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1. “No-one seems to know,” the old Guardian answered
2. Her approach, writing from the points of view of both whites and Natives, was groundbreaking at the time, and much of the hostility towards her argument came from the old guard, some who viewed Indians with openly racist contempt, and an even larger faction that admired Custer and hold him up as a martyr, an almost Christ like figure whose death was supposedly necessary to “tame” the west
3. How could she get that collection of old guard ever take her serious?
4. In the final subjugation of Syria (AD 634–642), did Othman (the third caliph) and Muawiyah play a significant enough part that Othman would have been chosen by electors to fill that post? Electors supposedly picked by Omar just before he died? And then was Muawiyah one of those officials that he appointed to a high place (governor of Syria), instead of one of the old guard from Medina? And in AD 651–652 he destroyed all copies of the original Koran, except one, which was destroyed shortly after by Marwan, governor of Medina
5. It was no slender stiletto, selected because of a jeweled hilt or gold guard, fitted only for dainty murder in milady's boudoir; it was a forthright poniard, a warrior's weapon, broad-bladed, fifteen inches in length, tapering to a diamond-sharp point
6. We are the ‘Old Guard’ the people who have built this organization from its roots to where we are today
7. The had taken charge of their lives, where the old guard having been brought up in a world of personal powerlessness, had constantly tried to satisfy the basic human need to prevail, not realizing that it came from within
8. he hopes, will shovel out the old guard
9. She smiled to herself while thinking at the face her detractors in the Pentagon and among the Air Force old guard would do on seeing her pictures in the newspapers and magazines
10. Some of the old guards saw Shah as an ‘outsider’ who was being thrust on them
11. The ‘primary’ concept also exposed the widening gulf between Rahul and the old guard in the Congress
12. Maybe he sees them as oily dealmakers,’ is how someone who knows Rahul well described his attitude to the party’s old guard
13. The old guard’s grip slackened on Greg’s arm
14. The old guard called her Adolf
15. a half-hearted salute from the fat old guard
16. And as this was going on, Arthur slammed the mysterious British sword he had won down on the campaign table before the old guard and their mouths dropped open when he unfolded it from an old horse-blanket he had wrapped it in
17. In the rear came the old guard, escorting the chieftains back to their home cities
18. “Do not think we all want you!” someone called out, one of the old guard
19. For his command, Arthur had reinstated the use of the cavalry draco-standards, golden dragon-heads that screamed when riding into battle; the heads were held high, and as the men came out, the unit decurions, our captains, saluted him and moved on up the North Road, flying their banners, units with their standard-bearers at the head, the Old Guard still carrying the Roman Eagle in an endless parade of soldiers and horses, all that Britain could send to her defence
20. As the old guard left the gathering, Cai detached himself from us and moved out after them
21. And the old man too, Llachlan ap Noll, so brave to have stayed with us and not retire with the rest of the old guard
22. 80: TAKING on the OLD GUARD
23. King of the Atrebates, he should have made a show of support, but he did not seem capable of standing between warring warriors; the old guard, the Clan Bear, Felix Quintus, prefect, and he looked at us all as Arthur stood in his face
24. Once the old guard is swept away: these new leaders find they have even more power than the old rulers did
25. came out into a wide room, an old guard room she guessed
26. So of course the citizen was only waiting for the wink of the word and he starts gassing out of him about the invincibles and the old guard and the men of sixtyseven and who fears to speak of ninetyeight and Joe with him about all the fellows that were hanged, drawn and transported for the cause by drumhead courtmartial and a new Ireland and new this, that and the other
27. “Whenever a sensible proposal is opposed by the old guard, you must be identified as leader of the reformers
28. He had gone to the chapter with Timothy’ s Book and a strong argument for reform – and the old guard had turned on him with perfect coordination, as if they had rehearsed it, and squashed him like a frog under a cartwheel
29. “The old guard swung behind Carlus before Uncle Anthony’s body was cold
30. Carlus withdraws, the old guard will come up with another candidate
31. “Perhaps we should hope that Carlus remains the choice of the old guard
32. A candidate who represented the old guard but advocated a few minor reforms would be much more likely to win
