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  • When the baby is not thriving and gaining steadily in weight, or is fretty and cries a good deal, and does not rest and sleep peacefully, something, of course, is wrong. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
  • The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
  • His life was drawing peacefully to its close.
  • Despite dire threats of violence from extremist groups, the protest passed off peacefully.
  • The _sauba_ ants had cut nearly all the strings of Filippe's hammock; while he was resting peacefully on it the remainder of the strings broke, and he had a bad fall. Across Unknown South America
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  • Ten thousand people are reported to have taken part in the protest which passed off peacefully.
  • For at least 40,000 years, they gathered shellfish and peacefully slept under the stars.
  • I awoke to find myself lying next to the blonde bombshell who was sleeping peacefully in my arms.
  • Everyone has got the right to protest but it has to be done peacefully and lawfully.
  • Indeed, two of them were not even involved in the demonstrations that resulted in the tragedy but were peacefully walking across campus when they were gunned down.
  • The main demonstration passed off peacefully.
  • Universities thrive and grow best when all theories are peacefully discussed. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is more a mode of address for a slightly iffy constitutional compromise that is drawing peacefully towards its close.
  • To die peacefully in one's sleep is no bad way to go, not at any age, leave alone at one hundred and one, full of rich and eventful years.
  • The beach at Koktabel, in southern Crimea, has long been associated with naturism, and for many decades naturists have co-existed peacefully with the textiles who frequent this busy seaside resort every summer.
  • We want to give these young kids a positive outlook on life and teach them how to feel good about themselves and relate peacefully to others.
  • Late that night we pulled into a cheap motel, cashed an unemployment check, and fell peacefully to sleep.
  • As Gatto said in 2008: "No demonstrations, no mud-slinging, no adversarial politics... just peacefully refuse to take standardized tests. March Madness: 'My name is Luke and I refuse to take your test'
  • Aunt May was alone, sleeping peacefully, the machines surrounding her beeping more slowly, steadily. SPIDER-MAN®: THE ADVENTURES OF SPIDER-MAN
  • “Bu shi an shen yu xin” pronounced boo shr ahn shun yü sheen means do not see polluted things to make your shen reside peacefully in your heart. Tao II
  • The homeless tramp sleeps peacefully on the bench.
  • By marching together, carrying banners and chanting slogans, thousands of students peacefully displayed their anger and emotion against the war that had started.
  • The crowds dispersed peacefully when they were denied a meeting with the ambassador. Times, Sunday Times
  • A butterfly rested on the petals of a brilliant red flower, sipping nectar peacefully on a bright summer day.
  • Both sides committed themselves to settle the dispute peacefully.
  • Campaigners argue that it is better for a patient to choose to die peacefully and in dignity, than in great pain.
  • I was sure that the Graymen had not built it, and was haunted by the thought that at one time, normal people had dwelt here peacefully.
  • I do not have the emotional ability to grasp how a grown adult would be able to conscionably spray this toxic and excruciatingly painful substance into the faces of these young people, who were peacefully and responsibly expressing their concerns for the world they find themselves growing up in. Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity
  • Their brown tigery sides rose and fell peacefully in the sound slumber induced by the plentiful fare of Clairville, but no sleep came to their master. Ringfield A Novel
  • The crowds dispersed peacefully when they were denied a meeting with the ambassador. Times, Sunday Times
  • He died peacefully after an illness borne with great fortitude and resolve.
  • Catherine's dead body lay peacefully on the bed.
  • The pop festival passed off peacefully, despite the fears of local residents.
  • The protest continued peacefully until government troops moved in to break it up.
  • But if it wasn't unheard of for a ruler of Constantinople to die peacefully in his bed, it was also not the norm.
  • My gosh is he so power hungry that he and his wife just can't fade off into the sunset and grow old together peacefully? Bill Clinton says Chelsea may go into politics
  • And so we exist peacefully in the garden, they chasing voles and nibbling the nepeta, I digging holes and nibbling the nasturtiums.
  • Harvey Keitel also scores as a cop who thinks he understands them and tries to bring the fugitives in peacefully. Top 10 Ridley Scott Films » Scene-Stealers
  • Universities thrive and grow best when all theories are peacefully discussed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Why devote so much pomp and ceremony to someone who lived such a long and full life and died peacefully?
  • In her arms was a newborn baby girl, peacefully sleeping, wrapped in a light pink towel.
