Word: solemnizes
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Powwow & Palaver. Next day the solemn powwow was held. "The land where the Chavantes live now is far from the land where the Chavante ancestors are buried," Chief Apoena said. "We ask the powerful strangers for pledges that we shall not be molested here." Apoena was also troubled about "the great bird which flies without moving its wings." Would such birds come often? Mereiles, through his interpreter, said they probably would, but never as enemies. Then Apoena suggested that one day he would like to send what he had "most inside of himself," i.e., one of his sons...
...have just now been turned away from the door of Mr. Eliot's lecture to the solemn assurance that there were no seats left inside. This despite the fact that a friend came out of the auditorium fifteen minutes before the start of the lecture and could equally solemnly assure the officers that there was indeed an empty seat inside being held...
...bodies more seriously than their brains. With a few glaring exceptions, he flattered his female sitters, made them look appealing if not particularly intelligent. With children he was tenderness itself, putting into his canvases their innocence, their questioning eyes, their flashes of playfulness and of rebelliousness, and even their solemn discomfiture as models...
Cheers & Tuts. For years the theories of the Cambridge men were published piecemeal in the solemn little papers through which cosmologists communicate. They made very little stir. For one thing, English universities shy away from publicity, and Hoyle and Lyttleton were young...
...faults, there can be little doubt that young Boswell was a man of charm. It didn't get him into the Guards, but it made him almost at once an intimate of the great Johnson, who, Boswell noted chirpily, lived "in literary state, very solemn and very slovenly." Johnson's disapproval of prostitutes was not enough to keep Boswell from prowling the streets, but the last few entries in the Journal show that its author had begun to feel the regard for Johnson that was to become the preoccupation of his life...