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1. “Don’t use the good Lord’s name in vane, Corporal,” Seven said,
2. George Osborne in his address to the House of Commons in London last week, must be keeping a very close eye on the weather vane as the problems in the European Union, and the debt storm that rages around his ears, threaten to put his Government’s long term plans at severe risk
3. The vane of 13 presses the bar 12 to position 122 when the ball moves from the vane into the container 15 while the stem 6
4. A vane water wheel or a water wheel with pots could be installed under the water flow (drip) [13]
5. The purpose of this clamp is to create a restricting moment on the rotation of the vane wheel until the pot is filled to a certain level [13]
6. A certain holdback effect interrupting the uniformity of rotation could be induced by the liquid getting into the bottom segment of the casing of the vane rotor
7. When the vane hits this liquid a momentarily increasing hydraulic braking momentum would be the result
8. Graphic 9 A vane water wheel or a water wheel with pots could be installed under the
9. One of these is in A Shropshire Lad, Hughley Steeple in which he writes, 'The Vane on Hughley steeple, Veers bright, a far know sign'
10. The relation of the subconscious to the conscious is quite analogous to that existing between a weather vane and the atmosphere
11. Just as the least pressure of the atmosphere causes an action on the part of the weather vane, so does the least thought entertained by the conscious mind produce within your subconscious mind action in exact proportion to the depth of feeling characterizing the thought and the intensity with which the thought is indulged
12. If the sperm was dead the sperm would not swing and all those that swam in vane
13. I tried in vane to introduce the principles I find valid to the academics in charge of
14. Holly Vane lives in the North of England with her family and numerous pets
15. Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana , but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth, with porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive green, with smart carriage finish and neat doorbrasses, stucco front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if possible, upon a gentle eminence with agreeable prospect from balcony with stone pillar parapet over unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and standing in 5 or 6 acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e
16. Then, on the arrival of Inspector Vane, of Scotland Yard, and of Mr
17. Like a weather vane in wild seasons he had tremored this way, wandered that, hesitated upon bright horizons and warm directions, only at last now to tilt and, half sleep-walking, tremble about in the bright brass pull and summer march of music
18. And now marking that the vane or flag was gone from the main-mast-head, he shouted to Tashtego, who had just gained that perch, to descend again for another flag, and a hammer and nails, and so nail it to the mast
19. The word "vane" in the second verse refers, of course, to the weather-vane used in the trenches to indicate whether the wind was favourable or not for a gas attack
20. Now and then a rush of wind rattled over the graves, roared through the leafless trees, bent the complaining bushes, and caught itself in the little eddy at the corner of the church, only to escape again over the roofs, turning the old weather vane with a sharp scream of the rusty iron
21. It seemed to me as if I were out in the graveyard again, and heard the screaming of the rusty weather vane as the wind turned it
22. A third icy gust blew the last leaves from the bushes, white crosses and gravestones appeared between the bare twigs—and I was in the churchyard again and heard the screaming of the rusty weather vane
23. “Low court—high court—clear to the ridgepole—clear to the cupoly, and then I’ll shin the weather vane with the star spangled banner of justice between my teeth