How To Use Oliver In A Sentence

Oliver made a fortune by investing in antique furniture.
Although the race, the last on the card, was a fairly ordinary event, it had great significance for Oliver, who was warmly greeted by racegoers.
I was watching the scene from the kitchen end of the dining car, standing just behind Emil, Cathy and Oliver.
Oliver lashed the horses to go faster.
Rowan Oliver's drums suggest a meeting of Al Foster and Jaki Liebezeit while John Richards' electric bass is a malevolent, fuzzed monster.

At this point the music changes to a jolly bouncy tune, sung absolutely smashingly by Oliver Reed.
Link thank you oliver sacks for your descriptive skills you employed in so many excellent books. your account of your vision changes made me weep. how easily we take stereovision for granted. — melynda reid The World Science Festival: Oliver Sacks at the MET - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
In England there were leaders like Oliver Cromwell with his New Model Army and radical groups like the Levellers.
By contrast, Dickens's second protagonist, Oliver Twist, experiences what seems set to be his climacteric in an intensely fraught boyhood.
Mr. Olivera paused for a moment - almost as though contemplating the situation, her voice ringing through his ears.
When not producing art of his own, Oliver was busy advancing the work of others.
On the crosspiece he had painted the words: Oliver Bean.
_Trifolium_, _Coronilla_, &c.Prof. Oliver forwarded me a specimen of Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
We were in San Massimo, above Rapallo (Liguria), at an amusing (the walls are lined with originals of comic strip panels, in several languages) and rather excellent restaurant called U Giancu (thanks to Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery for the recommendation), where we ate: What Fred Ate Last Night - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
Andrew Oliveri , 31, of Port Jefferson , said he played dek hockey with Mr. Laffer several years ago, and he was just a "normal guy. Arrest in Drug Killings
Oliver Kay, Football Correspondent, and James Ducker.
You don't want to let Oliver loose in the kitchen.
As he awaited sentencing on bribe charges, Oliver Thomas seemingly implied that he had stigmata from a similar heroic episode: Archive 2007-11-01
Oliver Platt's performance as a high priest in Sodom is something to be seen to be believed. Archive 2010-01-01
We'll just stagnate, and there could be nothing for Fisticuffs or Oliver or Isa, to take over. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
“I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?” How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
Oliver was in a position to know the personal preferences of generations of British royals.
She pinwheeled end-over-end and out of sight as I hopped up and down, holding my right foot and grimacing like Oliver Hardy.
Oliver, from street urchin to crustation, maybe it's time to move back in with [profane] in. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
Oliver's Channel 4 series, Jamie's School Dinners, exposed Matthews's Twizzlers as consisting largely of water, rusk, pork fat and coating, with only one third of "mechanically recovered" turkey meat in the recipe. Marco Pierre White's secret plan to steal Jamie Oliver's school dinner thunder
And when we shaved Oliver and painted him with Mercurochrome and took him to school and told everyone he had the bubonic plague? THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Michael Pennington invests the Don's medical sidekick with exactly the right air of terrified loyalty, Oliver Cotton exudes white-suited arrogance as a dictatorial master baker, and Gavin Fowler lends his maltreated son a simmering, murderous resentment. The Syndicate – review | Michael Billington
But he has compiled an 11.24 ERA this season and his season-long ineffectiveness is more troublesome now that Rolando Arrojo has been shifted from the bullpen to the rotation, replacing Oliver. USATODAY.com - American League East
The all-important goal came ten minutes from the finish from Oliver Gordon.
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient---Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet, writer and physician.
His image as an obdurate hardman culminated in the notorious case where he bit reporter Frank Oliver's nose.
Oliver becomes someone to whom things happen and his innate goodness and innocence palls when he's surrounded by so many more vibrant and colourful characters.
Dudeism, a quasi-religion based upon the teachings of the film's antihero The Dude, has been the result of its slow-burn success and this event brings its founder Oliver Benjamin to the Idler magazine's west London slacker school for a debate on tenpin bowling, naps and kicking back. This week's new events
Because of sparse rainfall during the current season, I occasionally got 'shipwrecked' a handful of times but Oliver assures that the ride is even better in the wet summer months. Jamaica Gleaner Online
He knew that if he didn't punish Oliver, his wife would never forgive him.
