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  • Uranium fission plants in the US are presently supplying less than 8% of our total energy demand.
  • He vanished from the scene, to materialize presently in front of the door.
  • Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more. 1601
  • The impressive fort in the centre of the town presently houses the collectorate and other district office.
  • He and his companion presently went out to see after the horse.
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  • Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground.
  • Lines connect countries to Washington, D.C. Each line indicates a cyberattack on a House system that is presently occurring.
  • This a 200 per cent rise from the number of borrowers presently behind with their repayments. Times, Sunday Times
  • Presently, piglet early weaning diarrhea is a knotty disease in most pig farm.
  • This has something to do with the new servers Halo boffins are presently introducing.
  • The pecten is shaved either without or after using depilatories, of which more presently. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Secondly, it briefly analyzes some major inadequateness of ideology and morality presently existing in the rural youth, which incorporates the two parts of daily lives and public lives.
  • In linguistics, there are presently two main approaches to solving the problems associated with the description of emotions.
  • Probably I should not have troubled myself to do so, had I been full in front; but I observed that she immediately began to slip her books into her cabas again; and, presently, after I had returned to the estrade, while I was arranging the mass of compositions, I heard the folding-door again open and close; and, on looking up, I perceived her place vacant. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Then Zeus changed the maiden into a heifer, to save her from the anger of Here, but presently Here learned that the heifer was the maiden whom she hated, and she went to Zeus, and said, Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • The computer this is being typed on will presently be packed into its shipping box, stuck in a truck for several days, and then a garage for a month.
  • We are told that dogs are presently loose in the fields at night, and are a danger to the sheep and their young lambs.
  • Spain presently holds the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers and there has been a meeting in Madrid between members of the EU Parliament and members of the US Congress (one of those summer junkets for legislators) and on the margins of that meeting the Spanish Foreign Minister said: - The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Israeli Incompetence
  • A short distance up the cañon of the west branch of Clear Creek, a new kind of flycatcher was first heard, and presently seen with my glass. Birds of the Rockies
  • Palfreys, and notwithstanding a tendency in the male part of the family to jeer at him a little as "peaky" and bow-legged, he presently established his position as an accepted and frequent guest. Brother Jacob
  • In hummocky terrain, the wire is presently suspended above the soil surface over hollows.
  • The rents that are collected are presently insufficient to cover these costs as well as other overheads.
  • He is also presently looking for a helicopter pad around the Atticall area.
  • When, presently, Louis's voice came to her, she turned with a swift vision of him as King Amfortas with the unstaunchable wound. Captivity
  • We are arranging so that presently this will be the other way around, but meanwhile London and our big cities have had to stand their pounding.
  • We anticipate a severe nursing shortage in the next few years and presently do not have enough lab or x-ray techs to fill vacant positions.
  • Presently it is the abode of wild pigeons, bats, goats, dogs, pigs etc.
  • Presently the door opened, and a young man stood before them clothed in the rough camel-hair garment, or burnous, which is common in the East. The Brethren
  • Presently a sheepdog in the valley below gave a surly, growling bark. THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
  • Presently, on the path some sixty feet above them, but hidden from them by the mass of tumbled rocks through which they had descended, they heard someone puffing and blowing, a stick striking and slipping on the stones, and weird rays of light stole down the mountain-side, and in and out of the vast blocks with which it was overstrewn. The History of David Grieve
  • There is a rather run-down amusement park with roller-coasters, a tower restaurant, and a dolphinarium presently under reconstruction.
  • Presently one of the passengers, after vigorously pushing his way through the importunate crowd of porters, came up to him and politely asked if he could point out the English consulate, at the same time showing a passport which he wished to have visaed. Around the World in 80 Days
  • And she still answereth me, ‘Allah is bountiful: good will presently betide thee.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Some one went off in the motor to the nearest chemist's shop and returned presently with two large pieces of bread, liberally dosed with narcotic.
  • It lies 250 kilometers southwest of Lanchow, and is presently included in southwestern Kansu (Gansu) Province of China, near the border of Chinghai (Qinghai) Province. A Brief History of Labrang Monastery
  • Presently, John was shouting for two technicians to calm down while simultaneously filing digital signals to the computer core.
