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  • And anyway, for the people, there was another reason to leave the wood to itself: it belonged to the Fosters, the owners of the touch-me-not cottage, and was therefore private property in spite of the fact that it lay outside the fence and was perfectly accessible.   (source)
  • It was a sentence without an object, and therefore not technically a lie.   (source)
  • There's a chill in the air, even though it's still September and therefore practically still summer.   (source)
  • He still maintained, however, that Atticus hadn't said we couldn't, therefore we could; and if Atticus ever said we couldn't, Jem had thought of a way around it: he would simply change the names of the characters and then we couldn't be accused of playing anything.   (source)
  • Zuckerman thinks Wilbur is an unusual pig, and therefore he won't want to kill him and eat him.   (source)
  • Therefore, it is a simple fact: there was not enough time for her to commit this alleged crime.†   (source)
  • Therefore, I've decided not to suspend you from school," she said, tapping a pencil on her chin.†   (source)
  • They are in her House and are therefore her responsibility.†   (source)
  • Therefore the selection must be sound.†   (source)
  • His choice of words must have been limited; therefore, these clues were part of a longer statement.†   (source)
  • Great Faith Church just could not afford a bus, so therefore we had to walk.†   (source)
  • If she moved she exposed him, and therefore she would not move.†   (source)
  • It was therefore a great irony that I found myself in a foreign city trying to make my way home way past my bedtime.†   (source)
  • I've therefore avoided using American terms such as "freshman,"†   (source)
  • The dead have passed where most gods cannot go, and therefore can hold our kind as the quick do not.†   (source)
  • Lilian therefore found it all the more remarkable to discover a flourishing Jewish community there.†   (source)
  • We shall have heaven forever, but only a short time for service here, and therefore we must not waste the opportunity.†   (source)
  • The Army, therefore, made it easier for me to love my country, with all its flaws, and to serve her with all of my heart.†   (source)
  • Our records also show that you are currently unemployed and have therefore been classified as impecunious.†   (source)
  • Therefore it turned broadside and rolled.†   (source)
  • Therefore, any gospels that described earthly aspects of Jesus' life had to be omitted from the Bible.†   (source)
  • This proved that McMillian's truck had had no modifications or special features and therefore could not have been the truck described by Myers and Hooks at the trial.†   (source)
  • Therefore each stage of initiation is intended to prepare you in a different way.†   (source)
  • Therefore, to make you feel a little more at home here, I would like to have you participate in my next play.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the defense would have you believe, their testimony is somehow made false.†   (source)
  • Even though it was perfectly dark and therefore pointless, Thomas closed his eyes, concentrating on his sense of hearing.†   (source)
  • Therefore you seem to have solved the maze.†   (source)
  • Wellington was therefore most likely to have been killed by someone known to him.†   (source)
  • Therefore, he was going to have it.†   (source)
  • I had gone from being proud to say my age—because of all I had done so young—to not bringing it up, for fear I was getting too close to forty and, therefore, professional oblivion.†   (source)
  • Therefore I bet she was awful at your age.†   (source)
  • Therefore take these, and when you are in need, smash a pearl at your feet.†   (source)
  • So cloning was therefore impossible.†   (source)
  • All I knew was that Schindler may have been a Nazi, and therefore by definition dangerous, but he acted in a way that no other Nazi I knew did.†   (source)
  • Her idea was that there was no such thing as provocation, that no matter what she did, Pete simply should not hit her, and therefore if he did hit her he was entirely wrong, and therefore she was perfectly free to do whatever she wanted.†   (source)
  • Therefore, Harold Crosby abstained.†   (source)
  • And therefore, sometimes for fifteen minutes in a row, Mrs. Beale was seen doing something she hadn't done since the little ones were born: nothing.†   (source)
  • Therefore the records that he broke were not legally broken.†   (source)
  • Therefore, Mr. Duke, in addition to granting you permission to plant a garden in the central, uncovered atrium, we have made the decision to ask you to be the Building Representative for the Gardens of Glenwood.†   (source)
  • There was no rule explicitly forbidding exercise at such an hour, but it was not expected; ordinarily therefore Mr. Ludsbury would have disapproved.†   (source)
