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Harriet's death in the cholera epidemic of 1834 was almost as great a blow to Wellesley as it was to her husband.
I'm gald to see that there are people like you that appreciate the Eagles and aren't just looking to blamestorm and blow off steam.
Richard was slain during the battle, supposedly by the major Welsh landowner Rhys ap Thomas with a blow to the head from his poleaxe.
These was followed with a match against Milburn Saylor who was disqualified in the ninth for a low blow.
These dunes form under winds that blow consistently from one direction, and they also are known as barchans, or transverse dunes.
While the left nasal passage opens to the blow hole, the right nasal passage has evolved to supply air to the phonic lips.
There's nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow.
Most dramatic was the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament.
To separate out the chaff, early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.
The Battle of the Nile was a major blow to Napoleon's ambitions in the east.
Waves can also break if the wind grows strong enough to blow the crest off the base of the wave.
If the dealer or his used car manager goes out to the car, he may kick the tires as though he expected them to collapse at the force of the blow.
The kirner was made to give repeated blows in the hole, turning it partly at each blow to keep the hole cylindrical.
Prevailing winds are winds that blow predominantly from a single general direction over a particular point on the Earth's surface.
These winds blow predominantly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
Like trade winds and unlike the westerlies, these prevailing winds blow from the east to the west, and are often weak and irregular.
It will cure by science and philosophy instead of empiricism, and will deal the deadliest blow to charlatanism.
The French invasion plan was foiled, but La Hogue was not the devastating blow to the French Navy it was once thought.
This was not just a personal blow for John, but threatened to unravel the widespread Angevin alliances across the far south of France.
Although theoretically a significant blow to John's legitimacy, this did not appear to greatly worry the king.
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Norwich returned to second in the Championship with victory over Nottingham Forest, whose promotion hopes were dealt another blow.
However it was unable to follow up with a decisive blow against the Spanish navy, which remained the most important for another half century.
The invasion plan received a crippling blow in November 1759, when the French Brest Squadron was heavily defeated at the Battle of Quiberon Bay.
Following cooking, the cooked mixture is vented to a blow tank and from here pumped to a knotter for the removal of knots.
By the end of May, medical stores had been removed from Dieppe and a demolition party landed, ready to blow up the port infrastructure.
Having their own governments continuing to govern them softened the blow and kept most civilians at a distance from their oppressors.
A further blow to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park.
The apparatus strikes an inscription upon the edge with the same blow that strikes the two faces.
The tribe members who dealt the killing blow were highly esteemed among their compatriots.
Trade between western Europe and the rest of Eurasia suffered a severe blow when the Roman Empire fell in the 5th century.
During the winter, cold Alaskan winds blow over the Chukchi Sea, freezing the surface water and pushing this newly formed ice out to the Pacific.
At the edge of the continent, strong katabatic winds off the polar plateau often blow at storm force.
The winds over Antarctica are called the polar easterlies where winds blow from the east to the west.
The shear force of winds can blow off shingles, and air borne objects can cause damage to power lines, roofing and siding.
Soldiers would use their captives for sword practice, attempting to decapitate them or cut them in half with a single blow.
This act of tyranny was at once gross barbarity to the Cornish people, and a death blow to the Cornish language.
Although his arrogance had slowed the campaign, he was a brilliant general in the field, and his loss was a major blow to the allied campaign.
It is here that the winds start to blow strongly from the northeast at all seasons.
No-one wants to donate a large sum of hard-earned money to an agency that may dry up and blow away next year.
Next he received a second blow on the head, but still he stood firm and immovable.
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Fawkes admitted his intention to blow up the House of Lords, and expressed regret at his failure to do so.
The striking platform is the point on the proximal portion of the flake on which the detachment blow fell or pressure was placed.
Polish incursions were dealt a blow by the Ottomans during the 1620 Battle of Cecora, which also saw an end to the reign of Gaspar Graziani.
Is it that hard to manscape? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?
Eric was among those killed which was a great blow for the Carolingian Empire.
Then he'd go and do some piss-ass thing that didn't count for beans and blow his horn.
The final blow was struck on 1 December, when Ukraine, the second most powerful republic, voted overwhelmingly for independence.
It would be preferable in view of the shortage of ammunition to blow her up in the shallow waters of the Plate and to have the crew interned.
