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  • They finished the snack in silence.

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  • Night came on before he had finished it.

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  • Inside of the great kitchen, beside the fire, the men were shouting and laughing; for the blacksmith had finished his song, and it was very pleasing.

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  • When she finished it she was overjoyed.

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  • Cade, I haven't finished the dishes.

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  • She finished buttoning Destiny's dress.

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  • By the time she had cleaned the house and finished the laundry, the day was getting hot and sticky.

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  • It's not finished if you, you're wife and California friends are still alive.

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  • When the work was finished, the old fishing boat looked rather odd, with a paddle wheel on each side which dipped just a few inches into the water.

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  • His conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, finished phrases of general interest.

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  • After they finished eating, Giddon rose from his chair.

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  • She finished her oatmeal and pored herself a cup of coffee.

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  • First he had left a lady before she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to another who wished to get away.

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  • But before he had finished he felt that his jest was unacceptable and had not come off.

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  • She finished pealing the potato and threw it into the pan before continuing.

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  • He shrugged nonchalantly, but his gaze rested on her thoughtfully for a few moments before he finished his meal.

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  • When they finished, Quinn would call Martha at home, and let her listen to the recording of the session.

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  • Betsy agreed but suggested we wait until Molly finished her bath so she could speak with her mother first.

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  • By the time we'd finished our meal, with a piece of cake, there wasn't much time before the service was to begin and the pastor excused himself to prepare.

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  • The great cathedral Notre Dame de Paris, which was begun before your birth, would not be finished by your death.

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  • She smiled at Molly who had just finished relating the highlights of her first day at her new school.

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  • Before the officer finished his sentence Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised his riding whip.

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  • And yet, now the twins could return to their beloved ranch – the one she had finished paying off.

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  • Last July, when she had finished under great pressure of work her final chapter, she set to work to rewrite the whole story.

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  • She helped Destiny into a frilly white dress with yellow trim and they both finished up with white sandals.

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  • Lunch finished, they mounted and started back to the house.

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  • Howie was quiet for several minutes as we finished our chores.

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  • Betsy finished her sandwich and strolled toward the stairs.

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  • He didn't understand it, except that Bianca's touch finished what Sofi started.

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  • When Cynthia finished tightening the cinch and lowered the stirrup, she turned to find him watching her.

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  • He finished his pie and leaned back in his chair, his gaze meeting hers.

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  • He nodded absently and fell silent while she finished the ice cream.

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  • His business was finished.

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  • They say that when we've finished hammering them, we're to receive double kits!

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  • By the time they finished erecting the oxygen tent over her bed, she had finally settled down.

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  • She had barely finished putting the things away when Mary knocked on the kitchen door.

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  • We agreed the tests were finished for the day but mellowed by wine; we spent two more evening hours summarizing our findings.

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  • I'd better move my hunt further south when I've cleaned up my business and finished here.

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  • I finished my discourse with a request for words of wisdom.

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  • I promised to check in from time to time as we finished our conversation.

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  • When Martha finished, she tossed her head back and moaned.

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  • In any event, someone is permanently finished doing anything.

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  • Yully finished readying herself and stepped outside the room.

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  • She finished the cigarette and lit another.

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  • As soon as he had finished she turned to him with her usual smile.

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  • Pierre finished what he had begun.

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  • She finished her sandwich and drank some coffee, shoving the thought to the deepest recesses of her mind.

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  • When Claudette arrived, the room was finished and the house in order.

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  • After she cleaned the table and finished the dishes, she went to her room to get some aspirin.

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  • Instead, I finished it, while still holding on to my beloved tee shirt.

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  • Howie did all the talking, but Julie finished up.

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  • If you'd spare a moment and look at it, I'll have you driven back to the hospital after you're finished.

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  • Cynthia finished her wedding pronouncement by tossing out a comment about her foolish son considering delaying the final year of his education to play professional baseball, a decision against which she and Rose Calvia planned to exert a full court press.

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  • The finished cigars are either spread out in the sunlight to be dried, or exposed to a gentle heat.

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  • Among newer churches the most noticeable are the Evangelical church of St Luke, a Transitional building, with an imposing dome, finished in 1896, and the Gothic parochial church of the Giesing suburb, with a tower 312 ft.

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  • In 1902 the Uganda railway, begun in 1896, was finished.

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  • Countess Mary listened till he had finished, made some remark, and in her turn began thinking aloud.

