Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gentlemen, there she is!" and the commander's hat sailed into the sea. A mighty cheer ... reporters and crews of seven squat salvaging ships imitated with whole coveys of whirling caps cast gayly into the surly ocean...
Frenchmen spent the week in panicky expectation of whatever Finance Minister ("Wizard") Caillaux was about to produce from beneath the cloak of secrecy cast over even the least important of his doings...
...drone aloft to release bombs. At Aleppo, Horns, Hama, Seraand, Suedia and Salkhad other French garrisons defend themselves by similar means. French semi-armored trains and auto-convoys ply with grim regularity this sea of revolt. When a lone Frenchman ventures forth, a scimitar flashes or a crudely cast bullet dumdums into his flesh. But Syria is far from Europe, farther from...
...litigation with certain private patrons and when the Olympians asked him to make a Zeus for their temple he seized the invitation as a good excuse for getting out of Athens. It is unlikely that he worked in "gold and ivory"; he was no metalsmith although he cast some of his heads in bronze; he would not have known what to do with the "lacquer and precious stones" that Pausanias talked about. He doubtless made this god, like his others, of Parian marble, or the pale veined marble from Naxos; artisans polished the stone until it resembled ivory, and added...
...such an event always left him weak for days afterward and he did not want to go to London. But going meant an inheritance for his wife and two baby sons, while living on aimlessly a few years more meant leaving his family in poor circumstances. Bravely he cast for London and separation from those he loved. "Oberon" was fitted out with an English libretto and Weber himself took up the study of English. According to his diary, he left his home with the secret foreboding that he would never see it again. His three months in London were...