How To Use Hero In A Sentence
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Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician.
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A few minutes with the heron book cleared up the mystery; they were tricolored herons, the first I had ever seen.10 By the end of the month American goldfinches were shooting around like tossed gold pieces despite another cold spell.
Bird Cloud
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Silence is the rule for our heroes, and that means a bit of extra claustrophobia to scenes that would otherwise be totally generic.
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The game's protagonist, Laharl, a self-absorbed demon who also happens to be prince to the throne of the netherworld, is as unlikely a ‘hero’ as one could expect.
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Let the term geoid apply to the natural irregular surface of the earth and the term spheroid to the ideal regular sur - face of the geodesist which coincides nearly with sealevel and is necessarily a level surface.
Transactions - American Philosophical Society
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In wartime, heroes come into being in times of crisis; in peacetime, they come into existence by doing trifles in everyday life.
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The heroic deeds of this brave and noble Irishman have brought honour and glory to his native land.
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Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
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Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers.
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
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The heron profile that she saw through the grille.
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His identification with the hero of the book made him sleepless.
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But while he speaks of war-time heroes and exploratory pioneers, he forgets about another interesting lifetime.
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I had always envisioned a sort of heroic rescue, but those were only dreams.
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This is mostly true for fans, friends, and family of unsung folk hero Tim Hardin, the prolific songster who wasted his life living wasted.
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The endotoxins exuded are cell - wall constituents that are sort of like pheromones or germ sweat.
T.S. Wiley: Can Sleep Loss Destroy Your Immune System?
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To my mind, Tom Hank's Forrest Gump is a Walter Mitty , for he sometimes was a Vietnamese War hero and later a table tennis diplomat between America and China.
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What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress?
The Sun
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It is surprisingly easy to manoeuvre and far less treacherous than parasailing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The council's own footballing heroes successfully defended their title in the European Municipal Cup in St Malo, France.
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A Roman favourite is maccheroni alla carbonara, a ham and egg mixture with a creamy sauce.
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No individual hero is celebrated in The Four Days, no single villain vilipended.
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But recently, he publicly crossed swords with Soi Lek, whom he described as untrustworthy and treacherous compared to former MCA president Ong Tee Keat.
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Pondus limi, inde aworden is flæsc pund fyres of thon read is blod and hat factus est caro; pondus ignis, inde rubeus est sanguis et calidus; pund saltes of thon sindon salto tehero pund deawes of thon pondus salis, inde sunt salsae lacrimae; pondus roris, unde aworden is swat pund blostmes of thon is fagung egena factus est sudor; pondus floris, inde est uarietas oculorum; pund wolcnes of thon is unstydfullnisse _vel_ unstatholfæstnisse pondus nubis, inde est instabilitas thohta mentium; pund windes of thon is oroth cald pund gefe of thon is pondus uenti, inde est anhela frigida: pondus gratiae, id est thoht monnes sensus hominis.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
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The hero of philately became an immortal, but all he really invented was the idea of the glue on the back.
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Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
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After too much airtime is devoted to the quartet's training, the contest itself throws up an unexpected hero.
Times, Sunday Times
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Traitorfish said: I know that’s clichéd, but I really never liked Captain America - a superhero that nationalistic is nothing but creepy.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Death of Captain America
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The mayor is still a folk hero in Chicago's black community.
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We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
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The habitat suitability selection models were established for nesting of Grey heron(Ardea cinerea)in Zhalong National Nature Reserve.
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Despite a string of victories-the judge's stinging decision enumerating Allen's "fraudulent modus operandi," occasional media coverage, and the support of real CIA agents and military heroes-he is no closer to collecting the $40,000 he says was "conned" from his family in 1993.
Edgar Allen
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Dormant until today, the Olympic tennis stadium suddenly erupted when the Greek heroine came from a set down to gain momentum in the second session.