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  • She finished her game of patience and only then examined the presents.

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  • She timidly entered their room before he'd finished buttoning.

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  • When he finished, my mother took my hand and led me to my room.

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  • By the time Dean finished listing the information, Fred was gone and Cynthia was off to read in their quarters.

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  • He tactfully withdrew to the kitchen to give her privacy, expecting a summary of the conversation when she finished, but none was forthcoming.

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  • When she finished, still attired in bathrobe and floppy slippers, and leaving a cloud of flour behind her, she crept upstairs to talk to Fred; a conversation that lasted thirty minutes.

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  • Cynthia wasn't finished, but now her sole audience was David Dean.

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  • Fred, a casual helper, was off to the courthouse, but even without him they finished early.

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  • Ginger muttered an apology, but Joseph was far from finished.

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  • He would also ferry them back when the auction was finished, hauling home the spoils of the sale.

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  • When he was finished, the quiet continued to the point where he wondered if she were still on the line.

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  • It took five trips by the time the auction was finished and the last of the purchased junk was dumped at Bird Song.

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  • Dean had just finished telling Cynthia the bone was human when Fred knocked and entered.

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  • When he'd finished, he asked Fred, "How many of those trunks were sold in total?"

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  • He and his buddies finished first six or seven times in a row.

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  • David Dean was hanging patriotic bunting by dawn's early light when Cynthia finished setting out the usual assortment of pastries for the guests and joined her husband for the short walk to the Community Center.

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  • Cynthia's allotted tour of duty was finished, so he took his wife's hand and they walked to the corner for a better view of the parade.

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  • When he'd finished, she simply stared at him.

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  • Dean sensed Fred had finished his own web business before unhooking and was content to let the waiting line of users cool their respective heels.

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  • They had just finished the meal when the telephone rang, but not with news of Martha.

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  • The answers fell into place, one after another like a child's wooden puzzle, and even absent the last lingering block, the finished the picture was finally clear.

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  • She finished snapping the beans and wiped her hands on the towel.

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  • If I decide not to keep her, I'll kill her, Darkyn finished.

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  • She finished everything and returned to her bedroom, going through the rest of human-Deidre's morning routine.

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  • The fifth demon had finished him off by crushing his skull and taking his soul.

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  • Gabriel waited, sensing the Dark One wasn't finished.

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  • It took him a long moment to realize that she was finished talking.

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  • Gabriel finished collecting the souls from the bowl then straightened, motioning to Landon.

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  • When are you going to have that house finished?

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  • She finished feeding the horses and let all of them out except Casper.

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  • He finished brushing his teeth, rinsed his mouth and then wiped it.

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  • By the time she finished showering and dressing, Alex had Destiny ready.

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  • She finished one color and set the icing aside, glancing up at him.

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  • Carmen finished decorating the cake and set the icing aside.

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  • If you are finished with me, I have work to do.

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  • To the lost souls, to the underworld, to a woman I want to hate, Gabe finished.

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  • She'd barely finished her omelet when the two people from the other table sat across from her.

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  • That's how I found out you really did love Gabe, even though you um …" "Crushed his will to live," Toby finished.

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  • One of the portals beckoned him before he'd finished the sentence.

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  • The portal formed before she'd finished the sentence.

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  • She finished her whiskey and sat back in the chair, its warmth chasing away her internal chill.

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  • When she finished, she crossed to the balcony.

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  • When it'd finished, she felt little pain, and the heat was completely gone.

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  • He finished at long last and replaced all his things in his satchel.

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  • It covered her by the time he'd finished his sick games with her.

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  • He didn't drink long, and when he was finished he touched his thumb to the wound, cauterizing it again.

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  • The ten feet to the top felt like it took hours, though the sun had barely risen when she finished.

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  • Left with her towel and her toiletries, she took her time applying the thick moisturizer and lotion over her entire body, then finished by combing through her hair.

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  • He dropped his gaze to the bandage, and he finished it in a hurry.

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  • Kris finished tying his boots and crossed to the door, slamming it on his way out.

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  • When he finished, she nodded and hurried away.

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  • Rhyn finished his task of clearing Kris.s floor of dead bodies.

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  • She smiled, finished washing, and emerged from the shower.

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  • It was past dark fall when she finished, and she gazed at her last sketch, intrigued by it.

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  • She rolled her eyes and finished her breakfast.

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  • Dean finished dismantling the tree, cleaning up the remaining detritus of the holidays and packing away the delicate figures of a manger scene.

