How To Use Avens In A Sentence
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To say that such admonitions are a means to preserve those from apostasy who are by other means (as suppose the absolute decree of God, or the interposal of his irresistible power for their perseverance, or the like) in no possibility of apostatizing, is to say that washing is a means to make snow white, or the rearing up of a pillar in the air a means to keep the heavens from falling.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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The healthy but lazy who claim incapacity benefit are just as morally bankrupt as those benefiting from offshore tax havens.
Times, Sunday Times
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John Malkovich's clever turn as the trainer Lucien Laurin leavens the earnest material.
The Short List: A Guide to This Week's Arts and Entertainment
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This dominion not only extends over the open seas, but also over all creeks, arms of the sea, havens, ports, and tide-rivers, as far as the reach of the tide, around the coasts of the kingdom.
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For example, Heinrich's work with ravens shows that the carnivorous birds will store bits of meat only for the short term.
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Some great new players and the captainship of Catty lifting the team no end, thank heavens.
RIP Fatboy, Blogger TV & stuff
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The edification of this house is gradually to be perfected more and more till the coming of Christ, by laying the foundation of Christianity, in bringing men still unto Christ, and carrying on the superstruction in perfecting them in Christ in all spiritual growth, till at last the top-stone be laid on, the Church completed, and translated _to the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens_.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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I first used them in an essay on Pope John XXIII, who believed the Church was like a ship that belonged at sea - not harboured in safe havens.
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a final leave of great Circe; who by her art calmed the heavens, and gave them smooth seas, and a right forewind (the seaman's friend) to bear them on their way to Ithaca.
The Adventures of Ulysses
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She shook her fists to the heavens at the injustice of it all.
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Overhead, the stars wheel in the heavens and a bright, bright moon shines down on the fields and on the house itself, for it's clear tonight.
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All movement ceases, the sky clears, the heavens are as brass; the slightest whisper seems sacrilege, and man becomes timid, affrighted at the sound of his own voice.
THE WHITE SILENCE
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I should see and heare some Oracles from the heavens, and from the gleed of the Sun.
The Golden Asse
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“Heavens to Betsy,” Helga murmured, cantilevering her head out sideways over her body to survey the damage.
Bootstraps
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And the Gospel of Mark would declare that on my im - mersion, the heavens opened and I saw "a spirit like a dove descending.
The Gospel according to the Son
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An ancient Hopi Prophecy states. When the Blue Star Kachina makes its appearance in the heavens the 5th world will emerge.
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Barnes was slain in a double murder one week before the Baltimore Ravens selected Lewis in the first round of the 1996 NFL draft.
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The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens, than that which I now affirm is true.
Chapter 3
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He heads his article by saying that havens for wild life don't need buffer zones.
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Anaxagoras compounded this heresy by alleging that the stars were insensate bodies as well, stones carried in orbit by the rapid movement of the heavens and that occasionally a stone might detach itself to become a falling star.
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It may have strengthened his hand if he had once recognised that Australia is still, as always, one of the world's havens for refugees.
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Gannon hurt his shoulder when Ravens defensive tackle Tony Siragusa drove him into the ground.
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Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do.
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Through the symbolism of the heavens the astrologer aims to gain a deeper spiritual knowledge of earthly matters, and seeks to understand the wider significance of the situations that trouble us.
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Ravenscraig steelworks was supposed to feed strip steel to the Rootes assembly line at Linwood, Paisley, and a British Motor Corporation works at Bathgate, though the economics of both were doubtful.
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And so the hours of night passed, and the heavens turned slowly about the rutilant earth.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
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The measures could prompt companies to change their structures and move jobs out of tax havens: It may mean that a lot of activities are onshored again.
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Shortly before the final the heavens opened.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Super Bowl runner-up Pittsburgh Steelers were crushed by divisional rivals the Baltimore Ravens in their opening game with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger having a shaky start with three interceptions and two fumbles.
Pressure already on teams off to surprisingly slow starts
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There's not much about ID in lotus land, but there's a Conservative Christian Bible belt which professes "God created the heavens and the earth" and the two apparently go hand in hand.
The Memory Hole
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Send ground troops to enforce - not just oversee - a peace? Create safe havens for the victims of war?
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The prevalence of infi - delity, immorality and vice as surely indicates ap - proaching calamities, as clouds indicate a shower, winds forebode a storm, or the conjunction, or op - position of the sun and moon, in certain places in the heavens, presignifying an eclipse.
