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  • The heroic deeds of this brave and noble Irishman have brought honour and glory to his native land.
  • The only character who sees through the subterfuge is the ex-CIA agent, abandoned by his country, whose life of dirty deeds on behalf of The Company prepares him alone to understand his role and dig his way out. Hullabaloo
  • Their history is replete with heroic deeds of selfless devotion and supreme sacrifice over the years.
  • When one departs from the deeds of a specific group into speaking of the vices of a whole race or a people, one is descending to demonization and engaging in pure propaganda.
  • A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. 
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  • In the first half of the fifteenth century, Gutierre Diaz de Gámez wrote an account of the deeds of his lord don Pero Nino, count of Buelna.
  • Poets used to sing of such heroic deeds.
  • Their misdeeds, if that's what they really were, haunted some to their graves and continue to bedevil the still living who are never allowed to forget them.
  • It challenges the seemingly benign interest we have in criminology and forces us to question our morbid fascination with terrible deeds. Times, Sunday Times
  • It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the thing is that players are remembered for their deeds on the pitch, not in the media.
  • We acted out their deeds in our games and dreamed about being them when we grew up. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
  • Dirty deeds in the Dolomites. Times, Sunday Times
  • “Hurr”; the Latin “ingenuus,” lit. freeborn; metaph. noble as opp. to a slave who is not expected to do great or good deeds. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The literal translation is Manly deeds, womanly words or Deeds are male, words are female.
  • Rather than rewarding whistleblowers who had been punished for their good deeds, Obama has signing statemented away constraints on his power to retaliate against whistleblowers by firing them. Six Months of Immunity
  • As a last resort, you could also apply to have a judgment mortgage registered on the deeds of your debtor's property.
  • No one can brag about his or her good deeds because our works cannot save us. Christianity Today
  • His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press
  • ‘A gentleman never turns away from the opportunity to perform brave and noble deeds,’ Conor said.
  • Jacobean plays always end with bad deeds punished. Times, Sunday Times
  • He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death.
  • He feels as he discusses the power of myth that he is able to make people experience both terrible and noble deeds.
  • To render the title doubly secure, Dauversière and Olier obtained deeds to the island from Lauson and from the Hundred Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
  • He reeks in misdeeds, but is selected as the fit companion for the newly born as well as for the agedly virtuous. Idle Comments
  • She's been making up for her past misdeeds by doing a lot of voluntary work.
  • Hippias infers from the look of Socrates' speeches and deeds that he is an eristic sophist.
  • Owners should start with their property deeds, which will detail all past owners.
  • It is a fact that we have got to render an account for the deeds done in the body.
  • Although Harriet made a contribution to the purchase price Ian told her that there was a limit to the number of names that could appear on the deeds to the property.
  • Global Partnerships has stepped up to answer in good deeds the microfinance misdeeds which Yunus decries. Jonathan Lewis: Nobel Peace Winner Slams Poverty Profiteering
  • Ye have known the deeds that have raised this war between me and you, sons of Adnan; and if I do not appease myself among you, never may I be called ennobled in my parents! Antar :
  • It will be a lasting reminder of great deeds. The Sun
  • Now a retour is a writ returned from the Court of Attorney, testifying the service of every succeeding heir; and is therefore an unexceptionable evidence of paying his predecessor's debts, and of performing his obligations and deeds. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
  • Commissioners had to forward the certification to the recorder of deeds before the change could take effect.
  • The Native Americans present at the origination of modern land titles at the root of all deeds in Manhattan today thought they were renting the island to people who intended to stay a season to revictual their ships and leave. D.C. Rental Boom a Bust? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Our deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds
  • He was a U.S. version of Gandhi, advancing the theory of pacifist resistance through his words and deeds.
  • She prays to the gods and recounts her deeds to them alleging that she dies unavenged as she shoves the sword in her body.
  • The Islamic Republic of Iran is a true revolutionary power. Its central theme has been its relentless attacks, in words and deeds, on the international system.
