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The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
The Staff of Volans has a limited supply of magic energy. Roll a dice after each spell is cast.
Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
The right back found himself in unfamiliar territory in the opposing penalty area after a swift exchange of passes that opened up Reading's defence. Times, Sunday Times

Shah went forth with her for a distance of three parasangs; after which he bade farewell to her and the Wazir and those with him, and returned to his home in gladness and safety. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
According to police and prosecutors, the two got into a fight after she told him he should be committed to a mental hospital.
As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
An AFTRA statement confirmed the issues' importance, calling the 1% increase the union's "primary objective" in the bargaining. Jonathan Handel: AFTRA, Networks Reach New Three Year Deal
The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
Davis looked up and gave a signal of approval, and after a quick bow, the pair of messengers was gone.
My guess is they were either swapping football stickers or comparing notes on how to look after successful women. The Sun
Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
A spokesman said: ‘Snow will continue through the day with a few dry interludes and it will slowly improve by the afternoon with snow turning more showery.’
Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in The Black Bar
By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
I have seen far too many people give up too quickly on their programs after a few short weeks.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
After her husband died, Mary tried to kill herself.
A couple of weeks after the monarch's announcement, heavy rain began to fall, thus ending the drought.
Although I have finally been given a small piece of work to do (nothing crucial, generous deadline), I'm finding it hard to apply myself after such a long period of enforced inactivity.
Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Everyone needed time to take stock after the most prestigious solo race had turned into a demolition derby. Times, Sunday Times
The striker was criticised by fans after voicing concerns about the club 's financial plight. The Sun
First to unfold were the two 14-foot-wide drogue chutes, which oriented the craft and continued slowing it.
The little divil that stole the dog-team an 'wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin 'her fairy stories? CHAPTER I
Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
After such a long time in storage, all the oil will have drained to the sump.
The sun was shining, the food at the restaurant was good and I was left with a warm glow in my tummy afterwards.
The men practised various traditional crafts, such as carving toys out of bone.
She has determined on going this afternoon.
I had a quick kip after lunch.
The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
After using Gentoo I discovered that they're not that "ricer" community everyone claims they are. Planet Ubuntu
Our militia fired off volley after volley from anti - aircraft artillery.
The sun came through after days of rain.
They are trying to rush through the draft resolution before the general election.
Mewme was an old cat not like the playful little kitten that Alison had first encountered after her mother entered her life.
This came after scores of pro-Uribe legislators and other officials were indicted on conspiracy charges involving so-called demobilized paramilitaries. Council on Hemispheric Affairs
These constricted unmyelinated regions are called nodes of Ran-vier (rahn-vee-ay), after the French histologist Louis Antoine The Human Brain
The site has its own airstrip and light aircraft service, and its own small marina.
His rapid rise through the ranks after an eye-catching performance in the April trials was a rare highlight in a troubled season.
But after three consecutive nights of camping out I'd had enough, especially since the last had been spent near Verdun in Le Foret du Mort Homme, which translates as Dead Man's Forest.
But after three years of frantic knitting, they decided to end the challenge, despite reaching halfway.
John Terry booked after a rash challenge which nearly lost Holdsworth his head.
A minute later Arsenal extended their lead after breaking with searing pace.
Karam also highlighted the authority's implementation of surface-to-surface communications applications and upgrading from Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network (AFTN) system to Aeronautical Message Handling System (AMHS). AME Info Latest News
A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
Surgeons grafted tissue from her leg to the outside of her brain for protection.
FEARS were growing for a missing schoolgirl after police found her phone dumped in a park. The Sun
He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.
Thirty unarmed INS agents accompanied the flight, guarding the handcuffed deportees in shifts, standing in aircraft's aisles at every fifth row.
After laying down the melody, he proceeded to deconstruct it, pulling it into new shapes, twisting, fragmenting, yet never losing touch with his starting point.
A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box.
The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.
Open, and I was quietly confident that I would have a chance, said Leaney, who was forced to change caddies after his original caddie, Justin Hoyle, fell ill after the first round. USATODAY.com - Leaney's second at U.S. Open earns PGA Tour card
Hundreds of the aircraft are on order, but loss of the Northwest batch is a serious setback.
After putting its energy into the 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines, the Atlanta-based carrier plans to spend more than $2 billion through 2013 to lure travelers with new flat-bed seats, video on demand and upgraded facilities in hotly contested markets such as New York. Delta Refocuses
That said, the advisability of perching a laurel crown on a horse-riding hat, which tended to happen after the equestrianism events, may have to be addressed.
It seemed to have been shoehorned into the schedules as an afterthought.
