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He stopped speaking of revenge and focused instead on issues affecting the small circle of voters in his constituency.
Now, speaking of your first mission, would you like to brief me on the exact details?
Well, speaking of a pause, time for us to take another pause, Dan Rather with Jay Leno, pinch-hitting tonight for Larry King.
So, speaking of Jeff, I take it this means I can tell him he's free to get married now you've found someone else?
There is, for instance, a coarseness in the earl, who delights in speaking of his adultery.
And speaking of beanbag, out in the parking lot, a favorite activity of the tailgating fans, for some reason, was playing beanbag.
We, however, are now speaking of things in their issuing from the universal source of being.
The main theme rounded out, speaking of loss, reminding of might-have-beens.
And speaking of the bathroom, I buy the econo-pak of triple size toilet paper rolls and they're gone in two weeks.
His stuff is similar to that of Kerry Wood, the player whom I am speaking of above.
Henry was speaking of what he knew as wild, and apparently it was still there.
Although he hadn't exactly changed the subject, I knew we were no longer speaking of my vendetta and my family.
And speaking of space, there is also the option of commercial-grade restaurant sinks that can be more than six feet long including drainboards.
And speaking of the score, the Mondo films have some of the most beautiful, suggestive, and lush accompaniment ever produced.
And speaking of mud, the festival mercifully escaped the rain that was lashing York.
At once he keys us into his position by speaking of language as an instrument that we, its masters, can choose to play in whatever way we wish.
By speaking of the new wine and new wineskins, Jesus was pointing to the newness of the divine life that he had come to give his people.
He told me all about your lovely black curls and blue eyes, speaking of you as though you were an angel.
The Mouseman, as he was known, adopted the mouse motif after overhearing a craftsman speaking of being as poor as a church mouse.
I capitalize the word because Miller, in speaking of Jane Austen, does so, calling her the epitome of Style or Austen Style or Absolute Style.
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The Gospels record Jesus speaking of Scripture as being completed and one unit.
And speaking of highly recommended, HBO is nearly half way through rerunning the first season of Deadwood, the best western drama ever televised.
When we speak of an angel, we are speaking of an entity that exists purely on a spiritual plane.
And we understood that something very funny happened one time apropos of what you are speaking of.
In the UK, when speaking of footware, pumps are casual shoes, such as canvas deck shoes or tennis shoes.
Rounds, loops, and crescents, she recalled Elgeran speaking of them once or twice.
And speaking of cutesy, it feels impossible to resist calling it the I'm Okay, I'm Okay of modern times.
Today's poem is a verse from Byron's Childe Harold, speaking of pathless places.
And speaking of notes, an anonymous hand-scrawled poem mysteriously appeared on a communal writing tablet in the bathroom that night.
And speaking of voodoo and santeria, it'll be a good idea to also cover the drumming used.
And speaking of shopping, many stores will be giving out discount certificates for holiday shopping on most cookware throughout their stores.
Three married aunts had left home, so there were only five maiden aunts at Loynton at the time we were speaking of.
James is speaking of those who are for one reason or another incapable of religious conversion.
And speaking of protection, we recommend purchasing uninterruptible power supplies for each server with software that communicates with the server.
Now speaking of tone languages and just absolute pitch, it involves relative pitch and noticing intonation contours and all sorts of other complicated things too.
Or, speaking of Steiner, would Gone with the Wind be reduced in epic scope or refined in aesthetic taste were it scored with the zithers of The Third Man?
And speaking of being more male than most men, this is not a gendered issue.
On the other hand, the Sabellian heresy loses a proper conception of distinction among the persons by speaking of God as singular, alone, solitary, and the like.
That accumulation of identities is already a sine qua non when speaking of Hispanics, like Zimmerman.
In speaking of Hume as a determinist, we must, however, bear in mind that this does not in his case carry any pledge of allegiance to a reign of necessity in nature.
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The powers I'm speaking of are an advanced form of telekinesis.
One is, of course, inevitably up against the problem of translation when speaking of names.
I'm speaking of Kelly's movie personality, as semaphored by his body language, and perhaps as filtered not by the age that he emerged from but by the one that followed him.
So speaking of guitars, which one are you bringing to try-outs?
She wept bitterly when speaking of her crime, but not self-pityingly.
