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  • All of which was beside the point.

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  • The dining room was directly off the kitchen, which was also lavish.

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  • Speaking of which, where was Alex?

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  • All of which was irrelevant.

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  • Which is more important?

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  • Connie returned with a cool damp rag which she placed on Lisa's face and then the back of her neck.

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  • It isn't a matter of which I love more.

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  • Then he looked up to find the nest from which they had fallen.

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  • Which one is mine?

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  • Now you need shoes—but which ones?

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  • Which direction do you want to go?

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  • Surprisingly, Darcie was good company, which helped the trip go by faster.

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  • All of which was neither here nor there.

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  • Just behind the royal standard-bearers came the Princess Ozma in her royal chariot, which was of gold encrusted with emeralds and diamonds set in exquisite designs.

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  • Which came first, the recluse or the loneliness?

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  • The shutters were all closed, except at one window which was open.

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  • Lisa stared after him; unsure which was more intriguing, the man or the path.

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  • The Wizard opened his satchel and got out some sticking-plaster with which he mended the cuts Jim had received from the claws of the bears.

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  • So he painted a beautiful picture which seemed to be covered with a curtain.

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  • It was simply that he didn't want to tell her - which amounted to the same thing.

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  • Which did you pick, Marian?

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  • Which do you prefer?

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  • Which was the real Alex?

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  • Which was good for her.

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  • The travellers now resumed their walk toward the cottage, which they presently reached.

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  • I'd like to know which version is true.

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  • It had a bright blue cover, which he was careful not to soil.

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  • In the vegetable gardens they found the strawberries and melons, and several other unknown but delicious fruits, of which they ate heartily.

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  • His clothing fitted his form snugly and was gorgeously colored in brilliant shades of green, which varied as the sunbeams touched them but was not wholly influenced by the solar rays.

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  • Which would be worse, an uneasy stomach or split lips?

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  • Jackson, which jeweler did you use?

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  • Science's progress over the past few hundred years has been determined mainly by the relatively slow speed at which we were able to collect data.

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  • Which maybe it did.

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  • But their journey was almost over, for in a short time they reached a small cave from which there was no further outlet.

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  • We have no idea which direction they headed.

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  • Instead, he drew a leathern case from his pocket and took from it several sharp knives, which he joined together, one after another, until they made a long sword.

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  • This will turbocharge science, which will no longer rely exclusively on slow observations in real time.

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  • He seemed comfortable with his surroundings, which was surprising in itself.

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  • Which would kill her, the Indians or the country?

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  • To his delight they were now plainly visible, which proved that they had passed beyond the influence of the magical Valley of Voe.

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  • They rode through the herd, which paid little attention to their passage.

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  • Which you then stole.

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  • Which one is the Toggenburg?

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  • Which was more than I was doing yesterday, it seems.

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  • For which I thank you.

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  • Of course, a little make-up and the right clothes could do wonders - which was a good way to wind up straying off the path she had mapped before she left home.

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  • She was thinking, which was good.

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  • Norfolk wants to clean this up and they're looking for direction on which way to lean.

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  • Dean silently hoped the call wasn't some convoluted effort to restore their relationship, which to his mind was thankfully finished.

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  • They ended up in the living room, watching a baseball game in which neither had a lick of interest.

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  • The confidence with which he spoke floored her.

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  • She waited for him to leave then checked her micro, which was still working on decrypting his encoded messages.

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  • Brady scanned the surrounding forest again, trying to figure out which way Lana had gone.

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  • We're trying to figure out which path she took.

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  • It was a bicycling magazine—one to which Dean subscribed.

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  • He broke in and checked the electricity, which someone had left on.

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  • There could be a number of reasons that Sarah would welcome her as a daughter-in-law, not the least of which was the goings-on down that path.

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  • I righted a wrong, which required another wrong of sorts.

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  • The last 200 miles of the bus ride traversed the first three days of the bike tour route after which the tour would turn north and enter the really tough mountain portions of the trek.

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  • He helped her into the saddle, which was entirely unnecessary, and then lifted a coiled rope from the fence post.

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  • Rhyn snorted and faced the corner, making out Gabriel's eyes, which gleamed darker than a night in Hell itself.

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  • In the darkness, he wasn't reminded of an ache he'd killed long ago, that which reminded him he once knew what it was to feel the warmth of the sun on his human skin.

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  • Her move toward the fire was reflected in a small mirror behind the desk in front of which he stood.

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  • Her eyes stayed on the creature, which joined several more tattooed beings in the hall before they all struck out in different directions.

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  • Her eyes fell to the entryway in front of the elegant building in which she stayed, then to the street further down, where several forms moved from beneath a canopy, trailed by a shadow darker than night.

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  • And which part do you like the best?

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  • Not the least of which was Katie's comment about someone else wanting Alex.

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  • They left the orchard for the quiet city, which had not yet begun to awaken.

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  • She was surprised she could walk at all and knew a few ounces of blood had been a small price to pay for Lankha's work, which she'd never have gotten for all the money in the world at home.

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  • Sasha's servants wouldn't get within a foot of Rhyn; instead, they shaped the magic of Sasha's realm around him and gave him only one direction to go, that which Sasha wanted.

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  • No. You're staying where my brothers can't get to you, which is with me.

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  • The emergency network had not been utilized, which meant that by morning one of the high-ranking men hiding underground would be on the phone to General Greene to complain about the lack of gin.

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  • He had been a top salesman, which meant he had a way with words, and that's all he intended to do - talk.

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  • It was a question for which there was no answer.

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  • In his hand was a bouquet of wild flowers, which he promptly threw to the side when he saw her on the floor.

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  • She toyed with her food, gaze going to the closed door behind which her two-year-old daughter slept.

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  • The town of Ouray rests at the boxed-in end of the narrowing Uncompahgre Valley, which spreads from the towering San Juan Mountains in roughly a northwest direction, dropping elevation as the valley gradually widens.

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  • Which meant Darkyn wasn't done with Wynn yet.

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  • We are at the bottom now, hated by all, without the resources of power to which we were accustomed.

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  • He circled the small, blonde woman and stopped behind her, gaze on Gabriel's name, which was written across her back, along with the Immortal mating script.

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  • The courtyard bordered a small grassy park off which several trails ran from the grassy area into the still dark woods.

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  • Brady turned to his team of five, which were gathered around the downed man.

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  • The keys were located all over the world, except for four of them, which were based here in the command center.

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  • She twisted to face the direction from which it had come, expecting to see Gabriel.  Nothing was there.  The jungle around her fell suddenly still, and the possessed branches stopped in place, as if watching her.

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  • His grades were good, which helped.

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  • Dean lifted her in his arms and slowly picked his way up the beach in the direction from which he'd come, half staggering through the soft sand.

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  • And there was a smell of cigarette smoke, a definite no-no, one of the few points on which he and the old man agreed.

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  • The chickens liked their new run, which was purposely left full of weeds.

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  • He wasn't sure which instinct was stronger.

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  • He glanced at her backpack, which rested in the corner.

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  • Which means I can forgive any trespass she may have committed.

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  • She narrowed the distance again, this time rising up on her tiptoes to kiss him lightly on the lips, the final push over the cliff on which he teetered.

