How To Use Stevenson In A Sentence
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Stevenson, Anne Noted for her realistic, fast-paced stories, believable characters, and excellent use of dialogue.
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QUOTATION: Middle-aged clubwoman, with a flutter in her voice: Oh, Mr. Stevenson, your speech was superfluous.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-65)
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I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish.
From a College Window
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We all owe a debt of gratitude to Mrs Stevenson, who kindly donated the money for the project.
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Wondering how the wasted Stevenson could work so tirelessly, La Farge decided he must be an aitu, a Samoan devil spirit not bound by the laws of the flesh.
The Five of Hearts
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He was investigated by Dr. Stevenson when he was five years old.
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‘For some students this is a non-negotiable issue, and from my point of view it's unsustainable,’ Stevenson replied.
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Surely, they were capable of enacting toward women, and toward one another, the terms of Martin Buber's I-It relation — Stevenson's "tripper" and the intimidating husbands offer the most intense expressions of that capacity, and no doubt, there were many subtle expressions of it at The Farm as well.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
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In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
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But the cheese-head state's 190 CAFOs - an acronym Stevenson says is short for Concentrated
Watts Up With That?
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Stevenson, Anne Noted for her realistic, fast-paced stories, believable characters, and excellent use of dialogue.
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And from every point on the coast you may get, if the weather is fine which cannot be guaranteed rapturous views across the firth to the Isle of May, with its Stevenson lighthouse.
In praise of … the coast around Crail | Editorial
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Adlai Stevenson, announced Democratic presidential candidate, accused Dulles of playing “Russian roulette with the life of our nation.”
Eisenhower 1956
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Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson welcomed the delegates, but still seemed like he did not want to run for president.
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Hingis' second-round opponent will be unseeded American Alexandra Stevenson, who ousted Croatia's Jelena Kostanic 6-3, 7-5.
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Whilst many lairds ' houses have survived, Stevenson House is particularly noteworthy as very few buildings of this type and calibre have survived.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Forth, where boys and girls recalled the doings of Robert Louis and his friends with bull's-eye lanterns and gunpowder, in that cheerful form known to Louis Stevenson as a 'peeoy,' and considered it a point of honour to do likewise, no matter how indignant such mischief made the authorities.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Stevenson and Kipling have proved its immense popularity, with the whole brood of detective stories and the tales of successful rascality we call "picaresque" Our most popular weekly shows the broad appeal of this class of fiction.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
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He got someone called Mark Stevenson involved and asked him to work out the logistics.
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Axel raises campaign money and advises candidates, including Adlai Stevenson, the Illinois governor who lost the presidency twice to Eisenhower.
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Look, you can compare Obama to McGovern and Stevenson if you want and you can just as defensibly compare him to JFK, RFK and FDR in his charisma, leadership, ability to make history, and capacity to transform our entire political dynamic.
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Andrew Stevenson is a US Fulbright Scholar studying in Hong Kong.
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The closest thing to a comparison is probably something like 1952: the economy was doing quite well that year, but the Korean War had become fairly unpopular, Democrats had been in power for a long time, and Republicans nominated an exceptional candidate in Eisenhower, leading Truman to decline a chance at another term and Adlai Stevenson to do poorly in his place.
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But the showstopper is the 1,450-square-foot Robert Louis Stevenson Suite, with its front-to-back picture windows on three sides -- the joint has helicopter views from the bathtub.
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Last weekend brought a delectable profile of Adlai Stevenson, who ran against Eisenhower twice and whose wit and eloquence is enshrined in the memory of a generation of Americans.
A Nazi Story That Still Surprises
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He says that every year or two a movie comes along that owes Stevenson an obvious debt.
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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology.
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Stevenson thought Daudet "incomparably" the best of the present French novelists and asserted that "Kings in Exile" comes "very near to being
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stevenson
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` ` Every time we play them they have this certain swag to them that they can just beat us, '' said Stevenson, who exchanged his share of trash-talk during the game.
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After one of his typically brilliant campaign speeches, someone shouted out to Stevenson from the crowd that he had the votes of all thinking Americans.
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In 2004, a similar media storm was brewing around Randall Stevenson's volume in the Oxford English Literary History, which had favoured the abstruse poetry of JH Prynne – a modernist of a kind – over that of Philip Larkin.