But either way, placater or elitist, he has headed us down an evil road by deepening a war we couldn ` t afford eight years ago when it started and certainly can ` t afford after the Bush-Cheney fiasco in Iraq. The Student Operated Press
Phase I called for dewatering and rehabilitating the No.6 shaft, sinking the shaft to the 45th level, cutting seven level stations, and diamond drilling the conglomerate bed.
Looking at Yankee Stadium (home of the world champion Yankees) it appears you can buy a ticket for one of the nosebleed seats, and then after the game starts pick any seat you want from about row 10 up.
James arrived in midafternoon with former teammate Damon Jones.
After 12 months, we will convert the asphalt area into tennis and netball courts.
After filling an entire grocery cart, I sent Penny back for a second.
After several attempts to untie the knot, I admitted defeat and cut through it with a knife.
Both these people have lied and manipulated people through the press to believe one facade after another in order to get whatever it is they want…
Tough, stylish, and super comfy, this leather slip-on is the perfect after-sport snowshoe.
They must have needed the aspirins after five hours of that.
The lightship has had uplighters added to its fore and aft masts with lighting units added around its deck and jetty.
Lime hawk moth moth is named after the hawk because it capable of powerful, long- distance flight. Times, Sunday Times
Day after day thousands of people die of confessing their loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate.
The snowstorm will last till tomorrow afternoon.
This would include both goods that are transshipped without modification and goods that are exported after value-added processing. Ian Fletcher: Why a Flat Tariff on All U.S. Imports Would Work
He died after his van crashed into a rubbish truck.
After childbirth she herself seems reborn. Times, Sunday Times
They all escaped after jumping from the top floor of the burning house thanks to their neighbours' help.
A small miracle after the endless hiding.
After just the right wait, they arrived, each accompanied by a side dish of steamed vegetables.
Now that I think about it, direct property distraint was a recognized means of compelling welchers to fulfill their obligations in the quasi-anarchic Brehon laws of Celtic Ireland, even if it was a case of tenants or debtors going after landlords or creditors. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #30
After pulling the ball over midwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony.
Their pastorals, both published in 1651, offered choices to Royalists in the aftermath of the crushing defeat at Worcester.
It then possessed 39 aircraft, 52 seaplanes, and 7 airships.
The man won his year-long battle to clear his name only after a bank worker was arrested for fraud. Times, Sunday Times
The aircraft have to meet the strict specifications laid down by the FAA.
After that I felt that we, the workers, needed unity and I have been attempting to unionise the place.
After dinner, the _renvoi_ of Genet was proposed by himself. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction.
So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
And they sing and play oboes and clarinets and violins and cellos and recorders on through the late afternoon in a warm, close auditorium.
Whatever you think of Strandlof and the months he masqueraded as a brain-injured veteran, the simple truth two months after his web of lies came apart is that public disgrace seems to have changed him little. Heroes or Villains?
Thereafter, he retreated to the Celtic backline.
When you think that we craftsmen who make all these things by hand, it follows that piece is different; these are all timeless pieces. Times, Sunday Times
Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
Primary sporocysts were obtained after overnight axenic culture of miracidia as described.
The school's enrolment policy is based on three criteria, after which random selection is used.
The young birds' mandibles begin to cross about two weeks after they fledge, and they learn to extract seeds soon after that.
Clach climbed five places into fifth spot after a wash out in the Highland League, with a 2-0 triumph over north rivals Fort William.
A €500 million investment in upgrading long-haul aircraft is part of the turnaround. Times, Sunday Times
The Ahmadiyah were explicitly "warned and ordered" that "as long as they consider themselves to hold to Islam, to discontinue the promulgation of interpretations and activities that are deviant from the principal teachings of Islam, that is to say the promulgation of beliefs that recognize a prophet with all his teachings who comes after the Prophet Muhammad SAW. The Heritage Foundation Papers
Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
Police are again urging householders to secure their property after a theft from a house in Kirkwall.
Do you plan to study Ph D after MS?
Minutes after they escaped, there was a fire flashover and the whole building went up in flames.
In the early days after the birth, it can be useful to set aside some time to rest when the baby sleeps.
After being dropped in a club to give people a taste of what to expect, it has been spun on decks uncontrollably ever since.
After all, at conception, the fertilized egg has all the information necessary to code for your physical potential.
If forced to eject from their aircraft, they are taught to lie still once they land. Times, Sunday Times
Having worked himself into this ridiculous kind of phrensy, which lasted, perhaps, from twenty to thirty seconds, he suddenly discontinued it, and suffered his features to relax into their natural form; but the motion of his head seemed to have so stupified him, as indeed it well might, that there remained an unusual vacancy and a drowsy stare upon his countenance for some time afterward. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
These are the basic exercises that have been used to build championship physiques year after year.