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  • She couldn't control it, which terrified her.

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  • Which meant Damian knew.

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  • They cannot destroy me when I will determine which world survives.

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  • I do not seek your oath, only your sword, for which you will be paid in gold.

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  • She suspected Hilden knew, which was why he stepped up during those years and taught her to fight and survive long before Sirian did.

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  • It was beyond his imagination that she would grant him that which he wanted!

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  • They will recognize your claim, which is enough.

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  • My father's supposed to raid with us, which he's never done.

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  • To comprehend the real position we are forced to the conviction that the world of facts is the field in which, and that laws are the means by which, those higher standards of moral and aesthetical value are being realized; and such a union can again only become intelligible through the idea of a personal Deity, who in the creation and preservation of a world has voluntarily chosen certain forms and laws, through the natural operation of which the ends of His work are gained.

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  • Involuntarily listening now to the firing, which had drawn nearer and was increasing in strength, Alpatych hurried to his inn.

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  • I used them a lot over the years, not always to the FBI liking which didn't help my career but I found they often work.

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  • There were a lot of tourists in town, probably for the autumn equinox, which drew people from around the world every year.

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  • Driving was out of the question as the mid-morning parade, scheduled to begin in a few minutes, was forming on Main Street, which was now closed to traffic.

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  • All of which is neither here nor there.

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  • The two times in his life he recalled people seeing his eyes – which glowed like the red gem at his mother's throat – were not pleasant.

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  • His little human assistant was good for a few things, one of which was finding places like this for him to hunt.

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  • Which made three times you were broaching the subject of matrimony and I thwarted your attempts.

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  • Matters of warrants and probable cause escaped his wife's rationale, replaced by her conscience, which stood firmly in charge.

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  • Most queries were answered in monosyllables except the last, which Dean put off by explaining they'd discuss the bones at length in the morning.

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  • How could you tell which one contained the bones?

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  • You are a deity without a domain or source of power, which means you have nothing I could possibly want, Darkyn said.

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  • They continued, and Deidre's attention went to a small shop behind the tents, from which incense drifted.

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  • Which would be soon.

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  • They stopped at a wooden door, which the woman flung open.

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  • She leaned against the wall, eyeing the distance from her position to the rock on which Rhyn sat.

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  • Only to find herself staring at the bubbles of blood forming from within his fist, which was clamped around the blade of a knife a few inches from her face.

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  • Her gaze lingered on Katie's face, which Katie knew was pale.

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  • You try but you can't protect me, Rhyn, which you've proven a dozen times over.

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  • Everything comes at a cost, Gabriel, which you know.

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  • C.mon, Toby, Katie said and turned away, allowing Toby to pull her down the hall to the dining chamber, which had yet to fill up.

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  • Katie whipped around the breakfast bar, eyes roving the kitchen for the knife block or something with which to defend herself.

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  • He sensed Kris.s agitation was increased by the ensnaring scent of Katie.s blood, which was heavy in the air.

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  • After a few minutes rest, they continued, first hearing, then seeing the waterfall and the reservoir from which the penstock first drew the water for its mile-long trip to town.

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  • They're paying us for tranquility, not to witness your domestic problems, which should be handled in private, in a lawyer's office.

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  • This I am sure will occur if he is to guess my condition, which grows more noticeable as my time draws closer.

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  • How could Edith be sure which rope he'd use?

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  • Elisabeth stood at the piano which did nothing to allay his anxiety.

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  • Communicating love in a way neither had ever experienced, they converged in an esoteric dance in which the world fell away.

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  • Neither of which she could afford.

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  • She glued her attention on the doe, which was now licking life into her infant.

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  • The scene was total chaos, with goats dashing every which way around the field, trying to avoid the squawking chickens and the fox.

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  • None of which explained why Alex had stopped to see Lori first.

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  • She touched the subcutaneous communications implant behind her right ear, which activated the communications net, and rolled onto her back.

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  • Meanwhile, his people acted as the eyes on the ground to the regular military, most of which was exiled overseas after the war to prevent the divided political elite from seizing control of it again.

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  • The road edged a thatch of forest past the water treatment plant and the power plant, and circled the central command hub in which she worked before leading to the main entrance of the compound.

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  • Elise held out a meal bar, which Lana accepted.

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  • Brady looked from the injured man to the streaks of red in the sky, which were answered by two more streaks to the north.

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  • Lana glanced at her micro, which still worked on breaking through his messages.

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  • The laser markings matched similar damage seen on the eastern wall, which they found when they circled the compound.

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  • The administrator scan, which only the President or Vice President could run, came back with half a dozen errors.

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  • Lana typed a message to Mr. Tim, telling him she was leaving and heading to the Peace Command Center, which was the first center beyond the Mississippi River.

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  • Her head cleared enough for her to see she'd hit one of his arms, which was drenched with blood.

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  • The safe required the code from a key fob, which was probably in one of his pockets.

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  • Dan leaned back into the hollow of the tree in which they'd taken refuge.

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  • Lana looked up at the bridge, trying to determine which way it was to shore.

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  • The nurse smiled again and studied the micro in her hand, which monitored his vitals.

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  • Brady didn't care for power, which was why he'd always gotten along with Tim.

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  • We'll figure out which route she took and track her.

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  • There was no real way to know which route she might've taken.

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  • She and the others appeared healthy, which surprised Lana.

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  • Two of which lead towards known emerops facilities about two to three days out.

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  • Perhaps this had been the evil of which Death spoke.

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  • The branch obliged him and passed him upwards to another, which stretched him as far up as it could reach.  Then dropped him.  Toby yelped as he fell.  Another branch caught him and lifted him upwards again.

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  • I think I could cut it away.  I've tried taking off my shoe and maneuvering my foot every which way.

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  • Her guards are gone, which means they're off tracking demons.  Death is unpredictable, but if I were to guess, she's somewhere in the underworld.

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  • The sound of something screaming wiped the smile from Deidre's face.  Katie turned to face the direction from which the sound came.  It wasn't a bird, and it wasn't human.  The single voice was joined by several, and Katie grabbed Deidre's hand.

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  • I'll believe it when they fish his body out of the drink, which they won't, 'cause it ain't there.

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  • One hundred fifty-six Maid Marian Lane was a neatly kept ranch to which a one-car garage had been added.

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  • She rarely combed her hair, owned no more than three or four shapeless dresses, which appeared in all seasons, most of which were stained and wrinkled.

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  • The living room and kitchen, which faced to the south, provided an exquisite view of the surrounding countryside.

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  • Dean had two choices, neither of which was appealing.

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  • When Dean returned to Collingswood Avenue, Fred was knee-deep in either his notes or another mystery novel, Dean didn't notice which.

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  • Nothing, unless you count a tire patch kit and a half a receipt for $59.95, neither of which probably even belonged to Byrne.

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  • The entire trip took just over an hour with the driver, a volunteer from Amarillo, Texas who never stopping his constant drawl of friendly conversation, little of which Dean heard.

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  • He located the room, which was dark when he entered, but he didn't turn on the light.

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  • Sometimes it was difficult to know which virtues they taught her were worthy and which were simply out-dated.

