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  • Jenny worked as a feature writer in the Post's "Accent" section; I was a news reporter at the competing paper in the area, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, based an hour south in Fort Laud- erdale.†   (source)
  • I praised the response as "magnificent" to the press, lauding our people for "defying unprecedented intimidation by the state."†   (source)
  • Free to laud the Emperor.†   (source)
  • My ugly tweed librarian outfit was lauded as the most work-appropriate.†   (source)
  • Here he lauded the Red Army's practice of leaving a field commander in his post so long as the man wanted it, and deliberately contrasted his view on this matter with the practice of imperialist navies.†   (source)
  • Many of the letters lauded his efforts, too.†   (source)
  • Did the hall ring with it as those pansy-boys and their soft ladies applauded and lauded him?†   (source)
  • Some who were lauded as shining examples of patriotism looked hardly fit for battle, like the Connecticut unit comprised entirely of "aged gentlemen."†   (source)
  • Clarg's own harsh breathing was laud in her ears.†   (source)
  • He has been lauded everywhere he has traveled in the small island nation, hailed as a victorious returning son.†   (source)
  • They are eager to wear their new status as ladies, to be paraded about and lauded until they see themselves with new eyes.†   (source)
  • I can drop this thing, in an emergency, right into Times Square easier than you can laud a trainer.†   (source)
  • It's good to see y'all this day—the Laud's day!†   (source)
  • Somewhere else a phonograph, scratchy and faded, was hissing out a record of "Roamin' in the Gloamin'," sung by Harry Lauder.†   (source)
  • He lauded U.S. efforts to broker peace.
  • He was mentioned in many POW affidavits and, in every one, was lauded for his kindness.†   (source)
  • The good Laud, now, he won't stand for his children to be uptight ….†   (source)
  • And, Laudy, I believe it's time for us oldies but goodies to have a good time in the Laud's house!†   (source)
  • "What in the Laud's name you tawkin"bout, Frank, Jr.?"†   (source)
  • The whole congregation erupted in "A-mans" and "Bless the Lauds."†   (source)
  • She knew my presence would be requested; she wanted me writhing in the town's harsh gaze while her own munificence was lauded.†   (source)
  • Benjamin Bache turned with a fury on the President he had so recently lauded as a prudent, high-minded man of integrity.†   (source)
  • Aaron Burr, a New York Republican and Hamilton's nemesis, was in the running for Vice President and so Hamilton was happy now to laud Adams as "a real friend to genuine liberty, order and stable government.†   (source)
  • In the pages of the Aurora, Benjamin Franklin Bache proclaimed John Adams a hero in a way incon-ceivable before, lauding the "Republican plainness" of Adams's appearance, his "true dignity," his "incorruptible integrity."†   (source)
  • He lauded American agriculture and manufacturing, pledged himself to a spirit of "equity and humanity" toward the American Indian, "to meliorate theircondition by inclining them to be more friendly to us, and our citizens to be more friendly to them."†   (source)
  • "Laud a-mercy!" he said to himself.†   (source)
  • Laud knows, 'n' now, brothas and sistas, I wants you to know, I'm real proud that this boys calls me Pau Pau.†   (source)
  • Well, bless the Laud, that white boy jus' kep' callin' me Pau Pau all along, and I learnt right then and there Peta was one white man who was all right!†   (source)
  • Laud bless ya, please stand up!†   (source)
  • Praise the Laud!†   (source)
  • When I was a young boy, church was good for coloring books, building blocks and games, but I don't remember any "Praise the Lauds," clapping or "shouting for joy."†   (source)
  • From a year when I was six years old and there were records of Harry Lauder, and Maxfield Parrish paintings still hanging, and bead curtains, and "Beautiful Ohio," and turn-of-the-century architecture.†   (source)
  • After lauding the dentist-both he and Aunt Bertha had been present the evening an old woman had come to the office to test out her newly-made plates, and after eating a pear and a heavily poppy-seeded roll, had gone away satisfiedMr.†   (source)
  • The Chronicle had a long editorial lauding the courage and sound sense of the handful of men in the Senate who were making a fight against the administration's tax bill, which would throttle business and enterprise in the state.†   (source)