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  • By the time Dean located two woolen socks that were at least the same color, Cynthia was finished dressing.

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  • The boy pulled away with a scowl and tapped on the newspaper puzzle, indicating he wasn't finished.

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  • Edith Shipton sat nearby, long finished with her meal, oblivious to Gladys' tales.

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  • Dean poured himself a cup while the lawman finished his snack.

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  • Janet finished her chores and hurried off to her afternoon soaps.

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  • While there remained much of the afternoon, the shortened days of winter dipped the sun below the towering mountains as the tired couple finished the loop, returned to their jeep and left for home.

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  • I'm waiting until I'm finished!

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  • Cynthia finished her conversation and hung up the phone.

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  • Skipped home as soon as she finished breakfast.

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  • Fred finished his breakfast in a rush and hauled out the pair of his garage-sale skis.

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  • When I rode the Ride the Rockies bike tour, I was proud as punch when I finished it.

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  • It was after ten by the time the kitchen chores were finished and the place cleaned up, sort of.

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  • By the time he'd brewed them both a cup of Earl Grey tea and rejoined Cynthia at the kitchen table, she had finished yet another paragraph.

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  • There's only those few pages finished.

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  • All of the guests, excepting Gladys and Edith, had vacated the inn by the time the Deans finished the morning chores.

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  • Fred O'Connor finished reading the latest pages as Mrs. Lincoln crawled onto his lap.

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  • When he finished the chores, he swallowed three aspirins and went outside to shovel the accumulating snow, hoping further activity might dissipate the anger he felt, not only at Shipton, but at himself for losing it in so public and childish manner.

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  • By the time he finished, it was after eleven and Cynthia still hadn't returned.

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  • As he finished the conversation, Donald Ryland emerged from his room, looking as if his dog had died.

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  • When they finished eating, Dean sat back to think.

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  • When he finished eating, he called the Indiana number, letting the phone ring a dozen times.

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  • After the chores were finished, the group emigrated to the parlor for a game of Scrabble.

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  • Everyone thinks it's finished, except Fred who is still taking notes.

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  • Fred O'Connor strolled up just as Dean finished.

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  • I'll come on over as soon as I'm finished with the attorneys.

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  • He knew once someone questioned the suicide note and seriously examined it, he was all finished.

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  • Connor finished his second drink and Jackson could see by the softening around his eyes that the alcohol had started to work its magic.

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  • When he finished his tale, she shook her head.

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  • Jackson finished playing and looked up at Sarah.

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  • Well, I guess we're finished here.

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  • He grabbed the drink out of her hand and finished it.

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  • When they had finished their breakfast, Connor said, "Sarah, I'd like to talk to Jackson alone for a minute if you don't mind."

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  • When he had finished, Sarah waited a moment then brought her hands together.

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  • When they finished their drinks and were waiting for the check, Jackson asked, "Why did you lie about dancing?"

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  • When they had finished dinner and were having port back in the drawing room, Jackson asked, "Now that you've seen Sarah's shoe closet, would you like to see the rest of the house?"

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  • When he finished, she held the piece up.

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  • She curtseyed as she finished and Sarah moaned, "You guys are awful."

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  • Elisabeth won the game and when they finished Sarah and Connor said goodnight.

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  • When she finished, he lifted the tray.

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  • She finished with a question and answer period and there were quite a few queries that seemed to impress her.

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  • She had finished drawing on one and turned it for Jackson to see.

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  • When Elisabeth finished dinner, Jackson bowed with a flourish.

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  • When she finished, he stood, held her and repeated her words softly, "Promise you'll sing for me often."

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  • Sarah inspected the pumpkins that were finished.

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  • When she finished, she turned to Jackson.

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  • When she finished the second chop, she licked her face, cleaning herself.

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  • By the time they finished their drinks, Elisabeth seemed much calmer.

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  • When he finished the tale, he asked, "What do you think?"

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  • They had almost finished their drinks when the pretty bartender leaned over, a little closer than necessary, displaying her ample cleavage.

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  • Jackson finished his blood.

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  • They finished one day before the full moon, and all stood admiring their accomplishment as Elisabeth said, I'm going to do some great work here.

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  • After she finished drinking, she approached Jackson, licked his face, and put her head in his lap.

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  • The sooner they finished, the sooner she could find him and explain.

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  • The micro was finished decrypting the messages.

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  • He finished and laid out his clothing and weapons in neat piles for the next day then stood at the bed.