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  • He was telling her to let it ring, which was an excellent idea.

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  • There was no defined point at which everything went wrong – or right, depending on the viewpoint.

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  • He must have picked up the lamb and left the clinic, which would explain why he wasn't there when she drove by.

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  • There was enough room in the closets and dresser to keep it all available – which came in handy with the weather changes.

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  • By their goofy math, which figured from the first day of her last period, she was 9 weeks pregnant.

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  • According to the lawyer, Lori could contest the will — which would be expensive and straining on everyone.

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  • Jonny didn't seem to know her fate, which meant Xander hadn't told her secret, that she was intended to mate with the Grey God.

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  • Two weeks ago, she wouldn't have known which way Darian would go.

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  • They used mind manipulation to control you, which wasn't possible with Xander there to protect you.

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  • It is your destiny to choose which world survives.

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  • The Oracle probably knew how this day would end, which world would survive.

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  • She looked towards their destination then back at the pillar of magic, which had grown thicker and had begun eating away at the earth around it.

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  • That left her with two allies, neither of which was within half a day's ride.

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  • He wants the water from the Springs, which he claims is magic.

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  • Beyond the iron wall sliding away was a small portcullis, which stood between him and a small stone chamber with ensconced torches.

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  • He had come to her in the dream in which he killed her.

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  • Taran's jaw tightened as he took in the right side of her face, which blazed red as if struck.

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  • One stronghold was in the north, in which they stood, and one in the south near the entrance to the desert.

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  • She was not bleeding, for which she was grateful, but her body ached as if it had been flung around a stone room for hours.

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  • She was unable to identify which clan it was that captured her.

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  • The youth was scared, which only terrified Taran

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  • Her heart had quickened for two reasons, one of which she did not want to admit.

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  • You've set in motion a course which cannot be altered.

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  • Hilden glanced around the round chamber, which had fallen quiet after his words.

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  • Right now it was enough to hear his deep voice, regardless of which language he spoke.

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  • I'm not sure which of my sins she considers worst - being a Medena offspring or refusing my heritage.

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  • Jonathan had reached puberty in full rebellion, which was one of the reasons she didn't think he should have a cell phone.

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  • She glanced down at her arm, which was in a sling, and then back at Alex.

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  • I'm not sure which bothered Alex more, having someone else shoot him or knowing he had suffered for a long time.

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  • Sam asked which horse Carmen wanted and then began saddling it.

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  • If Sam was going to take care of the horses, it was important that she know which ones to be cautious with.

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  • Sam eyed her with a fair amount of discomfort, which wasn't surprising because Carmen was close to tears.

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  • Right now they were frightened and lost – which was pretty much the way she felt.

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  • She wasn't sure which idea bothered her worst.

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  • He named it Sentinel, which was probably a good indication of his expectations.

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  • With all that going on, and your loyalty to a dying friend, you were so overwhelmed that you didn't know which way to turn.

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  • Which reminds me - have you set a date yet?

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  • Of course, she had the thirty-some thousand in her savings account - most of which had been allotted her when she turned twenty-one.

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  • She had four thousand dollars in her checking account, all of which she had saved.

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  • All of which you should know if you've actually been around here long... everyone else seems to.

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  • They were undoubtedly getting a daily report from Keaton - which was more than she could do.

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  • In the bathroom, she paused long enough to grab a towel, which she tossed at Keaton when she met him in the kitchen.

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  • Even now she wouldn't be sure which way to go back to the cabin if the twine didn't indicate the direction.

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  • It worked, but it stopped a foot short of her floor, which made her load even more precarious.

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  • It was close to seven on a Sunday morning, which meant they were probably still asleep.

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  • She was barely ten years older than Brandon, which her parents pointed out every time she had a bad day managing the two teens.

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  • Which reminds me, you've got a ten o'clock today with your producer to plan out shooting for the next season, Ingrid said.

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  • With your long list of enemies, I'm not certain which would've sent them.

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  • Which meant, he was wearing it.

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  • Everything in this place screamed creepy order, which made her wonder what was wrong with the owner.

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  • Which leaves Jonny, Xander mused.

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  • He sensed secrets in people, and this woman had a ton of them, which was at odds with her clear gaze and the shimmer of innocence around her.

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  • He turned to face the stairwell, at the top of which Cat sat, also waiting.

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  • Whoever did that to your arm did it as a reminder, which makes me think they're in a hurry to get whatever it is.

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  • The quietness with which he spoke made Jessi feel bad for asking.

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  • Jessi wondered if she was the only one who heard Xander, which made no sense, considering the photographer stood between her and the massive man.

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  • Darian nodded to the Guardians present, most of which left quickly at Xander's appearance.

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  • The tray was too much for her hurt arm, which could support no weight.

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  • It was one thing when she knew he was giving her the gem, which she thought only held great power.

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  • These creatures couldn't read her mind, which meant they'd never know that she hid the real one in a shoebox.

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  • What was more important than power, betrayal and revenge, the tenets on which he built his life?

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  • The last memory she had was of purple lightening, a cold, dark place and the damned Other, none of which explained how she ended up here.

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  • One led to a closet, another to a bathroom and a third into a spacious living area, off which was another balcony.

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  • Benjamin Hoadly, the newly-appointed bishop of Bangor, scented the opportunity and wrote a speedy and able reply, Preservative against the Principles and Practices of Non-Jurors, in which his own Erastian position was recommended and sincerity proposed as the only test of truth.

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  • It is a bluish-black powder which at high temperatures decomposes into the metal, dioxide and oxygen.

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  • It forms green prisms which are readily soluble in water.

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  • To the former he owes his appreciation of exact investigation and a complete knowledge of the aims of science, to the latter an equal admiration for the great circle of ideas which had been diffused by the teaching of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel.

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  • Each of these influences, which early in life must have been familiar to him, tempered and modified the other.

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  • The true method of science which he possessed forced him to condemn as useless the entire form which Schelling's and Hegel's expositions had adopted, especially the dialectic method of the latter, whilst his love of art and beauty, and his appreciation of moral purposes, revealed to him the existence of a transphenomenal world of values into which no exact science could penetrate.

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  • It is evident how this initial position at once defined to him the tasks which philosophy had to perform.

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  • First there were the natural sciences, themselves only just emerging from a confused conception of their true method; especially those which studied the borderland of physical and mental phenomena, the medical sciences; and pre-eminently that science which has since become so popular, the science of biology.

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  • These different tasks, which philosophy had to fulfil, mark pretty accurately the aims of Lotze's writings, and the order in which they were published.

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  • The two books mentioned remained unnoticed by the reading public, and Lotze first became known to a larger circle through a series of works which aimed at establishing in the study of the physical and mental phenomena of the human organism in its normal and diseased states the same general principles which had been adopted in the investigation of inorganic phenomena.

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  • The mechanical laws, to which external things were subject, were conceived as being valid only in the inorganic world; in the organic and mental worlds these mechanical laws were conceived as being disturbed or overridden by other powers, such as the influence of final causes, the existence of types, the work of vital and mental forces.

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  • One of the results of these investigations was to extend the meaning of the word mechanism, and comprise under it all laws which obtain in the phenomenal world, not excepting the phenomena of life and mind.