  • He read again, catching phrases: "the black killer is fully aware that he is in danger of going to the electric chair," "spends most of his time reading newspaper accounts of his crime and eating luxurious meals sent to him by Communist friends," "killer not sociable or talkative," "Mayor lauds police for bravery," and "a vast mass of evidence assembled against killer."†   (source)
  • Three years afterwards he gave new offence to Laud by publishing a pamphlet against the hierarchy.†   (source)
  • CI-DEVANT GENIUS OF THE AGE The proper folks one's talents laud: Come on, and none shall pass us!†   (source)
  • Rawdon's generosity, when they were first married, has already been described and lauded.†   (source)
  • When Becky told her father, in strict confidence, how Tom had taken her whipping at school, the Judge was visibly moved; and when she pleaded grace for the mighty lie which Tom had told in order to shift that whipping from her shoulders to his own, the Judge said with a fine outburst that it was a noble, a generous, a magnanimous lie—a lie that was worthy to hold up its head and march down through history breast to breast with George Washington's lauded Truth about the hatchet!†   (source)
  • Men of letters, following in the painters' wake, conspired suddenly to find artistic value in the turns; and red-nosed comedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female singers, who had bawled obscurely for twenty years, were discovered to possess inimitable drollery; there were those who found an aesthetic delight in performing dogs; while others exhausted their vocabulary to extol the distinction of conjurers and trick-cyclists.†   (source)
  • How far it is from the epoch when Robert Cenalis, comparing Notre-Dame de Paris to the famous temple of Diana at Ephesus, *so much lauded by the ancient pagans*, which Erostatus *has* immortalized, found the Gallic temple "more excellent in length, breadth, height, and structure.†   (source)
  • Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to dainty meat, Named Idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet: First watch for morsels, like a hound Mix well with buffets, stir them round With good thick oil of flatteries, And froth with mean self-lauding lies.†   (source)
  • She did not stay to retaliate, but re-entered in a minute, bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming earnestness.†   (source)
  • I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud, for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that population, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved.†   (source)
  • The American lauds as a noble and praiseworthy ambition what our own forefathers in the Middle Ages stigmatized as servile cupidity, just as he treats as a blind and barbarous frenzy that ardor of conquest and martial temper which bore them to battle.†   (source)
  • What greatly strengthens such a suspicion is the fact that this controversy between two ill-matched antagonists—at a period, moreover, laud it as we may, when personal influence had far more weight than now—remained for years undecided, and came to a close only with the death of the party occupying the disputed soil.†   (source)
  • To make a vaunt of being poor was another of the incidents of his splenetic state, though this may have had the design in it of showing that he ought to be rich; just as he would publicly laud and decry the Barnacles, lest it should be forgotten that he belonged to the family.†   (source)
  • They submit to this state of things as an irremediable evil, but they are careful not to show that they are galled by its continuance; it is even not uncommon to hear them laud the delights of a republican government, and the advantages of democratic institutions when they are in public.†   (source)
  • At these words he uncovered the small cup which contained the substance so lauded, took a teaspoonful of the magic sweetmeat, raised it to his lips, and swallowed it slowly with his eyes half shut and his head bent backwards.†   (source)
  • …sign it the more readily from its bearing a false name, and he could not, therefore, recognize the woman in question—once this order was signed, we say, the baron would make her embark immediately, and she knew very well that women condemned to exile employ arms much less powerful in their seductions than the pretendedly virtuous woman whose beauty is lighted by the sun of the world, whose style the voice of fashion lauds, and whom a halo of aristocracy gilds with enchanting splendors.†   (source)
