Late Sentence Examples

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  • It's late, and I'm tired.

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  • It's not too late to change your mind.

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  • But you'll be late for dinner.

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  • It's late and I have to get up early tomorrow.

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  • It was late day-three by our calculations when we broke through.

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  • It was getting late and the air was taking on a chill.

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  • Wildlife hid behind that wall of green, but it was too late in the day for them to be hopping out on the road.

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  • Late in the afternoon, we tried something different.

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  • I didn't mean to make you late for your appointment.

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  • I dug in a tub of iced beer and Quinn and I toasted the two cans as we sat back on Adirondack chairs to enjoy the late afternoon.

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  • If you rescue him, you'll be late for a movie, or a ballgame or dinner.

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  • She asked "Yeah. We had some late visitors."

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  • Daniel Brennan offered an opportunity in late February.

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  • We were late for work but in a great mood when we finally arrived.

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  • He left early each Friday afternoon, often returning late on Monday morning.

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  • Martha had asked to come in late as baby Clair had a bad night.

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  • Too late and they'd be sloppy drunk.

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  • He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed 'the King of Prussia.'

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  • Kind of late for a walk, isn't it?

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  • Sorry to bop in so late.

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  • The realization came slow and late, but clear.

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  • I was about to call them, it was so late and you hadn't come home.

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  • Mrs. Lincoln sauntered into the room, blinking her eyes at the late hour, and Fred reached down and picked her up with one arm, taking a beer from Dean with the other.

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  • She hesitated then exited the car and shivered in the late night breeze.

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  • Dean bit his lip, assuming the little woman was about to complain about Gladys Turnbull's late night writing, but she had other concerns.

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  • Dean brushed off a white cloud of flour and greeted a well-dressed, good-looking man in his late forties standing in the hall.

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  • In the late seventies and early eighties scaling these challenging surfaces really caught on.

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  • When the stream became visible, the flow was light, a far cry from the raging torrent Dean remembered from late spring when the melting snow increased the flow of the Uncompahgre a hundred fold.

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  • Plus, Janet is either late or missing, Fred never even came home last night, I don't think I made enough breakfast rolls, and there's a stack of luggage in the hall.

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  • I cook, but mostly toast and tea, and soup in the late afternoon.

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  • Gladys Turnbull was sleeping late, as usual.

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  • Oh my gosh, it's so late.

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  • It's not too late for you to start a family, you know.

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  • Was it too late?

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  • Even so, Brady and his team had arrived too late.

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  • He assumed Cynthia Byrne was a few minutes late, but when he descended the stairs, there she sat, opposite Fred O'Connor, who was decked out in an elegant blue pinstripe suit complete with pocket handkerchief and bow tie.

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  • After apologizing for the late hour, she again thanked him for a great day.

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  • I must be late.

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  • The god was originally a stranger, taken into the kin by a rite of blood brotherhood, and this constitutes the dark point of the theory; for Robertson Smith regards the blood bond as relatively late; hence we do not see how the god became associated with the kin.

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  • One night the king sat up very late, writing letters and sending messages; and the little page was kept busy running on errands until past midnight.

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  • We're already late getting started on account of him and the saddle bum will probably use up another half-hour of daylight eating our food.

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  • Isn't it a little late to start worrying about that sort of thing?

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  • I should have thought about it before, but it's never too late to stop doing something you know is wrong.

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  • It was a beautiful morning and there was plenty of time to kill as Howie wasn't schedule to return to the house until late afternoon.

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  • I want to help before it's too late, like with the little boy.

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  • It takes time for me to establish motion and I got a late start.

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  • Then he added with a smile in his voice, You two are working late together.

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  • It was too late for him to know.

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  • This wasn't planned, and her appearance was almost too late.

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  • His reinforcements would come too late; he had one choice to save his planet.

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  • They'd been right to use force over reason with the Council, a lesson he'd learned almost too late.

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  • She hadn't realized what she felt for him until it was too late to tell him.

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  • A little late to matter, Kiera said with a shrug.

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  • He was frozen to move toward her, knowing in his heart it was too late.

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  • Late October was a little slow.

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  • So were early autumn frosts and late spring freezes.

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  • Fred was absent when they arrived home, but returned just as Cynthia was cutting a warmed apple pie for a late afternoon snack.

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  • As he answered the late night call, he glanced up the staircase to see Edith in the hall above, a specter in her antique dress, a look of alarm on her face.

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  • I realize it's late out there but I'm verifying one of your guests.

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  • Cynthia had received a phone call from the Boston sisters telling her their flight was delayed and they weren't now expected until late afternoon.

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  • Just then, the high point of excitement of the late afternoon was orchestrated by Mrs. Lincoln, Dean's cat, who had emigrated with him from Pennsylvania.

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  • She didn't even mention being too late to take him to dinner.

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  • The bearded man was younger looking than Dean had thought when he first saw him drive by Bird Song, probably no more than late twenties.

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  • Janet was late again and Cynthia's bedside attempt to call her mother in Indiana resulted in unanswered rings, causing her further concern.

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  • Before he could answer, the bedside telephone shrilled, its shocking ring penetrating the late night stillness.

