Hour Sentence Examples

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  • We just got back about an hour ago.

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  • We haven't even been out for an hour yet.

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  • She was still awake an hour later when Alex came through the door.

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  • An hour later she found herself staring vacantly into the fire again.

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  • They had cake and ice cream and talked for nearly an hour about one thing and another.

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  • The hour for the feast came.

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  • She led him to the back room where her things were piled and then resumed her last hour of work at the diner.

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  • Instead, she decided to use that extra hour to take a relaxing bath.

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  • Even if he was a Mormon, how could he make plans with this Darcie when he had proposed to her only an hour ago?

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  • Don't spend a half hour selecting what you need, either.

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  • After nearly an hour of riding, they descended the steep walls of a draw and followed it to a small valley.

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  • Half an hour later, her eyes swollen and her chest sore from sobbing, she turned her face up to the warm water in the shower.

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  • Can Howard have an hour off to show me around Keene before I leave?

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  • Less than an hour after the phone call, Destiny woke up in a fit of coughing.

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  • The employer gained $9 an hour, Chang got a job, and no one is worse off.

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  • Katie arrived an hour later to pick up Jonathan and Destiny, and thirty minutes later Carmen and Alex were in the car headed for the airport.

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  • What they had witnessed in the last hour required the silence of personal reflection.

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  • An hour ago I saw chaos that resulted from lies, half-truths and secrets.

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  • Impatience prompted me to telephone Ethel Reagan before the allotted hour was up.

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  • Jane, our GPS, as Betsy named her, didn't let us down and we found our friend's cabin at the end of a dusty road, hungry for dinner after a six hour drive.

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  • But it's at least a two hour drive to Boston.

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  • Before the half hour was ended he had written a very neat composition on his slate.

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  • His ride had taken almost an hour.

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  • They rested for less than an hour and then he saddled the horse again.

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  • Howie returned after the allotted hour tour.

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  • His hour has come!

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  • We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages.

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  • At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the dining room.

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  • It no longer seemed strange to them but on the contrary it seemed the only thing that could be done, just as a quarter of an hour before it had not seemed strange to anyone that the wounded should be left behind and the goods carted away but that had seemed the only thing to do.

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  • In an hour or so the storm would abate and they could leave.

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  • Betsy was knee deep in meetings through the dinner hour so I was designated to baby sit Howie.

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  • Within an hour Betsy had assembled a full biography.

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  • I'll call you back in an hour.

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  • Give me an hour or so and a number where I can call you.

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  • About an hour later, a well-dressed gentleman came into the hotel and said, "I wish to see Mr. Jefferson."

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  • It should be done now, but... maybe an hour?

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  • He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, and not only at the same hour but at the same minute.

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  • When the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, Langeron again brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at Weyrother or at anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out such a plan in which the enemy's position was assumed to be known, whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement.

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  • Alex told her to call him back if she didn't give birth in an hour.

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  • I'll stand watch first and Fritz can relieve me in an hour.

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  • Finally, after a half hour of tossing and turning he gave up.

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  • We were an hour into our drive south before I broached the subject, asking her about the tete-a-tete.

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  • It's only a four hour trip, maybe.

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  • Two blocks away we found a dark spot that catered to happy hour regulars.

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  • We can't even do an abduction that happens sometime over night but you don't know the hour.

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  • We readily agreed in spite of the late Friday night hour.

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  • Howie was three thousand miles away; who would come to call at this hour of the night?

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  • Either way why don't you take a drive down here to headquarters in the next hour or maybe I should send a car up there for you.

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  • The pastor continued as if we hadn't taken nearly a three hour break, mostly continuing his sermon.

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  • I had more than an hour to wait at Philadelphia International Airport.

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  • My flight was delayed an hour so my early wake up was in vain.

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  • He'd gone a week with an hour of sleep.

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  • Will you be ready in an hour?

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  • Only an hour ago their relationship had been so solid.

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  • Not more than an hour ago you were helping him sling mud at me?

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  • She had an hour until she had to be at her weekend job.

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  • She had an hour before the feline was due for dinner and wine.

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  • Half an hour later, she set the book on the table beside the couch, prepped the cat's meal and went in search of the beast.

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  • This is –" "Great, well we'll be about half an hour early.

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  • There's an awesome taco shack an hour away.

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  • They drove an hour away, Gerry filling the time with engaging chatter.

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  • First I have to check in every other hour and now I can't see Jonny.

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  • Jessi stopped to grab Xander's coffee then walked with Ashley out of the mall an hour after they arrived.

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  • People began arriving an hour after the caterers.

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  • He wrote "The Village Blacksmith," "The Children's Hour," and many other beautiful pieces which you will like to read and remember.

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  • Hour after hour he stood and watched.

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  • The farmers had to learn what it meant to be paid by the hour and to take instructions from supervisors; how to do a task and then the next day, learn a completely new task and do it instead.

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  • Hour by hour the flakes dropped silently, softly from their airy height to the earth, and the country became more and more level.

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  • It was another hour before I succeeded in getting her napkin folded.

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  • The hour from twelve to one is devoted to the learning of new words.

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  • Usually we take one of the little "Readers" up in a big tree near the house and spend an hour or two finding the words Helen already knows.

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  • It would astonish you to see how many words she learns in an hour in this pleasant manner.

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  • If you'll allow me to leave my Natasha in your hands for a quarter of an hour, Princess, I'll drive round to see Anna Semenovna, it's quite near in the Dogs' Square, and then I'll come back for her.

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  • The restaurant has a lively happy hour, private dining rooms and a to-go service.

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  • Stop in for the bar's happy hour specials on weekdays, and enjoy the action on the big-screen television before you head into the dining room.

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  • Connie wouldn't be there for another hour.

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  • What are you doing up at this hour?

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  • Even at this hour a piano was pounding out a raucous tune in one of the three saloons.

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  • I was left sitting on my hands until the appointed hour of Howie's nap before Betsy assigned me the chore of remaining in the small room while he slept.

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  • I gave him an hour to check into the matter.

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  • After a solid hour of the child crying, I wondered if the mother read about the abandoned child, perhaps with a fleeting hint of sympathy.

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  • She'd said not a word for the two hour ride to my castle in the sky.

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  • I said nothing on the hour long trip in his van.

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  • We had been there perhaps an hour when we heard him return.

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  • He must have been flying a hundred miles an hour to make that mess.

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  • Every hour, he came back and hurt her.

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  • I need an hour in the gym then we'll go over the logistics issues you're inheriting.

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  • If you're not there in half an hour, I'm coming to find you.

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  • He came in every hour.

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  • You gonna make the intel briefing this morning in an hour?

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  • You remember how your condo building came down this morning an hour before you planned?

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  • His sister's warning came an hour after he last remembered looking at the clock.

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  • My batteries are low-- think I can Travel in an hour or so.

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  • You have an hour.

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  • She was edgy again after the hour it took to relax.

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  • Not even the commuters who lied to themselves and everyone else by saying the hour and a half at each end of the day was a pleasurable time to relax and read the paper.

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  • He knew the return trip would be far different, crawling his way back in the snarl of rush hour.

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  • For the first hour of his trip to the airport, Dean's vision was restricted to two red eyes of the taillights in front of him, glaring out of a haze as thick as chowder.

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  • Dean sped up to 80 miles an hour and turned across three lanes to an exit while the Ford tried vainly, but unsuccessfully, to follow.

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  • Cynthia Byrne looked worse with each passing hour and just before their flight was called, excused herself and went to the ladies' room.

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  • In spite of the late hour, the lights at 422 Collingswood Avenue were still ablaze.

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  • Dean introduced himself and apologized for the late hour.

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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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  • She offered Clara some iced tea and they talked for almost an hour before Clara surprised her with a calculating question and matching expression.

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  • I'll be gone in an hour.

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  • The hour of peril for the Latin kingdom had now at last struck.

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  • In the hour of danger, the claims of religion reasserted themselves on the young soldier, and, following a custom when no priest was at hand, he made his confession to a brother officer, who in turn also confessed to him.

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  • On the opening day passengers were taken across at the rate of more than 2000 per hour in addition to a number of vehicles.

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  • Baker then described the results of experiments on repetition of stress, and added that " hundreds of existing bridges which carry twenty trains a day with perfect safety would break down quickly under twenty trains an hour.