  • We think it is necessary to smash the presently existing state.
  • But belike this duskiness will clear presently, and then at least we shall know whither we be going; and we may either turn back, or seek some other shelter, for I know the lake well; I know, I know. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • Tropic growths, which I will venture to call myrtle, oleander, laurel, and eucalyptus, environed the hotel, not too closely nor densely, and our increasing party was presently discovered from the head of its steps by a hospitable matron, who with a cry of comprehensive welcome ran within and was replaced by a head-waiter of as friendly aspect and much more English. Roman Holidays, and Others
  • The stem gall nematode, Anguina pacificae, is presently the most devastating pest of Poa annua putting greens in California.
  • Presently it opened and disclosed fifty horsemen, gathered together to waylay merchants on the highway, and their captain, by name Kahrdash, was a lion in daring and dash; a furious lion who layeth knights flat as carpets in battle-crash. — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • In the drawing, a system for preparing franked postal items according to the presently most preferred embodiment of the invention is shown.
  • Given the possibility of some topical variances here therefore, the question that might arise is whether this is, as is being reported in the aforementioned news sources, an intended denial of the contents of Tornielli's report, or whether it is not a denial, but rather a pre-emptive assurance, on the heels of Tornielli's story, that there are no formal changes to the liturgical books presently planned. Further Developments Related to the Tornielli Rumours
  • Joey saw her and presently came to sit down beside her with a swing of jade-green draperies. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • Can such mutants be identified in the genetic screens presently in use, or is there a need for improved or even novel screens?
  • He was taken entirely into her confidence, as will presently be seen, and she even called him in to assist her when she was conducting an elaborate and stilted epistolatory flirtation with Lord Peterborough. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
  • Then stood Regin staring on the earth a long while, and presently thereafter spake from heavy-mood: “Mine own brother hast thou slain, and scarce may I be called sackless of the deed.” The Story of the Volsungs
  • All the prisoners were put into one great boat, and in another of the biggest they placed all the women, plate, jewels, and other rich things: into others they put the bales of goods and merchandise, and other things of bulk: each of these boats had twelve men aboard, very well armed; the brulot had orders to go before the rest of the vessels, and presently to fall foul with the great ship. The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main
  • South African farmers will now have a five year grace period to find replacement products for methyl bromide, which is presently used for soil fumigation in nurseries, flower and vegetable production, replanting of apple and other orchards and tobacco seedbeds. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • So presently, in what was still a short period since his accession to power, Leonidas took stock again. COUP D'ETAT
  • Presently he stopped and sat under the apple tree.
  • Presently a faint halloo was heard from an adjoining field. Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • So many women and no doubt men suffer postdivorce depression and feelings of failure, and we know that in our society, as it is presently, there are no avenues for them to get help. Undefined
  • Presently the authorised planning use of the land is one dwelling house with residential curtilage.
  • A short, soft knock came on the wooden door, and presently the call of an elderly woman's voice bid her visitor enter.
  • Groups representing sectional business interests presently lead the ongoing fuel protests.
  • Presently there will come to thee a bird called the roc [FN#44], that will catch thee up in its claws and fly away with thee and set thee down on The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
  • Presently she came back with a kettle of water still warm from the noon fire and a bundle of clean rags.
  • I am very foolish, "says she, sniffing, and presently, when the Prince and Princess withdrew, she was all smiles again, curtseying like billy-ho, and kissing me a tender farewell. Flashman's Lady
  • It is _fit_ to be true, it would be _well if it were true_, it _ought_ to be true, you presently feel. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
  • He did not explain that somewhat cryptical remark, and presently he left her and went to his room. Skyrider
  • Mr Meldrum said it was what was called a sheathbill, and not good for eating, which made Frank regret all the more having killed it, especially when its mate hopped up to him presently -- as if asking him why he had shot her husband! The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land
  • Unlike the subliterate cretin presently occupying the White House, Carter was one of the few presidents of my lifetime who was a consistently impressive extemporaneous speaker. McCain: Obama Would Equal Carter's Second Term
  • Mrs. Dickinson, presently "coming up with" Rosamund's party, became absolutely "waggish" (the Dean's expression), and made Rosamund laugh with that almost helpless spontaneity which is the greatest compliment to a joke. In the Wilderness
  • The same night the Spaniards tooke one of our soldiors appointed for a forlorne Sentinel, whom they presently put to the sword. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Bowman forced his fingers to hunt around, and presently discovered the pear-shaped bulb.