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`You promised then you would immortalize the heroes of that day," said Quaver.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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a nickel deck of heroin
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Even France's old colony of Algeria treated him like a returning hero on his recent visit.
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After his long stretch as an untouchable hero and saint (courtesy of hagiographer R Bolt) it was about time that creep More was taken off his pedestal.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The whole secret appeal of the super hero isn't so much their buffed up bodies and superpowers, although those are nice too.
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The central character is the author's most repulsive anti-hero yet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other birds that utilize this ecoregion are yellow-crowned night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea), neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), yucatan parrot (Amazona xantholora), Yucatán bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis), and zenaida dove (Zenaida aurita).
Petenes mangroves
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The former schoolteacher is already a national hero in his adopted homeland.
Times, Sunday Times
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But only one is a riot-grrrl guitar hero, turned NPR blogger, turned ascendant sketch comedian.
‘Portlandia’ star, guitarist Carrie Brownstein finds outlet for all her interests
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The fact is that any Democrat's heroic war record functions mostly as superficial innoculation against charges of sissiness during campaigns, and it's the reason you see so many more Republican chickenhawks than anti-war Dems in public office these days.
Hullabaloo
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The charges against the Commanchero members are for "affray" - fighting in public and causing bystanders to fear for their safety.
TheState.com: The Buzz
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Young footballers who copy the bad behaviour of their professional heroes are receiving adult-size bans.
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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The rest of the book is a rampant cornucopia of sickness and murders as the noble hero, Dr. Alex Cross, attempts to find Casanova's victims, hidden deep in Casanova's sex caves.
It's A Good Thing He Can't Blow My Mind
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My serial Flyover City is a blog-novel, detailing the trials and tribulations of a regular guy living in a world chock-full of super heroes and villians.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » A Vast List of Storytelling Blunders
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But I think it came at a moment when Americans were particularly hungry for someone they could perceive as honest, upstanding, and a hero.
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But she's not actually ugly; she's just pert and smart-mouthed and has a sexy voice, completely according with that rom-com genre convention of the comic sidekick to the heroine.
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Due to this classification, it does not incur such penalties as cocaine or heroin do.
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Their heroic exploits will go down in history.
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There were periods of real heroism as Scotland tried to speed the game up, Gordon Simpson deciding to run a quick one at the outset.
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He preferred to watch, unobserved, the street life of the city from a hole in his prison wall, than to smoke cheroots and talk politics with his fellow prisoners.
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He fails to get the exercise his body needs and is so enwrapped in his world of cyber heroes and villains that he skips meals too.
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He doesn't have the build for the Jackie Chan stunts he uses to repel the onslaught of his friends in crime-fighting, and he doesn't bear himself with heroic presence.
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In addition to marijuana, cocaine, and crack cocaine, the illicit drugs reported in the survey included hallucinogens, heroin, inhalants, and psychotropics.
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My boyhood heroes in baseball were Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Willie Mays.
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The adult ovary may present marked deviations from its typical form, sometimes being unusually long, spheroidal, flattened, triangular, crescentric, or otherwise irregular.
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Instead of trying to undo the damage inflicted by the villain, Captain Nero (played by Eric Bana), the challenge for our heroes is to stop Nero from causing any further damage.
Star Trek 2009 Feature Film Review | Fan Cinema Today
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In the classic world, the word apotheosis was given to the ceremony that conferred the condition of gods upon a nation's heroes.
August 2006
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Don't you agree that Malcolm X definitely has a place in the pantheon of black civil rights heroes?
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And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes.
Letters to Dead Authors
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Thus, in ancient art, any human action was on the plane of the heroic.
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He was a transition figure - the last of the World War II heroic generals and the first of a new breed, the managerial generals.
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The vaguely realistic answer suggested in this popcorn film provides an entertaining alternative to standard superhero movies.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a great actor and seeing him go from lost rogue to confused son to driven billionnaire to a conflicted hero is a blast.