For example, the fractured skull of Grauballe Man was at one time thought to have been caused by a blow to the head.
Those left on the Adventure were captured by the Ranger's crew, including one who planned to set fire to the powder room and blow up the ship.
Coleridge and Charles Lamb both died in 1834, their loss being a difficult blow to Wordsworth.
The power of a blow depends on the weight of the skull and the arc of the swing.
The Pope bitterly felt this catastrophe as a double blow to Christendom and to Greek letters.
The captain of a sailing ship seeks a course along which the winds can be expected to blow in the direction of travel.
As they blow across tropical regions, air masses heat up over lower latitudes due to more direct sunlight.
A pressor beam lashed out, and invisible hammer blow of repulsion, five times the strength of the enemy tractor.
When the supplies in the Spanish sphere of influence were cut off, the Dutch economy was therefore dealt a heavy blow.
From its surface, he insisted, plain food became ambrosia, water nectar, and the duffest dope would blow your mind.
On warmer days the fog will burn off only to have the strong northwest wind blow in additional fog from the open ocean.
The Tatars struck a decisive blow on December 20, when a Cossack party of twenty men were discovered and slain.
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An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.
Far from being guaranteed to blow your mind, We Will Rock You is guaranteed to bore you rigid. The show is prolefeed at its worst.
When heavy rains blow over the region, the roads often turn to mud, sometimes stranding hundreds of travelers in the process.
When the Second Auxiliary was forced to retreat, Belgrano made the decision to blow up the Casa de la Moneda.
Groves came out fighting in the 8th round before Froch got him pinned against the ropes and delivered a right hand blow which knocked Groves out.
The fighter looked harmlessly punch drunk, but he was only faking and suddenly threw a vicious, skillful, blow.
In the West Indies, the prevailing winds, known as the trade winds, blow out of the southeast.
He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
It was a big blow to East Tennessee Confederate momentum, but Longstreet won the Battle of Bean's Station a few weeks later.
Strategic setbacks combined with a shattering personal blow when, on 12 May 1915, Venetia Stanley announced her engagement to Edwin Montagu.
Iron rails could also not support heavy locomotives and was damaged by hammer blow.
There is an inner and outer shield so that air cannot blow directly on the gauze but must first find its way through a slim chamber.
This marked the end of Richard's crusading career and was a calamitous blow to Frankish morale.
He actively restrained his subordinates from landing what could have been the finishing blow against Washington's forces.
Melas believed he had already won and turned over delivery of the final blow to a subordinate.
Neither side proved able to deliver a decisive blow for the next two years.
The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.
When you blow into the instrument, the air vibrates the reed.
The Suez crisis, though a blow to British power in the Near East, did not mark its end.
Shall I make a gentle song Here in my firelit study, When outside the winds blow strong And the lanes are muddy?
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I give my nose a definitive blow, then power-flush the Kleenex down the Toto. I have had my moist moment and now it is over.
The outcry over forced labor is a serious blow to the ruling Communist Party.
This blow should be given fore-handed, as soon as the colt has quitted the wall.
The loss of all but one of the Chinook helicopters being carried by the Atlantic Conveyor was a severe blow from a logistical perspective.
Geminis, like air, blow hot and cold. They go this way today and another way tomorrow.
I told her she could call me and talk any time she wanted to blow off steam.
He was a man who followed whims, which meant he would blow up in one direction, so to speak.
The loss of the court as a centre of patronage in 1603 was a major blow to Scottish literature.
The No. 1-rated football team proceeded to blow out its undermanned opponent.
I don't think we need to blow it out of proportion. There's a problem, and we should fix it.
A cool breeze began to blow, carrying on it the undulating notes of a bansuri from some village downriver.
This is because the winds of the tropical monsoons that give seasonal rains to the Sahel and the Sudan blow from the west.
A horn, such as our man wears, was always worn by a hayward, who used to blow it to warn off people from straying in the crops.
However, nationally these parties scored much better, recovering from an electoral blow of the 2002 elections.
Perhaps the greatest blow to David's plans came on 12 July 1152 when Henry, Earl of Northumberland, David's only son and successor, died.
The uprising suffered a blow when the nobles submitted to the English at Irvine in July.