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  • When, on the 9th of February 1670, Schumacher delivered the Kongelov to Christian V., the king bade all those about him withdraw, and after being closeted a good hour with Schumacher, appointed him his "Obergeheimesekreter."

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  • This time the Poles came to the rescue of the Government in its hour of need, by getting a form of standing order approved which rendered obstruction somewhat more difficult, and in this, curiously enough, they were helped by the Czechs; for obstruction had brought even them into an impasse, since their financial requirements had not been met.

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  • She had a cradle, and I often spent an hour or more rocking her.

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  • Well, there I might live, I said; and there I did live, for an hour, a summer and a winter life; saw how I could let the years run off, buffet the winter through, and see the spring come in.

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  • He had another stroke about half an hour ago.

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  • An hour of sleep was the longest he'd managed in over a week, and he felt more tired than when he lay down.

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  • He'd been jogging for an hour when a black Tahoe pulled up alongside him.

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  • I need you to run to Doolin with me in half an hour.

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  • Jule had watched the Magician for a good half hour.

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  • She was late by an hour.

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  • An hour later, he returned to Yully's room empty-handed.

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  • For half an hour, Jenn tried to find his trail.

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  • I'm going out for a meeting in about an hour.

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  • After another half an hour, she gathered up a small backpack she'd found in a closet.

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  • Dark had fallen an hour before.

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  • She drove fast and arrived half an hour later to the safe house and parked out front.

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  • Two, let her walk around for an hour every twelve.

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  • Half an hour after leaving her room, she was ready to break down.

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  • We've been gone nearly an hour, I bet.

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  • It was half an hour later when she returned, holding Martha's hand as they entered the room.

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  • They made me wait an hour or so knowing what was coming.

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  • When Saturday's daylight arrived to David Dean's exhausted eyes, the time had slipped past his usual rising hour and voices and footsteps rattled the old timbers of Bird Song.

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  • We'll be back in an hour or two.

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  • He promised to return in an hour and ferry the group back to Bird Song, which was less than a mile away.

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  • Instead, she slipped into bed, and in spite of the early hour, doused the lights and asked that any talk wait until morning.

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  • It was an hour later before they saw their first vehicle, an old Scout, battered and muddy, coming out of a side trail below them.

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  • The parade, with its smiles, applause, and balloons, was over in a half hour.

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  • The group left the Jeep and spent more than an hour on foot with Cynthia taking infinite care with each of her photos.

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  • So far, except for stomach growls an hour or so before mealtime, Dean wasn't complaining.

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  • If his destination was the courthouse, he was an hour early.

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  • Dean read the paper as he sat in his Jeep—I'll be at Bird Song in an hour.

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  • Give me another hour and go see Fitzgerald, in his cruiser.

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  • It was an hour later when the noise distracted them.

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  • The Deans rose at their usual early hour.

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  • After half an hour, she grew tired of the internal argument.

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  • It wasn't like in the old house, where she would have slept cold, got up to a colder house and had to start a fire in an old stove, then wait an hour until she could no longer see her breath.

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  • It took exactly one hour to take Destiny over to Katie's and drop Jonathan off at the school before meeting with his teacher.

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  • The whole thing didn't take more than an hour, and she delivered a baby weighing close to seventy-five pounds.

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  • Another agonizing hour passed before a doctor finally came out to talk to them.

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  • A half hour later she was leaning over him, listening to him breath.

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  • The meeting only lasted an hour, and when she returned, Destiny was taking a nap.

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  • I worked for over an hour trying to talk.

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  • I'll see you in an hour.

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  • Ma'am, that's a three hour drive.

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  • Deidre waited half an hour then rose.

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  • Deidre was breathless and upbeat when the lake came into view over an hour later.

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  • I've been working twenty hour days for you, Gabe.

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  • An hour later, Gabriel reached the last of the death-dealers in line, relieved yet troubled not to have found another traitor.

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  • She spent a grueling hour putting up the string of red lights in the kitchen and stepped back to admire her work.

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  • I'll send someone over in about half an hour.

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  • It's just two miles an hour.

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  • We'll be going to a soiree across the street in about an hour.

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  • The sun crossed the sky, and an hour before it would set, he returned.

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  • The breakfast room had cleared out an hour before, but the patient matriarch kept her coffee cup full and left her alone.

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  • It had been an hour, and Hannah hadn.t appeared.

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  • An hour later, Katie stood in a similar-looking fortress several times the size of the Caribbean Sanctuary.

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  • It.d been an hour.

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  • They.d spent the hour in the conference room without fighting or threatening to kill each other.

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  • An hour later, she dismounted her bike and leaned it against the brick front of the art gallery where her work was displayed.

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  • Perplexed as to what kind of movers worked at such an hour, she roamed through the row house from top to bottom.

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  • Kiera lay on the bed an hour after Evelyn left, staring at the white ceiling with its brightly corded edges.

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  • After exploring the halls and grounds for an hour or two, she returned to the main atrium, where she heard one of the sisters call her name.

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  • Less than an hour after she'd started playing the game, the communicator lit up and beeped.

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  • It was the intense, fierce look of a leader and a warrior, and she was surprised to note a difference in the way he regarded her not more than an hour ago.

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  • As if he sensed her irritation at the early hour, a look of amusement crossed his face, visible in the shift of his eyebrows.

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  • An hour glass with streaming black sand appeared in his palm.

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  • He stalked off into the forest, away from the castle and cliff.  Toby clambered through the brush and trees after him, the angel's footsteps loud where Rhyn's were silent.  Rhyn found a deer path and followed it until he reached a snowy meadow.  Crossing it, he continued to look for a place to stash the angel where the kid wouldn't freeze to death.  After another hour of walking, he found a small pocket in the roots of a massive tree.

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  • He went back to the deer trail and jogged through the forest to keep his body warm, making it to the castle in an hour.

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  • She walked for half an hour, until rain began to trickle through the jungle overhead.  Andre didn't reappear.

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  • Half an hour before lights out, I turned it off and went to the bathroom.

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  • A scattering of cars dotted the parking lot but due to the late hour the avenue beyond was nearly devoid of traffic.

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  • After an hour of circles he spotted a numbered highway he recognized, although he was much further from Parkside than he'd suspected.

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  • The wait lasted less than an hour before Dean heard the metallic sound of a key in the lock.

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  • An hour later she woke to the rumble of thunder.

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  • Within an hour, they were riding side-by-side down the south bank of the creek, searching for the blocked area.

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  • An hour after they returned home, a trailer brought the two buffalo.

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  • For nearly a half hour she struggled with the idea of going to the clinic.

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  • A half hour passed, and then an hour before she decided to check on him.

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  • She was born about an hour ago, and yes, I was here when it happened.

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  • She ran to him, kissing him as if she hadn't done so an hour ago before he left to do the chores.

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  • For the next hour, his attention was divided between her and Princess.

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  • Who would be visiting at this hour during a thunderstorm?

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  • Why would he think his wife would be here at this hour?

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  • They talked for over an hour, Mums gracefully avoiding the obvious.

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  • Faith and courage were the only things that would get them through this dark hour.

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  • The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

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  • It took another hour to complete the ordeal..

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  • She knew well about the darkest hour — she'd been there.

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  • For the better part of an hour they gazed down on the scene below and discussed her plans for the dude ranch.

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  • In his darkest hour, she had left the grieving to him and crawled into the safe world of denial.

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  • They arrived about an hour later.

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  • This had to be Lori's darkest hour — and yet, she would have a part of Josh forever.

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  • Dawn had come an hour earlier but only just managed to push away the shadows of night from the cloudy mountain hiding place that had become her home.

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  • It took nearly a half hour to find Jonathan and another fifteen minutes to separate him from two attractive girls.

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  • We have almost an hour before it starts.

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  • Less than a half hour later he was out the door.

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  • These could probably run around 45 miles per hour in a sprint.

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  • At first she was confident someone would find her soon, but after what felt like an hour, she wondered if they would find her alive.

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  • I thought I'd be back within an hour – and I didn't have my phone.

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  • They had worked through what she thought at the time was her darkest hour.

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  • We've still got an hour before we're supposed to leave.

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  • He was able to tolerate it for the hour a day during the season when they shot his show.

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  • After an hour, she gave up and sat in the living area, drinking coffee.

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  • Tell Xander you're going to walk around for about half an hour and you'll meet him back at the food court.

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  • Be back in half an hour.

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  • She'd been arguing with him over texts for the past hour.

