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Usage examples of george.

George had watched a marriage crack under the weight of a major investigation.

And Captain Abernethy and George the Greek bore into the cabin a third oblong box, exactly similar in appearance to the box of Reginald Maltravers and the box which contained the evidence against Logan Black, and set it on the floor.

Cleggett, the three detectives, Jefferson the genial coachman, and Washington Artillery Lamb, the janitor and butler of the house boat Annabel Lee, a negro as large and black as Jefferson himself, took a two-hour trick with the spades and then lay down and slept while Abernethy, Kuroki, Elmer, Calthrop, George the Greek, and Farnsworth dug for an equal length of time.

A green spot of light appeared on the actuator plate, though only George saw it.

George thrust his hand into the actuator hole, felt the metal plate and stepped forward into weightlessness.

Amelia had raised up from her bed on the desk as George pushed into the office, carrying the box of gate actuators before him.

It had been John Adams, in the aftermath of Lexington and Concord, who rose in the Congress to speak of the urgent need to save the New England army facing the British at Boston and in the same speech called on Congress to put the Virginian George Washington at the head of the army.

It was 1760, the year twenty-two-year-old George III was crowned king and Adams turned twenty-five.

It was there, at the City Tavern, a few days later, that Adams had first met George Washington.

According to Adams, the advice made a deep impression, and among the consequences was the choice of George Washington to head the army.

That Jefferson, after attending the College of William and Mary, had read law at Wilhamsburg for five years with the eminent George Wythe, gave him still greater standing with Adams, who considered Wythe one of the ablest men in Congress.

Like George Washington, Adams saw that sea power could decide the outcome of the war.

George III was to turn forty-seven on June 4, which made him two years younger than Adams, and though taller, he had a comparable inclination to corpulence.

Though the electoral vote would not be known until February, it was clear by Christmas that Washington was again the unanimous choice for President, and that Adams, for all that had been said against him, had won a clear second place, far ahead of George Clinton.

Nor was Adams like George Washington immensely popular, elected unanimously, and all but impervious to criticism.