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She tasted better than he could have dreamed, a decadent blend of mint, woman, and need. | bookcorpus |
The only hypothesis that fits the facts is the broker was cheated in some way: that you stole it rather than purchased it, and the offended party has taken back what is rightfully his." | bookcorpus |
With the victory of Tariq ibn Ziyad in 711, the lives of the Sephardim changed dramatically. Though Islamic law placed restrictions on dhimmis (non-Muslim members of monotheistic faiths), the coming of the Moors was by and large welcomed by the Jews of Iberia. | wikipedia |
So sure enough every time dolphins would appear, it was as if go and the dolphins would cover for me because he would always whinny to them and they would always most definitely approach. | bookcorpus |
In 2006, the G6 added two new trim levels and two new bodystyles, a coupe and a retractable hard top convertible. The new trim levels were a new base four-cylinder trim (sometimes referred to as "SE"), and the high performance "GTP". Coupes and convertibles were available in GT and GTP trims only. The new base model used a 169-horsepower, DOHC inline-4, mated to a four-speed automatic transmission. The V6 was now part of a sport-package on the base/SE, and remained standard on the GT. The new GTP used a version of the GT's V6, but also utilizes variable valve timing (VVT), increasing output to 240 horsepower. A four-speed automatic transmission was standard, but for no cost, a six-speed manual transmission was available. The GTP convertible was not available with the manual transmission and reduced its power to , due to a more restrictive exhaust system. The GTP also featured standard electronic stability control. | wikipedia |
Kruse spoke over his shoulder as he walked away from Rick. | bookcorpus |
They tugged and twisted, Shaf cheering on his father. | bookcorpus |
In the Milwaukee Public Schools, five or six schools are expected to close this year, spokeswoman Roseann St. Aubin said. | 1billion |
I detest Trump and everything he is and stands for. | nyt_comments |
Last month, Suu Kyi was sentenced to another 18-month stint under house arrest for allowing an American intruder to stay at her home. | 1billion |
The trees spun around me, twirling in a chaotic dance as my head reeled in pain and I choked on the remnants of my breakfast. | bookcorpus |
Next Article in Opinion (7 of 31) » A version of this article appeared in print on January 18, 2010, on page A20 of the New York edition. | 1billion |
He continues therapy at the Louisiana Rehabilitation Center in Leesville and recently began to be able to use his hands as he talks. | 1billion |
Hidalgo was in the back, monitoring the police radio. | bookcorpus |
Mirrors...out in the passage she leaned against the wall and got her breath back. | bookcorpus |
Just a month or three before I head back to Ireland to find a job. | bookcorpus |
Dalton completed the drive with a pass to Ed Wesley, who broke one tackle around the 25 and didn't face another Cougar until he leaped over the goal line. | 1billion |
Expects me to pay for everything in her life - Maranda Swigged the dregs in the Goblet. | bookcorpus |
When Reagan decided to lower taxes and deregulate everything, and when Grover Norquist decided he wanted federal government small enough that he could "drown it in a bathtub", we believed these guys actually had a plan that made sense. They didn't. We all thought the states would have more power in this neo-conservative world where the power of the people (aka the federal government) was diminished. But we all forgot that there is a power betwixt the feds and the states: corporate America. They took control of everything, and now Douthat and Brooks claim that liberalism was a failure all on its own. Nice. | nyt_comments |
Chief Thomas filled Dan in as they traveled across the Chu Lai cantonment heading for the highway 1 gate. | bookcorpus |
Species are usually epiphytic, sometimes lithophytic small orchids, resembling Vandas in appearance. Their large, waxy, star-shaped flowers are generally white, cream-colored or yellow. They show a long, nectar-filled spur, often longer than the flower itself. There is a single stem with many flowers on a long raceme. The lip is flat and resembles the petals and sepals. They give off an agreeable smell during the night. There are six to ten parallel-veined, fleshy, evergreen leaves. | wikipedia |
By law of conservation of energy, apparent, real and reactive power are each conserved in the input and output: | wikipedia |
She stared with her nose pressed to the glass thinking of an icy Worldflying in rain, which turned to ice, which caused her to plummet as her wings froze and faltered. | bookcorpus |