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  • Half an hour later, when he was finished with her, she lay trembling.

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  • From observations during twelve balloon ascents, Linke concludes that below the 1500-metre level there are numerous sources of disturbance, the gradient at any given height varying much from day to day and hour to hour; but at greater heights there is much more uniformity.

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  • The radioactivity is denoted by A, and A = signifies that the potential of the dissipation apparatus fell I volt in an hour per metre of wire introduced.

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  • The first set relate as usual to the hour of commencement, the second to the hours of occurrence of lightning causing fires.

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  • The hour of maximum is earlier for the mountains, thunder being more frequent there than in the plains between 8 A.M.

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  • In this instance there seems little difference in the hour of maximum, the distinguishing feature being the great concentration of thunderstorm occurrence at Agustia between noon and 6 P.M.

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  • Released for an hour from the Abbaye, she was again arrested and thrown among the horrors of Sainte-Pelagie.

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  • At Rennes Descartes found little to interest him; and, after he had visited the maternal estate of which his father now put him in possession, he went to Paris, where he found the Rosicrucians the topic of the hour, and heard himself credited with partnership in their secrets.

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  • His friend Chanut fell dangerously ill; and Descartes, who devoted himself to attend in the sick-room, was obliged to issue from it every morning in the chill northern air of January, and spend an hour in the palace library.

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  • With him the reciprocal action of mind and body is altogether denied; they resemble two clocks, so made by the artificer as to strike the same hour together.

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  • In Scotland the public greens are selfsupporting, from a charge, which includes the use of bowls, of one penny an hour for each player; in London the upkeep of the greens falls on the rates, but players must provide their own bowls.

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  • The mud brought down by it, calculated at 7150 lb an hour at Bagdad, is not deposited in marshes to form alluvium, as in the case of the Euphrates, but although in flood time the river becomes at places an inland sea, rendering navigation extremely difficult and uncertain, the bulk of the mud is deposited in banks, shoals and islands in the bed of the river, and is finally carried out into the Persian Gulf.

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  • Another small group of ruins in the same style is found at the village of Hajjiabad, on the Pulwar, a good hour's walk above Takhti Jamshid.

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  • For, if the Sun presides over the first hour of Sunday, and therefore also over the eighth, the fifteenth and the twenty-second, Venus will have the twenty-third hour, Mercury the twenty-fourth, and the Moon, as the third in order from the Sun, will preside over the first hour of Monday.

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  • To prevent foreign states from giving official recognition to the Confederacy was the task of the hour, and in this he was successful.

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  • When they might have won national independence, after their warfare with the Swabian emperors, they let the golden opportunity slip. Pampered with commercial prosperity, eaten to the core with inter-urban rivalries, they submitted to despots, renounced the use of arms, and offered themselves in the hour of need, defenceless and disunited to the shock of puissant nations.

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  • Now at last, after waiting so long, Signor Sonninos hour had struck, and he became premier for the first time.

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  • He saw Jews, Saracens, heretics and apostates roaming through Spain unmolested; and in this lax toleration of religious differences he thought he saw the main obstacle to the political union of the Spains, which was the necessity of the hour.

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  • After the explosion he hurried back to Holyrood and feigned surprise at the receipt of the news half an hour later, ascribing the catastrophe to "the strangest accident that ever chancit, to wit, the fouder (lightning) came out of the luft (sky) and had burnt the king's house."

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  • Through this part of its course the current of the river, except where restricted by floating bridges - at Feluja, Mussaib, Hillah, Diwanieh and Samawa - does not normally exceed a mile an hour, and both on the main stream and on its canals the jerd or oxbucket takes the place of the naoura or water-wheel for purposes of irrigation.

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  • In normal circumstances the log is hove every hour.

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  • One part of quicklime is slaked with 6 parts of water, and the paste produced diluted with 24 parts of water; 2.3 parts of flowers of sulphur are added; and the whole is boiled for about an hour or longer, when the sulphur dissolves.

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  • If the speed is given in miles per hour, S say, V =1.466 S (6) The revolutions of the axle per second, n, are connected with the radians turned through per second by the relation n =w/27r = w/6.38 (7) § 2.

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  • Let E represent the pounds of coal burnt per hour in the fire-box of a locomotive, and let c be the calorific value in B.Th.U.

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  • The maximum rate of combustion may be as much as so lb of coal per square foot of grate per hour, and in exceptional cases even a greater rate than this has been maintained.

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  • A few experimental results are set forth in Table XX., from which it will be seen that with a relatively low rate of combustion, a rate which denotes very light service, namely lb of coal per square foot of grate per hour, the efficiency of the boiler is %, which is as good a result as can be obtained with the best class of stationary boiler or marine boiler even when using economizers.

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  • If C is the number of pounds of coal burnt per square foot of grate per hour, the calorific value of which is c B.Th.U.

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  • Now, however, the use of his remaining eye had been reduced to an hour a day, divided into portions at wide intervals, and he was driven to the conclusion that whatever plans he made must be formed on the same calculations as those of a blind man.

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  • Many wakeful nights did she sit by my bedside in trembling expectation that each hour would be my last."

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  • After breakfast " he was expected," he says, to spend an hour with Mrs Gibbon; after tea his father claimed his conversation; in the midst of an interesting work he was often called down to entertain idle visitors; and, worst of all, he was periodically compelled to return the well-meant compliments.

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  • In an hour of patriotic ardour he became (June 12, 1 759) a captain in the Hampshire militia, and for more than two years (May io, 1760, to December 23, 1762) led a wandering life of " military servitude."

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  • A little to the south of a village called Deir Diwan, and one hour's journey south-east from Bethel, is the site of an ancient place called Khirbet Haiydn, indicated by reservoirs hewn in the rock, excavated tombs and foundations of hewn stone.

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  • In the very hour of success, however, Conrad was struck down by the emissaries of the Old Man of the Mountain (the chief of the Assassins).

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  • The most petty limitations of Jewish commercial activity continued; thus at about this period the community of Prague, in a petition, " complain that they are not permitted to buy victuals in the market before a certain hour, vegetables not before 9 and cattle not before II o'clock; to buy fish is sometimes altogether prohibited; Jewish druggists are not permitted to buy victuals at the same time with Christians " (op. cit.).

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  • A hand Macarthy roller gin worked by two men will clean about 4 to 6 lb of lint per hour.

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  • A similar, but larger machine, requiring about horse-power to run it, will turn out 50 to 60 lb of Egyptian or 60 to 80 lb of Sea Island cleaned cotton per hour.

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  • The average yield of lint per " saw " in the United States, when working under perfect conditions, is about 6 lb per hour.

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  • It had done little to prepare itself for that hour.

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  • He is the Perfect One, the Born in a Happy Hour, "My Cid," the invincible, the magnanimous, the allpowerful.

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  • The drug is not a true specific, as quinine is for malaria, since it rarely, if ever, prevents the cardiac damage usually done by rheumatic fever; but it entirely removes the agonizing pain, shortly after its administration, and, an hour or two later, brings down the temperature to normal.

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  • In Asia Minor, the "enslavement " and liberation of cities alternated with the circumstances of the hour, while the kings all through professed themselves the champions of Hellenic freedom, and were ready on occasion to display munificence toward the city temples or in public works, such as might reconcile republicans to a position of dependence.

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  • The parallels or climata 2 drawn through places, of which the longest day is of equal length and the decimation (distance) from the equator is the same, he maintained, ought to have been inserted at equal intervals, say of half an hour, and the meridians inserted on a like principle.

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  • Another sheet of blottingpaper is then laid over it; and, a number of similar specimens being formed into a pile, the whole is submitted to pressure, the paper being changed every hour or two at first.

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  • Each layer of rubber is allowed to become firm before forming another; a practised hand can make 5 or 6 lb in an hour.

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  • A large number of specimens of a species are usually found together, since their only mode of spreading is during the ciliated larval stage, which although it swims vigorously can only cover a few millimetres an hour; still it may be carried some little distance by currents.

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  • Some of the roasted ore is strewed upon it, and, after a quarter of an hour's working, the whole is taken out on the work-stone, where the lead produced runs off.

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  • The "browse," after removal of the "grey" slag, is reintroduced, ore added, and, after a quarter of an hour's heating, the mass again placed on the work-stone, &c.

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  • The crystallization proper lasts one hour, the working of a charge four hours, six charges being run in twenty-four hours.

