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  • Compared to the Paradice Project, even the BlyssPluss Pill was a crude tool, although it would be a lucrative interim solution.†   (source)
  • Okonkwo was, therefore, asked on behalf of the clan to look after him in the interim.†   (source)
  • "Try Finite Incantatem," said Hermione at once, "that should stop the rain if it's a hex or curse; if it doesn't something's gone wrong with an Atmospheric Charm, which will be more difficult to fix, so as an interim measure try Impervius to protect his belongings — " "Say it again, slowly — " said Ron, searching his pockets desperately for a quill, but at that moment the lift juddered to a halt.†   (source)
  • In 2004, the U.S. formally turned over authority to the interim government, giving control of the country back to the Iraqis, at least in theory.†   (source)
  • No interim period for—I don't know—a provisional government-in-training?†   (source)
  • Up until that moment, I'd had no doubt that he'd be staying with me while I spent a few interim hours in the real world.†   (source)
  • Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.†   (source)
  • Consequently, an interim solution was found: the dead were stripped of their clothes — too valuable to the living to be left on them — and were put outside on the pavements wrapped in paper.†   (source)
  • That had been the interim sietch before the women and children had been sent into the deep south.†   (source)
  • When an interim chairman comes on the scene, he's new, uncertain, and has no idea how long he'll stay.†   (source)
  • During that interim he saw some of the students walking between classes, nodded to them and got looks of anger and fear in return.†   (source)
  • Art had to figure that in his high school days Abel Martinson had been moderately restless, that in the interim between then and now he had changed, and that this truck was the last vestige of his former self: thus he was loath to part with it.†   (source)
  • Doctor Nolan said my college would take me back for the second semester, on her recommendation and Philomena Guinea's scholarship, but as the doctors vetoed my living with my mother in the interim, I was staying on at the asylum until the winter term began.†   (source)
  • It's outside the scope of this book to recount allthat happened in the interim.†   (source)
  • He felt as if he had aged several years in the interim.†   (source)
  • The prospect of so idyllic an interim added to the inspired stealth with which he whetted his wire, filed it to a Umber stiletto fineness.†   (source)
  • We all sensed that in the interim Justice de Wet had grown more hostile to us.†   (source)
  • The interim government was going to hold the first free elections in thirty years.†   (source)
  • Occasionally I heard from Kristy, who had in this interim gone from smitten with Baxter to positively lovesick.†   (source)
  • All of his wardrobe was now being cleaned and in the interim he had on a pair of English-made trousers and a sweater.†   (source)
  • He would accept all comers sight unseen, but in the interim between the deal and the race, he would spy on the training of the local horses.†   (source)
  • Which leaves me to act as chaperone in the interim.†   (source)
  • And since nothing has happened in the interim, I guess the locals just assumed everything was okay.†   (source)
  • In the interim he planned at least one more surgery to improve his vision.†   (source)
  • In the interim between throwing a ball and having it thrown back to me, I told myself that I liked Mr. Galanter, and I wondered about his constant use of war expressions and why he wasn't in the army.†   (source)
  • Roxy quit and Portia is the interim secretary.†   (source)
  • They went to a small room marked INTERIM CONFINEMENT.†   (source)
  • So the dinner party tonight was Annie's interim way of thanking them.†   (source)
  • The plan had been for Eric Studesville, our interim head coach, to start me for the final two games, both home games, but Kyle had bruised his ribs the prior week and couldn't practice for the Oakland game, and so I started game 14 as well.†   (source)
  • Burundi's unelected Tutsi leaders had responded to the pressure by creating a new interim government, led by a Hutu and composed of equal numbers of Hutus and Tutsis.†   (source)
  • The sight of their trusted leader sent a rumble of relief through the Milago miners…not to mention to the interim leader who no longer had to be in charge anymore.†   (source)
  • Your honor, isn't it possible we could hand over the ship and cargo to the Spanish officials in the interim and begin the extradition procedures?†   (source)
  • In the interim Liv has come by nearly every day, noting all the last-second fixits and sending over workmen to replace some kitchen cabinet hinges and a light fixture, and touch up the chair moldings in the dining room and polish all the brass doorknobs in the house.†   (source)
  • The drinks came quickly, the brief interim taken up with d'Amacourt nervously extracting a pack of cigarettes from under his form-fitting overcoat.†   (source)
  • In the room next door, Secretary of War Stanton has arrived and now takes charge, acting as interim president of the United States.†   (source)