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  • Lotze publicly and formally denied that he belonged to the school of Herbart, though he admitted that historically the same doctrine which might be considered the forerunner of Herbart's teachings might lead to his own views, viz.

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  • We may add that according to this view nothing is real but the living spirit of God and the world of living spirits which He has created; the things of this world have only reality in so far as they are the appearance of spiritual substance, which underlies everything.

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  • The world of many things surrounds us; our notions, by which we manage correctly or incorrectly to describe it, are also ready made.

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  • But, further, every attempt to think clearly what those relations are, what we really mean, if we talk of a fixed order of events, forces upon us the necessity of thinking also that the different things which stand in relations or the different phases which follow each other cannot be merely externally strung together or moved about by some indefinable external power, in the form of some predestination or inexorable fate.

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  • The things themselves which exist and their changing phases must stand in some internal connexion; they themselves must be active or passive, capable of doing or suffering.

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  • But, in attempting to make this conception quite clear and thinkable, we are forced to represent the connexion of things as a universal substance, the essence of which we conceive as a system of laws which underlies everything and in its own self connects everything, but imperceptible, and known to us merely through the impressions it produces on us, which we call things.

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  • Nor would it seem as if it could be the intention of the author to do much more than point out the lines on which the further treatment of the subject should advance.

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  • The actual result of his personal inquiries, the great idea which lies at the foundation of his philosophy, we know.

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  • Cannstatt, which was incorporated with Stuttgart in 1903, attracts numerous visitors owing to its beautiful situation on the Neckar and its saline and chalybeate springs.

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  • A very important distinction is to be found in the conformation of the trunk, which, as shown in fig.

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  • Among the works of benevolence with which his name is associated are the establishment of a hospital for galley slaves at Marseilles.

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  • In February 1532 he protested against all acts concerning the church passed by the parliament which met in 1529, but this did not prevent the important proceedings which secured the complete submission of the church to the state later in the same year.

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  • The same is true in the case of a liquid such as water; it can be divided into drops and these again into smaller drops, or into the finest spray the particles of which are too small to be detected by our unaided vision.

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  • It separates in the form of small rose-red crystals, which decompose on boiling with water.

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  • It forms monoclinic crystals which are very soluble in water.

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  • He wrote letters to the cities of Italy, asking them to send representatives to an assembly which would meet on the 1st of August, when the formation of a great federation under the headship of Rome would be considered.

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  • Soon afterwards he went to London, where he lived until his death in 1807, never accepting the Concordat, which had suppressed his archiepiscopal see.

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  • But during the whole of this active life, many details of which are very interesting as illustrative of the life and manners of the time, he never lost sight of a design which he had formed at a very early period, of writing the history of those civil wars in France in which he had borne a part, and during which he had had so many opportunities of closely observing the leading personages and events.

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  • Tostig's banishment led to the invasion of Harold Hardrada, king of Norway, and the battle of Stamford Bridge, in which both perished.

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  • The main point, however, was that they flew, and flew swiftly, if a bit unevenly, toward the rock for which they had headed.

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  • They listened to the French sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of understanding but not wishing to appear to do so.

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  • The town was being bombarded by a hundred and thirty guns which Napoleon had ordered up after four o'clock.

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  • But on the road, the highroad along which the troops marched, there was no such freshness even at night or when the road passed through the forest; the dew was imperceptible on the sandy dust churned up more than six inches deep.

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  • Prince Andrew was somewhat refreshed by having ridden off the dusty highroad along which the troops were moving.

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  • Martha was unavoidably reassigned hours which included weekends.

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  • School, which will begin tomorrow, is only a few days from summer recess.

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  • The only skin not covered was his face and part of his neck, both of which were channeled and knotted by scars.

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  • Sure, Dean thought, I'll put it on the list, right after food, clothing and shelter, all of which were tough enough to fund given Bird Song's present budget.

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  • For ten bucks more, she was to cover Ridgway's four hundred citizens in the county's only other town, if you didn't count minuscule Colona, which most people didn't.

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  • They were standing at the first turn which now lighted looked familiar.

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  • Turning on the water, she filled their water trough before heading out for the longhorn shed, which was the closest to the trees.

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  • For which I feel entirely responsible.

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  • You care which shirts I pack for you?

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  • The air-conditioned hospital corridor gave way to the balmy heat of the Caribbean island on which he stood.

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  • Wynn met the deity's gaze, which flickered between all the colors in the universe.

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  • Ocean surrounded the small island, upon which a fortress sat, several hundred meters away, up a sloping hill on top of solid rock.

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  • It felt real, which meant this place was real.

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  • If he ever leapt off another building, he'd choose pavement, which might have some give to it.

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  • Which means, what happened between you and this Gabriel was more than a one night stand.

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  • I connected the tumor – which was completely operable – with magic to her emotions.

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  • Nothing can get you here, which is why I'm not allowed to leave.

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  • Rhyn knows you're here, which means he'll be checking up on you.

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  • He knew it, which meant he was counting on her caving at some point.

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  • She faced the direction from which she'd come.

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  • He'd been ignoring the extent of the power available from the souls for fear of violating the Code, which he now understood was not binding in the face of a threat like Darkyn.

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  • Past-Deidre walked out and left me to clean up the mess, which I did poorly.

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  • He didn't have the pointed teeth of a demon, which she hoped was indication enough she wasn't about to make a deal with the devil.

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  • They didn't go far, for which she was grateful.

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  • The purposes for which I created you are complete.

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  • It was his immortal powers, which Death had yanked from him when she ordered Gabriel to take him to Hell.

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  • A touch of coolness grazed his heated frame, which always grew hotter than Hell when he changed forms.

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  • Katie Young looked at the speedometer, which read thirty-seven when the blue lights flared up behind her, jarring her out of the pre-coffee morning stupor.

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  • Toby chattered, his tone lifting in a question that didn't penetrate the in-between world in which she'd fallen.

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  • The unease passed quickly as he saw which death dealer stood before him.

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  • You will send me home, and you'll remove Toby, Gabriel, and every other interference you placed in my life, down to the scuff marks in the hallway, which I know

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  • We nicknamed him the Phoenix, which is notorious for not only rising from ashes but also for taking down everyone and everything around them in flames.

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  • In the distance was a dark swath of park leading up to the lit-up Eiffel Tower, which was larger than she'd imagined.

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  • I help them with marketing, which was my major until I quit school.

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  • They made room for her and pushed fries at her, which she accepted.

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  • The creatures had reached the top of the stairs and were looking around, trying to figure out which way she'd gone.

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  • She tugged the heavy door open by its old iron handle and gazed into a large square of grass, a courtyard, around which many similar rooms with heavy doors were arranged.

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  • I traveled through the shadow world, which is also how I got you back!

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  • They crossed through a common area with a kitchenette and large, flat-screen TV, past a gym, a library, and a few other common rooms, and into the barracks area, which bustled with activity.

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  • He beamed a smile and offered his arm, which she accepted.

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  • Every time I turn around, I'm getting my ass kicked by some beast, many of which are probably after you!

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  • She'd been scared since Hell, if not before, for which he blamed Kris.