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Two bird tarsometatarsi, one from a green-backed heron and another a turkey, were also interred with the human remains at Brandon.
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Few in this generation are heroin addicts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Herodotus is like, Truth is fluid, let's not get too fussy about the details.
Alcibiades: canonically irresistable.
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From alcohol they progress (oh so slowly) to opium, thence to heroin, allowing their language to get boozily baroque and even less penetrable.
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More homegrown products to enjoy include the legendary heroes of Lucha Libre: those uniquely Mexican wrestling creations who shifted their considerable weight from the lucha ring to the silver screen, and the accompanying lobby cards for their unabashedly shlocky movies are quite often classics.
The lurid artistry of the Mexican lobby card
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As with this hero, so with others, till Peggy came to look forward, actually, to the history hour; which shows what a teacher can do when she understands her girls, and knows enough to call Plutarch and his peers (if any!) to aid her in her task.
Peggy
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The walk will recall the town's heroes and villains, history, hauntings and murders, ghosts and ghouls.
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Her bold actions have elevated her to the status of national hero and prompted thousands of offers of marriage.
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Each year a select few men and women are honored because of their genuinely heroic contributions to the enhancement of cooperative enterprise and to the advancement of the principles of cooperation.
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Lanchester's second novel follows a day in the life of its eponymous hero.
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Unlike most herons, the Green Heron does not typically nest in large colonies.
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I think America should adopt the motto of one of my heroes, General Vinegar Joe Stillwell.
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He was subsequently arrested by a heroic Garda and some members of the local community.
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Soon enough, our intrepid reporter hero realizes that, due to some nuclear explosion experimentation, the earth has been thrust out of its orbit and is now spiralling towards the sun.
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Of these, five are anoles (Anolis oculatus, A. roquet, A. luciae, A. trinitatis, A. griseus), three are eleuths (Eleutherodactylus shrevei, E. martinicensis, E. euphronides), two are snakes (Typhlops tasymicris) (Bothrops carribaeus) and one is a gecko (Sphaerodactylus microlepis).
Windward Islands moist forests
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When Kwan shocked Hong Kong by coming out, he was already established as one of the city's best filmmakers, esteemed for his finely tuned aesthetics and perfectly realized tragic heroines.
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It should be noted that society was only willing to let these girls be heroines if they wore tight clothes and were beautiful.
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a dashing hero
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Other characters included two long-suffering frogs called Ernie and Sylve, an heroic tortoise called Lewis Collins and a little white shell called Jim Morrison.
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The greatest cause of mortality in type 2 diabetes is atherosclerotic vascular disease and its sequelae.
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You get hero points or zero points for choosing to take a holiday at certain periods.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. V.V. stood by a spindly table, carefully examining a small but costly vase, the property of Mr. Heth, of the Cheroot Works; and now he went on with a kind of diffident resolution, the air of one who gives a confidence with difficulty, but must do so now, for his honor.
V. V.'s Eyes
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So great is the danger of such injurious results, few careful practitioners have cared to adopt the heroic "antipyretic" medication recommended by experimenters, preferring to allow their patients to burn with fever, mitigated only by such simple means as are commonly employed by nurses, than to require them to combat the poisonous influences of a drug in addition to the morbid element of the disease.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
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She pleaded guilty to offering to supply heroin to undercover police officers.
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This is a pathetic argument, as everybody knows drugs like heroin and cocaine destroy lives.
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The film centres around the amorous adventures/exploits of its handsome hero.
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I drove it on a treacherous course in the rugged terrain of Virginia.
The Sun
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This would be such a female as our already seriously humbled hero could not manhandle as mere booty.
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The hero of Doctor Zhivago dies in 1929.
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He reached high rank and for bravery was made a Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Honest serials play fair with these cliffhangers, putting the hero into danger and giving the audience a week to sweat over how he will escape the peril.
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Both of the books' heroes are supermen who refuse to conform.
Times, Sunday Times
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I smoke a heroic amount of hash / grass as it is, so that's not the problem!