The symbolism of the pole decorated with ribbons and garlands was deeply offensive to the Puritans and maypoles were forbidden by Oliver Cromwell's parliament from 1644.
He gave Oliver a sidelong glance .
Oliver 4:02 pm: Kris – yeah, I have an adult child 26 – bi polar who self medicates on alcohol constantly on my nerves about the money and writing thing. Transcript: Creating While Disabled « Coyote Con
There are random segues from black & white to color stock (sometimes in the same scene) that seem to exist only to remind us how visually unimaginative the film is compared to Oliver Stone's work.
Landlord Oliver Cleary is expecting a dip in takings when 10 of his regulars jet off for their annual golf tour to Portugal next month.
But brutal conditions and the taunts of the mortician's apprentice cause a defiant Oliver to run away to London.
The President gave to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the Supreme Court, who was going abroad for the summer, a letter which he was "indiscreetly" to show Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Balfour, and two or three other prominent Englishmen. Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography
Lane however had their own batting aces and the Park bowlers struggled as S Hargreaves made 69 and Oliver Halliday 53.
Mr Oliver began to descend the stairwells in the centre of the building.
Now I propose, Mr. Premium, if its agreeable to you, a post-obit on Sir Olivers life: though at the same time the old fellow has been so liberal to me, that I give you my word, I should be very sorry to hear that any thing had happened to him. Act Third. Scene III
Oliver Wilson, a third-year New College Law finalist, has received a decanal summons to explain why he sent what university regulations classify as an ‘abusive email’.
The kitchen where Willie did his Jamie Oliver act makes the one he'll have to share at college look in need of a visit from environmental health.
Oliver shows no signs of letting his early health problems hold him back, having played four games for Yorkshire under-11s cricket team already this season.
From Kent to the Thames, Oliver follows the trail of what might be thought of as the first battle of Britain, as Caesar's legions overcame the resistance posed by the rebellions of Queen Boudicca. Tonight's TV highlights: Secrets Of The Arabian Nights | House | Wishful Drinking | The Animal's Guide To Britain | A History Of Celtic Britain | Long Lost Family
Oliver Mann gives the gen on the coolest new destinations for the switched-on global traveller in 2005
The following passage from Kiplings American Notes, ch. i, will be recalled: Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the Yankee schoolmarm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern states are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent. Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 1. General Characters
Mark Oliver Everett is what epidemiologists and Dustin Hoffman call a hot spot, a highly contagious carrier of an extremely virulent disease who infects anyone who crosses his path.
Oliver made a fortune by investing in antique furniture.
Oliver North received his commission as Second Lieutenant in 1968.
They talk the argot of evolution, while they no more understand the essence and the import of evolution than does a South Sea Islander or Sir Oliver Lodge understand the noumena of radioactivity. The Other Animals
I love cooking, worked my way through Jamie Oliver's books (and still have no idea what a "nob" of butter is), worship Ruth Reichl, and find myself somehow counter-intuitively glued to the Food Network while at the gym. Sophie Brickman: One Millenial Speaks Out: Why I'm Enrolling in Culinary School
Also, cycling fans got to witness another milestone today, when BSNYC commentator Eben Oliver Weiss typed the word "nonplussed" for the one millionth time during his daily blog. Fully Loaded: Excessive Packaging
All this may turn out to be mere psychobabble, which is what the Bush crowd dismissively concluded about Oliver Stone's film. ‘Night, Not-So-Sweet Prince
But it's Oliver that's doing this, Oliver who turned funny and white when she cut her finger with the breadknife making sandwiches and wanted her to put all sorts of things on it. Young People's Pride
They had nutritionists swooning but Oliver soared clear over double-oxers, and Cassidy outsang the birds. The Elvis Latte
At this point the music changes to a jolly bouncy tune, sung absolutely smashingly by Oliver Reed.
He looked a little like a damp nut, Oliver thought.
In 1990, after years of duds like Oliver and Company, Disney roared back into theatres with The Little Mermaid, which just happened to be awesome.
