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  • From Sir John Macdonald, and the Minister of Justice, in Ottawa.†   (source)
  • Back in Ottawa I instructed so many who were being posted all over the world.†   (source)
  • In fact I couldn't remember where I had left it, or even if I had seen it since leaving Ottawa.†   (source)
  • She was an economist in Ottawa before her marriage.†   (source)
  • I seem to remember your saying something about 'word from Ottawa.'†   (source)
  • I fled from Ottawa too …. that self-same night, aboard a Canadian Air Force transport plane.†   (source)
  • The man in Ottawa revealed himself by looking for Treadstone.†   (source)
  • I'm a friend from the Treasury Board in Ottawa.†   (source)
  • She has associates in Ottawa; they'll stay in touch.†   (source)
  • All my clothes are made by a woman in Ottawa.†   (source)
  • His name was in the telephone logs in Ottawa; it had to be.†   (source)
  • I'm waiting for word from Ottawa," the woman replied.†   (source)
  • And so she had left the Meurice, taken a cab to the rue Vaugirard, and placed the call to Ottawa.†   (source)
  • The leaders of the march had been decoyed to Ottawa for "official talks," and the whole kit and kaboodle had been stalled in Regina.†   (source)
  • The marchers on Ottawa had been trapped through a clever backroom stratagem suggested — or so he said — by Richard himself, who moved in high circles these days.†   (source)
  • Five thousand honoured guests of Their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir, stood spellbound along the garden walks at His Majesty's birthday party at Government House in Ottawa, as Their Majesties made their gracious rounds.†   (source)
  • There had been a big march on Ottawa, in July — thousands, tens of thousands of men who claimed to be unemployed, and who were demanding jobs and fair pay, egged on by subversives bent on overthrowing the government.†   (source)
  • The auburn-haired woman now beside him at the counter spoke English But then she had said she was "waiting for word from Ottawa."†   (source)
  • My own colleagues in Ottawa … dear, dear friends I'd worked with for years … were afraid to talk to me!†   (source)
  • He told me there was no public access to the place, that it was an old estate in Fairfax turned over to the government by a rich ambassador who had more money than Ottawa, with its own airfield and an entrance road four miles from the highway.†   (source)
  • Because of the importance attached to scatology in Ottawa, I had been ordered to devote part of my time to collecting and analyzing wolf scats.†   (source)
  • Combine the talents that I know you have, and you could scale the heights in Washington as you would have in Ottawa.†   (source)
  • Through Ottawa he'll provide us with a list of everyone on his staff who's had any dealings whatsoever with Marie St Jacques — reluctantly.†   (source)
  • No one in Ottawa could read a word of it; from which fact it was assumed that the report must be tremendously erudite.†   (source)
  • However, I was not deliberately trying to be evasive; I was only trying to follow the operation order which had been laid down for me in Ottawa: Para.†   (source)
  • If you thought about it at all, you had to assume that I'd come to Ottawa to gain a firmer grasp of European economics so as to do my job better.†   (source)
  • Since I could not adhere strictly to my original orders, I did what I thought was the next best thing, and radioed Ottawa for new instructions.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not in Ottawa, I'm here,' said Marie picturing the face of the talkative receptionist only too well.†   (source)
  • Just as I had an ulterior motive to go to you in Ottawa, whoever is doing this to you has a deeper reason than the capture of your husband's impersonator.'†   (source)
  • Despite the discouraging reaction I had had to my first radiogram to Ottawa, I had no alternative but to seek new orders once again.†   (source)
  • I was beginning to feel exceedingly frustrated before the Peruvian finally agreed to take down the substance of my message to my Chief, and forward it by commercial means to Ottawa.†   (source)
  • She had to reach Ottawa and find out why Peter's death-his murder-was being handled so secretly, so obscenely.†   (source)
  • Marie had got to know Catherine Staples during her days with the Treasury Board in Ottawa when she and others in her section briefed the diplomatic corps prior to their overseas assignments.†   (source)
  • The only thing I actually learned during this period was that, by comparison with the bureaucratic hierarchy in Ottawa, the scientific hierarchy was a brotherhood of anarchy.†   (source)
  • Were flying over, under a deep-diplomatic, a Canadian woman-an economist for the government in Ottawa who's wanted for murder in Zurich.†   (source)
  • Our maple leaf will probably have it sent by train from Ottawa to Vancouver and then on a slow freighter to Hong Kong where it'll get lost in the mailroom.†   (source)
  • 'Mine, too, but not Ottawa's.†   (source)
