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The tundishes are used to feed liquid steel to Nucor's four-strand billet caster.
The Billet is a small elongated rectangular figure supposed to represent a billet or letter, and to some, a brick.
When extrusions of the highest quality are required, as in strong alloy aircraft parts, extrusion billets may be scalped before shipment to remove surface liquation.
Sources say it was written on the stationery of the Zamboanga hotel in which the negotiating party was billeted.
Every bullet has its billet.

So I thought it was time to share my riches; hence the following billet-doux on New Zealand skifields.
The billets for these Russian soldiers were at No.6 the Bund, previously the P&O Banking Corp (now the Yangtze River Navigation Co building).
Rita stopped at the house where she was billeted.
Because they favor smaller barrels, their bats are made from a heavier billet - the cylindrical piece of wood from which a bat is shaped.
There Alistair met his first Americans - seven young soldiers billeted in his house and made Alfred their mascot.
He was billeted at her home where her seven brothers had hitherto protected her from any approach by potential suitors.
There must be compulsory billeting powers, and they would have to be quite ruthless with those powers.
When I got on the boat I met General Seely, who introduced me to General Sir Arthur Currie, who said: "You used to billet at St. Pol, usedn't you? An Onlooker in France 1917-1919
They also filled nontraditional billets as air traffic controllers, link trainers, mechanics, and parachute riggers.
On some farms, where there might be half a dozen land girls working and living together in the farmhouse or billeted in nearby hostels, these were happy, sociable years.
Phoebe pictured Maeve, sitting in regal splendor amid her pillows and her billet-doux, opining on the imbecility of love. EVERVILLE
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As she seems easily fooled, why not send yourself sheaves of valentines and other billets-doux?
The billet has to be highly dense and of high integrity and will be used to make new kilogram mass standards.
Big Butch Brewster, to whom the billet-doux was addressed in T. Haviland Hicks, Jr.'s, familiar scrawl, tore open the envelope, and while the squad listened, he read aloud the message left by that sunny-souled youth; "DEAR BUTCH: "Coach Corridan will have to use the alarm clock from now on! I'm called away on business. See that my stuff gets to Bannister O.K. Stow it in the room next to yours. I'll be back at college some time in the next century. Give my adieux to Coach Corridan and the squad. T. Haviland Hicks Senior
I went 72 hours without sleep at one stage - when we got back to the billet you never thought straw and brick would be so comfortable.
And so he returns to the paparazzi and the predictable billets-doux slipped under the door by self-justifying journalists who have hypocrisy tattooed on their foreheads.
When Dubbya arranged a cosy billet in the TX Air National Guard; when Cheyney had “other priorities”; when Donald “You go to war with the army you have” Rumsfeld never saw fit to personally smell the gunsmoke; when any number of “chicken hawk” neo cons were allowed to hijack national security, it was patriotism? Obama’s ‘Dream Team’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
The 7th, after a novel experience of being carried up to the coast on motor 'buses from Winizeele, were "debussed" at Coxyde, where they billeted themselves comfortably in the deserted houses. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919
Chris arranged for a lorry to load 12 tons of hickory wood billets in bundles at Gladstone Dock, starting at 8am.
One of the unusual features of St. Bart's is that the billet moulding around the arches is continuous around the entire apse, rather than terminated at the capitals of the arches.
No, you must play underhand with me, knowing that this billet was the one chance for me to get on my feet again. Bunches of Knuckles
The facing of it, or architrave, was often ornamented with the zig-zag, billet, and other mouldings.
The Merry Mex and his entourage had been billeted in Yester House and, out of deference to the American visitors, the newly installed central heating had been turned up full blast.
The climax is reached on his discovery among the accounts, all giving proof of his wife's reckless extravagance, a billet-doux, pleading for a clandestine meeting in his own garden. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
Even soldiers who sought to behave well in billets were not immune from gaffes.
The bottles are ‘blown’ by high pressure air forcing a billet of molten plastic into a mould.