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  • For seconds he was frozen to move toward her, knowing in his heart it was too late.

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  • But he was too late for even that.

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  • He filled Fred in on the details of Edith's visit and Cynthia's late night phone call and the abrupt end to the conversation.

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  • Neither mentioned the late night phone call during Edith's nocturnal visit nor Cynthia's sudden, unannounced return.

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  • He could feel her tense against him as he explained in detail the late night suicide and the termination of the police investigation.

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  • Dean said, "What brings you out so late?"

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  • She confided it to her husband late one night, awakening him from his sleep as Edith Shipton had just awakened him but a week before.

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  • But his cry came an instant too late as Shipton plummeted past him, his ice ax swinging in a rip across Dean's calf as he plummeted backward into space, and down to the rocks and churning river below.

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  • Unfortunately, Jackson realized too late that Cassandra was a crazy bitch, and needy as hell.

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  • It isn't like her to be so late and not call.

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  • Spring will be too late to witness the kidding.

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  • Don't you think it's a little late to back out now?

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  • It was too late to change her mind now - and what difference did it make why Alex was coming?

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  • Now was not the time to be in the barn alone with him this late at night.

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  • Too late she realized she was going to faint.

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  • She saw it coming too late, and he had her pinned to the floor on her back before she could squirm away.

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  • Late Friday evening she was returning from the barn when he drove into the yard in a white Dodge Ram Pick up.

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  • Too late, she realized what he would think.

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  • This very moment she would choose Alex - but what about twenty years from now, when it was too late to have children?

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  • A minute more, and he'd have been too late.

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  • They grabbed food from the small cafeteria that was devoid of people at the late hour of morning.

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  • And now, it might be too late to make things right.

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  • It's late.  Go get some rest.

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  • I'm always late, but I always show.

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  • In truth, it might not have altered my decision, but it's a little late for holding millennia-old grudges, Kris explained.

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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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  • Both were in their late 30's, losing their hair, gaining a mid-section and happily married.

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  • Dean had hoped to make it as soon as possible so he could beat the worst of the late afternoon traffic when he returned from his chores in Philadelphia.

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  • Does swimming alone late at night strike you as in character for Byrne?

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  • The late spring sun had finally fought its way out of the white haze and was slipping down in the west, painting the countryside in yellow brush strokes.

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  • Most trips commenced early in the week if the destination was closer, and Byrne was home by late Wednesday or Thursday.

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  • The late night storm had blown Wednesday's hazy whiteness east to New Jersey and the Atlantic beyond, leaving in its place a high pressure system, a sky painted deep blue and patched with just enough puffy clouds for contrast.

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  • The late afternoon was delightful as he wound his way through the city streets north of town.

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  • I'm used to planes being late more often than on time.

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  • According to Byrne's expense file, his prior trip to Norfolk had been in late January and, earlier, in October of last year.

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  • As Dean looked for a place to park, he noticed a late model Chevrolet with a rental sticker on the rear bumper parked across the street.

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  • Mrs. Lincoln hopped up, stretching her lan­guid body and yawning, as if wondering why these two idiots were keeping such late hours.

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  • After a late lunch on the run, Dean spent most of the after­noon interviewing a burglary victim only three blocks from his Collingswood Avenue home.

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  • At first he paid a few days late but I had a little talk with him and he's straight­ened out nicely.

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  • It was too late to get a non-stop flight so I have you going out of Allentown and changing planes in Baltimore.

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  • How come you're up this late?

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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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  • She grabbed the closest object, a brass paperweight, and hurled it at him, bouncing it off a picture of her shaking hands with the late governor, sending glass flying.

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  • Fred went on to explain that a maroon late model car was wait­ing at the end of the driveway leading into Gruber's place.

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

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  • When it was too late for you to do something about it—about now.

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  • In spite of gaining two hours with the time change, it was still late when the cross-coun­try travelers finally bedded down in a quiet motel in Golden, Colorado, after a shared ride from the Denver airport.

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  • Except for his army hitch and a few late night military flights, Dean had never been west of the Mississippi and he'd never seen scenery as spec­tacular as Colorado in late spring.

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  • Surprisingly, many of the speedier bikers were already there, looking as if they'd spent the day loafing in the late spring sun.

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  • It was only late afternoon and if Dean was right, he had plen­ty of time to find his prey.

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  • He was going to say, "for the late innings," but thought better of it.

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  • You'll be late getting back to work.

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  • Alex said he was going to work late tonight and then they would go out for dinner.

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  • I thought you were going to work late today.

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  • Because after we're married, it will be too late for him to try to stake a claim.

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  • By the time he brought her back to Katie and Bill's, it was late and the lights in the house were off.

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  • It wasn't too late to start a different career.

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  • I'd say it was a little late.

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  • The hot days of summer were blown away by the chill of late September.

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  • He's working a little late tonight, but he should be home any minute now.

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  • A rare late October snowstorm only visited a half day and the snow didn't stay on the ground long, but it made a serious statement.

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  • She was over two weeks late for her menstrual cycle and felt a little nauseous.

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  • Have you ever been late before?