Sermons delivered on various occasions : first published singly, now republished and collected into a volume, with two new one, never before printed
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“The Keeper will rue this before year and day are out,” said a third; “the Master of Ravenswood is the lad to wind him a pirn.”
The Bride of Lammermoor
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A line of skiers stretches forever as they herringbone toward the heavens.
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Only Avens made a pass at her, and when she made plain what her answer was he grew cold and distant.
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And what you call invidious ghettos were great defences, they were havens, oases of peace and respect.
Is religion a force for good... or would we be happier without God?
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Indeed, little was known of those orbs until within the past hundred years, when the exploration of the heavens by the aid of greatly increased telescopic power, was the means of creating a new branch of astronomical science, called sidereal astronomy.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
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If the someone davens too quickly, do not admonish him in the middle of the davening and embarrass him.
Hirhurim - Musings
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'Heavens! said she, peevishly,' is this the gallant, polite Frenchman!
The Castle of Wolfenbach
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Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
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They may be tempted to avoid and evade the tax levies or even escape to tax havens.
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The Scoop: Almost 30 years after the first fantasy film, Perseus, mortal son of Greek god Zeus, is back to take on Medusa and the Kraken to stop their evil from spreading to earth and the heavens.
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Then God sent down on him and on the stubborn unbelievers with him a thunderblast from the heavens of His power, which destroyed them all with a mighty clamour, and neither he nor any of his company set eyes on the city.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
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Just as I helped R. into the stylist's chair the heavens opened up and sheets of rain descended with liquid force, splattering the windows and instantly flooding the parking lot.
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Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
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The regular shaped site has 25 metres frontage to Ravensdale Road and there is only a two-storey administration office block and a garage on the site.
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A number of large Avens and Boulder Chambers add further intrigue to a fascinating area, which could almost qualify as a complete cave system in its own right.
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This guy, and the idiot army who champion his every move as it’s mana from the heavens, deserve to fail.
Matthew Yglesias » Institutions Matter
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Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do.
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Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal damnation ¾ and who in the next breath would insist that the earth and the heavens had been created in seven days, all geologic and astrophysical evidence to the contrary.
Greg Barrett: Obama's speech bridges the Abrahamic faiths
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As the tarantass nears the wattled corral, the watchful ravens stir from their perches.
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
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Treason had once been a simple matter, solved quickly on the block, where now fatted ravens strutted as a tourist attraction.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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Then the heavens ripped asunder and showered evil and ill omens upon the face of this beckoning planet.
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Ravens were unclean birds in the Bible.
Christianity Today
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The next of the fixed stars and the brightest in all the heavens is that which we call _Sirius_ or the Dog Star.
Marvels of Modern Science
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A bolt of lightning descended from the heavens in a blinding flash of yellow light accompanied by the rumble seconds later.
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I am immensely impressed by the way in which the British juryman and jurywoman simply sits down to do this disagreeable duty though the heavens fall.
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_Corona Australis_ was blazing with unwonted brilliancy, and, it seemed to him, the constellation was making signs to him from its signal station in the heavens.
The Wedge of Gold
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Who in the heavens could match his pecs, his flawless jawline, his crystalline gaze?
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Oh heavens above how dare they create a parallel in a satire between real life and their fictional world!
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The Cheshire cat's wide, puckish smile descending from the heavens as a crescent moon; the caterpillar puffing opiate smoke into the face of Alice and snobbishly asking, Who ...
Archive 2009-10-01
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Other friendly havens were in more remote parts including the Outer Hebrides.
Times, Sunday Times
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She argued there were no secrecy provisions in the islands' jurisdiction that prevent information being obtained by the tax information authority which assists in international tax matters Luxembourg is accused by the TJN of being the "death star" superweapon in the world of tax havens because of its aggressive defence of financial secrecy and its resistance to EU efforts to close tax loopholes.
Tax havens: G20 has failed to crack down, says campaign group
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A vaporous grey mist had entirely usurped the heavens, and the plash of weary rain resounded through the pluvious metropolis of the west.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
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These pure language mavens always come up with the notion people who use language that shocks their shell-pink ears are simply lacking in vocabulary.
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No sooner were we in bed when there was an almighty thunderclap and the heavens opened up and of course it sounded very loud on the tin roof.
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Safe havens remained in demand.
Times, Sunday Times
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I will mock the marly heavens, lamp the purple prairies, I will flaunt my deathless banners down the far, unhouseled lands.
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He believed that the apparent rotation of the heavens was due to the axial rotation of the Earth.
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She stays like that, lifting her face and her camera to the heavens, in the squawking aerial universe of all these flying creatures.