  • Despite dire threats of violence from extremist groups, the protest passed off peacefully.
  • To disturb and shake a peacefully dying man simply to oblige your friend here who thinks he is a healer?
  • How do we talk peacefully with people with whom we might violently disagree?
  • Weircombe village as it lay peacefully aslant down the rocky "coombe," no one would have thought it likely to be a scene of silent, but none the less violent, internal feud; yet such nevertheless was the case, and all the trouble had arisen since the first Sunday of the first month of the Reverend Mr. Arbroath's "taking duty" in the parish. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
  • I am glad this woman is moving on with her live and her family peacefully with having to listen to this vulture of so called news destructionist medias. Elizabeth Edwards puts politics aside, opens store
  • It added that diplomats also saw reports of Yemen government officials "present during these attacks," which it called "contrary to the commitments that President Saleh has made to protect the right of Yemeni citizens to gather peacefully to express their views. Violence marks 'Friday of Rage' across Yemen
  • AHURA, the Humanitarian Association for Animal Rescue, peacefully protested last Monday in Bucaramanga against the Mexican Circus, part of the Hermanos Gasca circus company who uses animals as part of their act. Colombia: Humane Group Protests Circus Animal Cruelty
  • Although the muscular Frenchman never fought ancient foes of the tricolour, the athletic Blanc peacefully presides over a diving operation at one of the remotest outposts of the French empire.
  • As we summited the crest, the world froze briefly, peacefully, and then we plunged.
  • He died peacefully after a short illness borne with characteristic courage and fortitude.
  • He had figured on commandeering the pilot berth but the Airedale had already reclaimed territorial rights, now snoozing peacefully. CORMORANT
  • Most of us say we hope to die peacefully, at home, with our minds intact and our family around us. Times, Sunday Times
  • He died peacefully on 10th December after a short illness.
  • The seven-hour armed siege at the school ended peacefully.
  • Why devote so much pomp and ceremony to someone who lived such a long and full life and died peacefully?
  • They will keep out the growling, rasping or fluty snoring sounds from the ears of bedfellows and allow them to sleep peacefully.
  • Not until this turbulent region can shuffle off the burdens of the past will it be able to settle peacefully into the community of nations.
  • Your July cover caption reflects that the Star Flyer is ‘gliding peacefully through the Aegean Sea’ when she actually rests at anchor, tied between two mooring buoys.
  • She wants to believe her mother died peacefully from her illness, but now doesn't know.
  • If protest demonstrations and rallies can be confined to select areas and organised peacefully without obstructing the free movement of others, nobody can complain.
  • The baby lay peacefully asleep in its pram.
  • [Page 37] again peacefully after this parting – and I thought the Buddha would pity and grant my prayer. Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
  • The city is at the cutting-edge of conservation, showing how humans and wild animals can coexist peacefully. Times, Sunday Times
  • We have the rare privilege of watching up close as a formerly socialist, autarkic economy peacefully attempts to make the transition to a market-based, rule-of-law economy.
  • The patient went peacefully
  • With little disturbance, she is spending her time peacefully.
  • To disturb and shake a peacefully dying man simply to oblige your friend here who thinks he is a healer?
  • He died peacefully in his paddock there. Times, Sunday Times
  • Initially, the Jewish settlers coexisted peacefully and harmoniously with the indigenous, partly nomadic Arab population.
  • We highly appreciate the Arab Peace Initiative, which demonstrates to the whole world the sincere wish and strategic decision of Arab countries to peacefully resolve the Middle East issue.
  • A police siege of his house ended peacefully with his surrender to authorities.
  • Birds flew through the trees and cooed peacefully from the branches.
  • What they did with that freedom, by the millions, was call peacefully for China's government to institutionalize those rights. What I Saw at Tiananmen
  • Happy birds chirped and tweeted, and a deer just barely out of sight grazed peacefully.
  • By understanding their needs, you can peacefully cohabit with black bears to their benefit and yours.
  • It is more a mode of address for a slightly iffy constitutional compromise that is drawing peacefully towards its close.
  • He turns back to look at his brother lying peacefully under the comforter and blankets of his daybed.
  • On Dec. 4 King Bhumibol made a highly unusual intervention and called on the two sides to settle the affair peacefully.
  • They have by their very nature to stand for peace and educate people in forming their consciences to act justly and peacefully.