  • It was a mundane unraveling that could not be reversed, and therefore offered no opportunities to the storyteller: it belonged in the realm of disorder.†   (source)
  • Okonkwo was, therefore, asked on behalf of the clan to look after him in the interim.†   (source)
  • Therefore, if you urinate in the pool a bright red cloud will surround you and we will be able to tell who has relieved themselves.†   (source)
  • And she knew Wu Tsing would soon become anxious to have a son who could perform the ancestral rites and therefore guarantee his own spiritual eternity.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the life span for African–Americans and the others in the group is far shorter than their counterparts who can afford to pay for private care.†   (source)
  • In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.†   (source)
  • They weren't there when I needed them, therefore, in the dream they are not there for me.†   (source)
  • Therefore, all time manipulators must be able to take the form of a bird.†   (source)
  • Last night, for instance, she had reached impulsively for the volume he held, opened it at the marked page, and squinting curiously at the words in the wan light, had read aloud: "We are in the first place to apprehend that there is a time fixed and stated by God for the Devil to enjoy a dominion over our sinful and therefore woful world.†   (source)
  • Like a kiss or caress in a Hindi movie, a husband's name is something intimate and therefore unspoken, cleverly patched over.†   (source)
  • Therefore, they needed 170 eggs, which meant they had to arrange to have that number of good eggs on the same day.†   (source)
  • And therefore we purported not to know about it.†   (source)
  • Does he think I am now just another product of the Capitol and therefore something untouchable?†   (source)
  • Many of them had been given a second chance at life by the generous hand of scientists and therefore owed their very existence to those who had created them.†   (source)
  • They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.†   (source)
  • DO THEREFORE SUMMON YOU TO APPEAR BEFORE US ….†   (source)
  • So, with the feeling of a man who will die in the next hour for lack of air, he felt his way toward his open, separate, and therefore cold bed.†   (source)
  • Back then I could tell myself that he didn't know who I was and therefore couldn't find me.†   (source)
  • In Proctor's presence a fool felt his foolishness instantly-and a Proctor is always marked for calumny therefore.†   (source)
  • HeLa cells grew much faster than normal cells, and therefore produced results faster.†   (source)
  • It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't.†   (source)
  • My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win.†   (source)
  • And, therefore, battlerooms are available only on a scheduled basis.†   (source)
  • No. Therefore Sascha is extremely glad of the appearance of mystery American —you— who I have hooked him up with.†   (source)
  • Solutions to stress must be found, because it hurts production and therefore profits.†   (source)
  • Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.†   (source)
  • Failed to make a full recovery, therefore of no further use to the Third Reich.†   (source)
  • HARRY: "The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."†   (source)
  • Sometimes his grandmother pulls out a belt at night when Enrique is naked in bed and therefore unable to quickly escape her punishment by running outside.†   (source)
  • They associated red with the devil and works of evil; therefore, anyone who wore that color must be guilty of evildoing.†   (source)
  • Traditionally, purple has always stood for the aristocracy, since for hundreds of years peasants weren't allowed to dye their clothes with indigo, and therefore couldn't make violet.†   (source)
  • I told him that I'd be leaving the following Friday, and therefore I didn't know how much help I could be.†   (source)
  • Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort onto them.†   (source)
  • No matter how much Thelma and I tried to convince her to let go of the idea, she wouldn't give up the notion that if she could perform, somehow the white students would see she was talented and therefore accept her.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the toad you see now doesn't exist.†   (source)
  • 223 cartridge and therefore smaller and lighter than most earlier military rounds, the 5.†   (source)
  • Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day.†   (source)
  • The Shrike Temple had used androids extensively, complying with the Church of the Shrike doctrine which proclaimed that androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind and— incidentally-exempt from the Shrike's terrible and inevitable retribution.†   (source)
  • Plainly, the Taliban were not saying a thing; therefore, they had no prisoners.†   (source)