33. firtree cove a wild place I suppose it must be the highest rock in existence the galleries and casemates and those frightful rocks and Saint Michaels cave with the icicles or whatever they call them hanging down and ladders all the mud plotching my boots Im sure thats the way down the monkeys go under the sea to Africa when they die the ships out far like chips that was the Malta boat passing yes the sea and the sky you could do what you liked lie there for ever he caressed them outside they love doing that its the roundness there I was leaning over him with my white ricestraw hat to take the newness out of it the left side of my face the best my blouse open for his last day transparent kind of shirt he had I could see his chest pink he wanted to touch mine with his for a moment but I wouldnt lee him he was awfully put out first for fear you never know consumption or leave me with a child embarazada that old servant Ines told me that one drop even if it got into you at all after I tried with the Banana but I was afraid it might break and get lost up in me somewhere because they once took something down out of a woman that was up there for years covered with limesalts theyre all mad to get in there where they come out of youd think they could never go far enough up and then theyre done with you in a way till the next time yes because theres a wonderful feeling there so tender all the time how did we finish it off yes O yes I pulled him off into my handkerchief pretending not to be excited but I opened my legs I wouldnt let him touch me inside my petticoat because I had a skirt opening up the side I tormented the life out of him first tickling him I loved rousing that dog in the hotel rrrsssstt awokwokawok his eyes shut and a bird flying below us he was shy all the same I liked him like that moaning I made him blush a little when I got over him that way when I unbuttoned him and took his out and drew back the skin it had a kind of eye in it theyre all Buttons men down the middle on the wrong side of them Molly darling he called me what was his name Jack Joe Harry Mulvey was it yes I think a lieutenant he was rather fair he had a laughing kind of a voice so I went round to the whatyoucallit everything was whatyoucallit moustache had he he said hed come back Lord its just like yesterday to me and if I was married hed do it to me and I promised him yes faithfully Id let him block me now flying perhaps hes dead or killed or a captain or admiral its nearly 20 years if I said firtree cove he would if he came up behind me and put his hands over my eyes to guess who I might recognise him hes young still about 40 perhaps hes married some girl on the black water and is quite changed they all do they havent half the character a woman has she little knows what I did with her beloved husband before he ever dreamt of her in broad daylight too in the sight of the whole world you might say they could have put an article about it in the Chronicle I was a bit wild after when I blew out the old bag the biscuits were in from Benady Bros and exploded it Lord what a bang all the woodcocks and pigeons screaming coming back the same way that we went over middle hill round by the old guardhouse and the jews burialplace pretending to read out the Hebrew on them I wanted to fire his pistol he said he hadnt one he didnt know what to make of me with his peak cap on that he always wore crooked as often as I settled it straight H M S Calypso swinging my hat that old Bishop that spoke off the altar his long preach about womans higher functions about girls now riding the bicycle and wearing peak caps and the new woman bloomers God send him sense and me more money I suppose theyre called after him I never thought that would be my
34. Her old guardian Holger Palmgren used to say that Lisbeth Salander would always get by
35. Rhett had said that the Old Guard would never surrender and he was right
36. But none of those whom Rhett had termed the “Old Guard” were present except Melanie
37. Many of the Old Guard had reluctantly decided to attend the “crush
38. The Old Guard signified their disapproval by a sheaf of cards, regretting their inability to accept Scarlett’s kind invitation
39. It ought to be good enough for you,” was the way the Old Guard felt
40. But not the women of the Old Guard, and the Cause was stronger, dearer now in their hearts than it had ever been at the height of its glory
41. But one word of with those he had once called the “Old Guard
42. She was inclined to vote against them, as were a few others of the old guard, but during intermissions of the board meetings, this still-elegant little man, who had sat almost unnoticeable in his chair halfway down the table, would abscond to empty corners with this or that director
43. , an armed member of the US Army’s Old Guard had come out of a booth shaking his head, said, “We don’t open until eight, sir
44. But then I remembered that funerals at Arlington are highly orchestrated affairs attended by members of the Old Guard, who often give the dead a twenty-one-gun salute
45. ‘Old Guard’ communists in the army and Politburo: They wanted to stop Gorbachev bringing in any more changes before the whole country collapsed
46. In 1991 the Old Guard struck
47. He ordered the portrait to be carried outside his tent, that the Old Guard, stationed round it, might not be deprived of the pleasure of seeing the King of Rome, the son and heir of their adored monarch
48. de Beausset the honor of breakfasting with him, they heard, as Napoleon had anticipated, the rapturous cries of the officers and men of the Old Guard who had run up to see the portrait
49. One of the generals rode up to Napoleon and ventured to offer to lead the Old Guard into action
50. Some historians say that Napoleon need only have used his Old Guards, who were intact, and the battle would have been won