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  • Instead, he started walking away and summoned his powers, wondering which of his brothers could be coerced into giving him what he wanted.

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  • She rolled her eyes at his twisted sense of humor, which normally teetered on lethal.

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  • Not sure which of us is more twisted.

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  • She tends to take that which she wants.

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  • When he returned to the main room, Harrigan had left to talk to a class of grade-school children, a job at which he excelled, much to the pleasure of the others who shunned playing Officer Friendly.

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  • The top half, which might have identified the date and the store was missing as if the slip had been torn in two.

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  • After that he let her decide which one she wanted.

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  • You can't really measure which is most dangerous.

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  • But this formal agreement includes material differences, and the spirit which breathes in Lotze's writings is more akin to the objects and aspirations of the idealistic school than to the cold formalism of Herbart.

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  • Of the numerous churches in the city the most interesting are the Stiftskirche, with two towers, a fine specimen of 15th-century Gothic; the Leonhardskirche, also a Gothic building of the 15th century; the Hospitalkirche, restored in 1841, the cloisters of which contain the tomb of Johann Reuchlin; the fine modern Gothic church of St John; the new Roman Catholic church of St Nicholas; the Friedenskirche; and the English church.

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  • The technical high school, which since 1899 has possessed the right to confer the degree of doctor of engineering, practically enjoys academic status and so do the veterinary high school and the school of art.

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  • Its importance, however, is of comparatively modern growth and in the early history of Wurttemberg it was overshadowed by Cannstatt, the central situation of which on the Neckar seemed to mark it out as the natural capital of the country.

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  • He was one of the leaders of the emeutes of the 20th of June and the 10th of August 1792, played an important part in the formation of the revolutionary commune which assured the success of the latter coup, and was made procureur of the commune.

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  • He was present at the September massacres and saved several prisoners, and on the 7th of September 1792 was elected one of the deputies from Paris to the convention, where he was one of the promoters of the proclamation of the republic. He suppressed the decoration of the Cross of St Louis, which he called a stain on a man's coat, and demanded the sale of the palace of Versailles.

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  • The best known of these is that of Dryoscephalae, which must then, as slow, have been the direct route from Athens to Thebes.

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  • These rules were borrowed almost word for word from the project drawn up at the Brussels international conference of 1874, which, though never ratified, was practically incorporated in the army regulations issued by the Russian government in connexion with the war of 18 77-7 8.

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  • In common with the okapi, giraffes have skin-covered horns on the head, but in these animals, which form the genus Giraffa, these appendages are present in both sexes; and there is often an unpaired one in advance of the pair on the forehead.

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  • The herds, which are led by females, appear in general to be family parties; and although commonly restricted to from thirty to fifty, may occasionally include as many as one hundred head.

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  • The native idea, which may be true, is that the shorter period occurs in the case of female and the longer in that of male calves.

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  • The females have relatively large tusks, which are essential in obtaining their food.

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  • According to Hagenbeck's estimate, this elephant, which came from the French Congo, was about six years old at the time it came under scientific notice.

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  • Further, the skin is stated to be much less rough, with fewer cracks, while a more important difference occurs in the trunk, which lacks the transverse ridges so distinctive of the ordinary African elephant, and thereby approximates to the Asiatic species.

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  • The most important of these are the greater tolerance by the African animal of sunlight, and the hard nature of its food, which consists chiefly of boughs and roots.

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  • The two differ in certain details of dentition, and in the greater development in the former of the parachute, especially the interfemoral portion, which in the latter is almost absent.

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  • The Indian flying-squirrel (P. oral) leaps with its parachute extended from the higher branches of a tree, and descends first directly and then more and more obliquely, until the flight, gradually becoming slower, assumes a horizontal direction, and finally terminates in an ascent to the branch or trunk of the tree to which it was directed.

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  • It has a total length of 37 in., of which 22 are taken up by the tail.

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  • As regards general form, the most distinctive feature is the great relative length of the tail, which reaches the hocks, and is donkey-like rather than deer-like in form.

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  • If 127 parts of iodine, which is an almost black solid, and loo parts of mercury, which is a white liquid metal, be intimately mixed by rubbing them together in a mortar, the two substances wholly disappear, and we obtain instead a brilliant red powder quite unlike the iodine or the mercury; almost the only property that is unchanged is the weight.

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  • The atomist has an easy answer; he says that the new body is made up by the juxtaposition of the atoms of iodine and mercury, which still exist in the red powder.

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  • He drew simple diagrams, three of which, taken from Dalton's New System of Chemical Philosophy, part ii.

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  • But these differences between Dalton's views and our present ones do not impair the accuracy of the arguments which follow.

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  • The law of multiple proportions asserts that if two elements form more than' one compound, then the weights of the one element Law of which are found combined with unit weight of the other multiple in the different compounds, must be in the ratio of two propor or more whole numbers.

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  • We find in nature two other unlike substances, marble and Iceland spar, each of which is wholly composed of carbon dioxide and lime.

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  • The law of reciprocal proportion, of which some examples have been already given, is part of a larger law of equivalence that underlies most of our chemical methods and calculations.

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  • The "symbols" for the elements used by Dalton, apparently suggested by those of the alchemists, have been rejected in favour of those which were introduced by Berzelius.

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  • Under the Reign of Terror he was arrested and imprisoned for nearly a year, during which he studied Condillac and Locke, and abandoned the natural sciences for philosophy.

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  • He soon began to attract attention by the memoires which he read before his colleagues - papers which formed the first draft of his comprehensive work on ideology.

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  • Destutt de Tracy was the last eminent representative of the sensualistic school which Condillac founded in France upon a one-sided interpretation of Locke.

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  • The large industrial population of the town is occupied in the manufacture of lace, which extended hither from Nottingham; there are also railway carriage works.

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  • Later he was chosen director of the university observatory, which was erected (1818-1821) under his superintendence.

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  • In 1844 he was elected ordinary professor of higher mechanics and astronomy, a position which he held till his death on the 26th of September 1868.

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  • Of more general interest, however, are his labours in pure mathematics, which appear for the most part in Crelle's Journal from 1828 to 1858.

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  • The Bafing follows a northward course for about 350 m., during which it descends by a series of rapids till it reaches a level of 360 ft.

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  • In the upper part of the river the reservoirs are partially protected by curtains of verdure from the effects of the evaporation which makes itself so severely felt on the treeless seaboard.

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  • Soon after his mind began to give way, but during frequent intervals of lucidity he made new corrections in his great work, of which a third edition appeard in 1744, prefaced by a letter of dedication to Cardinal Trojano Acquaviva.

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  • The names of leading legislators, which we so often find recorded in the history of primitive peoples, are symbols and myths, merely serving to mark an historic period or epoch by some definite and personal denomination.

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  • In the former the author sets forth the analytical process by which the laws he discovered were deduced from facts.

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  • In the second he not only enlarges his matter and gives multiplied applications of his ideas, but also follows the synthetic method, first expounding the laws he had discovered and then proving them by the facts to which they are applied.

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  • In all parts of history in which he was best versed Vico pursues a stricter and more scientific method, and arrives at safer conclusions.