The amount of energy stored in the tendons increases with the animal's speed and the weight of the load it is carrying. This is particularly helpful for mothers carrying young, and explains why tammar wallabies can increase their hopping speed without using more energy. The tammar wallaby shares this characteristic with other plains-dwelling macropods, like the red kangaroo. By comparison, rock-wallabies, such as the yellow-footed rock-wallaby, have traded efficient energy-saving for greater tendon thickness: an adaption for steep rocky terrain which allows them to leap higher and lowers the risk of their tendons rupturing. | wikipedia |
I did, however, manage to speak to Mr. Beaton, who was very hard to get hold of as Wellhe too had changed his number, and I only managed to find him through a friend of a friend of Mr.Hawkes, my boss, who, while she did not have his new telephone number, knew where he lived. | bookcorpus |
A soft determination replaced fear, and he allowed the slow pitch of the ship to lure him into a diaphanous sleep. | bookcorpus |
There's no hint, for example, of what sorts of talent they have mind for the next administration to replace the serial blunderers and patronage hacks that riddle the vast homeland security bureaucracy. | 1billion |
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning two premierships. Richmond joined the Victorian Football League (now known as the AFL) in 1908 and has since won 13 premierships, most recently in 2020. | wikipedia |
He knew who her Boyfriend was, and he knew that Frankie Delesseps was part of the town's power structure, if only by virtue of his friendship 'With big Jim Rennie s son. | bookcorpus |
In 2015, Edwards was hospitalized for pneumonia. On December 13, 2016, Edwards was hospitalized under stable condition again for pneumonia in Baton Rouge. | wikipedia |
The books tell a brothers' story, but the cast widens, to Willie and Nora, their parents, to Gertie, and on. | 1billion |
He traced the hills and valleys of her spine before grabbing her Oldfashioned Nightgown and lifting it to her thighs. | bookcorpus |
But from her position she could take in everything that was going on, including my sketch. | bookcorpus |
Modern literature in Amharic hoewever started two centuries later than in Europe, with the Amharic fiction Novel Ləbb Wälläd Tarik, published in Rome in 1908, widely considered the first novel in Amharic, by Afäwarq Gäbrä Iyäsus. Since then countless of literature in Amharic has been published and many modern day writers in Amharic translate their work also in English for commercial considerations. | wikipedia |
They would break their Spears on our walls and sail home weeping, Tanith said, with more confidence than she felt. | bookcorpus |
This man (elected by a minority), this congress (elected by a minority), and this court (a stolen majority) are literally destroying America for the benefit of their masters, an assortment of mass polluters and corporate shysters... | nyt_comments |
In 1883 he was a candidate in the Transvaal presidential election, but received only 1,171 votes as against 3,431 cast for Kruger. After losing to Kruger again in the 1888 elections, he ran against Kruger for a third time in the 1893 elections, standing as the representative of the comparatively progressive section of the Boers, who wished in some measure to redress the grievances of the Uitlander population which had grown up on the Rand. The poll (though there is good reason for believing that the voting lists had been manipulated by Kruger's agents) was declared to have resulted in 7911 votes being cast for Kruger and 7246 for Joubert. After a protest Joubert acquiesced to Kruger's continued presidency. | wikipedia |
On 17 June 1936, Hitler decreed the unification of all police forces in Germany and named Himmler as Chief of German Police. This action effectively merged the police into the SS and removed it from Frick's control. Himmler was nominally subordinate to Frick as police chief, but as , he answered only to Hitler. This move also gave Himmler operational control over Germany's entire detective force. The Gestapo became a national state agency. Himmler also gained authority over all of Germany's uniformed law enforcement agencies, which were amalgamated into the new (Orpo; Order Police), which became a national agency under SS general Kurt Daluege. Shortly thereafter, Himmler created the (Kripo; Criminal Police), merging it with the Gestapo into the (SiPo; Security Police), under Heydrich's command. Heinrich Müller was at that time the Gestapo operations chief. He answered to Heydrich; Heydrich answered only to Himmler and Himmler answered only to Hitler. | wikipedia |
