How To Use Nighted In A Sentence
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Besides suffering through a variety of severe but all-too-common mine accidents in its benighted history, the coalfields of Vancouver Island have also played host to some of B.C.'s most famous activists.
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Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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Indeed, there's reason to hope that even the most benighted moral equivocators may come to realize that the message is the exact opposite of the one they've been preaching.
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He became physician general to the Army in the Austrian war of succession, was appointed physician to King George III, was knighted in 1762 and later received a baronetcy.
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It would certainly confirm the country's international reputation as a backward and benighted land.
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McClure was knighted and showered with cash - the legacies of both are bound by a watery historical note: their ships lie on the ocean floor beneath Canada's Arctic Archipelago.
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He was knighted in 2003 for services to public life in Scotland.
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A Pembrokeshire man, he established his reputation as a jouster and was knighted at Edward VI's coronation.
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Not many people get knighted and become president in such a short period!
The Sun
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Users of Wikipedia do get to recognise which parts are shaky, but the unwise may suddenly stumble into benighted stretches, like some crinkum-crankum byway in old London, where footpads lurked and communicable diseases were offered at low prices.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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She consulted the astrologer to find out whether her husband would be knighted.
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Even got knighted for his efforts, retired to the English countryside.
OFF THE CHART
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Paul McCartney is knighted by the Queen of England.
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It's a promising thought, but to place this book in the rubric of self-help would be to mistake Kahneman-who lived for several years in Nazi-occupied France-for a benighted optimist.
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He still continued, however, cautiously to progress along the road on which be was benighted, and at length the twinkling of a distant light raised some hope of succour in his heart.
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Lean was nominated for Oscars for directing, adapting and editing the film, and in June 1984 he was knighted.
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All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul.
Little Dorrit
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Consider this: the man in charge of the foreign aid fiasco is knighted.
The Sun
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But the time when Cuculain should be knighted, that is to say, invested with arms, and solemnly received into the Red Branch as man to the high King of all Ulla, now drew on, and such a knighting as that, and under such signs, omens, and portents, has never been recorded anywhere in the history of the nations.
The Coming of Cuculain
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It's a primitive, benighted method of ordering life that is based mostly on coercion and the world would be much better off if all its forms were banned forever.
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That would pretty much set the stage for a generations-long clash of civilizations, with my beloved, sometimes benighted country as the aggressor.
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She turned the school around and in 2001 she was knighted for her services to education.
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Until those central elements of decency and prosperity exist, our nation should help shelter political refugees from this benighted place.
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He was the congregator of those great spirits who presided over the resurrection of learning; the Lucifer of that starry flock which in the thirteenth century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world.
English literary criticism
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The singer, who was knighted in 2006, is not the first pop star to become armigerous.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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He was knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list in June 1988.
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My experience of the NHS, from the superb and knighted surgeon who operated on me to the Indian tea lady with her endless cups, was one of kindness, courtesy and concern.
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He will say earnestly, poor benighted souls.
Times, Sunday Times
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That same day, the caller overnighted a check for $200,000, allowing the foundation to renew its lease for another three years.
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The "knowns" -- the gifted Galt MacDermott, the ingenious British designer John Bury, the not yet knighted Peter Hall, couldn't have had better pedigrees for approaching a piece of such ambition: there was a space ship that sailed over the orchestra; trampolines cratered into the stage to bounce us like 'low gravity' might, and a massive rocket tail would blast us all off at the show's end in quadraphonic sound.
Melanie Chartoff: Spine-tingling"Spiderman"--for All the Wrong Reasons
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These benighted souls have no idea how cadaverous and ghostly their ‘sanity’ appears as the intense throng of Dionysiac revelers sweeps past them p.
World Wide Mind
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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All they could do was build the best possible shelters for themselves, before the rainy season began, while he did his best to ensure their survival and eventual escape from this benighted place.
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Master Milchku, queerest man in the benighted queendom, and, adcraft aidant, how he found the kids.
Finnegans Wake
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Oh, the queer sense of the good old Capri of artistic legend, of which the name itself was, in the more benighted years -- years of the contadina and the pifferaro -- a bright evocation!
Italian Hours
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Many are carried away with those bewitching sports of gaming, hawking, hunting, and such vain pleasures, as [4526] I have said: some with immoderate desire of fame, to be crowned in the Olympics, knighted in the field, &c., and by these means ruinate themselves.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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So he overnighted it and I read it on the subway to the gym.