What Ever Happened to Modernism? by Gabriel Josipovici
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He was hauled before his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Stevenson, and summarily dismissed.
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That day, Adlai Stevenson, the former governor of Illinois and 1952 Democratic standard bearer, announced in Chicago that he would be a candidate for the presidency in 1956.3
Eisenhower 1956
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This is a Federal-period game table by Robert G. Stevenson of mahogany, primavera, satinwood, ebony, holly, and pine.
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Impossible not to recall the weighty judgment of one of Stevenson's characters upon the
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Proprietor Neil Stevenson confirmed that refunds will be available by returning the tickets to Grooves.
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It was David thingummy --- Stevenson --- Dad's clerk of chambers or whatever he is.
LOSING IT
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Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology.
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Both teams had further first half chances: Stevenson miskicked in front of goal while Davy O'Brien brought the best from the Damolly keeper Alan Bann.
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To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived. Robert Louis Stevenson
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
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She freely told Stevenson her figure had ballooned after she stopped taking a dietary supplement.
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Toby Stevenson leads three Americans in the pole vault final, and the 110 high hurdles is wide open after Allen Johnson's crash-and-burn in the preliminaries.
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Robert Stevenson's father-in-law and step-father were the same person, one Thomas Smith, a tinsmith who invented and manufactured lamp-light reflectors.
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I counterattacked hard, accusing Stevenson of trying to dismiss serious charges with quips.
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In the literary world, Catriona actually only turns up in Stevenson's sequel to Kidnapped, which bears her name as its title.
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Stevenson, too, tends to run his characters into symbols -- his moralist-fabulist determinations are too much for him -- he would translate them into a kind of chessmen, moved or moving on
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial
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During his title reign, he took out Joe Stevenson,
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When Adlai Stevenson, the nominee in 1952, accepted his party's call to run again, he said he had prayed this cup would pass from me.
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Stevenson's best-known work is probably `Treasure Island'
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Other manufacturers steal the idea and Stevenson loses a three-year court battle to have his patent honoured.
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W.B. Stevenson.] [Footnote 26: The term Creole is a corruption of the Spanish word
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
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Stevenson appealed to communities to inform the police with regards to people who stole fencing so they can be prosecuted.
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To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Is the first merely another clue to the fact that the unattributed quotation in the subsequent note is in fact from the fourth chapter of Stevenson's novel?
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‘For some students this is a non-negotiable issue, and from my point of view it's unsustainable,’ Stevenson replied.
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Seems that George Stevenson, of the engineering firm Remington & Vernick, is turning out to be chief shoveler (See Bernice Paglia's report "Redevelopment Caveats Aired").
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Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of ships and pirates has been a huge success in the guises of film and television adaptations.
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Robert Louis Stevenson was a roadmender," said the wise parson.
The Roadmender
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The evening of Saturday, April 21, the president and Adlai Stevenson delivered separate speeches at the meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Statler Hotel in Washington.41 Stevenson described the past three years as a period of retrogression in foreign affairs and grabbed headlines the next day by proposing a moratorium on nuclear tests and channeling foreign aid through the United Nations.
Eisenhower 1956
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The actor who played the creepy gravedigger in the Van Helsing movie is Tom Stevenson.
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Stevenson is well known for contributing to the gains won by homosexual people.
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Robert Louis Stevenson the novelist and poet who travelled extensively, preferred the donkey.
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A friend is a gift one give oneself. Robert Louis Stevenson
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When Montague persisted as to what the current policy line was, Stevenson responded that, "If the CFP is not reformed substantially, then we retain the possibility of withdrawal".
A reversal of roles
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A wasting beauty in women was called ethereal, while robust health was considered vulgar; in men, tuberculosis was thought to denote creative genius, prompted by the suffering of such artists as Poe, Goethe, Balzac, Stevenson, and Keats.
A Furnace Afloat
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Ben Stevenson's award was presented on behalf of the magazine by Ivan Nagy, a leading danseur in his time and more recently artistic director of the English National Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet and Ballet de Santiago in Chile.
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Troy Stevenson, a murderer, was formerly a big man in the drug business with a quick temper and a bigger attitude.
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The latter comprises five unpunctuated prose poems, showing the same sharpness of observation that Stevenson himself was noted for.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Stevenson's deeply felt performance is a tour-de-force.
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Lord Stevenson is of the opinion that candidates for the peerage might range from midwives to tycoons.