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  • At the eleventh hour he summoned Guillaume to his help against the overwhelming forces of the Saracens.

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  • In order to soften meat before it is salted, so as to allow the salt to extract the blood more freely, the meat is soaked in water for about half an hour.

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  • It is then covered with salt for about an hour and afterwards washed three times.

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  • In order to reduce the pulse to its normal rate in these cases, without at the same time lessening the power of the heart, the drug must be given in doses of about two minims of the tincture every halfhour and then every hour until the pulse falls to the normal rate.

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  • After about an hour there is severe vomiting.

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  • Having secretly become a Christian, Sebastian was wont to encourage those of his brethren who in the hour of trial seemed wavering in their profession.

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  • Within an hour's walk of Path are to be found, he says, about 700 species of butterflies, "whilst the total number found in the British Islands does not exceed 66, and the whole of Europe supports only 321."

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  • Besides these there are two splendid national reserves, an hour's journey by rail from Sydney, viz.

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  • Public opinion of the hour in each section of the community was the only force in the land" (History of South Africa 1834 - 1854, chap. xliv.).

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  • Difficulty and pain in swallowing may be complained of when the cancer is beginning to block the inlet, but if it is situated at the pylorus the discomfort comes on an hour or two after a meal - at the time that the partially digested food is trying to make its way into the small intestine.

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  • At that critical hour it was at his own expense that Hunyadi fortified Belgrade, now the sole obstacle between Hungary and destruction, with the sole assistance of the Franciscan friar Giovanni da Capistrano, equipped the fleet and the army which relieved the beleaguered fortress and overthrew Mahommed II.

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  • Biot, who assisted in the correction of its proof sheets, remarked that it would have extended, had the demonstrations been fully developed, to eight or ten instead of five volumes; and he saw at times the author himself obliged to devote an hour's labour to recovering the dropped links in the chain of reasoning covered by the recurring formula.

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  • The proposition came in a tempting hour.

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  • Apart from the difficulty of obtaining arms, a serious question arose at the eleventh hour which filled some of the Uitlanders with mistrust.

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  • A strong heat is applied for about two hours so as to make the saffron "sweat," and a gentler temperature for a further period of twenty-four hours, the cake being turned every hour so that every part is thoroughly dried.

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  • A dose of a little more than a drachm (a teaspoonful) will produce a condition of inebriation lasting for one-half to one hour, but the dose must soon be greatly increased.

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  • Within a quarter of an hour after a quantity of cinnabar has been injected into the blood of the frog nearly every particle will be found engulfed by the protoplasm of the leucocytes of the circulating blood.

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  • Now as our own bodies thus manipulate substances poisonous and antidotal, if in every hour of health we are averting selfintoxication, so likewise are we concerned with the various intruding organisms, whose processes of digestion are as dangerous as our own; if these destructive agents, which no doubt are incessantly gaining admission to our bodies, do not meet within us each its appropriate compensatory defensive agent, dissolution will begin.

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  • The result was a difficulty as to burial, which was compromised by hurried interment at the abbey of Scellieres in Champagne, anticipating the interdict of the bishop of the diocese by an hour or two.

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  • By the Lights on Vehicles Act 1907, all vehicles on highways in England and Wales must display to the front a white light during the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise.

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  • That day was also the last on which any hope remained of the Sari Bair offensive accomplishing its purpose, and on which help from Suvla might conceivably even at the eleventh hour have turned the scale.

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  • At a given moment the trenches, which at many points were but a few yards from those occupied by the Turks, would be vacated by detachments, which by that hour would have shrunk to mere handfuls of men.

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  • Owing to their vicinity to the cove the rest of the Anzac trenches were, however, to be held till a later hour.

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  • In 1663 he became a member of the Royal Society, and in the next year he met Joan Somner, "in an ill hour," he tells us.

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  • The hour of Bestuzhev's triumph coincided with the peace congress of Aixla-Chapelle, which altered the whole situation of European politics and introduced fresh combinations, the breaking away of Prussia from France and a rapprochement between England and Prussia, with the inevitable corollary of an alliance between France and the enemies of Prussia.

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  • This horrible outrage, which lasted more than an hour, happened, too, in the presence of numerous troops, drawn up in the Riddarhus Square, who made not the slightest effort to rescue the Riksmarskalk from his tormentors.

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  • If double-bottomed defecators are used in sufficient number to allow an hour and a half to two hours for making each defecation, and if they are of a size which permits any one of them to be filled up by the cane-mill with juice in ten to twelve minutes, they will make as perfect a defecation as is obtainable by any known system; but their employment involves the expenditure of much high-pressure steam (as exhaust steam will not heat the juice quickly enough through the small surface of the hemispherical inner bottom), and also the use of filter presses for treating the scums. A great deal of skilled superintendence is also required, and first cost is comparatively large.

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  • But this competition among inventors, whatever the incentive, has not been without benefit, because to-day, by means of very simple improvements in details, such as the addition of circulators and increased area of connexions, what may be taken to be the standard type of multiple-effect evaporator (that is to say, vertical vacuum pans fitted with vertical heating tubes, through which passes the liquor to be treated, and outside of which the steam or vapour circulates) evaporates nearly double the quantity of water per square foot of heating surface per hour which was evaporated by apparatus in use so recently as 1885 - and this without any increase in the steam pressure.

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  • Such machines can make several hundred cigarettes per hour.

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  • An hour's march to the east he discovered at the village of Medinat el Mahud the ruins of the Nagra metropolis of Ptolemy.

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  • In such a furnace a continuous current, for example, of 3000 amperes, at 50 to 60 volts, may be used at first, increasing to 5000 amperes in about half an hour.

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  • There is a little bird, the size of a starling, with brown back striped with black, and white breast, which the Indians call yncahualpa; it utters a monotonous sound at each hour of the night.

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  • Between 4 and 4.30 the "Congress," having been raked fore and aft for nearly an hour by the "Merrimac," was forced to surrender.

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  • On a clear moonless night one person may count eight or ten shooting stars in an hour.

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  • At Cold Harbor six thousand men fell in one useless assault lasting an hour, and after two months the Union armies lay before Richmond and Petersburg indeed, but had lost no fewer than 72,000 men.

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  • At the close of his last sermon the undaunted friar publicly announced the day and hour of his departure from Bologna; and his lonely journey on foot over the Apennines was safely accomplished.

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  • Eight hydraulic hoists, of the most up-to-date pattern, are capable of shipping 5,600 tons of coal per hour.

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  • A 10-12% solution of sodium chloride is caused to flow upwards through the apparatus and to overflow into troughs, by which it is conveyed (if necessary through a cooling apparatus) back to the circulating pump. Such a plant has been reported as giving 0.229 gallon of a liquor containing I% of available chlorine per kilowatt hour, or 0.171 gallon per e.h.p. hour.

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  • Yarnold's process, using corrugated glass plates coated on one side with gold or other metal leaf, is stated to have yielded as much as 2700 grains per e.h.p. hour.

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  • After publishing The Mock Mourners, intended to satirize and rebuke the outbreak of Jacobite joy at the king's death, he turned his attention once more to ecclesiastical subjects, and, in an evil hour for himself, wrote the anonymous Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702), a statement in the most forcible terms of the extreme "high-flying" position, which some high churchmen were unwary enough to endorse, without any suspicion of the writer's ironical intention.

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  • Do not keep the ligature longer than half an hour.

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  • In any case do not keep the ligature on for more than an hour for fear of gangrene.

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  • No poet has surpassed him in the power of vitally reproducing the pleasure and pain of the passing hour, not recalled by idealizing reflection as in Horace, nor overlaid with mythological ornament as in Propertius, but in all the keenness of immediate impression.

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  • After half an hour his strength would give out, and in these circumstances his rate of composition for a long time averaged scarcely six lines a day.

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  • Considerable confusion arose from the convergence of these three brigades upon one village, and more than an hour passed before the troops could be disentangled and massed for further operations.

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  • This practice continued to prevail till the 17th century, when, at the instance of the Jesuit Schall, president of the tribunal of mathematics, they adopted the European method of dividing the day into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and each minute into sixty seconds.

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  • Corps moving off at that hour early met stubborn resistance and suffered from flanking fire from the south.

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  • In the next quarter of an hour the German gunners found the target again and again, and by half-past seven the British cruisers were obviously in distress.

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  • The national militia in which he placed unbounded confidence had proved inefficient to protect Florence in the hour of need.