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He was knighted by the Queen for his services to industry.
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I was even "knighted" by GDW for some support work I did for the game.
Firefly is a go!!!
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In answering this question, Smyth seemed unable to go beyond a comforting but unchallenging look-how-far-we've-come-from-those-benighted-days attitude.
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The people of Florence are far from considering themselves ignorant and benighted, and yet Brother Savonarola succeeded in persuading them that he held converse with God.
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Ser Hugh, for those who may not remember the character, was Lord Jon Arryn's squire whom King Robert knighted upon his lord's death for his leal service.
A ton of supporting actors for THRONES.
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In one of the most pertinent examples of this, anthropologists criticised matrilocal residence among groups in the Central Highlands for its implied association with a ‘primitive’, benighted phase of history.
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He received an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1970 for his work and was knighted in 1993.
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He was knighted by the Queen for his services to industry.
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After dinner the king knighted York in recognition of his hospitality and his past services, an honour personal to York and not extended to his colleague in the shrievalty, Richard Turke.
London and the Kingdom - Volume I
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He was knighted in 2004 after his year in office as lord mayor.
Times, Sunday Times
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James Dyson, the man who invented the bagless vacuum cleaner, is knighted today for his services to business.
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It is not modesty but experience that makes us loath to suppose that others are benighted if they do not accept the pedagogical advantages of the curriculum we happen to favor.
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He would go on to be knighted and become a celebrated portraitist, the darling of society and a very rich man.
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This naturally entails a missionary element, bringing new revelations to the benighted souls in the art-complacent Antipodes.
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He practices directing as antithetically and abusively to the author's intentions as perversely possible, reaping kudos from benighted reviewers and audiences alike.
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My objectives are to find out what I can and to dispense succour to other poor benighted folk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thomson was knighted in 1866 and raised to the peerage as Lord Kelvin of Largs in 1892.
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The next day, if he had passed the test, Olivier would be knighted, along with many other squires attending knights gathered here in Kazkraby for the tournament that always followed a meeting of the Council.
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Mr. Carlyle said it was his habit to drink five cups of tea. He ran off into table-talk about tea and coffee, told us that he had found in Lord Russell's 'Memoirs of Moore,' which he called a rubbishy book, the origin of the word biggin; it comes from one Biggin, a tinner, who first made the vessel and was knighted afterwards.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay
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The Beatles were knighted
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He was knighted by King George VI, and today a memorial lies in Westminster Abbey - an inspiration to young dreamers everywhere.
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Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened , heed only one side and you will be benighted.
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Mr. John Smith was knighted by the Queen and became Sir John Smith.
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But in this egalitarian—and I use the term advisedly—day and age, nobility tends to play down its pedigree, the major exception being British lords who weren't born to greatness but were knighted after they made a killing in convenience stores or sandwich shops, or Eastern Europeans hawking products such as high-end cold creams.
The Prince's Pillows
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But it was for his successful plundering of Spanish merchant ships that he was knighted.
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While Broadway audiences may have found such bait-and-switch tactics to be titillating back in the benighted days of "Victor/Victoria," they're now more than capable of taking homosexuality straight, and the clumsy coyness with which Messrs.
'Clear Day,' Muddled Effort
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Against all odds, the Great Books joined the roster of postwar fads like drive-ins, hula hoops, and Mexican jumping beans … The Great Books initially scratched a cultural itch, but before long became synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and H.L. Mencken’s benighted boobocracy.
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The grand buildings and knighted executives are merely part of the image.
The Sun
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We go chasing around this frozen, benighted countryside and discover nothing.
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#16 POSTED BY bill, Feb 7th, 2009 12: 30 am only issue i have with this list is “hard up for cash jimmy page”. as a diehard led zeppelin fan that brought up bad memories. i remember when they signed away the rights for diddy to make the horrendous song. i dont think hes strapped for cash though, hes been knighted and just put out another album.
Top 10 Pointless Remakes » Scene-Stealers
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Mr. John Smith was knighted by the Queen and became Sir John Smith.
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He goes so far as to use the term ‘invincible ignorance,’ which implies that there's no point in arguing with such benighted folk, since their ignorance is invincible.
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benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
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He was knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list in June 1988.
