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1. Most of it was just a long formal list of who got how much return on the graft that went into making up this expedition, but there were a few paragraphs near the end called the 'Haad Directives,' couched in dense theologian
2. always couched in polite terms, but it was clear that they were
3. Jo laughed and explained that the invitation was couched in very formal terms inviting the Lady Josephine Symons to join the Ladies Katie and Abigail for an al fresco entertainment
4. He’d couched his insistence on returning her as a matter of
5. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you have gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
6. 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you
7. down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
8. How good it felt to hear the great bird speak again, even though his language was couched in the images of his race
9. 2 for if I write unto you concerning the things that are at hand or the things that will be hereafter you all would not be able to understand them because they are couched in parables
10. Could it be the unstated policy of the Delhi operatives as well, he suspected, but, couched by the pretentious unsuitability labels!
11. She did not at once reply; it was a new experience for a man to speak so forthrightly to her, his words not couched in courtier phrases
12. There was more of it—some of it couched in eloquence that made Valeria stare, in spite of her profane education among the seafarers
13. ―That bad, huh?‖ Can couched his comment as a question but Elise could not mistake the tone in his statement
14. That status had however been couched on paper in rather vague or encompassing terms more than a century ago, leaving politicians and lawyers from all sides plenty of leeway to debate those constitutional powers both in public and in court
15. The way she’d couched this invitation, instantly and accurately conveyed to all, exactly where she would like to have this nightcap - in bed with Joel
16. “Surely there is some humanity couched within,” he would muse, “however deeply it might be buried
17. But when it came to the positive question it was couched in cumbersome terminology, so the democrats claimed, that was either the result of ineptitude on the part of the professional company contracted by the survey office, or intentionally designed to confuse in order to arrive at an answer that suited those not in favour of an early introduction of direct elections
18. In order to hide this obvious fact: scientists have couched their ramblings in arcane, complex, mysterious gibberish, that even they cannot explain to their own fellow scientists… simply to keep their sacred, specialized knowledge from being exposed as a complete fraud
19. All are couched in their own cultural limitations
20. Anything that has to be couched n sugar coated lies to be sold: is hiding poison inside it
21. They are all lies, couched in cunning hyperboles and sneaky suggestions
22. Except it is couched in modern consumer terms
23. prophecies couched in the same language style, and even using the same metaphors, Mt
24. If the Bible is allowed to be its own interpreter, when read in the light of the prophecies couched in the same language style, and even using the same metaphors, Mt
25. It is well known that there are natural drugs that lie couched in the human brain;
26. When he lay couched in the ominous horse,
27. I took and read the letter, which was couched in terms so flattering that even I myself felt it would be wrong in my father not to comply with the request the duke made in it, which was that he would send me immediately to him, as he wished me to become the companion, not servant, of his eldest son, and would take upon himself the charge of placing me in a position
28. William had written out a letter of application, couched in admirable business language, which Paul copied, with variations
29. It did seem kinda strange that they couched
30. "My friends," I said, "to a question couched in these terms, our answer can be taken for granted
31. I couched my pitch to Hopkins in terms of my surprise discovery
32. They read to Noirtier the formal copy of a will, in order to give him an idea of the terms in which such documents are generally couched; then, in order to test the capacity of the testator, the first notary said, turning towards him,—"When an individual makes his will, it is generally in favor or in prejudice of some person
33. A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone
34. He says this, a censor of morals, a very pelican in his piety, who did not scruple, oblivious of the ties of nature, to attempt illicit intercourse with a female domestic drawn from the lowest strata of society! Nay, had the hussy's scouringbrush not been her tutelary angel, it had gone with her as hard as with Hagar, the Egyptian! In the question of the grazing lands his peevish asperity is notorious and in Mr Cuffe's hearing brought upon him from an indignant rancher a scathing retort couched in terms as straightforward as they were bucolic
35. At the same time it is couched in so unfortunate a manner, and certain phrases in it are of so provocative a character, that its publication would undoubtedly lead to a most dangerous state of feeling in this country
36. That was fortunate, for if she could have Indignation at being misunderstood mingled with Scarlett’s forlorn feeling of being out spoken she would have cried out truths couched in Gerald’s forthright words
37. It was not the first letter of the kind which she had received, but she never had one couched in such threatening terms
38. Only, a rather obscure note was found among the Bishop's papers, which may bear some relation to this matter, and which is couched in these terms, "The question is, to decide whether this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital
39. One day she received from the Thenardiers a letter couched in the following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds of the neighborhood
40. ” I’m not sure about you guys, but I’m leery of worthless risky advice couched in cute alliteration
41. The lawyer had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the apples,—an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Benigne Bossuet himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately fashion
42. The order of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor of M
43. Uttering a wild whoop, Felipe couched his spear like a lance and booted his unhappy strider to a charge
44. When the White River Legion rode into the midst of the stream and was fully engaged with von Augenfelsen’s men, we couched our lances and charged Karyl’s monsters
45. A knight with the lower half of his unfashionably antique great helm painted red with a series of semicircles for an upper border and the top enameled white attacked Jaume at the sprint with his lance couched
46. Like the others, he couched a spear in lieu of a longer, less wieldy lance
47. This invitation to drink, couched, as it was, in such informal terms, came very strangely from Nastasia Philipovna
48. Pavel Pavlovitch had written a short note couched in very polite and correct phraseology, and thanking Claudia Petrovna sincerely “for her great kindness to the orphan—kindness for which heaven alone could recompense her
49. Not satisfied with seeing that individual prohibited the exercise of his official character, we are invited to pursue him with the joint terrors of legislative wrath, couched in terms selected to convey opprobrium and infix a stigma
50. In his letter of the 17th of May, to the Secretary of State, speaking of the order, he says, "the note is couched in terms of restraint, and professes to extend the blockade further than it has heretofore done, nevertheless it takes it from many ports already blockaded, indeed all east of Ostend and west of the Seine, except in articles contraband of war and enemy's property, which are seizable without blockade; and in like form of exception, considering every enemy as one power, it admits the trade of neutrals within the same limits to be free, in the productions of enemy's colonies, in every but the direct route between the colony and parent country