  • As far as Paul was concerned, it had been two great weeks of long, free-associative talks and golf games and jogs and arterially disastrous man-meals, through much of which Elise slept peacefully on her pillow stuffed with rice. The Position
  • Our second visit was a success and as we got closer to the farm we saw a group of hinds and deer gracing peacefully in the fields near the farm.
  • Once satisfied the predator and prey live peacefully alongside each other. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tom was yawning sleepily, and Lily was already napping peacefully on his skinny shoulder.
  • Members of such groups sometimes even feed peacefully side by side on superabundant resources in areas of territorial overlap, as occurs in the baboons I studied.
  • Not until this turbulent region can shuffle off the burdens of the past will it be able to settle peacefully into the community of nations.
  • Its equable temperament, unusual among terriers, results in large measure from the fact that it was originally a hunt terrier, expected to run peacefully with foxhounds.
  • Racial and religious tolerance is critical for a peacefully existence.
  • The bailli made confession very peacefully, and died an hour afterwards. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • A real lady she died as she had lived ever so quietly and peacefully in the company of her family.
  • Hundreds of protesters who took sanctuary in the mosque during the fighting left peacefully following lengthy negotiations with police.
  • Most of us say we hope to die peacefully, at home, with our minds intact and our family around us. Times, Sunday Times
  • This, he explained, kept farming from being developed peacefully, and it was amidst what he called a veritable civil war stirred up from abroad that so many errors were committed. SANTA CRUZ RALLY
  • He died peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by family and friends.
  • Extra police officers were brought in, although in the event the demonstration passed off peacefully.
  • The girl seeks protection from a nurse or grandmother while the baby sleeps peacefully in its mother's arms.
  • The demonstration passed off peacefully.
  • The coffin will remain open because of a Russian tradition going back to the time when people were suspicious that some of their tsars had not died peacefully.
  • The Princess died peacefully in her sleep at 6.30 am on Saturday after suffering a third stroke and developing heart problems.
  • On Saturday night at 9.40 pm he passed away peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by his wife and family.
  • There they fell asleep and slept peacefully, as lovers did when they were together.
  • Unable to reach an agreement between a federal or confederate link between the two parts, the country peacefully split into the independent Czech and Slovak Republics on 1 January 1993.
  • the hen settled herself on the nest most peacefully
  • The protest march went off peacefully with only two arrests.
  • The rally dispersed peacefully after six hours.
  • The Rabbi’s position of refusing to talk, or provide space for people to talk peacefully, is immoral and dangerous. Evening Buzz: Gadhafi Tent Controversy
  • What is more than evident is that breakbeat was slumbering away peacefully before the Plump DJs gave it a loud wakeup call with their first release.
  • I shook my head and looked down at Shadow, now resting peacefully, the soporific noises of the waterfall lulling him to sleep.
  • Muscles gradually become flabbier until people can find themselves on the verge of disability and loss of independence, like a canoe that floats peacefully until it gets too near a waterfall to pull back, Rejeski says. Cancer, memory loss top Boomers' health concerns
  • Voting took place peacefully across most of the country.
  • A brook gurgled by peacefully and there, nestled against the coniferous trees, was a hut.
  • She slept so silently and peacefully he almost regretted being there.
  • The marble iris stood peacefully on a low shelf.
  • Ask,'How are we going to peacefully coexist in our society? Christianity Today
  • They co-exist peacefully with people of other castes and tribes that include the Yeravas, Kurubas, the aborigines called Kudiyas, the lower caste called Poleyas.
  • The pop festival passed off peacefully, despite the fears of local residents.
  • He passed away peacefully at a nursing home after a short illness. The Sun
  • Greeks who oppose the package will be protesting again - yesterday, demonstrations began peacefully but turned violent, with riot police firing teargas at the crowds. Markets optimistic that Greek austerity package will pass
  • She died there peacefully yesterday, surrounded by her family. Times, Sunday Times
  • A large group of protestors, most of whom acted peacefully during the day, were now being "kettled" around the Bank - trapped in a small space without food, water or toilets until they boil.
  • I soon found an unconscious Charlie napping quite peacefully near a dimly lit grove.
  • The pop festival passed off peacefully, despite the fears of local residents.
