How To Use Midst In A Sentence
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It was not a great botanic garden, but it was a lung in the midst of the crowded brick and stone of human habitation.
THY BROTHER DEATH
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Down below, a mass of brank-ursine formed as it were a pedestal, from the midst of which sprang scarlet geum, rhodanthe with stiff petals, and clarkia with great white carved crosses, that looked like the insignia of some barbarous order.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
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And while they were in the midst of their banqueting, the door was suddenly burst open, and the Dagda stood there, with his men.
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There must have been laughter amidst the apes when the Neanderthaler first appeared on earth.
Autumn
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The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
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In the midst of a losing streak, a contingent of backup players complained about playing time.
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But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments.
Chapter 2
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A dashing swashbuckler of love, loss, and revenge in the midst of a plot to hide a conspiracy involving Napoleon's return to power.
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Bena and her husband, a condescending, philandering doctor named Ted, arrive in Pueblo, Colo., in the midst of a drought, as well as the Depression.
As The Pages Turn
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Today, spruced-up Times Square is in the midst of a surprising, almost surreal transformation into a family-oriented entertainment center.
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Thes. 2:7 But we were gentle in your midst, as a nursing mother would cherish her own children.
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Such is a part of tire strange medley that is before and around me; and amidst them and the blue streams of smoke that are rising from the tops of these hundred "coal-pits," can be seen in distance, the green and boundless, treeless, bushless prairie; and on it, and contiguous to the piquet which encloses the village, a hundred scaffolds, on which their "dead live", as they term it.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
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Going into a somewhat different trajectory, specifically to continue a line of speculation from a previous post on an African bridge house: can someone be fundamentally altered — like the corn they're cultivating to produce cancer cures — while living quasi-permanently in flourescent-lit dampness and hermetic seclusion, detached from the vagaries of weather, time and natural pollination, amidst pure geology?
Cave Pharming
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Why, amidst all the proposals, have we never reached a situation where schoolgoing children, at least, can attend the doctor and receive medication free of charge?
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In the midst of farmland just to the west of York is a huge open tip.
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They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
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In the midst of a sermon, he suffered an apoplectic attack and remained unconscious for the rest of his life.
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If we condemn Ahmadinejad and other patrons of terrorism, we must, with equal force, commend those Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders who have the courage to speak out publicly against the continued fomentation of Holocaust denial and other manifestations of Judaeophobia in their midst.
Menachem Rosensaft: Finding Common Ground
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The lamp, standing alone in the midst of confusion, suffered a partial eclipse; and my favourite Dublin meerschaum successfully resisted the dilapidating effect of a fall of several feet.
Canada for Gentlemen
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Then old Tarwater's heart uprose again as the air was rent by a cyclone of profanity, from the midst of which crackled sentences like: - Dirty skunks! ...
LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
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The visit took place amidst tight security .
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His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buck-teeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin.
Vanity Fair
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The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
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The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
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His life was for all, bringing everyone in his midst to purity, upliftment and divinity.
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She found a flat rock, in midstream, to perch on, and from there made an assessment of her situation.
GALILEE
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Discredited, Wovoka survived to die in the midst of the Great Depression.
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They are four points behind table-toppers Viktoria Plzen and are currently in the midst of a winter break. The league schedule resumes on February 28 when they will face Banik Ostrava.
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So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly.
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So intent was the big cat on getting her lunch that she chased her prey directly into the midst of a convoy of cars carrying tourists through the park.
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Perhaps it felt betrayed that one from its midst could adopt such views.
Times, Sunday Times
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The almost rural surroundings change before you know it and you are soon in the midst of a much older town on a road gone narrow as you pass through Ulsoor with its temples, shops that sell puja essentials, books, clothes and Primus stoves.
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The eggs of the leipoa, or native pheasant, are found in singular – looking mounds of sand, thrown up by the bird in the midst of the scrubs, and often measuring several yards in circumference.
An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
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His technical skill guarantees admirable clarity in the midst of complex counterpoints, and there is a delightful sense of well-being about the performances.