Almost the first blow in the war between Scotland and England was a direct attack on the Bruces.
During the same siege she withstood a blow from a stone that hit her helmet while she was near the base of the town's wall.
Why, now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up and all is on the hazard.
The second blow severed the neck, except for a small bit of sinew, which the executioner cut through using the axe.
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And the severity of the blow is greatly aggravated in moral effect by the fact that it is dealt only to a handful of individuals.
A major blow came in 1946 when the party's best known public spokesman, James Maxton MP, died.
With a garden hose, you can blow your opponent out of the water, if he only has a squirt gun.
It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank.
Buchanan went down, writhing in pain from a low blow, that Buchanan's trainer, Gil Clancy, said was caused by a knee to the groin.
The failure of the works was a devastating blow to the local community, as it had depended heavily on the works for its economic livelihood.
This attack, which became the opening salvo of their Spring Offensive, aimed to deliver a single, decisive, war winning blow.
On 1 May 1917, Haig wrote that the Nivelle Offensive had weakened the German army but that an attempt at a decisive blow would be premature.
He led at Berks's head, as he came rushing in, and missed him, receiving a severe body blow in return.
Lacking vocal cords, they produce sounds using six air sacs near their blow hole.
It suffered a severe blow in 1349 when almost half the townspeople died of plague when the Black Death arrived in the town.
To a man of honour a kick is noting, a blow is noting, de soul is de abode of glory, honour, pride.
For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed.
For if they touch one another, and so do not leave airholes and admit draughts of air to blow between them, they get heated and soon begin to rot.
A man with such a nice, avuncular personality would not blow up the world.
You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face.
The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout.
During an exchange to end round 13, Duran landed a blow to the midsection.
A fabricator is used to direct a sharp blow to the surface of the stone.
Romanesco is slow to blow and more forgiving to grow than most cauliflowers, while being perhaps the most delicious and certainly the nuttiest-flavoured of the lot.
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You cannot simply wait for a problem like that to blow over.
Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?
The polio vaccination program took a body blow last spring when the disease developed in children injected with vaccine from the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif.
Li Zhixiang, a member of the PAP, which is estimated to have more than one million members, said the new shoes had dealt a body blow to bromodosis.
I'll sit here and blow till he comes round with his old go-cart, and then I'll hang on to the tail of it, and try legs with that little Kanuck of his.
The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
But he made no whimper. Nor did he wince or cringe to the blows. He bored straight in, striving, without avoiding a blow, to beat and meet the blow with his teeth.
It was the blow to the head that finished him off, not the bullet wound.
When placed in the four foot it should be so arranged that a loose carraige coupling shall not strike the box, as such a blow might possibly break it.
The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval.
The boxer went down in the second round, after a blow to the chin.
Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.
Hey, old fogies, why don't you guyses blow a Trojan and float away, okay?
Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.
In 1453 the fall of Constantinople to the hands of the Ottomans was a blow to Christendom and the established business relations linking with the east.
He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.
Other sources stated that no one knew how Harold died because the press of battle was so tight around the king that the soldiers could not see who struck the fatal blow.
In February 1603, the death of Catherine Howard, Countess of Nottingham, the niece of her cousin and close friend Catherine, Lady Knollys, came as a particular blow.
In November 1686 James had wished to gain William's support for the repeal of the Test Acts, as this would have delivered a blow to the English opposition.
This result was viewed as a particular blow for Gordon Brown, who lives in the constituency, represented the adjacent seat and featured in Labour's campaign.
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Rodolph Austin delivered the knockout blow from close range 20 minutes from time, after Aidan White had given Leeds a dream start after four minutes.
The Turks were then free to invade Asia Minor, which dealt a dangerous blow to the Byzantine Empire by seizing a large part of its population and its economic heartland.
Lymphatism. Post-mortem examination on a boy 10 years of age who died after receiving a blow on the head revealed a thymus gland of considerable bulk, 4 inches long.
It dealt a severe blow to my conceit, which was a good thing.
Collazo hit Khan with a low blow while Khan was holding his head down.
This was a blow to British plans as it endangered the prospects of reaching Yangon before the onset of the monsoon, expected at the beginning of May.
Nasser struck a further blow against Britain by negotiating an arms deal with communist Czechoslovakia in September 1955 thereby ending Egypt's reliance on Western arms.