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  • It contains a closed vesicle regarded by Schepotieff as a right probosciscavity and in any case representing the pericardium of Balangolossus, the glomerulus of which is also probably represented.

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  • Associated with these males are neuter zooids, which usually possess no functional repro ductive organs, but have in I -...

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  • The question of their affinity to other divisions of the animal kingdom depends principally on the views which are held with regard to the relationships of the Enteropneusta and Phoronidea respectively.

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  • It is a brown coloured powder which is stable in air, but gives a higher oxide when heated.

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  • A blue basic salt is precipitated first, which, on boiling, rapidly changes to the rose-coloured hydroxide.

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  • This hydroxide is soluble in well cooled acids, forming solutions which contain cobaltic salts, one of the most stable of which is the acetate.

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  • By heating a mixture of cobalt oxalate and sal-ammoniac in air, it is obtained in the form of minute hard octahedra, which are not magnetic, and are only soluble in concentrated sulphuric acid.

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  • Alkaline carbonates give precipitates of basic carbonates, the formation of which is also retarded by the presence of ammonium salts.

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  • It dissolves easily in water, forming the hydrated chloride, CoC12.6H20, which may also be prepared by dissolving the hydroxide or carbonate in hydrochloric acid.

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  • By the addition of excess of ammonia to a cobalt chloride solution in absence of air, a greenishblue precipitate is obtained which, on heating, dissolves in the solution, giving a rose-red liquid.

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  • The iodide, Co12, is produced by heating cobalt and iodine together, and forms a greyish-green mass which dissolves readily in water forming a red solution.

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  • The most common of these sulphides is cobaltous sulphide, CoS, which occurs naturally as syepoorite, and can be artificially prepared by heating cobaltous oxide with sulphur, or by fusing anhydrous cobalt sulphate with barium sulphide and common salt.

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  • A large number of cobalt compounds are known, of which the empirical composition represents them as salts of cobalt to which one or more molecules of ammonia have been added.

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  • They form yellow or bronze-coloured crystals, which decompose on boiling their aqueous solution.

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  • He also renewed the claim which had been made by his predecessor, Adolf, on Thuringia, and interfered in a quarrel over the succession to the Hungarian throne.

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  • There he lived in exile till 43, when he was proscribed by Antony, the reason alleged being his refusal to surrender some of his art treasures which Antony coveted.

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  • Kossuth continued the agitation by reporting in letter form the debates of the county assemblies, to which he thereby gave a political importance which they had not had when each was ignorant of the proceedings of the others.

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  • The Diet, which met in 1839, supported the agitation for the release of the prisoners, and refused to pass any government measures; Metternich long remained obdurate, but the danger of war in 1840 obliged him to give way.

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  • Kossuth, indeed, was not content with advocating those reforms - the abolition of entail, the abolition of feudal burdens, taxation of the nobles - which were demanded by all the Liberals.

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  • He adopted the economic principles of List, and founded a society, the "Vedegylet," the members of which were to consume none but home produce.

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  • A new paper was started, to which was given the name of Kossuth Hirlapia, so that from the first it was Kossuth rather than the Palatine or the president of the ministry whose name was in the minds of the people associated with the new government.

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  • During all the terrible winter which followed, his energy and spirit never failed him.

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  • In April 1849, when the Hungarians had won many successes, after sounding the army, he issued the celebrated declaration of Hungarian independence, in which he declared that "the house of HabsburgLorraine, perjured in the sight of God and man, had forfeited the Hungarian throne."

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  • The agitation had no immediate effect, but the indignation which he aroused against Russian policy had much to do with the strong anti-Russian feeling which made the Crimean War possible.

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  • An attempt to organize a Hungarian legion during the Crimean War was stopped; but in 1859 he entered into negotiations with Napoleon, left England for Italy, and began the organization of a Hungarian legion, which was to make a descent on the coast of Dalmatia.

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  • A law of 1879, which deprived of citizenship all Hungarians who had voluntarily been absent ten years, was a.

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  • He now reaped to the full the harvest of treason and rebellion which he himself had sown so abundantly during the first forty years of his life.

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  • In December 1691 he was appointed receiver of the tithes which were originally paid to the bishop of Utrecht, and five years later was nominated to the professorship of eloquence and history.

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  • Emerging from his solitude Rienzi journeyed to Prague, which he reached in July 1350, and threw himself upon the protection of the emperor Charles IV.

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  • Rienzi attempted to address them, but the building in which he stood was fired, and while trying to escape in disguise he was murdered by the mob.

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  • In the same year Rainer became curator of the Academy of Sciences, a position which he filled till his death.

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  • In 1872 he was appointed to the supreme command of the newly established Austrian Landwehr, to the organization of which he devoted many years of work.

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  • The compiler of this work, however, seems to have used a regnal list of the Bernician kings, which differed considerably from most of those found in our early authorities.

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  • In the winter of 874-875 Healfdene returned to Northumbria, which he partitioned among his followers.

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  • In pursuit of his art he travelled, and is said to have reached England; ill-health drove him homewards in 1524, in which year he married Dirckgen Willems at Delft.

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  • There are few trees on the island, for most of the valuable indigenous trees have been practically exterminated, such as the sandalwood, which the earlier navigators found one of the most valuable products of the island.

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  • Ferns are prominent among the flora, about one-third of which consists of endemic species.

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  • He soon, however, appears to have abandoned his possessions, which were afterwards for many years only visited occasionally by fishermen from the coasts of Chile and Peru.

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  • The only point of interest on the banks is the cavern, near the mouth of the Alder, in which Prince Charles Edward concealed himself for a time after the battle of Culloden.

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  • After the peace of Antalcidas (387), to which he refused to agree, the Athenians withdrew their support, since by its terms they recognized the lordship of Persia over Cyprus.

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  • Evagoras was allowed to remain nominally king of Salamis, but in reality a vassal of Persia, to which he was to pay a yearly tribute.

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  • As an outcome of this alchemical doctrine the process of fermentation was supposed to have a purifying and elevating effect on the bodies which had been submitted to its influence.

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  • He held that every fermentation consisted of molecular motion which is transmitted from a substance in a state of chemical motion - that is, of decomposition - to other substances, the elements of which are loosely held together.

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  • In 1857 Pasteur decisively proved that fermentation was a physiological process, for he showed that the yeast which produced fermentation was no dead mass, as assumed by Liebig, but consisted of living organisms capable of growth and multiplication.

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  • Fischer found that the enzyme "invertase," which is present in yeast, attacks methyl-d-glucoside but not methyl-l-glucoside.

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  • In 1897 Buchner submitted yeast to great pressure, and isolated a nitrogenous substance, enzymic in character, which he termed "zymase."

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  • This body is being continually formed in the yeast cell, and decomposes the sugar which has diffused into the cell.

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  • Only those cultures which contained a single yeast speck were assumed to be pure cultivations.

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  • Those cells are accurately marked, the position of which is such that the colonies, to which they give rise, can grow to their full size without coming into contact with other colonies.

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  • It is supposed by some that Saccharomyces is a very degraded Ascomycete, in which the Torula condition has become fixed.

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  • The characteristic flavour and odour of wines and spirits is dependent on the proportion of higher alcohols, aldehydes and esters which may be produced.

