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  • Maybe there was another reason he decided to reclaim his money.
  • He was asking for a second chance, but could they ever reclaim the relationship they had once enjoyed?
  • Pacing, she tried to reclaim her composure.
  • If he proved his purchase, he had to give up the property but had his remedy against the seller or, if he had died, could reclaim five-fold from his estate.
  • But the soberminded among the Jews - these had throughout been the vast majority - seized their opportunity to reclaim those who had been the victims of a terrible wrong.
  • Dulce lifted her head and managed to reclaim some semblance of pride in spite of the situation.
  • Even if they got human-Deidre away from Darkyn, Darkyn could find and reclaim her anywhere she was hidden, outside of Death's underworld.
  • M.), distributing canals, and drain ditches was also projected, making it possible to reclaim 231,300 acres of the desert.
  • The towns and villages had generally been laid out by contractors or locatores, men not necessarily of noble birth, who were installed as hereditary chief magistrates of the communities, and received numerous encouragements to reclaim waste lands.
  • His disciple, the famous Pharisee 11vleir, remained his steadfast friend, and his efforts to reclaim his former master are among the most pathetic incidents in the Talmud.
  • When he has acquired a little means it is not unusual for the fisher to settle down and reclaim a bit of land.
  • Waste land was let to reclaim, the tenant being rent-free for three years and paying a stipulated rent in the fourth year.
  • The synod, in 1 539, made further effort to reclaim him.
  • If the tenant neglected to reclaim the land the Code enacted that he must hand it over in good tilth and fixed a statutory rent.
  • The next following council of Orleans, 533, broke in upon this principle, by declaring that a bishop could not reclaim from his clergy any grants made to them by his predecessor, excepting in cases of misconduct.
  • By a law passed in 1899, the proprietors are bound to arrange for the safe outlet of the water from the mountains, keep the existing canals open, and reclaim the district exposed to inundation, within a period of twenty-four years.
  • Gratian, the son of the elder Valentinian, took the same side; but the younger Valentinian, who had now become his colleague in the empire, adopted the opinions of the Arians, and all the arguments and eloquence of Ambrose could not reclaim the young prince to the orthodox faith.
  • But in nothing was this so apparent as in agriculture; the high prices of produce holding out a great inducement to improve lands then arable, to reclaim others that had previously lain waste, and to bring much pasture-land under the plough.
  • In the year 1300 the people, led by Marin Bocconio, attempted to force their way into the great council and to reclaim their rights.
  • In 1894 Congress passed the Carey Act, under which Montana received title to i,000,000 acres of arid land on condition that the state would reclaim it by providing an adequate supply of water; the state accepted the offer, created an irrigation commission, and provided means for securing the necessary funds.
  • So Avenarius (q.v.) was no materialist, but only an empiricist anxious to reclaim man's natural view of the world from philosophic incrustations; yet when his Empiriokriticismus ends in nothing but environment, nervous system, and statements dependent on them, without soul, though within experience, he comes near to materialism, as Wundt has remarked.
  • The Rio Grande project was planned in 1907 for the storage of the flood waters of the Rio Grande near Engle, New Mexico, in order to reclaim about 155,000 acres of land in New Mexico and Texas, and to deliver to Mexico above the city of Juarez 60,000 acre-feet of water per year, as provided by a treaty (proclaimed on the 16th of January 1907) between that republic and the United States.
  • With his lifemate discovered, he had everything he needed to reclaim his throne.
  • When he made no attempt to reclaim her arm, she continued.
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