However, at the same time, though British influence continued in the Middle East, Suez was a blow to British prestige in the Near East that Britain never recovered from.
The war had removed Bermuda's primary trading partners, the American colonies, from the empire, and dealt a harsh blow to Bermuda's merchant shipping trade.
This result was a fatal blow for the Executive, which soon collapsed.
And forward spurred his mounture fierce withal, Within his arms longing his foe to strain, Upon whose helm the heavy blow did fall, And bent well-nigh the metal to his brain.
The Gulf Stream not only carries warm water to Europe's coast but also warms up the prevailing westerly winds that blow across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean.
Up to the point where the Green Knight is kneeling in front of Gawain awaiting the axe blow that will cut off his head, the action has proceeded mainly in chronological order.
Glad to see it since these guys live to blow muslimaniacs to hell.
This ended his chances for Eton College, a significant blow to his family.
The Germans' late attempt to blow the road bridge was possibly foiled by a local Dutch resistance hero, Jan van Hoof, who is said to have cut the wires to the bridge.
The first blow missed her neck and struck the back of her head.
Churchill tried to soften the blow by putting him in charge of the British Air Mission to the USA, responsible for the procurement of new aircraft types.
For example, warm currents traveling along more temperate coasts increase the temperature of the area by warming the sea breezes that blow over them.
This is why winds across the Northern Hemisphere tend to blow from the southwest, but they tend to be from the northwest in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Had Bridgend been bombed it would have likely been a massive blow to munitions supplies to the allies and could have changed the course of the war in the Axis' favour.
The referee failed to see the offending blow, and the match continued.
After working the dough it will be rolled out in very thin circles and placed in an extremely hot stone oven where the dough will blow up into a ball shape.
Taking orgo and biology at the same time is really gonna blow.
The prevailing westerlies in these zones blow strongest in winter.
After the wind ceases to blow, wind waves are called swells.
In the final Battle of Scheveningen on 10 August 1653 Tromp was killed, a blow to Dutch morale, but the English had to end their blockade of the Dutch coast.
America's Cold War policies suffered a major blow from the embargo.
If the slopes are covered with ice and snow, the katabatic wind will blow during the day, carrying the cold dense air into the warmer, barren valleys.
In February 1603, the death of Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham, the niece of her cousin and close friend Lady Knollys, came as a particular blow.
The three ships were accompanied by two old submarines, which were filled with explosives to blow up the viaduct connecting the mole to the shore.
The cooler Mediterranean winds consistently blow over the northern sea coast, which helps to get more moderated temperatures, especially at the height of the summertime.
Upon awakening, the warriors would offer the left little finger to the Great Spirit, whereupon a masked tribesman would sever it with a hatchet blow.
After ripening, they blow off like dust particles or spores.
The crew of Bartholomew Roberts preferred not to be taken alive and swore to blow themselves up rather than give the authorities the satisfaction of seeing them hanged.
When Roberts and his men were finally found an attempt was made to blow the ship up rather than face capture, however it proved in vain due to an insufficient gunpowder.
In the melee, Henry was hit by a sword blow, but his armour protected him.
Tromp's death was a severe blow to the Dutch navy but also to the Orangists, who sought the defeat of the Commonwealth of England and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy.
The news came as a bitter blow to the newly elected Barcelona president Joan Laporta, who based much of his presidential campaign on signing Beckham.
Pin down the tablecloth, so it doesn't blow away in the breeze.
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The next devastating blow was the sack of the town by Thuringian landgrave Conrad in 1232, when much of the population was killed and the town plundered.
Although the rebellion was defeated by the Tang, it never recovered from that crucial blow, weakening it for the future military powers to take over.
Finally, in 1632, Frederick Henry was allowed to deliver his death blow.
The flexibility of mail meant that a blow would often injure the wearer, potentially causing serious bruising or fractures, and it was a poor defence against head trauma.
But with the last of his strength, Mordred impales himself even further, so as to come within striking distance of King Arthur, then gives a mortal blow to Arthur's head.
The next blow to the traditional factories came from globalization.
Skilled workers are capable of shaping almost any vessel forms by rotating the pipe, swinging it and controlling the temperature of the piece while they blow.
It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.

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