  • I mentioned my reason for desiring to avoid observation in the village, and he lauded it to the skies.†   (source)
  • Near them some semiphosphorescent red porgy rolled by, a variety of gilthead that the Egyptians ranked among their sacred animals, lauding them in religious ceremonies when their arrival in the river's waters announced the fertile flood season.†   (source)
  • A true Whig, Miss Crawley had been in opposition all through the war, and though, to be sure, the downfall of the Emperor did not very much agitate the old lady, or his ill-treatment tend to shorten her life or natural rest, yet Pitt spoke to her heart when he lauded both her idols; and by that single speech made immense progress in her favour.†   (source)
  • When a legislator succeeds, after persevering efforts, in exercising an indirect influence upon the destiny of nations, his genius is lauded by mankind, whilst, in point of fact, the geographical position of the country which he is unable to change, a social condition which arose without his co-operation, manners and opinions which he cannot trace to their source, and an origin with which he is unacquainted, exercise so irresistible an influence over the courses of society that he is…†   (source)
  • So when the kings were come together on both parties, and the great feast should be holden, King Arthur asked the King of Northgalis and their fellowship, where was that knight that bare the red sleeve: Bring him afore me that he may have his laud, and honour, and the prize, as it is right.†   (source)
  • The women stirred around me, and I thought of a line from "Maggie Lauder" : "Oh, they call me Rab the Ranter, and the lassies all go daft, When I blow up my chanter."†   (source)
  • Nor do we hear much of /matins/, /lauds/, /lay-readers/, /ritualism/ and the /liturgy/.†   (source)
  • Laud we the gods And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils From our bless'd altars.†   (source)
  • Love and laud him: me no more.†   (source)
  • [85] Today, extinct, it is mourned by English purists, and the Poet Laureate denounces the clergy of the Established Church for saying "the /sawed/ of the /Laud/" instead of "the sword of the Lord.†   (source)
  • He lauded almost extravagantly my nether extremities, my swelling calves in silk hose drawn up to the limit, and eulogised glowingly my other hidden treasures in priceless lace which, he said, he could conjure up.†   (source)
  • Laud have mercy upon 'um; I would not have such a sin to answer for, for the whole world.†   (source)
  • Laud be to God! even there my life must end.†   (source)
  • O greate God, that preformest thy laud By mouth of innocents, lo here thy might!†   (source)
  • However, my speech produced nothing else beside a laud laughter, which all the respect due to his majesty from those about him could not make them contain.†   (source)
  • * *what was owing him* He was (if I shall give him his laud) A thief, and eke a Sompnour, and a bawd.†   (source)
  • Sancho returned to his master mightily pleased with this gratifying answer, and told him all the great lady had said to him, lauding to the skies, in his rustic phrase, her rare beauty, her graceful gaiety, and her courtesy.†   (source)
  • Well, God be thanked for these rebels; they offend none but the virtuous: I laud them, I praise them.†   (source)
  • So when the kings were come together on both parties, and the great feast should be holden, King Arthur asked the King of Northgalis and their fellowship, where was that knight that bare the red sleeve: Bring him afore me that he may have his laud, and honour, and the prize, as it is right.†   (source)
  • …MISHAP IS CONTINUED Finding, then, that, in fact he could not move, he thought himself of having recourse to his usual remedy, which was to think of some passage in his books, and his craze brought to his mind that about Baldwin and the Marquis of Mantua, when Carloto left him wounded on the mountain side, a story known by heart by the children, not forgotten by the young men, and lauded and even believed by the old folk; and for all that not a whit truer than the miracles of Mahomet.†   (source)
  • * <3> *glory Wherefore in laud, as I best can or may Of thee, and of the white lily flow'r Which that thee bare, and is a maid alway, To tell a story I will do my labour; Not that I may increase her honour, For she herselven is honour and root Of bounte, next her son, and soules' boot.†   (source)
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