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  • If you're late enough to be concerned about pregnancy, you need to see the doctor.

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  • I just don't want you to get your hopes up every time you're a day late.

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  • It was too late to heat up the oven and bake the chicken, so she cut it up and fried it.

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  • And then, all those times when she had come home late, talking about the babies.

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  • Carmen would have supper ready and he didn't want to be late.

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  • She has to work late.

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  • I've got a flight into Dallas tomorrow — well, actually it would be today — late evening.

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  • A check with her calendar confirmed she was more than three weeks late.

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  • The doctor says late December.

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  • It was getting late and Alex would be worried.

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  • It was too late and he knew it.

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  • It was late when they returned, and she left Alex in the barn to unhitch the horse while she went to the house to fix something to eat.

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  • Late September aroused the instinct to prepare the den for winter — so to speak.

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  • She was four months late doing so, but it was done now, and at last the haunting feeling was laid to rest.

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  • She stirred after dawn, startled to see she'd slept so late.

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  • Too late, she realized what she'd said.

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  • Too late, she'd heard the footsteps behind her and felt something smash into her head.

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  • And I'm ashamed I did not act before now, when it may be too late to counter Sirian.

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  • She didn't see the guard until it was too late.

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  • It was too late to undo what he had done.

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  • Even if I knew how, it may be too late to save them.

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  • Whatever you plan for him, plan for me before it's too late for your people or mine.

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  • As long as Sirian was kept in the dungeon, Memon wouldn't know until it was too late.

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  • Memon inspected the hold and the city until late afternoon, when the scent of roasting meat wafted from the massive kitchens behind the hold through the city.

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  • I don't want to be late.

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  • I'm a week late already.

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  • Don't you think it's a little late to come to my rescue now – or is there some other reason you're asking?

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  • Well, it's getting late and I'd better get in.

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  • Obviously. Do you always sleep this late?

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  • Sleep late and wake up grouchy.

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  • It's late and I'm tired.

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  • Too late, she dodged his grasp.

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  • She was late again, and everyone was on the verandah.

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  • Now, she was late for work and probably on her way to getting fired.

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  • A lanky boy in his late teens stood beside the bed.

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  • She wasn't going to be late on her first day, not because she cared what the client wanted, but because Jonny claimed to be watching every move she made.

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  • I can't let the stain set, and I'm not working late.

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  • Too late, she realized what she said.

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  • Jessi texted Ashley not to come, suspecting it was too late.

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  • It was late fall, and the sun was already going down.

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  • I'll be home late.

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  • He willed her to trust him while suspecting it was too late.

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  • It was too late for Xander or to make things right for the kids.

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  • Although in late Tertiary times widely spread over southern Europe and India, giraffes are now confined to Africa south of the Sahara.

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  • An attempt late in 1519 to seize Ferrara failed, and the pope recognized the need of foreign aid.

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  • Of late years the function of the collector is discharged in some forms of apparatus by a salt of radium.

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  • Of late years many observations have been made of the ionic charges in air.

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  • At Freiburg, Gockel found I + and I_ decidedly larger in the early afternoon than in either the morning or the late evening hours.

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  • Of late years many experiments have been made on the influence of electric fields or currents on plant growth.

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  • The manuscripts on which we have to rely are both late and deeply interpolated.

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  • In his initial declaration to the chamber the new premier had declared his intention of continuing the policy of the late cabinet, pledging the new ministry to a policy of conciliation, to the consideration of old age pensions, an income-tax, separation of Church and State.

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  • This explains the late date at which the dogma was defined, and the assertion that the dogma was already contained in that of the papal primacy established by our Lord himself in the person of St Peter.

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  • Many of the churches show characteristic Spanish Late Gothic architecture which survived until a comparatively recent period.

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  • The dispute on the latter point between Fermat and Descartes was continued, even after the philosopher's death, as late as 1662.

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  • The restriction of the early letters of the alphabet to known, and of the late letters to unknown, quantities is also his work.

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  • Late in 430 they deposed him from his magistracy.

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  • Rulers of this name are found at Rhodes as late as the 1st century B.C. The Prytaneum was regarded as the religious and political centre of the community and was thus the nucleus of all government, and the official "home" of the whole people.

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  • St Michael's church at Hamburg, built as late as 1762 and unaltered in 1880, had a 17th-century pitch, a' 407.9.

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  • He was now sent on an important mission to India; he left England in September 1769, but the ship in which he sailed was lost at sea late in 1770 or early in 1771.

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  • June is often wet, but most favourable for the springing crops; July and August are warm, but, excepting two or three days at a time, not uncomfortably so; while the autumn weeks of late August and September are very pleasant.

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  • Much has been done of late years to make these subordinate standards of reformed doctrine more generally known.

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  • The White Camelia was formed in 1867 in Louisiana and rapidly spread over the states of the late Confederacy.

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  • It became an important Seljuk town, and late in the 14th century passed into Ottoman hands.

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  • On the death of William Longsword, duke of Normandy, who had been assassinated by Arnulf, count of Flanders, in December 942, Louis endeavoured to obtain possession of the person of Richard, the young son and heir of the late duke.