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  • Dan appeared soon after, and they sparred until Dan finally signaled he was finished.

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  • Elise started off before he'd finished.

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  • Jack helped her eat her meat and then finished off the rice and beans.

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  • The next day, Lana finished checking the last of the Tesla receivers.

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  • By evening, she'd finished.

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  • And if she runs …" "She's dead-dead," Gabe finished.

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  • Helpless until the trees finished flinging them around, Katie struggled to grab the branches, so she didn't end up like Deidre.  Finally, a branch wrapped around her and pulled her through the canopy, dumping her at the edge of the jungle.  Toby landed with a grunt beside her, and she lay still to catch her breath, still hoping Deidre reappeared.

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  • By the time the man had finished, his night vision was better and he could make out the tiny necklace of lights in the distance, the Chesapeake Bridge-Tunnel that ran 17 miles to the Eastern shore.

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  • By the time Dean had finished his meal, the traffic had thinned out, making the balance of the trip northward much more pleasant.

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  • Fred O'Connor, at 74, had long since finished his working career, a calico collection of jobs which changed with the telling, none of which gave him a pension.

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  • I haven't finished but I'll tell you, I haven't met anyone who thought there was a ghost of a chance he was fooling around.

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  • The game finished but Dean ignored an impulse to introduce himself and chat with the boy.

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  • When their lovemaking finished, Dean remained in bed, his arms folded behind his head, awaiting Ethel's return from her obligatory post coital trip to the bathroom.

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  • When you've finished we'll stuff it all in the suitcase and you can haul it back up north to her.

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  • By the time Fred had finished his questioning it was nearly midnight.

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  • We finished the season with eight losses and that one tie.

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  • They were still giddy when Fred paid the check, by peeling a large number of ten-dollar bills from a roll that started twice as large as it finished.

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  • Then he added, Maybe I'll look up this Ridner kid and ask him if the car was still there when he finished, but I'm just checking it out because I promised Randy Byrne I would.

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  • He rose abruptly, his coffee only half finished, and paid his bill.

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  • He hoped he wouldn't put Rita to sleep transcribing it when he was finished.

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  • He had finished his portion of the Byrne report and the interviews he'd conducted with Byrne's friends and associates.

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  • Neither finished his beverage; Fred because he was anxious to get going and Dean because he could only take a small dose of the perfumed blend.

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  • She finished the drink she was holding in one gulp and crossed to where he was standing.

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  • She finished the remaining half of her drink in one gulp.

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  • He'd already finished most of the report, hadn't he?

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  • The pair finished their burglary report and agreed to try and keep the matter out of the papers in deference to Dean's other police activities.

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  • The investigation killed the entire afternoon and part of the evening before they finished checking the neighborhood.

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  • Yes. I didn't see him but he telephoned...to tell me he was finished with the apartment.

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  • Ralph finished cut­ting Harry Toomey's hair and went out back.

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  • Sighing deeply, he told Rita he was finished for the day, jogged down the stairs to his car, and fought the late afternoon crosstown traffic to Ethel Rosewater's office.

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  • Before Dean finished hanging up his coat, pouring a cup of over-brewed coffee and settling in his chair, Rita Angeltoni dropped a pile of telephone messages on his desk.

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

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  • When they finally finished and left the station, Jenny drove the exhausted pair home.

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  • When we're finished we take the tent down and bring it back here.

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  • She should be finished din­ner by now.

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  • Mums rocked in her chair and finished counting stitches before she responded.

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  • It was getting close to noon when Carmen finished weeding in her garden.

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  • After Alex finished talking to Bill, she sat down beside him and placed her elbows on the table, resting her chin in her hands.

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  • By the time she finished mowing the lawn and picking a few tomatoes and okra, it was almost noon.

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  • The mother arrived a few minutes later and as Carmen finished cleaning up the nursery, Mums and a few other women walked in.

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  • Alex finished bandaging her shoulder.

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  • They finished lunch and then he took her to Katie and Bill's house.

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  • Carmen finished off the rest of her milk and stood.

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  • Katie looked up at her in the mirror as she finished zipping the dress.

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  • She finished chores and decided to go look for evidence.

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  • They ate in silence and when he finished, he leaned back in his chair sipping his coffee, staring at the table absently.

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  • By the time she finished that, she was exhausted.

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  • By the time she finished cooking supper for them, it was later than she had planned.

