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He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.
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Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.
And he could no longer think of face-saving, of honor, but only of escape.
He heard cries from behind him, but he could make out no words.
As far as he could see there was no hole to climb through it.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
They could no longer afford the luxury of the canvas sweat bag that cooled it by evaporation.
Ramey could hear the crowd coming up rapidly behind him and the questioning voices coming over his shoulder had no identity or importance to him.
However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.
Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.
The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.
The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.
I have no picture in my mind of the garden as a whole -- that I could not see -- but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory: wind-blown, frost-bitten, white chrysanthemums beneath a window, with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November ; ;
Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.
The show was colorful, indeed, exuberant, but the press for all its assiduity could detect no note of a fateful rendezvous with destiny.
The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.
To the Republicans no victory could have been more complete.
He held that no group of colonists could set up or maintain a government without royal sanction.
`` Because, Fred, it could do him no good.
He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.
He was Julius Kahn for whom the Chief of Staff thought no honor could be too great.
All areas of history were either favorably or adversely affected by the geographical environment, and no respectable historian could pursue the study of history without a thorough knowledge of geography.
it was also sacred, `` and no believer in an inspired church could tolerate having her canons examined as we should examine human laws ''.
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No cow thief could count on a jury of his sympathetic peers to free him any longer.
On New Year's Eve, Alfred Harcourt drove him up the Hudson to Bill Brown's Training Camp, a well-known establishment for the speedy if temporary rehabilitation of drunkards who could no longer help themselves.
When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.
Both of them were overcome by the horror of the world in which they found themselves, because at last they could no longer overcome that world with the weapon of a purely lyrical art.
By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.
He put the shells on the table, as though he could no longer bear to hold them.
they simply could no longer be purchased for missionary purposes.
When at last she could suffer the insult no longer, nor face the girl's scorn, she said in a voice overloud:
Some people said Linda had just announced the engagement to jolt John into some action, but when John came home from a business trip to Cleveland with Edythe, with Edythe his bride, it could no longer be John-and-Linda even to sentimental wishful thinkers.
In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.
Justice was rapid: a case could last not longer than one day.
* Variable names were limited to two letters ; they could be made longer, but only the first two letters would be used.
LANs could now support more than 255 nodes, and zones were no longer associated with physical networks, but were entirely virtual constructs used simply to organize nodes.
This had the consequence that it could not any longer be regarded immutable, and hence Hebrew could not be regarded as identical with the language of Paradise.
They had planned to sell this engine to motor manufacturers, but having heard that the Aston Martin car was no longer in production they realised that they could capitalise on the reputation of the Aston Martin name ( what we would now call the brand ) to give themselves a head start in the production of a completely new car.
Pilots would enter dives, and then find that they could no longer control the plane, which continued to nose over until it crashed.
However, Atari started to sue its competitor companies for releasing games to which it had exclusive-rights agreements and Emerson was left with thousands of manufactured games that could no longer be sold.
ASROC started development as the Rocket Assisted Torpedo ( RAT ) program by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the early 1950 to develop as surface warship ASW weapon counter to the new post-WWII submarines which ran quieter, at much higher speed and could attack from much longer range with high speed homing torpedoes.
They noted that 2 % of the lakes could no longer support Brook Trout, and 6 % of the lakes were unsuitable for the survival of many species of minnow.
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