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I could go on and on about the many herons, egrets, gulls, terns, and various and sundry other species we spotted yesterday.
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Furthermore, a temporary local heroin drought was created in the borough.
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In the Pacific Northwest, for example, apple growers adorn their trees with dispensers that saturate the air with the chemical sex attractant, or pheromone, of female codling moths.
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Their coach comes across as weak, making decisions to cater for the fading hero rather than the good of the team.
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Innocent have-a-go hero in cells for ten hours - As a former traffic warden and store detective with two police commendations to her name, Wendy Challis-Jones is all too familiar with tackling lawbreakers.
Waterloo Sunset « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Herodotus rejoins that camels have four thighbones in their hind legs, and that their genitals face backwards.
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Reuters distributes this shot which, from the way everyone is caught in the moment, seems to capture Obama ogling, or at least gamely distracted by this junior G-8 delegate (set up by the notorious Sarkozy seeming to also look on lecherously).
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Reuters Obama Booty Call
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But the bashful hero politely declined before going back to base.
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The poems of Homer have the most perfect metre, the hexameter, which is also called heroic.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Their history is replete with heroic deeds of selfless devotion and supreme sacrifice over the years.
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The patients, all of whom were habitual heroin users, were aware of an abnormal local reaction from the time of the suspect injection.
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Like any young sports fan in America at that time, he read newspapers and magazine stories about his heroes.
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One afternoon, I enjoyed a decent rendition of huevos rancheros and also a fine example of the old New Orleans dish eggs Hussard, garnished with ham, tomatoes, and a delicious though lethal mixture of bordelaise and hollandaise sauces.
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The six Roman heroes stand high up in the side arches, above the entablature that crowns the actual windows in the wall.
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Do we want a hero with universal vision, or would we prefer a fallible creature, confusing and confused?
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Where there is no figure under a note, the convention is that this denotes the most common chord, which Mr Protheroe describes as a root-position chord; i.e a triad with a root note, the third above and the fifth above.
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But clavicles are now known from a variety of nonavian dinosaurs, and a fused furcula is present in several nonavian theropods, including allosauroids and tyrannosaurids.
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And why is there no statue or Bank Holiday to the memory of this national hero or heroine?
Times, Sunday Times
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The story follows on from the death of the heroine.
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Do children tend to select heroes who are of their same ethnic background?
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For people who aren't sick of Battle Without Honor or Humanity the full CD of guitar heroics from the Japanese master.
AvaxHome RSS:
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Theroux had a deep gash on his face, neckache, altitude sickness and a damaged wrist.
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Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe!
The Frontiersmen
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Evaluation of the contents of a glassine envelope found at the scene revealed diacetylmorphine (heroin).
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It is especially noteworthy that The New York Times, itself culpable of, or accessory to whatever alleged crimes Mr. Assange may be accused of, has kept its lips discretely, if unheroically sealed.
Michael Brenner: Obama's War on WikiLeaks -- and Us
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The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male.
My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
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Burroughs really sits between SF and fantasy (with a touch of proto-superhero in Tarzan), and Moorcock is its own blend of sci-fantasy.
Quote of the Day
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The main characters are all glorified psychopaths, with little to choose between hero or villain in terms of basic humanity.
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Some of the younger pop bands try to imitate their musical heroes from the past.
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The picture adorns at least two book covers and launched a racing campaign to make the jockey a wider hero.
Times, Sunday Times
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Poets used to sing of such heroic deeds.
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His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.
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I was incredibly nervous and uptight - seeing your hero in the flesh is truly a terrifying experience.
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Turtles Forever, wherein the aughties heroes encounter their retro-'80s selves.
Wired Top Stories
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This paper summarized Ectropis obliqua Prout s biological control researches from the point of mass rearing, pathogenic natural enemy, predator, parasitoid and pheromone.
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I know absolutely no heroin addicts and I know plenty of people who smoke weed.