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  • Because you were sleeping and I knew I'd be coming home after I finished some things at work.

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  • After she fed the rabbits, she came back to find the horses had finished their grain.

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  • Alex finished his sandwich and brushed the crumbs from his pants.

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  • After she finished dishes, she watered the chickens and added water to the horse tank.

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  • She finished and wiped her hands on the towel.

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  • Jenn finished arming herself and followed.

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  • With jerky movements, she finished dressing and replaced her weapons.

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  • Darian watched her then finished his cheeseburger slowly, listening to her thoughts.

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  • The book's ancient pages were so brittle, he feared they would crumble before he finished.

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  • When he'd finished, Vara stared at him, then said,

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  • The moon reached its peak before he'd finished inspecting the walls and greeting its guards.

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  • Darkness swept through the chamber as Memon finished off the demon.

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  • Alex would be back when he finished working out his issues.

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  • After the phone call, she finished getting ready for church and faxed the form.

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  • Rob followed her gaze as he finished pulling the last leg out on the table.

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  • The men finished the fence and the goats are running in the south hills.

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  • I finished everything a little early.

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  • The room was deathly silent as she finished.

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  • She finished her food and threw the paper plate in the trash.

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  • The sun was bathing the cabin in orange by the time she had finished cleaning and hanging her clothes.

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  • When his job was finished, she would never see him again.

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  • When he finished carefully feeding it to her, he curled up beside his mother under the heavenly cloak.

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  • He finished whatever it was he did and set it back down.

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  • The computer finished its search.

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  • The coffee was finished.

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  • A text made her phone ding as she finished eating.

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  • When she finished whatever it was she did, she dropped her hand.

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

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  • When the bed is finished, it is covered with straw to protect it from rain, and also from parching influences.

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  • In 1672, having finished his philosophy course, he was given a scholarship at the college of St Michel at Paris by Jean, marquis de Pompadour, lieutenant-general of the Limousin.

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  • The head of the college, the abbe Antoine Faure, who was from the same part of the country as himself, befriended the lad, and continued to do so for many years after he had finished his course, finding him pupils and ultimately obtaining for him the post of tutor to the young duke of Chartres, afterwards the regent duke of Orleans.

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  • This side of his preparation was finished by a close study of Scripture, the results of which are contained in his commentaries, In omnes Epistolas Divi Apostoli Expositio, his Super Isaiam et Jeremiam, and his In Psalmos.

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  • Such a bowl is alive until the end is finished wherever it may lie, within the limits of the space.

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  • One end of a pipe is finished flat, the end of the other pipe being brought to a conical edge.

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  • Several of the buildings were never finished.

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  • He died before it was completed, but it was finished by Sargon, who reduced the city, deported its inhabitants, and established within it a mixed multitude of settlers (who were the ancestors of the modern Samaritans).

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  • In all places where finished goods are handled, or manufactured goods are made, cranes of various forms are in universal use.

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  • If the debtor did not cultivate the field himself he had to pay for the cultivation, but if the cultivation was already finished he must harvest it himself and pay his debt from the crop. If the cultivator did not get a crop this would not cancel his contract.

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  • The finished core changes rapidly in its electric qualities at first, and is generally kept for a stated interval of time before being subjected to the specified tests.

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  • The manufacture of the cable, begun early in the following year, was finished in June, and before the end of July it was stowed partly in the American ship " Niagara " and partly in decided to begin paying out in mid-ocean, the two vessels, after splicing together the ends of the cable they had on board, sailing away from each other in opposite directions.

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  • He greatly improved the rough track over the Simplon Pass, so that, when finished in 1807, it was practicable for artillery.

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  • When the treatise was finished Cranmer was called upon to defend its argument before the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which he visited, accompanied by Fox and Gardiner.

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  • The doctrine of evolution in its finished and definite form is a modern product.

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  • But the relief of the crust is not a finished piece of sculpture; the forms are for the most part transitional, owing - their characteristic outlines to the process by which they aieomorph 'o ogy.

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  • The first portion of the Manchurian railway, built by Russian engineers, with Chinese labour, was finished in 1902.

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  • In most parts of England the plate-rail was preferred, and it was used on the Surrey iron railway, from Wandsworth to Croydon, which, sanctioned by parliament in 1801, was finished in 1803, and was the first railway available to the public on payment of tolls, previous lines having all been private and reserved exclusively for the use of their owners.