  • Industrial successes, bountiful harvests and the good deeds of happy citizens follow for 20 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Simon, being dedicatedly apolitical, was the last person to be motivated in his deeds by the desire to make a 'statement', and regarded what they were planning as a kind of situationist artwork. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
  • No more hiding behind complicated accounting fantasy language, no more obfuscating the reality of what misdeeds were going down in the name of business at her company, she wanted the real, plain, unvarnished truth recounted.
  • They were always joking about the battle ahead and talking about the great deeds they would accomplish. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
  • What remain of Pretoria is a "cadastral area" registered in the deeds registry as a township, the City of Tshwane Metropolitan said on ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The terror he unleashed in the name of Crip was widespread, but I cannot detail his ruthlessness lest some fool try to duplicate his misdeeds. Blue Rage, Black Redemption
  • The big established banks struggled to deal with the legacy of past misdeeds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Provided that this section shall not affect any general rule of law relating to the execution of deeds or negotiable instruments.
  • Grandpa Captain Wilton, of before their time, but whose wild and lusty deeds and pranks, told them by their fathers, they remembered with gustoGrandpa Captain Wilton, or David Wilton, or "All Hands" as the Hawaiians of that remote day had affectionately renamed him. The Kanaka Surf
  • Jesus demands that the people look to their deeds before all else, reviles wealth and importance, insists that the lowliest, least superficially deserving of beggars is more readily accepted by God than those who trumpet achievement and virtue. He Ain’t Heavy « Tales from the Reading Room
  • And here we would express our sincere thanks to all such as alleviated so greatly the burdens war had imposed upon us -- alleviated these by friendly sympathies, which found expression in deeds of kindness and love, and that at a time and in circumstances when the sword of Damocles was suspended over their heads, for to give an enemy a drop of cold water was then considered a great crime! In the Shadow of Death
  • Isn't it to do with being a man-at-arms, with strapping on armour and sallying forth into the wildwood on your horse, your lady's token on your arm, to right wrongs and do great deeds?
  • Here, the unrecorded deeds of long-dead city dwellers come to light; the brewers, tanners, cabinet makers, printers and bakers are all to be found in the records of the city's ancient parishes.
  • And see his good deeds springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal! A Christmas Carol
  • Take some time to reflect on your past virtues and misdeeds.
  • No one can brag about his or her good deeds because our works cannot save us. Christianity Today
  • In such circumstances the lender has the right to destroy the deeds provided that it notifies the owner first. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then, assured that the company had repented of their evil deeds and intentions, he granted his full, sovereign forgiveness to all.
  • Liberality, righteous conduct, rendering assistance to relatives, and performance of blameless deeds - this is the highest blessing.
  • For example, if the title deeds are left with the company, an equitable mortgagee by deposit will take priority.
  • The walls, plastered with painted murals of epic battles and heroic deeds, were additionally decorated with the colorful banners and standards of several dukedoms.
  • He was simply an icon of the West, a doer of brave deeds on the great frontier.
  • Like all social historians, I find more property deeds than grocery bills in the archives.
  • I came in 1976, when I had gotten an advance copy of a report of a House committee investigating CIA misdeeds.
  • Wilder cited Deeds 'pledge as one reason why he declined to en-dorse the Democratic nominee. News for InsideNova.com
  • Thus also in the sports which have made us happiest and been recollected as folk and individual memories, the particular occasions in which great deeds were done by great heroes, even, in a diminuendo, done by oneself, were then gathered into the collectivity of family or national storytelling. 'A Short History of Celebrity'
  • If to recall good deeds erewhiles performed be pleasure to a man, when he knows himself to be of probity, nor has violated sacred faith, nor has abused the holy assent of the gods in any pact, to work ill to men; great store of joys awaits thee during thy length of years, O Catullus, sprung from this ingrate love of thine. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
  • He was more a man of deeds than of words - he always performed what he promised, and when this had been done, he sent to let the petitioner know that his wishes had been granted.
  • But between now and election day, we're going to hear enough about their past deeds and misdeeds to make you upchuck.
  • Some say that she killed herself because she could not take her husband's deeds like gambling and womanizing so she just shot herself one night.
  • All the courageous deeds and tales of chivalry that they had so eagerly talked about were so far away now, like a faint memory just out of reach.
  • Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words. 