  • Presently she began to chirrup to the bird: soon her chirrup grew clearer; erelong she was whistling; the whistle struck into a tune, and very sweetly and deftly it was executed. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • The only thing I managed to get out of the whole experience was a painful foot which is presently swelling up quite nicely, and a bruise on my bottom.
  • Presently, he handselled peace for himself here by marriage with my mother, the daughter of a great Scots lord of the lands; and thereafter had built the hall, and made the haven, and won a few fields from the once barren hillside. A Sea Queen's Sailing
  • But presently, when he came back to bed, he lay very still and cold, and when we rose in the morning never a word spake either of us of what had passed that night. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
  • Then came the inevitable moment of grateful acknowledgment when her senses brought of their best to pay for their indulgence -- their best on this occasion being that vow to Israfil which presently she found herself renewing. The Heavenly Twins
  • The country is presently in the throes of the worst recession since the second world war.
  • It was the bane of her life, or at least it was presently.
  • They would not know that there is presently a vast body of critical literature.
  • Speed restrictions are presently in place and customers also experience a bumpy ride over this section of track.
  • See.p. 239, etc., of Le Jardin parfumé du Cheikh Nefzaoui, of whom more presently. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The selection process for the Conservatives and Unionists candidates for the various N. Irish Westminster constituencies is presently trundling along - Chekov echoes a few of my own doubts about the possible final outcome in this post over at Open Unionism. May the best (or loudest) Conservative and Unionist win?
  • The bar president, during a press conference here, said some 400 detenues are presently lodged in Kot Bhalwal jail which include some 30 men from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
  • Presently a faint halloo was heard from an adjoining field. Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • This servant of your Honour has presently no place to lay crown of his head, but going to Benares by train on account of persecution of old woman talking so much and unanxious residing Kim
  • The site is presently occupied by offices.
  • Presently, as a result of some little thought, he brought out from the tent the long piece of hemp rope with which we had moored the boat to the sea anchor, and proceeded to unlay it, until he had all three strands separate. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
  • Regardless of our level of attainment, when we cognize the presently-happening five aggregate factors on our own mental continuum and thus cognize our own mental continuum and our own mere “me,” all the other noncongruent affecting variables imputable on our mental continuum also appear to our cognition. What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Four: Valid Cognition of the Past, Present, and Future
  • But presently, in order to terrify them still more, he strode toward them, when, his sword entangling his legs, he fell upon the field of glory, and the people passed over him singing their sweetest songs. Fantastic Fables
  • So I dashed down the moory slope on my right, and presently saw the object again — and now I saw that it was water. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
  • The Constitution of the Brothers branch is presently being re-cast.
  • The approach relies on the assumption that the largely unknown mechanisms presently linking radiant energy input and species richness will not change in concert with climate.
  • He is presently in a state of excommunion, as a result of his public promotion of abortion. LifeSiteNews.com Headlines
  • However, not all iguanas in bad body condition had high CORT levels and we are presently investigating whether CORT levels are indeed causally related to the animals' death.
  • Presently he became aware that she was understood to be singing pointedly to him: upon which he dismissed the council of his sensations, and began to diplomatize cleverly. Sandra Belloni — Complete
  • On six tunes, the wheeze of a button accordian added a dimension that bluegrass purists had never heard before; unfortunately, the band doesn't presently have an accordion player.
  • Presently it is difficult to locate a mooring to berth a boat for the night, let alone find one to tie to while diving.
  • Three locals are presently in hospital and we wish them speedy recoveries.