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  • It was confidently believed towards the close of the 10th century that he had made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and, like many other great rulers, it was reported that he was only sleeping to awake in the hour of his country's need.

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  • The hour circle is also read by microscopes, and the instrument can be used in both positions (tube preceding and following) for elimination of the effect of flexure on the position angles.

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  • A series of observations can be easily and more accurately accomplished with the Cape heliometer in half an hour; with the Oxford heliometer it would occupy 2 hours, and with the 4-in.

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  • This apparatus was, however, very heavy and became unmanageable when more than an hour's supply was required.

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  • In the United Kingdom the drawing of coal is generally confined to the day shift of eight hours, with an output of from 100 to 150 tons per hour, according to the depth, capacity of coal tubs, and facilities for landing and changing tubs.

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  • Modern screening and washing plants, especially when the small coal forms a considerable proportion of the output, are large and costly, requiring machinery of a capacity of ioo to 150 tons per hour, which absorbs 350 to 400 H.P. In this, as in many other cases, electric motors supplied from a central station are now preferred to separate steam-engines.

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  • A statement of the amount made per kilowatt hour may be misleading, since a certain amount of loss is of necessity entailed during this process.

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  • In 1743, from the circumstance that an eclipse not visible in Philadelphia because of a storm had been observed in Boston, where the storm although north-easterly did not occur until an hour after the eclipse, he surmised that storms move against the wind along the Atlantic coast.

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  • Difference of opinion as to the absolutely "irremissible" character of mortal sins led to the important controversy associated with the names of Zephyrinus, Tertullian, Calistus, Hippolytus, Cyprian and Novatian, in which the stricter and more montanistic party held that for those who had been guilty of such sins as theft, fraud, denial of the faith, there should be no restoration to church fellowship even in the hour of death.

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  • Napoleon's chance of success was dangerously diminished, if not utterly destroyed, by the incompetence of the two marshals whom in an evil hour he selected for high commands.

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  • The charge is completely melted in about half an hour, and it is then thoroughly mixed by stirring with a graphite rod.

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  • The cutting machines at the Mint work at 160 revolutions per minute, so that each of the eleven machines would be capable of cutting 19,200 blanks in an hour if it could be fed continuously.

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  • His well-known gibe, " Here's to the noble Critias," attests his strength of mind at the hour of death.'

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  • Father, save Me from this hour.

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  • He answers her " My hour is not yet come," i.e.

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  • The transformation is soon afterwards accomplished, but in symbol only; the "hour" of the full sense is still over three years off.

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  • Further, ministers of the various denominations might give, on the special request of the parents, instruction to the children of their own congregations for one hour on one day in each week.

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  • At the age of nineteen he invented an electromagnetic engine, and in the course of examining its performance dissatisfaction with vague and arbitrary methods of specifying elec rical quantities caused him to adopt a convenient and scie tific unit, which he took to be the amount of electricity req ired to decompose nine grains of water in one hour.

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  • The birth of that system, however, cannot be fixed as a definite event by the day and the hour; nor was it created by any single personality.

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  • The shunted voltameter was then inserted in series with the electric supply mains leading to the house or building taking electric energy, and the current which passed dissolved the zinc from one plate and deposited it upon the other, so that after a certain interval of time had elapsed the altered weight of the plates enabled the quantity of electricity to be determined from the known fact that an electric current of one ampere, flowing for one hour, removes 1.2533 grammes of zinc from a solution of sulphate of zinc. Hence the quantity in amperehours passing through the electrolytic cell being known and the fraction of the whole quantity taken by the cell being known, the quantity supplied to the house was determined.

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  • Each sar, month and hour was represented at once visibly and symbolically by a twelfth part of the " furrow " drawn by the solar Bull across the heavens.

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  • The ordinary word for twelve o'clock was middceg, midday, also the equivalent of the canonical hour "sext."

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  • Both the office and the meal taken about that time were shifted to an earlier hour, and by the 14th century the ordinary use of "noon" is that current to-day.

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  • Though ammonium chloride has certain irritant properties which may disorder the stomach, yet if its mucous membrane be depressed and atonic the drug may improve its condition, and it has been used with success in gastric and intestinal catarrhs of a subacute type and is given in doses of io grains half an hour before meals in painful dyspepsia due to hyperacidity.

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  • Austria's hour had struck.

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  • Thibron, the Spartan, persuaded the Magnesians to leave their indefensible and mutinous city in 399 B.C. and build afresh at Leucophrys, an hour distant, noted for its temple of Artemis Leucophryne, which, according to Strabo, surpassed that at Ephesus in the beauty of its architecture, though inferior in size and wealth.

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  • Six thousand men fell in one hour's fighting, and the total losses on this field, where skirmishing went on for many days, were 13,000.

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  • Elsewhere other " masters of the hour," false Bu-Mazas, rose.

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  • Randon (1795-1871), named governorgeneral of Algeria after the coup d'etat, had at first to repress in the south a rising of a new " master of the hour," Mahomet ben Abdallah, the sherif of Wargla.

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  • He was sentenced to an hour in the pillory, which was remitted, and to fine and imprisonment, which were enforced.

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  • In a very lengthy speech, which had to be interrupted for half an hour while he recovered his voice, he ended by describing it as a "war budget" against poverty, which he hoped, in the result, would become "as remote to the people of this country as the wolves which once infested its forests."

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  • With him these "orations," instead of being the ephemeral entertainments of an hour, became careful studies of some important theme.

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  • The twelve hymns of the Cathemerinon liber (" Daily Round ") consist of six for daily use, five for festivals, and one intended for every hour of the day.

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  • When once the system was in operation it was found that a deacon, by spending an hour a week among the families committed to his charge, could keep himself acquainted with their character and condition.

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  • Matthew Arnold's poem "St Brandan" gives fine expression to the old story that, on account of an act of charity done to a leper at Joppa, Judas was allowed an hour's respite from hell once a year.

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  • An hour's drive to the west of the town is the monastery of Neamtzu, founded in the 14th century, and containing two churches and many ancient and interesting relics.

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  • For maintaining his seat the horseman should depend upon his thighs and knees only, and not upon the knee and calf; a proper seat should be a mixture of balance and grip; a man riding by balance only is sure to be thrown, while to grip with all one's might during an hour's ride, is to undertake as much exertion as should last for a whole day.

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  • Speeches are limited to one hour, and may be confined in committee of the whole house to five minutes.

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  • They took their chief meal in a common refectory at 3 P.M., up to which hour they usually fasted.

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  • All others, as the hour, the week, and the civil month, though of the most ancient and general use, are only arbitrary and conventional.

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  • Now, the day being divided into twentyfour hours, each hour was consecrated to a particular planet, namely, one to Saturn, the following to Jupiter, the third to Mars, and so on according to the above order; and the day received the name of the planet which presided over its first hour.

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  • If, then, the first hour of a day was consecrated to Saturn, that planet would also have the 8th, the 15th, and the 2 2nd hour; the 23rd would fall to Jupiter, the 24th to Mars, and the 25th, or the first hour of the second day, would belong to the Sun.

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  • In like manner the first hour of the 3rd day would fall to the Moon, the first of the 4th day to Mars, of the 5th to Mercury, of the 6th to Jupiter, and of the 7th to Venus.

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  • The cycle being completed, the first hour of the 8th day would return to Saturn, and all the others succeed in the same order.

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  • The Difference, Which Is I Hour 29 Minutes, Amounts To A Day In 308 Years, So That At The End Of This Time The New Moons Occur One Day Earlier Than They Are Indicated By The Golden Numbers.

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  • The idea of a slumbering hero who shall awake at the hour of his country's greatest need is world-wide, but the most famous instances are Northern, e.g.

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  • During the succeeding months he was occupied with plans and preparations, and at length, in May 1813, the hour for his final and victorious advance arrived.

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  • The coup of the Allies had failed, for every hour saw the arrival of fresh forces on the side of Napoleon, and at length the Austrian leader drew off his men to the heights again.

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  • Meanwhile, Enghien's army had at the prearranged hour (4 P.M.) attacked Mercy's position on the Ebringen spur.

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  • It was suppressed in an hour's time by the tsar's troops, of whom only one man was mortally wounded; and the horrible vengeance (September - October 1698) which Peter on his return to Russia wreaked upon the captive musketeers was due not to any actual fear of these antiquated warriors, but to his consciousness that behind them stood the reactionary majority of the nation who secretly sympathized with, though they durst not assist, the rebels.