  • Here the neglectfulness and dreariness of the outer aspect of the grave are completely done away with, and the dead lie peacefully under ground carpeted with flowers, and shaded by trees. The Englishwoman in America
  • Human Rights Watch has long expressed concerns over anti-separatist sweeps by the police, which often result in individuals who peacefully express support for independence being arrested and detained on charges of treason or rebellion (makar). NZ On Screen
  • Intermittent war rages across Ulthuan once more as the Dark Elves consolidate their hold on the northern lands. 602 Caradryel dies peacefully.
  • The whole nation mourned the irreparable loss as Nelson laid peacefully in his sarcophagus.
  • Thus ended peacefully seventeen years of harsh military rule within the legal framework erected by the dictatorship.
  • On Dec. 4 King Bhumibol made a highly unusual intervention and called on the two sides to settle the affair peacefully.
  • The hunting with hounds ban came into force on Friday and at the weekend four Hampshire hunts turned out - all passed off relatively peacefully despite a kill…
  • She was in her early 80s and died peacefully after a long illness.
  • I was sleeping peacefully for once in my 18 years of life, a shock to me still.
  • Her clothes were soiled and crumpled, sundrily torn; her hair was in disorder, and tendrils hung about her temples and forehead -- thick black hair, full of purple tones in the sunlight -- for she had not surrendered peacefully to this incarceration. The Place of Honeymoons
  • Mary asked that the Twelve Apostles be brought to her, then fell into a deep sleep, the dormition, and died peacefully. A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
  • Catherine's dead body lay peacefully on the bed.
  • The tiny twin baby girls sleeping peacefully side by side are little miracles.
  • I want to start an ecovillage and create a working example of how people can live together peacefully, in line with nature and with an abundance of food, water and energy.
  • The night passed peacefully at Bradford Royal Infirmary, although staff were braced for a traditionally busy one.
  • None of their kleptocratic rulers has left power peacefully. Times, Sunday Times
  • Christians have lived on the south-western coast of the Indian subcontinent peacefully and in harmony with the other local people for many centuries.
  • The main demonstration passed off peacefully.
  • He said they were protesting peacefully against education reforms and soliciting money for student union activities when the police opened fire. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not until this turbulent region can shuffle off the burdens of the past will it be able to settle peacefully into the community of nations.
  • Our lauded racial tolerance may have squelched overtly racist jokes but it often seems like a lot of different kinds of people living side-by-side, mostly peacefully, but not really together.
  • The World Uyghur Congress stated the shooting took place not at a police station, but in Khotan's main bazaar, when more than 100 local Uyghurs peacefully demonstrated against illegal seizures of land and the forcible disappearances of relatives by Chinese security forces during unrest in 2009. Henryk Szadziewski: 2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review
  • The villagers slept peacefully, never imagining the fate that was to be.
  • The actress plays a sympathetic chimp, the movie's granola type, a human rights activist who insists humans and apes can live together peacefully.
  • One moment I was peacefully watching TV and the next was assailed by a high volume string of expletives issuing from the kitchen.
  • It does not follow that because southerners of different backgrounds exchanged traditions they always coexisted peacefully.
  • He said they were protesting peacefully against education reforms and soliciting money for student union activities when the police opened fire. Times, Sunday Times
  • While the others slept peacefully, I was slinking and skulking around in the dark.
  • In a few moments I was sleeping peacefully again. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their objective was to demonstrate peacefully for civil rights.
  • Amanda-Anne slipped off the bus and hurried down the lane, between the long lines of neatly painted fence, the gentle green, clovered swells of pastures, black and bay and glossy chestnut Arabs who stood head to tail, grazing peacefully and swatting flies from each other's faces. Omnibus
  • The yellow shoes represent the sunshine, the green jackets the rolling hills where the famous merino sheep graze peacefully and those striped things must be either gum leaves or sheep vomit.
  • I would like the option to say my goodbyes and slip peacefully away before the pain claims me and my mind and body fail.
  • The alternate is that the nuclear crisis should be defused peacefully through dialogue.
  • You will discover that a world in which your religious beliefs coexist peacefully with those of others is a better idea. The Sun
  • Look at this prisoner slumbering peacefully beside his _huqqa_ under the suggestive bottle tree (there is something touching in his selecting the shade of a _bottle_ tree: Horace clearly had no _bottle_ tree; or he would never have lain under a strawberry (and cream) tree). Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
  • Coke was arrested by police on the outskirts of Kingston on Tuesday, peacefully ending a manhunt for the fugitive at the center of last month's deadly raids in the Jamaican capital.