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  • The directors having offered a prize of £500 for the best engine, trials were held on a finished portion of the line at Rainhill in October 1829, and three engines took part - the Rocket of George and Robert Stephenson, the Novelty of John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and the Sanspareil of Timothy Hackworth.

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  • The main line was finished in 1902, except for a length of about 170 m.

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  • The last section through the Andes was finished in 1910.

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  • It was founded in 1004 by the emperor Henry II., finished in 1012, afterwards partially burnt, and rebuilt in the 13th century.

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  • The fourth volume, partly written in 1782, was completed in June 1784; the preparation of the fifth volume occupied less than two years; while the sixth and last, begun 18th May 1786, was finished in thirteen months.

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  • Haloa, obviously connected with aces (" threshing-floor "), begun at Athens and finished at Eleusis, where there was a threshing-floor of Triptolemus, in the month Poseideon (December).

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  • It was begun by the architect Antonio da San Gallo the younger in 1527 for Clement VII., who fled to Orvieto after the sack of Rome, and was finished by Simone Mosca under Paul III.

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  • Meanwhile Agrippa gave the Levites the right to wear the linen robe of the priests and sanctioned the use of the temple treasure to provide work - the paving of the city with white stones - for the workmen who had finished the Temple (64) and now stood idle.

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  • He also finished his Tabulae Directionum (Nuremberg, '475), essentially an astrological work, but containing a valuable table of tangents.

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  • He spared neither men, money, nor himself in attempting to carry out his gigantic scheme for the colonization of the south Russian steppes; but he never calculated the cost, and more than three-quarters of the design had to be abandoned when but half finished.

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  • And thus the hasty pamphlet of a half-educated Gothic monk has been forced into prominence, almost into rivalry with the finished productions of the great writers of classical antiquity.

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  • Though he duly finished his theological course and was licensed to preach, Brewster's preference for other pursuits prevented him from engaging in the active duties of his profession.

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  • But their attempts, in comparison with his, are like a schoolboy's essays beside the finished work of a master.

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  • Far better both as draughtsman and as authority was George Edwards, who in 1 743 began, under the same title as Albin, a series of plates with letterpress, which was continued by the name of Gleanings in Natural History, and finished in 1760, when it had reached seven parts, forming four quarto volumes, the figures of which are nearly always quoted with approval.4 The year which saw the works of Edwards completed was still further distinguished by the appearance in France, where little had been done since Belon's days,' in six quarto volumes, of the Ornithologie of MathurinJacques Brisson - a work of very great merit so far as it goes, for as a descriptive ornithologist the author stands even now unsurpassed; but it must be said that his knowledge, according to internal evidence, was confined to books and to the external parts of birds' skins.

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  • His Synopsis was finished in 1785; two supplements were added in 1787 and 1802, 6 and in 1790 he produced an abstract of the work under the title of Index Ornithologicus, wherein he assigned names on the Linnaean method to all the species described.

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  • About the time that Buffon was bringing to an end his studies of birds, Mauduyt undertook to write the Ornithologie of the Encyclopedic methodique - a comparatively easy task, considering the recent works of his fellow-countrymen on that subject, and finished in 1784.

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  • Heysham added to Hutchins's Cumberland a list of birds of that county, whilst in the same year began Thomas Lord's valueless Entire New System of Ornithology, the text of which was written or corrected by Dr Dupree, and in 1794 Donovan began a History of British Birds which was only finished in 1819 - the earlier portion being reissued about the same time.

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  • Elliot began, and in 1869 finished, a sequel Elliot.

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  • Sailing in 1838 for New South Wales, on his return in 1840 he at once commenced the greatest of all his works, The Birds of Australia, which was finished in 1848 in seven volumes, to which several supplementary parts, forming another volume, were subsequently added.

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  • Then they set about a Second Series, which, forming a single volume with fifty-three plates, was finished in 1843.

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  • A work of somewhat similar character, but one in which the letterpress is of greater value, is the Centurie zoologique of Lesson, a single volume that, though bearing the date 1830 on its title-page, is believed to have been begun in 1829, 1 and was certainly not finished until 1831.

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  • The mosaics in the chapel of St Isidore (finished by Andrea Dandolo), giving us the life of the saint, were executed in 1355.

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  • Besides the New Testament, the Pentateuch and Jonah, it is believed that he finished in prison the section of the Old Testament extending from Joshua to Chronicles.

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  • As'has been seen, Bacon had no sooner finished this elaborate work than he began to prepare a summary to be sent along with it.