He has said the goalkeeper, Oliver Kahn, is the only world-class player they have.
To add a codicil to her will stating in effect that if her son Oliver Vail married a divorced woman, he could no longer inherit from her. WIDOW'S END
Which is the main reason why director Oliver Stone, who has made a good living out of documenting crucial moments in America's recent past with such movies as Born on the Fourthof July, JFK and World Trade Center, deigned to do his first sequel. 20 years later, greed's still good for Douglas in 'Wall Street' sequel
The answer to the puzzle hinges on a chess problem Oliver Garland counts on his son to solve, wherein black can checkmate white in two moves or less.
In his book, Oliver James uses the damage done to abandoned children raised by wild animals to prove the importance of total parenting.
Many Protestants died of the fevers because of their objection to taking a drug associated with papism - Oliver Cromwell is thought to have been amongst them.
The warm, glowing drone of Oliveros' accordion breathes its way through a patchwork of chimes and the gentle fluting of the whistlebuoys.
At Blackpool yesterday, the shadow home secretary, Oliver Letwin, promised a radical counter-revolution against this creeping centralisation.
I paid Fagin to trap Oliver into a life of crime.
But, Charles having got over to Scotland where the men of the Solemn League and Covenant led him a prodigiously dull life and made him very weary with long sermons and grim Sundays, the Parliament called the redoubtable Oliver home to knock the Scottish men on the head for setting up that Prince. A child`s history of England
This lowly-ranked wine still retains the terroir of the region, of the Les Setilles vineyard and of Oliver Leflaive, the winemaker.
Oliver omitted to mention that he was married.
Oliver Wendell Holmes expressed this matter well: It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
Oliver cast the occasional glance back.
Oliver at last relieved his host by swaggering off, imitating as well as he could the sturdy step and outward gesture of his redoubted companion, and whistling a pibroch composed on the rout of the Danes at The Fair Maid of Perth
“And mine also was not awanting,” said Oliver Proudfute, The Fair Maid of Perth
GOOOOODDDDD DAAAAMMMM ITS WARM TODAY FELLOW DEFENDERS OF THE REALM!!!!!! however i am now nursing a nice lager shandy (off duty of course, im not in CID) and sat in the shade. meanwhile up north today i had to stifle mirth (not very succesfully) as we placed a ‘regular service user’ into a cell. as i left him and came home i hear he was still kicking off about how stifling his cell is … … .. clearly the systems failed him and i feel absolutely dreadful for him … … …. no honestly i do … … … … on July 1, 2009 at 7: 42 pm | Reply Olivers Army Police Body Armour Heatwave Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Oliver chatted to Letterman during a cooking segment on The Late Show last night as he promoted his new TV show Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution.
Oliver assumed an expression of extreme penitence.
Oliver speculated that sometimes when people who are driven to succeed are placed under unbearable stress and can't bring themselves to quit, they do something that forces them to quit.
Wendy Brown Scott , Oliver Wendell Holmes on Equality and Adarand . Howard Law Journal ( Fall 2003 ).
Junior Freestyle champions after winning their title bouts at the junior national championships Saturday, with Cowboy freshman Jordan Oliver recognized as the Outstanding Wrestler of the tournament. Oklahoma State Cowboys News -- www.okstate.com
They have a grownup son, Joe Oliver Maltman, who has evidently inherited his dad's breezy, sarky, unreflective sense of humour, and whose still-unmarried condition concerns the parents not one whit. Another Year ? review
Oliver could feel a slight rumble now, growling louder.
`Oliver knows it's royal flush odds against me picking up his trail on my tod. THE ONLY GAME
Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand. He felt very frightened, but also desperate with hunger.
Trendsetting Jamie Oliver is already taking steps to get the whole family online and cooking together.
And then this morning Oliver was reading the obituaries to me, and there you were. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
Bentley's Miscellany at beginning of 1837, and commences “Oliver Twist”; Quarterly Review predicts his speedy downfall; pecuniary position at this time; moves from Furnival's Inn to Doughty Street; death of his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth; his friendships; absence of all jealousy in his character; habits of work; riding and pedestrianizing; walking in London streets necessary to the exercise of his art 49 Life of Charles Dickens
Mollohan lost to state Sen. Mike Oliverio by 56 percent to 44 percent in what was by far the toughest intraparty race for the congressman since he was first elected in 1982. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
St. John comes to visit her at the end of that first day, upon which occasion Jane meets the benefactress of the schoolhouse and some charitable acts of the Parish - Miss Oliver.