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  • The plot failed owing to the late arrival of the Athenian force, when Nicodromus had already fled the island.

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  • Prior to 1858, when the modern building period commenced, Jerusalem lay wholly within its 16th-century walls, and even as late as 1875 there were few private residences beyond their limits.

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  • The commerce of the island has been of late years increasing at a rapid rate.

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  • Dr Jack, late government geologist of Queensland, considers the extent of the coal-fields of that state to be practically unlimited, and is of opinion that the carboniferous formations extend to a considerable distance under the Great Western Plains.

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  • The evidence for the rite among the Greeks is sufficient to warrant the conclusion of its introduction at a very early period and its persistence to a late day.

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  • But, still clinging to the groundless belief, for which British statesmen had, of late at least, afforded Turkey no justification, that Great Britain at all events would support him, he obstinately refused to give ear to the pressing requests of the Powers that the necessary reforms should be instituted.

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  • Bishops of Icosium - which was created a Latin city by Vespasian - are mentioned as late as the 5th century.

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  • The young trees require protection from storms and late frosts even more than in England; the red pine of the north-eastern states, Pinus resinosa, answers well as a nurse, but the pitch pine and other species may be employed.

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  • He delayed supporting the infantry till too late, and was repulsed; he allowed the royal army to march past his outposts; and a fortnight afterwards, without any attempt to prevent it, and greatly to Cromwell's vexation, permitted the moving of the king's artillery and the relief of Donnington Castle by Prince Rupert.

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  • There it was hanged on a gallows, and in the evening taken down, when the head was cut off and set up upon Westminster Hall, where it remained till as late as 1684, the trunk being thrown into a pit underneath the gallows.

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  • The law and custom which preceded the Code we shall call " early," that of the New Babylonian empire (as well as the Persian, Greek, &c.) " late.

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  • As late as the accession of Assur-bani-pal and Samas-sum-yukin we find the Babylonians appealing to their city laws that groups of aliens to the number of twenty at a time were free to enter the city, that foreign women once married to Babylonian husbands could not be enslaved and that not even a dog that entered the city could be put to death untried.

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  • Copper is not yet universally employed, price being the governing factor in its employment; moreover, the conducting quality of the iron used for telegraphic purposes has of late years been very greatly improved.

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  • In all the upland valleys of the Abruzzi snow begins to fall early in November, and heavy storms occur often as late as May; whole communities are shut out for months from any intercourse with their neighbours, and some villages are so long buried in snow that regular passages are made between the different houses for the sake of communication among the inhabitants.

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  • Labor legislation is backward in Italy, on account of the late development of manufacturing industry and of working-class organization.

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  • Owing to the comnaratively small amount of letters, it is found possible to have a travelling post office on all principal trains (while almost every train has a travelling sorter, for whom a compartment is reserved) without a late fee being exacted in either case.

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  • But the laws have not been rigorously enforced of late years; and the ecclesiastical possessions seized by the state were thrown on the market simultaneously, and so realized very low prices, being often bought up by wealthy religious institutions.

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  • The men classed in it have to train for six months, and they are called up in the late summer to bridge the The 2nd category of the 1875 law had practically ceased to exist.

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  • We have seen that the name of Italy was originally applied only to the southernmost part of the peninsula, and was only gradually extended so as to comprise the central regions, such as Latium and Campania, which were designated by writers as late as Thucydides and Aristotle as in Opicia.

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  • Then, too late, patriots like Machiavelli perceived the suicidal self-indulgence of the past, which, by substituting mercenary troops for national militias, left the Italians at the absolute discretion.

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  • Then it was too late; Victor Emmanuel asked Thiers if he could give his word of honor that with 100,000 Italian troops France could be saved, but Thiers remained silent.

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  • The latter accepted the task, and the new administration included Signor Tittoni, late prefect of Naples, as foreign minister, Signor Luigi Luzzatti, the eminent financier, at the treasury, General Pedotti at the war office, and Admiral Mirabello as minister of marine.

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  • In November Signor Gianturco died, and Signor Pietro Bertolini took his place as minister of public works; the latter proved perhaps the ablest member of the cabinet, but the acceptance of office under Giolitti of a man who had been one of the most trusted and valuable lieutenants of Signor Sonnino marked a further step in the dgringolade of that statesmans party, and was attributed to the fact that Signor Bertolini resented not having had a place in the late Sonnino ministry.

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  • At a later period, when the Atharvan gained admission to the Vedic canon, a special connexion with the Brahman priest was sometimes claimed, though with scant success, for this fourth collection of hymns and spells, and the comparatively late and unimportant Gopatha-brahmana attached to it.

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  • The older rocks are early Tertiary or late Cretaceous but there are no fossils to indicate age.

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  • The number of convicts has somewhat diminished of late years and in 1901 stood at 11,947.

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  • These councils, as will be seen, are late.

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  • As late as 1566 ticalJuris= Archbishop Hamilton of Glasgow, upon his appointment, had restitution of his jurisdiction in the probate Scotland.

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  • There have been good Pali scholars there since late medieval times.