Although this great land spawned Rupert Murdoch, the choice of television channel is extremely limited, or at least it is in my billet.
I know, I know, the Teheran embassy wasn’t built in a day, but it still seems like Ross’s would-be billet is an odd bureaucratic entity. Her Family And Friends Treated Him Like An Ambassador | ATTACKERMAN
We were billeted out privately, although some were in Hamer's Commercial Hotel.
As befits the largest nation in the region, China has sent one of the biggest delegations and the most journalists, many of whom have been billeted in hotels along Haeundae Beach.
On the alluvial flats of the Cook Inlet a tented camp was pitched to billet the navvies.
For some years I made a collection of confiscated billet-doux, but they were destroyed in one of the frequent fires which visit Manila. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
Each night, we untack, groom, feed and turn out our horses in a borrowed field before retiring to our own warm B&B billet.
Every bullet has its billet.
The rough trajectory of the plot begins with Kitty's discovery of a billet-doux, from her husband to Tula.
He was billeted with a family in New Jersey, and began to work, ‘everything from cleaning toilets to working in a restaurant.’
While family and friends and the fellow athletes who didn't stay in the village were billeted out in some of the region's finest homes, the five curlers were perfectly at home in the modest house they rented.
On the arm of the sofa lies last night's attempt at a reconciliatory billet doux to Anna. LOVE YOU MADLY
After his lonely buffetings, Philip seemed to have finally landed a cushy billet. The Long Route To Windsor
He at once wrote Gutel a missive so thickly interlarded with quotations from the Song of Solomon, from Goethe, Petofi, Heine, and Chateaubriand, that when Kalimann read the billet-doux to the blushing girl her head was quite turned. Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1
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I was billeted in a guest house in a spa-village in winter.
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In times of war, troops were billeted in the mill.
From the airport, Estrada and his wife were whisked to the guest house where he was billeted to get ready for the series of meetings with APEC and Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders.
He had meant to stay the night and had been given a billet, but something drew him on - we all have choices.
A soldier, Private John Scofield, billeted at a nearby inn wandered into Blake's garden and words were exchanged.
I think one of the points in the Declaration of Independence of the United States was a complaint against King George that he had required people to billet soldiers in their properties.
I well remember once at the factory when I picked up a billet of the lead alloy used for the cores and struck it with a hammer.
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Billet moulding, a series of little rolls like a dotted line, and chevron, or zigzag moulding were widely used.
Our billets were about a mile out of town, in a row of farm cottages.
With every hotel and motel booked out for the weekend, around 500 Townsville households have offered to billet out of town visitors to the game.
The Colonian was huge and carried steel shells destined for the Somme battlefield in northern France, as well as copper ingots, brass fuses, ball-bearings and steel billets (massive hunks of metal).
The floor was of the bare earth, covered in patches with loose plank of various descriptions, and littered over with billets of "lightwood," unwashed cooking utensils, two or three cheap stools, a pine settee -- made from the rough log and hewn smooth on the upper side -- a full-grown bloodhound, two younger canines, and nine half-clad juveniles of the flax-head species. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
On debussing just west of Bethune, the Battalion marched through the town to billets at Beuvry, which was about four miles behind one of the quietest sectors on the British front. The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918
We were billeted in a farm - where there was an orchard but the fruit was not ripe which was lucky for the French.
He was billeted at her home where her seven brothers had hitherto protected her from any approach by potential suitors.
I'd have preferred a cot until they got us semipermanent billets to stay in; at least cots can be sprayed with Lysol.
I got into my billets' place and slept most of the afternoon.
There have been several improvements to the brigade's billets, dining facility, an improved Lightning University facility, and many enhancements to the brigade's Gym 3.
In a blooming mill, a continuous-cast bloom is rolled into billets, reheated, and thereafter rolled and formed into various products in a steel bar mill or wire rod mill.
Officers were billeted in the Polygon Hotel, and the men at Blighmont Barracks in Millbrook Road.