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  • Having finished his university course, he returned to Hamburg, and passed his examination for the Christian ministry.

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  • Raymund at once submitted to the pope, but the Crusade continued none the less, because, as Luchaire says," the baronage of the north and centre of France had finished their preparations,"and were resolved to annex the rich lands of the south.

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  • Soap may be framed and finished in this state, but almost invariably it receives a further treatment called " refining " or " fitting," in which by remelting with water, with or without the subsequent addition of other agents to harden the finished product, the soap may be made to contain from 60 to 70% of water and kept present a firm hard texture.

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  • The Liber de compositione alchemiae, which professes to be by Morienus - perhaps the same as the Marianus who was the teacher of Khalid - was translated by Robertus Castrensis, who states that he finished the work in 1182, and speaks as if he were making a revelation - " Quid sit alchemia nondum cognovit vestra Latinitas."

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  • Nicholas Bobadilla, a poor Spaniard who had finished his studies, was the next to join him.

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  • He first entered Kentucky University but finished his course at Bethany College in 1873.

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  • Baluze, who became his secretary in 1656, helped him with the work and finished it, adding clever appendices and publishing the whole in 1688 under the title Marca hispanica.

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  • In 1862 Said Majid, sultan of Zanzibar, decided to build a town on the shores of the bay, and began the erection of a palace, which was never finished, and of which but scanty ruins remain.

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  • Wagner had hardly finished the score of Lohengrin before he was at work upon the poem of Der Ring des Nibelungen.

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  • Das Rheingold, prologue in 4 scenes to Der Ring des Nibelungen; ein Buhnenfestspiel (poem written last of the series, which was begun in 1848 and finished in 1851-1852; music, 1853 - 1854).

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  • The signing of the peace of Teschen, which averted a great war with Prussia, on the 13th of May 1779, was the last great act of her reign, and so Maria Theresa judged it to be in a letter to Prince Kaunitz; she said that she had now finished her life's journey and could sing a for she had secured the repose of her people at whatever cost to herself.

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  • Other prominent buildings are the Supreme Court building, the county court house (the old state capitol, finished in 18J3), the city-hall, the state arsenal, the high school and the public library.

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  • He restored its water communication with the Nile by making the Mahmudiya canal, finished in 1820; and he established at Ras et-Tin his favourite residence.

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  • This was shortly followed by the translation of Plotinus into Latin, and by a voluminous commentary, the former finished in 1486, the latter in 1491, and both published at the cost of Lorenzo de' Medici just one month after his death.

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  • In 1194 another conflagration laid waste the new building then hardly completed; but clergy and people set zealously to work, and the main part of the present structure was finished by 1240.

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  • Hitherto all Ottoman writing, even the most highly Classical finished, had been somewhat rude and uncouth; but.

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  • The former, finished in 1889, is 400 ft.

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  • The Colonial Arcade contains a hotel as well; it was finished in 1898.

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  • Farther north, along the line of the former town wall, are the criminal law courts (1879-1882, enlarged 1893) and the civil law courts (finished in 1901).

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  • Euergetes in 237 B.C., was finished by his successor in 212; the portico, court, pylons and surrounding wall were added by Ptolemy Euergetes II., Soter II.

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  • Sometimes the excess is partially removed by boiling the finished goods with a solution of caustic soda, or some other solvent of sulphur.

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  • In large works the silver-lead alloy is removed when it contains 60-80 silver, and the cupellation of the rich bullion from several concentration furnaces is finished in a second furnace.

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  • In small works the cupellation is finished in one furnace, and the resulting low-grade silver fined in a plumbago crucible, either by overheating in the presence of air, or by the addition of silver sulphate to the melted silver, when air or sulphur trioxide and oxygen oxidize the impurities.

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  • The epoch-making treatise in which it was set forth, virtually finished in 1530, began to be known through the circulation in manuscript of a Commentariolus, or brief popular account of its purport written by Copernicus in that year.

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  • Francesco, perhaps the finest medieval building in Bologna, begun in 1246 and finished in 1260; it has a fine brick campanile of the end of the 14th century.

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  • Steamers ply regularly from Saigon through Mytho to Pnompenh, and launches proceed from this place, the capital of Cambodia, to the Preapatano rapids, and beyond this a considerable portion of the distance to Luang Prabang, the journey being finished in native boats.

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  • The communal palace in the Piazza del Campo was begun in 1288 and finished in 1309.