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  • The use of the word is, however, late, the vigiliae (pernoctationes, 7ravvvXiSes) having originally been the services, consisting of prayers, hymns, processions and sometimes the eucharist, celebrated on the preceding night in preparation for the feast.

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  • The celebrated Gascoigne's powder, which was sold as late as the middle of the 19th century in the form of balls like sal prunella, consisted of equal parts of crabs' eyes," the black tips of crabs' claws, Oriental pearls, Oriental bezoar and white coral, and was administered in jelly made of hart's horn, but was prescribed by physicians chiefly for wealthy people, as it cost about forty shillings per ounce.

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  • According to Gruppe, the legend of the death of Orpheus is a late imitation of the Adonis-Osiris myth.

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  • This i correlated with the comparatively late formation and small development of the first leaves.

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  • The limit of each years increment of secondary wood, in those plants whose yearly activity is interrupted by a regular winter or dry season, is marked by a more or less distinct line, which is produced by the sharp contrast between the wood formed in the late summer of one year (characterized by the sparseness or small diameter of the tracheal elements, or by the preponderance of fibres, or by a combination of these characters, giving a denseness to the wood) and the loose spring wood of the next year, with its absence of fibres, or its numerous large tracheae.

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  • In Gymnosperms, where vessels and fibres are absent, the late summer wood is composed of radially narrow thick-walled tracheids, the wood of the succeeding spring being wide-celled and thin-walled, so that the limit of the years growth is very well marked.

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  • More indirect methods, such as the grafting of less resistant scions on more vigorous stocks, of raising special late or early varieties by crossing or selection, and so on, have also met with success; but it must be understood that resistant in such cases usually means that some peculiarity of quick growth, early ripening or other life-feature in the plant is for the time being taken advantage of.

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  • It was not, however, till late in the 12th century (1172-1176) that the city was surrounded with walls by order of the emperor Frederick I., to whom (in 1166) and to his grandson Frederick II.

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  • The resulting " classification is based on the examination, mostly autoptic, of a far greater number of characters than any that had preceded it; moreover, they were chosen in a different way, discernment being exercised in sifting and weighing them, so as to determine, so far as possible, the relative value of each, according as that value may vary in different groups, and not to produce a mere mechanical ` key ' after the fashion become of late years so common " (Newton's Dictionary of Birds, Introduction, p. 103).

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  • In fact Susiana was only a late name for the country, dating from the time when Susa had been made a capital of the Persian empire.

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  • It is clear that in the circumstances the terms "father," "patristic," "patrology" must be used with much elasticity, since it is now too late to substitute for them any more comprehensive terms.

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  • After nine years spent at Laleham he was induced to offer himself as a candidate for the vacant head-mastership of Rugby; and though he entered somewhat late upon the contest, and though none of the electors was personally known to him, he was elected in December 1827.

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  • Not to speak of earlier periods, a great deal has been written concerning Mantegna of late years.

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  • The Pentateuch (or Hexateuch) was finally completed in its present form at some time before 400 B.C. The latest parts of the Old Testament are the books of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (c. 330 B.C.), Ecclesiastes and Esther (3rd century) and Daniel, composed either in the 3rd century or according to some views as late as the time of Antiochus Epiphanes (c. 168 B.C.).

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  • Very important for the study of Midrashic literature are the Yalgut (gleaning) Shim`oni, on the whole Bible, the Yalqut Mekhiri, on the Prophets, Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and the Midrash ha-gadhol, 2 all of which are of uncertain but late date and preserve earlier material.

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  • Its time of greatest prosperity and importance was the period of the Abbasid caliphate, and Arabic geographers as late as A.D.

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  • The Great Council of Venice was anything but a primitive institution; it was the artificial institution of a late age, which grew at the expense of earlier institutions, of the prince on the one side and of the people on the other.

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  • In short, there is no real nobility in England; for the class which answers to foreign nobility has so long ceased to have any practical privileges that it has long ceased to be looked on as a nobility, and the word nobility has been transferred to another class which has nothing answering to it out of the three British kingdoms. 2 This last ' This statement is mainly interesting as expressing the late Professor Freeman's view; it is, however, open to serious criticism.

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  • The best-known species, Myrmeleon formicarius, which may be found adult in the late summer, occurs in many countries on the European continent, though like the rest of this group it is not indigenous in England.

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  • In all probability the western projection of Africa was connected by a land bridge with the opposite land of Brazil as late as the Eocene period of the Tertiary epoch.

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  • This Strophanthus is not remarkable for its rubber - which is mere bird lime - but for the powerful poison of its seeds, often used for poisoning arrows, but of late much in use as a drug for treating diseases of the heart.

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  • But of late Liberian influence has been extending, more especially in the counties of Maryland and Montserrado.

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  • The church of St Andrew is principally late Norman.

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  • Catholic apologetics must further give a central position to Church authority, which Roman Catholics explicitly define as infallible; but this position too is debated in a late section of their system.

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  • With Thomas Dekker he wrote The Fairy Knight and The Bristowe Merchant (licensed in 1624, but both unpublished), with John Webster A late Murther of the Sonne upon the Mother (licensed in 1624).