  • Bajazeth, unheard or undescried by any body, they went presently to the Port, and there (without any further delay) Amurath and the The Decameron
  • Beyond this presently is a little glade, the loveliest in Sussex; in spring it is patterned with primroses, and windflowers shake their fragile bells and show their silver stars above them. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
  • He'll come on your shoulder presently," said Sister Mary John, and after some plausive coquetting the bird fluttered on to Evelyn's shoulder, and Sister Mary John said -- Evelyn Innes
  • This is by far the largest container ship presently calling at any Northern Ireland port.
  • Presently, she is writing a commentary on the Books of Chronicles for Asia Theological Association.
  • Presently, one of her maids brought her a silken bag, which she opened and taking thereout a lute, laid it in her lap and smote its strings, whereat it complained as child complaineth to mother, and she sang these two couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • She is presently developing a number of projects.
  • So much he told the seekers in few words; and then while they grovelled on the earth and wept for pure joy, whereas the sun was down and it was beginning to grow dusk, he went and looked around soberly to see if he might find water and any kind of victual; and presently a little down the hillside he came upon a place where a spring came gushing up out of the earth and ran down toward the plain; and about it was green grass growing plentifully, and a little thicket of bramble and wilding fruit-trees. The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
  • A process of digging was on view in a remote corner of the Forum, and he presently remarked that if it should please the signori to go and watch it a little they might see something of interest. The Portrait of a Lady
  • Livy laid her japonica, down to get a better "holt" for kissing -- which Susie presently perceived, and became thoughtful: then said sorrowfully, turning the great deeps of her eyes upon her mother: "Don't you care for you wow? Complete Letters of Mark Twain
  • Yet notwithstanding this ominous comparison she presently made her appearance with her sleeves turned down, her black woollen dress "tidied," and a smile of fatigued but not unkindly welcome and protection on her face. Cressy
  • That's a long preamble to my subject, but you will see the relevance presently. Times, Sunday Times
  • He carried the rehearsals and the performances through with such spirit that it resulted in his being made assistant director, and two works of his were presently performed -- "Almira" and "Nero. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
  • To Montcalm, who was of noble birth with no shamming, this lowbred pretense and play at courtcraft became a bore; to his staff of officers, a source of continual amusement; but De Lévis presently falls victim to a pair of fine eyes possessed by the wife of another man. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
  • No conductor presently active commands more respect from orchestral players than Lorin Maazel.
  • She seemed to have something on her mind, and presently she proposed to Mr. Morris that he should take the shunpike for a change. The Captain's Toll-Gate
  • Rather, "the glory of the country" is in apposition with "cities" which immediately precedes, and the names of which presently follow. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The khidmutgar gave up his protégé for lost; but presently he became convinced that they were only at play, and he kept quiet. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852
  • As a risky landslide, the Manzhai landslide stands at the phase of wiggly deformation presently.
  • It may well be that what we are most needful of presently is neither more wars nor more laws, but more prudence in the making ofboth. The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
  • CYS presently has associate offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Vancouver.
  • Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer, treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me: and I kept telling them my tale till the night was far spent. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • We saw the lights, and heard music, but presently all was still, and many came out, to a palankeen in which ladies travel, and so away. Fiancée
  • _Muscovy-glass_; and you may very easily change any of the Colours of any part of the interposed body, by pressing the Plates closer and harder together, or leaving them more lax; that is, a part which appeared coloured with a red, may be presently ting'd with a yellow, blew, green, purple, or the like, by altering the appropinquation of the terminating Plates. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
  • You tread loathingly an indescribable earthen floor, and your eye, on entering the apartment, is arrested by a nameless production of the fictile art, certainly not of _Etruscan_ form, which is invariably placed on the _bolster_ of the truck-bed destined presently for your devoted head. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
  • I heard him and the Mate talking to the men, and presently, when we were going over the foretop, I made out that they were beginning to get into the rigging. The Ghost Pirates
  • Drafted in 1963, it presently remains in law that gramophones, travelling rugs, and typewriters are our most at-risk goods.
  • Aridene nodded in the direction of the ropes that were presently restraining her.