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Stevenson says he's been collecting things for more than 70 years, including pieces of derelict vehicles found under boxthorn hedges.
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Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology.
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Stevenson spent $500,000 this year to create an intercollegiate team from scratch, largely as a means to fill the campus with tuition-paying men.
Small colleges find that adding football pays off in a lot of green, and more
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Mark Stevenson, the corporate sales manager at the golf course, said golfers having a go should be prepared to do lots of walking and straight drives.
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Too frequently, Stevenson's doubled scenes, his disjunctive narratives, even his fascination with and sophisticated representations of cultural difference have been merely psychologized.
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He was hauled before his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Stevenson, and summarily dismissed.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Adlai Stevenson was not an explicit segregationist.
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The Keynes was a 1706 ton Stevenson Clark collier, sunk by a German bomber in 1940.
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Interestingly, Stevenson's fondness for retrospection does not seem to have blinded him but rather to have sharpened his sensitivity to seeing.
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Still the elderly couple, a Mr and Mrs Stevenson, stayed with me.
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Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson
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James Stevenson-Hamilton wrote that he heard a "vivid account" of one Swazi raid from "an old induna of the ba-Hlangane" named Kumane-ka-Mure, who appears to be the "Kumana" of Caissene's story.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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chantey" is given, copied from an old scrapbook, and while it can hardly be recommended as a delectable piece of literature, in any sense, it is interesting, aside from its Stevensonian connection, as a bit of rough, unstudied sailor's jingle, the very authorship of which is long since forgotten.
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
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Photography: Metin Tilki Rents in Cannes soar during the Monaco Grand Prix Ms. Dove, who has built up an £80 million fortune and a property empire that includes the former homes of Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens, says the idea of short-term buy-to-let in what real estate agents call "prime London" is already popular with Middle Eastern property buyers, partly because the dinar has been strong against the pound.
Live and Let High
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And Fick and David Stevenson hit two-run homers in the fifth.
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Stevenson didn't give too many details about the bird but he probably meant it to be an amazon parrot.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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The original want of appreciation has passed, never, one may hope, to return; and the middle _engouement_, which was mainly engineered by those doughty partisans, Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Henley, is passing likewise.
The English Novel
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Thirdly, two scraps from letters from Stevenson to Henley, to show that the latter was not always a depreciator of R.L. Stevenson's work:
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial
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Not wanting to run on the same ticket as the LaRouche candidates, Stevenson was listed on the ballot as an independent that year.
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He thanked both his family and Mr Stevenson and his mountain guide Andy Owen at the Kendal climbing wall for their back-up.
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Angus Stevenson Editor, Concise Oxford English Dictionary "The expression 'woot' began in America but was picked up very quickly by people in Britain, as a result of the internet breaking down international boundaries," said Mr Stevenson.
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Yet Stevenson demurs mildly, and says diplomatically: ‘I think actors often improvise in character in a scripted film, so it's not that unusual.’
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Pearson reported that Adlai Stevenson might call for an examination of the president by a bipartisan group of doctors.
Eisenhower 1956
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount; and every foreign transaction went via him.
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Scottish Conservative MEP Struan Stevenson, who introduced the amendments to the bill, had originally suggested the labels should record whether meat was halal or shechita.
Plan to label ritually slaughtered meat angers religious group
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At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold(Robert Louis Stevenson.
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More recently in 1985 Violet Stevenson under the same title produced a book full of inspiring ideas and attractive photographs and drawings.
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Heydt-Stevenson importantly insists that the "abandon" of the juvenilia is not "entirely repressed" in
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_
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Mr Stevenson offers all general building services including plastering, joinery and brickwork.
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He gave an impromptu and loving tribute to a shipmate, Tom Stevenson, for the way he always quietly did what was right.
The Things They Buried
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
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(She's played, mutedly, by Juliet Stevenson, who is only four years older than Mr. Firth.)
Arabs, Jews Duel,
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Looking back fifty years, deep into the murkiest of my memories, the first book I can ever remember reading, and even then my mother read it to me, was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Science Fiction?