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  • Another fact of considerable technical importance is, that the various races of yeast show considerable differences in the amount and proportion of fermentation products other than ethyl alcohol and carbonic acid which they produce.

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  • Their selection for a particular purpose depends upon some special quality which they possess; thus for brewing certain essentials are demanded as regards stability, clarification, taste and smell; whereas, in distilleries, the production of alcohol and a high multiplying power in the yeast are required.

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  • Moulds have been isolated which occasion the formation of citric acid from glucose.

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  • The Mediterranean is all that remains of a great ocean which at an early geological epoch, before the formation of the Atlantic, encircled half the globe along a line of latitude.

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  • Malta and Gozo are the only islands of the Mediterranean which can be associated with this section, and, per contra, the mountain chain of north-west Africa belongs to Eurasia.

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  • The western Mediterranean is cut off by a bank crossing the narrow strait between Sicily and Cape Bon, usually known as the Adventure Bank, on which the depth is nowhere 200 fathoms. The mean depth of the western basin is estimated at 881 fathoms, and the deepest sounding recorded is 2040 fathoms. In the eastern Mediterranean the mean depth is nearly the same as in the western basin.

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  • Another bank i ioo fathoms from the surface runs south from the east end of Crete, separating the Pola Deep from the depths of the Levant basin, in which a depth of 1960 fathoms was recorded near Makri on the coast of Asia Minor.

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  • Her life was as strange and adventurous as any of her novels, which are for the most part idealized versions of the multifarious incidents of her life.

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  • To explain this we must open a new chapter of the life in which George Sand appears as the devoted mother.

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  • He became a member of the Academy of Medicine in 1863, and ten years afterwards entered the Academy of Sciences, of which he became perpetual secretary in 1889 in succession to Louis Pasteur.

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  • The naming of seven members of prominent Roman families, however, reversed the wise policy of his predecessor which had kept the dangerous factions of the city out of the curia.

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  • He failed to recognize the pressing need of reform within the church and the tremendous dangers which threatened the papal monarchy; and he unpardonably neglected the spiritual needs of the time.

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  • The polarization in a distinctly oblique direction, however, is not perfect, a feature for which more than one reas9n may be put forward.

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  • Then he got into the buggy again and took the reins, and the horse at once backed away from the tree, turned slowly around, and began to trot down the sandy road which was just visible in the dim light.

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  • The mother sat down in the shade of a tree and began to read in a new book which she had bought the day before.

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  • There was another famous artist whose name was Parrhasius. When he heard of the boast which Zeuxis had made, he said to himself, "I will see what I can do."

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  • Most people haven't even tried because we cannot reasonably imagine a way by which we can be rid of them.

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  • The roar of guns, the whistling of projectiles, and the piteous moaning of the cook, which rose above the other sounds, did not cease for a moment.

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  • Why all the cities of Greece dispute the honour of being his birthplace is because the Iliad and the Odyssey are not the work of one, but of many popular poets, and a true creation of the Greek people which is in every city of Greece.

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  • The prevailing winds in this region, which the sea traverses longitudinally, are westerly, but the sea itself causes the formation of bands of low barometric pressure during the winter season, within which cyclonic disturbances frequently develop, while in summer the region comes under the influence of the polar margin of the tropical high pressure belt.

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  • The amino derivatives are stable bases which readily yield substitution derivatives when acted upon by the halogen elements.

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  • If an air-tight receptacle is not available, a small percentage of powdered carbon is added to the zinc-dust, to prevent increase in the amount of oxide, which, if present in excess, tends to make the deposit dull.

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  • But he did not fulfil the expectations which had been formed on the strength`' of his colonial reputation; he took no very prominent part in debate, and gave little evidence of his undoubted oratorical gifts.

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  • Under Greek influence, he was identified with Hippolytus, who after he had been trampled to death by the horses of Poseidon was restored to life by Asclepius and removed by Artemis to the grove at Aricia, which horses were not allowed to enter.

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  • Frazer formerly held Virbius to be a wood and tree spirit, to whom horses, in which form tree spirits were often represented, were offered in sacrifice.

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  • The anatomical construction of these plants presents many peculiarities which have given rise to discussion as to the allocation of the order among the dicotyledons or among the monocotyledons, the general balance of opinion being in favour of the former view.

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  • The seeds and the rhizomes contain an abundance of starch, which renders them serviceable in some places for food.

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  • From Edessa Baldwin conducted continual forays against the Mahommedan princes; and in the great foray of 1104, in which he was joined by Bohemund, he was defeated and captured at Balich.

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  • Maurice, gradually approached more and more to those of the Church of England, which he ultimately joined.

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  • This last post left him plenty of leisure, which he used for travelling and cultivating the society of interesting people, a taste which earned him the title of Monsignore Ubique.

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  • Even Napoleon, though enraged at the firmness with which he maintained the papal claims, could, not resist his personal fascination.

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  • It was largely owing to Consalvi's combined firmness and tact that the Concordat, as ultimately signed, was free from the objectionable clauses on which the First Consul had at first insisted.

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  • Ottakar refused to appear or to restore the provinces of Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola which he had seized.

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  • Early in 1306 he modified or explained away those features of the bulls Clericis Laicos and Unam sanctam which were particularly offensive to the king.

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  • Meaning in general the "king's court," it is difficult to define the curia regis with precision, but it is important and interesting because it is the germ from which the higher courts of law, the privy council and the cabinet, have sprung.

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  • During his tenancy of office the system adopted at Shanghai was applied to the other treaty ports, so that when on Mr Lay's resignation Mr Hart was appointed inspector-general of foreign customs, he found himself at the head of an organization which collected a revenue of upwards of eight million taels per annum at fourteen treaty ports.

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  • From the date when Mr Hart took up his duties at Peking, in 1863, he unceasingly devoted the whole of his energies to the work of the department, with the result that the revenue grew from upwards of eight million taels to nearly twenty-seven million, collected at the thirty-two treaty ports, and the customs staff, which in 1864 numbered 200, reached in 1901 a total of 57 0 4.

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  • Of all their numerous sources of revenue, the money furnished by Mr Hart was the only certain asset which could be offered as security for Chinese loans.

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  • The faith which he put in the Chinese made him turn a deaf ear to the warnings which he received of the threatening Boxer movement in 1900.

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  • To the last he believed that the attacking force would at least have spared his house, which contained official records of priceless value, but he was doomed to see his faith falsified.

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  • In return Apollinaris composed a panegyric in his honour (as he had previously done for Avitus), which won for him a statue at Rome and the title of count.

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  • In 467 the emperor Anthemius rewarded him for the panegyric which he had written in honour of him by raising him to the post of prefect of Rome, and afterwards to the dignity of a patrician and senator.

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  • The Letters, which are very stilted, also reveal Apollinaris as a man of genial temper, fond of good living and of pleasure.

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  • Leathertanning and shoe-making are especially associated with the district called Langstraat, which is situated between Geertruidenberg and 's Hertogenbosch, and consists of a series of industrial villages along the course of the Old Maas.

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  • The retreat of the British force gave Chauncey time to complete this vessel, the "General Pike," which was so far superior to anything under Yeo's command that she was said to be equal in effective strength to the whole of the British flotilla.