In fact, little by little the term necromancy lost its strict meaning and was applied to all forms of black art, becoming closely associated with alchemy, witchcraft, and magic. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
After that, Feingold joined a Madison law firm and practiced civil litigation, including First Amendment law.
After the almost funereal beginning of the first movement, the clarinets introduce a lyric second theme, which is treated in the graceful manner of a siciliana. NPR Topics: News
After this she was not strong enough to work in interventional cardiology and devoted herself to clinical and diagnostic cardiology.
A mere two minutes passed before Cooks was celebrating again in the end zone, this time after a 32-yard punt return.
Eventually after three hours four beltmen had reached us and the rescue was completed.
Named Tecumseh after the Shawnee leader, he was rechristened William in a Catholic ceremony at age 9, after he was informally adopted by a prominent Ohio politician when his father died.
To ensure that there is no interference from the most recent deworming, FECRT should not be performed within eight weeks following the last benzimidazole or pyrimidine treatment, or within 12 (ivermectin) or 16 (moxidectin) weeks after a macrocyclic lactone treatment. Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
After the counter is installed on top of the cabinet, the wood strip is attached to the front edge of the counter using glue and small, air-driven brads.
After they are separated, the keepers feed the chicks by hand and must teach them to swallow whole fish.
The work is done by prisoners at a unique computor workshop inside Gloucester jail, visited this afternoon by Princess Anne.
Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
At first I was minded to send a boat after them, but by this time the rafts were a good two miles beyond the harbour, and Mrs. Purchase said, 'No, they can do no good, poor dears; let them have their few hours' pleasure. ' Shining Ferry
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
I would show up unannounced, watch Jaime teach calculus, chat with Principal Henry Gradillas, check in with other Advanced Placement classes and in the early afternoon call my editor in Washington to say I was chasing down the latest medfly outbreak story, or whatever seemed believable at the time. Unlike many, Escalante believed in teaching, not sorting
So return to him, O thou monk, and say that the single combat shall take place to morrow, for this day we have come off our journey and are aweary; but after rest neither reproach nor blame fear ye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It has both a vertical shaft and an adit to an incline, which we and several mine officials entered in a small bus.
He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly. Times, Sunday Times
In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
It's an hour after sunrise on day three of the photographic safari and a solitary vulture is crossing a flat sky. Times, Sunday Times
The firemen did heave a sigh of relief after pulling the deer out, but did not settle down and relax.
And sometimes those mistakes wind up back to back on a Sunday afternoon.
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To our no small surprise, very soon after this quietus had been given to bibliomaniacal hopes, the books in question appeared before us in excellent condition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
General practitioners and, increasingly after 1950, obstetricians attended most parturient women.
The opening Thursday of SugarHouse Casino, Pennsylvania's 10th casino, comes after years of community protests and delays.
The athletics track was dug out after the Games and a new tier of seats dug in. Times, Sunday Times
The company raised €10 million in May, but decided to extend the round after it was oversubscribed by potential investors.
Both the antisense drug and glibenclamide led to 75% reductions in spinal cord lesion volume six weeks after the injury, compared with sham-treated animals, the researchers reported. Social Security Reports, News and Informaion
Slow the airplane to reduce impact forces; also, you'll likely encounter wind shear and strong downdrafts.
After advice from the district valuer, they put in an offer of £200,000, which was rejected.
Smaller and more versatile aircraft reduce financial and operational risks to airlines, particularly in economic downturns, compared to jumbo jets, he adds.
Welding craft: The DC handwork, the argon arc and moving to under welding.
The spacecraft's mass at launch was some 13 tonnes, most of which was the propellants unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and dinitrogen tetroxide (DTO). BBC News - Home
A stomach-teasing aroma of stewed food was in the air, and the thrumming of African bass guitar wafted through the open window.
After that, people in Europe started to call shoyu by the name "tamari. VEGAN "LIVERWURST"-- TRUST ME, IT'S DELICIOUS!-- AND INFO ON LIQUID SMOKE
Kirkwall lifeboat was called out to a boat aground in the Rousay Sound on Sunday afternoon.
After an interim administration, the new president took office this past October.
After many days I noticed my belly was becoming distended.
In the end, the movement fell into disfavor after World War 1 due to a number of factors.
Don't suddenly take up violent exercise after years of inactivity.
Citizenship status would have insulated her from deportation even after her drug conviction.
Finally after 15 minutes of perseverance the team scored -- not to the liking of the opposition, who had been defending excellently.