  • Mudd solved his problem by sending his cousin George, a loyal Unionist and therefore above suspicion by the federal authorities, to town to report Booth's visit to Mudd's farm.†   (source)
  • She argued that it was one of the few things Cass had never done, and therefore I was pretty much required to do it.†   (source)
  • Therefore I telegraphed you urgently to come.†   (source)
  • His bike is a one-speed with a coaster brake and therefore deeply humiliating, and riding it to run an errand for his mother makes it even worse.†   (source)
  • Therefore, although he did not understand why this was so, he was not surprised when Denver dripped tears into the stovefire.†   (source)
  • Ed despised country music--to him it was "plinky-plunk and tacky"--and therefore so did we.†   (source)
  • As a big man, therefore a machine gunner, Henry Dobbins carried the M-60, which weighed 23 pounds unloaded, but which was almost always loaded.†   (source)
  • Therefore he was not technically a Hunt prisoner, and so was not bound by the institution's standard operating procedure.†   (source)
  • Therefore everything that grow on it belong to me.†   (source)
  • Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth.†   (source)
  • Rounded, soft creatures like Barney, Disney's animated characters, and the Teletubbies therefore have an obvious appeal to young children.†   (source)
  • Many of those warehoused in overcrowded prisons can be properly called "criminals of want," those who've been deprived of the basic necessities of life and therefore forced into so-called criminal acts to survive.†   (source)
  • To do that effectively we have tobelieve ourselves as immortal and are therefore incapable of facing our emotional truths.†   (source)
  • Is it because he thinks of me as a friend of Jane's, and therefore practically her equal, not just another immigrant who still has the dust of Ellis Island on her shoes?†   (source)
  • She is the golden issue of my first marriage to Dana Breedlove, the spy, and is therefore Steffie's full sister, although ten years and two marriages fell between.†   (source)
  • And to an observer therefore, perhaps barely there.†   (source)
  • I simply reminded her of the ancient duty of hospitality and assured her that the slight to her was unintentional and made through ignorance and was, therefore, no crime under the Elder Laws.†   (source)
  • If any of them decided to sabotage your bike, they weren't a guest of mine, and are therefore … He offered a winsome smile.†   (source)
  • I therefore continued to stand there awkwardly, waiting for my employer to give me permission to undertake the motoring trip.†   (source)
  • Hosenfeld, a teacher, had already served as a lieutenant in the First World War, and may therefore have been considered too old for service in the front line at the beginning of the Second.†   (source)
  • I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.†   (source)
  • I watch these girls with interest; they are girls who did not get work positions and therefore will float around wherever they are needed for a time.†   (source)
  • But lovely girls tend to be out in the sunshine and therefore much easier to study without risk of injuring one's eyes."†   (source)
  • And therefore I urge all of you, on April fifth, to support the school budget proposal set before the voters.†   (source)
  • Therefore, he doesn't need Snyder and we can forget the lessons in the apartment.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza, with her innate fortitude, confessed to the error of the letter, but refused to reveal the identity of her secret sweetheart and refused again before the Tribunal of the Order which, therefore, confirmed the verdict of expulsion.†   (source)
  • Finally, Bellamy had been the one to point out that they were hooves, not paws, which meant that it was probably an herbivore, and therefore something they could conceivably catch and eat.†   (source)
  • I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.†   (source)
  • Therefore, every place in the infants' heads that could bleed did bleed!†   (source)
  • I wound my excuse out of details that were true but insignificant, hardly crucial compared to the fact that Jacob's werewolf pack bitterly hated Edward's vampire family — and therefore me, too, as I fully intended to join that family.†   (source)
  • "They contain no matter," I continue, "and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds."†   (source)
  • Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.†   (source)
  • The mythological explanation for rain was therefore that Thor was swinging his hammer.†   (source)
  • Nobody except squirrels can get walnuts whole out of walnut shells every time. ... Therefore I have to have squirrels to do the job.†   (source)
  • She wished, therefore, that she could be the old Nadia.†   (source)
  • Mr. Sugi fervently hopes to see his beloved son again in this lifetime, and asks therefore that you please notify him immediately if you receive word from your sister.†   (source)