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Certainly, few entomologists doubt that the amazingly intricate structure of moths' antennae are specific pheromone detectors.
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Taking for granted that we have this standard plate, the spherometer is placed upon it, and the readings of the divided head and indicator, _d_, noted when the point of the screw,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
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It's like the music in the movies where the hero is training for greatness; sparring in a basement with a punching bag or running like the wind or something.
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Calling the open-sourcing of software treacherous is a little wildly off base, where is the treachery?
Did Open Source ever have a halo? : #comments
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The clues aren't obvious—very few will be decked in deerstalker hats or carrying a pipe, and they most pointedly do not say, "Elementary, my dear Watson," a phrase their hero never once uttered in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works.
The Case of the Sherlock Convention
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Our hero grew less fearful of a wreck And took a little stroll upon the deck.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Double Representation; nay almost enjoining it, so loud is the jargon and eleutheromania.
The French Revolution
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Hero gasped, he started to run to the box, uncaring of noise, the same thought repeating in his head: please no!
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England stood forth as the centre of opposition against Philip, and under the unwilling leadership of Elizabeth entered on its epic period of heroism, was stimulated to that remarkable outburst of energy and intellect and power which we call the Elizabethan age.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
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Complex analysis of the international tale of the hero or heroine who glimpses a forbidden sight and suffers for it.
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Manzoni's advocacy of a united Italy made him a hero — some called him the saint — of the Risorgimento, the surge for Italian unification.
The Great Italian Novel, a Love Story
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But he was not to enjoy himself long, for the duck was telling all her neighbours about the ill-usage her little one had received; and the mischief-making little wagtail thought as he had seen the lanky bird eating what he called the kingfisher's fishes, he would go and tell, and then sit on the bank and see the quarrel there would be; for he considered that the heron had no more business to take the fish out of the pond than the toad had to catch flies.
Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
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Our noble captain did not get rid of his angry looks for some days, and actually wept at what he termed the treacherous conduct of the Admiralty.
A Sailor of King George
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Such was the heroicall liberality, and exceeding great clemencie of those most honourable
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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At night you can hear the call of the Cape Eagle owl and during the day you might see bokmakieries, sunbirds, sugar birds, steppe buzzards, heron and many many more.
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The code was validated by comparing the computed forces and torques with the analytic solutions for a hemisphere and sphere in point contact with the wall and also computations for axisymmetric spherical caps and spheroids.
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My inertia in not pushing it backwards into a safe zone is as guilty for the shattered glass as the treacherous wind.
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In terms of scheming... there is a full court press going on right now to bring back the heroization of Chiang Ching-Kuo.
Daily Links, April 10, 2009
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His heroes are the Stoics - especially Epicurus - and Marx.
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The message he sends out is far more treacherous than that of the most blatant ill-wisher.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Thus diminution of prostacyclin production and stimulation of platelet aggregation both mediated by lipid peroxides could contribute to thrombosis on atheromatous plaques.
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The fresh tale follows the familiar style of the original - the eponymous hero magically transported from a suburban fancy-dress shop to a new world.
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In the final scene, the young woman with her sight restored recognizes Charlie, the down-and-out tramp, as the rich and princely hero of her imagination.
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True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
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He's developed this captivating narrative voice that mingles his own sharp commentary with Peter's mock-heroic despair.
Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles
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Achates, and the tender Nisus, were all genuine friends and great heroes; but, alas, existent only in fable:
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The first and last are love poems, but the second is a dirge for an Irish hero.
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A drug user who admitted heroin dealing to fund his habit has been jailed for five years.
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They often fought each other and attacked humans until slain by a brave hero, frequently at an ancient site.
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Do not cracksmen, when assembled together, entertain themselves with stories of glorious old burglaries which they or bygone heroes have committed?
Roundabout Papers
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Our intuition tells us that using drugs use such as heroin, cocaine, psychedelics, hashish, and even marijuana and alcohol can have serious effects on our personal life and may have broader detrimental impacts on society at large.