Roughly two hours after they begin, Ralph, Begoña, and thirteen others are still dicing carrots into tiny cubes. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
This is Europe's problem too," went the refrain, after more than 1,400 immigrant had arrived in Tenerife and Gran Canaria in the previous week, making 2,000 landing in the month, mostly from Senegal and Mali. The pace quickens
If the property remains unsold after the auction i.e. your bid was below the reserve price, speak to the auctioneer to register your interest before leaving the saleroom.
Why is a bus terminal called after the soft drink? Times, Sunday Times
Clean and cheerful, the rooms are decorated with children's artwork and handicrafts.
After several days of climbing, high on a huge, exposed face of Annapurna, a mountain almost double the height of Mont Blanc, a storm erupted and the two men decided to descend.
It was followed by Crime, where plot and suspense were king, and those often sidelined as "genre fiction" — Crichton, King or Rendell — were given credit for their craft.
_ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
George was diagnosed with the potentially deadly condition days after his second birthday.
Years after the accident I still have nightmares about it.
Zaheer bowled a good length in the final overs and got one right in the blockhole to shatter the stumps of Sami and after that Moin was clean bowled by Balaji and India won by 40 runs with Pakistan allout for 253. Archive 2004-03-01
Transport aircraft carrying supplies kept the German columns moving swiftly, and finally relentless bombing helped to force Warsaw into submission.
Outlook for tomorrow and Sunday: Mainly dry and mild, with sunny intervals after clearance of any early mist or fog.
Bruno had also bought calamine lotion and after our shower we patterned ourselves all over our bites like Aborigines painted for a corroboree.
Broadcast watchdogs have censured him for swearing on his former BBC Radio 1 afternoon show.
US Treasury markets capitalized on the equity plunge, surging during the afternoon session.
Round them, as they gradually went down with the subsiding soil, calamites grew, at one level after another. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
After all, the impulse for political grandstanding is not purely an American one … Soft, Geeky Power
And pipeful after pipeful, Prince Albert proves it has the flavor most favored in the U.S.A. Quote out of context — for Amanda | clusterflock
Beware of a crafty person who undermines your achievement at work.
There was Patch after was drowned out of a curagh that turned over. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
After an initial burst of enthusiasm for jogging, I gradually lost interest.
There are six markets in total selling handicrafts and traditional gifts.
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam came into existence in July 1976 as a communist country modelling its political system after those of the Soviet Union and China.
Eid al Fitr in Oman is celebrated over a period of three days after the end of the month of Ramadan. Global Voices in English » Oman: Eid on Twitter
Nato may find itself having to go to the rescue of some of the craft before the operation is over. Times, Sunday Times
Reg apparently came most Sunday afternoons to help welcome the anxious new arrivals.
After having accepted the invite, two hours before the start of the game he phoned me to say he wasn't coming.
The river up which we came after leaving the Helmund, is fully equal to that in size; it is very rapid: the ravine is very narrow, occasionally widening into swardy spots. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
After a time, however, they began to think that he was what they called too “viewy,” too much inclined to paradox, too wild. The Adventure of Living
Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who dropped out after failing to attract enough money or support.
Soon after his announcement the House passed the bill, 328-101, and the Senate was expected to approve it Thursday.
In an attempt to break the strike, management used megaphones to instruct the afternoon shift, who were gathered in a car park, to return to work or face immediate dismissal.
Sounds wafted into the room
After feeding, caterpillars pupate in a chrysalis, then transform into beautiful butterflies.
Later that night, after he had carried her inside, he lay next to her on the hearthrug, listening to her breathe, not quite believing what had just happened.
Month after month our patience has gone unrewarded until the latest edition of the magazine, when we've managed to bag a whopper.
The letter went on and on, page after page, plaudit after plaudit.
After you've washed your shirt, you have to rinse it twice with clean warm water.
Then, when cashiered out of the navy after refusing to follow orders which offended his conscience, he is visited by the mysterious benefactor who has shadowed him his entire life, who invites him to join a highly exclusive gentlemen's club, Redking's. REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker
I wrote it early in 1945 and it was published in Wireless World in October, just after the war had ended, and it laid down the principles which now determine the world's communication system, the idea that you'd have satellites poised at such a height above the earth that they remained stationery in the sky and so-called synchronous, or geostationary, orbit. Great voices of science fiction
The jury, which began deliberations last Friday after a six-week trial, had to decide whether Castroneves, his sister-manager Katiucia "Kati" Castroneves, 35, and Michigan sports attorney Alan R. Miller, 71, evaded U.S. taxes on more than $5.5 million income that the race driver earned between 1999-2004 from his arrangement with Penske Racing. Undefined

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