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  • The spring is exceptionally beautiful in central Russia; late as it usually is, it sets in with vigour, and vegetation develops with a rapidity which gives to this season in Russia a special charm, unknown in warmer climates.

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  • This may be explained by a variety of causes, of which the chief is the maintenance by the Slays down to a very late period of gentile or tribal organization and gentile marriages, a fact vouched for, not only in the pages of the Russian chronicler Nestor, but still more by visible social evidences, the gens later developing into the village community, and the colonization being carried on by large co-ordinated bodies of people.

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  • It was only as late as 1904, however, that the landed proprietors were forbidden by law to inflict corporal punishment upon the peasants.

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  • As late as 1571 Moscow was pillaged by a Tatar horde; but there was no longer any question of permanent political subjection to the Asiatics, and the Russian frontier was being gradually pushed forward at the expense of the nomads of the steppe by the constant advance of the agricultural population in quest of virgin soil.

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  • His successor, Basil, tried to get himself elected grand-prince of Lithuania when the throne became vacant by the death of his brother-in-law in 1506, but the choice fell on the late prince's brother Sigismund, who was likewise elected king of Poland.

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  • Under the influence of the great nobles who had unsuccessfully opposed the election of Godunov, the general discontent took the form of hostility to him as a usurper, and rumours were heard that the late tsar's younger brother Dimitri (Demetrius), supposed The to be dead, was still alive and in hiding.

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  • The late tsar's eldest son, Theodore, was weak in health and died Theodore without male issue after an uneventful reign of six III..

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  • The heir to the throne was the late tsar's eldest brother, Constantine, but he declined, for private reasons, to accept the succession, and a few days elapsed before the second brother, I., Nicholas, was proclaimed emperor.

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  • The climate in late geologic time was very different from that which prevails to-day.

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  • Moreover, under piaculum are confused purification, propitiations and expiations; Smith's contention that purifications, whose magical character he recognizes but interprets as late, are not sacrificial, is far from conclusive.

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  • John Wedder - burn was in Dundee as late as 1546, when he was obliged to flee to England.

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  • Here, then, we have pictured as late as the 4th century a Lord's supper, which like the one described in I Cor.

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  • There is a well-known story of the last of the race being killed by Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel in 1680, but there is evidence of wolves having survived in Sutherlandshire and other parts into the following century (perhaps as late as 1743), though the date of their final extinction cannot be accurately fixed.

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  • It has been placed, upon the evidence of somewhat doubtful traditions, as late as 1766.

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  • The cathedral is a noble late Romanesque building with four imposing towers.

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  • He complains especially of his tutors, and in one case with abundant reason; but, by his own confession, they might have recriminated with justice, for he indulged in gay society, and kept late hours.

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  • Neither nature nor acquired habits qualified him to be an orator; his late entrance on public life, his natural timidity, his feeble voice, his limited command of idiomatic English, and even, as he candidly confesses, his literary fame, were all obstacles to success.

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  • At Troyes, where the gild of St Crispin was reconstituted as late as 1820, an annual festival is celebrated in the church of St Urban.

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  • By a series of delays he caused the failure of the naval expedition prepared at Sluys against England in 1386, and a second accusation of military negligence led to disgrace of the royal princes and the temporary triumph of the marmousets, as the advisers of the late king were nicknamed.

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  • See John Clarke, Examination of the Notion of Moral Good and Evil advanced in a late book entitled The Religion of Nature Delineated (London, 1725); Drechsler, Ober Wollaston's Moral-Philosophie (Erlangen, 1802); Sir Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1876), ch.

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  • The Greek text of the Physiologus exists only in late MSS., and has to be corrected from the translations.

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  • It is preserved in a single MS. which was prepared at the command of Maximilian I., and was discovered as late as 1820 in the Castle of Ambras in Tirol.

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  • There are, of course, numerous problems relating to the nature, limits and dates of the two recensions, of the incorporated sources, and of other sources (whether early or late) of independent origin; and here there is naturally room for much divergence of opinion.

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  • The writings are the result of a continued literary process, and the Israelite national history has come down to us through Judaean hands, with the result that much of it has been coloured by late Judaean feeling.

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  • Although the latter have special late and unreliable features, they agree with the former in presenting the same general trend of past history.

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  • Elaborate legal enactments codified in Babylonia by the 10th century B.C. find striking parallels in Hebrew, late Jewish (Talmudic), Syrian and Mahommedan law, or in the unwritten usages of all ages; for even where there were neither written laws nor duly instituted lawgivers, there was no lawlessness, since custom and belief were, and still are, almost inflexible.

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  • To a certain extent it would seem that even as Chronicles (q.v.) has passed through the hands of one who was keenly interested in the Temple service, so the other historical books have been shaped not only by the late priestly writers (symbolized in literary criticism by P), but also by rather earlier writers, also of priestly sympathies, but of " southern " or half-Edomite affinity.

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  • The perplexing relation between the admittedly late compilations and the actual course of the early history becomes still more intricate when one observes such a feature as the late interest in the Israelite tribes.

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  • No doubt there is much that is purely artificial and untrustworthy in the late (post-exilic) representations of these divisions, but it is almost incredible that the historical foundation for their early career is severed from the written sources by centuries of warfare, immigration and other disturbing factors.