  • Neither oversight nor faking for interim; Prof knew what he was doing.†   (source)
  • …SENDING COMMERCIAL RADIO MESSAGES TO THIS DEPARTMENT YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO RESTRICT YOURSELF TO MATTERS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES REPEAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THESE MESSAGES BE LONGER THAN TEN WORDS STOP EXPECT INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT WITHIN TWO WEEKS BY WHICH TIME IT IS ANTICIPATED YOU SHOULD HAVE ESTABLISHED CLOSE CONTACT WITH CANIS LUPUS STOP RADIO MESSAGES AT DEPARTMENTAL EXPENSE SHOULD BE RESTRICTED TO TEN WORDS AND IMPORTANT MATTERS ONLY AND KEPT AS…†   (source)
  • You haven't heard about SAC's interim dispersal?†   (source)
  • He dies finally in extreme agony, and in marches one Gennaro, a complete nonentity, to proclaim himself interim head of state till the rightful Duke, Niccolo, can be located.†   (source)
  • Just, perhaps, during the — interim … "That's wonderful, Mama, that may turn out to be just the thing and if it is I most certainly will.†   (source)
  • But in that interim between train and home, she walked and ran looking about her in a kind of glory, by the back way.†   (source)
  • INTERIM They brought in fifteen thousand lumber feet of Oregon pine to build Tenth City, and seventy-nine thousand feet of California redwood and they hammered together a clean, neat little town by the edge of the stone canals.†   (source)
  • The country has an interim president now, Hamid Karzai.†   (source)
  • He's sure to have forgotten something in the interim.†   (source)
  • A month later, in July, the multiparty forum agreed on a first draft of an interim constitution.†   (source)
  • In the interim, he threw himself into clinic-building.†   (source)
  • At worst, losing the barn would make things inconvenient for a few months—they'd have to board the dogs somewhere, though finding families to look after them in the interim wouldn't be that hard—but, realistically, they'd have a better, more modern barn before snow fell.†   (source)
  • Fallujah had become their safe haven, an anti-capital of Iraq dedicated to overthrowing the interim government and preventing free elections.†   (source)
  • How, exactly, this might be achieved he could not begin to imagine, but he could not keep himself from feeling that he was waiting and that these years were only an interim between other years he had passed and would pass again with Hatsue.†   (source)
  • But in this interim period of time—when Noah and Simon and Owen and I were all waiting to be old enough to attend the academy—Hester began to resent that there were no plans being made for her salvation.†   (source)
  • Although the Count had given his friendly nod just moments before, in the interim the fellow's face seemed to have taken on a rosier hue.†   (source)
  • In place of the Marines, Iraqis loyal to the interim government were supposed to take control and run the city.†   (source)
  • It had been many years since Yaroslav Yaroslavl had worked his magic in the barbershop of the Metropol, and in the interim any number of successors had attempted to fill his shoes.†   (source)
  • Bourne did not have to read the second paragraph to know that Howard Leland had been Admiral H. R. Leland, United States Navy, until an interim appointment as director of Naval Intelligence preceded his ambassadorship to the Quai d'Orsay in Paris.†   (source)
  • In the interim, Mr. Ewalt had decided that perhaps he ought not to have allowed the girls to enter the house alone.†   (source)
  • Their lawyer had persuaded the judge to reduce the bail to a nominal fee, but they had spent three days in jail in the interim.†   (source)
  • Prof was elected President of Congress and ex-officio Prime Minister of interim government until we acquired a constitution.†   (source)
  • I had not seen my son and daughter since before the trial and they had become adults in the interim, growing up without me.†   (source)
  • An interim goal of quadrupling grain shipments in five years had been adopted as a figure easily obtainable once scientific planning of resources and labor was in effect.†   (source)
  • Just after midnight on November 18, an interim constitution was approved by a plenary session of the multiparty conference.†   (source)
  • A second draft interim constitution in August gave greater powers to the regions, but this did not placate either Chief Buthelezi or the Conservative Party.†   (source)
  • We advocated the creation of a multiparty negotiating conference to set up the interim government and set out the guiding principles for the functioning of a constituent assembly.†   (source)
  • But before the election of an assembly, it was necessary to have an interim government that could oversee the transition until a new government was elected.†   (source)
  • Not to dream, since I dwelt in the dream, but to renew, rehearse, the part as the faulty though eager amateur might steal wingward in some interim of the visible scene to hear the prompter's momentary voice.†   (source)
  • During intermission, Francie did not join the other kids in the interim pastime of spitting down on the plutocrats in the thirty-cent orchestra seats.†   (source)