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Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council.
Tales of Destiny
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Though the Hives open themselves up to style-over-substance gripes, there is real feeling amidst their artifice and formalism.
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These creative young people are part of the vanguard of new talent blossoming in our midst.
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Fortunately, Tosatti's infallible ear could detect an ‘out-of-tune’ microtone in the midst of any situation.
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Bal gives a personal, nuanced account of her own wrestling with the incongruence of a black minstrel tradition amidst The Netherlands' sea of whiteness.
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This contempo transformation is one of the capital affidavit for an added ell accustomed amidst the youth. to abrasion accurate NFL jerseys, which has now become a alone actualization account
Think Progress » Disgraced Hospital Executive Rick Scott Launches Bid For Gov, Directs Contributions To His Investment Firm
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They are actually callous and indifferent to the drama of life and death in the midst of which they find themselves.
WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
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‘In the midst of all this,’ he writes of the era of Generation X and grunge rock, ‘satire alone could be safely, unequivocally embraced, because it acknowledged the sanctity of nothing at all.’
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The subject is out of keeping with these letters, but unless some means can be found to reconcile colonial girls to service, I fear an evil is growing up in our midst which is likely to be even more baneful in its effects upon the community than the corresponding tendency to 'larrikinism' amongst colonial youths.
Town Life in Australia
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SENATE GOP WHIP CONTEST COOLING OFF - Running tonight in Roll Call form David Drucker: "The contest for Senate Republican Whip has chilled following a backlash of rank-and-file GOP Senators, who are upset that a very public intraparty power struggle might sew discord and alienate voters in the midst of a national fiscal crisis.
HUFFPOST HILL - Senate Punk-Off Continues to Escalate
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It looked like a pat of butter caught in the midst of an ocean, with puffy marshmallows snuggling up.
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Tuszynska had never heard of Gran before Polish Jews in Paris told her about the singer—sometimes, the “collaborationist” singer—living in their midst.
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One delegate, amidst great applause, said he felt glorified that the party was disenthralled and redeemed.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
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As is often the case when one finds himself in the midst of a Postum discussion, the talk eventually turned to molasses, one of Postum's primary and no-longer-secret ingredients (the others being bran, wheat, and corn dextrin).
Dave Hill: On Killer Molasses
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O'Driscoll does a great job of sketching out the characters, their relationships and filling their miserable lives with the kind of dread and unease that you can almost taste at the back of your tongue but when it comes time to move this story out of 'grim social realism' and into 'Horror' it all rather falls apart amidst random snowmen, which is a real pity as up until that ending, the story was going great guns.
REVIEW: Black Static #16
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Traces of the modus operandi of the light infantry of old still live on amidst special forces such as the SAS.
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It is often little use trying to explain to someone the theology of suffering when they are in the midst of it!
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Who of that fierce company brought the trooper to his end we never knew, but when M'Iver and I got down to the level he was dead as knives could make him, and his horse, more mad than ever, was disappearing over a mossy moor with a sky-blue lochan in the midst of it.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music.
Lucretia — Complete
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But we can shorten those odds by being alert to the danger in our midst.
The Sun
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It is a great sight, with ant-like streams pouring across long pontoons over the river's shallow sandy banks to innumerable craft moored midstream.
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In writing this review and consequently refreshing of my memory of all the episodes in this year, I was surprised to find so many clunkers in the midst.
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Yet one visitor from Northern Ireland got it right about the museum when she described it as ‘a sanctuary amidst the thousand cackling hens purchasing ever more tacky plastic tartan mugs’.
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The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
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And in the midst of this discussion, making a sudden and awestricken silence, appeared
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
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The reins were secured by chain-work, and the front-stall of the bridle was a steel plate, with apertures for the eyes and nostrils, having in the midst a short, sharp pike, projecting from the forehead of the horse like the horn of the fabulous unicorn.
The Talisman
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While we were required to take up these presents, I chanced to cast an eye upon the table, where there lay a fresh service of cheese-cakes and tarts, and in the midst of them a lusty rundlet, stuck round with all sorts of apples and grapes, as they commonly draw that figure.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
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He had to create order and purpose in the midst of a terrible chaos.