The emerging plan, which is being coordinated with international relief officials, also calls for one camp to house 10,000 Haitians in the town of Croix des Bouquets, about eight miles northeast of the capital. | 1billion |
He moans as I place him on the pillows, and blood Browned by time stains his hands. | bookcorpus |
"many people are curious about the paranormal and the Occult these days, some seriously, some just because it's the in thing at the moment. | bookcorpus |
It had been forever since I hadn't gotten something I wanted. | bookcorpus |
Kate Matheson died in 2005 after completing a book about her relationship with Fulton, entitled Rikki & Me. For her funeral in Glasgow, Matheson requested no black ties should be worn because "we [she and Fulton] were together again". | wikipedia |
Two decades later and despite the transformation from cottage industry to global entertainment powerhouse, British talent is still setting the pace. | 1billion |
Later, I ran across a Video that showed just how the trick was done. | bookcorpus |
At the Olympics in Beijing, a Mexican Taekwondo fighter, Angel Matos, was disqualified for a time violation and responded by kicking the referee in the face and spitting on the ring. | 1billion |
Though, even if one of them is sober, they'd never believe me. | bookcorpus |
It is possible to release his soul from the demon...and for him to survive it. | bookcorpus |
"Well staff is easy, Klent said pushing his glasses back up his nose. | bookcorpus |
Both men laughed, and Eve joined in, Brimming with goodwill and happiness. | bookcorpus |
Over 2,600 homes were under mandatory evacuation Saturday and people in another 1,400 were warned to be ready to flee if the flames gathered speed. | 1billion |
Let me get this straight. Mr. Douthat is saying that Trump needs to dramatically cut revenue and dramatically increase spending? It is always fascinating to me how Republican budget deficits do not matter to Republicans. Balanced budgets are their entire raison d'etre right up until they get control. | nyt_comments |
Hayden was checking me out, but not in a way I'd ever wanted a guy to look at me. | bookcorpus |
The Agency also focused its energies on Jews outside of Israel. The Department for Education and Culture in the Diaspora and the Department of Torah Education and Culture in the Diaspora were created to help replace the loss of centers of Jewish learning destroyed by the Holocaust. They trained Hebrew teachers; sent Israelis abroad to supplement Diaspora schools, camps, and youth organizations; and trained cantors, (ritual slaughterers) and (ritual circumcisers) in Diaspora communities. | wikipedia |
Keith Bardwell, a white justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish in the southeastern part of the state, refused to issue a marriage license earlier this month to Beth Humphrey, who is white, and Terence McKay, who is black. | 1billion |
The Institute for Supply Management said its measure of the service sector rose to 47.0 last month from 44.0 in May. | 1billion |
In 2017, Nitzan Stein Kokin, who was German, became the first person to graduate from Zacharias Frankel College, which also made her the first Conservative rabbi to be ordained in Germany since before World War II. | wikipedia |
Representatives of the Royal historical society, the British Egyptology Institute, and the queens Treasury of cultural objects will accompany Kenyan officials and historians in escorting the treasures to Nairobi, Kenya. | bookcorpus |
He heard thunderous applause and high whistles when he'd finished his solo, and the sensation was thrilling; it was high; it was sheer ecstasy ... | bookcorpus |
Victor walked over to the Rv and he opened the door with his foot and we walked inside. | bookcorpus |
For the Red Sox to stop the Rays, Varitek said, "We have to pitch," and stop an offense that has scored 22 runs in the past two games. | 1billion |
At first the Americans were successful at World Championship level, but soon European competitors began to dominate the sport and for a number of years, athletes from countries that made up the former Soviet Union have often dominated the sport. Germany and France have been the other strong nations in trampolining and the first four ranking places in World Trampolining used to go to USSR, France, Britain and Germany. In recent years, Canada has also produced Olympic medalists and World champions due in large part to contributions made to the sport by Dave Ross. Ross pioneered the sport in Canada almost 30 years ago and has consistently produced Olympic and World Cup athletes and champions. Since trampolining became an Olympic sport, China has also made a very successful effort to develop world-class trampoline gymnasts, their first major success was in the 2007 Men's World Championship and later in both Men's and Women's gold medals and a bronze in the 2008 Olympic Games held in Beijing. Since then they have won both World Championships and several Olympic medals. Bryony Page, an English trampoline gymnast, was the first British female to win a medal at the Olympics, receiving a silver medal at Rio 2016. | wikipedia |