And speaking of invisibles planes, where's Wonder Woman's invisible plane?
And speaking of images, we're not done with customizing this client.
When one departs from the deeds of a specific group into speaking of the vices of a whole race or a people, one is descending to demonization and engaging in pure propaganda.
She plays her ocarina and sits in the forest speaking of peace.
So when Zhu appeared on Japanese TV recently, with a hangdog look, speaking of his difficulties, questions surfaced as to whether the reform czar was in trouble again.
This was where I wanted to go explore, hydrologically speaking of course.
Of course I am not speaking of contracts induced by fraud, duress, or undue influence, or impeachable on any other recognized ground of invalidity.
Laurel called to them, speaking of their snooty old riding instructor at the equestrian academy the girls had attended together most of their lives.
And speaking of expense, the cost of using email is skyrocketing.
By publicly speaking of sexuality, Durcan not only criticizes the viewer's sanctimoniousness but also hybridizes the private and the public.
A long letter exists, written from the Tower by Fisher to Thomas Cromwell, speaking of the severity of his conditions of imprisonment.
And speaking of orgasms, I've found that there is something to all the yogasm hullabaloo that popped up in the media last year.
When speaking of the Chinese individually we should undoubtedly say a Chinese or a Chineseman.
Thus, francophonie, or the speaking of French, must not be confused with French citizenship or ethnicity.
The word Speech in The King's Speech means the speaking of George VI, the stammerer who did not want to become king.
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When speaking of language as a general concept, definitions can be used which stress different aspects of the phenomenon.
BushWas George Bush speaking of some truly shattering event in American affairs?
I'm speaking of the implicit, almost unconscious, or preconscious assumptions and ideals upon which whole nations and races act and live.
The British tabloid The Sun posted a video of a woman, alleged to be Winehouse, apparently smoking crack cocaine and speaking of having taken ecstasy and valium.
And speaking of 400 hours, it also turns out that is the amount of time that we save in a lifetime when we converted to the touch tone phone from the rotary phone.
The ancient question concerning what anyone might actually be speaking of when designating an object or deed as 'good' is the centrolineal inquiry of the text.
Oh, speaking of Lauries and books, someone here needs to read 'Say Goodbye.' I believe it's by Lewis Shiner, and it's like a Hanfic without the Han.
The conditional mood is used for speaking of an event whose realization is dependent upon another condition, particularly, but not exclusively, in conditional sentences.
I am not speaking of the ego-dystonic obsessionalism that one finds in obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the ego-syntonic obsessional traits of the bureaucrat.
Irrealis verb forms are used when speaking of an event which has not happened, is not likely to happen, or is otherwise far removed from the real course of events.
Dr. C. W. Hodoe presides at the weekly speaking of the Junior and Middle Classes, each member of which is, in his turn, expected to deliver original discourses, memoriter.
Examples from Classical Literature
In speaking of Mallorca we must remember that there is making acquaintance.
There is a famous passage in the Alcoran, which looks as if Mahomet had been possessed of the notion we are now speaking of.
In speaking of the Garden, he says, Moses allegorically referred to the womb, if we are to believe the Word.
Some of these general conditions were pointed out while speaking of atonic forms of dyspepsia.
All accounts agree in speaking of the bolson of Cuzco as well provided by nature in this respect.
The vexatious thing in speaking of her is, that she compels to the use of the rhetorician's brass instrument.
I suppose the colonel will bring home with him this Mr. Waterbury you were speaking of?
In speaking of the canvass that was set, I ought to have said something of the state of our decks.
In speaking of parlement lawe, I haue in the chapiter precedent said somewhat of this high and most honorable court.
At the time we are speaking of he was a member of the Imperial Orchestra and a professor at the conservatorium.
We were speaking of the syssitia, which will be a natural institution in a Cretan colony.
We are still speaking of his fossilized herbaria, not his modern specimens.
Farther on, in speaking of handling in rough water, I shall explain the advantages of freeboard.
I understand, he said, that you are speaking of the province of geometry and the sister arts.
He explained the necessity of it to Angelique, by speaking of the guardianship.
We are justified, therefore, in speaking of the factors carried by the X chromosome as sex-linked.
I am speaking of a new engagement in the lives of others, a new activism, hands-on and involved, that gets the job done.