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Also, the vermiform constellation Draco, which traditionally occupies the polar position in the heavens of the northern hemisphere, encircles the center of a late quattrocento tapestry depicting the heavens as a wheel of fortune and an enormous astrolabe.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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It was a happy choice; my good genius, I suppose, for you see I was already fairly well read in modern science, and these old Greek philosophies set me thinking backwards, unwinding and unlearning, and getting at that eidolon which is not to be found in the mechanical heavens of this age.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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Besides, even style mavens occasionally have quandaries of their own.
Times, Sunday Times
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The key chapters are a dense combination of doughty proposals and analysis, but Asher's choice of contributors leavens the mix.
Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality by Rebecca Asher – review
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And thank heavens they used "fornicate" in lieu of "fuck" in the above missive; otherwise, one might have considered this a bit off-color.
SFist
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He raised his eyes to the heavens, clinging desperately to the only remaining physical reminder of his past life.
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He showed much more class as he pointed two index fingers to the heavens.
The Sun
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Large amounts of rubbish in the streets and round buildings attracted scavenging birds such as gulls, buzzards, ravens and red kites when things were quiet.
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Is it illegal to use tax havens?
Times, Sunday Times
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And I knew immediately, holy heavens, we are under attack.
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The brain-to-body ratio of crows, ravens and magpies equals that of dolphins and nearly matches humans.
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If we cannot find peace in the heavens, what hope on the ground?
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Hinting at the soulful surplus of house music, Melchior works with tiny elements: a burble of a bassline, a snippet of singing, and hi-hat drums that point toward the heavens without lifting their arms.
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Many specialists, former regulators, and industry mavens say they believe the new regime is moving in the right direction.
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The whole design of the cathedral bespoke a desire to cancel gravity and elevate matter toward the heavens.
THE BROKEN GOD
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No, for he woke upside down, restrained by a seatbelt connected to a seat in a certain upturned Toyota Avensis.
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And you think that immersing your bones here will automatically result in your swift despatch to the heavens?
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The various investigations underway should yield very important insights into how we can make buildings safer havens, and easier to escape as well.
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These places would offer safe havens where big, prolific bocaccio and other rockfish could breed and spawn.
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The steeper slopes and cliffs of Augill support a mixed woodland of ash, birch and rowan with an interesting ground flora including species such as bluebell, sanicle and wood avens.
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Ravenswood to the fatal battle of Flodden, in which they both fell.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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You will never enjoy the world aright, till he sea itself floweth in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
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Besides, they say dough will be leavened sooner in the full, for then, though the leaven is scarce proportioned to the meal, yet it rarefies and leavens the whole lump.
Essays and Miscellanies
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It is the only surah which does not contain any letter "mim" [7] The number of times the 7 heavens are mentioned is 7 and the number of times the phrase "established on His Throne" is also 7 [8] Surah Yasin (the heart of the Qur'an) contains 7 'mubin'.
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He believed that the apparent rotation of the heavens was due to the axial rotation of the Earth.
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Just when the Ravens appeared to put themselves in position to cut the Colts 'lead in half in the second half on Ed Reed's interception and runback, Garcon came out of nowhere — actually he chased Reed down the sideline — to punch the football loose.
NFL Replay: Brett Favre adding more to league's record books
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The abyss: Dante's hell is formed in the shape of an inverted cone whose point is at the center of the earth, which is the furthest place from God who is in the heavens.
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Many marketers and brand mavens see them as identical.
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I swear to you, if my father starts wearing his beige and brown leisure suit again, I will make the fashion mavens responsible for this pay.
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Nilotes held the moon to be of “male-female sex,” the men sacrificing to Luna and the women to Lunus. 387 Isis also was a hermaphrodite, the idea being that Aether or Air (the lower heavens) was the menstruum of generative nature; and Damascius explained the tenet by the all-fruitful and prolific powers of the atmosphere.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Mary Shelley raved in her letters about thenear-tropical color of the lake, "blue as the heavens which it reflects, " andused an array of scenes from Lake Geneva in "Frankenstein.
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I suddenly thanked the heavens that I'd changed out of my dorky school uniform before coming over.
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The same God who sent ravens to feed his prophet had used the most unlikely person in the town to meet our need.
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A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.
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The dwarf scrub communities are dominated by crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and include other ericads (Vaccinium spp.), arctic willow (Salix arctica), and white mountain-avens (Dryas octopetala).
Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
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And beyond his star-gazing, in his far-imagined heavens, Valkyrie or houri, man has fain made place for her, for he could see no heaven without her.
Chapter 21
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Paris they looked back they saw an immense blaze in the distance, and the heavens aglare from east to west with the conflagration.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
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Faced with the growing hostility of politicians, some tax havens quickly crumbled under the pressure.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the Arctic, extremely steep environmental gradients are frequent on a microtopographical scale and ecotypic differentiation has been demonstrated over such short distances for alpine timothy (Phleum alpinum [16]), Carex aquatilis [17], mountain avens [18], and purple saxifrage [19], all widely distributed plant species in the Arctic.
Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
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Meanwhile, as the heavens darkened, the seas began to boil, and a voice tore through the clouds shouting, in deep, stentorian tones to one and all: "It was a Mistake!", campaign offices described themselves as "unperturbed".
Founder Of Group Palin Courted Professed "Hatred For The American Government"; Cursed "Damn Flag"
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Sit down and I will tell you a tale of magic and faeries, of foes and heroes in the heavens.
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Greek astronomer who mapped the position of 850 stars in the earliest known star chart. His observations of the heavens form the basis of Ptolemy's geocentric cosmology.
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Maurus incerto vultu, pavens ad Sullam accurrit dicitque sibi ex speculatoribus cognitum, Jugurtham haud procul abesse; simul, uti noctu clam secum profugeret, rogat atque hortatur.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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By revitalizing the oft-dormant offense, McNair once again legitimized the Ravens as Super Bowl contenders.
NFL season rewind: Team MVPs
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The event became even more surreal as the heavens opened and a monsoon rain teemed down, but the boxing went on regardless.
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UK government bonds rose as nerves about Europe's debt crisis sent skittish investors off in search of safe havens.
Times, Sunday Times
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Urine, feces, and vomitus went in the toilet. hmmmm must have been LATE Pleistocene since most of the houses I lived in had flush toilets IN TH HOUSE, ffor heavens sakes!
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Indentured Servitude in San Francisco
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My most recent discovery of evidence of corvid intelligence is this video of some Russian ravens who are clearly playing in the snow just for the fun of it.
David Mizejewski: Corvids Are Oddly Intelligent
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Such an effect was demonstrated for mountain avens ( '' Dryas octopetala '') on Svalbard during a warm period in early winter [78] (see previous subsection on projected temperature responses).
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
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A large share of total deposits in the havens come from upper-middle-class residents of Europe and North America who simply want to evade taxes.
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Man and woman no longer confront one another as “question and counterquestion”; since the heavens emptied, their dialogue, carried out for the most part as struggle, now lacks a metaphysical anchor.
Margarete Susman.
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His telescopic observations forever changed how we understand the heavens; the Linceans hoped that their microscopic observations would do the same for the terrestrial world.
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Legitimate businesses and banks should be begging governments to get rid of tax havens and so-called fiscal paradises like the Caymans, Gibraltar, etc.
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Interest in commercial property funds, particularly from retail investors, has increased sharply in recent months as people look for safer havens away from equity markets.
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diurnal rotation of the heavens
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is secretly diverting aerial drones and weaponry from the Afghan battlefront to significantly expand the CIA's campaign against militants in their Pakistani havens.
CIA Escalates in Pakistan
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A kind-hearted innocent with a passion for the lives of the saints, Damian is playing in his own cardboard sanctuary when a bag falls from the heavens.
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It had been part of his plan to stun and confuse Ravenswood's ideas, by a complicated and technical statement of the matters which had been in debate betwixt their families, justly thinking that it would be difficult for a youth of his age to follow the expositions of a practical lawyer, concerning actions of compt and reckoning, and of multiplepoindings, and adjudications and wadsets, proper and improper, and poindings of the ground, and declarations of the expiry of the legal.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Accordingly, St. Augustine treats the idea of antipodes as an absurdity; and Lactantius, whom we have already quoted, expressly says “can there possibly be any persons so simple as to believe that there are men whose heads are lower than their feet?” etc.St. Chrysostom exclaims, in his fourteenth homily, “Where are they who pretend that the heavens are movable, and that their form is circular?”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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In humiliating contrast, one of China's few tangible rewards involved the set of Qing-dynasty instruments for observing the heavens-among them a Jesuit-designed quadrant, celestial globe and armilla-mentioned above.
The Economist: Correspondent's diary
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Three cheeky Capistrano swallow refugees dive-bombed out of the heavens and zoomed in all around him.