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  • William Roper, husband of More's eldest daughter, mentions one of these visits, when the king after dinner walked in the garden by the space of an hour holding his arm round More's neck.

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  • There is no contradiction (as Aristotle said) between a man being determined by many attributes, as rational, six-foot-high, white, and a father, and yet being one whole substance distinct from any other, including his own son; nor is there any contradiction between his body being in bed at 8.15 and at breakfast at 8.45 within the same hour.

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  • Thereafter they went about their daily tasks, working continuously at whatever trade they knew till the fifth hour, when they assembled, and, girding on a garment of linen, bathed in cold water.

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  • The two ships were of equal force, but the "Hercule" was newly commissioned, and after over an hour's fighting at close quarters she struck her flag, having lost over three hundred men.

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  • It was in vain that Carlo di Malatesta, a stanch adherent of Gregory, sought at the eleventh hour to negotiate a compromise between Gregory and the synod.

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  • Not till the eleventh hour, when the election of the Habsburg, to whom he was entirely opposed, was seen to be certain did he give way.

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  • Malebranche was from that hour consecrated to philosophy, and after ten years' study of the works of Descartes he produced the famous De la recherche de la verite, followed at intervals by other works, both speculative and controversial.

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  • On the 13th of May the battle or skirmish of Langside determined the result of the campaign in three-quarters of an hour.

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  • In the warmer parts of the country the wall on the north side of the garden should be so placed as to face the sun at about an hour before noon, or a little to the east of south; in less favoured localities it should be made to face direct south, and in still more unfavourable districts it should face the sun an hour after noon, or a little west of south.

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  • He suspended (March 1903) the constitution for half an hour, time enough to publish the decrees by which the old senators and councillors of state were dismissed and replaced by new ones.

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  • After boiling about an hour, it is allowed to cool, the water is drawn off, and the oil is transferred to zinc tanks or clarifiers capable of holding from 60 to loo gallons.

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  • But William's military genius never shone so brightly as in the hour of defeat; he never knew what it was to be beaten, and in 1695 his recapture of Namur was a real triumph of skill and resolution.

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  • We thus see that radium is continually losing matter and energy as electricity; it is also losing energy as heat, for, as was observed by Curie and Laborde, the temperature of a radium salt is always a degree or two above that of the atmosphere, and they estimated that a gramme of pure radium would emit about 100 gramme-calories per hour.

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  • The more orthodox and conservative elements in his character gained the upper hand as time went on, but careful students of him and his writings will find a deep conservatism underlying the most radical utterances of his earlier years, while a passionate sympathy for the poor, the afflicted and the weak held possession of him till the last hour of his life.

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  • The values obtained in this way for waves having a period of one second and a wave-length of half an inch agreed very well with those obtained in the same cast-iron by Angstrom's method (see below), with waves having a period of i hour and a length of 30 in.

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  • On the 15th of January 1800 the Irish parliament met for its last session; on the same day Grattan secured by purchase a seat for Wicklow; and at a late hour, while the debate was proceeding, he appeared to take his seat.

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  • Amongst causes of variation in the quantity of water needed will be its quality and temperature and rate of flow, the climate, the season, the soil, the subsoil, the artificial drainage, the slope, the aspect and the crop. In actual practice the amount of water varies from 300 gallons per acre in the hour to no less than 28,000 gallons.

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  • In 1759 a British force under Colonel Forde was attacked by the garrison of Chinsura on its march to Chandernagore, but in less than half an hour the Dutch were entirely routed.

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  • At one time he would stand poring on the town clock without being able to tell the hour.

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  • He was sick of life; but he was afraid of death; and he shuddered at every sight or sound which reminded him of the inevitable hour.

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  • The definitions show so much acuteness of thought and command of language, and the passages quoted from poets, divines and philosophers are so skilfully selected, that a leisure hour may always be very agreeably spent in turning over the pages.

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  • The feeling described in that fine but gloomy paper which closes the series of his Idlers seemed to grow stronger in him as his last hour drew near.

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  • At hour intervals, often of much pain, he was moved in bed and addressed himself vehemently to prayer.

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  • At Freeport, on the Wisconsin boundary, on the 27th of August, Lincoln answered questions put to him by Douglas, and by his questions forced Douglas to "betray the South" by his enunciation of the "Freeport heresy," that, no matter what the character of Congressional legislation or the Supreme Court's decision "slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations."

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  • Prussia, in spite of the promises of Frederick William in the hour of need, remained without a central constitution; all the more reason why the states of second rank should provide themselves with one.

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  • Until means are devised for detecting aurora during bright sunshine, our knowledge as to the hour at which these causes are most frequently or most powerfully in operation must remain incomplete.

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  • Thus there must in general be a difference between the observer's magnetic meridian - answering to the mean position of the magnetic needle at his station - and the direction the needle would have at a given hour, if undisturbed by the aurora, at any spot where the phenomena which the observer sees as aurora exist.

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  • The relative frequency in the two positions seems to vary with the hour, the type of aurora, probably with the season of the year, and possibly with the position of the year in the sun-spot cycle.

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  • On one occasion twelve observations, extending over half an hour, were made on a single arc, the calculated heights varying in a fairly regular fashion from 1 6 to 12.9 km.

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  • He therefore ceased from that hour to advocate disunion, and devoted himself to the task of preparing the way for and hastening on the inevitable event.

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  • The passage of the long hand of a watch across the end of the slit every hour cuts off the light, and gives hour marks enabling the observer to learn the time at which a disturbance has taken place.

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  • The principal meals are breakfast, about an hour after sunrise; dinner, or the mid-day meal, at noon; and supper, which is the chief meal of the day, a little after sunset.

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  • A large boat, gaily decked out, representing that in which the victim used to be conveyed, was anchored near, and a gun on board fired every quarter of an hour during the night.

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  • On the different days of the year each hour was determined by a fixed star culminating or nearly culminating in it, and the position of these stars at the time is given in the tables as in the centre, on the left eye, on the right shoulder, &c. According to the texts, in founding or rebuilding temples the north axis was determined by the same apparatus, and we may condude that it was the usual one for astronomical observations.

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  • The cavalry, under Major-General Drury Lowe, was on the right flank, and the Indian contingent, under Major-General Macpherson, starting one hour later, was ordered to move south of the sweet-water canal.

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  • Throughout three years such a dog failed to learn that the attendant's lifting it from the cage at a certain hour was the preliminary circumstance of the feedinghour; yet it did exhibit hunger, and would refuse further food when a sufficiency had been taken.

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  • In deep sleep the threshold-value of the stimuli for the various senses is very greatly raised, rising rapidly during the first hour and a half of sleep, and then declining with gradually decreasing decrements.

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  • It has been suggested that the gradual cumulative result of the activity of the nerve cells during the waking day is to load the brain tissue with "fatigue-substances" Theories of which clog the action of the cells, and thus periodi cally produce that loss of consciousness, &c., which is sleep. Such a drugging of tissue by its own excreta is known in muscular fatigue, but the fact that the depth of sleep progressively increases for an hour and more after its onset prevents complete explanation of sleep on similar lines.

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  • To take one's watch from the pocket and look at it when from a familiar clock-tower a familiar bell strikes a familiar hour, is an instance of a habitual action initiated by a sense perception outside attentive consciousness.

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  • Most of us can wake somewhere about a desired although unusually early hour, if overnight we desire much to do so.

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  • In treating an actual and present attack of asthma, it is advisable to give the standardized tincture of belladonna - unless expense is no consideration, in which case atropine may itself be used - in doses of twenty minims every quarter of an hour as long as no evil effects appear.

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  • At eleven came parade, and an hour afterwards, punctually, dinner, which continued till two, or later, if conversation happened to be particularly attractive.

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  • The hour when Diirer, the typical artist of the German nation, attained maturity was one of the most pregnant in the history of his race.

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  • For an hour there seemed as if there might be no raising of the fallen standard of St Andrew.

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  • At once the sacking of religious houses in Dundee, Lindores and Arbroath had begun; the hour of religious revolution had struck; but the godly were put down when the regent and the cardinal were so suddenly reconciled.

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  • Elizabeth's last letter to the king was of the 5th of January 1603; she died in the earliest hour of the 1st of April, and James, late on the 3rd of April, had the news from Carey.