  • The other is that while Tolstoy and Ibsen presently became, the one indifferent to artistic expression, and the other baldly prosaic where he was once deeply poetical, Bjornson preserved the poetic impulse of his youth, and continued to give it play even in his envisagement of the most practical modern problems. Bjornstjerne Bjornson
  • Because of that, “the year 2008” can function as a basis for being labeled with any of the three totally conceptional categories not-yet-happening, presently-happening, or no-longer-happening. What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena
  • If some such object is presently lodged in your toilet trap, it may be necessary to detach the bowl from the floor.
  • Presently Rowena returned, all ablush with joyous excitement, and begged for a rereading of the letter.
  • Emma, who presently works in corporate finance, was awarded the IoT medal and Butterworth prize for the highest overall marks.
  • He got lankily into motion and presently passed in through the windows .... The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
  • The woman presently occupying his thoughts suddenly let out a little moan and sat up.
  • This family presently contains more than 22 genera subdivided into three subfamilies, and the family extends through most of the Permian.
  • A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it. The War of The Worlds
  • It is capable of exerting sufficient friction under the brush to ensure pearly whiteness of the teeth without injuring the enamel, whilst the camphor in it tends to destroy the animalcula in the secretions of the mouth, whose skeletons or remains constitute, as we shall presently see, the incrassation popularly called “tartar.” The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
  • Presently the door was unlocked, - the Count and Margarite appeared; they saw me in agonies; "I am dying, barbarian; you will be satisfied, you have murdered a worthy man who never injured you - you have killed an innocent wife. The Castle of Wolfenbach
  • Then I thought of my cousin and all the kind offices she had been wont to do me, and I learned when too late that she had truly loved me; so I wept for her and my mother wept also Presently she said to me, “O my son, thy sire is dead.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The horns were blown, and presently there came up from hill and hommoc, wood and bosket, rock and dingle, all around, an answering volley. Margaret
  • Opening the door to a chink, Rosalie saw the Miss Pockets, shivering, the permanent decoration on the nose of the elder Miss Pocket very conspicuous and agitatedly swinging, ushered into the study, and presently her father follow his jutty nose into the study after them, and very shortly after that the This Freedom
  • I was soon lost in my thoughts again, and presently fell asleep from sheer exhaustion.
  • One of the roses presently undergoing trials at Dickson's is a floribunda with petals of deep plummy-purple.
  • Order our horses presently; I will wear, as formerly, one of the livery cloaks, and ride before the portmantle. Kenilworth
  • In NZ we might expect, for example, southward invasion by weeds presently limited by temperature.
  • It happened otherwise, however; for, after the exchange of a few indistinct words, they were antonished when they heard the noise of the unbolting and unbarring of the gates of the inn, and presently after the footsteps of men upon the stairs; and the landlord entering, with an appearance of clumsy courtesy, prayed those assembled to make room for an honored guest, who came, though late, to add to their numbers. Anne of Geierstein
  • The lads are presently demoing and writing new material and with a growing fan base it is coming as no surprise that their music is getting more and more attention.
  • Euphemia," I said, presently, "the ground seems hard a little way in front of you. Euphemia Among the Pelicans
  • When this Lorde had well banqueted them, hee presently called for his barge, and did accompany the said galley to the Lorde general the Earle of Essex, who then did ride with his ship a good distance off: and there they being in like maner most honorably receiued, and intertained, the The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Presently appeared a kind of barracoon, a large square of thick cane-work and thatch about eight feet high, the Fetish house of the "Jinkimba" or circumcised boys, who received us with unearthly yells. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
  • Presently, Peroxidase is employed as indicator for blanching treatments of vegetables.
  • In pursuance of this request, Nancy quickly laid the cloth; disappearing for a few minutes, she presently returned with a pot of porter and a dish of sheep's heads: which gave occasion to several pleasant witticisms on the part of Mr. Sikes, founded upon the singular coincidence of "jemmies" being a cant name, common to them, and also to an ingenious implement much used in his profession. Oliver Twist
  • The morning was fresh and cool; I threw back the lattice, and presently the room filled with sweet scents from the garden; but Catherine called peevishly to me, 'Ellen, shut the window. Wuthering Heights
  • How many Pommy visa overstayers are now backpacking their way around Oz presently?
  • One full time teacher is employed and there are 11 students presently on the course.
