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One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.
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One of the most distressing of these scenes occurred at Spring Green toward the end of the open warfare, on a beautiful day in June.
One day he followed the Irish Jasper Greens, the town band, to a picnic and spent the entire day listening, while his family spent the day looking.
One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.
One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.
One day I tired of following the Hetman's advice of `` shadowing '' and of the `` ring-around-the-rosie '' approach to a report that Enrico Caruso had pinched a lady's hip while visiting the Central Park monkey house.
F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.
Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.
One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.
One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.
One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.
One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.
One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.
`` One, modern equipment -- much of it supplied under the Marshall Plan -- enables Fiat to turn out 2,100 cars a day.
One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase.
A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").
One now leads to Aberdour railway station, a beautifully kept and cared for example of a traditional station, in keeping with its role of transporting at least a quarter of the village's working population to their work each day.
One and was
One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.
One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.
One of the pictures was of a man with hat drawn over his face ceremoniously lighting a cigarette ; ;
One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.
One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.
One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.
One example of this was his assertion that `` all servile revolts must be dealt with by physical force ''.
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One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
One sad-looking clump of coconut palms was jokingly called " King-Doyle Park " after two well-known citizens of Hawaii who visited on the Taney in 1938.
" One of the twin brothers returns home from shooting in the Corsican mountains, and is visited by the ghost of the other twin.
( One quick volume for the SPCK was Monuments of Ancient Egypt, a land he had never visited and never would.
One day in 1965, later called the Great Lesson of Yamoussoukro, he visited the plantations with the leaders of the county, inviting them to transpose to their own villages the efforts and agricultural achievements of the region.
One day, the planet is visited by a young man of eighteen who has the ability to perform thought transference and telepathy.
One of the most visited monuments in India, the Amba Vilas Palace, or Mysore Palace, is the centre of the Dasara festivities.
One visited him in a squalid room in London's Neal Street, in a house shared with near down-and-outs.
One challenge to a viewer's suspension of disbelief is the frequency with which the castaways are visited by people who do nothing to assist them.
One of the villages along the river Oise is Auvers-sur-Oise, famous for having been visited by several impressionist artists.
One regular visitor was Queen Elizabeth I who frequently visited Putney from 1579 – 1603, often visiting Mr John Lacy.
One of Keytesville's native sons, Sterling Price, was a key figure in Missouri during the Civil War, and violence would be visited on the community as well.
One of the places he visited was Florence, there acquiring a love for the Tuscan form of Italian, a love which was to prove so important in literary and musical history.
One of the great figures of Israeli Orthodoxy, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman is reputed to have said: " I have found two things in every city I have visited, Coca-Cola and Lubavitcher Hasidim ".
One of those who visited the tombs was the Satsuma man who had mocked and spat on Ōishi as he lay drunk in the street.
One of those houses can be visited, together with a couple of museums retracing the history of the coal mining industry in the Centre region.
One of the band's first managers, John Schofield, was at the time the lover of Hattie Jacques ( who would occasionally make bacon sandwiches for the band members when they visited Schofield's home ).
One of the first tourists in Hemsedal was the famous Norwegian polar explorer Fritjof Nansen who visited in 1898 and stayed at the Bjøberg Fjellstue.
One of the kings of this polity visited England around 1638 at the behest of the Providence Island Company, and sealed an alliance with Great Britain.
One holyman visited the home of Heinzelmann and refused to accept the kobold's protests that he was a Christian.
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