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  • At the present day, the woodlands are neither so large nor so numerous as they formerly were, while there are many more gorse covers; therefore, instead of hunting the drag up to it, a much quicker way of getting to work is to find a fox in his kennel; and, the hour of the meeting being later, the fox is not likely to be gorged with food, and so unable to take care of himself at the pace at which the modern foxhound travels.

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  • He was convicted by the Queen's Bench on the 21st of May 1 593, and hanged on the 29th at the unusual hour of 4 p.m., the signature of his old enemy Whitgift being the first of those affixed to the warrant.

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  • The practical limits of the church service made it impossible to break them up by setting each clause to a separate movement, a method by which 16th-century music composers contrived to set psalms and other long texts to compositions lasting an hour or longer.

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  • It is equal to the angle at the pole between the hour circle through the body and the meridian, but is usually expressed in time.

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  • After about threequarters of an hour the substances are so far fluxed or softened that the reaction now sets in fully, as shown by the copious escape of gas.

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  • After from half an hour to a whole hour the conversion of sodium carbonate into sodium hydrate is brought about as far as is practicable.

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  • When a boy he went to Paris and obtained a situation in a large drapery establishment, where he remained, occupying every spare hour in study, until he was in his twentieth year.

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  • If we now attach to the polar axis a graduated circle D D, called the" hour circle,"of which the microscope or vernier R reads o h when the declination axis is horizontal, we can obviously read off the hour angle from the meridian of any star to which the telescope may be directed at the instant of observation.

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  • If the local sidereal time of the observation is known, the right ascension of the star becomes known by adding the observed hour angle to the sidereal time if the star is west of the meridian, or subtracting it if east of the meridian.

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  • Since the transit circle is preferable to the equatorial for such observations wherein great accuracy is required, the declination and hour circles of an equatorial are employed, not for the determination of the right ascensions and declinations of celestial objects, but for directing the telescope with ease and certainty to any object situated in an approximately known position, and which may or may not be visible to the naked eye, or to define approximately the position of an unknown object.

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  • Further, by causing the hour circle, and with it the polar axis, to rotate by clockwork or some equivalent mechanical contrivance, at the same angular velocity as the earth on its axis, but in the opposite direction, the telescope will, apart from the effects of refraction, automatically follow a star from rising to setting.

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  • I i shows the whole instrument on a small scale with the telescope directed to the pole, and the hour circle set 6" from the meridian.

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  • The hour circle has two toothed circles cut upon it, one acted upon by a worm screw mounted on the pier and driven by clockwork, the other by a second worm screw attached to the polar axis, which can be turned by a handle in the observer's hand and thus a slow movement can be given to the telescope in right ascension inde FIG.

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  • But when much larger instruments are required the hour circle becomes inaccessible from the floor, and means have to be devised for reading both circles from the eyeend.

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  • The observer's eye is applied to the small telescope E, which (by means of prisms numbered I, 2, 3, 4) views the vernier attached to the cross-head simultaneously with the hour circle attached to the upper end of the polar axis.

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  • Through the eyepiece of the bent 1 telescope E' another hour circle attached to the lower end of the polar axis can be seen; thus an assistant is able to direct the telescope by a handle at H to any desired hour angle.

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  • The lamp near the eye-end illuminates the field or the wires at pleasure, as well as the position circle of the micrometer and the declination circle; a separate lamp illuminates the hour circle.

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  • A new feature in this instrument is the platform at the lower end of the polar axis, where an assistant can view the hour circle by one eyeFIG.

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  • The observer at the eye-end can also read off the hour and declination circles and communicate quick or slow motions, to the telescope both in right ascension and declination by conveniently Pulkovo, placed handles.

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  • The eye end presents an refractor appearance too complicated to be figured here; it has a micrometer and its illumination for the position circle, a micrometer head, and a bright or dark field, clamps in right ascension and declination and quick and slow motion in the same, a finder, microscopes for reading the hour and declination circles, an illuminated dial showing sidereal time and driven by an electric current from the sidereal clock, and counter weights which can be removed when a spectroscope or other heavy appliance is added.

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  • An hour circle attached to E P and a declination circle attached to the box containing the mirror N, both of which can be read or set from E, complete the essentials of the instrument.

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  • When the parallax of a star is known, we are able to infer from its proper motion its actual linear speed in miles per hour, in so far as the motion is transverse to the line of sight.

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  • He may have to "do" his whole time but not an hour beyond it.

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  • He called the people together at the hour of prayer, publicly cursed Mansur from the pulpit and declared him deposed.

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  • The respite of an hour enabled the allies to organize a fierce counter-attack; Ney was checked until the flanking columns of Victor and Reynier could come upon the scene.

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  • Within the town the arcades (or Lauben) on either side of the main street, and the numerous elaborately ornamented fountains attract the eye, as well as the two remaining towers that formerly stood on the old walls but are now in the centre of the town; the Zeitglockenthurm (famous for its singular 16th- century clock, with its mechanical contrivances, set in motion when the hour strikes) and the Kdfichthurm.

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  • To this end he "added some touches where surviving tradition seemed to contain trustworthy additional particulars," such as the statement that Paul taught in the lecture-room of Tyrannus " from the fifth to the tenth hour."

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  • Power and Effect.The power of a machine is the energy exerted, and the effect the useful work performed, in some interval of time of definite length, such as a second, an hour, or a day.

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  • The unit of power, called conventionally a horse-power, is 550 foot-pounds per second, or 33,000 foot-pounds per minute, or 1,980,000 foot-pounds per hour.

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  • About the eighth hour after commencement of development the membrane ruptures and the oval embryo escapes, swimming by means of its flagella at the surface of the sea for another twenty-four hours, during which the principal organs are laid down, although the mouth does not open until the close of this period.

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  • Montgomery after a contest of little more than one hour, three of the Confederate vessels being destroyed and four of them captured, and from this victory until the close of the war the city was in possession of the Union forces.

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  • So also Mill is justified in preferring a scene of Shakespeare or an hour's conversation with a friend to a great mass of lower pleasure.

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  • They fasted, they rejoiced; one hour they chilled themselves in the cemeteries, the next they rushed frantically through the streets singing Psalmic refrains.

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  • He was a member of the French Academy; and one very characteristic rule, recorded to have been proposed by him with the intention of expediting the great Dictionary, in which he was much interested, was that no one should be accounted present at any meeting unless he arrived before the hour of commencement and remained till the hour for leaving.

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  • His boyhood was passed working in his father's fields, but the sight of the engravings in an old illustrated Bible set him drawing, and thenceforth, whilst the others slept, the daily hour of rest was spent by Millet in trying to render the familiar scenes around him.

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  • The average output of the modern hand-press, when all is made ready for running, is about two hundred and fifty impressions per hour.

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  • He induced the proprietor of The Times (London) to take two of these machines, and in 1814 that newspaper was printed with steam power at the rate of i roo impressions per hour, a great advance on the number produced up to that time.

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  • The results from this press were, at the time, considered fairly satisfactory, the number of copies (about 8000) printed per hour from one type-forme having been materially increased by the employing of the eight different stations to feed the sheets in, all of which in turn were printed from the same single type surface.

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  • Hoe's first presses were four-feeders, but as many as ten feeds were supplied, as in the case of the two presses built to replace the Applegath machine for The Times, each of which produced about 2000 impressions from each feed, making a total of 20,000 per hour, printed on one side, or from two machines 20,000 sheets printed on both sides.

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  • As its name implies, the type bed and impression platen are both flat surfaces as in the hand-press, but as they are self-inking and are easily driven, the average output is about moo copies per hour, and but one operator is required, whereas two men at a handpress can produce only 250 copies in the same time.

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  • The average production is about woo copies per hour.

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  • As a rule most double-cylinder presses produce on an average about moo copies per hour, printed both sides.

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  • Its speed is greater than the stop cylinder (it may be geared to produce from 1500 to Two copies per hour, printed one side only).

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  • A quadruple machine will produce 48,000 copies per hour of four, six or eight pages; and proportionately less of a greater number of pages; all folded, counted and pasted if required.

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  • The process of unwinding these long reels of paper in the course of printing takes only half an hour; they are arranged on a revolving stand so that directly they are FIG.

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  • In addition to the body of the paper it prints a cover, and is capable of producing 24,000 complete copies per hour, folded, insetted, cut, pasted and covered.