  • She came to herself presently, so much that she could see him clearly, and was now growing more shamefast than afraid, when she saw beyond doubt that the man was of the sons of Adam; but what with her shame that was now, and her fear that had been, she yet had no might to move, but stood there pale and trembling like a leaf, and might scarce keep her feet. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • Colombo is not presently a cardinalatial see, but there has been a cardinal in Colombo in the past, so it is certainly a possibility that Ranjith could receive the red hat in an upcoming consistory — something he could not have received if he had remained as a secretary of the Congregation. On the Movement of Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith
  • Inspectors previously specialised in particular areas of pollution control will be expected to regulate industrial processes presently outside their experience.
  • Lebanon (that is, the cool melted snow water of Lebanon, as he presently explains), which cometh from the rock of the field (a poetical name for Lebanon, which towers aloft above the surrounding field, or comparatively plain country)? Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Presently she gets up, and throwing her arms round him, seemed far from undelighted with the trial he had put her to, to judge at least by the fondness with which she ey'd and hung upon him. Fanny Hill, Part II (first letter)
  • The US presently consumes more than 80 percent of the world's supply of these drugs.
  • I swear to whichever goddess is presently in the mood to listen, if these weird dreams keep up, I'm going to have our water tested for LSD. "This flood will swallow all you've left behind."
  • Now the ter race overlooked the cowhouse and presently, as he sat there with his children playing about him, the trader heard the Ass say to the Bull, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • He was presently in the grip of a bronchial infection that made it hard for him to carry on.
  • We will monitor the further developments and pronouncements of the several bodies presently addressing the subjects of corporate governance and accounting standards.
  • Besides their primage they owned shares in their vessels, a thirty-second or so, and presently their settlement at the end of a voyage coastwise amounted to an income of a thousand dollars a month. Modern American Prose Selections
  • One does not, however, use Hercules gut for nothing; the log was travelling swiftly, and I ventured to clap my rod-top down to and under the surface, thus saving my tackle, and being presently able to land and gaff my 10-lb. fresh-run salmon without risk or hurry. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
  • As presently licensed, quadrivalent meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine is to be given by subcutaneous injection.
  • Nicole went out and came back presently with a packet of caporal cigarettes. Pied Piper
  • Presently, I fell asleep.
  • Three sites are presently under consideration for the new hotel.
  • I guess I must have hummed along or waved my flask to the old familiar march, for presently the villain Augustus (a frightful handle to fix on a decent enough urchin, but no work of mine) detached himself from the waterweed and came to stand snottering before me with his head on one side, thoughtful-like. THE NUMBERS
  • Despite the absence of external ears, the alien's hearing was acute-which was why he was presently shadowing the two humans and their lumbering beast, his mind filled with visions of ornithoid larceny. Snakes Eyes
  • So, here I am still excited by Limusaurus, the herbivorous ceratosaurid, and up pops a previously unknown form of the speciose ceratopsian genus Psittacosaurus (presently 10-11 valid species known), from the Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia. Spock, Obama, the Kwisatz Haderach, and decriminalizing evolution.
  • For thirst is increased by eating for this reason, because that meat by its natural siccity contracts and destroys all that small quantity of moisture which remained scattered here and there through the body; just as happens in things obvious to our senses; we see the earth, dust, and the like presently suck in the moisture that is mixed with them. Symposiacs
  • In fact, the acknowledged authors report of a site on the east coast of Hudson Bay where no trees are presently growing that: The northernmost postfire regeneration during the 20th century occurred about 130 km south of the study area Payette et al 1989b. Esper et al. [2002]: Quebec « Climate Audit
  • I realized presently that my special forte lay in directing a sizable garden like that rather than in performing the actual labor, especially when June arrived and the sun began to approach the perpendicular and take on callithump. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
  • And he will find himself targeted for opprobrium by others who presently portray him as a politician of Churchillian stature.