  • They were engaged in producing something called an Interim Report, but what it was that they were reporting on he had never definitely found out.†   (source)
  • But then, not at that very moment—but in the interim following, the invitation from the Griffiths.†   (source)
  • But, in the interim debating,—"Was it wise so to do?"†   (source)
  • There was a false Chateaubriand, named Marchangy, in the interim, BOOK THIRD.†   (source)
  • The history of Susan Henchard's adventures in the interim can be told in two or three sentences.†   (source)
  • But from its outcome, which he now found displayed before him in the dining room, he gathered that his grandfather had now received solemn dispensation from his interim stage and had finally returned to the form appropriate to him—an event of which he could only approve, though old Fiete wept and constantly shook his head, even though Hans Castorp himself wept, just as he had wept at the sight of his unexpectedly deceased mother and, a short time later, of his father lying there…†   (source)
  • And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem upon the shelf for the interim.†   (source)
  • When she entered the house she perceived in a moment from her mother's triumphant manner that something had occurred in the interim.†   (source)
  • Every night for the last week they had rehearsed "Ha-Ha Hortense!" in the Casino, from two in the afternoon until eight in the morning, sustained by dark and powerful coffee, and sleeping in lectures through the interim.†   (source)
  • …back over the complexity of his adventures; in fact, Hans Lorenz Castorp's dignified chin-propping method had almost become a habit for his grandson as well— and he never used it without being reminded of the old man's stiff collar, that interim form of his ceremonial ruff, of the soft golden hollow of the baptismal bowl, the religious sound of "great-great-great," and similar secret, private associations, all leading to yet another round of reflection on the complexity of his life.†   (source)
  • In the interim Tess, left with the children inside the bedstead, remained talking with them awhile, till, seeing that no more could be done to make them comfortable just then, she walked about the churchyard, now beginning to be embrowned by the shades of nightfall.†   (source)
  • But in the interim, removing from the side of the bag the unused tripod of his camera and seeking an obscure, dead log farther in the woods, hiding it.†   (source)
  • And in the interim, Smillie, as directed by Griffiths, proceeding to Bridgeburg, and after two long hours with Mason, calling at the jail to see Clyde.†   (source)
  • But ad interim, all her thoughts were on how and in what way she could make more sure, if at all, of Clyde's continued interest and social and emotional support, as well as marriage in the future.†   (source)
  • BUT in the interim, in connection with his relations with Roberta no least reference to Sondra, although, even when near her in the factory or her room, he could not keep his thoughts from wandering away to where Sondra in her imaginary high social world might be.†   (source)
  • IN THE interim the mental state of Clyde since that hour when, the water closing over Roberta, he had made his way to the shore, and then, after changing his clothes, had subsequently arrived at Sharon and the lakeside lodge of the Cranstons, was almost one of complete mental derangement, mainly caused by fear and confusion in his own mind as to whether he did or did not bring about her untimely end.†   (source)
  • And in the interim, Clyde in his cell, walking to and fro, or looking out on the dull square through the heavily barred windows, or reading and re-reading the newspapers, or nervously turning the pages of magazines or books furnished by his counsel, or playing chess or checkers, or eating his meals, which, by special arrangement on the part of Belknap and Jephson (made at the request of his uncle), consisted of better dishes than were usually furnished to the ordinary prisoner.†   (source)
  • Was not she herself guessing, as he knew, that it could not be less than a hundred and fifty or two hundred dollars—quite large sums in her eyes—whereas, above his current salary, Clyde had no more than forty dollars and was dreaming of using that and whatever else he might secure in the interim to meet such expenses as might be incurred in the anticipated visit to Twelfth Lake.†   (source)
  • "In about a month I hope to be a bridegroom," continued Mr. Rochester; "and in the interim, I shall myself look out for employment and an asylum for you."†   (source)
  • I listened to detect a woman's voice in the house, and filled the interim with wild regrets and dismal anticipations, which, at last, spoke audibly in irrepressible sighing and weeping.†   (source)
  • In the interim it pleased providence to cause the apprehension of Caderousse, who was discovered in some distant country, and brought back to France, where he made a full confession, refusing to make the fact of his wife's having suggested and arranged the murder any excuse for his own guilt.†   (source)