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  • There is little doubt that Josephus refers to the same events; but there is considerable confusion in his history of the Persian age, and when he places the schism and the foundation of the new Temple in the time of Alexander the Great (after the obscure disasters of the reign of Artaxerxes III.), it is usually supposed that he is a century too late.

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  • It is from this narrower standpoint of an exclusive and confined Judah (and Benjamin) that the traditions as incorporated in the late recensions gain fresh force, and in Israel's renunciation of the Judaean yoke the later hostility between the two may be read between the lines.

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  • The history in Kings was not finally settled until a very late date, as is evident from the important variations in the Septuagint, and it is especially in the description of the time of Solomon and the disruption that there continued to be considerable fluctuations.'

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  • An interest in the past is not necessarily confined to any one age, and the critical view that the biblical history has been compiled from relatively late standpoints finds support in the still later treatment of the events - in Chronicles as contrasted with Samuel-Kings or in Jubilees as contrasted with Genesis.'

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  • From Italy we may turn to the country which so much influenced Italian politics, Austria, which had founded the system of " Court Jews " in 1518, had expelled the Jews from Vienna as late as 1670, when the synagogue of that city was converted into a church.

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  • In Spain there has been of late a more liberal attitude towards the Jews, and there is a small congregation (without a public synagogue) in Madrid.

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  • In Morocco the Jews, who until late in the 19th century were often persecuted, are still confined to a mellah (separate quarter), but at the coast-towns there are prosperous Jewish communities mostly engaged in commerce.

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  • Its object was the foundation of a Jewish state in Palestine, but though it aroused much interest it failed to attract the majority of the emancipated Jews, and the movement has of late been transforming itself into a mere effort at colonization.

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  • The De prelates of Valerian is concerned with secular princes, and even as late as the 14th century the title was occasionally applied to secular magistrates.

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  • Next to these come the coral islands Nomuka and Lifuka in the Hapai group; Tofua, 2846 ft., Late or Lette, 1800 ft.

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  • Some of the islands are built of volcanic rocks alone; such are Hongu-tonga and Hongu-hapai, which appear to be fragments of a single ancient crater, Tofua, Kao, Late, Metis, Amargua and Falcon Island.

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  • The succeeding Late Minoan period, best illustrated by the later palace at Cnossus and that at Hagia Triada, corresponds in Egypt with the Hyksos period and the earlier part of the New Empire.

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  • Late Minoan art in its finest aspect is best illustrated by the animated ivory figures, wall paintings, and gesso duro reliefs at Cnossus, by the painted stucco designs at Hagia Triada, and the steatite vases found on the same site with zones in reliefs exhibiting life-like scenes of warriors, toreadors, gladiators, wrestlers and pugilists, and of a festal throng perhaps representing a kind of " harvest home."

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  • Of the more conventional side of Late Minoan life a graphic illustration is supplied by the remains of miniature wall paintings found in the palace of Cnossus, showing groups of court ladies in curiously modern costumes, seated on the terraces and balustrades of a sanctuary.

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  • Cretan enterprise in the days of the New Egyptian empire is illustrated by repeated finds of Late Minoan pottery on Egyptian sites.

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  • The contents of the royal tombs, on the other hand, reveal a wholesale correspondence with the fabrics of the first, and, to a less degree, the second Late Minoan age, as illustrated by the relics belonging to the Middle Period of the later palace at Cnossus and by those of the royal villa at Hagia Triada.

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  • The ceiling of that of Orchomenos, and the painted vases and gold cups from the Vaphio tomb by Sparta, with their marvellous reliefs showing scenes of bull-hunting, represent the late palace style at Cnossus in its final development.

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  • These ancient indications of a Minoan connexion with Sicily have now received interesting confirmation in the numerous discoveries, principally due to the recent excavations of P. Orsi, of arms and painted vases of Late Minoan fabric in Bronze Age tombs of the provinces of Syracuse and Girgenti (Agrigentum) belonging to the late Bronze Age.

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  • Some of these objects, such as certain forms of swords and vases, seem to be of local fabric, but derived from originals going back to the beginning of the Late Minoan age.

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  • This third Late Minoan period - the beginning of which may be fixed about 1400 - is an age of stagnation and decline, but the point of departure continued to be the models supplied by the age that had preceded it.

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  • It is certain that towards the close of this third and concluding Late Minoan period in the island certain mainland types of swords and safety-pins make their appearance, which are symptomatic of the great invasion from that side that was now impending or had already begun.

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  • In contrast to the palace of Phaestus, the contents of the royal villa proved exceptionally rich, and derive a special interest from the fact that the catastrophe which overwhelmed the building belongs to a somewhat earlier part of the Late Minoan age than that which overwhelmed Cnossus and Phaestus.

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  • Both the signet types and the other objects of art here discovered display the fresh naturalism that characterizes in a special way the first Late Minoan period.

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  • The period of decline referred to above (Late Minoan III.), which begins about the beginning of the 14th century before our era, must, from the abundance of its remains, have been of considerable duration.