  • Then, after ending his verses, he fainted again; and, presently reviving he went on to the second cage, wherein he found a ringdove. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Thus that admirable saint and martyr, Bishop Hooper, when he came to die, one endeavored to dehort him from death by this: O sir, consider that life is sweet and death is bitter; presently he replied, Life to come is more sweet, and death to come is more bitter, and so went to the stake and patiently endured the fire. Sermons to the Natural Man
  • Leaving the bridge, I ascended a gentle acclivity, and presently reached what appeared to be a tract of moory undulating ground. Lavengro
  • Inspectors previously specialised in particular areas of pollution control will be expected to regulate industrial processes presently outside their experience.
  • Once the toxic assets have been rendered atoxic, the credit default swap insurance problem that is presently sinking the global financial system soon becomes an historical footnote. Cara Community
  • The grass was so green and warm that presently she lay down upon it, her head pillowed upon her arm, her eyes gazing through the fountain mist and down the emerald slopes to where ran the elmwood avenue. Sir Mortimer
  • Financially, the Kaybob K3 Project provides Orleans with operating cost savings upon commissioning of $0.34 per thousand cubic feet ( "mcf") or $2.04 per boe, as the processing fee structure at the K3 Plant is presently lower than the current processing fees charged at the Kaybob Amalgamated Gas Plant ( "KA Plant"). Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • The thesis that experience of the contemporaneousness of art involves us in more than what we are presently aware of (i.e., the “substance” of underlying and on-going trans-individual linguistic and cultural practices) is supported by the three arguments from analogy concerning the character of play, the festival and the symbol. Gadamer's Aesthetics
  • You see, it was her final request that Ralph should perform in a circus company, besides which all the zoos have indicated that they are presently overstocked with African elephants (of which Ralph is one).
  • Nor can you presently pass the beerhouse with its brighter gas and its queer, screening windows, nor get a whiff of foul air and foul language from its door, nor see the crumpled furtive figure — some rascal child — that slinks past us down the steps. In the Days of the Comet
  • We had a successful broadcast in Carlow during Easter week 2005 and are presently planning our broadcasting schedule for the coming year.
  • This factory leadership product belt, rubber hose, high- pressured air hose and so on, presently separately through state-level, provincial level appraisal.
  • Presently the news of her sickness came to the King; so he sent her sherbets and sugar electuaries. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Presently, it can support in revetments about 1,100 combat aircraft in the twenty-two airbases within 370 miles - that is, within striking distance - of Taiwan.
  • But this second implication - that Bryant presently believes that she consented is contradicted by the last half of the sentence I recognize now that she did not ... view this incident the same way I did .... Balkinization
  • Presently, Ischomachus proceeded: Now it is of prime importance,428 in reference to the profitableness or unprofitableness of agriculture, even on a large estate where there are numerous429 workfolk,430 whether a man takes any pains at all to see that his labourers are devoted to the work on hand during the appointed time,431 or whether he neglects that duty. Oeconomicus
  • Their counterparts in Denmark are presently preparing a bill for the Danish parliament on euro membership.
  • The father of her children is presently serving a two-year custodial sentence for burglary.
  • Presently, a young woman in a white coat came in.
  • In other words, we can validly cognize only one moment at a time: prior moments and later moments are presently invalid, though existent. What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Four: Valid Cognition of the Past, Present, and Future
  • Presently, as usual, the fair somnambule began talking in her sleep; her mother entered, as usual, into conversation with her; and, at length, asked, "But what have you done with your new ball-dress? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
  • I threw back the lattice, and presently the room filled with sweet scents from the garden; but Catherine called peevishly to me, "Ellen, shut the window. Wuthering Heights
  • Presently she anounced the glad tidings to her husband and led her usual life until her nine months of pregnancy were completed and she bare a male child whose face was as the rondure of the moon on its fourteenth night. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Chek Lap Kok is open 24-hours a day and presently serves 45 million passengers a year.
  • Therefore a God-given moral absolute is necessarily applied and essential to the well being of the human species, given the depravity of human nature as it presently stands.
  • Presently, the agency can only fine broadcast stations up to $27, 500 per utterance and have to warn the individuals who violate the rules before a penalty can be imposed.
  • There is presently no cure for the disease. This use is becoming more accepted in BrE, but at present or currently are usually used.
  • The same learned authority suggests that dodo is a corruption of Dodaars, but, as will presently be seen, we herein think him mistaken. Dodo in 1911

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