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Many standard theories of causation also endorse this conclusion, for example, if we are willing to assume it is a law that all ravens are black, then nomological theories of causation will support the claim.
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
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Carcasses left by wolves supply food for scavengers such as ravens, eagles, magpies, and wolverines.
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Although the rain pours down with the utmost relentlessness, ceasing all outdoor activities, the man of the field lifts his face to the heavens and smiles.
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Offshore targets Is the sun about to set on tax havens?
Times, Sunday Times
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A high brow like unto the bright heavens, coeli pulcherrima plaga, Frons ubi vivit honor, frons ubi ludit amor, white and smooth like the polished alabaster, a pair of cheeks of vermilion colour, in which love lodgeth; [4914] Amor qui mollibus genis puellae pernoctas: a coral lip, suaviorum delubrum, in which
Anatomy of Melancholy
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For example, it is necessarily true that all ravens can be black, but it is only a matter of contingent fact that all ravens examined have been black.
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It rains, it pours, it mists, it drips fertilizing fluids from the heavens, which fructify the fields.
Donna Henes: Spring Fever!
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Significantly for Madrid, Andorra, which is wedged between France and Spain, was among offshore centers to get removed in 2009 from the O.E.C.D.'s list of "uncooperative tax havens.
NYT > Home Page
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And here, at the end of it all, I pore over books of astronomy from the prison library, such as they allow condemned men to read, and learn that even the heavens are passing fluxes, vexed with star - driftage as the earth is by the drifts of men.
Chapter 21
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More striking to the general observer than the ordinary variable stars are the _temporary stars_ which on rare occasions suddenly make their appearance in the heavens.
The Story of the Heavens
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You will never enjoy the world aright, till he sea itself floweth in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
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Meanwhile, as the heavens darkened, the seas began to boil, and the voice tore through the clouds shouting, in deep, stentorian tones to one and all "It was a Mistake!", campaign offices described themselves as "unperturbed".
The Palin Meltdown in Slo-Mo
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At first I was sanguine enough to hope that, seeing how we slipped away from her, the lateener would 'bout ship, and return to her moorings; but nothing of the kind: she held on like grim death, her skipper, no doubt, being seaman enough to read in the increasingly-threatening aspect of the heavens a promise that his turn should come by-and-by.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
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The Salesmen, Connectors and Mavens are the three key "influencer" roles in today's social networks, as they are offline.
Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0
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I was amazed when I actually found a copy of German anthroposophist Walter Stein's The Ninth Century and the Holy Grail, which I had assumed Ravenscroft had also fabricated.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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They are also said to represent the spiritual ark sent from the heavens that transported the eight primordial ancestors of the Dogon, who are represented on the outside of the vessel.
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Oh, heavens to Betsy, what a furor, what a to-do, what a downright brouhaha.
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The heavens opened and a deluge of biblical proportions had within minutes, turned roads into fast-flowing rivers and gardens into lakes.
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You know the places; largely soulless havens for thirtysomethings, the complete antithesis of a traditional British boozer.
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Long-eared Owls usually nest in abandoned stick nests, often the nests of magpies, crows, ravens, or hawks.
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During that time they managed to be thoughtful, provocative and, heavens above, interesting.
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When he reached the wire, however, he saw at once that its strength was an illusion, for the whole concertina was held in place by an unbarbed loop hung loosely over the twisted end of a broken railing: surmounting the cunning defences of Standingham Castle wasn't going to be such a problem after all, thank heavens!
War Game
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The unresting movements of the heavens and the water correspond to the unceasing power of the hydraulic machine and, by extension, to the unceasing power of the emperor.
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Work with outsiders to build safe havens?
Christianity Today
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Ten thousand strengths seemed then to heave him from her heart; and struggling with a power that amazed even herself, she threw him from her; and holding him off with her shackled arms, her shrieks again pierced the heavens.
The Scottish Chiefs
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My father davens (prays) everyday and when we were growing up if he didn't pray or go to services on Shabbat, we worried if he was okay," said his daughter, Meryl Cinnamon
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - News
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I don't want to upset any owners of these abominations but for heavens sake, what on earth possessed you when you bought one of these things.
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Christopher Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse's mathematician, in their astronomical epistles, whether it be the same Diaphanum clearness, matter of air and heavens, or two distinct essences?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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But in herb-bennet and avens each nut has a single long awn, crooked near the middle with a very peculiar S-shaped joint, which effectually catches on to the wool or hair, but drops at the elbow after a short period of withering.
Science in Arcady
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What is that white belt we call the milky way, which spans the heavens and sparkles like a Sahara of diamonds?