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I tackled him about how anyone could live amidst so much poverty.
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In the midst of that, two American researchers used DNA analysis of whales to argue that North Atlantic whales have been drastically undercounted historically.
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The best time to nudge children toward functional writing is when they are in the midst of doing purposeful work.
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So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell.
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6 'CONFESSIONAL OP VALOMBRB* the wind midst the poisonous intertex - tpre of fumatory and night-shade.
The confessional of Valombre
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If you think you suddenly have an alien in your midst, applaud yourself.
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Amidst all that humbles and scathes; amidst all that shatters from their life its verdure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of existence writeth a sudden and "strange defeature," -- they stand erect, -- riven, not uprooted, -- a monument less of pity than of awe!
The Disowned — Complete
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Park rangers try their best to protect them, but have been ambushed and attacked as they carry out their duties in the midst of internal conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that whiteness she beamed forth.
Les Miserables
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Fifth on the inside down the backstretch, he had to wait until midstretch before he could angle Perfect Sting between rivals and they just got up for the victory.
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Our predecessors of a century ago or in the midst of the Second World War would be astounded at how acquiescent our policy-makers are about this prospect.
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Amidst all of the mainstream media's ballyhooing of the momentum to be gained in the tight Iowa polls, The New York Times finally examined the caucuses sheer unfairness and obsoleteness.
Dan Brown: You and I Don't Care Who Wins the Iowa Caucuses
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In the midst of crowded environment, his mind is collected and undistracted.
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Likewise, trunks for foraging woodpeckers and vegetational structures for dead-leaf foraging antbirds are found throughout the midstory, often extending into the understory and canopy.
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Eight-eyes glued to the plasterboard screen, we witnessed the power of hope amidst prejudice and unreward as the "indigenous" soldiers (aka the Algerian Infantry Division) arrived in France from the colonies to help free their "motherland".
WWII soldiers remembrance
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The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence...
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Raban suggested that analogues might be novels set in an English country home in July 1939, or amidst some Anglo Saxons, somehow unaware of the Norman, in 1065!
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We find ourselves in the midst of a civil war ruthlessly prosecuted by protagonists whose bloodlust knows no bounds.
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As we speak we are still in the midst of a kind of folktale maelstrom, so you’ll forgive me if my initial sideways glance at “Letters from Rapunzel,” appeared to produce just more of the same.
Review of the Day: Letters from Rapunzel
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Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one hand, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras.
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Third Section: Transition from Metaphysic of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason.
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In the midst of a long round of hellos and goodbyes, the European Commissioner responsible for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries has been in fighting form over all the issues that matter to him.
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The hunters camped in the midst of the thick forest.
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And these prodigious slabs of gneiss now lay amidst schistous marl and calcareous rock.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
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In the midst of the church stood 12. waxe tapers of two yards long, and a fathom about in bignesse, and there stands a kettle full of waxe with about 100. weight, wherein there is alwayes the wicke of a candle burning, as it were a lampe which goeth not out day nor night.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
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I’m trying to stay very optimistic and excited about the whole thing, but deep down I know that I’m going down in a blaze of gunfire, in a handbasket, that is on fire, and filled with electric eels, in the midst of a meteor shower, surrounded by my mother’s nagging voice, only to end it all by being impaled on a wrought iron fence.
Whitehelmet Diary Entry
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Million of Americans like me voted for President Obama because we yearned for a president who refused to accept that our great nation was too big to care for the less fortunate in our midst.
Pierce O'Donnell: Why Has President Obama Forgotten Katrina Victims?
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Gone was the safe, familiar home, set amidst a tumble of rolling, well-tilled fields dotted with farm buildings, and grassy meads redolent with the scent of wildflowers.
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They were married at a small church Bradford, in the midst of the Depression - on January 2, 1933.
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They had to drop the experiment in midstream.
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In Washington, a veteran of the demonstrations was in the midst of a fast that began on Tuesday.