But speaking of Coney Island, many's the happy hour I've spent on its historic sands.
We should not go far astray in speaking of the hieron as an ancient Carlsbad as well as an ancient Lourdes.
It is not easy to avoid extravagance in speaking of one who was in all things an illusionist.
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The doctrine is thought to have been an importation into India about the time we are speaking of.
Thus Descartes, who fondly loved a girl who squinted, was always affected with strabismus when speaking of her.
This is the trick of Nationalists when speaking of the intolerance of Belfast.
The Iron Age, speaking of this disaster says, it is a disquieting accident.
By speaking of the latchet of the sandal, he clearly intimates that this Person is among them in a visible form.
Call to mind what was said of the formation of vapor when we were speaking of latent heat.
He was as good as his word, speaking of the Laxness of both Iroquois and Wyandots.
They refrained tacitly from speaking of marine biology or any reasons for tapping plastic objects against the Esperance's hull.
Before speaking of painters I must mention one miniaturist whose works were in demand in other countries, as well as in England.
There yet remains the grateful duty of speaking of the mitigations of our trials.
Here is a Miss won, and in her whorish Affections come over to Joseph, without his speaking of a word.
When she reached the group it was to hear Mr. Powys speaking of Mr. Barrett.
Thus they misapply the sacred writings to defend practices yet more corrupt than those I have been speaking of.
In reality the column of water would be shorter, as we are speaking of sea water, the density of which is greater than that of fresh water.
Between this time and that I am now speaking of was an abyss.
This we have already pointed out in speaking of the age of nubility.
He could have been speaking of the ultimate triumph of Barbara Karinska, one of the great dance costumers of the twentieth century.
I was just speaking of it to my friend here, Mr. Metternich Scribe.
Well, you must know, Bruce was mate of a bark at the time I'm speaking of, and he was on a voyage from Liverpool to New Brunswick.
In a suffering and weary voice he was saying something to Tikhon, speaking of the Crimea and its warm nights and of the Empress.
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I fancied, from the way he primmed up his mouth in speaking of her, that he didn't admire Kate much.
I was speaking of you today to General rundle, who is in command.
I knew at once that they were speaking of Don Gaspar Gregorio, whose comeliness surpasses the most highly vaunted beauty.
I am speaking of the unwisdom of assuming all women to be perfect.
Cieza is speaking of people in the valley of Cauca, in New Granada.
He makes the same complaint in speaking of Petrarch and Boccaccio.
And speaking of gratitude reminds me to mention that you may thank Hannah for saving your wedding cake from destruction.
I do not for one moment forget that I am speaking of physical education.
And speaking of the dogbite, the Laughton dog died that night.
Elinor started at this declaration, and was sorry for the warmth she had been betrayed into, in speaking of him.
The habit of speaking of any systolic figure as normal should be broken.
And speaking of cattle, when Cain suddenly arrives home, Moira's figurehugging dress is like a red rag to a bull.
In speaking of sedimentary rocks, we may be said to be anticipating.
But seignior, says he, what people is it you are speaking of?
Yet, speaking of reports, baron, what have you learned with regard to the affair in the Rue Saint-Jacques?
Is there any fallacy in speaking of the embryology of the New Life?
And speaking of business, how do you like my forceful American methods?
Now that, my child,' continued Miss Mowcher, rubbing all the time as busily as ever, 'is another instance of the refreshing humbug I was speaking of.
People talk of the transparent waters of the Mexican Bay of Acapulco, but in my own experience I know they cannot compare with those I am speaking of.
And I am not speaking of Christine Daae either, though her genius is certain, whereas your jealousy prevents her from creating any important part.
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When it was all over, we were standing beside Arthur, who, poor fellow, was speaking of his part in the operation where his blood had been transfused to his Lucy's veins.
We were speaking of it only yesterday, and agreeing how fortunate it was for Emma, that there should be such a girl in Highbury for her to associate with.
He is serious when he is speaking of his own mission, which seems to distinguish him from all other reformers of mankind, and originates in an accident.
When speaking of Alevi poetry we mainly speak about the asik, who can be compared with the Celtic bard, the French troubadour, or the German minnesinger.
In speaking of the revealing as a coming out of, returning to, and bringing into the open that which is free, Heidegger neglects the cosmogonist significance of the clearing.