The press consists of the die, a pressure cylinder, the ram, and a container which receives the preheated ingot, or billet, to be extruded.
Our billets were about a mile out of town, in a row of farm cottages.
Rene got the local college King William to provide the venue, billeted the participants with local players, and found an excellent sponsor to provide the generous prize fund and travel costs of the players.
Myself and one of the four others on this tour are billeted with a young Christian family.
There are sympathetic descriptions of some of the local people - Dutch and German - on whom the soldiers were billeted.
Il suffit d'ajouter le code suivant à adapter selon vos besoins pour chaque tag que vous désirez attribuer à votre blog, dans un billet ou quelque part sur la page principale de votre blog: Je suis un blog suisse! 2006 March — Climb to the Stars
Phoebe pictured Maeve, sitting in regal splendor amid her pillows and her billet-doux, opining on the imbecility of love. EVERVILLE
Paul thinks of Detering, who spotted a cherry tree in full bloom near their billets and picked a few blossoms.
A traffic ticket is not a billet-doux, nor is it a token of affection someone named ‘Don Juan’ delivers.
Dismayed by excessive rail freights on material inputs, several Midland firms chose to forfeit their established inland sites and relocate to the coast where cheap steel billets were available.
A billet-moulding surrounds each arch, which has a plain rib in the soffit.
A benefit of this is that most sailors will now have access to more courses than those associated with their billet.
A record of the old hand processes of shaping a steel square section bar from the original billet taken from the furnace and thence to the yard where material was stored and transported by magnetic crane.
She had no sooner, as a dutiful child, communicated this billet-doux to her father, than he, as a careful parent, visited Mr. Pickle, and, in presence of Mrs. Grizzle, demanded a formal explanation of his sentiments with regard to his daughter Sally. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Previous vice presidents for some years were billeted across the street in the Old Executive Office Building, where much of the White House staff actually works. The Good Fight
A brutal military terror in which thousands died was followed up by billeting the soldiers on the better-off citizens of the provincial capitals, while their sovereign courts were exiled to remote small towns.
From the sublime to the royal billet-doux, the same sale has a collection of 314 unpublished love letters comprising over 2,900 pages from the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) to his mistress, Mrs Freda Dudley Ward.
Of course, as well as penning billets-doux to gifted actors, he can also be marvellously tactless about those who don't impress him.
The oddest derivation of all is perhaps Plymouth Argyle, chosen because the two young men who started the club were impressed with the footballing prowess of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who were billeted in the town.
None of the patterning is really visible until the billet is cut and polished a bit, but the process means that no two parts will look the same.
If I haven't burnt this little billet-doux to light the gas ring for my morning sausages.
The farmer had grown used to billeting troops and drove a hard bargain.
Every bullet has its billet.
a "cogged" billet and is of the proper size for the rolling mill or for the finishing hammer. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
Closet, where he made up the foresaid Billet; and then left his House, never more to return. The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
I've never been billeted in my life before, not even on school trips.
After that, we will begin the process of finding billets for them.
Billet workers - who feed scrap metal into furnaces and dispatch steel orders - are demanding a decent rise.
The consumable electrodes are generally forged billets, wrought revert material, or selected foundry returns, the extra processing of which tends to increase the cost of the raw material.
One was of a stoker billeted in Collingwood Block who awoke one night to see his blanket held up at the end of his bed with no visible means of support!
Most of the 225,000 refugees that flooded into the country of 1.5 million people, however, didn't stay in refugee camps but were billeted with local families.
Built to protect the Solent from French invaders as part of a system of forts, it had a billet for 150 soldiers, is built almost entirely of granite blocks and measures 162 ft across.
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On Demon RS carburetors - those equipped with billetraluminum removable venturi sleeves - the machining process guarantees their concentricity.
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But he introduced a second order and billet mould into his arches, not found at St. John's, both marked characteristics of the first quarter of the twelfth century in England.
As he stood there one of the Circle longhouses where Bragad's' Wares had been billeted began to blossom with flame.