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  • Christian approved a plan by which a formal state church should be established in Denmark, all appeals to Rome should be abolished, and the king and diet should have final jurisdiction in ecclesiastical causes.

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  • His bull of the 1st of July 1519, which regulated the discipline of the Polish Church, was later transformed into a concordat by Clement VII.

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  • Lessing' in 1773, which purports to have been sent by Archimedes to the mathematicians at Alexandria in a letter to Eratosthenes.

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  • Mastodons, like elephants, always have a pair of upper tusks, while the earlier ones likewise have a short pair in the lower jaw, which is prolonged into a snout-like symphysis for their support.

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  • These long-chinned mastodons must have had an extremely elongated muzzle, formed by the upper lip and nose above and the lower lip below, with which they were able to reach the ground, the neck being probably rather longer than in elephants.

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  • The molar teeth are six in number on each side, increasing in size from before backwards, and, as in the elephants, with a horizontal succession, the anterior teeth being lost before the full development of the posterior ones, which gradually move forward, taking the place of those that are destroyed by wear.

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  • The mode of succession of the teeth in the mastodons exhibits so many stages of the process by which the dentition of elephants has been derived from that of more ordinary mammals.

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  • The town, the full name of which is Kirkby-Kendal or Kirkby-in-Kendal, is the largest in the county.

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  • The church of the Holy Trinity, the oldest part of which dates from about 1 200, is a Gothic building with five aisles and a square tower.

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  • The minute insects included in it, which haunt blossoms and leaves, are fairly well known to gardeners by the name Thrips, a generic term used by Linnaeus for the four species of the group which he had examined and relegated to the order Hemiptera.

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  • The mouth, with its jaws, forms a conical outgrowth which projects backwards, so that its apex lies beneath the prothorax.

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  • Ten segments are recognizable in the abdomen, which is elongated and tapers at the hinder end.

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  • From two to four moults occur, after which the " pronymph " stage is reached, which in the insect is moderately active and possesses wing-rudiments reaching to the second abdominal Segment.

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  • After another moult the insect passes into the passive nymphal or " pupal " stage, during which it takes no food and rests in some safe hiding-place, such as the soil at the base of its food-plant or the hollow of a leaf-stalk.

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  • During this stage the cuticle draws away from the imaginal cuticle which is forming beneath, ultimately becoming separated as a thin transparent pellicle through which the form of the adult can be seen.

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  • According to Hinds they feed chiefly on the green tissues, which " are punctured by the piercing mouth-parts and the sap withdrawn by suction.

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  • Ancyra was the centre of the Tectosages, one of the three Gaulish tribes which settled in Galatia in the 3rd century B.C., and became the capital of the Roman province of Galatia when it was formally constituted in 25 B.C. During the Byzantine period, throughout which it occupied a position of great importance, it was captured by Persians and Arabs; then it fell into the hands of the Seljuk Turks, was held for eighteen years by the Latin Crusaders, and finally passed to the Ottoman Turks in 1360.

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  • In 1402 a great battle was fought in the vicinity of Angora, in which the Turkish sultan Bayezid was defeated and made prisoner by the Tatar conqueror Timur.

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  • Shortly after he came into possession of large estates left by Catherine de' Medici, from one of which he took his title of count of Auvergne.

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  • Soon after he was engaged on an important embassy to Germany, the result of which was the treaty of Ulm, signed July 1620.

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  • The more important of the suburbs lie towards the east, where the promontory joins the main plateau, of which it forms the north-western extremity.

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  • In place of its ancient fortifications Angouleme is encircled by boulevards known as the Remparts, from which fine views may be obtained in all directions.

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  • The hotel de ville, also by Abadie, is a handsome modern structure, but preserves two towers of the château of the counts of Angouleme, on the site of which it is built.

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  • It is a centre of the paper-making industry, with which the town has been connected since the 14th century.

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  • In 1394 the countship came to the house of Orleans, a member of which, Francis I., became king of France in 1515 and raised it to the rank of duchy in favour of his mother Louise of Savoy.

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  • Escaping to South America in 1836, he was given letters of marque by the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which had revolted against Brazil.

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  • Returning to Montevideo, he formed the Italian Legion, with which he won the battles of Cerro and Sant' Antonio in the spring of 1846, and assured the freedom of Uruguay.

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  • At New York, in order to earn a living, he became first a chandler, and afterwards a trading skipper, returning to Italy in 1854 with a small fortune, and purchasing the island of Caprera, on which he built the house thenceforth his home.

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  • The march upon Naples became a triumphal progress, which the wiles of Francesco II.

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  • Their presence put an end to the plan for the invasion of the papal states, and Garibaldi unwillingly issued a decree for the plebiscite which was to sanction the incorporation of the Two Sicilies in the Italian realm.

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  • Bixio attempted to reconcile them, but the publication by Cialdini of a letter against Garibaldi provoked a hostility which, but for the intervention of the king, would have led to a duel between Cialdini and Garibaldi.

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  • From the Trentino he returned to Caprera to mature his designs against Rome, which had been evacuated by the French in pursuance of the Franco-Italian convention of the 15th of September 1864.

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  • Nests of this species were found in 1821 by Johana Wilhelm Zetterstedt near Juckasj,rwi in Swedish Lapland, but little was known concerning its nidification until 1855, when John Wolley, after two years' ineffectual search, succeeded in obtaining near the Finnish village Muonioniska, on the Swedish frontier, well-authenticated specimens with the eggs, both of which are like exaggerated bullfinches'.

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  • The cardinal grosbeak, or Virginian nightingale, Cardinalis virginianus, claims notice here, though doubts may be entertained as to the family to which it really belongs.

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  • Her plumage, with exception of the wings and tail, which are of a dull red, is light-olive above and brownish-yellow beneath.

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  • It is represented in the south-west of North America by other forms that by some writers are deemed species, and in the northern parts of South America by the C. phoeniceus, which would really seem entitled to distinction.

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  • Bonaparte and Professor Schlegel (1850), though it excludes many birds which an English writer would call "grosbeaks."

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  • The species of the Of d World which, though commonly called "grosbeaks," certainly belong to the family Ploceidae, are treated under WEAVER-BIRD.

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  • The name was then given to the famous revolutionary song, composed in 1792, the tune of which, and the wild dance which accompanied it, may have also been brought into France by the Piedmontese.

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  • Leland in his Itinerary (1558) recorded the fact that Bolton made cottons, which were in reality woollen goods.

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  • Among the great glaciers which stream from the peak the most noteworthy are those of Bossons and Taconnaz (northern slope) and of Brenva and Miage (southern slope).

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  • She is the personification of the earth suffering from drought, on which the fertilizing rain descends from heaven.

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  • This system is of much service in following out mathematical, physical and chemical problems in which it is necessary to represent four variables.

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  • Related to the tetrahedron are two spheres which have received much attention.

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  • When a water jet serves as collector, the pressure under which it issues should be practically constant.

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  • It is thus customary in calculating diurnal inequalities either to take no account of days on which there is an appreciable rainfall, or else to form separate tables for " dry " or " fine " days and for " all " days.

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