He called a coach quickly, laid Oliver on the seat, and drove away.
Not one Supreme Court justice dissented from the Moyer opinion, which was drafted by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Oliver Stone, operating under a hail of criticism, was finishing a revisionist movie about the Kennedy assassination.
The speeches of Oliver Cromwell have a formidable reputation for prolixity, confusion, and excessive tediousness; yet we have not, for our own part, found these volumes to be of the dry and scarce readable description which their title foreboded; and we would caution others not to be deterred by any fears of this nature from their perusal. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
In England there were leaders like Oliver Cromwell with his New Model Army and radical groups like the Levellers.
Oliver Letwin, the Shadow Home Secretary, said teaching officers to touch-type would be a valuable weapon in the fight against lawlessness and disorder.
Four books later, Lethem has settled down a lot -- this book is only a detective story, a shrewd portrait of Brooklyn, a retold "Oliver Twist" and a story so baroquely voiced (the hero has Tourette's syndrome) that Philip Marlowe would blush. Books, 'Tis / Frank Mccourt
Oliver Cromwell, whose body they hung on their Tyburn gallows because he had found the Christian Religion inexecutable in this country, remains to me by far the remarkablest Governor we have had here for the last five centuries or so. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
Rounding out the top 5 in the dishiest dad competition after Beckham and Pitt was celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, TV star Jonathan Ross and recent father Tom Cruise.
Chad Oliver and Michael F. Flynn have written about the consequences of really good futurological methods. And Now the News
For "affluenza," which is the term that was coined by British psychiatrist Oliver James to describe the fever of spending that gripped the country, seems to be a disease that was foreign. Melissa Biggs Bradley: Why Being Nouveau Pauvre Cheers Britain
Photographs by Simon Upton A trelliswork pavilion is topped by a wooden pineapple, made by Thomas Messel, a nephew of artist Oliver Messel. House of Haslam
In Cameron on Cameron, published in 2008, another style professional, Dylan Jones, thought it worth itemising, in the constituency kitchen, a Dualit toaster, Maytag fridge-freezer, Bodum cafetiere, a Daily Mail "bathed in sunlight" and Jamie Oliver cookery books. What's in worse taste – Cameron's photographer or Blair's house?
The Oxford races of that year were being looked forward to with exceptional interest because of the anticipated presence of a noted steeplechaser named Oliver, but at the last moment the college authorities forbade the undergraduates to attend them. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
OSTROWSKI, S.R. and OLIVER, M.N. (1987) Oak toxicosis in cattle in Northern California: clinical and pathological findings. Chapter 5
Oliver is acting tonight.
This retrospective editing of something as well known as Oliver Twist makes all social liberalism appear ridiculous. Times, Sunday Times
The former will probably most appreciate the extensive explanations Oliver provides on orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and her updating of the arguments with the latest scholarship.