Made up mostly of U.S. Customs art-theft experts, the American team has been billeted inside the museum complex since late April.
Although staff at the Crooked Billet are reluctant to expand on frightening details, they do not wholly refute the suggestion that an Irish woman haunts the cellars.
Our billet is a village with shell-scarred trees lining its streets, and grass peeping over its fallen masonry, a few inn signs still swing and look like corpses hanging; at night they creak as if in agony. The Red Horizon
For my own part, I welcome the change which puts women in seagoing postings: it's about time they shouldered their share of seagoing duties… instead of sitting around in comfortable shore billets at home.
Ah my dear little enemy of the T. R, D., what were the cudgels in YOUR little billet-doux compared to those noble New York shillelaghs? Roundabout Papers
In 1940, as a 12-year-old girl, I arrived one dark October evening with about 200 other girls, to be billeted around the town, where we stayed for three years.
Soldiers were billet ed in all the houses of the village.
These billet metering blocks also feature idle-mixture control screws on all four corners to provide maximum adjustability of the idle circuit.
Extrusion: In this process a cylinder or billet of metal is forced through an orifice by means of a ram to such effect that the elongated and extruded metal has a transverse shape which is that of the die orifice.
That's not exactly news, and just because he left a trail of e-mails that would make a romance novel writer cringe doesn't make him a complete embarrassment; billets-doux don't hold up well under klieg lights. Judgment Day for Mark Sanford
I asked for another operational billet, and they asked me if I'd be interested in going TAD to the SAS. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
Although the billeting officer could not have realized it, this second interruption worked to her advantage. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Within the hour I was feeling better and ready to tackle the billeting office.
The billet has to be highly dense and of high integrity and will be used to make new kilogram mass standards.
Shafts could be ripped by handsaw from one-inch planks cut with a pit saw, or they were sometimes split from a billet with a froe, or wedge.
My billet is a shelf space half a meter wide, half a meter deep, and just a trifle longer than I am-with other females brushing my elbows on each side of me. Podkayne Of Mars
During the Second World War troops of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment were billeted in the hall.
The billet or rectangle represents the grant of land on which the parish was built in 1845
On the 16th the Battalion embussed outside Steenvoorde, and after leaving the charabancs at Petite Synthe, they marched to billets at The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918
The others planted thousands of death charges around the soldier billets and many defence turrets.
New rolling stock such as ore jennies, three bay hoppers, gondolas and billet flat cars began replacing the aging fleet during the 1970s.
And, if you were to send a poulet to a fine woman, in such a hand, she would think that it really came from the poulailler; which, by the bye, is the etymology of the word poulet; for Henry the Fourth of France used to send billets-doux to his mistresses by his poulailler, under pretense of sending them chickens; which gave the name of poulets to those short, but expressive manuscripts. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Ilka bullet has its billet; an 'gin we're to coom back, back we'll coom, though it rained bullets all the way. Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
Angry, lost, and alone, she pursued her duties with unflagging diligence, and patrolled the castle where she was billeted, unflaggingly, in accordance with her training.
The captain billeted his soldiers on Mrs. Mary.
At present foreign countries use flash butt welding technology to achieve the billets connection.
And our name shall be a cannon-shot, before which your Lodge, in the pleasantness whereof ye take pastime, shall be blown into ruins; and we will be as a wedge to split asunder the King's Oak into billets to heat a brown baker's oven; and we will dispark your park, and slay your deer, and eat them ourselves, neither shall you have any portion thereof, whether in neck or haunch. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
They said goodbye and John went to his bedroom, to sit at a bare table in the requisitioned billet and write to Hilda. DARE CALL IT TREASON
Burly arms folded, an expensive but unlit Cuban stogie jammed in his mouth, Morrison held and ancient billet unique to the Submarine Service, chief of the boat.
Moves within the scouting movement mean that future scouts and guides are more likely to stay in hotel style billets than traditional tents.