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  • The treatise De cursibus ecclesiasticis, discovered in 1853, is a liturgical manual for determining the hour of divers nocturnal offices by the position of the stars.

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  • That work was indeed chiefly done by the living voice; and in speaking, this "one man," as Elizabeth's very critical ambassador wrote from Edinburgh, was "able in one hour to put more life in us than five hundred trumpets continually blustering in our ears."

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  • Atmospheric refraction causes the sun to be visible for periods varying from south to north for a quarter to half an hour after it has actually sunk below the horizon.

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  • It is usually of an intensely sharp, cutting or burning character, either constant or with exacerbations, and often periodic, returning at a certain hour each day while the attack continues.

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  • Had the Transvaal government given way, even at the last hour, the reformers would have been satisfied.

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  • The birds flap their wings on rising from the ground, but after attaining a moderate elevation they seem to sail on the air, Charles Darwin having watched them for half an hour without once observing a flap of their wings.

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  • Many of the houses in the town are built of brick, not a few bearing an inscription of Nebuchadrezzar, obtained from the ruins of Babylon, which lie less than an hour away to the north.

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  • Oakland, Berkeley, the home of the State University (damaged by the earthquake), and Alameda, all eastward just across the bay; Burlingame, San Mateo, Menlo Park and Palo Alto, wealthy and fashionable towns southward on the peninsula; Sausalito and San Rafael, summer residence towns on the northern peninsula across the Golden Gate; all lie well within an hour of San Francisco, and are practically suburbs of the metropolis.

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  • The hot springs mentioned by Josephus (and also by Pliny) are about half an hour's journey to the south.

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  • He marks the commencement of that vast change in the movement of English politics by which it has come about that the sentiment of the great mass of the people now tells effectively on the action of the government from day to day, - almost from hour to hour.

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  • Fabius Maximus, in his descriptions of the unshaken firmness and calm courage shown by the fathers of the state in the hour of trial, Livy is at his best; and he is so largely in virtue of his genuine appreciation of character as a powerful force in the affairs of men.

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  • This must be repeated at intervals of about half an hour, since some of the opium is excreted into the stomach after its absorption into the blood.

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  • The all-day battle in the narrow mountain pass was the most stubbornly contested of the whole war, and the brilliant victory of Taylor over such odds made " Old Rough and Ready," as he was called by his troops, the hero of the hour.

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  • Thus Austin found that at the Charleston mills, Arizona, 92.13% of the total silver recovered was extracted after 1 hour, 94.10% after 2 hours, 95.9 2% after 3 hours, and 100% after 4 hours.

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  • The supreme hour had now arrived.

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  • Palmerston remained faithful and loyal to his colleagues in the hour of danger.

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  • The engines were then started and the pump set so as to deliver over 5000 lb of water per hour into the boiler.

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  • On the 9th of September 1908 the former, at Fort Myer, Virginia, made three notable flights; in the first he remained in the air 571 minutes and in the second 1 hour 3 minutes, while in the third he took with him a passenger and covered nearly 4 m.

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  • Four days afterwards Wilbur Wright at Le Mans in France beat all previous records with a flight lasting hour 31 minutes 25-tseconds, in which he covered about 56 m.; and subsequently, on the 11th of October, he made a flight of hour 9 minutes accompanied by a passenger.

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  • But if you were seen and taught by him for a single hour, and so became an apostle, then preach his words, expound his meaning, love his apostles, fight not with me who had converse with him.

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  • The events of 242 years barely furnish an hour or two's reading.

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  • Tilden's heavy sales (during Field's absence in Europe) of "Elevated" stock, which forced the price down from 200 to 164; but Field lost much more in the great "Manhattan squeeze" of the 24th of June 1887, when Jay Gould and Russell Sage, who had been supposed to be his backers in an attempt to bring the Elevated stock to 200, forsook him, and the price fell from 1562 to 114 in half an hour.

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  • Traces of it may be detected in the urine within an hour of its administration, and most of it is eliminated within eight or ten hours.

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  • In the hour of danger he was undismayed, as in the hour of victory he was just and merciful.

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  • From the 6th to the 27th of June the handful of British soldiers, who composed the garrison of a fortification that could not have resisted a serious assault for a single hour, held out with the greatest gallantry in hope of relief.

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  • Strong claims have also been made on behalf of a fine profile portrait resembling Beatrice d'Este in the Ambrosiana; but this the best judges are agreed in regarding as a work, done in a lucky hour, of Ambrogio de Predis.

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  • In a battle at Nederhemert Floris met with his death in the hour of victory.

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  • The sudden death of William in the hour of his triumph caused a complete revolution in the government of the republic. He left no heir but a posthumous infant, and the party of the burgher regents of Holland was once more in the ascendant.

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  • When he did in some measure find himself again, r, he gave to the world his charming Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863), and in 1865 his Household Poems. Among the latter is a poem entitled "The Children's Hour," which affords a glance into the home life of the widowed poet, who had been left with five children - two sons, Ernest and Charles, and three daughters, "Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair."

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  • After wandering under an assumed name for three months through Modena, Milan and Turin, he at last reached Geneva, where he enjoyed the friendship of the most distinguished citizens, and was on excellent terms with the great publishing firms. But in an evil hour he was induced to visit a Catholic village within Sardinian territory in order to hear mass on Easter day, where he was kidnapped by the agents of the Sardinian government, conveyed to the castle of Miolans and thence successively transferred to Ceva and Turin.

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  • He returned in August and brought fresh gunpowder into the cellars to replace any which might be spoilt by damp. A slow match was prepared which would give him a quarter of an hour in which to escape from the explosion.

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  • He cried out in answer to them, hour after hour, "Never, never; not for thousands of worlds; not for thousands."

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  • The fine bay of Antivari, with Prstan, its port, is distant about one hour's drive through barren and forbidding country, shut in by mountains.

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  • The next day, therefore, Gotama set out at the usual hour, carrying his bowl to beg for a meal.

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  • The actual difference between the meridians of Greenwich and Cape Town is one hour fourteen minutes.

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  • In the actual instrument, the paper diagram is mounted upon a drum caused by clockwork to revolve uniformly, and is ruled with vertical hour lines, and horizontal quantity lines representing gallons per hour.

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  • He finds, for example, from the diagram that the initial leakage of 2000 gallons an hour has in the course of a 41 hours' night inspection fallen to 400 gallons an hour, and that the 1600 gallons an hour is accounted for by Distribution The earliest water supplies in Great Britain were generally distributed at low pressure by wooden pipes or stone or brick conduits.

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  • To each of these premises he goes with the knowledge that a portion of the total leakage of 2000 gallons an hour is almost certainly there, and that it must be found, which is a very different thing from visiting three or four hundred houses, in not one of which he has any particular reason to expect to find leakage.

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  • Similar examinations by means of the stop-valves on the mains are also made, and it often happens that the residual leakage (400 gallons an hour in the last case) recorded on the diagram, but not shut off by the house stop - cocks, is mentioned by the inspector as an " outside waste," and localized as having been heard at a stop-cock and traced by sounding the pavement to a particular position under a particular street.

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  • Subjection to the temperature of boiling water for, say, half an hour seemed an efficient mode of sterilization, until it was discovered that the spores of bacteria are so involved in heat-resisting membranes, that only prolonged exposure to dry, baking heat can be recognized as an efficient process of sterilization.

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  • Decker (Ber., 9 5, 38, p. 1144) has found that many ortho substituted quinolines will not combine with methyl iodide owing to steric hindrance, but the difficulty can be overcome in most cases by using methyl sulphate and heating the reaction components to ioo C. for half an hour.

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  • It was on this fact that the fortune of England was to turn, for in the hour of crisis Harold was to be betrayed by the lords of the Midlands and the North.

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  • But all expedients are worth trying in the hour of ruin, and seeing that Joan was disinterested and sincere, and that her preaching exercised a marked influence over the people and the soldiery, Charles allowed her to march with the last levies that he put into the field for the relief of Orleans.

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  • The decision was taken at an unfortunate hour.

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  • The language of the public press and of Englishmen visiting Denmark confirmed theimpression which the words of the prime minister had produced; and there is unfortunately no doubt that Denmark was encouraged to resist her powerful opponents by the belief, which she was thus almost authorized in entertaining, that she could reckon in the hour of her danger on the active assistance of the United Kingdom.

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  • But it was not open to her to encourage a weak power to resist and then desert her in the hour of her necessity.

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