Oliver Perez, but only if he will accept a three-year deal or less … if dempster is being offered a four-year, $50 million deal, which he's going to turn down, at least for now, and a guy like Comments for MetsBlog.com
Oliver - Sure there's a slippery slope towards some sort of guilt-ridden Spartanism, but owning a Hummer, to me, is well past the line drawn by any sensitive, aware American. 0 to 60 in 3h, 45m
He was then totally at home as the bonhomous but mountingly indignant Mr Hardcastle in a revival of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer at the Young Vic in 1972. The Guardian World News
Three Wise Men," which screened in Toronto; and Aureus Solito's "The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros" were among the titles nabbed by Arab Media Group. Variety.com
Everyone knows Oliver and Fagin, not to mention David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Edwin Drood, Mr. Pickwick and the rest of the troop. Our Dickens
His equipment was soon complete, and, with his harquebuss on his shoulder (for though they retained the name of Archers, the Scottish Guard very early substituted firearms for the long bow, in the use of which their nation never excelled), he followed Master Oliver out of the barrack. Quentin Durward
Roger Trew, who had ascended the ladder with his bundle of bedding, deposited it in the room my uncle pointed out, and forthwith commenced unlashing it; and knowing that he would prove a better assistant to the dame than Oliver and I should, we accompanied my uncle to what he called his cooking-shed, at the back of the house. In the Eastern Seas
Not aunt," cried Oliver, throwing his arms about her neck, "I'll never call her _aunt_. Ten Boys from Dickens
It's a psychosomatic cold,' said Oliver, `not the catching kind. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
The connotations are what's important here, though; "nipper" implies a child who's small enough and quick enough to "nip" -- to dart nimbly to and fro, here and there, like the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist or Shakespeare's Puck. Losts in Translation
He passed me the ball, and I took it downfield before being cut off by second-string defense player Oliver.
Health secretary Andrew Lansley was roundly criticised when he attacked Oliver's campaign as an example of people being lectured and nannied. Healthy school meals win over secondary pupils
Oliver followed behind them, watching in silent amazement.
He is appearing at the Palace alongside adopted Brit Jason Donovan and bona fide Brit Oliver Thornton, who play drag queens Tick (aka Mitzi) and Adam (Felicia), Bernadette's travelling companions on the bus they name Priscilla. Undefined
By June, most of the processed food in the district schools will be gone, replaced by Oliver's from-scratch menus, which include dishes such as barbecued chicken and brown rice with carrots, raisins and orange dressing. Jamie Oliver improves Huntington, W.Va.'s eating habits
As an Aussie abroad for Christmas, I had visions of myself as an Oliver Twist character, alone, miserable, bereft of friends and family for the festive season.
So when the poultice-walloper shook his head over Oliver, and glanced towards me, lying there all blood-spattered and pathetic, I was ready with a feeble gesture to keep him at a distance - the last thing I wanted was the little bugger poking at me and exclaiming: THE NUMBERS
Fresh information on Sir Edwin Lutyens's first mausoleum, the Hannen columbarium at St Mary, Wargrave, Berkshire, is provided by correspondence published here for the first time by Oliver Bradbury.
Both dogs are familiar with the Byker circuit, having been bred by Brough-based Norman Oliver before moving on.
Also it says the more confident you become in killing big daddies the more wrath you will incur from the big sister, meaning that the daddies all work for the big sister in a fagan / oliver twist kind of way. Computer And Video Games
Sincerely Yours is the label operated by The Tough Alliance, Swedish Neo-Saint Etienne, post-modern electro pop," says Oliver Pattenden. Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
The minstrels have a fabliau of a daw with borrowed feathers — why, this Oliver is The very bird, and, by St. Dunstan, if he lets his chattering tongue run on at my expense, I will so pluck him as never hawk plumed a partridge. The Fair Maid of Perth
In the film Oliver's attempt to get Fagin to pray is overwhelmed by the emotional intensity of Fagin's sense of parting from the young orphan he took in.
Wendy Brown Scott , Oliver Wendell Holmes on Equality and Adarand . Howard Law Journal ( Fall 2003 ).
This was a bitter disappointment to Oliver, but his new friends were still as kind to him as ever.
The actor Oliver Reed who played Gerald in the 1969 film had an implosive presence onscreen.
From Oprah to Jamie Oliver, in a culture dominated by images of fantasies and impossible ideals, we too frequently think that we should live like the people on TV.
All the high and low demireps of the town gathered there, from his Grace of Ancaster down to my countryman, poor Mr. Oliver Goldsmith the poet, and from the The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
In the report, Mrs Wishick had announced she was doing a sponsored slim on behalf of the British Kidney Patient Association, of which Oliver is a member.
When he was a young, Oliver married Princess Audrey, the granddaughter of a king from a small kingdom that pays tribute to Charlemagne.