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  • The light and elegant tower (Torre del Mangla) soaring from one side of the palace was begun in 1338 and finished after 1348, and the chapel standing at its foot, raised at the expense of the Opera del Duomo as a public thank-offering after the plague of 1348, begun in 1352 and completed in 1376.

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  • The plaits are sewed partly by hand and in a special sewing-machine, and the hats or bonnets are finished by stiffening with gelatin size and blocking into shape with the aid of heat and powerful pressure, according to the dictates of fashion.

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  • With approximate certainty may be ascribed also to Tamas and Balint the original of the still extant transcript, by George Nemeti, of the Four Gospels, the Jciszay or Munich Codex (finished at Tatros in Moldavia in 1466).

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  • Julius Reviczky (1855-1899) also inclined to the Occidental rather than to the specifically Magyar type of poets; his lyrics are highly finished, aristocratic and pessimistic (Pan halala, " The Death of Pan ").

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  • The Roman Catholic cathedral was finished by Casimir IV.

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  • It was finished in the thirteenth year of Domitian (93).

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  • The second, the period of Boer organized resistance, may be said to have finished with the occupation of Komati Poort in October 1900 (a month after Lord Roberts's formal annexation of the Transvaal) and the flight of President Kruger.

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  • The blockhouse system was practically finished, and Kitchener determined upon a new means of harassing the enemy, who still had a total of about 25,000 men in the field.

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  • But that book is the only one which is finished in style and in the arrangement of its matter.

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  • Readers of a later time, who could compare his work with the finished works of the Augustan age, would certainly disparage his art rather than his power.

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  • If the English visit may be regarded as having finished 1 Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet (1706-1749), was the daughter of the baron de Breteuil, and married the marquis du Chatelet-Lomont in 1725.

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  • Brussels was again the headquarters in 1741, by which time Voltaire had finished the best and the second X XVIII.

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  • The existing palace was finished by John Nash in 1835, but did not meet with approval, and was considerably altered before Queen Victoria occupied it in 1837.

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  • It is not improbable that early in the 2nd century the wall was finished at the west portion and enclosed a cemetery near Newgate.

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  • The design is traced on the wood with charcoal, gouged out in the rough, and finished with sharp fine tools, using the mallet for every stroke.

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  • The bowl is severed from the blowing iron, and the wine-glass is sent to the annealing oven with a bowl, longer than that of the finished glass, and with a rough fractured edge.

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  • It is a curious property of viscous glass that whatever form is given to the mass of glass before it is drawn out is retained by the finished cane or tube, however small its section may be.

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  • If the section of the finished tube is to be a triangle, with the enamel and bore at the base, the molten mass is pressed into a V-shaped mould before it is pulled out.

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  • The finished cylinder is next carried to a rack and the pipe detached from it by applying a cold iron to the neck of thick hot glass which connects pipe-butt and cylinder, the neck cracking at the touch.

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  • It is important that the thermal expansion of the two materials which are thus incorporated should be nearly alike, as otherwise warping of the finished sheet is liable to result.

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  • The finished bottle is taken by the " taker in " to the annealing furnace.

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  • When the glass is being blown in the mould the blowing iron is twisted round and round so that the finished bulb may not be marked by the joint of the mould.

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  • The Nile supplied a waterway for the conveyance of fuel and for the distribution of the finished wares.

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  • A modern glassblower, when making an amphora-shaped vase, finishes the base first, fixes an iron rod to the finished base with a seal of glass, severs the vase from the blowing iron, and finishes the mouth, whilst he holds the vase by the iron attached to its base.

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  • In the edition of 158 r of the De re metallica by Georg Agricola, there is a woodcut showing the interior of a German glass factory, and glass vessels both finished and unfinished.

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  • With open-fire batteries for making the syrup, which was afterwards finished in the vacuum pan, very good sugar was produced, but at a cost that would be ruinous in to-day's markets.

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  • It was begun in 1549, but not finished till 1614, long after his death.

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  • The famous Teatro Olimpico was begun by him, but only finished after his death; it is a remarkable attempt to construct a theatre in the ancient style, and the stage, with the representation of streets ascending at the back, is curious.

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  • The choir was lengthened and the beautiful eastern rose window added by Bishop Stewart in 1511, and the porch and the western end of the nave were finished in 1540 by Bishop Robert Reid.

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  • Important changes take place in the tobacco leaf from the time it is cut until the finished product is ready for consumption.

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