  • Workers then dispersed peacefully in different directions, confusion and exhaustion written in their faces.
  • Jamie had laid his cheek on his folded arms and sprawled forward across the table, snoring peacefully between the platter and the peppermill. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • She rides a swan and sits, peacefully playing her veena. 2009 August 02 « Mudpuddle
  • Sarah lay there peacefully, the child nestling by her side.
  • They played a recording of a savanna fire to reed frogs that were peacefully estivating in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park.
  • He passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning with his family at his bedside. Times, Sunday Times
  • For two weeks, they lived peacefully enough. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • Many months passed and the guru and his disciples peacefully went about their routine chores.
  • Once satisfied the predator and prey live peacefully alongside each other. Times, Sunday Times
  • Members of such groups sometimes even feed peacefully side by side on superabundant resources in areas of territorial overlap, as occurs in the baboons I studied.
  • Unlike Chinese people who wait for death peacefully, Westerners will fight it to their last breath.
  • I say, "ostensible," because, in fact, the paramilitaries have rarely fought guerrillas themselves, but rather, have targeted civilians struggling peacefully for social change - for example, trade unionists, peasant leaders, teachers and Catholic priests advocating for the poor. Dan Kovalik: Bush To Host Colombian Death Squad President
  • KINGSTON (Reuters) - Alleged drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke was arrested by police on the outskirts of Kingston on Tuesday, peacefully ending a manhunt for the fugitive at the center of last month's deadly raids in the Jamaican capital. RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
  • Police have now appealed to Hanger to give himself up peacefully but armed police are on standby.
  • Nkunda, also urged the region's disparate ethnic groups to "cohabit" peacefully. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Sitting almost on Portland Bill Branscombe Lodge Cottage is peacefully situated up a quiet track and offers spectacular views from the lighthouse tower.
  • Calcifugous boiling and by abortively are righteous platelet in the pilchard, pleased allelomorph in the murray, peacefully knavishly brickyard, a immunochemical jello, and bronc gourmet on his way semantically to the vaginocele. Rational Review
  • It was two o'clock, and the general was peacefully awaiting the sound of the dinner bell, but at the sight of Eugenia his peacefulness departed, and he called angrily: The Voice of the People
  • A spokesman on Newsnight said the Sikh community had been demonstrating peacefully for a week and then, on Saturday night, young Sikhs who didn't wear turbans came out of the pub and decided to get lairy.
  • Mr Lynch, who died peacefully at the Marie Curie hospice in Bradford, leaves his two daughters and sons-in-law and five grand-children.
  • So far the state has taken custody of at least 401 children peacefully removed from the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado.
  • With the rambling intercessions of various minor professors, the conference session on relativity draws peacefully to a close. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
  • We ordered them to come down from the mountains fearlessly and peacefully, reinhabit the country and rebuild their houses.
  • When she had passed quite peacefully away one warm summer's night after a riotous horkey supper in which she had taken full part, The Frozen Heart
  • She died peacefully with her daughter and grandchildren by her side.
  • She was supposed to live to a ripe old age and die peacefully in her sleep, devoid of any pain.
  • Extra police officers were brought in, although in the event the demonstration passed off peacefully.
  • We can live peacefully with diversity. Times, Sunday Times
  • She sat there peacefully, her enigmatic smile following me out of the door. Times, Sunday Times
  • What makes it difficult for the communities to coexist peacefully?
  • The city is at the cutting-edge of conservation, showing how humans and wild animals can coexist peacefully. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few days ago complications emerged and he was returned to hospital, where he died peacefully in his sleep early on Saturday morning.
  • We hope that the dispute can be resolved peacefully.
  • The Czechs and Slovaks were able to separate peacefully, which is incredible. McCain Again Refers To Czechoslovakia, A Non-Existent Country
  • Her cat continued to sleep peacefully, sun from one curtained window warming her fur.
  • She never recovered from the injuries and died peacefully last week.
  • They've been living and working peacefully with members of various ethnic groups.
  • Some protesters sat in the street and resisted peacefully, but as crowds swelled there were complaints that the police were getting heavy-handed and punches were thrown. Times, Sunday Times
  • She had been playing peacefully in her room, oblivious to the violence that had occurred only a few rooms over.
  • Catherine's dead body lay peacefully on the bed.
  • But a handful of anti-hunt demonstrators, who peacefully protested amidst crowds of supporters, disagreed.

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