  • It was a popular coast for invasions, therefore heavily guarded.†   (source)
  • Therefore he couldn't pretend that he wasn't crippled, nor could he deceive himself that people were not repelled by his defect.†   (source)
  • Therefore, any criticism of him amounted to an assault on the already downtrodden people he served.†   (source)
  • Questions of guardianship are therefore potentially sensitive political issues, and are protected by rigorous regulations and controlled by the Guardianship Agency.†   (source)
  • He said that our first duty was to God but that our Lord Jesus Christ had said, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's" and that meant we were supposed to be loyal Englishmen.†   (source)
  • In any case, we cannot take the risk of his seeing us with the Princess, and therefore one of you must kill him.†   (source)
  • Dick wore bathing trunks, but Perry, as in Acapulco, refused to expose his injured legs-he feared the sight might "offend" other beach-goers-and therefore sat fully clothed, wearing even socks and shoes.†   (source)
  • It was a carefully calculated plan: if he left as soon as possible, he'd be in the hallways during the biggest crush of traffic, and therefore was less likely to be singled out by one of the cool kids.†   (source)
  • There was, therefore, no opportunity to object to Moody's demand that I wear a chad or but as I donned the cumbersome robe I realized that it was filthy.†   (source)
  • He hated her—therefore?†   (source)
  • My five colleagues held to the technical view that we had been elected at a meeting in which all students were present and therefore we could no longer argue that we did not represent the student body.†   (source)
  • Therefore, let both kingdoms live peace.'†   (source)
  • And it must be filled--all the big shows have fat ladies, and therefore so must we.†   (source)
  • We still lived, therefore, in our own house.†   (source)
  • Therefore, Marburg lived in some other kind of host—an insect? a rat? a spider? a reptile?†   (source)
  • Citizens in such places therefore come to exhibit what Vertovec calls "civility towards diversity."†   (source)
  • It was a beneficiary account: David had established it jointly in both their names, and therefore it stood outside the will and probate.†   (source)
  • The rabbits' anxieties and strain in climbing the down were different, therefore, from those which you, reader, will experience if you go there.†   (source)
  • More evidence of the stupidity of humans …. the thought popped into my mind, shocking me by how easily I'd already started thinking of "normal" people as "humans," and therefore something different than me.†   (source)
  • They appear to have no idea of class, and therefore are in a measure all aristocrats.†   (source)
  • Therefore, I had Margaret offer everyone coffee, tea, or soft drinks along with anything else she could think of.†   (source)
  • How any given expert treats you, therefore, will depend on how that expert's incentives are set up.†   (source)
  • The problem with an operation like Inner Delta is that it depends entirely on secrecy, and that's what the hijackers were counting on—making it public, focusing publicity on it, and therefore rendering it useless.†   (source)
  • To counter the idea that there had been mass panic and looting (that all of Chicago had reverted to its wild, lawless past and was therefore not a good  place in which to invest), articles and editorials appeared stating that there had been little or no rioting or looting.†   (source)
  • Therefore every man has perfect freedom, provided he emancipates himself from mundane desires.†   (source)
  • Therefore, while we do not know exactly what Captain Ramius said, we can draw some conclusions from these patterns of activity.†   (source)
  • All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.†   (source)
  • Therefore, you will wear the same uniform everyone else wears.†   (source)
  • In brief, it says that the greater the mass of an object, the more it resists being moved and therefore the smaller its acceleration will be.†   (source)
  • She was commissioned and therefore higher-ranking than Puller.†   (source)
  • Therefore, not only will you learn the French terminology, you'll also learn the Chinese names.†   (source)
  • Therefore," the decree concluded, "we direct all clerics in Pakistan to not interfere with your noble intentions.†   (source)
  • No matter how many push-ups he did or how fast he ran, he couldn't outpace the fact that he was a fugitive, living in the country illegally, and therefore barred from enlisting.†   (source)
  • They had chewed their way into the walls, and at night their gnawing and scratching kept her (and therefore me) awake.†   (source)
  • Therefore, he wants everyone to have a piece ready before the night they are to attend, just in case.†   (source)
  • Therefore I am not scared in whatever the future brings me.†   (source)