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In the last four years alone, no fewer than three auctions have featured billets-doux and other letters written by the Duke of Windsor when he held the titles Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII.
During the Second World War the building became a billet for soldiers.
The majority of facilities at K - 2 are tents, which are slowly being replaced by dorm-style billets.
One very interesting aspect of the hotel in which the journalists were billeted in Peshawar was the fact that it was the only hotel in the entire country where one could obtain a drink.
Flesh forks for boiled haunches of meat that looked like torture instruments, were forged out of billets of iron, whereas cauldrons were made out of sheets of iron, that were overlapped and riveted.
The billet is a rectangular block, much the shape of a house brick.
Here at the factory that makes the famous Louisville Slugger bat, three techniques are used to turn Northern white ash billets into baseball bats.
Orleans, despatched their billets by the forlornly precarious post only when they could not send them by the "urbanity" of such or such a one! Kincaid's Battery
Luis Flores once was stuck - stuck behind a backcourt tandem of Todd Billet and Dahntay Jones that had brought Rutgers the tag of ‘team on the rise.’
But poetry — do you know how Vaughn Marlow makes his living? — teaching in a boys 'cramming-joint down in Pennsylvania, and of all private little hells such a billet is the limit. Chapter 32
He had contacted BBC Wiltshire to try to find his temporary billet, which he only knew was called Dial House.
I asked for another operational billet, and they asked me if I'd be interested in going TAD to the SAS. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
Though we lay no claims to perfection -- or anything like it -- few trenches were cleaner than ours were, and right to the very end of the war we never left a trench or billet without it being cleaner and more "lime and creosol" - ated than when we entered it. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919
The heated billets (short lengths of red hot steel) shoot out of the reheating furnace and are caught by the fettlers, men equipped with large pincers, and fed manually into the mill roll.
They were loaded with hot billets from #16 open hearth caster, #3 Bloom & Billet Mill or #3 Conditioning.
Forming us into a row on deck, and calling our names one by one, this functionary handed to each a billet, permitting the holder to go ashore, on condition of an instant compearance at the pontifical police-office. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
I had contact with a yachting firm in Auckland who had a co-partner in Los Angeles and they asked could we host and billet astronomers and we said yes.
With those burning, they windrowed the rest of the grass billets around the little fire to dry them out. Soul of the Fire
So it happened that when Missou arrived a few minutes later he found this pair of gentlemen, who were about to flee for their lives, busily inditing what McWilliams had termed facetiously billets-doux. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West
Contrary to what Bridget Jones's Diary suggests, e-mail has proved an equally unreliable medium for billets-doux.
The dancers could not afford to stay in hotels or motels, so they were billeted with people from the community.
It was of a piece with the rest of the house; spare and orderly; the billet of a military man of spartan tastes and limited finances.
‘People can use the kits on an airplane, in their billets - wherever they happen to be,’ Sargeant said.
Guides will meet debussing organizations and conduct them to their camps or billets. History 119th Infantry, 60th Brigade, 30th Division, U.S.A. Operations in Belgium and France, 1917-1
New rolling stock such as ore jennies, three bay hoppers, gondolas and billet flat cars began replacing the aging fleet during the 1970s.
The doctor was billeted at turns in various family homes over the two years at his posting. Chamula Power
And better still, the back of the menu was a billet-doux to gastronomic accountability.
In truth I am almost decided to answer this precious billet-doux in the same vein in which it was written. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
The troops in these colonies were, at first, veteran soldiers, and were billeted on householders who were chosen from men of good character aged from 18 to 45 years.
This they repeat every quarter of an hour, insomuch that a single last of herrings requires five hundred billets to dry them.
This allows more soldiers to serve in operational billets and makes the DA civilian contribution even more integral to mission accomplishment.
After debussing there was a short march to billets. The Story of the "9th King's" in France
Cette anecdote rappelle celle du bonhomme qui, pour se venger de la société des chemins de fer, prit un billet aller et retour, en se jurant tout bas de ne pas revenir, tout simplement pour faire enrager "ces fourbes-là. French Conversation and Composition
Here is a billet of wood, the circumference of which is about that of the throat.