  • As more people got into the accusation game, the stories became more bizarre, with accusers claiming, for example, to have seen the specters of witches and witnessed their deeds.
  • Perhaps it is right here that we catch the clew to their futility, put our hands on the pulse of their unpractical inability to put an end to violence by the perpetration of deeds of violence. Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards
  • There is also a flat fee of £35 payable to register property deeds with the Registry of Deeds.
  • Everyman is at-last forsaken by Beauty, and Power and Wealth, and all the other allegorical figures, and is left alone to face Desolation and the Judgment of Heaven, with only Good Deeds to befriend him. The Drama as a Factor in Social Progress
  • It is Meredith who unwittingly brings Tom Ripley crashing to earth when it seems that he has eluded danger and gotten away without punishment for his dark deeds.
  • Dark deeds were done here at times, and no man "peached" upon his fellows. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • On hearing of his misdeeds, the ‘witch’ has no trouble believing that he is indeed the cause of his tribesman's misfortunes.
  • There is a miner attack in words but a major help in deeds.
  • His energy, his empathy, his self-indulgence, his appetites -- for food (unsated as it must be these days), for sex (maybe sated these days, maybe not), for attention, for power, for good deeds -- are all outsized. Michael Takiff: Bill Clinton, Still the Biggest Dog in Town
  • This book is written from a Protestant standpoint, but by a man who was a Catholic fifty-six years before he ever became a Protestant, and we feel absolutely certain that the Catholic world will endeavor to throttle its circulation, but we have laid aside every vestige of fear from that standpoint and have made up our mind that we are no better than Martin Luther, and thousands of Protestants who were burned at the stake by Catholicism for proclaiming to the world the awful deeds of that _awful creed_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
  • It is a modern-day fairy tale complete with magic, an ogre, brave deeds, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil.
  • So thinks Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, the New Scotland Yard man looking into a wealthy Cumbrian family's private deeds and secrets in the latest Lynley chronicle from Elizabeth George. In Brief: Mysteries
  • But what would our world be without these non-conformists who perform unspoken deeds in the dead of night?
  • In a short amount of time, those felonious deeds cost Sonny Liston his freedom.
  • Every evening one of the Batoka plays his "sansa," and continues at it until far into the night; he accompanies it with an extempore song, in which he rehearses their deeds ever since they left their own country. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864
  • CARMEL -- The new sponsor of the 2010 Hamilton County Spelling Bee, Williams Comfort Air in Carmel, is expanding a recognition program started a year ago to recognize high school seniors whose deeds might go unnoticed. IndyStar.com Top Stories
  • The Masonic religion should be, by all of its initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine. if Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (the God of the Christians) whose deeds prove his cruelty perfidy, and hatred of man, Barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests calumniate him? La Satanism Exposed | Disinformation
  • They have been told to transfer the deeds of the properties into a company controlled by the national party. Times, Sunday Times
  • Moreover, I will give you a splendid staff of riches and wealth: it is of gold, with three branches, and will keep you scatheless, accomplishing every task, whether of words or deeds that are good, which I claim to know through the utterance of Zeus. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • Her kind nature was ever to the fore and she performed many good deeds in her own quiet manner.
  • For the first days of Lent, and perhaps for the entire period, devout Buddhists will abstain from intoxicants, certain foods, harsh language, deceitful deeds, and make a concentrated effort not to harm any living creature.
  • But why make a virtue out of those inevitable errors and misdeeds, much less a program?
  • Even so in a man who has right view, all deeds conduce to happiness.
  • Western reporters detail, quite properly, the misdeeds, the crimes even, of the occupying forces.
  • Turning away from childish games, she used to hide herself in retired chambers, that she might give herself up more completely to prayer; and by constantly reading the deeds of holy men, she was so inflamed with the desire of a more austere life, that she even laid a plan with her brother to run away from their father's house and to betake themselves to a desert place. 29 December -- St Thomas of Canterbury
  • They shared with their nonmystical fellow believers the public practice of prayer, the study of sacred texts, and the deeds of charity. Commonweal Magazine
  • Then the pope, considering the great perils that might ensue by his departing, dispensed with him, and assoiled him of his avow, of which he sent to him a bull under lead, and enjoined him in penance to give the goods that he should have spent in his pilgrimage, to deeds of charity, and to re-edify some church of S. Peter, and endow it with sufficient livelihood. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
  • She insists that his misdeeds are not about race, diversity or affirmative action.