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He received numerous honours, including the OBE in 1961, and he was knighted in 1974.
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Norman Wisdom proved he had earned a place in the nation's heart after being knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
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Efforts to have President Shimon Peres "knighted" during a visit to London next month may have been set back by premature publication of the move, Foreign Ministry sources said Thursday.
Signs of the Times
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In another effort to make employees feel proud and connected to the brand, workers who reach pinnacle anniversaries with King Arthur, such as five or 10 years, are "knighted" at the annual holiday party by Mr. Voigt.
Top Small Workplaces 2008
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If you are one of the benighted majority, you should know that he was one of those Victorian Scottish polymaths; a poet, theologian, and geologist of some genius.
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Three times as many men are knighted as women are named a dame.
The Sun
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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And I think, you know, I'd love to see our children and grandchildren get together here a hundred years from now and roll back a tape of this show and say how benighted we were or how right we were.
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He's a schlemiel, for one, someone who is constitutionally unequipped for the rigors of contemporary life, and whose benighted gropings would seem tragic, if only they were not so comic.
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Now he can glide elegantly through the departures lounge safe in the knowledge that his laptop is snugly overnighted.
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And you who bear authority over these benighted people, whether under the name of pasha, effendi, or mollah, let me advise you, although an unpromising subject for advice, not to act the stupid as well as barbarous part of riveting your nations in chains.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Consider this: the man in charge of the foreign aid fiasco is knighted.
The Sun
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So you get knighted for cycling around a very small oval dressed in Lycra but not for decades of pioneering medical research.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because we are foolish and benighted and live in utter darkness.
THROWING THE ELEPHANT
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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He was knighted in 1671 by Charles II, and lies buried in the church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich.
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I am benighted, bewildered, taken with art-magic, transmuted, TRANSMOGRIFIED, not myself nor yet another, but, as they say in Mississippi, 'a sort of betweenity. '
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
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The forest was also frequented by outlaws, and was a place of great danger to the benighted traveller.
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How I hate born-again neopagan politically-correct moral relativism ... but I do love the benighted sinners who practice this particular form of synthetic spiritualism.
The Ritual: After Death, Before Venison
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He was knighted in 1996 and made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1998.
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They knighted the man who wrecked the financial sector.
Times, Sunday Times
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His immensely successful career at the English court spans the reigns of five monarchs; he was knighted in 1692 and made a baronet in 1715.
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His many supporters cannot understand why he has not been knighted.
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The actor was knighted earlier this year for public and political service - adding to his honorary degrees.
The Sun
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Against all odds, the Great Books joined the roster of postwar fads like drive-ins, hula hoops, and Mexican jumping beans … The Great Books initially scratched a cultural itch, but before long became synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and H.L. Mencken’s benighted boobocracy.
2009 February 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Last night, two people overnighted in accident and emergency and on Sunday, there was a spillover of 12 there.
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He was knighted and for twenty years was the arbiter of artistic taste.
PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
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He was knighted for services to nursing and the NHS in the Queen's Birthday Honours last year.
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He is the only Australian to have been knighted for services to cricket.
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A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
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In addition, one adopted son was knighted and an adopted daughter became another dame.
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Formerly armiger to Lord Stergos, Gavlok had been knighted a year earlier than Snudge and was now assigned to the Royal Alchymist's Guard.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Hasluck overnighted with him in the bush when making one of his inspections as Minister of Territories.
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Being knighted by the Queen was the crowning glory of his long and successful career.
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He was knighted in 1949, then slipped easily into the role of cricketing elder statesman.
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They knighted the man who wrecked the financial sector.
Times, Sunday Times
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Knighted by Queen Victoria in 1848, he made himself an independent potentate.
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These are numbers that would have done honor to the state in its darkest, most benighted hour.
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They have now became the first seven knights to graduate when they were 'knighted' at Belvoir Castle.
Archive 2007-06-01
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He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1851, knighted in 1866 and elevated to the peerage as Lord Kelvin in 1892.
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The British politicians who devised the policy of transportation believed they had the monopoly of rational daylight, and thought of Australia as a benighted, morally murky place.
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The co-owner of You Send Me, a stationery company in Chattanooga, Tenn., cut an outing short to sign off on a package of proofs that had been overnighted, ASAP.
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In 1521 he was made the Kingdom's Undertreasurer and knighted, and in 1523 he became the Speaker of the House of Commons.