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I'm afraid I'm too busy - I'm in the midst of writing up a report.
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The trio before me represents three of the four co-founders of the theatre group, an ensemble in the midst of preparing for their second production.
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Amidst all the hubbub about politician's perks last week, one chap escaped everyone's notice until it came up in Senate estimates this week.
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To leave that as an observation without examining its far-reaching implications seems remiss amidst any sociological exploration.
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Ludlow's domal inscription, 'Omne solum forti patria,' and sat down free in a country which had been one of slavery for centuries, "he adds," But there is _no_ freedom, even for _masters_, in the midst of slaves.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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So in the midst of her winter season — which still found her participating in cyclo-cross races — she enrolled in a "Foundations of French Cooking" class in Boulder, Colo.
Cyclist-approved Fourth of July recipes
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And in the midst, in the head of the centre light, shone out brighter than all, with an inherent radiance of its own, the cognisance of the Blandamers, the sea-green and silver of the nebuly coat.
The Nebuly Coat
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Further, a certain measure of restraint was a condition of sanity amidst the new atmosphere of material abundance.
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In the midst of the morning rush-hour his laughter drifted after her, curling round her senses and inflaming her still further.
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They marched by the sound of atabal and comet, and, as they traversed the streets of the capital amidst the acclamations of the soldiery, they made the city ring with the shouts of "Castile and Tlascala, long live our sovereign, the emperor.
History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
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On another occasion, at the same theatre, the prima donna was taken suddenly ill in the midst of a terzetto, in which Tamburini had the bass, and, while supporting her on the stage, this accomplished musician actually took the soprano in his falsetto, and performed the part of the indisposed lady in a manner which drew down universal applause.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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I have, God be praised, learned to admire, and not envy every one that outgoes me: and this will, I hope, go a great way in making me easy and happy under the pressures of a very narrow fortune, and amidst the ruffles of an ill-natured world.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions
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As an Arab American, I can empathize with Shirley Sherrod, In the midst of this crisis, I wrote a number of short pieces on a few websites charging that she had been "lynched" and was a victim of a hysterical mob spurred on by lies and cowards in authority who, out of fear or political calculation, had sacrificed her to a mob refusing her right to a fair hearing.
James Zogby: I Understand Shirley Sherrod
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How refreshing it is that in the midst of a throwaway society there remain products designed and constructed to function as advertised, season after season.
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In the midst of discussing their newly made plans in May 2001, in the back of a New Delhi cab, Deon spotted a street sign with the word, MOR (meaning peacock in Hindi).
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We were sitting in the midst of an elegant and well-dressed audience.
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I thought it was really terrific how he had boiled so much nonsense away and kept a particular track through the midst of all this confusion and hoopla and blah-blah.
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The high octane opening number -- fueled by the multi-media television screens flashing flags, and George Bush (what would we do without Bush-the-punching-bag) playing golf amidst a really effective multipurpose city backdrop -- sets us up for our journey, which includes Iraq, protests, sex, and having babies (counterpointed with shooting up).
Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: American Idiot: Does It Speak Across Generations?
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God hath placed Him in the midst of His throne as a Lamb, as it had been slain, and it is thus that the hosts of heaven adore Him.
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By dawn, when we can see a little, we realise that we are in the midst of thick forests.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer... Leo Tolstoy
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Just then a bearded, hatted figure swept into their midst.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Vendors hawked their wares while gesturing wildly, and groups of dirty street urchins played amidst the chaos, laughing and catcalling to one another.
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Fourthly, there is a subtle, but powerful alliteration in the fourth line of the second strophe, ‘Amidst an ocean full of flying fishes’.
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But in the midst of this relentless repression, there were rare, precious gems of resistance gleaming out from the melancholy.
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The house was large and old, the furniture not much less ancient, the situation dreary, the roads everywhere bad, the soil a stiff clay, wet and dirty, except in the midst of summer, the country round it disagreeable, and in short, destitute of every thing that could afford any satisfaction to Mrs
A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue
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Llewellyn created another Saunderson legend in the midst of that bloody battle.