They had fought to the death, Honourably, and the blood debt had been settled, so she was no longer his enemy. | bookcorpus |
As if the explosion in the geometry classroom had never happened. | bookcorpus |
"Jungle Fever" by The Chakachas was first released in Belgium in 1971, was later released in the U.S. in 1972, where it reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 that same year. | wikipedia |
It is four years since they last lifted a trophy, the 2005 FA Cup, after a final in which they were as comprehensively outplayed by Manchester United as United were here. | 1billion |
About two hours later, with more than 100 talent evaluators taking note of his every move, Sanchez made his own case. | 1billion |
He spent an hour examining the minute inhabitants of one of the worlds great Ecosystems, reflecting that, somehow, all the Earths activities fitted together and worked together in harmony to create the environment that all species on the planet (including mankind) relied on totally for their survival. | bookcorpus |
The streets of Sherborne are expected to come alive with dozens of food and trade stalls, music and a funfair for its annual Pack Monday Fair. | 1billion |
For honey, walking must be like fighting a pair of gyroscopes. | bookcorpus |
And just as science reacts to Top Gear, so Top Gear reacts to science (Newton's third law of motion), with Richard Hammond exploring his Invisible Worlds (also on BBC1), zooming in and zooming in some more so he can write his name on the platelet of a human hair. | 1billion |
By 1944 he was the Hon. Secretary of St. Andrew's Boxing Club. In 1946 he became a full-time freelance sports commentator, working for Radio Éireann, Ireland's state broadcaster. In 1950, he began presenting programmes for the BBC, being particularly well known for boxing commentaries, and soon became one of television's most popular presenters. The following year, the game show What's My Line? began and Andrews was the host. He was also an occasional panellist and host of the original American version. | wikipedia |
The surge also prompted buyers to snap up other precious metals, with silver prices reaching a 27-year peak, platinum hitting a record, and palladium reaching a two-month high. | 1billion |
These are demons, evil beings the Mage can't force into service. | bookcorpus |
As they loaded up again outside, the two Chinese cooks, who had grown quiet and unhappy overnight despite not the least signs of homesickness over the whole course of their journey thus far, walked a little way off and each picked up a pebble and flung it at the wall, in what seemed to Laurence an odd hostility: Jing Chao's pebble bounced off, but the other, thrown by Gong su, Skittered and rolled down the sloping wall to the ground. | bookcorpus |
Doctor Who star David Tennant, who also attended the academy, has already given his support to the campaign. | 1billion |
Developing sanity in human affairs edited by Susan Presby Kodish and Robert P. Holston, Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut, copyright 1998, Hofstra University. A collection of papers on the subject of general semantics. | wikipedia |
Been through Penn Station several times in my life. Last time all the toilets were out of service. Someone set up portable ones outside the building that were infested with rats. | nyt_comments |
New numeric symbols and names were introduced in the Bibi-binary notation by Boby Lapointe in 1968. This notation did not become very popular. | wikipedia |
Archaeological studies have revealed use of rather sophisticated stormwater runoff systems in ancient cultures. For example, in Minoan Crete around 2000 BC, cities such as Phaistos were designed to have storm drains and channels to collect precipitation runoff. At Cretan Knossos, storm drains include stone-lined structures large enough for a person to crawl through. Other examples of early civilizations with elements of stormwater drain systems include early people of Mainland Orkney such as Gurness and the Brough of Birsay in Scotland. | wikipedia |