  • The knight shrugged his shoulders, and leaving the hut, brought in his horse, (which in the interim he had fastened to a tree,) unsaddled him with much attention, and spread upon the steed's weary back his own mantle.†   (source)
  • Ad interim, if I may be pardoned that expression, I shall give you this betel-box, which is highly valuable article and cost me two rupees only four years ago.'†   (source)
  • It is unnecessary at present to mention what took place in the interim betwixt Wilfred and his deliverer; suffice it to say, that after long and grave communication, messengers were dispatched by the Prior in several directions, and that on the succeeding morning the Black Knight was about to set forth on his journey, accompanied by the jester Wamba, who attended as his guide.†   (source)
  • In 1832, the word bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent service.†   (source)
  • I had heard from Mrs. Fairfax in the interim of my absence: the party at the hall was dispersed; Mr. Rochester had left for London three weeks ago, but he was then expected to return in a fortnight.†   (source)
  • But in the interim—in the interim of the very few hours that were to pass, before I could have an opportunity of speaking with her in private— a circumstance occurred—an unlucky circumstance, to ruin all my resolution, and with it all my comfort.†   (source)
  • That as even the best terms, which we can expect to obtain, can amount to no more than a temporary expedient, or a kind of government by guardianship, which can last no longer than till the colonies come of age, so the general face and state of things, in the interim, will be unsettled and unpromising.†   (source)
  • We're justified in making an interim report.†   (source)
  • An interim report will do no harm.†   (source)
  • It was quite on a par with the quixotic idea in certain quarters that in a hundred million years the coal seam of the sister island would be played out and if, as time went on, that turned out to be how the cat jumped all he could personally say on the matter was that as a host of contingencies, equally relevant to the issue, might occur ere then it was highly advisable in the interim to try to make the most of both countries even though poles apart.†   (source)
  • In the nature of single blessedness he would one day take unto himself a wife when Miss Right came on the scene but in the interim ladies' society was a conditio sine qua non though he had the gravest possible doubts, not that he wanted in the smallest to pump Stephen about Miss Ferguson (who was very possibly the particular lodestar who brought him down to Irishtown so early in the morning), as to whether he would find much satisfaction basking in the boy and girl courtship idea and…†   (source)
  • It will be short: the interim is mine; And a man's life is no more than to say One.†   (source)
  • Our court, you know, is haunted With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain; One who the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony; A man of complements, whom right and wrong Have chose as umpire of their mutiny: This child of fancy, that Armado hight, For interim to our studies shall relate, In high-born words, the worth of many a knight From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate.†   (source)
  • — Think upon what hath chanc'd; and, at more time, The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak Our free hearts each to other.†   (source)
  • Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the contract of her marriage and the day it is solemnized; if the interim be but a se'nnight, time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year.†   (source)
  • To-day, my lord; and for three months before,— No interim, not a minute's vacancy,— Both day and night did we keep company.†   (source)
  • Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream: The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.†   (source)
  • And now my orders being to be obeyed, I charged Friday to keep close behind me, and not to stir, or shoot, or attempt anything till I commanded him; and in the interim, not to speak so much as one word.†   (source)
  • So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, A moth of peace, and he go to the war, The rites for which I love him are bereft me, And I a heavy interim shall support By his dear absence.†   (source)
  • And in practice there is little reason to apprehend any inconvenience; because, in a short course of time, the wants of the States will naturally reduce themselves within A VERY NARROW COMPASS; and in the interim, the United States will, in all probability, find it convenient to abstain wholly from those objects to which the particular States would be inclined to resort.†   (source)
  • I will in the interim undertake one of Hercules' labours, which is, to bring Signior Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection the one with the other.†   (source)
  • But affairs were not in so quiet a situation in the bosom of the other conspirator; his mind was tost in all the distracting anxiety so nobly described by Shakespear— "Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream; The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.†   (source)
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