And the miracles we hope and believe are just about to occur: Graham the pit bull; Rocky the beagle; a 3-month-old and cuter than should be legal American bulldog named Hazel; 7-year-old yellow lab sisters Stella and Fuoco; brother white bunnies with black ears and noses, Charlie and Oliver; a gorgeous green-eyed, long-haired red tabby named Janis; a calico kitty unimaginatively named Kitty but, hey, you can change the name; and a remarkable number of black-and-white or what we call tuxedo cats of all sizes and ages. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The appointment of Oliver Cromwell as a feoffee does not appear in any of the documents now remaining with the governors of the charity. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
It must be said that in a direct sense we owe it in part to your sustained and principled support for our struggle that our President, Comrade Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, and many of my other fellow former political prisoners have gained release; that our national Chairman, Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo and other political exiles have come back home; that the African National Congress and all other organizations of our people have been either unbanned or derestricted; and that many of the fundamental laws of apartheid have been repealed. Statement by Walter Sisulu, Deputy President, ANC at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid on the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
Along with fellow debauchers Richard Burton and Oliver Reed, he made scandalous headlines in the '60s and '70s while doing enormous damage to his health.
Families at the sanctuary revelled in the good weather, but the warmth made Oliver a little frisky.
These six people want to be the next Jamie Oliver or Nigella Lawson, even if some of them don't know doodly about cooking (there was a woman on the other night who claimed to know loads about cooking, but thought spinach was basil).
A major conduit for the translation of many of these ideas into legal thought was Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Sikes, invoking terrific imprecations upon Fagin's head for sending Oliver on such an errand, plied the crowbar vigorously, but with little noise.
Oliver is a Cavalier King Charles spaniel and in the 17th century the king himself issued a royal proclamation commanding that his favourite breed of dog should be allowed entry to absolutely any establishment in the country.
I werkz atta cherch heer n Jorja, n sumtymz I nawt b gittin hoam until aftur 10 at nyt… Speshullee win we can haz gest speekurz liek Oliver North himz sined bowt 450 bukz, sew we hadded 2 stay layt until evvywun wuz goan… Husband kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Colonel Oliver Boyce -- he has taken the title lately -- when I knew him he was something in the service of the Duke of Marlborough. The Highwayman
They picked up Oliver and carried him shoulder high into the garage.
Bishop John Oliver is a leading member of the campaign for women's ordination.
Instantly Oliver lashed it harshly with the whip, lashed its mate, leaped to the ground and kept on lashing.
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Most of the artefacts recovered during the excavations relate to the English Civil War sieges between 1644 and 1649 when Royalists held the castle against Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarians.
Oliver is hoping to climb his way into the history books by planting a flag at the summit of the world's tallest mountain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the Yankee school-marm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern States, are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent. American Notes
Oh, Miss Oliver – must we go for weeks and months – not knowing whether Jem is alive or dead? Rilla of Ingleside
Outside, in the broiling humidity, with his venerable coach Brooks Johnson and the 110m hurdler David Oliver, who won bronze at both the last Olympics and world championships, Gatlin limbers up gingerly. Justin Gatlin: I got to the point where I said, 'I don't care anymore'
Anyway, here is my version of Oliver's lekker baked butternut recipe, which I took from his book Cook With Jamie.
And really, Miki, it would not be at all convenable for me to make public appearances with you until the divorce from Oliver is final. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
You are feeling hurt too, but you still want to know why Oliver is treating you like you're invisible.
Three weeks later Oliver came back from somewhere exotic, and there were the three of us.
In addition to the smooth transitions between both the divergent, heterophonically-interwoven tunes and between tonal, modal and atonal pivots of the different sections, Olivero also presents a rhythmic dichotomy, between slow-paced, rhythmically flexible cantabile sections and harshly syncopated, rhythmic intersecting phrases. Betty Olivero.
Oliver Neilson, 38, a DJ from Newent, Gloucestershire, who was shopping at the time, said: "There was a terrific bang and all hell was let loose.
The creators of that music were descendants of slaves like Joe “King” Oliver, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton, and Louis Armstrong, and men who had been the half-naked children of the old, dark, fat Sicilians of Little Palermo. A Renegade History of the United States
Going the other way, Jamie Oliver calls for semi-skimmed milk in his hot chocolate. How to make perfect hot chocolate
At that moment I believed Oliver and I stood on opposite sides of an untraversable chasm.