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In the midst of life we are in death.
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He succeeds in becoming John Doe, even in the midst of such spectacularly false and manipulated media proceedings.
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And though it gall thee to be told so, albeit thy city in Laconia is no doubt mighty fact, yet thou findest no place for his Scyros, displaying wealth 'midst poverty and setting Menelaus above
Andromache
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Like the chemical analysis, the urine must be collected by the midstream or clean catch technique.
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The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene.
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
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Why not in Aeolia in old time likewise burning for certaine daies in the midst of the sea?
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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A pause: the speaker, though absent from our midst, has a fine grasp of the audience.
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Caractacus" cartoon, were to be seen in this new effort, where, as has been said, the English king stands like a Raphaelesque archangel in the midst of the design.
Watts (1817-1904)
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Yet, even in the midst of all this, the same dark thoughts had presented themselves; the perishableness of myself and all around me every instant recurred to my mind.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
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Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Isaiah 16.
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Listen to him for a day and you would think the Devil was here walking in our midst in the form of Liberals and the Left.
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The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence...
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Red couches - almost unseen amidst the browns, beiges, mossy greens and taupes of the late '90s - are making their way into living rooms across the U.S.
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In the midst of all this I let go of one handful of weed to shake my fist at him.
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When the pair fought their hearts out for the honour of winning the World Boxing Council's featherweight belt, they showed us - amidst the blood and the brutality - all that is noble, honest and decent about the sweet science of bruising.
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These men who had awakened, laughed dissolvent laughs, and the old muddle of schools and colleges, books and traditions, the old fumbling, half-figurative, half-formal teaching of the Churches, the complex of weakening and confusing suggestions and hints, amidst which the pride and honor of adolescence doubted and stumbled and fell, became nothing but a curious and pleasantly faded memory.
In the Days of the Comet
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Post-moral tradition-hating libertines might do well to pause in the midst of their celebrations to consider this.
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No more than in Herod, who “heard the word gladly;” or in the Jews, when the preaching of Ezekiel was “pleasant” or desirable to them; or in those described Isa.lviii. 2, who “sought God daily, and delighted to know his ways,” in the midst of their abominable practices.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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And amidst the displays of oddities and curiosities, the museum of anatomy was in some ways the oddest and most curious.
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She appeared from the midst of the crowd.
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The sounds of battle surrounded me, making me feel as if I were in the midst of a war-torn city.
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We were just informed that easy-home BJS is in the midst of converting from a representative office to a 'company' entity.
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Yet in the very midst of these vices which had rendered his honesty dubious, and name bespotted, he nurtured in the depths of his soul three virtues capable of again elevating him -- an unshaken love for a young girl, whom he married in spite of his family,
History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
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The Boston Globe reports that "[w] hen it became apparent that Clinton was not going to make the customary acknowledgment of Obama's victory in her speech, Obama began his own address before she finished, in effect grabbing the national television spotlight from her and cutting her off midstride" - and he went on to give a 45-minute stem-winder.
A Second Sweep For Obama, McCain
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But we cannot, since even Adam, in innocence, needed one amidst his earthly employments; therefore the sabbath is still needed and is therefore still linked with the other nine commandments, as obligatory in the spirit, though the letter of the law has been superseded by that higher spirit of love which is the essence of law and Gospel alike (Ro 13: 8-10).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Again, for me, the '60s architectural movement, which was in the midst of my school days, could have been the most stimulating in my life.
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I'm afraid I'm too busy - I'm in the midst of writing up a report.
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One could excuse them by saying that amidst the vast expanse of the Pacific they did not notice the discrepancy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later, amidst thousands of adversaries, he expostulated by initiating and appealing for re-adopting conventional ethical and religious norms people had deviated from.
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Haiti is in the midst of a political crisis caused by inconclusive elections held at the end of November.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are beautiful branching deep-sea corals in yellow, brown and white, also deep sponges, cutthroat eels, rattail fish, red crabs, luminescent purple shimmering squid and other life abundant amidst the marine snow, organic detritus falling from above.