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This was previously Ben Stevenson's place, she says, her buff arms extending in a sweeping motion to encompass the townhouse living room.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stevenson
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Review_, LXXV, p. 439, in the critique reprinted (without its curious anglified version of _The Cotter's Saturday Night_) in Stevenson's
Early Reviews of English Poets
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In 1787, before Stevenson was part of the family, Smith had become the first engineer for the Northern Lighthouses, a trust set up in 1786 to introduce the lighting of seamarks to the dangerous coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
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Self-deprecation is a recurring feature as Stevenson talks.
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Please send politely-worded e-notes to the University Students' Council President Tom Stevenson: [email protected], and/or the USC Vice-President of Student Events officer Sabrina Sdao: [email protected].
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Unfortunately, the win actually still leaves Florian in the title lurch, even though it appeared he had punched his ticket before the win over Stevenson with a victory over Roger Huerta earlier this year.
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Those of us brought up on the romantic fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson or John Buchan tend to think of stowaways on more exotic voyages: Bristol to Barbados, say, or Southampton to Shanghai.
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Gaspard's also boasts an original pre-impressionist juke box, complete with scratchy Sartrean torch songs by Greco and Piaf, and a pinball machine whose left flipper has been bust since Stevenson's day.
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The ratio decidendi of Donoghue v. Stevenson is open to two interpretations.
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Okay, okay, this is speculative, but COME ON, PEOPLE, in my fanon Leila Maturin totally shook hands with Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Elephant Man.
Leila Maturin gets even cooler
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Bingham hit one of two free throws for Louisville, and as Oklahoma pushed the ball upcourt, fast Nyeshia Stevenson had an open look as the buzzer sounded.
Louisville rallies to topple Oklahoma, reach first title game
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Morris mayor Barrie Stevenson and RM of Morris reeve Herman Martens say there is a need for an adult education centre in Morris.
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Where Tudor is economical, organic and disciplined, Stevenson is fussy, distracted and ambiguous.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Defects in such ancillary equipment as central heating boilers or electrical installations would be subject to the normal Donoghue v Stevenson principle if such defects gave rise to damage to other parts of the building.
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I wanted to avoid main roads but at times Stevenson's route lay along these, where the cars buzzed by like rare insects.
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The letter appears to have been leaked and published on a blog without Mr Stevenson's knowledge or consent.
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Named after a town in California (where, incidentally, Robert Louis Stevenson used to live) this restaurant features flavoursome, clean-living food with an impressive list of Californian wine.
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Adlai Stevenson was not a “segregationist” as I pointed out before.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism
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Our study reveals a new role for the chemokine eotaxin in controlling immune cell types at the site of allergic reaction," said Nigel Stevenson, a researcher involved in the study.
Innovations-report
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However, Stevenson and his film crew have been warned to expect a few early alarm calls before they finally have the film in the can.
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Stevenson has also played in five career playoff outings.
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Axel raises campaign money and advises candidates, including Adlai Stevenson, the Illinois governor who lost the presidency twice to Eisenhower.
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gamekeeper" of Skerryvore, Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson describes their life at Saranac:
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson
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With the dispatch of a waiter flicking away flyspecks, the editor, Angus Stevenson, eliminated some 16,000 hyphens from the sixth edition, published last month.
Where Did All the Hyphens Go?
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Stevenson's Scotland is a collection of the author's writings on his native land.
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The governor's son, Adlai Stevenson III, a retired senator, recalled watching a sales clerk stare at his credit card for a longish while, till he finally asked her if there was something familiar about the name.
A Nazi Story That Still Surprises
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Stevenson describes herons rising from the water's edge and an abundance of moorhens and coots.
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Stevenson repeatedly reticulates the Highlands within a system of economic relationships to both its neighbors and a world market, tying regional distinctions to global forces.
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Yet he buries the standard, lower estimates after a long discussion of statistical methods that only an expert could understand, and he relegates to an endnote the powerful international evidence against the importance of relative income that has been gathered by Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson.
Lessons From Cloud Nine
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Izzard will play the infamous one-legged pirate in Sky1's new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of 18th-century treasure hunting and skulduggery in the west country and the Caribbean.
Eddie Izzard to play Long John Silver in Sky's Treasure Island
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Stevenson's deeply felt performance is a tour-de-force.
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At age 13, Stevenson was asked to come to Havana to train as a boxer at the national sports complex.
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The new system is thermistor-based with a “beehive like” instrument shelter, whereas the older systems consisted of liquid-in-glass thermometers, mounted inside a Cotton Region Shelter Stevenson Screen.
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