Eighteen months on, Oliver, now three, has no hearing in his left ear and limited hearing in his right ear.
We'll just stagnate, and there could be nothing for Fisticuffs or Oliver or Isa, to take over. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
he died in 1655 at sea between Hispaniola and Jamaica, while serving as a commissioner for Oliver Cromwell on a military expedition to retake the island of Hispaniola.
One thing I will never do," said Oliver Cromwell, law-clerk, swart and lusty, in green stockings and other sartor-resartus trifles; "one thing I will never do -- and that is, take human life! Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
Alex and Oliver submitted their tiling on May 15th, but had to wait until September before they knew that it was the first.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said: "We must remain eternally vigilant not to suppress the expression of opinions that we loathe. "What do YOU do when your favorite author turns out to be a puppy-kicker?"
From the clearance by Will Driver, Oliver Moulton fed the ball to Fred Atkinson who was inches wide with a well struck effort.
In the last weekly Downing Street meeting for parliamentary private secretaries, the cabinet office minister, Oliver Letwin, was lampooned for telling ministerial aides: "If this goes well we'll have nothing to legislate on in two years' time. David Davis takes up challenge to prepare next round of Tory policies
Oliver Clery, turned the first sod for the project on Tuesday of this week.
Oliver Shortsleeves became sadly twisted up after hearing those immediately before him spell in succession "schooner, tetrarch, pibroch and anarchy" and tried to spell "architrave" with so many letters that he would have needed no more to have spelled it twice over. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
Released on bail, Lilburne, who from prison had issued an "Agreement of the Free People," calling for annual parliaments elected by manhood suffrage and the free election of unendowed church ministers in every parish, now published an "Impeachment for High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his son-in-law, James Ireton," and declared that monarchy was preferable to a military despotism. The Rise of the Democracy
Oliver Cromwell came to Stamford in 1643, following the retreat of the Cavalier army who had tried to capture Peterborough.
Lieutenant Oliver is the company's Forward Observer; take him out and they won't be able to call any Fire Missions.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes smugly proclaimed, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
An essay on the English countryside by Oliver Rackham demonstrates that medieval England had no wildwood, but instead different forms of land management even on noncultivated land: heath, fen, moorland, grassland, and woodland.
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home. " – Oliver Goldsmith.
Yet Oliver did want more; he knew what would land in his plate, if the beadle consented to his request, but he asked anyway.
If your heart broke for poor Felicity after Oliver and Isabel's hook-up, you're not alone!
Painter Philip Oliver Hale depicts the composer in Ades' London home reclining-at once elegantly refined and unaffectedly insouciant-on an armchair with his feet resting upon an ottoman.
Health Matters" is introduced by Dick Oliver on BBC World Service.
The closing passage of one of them has always seemed to me to be a masterpiece of grim brutality: "Oliver's nob was exchequered, and he fell by heavy right - handed blows on his ears and temple. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
They left the house in Chertsey and moved to a quiet cottage in the country, taking Oliver with them.
Jamie Oliver suggests griddling the asparagus spears on a hot griddle pan for a couple of minutes, turning a couple of times.
Whereas the question arose after the death of the said Oliver H. Payne as to whether said gift of Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.) did not operate as an ademption or satisfaction of said legacy of Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.), and the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, having examined into the facts and being advised upon said facts as they then appeared that they were legally entitled to the legacy, passed a resolution at a meeting of the Board of Visitors minutes
Like many later Oliver Stone films, there simply isn't a relatable character in the bunch.
Four fishermen tragically lost their lives at night off the south coast of Connemara when their fishing trawler the St. Oliver from Rossaveal was broken up in strong southerly winds and rough seas.
It has been a good year for latter-day admirers of Oliver Cromwell, the only successful antimonarchist in English history. The Monarchy Will Prevail
Oliver was annoyed that Angelina had deliberately chosen to sit next to Sir Thomas.
Andrew Lansley's claim that Jamie Oliver's school dinners campaign 'lectured' people and was a flop boils chef's temper Jamie Oliver: The chef's can-do attitude in a weary world is an inspiration | Observer editorial

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