David Helvarg: 9/11 From 200 miles Out at Sea
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In perusing the popular culture of the time -- and there is no better psychogram of an era -- I noticed that beyond the Bomb, the Reds and Aliens, there was a greater terror, one lurking in their midst: Teenagers.
Jason Pinter: Books Uncovered -- Four Books You'll Want to Read
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To a man of the world looking on, who has seen the men and morals of many cities, it was curious, almost pathetic, to watch that poor little innocent creature fresh and smiling, attired in bright colours and a thousand gewgaws, simpering in the midst of these darkling people — practising her little arts and coquetries, with such a court round about her.
The Newcomes
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In the midst of this societal jumble is Albert Fish, serial killer and cannibal.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. John Borowski.
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Squatting amidst the logs by the entrance to the hall where the show is on, Suresh Bhat from Ahmedabad is the craftsman engrossed in chiselling these logs into things of beauty.
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In the midst of battle he finds a 'coldblooded' anger that leaves his mind clear.
Times, Sunday Times
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If so, have they not been struck with a philological mania, on seeing his picture of the Kutchin-Kutcha Indians dancing; in which the principal performer is actually figuring in the midst of the wild circle in the way described.
Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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And in the midst of the unending gloom in the economy, Britons increasingly are turning back to childhood pleasures.
Times, Sunday Times
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All preparations having been slowly completed the day for departure arrived, and Chin, with much bowing and ceremonial posturing, having wished his wife and little son adieu, embarked with Wang, taking the equivalent of five thousand dollars [2] in sycee shoes and gold-dust, and amidst valedictory fusillades of fire-crackers, as well as a beating of gongs, the flotilla cast off and sailed away down river.
Life and sport in China Second Edition
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Think, too, about how a peaceful gesture in the midst of a time of conflict can help defuse tension and soften someone's heart.
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In the midst were the deep impressions of the splay-hoofed game, and all about, everywhere, were the lighter footmarks of the wolves.
THE LAW OF LIFE
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He and pilot Russell Phillips managed to survive 47 days on a rubber raft with no provisions amidst menacing swarms of sharks.
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Park rangers try their best to protect them, but have been ambushed and attacked as they carry out their duties in the midst of internal conflict.
Times, Sunday Times
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In network age, the Internet, going into the midst of common families in urban community of our country, becomes an important tool for residents to work, study and live with.
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A lovey-dovey couple whispering sweet nothings amidst nature's breathtaking splendour, besides a couple of glass paintings are other brilliant pieces created by the young and upcoming artist.
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On the west the rough highlands of Marin shut off the ocean; in the midst, in long, straggling, gleaming arms, the bay died out among the grass; there were few trees and few enclosures; the sun shone wide over open uplands, the displumed hills stood clear against the sky.
The Silverado Squatters
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I would have seized him; but he eluded me, and quitted the house with precipitation: in a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves.
Chapter 3
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Yet in the midst of all this I also have several shelf-fuls of gifts which he will not use.
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“And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the East: and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the East and toward the West, and there shall be a very great valley; and half the mountain shall remove toward the North, and half of it toward the South.” —
The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882
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Such critical perspectives suggest we are in the midst of a thoroughgoing overhaul of traditional ideas about artistic value and meaning.
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Into their midst he went and a good horse was picked out and lariated in the twinkling of an eye and quickly hoppled and turned loose.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
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Standing midstream, bow and arrow in hand, it is difficult not to think of the candiru.
The Sun
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When Hell-Cat Maggie screeched her battle cry and rushed biting and clawing into the midst of a mass of opposing gangsters, even the most stout-hearted blanched and fled.
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In midst of massive dental treatment - it feels like the rebuilding of Windsor Castle in my jaw.
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Every forty days the Lady Jamilah cometh hither in a bark and landeth in the midst of her women, under a canopy of satin, whose skirts ten damsels hold up with hooks of gold, whilst she entereth, and I see nothing of her.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine; the eagle, soaring amidst the cloud — they all gathered round me, and bade me be at peace.