Interesting that you see intense exploitation as a causal factor in the development of "our" civilization (who is our, btw?). Is this an argument; are you claiming that intense exploitation and wealth concentrations are causal factors in the development of civilization, or do you just believe so? Faith, indeed. | nyt_comments |
Theft of services is a misdemeanor. Two convictions for it subjects someone to deportation. | nyt_comments |
Sessions does not want this idea to work and it appears he and Texas are on the same page. | nyt_comments |
Jace shouted something; Clary didn't know what, but she saw the wild look in his eyes, even as she threw herself sideways, out of the path of the Wolf. | bookcorpus |
Brooklyns first assignment was a special cruise to Britain with representatives of the U.S. for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The cruiser returned to the east coast in July 1897 and cruised there and in the West Indies until becoming flagship of the Flying Squadron under Commodore W. S. Schley on 28 March 1898. | wikipedia |
The First Reformed Church of Saddle Brook, located at 5 Ackerman Avenue, was the first church to be established in the present boundaries of the township. It was officially established in 1900, with its first worship service being held on May 5, 1901. | wikipedia |
How exactly did you get those charges dropped, anyway, who the hell was that lawyer, who are you connected to? | bookcorpus |
"Around 2000 something shifted…" Yes, David, it was when George W. Bush became president and the beginning of large tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, the so called "trickle down economics". Bush crowed that everyone would get a tax cut and if I remember right mine was about $60.00 (a year). I'm sure the now President Trump fared much better. There was a national budget surplus and Bush went through it in eight years and left an unpaid war as well as the Medicare part D drug program unfunded to name a few. | nyt_comments |
I believe that the difference between the two graphs is that Graph A is what people think the amount of mass shooters in a country is when showed the amount of guns in the country and then Graph B is the real statistic when it comes to gun violence. The more guns a country has it will obviously have more gun violence. Also it surprised me that non-democratic countries allow other people to have guns or those guns are those of the government. | nyt_comments |
The rich have nothing to do with getting this through Congress. Trump trashed the Paris agreement throughout the campaign. This isn't a priority for the Trump administration...right now. Even if he changed his mind the votes are not there in Congress for a carbon tax...on either side of the aisle. There's a big election coming up in 2018 no politician wants to go on the record as supporting a new tax....it's too easy to run against. | nyt_comments |
As I waited for the professor to find his way, which would be a while because even he seemed to dread attending the class, my thoughts drifted back to last Night-To Ren. | bookcorpus |
He became the reminder that none of those people is a stranger -- they are our sons and daughters, our brothers and sisters, and we know that they can be helped if society would commit to proven programmes such as Lamp, which provides its clients with permanent supportive housing and a chance to move on to transitional housing or even independent living. | 1billion |
Because of reduced funding, school districts across the state are facing teacher layoffs, class-size increases and elimination of programs. | 1billion |
He has many stories on the go right now, ranging from various short story projects, to his first Full-Length novel he hopes to release later this year. | bookcorpus |
Dr Allan Glaisyer Minns, born in Inagua, the Bahamas, Mayor of Thetford in 1904, was the first black man to become a mayor in Britain. | wikipedia |
Vote the bums out. We have an unhinged President who is aided and abetted by the craven Republican majority Congress. The only solution is a wholesale change. Let’s hope the MSD kids’ and their counterparts’ courage galvanize all of us to vote the bums out. | nyt_comments |
June 12–23 – The World Anti-Slavery Convention is organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, at Exeter Hall in London, England. Arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for women's suffrage in the United States. | wikipedia |
Here she reached for the bottle and filled my glass again. | bookcorpus |
Subjected to such public scrutiny, Nate felt that he had no choice but to go along, so he raised his right hand. | bookcorpus |
The climax of Michael Mann's film version of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans was filmed along one of the pathways across from Chimney Rock State Park. | wikipedia |