  • If it isn't Bourne-or if he's turned-it could explain the call to Ottawa, the killing at the airport.†   (source)
  • The upshot was that a series of urgent messages were dispatched to me through the Canadian Consul in Chile, instructing me to report to Ottawa at once.†   (source)
  • The die was cast one winter's day when I received a summons from the Dominion Wildlife Service informing me that I had been hired at the munificent salary of one hundred and twenty dollars a month, and that I "would" report to Ottawa at once.†   (source)
  • It's me\ Ottawa.†   (source)
  • It's the killing at the Ottawa airport.†   (source)
  • I had almost forgotten, not only about the Order, but about Ottawa itself; but as I again leafed through the minutely detailed sheaf of instructions I realized I had been guilty of a dereliction of duty.†   (source)
  • There's a nagging suspicion in Ottawa that a section head at the Treasury Board was killed by American Intelligence.†   (source)
  • On the theory (my own, and not my employers) that my time should be spent observing living wolves, I had deliberately neglected the innumerable peripheral studies which had been ordained for me by Ottawa.†   (source)
  • The last was unfair-he would never reach her-but the small, feathered hope had to be there, if only to get her on a plane to Ottawa.†   (source)
  • Or sometimes it's as dumb as a delegate from, say, Rome-whom you know is being paid by Agnelli-coming up and asking you how serious Ottawa is about the declaration laws.†   (source)
  • I knew from having studied the files at Ottawa that there were eighteen hundred trappers in those portions of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and southern Keewatin which composed the winter range of the Keewatin caribou herd.†   (source)
  • There are extraordinary things on that tape, including killings in Ottawa and Paris, and some very strange dealings our First Secretary in the Montaigne had with a CIA man.†   (source)
  • My orientation course in Ottawa had taught me that one never questioned information emanating from another department; and if a field operation based on such information went awry, it was invariably the fault of the fellow in the field.†   (source)
  • The three-year commitment to Ottawa was extended for all the logical reasons: whenever she thought of leaving, she was promoted a grade, given a large office and an expanded staff.†   (source)
  • I also knew that many of these trappers had been polled by Ottawa, through the agency of the fur trading companies, for information which might help explain the rapid decline in the size of the Keewatin caribou herd.†   (source)
  • Eventually, and after a great deal of sleuthing, the police got hold of the rumor circulating in Churchill to the effect that I was a Secret Service agent who had been sent to spy on the floating Russian bases at the pole, and they so reported to Ottawa, adding that they did not like being made mock of, and the next time the Department wanted something found, it had better be honest with them.†   (source)
  • It was a cablegram from Ottawa.†   (source)
  • Their orders came from Ottawa.†   (source)
  • They reached me through Ottawa.†   (source)
  • Call Ottawa tonight.†   (source)
  • Then call Ottawa.†   (source)
  • In Ottawa.†   (source)
  • I'll call you in Ottawa.†   (source)
  • To the man in Ottawa?†   (source)
  • Lincoln's success in 1860 was due in no small part to his ability to bridge the gap, a performance 5 Later, in the debate at Ottawa, Illinois, Lincoln repeated a larger passage containing this statement, and added: "this is the true complexion of all I have said in regard to the institution of slavery and the black race. that entitles him to a place among the world's great political propagandists.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Lynde says Canada is going to the dogs the way things are being run at Ottawa and that it's an awful warning to the electors.†   (source)
  • The red aborigines, Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names, Okonee, Koosa, Ottawa, Monongahela, Sauk, Natchez, Chattahoochee, Kaqueta, Oronoco, Wabash, Miami, Saginaw, Chippewa, Oshkosh, Walla-Walla, Leaving such to the States they melt, they depart, charging the water and the land with names.†   (source)
  • Some threading Ohio's farm-fields or the woods, Some down Colorado's canons from sources of perpetual snow, Some half-hid in Oregon, or away southward in Texas, Some in the north finding their way to Erie, Niagara, Ottawa, Some to Atlantica's bays, and so to the great salt brine.†   (source)
  • …print or narrative, the voyage at a venture of men, families, goods, The disembarkation, the founding of a new city, The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, the outset anywhere, The settlements of the Arkansas, Colorado, Ottawa, Willamette, The slow progress, the scant fare, the axe, rifle, saddle-bags; The beauty of all adventurous and daring persons, The beauty of wood-boys and wood-men with their clear untrimm'd faces, The beauty of independence, departure,…†   (source)
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