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He was knighted, given the estates of the abbey of Wilton, and appointed a gentleman of the bedchamber.
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And viciously contemning the Church more often than not entails a disdainful sidelong glance at the benighted faithful who persist in allegiance to her.
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In 1608 he was knighted, and was created a baronet in 1611, two years before his death.
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Both Hillary and Hunt were knighted by the queen following the expedition.
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Wilkie became an associate and then a member of the Royal Academy while very young; he was knighted and made a painter to the King.
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They will receive their OBE insignia rather than being knighted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now what was meant, of course, in fairness to the benighted author, is that educated people are statistically disproportionately liberal.
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A squire could also be knighted on the battlefield, in which a lord simply performed the accolade.
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She warn't ever the same, after that; she never complained, but she kind of pined away and did not live long. hat was bugging Mark Twain in 1876, to make him think up the benighted village of Deer Lick?
The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr.
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We poor benighted left-handers, however, require tender, therapeutic care to deal with our differentness.
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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For his crescograph and other inventions, Bose was knighted in 1917.
Autobiography of a Yogi
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The Queen knighted him in 1988 as a reward for his long service to her.
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this benighted country
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But is it right that our appetites wreak havoc on a country most of us have never been, and where grinding poverty of a kind that's been eliminated in even the most benighted, neglected corners of our own country is as common as it is confining?
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When Mr. Heath, the benighted and storm-delayed traveler, threw back his dripping coat, and seated himself at the invitation of his host, before the blazing fire, Mr. Abbot thought that he had seldom seen a more attractive young man.
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Wear thy light armor," said the Prince, "but no helmet, a juppon bearing the arms and colors that the Earl gave thee when thou wert knighted, and carry thy right-hand gauntlet under thy belt for thy challenge.
Men of Iron
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They were 'knighted' and presented with medals and certificates by President Rene Preval.
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Sir Howard was knighted last year, largely for helping bring the Commonwealth Games to Manchester.
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He was knighted by the Queen for his work with famine victims.
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He was made a freeman of Fife in 1998, adding to the MBE he had received, and was knighted in 1999.
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Somerset's early career was in Wolsey's service and he was knighted in France in 1523.
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Seen in this benighted context, the election is as inexplicable as it is marvellous.
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He was knighted in 1979 for services to disabled people and died in 1982.
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Father, said Jack, can you lodge a benighted traveller that has lost his way?"
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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He was knighted in 2004 after his year in office as lord mayor.
Times, Sunday Times
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Protagonists are helpless and feeble, benighted, physically weak and powerless.
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Unknown to him, Barbara had written her own reportage of Liberia: Land Benighted (reissued in 1981 as Too Late to Turn Back) is a masterpiece of comic observation and mock-heroic misadventure.
Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
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Each weekly issue is published late Tuesday night, and orders can be overnighted Wednesday morning to ensure arrival for Friday or Saturday night shows.
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Being knighted by the Queen was the crowning glory of his long and successful career.
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He was knighted for this work in 1911, but was forced to retire from foreign service due to adverse affects of the tropics on his health.
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But isn't it surprising there have not been more deaths in that benighted land where people seem to have nothing else to do but take potshots at our boys.
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The benighted peoples of this area
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He will say earnestly, poor benighted souls.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the revival of form and narrative among young literary poets could be dismissed by critical tastemakers as benighted antiquarianism and intellectual pretension," Gioia writes, "its universal adoption as the prosody-of-choice by disenfranchised urban blacks. . .is impossible to dismiss in such simplistic ideological terms.
Is Rap Poetry?
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We reached the doctor at his home - he had reported it lost two weeks earlier, a stunning comment on the hotel's cleaning and security staff - and we overnighted his wallet to him.
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I got a CBE, which is a commander of the British Empire, about two years before I was knighted.
CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2008
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That regulator, James McKinnon, was knighted on 1 January and kicked in the teeth on 15 January.
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However, to completely reject entire duchies of the science fiction empire as the Mundanists do ... it is that sort of benighted myopia that I reject.
Do you like it hard?
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When, 25 runs later, he castled Peter Siddle with a similar ball, to ensure that his name would be on the honours board for posterity, he knelt down on one knee in the middle of the pitch, head bowed, as if about to be knighted.
