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Usage examples of merton.

Merton turned it off and strung a light from an extension cord, throwing the cord over a line just above the saw, so they could see what they were doing better.

From the barn Merton dragged the saddle, blanket, and bridle he had borrowed from the Giddings House livery stable.

Merton believes the gradualists in charge of the mummies have at most another two or three months to prepare their reports and make them public, or they ‘II be removed, replaced, Brock hopes, by a a more objective team, and clearly he hopes to be in charge.

A certain community of ambitions had been the foundation of this sympathy between the two, for Tessie Kearns meant to become a scenario writer of eminence, and, like Merton, she was now both studying and practising a difficult art.

Brock believes the mummies represent the first clear evidence of a human speciation event,” Merton said, hoping to move things along.

Mitch is writing more slowly than I am, about the mummies and the cave, sending it page by page to Oliver Merton in New York, who is editing it, sometimes a little cruelly.

He gathered up the reins, the horse beneath him coughed plaintively, and Merton rode him out of the picture.

And he would be left, in some humiliation, having found, as Merton Gill took himself forever out of retail trade, that two could play on words as well as one.

In 1955 he traveled as a Rhodes Scholar to Merton College, Oxford University to study English literature.

Once more burying the rowels in his horse, in an instant Merton was rapidly speeding on to the great river, lost in vague conjectures concerning this singular individual, and how his own strange adventure might terminate.

Merton, forced into the belief that a longer search was useless, and hurried away by the storm and a faint hope that she might, fearing delay while he was absent, have started for home, alone, now buried the rowels in the animal's sides.

Merton also glared at Amos, but discreetly, at moments when the other's back was turned or when he was blandly wishing to know of Mrs.

In his Valedictory Address, given to a packed audience in Merton College Hall at the end of his final summer term, Tolkien touched on some of the changes that were taking place in Oxford.