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Entire avian families are essentially confined to the Neotropics, as are such unique species as screamers, trumpeters, sunbittern, hoatzin, and boat-billed heron.
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Spontaneous, full of life, and unbound by the conventional mores and laws of society, Carmen embodies the heroic defiance of free spirit, desire, and natural instinct over the social rules governing modernity.
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He could hardly believe his luck, and used his Northern grit and determination to become a local and national hero.
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He spent a number of years hooked on cocaine, heroin and alcohol.
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In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
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More than 10,000 Ellen fans recently turned out to cheer on their hero as she sailed her trimaran from Greenwich to Tower Bridge along the River Thames.
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Saltires hero Paul Hoffmann hopes to end a personal jinx and help Uddingston keep the Coronel Scottish Cup.
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Yet Pétain was no such thing; he was a lifelong soldier and a genuine war hero, rather than some preening sham in jackboots.
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The doctor was concerned about this, because the friend was also a heroin addict and was using methadone for his own treatment.
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This one reminded me of Louise Bagshawe or one of the other British bonkbuster authors - quite European though it's set in LA and New York as well as France and revenge-oriented rather than Phillips' usual football-player types being thrust into situations with quirky heroines.
Archive 2009-04-01
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And it mythologizes it in such a way, such a romantic way - it basically says, ‘Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.’
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A Stygian this time, his face tattooed in arcane designs that had been old when Acheron was new to the world.
Archive 2009-12-01
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In Mthatha, there will be a youth football tournament, a "heroes marathon" and a seminar to celebrate not only Mandela's 90th birthday but that of another African National Congress veteran Albertina Sisulu as well.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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The curly haired, dark-skinned child who stared up at him with “hero-worship” adoration was oblivious to the fact that his white shirt was pulled halfway out of the waist of his pants or that his clip-on bow-tie was askew.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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What offends me violently is when a character is represented as a Good and Upright and Virtuous Hero, when almost his every act betrays him as a villain of the most heinous kind.
Death carries a camcorder
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In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
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It is a potent time-release medication for relief of moderate to severe pain, known as hillbilly heroin because of black-market popularity in some rural areas.
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Hamsun's hero is set on a one-way road to suicide and although he does not kill himself he destroys himself.
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Contestants risk all on a series of timed runs down a challenging cross-country course, made more treacherous by artificial jumps and obstacles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because she vanquishes such devitalizing influences single-handedly, however, this heroine's
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
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The radiation of birds from the theropod stem may be an example of this sort of thing.
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As expected given low levels of wild codling moths, release of sterile males, and treatment with pheromone, there was no detectable codling moth damage in any orchard.
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Two figures stood in a treacherously dangerous position at the edge of a hole from which a pillar of light emanated.
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Begging you many pardons, if you have no particular objections, I will light my sheroot,” &c. &c. &c.
Saint Ronan's Well
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The county remains agog since that superlative victory over Tipperary and supporters will relish this latest opportunity to get another look at the heroes of that unforgettable day.
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There is no heroism in butchery, no heroism in suicide, no heroism in writing that invokes, and profits from, the war you have left behind.
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Venus' face is a blurred reflection in a mirror and in Mars (which depicts the unheroic body of a strong old man got up in drapes and a helmet) the face is in shadow.
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Heroin haul ... police seize drugs at illegal rave party site.
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Modern heroes they, and in nowise different from the heroes of old time.
Chapter III
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Where others looked at spinners, seamers and batsmen, he saw folk heroes, comics and tragedians.
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Several characters that typify a theropod: Hollow, thin-walled bones are diagnostic of theropod dinosaurs.
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Then you achieve consensus that the illegal traffic in marijuana, cocaine and heroin, principally, creates its own trillion-dollar economy.
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Dublin has certainly become the new hero on the terraces, as the travelling fans chanted his name at the end.