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  • The Keftiu who represented Minoan culture in Egypt in the concluding period of the Cnossian palace (Late Minoan II.) cease to appear on Egyptian monuments towards the end of the XVIIIth Dynasty (c. 1350 B.C.), and their place is taken by the "Peoples of the Sea."

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  • An ardent anti-renter in his boyhood and youth, he wrote A History of Delaware County and the Border Wars of New York, containing a Sketch of the Early Settlements in the County, and A History of the Late Anti-Rent Difficulties in Delaware (Roxbury, 1856).

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  • Late one evening he came to a little farmhouse in a lonely valley.

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  • One evening he was very late coming home.

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  • Why do some people keep their mental faculties so late in life?

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  • O'Neill observed that scrutiny of government had become so intense that officials never could have gotten away with that—and he was writing in the late 1980s.

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  • It was delightful to lose ourselves in the green hollows of that tangled wood in the late afternoon, and to smell the cool, delicious odours that came up from the earth at the close of day.

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  • I am sorry to say that our train was delayed in several places, which made us late in reaching New York.

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  • It was very pleasant, when I stayed late in town, to launch myself into the night, especially if it was dark and tempestuous, and set sail from some bright village parlor or lecture room, with a bag of rye or Indian meal upon my shoulder, for my snug harbor in the woods, having made all tight without and withdrawn under hatches with a merry crew of thoughts, leaving only my outer man at the helm, or even tying up the helm when it was plain sailing.

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  • I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect.

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  • The beauty of the ice was gone, and it was too late to study the bottom.

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  • Sometimes the well dent is visible, where once a spring oozed; now dry and tearless grass; or it was covered deep--not to be discovered till some late day--with a flat stone under the sod, when the last of the race departed.

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  • Late in the afternoon, as he was resting in the thick woods south of Walden, he heard the voice of the hounds far over toward Fair Haven still pursuing the fox; and on they came, their hounding cry which made all the woods ring sounding nearer and nearer, now from Well Meadow, now from the Baker Farm.

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  • As it grew darker, I was startled by the honking of geese flying low over the woods, like weary travellers getting in late from Southern lakes, and indulging at last in unrestrained complaint and mutual consolation.

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  • He says the count was the last representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as possible.

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  • The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting room with a look of alarm.

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  • The two women let go of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each other's hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew's surprise both began to cry and kissed again.

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  • Contrary to his habit of being late, Pierre on that day arrived at the Bergs' house, not at ten but at fifteen minutes to eight.

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  • She was afraid of being late for Matins.

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  • It was already late when he rose after sealing the letter.

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  • It was by now late in the afternoon.

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  • But she remembered too how he had changed of late toward Mademoiselle Bourienne and could not bear to see her, thereby showing how unjust were the reproaches Princess Mary had mentally addressed to her.

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  • The peasants say that a cold wind blows in late spring because the oaks are budding, and really every spring cold winds do blow when the oak is budding.

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  • But hard as they all worked till quite late that night, they could not get everything packed.

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  • I tell you, Papa" (he smote himself on the breast as a general he had heard speaking had done, but Berg did it a trifle late for he should have struck his breast at the words "Russian army"), "I tell you frankly that we, the commanders, far from having to urge the men on or anything of that kind, could hardly restrain those... those... yes, those exploits of antique valor," he went on rapidly.

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  • After a few words about Princess Mary and her late father, whom Malvintseva had evidently not liked, and having asked what Nicholas knew of Prince Andrew, who also was evidently no favorite of hers, the important old lady dismissed Nicholas after repeating her invitation to come to see her.

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  • The state of things on the staff had of late been exceedingly strained.

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  • Adjutants and generals galloped about, shouted, grew angry, quarreled, said they had come quite wrong and were late, gave vent to a little abuse, and at last gave it all up and went forward, simply to get somewhere.

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  • And they did indeed get somewhere, though not to their right places; a few eventually even got to their right place, but too late to be of any use and only in time to be fired at.

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  • We lived under the late count--the kingdom of heaven be his!--and we have lived under you too, without ever being wronged.

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  • Too soon or too late... it is terrible!

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  • Jackson and Elisabeth led the newlyweds outside as Jackson explained, This is a little late.

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  • She had received notice from Parkside's police officer McCarthy the prior day, Tuesday, late in the afternoon.

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  • He called late in the evening and said the cow was in poor condition and too old for what he wanted.

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  • In late versions this legend was expanded and varied, the martyrdom was connected with a refusal to take part in a great sacrifice ordered at Octodurum and the name of Exsuperius was added to that of Mauritius.

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  • Having studied at Ingolstadt, Vienna, Cracow and Paris, he returned to Ingolstadt in 1507, and in 1509 was appointed tutor to Louis and Ernest, the two younger sons of Albert the Wise, the late duke of BavariaMunich.

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  • In some parts of the river 300 naouras have been counted within a space of 130 m., but of late years many have fallen into decay.

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  • The winds are variable and seldom violent, except along the coast during the sub-tropical storms of late summer and early autumn.

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  • A late authority states that he was succeeded by his son Constantine, but the subsequent kings were descended from another branch of the same family.

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