  • However, guides still relate stories of the palace's dark deeds with a certain grisly humour.
  • The Philosopher gives it the name of wittiness (_eutrapelia_), and a man is said to be pleasant through having a happy turn* of mind, whereby he gives his words and deeds a cheerful turn: and inasmuch as this virtue restrains a man from immoderate fun, it is comprised under modesty. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • He was shocked to see what was becoming of a legitimate newsbeat, that it was becoming illegitimate through the deeds of these other publications. CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2007
  • Dante is the Emperor of Words, but the buffo is the Emperor of Deeds. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions
  • Despite her good deeds, this wizened enchantress's sinister duality surfaces when she senses the threat of a changeling among the Quinn clan.
  • Tell his glory among the nations ; among all peoples , his wondrous deeds.
  • It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Benjamin Franklin 
  • We read of their heroic actions on the field of battle and their deeds in other places.
  • On rare occasions, owners fail to redeem their property and the county government deeds it over to the investor.
  • They hope their words and deeds can cause the attention of other, peacockish , egocentric, ego abandon, often react to trifling bagatelle mood too intense, sometimes for no reason gets angry.
  • The men of perfect practice are different in deeds, living customs and mindset from the common people but you can't say that they are weird.
  • For Kass, the sting of death makes for stronger friendships, greater loves, more ardent learning, and nobler deeds.
  • Such images, the writer thought, could encourage beholders to accomplish noble deeds.
  • There were many others, some known heroes, others whose valiant deeds are written on the scroll of life. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
  • The liability did not appear on his property deeds and was not raised during the conveyancing process. Times, Sunday Times
  • C. It seemed to be all the correspondence plus details of deeds on the properties currently being handled. KICK BACK
  • Setting back the cause of the mentally ill despite his legislative good deeds, Patrick Kennedy seemed to be making an excuse for those who premeditate murderous rampages. Robert David Jaffee: Media Coverage of Mental Illness Follows Familiar Line
  • For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly.
  • It is all very well to sign these deeds of settlements but we need Governments with the gall to implement them.
  • Some players do write and try to justify their dirty deeds, maybe to salve their own guilty conscience.
  • The Soviet Union has been and will continue to be a reliable bulwark in the defense of peace and the security of peoples, and is ready to prove this not in words but in deeds.
  • Rather than the thesis being that virtue lies in good deeds, you could say that money lies in odd places.
  • This is the true definition of "faerie" lands and is the first sign of real mental development in the child when he is no longer content with the stories of his own little deeds and experiences, when his ear begins to appreciate sounds different from the words in his own everyday language, and when he begins to separate his own personality from the action of the story. The Art of the Story-Teller
  • May it please your good Lordship, That albeit we attend here on my Lady Elizabeth's Grace, our Mistress ... we do not forget our most bounden Duty, nor yet our Readiness in Words and Deeds to serve her Highness [Queen Mary] by all the Ways and Means that may stand in Us, both from her Grace, our Mistress, and of our own Parts also .. .166 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
  • Land grants were obtainable from the Spanish Government by proving priority of claim, but the concession was only given after wearisome delay, and sometimes it took years to obtain the title-deeds. The Philippine Islands
  • D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
  • The Soviet position followed the new position of the CPSU at its 20th Congress 1956 where Nikita Khruschev unveiled misdeeds of Stalin in his secret speech on the last day of the congress. Archive 2006-10-01
  • She heard the word terra and concluded they'd won deeds to land parcels. Time Scout
  • Her name is fragrant with good deeds.