Flintoff Brings Australia to Its Knees
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He was knighted in 2004 after his year in office as lord mayor.
Times, Sunday Times
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The king, his courtiers, and the chief priests being gathered round him, thanksgiving is offered up; and then the lordly beast is knighted, after the ancient manner of the Buddhists, by pouring upon his forehead consecrated water from a chank-shell.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
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An 'now, Heller, do tell these poor, benighted, lazy loons that I must have me coky-nuts fresh, an' as great a variety av fish as can be procured in these wathers.
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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Knighted in 1944, he was the traditional crusty Englishman, on and off the screen; once, after dropping a catch, he stopped play to summon his butler to fetch his spectacles.
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We go chasing around this frozen, benighted countryside and discover nothing.
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A founder member of the National Portrait Society in 1911, he was knighted in 1936.
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The 56-year-old, who was knighted last year, has been at the helm of Scotland's National Gallery since 1984.
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Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
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In 1916 he was knighted on the stage of Drury Lane at the conclusion of a special, tercentenary performance of Julius Caesar.
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This country has always abandoned its benighted poor.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since the late nineteenth century, travelers, local colorists, reformers, and even missionaries described the area as an isolated, benighted place populated by a culturally backward people.
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Yet I find little to criticize here, because he does so clearly not in the benighted belief that we have ever really been free of such a pattern but in the hope that we might one day be.
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As he grew older, this cussedness became more pronounced, until his hatred of benighted autocratic states led him in the eyes of many to betray his left-wing views altogether.
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The next day, I overnighted the camera back to my parents so they could return it to the store within the 10-day return policy.
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He was knighted in 2004 after his year in office as lord mayor.
Times, Sunday Times
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A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
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April 14th, 2006 at 5:37 pm mfi: ‘OK I’m only a benighted bogtrotter’
Firedoglake » Iran: Calculated Madness and Common Sense
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benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
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It is a sophisticated political response to a techno-scientific culture he viewed as primitive, destructive, benighted.
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Being knighted by the Queen was the crowning glory of his long and successful career.
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Not many people get knighted and become president in such a short period!
The Sun
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They also determined that our DSL modem is out of date, and overnighted us a new modem to arrive tomorrow.
Success Stories: Verizon's DSL Is No Longer "Full" - The Consumerist
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St. Boniface asked for the help of the Wimborne sisterhood to carry on his missionary labours among the benighted tribes of Germany, and several establishments in the marshes and woodlands along the shore of the Baltic Sea were the daughter houses of this mid-Wessex abbey.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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Last night, two people overnighted in accident and emergency and on Sunday, there was a spillover of 12 there.
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It was a benighted place.
Times, Sunday Times
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'- And at the last, O Prince, there came to pass that which all the plots of Ascalante the Rebel had failed to bring about, and for which the grim shade of Xaltotun was conjured in vain from the mouldering dust of his Acherontic tomb, and which even the hell-spawned sorceries of Yah Chieng, the Yellow Wizard of nighted and demon-ridden Khitai, failed to accomplish; and Conan of Aquilonia gave over the crown and the throne of the mightiest kingdom of all the West, and ventured forth into the Unknown, wherein he vanished forever from the knowledge of man.'
Conan Of The Isles
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The tycoon, who was knighted in December 2006, revolutionised the domestic appliances market with the bagless vacuum cleaner.
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In 1942 he was knighted, no doubt partly due to his heroic service to his country during both wars.
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Three times as many men are knighted as women are named a dame.
The Sun
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Why had he sailed his boat to this benighted place, I asked.
Times, Sunday Times
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I overnighted it and then began the hellish torment of Jeff from Reliance as I repeatedly harassed him about sending the armor out.
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The lady who waited on her asked when her trip was, the DIL said six weeks, the lady said it should take no more than four weeks, the DIL her anality kicking in said I want to pay the extra $75 to expedite and get it here in two weeks, and I want to pay the extra $15 to have it overnighted.
U.S. Passport problems | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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Such hordes of beastly wretchedness and inarticulate misery are no compensation for a millionaire brewer who lives in a West End palace, sates himself with the sensuous delights of London's golden theatres, hobnobs with lordlings and princelings, and is knighted by the king.
HOPS AND HOPPERS
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In 1983 he married a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk and he was knighted in 1993.
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A pair of climbers were benighted in a storm at the top of Royal Arches without overnight gear.
