamanistic rituals and formed part of a larger bear cult found further afield in other Indo-European cultures ( e. g., Gaulish Artio ).
This canoe is exhibited in the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands ; other very old dugout boats have been recovered.
Martha, Bill's widow, who was with him in these troubling times, denies he had a brain tumor as does his old, very close friend, Hugh McCallum.
Many of their songs are very old and are said to date back to the old kingdom of Mali.

very and red
Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
And it makes a very poor red herring for an inside job.
Extensive miniature woods of heaths are found in almost endless variety and covered throughout the greater part of the year with innumerable blossoms in which red is very prevalent.
Extreme cases like Mira undergo large swings over hundreds of days ; Arcturus is not very red and is a borderline case between variability and stability with its short period and tiny range.
She was said to have had red hair kept in curls, blue eyes, and fair skin and she was very beautiful, intelligent, charming, desirable, elegant, friendly, and gentle, but she was considered to be insane.
In very severe myelosuppression, which occurs in some regimens, almost all the bone marrow stem cells ( cells that produce white and red blood cells ) are destroyed, meaning allogenic or autologous bone marrow cell transplants are necessary.
The women wear a white chemise ; over that a very small corselet, and over that a red jacket with blue and black velvet facings.
In its second term, the red green coalition lost several very important state elections, for example in Lower Saxony where Schröder was the prime minister from 1990 to 1998.
He scored four goals in an England match on two occasions and is one of very few players never to have been given a yellow card or a red card in any type of game.
When hemoglobin combines with CO, it forms a very bright red compound called carboxyhemoglobin, which may cause the skin of CO poisoning victims to appear pink in death, instead of white or blue.
The bricks discovered were made of red sand, clay, stones and were baked at very high temperature.
Problems that continue to put a drag on growth include low foreign investment levels, bureaucratic red tape, and very widespread corruption which causes 51. 43 trillion Rupiah or 5. 6573 billion US Dollar or approximately 1. 4 % of GDP to be lost on a yearly basis.
The most common type of Shūsui have a pale, sky-blue / gray color above the lateral line and red or orange ( and very, very rarely bright yellow ) below the lateral line and on the cheeks.
Turbochargers get red hot during operation and the oil that is cooling them only survives as its residence time in the system is very short i. e. high flow rate.
Appearing as practical electronic components in 1962, early LEDs emitted low-intensity red light, but modern versions are available across the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared wavelengths, with very high brightness.
In California, Merlot can range from very fruity simple wines ( sometimes referred to by critics as a " red Chardonnay ") to more serious, barrel aged examples.
* Flavorosa: very sweet, medium-sized, flat round dark-purple fruit with red flesh, early ripening
* Eagle Egg: very sweet, medium-sized, dark red with crimson flesh, early mid season
* Flavor Fall: large size, average flavor, red skin with yellow flesh, very late season
* Flavorosa: very sweet, medium-sized, flat, round, dark-purple fruit with red flesh, very early ripening
He was said to be very attractive ; his hair was between red and blond, and he was light-eyed with a pale complexion.

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