  • The title personalities of the lead character gave actor James Nesbitt plenty of fun, and there was a creeping menace to events hinting at darker deeds to come. The world does not owe you a living
  • The name may have changed from Ahura Mazda to Allah, but the concept is the same: said power is fond of good deeds and less fond of mean ones. Dr. Alex Benzer: Why the Mullahs are Un-Iranian: 7 Fatal Flaws
  • The bombers died carrying out their evil deeds and are unable to repent. The Sun
  • Next, he called the chaplain, -- for he would fain have him at his elbow to countenance the devilish deeds he meditated, -- and embarked, with him, twelve soldiers, and two Indian guides, in another boat. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863
  • There is no honor higher than to be continuers of the glorious deeds of our ancestors, no duty loftier than to reliably protect the country.
  • He added that the low income of the force's members could not be a justification for the officers to commit misdeeds.
  • One of the reasons Kaine trounced is that so much great work was done on the state voter file this year (unfortunately, all the money and focus was and sort of had to be on Kaine, so promoting and tracking Byrne and Deeds kind of got left behind). Waldo Jaquith - Debut of Campaigns & Elections column.
  • The prosecution is determined to discover the corporations' misdeeds to reveal the real picture.
  • The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. John Milton 
  • Europe, that their business was considered as one of great honor, and that they were permitted to assume what may be called heraldic devices on their standards, to carry bright-feathered plumes, and to wear gold ornaments -- such decorations being only allowed to warriors who had, by their deeds in battle, been admitted into an institution which closely resembled that of knighthood; all others dressing in plain white cloths, woven from thread obtained from the aloe. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
  • She said her ministry had decentralized the issuance of title deeds to speed up the process.
  • Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven. 
  • We can not win a place in heaven by good deeds - neither did he.
  • Our deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds
  • The poem tells of the deeds of a famous warrior.
  • We can encourage people to love and good deeds by our own love and good deeds. Christianity Today
  • Having said this in his First Book of Good Deeds, he says again, that both commodiousness and grace pertain to mean or indifferent things, none of which according to them, is profitable. Essays and Miscellanies
  • This legal muddle was to prove an unremovable stumbling clock, and to frustrate yet again years of efforts - just when these efforts were at last showing promise of bearing fruit and forcing our institutions to account for their deeds
  • Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. Sophocles 
  • And, for probation, there needs none, their deeds being notour and public, and the most of them such as themselves do avow and boast of. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
  • This is an important service, for much of the scholarship to date has focused on the words and deeds of the proponents of various forms of Syrian, Arab, and pan-Arab nationalism, chief among them the founders and leaders of the Ba ` th Party and Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP, also known as the PPS). MRZine.org
  • This means he is left off the mortgage and property deeds. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is gone but his good deeds as a procurer of justice will let his spirit live on forever. Anthony Papa: The Passing of a Drug Reform Hero: Retired Judge Jerome Marks
  • He soon learns that Laura's true killer is a spirit called Bob, operating by inhabiting various human vessels and carrying out his gruesome deeds.
  • Deeds and words must be matched and theory and practice must be closely integrated. We must reject flashiness (without substance) and every sort of boasting.
  • Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words. 
  • Many were the kind deeds performed by this good natured gentleman and he will be sadly missed by family and friends.
  • Her misdeeds eventually led her to be banned from practising law for seven years.
  • That is the thing about dark deeds. The Sun
  • He concludes that novels about terrorists will continue to be written, but that they will not be as sympathetic towards the actual doers of the deeds.
  • Dark tales of haunted houses, dastardly deeds and jilted lovers spice up the city's back streets. The Sun
  • These trust deeds usually contain an expert clause about the remuneration of the trustee appointed under the deed.
  • The basic idea is that one's soul can be reincarnated for an unknown number of rebirths and that what the soul is to be reincarnated into depends on the balance of one's sins and good deeds in past lives.
  • This means he is left off the mortgage and property deeds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Do you agree with the author that his dismemberment was an attempt to purge himself of "unsavory" thoughts and deeds? The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester: Questions
  • You heard what Ephraim Sneh just said, that the Palestinian Authority has to follow up what he described as encouraging words from Mr. Arafat, has to follow up with deeds. CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2001
  • The Court, after listening to the evidence concerning the sums paid by individual Natives of the tribe, of the total sum paid for the farm, and of the legal reason why the title bore a white man's name, held that however unfortunate was the position of those Natives if their story was true, it could only give judgment in terms of the title deeds. Chapter XXIV
  • More seriously, the lived manner in which Legionaries practice obedience is laced with the kind of unquestioning submission which allowed the cult of personality to emerge around the figure of Maciel in the first place and covered for his misdeeds. Archive 2009-07-01
  • It challenges the seemingly benign interest we have in criminology and forces us to question our morbid fascination with terrible deeds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Luther is quoted as saying he was "in cloaca", or in the sewer, when he was inspired to argue that salvation is granted because of faith, not deeds. Archive 2004-10-01
  • It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Well, let us indeed examine the totality of the Prime Minister's words and deeds, and discover how we came by this misunderstanding.
