Declined to get into wrecked car

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Adams with an animosity not diminished by the lapse of years since his defection from their party, strong in a consciousness of their own standing before their fellow citizens, the thirteen notables responded with much acrimony to Mr.

But when the atoms come under the influence of the higher-level morphogenetic field of a molecule, these probabilities are modified in such a way that the probability of events leading toward the actualization of the final form are enhanced, while the probability of other events is diminished.

On the 2d he was rather quieter, and the alarming symptoms diminished a little.

When they discreetly confronted the attaché with still photographs, he burst into laughter and asked them if they could supply him with copies to send to his wife in Paris to prove that his virility had not diminished during his two years in Moscow.

The water splashed down his legs to his hooves and flowed on out of the baobab tree, tapering off as its volume diminished.

The same causes have diminished the desire for a bimetallic standard, and make the difficulty of establishing a parity between silver and gold, for the present, almost insuperable.

From this moment the cries against the fisherman diminished, and as the Bucentaur, though still distant, was now in sight, interest in the issue of the race absorbed all other feelings.

My physical well-being almost made up for my greatly diminished sensitivity to the Bunraku puppeteers.

S, the epact J must be diminished by unity every centesimal year, excepting always the fourth.

Both sides had severe losses and as their numbers were diminished, they were replaced by the eager, available ruffians waiting in Cimarron for the opportunity to get paid for killing each other.

In its place he saw the whole planet, diminished as it had looked from the Coto docks.

He noted that the isle in the lagoon, which held one of the castle dovecots, was but little diminished in size.

The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

It is a well-established physiological fact, that during the wakeful hours the vital energies are being expended, the powers of life diminished, and, if wakefulness is continued beyond a certain limit, the system becomes enfeebled and death is the result.

The Lamp of the North rose up in it, a huge green lantern, and the plain became white again, a diminished white but much more clearly seen now that the glimmery gray-ness had gone.