Chapter 10
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On a shelf or cup of the declivity was a little clump of vegetation, and in the midst of it welled up a thin stream of water.
The Golden Fleece
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And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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Amidst the panegyrical promises of modernization and development, few voices, either left or right, questioned the ideology of progress, though many fought bitterly over the division of the spoils.
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Americans find it difficult to think about old age until they are propelled into the midst of it by their own aging and that of relatives and friends .
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A sizeable hiatus then ensued, amidst light rainfall, before a northbound carriage became available.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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I started up and looked around me, the moon was still shining, and the face of the heaven was studded with stars; I found myself amidst a haze of bushes of various kinds, but principally hazel and holly, through which was a path or driftway with grass growing on either side, upon which the pony was already diligently browsing.
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
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At 1.35 pm, Nelson, pacing his quarterdeck amidst the crash of the broadsides, calm amidst the smoke that wreathed Victory, was giving his orders quietly and firmly, as always.
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Down below, a mass of brank-ursine formed as it were a pedestal, from the midst of which sprang scarlet geum, rhodanthe with stiff petals, and clarkia with great white carved crosses, that looked like the insignia of some barbarous order.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
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I watched from between two great boulders, I beheld a Turkish convoy of about six hundred infantry, led by a bimbashi on a gray horse, with a string of pack-mules trailing out behind them, and five loaded donkeys led by soldiers in the midst.
Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
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TUCSON - The ASU women's tennis team was able to earn a victory in Tucson by keeping its composure amidst a rowdy UA crowd.
ASU News | The State Press | Arizona State University
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The best time to nudge children toward functional writing is when they are in the midst of doing purposeful work.
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India's business capital is in the midst of a massive makeover.
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There has never been a stronger case for firm and united action by the governments of both India and Pakistan to cauterize the cancer in their midst.
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The foils set amidst a black background give an illusion of jewels studded on glass.
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To me it is unintelligible that the full tide of glibbest chatter can be stopped at a moment in the midst of profuse good living, and the Given thanked becomingly in words of heartfelt praise.
Doctor Thorne
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Amidst the "arabesque" of richly drawn characters, Suskind reveals a few bombshell discoveries regarding the Bush Administration's irresponsibility and outright lies.
Dan Brown: George W. Bush Blew the Biggest British Terror Investigation Ever to Score Pre-Midterm Election Political Points... McCain '08!
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Amidst the drizzle and the strong winds, the box was lowered into the water.
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If you were to drive due east of the warm, coastal snowbird capital of Fort Myers, Florida, you'd soon find yourself in the midst of a sprawling grid of unadorned streets and quarter-acre lots collectively known as Lehigh Acres.
Raymond Schillinger: Lehigh Acres, Florida: A Parable of the American Dream Gone Bust
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At this crisis, Wallace with a band of resolute men, sprang from the tower upon the wall; and it being almost deserted by its late guards, (who had quitted their post to assist in repelling the foe below), he leaped into the midst of the conflict, and the battle became general.
The Scottish Chiefs
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For the town is in the midst of a marsh formed by the river Achelous, which, rising in Mount Pindus and passing first through the territory of the Dolopians, Agraeans, and Amphilochians, and then through the Acarnanian plain, at some distance from its mouth flows by the city of Stratus and finds an exit into the sea near Oeniadae: an expedition in winter is thus rendered impossible by the water.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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And in the midst of all this feverish activity -- the fast-drying acrylics force him to work quickly -- a picture emerges.
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Christian presence, and Christian participation, and Christian sentiment boldly into the midst of the people’s amusements, with a view less to exscind than to regulate.
Amusement: A Force in Christian Training
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In the winter of 1865 he fell into a highly nervous condition, in the midst of which he was assailed by a malarious fever which brought him within sight of the grave.
Henrik Ibsen
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Sitting amidst this scared, insecure clique is Reiser, spinning a web of bullshit like a master hypnotist.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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The child's cry of concern went on unheard, a faint whisper amidst the busy streets of a crowded metropolis.