  • The child know that he or she is loved because in these kindly acts and gentle deeds, love is conveyed, beyond words.
  • Eisenhower had not been aggressive enough, he tended to compromise, he could not stir the nation to great deeds.
  • Even murderous goons and heartless goombahs were stirred to noble deeds.
  • Terry's has been looking at the deeds of his own past life and is feeling "compunction", the sting of guilt. Compunction
  • As an indicator of forcible suppression it often appears in charts associated with assassinations (but not necessarily for the actual moment of such deeds).
  • Of Tydeus next the lofty praise I will express in brief; no brilliant spokesman he, but a clever craftsman in the art of war, with many a shrewd device; inferior in judgment to his brother Meleager, yet through his warrior skill lending his name to equal praise, for he had found in arms a perfect science; his was an ambitious nature, a spirit rich in store of deeds, with words less fully dowered. The Suppliants
  • - A fifth-generation Boy Scout, 11-year-old Brad Corr is steeped in all the lore and tradition: the Scout Oath and Scout Law, campcraft and community service, the daily doing of good deeds. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
  • If folks know that the media are in cahoots with the cops, then surely they'll deliver a solid beating to anyone recording their nefarious deeds.
  • Apocalypse, holiness and filthiness would not be spoken of abstractedly, that is, apart from holy and _filthy_ persons, and in like manner righteousness and unrighteousness would not be mentioned apart from their necessary {117} antecedents, _personal_ righteous and unrighteous _deeds_. An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality
  • Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words. 
  • A distinct pattern is beginning to emerge in the disconnect between the words and deeds of the Administration.
  • A number of oral sagas were written down, dealing with the deeds of great knights and mythic figures in the past. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
  • A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. 
  • Another salutary constitutional reform -- not of Bismarck's making, for he gave his consent unwillingly and not without first having marred its beauty, but yet an effect of his great deeds -- is the Prussian "Kreis" and "Provinzial-Ordnung," first introduced in 1874. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
  • Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny. Harry S. Truman 
  • If the deeds and plans don't help, there is a legal presumption that the owner of a property will use his land to the fullest possible extent. Times, Sunday Times
  • Transmitting any good deeds at the school is viewed as a mortal sin; decency isn’t acknowledgeable. Movie Review: Doubt
  • Dark tales of haunted houses, dastardly deeds and jilted lovers spice up the city's back streets. The Sun
  • By Hammurabi's time, in Mesopotamia there had accumulated literally centuries of archived legal decisions and property deeds.
  • If a person was significant due to his deeds in life, a text on the hatchment made the most of these achievements.
  • She will then be able to turn around and say - everyone knows of this person, everyone has heard of this person, and his evil deeds that I allege he's done.
  • The werewolf rose up howling, blood coating its white fur, fangs gleaming in the moonlight, its eyes reflecting a rabid malevolence to match its deeds.
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  • Several opponents on the path have barred railroads from their land by adding restrictive covenants to their property deeds.
  • Sentence prolonged, changed, ad arbitrium judicis, still the same case, [341] one thrust out of his inheritance, another falsely put in by favour, false forged deeds or wills. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • From words to deeds is a great space. 
  • Deeds, captions on cases, and other legal forms like subpoenas all serve the purpose of giving notice, which is how lawyers and the courts communicate with the public.
  • He even goes further than this, and expresses himself as believing in such a suit the Court will enter a decree absolutely annulling the deeds, which of course would revest the title in Mr. Chaloner. Board of Visitors minutes
  • At every opportunity he recalls deeds of kindness done to him by others, even in past lives.

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