  • Several animals said his legs must be his branches and therefore the grey, fluffy thing (they meant his head) must be his root.†   (source)
  • His present run of thought therefore rather amazed him.†   (source)
  • I don't even flick my hair so that it covers half my face (and therefore half my nose).†   (source)
  • But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.†   (source)
  • It was a tradition common throughout cultures of the world to revere the elders of a society, and since the days of Methuselah, it had simply been assumed that the older a person was, the more life experience they'd had: Therefore, they were probably wiser than anyone else.†   (source)
  • Secretly, I realize I am more fortunate than Stephen because I am younger and will therefore be a child for a longer time.†   (source)
  • Therefore, I need it.†   (source)
  • To her, beings from other planets belonged in the same category as souls, and therefore she could not fathom her mother's passionate interest in identifying them.†   (source)
  • He detested the very sight of his son-in-law, who was his aide and therefore in constant attendance upon him.†   (source)
  • Plans were therefore made to flee as soon as their ship was sighted.†   (source)
  • That morning I concluded that Uncle and Aunt were two ugly people and therefore perfectly matched.†   (source)
  • Since you're already outside the multijurisdictional mess, and therefore immune to it, why don't you keep it that way.†   (source)
  • Therefore he will try to do his Christian duty and forgive you.†   (source)
  • Elysian code, translated below into English, is really quite simple in written form: Therefore, if one wanted to write "Let's go out for a bite" in Elysian code, one would write: Likewise, if one wanted to write "I sucked rubies from his veins" in Elysian code, one would write: Speaking Elysian code is another matter altogether, as the complex sounds of the vampire language cannot be translated onto a page.†   (source)
  • The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment.†   (source)
  • Therefore pension planning should be done as early as possible, ideally as soon as you are earning an income.†   (source)
  • Bailey was the only teacher in LT&C's history to have a degree, and therefore he felt obliged to set a very high standard.†   (source)
  • Its aims were clear: no Jewish homeland without the Torah at its center; therefore, no Jewish homeland until the coming of the Messiah.†   (source)
  • Therefore, Mr. Buckley, you are not representing an interested party.†   (source)
  • She therefore joined an organization called Machsom Watch, whose volunteer women drive to military checkpoints in the West Bank daily.†   (source)
  • Bigger, and therefore closer, than I liked.†   (source)
  • Therefore I'm going to give you a hand-maybe you'll feel that I'm giving you my left hand after I've struck you with my right-if you think I'm the kind of man who'd lead with his right, which I'm most certainly not.†   (source)
  • But that would be a small see, and therefore would not work for the purposes of humor.†   (source)
  • I know I am doing my duty and therefore can never wish to retract.†   (source)
  • Therefore, I have no problem with the results.†   (source)
  • I got the impression that because the Chinese and North Koreans were so different, so alien to him, they were somehow less human and therefore easier to kill.†   (source)
  • Not penetrated in nearly five years, therefore not read or even known about and consequently not given to the evil people, whoever they are.†   (source)
  • Stay therefore Thine arm, and loose not the arrow of death to strike this young child into his grave.†   (source)
  • Therefore, as the sergeant had stressed in his underlying message: I had to do something to change my present course.†   (source)
  • It was at least logical therefore that it should be he who destroyed it.†   (source)
  • Therefore, Nora Vadance had taken time to recharge it, indicating a chilling degree of premeditation.†   (source)
  • The state, therefore, sent any Smith Islanders who continued school after the elementary level to a boarding school in Crisfield.†   (source)
  • It was lighter, and therefore easier to bear, and the soft wood was more like to trap a foe-man's axe or sword.†   (source)
  • The nature of evil may be epitomized, therefore, in two simple but horrible and holy propositions: 'Things fade' and 'Alternatives exclude.†   (source)
  • It was not, therefore, difficult for a row to blow up, and the latest one occurred over Angus' acquisition of a pair of great-horses.†   (source)
  • We have therefore agreed to launch a new intensive process.†   (source)
  • He sent in his poorer work because that was the work the panelists could read and, therefore, consider for reward.†   (source)
  • Her army was well paid and therefore loyal, but her treasury was nearly empty.†   (source)
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