His friend was Rattler, with whom he was billeted in a room above a gunsmith 's. THE GOLDEN LION
Inspire of whatever ideas you might have to the contrary troops are rarely in uncontrollable naked situations in billets, in dorms or In the field. The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel
A band of treble billet moulding runs under the lower windows; a double hatched moulding under the second tier; and immediately below the parapet is the ornament called the corbel table; these with the billet moulding round the clerestory windows, are in excellent preservation. Ely Cathedral
A carving horse where the grandfather had been when they came into the yard held a split billet of ash he had been working with a drawknife. Temple of the Winds
It was felt, however, that keeping American soldiers out of German billets, which had not been done after World War One, would serve as a necessary corrective.
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Student Exchange Coordinator Colleen Virtue said the students are billeted locally and are all very keen to be introduced to Australian culture during their week long visit to the Northern Rivers.
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His regiment, rested after the defeat at Corunna and restored by almost four years of home duty, was billeted in a town near Palencia; he, wounded in some minor skirmish, in the home of a local grandee.
The lowest part of the shelter, four catwalks below my billet and just over the engineering spaces, was cut like a pie into four quarters-sanitary units, two sick bays, for 'men and for women and both crowded~~L~and jammed into a little corner between the infirmaries was a sorry pretense for a nursery, not more than two meters in any dimension. Podkayne Of Mars
When we have been cleared by Canadian customs we will be billeted and taken to church halls and primary schools in school buses.
I hope there will be no billeting in this parish, or any wild work of that sort; for what would a poor old lamiger like myself do with soldiers in his house, and nothing to feed 'em with? ' The Trumpet-Major
The nine windows extending out from the roof directly below the ridge recalled the roof billets perched on the roof of the main sanctuary and certain subsidiary buildings at Ise Shrine.
I have had a billet-doux from a woman of sixty, which has given me the spleen to that degree, I could out-rail a hypocritical fanatic. The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother
Pg. 161, "billets deux" changed to "billets doux", seems more appropriate in context. (six or eight _billets doux_.) In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
Moves within the scouting movement mean that future scouts and guides are more likely to stay in hotel style billets than traditional tents.
As we were going to be billeted I carried a heavy pack.
So in the meantime I'll have to make do with this little billet-doux which has come fluttering through my letterbox…
Unique to the U - 2 is that the main wing planks are milled from large single billets of metal, rather than built up of riveted sheet metal, I-beams and U-channels.
This is the woman, remember, who served bangers and mash at her wedding reception in the Crooked Billet pub in Reading and then honeymooned in Scotland in November.
When the 167th prepared to vacate its billets in April 1919, the section inspector wrote that the regiment left the area ‘in very satisfactory condition.’
The soldiers were then billeted in Minsk in the Ukraine.
The smaller shapes like the roundel and billet are called sub-ordinaries.
We were issued with candles, which we used in the dug outs of the billets because our billets consisted of barns, cowsheds, pig sties and places like that.
Its five major products are fibre-optic faceplates, inverters, tapers, inverter billets and taper billets.
From: Doram Gaunt, state Ingredients for 4 servings: 800 g carrots, unclothed, truncated edges A billet cup olive oil 2 teaspoons object flavorer seeds UH Watch
Escritoires were stocked with stationery suitable for the billet-doux that were sure to be required; and there, too, were the little boxes of glazed mottoed wafers, then all the fashion, with which to seal the pretty missives. A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,
Each night, we untack, groom, feed and turn out our horses in a borrowed field before retiring to our own warm B&B billet.
But, though with much difficulty the scientific authorities enabled him to secure the promised Government grant for his book, and a temporary billet ashore while he worked at it, he was only able to publish his _Oceanic Hydrozoa_; a vast quantity of his researches remained unpublished, and subsequent investigators, going over the same ground, won the credit for them. Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch

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