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales
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In a study on Devon Island, just south of Ellesmere, the hares fed mainly on Arctic willow in winter, supplemented in summer with Arctic avens, grasses and sedges.
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When you look up into the heavens with a telescope, you see many nebulae whelloch are like, or approximately like, the perfectly balanced spiral nebula whelloch you see edgewise in Fig. 23.
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Suddenly the heavens opened and it poured with rain.
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And so the Ravenscar Estate Company set to work with hundreds of men, laying drains and building roads and offering building plots for sale at auction.
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At the next, he drained a 40-foot curling putt to go one over par, and raised his arms to the heavens, a la Faldo.
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The audiobook begins and ends with the a chorus of chirruping birds, as the reader imagines the reddish brown thick trunks reaching from the fertile earth to the cloudy heavens.
“Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring” by Richard Preston (Random House, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
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Losses occur, however, when the unattended eggs are taken by crows or ravens, or when nesting birds are disturbed by humans.
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Maybe we all have an inner desire to ascend towards the heavens with grace and verve.
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With many investors still smarting after the destruction of equity - based investments, there is a clamour for safer havens for longer term savings.
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In Exodus for example, the story of manna offers the depiction of God raining food from the heavens, enough for everyone.
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Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
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Lifted up on this stately mound, whose top is fanned with air as light to breathe as nitrous oxide gas -- and bivouacked on its very ridge, (where nought on earth is seen in distance save the thousand treeless, bushless, weedless hills of grass and vivid green which all around me vanish into an infinity of blue and azure), stretched on our bears 'skins, my fellow-traveller, Mr. Wood, and myself, have laid and contemplated the splendid orrery of the heavens.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
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The interior of the cave, pierced by apertures giving onto the sea and by a sort of skylight open to the heavens, reflects a light of mist and water on its damp walls.
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They say he’s watching us from the heavens. If he doesn’t answer, I tell him in this poem that I’m going to pull this curtain of the sky and forget about him. It is a way of expressing my anguish, written when I felt helpless. Gulzar
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Even when he gazed into her blue eyes he was conscious of a more flaming glory than lay in the heavens of their depths; a splendent maze that shed a brightness around her.
Under the Rose
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I make not any doubt, but almes-deedes and prayers, are very mighty; and prevailing meanes, to appease heavens anger for some sinnes committed; but if such as bestow them, did either see or know, to whom they give them: they would more warily keepe them, or else cast them before Swine, in regard they are altogether so unworthy of them.
The Decameron
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The titans of the computer industry stride the media heavens.
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This glassed-in haven for fashion mavens is always buzzy.
Times, Sunday Times
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That only left time to visit the tearooms for a superb Devonshire cream tea, before the heavens opened again, and we made a dash for the car.
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
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All men are miserable in earthly kingdoms, for fate leaves no-one under the heavens unchanged.
There is No Future without Love (a Rare Political Post)
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You know the places; largely soulless havens for thirty-somethings, the complete antithesis of a traditional British boozer.
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Ravens croak replies to the squeaks and cries of marmot and pika.
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It was simply not admissible that something as blatantly solid as a rock could have come from the heavens.
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Havill's blond wig disguise as 'Brook' amusingly leavens his unfounded rage at being cuckolded.
Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage
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Readers have remarked before how some digital technology mavens merely acquire, and never seem to listen to what they hoard.
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These differ but little from graven forms; but still they are receptible of life from the Lord through the heavens.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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Soon thunder rumbled across the heavens and flashes of lightning lit up the hillsides as thick curtains of rain swept towards us.
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The Norse Eddas sing of the great ash tree Yggdrasil on whose trunk the heavens spin and whose roots clutch the netherworld.
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One or two gritstone quarries provide important nesting sites for peregrines and ravens.
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Opera mavens head to Milan for Verdi, Bayreuth for Wagner.
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He it is who in himself has given us a pledge of the capacity of our nature to inhabit those blessed regions of light, which are far above these aspectable heavens.
Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
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The room belongs to two women with dark, cap-like hair who dress in black and walk among their furnishings like ravens in a hueless meadow.
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Meantime the hump of that awful bump Into the heavens contrived to get To so great a height that they called the wight The man with the minaret.
INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
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His father was Sir Frederick William Herschel, the most eminent astronomer of the age, who discovered Uranus, the only new planet to be seen in the heavens since the classical era.
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The majority of vessels were sloops and schooners of 50-100 tons, ideal for working cargoes from the shallow and confined havens of north Northumberland.
